Pepperdine University - Promenade Yearbook (Malibu, CA)

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(1).(2)8ccause of the tution hike, students face higher bills at registration in the fall. news 27

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tuition raised for fall 1979 Tuition rose 9.2 percent at Pepperdine University for the year beginning with the fall 1979 trimester. The decision was made by the Board of Regents' Executive Committee in a unanimous vote in Februrary. Inflation was the main reason for the increase, reported the committee. Tuition will not rise one penny more than it has to, said Dr. Howard A. White, university president, in a meeting with the Student Government Association (SCA) Assembly in October. Actual rise from the 1978-79 cost of SI 31 per unit is to S143 per unit. Housing costs were also increased six percent. Room and board jumped from SI,020 to SI,085 per trimester. If the Financial Aid Office repeats its past record of a 10 percent increase, the students will gain in the total picture, since overall school expenses have risen only eight percent. The administration in the past has approved my budget, said Isreal Rodriguez, director of financial aid. White said Pepperdine will do its best to provide appropriate financial aid for every student who can show that he needs it. A tuition increase, said White, is necessary to pay the university's bills. All we know, said the chief executive. is that if we (Regents) had not raised tuition enough to pay our bills, we would have gone broke, and then what would anyone's degree be worth to him if he is a graduate of a school that has gone broke because it couldn't pay its bills. Inflation in the United States has increased 9.5 percent, a 1.5 percent greater increase than the eight percent at Pepperdine University. The inflation in our economy takes into consideration the increased costs of all goods and services. Pepperdine is a labor intensifed organization, said White. Wages are going up some. We will stay within the President's guidelines, but we must pay people some more money or we'll lose good people. All energy costs are going up very rapidly. All of the things we buy including salaries for employees, electricity, gas, insurance and all the expenses that we have, have gone up very dramatically. The SGA office refused to take an immediate stand on the tuition increase. SGA president. Rod Gaudin commented, Pepperdine has set a SI million increase, so far as fund raising is concerned for the operational budget, it's just to balance the budget. It is an increase from S3.5 million to $4.5 million, so they put the burden on themselves to raise the money. 26 news

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oasis and graphic editors Five journalism students were fired on Jan. 2 from their editorial positions on student publications by Dr. Steve Ames, director of student publications. The ejected editors were Patti Mazza, in-coming editor-in-chief of the Graphic. Kathy Barton, incoming managing editor of the Graphic; Karen Cotter, outgoing editor of the Graphic, Renate Steiner, out-going editor of Oasis, and Scott Grant, out-going managing editor of Oasis Ames cited insubordination as the main reason for the firings in a letter sent to each of the five students. Editors should be willing to follow the guidelines and directions from the faculty adviser in order that the publications meet the highest professional standards of responsible journalism, stated Ames in his letter. Ames had come to Pepperdine in the fall as the new director of student publications from Merced College, where he had served for seven years as a journalism instructor and faculty adviser for The Mercury, the weekly student newspaper. He replaced Dr. John Huffman, who resigned after a rift with administrators during 1977-78, later to take a position at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He (Ames) didn't know about our tradition, and didn't even bother to learn, said Cotter. They (the fired students) wouldn't accept change, because it was according to them, 'not the way we've done it in the past said Rich Taylor, who became editor-in-chief of the Graphic after the firings. But you can't live in the past. No matter what your record is. change will occur some day. The adviser said he first felt something was definitely wrong in early November, and sent a memo to the student publications staff on Nov. 13 offering academic affairs, to discuss the problems. Ames said he was unaware of the meeting until after it had been held. We (the fired editors) all talked to him (Ames) individually before going to Nicks, said Mazza. After the meeting with Nicks, the students met with Dr. Stewart Hudson, chairman of the communications division, and Ames to discuss their grievences. The purpose of the meeting was to find a common meeting point, to find a viable relationship, said Hudson. The meeting resulted in a drafting of Suggested Guidelines for the Director (l)Editor Rich Taylor jocks advise of Dr. Steve Ames. (2)Fired editors. Kathy Barton, Scott Grant and Patti Mazza, stand outside student publications office. 28 news