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Volume XCVIII, Number 64
University of Southern California
Monday, April 22, 1985
Call for free South Africa
Anti-apartheid protest planned by coalition of student leaders
By Carol Ann Coates
Assistant City Editor
To show that not all USC students are apathetic, a coalition of concerned student leaders has organized a protest to be held Wednesday on the steps of the Bovard Administration building, as part of a nationwide movement on college campuses protesting apartheid in South Africa.
USC students will join those at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA and other universities on Wednesday, April 24
—	the date chosen by the national Free South Africa movement — to demonstrate that apartheid is an issue that transcends color or class, said Bernard Walker, president of the Black Student Union.
"The emphasis is on the human issue," Walker said.
The protest at USC is not being sponsored by any one particular group, but is being organized by concerned students from various organizations for university students who want to do something about the issue of apartheid, stressed members of the newly-formed coalition.
The group is not asking for
divestment to obtain civil rights, but if divestiture will free South Africa, then the group is in support of it, said Mark Decker, a member of the coalition.
"It is a moralistic issue/' Decker said.
The protest will be held Wednesday on the steps of the Bovard
Administration building. . .
Featured speakers on Wednesday at the USC protest are Howard Manning, an entertainment lawyer and member of the Board of Directors of TransAfrica, the natonal antiapartheid lobby; Jackie Goldberg, a Los Angeles Board of Education member; and Rick Ruiz, a representative from Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy's office.
In conjunction with the student protest, Gerald Bender, associate professor of international relations and a member
of the university's commission on South Africa, will organize a faculty teach-in to educate the students about the situation in South Africa.
The Student Senate discussed the possibility of raising student awareness of apartheid, but decided against co-sponsoring the protest, said Pauline Ng, senate president.
The senate will use other channels and will abide by the recommendations of the Commission on University Investments in Companies Doing Business in South Africa — established in March to review the university's holdings in South Africa, Ng said.
In addition to the protest, a petition is being circulated among students and faculty, by the BSU and Mike Maggio, an adviser with the American Language Institute, Walker said.
The BSU has only collected 50 signatures since April 8, but will be pushing to get more signatures this week by setting up tables in front of Tommy Trojan and distributing copies to leaders of student organizations.
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Committee increases tuition by 9.4 percent
By Jennifer Cray
Assistant City Editor
The finance committee of the Board of Trustees has approved the university budget, which includes plans for a 9.4 percent tuition increase and a new, decentralized method of allocating faculty and staff salary increases for the 1985-86 academic year.
The flat rate for 12-18 units for undergraduate students will increase to $9,436 from $8,625 a year. The per unit cost will rise to $319 from $292. The student health fee will increase 5 percent to $146 per year, and the student government fee will not change.
Counteracting these changes are no increases in food rates, with room rates rising only 2 percent.
Thus, the overall rate of increase for tuition, fees, and room and board will be 6.8 percent, the smallest percentage in several years, said John Curry, executive director of the university budget.
Another significant component of the budget includes the abolishment of specific salary increase pools for faculty and staff. In previous years, departments and schools have been budgeted for across-the-board salary increases.
This year, each administrative and academic unit will receive different percentages of their salary budgets for pay raises, according to the individual needs of the department. Factors the university will take into account in deciding how much each department will receive include outside competition in the labor market and salary inequalities within the university.
For example, the School of Engineering has to compete with firms such as TRW, Lockheed, Rockwell International, and Hughes Aircraft for highly-paid professionals to come to the university. The school would need to have enough money added to its own budget to bring faculty salaries closer to the kind of wages it would have to offer to professionals to bring them to the university.
The university also wants to address the issue of internal competition among its own staff, Curry said. Currently one Grade 5 secretarv could be making significantly more money than another Grade 5 secretary in another department, and the university would like to eventually eliminate those differences, he said.
Cornelius Pings, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, said in a memorandum to academic vice presidents, deans and directors, "We explicitly wish to avoid the notion of a uniform salary 'pool' this year.
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Stanford rallies against Playboy photographer on campus
By Dina Heredia
Staff Writer
Playboy is at the center of controversy again — this week at Stanford University, where the presence of the magazine's photographer has resulted in picketing and rallying, and the creation of a campus coalition against pornography.
The backlash against Playboy on the Stanford campus, coming in the wake of interviews for the magazine's "Girls of the Pac-10" issue, has resulted in the creation of the Stanford Students Opposed to Pornography (STOP), a rally of 350 people, pickets of about 20 people at the photographer's hotel and the
circulation of petitions against Playboy's presence in the community.
Benjamin Austin, a member, of STOP, said his organization and others began protesting against Playboy's efforts in the Stanford area since last Tuesday, April 16, and have continued to demonstrate their
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Chaos came to 28th St. Friday, after a member of the Kapppa Sigma fraternity drove his father's Mer-cedes-Benz across the lawn of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and then onto the lawn of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority where it hit a post. Damage to the car was minimal; the driver hit his chin on the dashboard.
opposition to the magazine's presence in the area.
Austin said about 350 people turned up at a rally staged at Stanford's White Plaza on Tuesday, the day the photographer arrived.
David Chan, the Playboy photographer, came to this university to interview female models for the Playboy collegiate issue last month. However, the Playboy representative's efforts to recruit students at this university did not create the level of controversy that is now found at Stanford.
Another STOP member, Vanessa Porter, said groups of "two dozen" people had been protesting everyday since Wednesday, outside the Holiday Inn in Palo Alto, the hotel
where Chan has been staying.
Petitions have also been circulated among the Stanford community. According to Jennifer Grant, another STOP member, about 1,400 people have signed a petition demanding that the Stanford name not be associated with the adult magazine.
She also said the organization has been sending letters to the 75 hotels in the area asking them to make a stand against Playboy coming to the area.
Austin said his organization "feels that pornography as an industry leads to the continual objectification of women in society and, thus, leads to the crimes of rape and violence against women."
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1985 Songfest Winners
Sweepstakes: Delta Delta Delta / Phi Kappa Psi, "Let the Music PLay Against All Oz"
First Runner-up: Gamma Phi Beta / Alpha Tau Omega, "Let the Music Play on Our Wedding Day"
Second Runner-up: Kappa Kappa Gamma / Phi Delta Theta, "Let the Music Play in 1929"
Third Runner-up: Chi Omega / Theta Xi, "Let the Music Play on the Cruise"
Best Costumes: Delta Delta Delta / Phi Kappa Psi, "Let the Music PLay Against All Oz"
Best Sets: Alpha Phi / Phi Gamma Delta, "Let the MTV Play" John Scott Trotter Outstanding Director Award: Dan Vasquez, Alpha Chi Omega / Sigma Pi, "Let the Music Play All Night Long in 2001"
Most Enthusiastic: Marks Hall / Trustees Scholars, "Let the Music Play on the Freeway"
Outstanding Committee Member: Steve Roy