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Three members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity were placed on 90-day probation and fined$20 Tuesday for their involvement in an illegal gambling party Feb. 21.
Charges against 16 other students—13 of them members of the fraternity—were dropped after their legal counsel and the city’s prosecuting attorney worked out an arrangement for their release.
The three students put on probation—Phil Elardo. Paul Hess and Bill Lewis—had pleaded no contest to charges of being present at the scene of gambling, the site of the arrests, an apartment at 1164 W. Adams Blvd
If the three students are not arrested on any other criminal charge during their probation, the gambling convict ions will be cleared from their records.
Requesting probation from the city attorney was for the specific purpose that (the students') convictions could be expunged from their records at the end of 90 days.” said Arthur McClure, counsel for the defendants.
McClure and the prosecuting attorney arranged prior to the arraignment that charges against the
on probation 16 released
other 16 students would be dropped if the three fraternity members said to have been operating the “mini-casino” would plead no contest to a charge of being present at the scene of gambling.
Those three students were originally charged with keeping a house of gambling, a more serious offense.
Of the $250 bail originally posted by each ofthe three, all but the$20 fine was returned The$20 bail posted by each of the other 16 defendants was also returned.
In sentencing the three students. Judge Mayer Newman specified their probation did not require them to report to probation officers.
Two crap tables, a roulette wheel, a blackjack table, a number of poker chips and about $4.50 in cash had been confiscated when police raided the gambling party.
The crap table was returned to Elardo after the arraignment. Elardo was being charged$20a day in rent for the table by the dealer who furnished it for the party.
Daily Hi Troian
University of Southern California
EYE FOR A BAGEL—Archie Kelso, weekday bagel and pretzel vendor at the corner of University Avenue and 34th Street, displays his special this
week—a free hole with every bagel. DT photo by Ed Moy.	Volume LXVII, Number 86_Los Angeles, California_Thursday, March 6, 1975
Cutbacks on lighting and heating to begin
BY DOROTHY REINHOLD
A new university employee has designed a plan to substantially cut back the consumption of electricity on campus to conserve energy and lower the
university’s electric bill.
Albert L. Palmer, who was appointed in January as a research analyst for energy conservation, said one part of his plan entailed diminished services—cutbacks on heating, air conditioning and
ventilation between 11 p.m. and
7	a.m.
The diminished services plan will start within the next two weeks. Timeclocks will be put on many heating and cooling systems.
Legislation may raise required financial contribution of parents
BY CINDY EISLEY
Assistant City Editor
The amount of money parents are expected to contribute toward a student’s education may be raised by as much as 35%-40rV over levels previously determined for the 1975-76 school year if legislation proposed by the U.S. Office of Education is passed by Congress.
The legislation, which was proposed two weeks ago. would allow the government to create standardized need analysis regulations to insure comparability of results among different national systems now used The legislation would also regulate the way the formulas are adjusted for inflation All monies coming out of the Financial Aid Office will be affected by this legislation, including university scholarships, college work-study programs, National Defense Student Loans and Supplementary Educational Opportunity Grants.
“The Office of Education says its need analysis tables will more equitably distribute the funds,” said Pamela Walbom. director of the Financial Aid Office.
“I think they were afraid that the revised College Scholarship Service need analysis would send more money to middle-income families.”
The legislation would not become the law for 45 days.
There are two major need analysis companies in the United States: the College Scholarship Service (CSS), which the university uses, and American College Testing (ACT). Each university uses formulas derived by one of these companies to de-,
termine the financial need of each financial aid applicant.
CSS had made some major changes in its formula for next year to adjust its tables to reflect the effects of inflation. The adjustments had produced some very low family contribution figures for the awards that had already been processed. Walbom said.
For example, under the CSS system for 1974-75. a family with an adjusted effective income of
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$12,000, including income and assets, would be expected to contribute$l,237 to the student's educational costs. Under CSS’ adjusted inflation formulas for 1975-76, the same family would be expected to pay only $590.
If the proposed legislation passes, the new federal need analysis tables will expect this family to contribute$990 for next year.
“In reality, the revised CSS tables showed everyone’s need more realistically,” Walbom said. “They showed more need
in middle-income families, but we feel they also showed more of a need in lower-income families.”
The proposed legislation would provide a nation wide, standardized formula for analyzing the financial needs of students.
"But this formula should be fair as well as standard,” she said.
The Financial Aid Office had already processed the awards for 8,500 students, totaling an aggregate need on$26 million for next year, when the proposed changes were announced.
The office is now trying to get a copy of the proposed regulations, which have been published in the Feb. 19 issue of the Federal Register, a publication that prints federal regulations.
“This was a very bad time for this to happen, because the awards were supposed to go out this week,” Walbom said. “As soon as we can get the new formulas, the computer can redo them.”
The revised awards should be ready to be sent to students by the end of March, she said.
One advantage of the standardized need analysis regulations will be the elimination of the widely differing procedures in use, which have created problems for students, Walbom said.
“For example, the average variance between the need determined byCSSand ACTforthe same family was $150, and that isn’t fair to the student,” she said.
“The Office of Education had really been worried about everyone doing their own thing,” Walbom said.
Arnold Shafer, executive director of the Physical Plant, said last year the university successfully conserved$330,000 worth of electricity, or 25% of its total energy consumption. Since then, interest in conservation has waned, he said.
“Our electricity use today is greater than that of last year, and with increased costs, if we abandoned all conservation measures, we could have a $500,000 problem on our hands.” Shafer said.
Facilities such as residence halls, spaces where research animals are housed and computer centers, that must be kept at a constant temperature, will not be involved in the program. Palmer said.
“I don’t know whether dorms waste energy or not. but the students are paying rent to live there and we all like to be comfortable in our homes,” he said.
Palmer said it was found that electricity consumption between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. during the week accounted for 28% of the university's total electric bill.
“Under the new plan. I am hoping to reduce the consumption during those night hours by 50%,” he said.
Another part of the energy cutbacks will focus on lighting.
Palmer said bulbs will be removed from alternate light fixtures in the halls, and approximately one-half of the fluorescent lamps will be removed from many classrooms and offices.
In addition, the wattage of bulbs in hallways and elevators will be reduced, and many incandescent bulbs will be changed to fluorescent.
Fluorescent lighting is less costly to operate and creates less heat thereby reducing the need for air conditioning in the summer months.
Palmer said he didn't think decreased wattage and less lighting would affect security.
“Some lights used for decorative purposes have been turned
off. but most have remained on because they contribute to security.” he said.
Kill-A-Watt decals have been placed on light switch covers throughout the campus to remind people to turn out the lights when they leave a room.
Palmer said the conservation plan is not intended to interfere with the academic program at the university.
He said the university would also make an effort to consolidate classrooms for evening and Saturday classes. The summer schedule classrooms will also be consolidated so that fewer buildings will be used
New buildings are being planned to minimize the con-
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sumption of energy, and cost studies on replacing present lighting systems with more efficient ones are being conducted. Palmer said.
He said the university’s electricity cost peaked in May. 1974. and then decreased until December. It rose again in January. 1975. and is higher now than it has ever been.
“We have to conserve to stay within our budget because I anticipate the cost will go even higher.” he said.