Daily tp Troian
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, No. 99
Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, March 27, 1974
Employees 65 and over may be forced to retire
BY MIKE MEYER
Enforcement of the university's mandatory retirement age policy is likely to cost a 76-year-old receiving clerk his job. despite his contention that he has never missed a day of work during the 10 years he has been employed at the Medical Bookstore.
Thomas E. Kinsman, who has spent the last 40 years working for various companies as a receiving clerk, was hired at the age of 65 by the bookstore.
Unless drastic changes of policy occur, he will be one of many elderly employees who will become the victim of rule 303.1 of the University Supervisors’ Manual on June 30.
The rule states that the normal retirement age for all employees is 65. but extensions of contract are possible on a yearly basis until the age of 70.
This offers little hope to a man of 76, and Kinsman feels that employment should be based on qualification and performance, rather than age.
“I’ve never been sick one day, and I’ve never been late. I’m supposed to work7Vfe hours a day, but I always work 8 hours without any extra pay,” he said.
“Since I’ve had this job, I’ve given up four weeks of paid vacation time to dedicate myself to the job.”
Anthony D. Lazzaro, vice-president of business affairs, said the sudden enforcement of the retirement ruling is due to
the tight financial circumstances the university now faces.
“The policy was examined more thoroughly, and we decided that available funds must be used to gain maximum service,” said Lazzaro.
“The efficiency of an employee is curtailed somewhat after the age of 65. and the chance of reduced performance and failing health is much greater.”
Lazzaro asked the supervisors of the departments that come under his jurisdiction to make the policy known to all employees, and to make recommendations concerning the mandatory retirement of employees between the ages of 65 and 70.
He said each case is reviewed separately, and the performance and health of each employee are considered on an individual
basis.
Kinsman’s supervisor, Robert K. Hiatt, feels that it is essential to the welfare ofthe university to concentrate on productivity.
“The university does not have the money to be as generous with its employees,” said Hiatt, director of the bookstore.
“We must concentrate on maximum efficiency rather than individual personalities. We have not run this school like a business before, but now we are being forced to look at economic aspects.
“When Von KleinSmid (president of the university from 1921-1946) was here, the university was run like an oversized family, but this is a different era. Business attitudes are forced to be changed.
“All major business corporations, including General Motors,
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FOUNDERS PARK CONCERT—Roger Moses, composer and folksinger, performed at noon Tuesday in the first concert held in Founders Park, located between the Administration Building and Founders Hall. Rick Springfield, an Australian folk singer, will perform at noon Thursday on the Student Activities Center patio. DT photo by Audrey Chan.
MORE RESERVED SEATS
Football seating change suggested
BY STEVE HESS
Assistant City Editor
A proposal to reserve all or part of student seating at home football games has been made by Robert Mannes, dean of student life.
“We are trying to come up with a plan to avoid the crush at the gate each time we have a home game at the Coliseum,” Mannes said Tuesday.
The two variations of the mately two weeks after classes tion. “We want to provide an en-
Envelopes for registration materials now available
Registration envelopes will be available at a table in the lobby of the Commons from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday.
At the table, staff members of the Registrar’s Office will answer questions about summer and fall registration procedures, distribute envelopes, sell stamps and collect completed envelopes.
After Friday, the envelopes will be available only from the Registrar’s Office, first floor of the Student Administrative Services Building. The deadline for receipt of the envelopes is April 19.
The self-addressed white envelopes will allow students to receive registration packets in the mail and therefore avoid long lines.
It will also permit those who receive packets by mail to pick up H cards one day earlier than others. The cards will be available May 8.
On May 9, students who did not get packets by mail may pick them up in person from the Registrar’s Office.
On May 10, completed packets will be accepted by the registrar.
The Schedule of Classes for the fall semester will be available May 6.
proposal center around reserved seating in the student rooter sections and a possible open section for students who do not want to sit in the same seats all season.
Mannes’ original suggestion was to split the student section in half with the better seats being reserved and the other half operating in an open seating manner as last season.
“The reserved seats would be selected at random in the ticket office and a maximum number of six students could sit together,” Mannes explained.
In his original suggestion, Mannes suggested that student tickets have two seat locations printed on them.
“In this way if a student loses out and gets a location in the worst section of the reserved area, he will later sit in a better seat,” Mannes said.
The reserved section will be divided in half with students switching sides after three ofthe five home games.
Tickets for the reserved section will go on sale approxi-
begin in the fall. This will prevent those who register for classes first from being the first to get the reserved seats.
“That’s where the problem lies and why we are proposing two different forms of reserved seating,” Mannes said.
His second proposal is similar to the first with the only difference being that the entire student seating area will be reserved.
“In this way,” Mannes said, “we won’t have long lines waiting to get the better reserved seats.” The second proposal also calls for the allocation of seats on a random basis.
Approximately 11,000 seats are involved in the proposal, with half being reserved in the first recommendation and the entire student rooting section reserved in the second proposal.
“We really haven’t done any student opinion polling as of yet but we’re hoping to hear from students on the plan to see if it will work.” Mannes said.
He gave two reasons for the seating change recommenda-
joyable environment in all sections for all students and especially to provide more safety in the stands and the tunnels.
“I’ve received a lot of comments concerning the way the seating was done last fall and we just had to come up with another plan.
“The second proposal was added after someone who had heard about the initial recommendation came in and told me about problems with the proposal,” Mannes said.
He said that Jim Dennis, University Recreation Association director, and John Morley, ticket office manager, had tried to discuss all areas of concern that might come up. “But it appears that we didn’t hit everything,” said Mannes.
Ticket printing for the fall football season must begin soon and Mannes said that he wants students to provide input for the final decision so that the best possible decision can be made.
BY SARAH HECK
Assistant City Editor
Dorothy W. Nelson holds a variety of titles. Among them are dean of the USC Law Center, teacher, counselor, fund raiser, wife and mother.
Putting her titles into an order of priority or importance is something Nelson would probably not want to attempt. She sees herself first as a human being with a purpose and secondly as a woman.
Her purpose, and the purpose she thinks everyone, man and woman, should have, is not just self-fulfillment.
“You have to ask yourself if what you are doing is going to make civilization better. Women have special contributions they can make to civilization.” Nel-
Dean of Law School reflects on women in education, society
son said at a recent interview.
“Part of it is biological. Women who bear children feel stronger for peace. Although some of this may be cultural, where the masculine, competitive image is stressed, women do have this to offer civilization.” However. Nelson stressed that women have to be pushed. The counseling in junior high schools and high schools seldom includes a career in law as an option to women.
“When I was in high school. I
always heard. ‘What do you want to do until you get married?’ Law wasn’t considered as a possible profession,” she said.
Recruiting and counseling women to get involved, fight the second class citizenship they hold now and consider law as a profession is something Nelson feels she can do for affirmative action.
“My approach is not to march or haggle over who’s going to do what at a meeting but to go out and get the job done.”
On her recruiting trips to the East and along the coast, Nelson makes a special effort to reach the women who have the potential but never considered law as a career.
Nelson said she felt a responsibility to go to the women’s meeting held on campus but admitted that she gets impatient with the slow process.
Working on a committee to achieve salary equalization is another area of affirmative action in which Nelson is involved.
“We are making major steps ahead in salary equalizations. That’s a field where I feel my time is well-spent,” she said.
Nelson said she feels President John R. Hubbard has been very responsive to the affirmative action directives.
“His heart is in the right place in recruiting women,” she added.
In addition. Nelson thinks the appointment of Addie Klotz to the health center has had a “vibrant effect” on the university.
Nelson indicated that the affirmative action push has had effects on the female population. “We are getting an increasing number of female applicants.”
Nelson served as interim dean from 1967 to 1969. She received
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