Tuition and salary hikes to be considered by PAC
Students rally against proposed tuition hike in ‘last-chance’ effort
About 250 students gathered Thursday amidst green balloons and placards in front of a blue-jean clad Tommy Trojan for a rally against the proposed tuition increase.
The gathering, billed as “half-rally and half-entertainment" featured a volunteer band and speakers from the Student Senate.
Expressing disappointment with the “carnival atmosphere,” Tom Johnson, vice-chairman of the Student Senate, and a graduate student representative, suggested to the gatheringthat a more effective means of protest would be a student strike.
If no one showed up in class one day. that would be more meaningful than a rally, which will have little effect, he said.
“We have to show the President’s Advisory Council and the Board of Trustees that we're not going to take any more of this,” Johnson said.
The fact ofthe raise alone, though, was not what the rally was aimed at. It was the size of the raise.
“We're not here to protest tuition, but keep it at a reasonable rate/' said David Blackmar. president of the Student Senate.
“We want to keep the raise as close to the Consumer Price Index as possible.” Glenn Sonnenberg, director of the financial affairs unit of the senate, said.
Many of the members ofthe financial affairs unit (which sponsored the rally) said they feared that many students would leave the campus if the raise is more than 9%.
“I know a lot ofTrojans who will become Bruins if there is any raise, and many more who will if the raise is a large one,” Blackmar said.
Another worry expressed at the rally was the effect of the raise on those who pay for a student’s tuition.
“What's going to happen when you go home and say how does $3,500 sound to your pocketbook. pop0' That's a lot of money.’’ Sonnenberg said.
The organizers of the rally, who contributed the money for the balloons and lollipops that were handed out.-said they hope that it had some effect on the decision that will be made regarding the raise.
Sonnenberg urged everyone to attend the next meeting ofthe PAC, which will be held today at 2:30 p.m. in the Student Activities Center.
The rally was also intended as a forum for students to express their concern about tuition increases, and make the student body more aware of the situation and the processes involved in the hike. Blackmar said. He said it was also intended to show the administration that the students themselves, and not just the committee representatives, are “fed up.”
some parameters and focus in on those issues.”
All 125 members ofthe council received a copy of the findings, assumptions and recommendations of the Resource Management and Planning Committee before noon Thursday.
Griffith said the document was given to the members as background material and to show the rationale of the planning committee's proposal up for approval.
The document of more than 100 pages includes a proposal for a 7% to 11% salary increase for faculty and staff and for a tuition increase of 5.5% to 6.5% if possible and in no case to exceed 9.3%.
The document also explains the operations of the university budget and position papers compiled by the faculty, staff and students.
Dave Blackmar, chairman of the Student Senate, said the students will argue in favor of the Budget Commission proposal of a 5.5% to 6.5% tuition increase.
“We will definitely renounce the planning committee’s recommendations because it adds a limit of 9.3% for a tuition increase which in effect, sanctions an increase that high,” Blackmar said.
Robert Coffey, chairman ofthe Faculty Senate, said a part ofthe
faculty caucus of the PAC met Thursday and would probably back the planning committee’s proposal for tuition.
“I hesitate to speak for tne faculty. but in my opinion, the consensus of the group that met was in favor of the planning committee’s proposal concerning tuition, but would support the Faculty Senate’s proposal concerning salary increase for faculty,” Coffey said.
The Faculty Senate proposal asks for a 19.6% raise in salary for faculty, but Coffey said the increase is based on funds to be generated through past surpluses.”
University agrees to self-audit to determine salary inequities
By Dorothy Reinhold
staff writer
Carl Oelrich of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor said the university has agreed to conduct a self-audit to determine if salary inequalities exist between men and women faculty and staff members.
He spoke to the Women's Committee of the American Association of University Professors.
Oelrich said Thursday he assumed that salary inequalities exist in many schools of the university, not just the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the School of Education, both of which have been under investigation by the department.
The university’s agreement to an internal review came after a three-year investigation by the department established that some tenured women associates and full professors in the two schools investigated were being paid less than men who did comparable work.
Oelrich said. “If the university has not accomplished the self-
audit within a sufficient amount oftime, say several months, we ll be right back in here. This audit must include the faculty and staff of the medical campus as well as the academic campus.”
Early last month the university had agreed to pay approximately $75,000 in back pay and salary adjustments to 16 women in the two schools.
The settlement was reached after a three-year, equal pay audit by the department Oelrich said.
He said the department was
prepared to take the case to court. But the university wanted to solve it, and agreed to adjust those salaries that were unfair.
Approximately $18,500 will be paid as salary increases to 12 female associate and full professors. About $57,000 in retroactive wages will be paid to 16 female professors, some of whom are included among the 12.
The money is being distributed by the Office of the Solicitor, which is under the Department of Labor.
Funeral for alumni affairs director today
Funeral services for Michael J. Niotta. director of alumni affairs since 1969. will be held at 11 a.m. today at Our Lady of Grace Church in Encino.
Niotta died of a heart attack Wednesday. He was 32.
A graduate of- Notre Dame High School, he attended Saint Edwards University in Austin, Tex., and earned a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from USC in 1967.
PROTEST RALLY—About 250 students protesting a helium-filled balloons to show their support. DT photo proposed tuition hike attended a rally Thursday at by Larry Condelli.
Tommy Trojan. Students carried signs and released
By Wayne Walley
associate city editor
Recommendations on tuition costs and salary increases will be considered by the President's Advisory Council today, but no final decision will be made until Tuesday.
“We will try to finish as much as possible and make some agreements on assumptions concerning an enrollment increase, inescapable commitments and program development, but we won t decide on tuition and salary' today,” said John
Griffith, executive secretary of the PAC.
The two-part meeting will be held in Student Activities Center 205 at 2:30 p.m. today and continue Tuesday. The meeting is open to all interested persons.
“It is our intention to look at the materials and arrive at agreements on the underlying principles of the budget before voting on the substantive issues of tuition and salary increases,” Griffith said.
“After we make those assumptions, then we will be able to set
ROCK 'N' ROLL—A large throng of music fans attended a noon concert Thursday by Fanny. Here the group's bassist let's out a hoiler to the delight of the crowd. The concert was sponsored by the Student Committee on Popular Entertainment . DT photo by Mike Ito.
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