BOMB SEARCH—Campus Security officers inspected lockers in the University Bookstore following an anonymous telephoned bomb threat Monday morning. The store was evacuated, and officers notified occupants of the Student Union Building of the threat. No explosives were found, and the bookstore reopened after a 30-minute search. DT photo by Shuji Ito.
University Village set for opening in June
BY TOM ROSA
Staff Writer
After months of strikes, bad weather and building supply delays, the University Village shopping center is now preparing for occupation by a wide variety of merchants.
By the end of June, most ofthe merchants who have signed leases will be moved into the shopping center, said Michael Thompson, leasing agent for the center.
The center, originally scheduled to open in 1971. is located north of Jefferson Boulevard, between Hoover Boulevard and McClintock Avenue. The 15-acre land parcel is owned by the Hoover Redevelopment Corporation, headed by Morrie Notrica. owner of 32nd Street Market.
The center is also part of the Hoover Redevelopment Project, a multi-million dollar project to renew the area surrounding the university.
In addition to the existing Bank of America and Security Pacific Bank. Western Federal Savings will open for business today. Thompson said.
The only other business preparing to open this month is Tam's Bookstore.
Notrica's 32nd Street Market should open in the latter part of
May or early part of June. Thompson said.
Notrica plans to expand his store to more than four times its present size to carry’ a full line of non-grocery items. The store will include a delicatessen, bakery, liquor department and pharmacy.
Notrica’s present store will be torn down tn provide additional parking space for village patrons.
Most ofthe stores should open during the month of June, Thompson said.
Stores that have already signed leases and expected to open in June include: Silver-woods; American Pants; Wild Price Boutique; Where’s It At, a mens’ fashion store; Collin's Fashions; P C. Boutique: Mr. Photo: Magic Machine; University Travel; a sporting goods store; a wig shop; a flower shop: Optic Boutique: Baskin-Robbins 31 Flavors; Hub Spokes Cleaners; a laundromat; a bike shop; and an international food and boutique store.
The international food store will feature cuisine, ranging from Chinese to soul food.
Three stores are set for a July opening including a family amusement center, a cleaners and a pizza parlor.
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University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, Number 102
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, April 8,1975
University faces $70,000 retroactive pay decision
BY STEVEN HAWKINS
Staff Writer
The university may have to pay more than the $70,000 in retroactive wages originally requested by the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division if it is found to be in violation of federal laws requiring equal pay to persons of both sexes doing similar work, a division official said Monday.
Last month, the division said the university discriminated against 19 female faculty members by not paying them salaries equal to those of their male colleagues doing similar work.
The $70,000 represents a first-time adjustment for the women and includes both back pay and increases in the women’s present salaries this year, said John E. Cantelon, vice-president for undergraduate studies and dean ofthe College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
The figure could be astronomical or it could be less than $70,000, depending upon the violation, said Carl Oelrich, area director ofthe Los Angeles office of the Wage and Hour Divison of the Department of Labor.
Based on data extending back to the fall of 1972. Oelrich said that at the university “certain female academic staff members have been paid less than their male counterparts for performing substantially the same work."
The $70,000 figure is inaccurate, Oelrich said. If the university is forced to increase present salaries for the 19 women, the figure could grow substantially over the years, he said.
The Wage and Hour Division announced its findings during the second week of March, after more than two years of investigations. The division studied statistical salary information from both the School of Education and LAS.
The university is preparing a document containing its responses to the recommendations for salary adjustments.
“We do not understand the basis for some oftheir conclusions, nor necessarily agree with them,” Cantelon said last week.
The document will cite "parallel cases to show discrimination did not occur in some instances.’’ Cantelon said. Every recommendation from the division will be reviewed individually and some will probably be accepted, he said.
It is up to the university to “show hard and fast evidence” before the Wage and Hour Division will change its stand, Oelrich said.
Cantelon said some of the raises scheduled for next year should handle some of the inequities cited in the recommendations.
The situation is presently under negotiation. Oelrich said, and “could very well end up in the courts." But he said he hopes for an amicable settlement.
If the university and the divison cannot settle the situation, the recommendations could only be forced upon the university through a court order.
The university "doesn't hesitate to go to court if it is justified,” Cantelon said last week.
Oelrich said it could be weeks before the matter is finally settled. After he and his staff have evaluated the university’s responses, Oelrich will decide whether to accept the data and change the original recommendations.
The Wage and Hour Division’s first priority is future compliance on salaries, Oelrich said. Only after the question of future salaries has been settled will the divison consider the question of back pay for the 19 women.
The investigation was limited to 19 women in LAS and three women in the School of Education
The request only applies to women who hold tenured positions at the full professor or associate professor level. Since the investigation was completed. two of the women have died and one has retired, bringing the number now affected to 19
Academic vice-president to retire June 30; cites medical reasons
BY FERRIS KAPLAN
Milton C. Kloetzel will retire from his position as academic vice-president and professor of organic chemistry, effective June 30.
Kloetzel, a university administrator for 30 years, said Monday that he is retiring on medical advice. He will leave the Southern California area because of respiratory7 and allergy problems.
The Board of Trustees granted Kloetzel special leave beginning at the end of this semester.
“We are sorry to see Milton leave us.” President John R Hubbard said, "but we would be remiss in insisting that he stay against his doctor's advice.”
Hubbard's office said there
has been no decision made as to Kloetzel’s successor.
Kloetzel was dean of the Graduate School from 1958 until 1968 and is a former chairman of the Western Association of Graduate Schools.
He also served as a member of the California Coordinating Council for Higher Education, the executive committee of the Western College Association, and as trustee ofthe Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities.
In 1966 Kloetzel became interim vice-president for academic affairs, and vice-president for research and graduate affairs the next year His title was changed to academic vice-president in 1970.
A native of Detroit, Kloetzel received his doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of Michigan.
He taught at Harvard, is a member of the Association of Harvard Chemists and was on the DePauw University faculty before coming to USC in 1945. Kloetzel was promoted to the rank of full professor five years later.
From 1950 to 1959 he was chairman ofthe division of physical sciences and mathematics in the university's College of Letters. Arts and Sciences.
The author of many technical papers in synthetic chemistry. Kloetzel had special interest in chemotherapy. During World
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Topping fund praised on 5th anniversary
BY WAYNE WALLEY
Staff Writer
On April 8. 1970. students approved a measure to assess themselves a special fee to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for aid to low-income students.
Today, at the half-way point of the original 10-year plan for the annual $8 fee. the Norman Topping Student Aid Fund has assisted 78 low-income students and has an endowment of $1.2 million.
Chancellor Norman Topping said he is proud of the progress ofthe fund as it reaches its five-year anniversary.
“As far as I am concerned, the fund has been very well managed and I am extremely proud,”
he said Monday. “For the first five years, it has fulfilled its purpose and now has a strong endowment so that it will be able to continue in times of adversity,” Topping said.
Joseph S. Palacios, director ofthe fund, said. “We are proud that we have graduated people out of law school, medical school and other professional schools who are professionals now largely because of the fund.” Maria Stratton, student chairman ofthe governing board for the fund, was also pleased with the progress.
“The plan was student-originated and is governed by the students,” Stratton said.
Now, at the half-way point of the original plan, Palacios said
work has to be done to enhance the program and improve it from the students' standpoint.
To enhance the program, future recipients must contribute 20 hours a semester in services to either the university or the community as a way to say thanks. Palacios said.
“We also have to look at the student standpoint. Over 99^ of the students are not receiving money from the fund, but yet they contribute.” Palacios said.
The university has been accused of ignoring the surrounding community, but the fact remains that the students created a fund for the low-income student, he said. “This is tremendously good publicity and enhances the university by show-
ingthe altruism ofthe students.” Stratton said the project job at hand is to begin showing students the benefits of the plan so that they will vote to continue its assessment in 1980.
Palacos said students must realize that the fund has given the university and its students good publicity. This is evidenced by an editorial from the April 14, 1970 issue of the Los Angeles Times.
The editorial said. “We believe USC’s students have shown both maturity and concern in setting up a scholarship program. Their action can only enhance their university.”
The editorial praised the students, saying, "The combined student-administration scho-
larship fund is expected to produce nearly $500,000 annually. That adds up to a lot of assistance. even at a top tuition fee school like USC.
“While USC students are not the inventors of the student tax. they are among the first student bodies in the nation to utilize this route to offer a helping hand.
"Especially heartening is the student decision not to limit the scholarships to specific minorities but to all in need.” the Titties said.
The tund was originally designed to get low-income stu dents to attend the university.
Stratton said it has done that by helping students that were in
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