Daily ip Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, No. 129
Los Angeles, California
Friday, May 17, 1974
EAST MEETS WEST—Belly dancer exhibits her assets and performs a routine while a knife-thrower entertains crowd, barely missing target each time. Both festivities
were part of Wild West day, held in Alumni Park on Thursday. DT photo by Gehrig Ikeda.
Budget decision-making process is growing longer, more complex
Early in the fall semester, President John R. Hubbard spoke optimistically about the university’s fiscal situation for the current year.
“In listening to myself talk, I sense the message as positive and optimistic—and it is meant to be,” he said at the annual faculty breakfast Oct. 29.
“On the other hand, this chronicle of rising enrollments, zero deficit, development and growth is not meant to belie the serious, even frightening problems that we face in the years ahead.”
Administration officials who prepare the university budget have adopted the same outlook.
Formulation of the annual operating budget—the one for 1974-75 is $138.8 million—is a long and complex process. It usually takes more than one year.
Three university offices—the Office of Academic Administration and Research, Office of Financial Services, and Office of Institutional Studies—continually collect and analyze economic data, finan-
cial trends, information on student enrollments, tuition levels, salary and compensation levels, and the like.
This information is gathered for USC and other universities.
In the fall, a university panel studies financial data and various alternatives so that it can recommend a tuition rate for the following academic year.
For many years, the Financial Affairs Committee performed this task. Last fall, the Commission on Tuition and Fees was appointed by Hubbard to study the question. Hubbard asked the group to establish tuition policy for not only the next year but the next four or five.
For the coming year, the Resource Management and Planning Committee will attemptthis task.
Both recent panels were placed under the President's Advisory Council.
Meanwhile, while the tuition question is under study, the Budget Office coordinates the completion of budget requests through the deans and the vice-presidents.
Library granted $500,000 for 4 endowment fund
BY PETER WONG
t'.ditor
The University Library has received more than a half million dollars for its endowment within one year, all from a major donor.
J. Douglas Pardee, executive vice-president ofthe Pardee Construction Co.. a Los Angeles-based firm, and his wife have presented the university with a $517,304 endowment fund. It came in two separate gifts.
The endowment will enable Roy L. Kidman, the university librarian. and his staffto increase the number of bound volumes purchased annually for the collections by nearly 20^.
The funds in the endowment will be invested by the university, and the resulting income will be spent in the acquisition of books and journals for library collections. The income is expected to be generated indefin itely.
The initial expenditure of funds will be for the library collections in the School of Architecture and Fine Arts. Collections in other disciplines will also benefit from the endowment, since tens of thousands of dollars can be spent now to build up a particularly weak collection or strengthen a merely adequate one.
"This is the beginning of a great change in the nature ofthe library. It means the difference between a basic collection and one that contributes in a distinctive way to the needs of the university,” Kidman said.
"At the same time, it is a gift to Southern California because it will add continuously to the cultural resources available to us all.”
Pardee graduated from the USC School of Business Administration in 1949. His construction company is a subsidary of the Weyerhauser Co. of Seattle.
"The continued expansion of knowledge is dependent upon the ability of the libraries ofthe university to provide the resources essential to research, investigation and excellence in education." Pardee said.
"The faculty and students of a university must be assured rapid and efficient access to these essential materials.”
The Pardee gift is seen as a major step toward building the endowment of the University Library, which until recent years has been very little.
A Priority for the 70s. the academic plan adopted by the trustees in April, 1970, set a goal of $500,000 to be generated annually for the acquisition of books and journals. This would have taken $10 million in endowment funds.
The Academic Master Plan, the comprehensive plan that will replace the 1970 plan—and discussed at the trustees' conference earlier this month—sets a goal of at least $6 million for library endowment funds.
They are given budget work packages in which data on revenues and expenditures for their units are given for the past three or four years.
They are asked to estimate revenues and expenditures not only for the budget year in question but for the following two years. This allows the unit and the university administration to plan for a number of years at once.
The estimates they list in their budget-work packages may not agree with those provided by the Budget Office, so often a dean or vice-president and one of the budget officers must do crosschecking to see if estimates are realistic.
A series of budget workshops
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200 MORE EXPECTED
2,467 new frosh set to enter
Fee backers charged with violation of code
BY ALIX RILEY
Staff Writer
The Commission on Credentials and Elections of the President’s Advisory Council will hold a hearing today to determine whether backers of a mandatory programming fee have violated the election code for a special referendum.
The referendum will determine whether a recommendation supporting the continuation of a mandatory fee will be submitted to the Board of Trustees.
Proponents of a voluntary fee have charged that an advertisement in the Daily Trojan (May 16), paid for by the Student Programming Board, and an editorial in the May edition of Parking-Lot Paper, the commuter students’ newsletter, supporting mandatory fees constitute a misuse of student funds because
the board is using student money to perpetuate itself.
The election code states that all campaign activities must receive the prior written approval of the commission and must be accompanied by receipts.
The students who initiated the charges said that approval was not requested and no receipts were submitted.
John Griffith, executive secretary to the President’s Advisory Council, said that it is still an open question whether approval or receipts were needed in these instances.
He said the commission could possibly decide to allow one of the groups to campaign more extensively, or limit a group's campaign time or expenditures.
Ballots for the referendum will be mailed to all students Tuesday. (Continued on page 5)
BY BEVERLY BOYCE
Approximately 2.467 accepte freshmen applicants have indicated that they plan to attend the university this fall. Jay V. Berger, associate dean of admissions, said Thursday.
Berger said that this total includes those receiving financial aid either from the university or from the state.
He said the admissions office has received 5,800 freshman applications and there may be about 200 more added to this total before fall.
Berger said the admissions office is shooting for a freshmen class of 2,700.
There is a dramatic increase in business, engineering and Letters, Arts and Sciences majors. Berger said.
Most ofthe freshmen students in LAS have declared majors as premed. predent, prepharmacy and undeclared.
Berger said the university has tended to recruit students from schools in the California, Nevada. Arizona, Hawaii and Chicago areas because it has received many applicants from these areas before.
"Those schools which have fed us over the years with students.
we tend to go to again.” he said. "It’s not a hard-sell kind ofthing. though. USC has a great advantage because students have heard of us.”
He said the university also gets applicants by sending letters to the National Merit Scholarship Award finalists and to students in California who have received state scholarships and wiio have indicated the university as a possible choice for college.
He said that the alumni, news articles written about the football team, and other activities indirectly help to recruit students.
Berger said that last year 60rr of the freshmen students received some kind of financial assistance and that this year’s incoming freshmen class will probably receive the same percentage.
Berger said that the recruiters try to emphasize that a student should consider the university even iftheylackthe money to pay the full tuition.
"USC students on state scholarships receive more money than any other school, public or private, in California.”
Berger said that the admissions office considers the applicant’s grades to be most important criterion for acceptance. An applicant’s grade improvement. his involvement in high school activities, and his college board test scores are also considered.
Berger indicated that 1000 incoming freshmen with a 3.74 grade point average have been granted honors at entrance.He said that the average GPA is 3.45 for incoming freshmen.
"There are more applicants to choose from, but despite the increasing size of the class, they are increasing in quality as well.” he said. "I think they're coming in better prepared. We've had to be very selctive because of the large number of students applying.”
Berger also said that although colleges and universities across the country are having a hard time recruiting students, the university has not had any problems.
To find us with this increase in class is great." he said. It's great for the university and for the students.”