University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, Number 66	Los Angeles, California	Tuesday, February 4, 1975
Board expected to approve $330 tuition increase
BY LINDA CIRIGLIANO
City Editor
A S330 increase in tuition is expected to be approved by the Board of Trustees at its meeting Wednesday. Zohrab A. Kaprielian. vice-president for academic administration and research, said
The 11.3% increase will raise next fal)'stuition from its present rate of S2.910 per year for 15-18 units to S3.240
Since 1970. tuition has been increased each school year. The anticipated $330 increase will be the largest yet in terms of dollars.
Inflation and its effect on university costs was cited as the reason for the tuition increase. Because inflation is worsening, even the 11.3% tuition hike may not produce enough revenue to meet the univ ersity's rising costs. Kaprielian said.
‘ But we felt this was the maximum we could ask students to pay," he said. “We felt this is the highest tuition can go at the present time."
Kaprielian was asked what students will get in return for the additional money they will be charged.
Quality of education
He said that money from the tuition increase will be used to help improve the quality of education here.
“It is meaningless to keep raising tuition unless we can maintain the improvement of what’s being offered on campus," he said. “Unless in the next decade we can raise our level of quality and uniqueness, we will lose our place in higher education.”
USC is rated among the top 30 universities in the country, Kaprielian said. Efforts, partially funded by increased tuition revenues, are now being made to pull the university's rating up into the top 15 by 1980
A portion of the money from the tuition increase is expected to be used to provide more university scholarships, Kaprielian said
Salary increases
A larger portion of the tuition money will be used for faculty and staff salary increases. “We will probably have one of the highest percentages of salary raises for universities across the country,” Kaprielian said.
In addition to voting for a tuition increase, the trustees are also expected to approve a 12% increase in the faculty and staff salary pool.
Approximately 10% of the salary increase is expected to come from monies generated by the tuition hike. The additional 2% of the faculty and staff pay increase will come from budget cuts within university offices and departments.
Tuition will not only help to increase faculty and staff salaries, but will also help to secure the 5% salary increase for teaching assistants approved by the trustees in December.
A percentage of the money to be added to the salary pool is expected to be used for merit raises.
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Daily
Trojan
Lottery system for registration will replace current procedure
BY TOM ROSA
Staff Writer
A lottery registration process will be implemented to replace the present system. Robert L. Mannes, dean for student life, said Monday.
Mannes termed the present registration system an injustice to students.
Mannes said a new procedure was urgently needed to eliminate the long wait in lines and achieve a viable coordination between the number of students wanting particular classes and the number of classes available.
Students will turn in their packets on the first day of preregistration.
The packets turned in on the first day will be placed in numbered boxes. A lottery will then be held to determine which boxes will be processed first.
Students who turn in their
packets on the following days will be processed in first-come, first-served order.
“The present registration process is very inappropriate for all the students.” he said.
A new system of registration was sought after this semester s registration, when thousands of students waited in lines to turn in their packets.
“This was the worst registration that we ever had." Mannes said.
He said two factors contributed to the problem: people having to wait all night in order to turn in their packets, and the subsequent pushing and crowding that resulted when Mannes gave each packet a number.
He gave out the numbers so that the students could go home and not have to wait in line al! night.
However, many students com
plained that the numbers stamped on their packets were not adhered to by the registration office.
"I arrived around 7:45a.m. and did not see students being discriminated against.'' Mannes said.
He did say. however, that students who arrived after their numbers had been called were placed in the box that was being filled at that time. He said this could account for their not being in the first group of boxes.
A computerized registration process is being designed, although Mannes said the system will not be available for some time.
Other suggestions for registration will be discussed by the Student Academic Affairs Committee and by the registrar's office.
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THE WAY WE WERE—Two women posed knowingly for one camera, and unknowingly for the Daily Trojan after the graduation ceremony held Jan. 29. The midyear commencement, held in the Shrine Auditorium,
had Wilson Riles as its main speaker. About 1,500 students participated in the exercises. See story page 7. DT photo by Audrey Chan.
elected to replace Seinfeld
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
( ampus Mditor
Joe Flanagan, a senior in political science and a commuter representative, was elected to replace Connie Seinfeld as Student Caucus chairman following her resignation Jan. 23.
In a letter to caucus members, Seinfeld said she had enjoyed being caucus chairman for the previous nine months, but that the position had left her little time to study.
"Next semester I am beginning a new area of study and will be trying to do a dissertation in mathematics. I do not feel that this would leave me enough time to be an adequate chairman." she said in the letter.
Seinfeld, who was a Ph.D. candidate in mathema tics, changed her major to political science this semester.
She had been criticized by caucus members and other students for taking on too many respon sibilities and committee seats, giving her too little time to do her job as chairman well
Some caucus members and the Daily Trojan asked for her resignation in late November, but Seinfeld said at that time she couldn't resign under pres sure.
Flanagan ran against Randy Higashida. another commuter representative and a junior in biological sciences, and Hunt Braly, a newly-elected rep resentative from the residence halls and a sophomore in political science.
No graduate students ran for the chairmanship.
Flanagan received nine votes on the first ballot to Braly's eight and Higashida's three. A second ballot gave Flanagan 12 votes and Braly seven.
In an impromptu speech. Flanagan, a member of the caucus since last spring, said he had the necessary experience and contacts to perform well as chairman.
Flanagan is a member of several key university committees, including the Executive Committee of the President's Advisory Council Seinfeld had often referred to him as her unofficial vice-chairman.
Braly read a prepared speech which said he would provide new leadership necessary to improve the caucus' credibility with the students Braly has been active in the residence halls.
Higashida said that his experience as chairman of the caucus' Committee on Committees had prepared him to deal with the issues Seinfeld's resignation as chairman of the caucus meant automatic forfeiture of her seat on the Ex-ecutive Committee, which Flanauan will fill
David Blackmar. another commuter representative and a junior in philosophy, was elected to fill the undergraduate seat vacated b\ Flanagan.
Chuck Benjamin, a graduate student in interna tional relations, holds the third student seat on the Executive Committee
Blackmar ran against Higashida. Bralv >nd Ji; Lamb, a commuter representative an l a senior ir, history
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Caucus chairman
JOE FLANAGAN