Daily fp Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVIII, No. 33	Los Angeles, California	Tuesday, November 4, 1975
Wage settlement will bring $75,000 in back pay to women profs
By Alix Riley
city editor
Nearly $75,000 in back pay and salary adjustments will be distributed to 16 women under the terms of an agreement reached by the university and the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor.
The settlement was reached after a three-year equal pay audit conducted by the department. The Wage and Hour Division had charged the university with discriminating against the women by paying them less than men who did comparable work.
Approximately $10,000 will go to three women in the School of Education as adjustments for prior compensation. The remainder of the money will go to women in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences—$17,000 in current salary adjustments and $57,000 in retroactive adjustments.
Barbara M. Pearson, director
of equal opportunity and affirmative action, said that in most cases the women would receive one check for back pay through October, 1975. The money is being distributed by the Office of the Solicitor, which is under the Labor Department.
“The university had been ready to settle for a long time,” Pearson said. “The problem was that everything had to keep going back to the labor people in Washington.”
It was uncertain, what prompted the division audit. The Los Angeles Times reported in March that it was spurred by complaints from women who said they were underpaid. However, the Daily Trojan reported in May that most women seemed unaware that their salaries were lower than those of their male colleagues, and others said they were satisfied with their pay.
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Married students upset as manager resigns
By Peter Fletcher
staff writer
The resignation of Fred Wilson as manager of the Married Student Housing Complex has caused discontent among some residents of the complex.
The Married Students Housing Committee sent a letter to President John R. Hubbard charging that Wilson’s resignation was not completely voluntary.
Wilson had been an employee of the university for 22 years and had been the manager of the Married Students Complex since it was built in 1964.
Wilson resigned Friday because of ill health, Guy D. Hubbard, director of Auxiliary Services, said. He said Wilson had open-heart surgery two years ago. “His decision to leave was most unexpected,” he said.
Approximately 50 married students met Sunday night to discuss what happened to Wilson.
They are concerned with the events surrounding his resignation and Ms future.
The letter to President Hubbard requested that Wilson be
VALUE PUT AT $3,500
treated fairly and that he be allowed to return if he desires.
The students are concerned that Wilson’s resignation was not completely voluntary, said Arnold McMahon, chairman of the Married Students Housing Committee.
The letter sent to President Hubbard says: “We were informed by Randy Rice, assistant director of Auxiliary Services, that Wilson was resigning for health reasons. Initially, Wilson confirmed this, but later conversations with him revealed a different, though not completely clear, picture.
“He stated variously that he was taking a leave of absence, a short vacation and hoped that he would be allowed to return. These statements plus others lead us to the conclusion that his resignation was not completely voluntary,” Rice said.
“Wilson is a popular man that the students and we want to maintain. He is a good employee and a friend. I can understand the students’ concern,” Guy Hubbard said.
He said that Wilson will be welcome back if he wants to re-
turn. “We are not processing his resignation. We are treating this as a leave of absence,” Hubbard said.
McMahon said that Wilson wants to return. “He’s been a great asset to the university. We shouldn’t lose such an individual. If it is true that he took a leave of absence and he is able to return to the Married Students Housing Complex as manager, that will be fine,”
staff writer A recommendation to continue operation of the Student Travel Bureau with precautionary safeguards will be made this week after an extensive review of the office’s operation, said Paul L. Moore, administrative associate for student affairs.
The review was prompted by problems last summer with a travel club that went out of business after two round-trip flights
McMahon said.
“We are concerned that somewhere along the line someone may try to block his return, he added.
“We decided that we would express our concern to the president. We have the signatures of people in the complex expressing that concern. We have a sense of obligation to Wilson because of what he has done for us,” McMahon said.
to Europe had been booked by students.
The club. Air Caledonia, went bankrupt after the first flight to Europe had been made. The bureau had to borrow $27,000 from the university to arrange alternate flights for the students.
“Technically, the university did not have any legal obligation to do this, as no contract was made through the bureau,” Moore said. “But it assumed the responsibility of getting the students home because of the trust the students place in the service.”
Moore, who conducted the review of the bureau, said that the problems began when a decision was made to use a travel club instead of a group charger with well-established commercial carriers.
Air Caledonia was the first air club to be used by the university, and if Moore’s recommendations are followed, it will be the last. The club consisted of only one plane, and it was having financial difficulties before the flights were scheduled.
There was no investigation of the club before the flights were booked, Moore said.
Abraham Van Kempen, the bureau’s director at the time of
Guy Hubbard said that he last talked to Wilson on Saturday.
when Wilson called him to tell him he was ready to leave. He said that he will keep in touch with Wilson, so that he will know when Wilson will be ready to return.
Temporary staff has been provided to replace Wilson until he is able to return, Guy Hubbard said.
the arrangements, resigned in July. He said that the instability of the travel industry at that time had made it impossible for him to obtain long-duration affinity or group charter flights to Europe.
These are the flight plans usually used by the bureau. They are available to members of an interest group, such as a university, and the contract is made between the commercial airline and the group.
Contracts with air clubs, on the other hand, are made with the individual rather than the group, and travelers must join the club to take advantage of the discount rates.
Van Kempen said that because the university’s London and Geneva study programs depended upon the availability of flights, he was forced to make the Air Caledonia agreement.
If the travel bureau is given the go-ahead to continue, Moore said that the money borrowed from the university for the students’ return flights would probably be paid back in a couple of years. Because the service is a nonprofit one, he said that cost cuts in operation would have to be made to absorb the cost.
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Broadcasting
An estimated $3,500 worth of telecommunications equipment was stolen from the School of Journalism during the weekend.
The equipment, which was used for broadcast classes, was discovered missing Monday from a classroom in the Social Science Annex, at McClintock Avenue and 34th Street, by Ernest Kreiling, a journalism instructor.
Paul Engel, engineer ofthe School of Journalism, reported the theft to campus security. He estimated $2,800 to be the pure value of the stolen goods.
Joseph Saltzman, head of the broadcast sequence, said the other $700 in the actual loss included cables, tax and delivery.
Campus security reported the theft to the Los
equipment stolen
Angeles Police Department, wmch conducted a complete investigation late Monday.
Saltzman said he suspects the thieves entered through a window. He said he thinks they stood on a table and broke the small window into the projection room. Then a very small person must have entered through the window and opened the door, he said.
The stolen equipment included a color television receiver, a 16-millimeter projector, a Super-8 projector, two speakers, a reel-to-reel recorder, a turntable and a tuner receiver power unit.
Saltzman said one item of value was left untouched, a color monitor and video tape recorder. Saltzman guessed that the thieves were frightened away before they could take the monitor.
Continuation of travel bureau is recommended after official review
By Sherie Stark