By Jim Saenz
Staff Writer
Regulations regarding campaign procedures and electioneering for Student Senate candidates will be enforced on a stricter basis, said Steven Pacini. chairman of the Joint Elections and Credentials Committee
•In previous years, we have had problems concerning stuffing of ballot boxes and electioneering near the voting booths. We have handled them leniently, but thisyear we intend to enforce these regulations to a greater degree," Pacini said.
Undergraduate candidates may be enrolled in any school or college, must be carrying at least
12	academic units and be in good academic standing.
Each candidate must sign a statement declaring his constituency, eligibility and desire to run. If they are involved in on-campus media organizations,
Stricter campaign procedure rules face Student Senate candidates
they may not participate actively in news media staff functions while campaigning. Pacini said.
"One of the most important regulations which will be watched very closely will be campaign expenses,” he said.
“The maximum monetary value of campaign materials and functions shall not exceed $75 per candidate and, if there are two or more candidates who wish to run on a slate, the dollar figure of $75 remains the same,” he said.
Each candidate will be able to submit receipts or estimates of all campaign expenditures to the commission, at the time of approval of the material or function.
"The candidate must provide the cost of materials, locations and modes of distribution and must also try to submit receipts for expenditures made on his behalf by another individual or group,” Pacini said.
In an orientation meeting for all candidates, Pacini said each candidate would be responsible for the authorized campaign sets and procedures by individuals or groups supporting him.
"All campaign material and activities other than individual personal contact must be approved by three members of the commission prior to dissemination,” he said.
“All campaign materials and descriptions of activities must
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University of Southern California
Volume LXXIII, Number 33	Los	Angeles, California Wednesday, April 5, 1978
Joan Rivers finds pregnant audience for ‘Rabbit Test’;
By David Watson
SufT Writer
Question: What do you think of petting on the first date?
Joan Rivers: I’m against it. Go right to bed.
A white rabbit with pink ears and a pink bow-tie came out from behind the curtain, ran into the audience, and finally up onto the stage. Joan Rivers appeared as the audience burst into applause, she took a bite of the rabbit’s carrot and explained her new movie Rabbit Test as “What a fool does when she gets ahold of money.”
Rivers, the well-known television and nightclub comedian, presented one reel of the movie to a standing-room-only crowd in Bovard Auditorium Tuesday.
Afterward she answered questions from the audience about her movie-making efforts as well as the state of comedy in general.
If you like Monty Python, Mel Brooks, and Saturday Night Live, you’ll like Rabbit Test, Rivers said.
Monty Python obviously had a lot of fans in the audience who cheered, laughed and clapped from the opening moments of the movie to the end of the first reel.
After being rejected by 7 movie studios,Rabbit Test was made in 24 days with $1 million raised from independent sources.
Rivers said she began her money raising efforts by asking all her friends, “Who do you know that’s rich?"
She attended 216 unproductive meetings with prospective investors before she finally met someone willing to finance her movie.
“Nothing was going to stop me,” she said. “I saw other supposed comedy movies that were so bad people were actually booing and beating up the ushers.”
Many people she talked to about financing her movie didn’t think her script was funny. She said these people just weren’t aware of the current trends in comedy.
The fact that she was a woman was unacceptable to many of her financial prospects, but she just kept going. “I knew we had a funny script,” she said.
Rivers thinks she was very lucky and nothing happened during the 24 days of her carefully planned shooting. Sets, continuity and camera angles had all been planned before the shooting actually began.
Rivers said careful preparation and desperation got them through the shooting — “God was with us.”
Rabbit Test has opened in 36 cities across the nation. Due to its success Rivers has received offers from the studios who originally rejected Rabbit Test to produce her next movie.
“They had no shame, they acted as if Rabbit Test never existed,” she said. “Screw the studio, we’re going independent again.”
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looks at directorial debut as ‘scary but challenging’
be submitted to Student Union 202 for approval by the elections commission and a decision will be made within 24 hours of submission.”
Pacini stressed that only fulltime undergraduate students in any school or college at the university will be eligible to vote.
“Each student shall vote only in the constituency to which he belongs and this is very important. We have had problems in the past with people attempting to stuff the ballot box in support of a particular candidate.
“One problem we may have will be with students trying to vote for candidates running in constituencies other than their current area. From that aspect
our election code is still not perfect,” Pacini said.
Pacini stressed to all candidates that any student who is a legitimate member of a fraternity or sorority will be classified as a member of the Row constituency, regardless of their actual residence.
“This is to incite actives and pledges and not little sisters and big brothers of each house."
If that person is a member of the Row constituency, he must run and vote for the Row seat, Pacini said.
Students who live in any on-campus residence hall belong to the residence hall constituency. This includes students living in Webb Tower and Harris Plaza.
Those students living within the 90007 zip code area are included in the student community area. A commuter is defined as any student living outside this area.
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Hubbard to direct all academic fundraising
President John R. Hubbard has assumed directions of all academic fund raising in an effort to intensify Board of Trustee and dean involvement in the Toward Century’ II endowment program.
Hubbard joins Thomas Nickell, vice-president of university affairs, Leonard Wines, associate vice-president of university affairs and Roger F. Olson, associate vice-president and executive director of university affairs, in leading the intensified search for endowments.
Hubbard and J. Robert Fluor, chairman of the Board of Trustees, issued a joint statement which stated endowments will receive top priority for the remainder of the fund drive.
Toward Century II’s target figure is $265 million, which is to be raised by a combination of private contributions and endowments in observance of the university’s centennial in 1980. Contributions may be submitted to a general fund or directed to specific departments or divisions.
The endowment target has been set at $111 million, to be used for endowments of chairs, scholarships, faculty support and building maintenance.
Board of Trustee participation will be coordinated by Hubbard. Fluor and Paul Miller, a university trustee and chairman of the board of Pacific Lighting Corp.
Coordination of academic involvement in the fundraising program will be conducted by Jerome B. Walker, who currently serves as a research and program coordinator for Toward Century II.
All development officers for the program assigned to academic units will report to their respective deans or academic directors, the statement said.
Concurrently, the statement announced the assignment of Vance T. Peterson, director of academic relations, as responsible for administering the University News Bureau.
“Further consolidation of information about USC is essential to support successful academic development efforts," Hubbard said.
The statement also said that central to the effort of involving trustees and deans in the fundraising program is Hubbard’s desire to marshal academic resources more effectively.
Film’s profits will be used for sound stages
By Charles Swenson
Staff Writer
Gary Allison, the producer of the film Fraternity Row, has donated the profits of that movie to finance the construction of two new sound stages for the university’s Division of Cinema.
Allison has hired an architect to begin planning the sound stages.
Fraternity Roiv was produced by Allison to provide data for his Ph.D. dissertation, which studied “how one film is made.” Much of the work on the film was done by students in the Division of Cinema.
Allison and his family raised $70,000 to hire Richard Dorman, an architect, so that construction on the sound stages could begin as soon as the money becomes available. “It should be another 16 months before the first check comes in,” Allison said. “We’re just ready to see the first earnings report.”
Fraternity Row has not yet begun to show a profit, said Edward Mosk, the film’s trustee. "Fraternity Roiv has not done as well as everyone hoped it would, and there are still plenty of expenses to be paid.”
The film is now in its fourth Los Angeles run, playing on a double bill with Saturday Night Fever at drive-in theaters and
has been sold to Home Box Office. the subscription television service that airs first-run movies. The film has strong prospects for revival showings and the film's 16mm rental prints have been very popular, Allison said.
"Fraternity Row will be offered for sale at the Cannes Film Festival in May.” Allison said. The festival is the largest marketplace for non-American distribution rights of films.
Mosk indicated that the distributors here are losing interest in the film. “When they start paying more attention to other films, the handwriting is on the wall,” he said.
“There are no overnight fortunes in this business,” Allison said. He pointed out that Fraternity Row won a special award from the Los Angeles Film Critics. "for uniqueness in film history." The film was also included among the top 10 films of 1977 by 40 newspapers, including the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. he said.
In addition to donating all of the profits from Fraternity Row to the Division of Cinema. Allison intends to have all of the film's production data bound and placed on file in the cinema library.