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Volume XCVII, Number 58	University of Southern California	Wednesday, November 28, 1984
Former Olympics planner named as new director of physical plant operations
By Albert Pang
Staff Writer
Duane Hickling, former executive director of the university's Olympics Planning Office, has been named director of physical plant operations by Arnold Shafer, executive director of facilities and management.
"I chose him from a number of applicants," Shafer said, "because of his demonstrative background (during the Olympics) and his well-organized capability in doing different projects at one time."
Hickling was put in charge of physical plant effective Nov. 1. Hickling supervises campus maintenance from electricity to landscaping and has the same responsibility as a landlord of the campus, Shafer added.
"He has the definite communicative skills that the job requires and he's an excellent applicant."
He succeeds Harry Kyne, who died last spring. Before Hickling came here, he was an administrator of rowing training camps for the United States Olympic Committee.
After working three years to bring the Olympic Village to the northern part of the campus, Hicking said, it is really challenging to accept the post and serve the university again.
"The university is a living organism and a vibrant place. A whole staff of folks (at the physical plant) are working hard," he said. "My position is to give administrative support and help it to continue its operation in a very fast pace."
Anthony Lazzaro, vice president for business affairs, said he was "happy to see him appointed."
"It's an appropriate recognition of his efforts in dealing with all of the departments affected during the Olympics," Lazzaro said.
Planning the Olympic Village, Hickling said, was a truly unique experience in easing the tremendous impact of many departments and schools.
"With their cooperation and a good sense of humor from people who were involved in it," he said, "it was gratifying. . .to see the whole activities put into gear.r.
"It's a fine opportunity to serve the university and use the expertise and knowledge in working with a lot of departments," he said, "It's as exciting as the first day of school."
Women gaining prestige in job market, panel says
By Azniv Ketenchian
Staff Writer
Some jobs are still delegated to women, although many new opportunities have opened up for women on professional and executive levels, and most working women can manage a career and a family, two researchers said in a seminar Monday.
Mary Ann Von Glinow, associate professor of management and behavior, speaking at the seminar, "Issues Facing Executive Women," talked about percentage increases and decreases of women in professional, as well as non-professional, fields.
From 1970 to 1980, the number of women employees in prestigious fields such as architecture, law and engineering, has doubled. The proportion of women graduating from law school has increased from 5 to 30 percent, Von Glinow said.
She said the proportion of women attorneys has risen from 5 to 14 percent and female judges from 6 to 17 percent.
However, 98 percent of secretarial positions are still held by women. Seventy-five percent of elementary school teachers, supermarket cashiers, bookkeepers, bank tellers, nurses and waitresses are women as well.
Fewer than 50 percent of working women are hired as managers in health related fields, less than 47 percent work as personnel and labor relation specialists, and under 10 percent are truck drivers, auto mechanics, farmers, construction
workers, welders, carpenters, machinists and electricians, she said.
Peggy Roskoph Rose, a second year MBA student, said it is very difficult for successful women to balance work and family, "because there are a lot of women who are operating within a system which is operated for men by men."
But in a survey she conducted, she was surprised to find that 95 percent of all women interviewed were still married and 97 percent had children. The average age of these women with children was 40. This finding also surprised the audience.
"Triple-career women are able to balance their affairs because their husbands are very supportive," Rose said. "The rule that the wife is supposed to tend to the child when in need does not hold true, because for many of these successful couples, the spouse which has time tends to these affairs.
"I learned from those women and my own experiences that flexibility and planning are the key points to a successful marriage," Rose added.
Rose said, "to maintain a balanced lifestyle, women should concentrate on work when at work and devote themselves to their family when they step out of that office."
Von Glinow said that although one out of every three executive, administrative and managerial positions are held by women, "the tremendous wage (Continued on page 10)
Noose hung in BSU office; caller says it’s ‘education’
MIKE MELSON/DAILY TROJAN
This noose, along with the note (which reads ‘Ronald Reagan & KKK. Wake up Nigger’s or you are all thru) were found in the office of the Black Student Union Monday evening.
By Stephen Lawson
Assistant News Editor
A man identifying himself as a black student from another university has taken credit for hanging a noose in the Black Student Union office Monday night with a note attached reading "Wake up, Nigger's, or you are all thru (sic)."
BSU President Bernard Walker said the union received an anonymous telephone call early Tuesday afternoon from a man who said he studies on campus occasionally and hung the noose "as a form of political education.
to motivate the BSU to positive action."
At the top of the note, the perpetrator wrote "Ronald Reagan & KKK."
Walker said he left his office in the Student Union building at 7:30 p.m. Monday, leaving the door unlocked for students who use the office for studying.
Darin Gray, a member of the BSU, said he found the noose and note when he walked into the office at about 9 p.m. and called University Security.
Senior Officer Dexter Thomas of University Security said offi-
cers responded to the call, photographed the office and collected the noose, the note and a pen as evidence.
Walker said Tuesday evening he had not yet reported to security the anonymous call, since he was waiting to see if there would be another call.
Tuesday morning, Thomas said an officer would investigate the incident further, to determine why such an event took place. But, he added, it is unlikely a suspect will be criminally prosecuted.
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Mortar Board presents teaching award
By Carol Ann Coates
Staff Writer
Barbara Herman, associate professor of philosophy, was presented the Mortar Board Outstanding Teaching Award Tuesday as she was teaching a Thematic Option class in the Annenberg School of Communications.
After receiving the award, Herman said, jokingly,"I'm glad you're giving me something because I was just about to kick you out of the classroom."
The Mortar Board members, dressed in traditional black gowns, surprised Herman when they ceremoniously walked into her class and presented her with a certificate and flowers.
"It's a good thing no one warned me because I wouldn't have let it," she said.
"Too often university awards are given on the basis of administrative talents, lists of publications or just being able to look scholarly," read Bret Fausett, a Mortar Board member, from a prepared statement.
He said, "The abstract ideas of philosophy and ethics are often difficult to students, yet Professor Herman has made them dear and apparent.
"Her continued work with the Thematic Option program, and
thought it was fun because they are accustomed to an interactive class that is not merely lecture.
Besides the award, Herman gets to choose a book that Mortar Board will bind in leather. Herman said she had no idea what book she will choose but it "would have to be a book in philosophy."
Herman likes books and has thousands, but said "I especially liked the flowers."
The award given by students is very meaningful because "it is the students who suffer with you."
"It is a great compliment," she said.
Herman said, "It is the possibility of teaching in a program like Thematic Option that makes you feel that teaching is an exciting thing to do."
The honor society nominates, discusses and decides which professor will receive its monthly award on the basis of the professor's presentation, clarity and the respect he receives from his students.
Ben Balough, Mortar Board president, said "recognition is so rare" and that the award is one of the few honors given by students to recognize teaching excellence.
her readiness and availability to meet and discuss with students have made her shine among the elite of USC's faculty."
Fausett praised Herman for "the dearness of her lectures and her ability to facilitate thought-providing discussions."
BARBARA HERMAN
When the Mortar Board members first entered the room, Herman said, she thought it was possibly just another event staged for a communications experiment because the classroom is in a very bizarre building.
Herman said her students enjoyed the presentation and