Security officers take training in weapon use
m FERRIS KAPLAN
Bv W ednesday, all 50 officers of the Campus Security forcc will have completed the first part of a new training course designed to teach them new procedures and techniques in the use of weapons and handling delinquency.
"The program is just recognition of what we've been Irving to get for three years, and the university rcalh needed it." John I 1 echner. director of Campus Security and Parking Operations, said Monday.
"All Campus Security officers must and "ill be as qualified as Los Angeles Police Department officers 111 weapons use when thc\ have finished."
Flic first part of the program consists of several three-day sessions centered around weapons safety. C apt. Bill Burke of Campus Security instructed the officers at the Long Beach Public Pistol Range. The sessions started at the beginning of March and the final one will take place Wednesday.
The officers will now be required to meet the predetermined firing range qualifications even two months. If an officer doesn't qualilv two consecutive times on the range, he will be given individual instruction until he gets the minimal score needed to pass.
The second part of the program is optional for presently employed security officers. but will be mandatory for those hired in the future.
I echner described the section as academic education that will deal with such matters as win a youth is the way he is. not just what to do with him after a crime.
Lechner said the 15-week course will be taught al USC's Delinquency Control Institute. 3601 S. flower St.. and. hopefully.
I.API) will assist during some sessions. An update ol laws, procedures and practical situations will also be emphasized.
Tentatively, the program will take place as part of the accredited Industrial Guard f raining Service at Rio Hondo Junior College.
Along with the additional training, there will be a salary increase for participating officers An officer hired n<"« receives a base
pay of$735 per month. After completing the first part of training, he will get a S40 increase to S775.
On Julv I he will receive a 59r raise along with the rest of the university employees, thus receiving S814.
Upon completion of the second training section, an officer would be earning $854. which is more than in the past, but still below the SI.020 paid to LAPD officers and most other peace officers. Lechner said.
“Actually a good campus security otticer should make more money than a LAPD officer because he has to do more," Lechner said.
University of Southern California
_Los Angeles, California	Tuesday, April 1, 1975
Ruling on sex bias in salaries to be contested
Daily
Trojan
Volume LXVII, Number 97
BY STEVEN HAWKINS
The university is contesting parts of a request by the Department of Labor that it pay approximately $70,000 in back pay and salary increases to 19 women faculty members.
“We do not understand the basis for some of their conclusions, nor necessarily agree with them." said John L. Cantelon, vice-president for undergraduate studies and dean of the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences.
The Labor Department's Wage and flour Division said the university discriminated against the women by not paying them salaries equal to those of their male colleagues.
During the second week of March, the division requested that the university pay $70,000 in retroactive pay to compensate the women for past unequal salaries.
The money would also provide for present salary increases accor-ding to a new base rate recommended by the division.
The request by the Department of Labor^ carries no legal impact and can only force an institution to comply through a court order, saiu Barbara MacEachern. director of the master of liberal arts program and an active member ofthe faculty women's movement.
11 the division rejects the university's responses to its request, the issue could go to court for settlement. unless the university agreed to pay the full $70,000 in salary adjustments.
But Cantelon said the university "doesn't hesitate to go to court if it is justified."
The request came following a lengthy investigation by the Department of Labor into the university's salary practices.
The investigation was limited to 19 women in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences 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.
The investigation could have been either a routine check, or it could have been prompted by complaints from women at the university. said Barbara M. Pearson, director of the university's office for equal employment opportunity and affirmative action.
Cantelon said the investigation was probably due to complaints by faculty women.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the investigation stemmed from complaints by women professors that they were being paid less than their male colleagues for the same efforts.
LAS officials are preparing a document for the Wage and Hour Division which will question some of the requested salary adjustments. Pearson said, although the university is willing to make some of the individual adjustments.
Cantelon said the university will not contest the recommendation concerning the three women in the School of Education.
Pearson said the compensatory salary increases could result in reverse discrimination against male faculty members. It could also lead the male professors to ask for salary increases themselves, she said.
The investigation was based upon statistical information the university provided in the fall of 1972. Pearson said the results were based on a comparison of women's salaries to men's salaries as a whole.
She said salaries among different divisions of the college varied significantly and therefore provided a distorted view of salary differences.
Felony charges in Row melee
reduced; 8 cases dropped
were dropped: Jeffrey P. Michel. Stephen E. Auth. Dewitt Kerry McCluggage. Brett N. Marches, Robert W. Burke, (ieorge Milke. William J Mitchell and Donald O. Jesberg.
Trials for the other seven students were set for April 10 and April 14.
The students going to trial are: Kenneth M. Weir. Peter James Magennis. Paul J. Schnopp. Lynne A Davidson. Phillip L. Westcott, Hal E. Gordon and Kenneth G. Carlson.
flic charge carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $500 fine.
The four students charged with drinking in public had lheir arraignment postponed until their attorney has time to review the case, one of the stadents said Leo Brown Jr.. James Connelly. Phillip Arciero and Scott McNaughton met last night with their attorney to review the charges against them, the student said.
CAUGHT WITHOUT HIS UMBRELLA — Tommy Trojan along with many students who listened to the weather forecast for yesterday, were caught unprepared when the rain began to fall Some preferred to double, and even triple up with their umbrellas. DT photo by Shuji Ito.
f elony charges of assaultfng an officer were reduced to misdemeanors against two members of the Sigma Chi f raternity March 20 for their involvement in last month's melee on the Row.
Misdemeanor charges against eight of the 15 students arrested for failing to disperse were dropped the same date after the city attorney's office decided that there was not enough evidence available for convictions. according to Los Angeles Criminal Court records.
I ric Strickland and John Thompson were arrested on suspicion of felonious assault on a police officer during the disturbance on March 14.
• One of the arresting officers, A. Parker of the Southwest Division ofthe Los Angeles Police Department. was reportedly injured in the arm and shoulder by Slickland and Thompson.
A misdemeanor battery conviction carries a m ix-imuni sentence of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Misdemeanor charges against the following students