Nursery director finds caring for thirty children quite a job
By David Black
AssistantCity Editor
Imagine caring for nearly 30 children, all with different ethnic backgrounds and under five years old. on a daily basis. It sounds like quite a job. For Jonna Hynes, director of the nursery in the Married Students Housing complex, it is.
The nursery, open weekdays from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m., is located in G151 ofthe complex and is open to the children of students, faculty and staff members. The school accepts children from 32 months to five years old, Hynes said.
"We're accommodating all the children that want to come,” Hynes said as she paused to tie the shoelace ofone ofthe youngsters.
The center is funded mainly through the tuition parents pay. The amount ranges from $20 to $85 monthly, depending on the number of sessions the children are enrolled in.
In addition to having fun, the children learn things as well, Hynes said. They use marshmal-
lows to learn basic addition and subtraction.
The kids eat the marshmallows after figuring out the math problem. “That way, they not only enjoy doing the work, but they learn something. It’s really a positive experience.”
The center is staffed by Hynes, three teachers andtwo volunteers, who helpdaily.
The children also receive music, art and dancing lessons.
“The university has been super to us,” Hynes said. Although the facility has received nearly $700 from the Campus Activities Allocation Board and the Office of Residential Life, more money is needed, Hynes said.
But probably more important is the need for old clothes and toys. “The children love to dress up,” she said. “And if anyone wants to volunteer some time working here, they’re more than welcome to.”
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Daily § Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXXI, Number 26
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, March 17, 1977
FACULTY SENATE RESOLUTION
Democratic merit committees asked
Merit salary raises for 1977-78 should be decided at the departmental level by a committee nominated and elected by the faculty of that department, the Faculty Senate resolved Wednesday.
The senate also directed its Executive Board to undertake a faculty survey on the process of salary negotiation for 1978-79.
The resolutions were introduced by Nazir Ahmad, representing the senate’s Committee on Employment Remuneration. They sparked heated debate on points to be recommended to the administration regarding distribution of raises.
Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice-president, had earlier asked for recommendations from the university’s academic deans on the process by which the merit raises for 1977-78 will be apportioned. “No salary apportionments can be made until Kaprielian’s office approves them,” said Solomon Golomb, chairman ofthe senate.
The Finance and Budget Committee ofthe Board ofTrustees last month budgeted a 6% faculty salary pool increase with a supplemental adjustment pool of $225,000 for full professors and associates. In an earlier meeting and in Wednesday’s, the 6% increase was referred to by Ahmad as “adding insult to injury by failing to even match the 6.6% inflation rate in Los Angeles, and beingordered given on the basis ofmeritalone.”
The resolution for a democratically named review group for each department highlighted the discussion. Amendments to the resolution added stipulations that all such existing groups (democratically chosen) would remain in force, and that members from all levels of the departmental hierarchy — including assistant professors, associates and full professors — be included if possible on the respective committees.
“Each individual will be notified by the depart-
ment chairman ofthe reasonsforthe raises (or lack thereof) given,” the adopted resolution read. “Moreover, the said individual should be given clear-cut mechanisms to appeal the decision.”
An addendum suggests that $135,000 of the adjustment funds be allocated to full professors and the remaining $90,000 to associate professors, and only to those with three or more years of service at the university.
“Consideration must be given to the individuals with longerduration ofservice at agiven rank.. .the purpose (of which) to eliminate actual inequities,” the resolution read.
“Inequities must be recognized between the salaries of many of the recently hired faculty, who came to the university at market rates, and the professors who have been at the university for an extended time without making those higher rates of pay,” Ahmad said.
A motion that no faculty member receive merit increases of less than without academic due processes brought a vote of33-33, which was broken by Golomb, who decided against the proposed resolution.
The second half ofthe senate’s resolutions criticized the budget process of the university. “The administration’s decision to ignore the recommendations of the Student Senate, Faculty Senate and the President’s Advisory Council has seriously undermined the confidence of these constituents in the governance of the university. It is quite evident that the form of collective bargaining that we have been engaged in for the past eight months is totally ineffective.”
The survey ofthe faculty will be conducted by the senate’s Executive Board, and discussed in the May meetingofthe full body.
Administration raises pay hike offer for TAs
Administration officials met with teaching assistant representatives Wednesday and increased their pay hike offer from approximately 7% to 9c7c in an attempt to avoid a TA strike, said Scott Brady, a TA spokesman.
The meeting between Zohrab A. Kaprielian, executive vice-president, Harold von Hofe, dean of the Graduate School, and three TA representatives took place on the eve of the Council of Teaching Assistants meeting, which will be held today to determine whether to strike.
Brady said Kaprielian raised his offer presented to the TAs at their meeting last week. Brady said Kaprielian added that he was “willing to put in writing his willingness to correct these inequities (between faculty and TA pay increases)over the next couple ofyears.”
The TAs have requested an 18% increase plus the 6% granted the faculty for next year. Since 1970. faculty salaries have increased 36% whileTAstipends have increased 10%.
The Finance Committee ofthe Board ofTrustees has budgeted a 6% increase plus the establishment of a $30,000 salary pool, which would equal an increase ofabout 1.5%.
Kaprielian offered to increase the salary pool from $30,000 to $90,0001ast night said Brady.
Asked what his reaction was to the offer, Brady said, “We have to make sure the commitment is firm. If it is, then I feel it is a reasonable offer. It depends on what we get in writing.”
The Council of Teaching Assistants will meet today to determine whether the administration’s offer is reasonable.
Brady said that each departmental group of TAs voted to decide whether they would support a strike if the administration offer was not reasonable.
“All the (departments) I’ve heard from are overwhelmingly in favor oftakingaction if this is not a reasonable offer,” Brady said.
Receptions become tool for student recruitment
“Students can surface and become visible here,” said Paul Moore, administrative assistant to the vice-president for student affairs.
That is the message he, other administrators, faculty and students are giving as they recruit prospective students for the university.
In hotels in San Bernardino, Bakersfield, Fresno. Sacramento and the Bay Area, receptions for these prospective students are being held to ex-
BUDS A BURSTING—Spring is almost here but flowers and trees aren t about to wait for the official day — March 21. Rains came Wednesday morning to clear the skies, which promptly clouded over again in the evening to bring additional precipitation. DT photo by Douglas Gray.
plain various aspects ofthe university.
Those invited to attend include alumni living in the host city, newly admitted students living within one-hour’s drive of the city, their parents and area high-school and community-college counselors.
This is the first time USC students have been recruited in such a manner, Moore said. The receptions are geared to those who have been admitted to the university but haven’t decided whether they will attend.
Speakers at the receptions include Anita Siegman, director of counseling services; Jay Berger, director of admissions; Conrad Wedberg Jr., director of university relations; and Richard H. Perry, directorofathletics.
“Anita Siegman talks about the ‘crazies’ that hit a student, and his need to find friends,” Moore said.
A university professor gives a mini-lecture to the reception’s gathering. It is an example ofthe type of lecturing a student can expect to encounter here, said Janey Montgomery, assistant director of admissions.
Two who have recently lectured before prospective students are Bernard Pipkin, professor of geological sciences, and Luther Luedtke, codirector of the American Studies Program.
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