-----------------TIRED OF LICKING STAMPS AND ENVELOPES’--------------
Mother of three carries full load of classes, ambition
By Lois Fitter
Staff Writer
The student clad in blue jeans and a cotton blouse, carrying notebooks and texts, walks to class. Her nails are polished — fingers flaunting exquisitely designed diamond-studded rings. Her throat glistens with gold chains and her hair is well coiffed.
In many ways she looks like a typical university student. But she's far from being typical. She is. in fact, a unique individual.
Mary Durham, a senior in public administration. is the mother of three children — Derek. 18. Rhonda. 17. and Amisa. 14.
She cringes at the thought of admitting her age and will describe herself as “a woman of maturer years.”
At 36 (yes, she finally gave in). Durham has the vitality, energy and enthusiasm of most freshmen. Her
18-unit load, a part-time job interning in the community relations department at CBS and rearing her children don't seem to faze her in the least.
Born in Memphis. Durham moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was two years old. She attended school in the L.A. City school system.
After graduation from Fremont High School, she was “bitten by the love bug” and decided marriage was ofthe utmost importance in her life. After spending a few years raising a family, she entered the work force and accepted her first job as an intermediate clerk typist at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center.
Durham left the civil service field after several years and took a secretarial position at Douglas Aircraft firm (before it merged with McDonnell).
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MARY DURHAM AND CBS SPORTSCASTER JIM HILL
Daily ®p Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXXII, Number 22 Los Angeles, California Wednesday, October 19, 1977
Government spending cuts reduce chances for financial aid increases
Needed increases for financial aid programs will see no immediate support. Legislators are reluctant to support the propositions because of President Carter's stand on reducing government spending.
Federal student aid had its birth in the 1940s with the GI Bill
and has grown into a complicated operation. Federal student aid programs have undergone changes as the result of changing goals of the government.
Linda Berkshire, director of Student Aid Programs, said government programs were in-
itiated to provide students with the opportunity to attend the college of their choice. Berkshire said the policy has definitely changed for awarding aid on the basis of scholastics to financial need as a result of the government’s policies.
According to an articlce that appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, after the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite. Sputnik, in 1957, the United States government created a broad program of financial aid for college students. The government hoped to increase the pool of talented youths for the nation’s universities, fearing that the universities had fallen behind Russia’s. The National Defense Education Act of 1958 stated the “national goals” of the federal aid: “The Congress hereby finds and declares that the security of the nation requires the fullest development of the mental resources and technical skills of young men and women.”
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University striving to attain publishing status
By Carla Schalman
StafT Writer
The Harvard University, Yale University and Cambridge University Presses are common names of college publishing units that appear regularly in research paper bibliographies. One familiar name seems to be missing from the list: The University of Southern California Press.
The university does publish some books written by professors here under the auspices of the University of Southern California Press. Very little money is allocated to publishing, so the press operation is not that large, according to Clarence Anderson, university editor.
Book publishing has no separate financial base. It is part of the overall publishing operation, he said.
Publication of the books is usually financed by subsidies. Another method of funding is to advance the money to publish the work. The proceeds of the book then go to pay off the advance.
Money made through publishing is not substantial. “We can’t depend on publishing as a source of revenue,” Anderson said.
Books published are of special merit in writing and research.
When a book is published here, the university acts as coordinator of the project. The university contracts typesetters and printers and may participate in the design and editing of the work.
The university has marketed the books through retail outlets other than the Trojan Bookstore.
Most schools with a publishing operation work on a similar system. Anderson said. They also contract outside printers and subsidize the publishing.
Anderson hopes to expand the university book publishing operation. To do that requires increases in funding and staff.
The present publications staff handles the Daily Trojan and official university publications, such as campus directories and bulletins, as well as book publishing.
Books published by the University of Southern California Press include The Frontier's of knowledge by Judith Stiehm. a political science professor, and Journey's End: A Discussion Guide by James A. Peterson, a sociology professor.
Most professors who publish books contract with an outside publisher. Anderson said.
A book that is written by a professor here and is distributed on a national level improves the academic visibility ofthe university, said Zohrab Kaprielian. executive vice-president ofthe university. It adds to the prestige of both the professor and the school, he said.
Psychology and Life, by Floyd L. Ruch.a former psychology professor here, is one ofthe 10 national best-selling college textbooks, according to an article in Maiuliner. a magazine distibuted on national airline flights.
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RELIEF FOR TROY HALL
New lot to ease parking problems
CAMPUS GOES COUNTRY — The Mission Mountain Wood Band took over the Student Activities Center patio during lunch on Tuesday and lent a little bluegrass spirit to the university. DT photo by Mark Kariya.
Students who are Troy Hall residents or who attend Hebrew Union College and are now experiencing difficulties locating parking spaces may have a solution to their problem with the establishment of a new parking lot at the corner of 30th Street and Hoover Boulevard.
According to Carl Levredge, director of parking and security operations, the lot will be finished around the end of the week providing there are no unforeseen problems.
“It will be finalized by sometime next week,” he said, “and should accommodate approximately 270 students.”
Prior to its usage as a university parking area, the unpaved dirt lot was used as a free parking facility by students who had no campus parking permits.
Currently the facility is still under construction. “It is being striped and actual space allotments are being made,” he said. Mel Clark, an administrator
in the parking and operations department, said bumpers still have to be put in and landscaping of the area still must be completed.
The lot will be controlled by card key holders and although there will be many spaces, they won't be free, he said.
“It will be run like a regular university lot and come under the rules of a university facility just like those on the campus,” Levredge said.
He said the lot was designed to meet the needs of those students in Troy Hall and Hebrew Union specifically. “We’ll be dealing with the residents’ needs first and also those of the people at Hebrew Union,” he said.
After their spaces have been allotted the department will examine the number of spaces remaining and determine who will be able to use them.