Daily ® Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, No. 40	Los An9eles- California	Wednesday, November 13, 1974
PAC recommends hikes in salary pool,TA pay
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Assistant Editor
The President’s Advisory Council voted Tuesday to recommend that the faculty and staff compensation pool for 1975-76 be increased as much as the Consumer Price Index, up to 13%.
The council, although approving in principle a second recommendation from the Resource Management and Planning Committee that teaching assistant stipends be increased retroactively 5%, referred the recommendation back to the committee to rework legal technicalities.
The resource committee had previously determined that TA stipends would be considered compensation instead of financial aid. but questions about the Internal Revenue Service deducting taxes arose.
Although taxes are deducted from the stipends of most TAs, in the departments where teaching is a required part of the curriculum they are not.
Council members questioned whether a 5% increase would cause those TAs to lose their tax
status, and the matter was referred back to the committee, which will probably seek a legal opinion.
Both the recommendations on the faculty and staff compensation pool and the teaching assistant pay increase will be sent to President John R. Hubbard and the Board ofTrustees.
On the compensation pool, the vote was 48-8-1 to approve the recommendation.
The recommendation includes a balanced budget, a tuition increase not to exceed the increase in the Consumer Price Index, and an increase in the compensation pool nearoratthe percentage change in the index.
The pool would provide funds for all merit and cost-of-living increases, as well as salary equalization and fringe benefits. The proposed increase in the pool is not to be construed as an automatic 13% cost-of-living increase.
The committee recommended that the pool be increased a minimum of 10%. It also stated. “Increased income from all sources and internalized savings from the units exclusive of
Board’s allocations draw some criticism
Last week’s meeting of the Student Programming Board resulted in a reordering of budgetary priorities, which some consider a better representation of student wishes and others feel was an unjustified cut of programs, particularly those involving minorities.
The board had $30,000 to allocate and almost $110,000 in requests.
After the board had cut new requests down to a minimum, it found that the budgets still totaled more than $30,000, so the
^ Students N get food poisoning
Two freshmen residents of Marks Hall got food poisoning after eating in Birnkrant cafeteria Sunday night.
Doug Purdy, an architecture major, and Mitch Howard. a predental major, ate taquitos and became sick about six to eight hours later. They went to the Student Health Center Monday morning and the illness was diagnosed as food poisoning.
The resident advisor in the hall reported the incident to the university. Representatives from the County Health Department will investigate today.
The investigators will determine whether the fault of the poisoning is on the university food services or on the frozen food company that the taquitos were purchased from.
Neither student is planning any ,ogal action.
board cut the existing budgets of some programs approved last summer.
All but one ofthe programs cut involved community action and minority programs.
The commuter organization, which had $273 cut from its budget of over $4,000. was the one other program whose existing budget was cut, and that was considered a token cut.
David Blackmar. a member of what some called the Caucasian Caucus, defended his votes, saying that the four members who voted to cut the budgets should have been considered a reform caucus.
“It’s the best allocation of programming funds that any programming board has ever done. They tried to portray it as an attack on minority groups, which it was not,” he said.
Instead, said Joe Flanagan, one of the four, it was “a long overdue restructuring of the priorities of the board to bring them in line with the needs and wishes of the student body.”
However. Jack Fields and Ward Ching, two of the three minority members, said the board shouldn’t have cut into funds already allocated.
“I really didn't feel they had a right to go back into budgets they’d already given people,” said Fields, adding that although the programs hadn’t spent all their money, they had probably already made plans for use of the funds.
Fields said that the board had taken most ofthe programs with minority involvement, and judged them unfairly. “Most of the judgments they made were generalizations or assumptions,” he said.
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Music profs honored
Gregor Piatigorsky (above) and Jascha Heifetz, professors of music, spoke Tuesday at a ceremony announcing the $2-million Chairs of Music allotted to the School of Music by the Board of Trustees in their names.
The men expressed their thanks and appreciation for the grant, which will be used for scholarships for music students.
DT photo by Ed Moy.
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U.S. nearing Orwell’s ‘1984,’ educator says
student aid may be used to increase the pool up to a maximum of 13%.”
Some faculty members of the council questioned whether the increase in the pool would be large enough, saying that unless faculty and staff members get a cost-of-living increase equal to the rise in the cost of living, they would be taking a pay cut. They also questioned whether there would be funds for merit increases.
The method of distribution of the pool has not yet been determined. The resource committee will consider the allocation at a later date and make recommendations to the council.
Other members of the council questioned whether it would be feasible to form a 2% to 3% pool of funds cut from departmental budgets.
Zohrab A. Kaprielian, vice-president for academic administration and research, later said that there were two factors the council had not considered in its vote.
First, he said, there had to be some recognition that faculty members were maturing in their positions and had to get more than a cost-of-living increase.
Second, he said the university has to struggle for a place in higher education.
“The university has to mature academically. We’re not the same university we were a decade ago,” he said, adding that it would not be the same 10 years from now.
Asked whether he was optimistic about the ability of each departmental unit to contribute to the 2% to 3% pool, Kaprielian said he was neither optimistic nor pessimistic, and that he wouldn’t know for some time.
He also expressed concern that fiscal issues have taken priority over academic issues. “It seems to me that the point of concentration, instead of being the learning process, has degenerated to being the survival process.” he said
BY STEVE HAWKINS
American society is accelerating in its progress towards the Big Brother world prophesized in George Orwell’s novel, 1984, said David Goodman, educator and futurist.
The book describes a highly technological society operating under a totalitarian government in theyear 1984. It was published in 1949.
More than 90% of the technological. political and social prophecies in the book have been fulfilled in the 25 years since its publication. Goodman said.
As a futurist. Goodman is con-
cerned with the long-term impact of laws and attitudes on society.
He appeared Tuesday in a noon lecture sponsored by the Campus Speakers Committee. Goodman is a psychobiologist, university instructor and director ofthe Newport Neuroscience Center in Culver City.
Goodman said Orwell’s 1984 is no longer simply fiction, but rather “a description of the technological and social change taking place all around us.”
"We are creating 1984 in the name of progress, and at the present rate of change, Orwell’s 1984 may be less than ten years away.”
If the society in the novel does ever exist, “it will be the result of community action by well-meaning agents of change,” Goodman said.
•We have all, inadvertently from ignorance, not from malice, been remarkably nearsighted about the long-term consequence of our actions.
“Orwell’s 1984 is one consequence of our blind infatuation with change and progress.”
More than seven often Orwel-lian prophecies forthe year 1984 are already true or in the process of coming true, Goodman said.
Ofthe prophecies that refer to science and technology, more than nine out often have already come true.
“In the last two years, having completed the fulfillment of the technological prophecies, we are turning to the social and the political,” he said.
In 1972, Goodman and a colleague, Gary Swift, dissected the book into 137 component pieces. Through analysis, they con-
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A FIERY SITUATION—Members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Station 15 put the finishing touches on a fire that started on the site of the new Performing Arts buildings Tuesday. The blaze was restricted to the trash storage box that it started in. The cause was unknown. DT photo by Bob Chavez.