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Volume CVI, Number 30
University of Southern California
Wednesday, February 24, 1988
Women professors grossly underpaid, report determines
By Christine Carr
Staff Writer
Female faculty and staff are reportedly being paid considerably less than male employees in similiar positions at the university, and constitute only 16 percent of faculty members.
According to the 1987-88 Employee Compensation Report, released Feb. 15 by the Office of Budget and Planning, male professors earn an average of $20,000 a year more than female professors. The ratio between male professors and female professors is 10-to-l.
Women staff members fare somewhat better than faculty
members. Although staff salaries average S7,000 more for men, raises for women currently exceed those for men on almost every grade level.
Women faculty members are heavily outnumbered on campus, 986 men to 183 women. Women constitute only nine percent of the faculty at the full professor level, 15 percent at the associate level, and 26 percent at the assistant level — far below affirmative action standards, university officials acknowledged.
The university must hire 40 more women before meeting its own affirmative action goal, ac-(Continued on page 13)
1987-88 salary data for full-time instructional faculty
(excluding clinical departments in medicine)
	HEN		WOMEN		ALL	
Academic	No. of	Average	No. of	Average	No. of	Average
Rank	Faculty	Salary	Faculty	Salary	Faculty	Salary
Professor	400	62,071	40	42,235	440	61,177
Associate	369	43,744	66	40,325	435	43,225
Ass istant	217	37, 117	77	32,939	294	36,023
Total	986	49,721	183	39,820	1, 169	48,171
Source: Office of Budget and Planning
University price hikes may force Professors’ opinion student budgets above $20,000
By Yumi Wilson
Staff Writer
University costs next year are expected to increase by as much as 8.5 percent, a hike that could push student budgets over the 520,000 mark for the first time, an official in the Office of Budget and Planning confirmed Tuesday.
John Curry, vice president of the Office of Budget and Planning, explained that the problem of increasing university costs is complex. Several reasons for the hike include inflation, salary increases, compensation for staff and faculty, new buildings and new operating costs, he said.
"There are certain forces and new forces to add to the increase," he said. "We'll see some new buildings, thus operating costs will have to be added." Curry said he could not explain the price increase in detail until late March.
Several students, however, said they think the university's price tag is too high and believe the additional hike is "ridiculous."
"I think it's going to hurt the university in the long run," said Jimmie Joe, a senior majoring in accounting. "With more UC campuses expected to open up, 'SC will have a heck of a problem trying to attract the top students, especially from California.
"I think it's ridiculous, it's just not worth it," Joe said. "I can't see why the university has to go up year after year compared to other universities. I know that Stanford is not as high."
Another student believes the hike will affect those students who do not receive financial aid. "A lot of people don't get financial aid, but their parents can't afford it," said Geoffrey Jacks, a freshman majoring in international business. "For
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U.S. foreign policy promotes terrorism
By Kevin Ota
Staff Writer
While nine Americans continue to be held hostage in the Middle East, two university professors contend that acts of terrorism will continue until U.S. policy-makers confront the underlying causes — their own confrontational foreign policies.
Richard Dekmejian, chairman of the university's political science department and a former consultant to the U.S. State Department on Middle East affairs, said terrorism is simply a reaction to U.S. foreign policy.
'Terrorism does not happen in a vacuum. It is a response to something," he said. "Our record in the Middle East is such that we evoke terrorist responses.
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State’s largest crime prevention fair arrives today
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer
Students can arm themselves with knowledge today by attending the university's Crime Prevention Fair on a one-block stretch of Trousdale Parkway, where representatives from 20 law enforcement agencies will demonstrate crime-fighting equipment and tactics.
The ev^nt, co-sponsored by University Security and Student Senate, "is the biggest crime prevention fair in the state of California," said Terry Riley, crime prevention coordinator of security. Its purpose is "to inform students, staff and faculty on how to protect themselves."
Thirty crime prevention booths will line Trousdale from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. "Each booth will have information on all different types of crime you want to know about," Riley said.
"We're going to try to educate people on any type of crimes that could be prevented by common sense," Riley said, adding that rape and car burglary preven-
tion would be stressed the most.
The Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department will each display a helicopter, Riley said. "You see them flying around all the time, and you might want to know what they're doing."
Officers will answer questions about the helicopters, but students will not be allowed in them, he said.
In addition to providing crime prevention information and displays, the law enforcement agencies will recruit new members from the student population, he said.
A police bomb squad will showcase a special robot that is used to defuse explosives, said Alison Smith, the student senator who organized the event.
Other booths will sell security products including bulletproof glass and home and car alarms, Smith said.
Other displays will include police canine and horseback units, Riley said, adding that the SWAT teams will provide a weapons display.
This is the third consecutive year that the senate and
security have organized the event, and Riley expects* this year's fair to be the most successful. "Last year there were anywhere from 8,000 to 10,000 people there. I expect it to be double that," he said.
Smith agreed that this year's fair will draw a bigger crowd. One of the reasons, she said, is that the security products, such as car alarms, will actually be sold on the spot, rather than just displayed as in past years.
"I hope the fair will continue to be a tradition, because living in the area we live in, university students need to be educated," she added.
The fair will include two live bands. The Santa Ana Police Department band will play in half-hour segments at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., Riley said, adding that the band would play "any kind of music you'd want to hear."
"Incognito," a senate-sponsored band, will play from noon to 1 p.m.
Riley said there will be a dunk tank in front of Tommy Trojan, where students can sink Song Girls, yell
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