Daily Ǥ Trojan
Volume L VIII, No. 45
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, Californio
Thursday, November 20, 1975
Faculty Senate votes to recommend 19.6% increase in salaries
By Larry Tuck
staff writer
The Faculty Senate voted Wednesday to recommend a 19.6% increase in faculty salaries.
According to the senate's Committee on Employment and Remuneration, that increase could be achieved without a budget deficit, assuming a 6% tuition hike.
The Budget Commission ofthe President’s Advisory Council is recommending a 5.5% to 6.5% tuition increase and an 8% increase in faculty and staff salaries.
Michael Deprano, spokesman for the Employment and Remuneration Committee, said the committee's assumption of a 6% tuition increase was based on that recommendation by the budget committee.
Several senators said at the meeting that faculty pay raises should not be tied on a one-to-one basis to tuition, and the senate passed a resolution to that effect.
The 19.6% figure was based on an estimated 10.7% inflation rate plus an additional amount to bring salaries here to levels comparable to those at other major universities.
The committee originally planned to recommend a 24% pay hike, but lowered its recommendation after further consideration.
The committee said the university consistently plans for a balanced budget, but nearly always shows a surplus at the end of the year.
Most of this income in excess of budgeted needs is plowed back into various programs. But a certain percentage—$2.4 million in 1975, for example—is placed under the label “appropriated unrestricted current funds.”
This money is saved up as a kind of buffer fund in case the university finds itself in the red some year. About $9.7 million is now available in this fund, the committee's report said.
The committee questioned whether this fund has to grow every year. All or part of the surplus foreachyearcould be spent on faculty pay. they said.
In addition, the committee assumed that enrollment will continue to rise at a rate of about 2% each year.
The university budgeted for a 3.2% decrease in enrollment this year, but enrollment actually increased 2%.
Some dissenting senators speculated that such a large proposed pay hike might be dismissed by the Board ofTrustees without serious consideration. Others, however, suggested that the board would be impressed by the quality ofthe committee’s research.
The senate’s recommendation will be presented to the Budget Commission, then to the Resource Management and Planning Committee of the President’s Advisory Council. The planning committee will decide Friday what recommendation it will make to the PAC.
PAC will meet Dec. 5 to consider its recommendation to the Board ofTrustees.
Study shows most viewers favor TV family hour concept
Television’s family hour concept has resulted in an increase in the proportion of the TV audience that believes programming between 7 and 9 p.m. is suitable for children, a study released Wednesday
shows.
The study was conducted by the university’s An-nenberg School of Communications.
It was started in July by the Annenberg school’s Center for Communications Policy Research, and compares the reaction of Los Angeles viewers to television programming before and afterthe family hour concept was introduced by the National Assn. of Broadcasters.
Under this concept, programmers have voluntarily restricted the use of sex and violence on TV between 7 and 9 p.m.
Despite some perceived changes in the amount of violence aired during the family hour, the audience was said to still be sharply divided as to whether TV programming is too violent.
The study also showed that since most parents do not set rules about what and when their children
may watch, children are still seeing sex and brutality on TV.
Although the majority of those interviewed said the family hour did not change their viewing habits or those of their children, more families with children were said to be watching TV together as compared to last season.
Families without children were shown to be less satisfied with this fall’s programming than those families with children.
The study showed that as of the end of October, more than 50% of the Los Angeles viewers interviewed were unaware that the family hour existed. Of those that did know about the concept most were families with children.
In both October and July, the main complaints about television were that there was a lack of diversity in programming, that there were too many commercials and too much sex and violence.
The study was paid for with internal funds. The nine-member team working on the study was made up of both students and faculty of the school.
Need a job?
By Cathy Taylor
associate news editor
So you want to be a spy; to travel the world in a beige trenchcoat and drive small, fast cars. You have visions of incorporating the best qualities of John Steed, Maxwell Smart and Iliya Kuriakin into a superspy personality.
Now’s your chance. The Career Planning and Placement Center says the Central Intelligence Agency is seeking “conscientious and mature individuals with excellent academic records.”
And if you’d like to try your wings with a little summer spying, the office also advertises the summer plan: three months of work with a salary that ranges from $800 to $1,000 per month.
Yes, someday you may be honored with the “Bronzed Trenchcoat Award,” but until then, you’d better start to compile a resume.
Need resume A spy needs a resume? You’ve got your shoe with the phone and the fountain pen filled with deadly poison darts—a resume?
The CIA won’t let you through its door and won’t
even give you information over the phone, until you’ve mailed a concise, organized thesis of your background.
Once you’ve convinced the agency in a resume that your character soundly fulfills the specified framework—from your junior high achievement certificates to that DAR medal you got in 12th grade (a real pointonyour side), it will send off an application.
Credentials
The basic requirement is that of U.S. citizenship. (Yes, even before requisite ownership of a car that needs a parachute to brake).
The No. 2 question on the application refers to drug use—from marijuana to heroin. And you’d better not lie because the form letter in the placement office warns that the agency checks thoroughly.
This form—at least the one for summer, the only one the CIA will hand out— condenses your past a bit more.
The application covers educational credentials and employment background. They do not ask whether you’ve completed the Hardy Boys series.
for the CIA
Special skills like knowledge of foreign languages, typing and shorthand should be delineated in Section “E.” Yes, if you’ve played around with walkie-talkies or ham radios, they’re interested. If you can fly a plane, you’re practically in.
Of course, military background has to be reported— everything from rank to specilization.
But take careful note of Section “G.” Entitled “Position Data,” it refers to the area you want to work in.
And thus, here lie your dreams.
Where do you want to work? Have you considered being an international spy? An “Anywhere in U.S.” spy? Or maybe you wanted to join the local staff in Washington, D.C.
Counter-spy
International work may mean chances for promotion—maybe counter- or counter-counter-spy fieldwork interests you. Remember Tokyo Rose?
The second question in Section “G” asks for the type of assignment you want. Well, that was answered for you somewhere between the first release of Goldfinger and
Diamonds are Forever. On to question three.
Salary range. In agate-sized writing you fill the square with: “Enough to support the traditional spy lifestyle, including John Steed’s London apartment, James Bond’s wardrobe and a car with all the advanced features, but the radically different chassis design of the 1967 Bat-mobile.
You’ll also need enough to purchase a few disguises comparable to Artemus Gordon’s Wild Wild West, collection. And an expense account to entertain female enemy spies (or male, as the case may be).
Availability The final question deals with your availability. You shrug and write that it depends on the salary (you might consider relinquishing the car).
Once the CIA takes you and your application seriously, it invites you to Washington, D.C., the letter in the placement office says, for an all-expenses-paid stay in the capitol while you go through employment processing.
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