Daily if Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVII, No. 12
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, October 1, 1974
Salary situation no dispute, says faculty president
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BY MIKE MEYER
StafT Writer
Although the recent proposal for an increase in faculty salaries has caused students to question its effect on tuition, Richard H. Perry, president of the Faculty Senate, said he definitely does not consider the situation a dispute.
The salary increase proposal, tenure, unionization and the centennial campaign were discussed as topics of faculty concern by Perry in an interview Friday.
“At the moment, the salary proposal is taking precedence only because of timing,” he said. “The complexity of developing a $148-million budget makes it necessary for the faculty to reach an agreement as soon as possible.”
The proposal made at the Faculty Senate meeting on Sept. 18 for the salary increase to be 17% or 18% is unofficial, and a more specific recommendation will have to be decided upon at the senate meeting in October, said Perry.
“The decision about what type
DT photo by Bob Selan
RICHARD H. PERRY
of increase we need to survive and the various alternatives to our official recommendation are needed by November so they can be considered by the budget officers ofthe university,” he said.
Extensive process “There is an extensive process of approval by both the administration and the Board of Trustees. Once we indicate our needs, all the groups involved in the salary matter can begin to come together— by necessity —and trade-offs can be made to insure that we all survive.
“But for the last two or three years our increases have been below the increase in the cost of living. This year we hope to match the cost-of-living index and add an approximate 5% merit increase.
“At state universities, everyone at the same rank with
respect to faculty titles gets the same number of dollars, regardless if they are good, bad or indifferent.
“I don’t think that most faculty members here feel that this type of system is fair, and the merit-increase system is a w ay of rewarding good performance.” Staff survey
An article in Thursday’s Daily Trojan quoted a recent survey taken among staff members that showed 847c preferred that merit consideration not be a factor in the determination of salary increases.
Perry said the survey did not include faculty members, and that he would vote to have increases based only on merit.
“I would think that if you're talking about an 18% increase, however, then most faculty members would like to see some of it used for an across-the-board increase.
“But if the increase will only be as small as 5%, then we would probably vote to have it based entirely on merit.”
Win-lose situation
Perry said the most important thing is that the salary matter does not develop into a win-lose situation with the students winding up as the biggest losers.
“Obviously, we don’t have a place to teach without the students. We can’t go pricing ourselves out of the market.
“We have to make this a situation where students can afford to come here, teachers can afford to work here, and the administration can afford to keep the university open.
“It’s so important to get the budget thing out of the way now so we can concentrate on the things that will improve the university as a whole, such as the development of better student-teacher relationships and the emphasis on endowment,” he paid.
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OFFICIAL USC PASTIME—Standing in lines, whether it be for turning in registration packets, housing, or H-cards, has become a way of life on campus. Two long lines formed early Monday morning as students tried to
get seats in the card stunt section for Saturday's football game. Those who refused to spend all day in line were greeted with signs saying that all the tickets were gone.
Football ticket exchange system may be altered
Changes in the coupon exchange program for football tickets will be considered today at a meeting of the Game Coordinating Committee. Robert Mannes, dean for student life, said.
Mannes, a member of the committee, said the members of the group were not sure how the new ticket system would work when it was implemented Monday.
More than 400 students waited in long lines to exchange student activity coupons for reserved seats to Saturday’s football game.
The new system, designed to reduce long pregame waits and the pushing and shoving many students associate with entering the Coliseum, was not well-received by the majority of the students waiting in line.
“I’d rather wait in line Saturday than be missing class and be waiting in line now,” said Martha Evert, a senior.
Some students arrived as early as 6:30 a.m. for the coupon exchange that began at 1 p.m.
Mannes said the new system
was a compromise between an all-reserved system and the scramble system used last year.
The meeting today of the Committee that introduced the system will work toward a revised program before the next game.
Mannes said an all-reserved system would be considered, making every holder of a student activity book eligible for a reserved seat. A random selection system like the one used Monday would be used to assign the tickets in the modified system.
Some students waiting in lines did not fully understand the new policy and were not sure what would happen when they reached the ticket window.
“We got in line because we figured there would be a mob by noon,” said Gary Turner, a graduate student.
A security guard was stationed to prevent students from using the Student Union elevator to break into the ticket line which ran from the second floor ticket office, downstairs and around the building.
The line at the Information
Merger of speakers budget disputed
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Assistant Editor
When the Student Programming Board decided to combine the funds for the Campus Speakers Committee and the Forum for Student Awareness in its budgeting allocations last spring, little did it know the havoc it would wreak.
The rationale for combining the two budgets, said Ward Ching, director of the Academic Education Division of the Programming Board, was to eliminate duplication. By putting the combined funds in one pot instead of dividing it into two groups, a better selection of speakers could be brought to USC.
But Terry Martin ofthe Forum for Student Awareness claims that it was never notified that the merger had been made and questions the authority ofthe board in doing so.
The Programming Board has the authority to allocate funds, but not to combine organizations or eliminate them.
With the budget allocation, the Programming Board attached a rider saying that at least one member of the forum should be appointed to the Campus Speakers Committee.
But the forum was never notified ofthis provision, Martin said, and so none ofthe members applied for a position on the committee.
Bv the time the forum was notified ofthe budgetary situation, the members claimed the committee had already allocated the bulk of its funds and the forum had had no representation in choosing speakers, although part of the money had represented their interests.	,	,, .
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Center, the other center of ticket distribution, was not as long but contained more than 200 students.
Many students found the new system an improvement over the scramble system that proved hazardous to several students last year.
“I would much rather sit here and be comfortable than be plastered against a fence,” said the w’ife of a graduate student.
Most of those waiting in line did not care that the seats were not distributed on a first come, first served basis, but simply wanted one of the card section seats available through the coupon exchange.
Students who did not obtain tickets Monday will be sitting between tunnels 25 and 27 on a first come, first served basis.
17 named as speaker possibilities
Ralph Nader, Dick Gregory and Marjoe are among the speakers tentatively scheduled to speak this semester. Following is a tentative schedule of speakers, although most have not yet signed contracts:
Norm Emerson	Oct. 2
Jerry Lucas	Oct. 3
H.L. Richardson	)ct. 9
Stewart Udall	Oct. 11
Houston Flournoy	Oct. 15
Evelle Younger	Oct. 18
Bill Norris	Oct. 23
John Barth	Oct. 24 Edmund G. Brown. Jr.
(between Oct. 25 and 31)
David Goodman	Nov. 12
Shantidas	Nov.19
Marjoe	Nov.20
Ralph Nader	Dec. 2
Graham Steenhoven	Dec. 3
Frederic Wakeman	Dec. 5
Henry Commanger	Dec.12
Dick Gregory	Feb. 12