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Volume CHI, Number 46	University of Southern California	Thursday, March 19, 1987
PETER ZAKHARY / DAILY TROJAN
Student Community senators Karen Lester and Dan Potter check their notes at Wednesday evening’s student Senate meeting. The senate voted to cut stipends of 13 members.
Senate cuts stipends of several members
President also loses compensation
By Karen Kuettel
Staff Writer
It took three hours of heated discussion for Student Senate to get through its agenda Wednesday evening, but it finally voted to reduce 13 senate stipends, including that of senate President Wally Bobkiewicz.
Additionally, the senate resolved that recommendation of funding for the USC Helpline be forwarded to next year's Allocation Board.
The previous senate bylaws stated that the president would receive a stipend worth the cost of eight units per semester, totalling $5,616 for the academic year. However, last night's proposed stipend change would cut the president's stipend to only five units for a semester, reducing his annual tuition remission to $3,860. When the amendment was on the floor for discussion, Bobkiewicz argued that the senate president deserves not five, but six units in stipends per semester.
"I went from Christmas night to Valentine's Day without a day off," Bobkiewicz said. "I think maybe five units is fine, but six may be better."
However, many senate members vented their opposition, in light of the fact that Bobkiewicz receives about the third highest stipend of all student senate presidents in the nation.
"Basically, our president serves merely as an executive spokesman," said Dan Potter, a community senator. "I feel five units is quite adequate."
Gary Weinberg, a graduate school senator, added that "five units will cut the mustard. . .it seems like enough money for the (Student Senate President) to operate on."
Eventually, the vote was 16 — 5 in favor of giving the president a stipend of five units per semester. There were two abstentions.
Although 11 other stipend changes for senate organizations were agreed upon, three stipend proposals had to be tabled until the next meeting on March 25.
The USC Helpline, a student-run organization that provides counseling over the telephone, was refused funding by the Student Senate executive board in January. Yet, Helpline representatives attended last night's senate meeting and asked for funding to be reconsidered.
"We listen to anxieties and emotional concerns," said Sandy Tarte, a USC Helpline volunteer.
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Exclusion from combat
Role of women in military discussed
By Stephanie Powers
Staff Writer
Judith Stiehm, vice provost and professor of political science, spoke yesterday on the position of women in the military. Her lecture, sponsored by the Office of International Student Advisement, focused on the exclusion of women from American military combat.
"We have a very radical situation here," Stiehm said, explaining that the United States has the highest percentage of women in the military of any country in the world. Women make up 10 percent of U.S. military forces.
"The reason (for this high percentage) is because of two historical things that happened in 1972," Stiehm said. She indicated that the most important contributing factor was the launch of the equal rights movement, which spurred the military to accept a larger number of women into the armed services.
"The military planned, as the military is very good at doing, to take in a larger amount of women and then draw the line," Stiehm said. She also said that if women are not allowed to go into combat, the 10 percent figure is about as "high as the military could go."
"The number of women volunteering was always more than the military would take," Stiehm said.
"Another important force was when the military decided to go 'volunteer7,'' Stiehm said. She explained that the military "needed bodies" and women were willing to fill the military positions.
Stiehm said that because of this influx of women into the military, many changes had to be made.
"Up until that time, if you were an officer, you were a nurse and if you were enlisted, you did clerical work," Stiehm said. After 1972, women became "thoroughly integrated into the service" and men had to learn to work with women in the military.
"Women are taught how to lead women, and men are taught how to lead men," Stiehm said. Men are much more likely to pay for services and use coercive methods
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BIKE-AID
Unlike its predecessors, fund raiser gets student community involved with cross country bike trek
By Valerie Martinez
Staff Writer
It began with Band-Aid — a group of British performers gathering together to create a song which would set a precedent for poverty awareness.
The philanthropy craze caught on in America. The first sign was USA for Africa. The record single, "We are the World" brought in millions of dollars.
Since then, other charity-oriented programs such as Farm-Aid, Amnesty International and Hands Across America have continued on the road toward the goal of feeding the world.
But one program — BIKE-AID — has not been as notorious as the others. The theatrical elite is not sponsoring it. Instead, the scholastic elite is.
BIKE-AID is a cross country bike ride for poverty. The proceeds will be distributed throughout the United States and the Third World to self-help community development projects and student projects and internships.
BIKE-AID is a cross country bike ride for poverty. The proceeds will be distributed. . .to self-help community development projects and student projects and internships.
Mary Kroetch, a BIKE-AID official, stated that "Right off the top, 50 percent of the proceeds go toward a 'matching' fund." This means students would have the opportunity to access monies to raise funds for tuition.
"The student would be asked to raise $3,000 of a $6,000 goal, and would consequently be given the other $3,000 through BIKE-AID," Kroetch stated.
BIKE-AID was bom out of a vision through brothers Kamal and Nazir Ahmad. Coming to America from Bangladesh, they saw a need for "the novice to go in and learn," stated Kroetch.
So they created the Overseas Development Net-
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