Fate of missing lunches depends on who you ask
By Belma Johnson
Staff Writer
No one knows exactly who they were, but numerous people with surprising gall apparently helped themselves to lunches that were intended primarily for honor students visiting the campus Saturday in a recruitment drive.
Depending on whom one asks, as many as 400 or more $4 box lunches are unaccounted for.
One person who was at the scene said he was told by an "authoritative-looking woman” that the lunches were free to any takers.
Another person who was there said neighborhood children wheeled up shopping carts and carried away loads of food.
And another group of people, apparently impersonating graduate students, made off with still more lunches.
“To my knowledge, that did not happen,” said Kelly Calhoun of the admission office, which sponsored the event.
She said she did not think there were very many extra lunches to be taken after the invited crowd finished eating.
“In no case would we give out lunches,” said Kathryn Forte, director of admission. But later she said she was not sure what happened during the incident.
Exact figures could not be obtained, but most of the parties involved agree that about 850 lunches were paid for by the admission office at about $4 each, for a total of approximately $3,400 of university money.
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Volume XCII, Number'll University of Southern California Wednesday, October 20, 1982
Staff photo by Adam Schaffer
INSPIRED — Dan Coffene, lead singer of “Lifeline,” a religious group, performing before a crowd in E.F. Hutton Park. Short speeches were made in between songs.
Reception honors founding of student organization
By Melinda Smolin
The Asian Pacific American Student Service, which was started last February to help meet the growing needs and concerns of Asian American students, was formally introduced during a reception Thursday at the University Religious Center.
About 300 people attended the reception of the opening of APASS which will help meet the needs of over 3,200 Asian Pacific American students who constitute approximately 14 percent of the total student body. It is a unit in the division of student affairs, said John Hokoyama, director of APASS.
At the reception. Hokoyama discussed creating a resource bank for Asian Pacific American students and getting Asian Pacific American organizations to work together and exchange information.
“I’m trying to work with the 26 Asian Pacific American student organizations. If they need me. I’m here,” Hokoyama said.
The 26 organizations, among others, include the Hawaii Club, the Korean Trojans, the Chinese Students’ Association, the Indonesian Students’ Association and the Korean Christian Fellowship.
“We’ve formed an Asian Pacific consortium composed of the presidents of the 26 groups. The purpose is to get to know each other, to support each other’s activities (and to) at least exchange information,” Hokoyama said.
“Two common projects are the Asian Pacific American Orientation at the beginning of the year and the Asian Pacific American Heritage Week in the spring,” he said.
Another objective Hokoyama discussed was creating an Asian Pacific American support group.
The importance of establishing community contacts was highlighted. He said that APASS is trying to obtain financial support from the community.
Speakers at the reception included Thomas Kilgore Jr., a minister and director of special community affairs, and James Dennis, vice president of student affairs.
“Getting together and getting PR out” about APASS was most important, Hokoyama said. “This office is so new, we need PR. No one can use the office if they don’t know it’s here.”
CHARGES OF SUBTLE RACISM MADE
Minority groups wage quiet war
By George Aguilar
Assistant City Editor
The radicalism of the 1960s has passed. No more raised fists as a sign of defiance and no more black protesters being forceably removed from the president’s office.
Instead, leaders of social and cultural student organizations on campus today are using a more professional approach to fight what they call a subtle form of racism that exists at the university today.
Minority student organizations, such as the Black Student Union, the Asian Pacific American Student Services and MEChA, express concerns that fellow' students see their organizations in a negative light.
Their objective, as they see it, is to accurately represent their group's interest before the administration and to maintain pride in each of their races.
“(The goal) is to create a balance between ethnic identity and getting into the mainstream of the university,” said John Hokoyama. director of APASS. “That is our goal.”
Other minority groups agree.
"It is the raising of the awareness of the black race, while at the same time trying to get into the mainstream of the university,” said Darryl Adams, co-chairman of BSU. “We want to be part of the university. We are not talking separatism, we’re talking about getting in the mainstream.”
But each group sees that the best way to accomplish those goals is to work within the system, rather than confront it.
Adams said that his group is not out to alienate the general student body while accomplishing its goals. He cited examples in BSU’s history in which black students would interrupt baseball and basketball games to protest discrimination.
Nowadays, the BSU is concerned with taking problems through normal channels. Ronnie Martin, co-chairman of the BSU, points at the South African investment controversy of last year as an example of the BSU willingness to work with university administrators to receive answers.
“We are trying to establish working relationships. “We can be colorless or colorful,” Martin said.
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Staff photo by Robert Heller
FOUR IN A ROW — (from left to right) Bill Kohne, Maria Wright Heino Moeller and Brian Peck are taking part in some form of coordinated movement. Or maybe they are just stretching their arms. Kohne. Wright and Moeller, all freshmen, are pursuing degrees in fine arts. Peck, a sophomore, is a business major.
Fundraising follow-up scheduled; job interviews begin in December
By Melinda Smolin
The university’s annual giving program has announced plans to begin calling alumni in February to follow up on a fund-raising program designed to solicit money for support groups.
The program, expected to last until mid-May, is designed to renew lapsed memberships of the university’s 35 support groups, said Scott Henderson, assistant director of development in annual giving.
It will follow an effort to mail 20,000 letters to alumni who have stopped giving
money to the various university support groups. The letter-sending campaign began on Sept. 1 and will conclude by the end of November.
Support groups are organizations composed primarily of alumni that are affiliated with particular schools or departments within the university and operate on a membership basis. The money raised by a group goes toward the supporting of a school or a department.
After the 20,000 letters have been mailed, the university will begin in February calling
the people who did not respond.
“The phone effort has got a different focus than last year’s and it’s going to be on a smaller scale. It is a follow-up to the direct mailing campaign. Calling is another stage of direct mailing to find out why they (alumni) did not respond,” Henderson said.
Last year’s campaign, named the Annual Telefund, was designed to solicit funds that could be used wherever needed — unrestricted funds, he said. The campaign was in operation for only one year.
The fund-raising program will employ university students to contact alumni.
“We start interviewing for callers in December,” Henderson said. “W7e want students that are articulate, that can speak out — hopefully juniors and seniors. The reason we (Continued on page 3)