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Volume LXVIII, No. 114
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, April 22, 1976
DON'T TREAD ON ME—An
African group entertained a large crowd between Von KleinSmid Center and Alumni Park with African music and dance Wednesday. The varied crowd laid back and enjoyed the sights and sounds of the group and spring for more than an hour, as balmy weather once more pleased Southern Califor-
Report finds Ph.D. job outlook not hopeless
By Justin Fox
Staff Writer
The thought of Ph.D.s pumping gas may be frightening to doctoral recipients soon entering the job market, yet these stories are common.
The scarcity of jobs is commonly blamed on the poor state ofthe economy and the flood of Ph.D.s into the market.
Though the causes are valid, confirmed by a report ofthe National Board on Graduate Education, the sob stories are not representative of the present job market.
The jobs are there, and the majority of Ph.Ds are able to land jobs in their fields, even in the overcrowded ones such as English and psychology, said Harold Von Hofe, interim dean of the Graduate School.
An article dealing with trends in Ph.D. job placement by the National Board confirms his statement.
Graduates from the highest-rated departments experienced less labor market difficulty than any other group.
But because the labor market is stratified by both type of employer and geography, many graduates from the less prestigious departments have found employment while some graduates from leading departments continue to search.
Still, only the best will get the jobs, said Max F. Schulz, chairman and professor of English. The rest of the English Ph.Ds will be consigned mostly to one-year terminal contracts with no prospects of being hired on a permanent basis.
“The job market is tough and it’s going to get worse,” he said. “It’s best that we don’t stargaze in the other direction.”
Schulz said that it is the average Ph.D. who is in trouble, and that there are two problems working against him. While the steady increase in enrollment continues, the universities can’t afford to hire
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Drive to raise $265.3 million for endowment officially begins
By Wayne Walley
City Editor
The university officially launched a massive fund-raising drive to increase the endowment by $265.3 million Tuesday night, but the solicitation of funds for the campaign started two years ago.
Justin Dart, vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees, announced that the university has already received $72.2 million in cash and firm pledges for the campaign entitled “Toward Century II.”
Dart’s announcement concluded a dinner meeting of more than 1,400 trustees, alumni and friends of the university to outline details ofthe campaign. It is due to be completed by 1980, the university’s 100th anniversary.
J. Robert Fluor, chairman of the board, said he was convinced the objectives of the campaign would be achieved despite the high financial objectives.
The $265.3-million program is the largest ever undertaken by the university.
President John R. Hubbard emphasized the lack of endowment funds at the university as the reason for the campaign.
The endowment consists of funds given to the university for investment purposes. Only the interest income generated by these investments may be used by the university.
“We look at our fiscal record with pride, but the problem is with the paucity of our endowment. Our present endowment only accounts for 3% of our present operating budget,” Hubbard said.
“We intend to begin our second century as a model of academic excellence without compromising our traditional dedication to sound fiscal policies.”
Hubbard said success of the “Toward Century II” campaign was important in giving youth a choice between public and private education.
He said that now only 22% of the college students enrolled in the nation are in private colleges and universities. In 1945, the distribution between public and private institutions was equal, allowing for diversity.
“Now we are just a little pla-
toon of independence,” Hubbard said, “but we must be a bastion of independence.”
The money raised by the campaign will basically be used to improve the educational quality of the university as a whole.
Among the uses for the $265.3 million in endowment funds are: $25 million for student aid, $60.6 million for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, $12.3 million for the School of Business Administration, $30.1 million for program development, $11 million for the Law Center,
$10 million for libraries, $13.6 million for the School of Medicine, $22.3 million for management and operations and $11 million for the School of Public Affairs.
Leonard K. Firestone, U.S. ambassador to Belgium, has been named honorary international chairman of the fundraising drive.
Dart, Virginia Ramo, a trustee member, and Norman Topping, chancellor, will cochair the “Toward Century II” steering committee.
Chavez says voting right top issue of farm initiative
Cesar Chavez sees the proposed farmworkers’ initiative as an issue more basic than the struggle between unions.
“Forget the unions,” he said. “I’m talking about the right to vote. The most important state in the union is still weak—some of its citizens can’t vote.”
Chavez, the controversial leader ofthe United Farm workers, spoke in favor of the initiative in front of a capacity crowd Wendesday in Bovard Auditorium.
The initiative, if passed, would guarantee free elections for the farmworkers so that they could choose whether they wanted to be union-represented, and if so, which union they would prefer.
Supporters of the initiative have already gathered 475,000 signatures toward placing it on the June state ballot. Although only 324,000 are needed, Chavez said the supporters would continue to collect signatures to allow for error and duplication.
The objective of the initiative is to have union elections guaranteed as a permanent part of state law, Chavez said. Present laws do not allow for this.
Last year, the state legislature passed the Agriculture Labor Relations Act, which set aside money for union elections.
Chavez said that in the choice between having no union, the Teamsters’ Union and the United Farmworkers union, the United Farmworkers union won the majority of elections until January when the funds ran out.
Chavez said the farmworkers group was anxious to get the money refunded, but that trying to get refunding each year presents problems.
In addition to guaranteeing free elections for the farmwork-
CESAR CHAVEZ
ers, the initiative would include election procedures and funding to help avoid the problem in the future.
Chavez stressed that the issue is really the right of people to vote.
“Would you like it if the state denied you the right to vote?” he asked the audience.
“The most sacred right of a democracy must be protected—not for the workers’ sake, but for your sake.”
Seals and Crofts to play
By Peter Fletcher
SUfT Writer
On May 15 a premature summer breeze will fill the air at Cromwell Field.
The event is not a quirk of nature but an outdoor concert by Seals and Crofts, who will, in all likelihood, include their song Summer Breeze in their performance.
The Student Committee on Popular Entertainment announced Monday at the Kenny Rankin concert that they had been able to get Seals and Crofts to perform.
Judi Rivkin, chairman of the committee, said that the tickets will go on sale Monday in the Ticket Office, Student Union 200. and probably at noon in front of Tommy Trojan. The tickets will be $4 for university students, faculty and staff with ID. General admission tickets will be $5.
The band, which has reached fame with songs like Hummingbird, Diamond Girl and Summer Breeze, will be making a special appearance at the university. Seals and Crofts are not scheduled to go on tour until July, so this concert will be a preview of their upcoming tour, Rivkin said.
The show will start at 2 p.m. and the gates will open at 1 p.m. Rivkin said that Seals and Crofts should be on stage by 3:30 p.m. “I think this is a super deal,” she said.
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The entertainment committee received $8,500 from the Campus Activities Allocations Board to stage the concert. As a result, the concert is mainly for students, faculty and staff of the university. Rivkin said 15,000 tickets will be on sale at USC first and later at UCLA and other schools.