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University of Southern California
Tuesday, April 23, 1974
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Workers charge mistreatment by food supervisors
Student Caucus selects new liaison to programming board
BY LINDA CIRIGLIANO
Staff Writer
Student Caucus member Jim Lamb was elected to replace George Bolanos as representative to the Student Programming Board, during a meeting Monday evening of the Student Caucus of the President’s Advisory Council.
The caucus also discussed election procedures for a student referendum on voluntary or mandatory programming fees to be held in May.
Other actions taken by the caucus included forming a committee to draft a constitution for a mandatory’ fee-based form of student government, and forming a committee to nominate students to university committees.
Monday evening’s meeting was the second for the 12 new interim officers of the caucus.
Connie Seinfeld, caucus chairperson, began the meeting by telling the new caucus members, “We’ve inherited a mess.
“Our credibility with students is very low. We’ll have to demonstrate to a student population that largely doesn’t trust us that we’re capable of really doing things.”
LAS building for university
BY QUENTIN SCHAFFER
A new College of Letters, Arts and Sciences building should be built or well in progress by the university’s centennial celebration, John E. Cantelon, dean of LAS and vice-president of undergraduate studies has announced.
“My dream would be to have the plans come to fruition between the bicentennial of the country (1976) and the centennial of the school (1980),” he said.
“But the Board of Trustees won’t let us build a building unless we have the money in hand,” he added.
President John R. Hubbard, Cantelon and others are seeking possible donors. There will be no go-ahead unless funding is possible.
Cantelon said that tuition would not be raised to earn funds for the project. “It’s un-
Jim Lamb, a junior in history, was then elected to be a liaison between the caucus and the programming board.
Lamb replaces Bolanos, who was voted off the board during its April 4 meeting because board members said they lacked trust in him.
In the discussion of election procedures for a student referendum to decide between mandatory or voluntary programming fees, the caucus voted to set the election for May.
The caucus decided that voting in the May referendum will take place in booths set up on campus.
Seinfeld said the President's Advisory Council, which is administrating the election, had considered conducting the referendum by putting ballots in registration packets and incorporating the voting into the registration process.
Incorporating voting with registration would mean that vot-ingwould not be completed until registration ends in September.
Seinfeld added that the alternatives to a registration packet vote would be voting by mail or in campus booths.
However, neither process has
planned centennial
wise to tax one generation of students to rause money for it,” he said.
“The cost depends on how many units we put in it. It will probably be a three phrase project,” Cantelon said.
These phases are the construction of the initial unit for badly housed departments at an estimated cost of $7-8 million, refurbishing Founders Hall and providing for more adequate classroom and research space at an estimated cost of $1.5 million and providing for all other space needs atan estimated costof$6-7 million.
Cantelon said that these costs will probably be higher by the time construction starts.
When the money is in hand it will take from three to five years before the building is constructed and occupied, he said.
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elicited high student response in past elections.
Caucus members voiced objections to delaying the outcome of the referendum until September. and so adopted Bolanos’ suggestion to schedule the election for May in voting booths on campus.
Stu Mollrich. who drafted the original voluntary fee payment plan, objected to the caucus' de cision.
He said that very few' students will participate in a booth elec tion and reminded the caucus that the administration has set a minimum of lO^r of the student body as the number of voters who must participate in the May election before its results can be considered valid.
“The last booth election drew
1.000	students out of 20,000,”
Mollrich said. He added that a
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HARVARD PROF SPEAKS HERE
BY JANET CLAYTON
Members of the United Workers Food Service, an organization of the cafeteria and restaurant workers, have charged their supervisors with mistreatment.
Workers claim that some supervisors degrade the workers by using obscene language, refusing to answer questions or to help workers who need it.
A total of eight supervisors were named specifically in the workers’ complaint, which was made officially in the form of a letter to Thomas P. Nickell, vice-president of university affairs.
When black and white workers were interview ed, they said they did not feel mistreated or taken advantage of in any way. One white worker added, “But we’re not the majority. Some of the Mexicans have a lot of complaints.”
Many Chicano workers who were asked about the complaints were very hesitant to answer, evidently because of either apprehension or a lack of understanding. One worker in a dorm cafeteria agreed with the charges, saying simply that “things were very, very bad.”
Another worker in the same cafeteria disagreed. She said that the charges are not true, and that those who are complaining want everything to come easily. The real problem is that nearly no one speaks English.
Of the eight supervisors, all but two have Spanish surnames.
The supervisors and directors of the food services agree that a problem exists, but they object to the charges made about the supervisors.
After hearing the charges, one of the supervisors named in the complaint responded. “Mistreat them? Why. I’m the only one who fights for them! She attributed the trouble to a few agitators, who resent being told to do their job correctly. She added, “All of the rest of the boys are excellent people w ho do their work.” Workers also say that their salary of $2 an hour is too low. They cite the workers of UCLA as an example, who receive $2.30 an hour for the same type of work.
In reply to that, one supervisor replied, “The union should provide more protection for the w orkers if they feel they need it.’ Guy D. Hubbard, director of auxiliary services, agreed that the real issue appears to be that the union has not been responsive to the employees. Hubbard added that although the letter of complaint was addressed to Nickell. it was intended for the employees’ own union officials.
Ramon Tejeda, from El Centro Chicano. spoke in Spanish to a union official who responded, “What Hubbard says may be partially true. But the union can’t do anything about the attitudes of the supervisors.”
Galbraith hits formal economics
shortages of some commodities, saying it is the unevenness of performance of various industries that causes the problems.
“Some things the economy supplies in abundance, others it doesn’t.” he said. None of the products are scarce by past standards; it is just that some areas are growing faster than others.
As examples, he said the air conditioning industry is growing faster that the energy industry and the automotive industry is growing faster than the petroleum industry.
Of the oil crisis, he said, “I don’t hold to the conspiratorial view.”
Galbraith said the government should take part in economic growth. “If we are to have equal development, there can be no question we can’t leave it to private enterprise, he said.
Galbraith related the unequal growth of various industries to the unique management system of the large corporations that control these industries. In the traditional theory of market economics, it was assumed the consumer instructed the market on what goods were popular by buying those goods, and the
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BY JON ALLEN
Staff Writer
Formal economics has lost touch with reality, John Kenneth Galbraith told a packed house at Bovard Auditorium on Monday.
Galbraith, author and Warburg professor of economics at Harvard, said there is a “high
and increasing inequality in the distribution of income.” He said that this is not the worst of economic times, but it is not the best, either.
“This is one period when the economic situation is not dependent on war.” he said.
Galbraith spoke of the current
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH