SECURITY GUARDS PATROL LOTS
Village implements new methods to prevent illegal student parking
By David Watson
SUIT Writer
Private Property Customer Parking Only Student and Public Parking Absolutely Prohibited At Any Time
Unauthorized Vehicles Will Be Towed Awdy at Owner’s Expense LAMC 80.71.4
—sign posted at University Village entrance
University Village is studying new methods to enforce its policy of no student parking on its property.
Craig Wells, general manager of the village, said he is waging a constant battle against university students and the general public to keep the village parking lots clear for customers.
Wells said village spaces are limited to begin with, so student parking merely adds to an existing problem and hurts the business of the shopping center.
Wells explained that one parking space will ordinarily be used by one or two cars per hour. If a student’s car occupies a space for four or five hours, he is using the parking space of eight to ten potential customers.
Carrying this same logic further, Wells said 20 students parking at the village could use the park-
ing spaces of 200 customers.
Fredric Sandusky, supervisor of the Hoover Security Service at the village, has four people patrol-ing the parking lots during the day.
These security guards look out for people who leave their cars with their arms suspiciously full of books and are headed in the general direction of the university..
Sandusky said his guards will warn a student that his car will be towed away at the owner’s expense if he leaves the village premises.
If the student ignores the warning, security can have a tow truck at the village in 5 minutes and the student will have to pay $26 for the car’s return.
Wells said some students invariably find ways to avoid the patrols, so he is thinking of implementing some new ways to make it even harder for a noncustomer to park at the village.
Wells said limiting cars to two hours of parking makes it more apparent as to which cars belong to students. This would allow security to have cars towed away without having to catch students as they parked.
Wells is also thinking of reopening the ticket booths built at each entrance of the village.
Under this system, drivers entering the village parking lots would take a ticket from the booth and be allowed one hour of free parking before having to pay.
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University of Southern California
Volume LXXIII, Number 20 Los Angeles, California
Wednesday, March 8, 1978
Community commission asks for revocation of KABC-TV’s license
By Mike Schroeder
SUIT Writer
A community-based university commission has taken action against KABC-TV in response to the station’s series on campus crime here.
The University-Neighborhood Relations Commission, a group composed of university and community leaders and representatives of public officials, called for revocation of KABC-TV’s license in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission.
The commission requested President Hubbard to consider “strongly and publicly associating the university” with the revocation request made Monday by the President’s Advisory Council group in a memo dated March 6.
The memo, from Robert Biller, chairman of the commission, also included the group’s belief
that a letter from Hubbard on behalf of the university and the Board of Trustees would be helpful in establishing the serious consequences of KABC-TV’s biased reporting.
In calling for revocation of the KABC-TV license, the commission said it was “appalled at the biased, distorted report” regarding crime at the university.
In the letter to the federal commission the fact that no blacks or chicanos from the surrounding community were n-terviewed was pointed out w. ile the commission protested the “sensationalized and stereotyped reporting and promotion of the series.
“We feel that this biased reporting is odious, intolerable and has done a great disservice to a fine lower-middle class community,” the letter said.
The station’s license comes before the federal commission
for renewal in November.
To inform the community on the commission’s actions, a package containing Daily Trojan articles on the series, the commission’s letter to the federal commission and a cover memorandum explaining the commission’s position is being sent to members of the greater Los Angeles community.
Nearly 700 letters are involved in the communication effort, according to Eileen Hunter, commission secretary.
The portrayal of the community in the series, which ran on the station’s 11 p.m. news program Feb. 13-15, was the chief concern of the cover memo’s attack on the series. It said the community was depicted in an unfavorable fashion with use of stereotypes.
The memo encourages its readers to write to the FCC in Washington to support the revocation request.
289 DAYS Til CHRISTMAS—Students search through the piles for bargains too good to pass up as the bookstore sponsors the First Annual Santa Claus Pre-Christmas Sale. See story on page 2. DT photo by Mark Kariya.
Study shows university faculty salaries up 6.9%
Faculty salaries average 6.9% more this year than in 1976-77, said the Office of Institutional Studies.
This figure covers all faculty members outside of the School of Medicine. For continuing faculty, who have two years or more at the university, the average increase is 7.7%. The average increase amounted to $1,437 from last year’s figures, as the mean salary for faculty rose from $20,708 to $22,145, according to the office’s report.
“The increases are in keeping with the university’s goals of continually upgrading the faculty and improving the economic status of its members,” said Rosemary Cliff, associate director of the office.
Among professorial ranks, the increase was uniform, averaging between 7.7% and 7.8% for assistant, associate and full professors, with two or more years at a given rank. (Newly hired or promoted faculty have generally received less in their first year than others at that same position.)
Average salary for professors rose from $27,463 to $29,487; for associate professors, from $20,014 to $21,342: for assistant professors, from $16,305 to $17,308.
The total number of nonmedical instructional faculty increased by only seven this year. There are 327 professors, 293 associate professors, 339 assistant professors, 41 instructors and 27 lecturers.
Cliff estimated the single highest faculty salary at close to $50,000. This year, 150 are receiving $30,000 or more.
On the other end of the spectrum, no full professor receives less than $18,000, and only 37 receive less than $25,000, according to the report. Associate professors receive at least $16,000, and only 28 receive less than $19,000.
No assistant professors receive less than $12,000 and only 23 are receiving less than $15,000.
Faculty salary increases for the last two years have kept up with the higher cost of living, said Ken Servis, chairman of the Faculty Senate’s Employment and Remuneration Committee.
A 7% faculty salary increase was recommended by the President’s Advisory Council. However, the board ofTrustees is expected to adopt the administration’s preliminary working figure of 5%.
READY, AIM, FLIP—Individual students fade into one giant wall of concentration, poised on the tips of their fingers, while playing pinball in the Law Center basement. With the popularity of Tommy, the game with the silver balls and flippers became the basis for one of America's largest fads. While most trends die out, the art of pinball has continued to grow, as can be attested by these devoted players. DT photo by Sue Adams.