Daily ®§ Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, No. 65
Los Angeles, California
Friday, January 10, 1975
Caucus proposes use of tuition to fund programs
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Assistant Editor
The Student Caucus approved a resolution Thursday which, if approved by the Board ofTrustees. would require that .759r of tuition funds be set aside from campus programming beginning next fall.
The system, which would gen-
erate $300,000 to $400,000 a year, would replace the $4.50 mandatory fee voted out by the students last spring and the voluntary system to be implemented next semester.
About $25 per year of each full-time student’s tuition would be allocated for programming, depending on how much tuition
Panel urges freeze on aid to private schools
BY ARMANDO ACOSTA
The staff of the state Joint Legislative Committee on Post-secondary Education has proposed that California freeze present levels of financial assistance to private colleges and universities until those institutions provide documentation that more money is needed.
The report, presented to the state legislature, said, “Meaningful criteria to evaluate both institutional conditions and the overall impact of state programs must be established.”
Ironically, the report comes after the legislature approved and then Gov. Ronald Reagan signed into law an additional program to be implemented dur-ingthe 1975-76 school year under the State Scholarship and Loan Commission.
The new program will provide up to $900 in grants to students who wish to attend private institutions and whose family income is under $27,000.
Officials from universities throughout the state contend that their institutions handle a significant share of the state’s higher education load at a low cost to the taxpayers.
“if the State Scholarship program was ever to be cut, it would place a tremendous burden on the University of California and state colleges because of the high number of scholarship winners in private institutions,” said Pamela Walbom, USC director of financial aid.
She noted, however, that if enrollment continues to rise in private institutions, they may be in trouble financially because
the state would be hesitant at providing money, especially if money is saved in the University of California system.
Enrollment in the state’s private colleges and universities reached 134,000 this fall, up 6% from the previous year. UC enrollment rose only 3% last fall and it rose less than 2% at the California State Universities and Colleges.
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J-School director candidate fails to sign contract
The associate vice-chancelor of the University of Kansas dies'n last spring to fill the directorship of the School of Journalism, did not sign a contract with the university as expected.
Edward Bassett, formerly dean ofthe School of Journalism at the University of Kansas, met with the faculty, student organizations and administration of the USC School of Journalism on Wednesday. It was expected that he would sign a contract then.
But after meeting with Donald J. Lewis, dean of the Division of Social Sciences and Communications, Bassett declined to sign. He will present the university with a rough draft of several conditions of employment within ten days.
“We remain hopeful that an agreement can be reached,” said Kenneth Owler Smith, interim director of the School of Journalism.
is raised next fall.
The proposal, which was presented for a vote without advance notice to most members, will be forwarded to President John R. Hubbard and to the finance committee ofthe trustees at the committee’s meeting Monday.
Caucus members who opposed the motion said the proposal went against the will of the students in two referendums, in which they voted against mandatory fees.
Jill Aeschbacher, a representative from The Graduate School who voted in favor of the proposal, said she had been in favor of the caucus supporting the student decision to eliminate the mandatory fee.
“But that vote was against the mandatory fee, not against programming,” she said.
John Daley, representative from the Law Center, disagreed.
“It is a mandatory fee. It looks like you’re going through the back door after the students voted down the mandatory fee,” he said.
“It’s not a fee, it’s not added to the fee bill as an additional fee, as a fee of any kind,” said David Blackmar, one of the authors of the proposal.
“It’s just a request that funds from the current tuition—and I want to stress it’s not a request to raise tuition—be used to improve the campus environment, such as campus speakers and other activities that supplement classroom activities.”
The vote was 9 to 6 in favor of the proposal.
Hunt Braly, a newly elected representative from the residence halls, said he and other dissenters would probably submit a minority report.
Joe Flanagan, commuter representative and chairman of the committee that drafted the proposal, said he had discussed the plan with administrators. Flanagan said the plan would not cause tuition to be raised any more next fall.
Opponents criticized the proposal because they said the
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HOUSTON I. FLOURNOY
Flournoy agrees to take teaching post
BY DON LaPLANTE
Campus Editor
Houston I. Flournoy, former state controller and a candidate for governor in November, has accepted an appointment as a university professor.
As a university professor, Flournoy will be free to teach in any area or department in which he feels he has expertise and competence.
The first class Flournoy will teach will be in the department of political science. The class will be on state politics on Tuesday and Thursdays from 2 to 3:15 p.m. As of Thursday no details were available on how registration forthe class would be handled.
In a telephone interview from Sacramento, Flournoy said that he is looking forward to coming to the university.
“I think the main reason that I
am coming to USC is the good opportunity to teach and make use of my experience in state government. I have always admired the reputation that USC has,” he said.
Presently Flournoy only plans to be teaching in the department of political science but Zohrab A. Kaprielian, vice-president for academic administration and research, said that he expects Flournoy to teach in such departments as public administration, history or international relations in the future.
“The course will be a combination in the area of state politics and government. I will use both my academic and practical experience in teaching the course. It will be an instructional evaluation using California as a model. It will be analytical,” Flournoy said.
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Editor of ‘Row Run’ says frat council will vindicate him
BY NANCY SHINABARGAR
Staff Writer
The Row Run editor, accused in a Row Judicial hearing of collecting advertising revenue for his own gain without the permission of the newspaper’s sponsors, said he believes the verdict will be in his favor.
“I don’t think anything will happen, really,” said Mike Lawler, the editor, who is a senior in the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
“I don’t think I’ll be suspended, or my state scholarship cut. This is my last semester here,” he said. Lawler is on a $2,500 California State Scholarship.
In a telephone interview Thursday, Lawler said the Interfraternity Council, the newspaper’s sponsor, brought groundless charges against him at the Row Judicial hearing Tuesday night. The hearing was closed to the public at Lawler’s request.
“The issue was aboutthe ad money. I went out and sold ads, and I looked at that as my way of working through college. The ads were better than expected, and they wanted a part of the action. I did all the work. I always looked at that as my money. The IFC never sold any ads,” Lawler said.
He made about $670 in advertising revenue in the monthly issues from September through November. When the IFC withdrew sponsorship of the paper in November, Lawler began funding the newspaper. He broke even on the December issue and expects to make about $120 on the January issue.
The IFC never specified where or to whom the adver-
tising revenue was to be given, Lawler said.
“The only agreement we had was that the IFC pay for the first three issues. We discussed the ad money going back to the IFC, but there was no contract, written or oral,” he said.
The IFC spent about $750 for the issues from September to November.
Lawler gave his side of how the newspaper began.
“Like, they said, ‘go ahead and do the work—and if we like it we’ll pay for it, and subsequent issues.’ They said they would pick up the tab. They paid and I did the work. I never took out a loan. I didn’t take the money and run.
“Graphic Services sent the bill to IFC and IFC sent them a check. I never saw the money,” Lawler said.
He was critical of the IFC because as he worked on the newspaper the IFC began to make new demands.
“They kind of made up the rules as they went along,” Lawler said.
“They felt they were entitled to some of that money because they financed the paper.
“I looked on it more that it was a grant they gave me. They had money budgeted to finance a newspaper, and it was just coincidence that I had an idea to start a newspaper. It was my idea and I did all the work from the beginning.”
Lawler, who has applied to the USC Law Center, was confident about his admission to the school.
“I’ll get in because I’m qualified. The state even mailed me an application for a graduate fellowship,’ he said.