Employees reject unionization plan
By Dave Hall
Staff Writer
The university's custodial and grounds workers have again voted down unionization in a National Labor Relations Board election at the Physical Plant.
The election, held Friday, showed that 116 workers were opposed to joining the Teamsters Union and 88 wanted to unionize. Three votes were void and another 19 workers who were eligible to vote didn't.
A previous attempt to join the Teamsters failed last year by a closer margin.
"I think the election means that they realize we re working for them.” said Arnold Shafer, executive director of facilities management for the Physical Plant. “The program is there for their improvement and works for them without the help of a third party — the Teamsters Union.
“But because ofthe closeness of the votes, it tells us that we have to go on working hard for those employees.”
Shafer also believes the university’s victory was a big one because of the circumstances involved.
“We had been served a petition and the National Labor Relations Board decided there should be an election to determine whether Teamsters should represent the employees in collective bargaining/’ Shafer said.
“Teamster representatives had the advantage of talking to the workers. We have limitations on talking to the employees about such matters until we have been served with a petition, so they had more of an opportunity to make their point to the workers.
“The main issues were those of salary and health benefits. I think the election points out that we must strive to make improvements in these areas.”
Raphael Santamaria, a spokesman for MECHA, believes the fight is not over.
“This is not the end of it,” Santamaria said, after his cause's second setback. “We now have to reorganize. This margin of defeat was larger than last year. I don’t know the reason.”
Santamaria did offer some suggestions for the unionization failure.
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MUSICAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1977
Band to play in Bluebonnet Bowl
The top tunes of 1977 will be highlighted Dec. 31 when the Trojan Marching Band supplies halflime entertainment for the Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston’s Astrodome.
Funding for the program and the band's trip to the USC-Texas A&M football contest is being supplied by the universi-
ty’s athletic department via money provided by the Bluebonnet Bowl committee, said Arthur Bartner, band director.
The band will practice over Christmas vacation and will leave Dec. 29 for a three-day stay in Houston.
Bartner said the band will
begin practice Dec. 27 and continue to practice daily until the flight leaves.
The band will travel to Houston on a charter plane, with the overflow billeted as a group on a commercial carrier.
A show committee composed of band students and arrangers composed the halftime show to appeal to both the Texas crowd and band members.
The program will feature Maynard Ferguson’s Conquistador, representing the jazz category; Heat Wave’s Boogie Nights, representing the soul/ rock category; the Bee Gees’ How Deep Is Your Love representing the middle-of-the-road; and Glen Campbell’s Southern Nights as a crossover song.
Auld Lang Syne will round out the program to end the 1977 season for both teams.
The band will salute the state of Texas in its pregame show, playing Yellow Rose of Texas. Briekhouse will be performed before the game, too, and will feature the USC song girls.
Sex activity survey clarified
A story in Wednesday’s Daily Trojan (“Survey shows 80% of students sexually active”) mistakenly reported that the survey conducted by Laura Schlessinger, a professor in the Biological Sciences Department, represented the sexual activities of the entire student body.
The survey only represented the responses of 125 university students in her Biology 402 (“Human Sexuality”) course. The results of that survey showed 91% of the males and 81% of the females were sexually active.
Although the figures in the story accurately represented the results of the survey, some of the analysis and reactions of Schlessinger were misrepresented and subsequently innaccurate. The survey was intended only to gather the impressions of where the class was in their behavior and attitudes toward sex and how that compared to other surveys of college students’ sexual behavior in general.
The Daily Trojan regrets the misrepresentation of Schlessinger’s professional aptitude in the area of human sexuality.
ISN'T THIS A 'LITTLE' MUCH?—Larry Doubley, a member of the Trojan track team, has been seen sporting an unusual, anti-short persons shirt. Doubley is a towering 6' 8" tall, dwarfing his rather petite friend and most other students. DT photo by Sue Adams.
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Volume LXXII, Number 53 Los Angeles, California	Thursday,	December	8,	1977
Student Senate votes to support proposed living expenses budget
The Student Senate has decided to support the Student Administrative Services Commission’s proposed budget on student living expenses. The budget would help determine financial aid.
In other action Tuesday night, the senate voted to retain two members who had missed three consecutive meetings and recommended that Parking Operations put up signs warning students they won’t be able to use the Davidson Conference Center parking lot a day in advance when the center is in use.
Follwoing a presentation by Lawrence Raful, chairman of the Student Administrative Services Commission, the senate approved a motion to support the commission’s efforts to raise the student costs budget, maintain married student allowance figures at their previous level and lower the student self-help figure to match those of the College Scholarship Service.
The university self-help figures currently assume students save $600 their first summer, $700 their second, $800 their third and $900 their fourth. Graduate students are expected to save $1,400 each summer.
The scholarship service expects students to save $500 their first summer, $600 the next and $700 for each of the following summers.
Dean Wilson and Vicki Vogelsang, the graduate senators who missed three consecutive meetings, attended Tuesday’s session and explained their ab-
sences. The senate accepted their explanations and no vote was taken to remove them.
Adolfo Molina, a commuter senator, said some students who regularly park in the Davidson Conference Center lot are late for classes when they arrive and discover they can’t park there and have to hunt for space elsewhere. Students aren’t allowed to park in the lot when there is a conference at the center.
Signs should be put up a day in advance telling students they won’t be able to use the lot. the senate decided.
Tradition spurs big market in class ring sales
By Rori Benka
Staff Writer
Company representatives say there’s a sudden surge in school ring popularity and that USC provides a big market for sales with its love for tradition and regalia.
Staunch holdouts claim the rings are unnecessary hardware inappropriate for today’s university students.
Whatever the opinion, school ring purchases have evolved from a simple order in the bookstore to a fairly competitive market with a number of options and selections.
Three companies offer class rings for sale through authorization of the bookstore. Josten’s, the well-knowi. producer, was joined last year by ArtCarved, a division of Lennox China, and Solon Rings, Inc., a local company.
In a move two years ago the director of the bookstore included the other
companies to allow students to have a choice in ring styles and prices.
For years, Josten’s has been the sole supplier of class rings and still remains the preference for many students, said Joyce Miles, bookstore supervisor.
Yet in the midst of concern over prices, representatives from all three ring companies say price is not a factor in a student’s purchase.
“The only factor is if they really want it or not,” said Christine DiMag-gio, an ArtCarved sales representative. “By the time a student has made up his mind about buying a school ring, spending ‘X’ amount of money has already been figured into the decision.”
Representatives from Josten’s and Solon agreed, adding that the style selected becomes a more important factor.
The three companies seem to emphasize three distinct styles of class rings. Josten's stands by traditional types with heavier appearances and classic features. A few “fashion" varieties are offered for both men and women, but the bookstore acknowledges Josten's for its standards in traditional styles.
ArtCarved displays, on the other hand, are brimming with a “fashion scene” theme in class rings in addition to classic styling. For men, three contemporary types are on display, complete \vith adventurous names like “Colorado.” “Seahawk"’ and “Sculpture.”
Women's rings vary from a traditional thin-band style to cocktail and high-fashion varieties with seductive names like "Intrigue.” and "Expres- -sion.”
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