University of Southern California
Volume LXVIV, Number 7_________________________________	Los	Angeles, California	Friday,	July	9,	1976
Summer
Trojan
OLYMPIC JAVELIN PARTICIPANT
Pain and competition are not new to Calvert
Equal pay, overtime under U.S. scrutiny
By Don LaPlante
Editor
The university’s compliance with federal equal pay and overtime regulations is under examination by the federal government.
John Schneider, director of personnel, told the Administrative and Staff Women’s Caucus on Tuesday the Department of Labor is examining the university’s actions in both fields.
In an interview after the meeting, Schneider said the department had planned on bringing examiners to check the university records, but on reviewing the steps being taken by the university in the equal pay category it has deferred any major probe.
The department is discussing with the university what steps it is taking and will be reviewing university plans and performance in the equal pay area.
Schneider said that the government had seen that although equity money being given certain workers to bring them up to minimums for their grades had not been intended to specifically correct equal pay problems, it had the effect of doing so.
He told the meeting that the university was involved in “flagrant violations” of the overtime laws.
“We get requests for mid-year increases and the request says ‘Employee works many hours of own time on work.’ Well, this is a clear violation of the overtime laws,” Schneider said.
The law states that employees must receive overtime if they work ‘ more than 40 hours in one week, or receive compensatory time off in the same week. He said the university work week is from Thursday through Wednesday, and that the law applies to all non-exempt employees. These are, by law, most clerical employees. Managers and professionals are exempt from the overtime rules.
Schneider said there was no way to police the problem, but that grievance could be filed with the personnel office or complaints filed with the Department of Labor.
At the meeting, Schneider agreed to institute a system of posting all available jobs on a bulletin board near the personnel office so employees and others could find out about available jobs.
He responded to complaints by a number of employees that the present system didn’t let people know about openings adequately. He said that he would try to implement the posting within a few weeks.
Schneider also told the group about a number of professional development programs that would be instituted in the fall. He said information on these programs would be made available to employees, probably in September, through brochures and flyers.
He reported to the group that the salary structure has been adjusted in accordance with the new 6M>% increase in the salary pool. He said that although the minimums for each grade had not been increased, the maximum rates had been increased by 6and the intermediate numbers adjusted accordingly.
second in the Olympic trials— and the start of the fall semester there will be time for at least one of the operations both her ankles and her right shoulder are crying out for.
As she is no stranger to international competition, having made every foreign trip since 1967 except the 1968 Olympics, she and pain are old friends by now. Her ankles went under the knife in 1973.
Injury became a way of life as she competed in several sports during her student days at USC. “From volleyball and basketball something was always happening to my ankles,” she said.
“When I played on those teams the women didn’t have a trainer so you kind of took care of it the best you could or your played on it when it was injured.”
While she has great respect for medical opinion when it concerns a member of her women’s track team, Calvert is a poor patient. In March she tore ligaments in her left ankle playiifg basketball and it was placed in a cast, which she frequently threatened to remove herself if the doctors didn’t do it soon.
“I was playing basketball with the girls up in the gym and the game was getting a little rough for me—I don’t particularly like to play when people get a lot of
hands in. I was coming down the court thinking to myself one more basket and I’m going to leave as they were coming down court I stole the ball and went down for the layup and that’s when it happened,” she recalled,
“One of the girls ran under me and I came down on her foot and turned it (the ankle). So I made it for the one more basket, that was it.”
Since then she has played golf, volleyball and a lot of tennis but no basketball. A month after the injury she placed fourth at the Mt. SAC Relays with a 175-10 and it was obvious that her shoulder was giving her the most trouble. After the long one, she lost 5-10 feet per throw until she gritted her teeth for a 165+ on her final toss.
The shoulder problem dates back to October when she hurt it on the first day of workouts in Mexico City for the Pan-Am Games. Two weeks later she won the gold medal and proved to herself that she could compete in pain.
After Mt. SAC, she threw the javelin 188-9 in a meet at San Jose, which was the second best in the country at the time, 190-5 for third at the AAU Nationals in early June and then 191-7 to qualify second for the Olympic Team.
“It was a relief to make the team,” said Calvert. “First of all a lot of things have happened to me since 1972 and I’ve had numerous operations. It was hard coming back off of ankle surgery and relearning thngs that had become natural from work before. It was nice to know that having put in as much as I did to overcome those things, that I could do so well and something positive could come out of it.
“I’m much more optimistic in terms of where I am relative to the games as opposed to 1972, when I was really trying to maintain what I had,” said Calvert.
What she had was three straight AAU titles, two consecutive collegiate titles (she was the first Trojan woman to win a national championship) and a pair of 192-0 throws.
In Munich she placed 13th (“I threw 172 or something like that.”) and watched teammate Kathy Schmidt, three years her junior, take the bronze medal. Schmidt won the AAU title in 1969 at age 15 before Calvert won her three. Schmidt won her fourth straight this year with a new American record of 218-3 (the world record was set Ruth Fuchs of East Germany in 1974).
Also topping Calvert in the AAU meet this year was Karin
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Clarke assumes post as alumni head; Lawrence is president-elect
Eugene C. Clarke has become president of the General Alumni Association for the 1976-77 year.
Clarke has been active in alumni and support groups and is in the second year of a three-year term on the board of trustees. He served during the past year as the president-elect succeeding to president this year.
He is retired from Suburban Gas Companies, where he was general sales manager and assistant to the president. He received his B.A. in 1932 in economics. He was a member of Blue Key, Skull and Dagger, and Sigma Chi and was on the football team for three years.
Clarke succeeds Herbert G. Klein, vice-president
of Metromedia Corp. as president of the General Alumni Association. Klein still has one year remaining on his term as a member of the board of trustees.
Richard H. Lawrence has been elected as presi-dent-elect. Lawrence received his bachelor’s in 1948 and his master's in 1949, both in education.
He is presently serving ^s the assistant superintendent for educational support services in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
The new governors-at-large on the alumni association board at Marshall A. Green, Charles G. Johnston, Louis P. Pozzo, arid Richard G. Van Vorst.
By Jim Carr
Sports Editor
With the beginning of the 1976 Olympic Games (assuming they are held) little more than a week away, women’s track coach
Sherry Calvert is already looking beyond Montreal, where she will compete in the javelin.
She is hopingthat between the USA-Russia dual meet—which she qualified for by finishing
MONTREAL BOUND—Sherry Calvert, women's track coach, is headed for the Olympics in Montreal to compete in the javelin competition. She is seen in the Mt. SAC meet during the spring. Summer Trojan photo by Jim
Carr.
WANT TO HELP?—Anne Pirie, a representative of Action, was on campus last week seeking volunteers for fourteen community service agencies. She talked to Cheryl Ellsworth, a graduate student in gerontology,
about the program. Volunteers who missed her last week can contact Action at 842-7692. Summer Trojan photo by Bob Chavez.