University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Volume LXVIII, Number 88
Tuesday, March 9, 1976
KSCR receives new equipment, may be broadcast on FM soon
By Peter Fletcher
Staff Writer
KSCR, the student-operated radio station, is about to achieve its biggest goal—broadcasting on FM—said Kevin Keeshan, the station’s general manager.
New equipment will finally be bought for the station from the $9,000 in funding it recently received.
KMET donated an FM exciter transmitter last fall. Mike Cummings, the chief engineer of KSCR, has been working on the transmitter to get it into working order, Keeshan said.
The transmitter is being tested this week, Keeshan said.
“We don’t know what the exact wattage ot the transmitter will be, we don’t even know if it will work,” he explained. He estimated that the transmitter’s wattage would be around five watts.
The station will be sanctioned by the Federal Communications Commission, but not licensed. It will be closely monitored to make sure it complies with FCC regulations, Keeshan said.
Because the station is planning to run on low power, an FCC license is not required, he said.
“If the transmitter does work we will broadcast FM mono to the entire campus. Everyone will have access to student radio.
“The programming is geared to the 18- to 24-year-old college student. It will be a benefit to students. They will be able to hear requests five to 10 minutes after calling them in, which is unheard of in the L. A. area,” Keeshan said.
A lot of potential advertisers have told station salesman that they will advertise as soon as KSCR begins to broadcast on FM, which will increase revenues, Keeshan said.
The station is still looking for new quarters for its studio. Several possibilities are being considered, including the old KUSC studios that are being vacated in June or University Village.
The station has been given space for its new studios in the Social Science Annex, but to construct a studio there would require a great amount of work, Keeshan said.
“Ultimately we will be operating in the new studio over the summer to get all the kinks out, so that we can be operating at an optimum level when school opens in the fall,” he said.
Keeshan, Cummings and Bob Moore, the former general manager of the station, are going to decide what equipment to order for the new studio, Keeshan said.
A delivery date for the new equipment should be known soon, he said.
The station is currently located in Studio C of the Allan Hancock Foundation. The station .shares its studio with radio production classes ofthe School of Journalism.
Keeshan said that the station is looking for a new program director. The former director, Gil Kuang, left for a job with KIEV.
University $37,411 to
By Alix Riley
Managing Editor
The Office of Naval Research has requested that the university reimburse it for $37,411 in faculty salaries that were wrongly charged to the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The office based its decision on a study completed in April, 1974. by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Universities receiving federal funds may charge the government for the time faculty members spend on contracted research. However, the HEW report showed that USC’s system of reporting wages and salaries was deficient in several ways.
asked to reimburse naval research office
For example, a faculty member’s time is divided by percentages into research, teaching and other activities. The HEW report showed that in some cases the total time exceeded 100%.
In another case, a portion of a woman faculty member’s time was reported as being spent on research.
The woman had been on maternity leave for the time period in question.
Paul Robinson, deputy director for contract administration at the naval office’s branch office in Pasadena, said he considers the $37,411 a final figure. It is based on changes for the fiscal years 1970-74.
The university has 30 days to
decide whether it will take the case to the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals.
The last written communication the office had with the university was dated Feb. 16, Robinson said. This would mean a decision was due in eight days.
However, Bill Mann, assistant to the executive vice-president, said he was unfamiliar with the 30-day rule, and that perhaps the 30 days would begin after a telephone conversation on March 4.
Mann said the university has-not yet decided whether to appeal.
“They (the naval office) have reached a figure. We have not yet agreed to it,” he said. “They feel
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Fonda calls for women to build strong coalition
by Denis Wolcott
Staff Writer
Jane Fonda, the actress and political activist, has never been afraid to speak out on the issues. Her talk in Hancock Auditorium Monday was no exception.
More than 500 persons, in a standing-room-only crowd that included persons sitting in aisles and many photographers, heard Fonda comment on the women’s movement, Vietnam, campus unrest and the senatorial campaign of Tom Hayden (her husband).
Fonda’s speech came at the start of Women’s Week, just three days after she had finished filming a movie.
Fonda said women are a major progressive force in the United States. She called for a coalition of women in order to fight the government and to build a strong base. She said this movement should start in California so that it could act as a signal for the rest of the country.
“Women must be in politics,” Fonda said. “We have to fight like hell for the Equal Rights Amendment.”
Fonda said the common problem of women today is economic prosperity. “Women are the first to suffer the cutbacks. We have to reorder the priority system so that women have to be at the top, at the spearhead of things.”
Fonda said that up until about six years ago, she did not see why there was a need for a women’s movement. She said proof is that six years ago she appeared in the title role of Barbarella.
Fonda noted the time she traveled to North Vietnam during the height of the war. She said that even though there were equal-rights laws, there was still an inner struggle between men and women.
“In the United States, we are going to see more conflict between men and women, blacks and whites, union and nonunion people if there continues the shrinking piece of economic pie we receive,” Fonda said.
“Big companies continue to get their share ofthe wealth. We have to make the rich pay their deserved taxes.”
Fonda said that the average person needs to bring the money back from the rich to pay for needed abortion centers, child care centers and basic health needs.
“The laws have been passed, but they haven’t been implemented,” Fonda said.
When asked why she didn’t run for the Senate, Fonda replied, “I’m an actress, and besides, there are too many actors running for office anyway.”
Fonda said there is not as much visible protest on campus today as there was in the 1960s because there is too much pressure on students to get good grades. Therefore, there is not much time to demonstrate.
“I think it’s a confusing time for students. I basically think that the people who go to USC are people who feel cheated by the status quo, who are fed up with ‘business as usual,’ who believe change is necessary, who feel they are going to get the short end of things.
During her husband’s campaign, Fonda has noted many Vietnam veterans are in support of Hayden’s ideas.
WOMEN'S WEEK—Jane Fonda, left, and Holly Near provided interpretations of their roles as women in two seperate appearances Monday to kickoff Women's Week here. Fonda's remarks are captured below; the story on Near's performance appears on page two. Women's Week activities continue today with a panel on International Women's Concerns at 12:30 p.m. at the Women's Resource Center in the YWCA, and the screening of Woman to Woman at 6 p.m. at the resource center. DT photos by Bob La Bayne.