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Volume XCI Number 46	University of Southern California	Friday March 19, 1982
I	Staff Photo by Joe Fives
HIGH AND DRY — Gargoyles aren't the only odd things clinging to walls on campus. A bicycle hangs from Bovard Auditorium — apparently to escape Thursday's rain.
Group speaks out against violence toward women in films, media ads
By Yolanda Austin
Staff Writer
Calvin Klein jeans. By sporting a pair of these popular denims, the fashion conscious student may be promoting more than a designer's name.
Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW), a Los Angeles-based feminist group dedicated to abolishing advertising which demeans women, presented a slide show Wednesday to illustrate how advertisers place women in sexual and violent roles in order to seH products.
The Calvin Klein ads, which feature 16-year-old actress Brooke Shields proudly saying that “nothing gets between me and my Calvins,” drew some of the speakers’ ire.
Fran Goldfarb. a WAVAW speaker said. “I refuse to buy Calvin Klein jeans because they use child pornography in advertising. Brooke Shields is a victim, a child exploited by adult advertisers.”
Goldfarb told the audience in the Davidson Conference Center auditorium that advertisers portray women and girls as sexual aggressors and teasers who provoke rapists. This type of advertising is not only used to sell albums, magazines and films, but also floor tiles, shoes, barstools and more.
The film Beau Pere is billed as “a sexy, sophisticated comedy,” involving the incestual relationship of a stepfather
and daughter and suggests that the girl is the aggressor, Goldfarb said.
WAVAW also fought other films they . judged offensive to women: Snuff, a 1976 film depicting a woman’s brutal murder, and Tattoo, a more recent, un-sucessful movie criticized for billboard ads depicting an apparently dead woman’s tattooed figure bound at the ankles.
WAVAW successfully prevented Snuff, which was to be shown in family theaters, from playing in Los Angeles. The Tattoo billboards were taken down.
Joyce Wolfe, another WAVAW speaker said. "We don’t advocate censorship, property destruction, or graffiti (on advertisements), but we advocate social responsibility and sensitivity to the needs and wants of 50 percent of the population, which happen to be women.”
Wolfe said WAVAW does not take a position against pornography itself, because it is commercials and advertising that the general public is bombarded with.
Album covers obviously degrading to women were featured in the slides.
One cover, entitled “'Virgin Killer,” pictured the mutilated genitals of a very young nude girl.
Another album, entitled “Ain’t That a Bitch,” showed two women wearing dog collars and chains, lying at the feet (Continued on page 5)
Employees consider shift from Social Security plan
By Christopher Murray
Staff Wrster
Several factions of the university have recently considered withdrawing from the Social Security system and replacing it with a private pension and health plan.
The Staff Assembly, a 60-member group that represents all non-faculty employees of the university, and the Faculty Senate have considered changing programs.
Only certain tax-exempt institutions are allowed to withdraw from the Social Security program, and the university. as a private educational institute, qualifies as one of those institutions.
To withdraw from the Social Security program, the university must file a letter of intent with the federal government. This gives the university two years to decide whether or not to-leave the system.
“The decision has been made not to file the letter of intent until a study of the alternatives to Social Security has been completed,” said Jack Arnold, secretary' of the Staff Assembly.
Alan Rowe, chairman of the Faculty Environment Committee, said “The status of the Social Security issue is: We have reviewed it, discussed it and made a recommendation. We have not made an in-depth study on what problems may arise from withdrawing from the Social Security system.
“Basically our committee, for the
time being, has voted to back the decision of the President's Advisory Committee on insurance and benefits which voted no letter of intent to withdraw be submitted to Social Security without certain steps being taken,” Rowe added.
The Staff Assembly unanimously passed a resolution which outlined three conditions to be met before it would endorse leaving the Social Security program.
The conditions the assembly asked for were:
—	A statement clarifying the motives for initiating the withdrawal.
—	A university commitment to provide comparable or enhanced retirement and other benefits through an alternate plan.
—	A timetable establishing a plan of action for the two-year period after the letter of intent has been filed.
Rowe stressed that the senate’s filing of a letter of intent does not mean that the university will drop the Social Security system, but it merely gives it two years in which to make its decision.
Arnold said the Staff Assembly proposed to send its letter immediately instead of waiting to review the alternatives because the government may soon pass legislation making it impossible to withdraw from the Social Security system.
“This way we leave all our options open,”he said.
URGED TO LIVE IN COMMUNITY
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Faculty housing examine
By Alan Grossman
Staff Writer
The University/Neighborhood Relations Commission focused on getting more faculty members to live in the community and helping the Central Park Five Council decrease the number of local liquor establishments at its monthly meeting Wednesday.
James Bates, head of the Main Street Homeowners Association, said “the community will improve and financial institutions would be more willing to lend money to people if more faculty members lived here.”
Bates explained. “Those places would have to take into context that faculty members live here, just as they now look at the number of men hanging around liquor stores.”
He proposed a resolution commending commission chairman Dallas Willard for buying a home and residing in the neighborhood.
“If more faculty members lived in the community, it would be a better community.” Bates said.
Abie Robinson, representative for state Sen. Bill Greene (D-29th District), said the news about Willard could “motivate other professionals into moving to the community."
Robert Biller, dean of public administration, sat in for Willard who was out of town, and ad libbed a letter to President James H. Zumberge praising Willard fof settling on Menlo Avenue.
“We would like to take the opportunity in our chairman's absence to note that professor Dallas Willard has bought his family home in this neighborhood. We think our chairman's example is a particularly fine one,” Biller said, adding that Willard would never allow the honor to be bestowed upon him.
“We take this time to commend professor Willard and the small number of other faculty members who have taken this step. It is an important step."
Jameson Florence, chairman of the Central Park Five Council committee trying to eliminate some of the area liquor establishments, stepped up to the front of the meeting room with a map detailing the number of stores and bars in the area, and said "Help: we need it.”
He explained that his group felt the problem should also concern the university because “students can be victims of drunks just as easily as community residents.
“Your life is at stake, my life is at stake," Florence said.
He said the university could use “its power and influence” to get the number of liquor licenses in the community significantly reduced
He said that action had to be taken soon, because there are people “willing to go to jail” to close liquor stores.
“Mothers and grandmothers, fathers and grandfathers are getting sick and tired of these places and the criminal elements they attract, and will take two-by-fours and nails and nail up these joints,” he said.
Bates said that this was the perfect opportunity to deter crime, pointing out
that the time to notice crime is before it happens.
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