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University of Southern California
Volume LXXIII, Number 14	Los Angeles, California	Tuesday, February 28, 1978
Council rejects attempt to lower fall tuition increase
By Diane Kessler and Mike Schroeder
SUIT Writers
The President’s Advisory Council rejected a final attempt to lower the tuition increase recommended by the Resource Management and Planning Committee Friday.
Bill Dauster, Student Senate chairman, made an effort to overturn the committee’s decision to recommend a 9.375% tuition increase for the 1978-79 school year. Dauster’s proposals were rejected by a 2 to 1 margin.
With the council’s recommendation, President Hubbard will now study the matter and present a proposed budget to the Board of Trustees’ Finance and Budget Committee.
If the budget is accepted by the board, a full-time student will pay an additional $12 per unit for tuition, which amounts to $360 more per year for the flat fee of 15 to 18 units.
Dauster presented a list of senate recommendations that he had advocated to the committee throughout its deliberations.
In addition to a lower tuition figure, Dauster proposed other amendments to the report concerning the use of endowment funds for student loan purposes.
In his presentation, he referred to another committee proposal recommending use of endowment funds for faculty and staff home-mortgage loans.
These loans would be offered below competitive interest rates.
Robert Biller, chairman of the Resource Management and Planning Committee and dean of the
School of Public Administration, spoke in favor of both proposals. They were accepted without opposition by the council.
Dauster was successful in suggesting an amendment to the report requesting additional data from the administration for the committee’s 1979-80 budget study.
Reduced amounts allocated for deferred maintenance and quality enhancement in the university’s proposed budget will cause problems later on, said John Marburger, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, commenting on the PAC recommendations.
The deferred maintenance figure, increased to $250,000 from the $100,000 proposed by the administration, was too low. Marburger said.
“It’s just too small to go around.. .we’re going to be in trouble in the future (because of the low figure),” Marburger said.
He said the university is going through the same troubles as other major private universities in appropriating quality enhancement funds.
The figure of nearly $1.2 million proposed in the committee's report isn't enough for increasing the quality of programs, Marburger said.
“(The money we receive) isn't enough money for us to do what we want to do, but we’ll live with it,” he said.
Several members of the council offered praise for the committee's work. One member called the report “a shining example of understandable writing.”
TYMPANI ALLEY — The drummer set the tempo as the Trinidad Steel Band performed Monday afternoon on the Student Activities Center patio. The concert was sponsored by the Associated Black Students of Southern California. DT photo by Paul Rodriguez.
Professor will advise judge on integration
Francine F. Rabinovitz, a professor of public administration and regional planning at the university, was one of eight people chosen Feb. 22 to advise Superior Court Judge Paul Egly on Los Angeles desegregation problems.
Each of the panel members was selected to advise Egly on a specific area in the desegregation issue.
Rabinovitz will advise Egly on the financial feasibility of desegregation.
Rabinovitz, a practicing lawyer and deputy director of the California Citizens Commis-
sion on Tort Reforms, was selected to the panel following an interview with Egly.
“I received a call asking if I would come and talk to Egly, and that was that,” Rabinovitz said.
Rabinovitz is now studying documents that contain a series of desegregation issues.
The issues being researched for the definition of desegrea-tion, the grade levels to be included in desegregation, demographic projections and the impact of bilingual education.
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Soviet woman speaks to liberate husband charged with treason
The wife of a Soviet political prisoner spoke at the university Monday as part of a nationwide campaign to liberate her husband.
Anatoly Shcharansky, an activist and frequent spokesman for dissident Soviet Jews, is being held by the Soviet government under a charge of treason based on fabricated involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency, his wife, Avi-tal, said.
President Carter has rejected the Soviet Union’s charge of Mr. Shcharansky’s alleged involvement with the CIA.
For the past five years he was under surveillance by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, and spent more than 100 days in and out of jail.
Mr. Shcharansky was arrested in Moscow on March 15,1977 and since that time his wife has been touring around the United
States and Canada pleading for support of her husband and Soviet Jews.
“Anatoly’s trial is a trial for all Jews, not just him. This is a very dangerous situation. Just as Hitler was testing the world during the Nazi holocaust 30 years ago. the Soviet Union is now seeing if we’re going to stand by and let them start persecuting the Jews again.
“Anatoly’s trial could mark the beginning of a campaign for the annihilation of the Jews and what are we willing to do?” she asked.
Mrs. Shcharansky, on her fifth tour in the United States, is visiting different campuses to coordinate plans for a three-day hunger strike, scheduled April 7-9.
Tents will be erected at the university and on other campuses from Los Angeles to San Diego. Seminars will be held to
inform students of the issue of Soviet Jewry, said Avi Schulman, assistant program director of the Hillel House. An international fast will be held in the United States, Great Britain and Israel March 15 in commemoration of the anniversary of Mr. Shcharansky’s arrest, he said.
Mrs. Shcharansky is deeply concerned over whether American students will show their support for the cause. “The Russians are very sensitive to American student opinion.” Postcards have been made available for students to send to Leonid Brezhnev at the Kremlin, urging him to free Mr. Shcharansky.
“If you are wondering what else you can do,” Mrs. Shcharansky said, “just imagine that he was a member of your family and I’m sure you will be able to think of lots of possibilities.”
New security system helps to retain libraries’ materials
By Robin Oto
Staff Writer
The library is silent. An unsuspecting student tiptoes to the main desk and an alarm suddenly goes off. Everyone stares at the embarrassed student and wonders which book he took.
Most libraries at the university are now using a security system that detects books being smuggled from the premises. Von KleinSmid Center, Crocker Business, Seaver Science, Architecture and Fine Arts, Doheny and Law Libraries use the system, which was installed by the 3M Company.
Ed Hess, assistant librarian for public services, said installation costs for
the system were estimated between $10,000 and $20,000.
The system consists of two gates with special sensing devices. Books are treated with tattle-tape, an adhesive sensitive to the system’s alarm. During normal check-out procedures, the book is desensitized by a machine, either on or under the front desk, by the librarian.
The books are always resensitized after they are checked in. Hess said.
The tattle-tape is effectively hidden inside books but Doheny Library’s main stacks are still in the process of being sensitized since the security system was installed only last summer.
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