Summer
Troian
Vol. LXVII. No. 5
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, July 2, 1974
Funds increased for work study
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Staff Writer
USC has received a federal work-study allocation of over $800,000 for the 1974-75 fiscal year.
The funds will provide for approximately $1.2 million in wages for over 1.000 jobs.
The grant is an increase about 10% over last year's allocation and will mean about 200 more job placements for students who qualify for work study.
Under the work-study program, the federal government pays 70<7r of the student's wages and the employer pays the remaining 30<7r.
President Nixon did not request any funds for a work-study program in his budget, but Congress allocated $270 million —the same amount as last year.
USC requested over $2.7 million from the federal government, which would have provided approximately $3.8 million in wages.
The 10<7r increase is unusual, as most colleges and universities have had their allocations cut.
However, the university could have spent two to three times that amount.
USC's work-study budget has grown considerably over the past few years. Three or four years ago, the total budget was around $150,000.
Most students on the work-study program hold on-campus jobs. Employers that qualify for work-study employees are nonprofit organizations, such as the university, the March of Dimes, the Red Cross and the Los Angeles Urban League.
Approximately 15% of work-study students hold off-campus jobs.
The budget allocation will provide for about 100 students to hold jobs this summer, or about $100,000 in wages. Ron Mills, employment coordinator for the Financial Aid Office, said that
there are about 300 needy students who qualify for work study this summer.
Thus there is a much greater student demand for work-study jobs this summer than the university will be able to fill.
The Financial Aid Office is in the process of evaluating student needs and expects to be able to inform students if they will get a work-study job by July 15. Because of the late notification ofthe amount the university would receive, the office has not yet been able to make these announcements.
A lot of students waited to see if they would be able to get summer work-study jobs and now won’t be able to, said Mills. He added that the whole job picture in the Los Angeles area is grim.
Because of the problems caused by late notifications by the government, Mills suggested that the federal work-study budgets be done on a two-year basis in order to provide more stability.
FINISHING TOUCHES—Artist's rendition of the 261-unit University Hilton and 2-story commercial building (center) that will be completed by October.
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Office tower (left) will be a second stage development of the complex. Photo courtesy of United California Mortgage Company, who financed the project.
University Hilton to be completed by October
BY SYLVIA DISANTI
Editor
What was a 50c-per-day dirt parking lot last fall is being replaced by a rising $7-million hotel which will be completed by October, although the official opening of the University Hilton
Student Travel Bureau has flight openings
The Student Travel Bureau still has several summer flights open, said Dan lives, acting director of the bureau.
A charter flight to Paris which departs July 30 and returns September 11 is open, as well as flights to New York on July 28, August 11 and August 25. Return flights are also scheduled. Cost for the Paris flight is $369 round trip. New York one-way tickets are $89.
A flight to China on August 6 is also open. Cost is $417 with stopovers in Hawaii, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
In addition to flights the bureau offers assistance and information in other aspects of traveling. “We are attempting to be a complete travel service,” said lives. The office has available information on traveling, living, working, and studying abroad. In addition, there is a variety of literature and a small library on countries, services, accomodations, and insurance.
The student-run bureau is not a travel agent. It does not book students on commercial lines or reserve hotels, but deals only with charter flights.
“We are students and so we know what other students want. We cater to their needs,” said lives.
The bureau is located in Student Union 313-D and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Further information is available at 746-6092.
will not be held until March 1, 1975.
The 11-story University Hilton, part ofthe Hoover Community Redevelopment Project has been under construction across the street from the university on Figueroa St. since December.
The aim of the Hilton management in designing the hotel has been to provide as many facilities as possible, keeping the student community in mind, said Andre Schaefer, general manager of the University Hilton. “I want the kind of building that has everything in it. without ever leaving it,” he said.
Conference facilities
Already planned for the building are multi-flexible conference rooms, capable of handling groups from 50 to nearly 1,000 Built-in audio visual presentation equipment aid will be available in conference rooms on the second floor of a separate conference-restaurant building, connected to the hotel on that floor. The conference center is scheduled to open in January of 1975.
Its restaurants, banquet rooms, botique shops, rathskeller and conference facilties have been designed to reflect the Spanish heritage of early California.
The 261-unit hotel will have a Jacuzzi, sauna, swimming pool, game room including ping-pong table, pool and shuffleboard. Each hotel room will have “Rainbow Cinema,” or in-room full-length movies.
The possibilty of including the university radio station, KUSC, on the premises is still being considered. “If we have the room available, it will be included.” Schaefer said.
Schaefer is enthusiastic about student involvement with the hotel. “I want to get students to come over, to enjoy themselves,” he said.
Student rathskellar Especially designed for the student clientele will be a rathskellar, which will have casual food and entertainment. “It will be a place with a rustic atomsphere students can come and talk, have a beer, and a good sandwich.” Schaefer said.
In addition, the complex will have a sit-down dining room featuring continental foods, a cocktail lounge and coffee shop, all of which will be competitive with other dining-out facilities in the area, Schaefer said. “Price should not keep students away. Students are a market we don’t want to miss and we will be competitive.” he said.
Education dean says people are key to change, not innovation
Photo by Michael Sedano
STEPHEN J. KNEZEVICH
Ultimate chages in school curriculum will come from people, not primarily innovation, said Stephen J. Knezevich, recently appointed dean of the School of Education during an interview.
“You have to change people, not things. Innovation doesn’t mean much unless the staff has acquired the necessary competencies to implement a program,” he said.
Many of the new educational approaches such as schools without walls have been overpublicized, he said, and put in the field without enough research. Sufficient research and development in the laboratory is
necessary before implementation. Knezevich himself has been involved in an individual-guided educational program which was five years in the making
Knezevich, the author of eight books and countless periodical articles, assumed the dean’s position on June 1, the unanimous choice of a search committee which screened 50 applicants. He succeeds Irving R. Melbo, Dean Emeritus, and John W. Stallings, Interim Dean.
He is a graduate ofthe University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee where he received a Bachelor of Science degree. He also earned
Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in educational administration from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Before assuming the position at the university, he was a professor of educational administration at the University of Wisconsin forfouryears. He has also held professorship positions with the American Association of School Administrators, the University of Florida at Tal-lahasse, the University of Iowa, the University of Tulsa, and was a consultant to the RAND corporation in Santa Monica during 1970.