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Volume LXXXVIII, Number 38	University of Southern California	Friday, March 28 1980
Staff photo by Michad Yada
HER OWN PLACE BY THE MOUNTAIN — Beth McElwee, a junior, rests comfortably against a rock near Norris Cinema. Campus activity will let up as Easter vacation begins tomorrow.
Hubbard disbands centennial panel
By Kathy McDonald
Staff Writer
President John R. Hubbard disbanded the Centennial Steering Commmittee, the group that has been planning the university's 100th birthday party, because the university cannot afford the original $800,000 budget approved by the Board of Trustees last July.
"I can't ask you to spend any more of your time on something that can't materialize," Hubbard told the committee Thursday.
"We will celebrate (the anniversary) as best we can with our modest means. It will be a bare bones celebration," he said.
"The simple fact is we don't have $800,000, given the enormous fiscal pressures we are under now and will be in the future. Even if we had the money, I don't think it would be appropriate."
Hubbard estimated that the university has about $50,000 for the birthday celebration, but that figure has not been approved yet.
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Rights of Third World women often uncertain
By Natalie Perlin
Staff Writer
The major barriers to the advancement of women in developing countries are the attitudes of men, said Perdita Huston, a Peace Corps Director for North Africa, Near East Asia and the Pacific.
Huston was one of a panel of four women at the Student Activities Center Thursday who discussed women's roles in international development, noting that the men in these countries do not listen to women and are not aware of the changes that are taking place in the world.
Huston has travelled to several countries, including Egypt and Mexico, to learn how women feel about their lives and roles in society. Huston said that many changes have taken place in developing nations that have had a detrimental effect on women and the family unit.
"One problem is that there is less land because of population growth," Huston said. "Consequently, there is less food because there is less land. This means people are not eating as well in these countries.
“Alcoholism is also a major problem. And, of coarse, the alcohol problem leads to wife beating."
Huston also found that a lot of women in Third World countries have negative feelings about improvements in transportation and roads.
"The buses are nice," Huston said, "but you need money to ride them and most of those women don't have the means to earn any (money)."
In addition, jobs are often scarce in small villages, forcing the men to migrate to other communities, Huston said. For this reason, many women do not like the creation of new roads because they "only take our men away," she said.
In adddition, women in Third World countries do not know they have rights, Huston said. "Few are allowed to choose their husbands and they have no voice in family matters. They are bought and sold like cattle."
Huston said that many women in underdeveloped countries receive societal pressure to have children every year against their will. If they did not bear this many children the villagers would laugh at their husbands for not being virile, she said.
Another problem for women in underdeveloped countries relates to their children's education. Although the women want their children to be educated, they are left behind when the children go to school. "They feel the children won't respect them as much after they have been to school."
Hanna Papanek, a Boston University sociologist, said that most people in the United States do not understand their role in the development of Third World countries.
"We must understand our role in the rest of the world. It's your tax dollars and U.S. agencies that are used (in development programs), and our future depends on how well you as individuals participate in these decisions,*' she said.
Papanek also said she does not like the term "Third World" because it implies a contest between the women of western and underdeveloped countries.
The differences between Western women and those in Third World countries are never really addressed, she said, and although there are similarities shared by all women, all women do not have the same interests.
PROPOSALS REQUESTED
Panel to review athletic scandal
Football Coach John Robinson and the athletic commission met Thursday with a committee recently appointed by President John R. Hubbard to investigate academic advisement and handling of athletes.
"President Hubbard would like us to have a complete report and some proposals made by May 1," said Joseph Kertes, assistant dean of Student Affairs for the division of social sciences and chairman of the committee.
It was a closed meeting.
"We spoke at our first meeting about allowing a Daily Trojan reporter into the meetings. We decided that because some of the media, like national television, has misconstrued this issue, we don't yet feel prepared to talk to the media," Kertes said.
The committee wants to "lay low" until a more complete report and some solution proposals are made, he said.
"Some of the proposals we make may very well affect students other than athletes," Kertes said.
The committee has met with Richard Perry, di-
rector of athletics, and representatives from the Learning Skills Development Center,'which tutors many athletes.
The center helps athletes improve in study skill areas such as note taking, studying for tests, and writing essays.
The "carefully selected" committee has about 12 members and is composed of athletes, students, faculty and staff, Kertes said.
The committee was formed to look into the recent athletic scandal which began with the charge that several athletes were slated to receive credit for speech communications classes they had not attended.
Billy Mullins, a world-class sprinter on the university track team, received credit for 28 units taken at four junior colleges to become eligible for the university's 1978 track team. This feat also became questionable in light of the fact that the colleges were located a great distance from each other.
The NCAA and the Pac-10 consequently began investigating the university.
Maintenance budget cut 3.5%
Major repairs to be delayed
By Roger Gray
Staff Wnter
As part of the university's budget tightening process for next year, maintenance services will be cut back and major repairs delayed, said Arnold Shafer, executive director of university facilities, Friday.
Strapped by a 3.5% budget cut in the second half of this fiscal year, the Physical Plant has been handed a 3.5% budget cut for next fiscal year as well.
As a result, the department will be forced to add substantially to the $8 million in deferred maintenance already on its books, as well as lower maintenance and cleaning standards and cutback on employees, Shafer said.
Faculty and staff offices will be cleaned less often and minor repairs which do not pose health or safety problem will be put off indefinitely. No employees will be fired or laid -off, but no new workers will be
hired to replace those who leave, he said.
Maintenance cuts will not affect the classroom, however. "We want to put our best foot forward there," Shafer said.
Deferment of major maintenance projects will be the key to saving money, he said.
If a building needs a new roof or a coat of paint, the work may have to be put off for a year or two, Shafer said.
Deferring maintenance projects quickly removes major expenses from the university budget. But eventually the projects must be completed, often at more than the original expense.
Contracting for maintenance and repairs with outside business has been suggested as a money-saving move for the Physical Plant.
The university already contracts for $1 million in services which are beyond the Physical Plant's capabilities, but ''we pay premium prices," Shafer said.
Outside firms pay their employees a much greater hourly wage than the university, and they make a profit on that as well, he said.
The building trades — carpenters, electricians, plumbers
—	are "not a bit competitive," Shafer said.
Janitorial services are more competitive, but "for years we have been convinced we can do it cheaper ourselves," he said.
Currently four buildings on campus — Waite Phillips, Hoffman Hall, Bridge Hall and Denny Research — have experimental contract janitorial services.
Shafer said he has not decided if the contract service is better than could be provided by the university.
"Its about the same at this point," he said.
"The advantage of our own people is they take more pride in their work, and they will do things contractors do not like to
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