Director of Black Services chosen
By Bill Truman
Staff Writer
Pamela Porter, a three-time university graduate, has been named director of Black Student Services, replacing Willis Edwards, former program supervisor.
Porter, presently the interim director of the Norman Topping Scholarship Fund, came to the university from Howard University, where she had been an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology.
Porter said she plans to continue teaching while she is director. The course she teaches. Ethnic Studies 499 Special Topics, involves the study of ethnicity and social class, focusing on the black family in the United States.
James Appleton, vice president of Student Affairs, said Porter will develop and supervise programs and support services for students, supervise the training of student staff and serve in a key leadership role in the student affairs division.
“Dr. Porter has the professional competency and educational preparation to contribute in significant ways to the quality of life at USC," Appleton said. “I couldn’t be more pleased that she’ll be joining our staff on a permanent basis.”
Porter said she hopes to "broaden the base of the Black Student Services program in the university and in the community at large.”
A Los Angeles native, she began her studies at this university as a freshman in 1965. She received her master's degree in 1972 and spent the summer of that year as an intern for the Environmental Protection Agency.
In 1976, Porter earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the university while serving as an assistant professor at Howard University.
Among her achievements, Porter has served as a consultant to the National Institute of Health’s National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape and received a National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship. She also conducted research funded by the National Science Foundation.
She served as an assistant professor in the department of Pan African Studies at California State University. Los Angeles, for two quarters and as executive director and director of research at Watts Extended Health, Inc. in Los Angeles for two years.
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Volume XCI Number 30
University of Southern California	Tuesday, October 13, 1981
Staff photo by Adam Schaffer
BREATHE DEEPLY Cool fall weather and brisk winds have swept Los Angeles skies clean, providing this rare view of the downtown skyline. Temperatures have dropped into the 50s and 60s at night during the week.
IMMIGRANT POLICY
Attorney assails Reagan
By Wendell Mobley
Staff Writer
President Ronald Reagan’s policies toward illegal immigrants is dangerous, according to the staff attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense Educational Fund.
Linda Wong, the attorney, told a group of university students Monday that Reagan's approach to illegal immigrants could backfire and have an adverse effect on whites. She said the president’s approach causes “minorities to be pitted against Anglos, and minorities to be pitted against minorities.”
“The underlying premise of the Reagan administration is that we used to be a country of immigrants, but we no longer are,” the attorney said, adding that the administration wants to close the door to immigrants.
A stereotype suggests that undocumented workers take the jobs of Americans, Wong said.
In actuality, undocumented workers are a problem resulting from American foreign policy, she said, citing the Reagan administration’s relationships with Haiti and El Salvador as examples.
“Dictators are running the
oppression. People can no longer live in safety. The people want freedom and the U.S. is supporting the source of their oppression,” Wong explained.
“The U.S. does not realize certain conditions give way to certain governments. It must allow countries to follow their own path, sometimes by giving
more aid to a dictator. The people will seek reprieve from leadership.”
Wong explained methods the Reagan administration wants to use to deal with illegal immigrants and refugees.
One method of handling this situation is to allow the Coast
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LINDA WONG