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Volume XCi, Number 13	University of Southern California	Wednesday, July 14, 1982
FOCUS awards
six film students
By Mike Krumper
Contributing Writer
The Division of Cinema and Television already a well-ho-nored institution, has a few more plaques to hang on its walls. The FOCUS (Films of College and University Students) awards honored six university students recently.
Larry Pederson drove away with first place and a Datsun 310 for his film “Juxtaposition.” William Rus won fourth place for his comedy "Least Likely.”
In the documentary category, Eric Knorr was presented a check for $2000 for his second place film, “Portrait of a Prison.” In screenwriting, awards went to Phil Sherwood for "Show Me the Way” and Laura M. Mauney for “The Bus.” Finally, Stephen Howell split a S1000 award for his editing of the film “The Rain.”
The six students were among 18 finalists. The finalists were selected on the basis of the 640 films that were entered in the nationwide competition.
The finalists were treated to five days of seminars, tours, and lectures by film industry professionals. During this time, the finalists did not know their placings in the competition. Thus, there were many surprised faces at the award presentation ceremony at the Directors’ Guild.
However, the order of the winners is unimportant compared to the exposure each film and filmmaker receives, according to William Rus.
Each of the films in the finals had a five minute clip shown and the winning films were shown in it entirety. Consequently, many new contacts in the industry are made, which is important considering the closed nature of filmmaking today.
"You real.ze that many people in the business are out of work,” said Rus. "So the FOCUS award were a morale booster, as they give you a feeling that people care about what you’re doing, and it gives you some hope.”
FOCUS helps these aspiring filmmakers in another way. Prints are made of each film in the finals and are sent to major college and universities throughout the country. This insures the films more exposure.
Additionally, Shure Bros, contributed $1000 in sound equipment to the film department of the first place winner in each category.
The FOCUS awards are sponsored by Nissan/Datsun and cosponsored by Columbia Pictures, Dino DeLaurentis Corp., EMI Films Inc., The Ladd Co., Magnasync/Moviola Corp. and Shure Bros.
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST AND WRITER
Bohannan to become dean
Paul Bohannan, noted social anthropologist and writer, has been named dean of the Division of Social Sciences and Communications.
Dr. Bohannan, who will assume the office September 1, will be be responsible for the more than 20 schools, departments and programs in the division. The division, one of three major divisions within the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, enrolls 2500 social science majors and employs 160 full-time faculty members.
Bohannan has served as a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1976.
Before moving to California, Bohannan chaired the anthropology department at Northwestern University.
He also taught at Princeton University and Oxford University.
Books to his credit include Africa and Africans and Justice and Judgment Among the Tiv, and, with Mark Giazer, he edited High Points in Anthropology
His textbook Social Anthropology is considered by many to be a classic in the field.
Bohannan edited and contributed four chapters to Divorce and After, he was '.he editor of Law and Warfare: Studies in the Anthropology of
Conflict; and he is the author of Love, Sex and Being Human.
He is a frequent contributor to academic journals, and his byline has appeared on hundreds of articles in such magazines as Psychology- Today and Saturday Review.
He has written book reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Scientific American and other publications.
A contributing editor to Science 82, Bohannan writes an occasional column for that magazine.
He is a member of the social science advisory committee of World Book Encyclopedia and a member of the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Social and Bilogical Structures and the Social Science Citation Index.
Bohannan is a member of numerous professional societies. including the Royal Anthropological Institute, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Council on Anthropology and Education.
Bohannan was honored in
1972	with the Herskovits
Award in African Studies. In 1962, he received the August Vollmer Award inCriminology.
After earning his bachelor’s degree with high distinction at the University of Arizona, Bohannan was a Rhodes scholar at Queen’s College, Oxford University. There, he earned a B.Sc. degree and a D.Phil. degree.
During his years at Northwestern, Bohannan was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studey in the Behavioral Sciences. And, with a one-year postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation, he enrolled at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. There, he completed four years’ training in psychoanalysis.
Bohannan's anthropological field work has been extensive. While a Guggenheim fellow, he studied middle-class divorcees in the San Francisco area; with grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, he studied the aged residents of San Diego center city hotels and stepfather households in San Diego County; and with grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Government of Nigeria and others, he spent 28 months with the Tiv of Central Nigeria.
USES PROFESSOR’S UNIQUE INSTRUCTIONAL SYSTEM
Reading school helps youths with learning handicaps
By John Iki
Assistant Editor
“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out,” said reformer Henry Ward Beecher. Thus, children who cannot read well usually are imprisoned in dungeons of ignorance. But a school cosponsored by the university is aiding such children in becoming functional members of society.
Grayce Ransom is director of the National Charity League-USC School, a facility for children with learning and reading disabilities, where she applies her innovative method of improving academic skills through personalized instruction.
Besides instruction in such subjects as social studies, mathematics, science and, of course, reading, the school at 5000 Hollywood Blvd. offers sports, art education and counseling for youngsters who may lack self-confidence because of their inabilities to read well.
The director, a gray haired woman with a gentle smile, sat at a table in the school’s Reading Resource Center library and explained her program. She also is a university professor of education and developed the Ransom Reading System after seven years of extensive research in schools throughout
California.
The curricula features divisions similar to the Dewey decimal system used by libraries. Each section, or strand, is focused on such skills as phonics, vocabulary or comprehension. Others feature more detailed goals. For example, the “perceptual vocabulary skills” strand includes examinations on the historic root of words and particles, such as "ped-,” "-scope” and “meter.”
Classroom meetings emphasize vocabulary, reading analysis and other skills at teacher-directed learning stations in classes accommodating about 10 pupils each, insuring individual attention. Students then move to other stations for activities such as word games, creative writing and text reading while listening to corresponding tape recordings.
The program emphasizes literary appreciation. Ransom interjects, folding her arms and smiling modestly. Among the room’s neatly arranged shelves are books and tapes ranging from Superstars of Sports, Beauty and the Beast and Skateboard Mania to Crime and Punishment, Pride and Prejudice and The Iliad.
Most of the 43 pupils at the school, which was founded in 1964, have their annual tuitions of $5,775 paid with some
sort of financial aid, two-thirds of them from the Los Angeles Unified School District, Ransom continues. Aid for the remainder comes from the league’s scholarship stipend, she mentions.
Students with reading or learning disabilities in need of remedial reading instruction usually enter the school at the recommendation of public school districts, Ransom continues.
The university provides bookkeeping, secretarial services and staff members and teachers for the four-classroom facility, and the league provides the building, facility maintenance and scholarships, Ransom says.
“We look for people with the appropriate credentials and certain general education credentials. They can’t teach here unless they have both,” says Ransom, who also directs the campus reading center in Phillips Hall of Education.
Aides must have teaching credentials and usually have
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Photo by John Iki
GRAYCE RANSOM