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Daily
Trojan
Volume LXVIII, Number 66
University of Southern California
Log Angeles, California
Tuesday, February 3, 1976
NONCANDIDATES?—Sen. Hubert Humphrey told an audience in Hancock Auditorium that although he has no intention of declaring his candidacy for President, he would be available if he were drafted at Democratic National Convention. In a prepared speech, Humphrey criticized the Ford administration's policy on Angola and urged a cutoff of all U.S. aid to that country. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
Humphrey calls for end of aid to Angola
On Sept. 22, 1955 Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) spoke at USC and attacked the Republican party and declared his availability for a draft at the Democratic National Convention
It’s now more than 20 years later, and the speech doesn't seem to have changed much. He's still attacking the Republicans and is still available for the Democratic presidential nomination.
When this was pointed out to Humphrey in the introduction
by Joe Cerrell. chairman of the political science«and international relations support group that sponsored Humphrey’s Jan.
16	speech, Humphrey could only respond by saying: “You have to admit I’m consistent.
“Coming to USC in 1955 and denouncing Republican politics was either an act of great courage, a slight degree of insanity or just sheer adventure,” he said.
In his prepared address on the Angola conflict, Humphrey called it a civil war in which the
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Federal financial aid programs may increase
By Don La Plante
Associate Editor
Federal financial aid to college students may increase next year and will be concentrated in the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program, College Work-Study program and the Guaranteed Student Loan program, a federal education official said in an interview Friday.
Virginia Trotter, assistant secretary for education in the Department of Health. Education and Welfare, said the budget submitted by President Ford for fiscal year 1977. which begins Oct. 1. 1976. asks for full funding of the basic grants program for the first time.
•	Trotter was in Los Angeles on Friday participating in a forum concerning federal consumer representation plans.
“It (the basic grants program) will be extended to include part-time students for the first time. We have found this program is the most equitable way of helping students with need. The federal government’s thrust is for equity, in trying to reinforce where the states cannot.” Trotter said.
She said the department was working on a program to help students who drop out of school in midterm from having to pay back a loan when they did not get the full benefit of it.
Trotter said another major problem in the loan program that the department was working on was students defaulting and not repaying the loans.
“Some students are not taking the responsibility. We are working on a drive to make students realize these are not grants but loans. We are going to recommend to Congress that these loans not be able to be eliminated in bankruptcy proceedings,” Trotter said.
"We are going to do a closer
job of monitoring. Students are going to be responsible for the loans," Trotter said. "Once they leave school and are established. they will be followed very closely to see that they repay the loans. The repayment rate is better than it has been, and we are doing everything we can to eliminate any kind of fraud."
One program that is being phased out of federal funding is the National Direct Student Loans. Trotter said the budget recommends that any funding for it be transferred to the basic grants program.
"There is a lot of money that is to be paid back (in National Direct Loans) and this would be used for a revolving fund that would continue. The revolving fund can be of assistance for years to come." she said.
Not only is there a proposed increase in a number of student aid programs, but here is a proposal in the budget to increase funding for the National Institute for Education from S70 million to $90 million. The institute is the research arm of the federal government and gives
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Theaters won't open in mall, area crime blamed
By Marie Denunzio
Stall Writer
The high crime rate in the area surrounding the university offers students the benefit of exposure to a diversified lifestyle, but it also has its disadvanages.
A Plitt movie theater scheduled to be constructed in the University Village will not be built after all because of the crime problem in the area said Chris Roscoe. manager of University Village.
"The problem is that the theater does not feel it can be responsible for what goes on after the lights go out," he said.
Roscoe said every theater chain in the nation was contacted byt none would lease a space in the village.
David Lewis, project manager of Hoover Redevelopment Co., said he did not officially know what the reasons behind the theater's refusal were. But he did say he felt the company was
concerned about the theater being vandalized.
Lewis said he did not feel the crime rate had been a deterrent in the leasing of the other spaces. He said he personally felt the refusals were due more to the economic situation of the community rather than to the crime rate.
He said he felt it was much easier for a company to back out using a crime issue as an excuse rather than saying the community lacked the spending power the business desired. "You can t say the people are too poor, he said.
Lewis said the project is running smoothly despite several setbacks incuding bad weather, strikes and various construction delays.
At present 72<7r of the spaces are leased and 100^ ^ccupancy is expected by September. Roscoe said.
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CAMPUS CELEBRITY—Dustin Hoffman made a three-day appearance on campus last week when he and a film crew came to film Marathon Man. Hoffman and Sir Laurence Olivier star in the film. The film crew
shot scenes near Doheney Library and inside Science Hall for a classroom set. The uniersity is often frequented with star-studded appearances for television and movies because of its classic architecture.