HEW wants more women profs in LAS
BV STEVEN HAWKINS
More women are available and qualified to serve as professors than the number currently employed by the School of Letters. Arts and Sciences, according to national statistics.
In the school, seven of 114 professors (6rv) are women, while national availabil ity figures show that 147r of the people qualified to hold such a professorships are women.
These figures are part of an Affirmative Action Progress Report filed by the university with the Department of Health. Education and Welfare.
The report also indicates that the number of minorities employed by the university at the professor level is above that of national availability statistics.
Seven of 114 professors in LAS (6'r) be long to minority groups while the national availability of qualified is less than lrr.
These national figures state the total number of doctorates awarded from 1940 through 1971 and the percentages of these doctorates awarded to either men or
women.
These percentages provide an acceptable standard of availability because a doctorate is a standard prerequisite for any faculty position above instructor.
Nationally. 14r/r of the doctorates awarded during this period went to women, according to a study by the National Research Council.
A Ford Foundation study shows that
0.78% of all doctorates awarded between 1964 and 1968 went to blacks.
At the time the progress report was submitted, no figures were available on the number of doctorates awarded to all minorities combined.
Barbara Pearson, director of the Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity office, said the availability of black doctorates was comparable to those of all minorities and therefore provides an acceptable standard.
Pearson's office submitted the progress reports last month. She said that while the university is making some progress in promoting women to the professor level.
there is still room for improvement
“The picture is changing,” she said, adding that departments have a greater awareness of and sensitivity to the problem.
She said this awareness simply hasn't taken hold as rapidly as women would like. The discrepancy between the number of women and men at the professor level is a major complaint of women at universities across the nation.
In the last six years, the university has decreased the number of women professors in LAS from 11 to 6. decreased the number of women associate professors from 15to 14,and increased the numberof women assistant professors from 17 to 22.
Despite the increase at the assistant level, women are more concerned with the decrease at the full professor level. Pearson said women feel they are not reaching the top ranks of the faculty.
While the university has hired and replaced men professors in LAS. women are not being promoted or replaced. Pearson said. This is true across the nation, she said, and cited the tight labor market as
one reason.
Academic administrators are not included in the statistics ofthe faculty composition of LAS.
As for minority faculty members, LAS has added three professors and five assistant professors, while losing two associate professors.
Definite efforts are being made at the university to add qualified women professors, she said But she pointed out that it is always a matter of hiring the most qualified candidate.
Pearson said departments are making determined efforts to hire qualified women and minorities. She cited the School of Education, which has promoted one woman to professor and two women to associate professor in the last year.
Another professional school, the School ofEngineering. has promoted one woman to assistant professor and added a new assistant professor in the last two years. Pearson said this was excellent, since women hold less than 1% ofthe doc-
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University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, No. 53	'	Los Angeles, Californio	Friday, December 6, 1974
Judge bans 2 firms’ sale of term papers
A Superior Court judge ruled that two firms may not sell term papers to college students.
Judge Campbell M. Lucas ruled that the firms. Research Assistance. Inc. and its subsidiary. Berkeley Research Library, could not sell term papers but could legally sell “research papers" to college students.
Art Steckel. a representative forthe Los Angeles firm, said the ruling against his firm violates the First Amendment, which allows for the dissemination of information
Steckel said that the state’s de-finition of a term paper was ridiculous and restrictive.
The state law bans the sale of term papers that:
•	Contain facts or conclusions not attributed to any specific source other than the author of the paper,
•	Are written in narrative form with footnotes;
•	Use stylistic tools such as anecdotes, rhetorical questions or humorous asides;
•	Contain title, subtitles or subsections;
•	Are in a form suitable for submission for academic credit with only minor changes;
•	Are written in first-person form and have subjective opinions of the author.
The suit was filed by state prosecutors at the request of the trustees of the California State University and College system who said students’ ability to purchase ready-made term papers was weakening the prestige of the institution’s degrees.
Steckel said that his firm was simply an extension of existing research centers.
A student could get the same information from a campus library that he could get by paying $2.75 a page from his firm, he said.
“When a student purchases a paper from our files, fie must sign a disclaimer that says the student will not use the paper as a finished product,” Steckel
said.
The judge gave the firm until Friday to allow company officials to take the salable re-
search papers off the market.
Research Assistance. Inc.. has more than 6.000 papers in its files that cover various academic fields.
Steckel said all the papers are written inthe same format and it is highly unlikely that an individual paper could be used verbatim.
“Ifthey are going to plagiarize, they are going to plagiarize no matter where they get their information." he said.
The number of students that use the firm is minimal, he said.
“Based on our marketing data we have found that one out of every 1.000students will use our firm,” he said.
“All we are doing is selling information.” he said. “What is illegal about that?”
Lloyd W. Brown, chairman of the Comparative Literature Department, said that purchased research papers are very similar to Monarch and Cliff notes-—booklets giving a synopsis and analysis of written works.
He said that his department has not had any problems with students using purchased re* search papers.
“We assign papers that are too specific for a student to get any help from a research paper,” said Allan Casson, director of undergraduate studies in English.
He said that teachers can recognize if a student suddenly writes an “A” paper after having received a series of low grades.
Casson said he has never heard of any problems in his de partment, but that problems could arise in comparative literature and other departments where assignments arc not specific enough, classes are large and a teacher does not know the students individually or gives only a few writing assignments each semester.
Brown said that Casson \s assumption about his department was absolute nonsense.
Brown also said that research papers can be used and abused by students in the same manner that any information a student collects on the outside can he.
TWO WEEKS REMAINING
Financial aid deadline approaches
Undergraduates presently receiving any type of university financial aid must apply for renewal by Dec. 20.
Just under three-fourths ofthe renewal applications have been picked up, said Steve Brown, a financial aid counselor.
Brown said the Financial Aid Office is concerned because of the nearness ofthe deadline.
“If students don’t get the applications in time, they’ll be in trouble. We're not going to extend deadlines,” he said.
The deadline also applies to continuing student who are applying for aid for the first time. The deadline for new students' applications is Jan. 31.
Renewal and present student applications must be accompanied by $4 in the form of a check or money order only. Now students are exempt from the cha rge.
The office determines the student’s financial need lor university scholarships. Supple-
mental Educational Opportunity Grants and National Direct Student Loans.
Brown said that students must remember to have their applica-
tions notarized in the space provided on the application. The applications will be mailed back to the parents if the notarized signature is missing.
Honor society to consider candidates
The Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Membership Committee will meet next week to consider those students eligible for membership in the national honor society.
Any senior student with at least a 3.6 cumulative grade point average who will have completed 96 units in the College of Letters, Arts and Sci ences by the time of their graduation is eligible for consideration. Transfer stu dents must have completed at least 58 units at USC’.
Students who may be eligi ble for consideration should bring a transcript to Joan M Schafer, dean of women and secretary ofthe USC chapter, in Student Union 201 by Mon dav
EVERYTHING'S ROSY—The director of the Trojan Marching Band, Arthur C. Bartner, observed the first of many days of Rose Bowl practice Thursday. The bands, as well as the football teams, of the Rose Bowl schools
will be in intense competition on Jan 1. Both bands are considered among the nation's best. DT photo by Bob Chavez.