Committee to vote on TA salary increase
BY LARKY TUCK
Staff Writer
The Resource Management and Planning Committee is expected to vote today on whether to recommend an immediate retroactive 5% pay increase f<5r teaching assistants.
The 5% raise and a 15% raise for the 1975-76 academic year were recommended by the Graduate and Professional Schools Committee. The 5% proposal was rejected by the administration.
The 15% proposal for next year was passed on to the Resource Committee for further consideration. They chose to also reconsider the 5% proposal.
The committee’s recommendation will be sent to the President’s Advisory Council, which will in turn make a final recommendation to President John R. Hubbard.
Teaching assistants have been meeting to discuss what action they can take to
improve the chances that the raises will be approved.
At a meeting Wednesday, representatives said that all of the history TA’s and about 60% ofthe biology TA’s had signed a petition supporting the raise.
Petitions were still being circulated in most other departments. About 40 TA’s from 10 departments were present at the meeting.
The TA’s at the meeting agreed to send several representatives to today’s meeting to present their views.
They voted to demand a minimum 5% retroactive increase now and a 15% raise next year, although several TA’s said the 5% raise would only give them an addi-
tional $10-15 per month, and would not even cover the cost-of-iiving increase since their last raise.
One TA said that the TA s who receive tuition remission, have not been charged for increases in tuition, and the university considers that a kind of raise.
Others said that kind of raise is of little real value to them.
“You can’t spend 12 units at the market,” said one TA.
There was also some discussion about the expense to the university the raise would create and about where the money would come from.
One TA said that increased enrollment should have provided enough extra in-
come to cover at least the 5% raise. A biology TA said that the enrollment in some courses in his department had doubled since last year.
Another TA said that the source of the money should not be the TA’s concern.
“We don’t care where they get the money,” he said. “If they want to raise tuition again, that’s their prerogative.”
There was some discussion about a rumor that the 5% raise, if it is granted, will be given in the form of a Christmas bonus.
The TA’s voted not to accept the raise in that form, since a bonus would imply that the added pay was being given one time only, and would not guarantee that higher pay would continue in the future
Wednesday they agreed to postpone further discussion on any such action until after today’s meeting.
Last week, the TA’s discussed holding a rally to demonstrate support forthe raise, and the possibility of striking if the raise is not granted.
The TA’s will meet Friday to hear a report on the ResourceCommittee meeting.
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University of Southern California
Vol. LXVII, No. 33
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, October 31, 1974
Student Services Center for . minorities may be closed in 1975
BY LINDA CIRIGLIANO
Assistant City Editor
The Student Services Center, an office which serves minority and low-income students, may be abolished by the fall 1975 semester.
The center, which has been in operation for five years, served over 1.023 students last year w ith tutoring, counseling.orientation and other serivces.
Athough the center specializes in serving minority and low income students, it also coordinates tutorial and learning skills services for all students.
James R. Appleton, vice president of student affairs, said Wednesday that the center is now being evaluated, along with seven other offices within the Student Affairs Division. Changes deemed necessary in any ofthe offices are expected to be implemented by fall 1975.
Appleton said that no definite decision wri 11 be reached as to whether the center will be disbanded before January’. 1975.
“I feel there is a strong possibility that this office will no longer be here next fall.” Gloria J. Myklebust. director of the Student Services Center, said.
Appleton indicated he expects changes to occur in the way minority and low income students are served.
“Large ethnic centers have not proved to meet the needs of students individually,” Appleton
said. “Support services have to be there for ethnic minorities and lowr income students, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that we have to have individual centers for each constituent group.”
Presently, Appleton said, most constituent groups, such as low-income and minority and foreign students, have distinct offices set up especially to deal with their needs.
But. he added, these offices are generally understaffed and underbudgeted. The center currently has a full-time staffof four persons and employs four students as peer counselors on a part-time basis.
The center’s total budget of $48,042 is derived from the university’s general funds. Myklebust said the present budget is not enough to allow the center to provide all the services it feels it should offer.
"It has been suggested that we are not truly meeting the needs of minority students.” Appleton said. He suggested that it might be more effective to equip the staffs of each office which offers one service to deal with all students. including the students who have special needs.
Last summer, Appleton decided to evaluate the center. Myklebust said.
When Addie L. Klotz. executive director of student health and counseling services, was appointed associate vice
president for student affairs last July. Appleton asked her to begin looking at services for students, to see if they were functioning effectively.
In August, Dr. Klotz set up a task force. She said the task force was set up to help her consider ways in which she could begin to evaluate all the services she now coordinates as associate vice president.
Those services are: the Health Center, the Counseling Center, Career Planning and Placement, the Student Activities Office, Student Services, Residential Life, the University Recreation Assoication. and the Office for International Students and Scholars.
Myklebust said the task force was originally set up to evaluate the Student Services Center
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JUGGLES FOR FUN—J im Pirine, a part-time drama student, found some free time Wednesday to entertain students walking down University Avenue with his juggling. DT photo by Mike Ito.__
FIRST MEETING WITH STAFF
Hubbard says salaries top priority
BY WAYNE WALLEY
President John R. Hubbard said the university’s number one priority is faculty and staff salaries and pledged that “any pennies we can scrape up will go to that item” in his first meeting with full-time staff Wednesday morning.
Approximately 600 staff mem-
Thursday December 19 1974
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Trojans to Disneyland
invade Dec. 19
in Town Square
The university support groups in conjunction with Disneyland management are cosponsoring the first annual Trojan Night at Disneyland on Thursday. Dec. 19.
Tickets are now available at the Ticket Office and by mail to Heritage Hall for $7.50 per person. A total of only 18.500 tickets will be sold.
Disneyland’s hours for that evening will be from 7:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
The $7.50 price includes admission, unlimited use of all attractions and a special entertainment package featuring The Carpenters, the Hues Corporation, Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra, and Skiles and Henderson.
This will be thefirst time that entertainment will beprovided for a special night at Disneyland.
In addition to the entertainment a spirit rally will be held in Town Square.	_ >
bers gathered in Town and Gown Foyer. “We don’t give generous salary increases, but then the employees are in no danger of their pay not arriving, as is the situation in other private universities,” Hubbard said.
He said in the university’s history, it has managed to operate without a deficit budget because of tough internal decisions and no new academic starts unless the money is allocated.
In his speech, Hubbard outlined the financial status ofthe university, noting the importance of the Centennial Campaign.
His basic plea was for staff cooperation in decision making, citing the President’s Advisory Council as the vehicle of input and the importance of a staff personnel policy.
“The whole decision-making process in not worth a nickel unless you cooperate,” Hubbard said.
Regarding salary, Hubbard said the resources allocation decides how to divide resources.
“No one will be happy with the
decision, but there should not be a quarrel with the process.” he said.
Hubbard encouraged staff participation in making suggestions to the council through their representative. Arnold Shafer.
“The council is legally termed advisory,” Hubbard said, ’’but it makes the principal decisions for the internal power of the university.”
He said he would never veto anything unless a majority ofthe university were against the council’s decision.
Shafer, who also spoke at the meeting, said the staff has stood in the background for many years but that Hubbard has recognized its importance.
“The ball is in our court, let’s pick it up and do something about it,” he said.
Hubbard said when he first came here, there was no description of personnel policy, no job description, no systematic salary, or in-house training.
He said the university “has crossed the bridge” in selecting
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