High school students here for journalism experience
by David Foy
High School Workshop
Combining a program of practical instruction with on-the-spot experience, three sessions of intensive journalism for high school students is being offered this summer.
The program, which intends to “provide students with the opportunity to sharpen their journalism skills” has been offered annually since 1962.
“The best feature of the program is that for two weeks the students get intensive instruction preparing them to be editors of their high school publications,” said Kon-nie Krislock, course instructor. “Once a student gets on the newspaper staff at high school there is very little actual instruction given,” she continued. “Mostly there is just the big pressure to get the darn paper out.”
Krislock, advisor to the Hawthorne High School Cougar and Fine Print, was named Journalism Teacher of the Year by the California Newspaper Publisher Association. She said her finest accomplishment was fighting the University of California’s decision not to accept journalism as an English requirement.
Students from all over the Southland are attending the three classes, most of whom are planning a career in journalism.
“I’m here to learn as much as I can for a career in journalism,” Cathy Houser of Upland High said.
“I’m interested in journalism in high school,” Carolyn Brown of Fremont High said, “and my advisor told me I should take this course.”
The $95 tuition cost apparently hasn’t financially ruined too many of the students, as most of them received at least a partial scholarship from either USC or a local group to attend the class.
The current class of 14 members is evenly divided between those who have been published and those who haven’t. Three of the students will live on the USC campus for the duration of the course. Most have just completed their junior year of high school.
There are three additional classes scheduled: July 5-15; July 18-29 and July 5-15 course for advisors. Roy Copperud, advisor of the Daily Trojan, who originated the program, will teach the next two courses, starting Tuesday.
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Trojan
Volume LXXII, Number 66
University of Southern California
Los Angeies, California
Frida/, July 1, 1977
UNITED THEY STAND—Some 700 senior citizens met on campus Thursday to vote on resolutions to send to Sacramento regarding issues of tax reform, health care and income for the aged.
Aging conference unites senior citizens in issues
by Sherie Stark Summer Trojan Editor
John is an officer of a senior citizen’s club. Mary is with the Grey Panthers. Louella is a city official from Northern California. They have an interest in common—political, personal or social—in the aged population.
They, along with 700 other representatives from 130 senior citizen’s interest groups, met on campus Thursday for the first county-wide conference on aging, sponsored by the Gerontology Center and the L.A. County Senior Citizens Affairs Department.
The participants met in workshops on income, health and tax issues, discussing them and voting on resolutions to send to Sacramento.
“This conference is primarily for legislation action,” said Ted
Ellsworth, who organized the conference. “To establish a unified coalition between the elderly—too often we have similar ideas, but can’t get together.
“We have people from every strata, with no one view overrepresented. But we’ll have one voice in Sacramento—the entire conference will send one slate of recommendations, which carries more weight than a lot of little groups.
“With very few exceptions, we all agree on the main issues. We just have needed to get together.”
Among the issues Ellsworth feels are the most important are tax relief for renters comparable to that for homeowners, and introducing an income maintenance bill for low income citizens.
“I came to this conference for information,” said one participant. Catherine Olsen. "There’s nothing political about it for me. it’s just that I'm on the board of a senior citizens club and feel I should be informed on senior citizen issues."
She said one of the biggest concerns she has in this area is that information be presented simply and clearly, which she feels this conference accomplished.
"So many times the literature on the issues is too complicated for the layman to understand. That's why I came to this conference—to learn how to vote intelligently on these issues, and to bring back the information to my club. It’s my own feeble attempt to understand what’s going on.”
Blood drive to ease demand
With Governor Brown’s legislature allowing no more commercial blood to be used in L.A. County going into effect July 1, we may be in for a “dry” summer. Especially with the Fourth of July weekend, second only to Christmas the holidays for blood demand, said Missy Stevens, the Red Cross Blood consultant for USC.
“USC is always one of cur strongest supporters,” she said. In the March drive the university gave 700 pints, more than ever before. There will be another drive on campus Wednesday and Thursday.
“We usually run the drive for a week at USC, but there will probably be a lot fewer people on campus, and also there aren’t the organizations competing with each other. It’s on a more individual basis,” she said.
“We’re hoping to get more faculty and staff this time.”
Stevens said that the Red Cross has prepared for the Fourth of July demand by arranging to bring in blood from other Red Crosses throughout the country.
“We’re also upping our quotas—making people aware of the new legislation—so that by next year we should be able to manage without bringing in blood,” she said. She said that the new legislation is good because people will be assured of getting healthy blood now. She said that in the past, 10,000 of the 60,000 pints used per year infected its receivers with hepatitis.
“There’s also a special advantage for USC in that it has its own blood bank, so that anyone who donates blood here is eligible to use the bank—they don’t have to go out hunting for donors. If you donate one pint of blood, and your mother (father, husband, daughter) needs blood, they get as much as they need, virtually for free.”
Appointments for giving blood can be made today and Tuesday at Tommy Trojan, but people are encouraged to drop in at any time. Wednesday's drive will be at Town and Gown from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday’s will be on the second floor of the Student Activities Center during the same hours.
IT ONLY HURTS FOR A MINUTE—The classic hesitancy to have blood taken seems to have escaped much of USC's populace, as it is one of the Red Cross' strongest supporters in the county. The summer blood drive will run Wednesday and Thursday of next week.
Three seminars in music composition are being taught at the Music Faculty Memorial Building until August 5. Openings are still available for the 2-unit course, though registration officially ended last Monday. The seminars are conducted for a four-hour session each week for six weeks. One hour will be spent on individual improvement, while the remaining three hours will be classroom instruction. The tuition fee is $236.
The seminars are aimed at three groups: high school students with experience in writing music, college composition majors and graduate students, and music school teachers, who. as the class’ professor Samuel Adler, puts it. “use creativity as their classroom strategy .”	,
“They should know how to read music, sing, or play a musical instrument,” he said. He defined composition as “the highest form of music—the creation of music.”
Seminar in music composition
Currently the Chairman of the Composition Department and Professor of Music at the Eastman School of Music, Adler has degrees from Boston and Harvard Universities. He has also studied music composition, musicology, and conducted with some of the most respected names in the music field.
Adler has published over 100 of his works, among them five symphonies, four operas, numberous songs, chamber and choral pieces, and a book. An Anthology for the Teaching of Choral Conductiyig. He has worked extensively as a conductor and lecturer at many colleges, but this will be the first time Adler has taught seminars here.
Further information may be obtained at 741-5389.