Volume XCII, Number 18
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University of Southern California	Thursday, September 30, 1982
GROUP INTRODUCED AT TOWN AND GOWN
Community association tries to inform, involve public
By Ellen Plotkin
Staff Writer
The Domestic Policy Association (DPA), a coalition of national community organizations, formally shook hands with the university and the Los Angeles metropolitan area Wednesday afternoon.
DPA founder David Mathews, discussed the organiza-
tion's objectives at the Town and Gown.
“USC has the reputation of being very interested with community forums,” Mathews said in his Alabama accent.
The university is one of 15 national institutions that is a charter member of the association, a member-owned corporation.
The DPA is a network with the purpose of improving the quality of political material the public receives, enabling people to deal more directly with lawmakers, Mathews said.
“I think people do desperately want to have better control of those who govern their lives,” he said before an audience of about 130.
For the past five years, Mathews has worked with organizations to form the DPA. The association is now completing its first year.
Pointing out the diverse mixture of people in the room, he said, “I really think the American people are looking for what they have in common. We have got to find some common thread.
“The Domestic Policy Association is nothing more than a network of people in a business. It is a beginner's guide to understanding policy,” Mathews said.
The Los Angeles metropolitan area is one of 45 sites across the country that contains national issues forums.
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Foreign student files complaint against security office for alleged harassment
An international student said he was unnecessarily harassed by University Security officers last Wednesda- night, and has filed a complaint with the office about the incident.
Sgt. Art Blair of University Security could neither confirm nor deny the incident. “We are investigating the matter,” he said, but would add nothing more.
Francis Bonsu, a junior from Ghana studying chemical engineering, said three security cars approached him in the Hebrew Union College parking lot shortly before 11 p.m.
Bonsu was in the process, he said, of taking the cover off his brother’s 1981 Porsche, when the cars pulled up beside him. He is using the Porsche while his brother is overseas, Bonsu said.
The officers reportedly told Bonsu to get away from the car and to put his hands beside him. “They were pointing their guns at me,” he said.
“I said this is my car and they told me to lie
down. I lay down and they took my hands and put them behind my back and a guy sat on me.
“I told them I’m a student here (at the university). and told them they could take my wallet out of my pocket and could see. They asked my name (and) I just told them. They let (me) go and asked to see identification,” Bonsu said.
He showed the officers his driver’s license and a temporary university identification card, Bonsu said. “They (the security officers) should have asked me (for identification) when they (first) saw me at the car.
“They asked me where I lived. I said Troy Hall. They didn’t believe me. All they believed (was) that some black guy was stealing a Porsche,” Bonsu said.
“I haven’t received a letter of apology or anything. Nobody has come to me and that’s not fair,” he said.
Mortar Board honors professor
Tommy’s donates $16,300 in glassware to university’s freshman chemistry labs
By Marc Igler
Assistant City Editor
The award came as quite a surprise to Gerald Bender, but to his students in International Relations 308, Mortar Board’s faculty teaching excellence certificate was merely recognition for a good day’s work.
Mortar Board, an honor society for university seniors, gave Bender, an associate pro-
fessor in the school of international relations, the award Wednesday in a presentation that interrupted his 11 a.m. class.
Eight members from Mortar Board's faculty awards committee handed the certificate to Bender while the students from his foreign policy analysis class clapped and cheered.
“I really appreciate this,”
Bender replied humbly. “I guess I’m going to have to give a good lecture now.”
Bender, 42, is regarded as an expert on American foreign policy and African studies, with particular emphasis on Angola, a strife-torn country in southern Africa, said Cherie Millage, director of student affairs in the school of international relations.
He came to the university in 1979 with a Ph.D. in political science earned from UCLA.
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FOUNTAIN OF KNOWLEDGE — The recently repaired fountain in Alumni Park offers student Todd Deutscher a picturesque place to study.
The Tommy’s Hamburgers chain is getting into chemistry.
It recently donated 516,300 to purchase new glassware for the university’s freshman chemistry labs located in Seeley G. Mudd Building.
The glassware donated totaled about 9,000 beakers, Erlenmeyer flasks, funnels and graduated cylinders.
The chemistry department, in an effort to thank Tommy’s, had the chain's logo imprinted on each piece of glassware.
Les Whitaker, director of the freshman chemistry labs got the idea to approach Tommy’s owner after two graduate students treated him to his first Tommy’s burger last spring.
“We went to the Beverly Boulevard stand at about 1:30 p.m. and there was still a long line for lunch,” Whitaker said. "When I remarked on this, I was told that 'SC students stand in lines even at midnight.
“I thought, ‘We need glassware, and our students like these hamburgers. There’s a real alli-
ance between Tommy’s and USC. We ought to do something about it.’ ”
Tommy Koulax. owner of Tommy’s, and his cousin George Koulax, the chain’s general manager. were contacted by Whitaker and chemistry department chairman Robert Beaudet.
There were several reasons the cousins decided to do business with the chemistry department.
Koulax said one reason was due to the loyal patronage of university students, that began in 1946 when Tommy’s opened its first stand.
“We have made money from USC,” Koulax said. “This is a way to give something back."
Although the Koulaxes say the "free" advertising did not figure greatly in their thinking, they said they are happy for the extra exposure.
Beaudet said about one-third of all university freshman take introductory chemistry. “Any of those students who don't know about Tommy’s will quickly become acquainted." he said.
GREAT JOB — International relations professor Gerald Bender receives an award for outstanding teaching excellence from Mortar Board member Maurice Kane.
Staff photo by Handy Johnson