Daily §9 Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXV1, No. 25	Los	Angeles, California	Tuesday,	October	23, 1973
DT photos by Bob Chavez.
Tuition Plaintiffs Gain Financial Records Use
rapher and produce records and documents,” he said. “We'll be able to get information they don't want to give up by any means.” But an attorney for Musick. Peeler and Garrett, the law firm representing the university, said that the records are not secret.
“They are audited and part of the record.” he said. “If the plaintiffs would explain better to the university exactly what it is they want, they probably will be ac-
BY KEVIN McKENNA
Assistant City Editor
The plaintiffs in the two tuition suits against the university claimed to have won a battle to gain financial records from the university after a Superior Court judge ruled Friday to allow them to further amend their complaint.
The case will now proceed to discovery, a pretrial process that will enable the plaintiffs under court order to gain material evidence from the university, including an accounting of expenditures of tuition revenues.
The suits, which ask $5 million in damages, allege in part that the university is guilty of breach of contract for failure to discuss tuition increases with student representatives and for failure to disclose how tuition revenues are being spent.
“THE UNIVERSITY has consistently refused to give us any information, any accounting as to how tuition is allotted by department,” a spokesman for the Tuition Action Committee, a group of law students that filed the suits, said Monday.
“Now. under the auspices of the court, the university will be forced to sit down in a room with us and a stenog-
corded what they wish.”
THE SUITS as filed cited four causes of action. The university filed demurrers to each of the four causes of action, conceding the arguments of the plaintiffs, but stating there were no grounds for legal action.
Judge David Eagleson sustained without leave to amend one of the demurrers against a cause of action accusing the university of a contract of adhesion, which
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Alumni Return For Homecoming
They came in droves, staking out their little parcel of land with picnic baskets and wool blankets.
A casual spectator would never guess that these laughing, hand-shaking people were planning on watching a football game in less than three hours.
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AFTER ALL, who goes to a football game in a skirt and high heels or a suit and tie?
Yet there they mingled in their cardinal and gold outfits, the living history of USC.
The returning Trojans must have numbered over 5.000 as they sprawled from Founders Hall to Exposition Blvd.
Coming back to their alma mater for a brief homecoming picnic gave many a chance to renew old friendships while others were busy showing their young descendants where Daddy and Mommy went to school.
STILL OTHERS seemed intent on impressing everyone with the class and culture they had acquired since graduation.
But all. no matter what their reason for coming, arrrived in good spirits and. thanks to the many portable bars available, left in even better spirits.
Booths were set up in Alumni Park to house alums from the various professional groups, alumni organizations and athletic teams of years gone by.
EACH SPORT exhibited pictures of graduated athletes and trophies their abilities earned for the school.
Entertainment was provided by Frank Blair s Band, and Ernie Smith’s Dixieland Band. A trampoline exhibition caught the attention of many of the younger, future Trojans.
The Trojan Marching Band aroused some additional pregame enthusiasm by playing their halftime selections for the eager alumni. The song girls, yell leaders and Traveler II added the finishing touches on a morning dedicated to the returning Trojans.
DIRECT DEMOCRACY’ FORMED
Architecture Students Organize
Architecture students have banded together, forming their own student government in light of major changes taking place in the school.
This year the school adopted a completely new curriculum and moved into a new building that students say needs much refining. It has also been left without a permanent dean, although Ralph Knowles has been acting as interim dean since summer.
In view of these changes, the students realized this was the logical time to get things done, and done properly, a group of eight architecture students exp-
lained during an interview last week.
“OUR WHOLE purpose is to get something done. We want to keep tabs on things so that we won’t catch a problem a few years too late. We just don’t want to wait anymore. It’s all a matter of time,” said Chris Rubke, a senior in architecture.
Last year, with the help of Gerald G. Weisbach, associate dean of architecture, students were given full voting power on all 11 faculty committees and were invited to attend faculty meetings.
Since then, the 345 graduate and undergraduate students in the school have organized into a working
government that operates solely on student funds.
The government is a direct democracy, making it every student’s responsibility, not just that of an elected few, the group explained.
RUBKE ADDED, “With this type of government, if you want something done, you do it yourself.”
The group listed four major problem areas that the new student government hopes to solve.
The first goal is unification of students. The group pointed out that organized pressure is necessary to make problems known to the administration, and simply
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