Volume XCI Number 68
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University of Southern California
Wednesday April 28, 1982
Recommendation of new trustee likely
By John Lamb
Investigations Editor
The Daily Trojan has learned that Frederick O'Green, chairman and chief operating officer of Litton Industries Inc.. will be recommended as a voting member of the university's Board of Trustees at today’s personnel committee meeting.
The nomination of O'Green, who replaced Charles “Tex” Thornton as Litton’s chairman following the university trustee's Nov. 24 death, was presented by Carl Hartnack, chairman of the Board of Trustees, according to a letter from George Abdo. executive secretary to the board, to Herbert Hazeltine, chairman of the personnel committee.
Litton Industries, a specialist in office machines and navigation systems with revenues totaling over $4 billion, has proven to be a prolific donor to the university: nearly $1.1 million since 1966. including a $750,000 gift for the Norris Cancer Research Institute in 1981.
Officials have mentioned that the university wants to remain close to the generous company, and the election of O'Green as a trustee could be seen as a means of maintaining that relationship.
O’Green moved up in the ranks swiftly after joining Litton in 1962 as general manager of the Guidance and Control Systems division. He became a division president in 1964, corporate vice president in 1965, senior vice president and head of the Defense and Space Systems group in 1966, and executive vice president in 1967.
The trustee candidate was elected as president of Litton in 1972 and assumed additional responsibilities as chief executive officer in 1981.
O’Green is also a director of Security Pacific Corp. and Security Pacific National Bank, the latter of which Hartnack is chairman of the board.
Re-election of trustees
The personnel committee will also attend to the recommended re-election of the one-third of the trustees whose terms expire in June. These include the following: Justin Dart: Ms.
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Parking attendants continue fight for pay raise, sue university
By Eric Onstad
Staff Writer
The two-year struggle by university parking lot attendants to affiliate with the Teamsters Union intensified this month with the filing of a federal lawsuit against the university. Meanwhile, some attendants are hoping for a large pay increase w’hich would make the union unnecessary.
“It’s a disgrace on USC.” Pat Champlin, a Teamster organizer, said commenting on the suit.
The suit is a result of the university’s failure to obey an order by the National Labor Relations Board requiring it to negotiate with the union.
“They've squandered enough on legal defense so far to provide a decent wage for the attendants,” he said angrily. “They (parking attendants) are the bottom of the barrel. They work their asses off, and the university refuses to negotiate with the union that’s been rightfully recognized.”
The university has continued to contest the January 1980 election that recognized the Teamsters as the legal bargaining unit fpr the attendants.
And ever since attendant Lee Kinkaid denounced the union in January of this year, some attendants have made it known
that if the university would grant a “decent” pay increase, a union would not be needed.
With the latest announcement of more legal proceedings, and a July 1 date for announcement of university pay increases, questions about the neccessity of the union have been revived.
“If they would give us a
‘They’ve squandered enough on legal defense so far to provide a decent wage for the attendants.'
$200 increase, most of the attendants would turn their backs on the union,” said one attendant who asked not to be identified.
Another attendent said a $150 pay increase would be “decent."
The only member of the administration who would comment on the situation didn’t hold much hope for a substantial pay increase.
“Any increase would have nothing to do with trying to beat the union,” said Gloria Payne, assistant director of parking operations. “We haven’t even met and talked about the increases yet."
Cnamplin’s charges of deliberate delays could not draw responses from administrators. Both Jon Strauss, senior vice president of Administration, and Anthony Lazzaro, vice president of Business Affairs, referred Daily Trojan queries to other departments. No one agreed to respond.
The assistant to the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board in Los Angeles predicted that there would be plenty of time until a decision is made in the case.
“It will be a very long time, it could be 12 months, it’s hard to say," said Herbert Bungar-ner, who had also read about the recent sanctions put on the football team.
“Sounds like USC is in a lot of trouble these days,” he said with a chuckle.
Champlin also had a comment on the school’s problems.
but he was not amused.
'They're playing games. They're playing games. . it makes me want to puke."
FTC, SCHOOLS SAY YES, BUT RESULTS VAGUE
Preparing for an aptitude test: Is it beneficial?
By Brenda Wong
Staff Writer
Schools that prepare students to take tests such as the SAT. LSAT and MCAT have long boasted of their value to students.
Examination boards disbelieve the schools’ claims and say the schools are not very beneficial to the student. But to their dismay, they find that more and more students are beginning to take such measures to increase their scores.
One study attempted to clear up the long-existing controversy but has only served to confuse the issue, leaving the controversy unsolved.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a report in April, 1981. stating that test coaching was advantageous.
The coaching industry and the College Board, which sponsors the SAT, and the Educational Testing Service (ETS), which produces it. are still disputing the benefits of coaching despite the FTC's report.
The FTC, an organization which monitors deceptive advertising, first began the study when it believed the coaching schools made "inflated claims” of great point increases.
Final Daily Trojan
This is the last edition of the Daily Trojan under the editorship of Steve Padilla The Daily Trojan will resume publication under the editorship of Casey Wian on September 7.
Armed with the FTC report, the test coaching industry is adamant in its belief that coaching for the tests can be profitable for the student.
“The ETS says the SAT is an aptitude test and maintains that it isn't coacha-ble. That’s not strictly so and you can improve your score.” said Walter Bay-less. president of Anthony Schools.
Stanley Kaplan, president of Stanley
H.	Kaplan Educational Center, said his students score two points higher than the average 30 percentile on the MCAT.
The FTC report studied two unnamed coaching schools. One school reported an average gain of 25 points in the English and math sections of the SAT. The other school reported no gains, said Robert Cameron, executive director for research and development with the College Board.
“They (the FTC) ignored the second coaching school in their later pronouncement of the studies,” Cameron said. “They did say in releasing their report, the method of study was flawed because they had no control group. There w’as no way of telling in the results if these effects would have happened at random among a control group.”
Samuel Messick, vice president of research of the ETS in Princeton. New Jersey, agreed with Cameron.
“It was proper to check the background and characteristics of the students (involved in the FTC study.) Parental education and motivation wasn’t measured.
“The gains might not be due to coaching. We don’t know if the effect is due to coaching or the characteristics of the students.” Messick said.
“I just have to wince when I hear that the FTC proved (coaching was effec-
tive),” Cameron said.
He pointed out that studies conducted by the College Board indicate that coaching does not help.
“The evidence that has been compiled has shown consistent results. It has shown average gains of about 10 points in verbal and 15 in mathematics. Those averages are kind of small on a scale of 200 to 800 points," Cameron said.
Rather than go to a coaching school. Cameron and Messick advise students to spend that time educating themselves.
"They are better advised to put that
effort, cramming for the test, into their educational activities.” Cameron said.
Messick agreed.
"The SAT measures developabilitv. These abilities do develop during the high school years. The more you study and work, the more you gain,” Messick said.
They advise students to study the SAT informational booklet that is distributed free to the high schools.
Most test preparation schools familiarize the students with the types of questions asked on the test, but students can do this themselves, Massick said.	(Continued on page 12)
Staff photo by Alexis Ignatieft
MORAL CONVICTION — Fraternity members stand in front of the Kappa Sigma house, which was just convicted of hazin violations. See story on page 2.