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Volume XCI Number 14 University of Southern California Monday, September 21, 1981
Senate to fight tuition rate hikes
Seeking to rally student support
By Charla Foster
Staff Writer
In response to rising tuition costs, this year’s Student Senate will act with more direction and aggressiveness and will call upon students to rally against tuition hikes.
Student Senate chairman Andrew Littlefair said, “We (the Student Senate) believe that tuition can’t go up any higher without some kind of action.
“This year, the major focus of our group will be to implement effective cost -cutting plans and promote student rallies to make the administration aware of our serious intention to fight tuition increases.”
The Senate outlined these new policies during a retreat in Santa Barbara the weekend before school began.
“That weekend, it became clear that tuition was the key issue we needed to address, so we began to formulate game plans to push for no tuition hikes in a more directed and vocal way and, most importantly, in a way that would reach out to the students of this university and get them aware and involved,” Littlefair said.
A much debated issue on campus, tuition reduction
would require the administration to make across-the-board cost cuts by balancing department budgets effectively and possibly eliminating certain schools of education, he explained.
Balancing department budgets would afftct what Littlefair called “full areas” in certain university departments — unnecessary levels of management that deplete department budget revenues.
Patty Minor, vice chair of the Student Senate, said many managing levels of the average university department are simply not needed and add cost and paperwork without serving a useful function in the operating process.
“The administration’s cost of running the university is extremely high now and I think we should look into each department and find areas of improvement,” she said.
Littlefair met with President James H. Zumberge Monday and cited certain departments that are “too top-heavy,” in which reserves were depleted due to an excess of “non-productive” job positions at the higher levels of management.
The elimination aspect of budget balancing would require the administration to
Police book man on suspicion of assault
By Barry Sloan
Staff Writer
The Los Angeles Police Department booked a man on suspicion of assaulting and attempting to rape a female student Friday morning. Formal charges of assault will be filed today at the District Attorney’s office, and the initial rape charge will be dropped.
Sgt. Hermin Aviles of University Security said a radio call was received around 9:30 a.m. Friday from a male witness who said he heard screams emanating from the first-floor women’s restroom in the Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center.
A University Security officer who was patrolling near the intersection of Hoover and Exposition Boulevards responded to the call, arriving at the computer center within 30 seconds, Aviles said.
“Upon entering the first-floor lobby of the building, the officer encountered two males and two females,” the sergeant said.
Immediately, the male witness shouted, “That’s the victim and that’s the suspect,” while pointing out each person, according to Aviles.
The officer took the suspect into custody and questioned him along with the victim and the two witnesses at University Security headquarters.
The victim, described as being in her mid-20s, told Aviles that the suspect, who was between the ages of 25 and 30, came upon her as she opened the bathroom stall door, ordering her to “get back in there.”
The victim screamed, alerting another female student in a nearby stall to join in the yelling and thereby causing the man to flee the scene.
University Security transported the suspect to the Southwest Division of LAPD, where further investigations were held.
Detective Greg Monroe of the Crimes Against Persons and Sex Unit, said the suspect admitted having tried to snatch the woman’s purse off the restroom floor, but denied any charges of trying to rape the student.
Becaase the suspect never touched the woman or tried to tear off her clothing, Monroe said the charges filed by the victim were reduced from rape to assault.
He indicated, however, that were it not for the female witness in the restroom, it was quite possible that a rape would have occurred.
Although police did not have complete background information on the alleged assailant, Monroe noted that the suspect had been arrested on rape charges in the past and had been out of prison for about a year. The detective said police did not know whether the suspect is on parole.
“cut certain chunks of the university,” Littlefair said.
Littlefair said this year’s Student Senate intends to bring together the President’s Advisory Council, faculty and students to let the administration know how serious these factions are about tuition cuts.
“For the first time in the history of the Student Council, we interviewed upwards of 90 students for the President’s Advisory Council because we're really trying to make this year count,” Littlefair said.
This year’s Senate will focus on programs that “reach out to students through weekly meet-. ings and rallies in order to make them aware of where their tuition dollars are spent,” the Senate leader explained.
Littlefair said the Senate’s plan to promote a tuition sit-in next year is tentative, but that the group’s official plans include some ideas that involve rallying numerous meetings to welcome all students.
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Attrition below national trends
By George Aguilar
Staff Writer
University professors are not following the increasing nationwide trend of leaving their positions for higher-paying outside employment. However, the opportunity faculty members have to get these jobs is a problem some university administrators see as inevitable and others are trying to rectify.
Throughout the nation, many universities are having difficulties holding on to qualified faculty members because of higher salaries offered by outside firms. An article in the Sept. 16 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education cites dozens of major universities complaining that they are losing “some of their best people to industry or to other institutions.”
Although the university has lost faculty members due to better job offers, faculty members are not leaving in large numbers.
“I don’t think it is as large a problem as it is made out to be,” says Robert Linnell, director of the Office of Institutional Studies for the University Budget Office. “Education has never paid well. Academia has not lured those who are in it for the money.”
According to rough figures, the faculty turnover rate among assistant and associate professors is around 10 percent. Among full professors, that figure is close to three to five percent. There is no noticeable upward trend in those figures and these do not specify reasons for leaving, so the actual percentage for professors leaving for higher paying jobs is considerably lower.
But among those leaving, salary is a major consideration. Most job offers made to full professors average about $60,000 yearly, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education article. For assistant professors that average is close to S30.000.
For the fall of 1981, the estimated average salary for a full professor at the university is $41,500 a year. For associate professors, it is estimated to average $28,900 yearly. Assistant professors will average an estimated $23,650 a year.
One reason the university has been more successful in keeping its faculty is because in 1980, university professors on the average were the ninth highest paid in the country, sharing that position with UCLA and the University of Chicago. Their average salaries were higher than those of professors at Yale or Princeton universities, or at the University of Michigan.
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Jealousy spurs dating violence
Beatings often pass unreported
By Charla Foster
Staff Writer
A staggering percentage of college students across the nation encounter “some kind of
and, therefore, having a greater chance of getting angry with one another.
A study conducted three years ago by the
violence" while dating, a recent article in	National Institute of Education indicated the
Time magazine stated, and this university	majority of assaults in junior high schools and
may be no exception.	high schools occurred among those students
Although the article excluded this universi-	classified by teachers as "non-troubled.”
ty, Officer Carol Steele of University Security	. . , , ,
, . . , . r . ,	The college phenomenon can be looked at
reported incidents of violence among campus	:r , ,
, , , , , , c |	as an extension of the tension some students
couples who do not always share carefree col-	■ . .. . ,
,	cannot handle in school. Klein said, lege romance.
Steele said occurrences involving physical	Although the article cited jealousy over a
Steele said occurrences involving physical	Although the article cited jealousy over a abuse and even a shooting have been reported	third person in nearly half the violent blow-in the past and have usually included stu-	ups at Arizona State University, it also indidents that were acquainted in some way, with	cated that tension from competitive campuses
the exception	of rape. unbalanced even the most	solid relationships.
“We’ve had —..........The article
reported oc-	'	further report-
currences that	ed that, ac-
invoived not	‘When they came into the Health	cording to only boy-	Center last year, we coded manv cases	Karen Tilbor,
friends and	as brujses but they were often '	assistant dean
girlfriends,	. , -. ,	of Student
but room-	wounds that were inflicted during	Affairs at mates of the	fights between girlfriends and	Princeton
same sex and	bovfriends.’	University,
even students	ambivalence
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The officer added that many more incidents priorities lies at the root	of the violence were probably not reported because students among cortege couples.
‘When they came into the Health Center last year, we coded many cases as bruises, but they were often wounds that were inflicted during fights between girlfriends and boyfriends. ’
want to avoid the embarrassment of involving offenders with whom they are personally involved.
Allan Ebbin, director of the Student Health of college violence.
However, Carlfred Broderick, professor of sociology at this university, cited sexual frustration, alcohol and drugs as the main causes
Center, confirmed reports of violence among college couples on campus.
“In the Hollywood Hills four years ago, a fraternity boy (from this university) ripped off
“When they came into the Health Center his sorority girlfriend's dress and kicked her last year, we coded many cases as bruises, but out of his car when she refused to have sex they were often wounds that were inflicted with him,’' the professor said.
during fights between girlfriends and boyfriends,” Ebbin explained.
“The problem is that many people who
“The boy had been drinking, however, and the girl had to walk back to the university.” Broderick said he could not recall any case
came in with wounds claimed they fell, so	of such violence that had not involved sex,
we’ve had several hundred incidents of acci-	but pointed out that women are not always
dents but only two or three attributed to phys-	the victims and have also attacked men by
ical abuse.”	hitting them, scratching them with their fin-
Malcolm Klein, professor and chairman of	gernails and kicking them in the groin,
sociology, speculated that the high incidence	Broderick, who also counsels married cou-
of violence between well-acquainted students	pies, said drugs and alcohol are highly in-
resulted from spending a lot of time together	(Continued on page 8)