Daily I® Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVIII, No. 51	Los Angeles, California	Thursday, December 4, 1975
Rally called last try to curb tuition hike
A rally will be held today at 12:15p.m. at Tommy Trojan as“a last-ditch effort” to curb the proposed tuition raise, said Glenn Sonnenberg, director of the financial affairs unit of the Student Senate.
“We have to get people there before the President’s Advisory Council’s next meeting,” he said. The PAC will meet Friday and next Tuesday to make its recommendation on the size of the hike to President John R. Hubbard.
The Student Senate approved tne Budget Commission’s original tuition hike of between 5.5% and 6.5%.
Senate members voted unanimously to reject the Resource Management and Planning Committee’s proposal that a tuition hike be limited to between 5.5% and 6.5%, with a 9.3% ceiling.
“We will allow an increase but we want the administration to take the burden off of the students,” Sonnenberg said.
He called the gathering “half rally and half entertainment.” He said the rally is being held to protest the Resource Management and Planning Committee’s recommendation.
“We feel that the Budget Commission’s recommendation
is more reasonable. The faculty is also in favor of the lower increase.
“There are a lot of administrators who would like to see the rally fail,” he continued.
“I think that a large successful rally will be the type of display that will make the administration and the Board of Trustees think. They won’t make a large hike if they feel the students are against it.
“Ifthe faculty is aware that the students are upset over the hike, then we will be able to get them to work with us.
“Some people in the administration think that they can raise tuition without having students leave. They compare the cost of education at USC with the cost of education at Harvard, but the comparison is not there,” he said.
Sonnenberg said the Student Senate has no part in the decision-making process, but he hoped the rally would have some effect on the final decision on the tuition hike. That decision will be made by the Board of Trustees.
The rally is being cosponsored by the Student Senate and the Residence Halls Coordinating Council, he said.
WOULD YOU BUY A USED INKBLOT FROM THIS MAN?—A Campus
Security officer checks out an inkblot display at the information booth at University Avenue and Childs Way. The display is part of "The Great Sigmund Freud Inkblot Sweepstakes," which is being put on by the Division of Drama. DT photo by Bob Selan.
Undergrad VP accepts post as first bicentennial professor
'TIS THE SEASON—Santa Claus made an early visit to an off-campus day-care center Wednesday and entertained children at a Christmas party sponsored by Helenes. Here a youngster gets a true thrill, a chance to
sit on Santa Claus' lap and chat with the white-bearded paragon of joy. (Shhh.. .don't say anything, but behind the whiskers is actually Eric Williams, a linebacker for the Trojan football team.) DT photo Jan Perry.
By Carolyn Horn
associate city editor
John E. Cantelon, vice-president for undergraduate studies, has announced he will accept an appointment as the university’s first bicentennial professor. .
Cantelon, who is also dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, said he will, in effect, be leaving his administrative duties, but he will not officially resign.
The professorship has been created in observance ofthe U.S. bicentennial year, and will be inaugurated in September.
The position will become a permanent part of the School of Religion because it is the oldest ofthe continuing academic units of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Cantelon is also a member of the school’s faculty.
“The position is one of many name professorships the university already has. It is usually one given to a senior faculty member, and it usually provides extra funding for supplies, travel or whatever other expenses the school has,” Cantelon said.
“The professorship is created out of an endowment, generally of about $200,000, which earns money through investment. In this case, the interest will go to the School of Religion.”
Cantelon said he accepted the position because he wants to teach again.
“After six years in the administration, I’ve found that I don’t have enough time to teach and write,” he said. “I feel a lack ofthe primary rewards a university offers—association with students and faculty members.”
Cantelon said he was asked to apply for the position of university provost (the chief officer of academic affairs), but he declined.
Alumni affairs director dies of heart attack
Michael Niotta, alumni affairs director for six years, died of a massive coronary attack Wednesday afternoon.
Niotta, 32. had no history of heart problems and had been admitted to the Tarzana Medical Center emergency ward Wednesday, a spokesman from the hospital said.
“He had shown absolutely no signs of poor health.” said Mary Jordan, executive secretary of alumni affairs. She said his age and energy7 made his sudden death an even greater shock.
While attending USC, Niotta was a member of the Letterman Club. He graduated in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. He attended his first two years of college at St. Edwards College in Austin. Tex.
Before assuming the Alumni Association directorship in August 1969, he worked in advance sales on the production staff of the Ice Follies.
“He came back to USC to work with the Alumni Club, and it happened that the title of the job at the time was director,” Jordan said.
She said that as the director, N iotta had been in charge of all Alumni Club activities, the Trojan Clubs and the Scholarship Committee, which arranges interviews with high school students throughout the country.
Survivors include his brother, George, and his parents, with whom he lived in Encino.
“The bicentennial professorship will provide an opportunity to do what I feel is most meaningful, to relate the abiding concerns of our Judeo-Christian heritage to the dynamic opportunities of the future,” he said.
He will begin his duties by doing research abroad.
Cantelons administration saw the establishment oftwo centers of interdisciplinary research and teaching—the Social Science Research Institute and the Center for the Humanities.
During his tenure as dean, the college received a $700,000 grant, one of the largest ever awarded, from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Cantelon has served in a number of other posts duringthe past 16 years—vice-provost, director of the School of Religion and university chaplain.
“The action is in the classroom and in the library,” he said.
Cantelon said that he has only been able to teach two classes
JOHN E. CANTELON
and has only published one book since he became a full-time administrator.