Program funds in new budget explained by executive VP
By Don La Plante
Associate Editor
While the university budget for the 1976-77 academic year includes $2.9 million for programmatic requirements, there has been a great deal of confusion among members ofthe university community as to what the money is actually for.
Many people have wrongly interpreted the term “programmatic requirements” as implying that the $2.9 million will be for new programs.
Actually, there will be only about $600,000 available for new programs or to supplement present programs, said Zohrab A. Kaprielian, executive vice-president.
He told the Faculty Senate and the President’s Advisory Council last week that $2,319,812 of the $2.9 million has already been allocated to continue funding for programs already in progress.
The biggest chunk of money,
$819,000. is allocated for teaching assistants in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
In past years, the university appropriated some funds for teaching assistants out of money that came in from rising enrollment and was not in the regular university budget.
Kaprielian said that because there is no increase in the enrollment expected in the future, the funds had to be placed in the budget.
The funds in the present budget will not be new but are designed only to keep the number ofteaching assistants at the present level. Should more be needed in the future because of an enrollment increase, the funds would come out of the funds generated by the new students.
He said another major expenditure of the program funds was $292,000 to make up for inflation in materials and services and related areas.
A total of $277,000 was allocated to
the School of Business to provide for new sections of classes opened because of an enrollment increase.
The university libraries received $90,000 to help keep up with the rising cost of periodicals. These funds will not provide for new periodicals but will only compensate for cost increases for the ones the library now receives.
The health sciences received $150,000, basically for the Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Departments. For many years, federal funds supported the programs, but when the federal funds were withdrawn the university had to step in and provide the funds to keep the programs.
Because of all the problems the university has had with audits by federal agencies, $75,000 was allocated to provide additional personnel for financial services to handle the government requests.
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Daily ftp Troian
Volume LXVIII, No. 101
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, March 25, 1976
Ex-aid director, staff blame mixups on Wagner
By Marc Nowadnick
Claims by financial aid personnel that confusion in their office was due to the poor policies of the university’s chief financial aid administrator were supported Tuesday by Pamela H. Walbom. who resigned as financial aid director last summer.
“I just hope the university soon realizes that William G. Wagner is 98°! ofthe problem in financial aid,” Walbom said. Wagner, special assistant to the president for academic record services, has authority over financial aid. admissions and registration. He declined to comment on Walbom’s remarks.
Walbom. whose resignation sparked a controversy last fall, now works in her husband’s dental office in Knoxville, Tenn. But she said she continues to have a deep concern for students here and an interest in financial aid.
The university may have violated federal regulations for financial aid, Walbom said. She said awards were made without adequate documentation, records were improperly kept and allocations were inconsistent.
A high-ranking staff member in the Financial Aid Office said
that many award decisions were made on the spot in the gymnasium during fall registration by Wagner or Richard Dolen, acting director of student administrative services.^
Walbom said that she doubted the university could produce the proper documentation for these awards.
Some universities have lost all federal student aid funding after audits revealed misuse of federal funds in their programs, an official for the Department of Health. Education and Welfare said.
These audits could be initiated by student groups, as well as the government, the official said.
Walbom also described how a backlog of nearly 5,000 forms for Federally Insured Student Loans was hastily processed shortly before registration last fall.
Walbom said Wagner called in inexperienced temporary help to complete the FISL forms. The forms had to be returned and done again because ofthe errors made.
A staff member in the aid office confirmed and expanded
Board OKs funds for Troy Camp, entertainment group
By Peter Fletcher
Staff Writer
The Campus Activities Allocations Board gave final approval for allocations to Troy Camp and the Student Committee on Popu-lar Entertainment Tuesday night. Mike Peterson, chairman of the board, said.
The board decided last month to allocate $3,500 to Troy Camp and $4,500 to the entertainment committee for the Garden Theatre Festival.
The allocations had to be delayed until now because the board is required to keep a reserve fund until midway through the semester. The funds for the two groups came out of the reserve fund.
The board also decided at Tuesday’s meeting to meet with a representative of the Student Travel Bureau to discuss what to do about the loan of $10,000 that the previous programming board gave to the bureau.
Peterson said only $5,100 of the loan was used and the board
is still awaiting repaymentofthe loan.
He said the board and the representative will meet in two weeks to consider if some of the loan could be paid back or if the loan could be changed to the form of a grant.
Because the travel bureau owes the university $27,000, which has to be paid back first, it could be years before repayment is forthcoming, Peterson said.
The review board of the allocation board met Wednesday and approved the allocations to Troy Camp and the entertainment committee. The review board automatically considers any allocation made by the full board that exceeds $3,000 for a semester or $5,000 for the full year.
The allocation of $5,000 for KSCR, the student-operated radio station, for the purchase of new equipment, was also approved.
upon Walbom’s story. She said that five people had been hired to complete the loan forms. On the second day, their supervisor became ill and left.
The new employees continued to process the forms and some of the mistakes still have not been resolved, the staff member said.
The staffer also said that two weeks prior to fall registration Wagner called a group of assistant deans to his office to help him make award decisions for students whose aid packages
were not already processed
The staff member said a student’s name would be called, then lists for state scholarships and Basic Educational Grants would be checked. “If these awards didn’t meet the student’s need then a group leader w'ould say let’s give him this and this; and that would be it,” she said.
Personnel in the aid office have been told that a similar method will be used to make the
majority of awards this year, she said.
Financial aid personnel will verify the need analyses and the awards will be made by an administrative group chosen by Wagner: none of whom have any expertise in financial aid, she said.
Walbom predicted the result would be absoulte chaos.
“These people are well qualified in their own fields,” Walbom said, “but they know no-(continued on page 3)
Meeting held to debate Gallo contribution to Songfest charity
By Dorothy Reinhold
Assistant City Editor
Representatives from the Songfest Committee, MECHA and five other student organizations met Wednesday in a heated discussion based on MECHA’s possible boycott of this year’s Songfest performance.
MECHA, the Chicano student organization, supported by the International Student Association, the Greek Students Organization, The Associated Black Students of Southern California, the Women’s Resource Center and the USC Forum for Hayden voiced their disapproval of the Songfest Committee’s association with the Ernest and Julio Gallo Vineyards through a Gallo contribution to the event.
Gallo has promised the John Tracy Clinic for Deaf and Deaf-Blind Children $1 for each block seating ticket sold, up to 1,000 tickets, hoping to inspire students to purchase block seating advance tickets to the event.
In addition to the donation, Gallo also volunteered to pay for an advertisement in the Daily Trojan and a flyer that would advertise the block ticket sales, both of which would contain the Gallo name
as the contributor ofthe money.
“We would not like to see any Gallo advertisements, logos, or names appear in the Songfest program. If Gallo is really concerned about the clinic they will leave their name out of it, and if they won’t leave their name out then they are just trying to exploit Songfest,” said Victor Manrique, a representative from MECHA.
Manrique said that because of Gallo’s unfair labor practices, MECHA supported the United Farm Workers, which boycotts Gallo vineyards.
“When you look at the unfair labor practices, you can see why we have to hold this position. You are helping the Gallo corporation work around the boycott by accepting their advertisement. You are strengthening the corporation,” Manrique said.
He said he wanted to make it clear that MECHA and the other groups are not opposed to the contribution itself, merely to the use ofGallo’s name in advertisements for Songfest.
He said Gallo was blatantly trying to exploit Songfest and the university population by the
advertisement.
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AU. QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT—Cameraman Brian Midkiff shoots a scene with Bob Klause near Norris Theater for a movie that Klause wrote and is
directing. Both are juniors in cinema and are making the film for a Cinema 290 dass assignment.