Hubbard denies he will resign
BY LINDA CIRIGLIANO and MARJIE LAMBERT
President John R. Hubbard vehemently denied Monday that he plans to resign.
“Of course I'm not resigning,” he said emphatically. “I have no plans to do so.”
Rumors that Hubbard is planning to resign and that Houston I. Flournoy, university professor, will be the next president have circulated on campus for several months.
The rumors increased after the Los Angeles Times reported on April 20 that Hubbard is in poor health and that Flournoy is considered by some campus sources to be his successor.
Hubbard said that he is not in poor health and that he had categorically denied the rumors when he spoke with the Times.
Hubbard said he will deny the resignation rumors publicly during a meeting of the President’s Advisory Council on Wednesday.
On April 29, the Daily Trojan reported that several administrators and Flournoy had denied the resignation rumors. Hub-
bard was in Iran at the time and was unavailable for comment.
Zohrab A. Kaprielian, vice-president for academic administration and research who was acting president during Hubbard’s absence, denied the rumors and Said there are no plans to move Flournoy into a leadership position.
Since Flournoy’s appointment as a university professor in February following his defeat in the California gubernatorial race, there has been much speculation as to whether he is being groomed for an administrative position.
In April. Flournoy said he has discussed the possibility with the administration.
However, he added that the discussions were general ones, and that it would be premature for him to comment.
In the April 29 article, the Daily Trojan referred to reports by anonymous sources within the administration that Hubbard might be leaving to assume the presidency ofthe University of Texas, his alma mater. Hubbard also denied these reports.
JOHN R. HUBBARD
IT'S GREEK TO ME—The Greek Theatre stage came alive Saturday night for the 22nd annual performance of Songfest. Here, a band of junkyard magicians dance in the Phi Gamma Delta-Delta Gamma production, "Join Us." DT photo by Ed Moy.
America’s past wins Songfest sweepstakes
The theme of Songfest ‘75. “Shades of Things to Come,” was apropos. Many things were uncertain.
As the musical was presented Saturday evening at the Greek Theater, no one was sure if the shouting that marred last year's production would occur again.
No one was sure if it would rain.
But most of all, no one knew who would win.
In the end. “200 Years of America,” an act depicting America’s past, rather than the future, walked off with the Sweepstakes Award and first place in the production division.
The act was presented by Kappa Sigma fraternity and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority members.
Greg Morris, of television's Mission Impossible hosted the evening, casually dropping names of famous USC alumni and at times, conversing with the few seated in the back who shouted quips in return to many of his jokes.
Second place in production went to Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Chi Omega who sang about America's 200th anniversary in “Celebration 1976.”
Members ofChi Phi and Alpha Gamma Delta took third place in production for their presentation depiciting the second coming of Christ.
The winner of small groups was the Outhouse, who sang about a possible future social outlet—the legilization of
marijuana—in their entry entitled “A Really Good Number.” The Choral Division was won by members of Alpha Phi and Tau Kappa Epsilon who sang about ‘ USC 2002.“ a sneak preview of USC in the Jan. 1. 2002 Rose Bowl. This production unit also won the award for being the most spirited of the performing groups.
Best set was awarded to Phi Gamma Delta and Delta Gamma for their musical story about a band of magicians in their production entitled “Join Us.” “Future Headlines,” a presentation revealing how the man in the moon is really a woman was performed by Phi Delta Theta and Gamma Phi Beta. The production won the award for best costumes.
Mike Marchetta, a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, was voted best director for the musical number “Join Us.” Other groups participated in the musical show, which lasted over three hours, but did not win any of the awards.
Nick Maloof, a singer and composer, was the guest performer and sang a medley of selections from the show and a song from his soon-to-be-released album. Ask Me.
Songfest is the largest student musical performance of its kind in the country. In all, ten groups practiced three months in preparation for their six minutes on stage.
The proceeds from the more than 3,000 persons attending the show go to help Troy Camp.
Daily Sit Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, Number 122 Los Angeles, California	Tuesday, May 6, 1975
Some women unaware of their part in pay dispute
BY STEVEN HAWKINS
Staff Writer
Of the 19 women whose salaries are being considered in a possible $70,000 faculty wage settlement, some have said they are satisfied with their salaries and are unaware of any inequities.
Several were also unaware that their salaries were the subject of a wage dispute between the university and the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor.
The Los Angeles office of the division said the university discriminated against the 19 women by not paying them salaries comparable to those of their male colleagues doing similar work.
The findings were limited to 16 women in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and three women in the School of Education. The findings only pertain to tenured women at the associate- or fu 11-professor levels.
In the study, which originated more than two years ago, salaries of men and women were compared, and substantial differences were discovered at those levels. Officials at the division refused to identify the persons whose complaints prompted their investigation.
Two of the women said they were satisfied with their salary status. Dorothy Hartshorn, who
holds a dual professorship in the School of Education and the School of Music, said she never gave it (salary inequity) a thought.
“I do not want my name associated with any dissatisfaction with the university," she said. She had no knowledge of her connection with the dispute until the Daily Trojan contacted her.
Hartshorn said she never knew there was a problem in faculty salaries and was happy with her salary.
Dorothy McMahon, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, agreed with Hartshorn. “I have never felt I was the subject of any discrimination,” she said. “I, myself, never have felt there was any discrimination against women per se.”
McMahon said it Was a matter of funding within departments because there is not enough money for all of the problems.
She, too, was unaware that her salary was among those being studied.
Also unaware of their inclusion in the dispute were Michele Buchanan, associate professor of French and Italian, and Constance Lovell, associate professor of psychology.
The university never actively approached the women with news of their inclusion in the dispute, said Barbara M. Pearson, director of the university's
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Office.
She said she never approached the women because it would put them on the spot and make them an active part of the dispute. Pearson released their names last week.
Some ofthe women attributed their ignorance of the situation to the confidentiality of faculty salaries.
Janet Bolton, associate professor of speech communication, said. “In a private university, most of us do not know what our colleagues are making."
She said women have long believed they were receiving inequitable salaries, but never knew the extent of the inequities.
Bolton credited the women's movement and the move toward collective bargaining with focusing attention on the inequities. She also credited the affirmative action program with making progress toward salary equalization.
McMahon and Bolton both said the inequities were due in part to the hiring of newer faculty at current market prices.
They said faculty members who have been with the university for many years were originally hired at much lower salaries, and that despite yearly raises, those members never catch up with newer faculty hired at higher salaries.
Change in salary funding denied
BY WAYNE WALLEY
Slaff Writer
A university administrator has denied that a primary goal of Century II. the university ’s upcoming centennial campaign, will be to raise enough money to stop paying salaries with tuition monies.
In September, President John R. Hubbard outlined the plans for Century II, a massive fundraising project designed to meet the goals of the master plan for the university's centennial in 1980.
Of primary importance was a goal of securing the necessary endowment to “maintain and replenish USC’s truly preeminent faculty," Hubbard said.
This sparked the Faculty Senate to recognize the possibiltiy of an increased endowment that would separate salaries from tuition. But Roger F. Olson, associate vice-president of university affairs, said it was an unrealistic possibility.
Olson said the endowment would have to be 20 times the faculty payroll to separate salaries from tuition.
Richard Perry, president of the Senate, said the faculty realized the endowment would never take care ofthe entire payroll, but that it was their hope that the campaign and an increased endowment would relieve part ofthe strain on tuition.
Olson agreed but said. "The endowment increase will not be sufficient to greatly relieve the tuition burden, but it will help.”
A committee has started work on the campaign, but because of its nature. Olson said he could not reveal details.
“It is common knowledge that a committee has neen formed and that the goal ofthe campaign is to raise $265 million in endowment funds, but in a project like this, we do not wish to go public until 20% to 30% of the work is completed,” Olson said In September, Hubbard expressed concern over the university’s small endowment of $55 million “We are launching this program in the worst economic times, but there is no reason to delay." Hubbard said.