Daily fm Trojan
Vol. LXVI, No. 118
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, May 2, 1974
Cinco de Mayo festivities begin
Sal Godoy, left, chairman of MECHA. and Danny Verches, coordinator ofCinco de Mayo, give out balloons on campus as the annual celebration of Cinco de Mayo begins.
Cinco de Mayo marks the date when a band of Mexican nationalists led by Benito Juarez, defeated the French army that was invading Mexico City.
Activities on campus will include several concerts, a dance and a picnic.
DT photo by Audrey Chan.
5% PAY HIKE
Some faculty not to get increase
The 57c salary increase voted by the Board of Trustees will not be straight across-the-board as previously announced.
The salary increase proposal, which was understood to give an equal faculty salary increase for 1974-75, has some exceptions.
Zohrab A. Kaprielian, vice-president of academic administration and research, said a pay increase may be denied if a dean or department chairman submits valid, written documentation to his office.
He also said that faculty members getting unusually low salaries may get larger than a 57c increase. It’s really not an across-the-board increase, Kaprielian said.
Bill Golden, assistant academic vice-president, had a different impression however.
“It was my understanding that the 57c was to be completely across-the-board,” he said.
One professor in the School of Engineering said he didn’t get
any increase in salary.
“It seems to me that bland statement that everyone would get an increase is not true,” he said. “The 57c may not be a cost-of-living increase, but it may be a lot of money sometimes.
“I don’t know why some individuals are not getting raises when it looks like the Board of Trustees voted an across-the-board increase.”
Kaprielian. however, said that this professor received a substantial pay increase two years ago, which raised his salary far above other faculty members of his rank.
“I can’t be completely inflexible,” Kaprielian said.
He explained that very few faculty members got less than a 57c increase.
A memo sent to the deans and directors of the various academic departments by Kaprielian states that President John R. Hubbard endorsed a
recommendation of the University Senate to bring the salaries of all associate professors and full professors to a minimum level.
The minimum salaries were $14,000 for associate professors and $17,500 for full professors.
The memo says that if the 57c across-the-board increase fails to bring these salaries to the recommended level, the differential should be provided. It also states that documentation for any deviation from this policy must be submitted to Kaprielian’s office.
Policy to allow new courses in freshman comp
BY JUSTIN FOX
The University Curriculum Committee approved a report Wednesday allowing any department in the university to initiate freshman-level courses to satisfy the English 101 requirement if the courses meet with the purpose of the requirement.
The report became official university policy.
The report states the purpose of the requirement is to develop the skills of expository writing and to develop the ability to read perceptively and critically. Any department can have the course as long as they confirm with these guidelines.
The establishment of this policy clears up a touchy situation within the Freshman Composition Committee, the primary authority for the 101 program.
In the past, many departments petitioned the committee to initiate more 101-level courses. Their rationale was that the new courses would teach expository writing and critical skill as well as the English Department and offer a varied subject matter.
English Department objects
Last fall, the English Department raised objections to expanding the number of courses meeting the composition requirement.
After the curriculum committee meeting. W. Ross Winterowd, the English 101 course director, said that the purposes of English 101 are to teach expository writing and critical skills as well as to provide internships for graduate students whose jobs will be to teach such courses for a good part of their lives.
Winterowd said that the teaching of these skills to students is ofthe primary importance. But since English graduate students would be virtually unemployable without the English 101 teaching experience and the situation is not so in other departments, he said, the number of
101-level courses in other departments should be limited.
Teaching skills is important
John E. Cantelon, vice-president of undergraduate studies, said that teaching students these skills were primary, but he disagreed that internships for graduate students in English was enough of a reason to limit the 101 program.
“These skills were served just as well in other areas, they should be allowed to continue,” Cantelon said.
Cantelon said that the other departments initiated 101-level courses because they felt they could fulfill the purposes of the courses just as well as English, relieve the pressure of high enrollment in the English Department, and offer good exposure to students to each of their departments.
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Student Affairs Division names two associate vice-presidents
Computer error leads to registration postponement
Early registration for Fall 1974 classes was postponed from May 8 to May 15 due to an error in the production of registration materials at the University Computer Center.
The error, apparently caused by the translation of data from the older IBM 360 computer to the newer IBM 370 computer, necessitated the reproduction of 18.400 request for student program cards.
“The error could have been as small as printing a lower case i instead of a dash, for instance,” said Charles Howard., Systems Planning Coordinator for Student Administrative Services.
He said with the overwhelming amounts of data involved in the production of the packets, it is not difficult to understand how problems such as these could arise.
Howard said he cannot forsee this happening again.
In previous semesters, students who make the effort to stand in line to turn in their packets first have contracted to turn in other students'
packets for them.
A spokesman for the Registrar’s Office said they will no longer
accept these “mass packet turn-ins” in fairness to other students, especially commuters. .
If any student turns in more than two packets, they will be placed in a “holding file” until 5 p.m. the same day.
On Monday, the Schedule of Classes will be available. By May 10. the registrar will have mailed out the completed registration materials to currently enrolled students who have turned in envelope requests.
Students with registration packets may obtain H-cards from the departments Wednesday, May 15.
Currently enrolled students without packets may obtain registration materials at the Registrar’s Office May 16.
Registration packets will be accepted at the Registrar’s Office for the pulling of R-cards beginning Friday. May 17.
BY PETER WONG
Editor
Two new associate vice-presidents in the Division of Student Affairs were named Wednesday. For one person, the appointment is a promotion: for the other, simply a change in title.
Both will serve in a reorganized division.
Addie L. Klotz. director of the Student Health Center, will assume one ofthe positions. She will supervise a number of offices classified in the division under campus life.
Among these are the Career Planning and Placement Center. Office of International Students and Scholars, Residential Life Office, Student Activities Office, Student Health Center, Student Services Center, University Counseling Center and University Recreation Association.
She will continue as director of the Student Health Center and retain an office there. But she will move into an office in the Student Union and delegate many day-to-day operating responsibilities to other staff members.
“Everyone I’ve talked to has expressed unanimous support for this move,” James R. Appleton, vice-president for student affairs, said.
ADDIE L. KLOTZ
“Addie’s concept of health—as evidenced by her work at the health center—goes far beyond physical health. In her new job. which carries broader responsibilities, she will be able to develop a better environment for students and the university community.”
Dr. Klotz. who came to USC in 1972 from California State University at Northridge. will also oversee the expansion of the Student Health Center to be made possible with revenue
from increased student health fees—including the integration of all student health and counseling services.
The other associate vicepresidency will be assumed by William C. Himstreet. executive director of student administrative services.
He will continue to supervise the Admissions Office, Student Aid Office, Registrar’s Office, Testing Bureau and Veterans Affairs Office.
The change in Himstreet’s title acknowledges the services he has performed since he was appointed executive director in 1972, Appleton said.
“I am pleased that we have been able to make these administrative changes without adding personnel or utilizing new resources at a time when we must manage with increasing efficiency,” he said.
Appleton said the positions are not new. He said that after the departure of Daniel B. Nowak in the fall as assistant vice-president, he had left the position open.
A third major category within the division—the network of assistant deans for student affairs in major academic units, established during the fall—will continue to work directly with Appleton.