ASKS FOR HIGHER SALARIES
Faculty Senate to request budget reconsideration
By Karen Kelly
Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate voted Wednesday to ask the Board of Trustees to reconsider this year's budget because the senate believed none of its budgetary recommendations were reflected in it.
“It is intended to be a serious motion expressing our frustration with this year's budget," said Don Yett, a professor of economics who proposed the measure.
John LeBlanc, president of the Faculty Senate, agreed that the motion was a demonstration of frustration on the part of the faculty.
Paul Gray, vice-president of the senate, said that after talking with various senators, he feels the budget proposal this year is unsatisfactory from the facult-tv's point of view.
One of the faculty's primary recommendations was that salaries be increased by 7%, the maximum allowed under federal wage and price guidelines.
The 7% increase would mean $2.5 million in expenditures for the university.
The final form of the budget as submitted to the Board of Trustees' finance committee calls for a salary increase of 5% plus an additional 1% to be allocated from within departmental budgets.
Professor reprimanded in IR director’s memo
By Bob Conti
Staff Writer
An official statement reprimanding the professor in the alleged break-in at the School of International Relations March 9 has been issued by the school's director.
A statement issued by Jay Savage, interim director of the school, said there was no break-in, nor any other illegal tion on the part of Charles Powell, professor of international relations, or the students helping him that night.
In the memo Savage outlined the events he believed took place.
The memo was sent to John Marburger, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and John Schutz, dean of social sciences and communications.
Students were present in the office while Powell examined student files, trying to find possible candidates for research assistants.
The problem, Savage said, is that Powell could have allowed students to see the files.
The incident was first considered a possible violation of the Buckley Amendment, which protects student files from being seen by unauthorized people.
Universitv officials did not
consider the incident a violation (Daily Trojan, March 21).
The memo said "Dr. Powell exercised extremely poor judgment in involving his student associates in this situation, and his actions were improper and not sensitive to the best interests of the school."
Marburger refused to comment on the reprimand.
Savage said both deans agreed with it.
The problem seems to be a lack of any specific procedure in handling the files, Powell said.
One of the students who helped Powell by writing down the names of three candidates said in a prepared statement, "I did this as a matter of routine, since I am Dr. Powell's wrork-study office assistant."
All the students said they never saw any of the classified material in the files.
"Since there was concern that the students might (see the files), the assistant director called (Powell in the office). As there w'as no answer and after authorization from Marburger, Rolph asked Campus Security to check the situation," the statement said.
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Proposal for student pub approved for fall
A proposal for a student pub has been approved by the administration and may be in operation by this fall.
"I'd like to be in business by fall and we're going to work hard to get this thing going," said James Appleton, vice-president of student affairs.
The pub will be operated by auxiliary services but both Appleton and Michael Kulwiec, chairman of the environmental and external affairs unit of the Student Senate, said students will help in planning and designing the pub, its management and will comprise most of the employees.
Kulwiec said most students surveyed want students to run the pub. He said there may be some problems with the AFL-CIO who have a contract with the university.
"I think the students should stand firm for such things as student waiters and waitresses, bartenders and input in managing the pub," Kulwiec said.
Appleton said he wanted "a lot of student input" and that he didn't anticipate any problems in setting up the pub.
A "final phase" committee has been formed to discuss the details of setting up the pub.
The committee is made up of four administrators and four students.
The environmental and external affairs unit of the Student Senate took over one year to compile a 21-page report on the issue.
The unit examined other campus pubs, costs and student preferences in pub atmosphere and products.
Kulwiec said the pub is a start in getting more student-run facilities and better cooperation writh the administration toward expanding student-oriented services.
He said the administration is finally realizing the potential power students have and "if they (the administration) go on ignoring the students, they could create embarrassing situations with students that could be exposed by the media."
Kulwiec said the pub committee encouraged students to attend the committee meetings and directly tell administrators what they what.
Budget officials hope to encourage deans to be more economical by requiring them to search for the additional 1%.
Members of the Faculty Senate were concerned because several years ago when the administration allocated salary increases in this manner, some departments were able to come up with the 1% and others were not, a source said.
In the resolution, the faculty expressed its "dismay and frustration over its lack of impact on budget matters, and further ex-
presses its lack of confidence in the budgetary process and judgment of the university administration."
Seeking more effective representation of university constituencies, the Faculty Senate also voted to recommend a new streamlined structure for the President's Advisory Council.
The faculty recommended that the council be reduced to only the executive boards of the groups representing deans, faculty, students and staff. The proposed new structure would eliminate
the council's ability to approve or reject recommendations from the four groups before passing them on to the administration.
Instead, the faculty proposal stated each group should be able to make recommendations directly to the president. The council, under the proposed system, would act only as an information channel between the groups and the administration.
The faculty proposal additionally would require the president to respond to recommendations from groups within 30 days.
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Volume LXXVT, Number 29	University of Southern California	Thursday March 22, 1979
OT photo by John Antcxafc
BOULEVARD NIGHTS — About 100 demonstrators marched in protest of the release of a new movie about chicano gangs in East Los Angeles. Protestors said the movie glorified gang violence and stereotyped the chicano community.
MEChA protests film, claiming barrio gang violence exploitation
By John Antczak and Richard Bozanich
The premiere of Boulevard Nights, a movie about chicano gangs in East Los Angeles, drew a large group of vocal protesters Wednesday night at the Picwood Theater in West Los Angeles.
About 100 chicano college students, including USC MEChA, picketed the theater near Pico and Westwood Boulevards, calling for a boycott of the movie. Demonstrators urged the invited guests of the premiere to tear up their tickets, saying the movie exploited barrio gang violence.
Dick Brooks, studio publicity director for Warner Bros, which produced the film, said Mayor Tom Bradley was expected to attend the screening but cancelled at the last minute. Bradley was to present the film's producers with a citation for creating a film that would be an "instrument for peace," Brooks said.
The students, members of MEChA, a chicano students group, came from USC, UCLA,
Loyola and East Los Angeles College.
MEChA's goals in protesting the film were "to expose the truth and to make sure they (the movie's producers) don't make any money," said Loretta Ramos, a senior in women's studies and speech communications.
"The media ignores what's happening in the
barrios. They gloss it all over with Hollywood glamour," she said.
The demonstration began at 7:15 p.m. as people arrived for the premiere. However, the protest did not appear to deter the guests from entering the theater.
Two police officers were stationed at the entrance and others remained across the street. Gang violence has erupted at showings of another gang-related film, The Warriors, resulting in the deaths of two people.
Brooks doubted the effectiveness of the protest.
"If anything, the controversy and attention from the protests may arouse the public's curiosity to see the movie," he said.
"We're forming a coalition against exploitation movies," said Berta Silva, a MEChA cochairman. "The films are one-sided. The people here are college students and we're from the barrio. The films only bring out the clashing of gangs and that's just one subculture.
"They use this to represent all of us and that is awful," she said.
Defending the film was Lencho Ambriz, a member of the Imperials, a custom car club whose "low-riders" were used in Boulevard Nights.
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