Daily
Trojan
Volume LXVII, No. 64
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, January 9, 1975
Student Services Center director to resign Jan. 30
BY LINDA CIRIGLIANO
Assistant City Editor
Gloria Myklebust will resign as director ol the Student Services Center, effective Jan. 30.
The center specializes in assisting minority and low-income students through tutoring, counseling. orientation and other services. In addition, the office coordinates tutorial and learning skills services for all students.
Last October, the center was placed under evaluation, and for a time it seemed that the office might be abolished.
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GLORIA MYKLEBUST
At that time. James R. Appleton, vice-president for Student Affairs said he anticipated a reorganization of the way in which minority students are served, but that no decision would be reached until early this year.
The philosophy behind the evaluation centers around the question of how many specialized offices should operate on campus.
The center, which opened in 1970. was one of the first university offices to focus specifically on the needs of one special constituency—minority and low-income students.
As time has passed, and more special constituencies have developed, the demand for a larger number of specialized offices has increased.
When the center, along with seven other offices within the
Student Affairs Division began to be evaluated, Appleton said he felt that the university does not have the resources to effectively support many specialized offices.
Instead, he said, a more effective use ofthe resources available might be to equi peach office dealing in a student service with the skill to deal with all students of all constituencies.
The evaluation will not be concluded until February, but Myklebust said she no longer feels the center will be abolished.
“I do think there will be a reorganization of our services." she said during an interview Wednesday. “But I feel the center will remain.”
Myklebust said the evaluation of the center was not a factor in her decision to resign. Rather, her decision is based on her plans to move to Nigeria and to work in that country's educational system.
“Even ifl had not decided to go to Nigeria. I would have left this position to do other things.” Myklebust said. “I have held this position for 4Vz years and feel that I am getting to the point now where I would have begun to feel I’ve given as much as I can without beginning to repeat myself or losing the challenge the position offers.
“A lot of people at this university have gotten locked into then position* and I d prefer that not happen, in my case.”
Appleton said he will meet with Dr. Addie L. Klotz. associate vice-president of Student Affairs on Friday to discuss plans for filling the position left open by Myklebust’s resignation.
“The position definitely will be filled,” Appleton said. “But whether the job description will be as it is now remains to be
seen.
“Independent of Gloria’s resignation. and simply because the position is now open, we have the opportunity to consider redefining that role in light of our evaluation of how we are serving students.”
Myklebust commented on the role ofthe center in the 4*/2 years of its existence.
“The university has been successful in getting minorities to come here, but we have not been successful in retaining them and helping them to succeed to their goals,” she said.
“This office has become a clearinghouse for the concerns of minority students.”
Myklebust said the office has made some advances.
Perhaps most importantly, she said she feels the office does attract students who feel they need assistance.
“A service is no good unless students use it." she asserted. "I feel we’ve created an atmosphere that encourages student use. and students feel we can cut
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Flournoy offered full poli sci professorship
Houston I. Flournoy has been offered a lull professorship in political science
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Details of when Flournoy will begin his teaching duties and what classes he will teach are also expected for , release today.
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Raises won’t be across board
WHAT A MESS—Someone with good intentions tried to wipe some of the food off the walls of Birnkrant cafeteria following a food fight Tuesday night. DT photo by Mike Martinez. See story page nine.
BY LARRY TICK
Stall Writer
If the Board of Trustees approves a ret oi'i’T-f nded 12% in-m tot‘iI : jcnltx <*omp*>n sation. it won t mean that all faculty members will get 12r/| higher paychecks in 1975-7H Tht Faculty Senates committee or. employment and remuneration has proposed that the 12r/r will !>e treated as a lump sum. totaling about $3.1 million, and will b< distributed accordingto need rather than in an across-the-board pay increase.
The Faculty Senate will meet Saturday to consider the proposal from the committee that would use 5.4rv ofthe money for cost-of-living raises for all faculty members. The remainder would be used for fringe benefits. merit raises, and to establish pay floors for each professorial rank.
The 127< number is a "a ballpark figure.” said Richard Perry, president of the Faculty Senate. The President's Advisory Council has recommended to the Board that raises be tied to the Consumer Price Index, which rose 12% in Los Angeles in 1974.
The Board's finance committee will meet Monday to discuss the 1975-76 budget. The Board is expected to consider the matter at its February meeting.
About $1.4 million would be allocated for cost-of-living grants. Faculty members would gel raises equaling lOty of their IQ74-^5s;s|.iry bn? not morrthan $1,200 Another two V tnc 2',. duout a>.^o.ouu. would oe used to cover increased costs ol fringe benefits.
At least 3.5f/r of the 12G ($910,000) would be used for merit raises. The remaining money, about $286,000. would be used for establishing salary floors and other adjustments.
“The intent is to try to help those who need it the most.’’ Perry said.
He pointed out that if all faculty members were given an equal percentage increase, it would only increase the difference between salaries at the high and low ends ofthe scale.
Faculty members with salaries of S 12.000 or less would in effect be receiving a raise equal to the rise in the Consumer Price Index in 1974—10 , pay increase plus 2*, applied to fringe benefits.
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Alter these increases, the proposal recommends that further raises be given as necessary to establish minumum salary floors of $20,000 lor lull professors. $16,000 for associate professors, and $13,000 lor assistant professors.
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Secret verdict is reached on editor of ‘Row Run'
BY NANCY SHINABARGAR
Stall \\rit»*r
The Row Judicial reached a confidential decision Wednesday on whether the Rmc Run editor tried to deceive the newspaper's sponsors in his appropriation of funds.
Mike Lawler, editor and a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, requested that the hearing be closed to the public. Other persons involved in the case, including witnesses. Interfraternity Council members and the judicial panel, were instructed not to talk about the verdict by Mike Fletcher, panel advisor.
The confidentiality ofthe hearing is a standard judicial procedure designed to protect the student under investigation. Fletcher said.
Law ler and his counsel, a third-year USC law student who wished to remain anonymous, declined to comment on the hearing.
Lawler probably won't be informed of the five-member judicial panel’s verdict until Monday. Neal Hickerson. chief justice, is writing the panel’s opinion and w ill present it to Robert L Mannes. dean for student life, on Monday. Mannes will then inform Lawler ofthe decision. Lawler has the right to an appeal before the Student Behavior Committee.
The hearing arose from a complaint filed by the Interfraternity Council, sponsors ofthe Row Run. The IFC charged, in the complaint filed with Mannes. that Lawler "deliberately tried to be dishonest" in specifying where the money acquired from advertising revenue was spent. The IFC also alleged that Lawler never intended to pay back more than the $800 the IFC loaned him to begin the newspaper.
The Row Run was published monthly from September to November under IFC sponsorship. When the IFC officers decided to withdraw sponsorship in November while investigating the newspaper’s financial situation. Lawler paid forthe December issue. He is subsidizing a January issue due out sometime this week.
According to an IFC officer. Lawler took the job of editor on a voluntary basis. As editor he worked on the writing, layout, copyread ing. pasteup and advertising ofthe newspaper. His assistant. Mike Abell, was paid by Lawler for writing sports stories. Abell was a
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