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/ [!§]2.'s tennis team headed for NCAA tourney By John Freeman CC::- . . Tribune Sportwriter ./ .J perdm&, which had won the event the past 16 years. Endin three ks Of d "We thought that by beating Pepperdine we had a t g . ·t wee O oubt, th e USO men's tennis good chance to make the nationals " said Collins "but we earn was mv1 ed yesterday to c~ NCAA didn't know fl ,, ' ' Tournament at Athens, Ga., which begins Friday. . un : now. . For coach Ed Collins, the berth marks the first time in . Besides USO~ selection to the NCAA team competi- hls 11 years at the school that the Toreros have reached hon, ~he Toreros top player, freshman Jose Luis Noriega the NCAA Division I collegiate finals. The nation's 20 top (14-1 mmatch play), earned a berth in the NCAA individ :•rve ~n on pins and needles, as nervous as I can be," Among its highlights this season, USO scored upset said _Collins, whose team went 24-6 and holds a national wins over USC, then ranked No. 4 in the country, and also ranking of 15th. defeated Cal, then ranked No. 1. _Friday, USO meets the University of Minnesota wmner of the Big Ten, in a first-round match. ' An eight-member squad from USD -

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including four seniors, three juniors and Noriega, the lone freshman - will compete in the NCAA team competition. UCLA is seeded No. 1, followed by Cal, LSU and UC-Irvine.

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perapective, ia the moat preaaing laaue at the Univeraity of San Diego? Anawer: In the 1mmeaiate future, probably the financing of the university. In the next two to five years we need to determine whether we can raise the sort of endowment required to sustain the institution's momentum. We're doing ow, out of tuition, just about all we can do. The institution is very stable financially, but there's a certain amount that you can do out of twtion dollars and a certain aJDount that is going to require some investments beyond that. Q: How are you doing rn generating the inveatmenta beyond tuition revenue? A: We're in a major capital fund-ra1 ing effort currently, a $47.5 million program that was announced in February. The jury Is still out on 1t. We're roughly $23 million into the program, but we still need to determine whether we can raise the kind of money that will finish it. Q: Wh t have been the •ourcee of tha money you'va raised ao far? A: The first efforts were done almost two years ago within the university's immediate community - the board of trustees and other people closely associated with us. The balance of the program really comes from the community, and that is what we're not all that certain about. Almost $11 million has been raised frorb--Our 35 active trustees. Those gifts represent either their personal gifts or gifts from organizations with whom they have some influence. The balance has c?me from foundations and a few corporate gifts. We have had an alumni program that has been productive, but not to the extent that it has made a significant difference in the capital of the institution. Remember, the University of San Diego is very new as universities go. It was founded in 1949, so the alumni haven't yet reached a point in their own careers where they are in a Q: How big a role in thia, if any, doe• the Catholic Church play? A: Only a very indirect role. I need to clarify right away that we get no operating funds support from the church and have not for 20 years. However, the basic assets of the institution were initially garnered by the church - some $100 million worth - before my arrival there, and those were contributed to the university. To say that they haven't done anything would be a bit of a misstatement, because they established the university. A: We're hoping that by the time all of this is done, yes. Actually, we're adding $30 million of endowment plus the $12 million that's there now. So it would be more in the neighborhood of $40-$45 million. There are some capital construction projects that are a part of the $47 million. These include a major addition to our law library, a child development center, and the completion of payment for some buildings already built - the University Center, for example. Q: What ia the coat for a atudent now for one year at USO? A: Tuition, room, board and fees would be between $12,000 and $13,000 a year. Depending on where the student is from, add travel to that. 0: That aounda on the low aide for a private univeraity. A: It is. The tuition is just under $9,000, and that would be just below the median in terms of the state and well below the median for the nation. Q: Will that level of tuition and fH• have to increaee? A: It has been going up. I don't think we can keep to that level and operate the quality of program we do. a~ Whal provisiona do you have in the way of acholarahipa or other atudenl aid? A: Roughly 70 percent of our students are C:.: How much i• your endowment? A. About $12 million. Very small. Q: Thia plua achieving your capital fund goal would give you cloH to $60 million? position to make large gifts.

Q: What would you like to aH the University of San Diego doing 10 years from now that it la not doing now? A: There are several dimensions to that question. In the academic dimension, one of the areas of my interest for the university and for San Diego is engineermg. We moved into the field of engineering four years ago and we will graduate our fi class of six engineers this year. That program will grow. Our intent downstream is to see that program develop a sub-specialty in bio- engineering and that facet of bio- engineering which deals with instrumentation for health care. A second dimension is in the humanities, the arts specifically. A couple of quick examples: There are great opportunities for developing artists within that conte t of liturgical music. Another one is guitar We have done really interesting things in tudio music and guitar. Q: What kind of an image do you aH USD having in 50 or 100 yeara? A: I suppose what we're really trying to do is to create an institution that has its own identity. We would like to have the strength of the teaching program we have now and the research capability of a university like Stanford. But having a distinguished faculty doesn't mean that you have a distinguished educational program. It seems to me that institutions like. Stanford - and there are others - have been able to maintain a high-intensity teacher-student relationship at the undergraduate level and a research capacity at the graduate level. If we can add to add the research side but still maintain the kind of educat10nal qualiij w have now, I would be delighted. Q: If you were giving advice to primary and secondary school• in California about preparing atudents for higher education, what would you say? A: I agree with the strategy that has been employed in California m going back to the basics by emphasizing the basic reading and communication skills, mathematics, science, literature. It really does mean going back in the elementary levels and working with the kinds of concepts, verbal as well as mathematical and critical reasoning, that are best learned at that level without having to repeat all of that early in the college experience. I would also emphasize languages. You really· need to begin learning a foreign language as a young person. Q: Do you think student• alao juat plain have to work harder? A: Yes, work harder and acqmre a greater sense of self-discipline: the ability to start a task and to hang in there until it is completed. It's too easy to say I can't cope with that. You have to cope sometimes. Q: To what extent are druga affecting atudent life at USD? A: We have the problem. I don't know a college campus that doesn't. Drugs are a major disruption to the individual. They have not been an institutional disruption on our campus. And I would include alcohol - probably the most commonly abused substance and probably the most dangerous in the long run. There seems to be a willingness.for many students to step out of the drug culture at a certain point. They don't step out of the alcohol culture, and the tendency toward alcoholism is very higll, Nearly any major incident we have on campus that involves disciplinary action will go right back to alcohol or drugs. Q: Do you think the disruption ia greater now than, say, five yeara ago? A: No. And certainly alcohol has been around for a long time on the college campus. I think it has always been disruptive. I honestly can't say whether there is a higher tendency toward alcoholism today than there was in the past. Our student affairs people sometimes say they believe there is more of a propensity for hard-core drinking than there used to be.

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6 V c ory ov r Holly Danforth. U D nd Its ason at 18-8. Earll r y terday, T ml Wh1thnger won m tralght ts to h Ip o I tanford beat 16th- eed- d n Die o tate 9-0. tanford (26-0) was cheduled to m t o 8Oklahoma Sta e in today's q art mals Oklahoma State y • t rday defeated o. 12 Brigham Y ung 7-2 In other cond-round matches, o 3 UCLA defeated No. 14 Arizona 6 3 • o 4 Georgia topped No. 13 T xa 5-1 o 5 California h Id off o 9 Indiana 6-3, nd No. 6Southern C hfornta downed No 10 Arizona State 7-1 UCL will meet Southern Califor- nia today, while Georgia will take on C liforrua Whitling r beat Sondra Mitchell 6- 2 6-1 to pace Stanford which J t only two sets. The Cardinal' andra Birch, LI Green, Debbie Graham and Ten Whitlinger also post d str 1ght- t wi . C rta1Dly, we're not overconfi- dent, 'Stanford coach Frank Brennan 1d I told 'cm I'd take six matches that ended 7- ID the third set for tanford. But they played well " San Diego State coach Carol Plunkett, whose team did not win a match in thre me tmgs WJth Stan- ford th1 eason is convinced of the Cardmal' strength "They'r ready to take home the rdware," Plunkett said. "We knew bat was out there today, but we just didn't have enough to get it done. I'm not ure there's anybody here that doe." UCLA had a tough time against rizona, which won singles matches t the top three positions. Arizona's Betsy Somerville, ranked o. 49, red a 7-5, 6-4 wm over No. 3- ra ed J ica Emm of UCLA,. top-ranked

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on some form of financial aid. That may be loans, grants, or the work-study program. It can be a job on campus which is not a part of the work-study program. That aid is need-dependent. The other 30 percent, we would assume, are from upper-middle and upper income families. 0: Hae your enrollment been steady in recent years? , A: The enrollment has increased every year for the last 16 years. The last five years the rate has been slowed considerably, deliberately on our part. We have attempted to hold the undergraduate enrollment at 3,500. The greater growth ID recent years, however, has been in the graduate programs, the MBA (master of business administration) program and the doctorate program in nursing. 0: In your long-range planning, do you expect to become more of a reaidential univeraity? How many atudenta now live on the campua? A: There are 2,000 living on campus now. There are no plans on the drawing board for increasing the number of housing spaces, witn one possible exception. We have been giving some thought to building some housing for married students. 0: Are there any plane to build graduate houaing? A: We're thinking about that. Q: Have you any plane to aarve larger numbera of student• at USO? A: The current enrollment is just under 5,900'. We'll probably be right at 6,000 next fall. We are quite happy with that. To do what we want to do with undergraduate studen_ts, s_ize does work against us. We try to mamtam an average class size in the undergraduate programming of 18, and it becomes very difficult to provide the number of classrooms for more students when they're broken into units that small. There are academic reasons for wanting to keep those class sizes small. Q: Hae the increaae in coata at private colleges had anything to do with the declining number of 18-year-olda in thia country? A: Without any doubt. We are an a~rrat!~n in terms of private colleges and umvers1ties, and we would not characterize what's going on in higher education by w~at's going on at the University of San Diego. We are in a growth area. About 60 percent of our enrollment comes from California, so it is still very possible to grow as a private institution here. However, that decline in the demographics will turn up in about 1991 or 1992.

0: Could we expect the increase In tuition to level off, perhapa, when the demographic• change? . A: I don't think you can expect the tuition mcreases to level off. The cost of providing the educaHon are driven by several things, and the biggest of those is the faculty cost. We are labor-intensive. Those costs are always going to increase at least according to inflation. And in California we have to get salaries to a level that will upport f~~ulty members in providing housing and livmg costs. Q: How do your aalariea compare? A: We're ~oing pretty well. We're ahead of the national medians in most categories. Th~ exception is the research university, which we are not. But in terms of the compar~son with comprehensive private ' institutions we're doing rather well. However, as we look ahead through the ~990s - I mentioned the anticipated upturn menrollment - a downturn in the supply of professors JS also anticipated. U you put th?se two factors together, it's going to get fairly competitive out there for new faculty. Q: What would the beginning salary be for a profeaaor of busineaa with a Ph.D right now? A: Business is one of the higher paying areas. It would probably average around $32,000-$33')00. In the college of arts and sciences - there are some exceptions, computer science being one - the beginning for most disciplines this year would be around $27,000. Next fall we're looking at about $28,000 to $28,2/JO, a Ph.O and teaching experience. Q: What aalery range can a busineaa prolesaor who'• been there 15 years expect? A: It would be $75,000. In Jaw $100,000 a year. In the arts and sciences $65,000. 0: How do you feel about tuition pre- payment plans? A: The university looked at those very seriously four or five years ago - the kind of plan where parents would pre-pay a full four years' tuition whenever they want to • and the institution would guarantee that price. We didn't think we were in a position to gamble with that. Under state prepayment plans - Michigan has adopted ?ne - essentially, you can begin malting mvestments at a certain level at birth and by the time your son or daughter gets there, the tuition is paid. It's an actuarially based ~~op-am that b~s some merit. In Michigan 1mtially - I don t know if it's been changed or not..- those plans were applicable only

to state institutions. There would be a constitutional problem in California with a plan that was not restricted to simply state institutions, because you would get the state involved in guaranteeing tuition levels for private institutions that are church- . affiliated. Q: What ia your feeling about the level of federal support for education, private higher education in particular? la it adequate? A: It has slipped rather dramatically during the last eight years, and that can be demonstrated in terms of almost any of the student aid programs except student loans. &sentially, there has been a shifting of the burden for education from the general public through various kinds of grants to a loan program, which places the burden on the student or the student's family. I find that to be a very negative aspect of where we are today in higher education. The kid graduating today with a debt burden of $10,000 or $15,000 and a starting job is really at a disadvantage. Q: Conceptionally, ia there really anything wrong with a student who ia able, by means of loana, to afford a first- rate education and get a good job with very good career prospects? A: In the most theoretical sense, no. I think my problem relates more to the private institution and the burden the loan course places upon the student, as opposed to the student at a public institution who has a heavily subsidized education despite his family's income. That puts us in a very disadvantageous position. It's $9,000 a year tuition to go to USD. It's $1,800 a year to go to the University of California. It doesn't matter whether your folks are multimillionaires or paupers - you get the • same subsidy. And how long can the states afford to offer very dramatic subsidies to people who are very wealthy? Q: How do you feel about Sam Nunn'• voluntary national service proposal and how might that either help or hinder private education? A: The upside of it is that it would provide a person who's willing to spend one through four years in voluntary service, either military or civilian. The opportunity to receive something like $10,000 a year toward high education for that group of students would certainly be a benefit. The downside is that if community service, voluntary service, either military or civilian, is a part of our social policy, then it excludes people who don't have the need. By that I mean that if your folks can afford it, you simply can avoid either military or