The Office of Student Conduct's plans to pour in money and hire new staff for the student judicial programs have come at appropriate timing. With incidents around USC's campus involving weapons in dorms and rising drug charges in only the first couple weeks of school, the OSC is planning to crack down on alcohol and drug violations on campus. 
The OSC is and has been understaffed for many years now. In fact, the OSC's judicial programs director herself has to roll up her sleeves and handle three to four student cases per day herself. It's clear to see that the system's efficiency needs to be revamped, and we support the OSC's efforts to do so. Implementing guidelines and ensuring a safe learning and living environment is, after all, necessary to the wellbeing of our university.
However, if the OSC truly wants to improve its efficiency, it should not only look at hiring new staff members but should think about improving the existing system as well. Issues that are handled at the judicial level include not only violations of university policies, but also small Housing violations, such as noise disturbances in dormitories and visitation policy violations. Such incidents could easily be resolved by resident mentors — and are dealt with by the RMs initially anyway — without also having to be passed up the hierarchical ladder to clog the OSC's mailbox. As it stands, these small incidents make up a huge portion of filed cases.
If the small stuff could be dealt with on the lower levels of Housing, maybe the strain on Student Conduct wouldn't be so drastic as to necessitate $100,000's worth of new staff.