BY DIANE WAGNER
Despite a below-average record of donations, interest in this year's United Way fund drive has been called good by Jack Schneider, personnel director and cochairman ofthe university’s campaign.
The thrust of this year’s program, Schneider said, is much more personal and direct because of low-level participation in past years.
On a per-person, per-capita basis for 1975, the average donation at USC was $5.40, while the per capita average at other schools, was much higher. For example, Yale’s average was $31.67; Cal Tech, $26.69; Michigan, $23.15; Harvard, $15.84; and UCLA, $9.12. The national average was $12.44.
“Nationally, we’re on the low end of the scale, although last year did show a substantial increase (approximately $6,000) in donations.
“Because we are only a few weeks into the campaign, it’s a little too early to tell what kind of response we’re going to get,”
ing from Robert Fluor, chairman of the Board of Trustees, who has been appointed United Way’s regional general campaign chairman, and President John R. Hubbard, who is the organization’s college and university division chairman for Los Angeles County,” Schneider said.
“The university saw community obligation, so Dr. Hubbard and Mr. Fluor took
active roles in this year’s campaign. The steering committee is also at work with policy recommendations to set the tone of the campaign.”
The funds gathered through the university will be added to the county-wide goal of$33 million. The campaign will end Dec. 17.
“I think people are being encouraged by the part icipation of university officials who are really behind the United Way program,” Schneider said. “With so much
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Daily ip Trojan
Volume LXX, Number 49
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, Californio
Tuesday, December 7, 1976
Bank modifies policy on student, regular lines
BY ^ENT SCHO vNECHT
Staff Writer
Bowing to community pressure, the University Village branch of Bank of America has ended its policy of separate lines and tellers for USC students and regular customers but replaced it with a similar one.
. Until a week ago, the bank offered separate tellers for student transactions. This was coupled with a line for other customers. Signs at the entrances for each line read, “USC Students Only” and “Regular Customers Accounts,” respectively.
Richard Ivy, a vice-president, said the plan has been replaced with a modified scheme that will label the two lines “Student Accounts” and “Regular Accounts.”
The new signs will go up as soon as they arrive from the distributor.
The original signs were removed when Marc Nowadnick. a senior in journalism and cinema, attached to a
customer survey, a letter to the president of Bank of America explaining that he and some of his friends disliked the policy.
In the letter, Nowadnick said the university's attempts to coexist with the community — with programs such as Troy Camp and the Joint Educational Project — were being nullified by the segregation plan of the bank.
The letter was referred to Ivy and he in turn suggested that Matt St. George, the branch office’s student relations officer, look into the matter.
St. George discussed the situation with workers and found some disagreed with the policy but didn’t want to say anything initially. He also said some regular customers complained — usually when the student lines were short and others were long. Some students also felt it was a case of discrimination.
But St. George added that no customer entering the apparently wrong line would be
OUT WITH THE OLD—Cathy
Taylor, a senior in journalism, displays the sign that is being replaced at the Bank of America branch on Jefferson Boulevard after student complaints. DT photo by Patty Cox.
denied assistance.
Students who felt the bank was discriminating against local people because they were poor were making false assumptions, St. George said.
“There are more wealthy customers in the regular line than in the student line,” he said. “Besides, a lot of USC students are not only not rich, but are poor themselves. You can see this by the number of people on financial aid.”
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Faculty salaries not up to par, says senate committee chairman
BY DIANE SLEZA C
Assistant City Editor
Although faculty salaries here have increased an average of $9,000 over the last seven years, they are not up to par with the salaries at comparable universities, said Nazir Ahmad, chairman of the Faculty Senate committee on employment and remuneration.
Ahmad was responding to an article in Monday’s edition of the Daily Trojan concerning a study done by the Office of Institutional Studies that gave figures on faculty salaries over the period of 1970-71 to this year.
The Faculty Senate recommendation on salaries is designed to bring the level to a midpoint between the 80th and 90th percentile of salaries among universities ranked in category one by the American Assn. of University Professors, Ahmad said.
A university that confers 15 or more doctoral degrees per year in a variety of fields is eligible for a category-one rating. Ahmad said the university definitely qualifies for this category but that the fa-
culty salary level is currently at the level of category two (universities that confer less than 15 doctoral degrees per year or that have only a masters program).
A 7% increase proposed Friday by the Resource Management and Planning Committee to the President’s Advisory Council (PAC) would bring faculty salaries up to the 80th percentile over the next two years, said J. Jerry Wiley, chairman of that committee. The percentage increase is applied to the base faculty salary budget of $25 million.
The original Faculty Senate proposal was between 12y2% and 15V2%, Ahmad said, but because of new data received, that percentage has been reduced.
He declined to state a new figure but said it brings the faculty request within $500,000 of the Resource Management and Planning Committee’s recommendation, a figure that comprises less than 1% of the university budget, he said.
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New manager tries to curb food waste
BY VALERIE NELSON
Staff Writer
Eliminating “the unbelievable amount of food waste” in the Birnkrant Residence Hall dining room is the number-one concern of Milton Degraw, recently named food services manager.
Degraw replaced Herbert Ellis, who resigned to take a position at the University of San Francisco.
Food waste may be as high as 300 pounds for one meal, Degraw said.
A contest will be held in about one week to guess what the waste poundage is for one meal. The person who guesses the weight to the nearest ounce will receive a prize, Degraw said.
This is part of a campaign he is waging against waste. The campaign is based on materials provided by the Coca-Cola Co. Degraw said.
He is also planning to introduce new food items, monotony breakers and special meals.
Popcorn, ice cream bars, snow cones and cotton candy are a few of the novelties to be featured during the once-a-week monotony breaks, he said.
“He is a good asset to the university and has many good ideas. We are extremely pleased,” said Paul Copeland, director of food services.
“If food wastes were eliminated for one month, there would be enough funds to
De-
purchase two new ovens,’ graw said.
Inadequate and small facilities and old equipment are other problems that he believes must be dealt with. Three of the ovens and two deep fryers are more than 20 years old, Degraw said.
“The equipment is being pushed when it is used daily for 20 years,” he said. The facility was originally built for 500 people and now serves about 1,000.
The dining facilities are adequate, but there is very little storage room, he said. Because of the storage problem, deliveries are made two and three times a day, which is more costly.
“If the food waste is eliminated, price increases could be held down. There is no way now to hold prices down,” he said.
Employees need to be trained and instructed better so they know what is expected of them, Degraw said. He is learning how the money is spent so he can see how the budget needs to be changed.
Degraw has worked in university food services for more than 12 years. He came here from a hospital in New York where he was a therapeutic dietician.
“The food is readily available to the customer. We want to make their meals as enjoyable as possible, but also at a reasonable price,” he said.
BREAK A LEG—Final preparations are being completed at the Bing Theater for the opening Wednesday night of I Remember Mama. DT photo by Shuji Ito.