Pepperdine University - Promenade Yearbook (Malibu, CA)

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reaching back: a news look at 1979-80 housing shortage in fall creates crowding Many Pepperdine students found themselves without a room to live in during the 1979 fall trimester. Because of overcrowded dorms, some students were forced to live in living room suites. The reason for this year's overcrowding was traced back to conditions last year when ninety beds were unused. Because of this underenrollment, the university lost $924,000. To avoid a reoccurrence, the university's admissions staff overbooked itself under the assumption that many returning students would not come back. Only a small percentage did not return, and the university found that it had overbooked 177 students with 60 students living in the suites. Robert Fraley, dean of admissions, says that every one of the students living in suites were doing so because they turned in their housing contract after August 1. Fraley went on to say that this situation will be avoided in the future. A non-refundable deposit of $100 is now required when signing up for a room in the dorms or at Latigo Bay Villas. To compensate students who lived in the suites as well as their suitemates, the Housing Office refunded a percentage of room and board. willie: to be or not to be This year marked the passing of Willie the Wave as the only logo and mascot for Seaver College athletics. A new logo of a wave encapsuled in a Pepperdine University life preserver was used on a 1979 athletic department leaflet. Tim Wilhelm, assistant athletic director for promotion feels this alternate logo will help enhance the image of Pepperdine as a university. Wilhelm went on to say that many other schools use a multitude of logos. He also stressed this new logo will only be used for the athletic department. 20 News Features

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terplay always goes on, but by and large we have an excellent relationship with the church constituency. Impressions: How is the university going to grow physically in the 80s? White: The next building to be built in all probability will be the Helen Field Heritage Hall - we've already been given the money for that — or the music building which we have been given half the money for. We've been promised two million dollars for it, which we will receive from the Ahman-son Foundation Savings. So we have those two buildings on the drawing board. We also have the faculty housing going up on the hill (behind the Brock House) now. The site work has nearly been completed and construction will begin before long. One of the buildings we need and plan to have in the 80s, but is yet unfunded would be the visual arts building for painting, sculpture and so forth. That would be built right by the theater. You'll have the theater, the visual arts building and the music building adjacent to each other forming the Ahmanson Fine Arts Complex. We also need an administration building which is scheduled to be built right near Pendleton Computer Center - between there and Seaver Drive. It would be a very large building costing between six and eight million dollars. mpressions: Are you beginning to see the limits to the growth? White: We are very definitely limited by the environment, by our pledges to the community - and we want to be good citizens and not disturb the community. We do not intend to grow awfully big here. We intend to maintain our limits on the law school enrollment at 550 students, on Seaver College at 2100 full-time equivalents (students taking 16 units). We do need to build some of the buildings, however, to terve the students and the population we have on campus now. impressions: You mentioned the community. What about relations with the community in the 80s. White: We are very interested in the community as we are now citizens of this community. We are very proud of the fact that our Vice President jerry Poe has been working with the merchants. We're also very proud of the wonderful good will generated for the university by our students who went down and helped with the sandbagging during the floods. Impressions: Are there any problems right now with the community? White: Not any serious ones. There have been some members of the community who have worried about our sewage treatment plant. All the studies that are made by geologists and health officials, however, indicate there's no problem whatsoever. When people are having problems they like to find scape goats, and some of the people saw something trickling down there and thought it was coming from our sewage treatment plant, but it wasn't. We've not ever had any sewage runoff onto our neighbors and don't plan to. Impressions: With the economic problems the country is facing do you think that some of the donors may be afraid of investing their money in education? White: I don't think so. Obviously what happens to the country affects people in different ways. I don't think, however, they have any lack of confidence in education. We had the largest single month in giving last December. We received $4,327,000. The economy was not exactly healthy back then. Impressions: Maybe you could elaborate more on some of the specific plans of the 80s - to capsulize the upcoming decade. White: To the best of my abilities to foresee the 80s, what we are intending to do is work very hard to continue to elevate academic quality. We think we are a quality educational institution now, but it is our intention on making this a better and better school academically. Since 1977, the typical SAT score has gone up 51 points. We don't claim to be Harvard or Stanford - there are only a handful of schools in that category. We are, I think, in a category far above the average. Impressions: Also in academics, how are you planning to upgrade the faculty? White: We are planning on being more careful with our selection. We have a good faculty now - I'm proud of them, but we are going to give more time for research and publication; we're going to look for the ability to write and publish. Impressions: What about salaries? White: We expect to maintain our salaries at a good level. We are now in the upper echelons — the universities ahead of us will be Harvard, Stanford and a few of the most prestigious institutions. We already pay our faculty better than most universities in America, with plans to pay better. Impressions: Can you summarize the university's plans for the 80s. White: The 80s for us will be a time of consolidation and attention to quality. Instead of doing more things with more people, we want to do the same things with the same people, better. News Features 19

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tuition hiked Inflation reared its ugly head at Seaver College again in 1980 when tuition and room and board took marked jumps. It was announced in January that the tuition would be raised from $143 per unit to $159 per unit and room and board would be hiked from $1,085 to $1,200 in the fall of 1980. An attempt to put a halt to the yearly rise resulted in the Board of Regents approval of a flat-rate tuition plan to b? installed in fall of 1981. According to Dr. John Nicks, vice president of academic affairs, the decision to raise school costs was based on studies of the rising cost of materials, papers, utilities, and mostly, energy. Believe it or not, we are bracing ourselves for what may be a fifty percent increase in energy costs. Everything is going up, Nicks said. To bridge the gap between the thirteen percent national inflation rate and the eleven percent tuition and nine percent room and board jumps, more fundraising will have to be done on the part of the university. The financial aid department will adjust to this situation by providing more on-campus employment, according to Financial Aid Director, Israel Rodriguez. Arson was determined as the cause of a blaze which damaged or destroyed five university-owned trailers early morning, Feb. 4. The two trailers which housed Development Records (K-1) and Purchasing (K-2) were completely destroyed. Sustaining limited damage was Public Information's trailer (K-3) which caught fire from the heat radiated from other burning trailers. Alumni Affairs' trailer (K-4) was also hit and lost many files and records. One of the two University Affairs trailers (K-5) was apparently set on fire. Approximately half of the trailer was damaged by fire, while the other half had some smoke and water damage. Rick Lane, director of business services, quoted an initial loss of $200,000 to S300,000. Each trailer cost $25,000 and phone equipment damage was set at around $3,400 blaze destroys trailers shorts too short A proliferation of short shorts and plunging necklines prompted Dorothy Moore, chief librarian of Payson Library, to post a dress code at the library entrance. Moore's rationale is that the library is a public academic place... it isn't the beach or the gym. Students should wear proper academic clothing when they are in academic areas. The students' reactions toward the dress code were negative. As one freshman said, They're forgetting the importance of studying if they enforce the dress code. It doesn't matter what you wear, it's what you put in your head. News Features 21