Plans to cut minority programs protested
By Denis Wolcott
Staff Writer
A demonstration against proposed cutbacks in minority programs in the law school was held in front of the Law’ Center Monday with about 50 persons taking part.
Dean gives support at law hearing
In a hearing on the future of the Program for Economically Dependent Students, Dorothy Nelson, dean of the Law’ Center, said she is in favor of continuing the minority program.
She said as long as she remains dean the program to allow minority students with lower qualifications into the school will not be abolished, but that the question remains as to how the program w’ill be managed .
The hearing, which was held to give all sides ofthe issue, started at 3:30 p.m. in room 7 of the Law Center. Then at 6:15 p.m., J. Jerry Wiley, associate dean, announced the hearing would move to room 1 and end when every speaker was finished.
Thirteen community witnesses including Councilman Robert Farrell and Judge Ricks, spoke their views on minority programs and lawyers for minority communities.
The opinion of tne thirteen witnesses who testified at the hearing was that minorities could not afford a cutback in the program.
Farrell said that the blacks who have made it through professional schools are those who are the most free from society’s propaganda and can really serve their communities.
Salvidor Baca, a minority group representative, said the university should realize its social impact and planning power.
Chants of “Save the PEDS 32” and “Let the poor people in” were heard during the demonstration. Several speakers in support of retaining the minority programs gave their views while persons with picket signs walked in a circle at the steps of the Law Center.
A hearing was scheduled Monday at 3:30 p.m. to let minority community lawyers and students voice their views on the proposals to the Selection of Students Committee. The committee will decide the future of the Program for Economically Dependent Students (PEDS).
Presently, 32 minority students are accepted each year into the Law Center. The proposed cutback would allow only 20 to be accepted each year.
Gina Brandt, a third-year law student who participated in the demonstration, said a faculty committee is proposing a cutback in the Program for Economically Dependent Students.
The program allows minority students to be accepted to law school with lower qualifications for the purpose of increasing the number of lawyers in the respective minority communities.
“There is an increasing need for legal aid in minority communities,” Brandt said. “There should be an increase in the minority programs, not a cutback.”
Rudi Echeverria. another law student who participated, said if the proposed cutbacks become effective, the whole Asian program wtmld be eliminated.
Linda Wong, another law student w’ho participated said the minority programs were initiated in schools like USC, UCLA and Loyola to meet the demands of civil rights movements of the 1960s.
“Beyond what was needed then, it is clear that there is a definite need for minority lawyers now,” Wong said.
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KSCR to move to Social Science Annex in May
By Peter Fletcher
Staff Writer
KSCR, the student-operated radio station, is moving its studio to the Social Science Annex in the beginning of May, Kevin Keeshan, general manager of the station, said.
The station is currently in Studio C of the Allan Hancock Foundation, which it shares with broadcasting classes of the School of Journalism.
’ The studio will have all new equipment, purchased with the money the station received from the Student Senate and the Campus Activities Allocation Board.
The new studio is being built at a cost of about $9,000 by AFP Sound Reinforcement Systems.
“It will give us competent equipment to keep us running,” Keeshan said. “The studio will be the state of the art. It is being built for students who will come in the future with the expectancy of getting a 10-watt educational license.”
The studio is starting from scratch. When it is completed it will have two turntables, two cartridge machines and two reyl-to-reel tape decks in the main booth. It will also have a news booth separated by a glass partition.
The new equipment will make life easier for the station. “Everything will be simplified. The simpler things are, the easier they are to pull off,” Keeshan said.
The one-year anniversary of the station’s first broadcast will be celebrated Saturday with a
remote broadcast in front of the Hancock Foundation to coincide with USCaleidescope.
Commenting on the progress of the station, Keeshan said, “The station has changed from a bunch of kids spinning discs and having a good time to a formated, well-run station. It is as good or better than any college radio station that I’ve ever seen.
“The new studio gives us a shot in the arm. We won’t have to schedule the use of the studio around journalism classes anymore. We won’t be using other people’s equipment,” he said.
A recent reorganization ofthe station’s programming department has resulted in a programming staff that includes Nick Gonzales, Craig Rousellot and John Winer. The triumvirate replaces Gil Kuang, the former program director, who left for a position at a commercial radio station.
David Black has been appointed disc jockey coordinator and Cam Noble is now the studio manager. He will handle all the maintenance of the studio.
The station had its first remote broadcast Friday night from the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house, featuring a disc jockey playing records. Keeshan said the remote was a success but the quality of the sound wasn’t quite satisfactory.
The situation is still working on the transmitter it was given by KMET. Once the transmitter is operational the station plans to broadcast at low wattage on FM.
MINORITY CUTBACKS PROTESTED—Approximately 50 persons participated in a demonstration against cutbacks in minority programs in front of the
Law Center Monday. The proposal by the law school includes a cutback in minority acceptance from 32 to 20 students per year. DT photo by Bob LaBayne.
Daily m Trojan
Volume LXVIII, No. 104
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California	Tuesday, March 30, 1976
MECHA may picket Songfest if Gallo ad appears in program
By Dorothy Reinhold
Assistant City Editor
MECHA, the Chicano student organization, will picket Songfest if a Gallo Vineyards-financed advertisement appears in the Songfest program, said Victor Manrique, a representative from MECHA.
MECHA, supported by five other student organizations, has voiced its disapproval of tying the Gallo name to the Songfest production in advertisements that it calls exploitive of Songfest’s charity purpose.
Blair Westlake, chairman of Songfest, said the Songfest committee had solicited the advertisement for the program from Gallo and was required to accept it.
“We have no unusual restrictions on the ads in the program. I have to accept the Gallo ad,” he said.
“I don’t believe we can tell them no. They are paying $225 for a page in the program, just like many other organizations, and because of the cost factor, I would be very hesitant to say that even if I could block the ad, I would. That money is pure profit to Songfest.”
Manrique said he believed Songfest retained the right to reject advertising, despite the fact that it was solicited.
But Westlake said, “I think the ad in the program belongs there. The only use of their names is the name of the owners, congratulating the Songfest Committee and the John Tracy Clinic for their efforts. There is no Gallo logo.”
Gallo has promised the John Tracy Clinic for Deaf and Deaf-Blind Children (Songfest’s philanthropy), $1 for each block-seating ticket sold, up to $1,000, hoping to inspire students to purchase block seating and advance tickets to the event.
The block seats went on sale Monday and sold out, Westlake said.
In a surprise move. David Blackmar, chairman of the Student Senate, announced the senate’s willingness to supply $1,000 to substitute for the money that would be contributed by Gallo.
“We don’t want to butt in where we’re not wanted, but we’d like to see Songfest go on and benefit the charity without political hassle,” Blackmar said.
Westlake said. “There is no point for the Student Senate to give us the money when that money could be used better somewhere else.”
MECHA and the other organizations objected to the Gallo Vineyards name and logo being used in a possible advertisement that would appear in the Daily Trojan and on flyers that were distributed on campus.
Manrique said that because of Gallo’s unfair labor practices, MECHA supported the United Farm Workers, which boycotts Gallo vineyards.
The advertisement will not appear in the Daily Trojan because it “would be like advertising for an event that is already sold out,” Westlake said.
The advertisement was originally scheduled to appear in Monday’s Daily Trojan and had been withheld indefinitely pending a decision by the Songfest Committee.
MECHA and the supporting organizations—the Greek Students Organization, the International Student Assn., the Associated Black Students of Southern California, the Women’s Resource Center and the USC Forum for Hayden—were also opposed to a Gallo representative making a presentation of the money to the clinic on stage, but Westlake said there would be no Gallo presentation during the show.
Open letter from Hubbard on student aid controversy
An open letter to the university from President John R. Hubbard:
To disperse the controversy that currently swirls around our financial aid program, I believe that we should establish beyond reasonable doubt the facts of the matter. To this end the Executive Committee of the President’s Advisory Council has established a special committee to review and find fact concerning USC’s financial aid program.
This special committee, which includes faculty, administrators and Student Senate representatives, will report its findings to the President’s Advisory Council which in turn will advise me on the issue.
I am confident that the members of this committee will execute their charge diligently and with all feasible dispatch. In the interim I take this opportunity to ask that you direct any and all salient information and inquiries directly to the committee. In order that it may enjoy the most favorable conditions in which to function, I do not intend to make any further comment until such time as its activities are concluded.
In closing may I underscore the fact-finding nature ofthis select committee. Pending any outcome, I continue to place the utmost confidence in William Wagner, (special assistant to the president for academic record services) and his staff as they work to achieve our common objective to complete the awards process and provide appropriate and timely financial aid to students.