to Row in fall
University of Southern California
Black fraternity to make move
Summer
Trojan
Volume LXVIII, Number 9 Friday, July 18, 1975 BY JACK HUBER	---—-1-1-------
Staff Writer
Kappa Alpha Psi, a national black fraternity, is scheduled to move to the Row next fall, but financial problems may hinder its chances of obtaining a chapter house.
Kappa Alpha Psi has been located on Crenshaw Boulevard for eight years, but only as a meting place for brothers. There are no rooms for live-in members. To solve that problem it has obtained the old Alpha Tau Omega house, located near the center of the Row.
If the move is successful, it wrill be the first time a minority fraternity has been housed on the Row.
Scott Spicer, interim fraternity affairs adviser, sees the Kappa Alpha Psi movement to the Row as an important one for all segments of the student body.
“It will help broaden the base of the Row, and make fraternity life much better for all concerned,” he said.
The members of the Kappa Alpha Psi house don’t expect any problems from their new surroundings, either by police or students alike.
“We’re quiet. We party, but we also study, because that’s what we are here for,” Jimerson said.
Joe Jimerson, president of Kappa Alpha Psi, stressed that a personal chapter house is a necessity for commuting to and from classes.
“The current chapter house is shared by various other fraternities, and we need a place of our own,” he explained. “We could attract more rushees, and house them closer to campus than ever before.
Tommy McLurkin, a yell leader and past president of Kappa Alpha Psi, directs financial matters for the fraternity. He has encountered some financial difficulties in funding the purchase of the property, but he expects to open as planned in the fall.
“Membership looks really good for next year,” he said. “The general student going out for Kappa Alpha Psi is going to have to be a really quality guy.”
McLurkin said that Kappa Alpha Psi could lose the house if the proper funding is not received.
“The alumni are very apprehensive in taking out a loan for our new house,” he said. “But we are confident that we can raise the needed funds.”
The Kappa Alpha Psi national chapter is paying 75 per cent of the house purchase price, while the local chapter is to raise the other 25 per cent.
“Our house on Crenshaw is a tri-chapter house, serving various campuses in Los Angeles,” McLurkin said. “Our alumni is hesitating in the loan, since the dominant portion of members are from UCLA or Cal State Los Angeles.”
McLurkin is considering a variety of ideas on how to finance the house, either through private donations or alumni loans. He has even considered renting the house from the current owner, Alpha Tau Omega.
“If we could have five alumni co-sign a loan, then we would have it made,” said McLurkin. “Its been a long time coming and we’regoingto "make it through.”
McLurkin said that all parties will still be held at the Crenshaw chapter house, since it is ideal and can accommodate a large crowd.
“Our house on 28th Street will be primarily for living and studying,” he said.
FRATERNITY SWITCH—Kappa Alpha Psi, a black on Crenshaw Boulevard (bottom photo above) to the university fraternity, will be the first minority group to former Alpha Tau Omega house on 28th Street (top move on the Row when it relocates from its former house photo above). ST photos by Jack Huber.
Student coordinator to unify commuters
BY PAM ROTENBERG
Are you a commuter?
Susan Brown, the new commuter student coordinator, has been posing this question to passers-by and students in summer orientation, in Alumni Park, in an effort to find the commuter student.
“As of now we don’t really know how many students’ lives are determined by the flow of freeway traffic,” explained Brown. She emphasized student input in the program for “what is important not just what we perceive the need of the student to be, but what the student himself believes is needed.”
After discovering exactly who the commuter students are, the first benefit she plans to give to students are detailed maps of the area around campus. The maps would point out the Row, places to eat, stores and other locations nearby, she said.
Her next goal is to pin-point good apartment communities for students to live in and find out where large groups of students live now.
“I feel that if students know and see each other they will feel a little less alone,” said the new coordinator. With this community awareness of other students, Brown added, perhaps students from each area could put together a pamphlet of things to do and where to eat.
The program will work as a part of Residential Life to fill the gaps in services available.
“We will work together with the commuter student organization on some things, too, and alone on others to maximize our efficiency,” she commented.
One of the ideas the tw7o groups are working on together is the possibility for commuter students to stay overnight in residence halls. At the moment they are lobbying for the stay-over, especially for finals week.
Since the program is just beginning, Brown said that she is “looking for students to participate in organization and perhaps give them jobs through work study funds.”
“I would like to get commuter students away from just coming and going to class and buying books,” the former commuter said.
In the fall Brown hopes to hold a large gathering for a multiple of purposes. First, she wants students to be informed about the department. Secondly, she said she feels it would be a good opportunity for commuters to meet each other.
But she also stressed that it would be a chance for the commuter to voice the problems or concerns they have.
Brown is opening her office to commuter students and wants them to communicate with her. Her office is in the office for Residential Life in the Student Union 202 and is open from 9:30 to 4:30, Monday through Friday. The phone number is 746-5267.
DEMONSTRATION TODAY
Metric workshop to be held at USC
As the United States changes to a metric measuring system, schools and teachers in particular will be called upon to meet the responsibility of developing the education required for an orderly change.
For this reason, the university School of Education and the College of Continuing Education have developed a special metric workshop designed for teachers of grades K-12.
A special introductory demonstration workshop will be today from 1 to 5 p.m. on campus. USC students from teaching education programs will participate in this workshop.
The workshop is available now for presentation through the College of Continuing Education as in-service for schools during the summer orientation programs in August or September as well as throughout the school year.
Available to school districts, professional groups and other organizations, the workshop is designed to help teachers increase understanding of the place and value of measure in children’s lives, develop specific measurement techni-
ques to use at appropriate grade levels, and explore both standard and nonstandard measures.
The worKshop is aiso structured to examine a model metric instruction program and participate in metric classroom activities, construct metric teaching materials and develop the ability to use and critically evaluate activity-oriented teaching strategies.
Each workshop includes approximately 12 hours of participation done in two or three sessions and can be conducted at USC or at an on-site facility at minimal cost.
Manuals entitled What You Always Wanted to Know About The Metric System But Were Afraid To Ask: Metric System Workshop For Teachers for Grades K-12 will be presented to everyone who participates.
Participants in the workshop will receive certificates from USC’s College of Continuing Education as well as 10 Continuing Education Contact Hours upon completion ofthe program.
Detailed information on observing the workshop in session is available by contacting Stev&< Verakus at 746-2431.