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University’s budget may have deficit of $2 million
Volume LXXV. Number 44 University of Southern California Wednesday, November 29, 1978
Students devise fair ticket lines
By Gail Harris
Staff Writer
Students initiated a plan to insure fair distribution ot Rose Bowl tickets But the procedure forced about 2,300 students to camp out overnight and miss classes Monday and Tuesday.
An administrator s advice prompted the students to devise the plan to prevent intrusions in front ot those who had waited in line the longest.
The plan's effectiveness has not been determined but Pat Tvner, the director of the Ticket Office, said she didn't think it influenced ticket sales.
About six students, who were among the first in line on Nlondav, formulated the plan after lames Dennis the director of Student Life and Recreation, asked them if they thought there would be problems, said Jim Bailey, the president ot the Trojan Knights.
Bailev said Dennis asked him and the Trojan Knights to organize everything after the students made up a three-point plan that consisted of sign-up sheets, roll sheets, and three lines.
The groups, with a maximum of ten students, were required to list their member's names. A
certain number of them had to be present when roll-calls were made.
Dennis said he let the students organize their own plan because he believes “students can best solve student’s problems’’.
Tyner said the plan was very effective but had problems just as the lottery system did. Students decided on the lottery system about five or six years ago. It might have been great then, but may not be applicable today, she said.
^ One of the main problems with the plan was it excluded students who attended evening classes or forced them to miss their classes to stand in line.
Students and professor's responses also indicated that the plan had negative effects on students in day classes.
Milton Wolpin, a professor of psychology, said about one third of the students in his psychology and urban social problems class were absent Tuesday.
"The attitude was to forget school and midterms because the Rose Bowl comes first," said Susan Toler, a civil engineering major who missed two classes to stand in line.
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JUST PASSIN' TIME — Students gam second students who waited in line were able to buy tic-wind as they wait for Rose Bowl tickets to go on kets.
sale. Ticket distribution went smoothly as all of the	ot photo by ¥»r»r» Tr«e«er
AN EYE ON CAMPUS
A wait? It turned into a party
By Amy Alpem
Feature Focus Editor
The last time I can remember lining up and being accounted for bv periodic attendance calls was in elementary school when we filed out of the rooms and onto the grass after the fire bell rang.
But this is college. While waiting to buy my Rose Bowl ticket, I went in search of my line leader. "She is not a line leader, she is a line coordinator," I was informed. Oh, pardon me.
I was looking for my line coordinator to find out whether or not students were allowed to attend class without losing their places in line.
Then the whole situation hit me. There I was, looking for a girl 1 had met only a day ago, to ask her if I could miss my class to stand in line for football tickets.
I caught it. Football fever was in the air and my temperature was rising to the occasion.
The students waiting in line all night to get tickets had altered my reality. I was going crazy seeing all of the televisions set up, poker games going on, drinking and yes, even some sex. (1 assume sex was going on, unless the sleeping bag near my group had learned to shimmy )
Footballs were hurled through the air from sundown to sunup. For some, it was a way to pass the boredom of a long evening in wait; for
others, the not-so-perfect spirals served as a constant reminder of what thev wrere doing — waiting in line for tickets to a football game. Excuse me, not a football game, the Rose Bowl.
Finally, the morning came. Tired, just barely thawed and feeling guilty about missing class, the students continued to wait.
Everyone marveled at the orderly conduct that was maintained all through the night.
It seems that the sophisticated student-run line ran more smoothly than most expected. Campus Security roamed the area all night, but found little cause to intervene.
The mood seemed to be calm because it was students who had organized the entire procedure. There was no reason to challenge it.
Robert L. Mannes, dean for student life, agreed that if the administration had tried to set these kinds of rules they would have been harder to carry out.
The administration did come into the picture at about midnight last night, however, as they endorsed the rules set down by each line.
The Trojan Knights were also organized to make sure that things went smoothly.
And as 11 a.m. approached when the tickets were to be handed out, several administrators
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By Michael Schroeder
News Editor
The university may face a budget deficit of over $2 million this year in the wake of rising inflation, wage and price controls and declining enrollment.
A rough draft of the projected budget for 1978-79, based on the first draft of the administration's five-year forecast, showed the gap in funding at a meeting of a President’s Advisory Council committee Tuesday.
The first draft of the 1979-80 budget was also revealed at the meeting, a budget projecting a $4 million gap in financing even with an 8.77% tuition increase.
The 8.77% translates into a $12 increase in tuition for each unit, bringing the cost of a course credit at the university to SI 52. Most students would pay $2,280 for a full-time course load.
The university's current financial condition is of more concern to the administration this year than in 19!7 at the same time, said Jay Schoenau, senior budget analyst.
"We were less scared at this time last year than we are this year," Schoenau said.
One reason for the fear is that the amount of the "gap," as the projected budget’s deficit is referred to at the first stage of the budget process, is nearly twice the $1 million predicted in 1977-78.
The gap was filled last year primarily by money gained through an increase in indirect cost recovery monies received by the university- and a wage and hiring freeze instituted in April.
(Indirect cost recovery funds are collected by the university from the government in payment for administrative, maintenance, and other costs incurred in research projects here.)
The university will not have the same benefits this vear, however. No windfall is expected in university revenues, and the possibility of decreased student enrollment would decrease the number of fee bills settled, said Robert Biller, chairman of the re-
source management and planning committee.
The committee is charged to study the university's budget proposals and make recommendations to President John R. Hubbard.
Inflation is the chief reason fcfr the budget planners' headaches, as the consumer price index is estimated to go up by 7Vi % during 1979-80.
Historically, tuition is usually increased by the increase in the consumer price index, plus 2xk %. "This is the only way labor intensive organizations (including the university) have to do new things," John Curry, assistant to executive vice-president Zohrab Kaprielian, said at the meeting.
This was also one of the administration's assumptions in its preparation of the initial draft of the five-year forecast, a document attempting to predict the university's financial health over the period.
The growth of the consumer price index is expected to average 7% over the next five years, according to the report. Coupled with this increase in costs is an average tuition increase of 9.4%upping the cost per unit to almost $200 in 1982-83.
The administration's budget predictions do not take into account several financial areas and possible conflicts with the budget.
Century II, the university's five-year fundraising program, has yet to meet its operational costs from unrestricted gifts, as was intended by the Board of Trustees at the program's inception. Instead, almost $3 million in expenses have been or will be accrued on the assumption that the funding will eventually be found to support the program, Biller said.
The lack of unrestricted gifts (those not intended for any specific purpose) from the Century II program is putting the university in a "financial pinch", said Paul Gray, professor of (continued on page 2)
Art institute to merge with Manhattan design school
By Mary Bird
Staff Writer
Otis Art Institute will not merge with the university, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday.
The decision was three to two in favor of Parson's School of Design in Manhattan. Pete Schabarum and Kenneth Hahn, supervisors, voted for affiliation with the university and Ed Edelman, Baxter Ward and James Hayes cast their votes in favor of Parson's.
The idea for a merger began when the county no longer supported funding the school in an effort to save taxpayers as much as $1 million annually.
Controversy began when Parson's and the university submitted proposals to the supervisors for the merger. The institute's student body, faculty, and board of governors opted to choose Parson's proposal, but the supervisors still considered a merger with the university. Areas of concern focused on the academic purposes of the two schools and cost factors.
Students and faculty at the institute felt that Parson's, a nationally-known. independent fine arts school, would best fit the needs of the institute in terms of its fine arts training, academic courses, and professional guidance, and would guarantee retention of all the institute's faculty. The merger would also provide a system of student, faculty, and exhibition exchange between Los Angeles and New York.
University officials felt the university could offer the same types of fine arts programs, exposure to different types of disciplines and also a close proximity to the school.
Hayes, who cast the deciding vote in the merger, discussed the reasons for his decision before he cast his vote.
He felt Parson's would continue to meet the special needs of the institute since it specializes in fine arts and students would not have to pursue a more academic career.
He also said Parson's had an established national and international reputation in fine arts, which would help students of the institute.
Hayes also believed that Parsons, which is located in New York, would enlarge the area of private donations for the school.
Stephen %)strow, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said he was
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