Daily § Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, Number 73	Los Angeles, California Thursday, February 13, 1975
Programming Council to have only $6,000 budget
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Campus Editor
The new Student Programming Council, which should be appointed by the end of next week, will have less than S6.000 to appropriate because of the low response to the voluntary fee this semester.
Last year's budget totaled $140,000
Although it was earlier estimated that 2.000 students paid the voluntary fee. an unofficial tally showed only 1.300 actually did.
Unless action is taken to implement a new programming system, the current voluntary payment at registration will be continued in the fall.
The Student Caucus recommendation that 0.75% of tuition funds be allocated for programming could not be implemented before fall 1976 even if it were approved l>\ the Board ofTrust-ees
Tne recommendation, which wo" M «et	het ween
$300 OUO and $400,000 for pro gramming, would require that tuition be raised or budgets cut by about $25 per student.
Because the trustees have already committed themselves to a tuition figure for next year, the proposal would not be applicable until the following year.
The Resource Management and Planning Committee will consider the proposal and make a recommendation for implementation in 1976
The caucus' plan was criticized by some members because they said the proposal went against the students’ vote to abolish the $4 50 mandatory programming fee.
Proponents of the plan said, however, that the proposal was not for a mandatory fee.
Joe Flanagan, chairman ofthe Student Caucus, said he had not
given next year’s programming much thought yet.
"Besides those two options (the caucus proposal and the current voluntary fee) all I can see is to try and make the voluntary fee work better." he said. "The fee was not promoted at all—no one had the responsibility to promote it.”
He said it would be the responsibility ofthe programming council to promote the fee, but because the caucus spent a month deciding between two structures for the council, no one has been appointed yet.
Additional publicity for the fee. a brochure enclosed in the registration packet describing its purposes, and making the voluntary fee card requirement for registration are methods Flanagan suggested to promote the fee next fall.
Although Flanagan has not made any kind of decision regarding programming for next year, he does not foresee implementation of a new mandatory fee.
“The options are quite limited. The only way I can see of changing the fee is through some kind of referendum, which is not anticipated.” he said “It’s kind of a dismal situation, but what can you do?”
While approximately 20,000 students registered, only 5,000 students turned in cards stating whether or not they wished to pay the fee. Each student was to have turned in a card, whether they paid the fee or not.
Students said that the people working during registration actually discouraged students from paying the fee by remarks like, “You don't really want to pay that, do you?”
They also neglected to ask students if they wanted to pay the fee when students did not turn in a card.
Although an estimate of the amount of funds available has been made, it will be months before an exact figure is available. Students can pay the fee during the semester by taking their fee bill and $4.50 to the Bursar's Office.
A staff to administer the fee, such as a bookkeeper and secretary, have been paid for this year through the mandatory fee, but, if in the future only $6,000 is collected per semester, it will barely cover the cost of a bookkeeper.
About half of the money allocated this year was from reserves accumulated during the seven years since the mandatory fee was implemented.
DICK GREGORY
Gregory will speak
Dick Gregory, the comedian and social activist, will speak at noon today in Bovard Auditorium as part of Black History Week.
Since leaving the nightclub circuit, Gregory’s experiences have included marching and participating in sit-ins for civil rights, running for President on the Peace and Freedom ticket, and speaking at 300 college campuses each year.
Gregory once went on a two-and-a-half year fast in protest of American involvement in Southeast Asia.
His appearance is sponsored by the Campus Speakers Committee.
Students protest cancellation of 11-member Italian literature class
BY CINDY EISLEY
Assistant City Editor
Students enrolled in Italian 340, “Italian Literature in Translation,” are protesting the cancellation of the class, which occurred Monday because not enough students were enrolled in the course.
After the first week ofthe semester the class had 11 students, one short ofthe university’s minimum requirement for undergraduate classes.
University policy requires that any undergraduate class with less than 12 students and any graduate class with less than eight students be automatically cancelled in the first week of the semester. Courses which are requirements for graduation are exempt from this policy.
“We don’t have the faculty to teach all the classes if there aren't an adequate number of students in them to teach,” said David H. Malone, dean of the Division of Humanities.
Upon learning that the class was cancelled, ten of the students prepared a petition protesting the move. Franca Schettino, associate professor of French and Italian and the instructor for the course, also found four students who were enrolled in Italian 320 (third-semester Italian) who were willing to transfer to the literature course if they
would be able to fulfill their third-semester language requirement. The four students also signed the petition.
Schettino and the students presented the petition to Max L. Berkey, chariman of the French and Italian Department.
“The chairman said his hands were tied and that the petition wouldn’t help,” said Anthony Ott, a senior in public relations.
Malone said he knew nothing of a petition from the students. Berkey was unavailable for comment.
The cancellation of classes is not an unusual occurrence. During the fall semester, 114 classes were cancelled for various reasons from all departments within the university except the Law Center, the School of Medicine and the School of Dentistry.
Receipts Audit said students whc must go through drop and add after the first week because a class was cancelled are not charged the penalty fee. If a class is not added, the tuition is refunded by mail.
“And what about the inconvenience of having to find another class in the second week of the semester?" Ott asked. "Particularly when the students, some of whom are graduating seniors, were so interested in the course.”
New FCC rules limit KSCR’s range
BY STEVEN HAWKINS
Staff Writer
KSCR. a proposed student radio station. nas been forced to revert to its original plan of beaming only on and near campus as a result of new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations.
Because of the new regulations, KSCR will reach fewer students, be more expensive to install, and not become fully operative until late summer.
The station is planned as an alternative to KUSC-FM. the university-owned radio station that plays almost strictly classical music.
KSCR had originally planned to start broadcasting on Feb. 1
A single line to the Grill and the Student Union should be operating by the end of this month or early March. Three dormitory complexes and the Row should be receiving the signal sometime thereafter.
Bob Moore, a senior in telecommunications and general manager of KSCR. said he and others working with the station learned recently that new FCC regulations would keep them from obtaining a 10-watt license for running the station
Instead, they must resort to their original plan of obtaining a current-carrier system, which utilizes telephone lines. The system will restrict the station’s signal to campus dormitories and houses on the Row.
Each transmitter will be connected to the broadcasting studio in the Allan Hancock Foundation via telephonelike lines. Moore plans to move the studio to the lobby of the Student Union if he receives permission from the university and secures outside funding.
In addition to approval of the building plans, the existence of KSCR itself has yet to be approved by the university.
“We haven't received written approval, but we've heard the administration is happy with the idea of the station. I'd like them to say something. It’s something the university should have had a long time ago,” Moore said.
He attributed the delay in approval to internal administrative problems and the administration's tendency to procrastinate. But he does expect eventual approval.
Due to the use of the carrier current. KSCR will only reach about 4.700 stu-
dents, Moore said. The staff had hoped to provide a larger portion of the student body with entertainment and coverage of university news and sports.
But Moore said he does feel the audience, though small and select, will be sufficient for drawing advertisers to the station’s programming.
Running the station will provide the students with practical experience, but not on the scale originally hoped for.
Installing the lines and transmitters for the current system will cost KSCR about $2,700. Moore said. Installing the studio in the Commons lobby of Student Union will add another $3,300 in expenses. The 10-watt system, the original plan, would have been less expensive to install.
Moore said KSCR expects to finance itself through broadcast advertising and grants and contributions from outside the university.
"The university would be the last one we would approach," he said.
In an effort to attract advertising, staff members of the station are manning a table in the lobby of Student Union with surveys for students.
These surveys, with students’ names, addresses, and interests on them, will be shown to potential advertisers. Radio station KABC will pay KSCR $500 for a copy of the list, Moore said.
The survey, which will be run throughout this week and the first part of next week, has already attracted 1,000 student signatures of a goal of 3.000.
Moore said about 60 students attended the last organizational meeting for the station. They included telecommunications, journalism and public relations students.
Moore said KSCR’s format will include rock and popular music, satire, drama, comedy, documentary, and news segments. Plans also include full-length drama productions and a sports interview show.
Although KSCR will be operating from Studio C in the Allan Hancock Foundation at the outset. Moore said this room is actually a classroom for the telecommunications department He said the construction of a studio in the Student Union and the subsequent location of equipment there could not be completed before late summer, and will not be possible without administrative approval.