Daily ip Trojan
Volume LXVII, No. 44
University of Southern Cu liforn ia
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, November 19, 1974
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Faculty dissatisfied with university, survey shows
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE—Larry Groce sang and played the guitar at a noon concert held Monday on the Student Activities Center Patio. The event was sponsored by the Student Programming Board. DT photo by Mike Ito.
CATALINA ISLAND CAMPUS
Recompression facility to aid in treating divers
A recompression chamber for medical research and for treatment of diving accidents was formally dedicated Thursday at the USC Marine Science Center on Catalina Island.
The new facility will be used primarily for research in diving physiology and hyperbaric medicine.
Hyperbaric medicine deals with the use of different pressures in healing.
Through a tentative agreement proposed by County Supervisor James A. Hayes of Long Beach. Los Angeles County and the USC School of Medicine will coordinate their resources and personnel in the event of a diving accident.
Lifeguards who operate the Bay Watch rescue boats under the County Department of Beaches will pick up a diver in trouble and simultaneously notifying the U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center.
The center will then alert technicians at the hyperbaric chamber and also the department of emergency medicine at the USC Medical Center, where physicians will stand by to radio instructions to Catalina.
If physicians are needed, two of eight physicians who have been especially trained in hyperbaric medicine will be transported by a Sheriff's helicopter to Catalina, with backup help by the Coast Guard and the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
The medical team, which works out of USC’s department of emergency medicine, is coordinated by Dr. Richard Scott, an instructor in emergency medicine.
A less frequent, but more dramatic, function of the chamber will be its use for divers suffering from decompression sickness or air embolism
Dr. Andrew Pilmanis, assistant professor of physiology who is stationed at the USC Marine Laboratory, said that an air embolism occurs when a diver, usually through panic, holds his breath while surfacing.
The air. compressed at ocean depths, expands as the diver surfaces which causes the lung to rupture, sending air into the blood vessels, thus blocking the flow of blood to the brain, he said.
“If the rupture is extensive and the amount of air introduced into the blood vessels is large, the victim usually dies within minutes,” Pilmanis said.
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BY LARRY TUCK
Staff Writer
A survey of faculty members by the Office of Institutional Studies indicates that many are dissatisfied with certain areas of university operation, particularly with the level of support given to the work ofthe faculty.
The questionnaire was distributed to less than 40% of the total faculty. A similar survey, which may get wider response, is now being conducted by the Faculty Senate.
Norman Cliff, chairman of a Faculty Senate committee that reviewed the results of the survey, said the questionnaire did not indicate a particularly negative attitude toward the university as a whole, but rather a critical attitude toward specific areas.
“Let’s say there’s less than complete confidence in the administration,” he said.
But he said he does not think faculty dissatisfaction is notably higher than at any other university.
One question asked faculty members whether they agreed with the statement, “The top administrators are actively concerned with the maintenance of conditions that facilitate and encourage the work of the faculty.”
About 53% said they did not agree. Only 9% strongly agreed. The remainder “tended to
agree.”
Less than 40% said they have adequate materials and supplies for research or equipment for classes. Most said they needed more help from secretaries, technicians and research assistants.
Adequate library materials were rated as important or essential by 94%, but only 38% thought those needs have been met.
Only 28% thought that resources are allocated among
schools according to a rational plan.
When asked to rate the statement. “The organization of USC is designed for the primary' purpose of meeting the academic needs ofthe students.” 58% disagreed. and only 7% strongly a-greed.
A bare majority said they have confidence in the university’s administrative leadership, and 56% said they do not think the administration is consistent in working toward well-formulated goals.
On a scale from one (poor) to seven (excellent) faculty members rated their personal prospects for adequate salary increases in the next several years at 3.0, and their prospects for adequate research funds at 3.4.
The consensus was that the quality of undergraduate and graduate students will stay the same or improve slightly in the next few years, while the quality of applicants for faculty positions will improve.
The faculty members almost unanimously agreed that their greatest responsibility was to serve their students Their obligation to the administration, the Board of Trustees, and the alumni were rated relatively low.
Most said their main interests were teaching and research rather than administrative work. They said they felt more loyalty to their individual departments and schools than to the university as a whole.
Almost all agreed that minimum salaries should be set for each professorial rank. More than 60% gave at least qualified approval to the establishment of a faculty collective bargaining unit.
On a question asking to what extent faculty members feel their work has been appreciated and rewarded by the university, the responses were evenly distributed. The average rating was
4.0	on a seven point scale.
Employee arrested, fired for drunk driving
An employee of the Physical Plant has been fired from his job because of an auto accident Nov. 8 in which he was charged by the Los Angeles Police Department with felony drunk driving.
The driver was traveling south in his vehicle on McClintock Avenue at about 4:15 p.m. and allegedly went through two step signs at a high rate of speed. His vehicle collided with a car driven by a student who was exiting Parking Lot 33. near 36th Place.
The student’s car then bounced off a third car on McClintock Avenue which was unoccupied.
The student suffered shoulder injuries and was taken to the
CANCER RESEARCH
Economy affects fund raising
(In the conclusion of a three-part series, Focus continues its examination of the funding of the School of Medicine. Today, a look at fund raising for cancer research j
BY LINDA CIRIGLIANO
Assistant City Editor
Money for cancer research, like money for all research at the School of Medicine, comes from two primary sources—federal funding and private donations.
Private money for cancer research is raised by the Office of Cancer Center Development. Two fund-raisers work in that office.
D.W Buckmaster is in charge of raising private funds for research and equipment. He is also trying to build up a support group.
Buckmaster said that cancer research attracts more donors than any other type of research.
“Everyone is afraid ofor has been touched by cancer.” he said. “Undoubtedly, we attract the largest amount of donors who have no other tie to USC other than their desire to further research.”
Two of Buckmaster’s chief sources of funds are smaller foundations and individuals.
“We find many of them through the trustees, who identify likely prospects for us. or through the faculty, who are extremely important in helping us raise funds,” he said.
One of the ways in which Buckmaster raises loney to purchase equipment is by inviting in-
dividuals to become members of Cancer Associates, a support group which now has 230 members.
Membership in the group costs from $100 to $10,000 per year. “Maybe 5% of the support group’s members pay $500 and above each year.” Buckmaster said.
For research money, one ofthe prime private foundations to be tapped is the American Cancer Society.
“Each year, they put $10 to $15 million into research,” Buckmaster said.
Since it began, the Cancer Center has brought in $42 million in funds for research and construction, Buckmaster said.
Much of the money raised has come from the federal government's National Cancer Institute. One research award for more than $5 million from this agency pays for approximately 40 research projects over a three-year period.
Another federal award of $2,145,000 is being used to alter and renovate existing facilities to make new space for Cancer Center activities.
Part ofthis federal money was used to establish a 20-bed cancer-investigation ward at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center.
A third federal award ofmorethan$ll million will help to build the $37-million Cancer Research Institute. This hospital, which will open in 1978. will care for 124 patients.
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Both the Physical Plant employee’s vehicle and the car driven by the student were moderately damaged. The parked car was slightly damaged near the door.
John Lechner, director of Campus Security and Parking Operations, denied an earlier report that claimed the man who was charged with drunk driving was a campus security officer.
Lechner said there was a misunderstanding because the Physical Plant employee has a name similar to that of one ofthe campus security officers.
Lechner refused to divulge the names of either the Physical Plant employee or the student who was injured in the accident.
Student in nursing not enrolled here
Two factual errors appeared in Friday’s Daily Trojan.
The front page story on religious bias intimated that a nursing student denied graduation was enrolled at the USC School of Medicine. However, the Medical School does not have a nursing program. The student was enrolled at the Los Angeles County School of Nursing, which operates in conjunction with the County-USC Medical Center. The university has no affiliation with the program.
Friday’s editorial said that multiple sclerosis is the third-ranking cause of death in the United States. It should have said that the disease is the third-ranking cause of death among diseases of the central nervous system
The Daily Trojan regrets the errors.