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University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 26, 1968, VOL. LX„ NO. 47
BURN, BRUINS, BURN—One of several bonfires burned on the Row after the Uclan defeat Saturday. The fire was in front of the Kappa Kappa G^mma sorority house.
Photo by Jamie Baldwin
Faculty turnover more than national average
By ROZ SILVER
USC has a faculty turnover rate of 10.9 total percentage points, some five to six percent above the national average, a study compiled by the' University Senate shows.
The study, released at last Wednesday’s Faculty Senate meeting, also showed that while USC’s turnover rate is 3.28 percentage points higher than Berkeley’s (6.62 percentage points), it is only .9 points higher than the total percentage rates shown in statistics for California state or junior colleges (10.0 percentage points).
The difficulties for making accurate comparisons with such data were pointed out by Dr. Chester Hyman, professor of physiology and chairman of the Faculty Senate.
“The data for USC includes a number of people who have had appointments as instructors and then are offered jobs elsewhere when they get their Ph.Ds, which is part of the natural process,” said Dr. Hyman.
“However,” he said, “it is almost impossible to find out what is included in the compiling of the data for other universities. Whether they are truly comparable or not is open to question, and it is very difficult to explain the differences.
Dr. Hyman also said that the high turnover for assistant professors is due in part to teachers who leave, generally after their third year here, because they feel they may not get tenure when they come up for review.
If a faculty member with tenure leaves it is due to the
possibility of a promotion or a better paying position elsewhere, said Dr. Hyman.
“There is no other private university to compare us with in this table,” said Dr. Hyman. “You need to judge salaries, but this comparative ground is covered by the yearly survey of the American Association of University Professors.”
“However, I think we’re generally competitive on the lower levels,” he said.
The survey presented an analysis of percentages and number losses in various departments, but Dr. Hyman said that they were not too valuable, due to the small size of the departments, which distorts the importance of one man’s departure in the percentages.
Out of 94 teachers who left the university after last semester, 31 indicated that they will have an increase in salary in their new jobs.
Only 41 out of the 94 teachers leaving turned in a response to the questionnaire, which the survey sponsored by the Faculty Interests and Responsibilities Committee, was based upon. It was the fourth such yearly survey taken at the university.
Of the other departing teachers who answered, four indicated that their new salaries were “unknown,” two left that part of the questionnaire unanswered, one teacher’s salary remained the same, and one teacher who answered the questionnaire was retiring.
The average salary increase was $3434.10.
The comparative data concerning the new staff at
USC was not available, but in almost all cases, the Committee believes salary increases occurred.
Another part of the questionnaire asked the teachers to comment on their reasons for leaving.
BOWL TICKETS NOW ON SALE
Students may purchase Rose Bowl tickets today and tomorrow in booths in front of Town and Gown on Child's Way between University Ave. and Figueroa.
Buyers must have their activity books and student
I.D.s The cost of the tickets is $4.
Tomorrow is the last day tickets may be purchased.
Hershey delays grad inductions
By HEIDI FLYNN
In a recent letter to John E. Schulz, law professor, Gustave
O.	Arlt of the Council of Graduate Schools said that Gen. Lewis Hershey had agreed to a delay of graduate inductions until the end of the semester.
Arlt reconstructed Hershey’s words as “I will agree to a postponement of inductions for graduate students who are called into service after the beginning of an academic term to the end of that term, quarter, trimester, or semester, but not beyond that.”
Gary Hale, executive assistant registrar, feels that it is nothing more than a recommendation, while the Selective Service Counseling center regards it as an oral promise by Hershey.
“The local boards are pretty autonomous,” said Hale, “they can do what they want.”
“The whole system is like a favor,” he continued. “A student is under obligation to be drafted at any time. The local
boards will draft anyone they can get to fill their quotas.”
Hale added that several boards already allow grad students to finish the semester.
The Selective Service Counseling center bases its measured optimism on the fact that several graduate students have already had their inductions postponed in accordance with Hershey’s statement.
It stressed the point that this constitutes a postponement only, and that students will definitely have to go into the service upon completion of the semester.
The big factor regarding the draft continues to be the war. Those who were inducted two years ago, during the first big crop of draftees, are now nearing completion of their tours of duty. The Army is faced with the problem of filling their places.
Hale added that the local boards are getting stiffer with undergraduates.
Giragi to speak on 'America’
By LARRY SHEINGOLD
A man who claims that he has had many hecklers toss their worst at him but that he “knows more than a little about properly slugging back,” will speak on “America: Our Country” in Bovard 305 at 1 p.m. today.
Columbus Giragi, independently wealthy president and owner of the Arizona Messenger Printing Company, has said that young people of school age are the hope of the world—if there can still be such hope.
“But when the unwashed, unshaved and unshorn, the protected rioters and other elements so unworthy of our great United States of America are augmented by assassins, it is time to look ourselves over,” Giragi says.
Giragi has a message which he says should be presented to the American people, wherever and whenever possible.
“In every instance when I have spoken,” the lecturer ha said, “I have been accorded the so-called ‘standing ovation.’ The American people, young and old, do cherish our grand nation.”
“All in all,” Giaragi continues, “my past efforts have served in some degree to spark added realism among good Americans that their country has no peer. (They may have also served a trifle in curbing the brainwashes lunacy of the beatniks, the hippies, and the other ‘kooks.’ Damn ’em!)”