Third, final candidate named
Presidential nominations close
By Teresa \\ atanabe
Assistant City fcditor
David P. Gardner, president of the University of Utah, is the third and final candidate for university president, sources have confirmed.
A well-known economist, Gardner. now on sabbatical in England, is scheduled to meet with the presidential search committee Dec. 11. The Board of Trustees is expected to select the new president Dec. 14
Richard Atkinson, director of the National Science Foundation and Thornton Bradshaw, president of the Atlantic Richfield Company, are the other presidential candidates.
Gardner. 46, is considered an innovative scholar with expertise in the new methods and forms of teaching and the extension of learning both on and off campus.
An advocate of academic freedom from governmental interference. Gardner has said that a university "needs the authority to decide who shall teach, what shall be taught and how. who will be admitted to and graduated from an
institution and what research will be done."
Gardner, born in Berkeley. Ca., grew up near the Berkeley campus and “knew well many professors and administrators — they were
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my neighbors and their children, my schoolmates." After earning his undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University in 1955, Gardner returned to Berkeley for his masters and doctorate degrees.
He served as assistant chancellor at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1967-69 and as vice chancellor-executive assistant from 1969-71. For the next two years he served as vice-president of the University of California system at Berkeley.
Called an “excellent administrator” by university sources, Gardner became the 10th president of the University of Utah in 1973 amid strained relations caused by past university indifference to community needs.
Through meeting with and listening to top state legislators and Salt Lake City businessmen, Gardner resolved most major conflicts, according to an article in Time magazine. (July 15. 1974).
Gardner has said a professional goal is to cultivate "respect in which the entire higher education system is held.”
He is a member of the presidential council and the National Association of State Universities and Land-grant Colleges. He and his wife, Libby, have three daughters.
By Susan Pedersen
Staff Writer
The Student Senate has recommended that the Games Committee change current ticket policy so that members of Trojan Knights, Squires and Phrateres will not be given special seats at football games unless their activity calls for it.
These activities would include card stunts where certain seats are necessary to supervise or control the events.
At present, members of these groups get special seating at all home games and are assured seats at the Rose Bowl.
This recommendation would also include assured, but not necessarily select, seating at Rose Bowl and UCLA games.
Instead, members of these groups will receive seating through the lottery. Exceptions will be made when activities like card stunts require special seats, or assured seats at Rose Bow l games.
The Senate complained that preferential seating for these groups blocked off a large group of good seats that would otherwise go to the general student body.
Julie Barr, president of Phrateres, said these service groups deserve the seats because they often arrive early before games to do such services as making signs and putting pom-poms on stadium seats.
Because of these efforts. Barr said, the organizations involved should receive special benefits at football games.
Some senators, including Andy Goodman, felt that such services should be performed as service and should not expect payment.
“I was under the impression that a service organization was supposed to provide the school with services." Goodman said
However, Barr said that these groups probably would not continue their efforts unless they were (Continued on page 14)
Budget forecast shows deficits may increase
By Brandon Bailey
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A five-year forecast of the university's operating budget was presented Tue>da> to a committee of the President's Advisory Council (PAC). A preliminary budget for the next school year (I980-I98I) is expected to be available in the next few weeks.
The forecast shows that if levels of the university's annual income and expenditures are allowed lo increase along assumed trends, the university will encounter increasing budget deficits in the coming years.
Many of the assumptions included in the forecast are based on predictions of inflation rates. Budget officials stressed to the committee that economic authorities are divided on the question of whether inflation will continue to increase in the next year.
Ihe university has never experienced an actual budget deficit. The deficits shown in the forecast are projections of numerous assumed increases. including: tuition hikes based on predicted inflation plus 2.5 percentage points: faculty salary raises equal to predicted inflation rales; and staff salary raises which would reduce by half the difference between average staff salaries at the university and average salaries offered by other Lo> \ngcles employers.
(Reports issued by the university's Office of Institutional Studies have shown that staff salaries at the university lag behind salaries offered on the outside market.)
Officials told the committee that deficits in the forecast show the need for a number of crucial policy decisions this year, as ihe administration prepares a budget proposal for next year.
Committee members pointed out that changes in accounting classifications have resulted in numerical discrepancies in the university's Iasi three financial reports. The committee will request that financial administrators provide a report explaining the changes so that corresponding data from recent financial reports can be examined.
Staff photo by Peter C. Wtulich ATTENTION GRABBER — Balloons were distributed by International Peer Advocates yesterday at Tommy Trojan as they tried to focus attention on their group, which helps foreign students ad ust to life in the United States.
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Volume LXXXVII, Number 53
University ot Southern California
Wednesday, December 5, 1979
Campus women face barriers
By Pat Franklin
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“Education* since the time of Socrates has been a male preserve. Men have run it and women have a long time to overcome the barriers." said Barbara Pearson, university director of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action.
Faculty, students, deans and administrators at the university say the barriers women face here vary all the way from inequitable faculty pay scales tfnd male dominance in upper management positions to personal attitudes women have about themselves and simply being taken seriously.
Statistics show that last fall, for the first time in American history more women than men entered college. Enrollment figures of graduate and undergraduate students at the university show a marked increase in women students.
Since 1968 the number of w omen has increased from 27^ to 36%. As oflasl fall there were 14.679 men and 9.147 women at the university.
Of the full professors who have tenure and have
taught for an average of seven years. 302 are men and 20 women. The total of full, associate and assistant male professors is 82I while women number I25.
According to the Affirmative Action IV79-19HO Facility: Tenure-Track report as of Nov. I. 1979, there were 1.486 male and 270 women faculty in the
This article is the first in a three-part series on the status of women at the university and attitudes about feminism.
professional schools and Schools of Letters. Arts and Science. The statistics refer to “any full time faculty member who has the option of being on tenure.” Pearson said.
From I972 to I979 the number of men in top management positions (president, vice presidents, deans and associate deans) increased from 30 to 56. Seven years ago there were two women in such positions: there a/e now four.
"The process of change in an educational institution is extremely slow." said David Malone, dean of (Continued on page 2)
Groups may lose special seating at football games
HIGH HOPES — Residents of Touton Hall stole ttiis bronze statue Monday night to give it a home in their lobby. They are currently fighting to keep
Staff photo by Steve Hyman
the statute that they took from Physical Plant. (See story on page five.)