Daily § Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXXIII, Number 19 Los Angeles, California	Tuesday, March 7, 1978
University complying with equal opportunity laws to retain grants
By Robin Oto
Staff Writer
The university must comply with equal opportunity laws to retain its status among the nation’s top 20 institutions receiving grants.
The university has $50 million in government aid.
Minority quotas are illegal under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibits job discrimination due to sex or race.
“What they’ve come up with is something euphemistically called ‘goals,’ ” said Barbara Pearson, director of equal opportunity and affirmative action at the university.
University goals are based on profiles from the latest government population census.
The U. S. Department of Labor has compiled metropolitan statistics from Long Beach to Los Angeles from which the university companies and institutions compare their work forces’ minority levels.
The university has also established policies in the supervisors’ manual against job discrimination by race or sex and for hiring on the basis of job qualifications.
“We really have a big percentage of minority employees at the university,” Pearson said. “But they are not chosen because they are minorities. People are hired strictly because of ability, not because of race.”
The university is required to assess its work force every two years and new statistics have just been compiled for 1977.
The statistics are broken down by male and female and minority and ethnic categories.
Of the total nonacademic fulltime employees in October, 1977, 1,885 were males. Out of this total, 1,149 were white and 736 were minority members.
Nonacademic full-time female employees totaled 2.320. Out of this number, 1,469 were white and 851 were minority members.
There were some discrepancies in minority employment under certain job categories.
Under secretarial classifications, the university’s projected black, female hiring goals were exceeded by 43 secretaries.
“I think it shows the neighborhood. There are qualified minority women that live in the neighborhood — it’s logical for them to apply,” Pearson said.
The university projected hiring six males from the government’s Hispanic category. Ten were hired in the professional nonfaculty jobs such as research associates.
Under technical and para-professional jobs such as laboratory technicians and computer operators, the hiring of 5 black females was projected and 13 were actually hired.
For the administrative-level jobs, such as deans, the highest-paid positions outside of faculty employees were hired. One was a woman.
Out of 182 hired professional nonfaculty members, such as administrators and skilled technicians, 147 were male and 35 were female.
Despite these figures, Pearson is satisfied with the hiring of women by the university.
“Going back to ancient times, higher education has been a white, male bastion. USC is one of the better institutions. We’ve really done a lot in comparison to other schools. Women are treated very well at ’SC,” she said.
“It’s not spectacular. But when I came, it was almost impossible to find a woman in any middle-managerial job. Now we have a group of 27 in these jobs, still about 10% of management,” she
German measles break out in residence halls
An outbreak of German measles occurred in several of the university residence halls this weekend and may result in a quarantine of the Birnkrant Dining Hall.
The first case of the disease, technically known as rubella, was reported to the health center by a resident adviser in Touton Hall. Ten other cases were confirmed by health advocates working the College-University On-Call Room, and by Monday afternoon 25 cases had been examined at the health center.
The On-Call Room, staffed by health advocates, offers limited medical services to students when the health center is closed.
German measles is a virus infection contracted by either coming into contact with an infected person or by breathing infected air. The symptoms are a low fever, sore glands at the base of the skull behind either ear and a fine rash of pink spots usually one millimeter in size over the entire body. Students who are coming down with German measles now may have been infected with the virus as long as three weeks ago.
“Students with the symptoms of rubella should stay in bed, take aspirin for the fever and sore glands and drink lots of fluids,” said Marion Shikamura of the health center. “It is a self-limiting disease. The rash usually disappears within three days.”
German measles is extremely dangerous to women in their first three months of pregnancy, she said.
The common denominator among all of the stricken students seems to be the Birnkrant Dining Room, a health center employee said.
The county health department has already been informed of the outbreak and if it continues at its present rate the dining hall may be quarantined by government inspectors.
Milton DeGraw, manager of Residence Halls Food Service, said he had not yet been contacted about a possible quarantine. However, he has been contacted by doctors in connection with providing meals for students with German measles who are being kept in isolation in their rooms.
said.
Although the administrative-level jobs are mainly held by white males, Pearson said, the service and maintenance job levels are comprised mainly of minorities.
Of males in this category, 104 were white and 414 were minority, while of the women, 15 were white and 137 were minority.
Since the first affirmative action survey was taken in 1970, Pearson said there has been a 25% increase in minority employees.
"It has been a constant increase. We’re gradually hiring more women and more minorities. We have an informal thing, trying to keep from having pockets. We’re getting a better mix,” Pearson said.
“We’ve established recruiting and selection policies which are nondiscriminatory. We try to make jobs known to all qualified individuals, both minority and nonminority,” she said.
Married complex will house single parents
Single parents with children six years old or younger may now apply for housing in the Married Student Complex, said Randy Rice, director of Residence Halls.
After reviewing the feedback from Leo VanHoof, manager of the Married Student Complex, and the opinions of the complex tenants, the Office of Residential Life decided to change the university policy. The new policy will be effective immediately.
Hans Reichl, director of residential life, confirmed the change in policy.
The tenants in the complex presented two petitions to the office concerning the issue, one in favor of allowing single parents in the complex and one opposed to it.
Out of the 214 families in the complex, the response was 10-to-l in favor of a new policy.
“The overriding concerns of those opposed to the acceptance of single parents was the fear that their presence would be destroying the family unit and that there would be problems with the increased number of children,” Rice said.
The Office of Residential Life will exercise control concerning the type of housing that will be available and the application process, Rice said.
Single parents with one child will be given a studio and those with two children will receive a one bedroom apartment.
“They will have to go through the application process just like any other family and will be placed on a waiting list like other applicants,” Rice said.
“In the past four years, we have had three inquiries. The most persistent of these was by Sharon Smith,” Rice said.
Smith first began inquiring for housing in the fall of 1976. She was refused an application by the Office of Residential Life, which forced her to obtain off-campus housing. Since that time she talked to various university officials and submitted an appeal to the Petition and Policy Advisory Board. Rice is also a member of the board.
“The problem was discussed by the board but they really were never in a position to rule on this particular case.” Rice said.
“The decision was made solely by the Office of Residential Life, and was subsequently approved by Guy Hubbard, executive director of auxiliary services.”
Smith’s initial reaction when she heard of the new policy was one of doubt and disbelief, but when confirmation of the decision was given she said, “That’s good news, I really doubted that it would be changed, but now that it is I am going to apply as soon as I can get my hands on an application.”
INSTANT HEARTBURN—Tommy's hamburger
stand, a landmark to university students, sells a much sought-after specialty. The shack, located at Beverly
Boulevard and Rampart Avenue, manufactures over
8,000	chili burgers each day. DT photo by Paul Rodriguez.
Tommy’s unusual patrons find gastrointestinal ecstasy, agony
By Amy Alpern
Assistant City Editor
A hamburger patty, a bun, pickles, mustard, onions and a tomato. Sounds like a pretty ordinary All-American hamburger, right?
But add chili sauce and suddenly this common food becomes something new. It becomes a_ Tommy’s Burger.
An aura of mysticism lies around this chili sauce. Jack in the Box may think it has a secret sauce, but while customers may not know exactly what is in it, the employees do.
At Tommy’s, this is not the case. Only a select group of the 25 employees working there are allowed to make the sacred sauce.
What is in Tommy’s chili, anyway?
This is not an easy question, because the few employees who do know won’t divulge the answer.
An employee who has been working at Tommy’s for six years knows what is in the sauce. When asked about the sauce’s ingredients, he acted as if he didn't understand the question
and just said, “I don’t know.”
When asked if he made the chili, he said he did.
So he does make the chili but he doesn’t know how he does it. He did say it has meat and spices in it.
One thing is for sure, Tom Koulax, the founder of Tommy’s and a worker there himself, knows how to keep a secret.
What is no secret about Tommy’s is that people seem to change dispositions when devouring a Tommy burger.
The word devour is most descriptive when referring to someone eating a Tommy’s burger and watching the unusual Tommy’s clientele consume their purchases.
Every rung on the economic ladder is represented in a Tommy’s waiting line, but whether they are clothed in pearls or pukas, an evening gown or baggy jeans, they turn somewhat animalistic when consuming a Tommy’s. Why not? Everyone else does.
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