volume Ixv, number 110
Wednesday, april 11, 1973
Daily (m Trojan
university of southern californit los angeles, California
MARTIAL ART—T ai Chi Chuan, which emphasizes concentration, discipline and control instead of force, was demonstrated Tuesday in a self-defense routine as part of the International Festival held in Alumni Park this week. DT Photo by Steve Wright.
International Festival: a cultural exchange
By Sarah Heck
staff writer
The passer-by is greeted by colorful ballons and waving flags. He picks up many different and appetizing smells as his ears try to distinguish between the many different languages spoken and the variety of music filling the air.
If he had been on his way to his room Tuesday afternoon and later to the beach, he should have realized that cutting across Alumni Park would be too much of a distraction. He ends up spending his early afternoon at the International Festival. He samples 13 different types of
food and watches demonstrations of the martial art of Tai Chi Chuan, flower arranging and a. traditional Japanese Tea ceremony.
Today all of USC can expect more festivities. Although the food fair was only a two-day exhibit, other activities will be going on. A cricket match from noon to 2 p.m. on Cromwell Field is scheduled along with an International Night preview at noon near Founders Hall.
International Night will take place in Hancock Auditorium from 7:30 to 10:00 tonight.
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Program Board picks three election officials
By Don La Plante
assistant city editor
Three election commissioners were selected from among eight applicants at a meeting of the Interim Student Programming Board last night.
The commissioners w;ill be in charge of setting up and running the student government election scheduled for May 1 and 2.
The election is being held to determine what form of student government, if any,
will be brought into effect for next year.
So far there are six proposals on the ballot, all placed there by the Student Government Assembly.
The government assembly voted to allow any other proposals to be placed on the ballot by obtaining the signatures of300 students by April 11.
As of Tuesday afternoon no proposals were submitted to the Student Activities Office.
However, the Commuter Students have been circulat-
University Council meets to discuss purpose, goals
By Mary Ann Galante
campus city editor
The University Council, organized to be President John Hubbard’s chief advisory board, met informally Tuesday for the first time.
Hubbard called the meeting to discuss the council’s purpose and its relation to him as an advisory body. Although the council is intended to become the chief link between Hubbard and the university community, Tuesday’s meeting indicates the body may be hampered by the usual red-tape delays.
The council is the result of efforts over the last four years to devise a system of governance for USC. In a memo sent to the university community on Jan. 3, 1973, Hubbard, describing the new council, said, “I shall lean heavily upon it for advice concerning all major campus concern.”
When all its members have been elected the council will include 44 faculty, 20 deans, 19 students, and four staff members. The system is scheduled to go into operation on a trial basis not later
than September of 1973.
At yesterday’s meeting, Hubbard outlined the council’s primary tasks, which are:
•	Formation of the council’s by-laws.
•	Determining what kind of committee system will be implemented. The council will examine the current committee system, modify it and design viable alternatives.
•	Examine the problem of student representation and selection. Gloria Myklebust, elected representative ofthe Division of Student Affairs Division, noted that there are only two undergraduate representatives on the council.
Hubbard also described the council’s most important elements. He said the group is to be the principal advisory group on the USC campus. He also said the group is to be a vehicle of communication, allowing the entire campus to have more access to the implimentation of decisions.
An immediate priority of the University Council is to
select members to an executive committee. The executive committee will be made up of five faculty members, two deans, two students, and one staff representative.
The council cannot set its next meeting date until the executive committee roster is complete.
‘ The executive committee w ill be selected after the Faculty Senate chooses the faculty members at large, which will be on May 9,” said Donald Pyke, coordinator of academic planning.
At yesterday’s meeting, Hubbard asked Milton Kloetzel, academic vice president, and James Appleton. vice president of student affairs, to convene deans, directors, faculty, and student representatives to elect executive committee members.
Once it is formed, the executive committee will prepare the council’s meeting agendas, serve as an advisory group to the president at all times, and present plans for council and committee structure.
Federal government investigates pay inequities of women profs
By Frank O’Donnell
staff writer
A federal investigation is now underway that could force the university to raise salaries for women faculty to the level oftheir male counterparts.
The government is examining salary levels in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and the School of Education, Barbara Shell, director of Equal Employment Opportunity, told a group of faculty women Tuesday.
If a difference between men’s and women’s salaries is found, the government will tell the university to raise women’s pay.
If the university does not comply, the government can file suit under the Equal Pay Act of 1963. This act, amended in July, 1972, requires equal pay for comparable positions. The change would be retroactive from July.
Shell said the investigation, conducted by the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor, will eventually expand to examine all faculty and administrative salaries.
LAS has 100 male full professors with an average salary of$19,784 annually, while nine women are paid an average of $16,550.
Sixty male associate professors earn an average of $14,967 while their 13 female counterparts earn an average of $13,216.
The School of Education has 21 male full professors with an average salary of $18,593, but has no women. Fifteen male associate professors earn an average of $14,052 while three women earn an average of $12,700.
Shell said Rich Vinyard, a federal compliance officer, now has copies ofthe university’s salary contracts for LAS and the School of Education, and that his findings will be based on them.
Vinyard was not available for comment. Shell wouldn’t speculate on how long the investigation would take or what its results might be.
She said, however, that she expected the university to comply with the government's
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STICKS AND STONES—"Inhuman Garrotte" is the title of the near-completed sculpture by Gary Lloyd. The sculpture is a "biological statement on nature's suffering," said its author. The work of art is only
85% completed. It was financed by the Semester of the Arts as publicity for the program. The sculpture will remain on campus for one week. DT photo by Gehrig Ikeda.