University of Southern California
Vol. LXVII, No. 14	Los Angeles, California	Wednesday, August 14, 1974
State education committee to vote today on aid bill
Summer
Trojan
Twenty-five of the nation’s university students—including a representative from USC—met with representaives of government and industry during the National Energy Youth Conference to discuss and draft resolutions concerning the current national energy problems.
Representing the university at the five-day conference was Sylvia DiSanti, editor of the Summer Trojan.
The conference, “The Energy Problem: Today’s Challenge for Tommorrow’s Leaders,” was sponsored by the Federation of Americans Supporting Science and Technology through a grant from the Atomic Energy Commission, and was held in Oak Ridge, Tennessee July 30 through August 4.
The participants identified transportation as the most inefficient use of energy and recommended extensive research and improvement as a high priority.
The Student Activities Office and the Student Services Center have combined their resources and installed a computer system which should make service faster and more efficient.
The Student Activities Office, Student Services Center, and Student Programming Board will be able to have materials typed by dialing a number on their telephones and dictating. An operator will play back the recording and type the materials.
A Communicating Mag-Card Typewriter will be hooked into the University Computer Center. The operator will type the material, and through the use of magnetic cards correct any mistakes in the copy. The typewriter will then type the corrected
Coal, despite its environmental problems, was recognized by the participants as the most important energy resource in the nation today, but that new technology, such as nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal, and ocean, should be thoroughly researched in order to contribute more productively to the future supply of energy. Nuclear power was suggested as a preferred alternative source of the future, once safety could be assured.
In a general consensus, the participants decided that more communication, involvement and understanding ofthe energy problems are the keys to ending the widespread waste of valuable resources.
The pricing system of energy source development, transportation and use along with governmental regulations were identified as major problem areas warranting further study and recommendations for improvement.
materials at 150 words per minute.
Registration of campus events and scheduling of facilities, such as the Student Activities Center. Bovard and Hancock Auditoriums, will also be done by computer.
Reorganization of phone lists on the third floor will tie all lines into one receptionist, so that student organizations will have their phones answered even when they are not in.
The result will be fewer phone lines and a savings in phone bill costs.
Paul Moore, director of Student Activities, said that the integration of operations will result in better administrative support for student organizations.
The participants in the conference resolved that student input nationwide to the development of national guidelines could be most effective by giving written or oral testimony in the upcoming public Project Independence hearings sponsored by the Federal Energy Administration. The final draft of Project Independence is intended to act as the national energy policy. A hearing will be conducted in San Francisco sometime in October.
The Student Programming Board voted Tuesday to delete its business manager, financial secretary and all secretarial employees of the board from its budget, and replace them with employees included under the computerized system being set up under the Student Activities Office.
In place of those employees, the board’s budget will pay for all or part of a dial-input system, professional bookeeper and a part-time word processing operator, who would type materials dictated on a special telephone system.
Student assistants will be hired as budget assistant, administrative assistant and duplicating assistant under the new system.
Also included under the deletion of secretarial labor from the budget are the Community Action Coodinating Council secretary and any other secretaries funded by the programming board. These organizations would be able to use the dial-input system on a time-sharing basis with the board.
The programming board also voted to require that all student programs must submit budgets for 1974-75 by 5 p.m. on Oct. 10.
The budgets will be based on
It is intended to supplement the State Scholarship Program by providing grants to middle-class students whose family income places that just out of eligibility for a state scholarship.
Passage ofthe bill could stop a trend in declining enrollment in the independent institutions and increasing attendance at state institutions by narrowing the gap of the cost between an education in public and private schools.
revised allocations decided by the board at its July 14 meeting.
A 10% cut was made in all allocations at that meeting, but it may be restored when final financial reports are in. The amount remaining from last year’s budget is expected to be known some time this week.
The programming board will meet again on Aug. 22 at 10 a.m. and has tentatively scheduled hearings on the Graduate Students Organization and the Campus Speakers Committee at that time.
fProf to receive NASA award for experiments
Darrell L. Judge, associate professor of physics, will be awarded NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medel for his contributions to the Pioneer space probe programs.
He will be presented with the award Friday during ceremonies at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California.
Judge has devised two experiments that are on both \the Pioneer 10 and 11 probes.
Student services offices install computer system
Programs board cuts secretarial employees
This could have a significant effect on USC as the university enrolls one-sixth of all students attending independent institutions in California and more students than any other private school.
Students from USC, Occidental College, Claremont Men’s College and Mount St. Mary’s lobbied Monday in Sacramento for the bill.
The effort was organized by the Independent California College and University Student Association, an association formed to further the interests of students in independent institutions, of which USC is a member.
Support for the bill is the first project of the newly-formed organization.
The students talked to several legislators and administrative aides and were generally well received.
They also visited the offices of the UC Student Lobby in Sacramento and discussed the possibility of setting up a southern California annex of the independent association, possibly at USC.
At a weekend meeting at the University ofthe Pacific prior to the Sacramento effort, the association discussed proposed bylaws drawn up with the help of law students at the McGeorge School of Law, part of the University of the Pacific.
The proposed bylaws provide for an executive director who would handle information on matters pertaining to independent institutions and work with legislators in giving them information.
Membership would be based on a contribution of 1% of uncommitted student government funds or, if no such funds are available, on an assessment of 25 cents per full-time student.
The interim executive board will meet again in September at Cal Lutheran College before a meeting ofthe full association in October, at which an annual executive board will be elected.
DARRELL L. JUDGE
ENCHANTED—Member ofthe Hare Krishna faith was to enlist converts to the religion. Photo by Mike Mar-on campus this week handing out pamphlets in an effort tinez.
25 students discuss energy at national conference
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Staff Writer
The State Senate Education Committee will vote today on a bill that would supply partial tuitiongrantsto 1,250students in the first year and cost up to $9 million over a six-year period.
The education committee is expected to pass AB 3862, after which it will be sent to the finance committee where it is expected to have more difficulty. The bill will then be voted on by the entire Senate.
The bill has already been passed by the State Assembly, by a 53-8 vote.
The Tuition Grant Program would provide one-third tuition up to $900 for middle income students who qualify academically and attend independent colleges and universities.