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Volume CIV, Number 34
University of Southern California
Tuesday, March 1, 1988
Zumberge speaks to Greeks about enlarging campus
By Christine Carr
Staff Writer
CHRIS FLANAGAN ' DAILY TROJAN
James Zumberge and John Mark, president of Sigma Phi Epsilon, talk before the Zumberge spoke to fraternity and sorority representatives about the university’s — and the students’ — plans and goals.
President James Zumberge told a crowd of Row representatives Monday night that the university plans to expand to the "Figueroa-Flower corridor" east of the Harbor freeway, and north, eventually meeting up with the expanding downtown area.
Zumberge spoke at the Sigma Phi Epsilon House to representatives from every fraternity. He capped the evening with his vision of university expansion that would meet with downtown development.
"It will be like the golden
spike in the railroad when they meet," he said of the university's projected downtown connection.
"It's our gateway right downtown," Zumberge said of the area, which is currently composed of fast food restaurants and used car lots. Expansion will continue north to Adams Boulevard between Vermont Avenue and Figueroa Street as pieces of land can be purchased, he said.
"We're in a community that sees us as an ugly giant just waiting to grab the land where they are living," but expansion will continue "bit by bit," he (Continued on page 5)
University is hiring too few minority professors
By Christine Carr
Staff Writer
More than one-fifth of all university schools and departments fail to meet affirmative action standards in the hiring of minority professors, according to the university's 1987-88 affirmative action report.
The annual report, released in February, mandates that three schools of the university — public administration, education and gerontology — and eight departments do not meet current requirements for hiring black, Asian and Hispanic professors.
Barbara Pearson, director of the affirmative action office, said that "senior faculty promotions and appointments are still overwhelmingly white men." She said her office can only recommend hiring policies, and cannot force departments to comply.
Vernon Broussard, an associate professor at the School of Education, said he
LAS faculty membership					
School	B	A	Al	H	C
Humanities	3	8	2	5	108
Natural Sciences and Mathematics	1	11	0	1	130
Social Sciences & Communications	5	5	0	5	151
Professional schools	9	38	0	5	528
Legend: B = Blacks A = Asians Al = American lndians;H		= Hispanics;C	= Caucasians		
sees a worsening trend for minorities and women. The last eight years have been an "oppressive, racist period for the country and all the institutions in the country."
Broussard is the only black male faculty member in the School of Education. There is also one black female professor who has been at the school for 17 years.
The report breaks down minority hiring statistics for each department, but does not specify what kinds of minorities
should be hired to meet affirmative action standards.
The biggest problem appears to be in the professional schools of education and public administration.
The School of Education and the School of Public Administration do have minority faculty members — the education school has three minority professors out of 50; the administration school has two out of 33. The report indicates that both
schools fall short of affirmative action standards.
The education school must hire three minority faculty members and the School of Public Administration must hire four, according to the university's report.
Broussard, who has been a faculty member for 10 years, said, "I don't see that there has been any apparent efforts to recruit minorities, especially in the School of Education.
"Are we preparing students to become professors? I don't see that happening," he said. Broussard based his comments on statistics from the California Post-Sec-ondary Education Commission, which reports to the California Legislature its statistics on enrollment, number of degrees awarded and levels of faculty hiring.
Broussard pointed out that in 1984-85, the university awarded 239 degrees to blacks, while the degrees awarded to (Continued on page 14)
Feminists debate ‘new problems’ for women in media
By Gale Lance
Staff Writer
Sexuality is less blatant now', and in its blatancy it has been less oppressive of women than 15 years ago, said panelist Robert Shanks^ a television producer.
A handful of women in the audience hissed. Later, when university professor Barrie Thome proclaimed, "That's false," the audience applauded the panelist's remark loudly.
The fourth session of the Women, Men and Media Conference enticingly titled "Sex, Love, Intimacy — Pornography vs. Personhood" drew an estimated crowd of 200.
Monday night's audience was slightly larger than the afternoon sessions', but was smaller than the conference's opening session crowd of 350. Many of them
said they were drawn by moderator Betty Friedan, whose 1963 Feminine Mystique spearheaded the women's movement.
"Women did change their lives, and therefore the lives of men and children, by breaking through that pervasive image of women in the mass media," said Friedan as she opened the conference Sunday afternoon.
"Where are we 25 years after the Feminine Mystique? Is there an attempt to close the doors that were open to women? Can we see in the media a new attempt to send women home again?" Friedan asked Sunday as she explained to the audience of mostly women the conference's purpose.
The three-day conference, developed by Friedan, is being sponsored by the School of Journalism. It is focusing on how the media influences women's roles through advertising, public relations and mainstream
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