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University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, Number 76	Los Angeles, California Thursday, February 20, 1975
Grant increase for hiring welfare recipients rejected
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VOLLEYBALL GAME—Engineering students defeated faculty members from the School of Engineering in a volleyball match held Wednesday at the Archimedes Plaza. The final score was 3-2. The game was part of Engineers' Week activities. Voting will continue for Engineering 3ueen from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Archimedes Plaza. DT photo by Bob Selan.
Senate alters policy on merit pay raises
A Faculty Senate proposal for merit raises has been amended to allow more discretion on the part ofthe administration ofthe College of Letters. Arts, and Sciences in determining those raises.
The senate recommended Wednesday that John Cantelon. vice-president for undergraduate studies and dean ofthe College of Letters. Arts, and Sciences. be allowed to deviate, if necessary, from its original recommendations on faculty merit budget procedures.
The senate had suggested at a special meeting on Jan. 11 that the alloted funds to be used for a 10% faculty salary increase for 1975-76 be divided into two categories.
Of the funds. 55% would be a cost-of-living grant that would give each faculty member a 5.7% raise on the first $25,000 of salary'. The remaining 45% of these monies would be allocated entirely on a merit basis.
At Wednesday's meeting, the senate said it will not object if Cantelon deems it necessary to deviate from the senate’s twomode proposal, but it was requested that any deviations be reported to the president of the Faculty Senate
“It is not the duty and responsibility' of the faculty to determine what is actually a vice-president's job." said William A. Harris, Jr.. professor of mathematics and a senator. “We
don’t want to reduce deans and vice-presidents to mere clerks."
Cantelon was not at the meeting. The discussion generated from a memo that had been sent by him to answer questions on the merit procedures.
A senate member pointed out that the group's original twomode proposal did not give each division the flexibility of funds necessary to bid against schools that might compete for their faculty members.
BY WAYNE WALLEY
Staff Writer
A proposal to expand a federally-funded program that enabled the university to hire 120 persons on welfare since last year for transitional employment was rejected by the city last week.
The university received an earlier grant of $656,000 under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. If accepted, the new proposal would have provided another $400,000 for the emergency employment program.
“The proposal was turned down on a manei of principle,” said Barbara Pearson, director of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action.
“The rejection was based on a policy to limit the latest grants to public agencies only,” she said. “But I expect the university’s new proposal for funds will be accepted by the city in March.”
The first grant was given to the university through the City of Los Angeles as a part of the federal government's revenue-sharing program and a series of emergency public service bills.
Pearson said the rejection ofthe proposal would have no adverse effects on the program already in progress.
“The only setback from the rejection is that we can t hire people right now,” she said. “We have the jobs available and the departments are willing to take on the responsibility, but we need the grant."
The bulk of the money granted by the city last week was received by the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Rapid Transit District. UCLA. California State University at Los Angeles, and California State University at Northridge.
Still. Pearson is confident the university will be
allocated more funds for the program in March.
“Our program is one of the most successful,” she said. “I am very optimistic and I have had a lot of commitments to get the money in March.”
The proposal for March is for $1.5 million. Pearson is apprehensive of being granted that amount, but she is hopeful for a substantial allocation.
“Right now we have requests for 200 jobs undei this program and we are getting a lot of imaginative ideas of what departments would do because of the added manpower,” Pearson said.
The program was instrumental in expanding the Joint Educational Project and Student Health Service by enabling them to hire more employees.
“This program has helped provide a better service to students and staff, plus it ties us in closer to the community for the benefit of all,” Pearson said.
The purpose of the one-year project w as to provide job training and transitional employment opportunities to the economically disadvantaged in areas of high unemployment.
Pearson said 24 persons hired through the program resigned because they found better jobs either within the university or community.
"The city can t personalize.” she said. ' Because of our smaller atmosphere, we can fit the job to the person which is of benefit to the city, university, and the person."
The university was the only private institution receiving funds under the program.
Pearson also said her office hired 47 people because of a state grant and plans to hire another 14 persons under the Work Incentive Program-—Career Opportunity Development, a one-year trainee program designed to employ heads of families on welfare.
CONSERVATISM DEFENDED
Columnist sees threat to freedom
BY NANCY SHINABARGAR
Assistant City Editor
By the year 2000. nearly 60% of the nation's economy will pay for government services, said a noted conservative newspaper columnist w ho feels it will mark the end of freedom and individuality.
“Anything approaching a free society can’t be maintained if government takes that big a chunk of the economy,” James J. Kilpatrick told an audience in Bovard Auditorium yesterday.
Kilpatrick, author of a nationally-syndicated column, “The Conservative View,” said he was glad to speak at the university as the “token front-office conservative.”
Director appointed for School of Journalism
Edward P. Bassett, associate vice-chancellor of the University of Kansas, has been appointed director ofthe School of Journalism.
The appointment, which will become effective Aug. 1. was announced Wednesday by John E. Cantelon. vice-president for undergraduate studies and dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Bassett, 46. will replace Theodore E. Kruglak. who returned to full-time teaching and research last year after serving for ten years as director.
Bassett, former dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas, is president-elect ofthe Association for Education in
Journalism and president ofthe American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism.
He received his bachelor of arts degree from Washington and Lee University, his master's degree from the University of Michigan and his doctorate in mass communications from the University of Iowa.
He served as dean of the university of Kansas School of Journalism from 1970 until his recent appointment as associate vice-chancellor of that university.
Kenneth Owler Smith, interim director of the School of Journalism. will continue to serv e in that position until Bassett's appointment becomes effective.
Speaking before about 200 people, Kilpatrick speculated about the future ofthe American economy, politics and Watergate.
Although Kilpatrick said the economic situation was serious, he asserted that Americans’ appetite for bad news was sometimes making the situation worse.
“We aren't in quite as desperate a situation as is made out. There is something in the American character that loves bad news, and we’ve had plenty of it.
“We’re so eager to hear the bad news that we fail to reflect that 85 million Americans do have jobs,” he said.
The upswing of the stock market in the past few weeks is an indication of a returning confidence, Kilpatrick said.
The Republican Party’s difficulties in dealing with practical politics are worse now than after the defeat of Barry Goldwa-ter in 1964. Kilpatrick said.
Watergate has left the party stained, with only 18% of the electorate willing to classify themselves as Republicans. At the same time. Kilpatrick said, the conservative ideology is picking up. with some polls indicating that more than 50% of the people classify themselves as conservatives.
With the change toward conservatism, but away from the Republican Party, the time may be right for a new third party, he said. A similar split occurred in 1852 and 1854 when the Whig Party was superseded by the Republican P.irty.
“Conservative hunger, in our romantic way, for a true conservative party—it’s very tempting. But most history of third parties is a history of futility,” he said.
The greatest problem facing a new conservative party would be a lack of leadership.
Kilpatrick said former Gov. Ronald Reagan had too many enemies to be nominated
JAMES J. KILPATRICK
Sen. James Buckley (Cons.-R.-N.Y.), was a choice of
Kilpatrick’s as an effective spokesman for the conservative viewpoint. Sen. Jesse Helms (R.-S.C.), while little known nationally, was another of Kilpatrick's choices as an articulate and responsible conservative.
The “Washington Wonderland." as Kilpatrick labels it, has provided him with unique and sometimes tragic experiences. As the last newspaper reporter ever granted an exclusive inter-
view with former President Nixon. Kilpatrick reflected on the remoteness of the President nearly three months before his downfall.
"He wasn’t the same crisp and incisive old Nixon. He was not his ordinary self at all. He talked like he was detached. He was out of it—out of the real world. And this was only in May.”
Kilpatrick was a regular commentator on the CBS program 60 Minutes, facing Nicholas von Hoffman, a liberal newspaper columnist, in weekly topical discussions. Von Hoffman provided some of the most controversial moments on the show. Kilpatrick said.
Von Hoffman was fired from 60 Minutes shortly after Nixon's resignation for a remark that brought over 1.000 critical letters to the CBS network. Von Hoffman likened Nixon to a dead mouse on the kitchen floor of America, who needed someone to carry him out to the nearest receptacle.
Kilpatrick said he was one of many people who tried to keep Von Hoffman from being fired. Aside from the Nixon remark. Kilpatrick felt Von Hoffman had outstanding credentials as an economic reporter in national and international fiscal policy.
While working in television. Kilpatrick said he found that the tabloid journalism of the early 20th century was present in the medium.
“There are certain overtones of yellow journalism in the days of the penny papers. TV news is more show business than journalism." he said