Rose Bowl coupon hunt reaches frenzied finale
BY vENT SCHO \NECHT
Staff Writer
“Rose Bowl Coupons Wanted. $10 In Cash. Don’t Get Stuck With Yours.”
“Wanted: Rose Bowl Coupons. Will Pay $20 Each — Cash”
“Rosebowl Coupon. Last Chance. $25. Call Dave Any Time Tuesday”
Rose Bowl coupons have become a precious commodity since the university’s win over UCLA 12 days ago.
The price of coupons being sold went from a small figure to large sums and then back to practically nothing before the 4:30 deadline Wednesday, with the exception of several who roamed the lines outside the Information Center and offered as much as $20 per coupon up until closing.
It all started back on Nov. 20, or even before then, if you want to be technical about it.
Some students, either trusting their luck or studying the Trojans’ chances to attend the Rose Bowl, bought other students’ coupons on the chance that the team would beat UCLA and go to Pasadena on Jan. 1.
Prices for these coupons varied but were generally under $5 each, a random survey of some students showed.
One student, a junior in cinema, believed USC would not beat
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Daily HI Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXX, Number 46	Los Angeles, California	Thursday, December 2, 1976
Survey shows prof’s salary up an average of $9,000
BY DIANE SLEZA v
Assistant City Editor
Professors here are making an average of $9,000 more this year than they did in 1970-71, a study by the Office of Institutional Studies shows.
At the beginning of this decade, a professor’s average salary — on a nine-month basis — was $18,898. This year, it is $27,529, the report said.
The number of professors also increased over the seven-year period from 321 to 368. This figure includes those faculty members whose duties are primarily administrative or research-oriented.
The report is used primarily to show stability, said Rosemary Cliff, who compiled the data. It was compiled in response to questions asked by administrators, faculty and the President’s Advisory Council and is used by such agencies as the Resource Management and Planning Committee, the Budget Commission and the Faculty Senate Committee on Employment and Remuneration.
It includes similar statistics on associate professors, assistant professors, instructors and lecturers. The study also indicated the highest and lowest salaries in each category and the number of faculty who were here in 1970-71 who are still with the university.
The average salaries of associate professors increased from $14,359 to $19,905. There were 264 of
them in 1970-71; there are now 310.
Assistant professors’ salaries jumped from $12,431 to $16,417, while their numbers increased from 267 to 356.
There are now fewer lecturers and instructors than in 1970-71. One of the reasons is that these two categories were highest in the percentage of promotions.
Eleven professors make $40,000 or more, which is the highest income bracket shown in the study. The lowest paid professor makes $16,000.
Salaries among associate professors range from $15,000 to $34,000, while salaries among assistant professors start at $12,000 and go up to $28,000.
A total of 34% ofthe 321 professors here in 1970-71 have no contract for this year. Cliff said that does not necessarily mean they have left the university. Some have been promoted to positions in the administration, but the main reason for leaving the university is retirement, the report said.
Retirement accounted for 58% of the professors who left, the study showed. Other reasons included new jobs and death.
Only three lecturers or instructors make less than $10,000 a year, the study showed. All others in instructional positions receive salaries above that figure.
More than 300 gather to mourn death of cinema division chairman
BY CLARA GERMANI
Staff Writer
More than 300 persons gathered Wednesday for memorial services for Dr. Bernard R. Kantor, who was chairman ofthe Division of Cinema and Television and associate dean of the School of Performing Arts.
The Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre, a new addition to the cinema department that Kantor prided, was filled to capacity with students and friends from the film industry.
A former student of Dr. Kantor’s said the crowd perhaps would have been even larger but many of those in the film industry were attending the funeral of actress Rosalind Russell.
Eulogies were given by six of Dr. Kantor’s associates. Dr. Kantor, who died of a heart attack on Nov. 21, was described by all as enthusiastic. Al Dorskind, vice president of MCA, tearfully summed up that enthusiasm. He
said Dr. Kantor “brought a new breath to our lives.”
An example of Dr. Kantor’s enthusiasm was his favorite song, Smile, from his favorite Charlie Chaplin movie, Modern Times, which was performed by two university music majors.
Other speakers included Charles Champlin, art editor for the Los Angeles Times: President John R. Hubbard; Morton Zar-coff, cochairman of the Division of Cinema and Television; and Grant Beglarian, dean of the School of Performing Arts. Charles G. Allison, a graduate student in cinema, also spoke.
Zarcoff recalled the disbelief those in the cinema division expressed with the news of Dr. Kantor’s death. He said Dr. Kantor was a mainstay in the department and described the silence following his death, “It was like the large steel mainspring in a big noisy machine had stopped and there was not one to
wind it up again.”
Zarcoff recalled Dr. Kantor giving him a tour of the Norris Theatre only months before. And Hubbard said the entire performing arts complex, not only the Norris Theatre, is a tribute to Dr. Kantor’s vision in developing the division of cinema.
Champlin noted that although the film industry may have become commercially corrupt, Dr. Kantor had built the school into what is one of the nation’s prided pioneers in film.
Allison also praised Dr. Kantor for developing the cinema division. He said Dr. Kantor was “above and beyond what a teacher needs to be.” He said Dr. Kantor gave more support to students than anyone else he knew.
Hubbard also described Dr. Kantor’s contributions to the school and said, “The only tribute we can give is to continue
the legacy.”
LIKE NIGHT AND DAY—Well, maybe this man's admonitions aren't that clear to these children at the Married Student Housing Complex as they are entertained by the mime and his friends. DT photo by Rick Stern.
Fire hazards found in two houses on Row
The Alpha Omicron Pi sorority house on the Row was found unsafe upon an inspection two weeks ago by fire department officials, and improvements designed to meet current fire safety laws are now being installed.
After completing the inspection, fire inspector Erich Kohler of the Bureau of Fire Prevention for the City of Los Angeles told the sorority members, “I would not let my daughter live here. It is not safe.”
Kohler also inspected the Theta Xi fraternity house at 728 W. 28th St. and made verbal suggestions on changing conditions he found “deplorable and very poor.” But Ward Skinner, the fraternity’s president, said no official notification of the findings had been presented.
The university, which leases the house at 647 W. 28th St. to the sorority, is now making the adjustments. The university, however, does not own the Theta Xi fraternity house.
“They have put up fire exit signs and have fixed some ofthe doors,” said Leola Packard, the Alpha Omicron Pi house mother. “The inspector said the main problem was that we didn’t have any smoke alarms. We are planning to have those installed.”
Although some of the sorority members have talked about moving out because of the hazard, none have actually moved yet, according to Terri Hall, the house’s vice-president.
“We are concerned with our safety and we have asked the university for help in making the changes, but they don’t seem to be doing anything,” Hall said. “We have to buy the smoke alarms. And the fire escapes are old, rickety and dangerous.”
A new house for the sorority is being built, but it is not expected to be ready for occupancy until September of 1978. In the meantime, the women are living in a house considered unsafe.
“It’s really horrifying to see the chance of dying right in front of you,” said Donna Tyminski, a pledge who was planning to move into the house but now says she won’t because of the hazards.
“The school is responsible and we need some immediate action. Right now, we are just relying on our common sense if there’s a ffre.”
ROSE FEVER—Symptoms of this disease, which last struck in late 1974, are showing up again on campus. The most predominant one appears to be buying and
selling, not only T-shirts but also ticket coupons, which until Wednesday were reportedly being scalped for as much as $70 apiece. DT photo by Mark Kariya.