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Volume LXVI, Number 14
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, October 4, 1973
Plan Offered for Prof Grievance Negotiations
BV !>0B EVANS
Staff Writer
A plan that would give the faculty the right to negotiate grievances has been proposed by William J. Williams, president of the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
The key feature of Williams' proposal is a regulatory agency of elected faculty, student and administration representatives who would have the authority to hear grievance appeals, to investigate, and—most important —to make binding decisions.
“It's not collective bargaining, but a system of collective cooperation.’ ” the public administration professor said in an interview.
COLLECTIVE bargaining, a subject of faculty and AAUP discussion for several years, would involve faculty unionization, outside mediation. and employment of attorneys to prepare and supervise faculty-university agreements.
An AAUP policy adopted in 1968 recommends the establishment of a system of faculty representation within the university, as Williams' proposal does, rather than collective bargaining.
Williams does not entirely rule out the possibility of seeking'collective bargaining rights, but he finds several faults with that kind of system.
His main complaints are that collective bargaining includes a built-in adversary relationship between parties and that it doesn’t fully handle abstract issues, problems outside the faculty-administration relationship, or individual situations.
“COLLECTIVE bargaining involves negotiations between two parties with an undertone of 'them against us.’ ” he said, which, he feels, doesn't lend itself to cooperation.
“I am talking about an atmosphere and spirit which does not designate enemies, hut realizes that we are all members of this human enterprise.” he wrote in an AAUP newsletter.
Williams believes better results can be obtained through collective cooperation instead of the bargaining process.
“We tried something like this before,” he said. “We had three people from the administration and three from the Minority Affairs
Commission working together and we were very well pleased with the results.
“IN FACT, some ofthe best ideas came from the administrators. One administrator came up with a particularly effective solution to an affirmative action problem. I'm convinced that if we’d approached the administration with our ideas ourselves, we never would have accomplished what we were able to through cooperation.”
An advantage of collective cooperation. Williams said, is that it is designed to deal with issues like academic freedom and teaching workloads.
“Academic freedom is something that has to be defined over and over again. How can you define it. or prescribe teaching workloads, in a contract? There’s a need for a system of situational analysis, rather than re-negotiating contracts to solve problems on a year-to-year basis,” he said
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WATERGATE WAS ON HIS LIST—Edwin O. Guthman. national editor of the Los Angeles Times and No. 3 on the White House enemies list, called the scandal an opportunity for Americans to reclaim democracy in a speech here Wednesday. DT photo by Audrey Chan.
Watergate Called Spur to Reform
BY PETER WONG
Managing Editor
The Watergate scandal offers Americans the opportunity to reclaim democracy. Edwin O. Guthman. national editor of the Los Angeles Times and the No. 3 man on the W'hite House enemies list, said Wednesday.
Chilean Student Vieivs Differ on Allende Fall
BY BRIAN ROBINETTE
Staff Writer
Three weeks ago. before the smoke hovering over the Chilean Presidential Palace had drifted away, leftist
Cover portrait courtesy of TIME Magazine, copyright Time. Inc. 1973.
mourners the world over were marching in protest of the unexpected military junta which had just overthrown the Socialist regime of President Salvador Allende.
The extent and manner of the bloody coup shocked most nations. But according to at least one Chilean student attending USC, the revolt which cost the South American country a government and a president was inevitable.
“The revolt had to come sooner or later,” said Roberto Belan, a freshman studying premed. “You could feel the atmosphere in Chile. You could feel the hate between the classes.”
HOWEVER, another Chilean student majoring in business disagreed with Belan.
“The coup surprised me.” he said. “I thought Allende was controlling the military.”
The student, who wished that his name be withheld, complimented Allende on his sincerity while president, an office the Marxist leader assumed in October,
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“He was honest in what he said.” said the student, who has resided in the United
States for 18 months. "He knew he was going to get screwed by his soldiers, and yet he went on.”
BELAN. who returned home to Chile last summer, was not as sympathetic as his fellow countryman.
“Anything is better than Allende,” he said disgustedly. “I was gone for seven months this year, and when I went back, everything had changed. There was street fighting, terrorists, bombings; you could feel the
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“If it weren't for a few pieces of tape on the door of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Hotel, we would never have known about these people who believed the ends justify the means,” Guthman said in a speech in Hancock Auditorium.
“EITHER THEY didn't have an understanding of our system of government, or they didn't have any faith in it. They tried to manipulate, subvert, abuse and misuse it.
“I urge you and implore you notto view all politicians cynically, though. That’s the easy way out. Stay in the arena, work for better government and strengthen your rights, so that we and our children can hopefully live in peace—and certainly freedom.”
HE QUOTED Howard Simons, managing editor ofthe Washington Post, as saying jokingly that the Nixon administration. in preparation for the bicentennial of U.S. independence in 1976, was
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Hubbard Optimistic About Tuition Panel
BY KEVIN McKENNA
Assistant City Editor
President John R. Hubbard expressed hope Wednesday that a commission he has appointed would be able to develop a formula for tuition increases so that students won't be confronted with any major surprises.
Hubbard said in an interview he could not predict how much of an increase might be needed next year. “I'm not in a position to appoint a commission and then tell it what to report,” he said.
BUT IT IS CLEAR that Hubbard feels there must be an increase. In his address Saturday at the annual faculty breakfast, Hubbard said, “There is no doubt that as costs mount, so must tuition."
Hubbard appointed the commission on tuition and fees last week. The group, composed often faculty and staff members and nine students, will make its final report to the University Council, Hubbard's advisory group, by Nov. 19.
Hubbard said the report is needed by that date so that students Will knOW abOUt next Vear’S tuition. (Continued on page 3)