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USC’s female faculty earn less University has few women as full professors BY KEVIN FELLNER THE GAMECOCK Although the average salary for a full-time USC professor is $82,900, an annual report pro duced by the university shows that many assistant and associate professors earn much less. The 2000-2001 Faculty Rank/Sex/Salary Report for Professional Women on Campus, prepared annually by the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs, says the median salary for a fe male associate professor at USC is $53,786, and the median salary for a male associate professor is $56,780. The median salary for a female assistant professor is $45,810, and the median salary for a male assistant professor is $46,437. According to the report, the of fice publishes median instead of average salaries so no outlying in formation can skew the data. Median salary figures are based on nine-month payment from South Carolina. Sally Boyd, Continuing Education director, helps compile and maintain the annual report. “The university as a whole sup ports and nurtures assistant pro fessors, who are beginning their careers as tenure-track faculty members,” Boyd said. “Generally speaking, the university’s policies and practices are geared toward allowing assistant professors to focus on their teaching and re search without becoming over burdened by service.” Human Resources Vice President Jane Jameson said: “The university has more flexi bility in how we spread money out among faculty members. Every department can adjust the range for professor salaries.” She said the department chairs make recommendations to the admin istration about specific salaries for full-time or assistant profes sors. The report says male faculty at USC outnumber female faculty by more than 40 percent. The uni versity employs 565 male faculty members, 72.07 percent of the to tal faculty, and 219 female faculty members, 27.83 percent. USC has 107 female assistant faculty members, almost three times more than the 38 full-time female professors that make up only 4.85 percent of total faculty. The largest category is full-time male professors, with 253 mem bers constituting 32.27 percent of USC faculty. The university has 201 male associate professors and 111 male assistant professors, while it has only 74 female associ ate professors. The data include only nonadministrative faculty members. The percentage of total female faculty members has increased from 25.8 percent last year and 22.7 percent ten years ago. Boyd, also a professor in the women’s studies program, said: “If an institution is making a concerted effort, over time, the number of male and fe male assistant professors should be about equal... Salaries of assis tant professors by gender should also be about equal, although the gap has narrowed over time.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudeskdghotmail.com. Terrorism Groups have common features CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 rorism to further their political ; agenda, I think we may have some concerns in that. Remember, the worst act of domestic terrorism be r fore this was the Oklahoma City bombing, and that was, of course, homegrown. And there are proba bly other discontented elements in the United States that have in the - past and could in the future resort to terrorist acts to gain their atten tion. Q: What are some more specific reasons people give for resorting to terrorism? Sederberg: Apart from the in dividual psychopath — and we can debate whether Terry Nichols and Tim McViegh to gether made up an organization or whether they should be seen more as individual idiosyncratic * psychopaths — if you are talking about a lone individual or a small group of individuals disconnected from any larger political organi zation in any systematic way, then you really are at the level of personal psychology and person al history. But if you look at the groups that use terrorism in a systematic way to advance their political agenda, then common character istics begin to emerge. They are usually groups that have a his torical legacy of discrimination. That is, they feel they have been suppressed or oppressed for gen erations, and they believe that normal means of redress have failed. They lack the capabilities, ei ther coercive capabilities or nor mal political capabilities, to ad vance their agenda. So they are alienated, angry, dispossessed and lack sufficient resources to gain some redress through peaceful means, normal politics, if you will. So they resort to abnormal poli tics to get a hearing, to get atten tion, perhaps to provoke a re sponse that would broaden the base of sympathy and expand their support and allow them to mobilize resources for more af fective action. I believe that by and large — and all social science generaliza tions are no better than tendency statements; they’re not physical laws of the universe — if terror ism as a tactic is used in isolation from a wider political strategy, then that’s an indication of rela tive weakness. Not absolute weak ness; if you’re absolutely weak, you sit and take it, you’re perfect ly oppressed. But if you’re rela tively weak, this may be the only way that desperate individuals who are prone to aggressive ac tion are able to take: by attacking soft targets, by attacking relative ly undefended populations in an effort to publicize their agenda, provoke the regime, consolidate their support and demonstrate some capability. Even if it’s just at that level, at least they are saying, “We can do this; we can damage the regime in this way. We may not be able to sink the Enterprise, or even the Cole, but look, we’ve taken down the World Trade Center. Listen to us, hear us, fear us.” Q: Should we listen to this? Sederberg: Absolutely. We sure ly should. Listening is not neces sarily saying you should follow a particular course of action, but un less you understand their motiva tions, unless you understand the motivations behind their base of support, you can react in ways that will make the situation worse, not better. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockcitydesk@hotmail.com. City Year program teaches leadership BY NIKKI GASKINS THE GAMECOCK Columbia’s City Year pro gram lets youth gain leadership experience while making a dif ference in the community. The program also gives young adults between the ages of 17 and 24 the opportunity to enrich their own lives. City Year is part of the na tional service program AmeriCorps. The program start ed in 1993 as a summer pilot pro gram before it was officially launched a year later in Columbia. Forty youths are now enrolled in the program. Rochelle Brown, the pro gram’s public relations director, who has been with the program for four years, thinks the pro gram is a rewarding experience. “The program has had a tremen dous influence on its partici pants, she said, it s given young people a=sense of focus and direction and has taught then! how to be leaders.” Brown said her favorite part of working with City Year “has been watching the members in crease in their level of maturity and then going out into the com munity and making a differ ence.” City Year consists of four teams that offer a variety of ser vices to the Columbia area. The program’s public health team teaches health and wellness to students in kindergarten through third grade and oper ates a teen pregnancy preven tion program. Through a part nership with the Red Cross, the team members are trained in Disaster Relief and HIV/AIDS education. n~~ ~~ ... The character education team teaches fourth-grade_students conflict resolution, community service, responsibility and the importance of being an active citizen. The service learning team teaches leadership skills to mid dle and high school students, and the substance abuse pre vention team teaches an eight week curriculum to sixth graders that focuses on the dan gers of alcohol, tobacco and oth er drugs. City Year offers a variety of benefits to its corps members. Participants receive college and career counseling, child care, a weekly stipend with health insurance and a Timberland uniform. After spending 10 months in the program and performing 1,700 hours of community ser vice, members receive an edu cational award of $4,725 to use for repaying student loans or to apply toward college tuition. For more information about how, to get involved with the pro gram, contact City Year at 254 3349 or visit its Web site at www.cityyear.org/columbia. Commentson this story? 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