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Palms disc By JACK DUNN News Editor What 1 wanted to talk about first wi the hoard of trustees meeting a Litchfield (Jan. 8-9). You were preser for that meeting? Yes, I was. From reading Rill Robinson's intei view (The State, Jan. 10) of the boar members, the hoard members discusse an expanded role for the president. Well, not really an expanded role. The were just reaffirming my authority as we as my responsibilities. Concerning distribution of funds t branch campuses? That's the mission of the university as system. It's my responsibility to administe the policies that are formulated by th board and to operate the institution an manage it. I'll do this in a collegial wa with the faculty and with the administra tors, but, again, I'm responsible. And sine I'm responsible, I have authority. The were just reaffirming that I had those an that I need to work to try and build meaningful system concept. And that' what I already do. I accepted that. Was tuition discussed at the meeting? Yes, tuition was discussed...trends i tuition were discussed. I think it's fair t say what Provost Moeser said at the facult meeting (Jan. 15) that tuition increases ar not to be viewed as a continuous solutio to our financial woes. We have to look at more effective and efficient way of doin things. We have shared some of our finan cial burdens with students because we hav< not taken raises. We have not filled a num ber of positions. We have a hundred posi tions. I'm sure there are more than that And we double up on some of our rcsnon sibilities, and we shared some of the bur den with the students. In the absence o revenue enhancements, our costs continu< to go up. Nobody has put a moratorium 01 our costs, and as the infrastructure cost: increase for running our academic pro grams ? in other words, our librar; expenses ? our books cost more; our jour nals cost more. The technologies we neet to teach in modern ways cost more Inflation is there, so we have increaset costs. And as far as health insurance? Yeah, health insurance, workmen's com pensation, and all that kind of thing. Sc unless we find, you know, improve ou GARNET J This is your fina The photographers 1993 Qarnet & <B are quicfa aBsofute Photographers wi begi Come by I Monc SENIORS Make an aj Grand Markel UN Take five minul Qwstio) Important: There is Garnet & Black staff W room 316 of the Russel Urgent: The Garnet Photo Editor, Assistan hire for this spring se call the Garnet & Blacl i usses budge productivity just like industry ? that's hard to do in higher education ? the publs lie does not want a tax increase. Industry ,t does not want to reduce their margins and ,t their reasonable profits, so revenue enhancements by tax increases is not realistic. So we have no choice but to look and see if we can do things more effectively, d So essentially what we are doing is having d a user's fee for our students, and die gamble is that it's an important enough activity y that people will pay for. and so far that's 11 been die case, both in private and public higher education. 0 Did the board of trustees address rev enue enhancements in the torm of other a fees besides tuition? .r No, we just talked about fees and tuition e together. There are some professional j schools that are still tremendous bargains y ? law school, medicine ? where you get a payback pretty rapidly after you graduate. e But there are a lot of other majors where y that's not to be expected. In terms of fees, j we're talking about the total costs of our a education ? tuition, books, room and s board, and anything else that comes up. As far as general costs, has the board of trustees pretty much said that they n can't increase student fees any further o without affecting enrollment? y Well, they just reiterated, and we all feel e this, that in this relatively poor state that n we can't continue to have one of the higha est costs for higher education. Eventually, o it will affect our enrollment. It hasn't thus D far, but it puts tremendous demands on our 2 financial aid programs, and you can see the applications go up. People who aren't eligible in the past are now eligible because the costs are higher ? people who are under. employed or are shifting in industry and don't have the income or have been laid f off. That's something to watch. We have ; over $50 million coming to the university 1 now in financial aid and all of our pros grams. Fifty million dollars! Students are . graduating with debts, and that's not ^ healthy for the country. So all of that has to be watched. ] There was a committee meeting to look into a new business dean to replace j James Kane. Has there been any progress? There's a search committee that's ongoing. I think they are making progress. I } think they have it down to about 15 names, r and we are still hopeful to have a dean ^Fl^^SS'is FREE Come Workout witl Be in the k BLACK YE ARB i I chance to be in the yea will not be back again t 'Cactfyiarboo(<yPortrait by free, and open to aCC. II be in room 331, Russ< nning January 25! between 9am and 7pr lay through Friday! AND GRAD STUDENTS: Dpointment in front of t I" Place in the Russell He DERGRADUATES: \es and just stop by an1 ts? CcdC Student Media at 777-3888. an interest meeting for pros ednesday, January 20,1993. 1 House at 6:00 pm and join & Black Editor is now looki: t Photo Editor, and Photogr, mester. If you are interestec c office at 777-4170. ;t crisis, NC announced before die end of die semester. That was along with last semester with the three deans resigning or being replaced. He (Kane) is resigning his deanship, but he will be a faculty member in the marketing department. Along with the meeting of Carol McGinnis Kay and her resignation announcement, there was talk about a "super college" between the arts and sciences. I put the committee together to look at the possibility of merging die Humanities and Social Sciences and the Math and sciences, i nai committee engaged in analysis of some of the best schools in the country ? how they were organized. We looked at our structure and the history of our two colleges. We looked at the linkages of the various departments of the colleges and sensed the sentiment of the faculty of those colleges. There wasn't really a committment to do that. I listened to what they had to say at the last meeting, and that was their recommendation, and I concurred with it. So matters dropped. So it doesn't look like anything will happen. We'll go on and look for a dean for Humanities and Social Sciences. It's not going to happen. Shifting the subject to the NCAA report. There was a meeting Wednesday to work on it? There was a meeting Wednesday; there's a meeting today. We're compiling the complete report this afternoon as we speak. We're working on it. Our goal is to hand deliver it to the Commissioner of the SEC on Monday. I hope that Monday afternoon we can have a press release. That would mention the third violation and any action? It will announce all violations and all of our sanctions. Does it recommend internal sanctions, and do you expect any external action by the SEC or NCAA? The SEC will take that document, and they will comment on it and forward it on to me inc aa. ine inl aa can either concur with us and issue no additional sanctions, or they can issue additional sanctions. Do you expect any sanctions from the NCAA? I don't expect any sanctions from the I in the Campus Recr i US!! 777-5261 for Ji_^?L-?LJL Announc OOK '93-' rbook! B :his year!! students! ggM 3ll House ri ll = >use! IH /time! and books 1 On sale now, hardcover editic >pectiv e about TSR's ent Come by insights into TS the fun!!! that appear onh r books are sold. ng for a aphers to 1, please hh! AA report NCAA. In the compilation of that report, David Didion, he's the compliance officer for the NCAA? Yes. Does the NCAA hire him? No. It's a USC position? We hire him. Me reports directly to me. He's responsible for showing that we arc in compliance with all NCAA rules. He assisted in the investigation of the alleged violations and has conducted all of the interviews, etc. Not all of them. I was involved in some of them. Have their been any investigations into a new basketball coach? I don't see why we should do that when we still got one. You plan to stay with Steve Newton, then? We currently have no plans to make any changes. 1 don't want to pre-empt the report. I guess we'll turn back to the Future Committee meetings today (Jan. 15). I wonder if you could explain the 12 percent-6 percent plan. This is an exercise to facilitate our strategic planning of consumer level funding to the university. And we assume, one, we have costs that are increasing. With no additional funding, these costs have to be held down. If you consider that we are creating new ideas and ambitions for some new programs because the university creates and innovates as I have said. We're trying to see how we can re-allocate funds. This is a process that has been tried in some other places. You tell somebody you're going to cut 12 percent, "What would you cut?" And now he gives you that 6 percent back, "What would you fund?" It creates a very serious self-analysis about what you've done. That doesn't mean you're going to be cut necessarily. You may come back and say, "Hey listen, there is no possible way we are teaching more than anybody else. We don't have any money now. We can't cut anything." The committee could say, "Well, we dis agree with you because you re just not producing quality." At least you go through that exercise. That's what die pui~po.se of this committee is ? assessment of current programming, re-allocation of funds to the colleges supplemented in some formal sense, which has real quality programs, eation Program, more inf^^aHon^ ing the first CoDect TSR MASTER - gill - fw , S i A' ' r - ||t K ^J?f i m IST/vi PHHI^HHH m m-IM ij - * q* ^ | *?..p .*. jjK'"mm S ^ |^| ^ ,.. ^ llr /$ j# ^ "^|i ji|ijj^B B | ?"t, j ,1 |||| , yi ^ ?*f, t h||| | ecauseyou tSSt 8 want to know everything that's new in g :or the coming year! for the first time ever, in a special colle >n?the TSR Master Catalog is your offic ire product line for 1993. 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It's not going to be tax money revenue, but we will continue to get gifts from universities and private institutions. We will continue to improve our research grantsmanship. In the long run, I think we'll do all right if we continue to manage ourselves well and don't try to do everything. But if we say, "We're a flagship institution, we're the most elitist ? in the good sense of the word elitist -? quality academic institution, and these are the things we're going to do well." Somebody else can do the rest of it. Otherwise it isn't going to get done. And lastly, what will USC being doing as far as the observance of Martin Luther King Day? Well, we've got an awful lot going on in the next two weeks. We've got the Dr. Benjamin Hooks of the NAACP coming and a paper program coming. 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