Datly tp Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVII, No. 36	Los Angeles, California	Tuesday, November 5, 1974
Students urge rejection
of proposed tuition hike
DT photo by Bob Chavez
Richardson speaks on economy
Our government was instituted to protect individuals’ rights from other individuals, said H.L. (Bill) Richardson, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, to a political science class on campus Monday.
Richardson is opposing the incumbent. Sen. Alan Cranston, in today’s statewide elections.
Richardson came out strongly against any sort of government controls, including ones on wages and prices, and welfare.
“More government control could socialize us right out of existence,” Richardson said.	y
BY LARRY TUCK
Staff Writer
The student members of the Resource Management and Planning Committee have asked the President’s Advisory Council to reject their committee's recommendation that tuition hikes be tied to increases in the cost of living.
The resource committee’s recommendation could result in a tuition hike of up to 13% next year. The students suggested that the PAC instead adopt the 10% increase recommended earlier by the Commission on Tuition and Fees.
In a memo to the PAC, the students said that the Consumer Price Index is not relevant to the university or the faculty. They also said that the recommendation was hasty and ill-conceived, that it ignored important research on tuition, and that it could have an adverse effect on financial aid.
All five student members voted against the recommendation by the resource board, but they were outvoted by 12 faculty and staff members.
The majority’s position was
Elections of 12 representatives to PAC could be held next month
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Assistant Editor
Elections for 12 undergraduate representatives from the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences to the President’s Advisory Council will probably be handled by the Student Caucus and will probably be held in mid-December.
The Commission on Elections and Credentials voted Monday to refer the elections to the caucus, with the recommendation that voting be on campus by ballot box.
The commission also voted to recommend a change in the bylaws of the President’s Advisory Council that would strike the provision setting a minimum voter turnout for the elections to be valid. Both recommendations
implemented plans for the elections over the summer, but that commission was dissolved and a new one was not set up until last month.
The recommendation for the caucus to handle the elections will be sent to the Executive Committee of the President’s Advisory Council at its Nov. 13 meeting. If that committee approves the recommendation, the caucus can act on it.
The proposed change in the bylaws, however, must be approved by the full council and will probably be voted on at its Dec. 4 meeting.
Elections can be held before that vote is taken, but the results cannot be validated until that time.
Connie Seinfeld, chairman of the caucus, said that a committee of caucus members seated on a permanent basis would be set up to run the elections.
Only the 12 undergraduate seats on the 33-member caucus need to be filled in this election. All student terms expire at the end of the spring semester.
The consensus was that elections should be held before Christmas vacation, because
{Continued on page 2)
that the 10% recommendation was based on an estimated 7% increase in the Consumer Price Index, an estimate which has since proved to be too low7. The index is up about 11% so far this year.
The student members, however, claim that the index has no bearing on the university’s expenses.
The Faculty and Staff Compensation Committee had earlier recommended that fa-culty-staff pay increases be comparable to the change in the Consumer Price Index.
The student members of the resource board, however, contend that the index has no bearing on the university’s expenses or the cost of living for faculty. Their statement to the PAC notes that the index is calculated for “urban wage earners and clerical workers”—not for teachers or other .professionals.
“Most faculty members here earn a lot more than the average wrage earner, so a price increase won’t have as much of an effect on them as on the people the index is calculated for,” said Marjie Lambert, one ofthe students and a senior in journalism.
The resource committee also cited an estimate that various irrevocable commitments such as financial aid. benefits to employees, utilities, and other operating costs, would increase by $4 million.
The students said this list had already been pared down from $10 million and suggested that it might be cut still further. “If so-called irrevocable commitments can be more than
halved, what credibility can such a list have?” the memo says.
The students’ statement said that the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education, a group of school administrators, economists, professors, and businessmen, had studied the future of private universities and recommended that tuition increases be tied to the disposable personal income.
Disposable personal income has decreased in the past year.
The commission also recommended that universities use budget and program cuts to reduce costs. This alternative was never adequately studied here, the students said.
The university has asked vice-presidents, deans, directors, and department heads to study areas where cuts might be made, but the students questioned whether these people can be objective in evaluating their own programs. They recommended that the university hire outside experts to analyze the budget.
“We’re not looking to see cuts in anything educational,” Lambert said. “We’d like to see some of the administrative overhead cut out.”
The student's statement also noted that California State Scholarships will not be increased next year. Any increase in tuition will cause financial strain for State Scholarship students. The university will have to provide added financial aid for some, and others may have to go to other schools.
Grant money to fund 4 humanities classes
now' go to the Executive Committee.
The 12 caucus members were voted on last spring, but only 17% of the student body voted, far from the one-third requirement set by the bylaws.
The bylaws wrere later amended, setting a lower, graduated requirement depending on the size of the constituency.
However, the President's Advisory Council had voted to hold new elections in the fall if the voter response did not meet the minimum voter turnout.
The persons receiving the most votes in each living group—six commuters, three dorm residents and three from the Row—were to have been placed on the fall ballot, as were the same number of runners-up from each group.
The 12 people receiving the most votes were seated as interim representatives until new elections could be held.
The commission was to have
BY MIKE MEYER
Staff Writer
Four new core courses, which will provide students with an additional way to meet the general education requirement, have been developed by the Humanities Division ofthe College of Letters. Arts and Sciences.
The courses were made possible by the recent five-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities—which will total between $500,000 and S700.000—and is designed to combine the strengths and interests ofthe liberal arts with those ofthe university’s professional schools.
The four new courses are: “Symbols, Verbal and Non-Verbal,” “Quality of Life: Values and Lifestyles.” “Environmental Quality,” and “Change and the Future.”
The program will be developed in stages over a period of several years, and the specific structure ofeach course will be decided during planning sessions in the spring semester.
The proposed option has to be approved by the LAS General Education Committee and the Curriculum Revision Committee before it is finally considered by the University Curriculum Committee.
Ihe courses will be team-taught by a total of about 25 professors, and are scheduled to be offered for the first time during the fall semester of 1975. At first, the program will accommodate between 100 and 160 students.
Karen Nichelson. administrative assistant for National Endowment forthe Humanities curriculum development, said the four courses are tentatively planned for eight units each, but a decision will not be made until alter the LAS Curriculum Revision Committee meets Nov. 12.
(continued on page 5)
YOU CAN'T TAKE THEM WITH YOU-Meghan Schreiber and Judi Sherman, will be among the ladies of the night sweetening noontime with "Sugar Daddys" in the Student Union Lobby for the Drama Division's comedy You Can't Take It With You, Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium. DT Photo by Bob Chavez.