University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, Number 71	_Los Angeles, California_Tuesday, February 11, 1975
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Trojan
SOUNDS OF SILENCE—If this picture can be taken as evidence, it would appear that most students haven't really gotten into studying for their classes yet. The philosophy library, officially named Hoose Library, was nearly empty Monday. Students must have chosen to study elsewhere, if at all. DT photo by Gehrig Ikeda. •
Almost 50% of LAS profs
favor collective bargaining
BY TOM ROSA
Staff Writer
Almost 50% of the faculty of the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences have responded favorably to the idea of academic collective bargaining, said John E. Elliot, professor of economics and copresident of the American Association of University Professors.
If implemented, the academic bargaining would allow an agent for the faculty to negotiate with the administration for increased benefits and representation.
Elliot said responses have been coming in sporadically since designation cards asking LAS faculty members whether they wanted academic collective bargaining were sent out in early December.
“We expect affirmative responses from 60 to 70% of the faculty by the time all the cards are turned in,” he said.
He said the next step will be for the association to petition the National Labor Relations Board for an official academic collective bargaining election on campus or to canvass the professional schools to measure their support for the issue.
“We are not limited to choosing one of these or the other,” Elliot said. “We could do both of them simultaneously.”
The association could have petitioned the board when it rece jd 30% favorable responses from the faculty, but Elliot said he wanted to have a high degree of faculty confidence before petitioning for an official election on campus.
He expects action to be taken in the next six weeks regarding to the petitioning ofthe board and a canvassing of the professional schools.
The return ofthe designation cards slowed down during finals and the semester break, but Elliot said he will send reminders to all the faculty.
Elliot said the position ofthe association is not to convert the faculty into blindly accepting collective bargaining, but to provide the fullest opportunity for dialogue and education on the subject.
The association has sponsored programs and speakers to inform the faculty on the progress of collective bargaining on other campuses and to answer questions and describe the process.
Academic collective bargaining has only recently been established at many ofthe nations colleges and universities, so many of the faculty are uninformed about the issue. Elliot said.
If collective bargaining passes, he said, the bargaining agent for the faculty would have to be determined in the labor board elections.
The association represents most of the faculties on college and university campuses that have voted to establish collective bargaining. Any organization that wants to be considered as an agent may ask the board to have its name placed on the election list.
Elliot said the association has been active on this campus for several decades and so it should be playing a leading role in the academic collective bargaining process.
MYRLIE EVERS SPEAKS
ROSCOE LEE BROWNE
Actor scheduled to read his poetry here tonight
Roscoe Lee Browne, actor and poet, will read his poetry at8 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium today.
The Watts Symphony Orchestra, with the Operation Bread Basket Choir, will also perform music by the late Scott Joplin, ragtime and blues composer.
The performances will honor Eartha Kitt, nightclub and television entertainer, and Dr. Claude Hudson, civil rights leader The program is part of Black History Week.
Los Angeles drama critics awarded Browne th^best actor award in 1970 for his performance in the play,Dream on Monkey Mountain.
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Black involvement urged
BY STEVEN HAWKINS
Staff Writer
In 1963. a 37-year-old leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N AACP) was gunned down as he stood in the doorway of his home in Jackson. Miss.
Monday. 12 years later, his widow stood before an audience of 150 students in Bovard Auditorium Her speech. "Where Do We Go From Here?” was the opening activity in the university's Black History week, which included an appearance by Mayor Tom Bradley.
Medgar W. Evers was the s'.ain civil rights leader—a man ranked with men of Ma'tin Luther Kings stature. The widow is Myrlie Evers, a pubiic figure in her own right, who has continued in civi! rights efforts without her husband
She told her audience that blacks have fallen into a transitional period of apathy and must recreate the momentum of the 1960s in order to experience the full meaning of a black existence.
Evers, an authoress, lecturer, and civic leader noted throughout the country, said it was time for blacks to reassess their situation and search for their salvation as a people.
“Apathy has taken over,” she said, “deadly apathy—deadly to anyone who falls victim to it. Apathy is a luxury black people can not afford.
“We are a beautiful people;we are a strong, proud people. But when are we going to be a together people?
"The time has come when we must take on the full responsibility of our well-being and the paths we will travel.”
Evers said black people should move forward; they must not dwell on the past.
“Today is a new day, and we need methods different from those ofthe past. But those days were a beginning, when we black people grew and blossomed.” She said the violence of the
TOM BRADLEY
necessary. It was a time of awakening, when America learned that “this entire country had a disease that she herself had refused to admit she had ” Evers called for the nation's higher educational institutions to build curriculums reflecting the black interest and contributions to America.
“Our salvation lies in you—in building strong minds in our young people. We have to reach back into feelings of commit-
ment and determination —feelings that reach out and make us a community as a whole,” Evers said.
“We do know that it’s an uphill fight. It's a battle where other people may be killed. If they must, they must. But we must have the intelligence to indoctrinate ourselves and our children into the spirit of being black.”
She called for black people to build strong economic bases and elect to office persons who are concerned for the welfare of all black citizens.
"What we can't afford is competition between black men and women. There’s enough out there for all of us,” Evers said to warm applause.
“The times have changed. It is no longer in’ to be black. For a while everybody was looking for their token black to put out front to be seen. But in our struggle to get in, we have fallen out. and someone else has slipped in," she observed.
Following Evers' speech, Mayor Tom Bradley spoke briefly on the advances blacks have made in recent years.
“I can remember when you couldn’t find a handful of black students at USC. This is almost a revolution in itself,” he said, viewing the numerous blacks in the audience.
Bradley pledged to create a spirit of brotherhood in the city, and called for pride for all blacks—"pride for you to face not only today’s problems but also tomorrow’s problems, and to know from whence you came."