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Volume LXXI, Number 2
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, February 9, 1977
\ Athletic staff bonuses for Rose Bowl: $22,000
AN EMERGING FORCE
Black history comes of age
By Denise M. Holt
Assistant Entertainment Editor
The emergence of black culture has been a slow but strong force in America. Most people don’t realize that some American pioneers were black.
Black History Week (Feb, 8-11) is a celebration of the blossoming of that culture and the achievements which aren’t always identified as black.
It is not rare, when referring to a prominent black person, to state that he or she was the first black person to successfully complete a.specific achievement. Forex-ample, Richard Allen was the first black bishop in America, John Brown Russ-wurm published America's first black newspaper, called the Freedom's Journal, and Thurgood Marshall was the first black person to receive a judicial appointment to the bench of the United States Supreme Court.
But little is known about blacks who were pioneers of American history. Not only were they the first black people to master a specific feat, but they were first .. .just plain first.
Here is a partial list of some blacks who contributed a “first” in American history.
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At a time when X-rays, sulfa drugs and blood transfusions were unknown medical tools, Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful open heart surgery.
During his lifetime, Granville T. Woods earned over 35 patents, ranging from a steam boiler furnace to an incubator to the automatic air brake. While he patented more than a dozen inventions forelectrical control and distribution, his most noteworthy device in this area was the “induction telegraph,” a system for communicating to and from moving trains.
Jan Matzeliger invented the shoe lasting maching. a device designed to attach
soles to shoes, reducing the cost of manufacturing shoes by more than 50%. His invention was the first to make a complete shoe by machinery, producing up to 700 pairs per day, thus laying the foundation of the shoe industry in the United States. * * *
Elijah McCoy, known as the “father of automatic lubrication,” patented 50 different inventions relating principally to automatic lubricators in machines. In fact, so popular did his lubrication systems become that persons inspectingnew equipment generally inquired if it contained,“the real McCoy.”
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‘Godspell’ a godsend for its director
By Gary Maloney
Staff Writer
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.”
—Matthew 7:7
For Larry Germain, a business major with aspirations for directing drama, Godspell has been the fulfillment of Christ’s words from the Mount of Olives.
The residence hall production of the off-Broadway musical plays Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium.
Germain, a graduate of Culver City High School with seven years of dramatic experience, transferred from Pepperdine University and is a junior.
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By Gary Linehan
Staff Writer
More than $22,000 in bonuses were paid to athletic department members for their work in the Rose Bowl, the Daily Trojan learned Tuesday from an inspection of payroll records.
Payments totaling $22,8t>0 were received by 32 employees including coaches, trainers, equipment managers, athletic news directors, secretaries and assistant athletic directors. Payroll authorization forms called the money, “extra compensation in connection with the 1977 Rose Bowl football game.”
The largest single payment went to John Robinson, head football coach, who received $4,000. Nine assistant coaches were paid a total of $8,500 in extra compensation.
The payments were authorized by a budget committee composed of top level administrators, said Virgil Lubberden, assistant athletic director.
He said the money came out of Rose Bowl receipts, not university funds. Each team in the Pacific-8 conference receives $170,000 from the Rose Bowl receipts.
USC receives an additional $190,000 for staging the event, Lubberden said.
He said all ticket money, television and radio benefits, concession receipts and other funds from the Rose Bowl are now on deposit here. The money is held until all bills are paid, then distributed to the other schools.
The extra payments for athletic staff covered the period of Dec. 1,1976to Jan. 1, 1977. The bonuses were delivered Jan. 26.
The extra compensations ranged from $100 to $4,000. Lubberden said the amounts were determined by the efforts involved.
“The NCAA has rejected a move to do away with the (extra compensation) policy,” said Richard Perry, athletic director. “This is standard practice in every university across the country.”
He said the budget was submitted administrative officers representing each of the areas involved, including university affairs, band, atnletic department and ticket office. The budget was approved by the university’s executive vice-president and then the president.
They approved the individual amounts and the total amount, Perry said.
Opening fee forum session draws minimal attendance
By Valerie Nelson
Assistant City Editor
Students were conspicuously absent from yesterday’s open forum on proposed student fee increases, whose sole purpose is to solicit student opinion.
Members of the student fees committee, who sat in the empty room at the Student Activities Center, expressed cautious optimism that student participation would increase for the remaining two meetings today and tomorrow.
“With the new semester, everyone is busy. I think people care, but the noon concert probably took away a lot of people,” said Dennis Alfieri, a committee member.
“It’s sad we won’t hear any comments until it is too late,” he said. The committee has until Tuesday to make a recommendation to the Student Senate.
The three-day forum is being sponsored by the President’s Advisory Council (PAC) and the Student Senate Committee on Student Fees to obtain student input on the proposed increases.
The proposed health fee increase is $8, from $32 to $40. The programming fee
wou’d go from $4.50 to $10 for the 1977-78 budget.
After being solicited by the committee, Greg Cole, a student senator from the Dental School, voiced the only opinion given at the forum.
Time restrictions on dental students make them unavailable for campus participation. Cole said his first choice was to gear the student fees toward graduate students rather than to choose a student rebate.
Committee members planned to post more flyers last night in an attempt to motivate students to participate in the remaining two meetings, Wednesday and Thursday from 12 to 2 p.m.
The oniy people at the forum were administrators or student committee members who would benefit from an increase in fees. They came to hear student opinion but no one showed.
A few students walked into the room, asked the purpose of the meeting and left. The committee members spent most of the time making jokes and waiting for students who did not arrive.