Group recommends to increase salaries
Recognizing that the process of balancing next year's operating budget is near completion, the resource and management planning committee of the President's Advisory Council voted unanimously Thursday to recommend an increase in staff salaries as the committee's highest priority concern.
Robert Biller, chairman of the committee, asked the committee to rank the concerns which might be met if a hypothetical $250,000 became available.
Since money doesn't seem to be available for all the concerns which representatives of the faculty, staff, students and deans expressed to the committee, the committee agreed to assign priorities.
The committee ranked items it felt would require additional funding.
They were ranked in this order: increased staff salaries, increased faculty salaries, limiting tuition increases, medical and dental insurance for faculty' and staff, improved life insurance, deferred maintenance and improved student financial administrative services.
Suzanne Nora, chairman of the Student Senate, said she voted for the recommendation because she thought it would have the most impact on students. Tuition rates for individual students would not be significantly altered if onlv $250,000 were available, but that amount in increased staff salaries could improve student services, she said.
Paul Gray, a member of the Faculty Senate, said he thought staff salaries at the university were too low in comparison to the outside market place.
“If you look at where we're hurting as an institution, it's the retention of quality people in the staff. We have been observing a high turnover
—	it's gotten to the point where it affects the ability of the university to function over the long haul," Gray said.
Jeanne Rathbun, chairman of the staff caucus, agreed. "There's great concern that we don't meet the marketplace in terms of quantity and quality of staff. If the administration can improve this, we could anitici-pate that all student services and the quality of staff and faculty life could be improved," she said.
The committee had recommended a 7% increase in staff salaries,
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CONFLICTS SEEN
Jewish author stresses creativity
SPRING FEVER? — Student relaxes in the warm March sun despite the fact that spring is still weeks away. If the warm weather continues, spring fever might strike earlier than expected.
Film producer honored at dinner
The “Old Guard'' of Hollywood was there to honor one of their own, “Colonel" Jack Warner. He was the force behind one of Hollywood's first big
"When there is a core-to-core confrontation there is an explosion of creativity," said Chaim Potok, author, in a speech opening the Jewish Cultural Festival Monday in Hancock Auditorium.
In a speech sponsored by Hillel House and the School of Judaic Studies at Hebrew Union College, Potok spoke on "Authority and Rebellion and Modem Literature: The Religious Person and Modem Literature."
Potok is the author of the numerous novels on Jewish culture including The Chosen, My Name is Asher Lev, The Promise and In the Beginning, all autobiographical works about his life as a religious Jew growing up in the orthodox section of Brooklyn.
Keeping with the festival's educational theme, Potok related his experiences growing up in an orthodox Jewish home where his parents wanted him
to be something other than the writer he realized he was to become.
Potok said that Jews today, especially those interested in entering creative fields such as art or literature, are held back by two factors.
The Jewish culture objects to taking on occupations which are "close to the floor in human condi-ton.''
Perhaps more significantly, the reason for Jews being held back in creative fields is the nonparticipation of "religious Jews" in the history and development of Western art, Potok said.
Speaking strictly on the basis of his past experiences, Potok explained his concept of "core-to-core culture confrontation."
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studios. Warner Brothers, which he founded, produced the first "talking picture" and set precedents for the rest of the movie industry.
The Old Guard came to Town and Gown, to the Friends of the USC Libraries dinner Sunday to honor Warner, who died last year. During his lifetime, Warner dealt with many people, from film stars to writers to composers. Recalling Warner at the tribute, they remembered him as a humorous, hardworking man who built and ran his studio virtually single-handedly.
The tribute to Warner included clips of some of his more memorable films. Scenes from Casablanca, A Star is Bom, My Fair Lady and Robin and The Seven Hoods illustrated the span of both time and styles that took place at Warner's studio.
The clips were interspersed with comments from many speakers, among them Olivia De
Havilland, Pat Buttram and Saul Chaplin.
One of the highlights of the evening was the announcement that Warner's daughter, Anna, was donating the "Colonel's" personal memorabilia collection to the Division of Cinema.
De Havilland recounted her dealings with Warner during the 1930s when she was one of Hollywood's hottest new talents. Though under contract to Warner, she w'anted to work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on their new feature, Gone With The Wind. Warner told her it would be a flop, yet she persisted in working for the other studio. She eventually got her way, but was continually considered a problem while at Warner Brothers. Throughout it all, however, De Havilland recalled that she still admired and cared for Warner.
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University students organize crime awareness campaign
DT Photo by Marsh* Traagar
LEFT OPEN — Student negligence is estimated to be the largest contributor to campus crime as this open door at Cardinal Gardens exemplifies. A shooting occurred in Cardinal Gardens in January involving a robbery.
By Karen Holloway
Staff Writer
A Student Awareness Campaign has been organized to inform students of their role in preventing crime in university-owned and leased apartments. The theme of the program which began March 1 is "Are you easy?"
"The name was chosen because students make it easy for crimes to happen," said Regina Birdsell, a senior in public relations.
A task force of the Office of Residential Life estimated that 70% of all burglaries occur because of student negligence.
The program is being coordinated by Birdsell and Andy Goodman, a sophomore in political science, and has received the support of several university administrators.
Campaign efforts include Daily Trojan advertisements, flyers, posters, student surveys, and possibly two short student-produced films.
Each month the program will concentrate on a specific crime prevention issue. This month's campaign is promoting the importance of registering bicycles and marking property for easy identification.
Unidentified property which is recovered by the Los Angeles Police Department is kept for six months and then put up for auction.
"We have eight auctions a year which points out a shortfall in the system," said William Sanders, principal station officer for LAPD.
'The problem involves the inability of owners to present proper identification which prevents us from making a connect-up," Sanders said.
"Without the support and assistance of the victim and of the consumer public, our hands are tied in effecting a recovery."
The campaign encourages students to report suspicious persons in the apartment complexes tcv Campus Security and to lock their cars, bicycles and apartments at all times.
The campaign is expected to run the first 10 days of every month for each semester "until the year 2000," Goodman said.
The budget of the campaign is estimated at $2,100. So far $1,100 has been secured with $1,000 from the Student Community Council and $100 from the Residence Halls Coordinating Council.
The coordinators have applied to the Budget Allocations Board for funding and have asked the managers of each apartment building to contribute $100 from the complex funds.
A student aw'areness survey will be circulated to promote the idea that students are responsible for much of the crime that occurs in their apartments and to give the coordinators some feedback on the program.
Administrators who have expressed their support for the program are Guy Hubbard, executive director of auxiliary services, Carl Levredge, director of campus security and parking operations, James Appleton, vice-president of student affairs, Jeremy Stringer, director of the office of residential life and David Lee, director of housing and residence halls.
"The campaign got everyone involved in a common cause," Birdsell said.
"I'm very encouraged that students have been able to put together a program of this caliber," Lee said.
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