Daily wS Trojan
Volume LXVI, No. 37
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California_____________
Friday, November 9, 1973
Tuition Group Recommends Hike
The commission on tuition and fees, appointed by President John R. Hubbard, voted Thursday to submit a recommendation to the University Council of a S210 increase in tuition for the 1974-75 academic year.
The increase would be approximately 7.8%.
The 19-member commission, made up of 10 faculty and staff members and nine students, voted 7 to 4 with 3 abstentions. The remaining members were not present at the time of the vote.
IF PASSED BY the University Council and approved by President Hubbard and the Board of Trustees, this would be the fifth consecutive tuition increase students since 1970.
A formal report stating the recommendation will be written early next
week and submitted Wednesday to the Deans' Council and the Faculty Senate for comment.
The recommendation will then be presented to the University Council at its next meeting, Nov. 19. The council may decide to accept the recommendation. reject it or modify it before submitting it to Hubbard and the Board of Trustees for a final decision.
The recommendation, which would amount to about $7 per unit, would generate approximately 4 million in university revenue.
ACCORDING TO figures presented on expected increases in salary improvements for faculty and staff, student financial aid. irrevocable committments (such as increased cost of university maintenance) and price
inflation on purchases, the university would need at least an increase in revenue of $8 million to meet next year’s budget.
Colin MacLeod, director of financial services, said a more realistic figure would be $12 million.
The vote to recommend an increase rescinds the motion passed last week by the group to eliminate the flat rate for tuition (from 15 to 18 units.) Thus, students will still pay the same amount for 15 to 18 units.
THREE OTHER motions were passed by the commission. One stated that “Under no circumstances does the commission recommend a tuition increase of an amount such that the income derived from tuition not exceed 40% of the total budget.” (Tui-
tion now makes up 40% of the revenue to meet the total university budget.)
A second motion urged that the university attempt to increase, through innovative management revenue obtained from endowments and gifts to exceed an already-proposed increase of S3 million.
The group also proposed and passed a motion that a long-range study of the tuition problem be undertaken.
Alan Rowe, chairman of the commission. said he could not predict what the council would do with the recommendation, but said that he “guessed that an increase would not exceed the proposed $210.”
Last year's tuition increase of 10% cost students $240.
ACLU Calls Nixon a Threat, Wants Impeachment
SPEAKING FOR IMPEACHMENT—Marvin Schach-ter. president of the American Civil Liberties Union, Southern California chapter, spoke Thursday on the reasons w hy the union favors the impeachment of President Nixon. Schachter believes Nixon poses a threat to American society. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
BY SHERRY STERN
Staff Writer
The American Civil Liberties Union’s endorsement of the impeachment of President Nixon is based on its belief that Nixon threatens our society, a spokesman said here Thursday.
Marvin Schachter, president of the ACLU’s Southern California chapter, spoke on impeachment.
The ACLU is a political organization, although it is not partisan and has never endorsed candidates or supported political parties.
ITS CONCERN is with the support and defense of the Bill of Rights and that is the reason its national membership unanimously voted in favor of the impeachment resolution, Schachter said.
“We are living in historic times,” Schachter said. He named some events that have taken place under the Nixon
administration that he said were high crimes or misdemeanors. Therefore, they are grounds for impeachment, he said.
“WTeek by week, month by month, there is an increase of evidence against Nixon,” he said.
Some of the things he said Nixon has been involved with include wiretapping, military spying on civilians, the attempt to bribe the judge in the Daniel Ellsberg case, the White House enemies list and FBI investigations on several government employees.
SCHACHTER called these incidents assaults on the civil liberties, under the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Schachter said he believes impeachment would be the proper remedy for both
60% Budget Cut Hurts Programs
BY KEVIN McKENNA
Assistant City Kditor
The fiscal pinch in student programming caused by the confusion over the future of student government is being felt particularly hard in the areas of academic-educational and social-cultural programs, the fall budget reveals.
An administrative decision over the summer allotted all programs 40% ofthe funds budgeted by the Fee Allocations Board last spring to cover first semester expenses, with the exception of administrative salaries, which will receive the full appropriation.
FOR SOME programs, especially those in the spring, the effects of the financial situation have not reached the crisis stage yet.
But others, such as the Experimental College and the Forum for Student Awareness have been forced to make cutbacks in certain areas of their programming.
Randy Zomar, assistant director of student activities, said that funding for
the spring semester will depend on the resolution of the student government mandatory fee issue.
Should the Voluntary Student Association or some other form of government that abolished the mandatory fee be instituted, $70,000 in fee revenues that are now being frozen would be alotted for the spring semester, enabling most programs to operate on 80% of their total requested budget for the year. The status of programs beyond spring semester would be uncertain.
HOWEVER, if the fee is retained, and the student government issue resolved in some other way, student programs would most likely receive their original allocation. Zomar said.
Currently, programs in the aca-demic-educational area are receiving $4,654 for the fall semester, compared with a budget of $19,456 and actual expenditures of $15,316 for the 1972-73 academic year.
Most severely hit is the Forum for Student Awareness, which sponsors
noon speakers and other programs. The program is receiving $2,000 for the fall semester, compared to last year's budget of $7,000 and actual expenses of $5,330.
Experimental College, which was budgeted $1,800 for the 1972-73 academic year, is receiving only $400 this semester. This has necessitated cutbacks in the program’s catalogue, Zomar said.
IN THE social-cultural program area, the budget has been cut from $50,803 for 1972-73 to $11,052 for this semester.
The program hardest hit in this area is entertainment, which was budgeted only $6,000 after the 40% allocation ruling. Last year, programs and wages in the entertainment area were budgeted for a total of $18,703, and spent $16,979.
Some programs in the social-cultural area are actully better off than last year, however. Commuter students have been allotted $312 for the semester, compared with $360 for the entire 1972-73 academic year.
Nixon’s opponents and defenders.
He said he feels Nixon should be given the opportunity to defend himself just as any other citizen would have, and this could satisfy his supporters. He feels the impeachment process could give him that chance.
SEVERAL SURVEYS showed a minority of American citizens are in favor of impeachment; however, a majority has lost faith in the Nixon administration. Schachter said he feels the impeachment process, whether Nixon is indicted or not, could restore the people’s confidence in government.
Schachter hopes the grounds for impeachment will be specific, not general. He said the basis for impeachment should not be the tapes in general, but rather, distinct actions by the administration.
Schachter asked the crowd to help support impeachment by writing their congressmen or by signing the petition in the ACLU paper. The Open Forum.
Waldie On Impeachment
Rep. Jerome Waldie (D-Calif.), an announced candidate for governor, will speak Monday at 10 a.m. in Founders Hall 133.
Waldie will speak about the impeachment of President Nixon and the confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as Vice-President. He has proposed an impeachment resolution in the House, and is a member of the Judiciary Committee, which is investigating Ford.___^