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Volume XCV, Number 55	University of Southern California	Thursday, April 5, 1984
ROBERT HELLER DAJLY TROJAN
It ain’t exactly a tree growing in Brooklyn, but this jade tree does its best amid the rubble in front of the old cinema department.
Senate to elect 1984-85 officers
By Sheldon Ito
Assistant Qty Editor
The 1984-85 Student Senate held its first meeting Wednesday night during which 11 senators nominated themselves for the assembly's five executive positions.
The 32-member senate will elect its president, graduate and undergraduate vice presidents and graduate and undergraduate representatives at its next meeting, Friday, April 13, at 7 a.m.
Running for president are Sherrie Keys, former undergraduate representative, and Mike Singer, former undergraduate vice president.
The senate's procedure of electing its president internally without direct input from the student body is unusual according to a report published this year by the American Association of University Students.
Of the 20 schools surveyed, only three, the University of Pennsylvania, Tufts University and New York University, had their student government presidents elected internally.
The elections at this university Lave been closed to the general student population since 1972 when a scandal involving the bribing and threatening of election commission and Associated Students of Southern California (ASSC) officers was exposed.
Corruption within the student government was found to be so pervasive that students that spring voted overwhelmingly to abolish ASSC.
The university was without a student government until April 1977 when the Student Senate was officially recognized.
Bill Lilia, the 1983-84 senate president, said there are both (Continued on page 19)
Mortar Board honors IR professor
By Robbie Asghar
Gty Writer
"It's easier to be in a class that doesn't require you to examine your attitudes — life is much more comfortable that way," said Steven Lamy, assistant professor in the School of International Relations and director of the Center for Public Education in International Affairs. On Wednesday, the 32-year-old Lamy received a Mortar Board award in honor of his teaching approach.
"I was just about to make a great point when I saw these people come walking in," he said, referring to the honor so-
ciety representatives who dropped in on his dass to present the award. "And I forgot the point."
Lamy, who received his doctorate from the University of Denver in 1980, has held his current position at this university since 1982.
As director of the Center for Public Education, he developed programs aimed at helping teachers of kindergarten through 12th grade improve their instruction of international affairs.
Lamy called the current teaching methods of social sciences in secondary schools deplorable, adding that most in-
structors assigned to those classes are not adequately prepared for the task.
"A very small percentage have formal training," he said. "Most social studies teachers are not trained in international relations."
The consequences of poor education in a student's formative years can be damaging, Lamy added. "The result is that you have a lot of sharing of ignorance. They take their parents' or friends' ideas" on politics and society, he said.
Lamy, who is extremely popular with his students according to recent polls tak-(Continued on page 8)
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STEVEN LAMY
At the cinema school chances for success aren’t so far, far away
By Monica Peterson
Along time ago, before anyone heard anything about a galaxy far, far away, before Danny Zuko and Sandy Olson blissfully soared in Greased Lightning and before Conan flexed his barbaric muscles on the silver screen, the university's Cinema School was teaching students to make films.
A guy named Lucas made movies about the future, a guy named Kleiser did some dramatic projects and some fellow named Milius experimented with abstract and innovative work.
But these people are just the tip of the iceberg that is the School of Cinema-Televisi on.
According to myth, in 1928 the university's President Rufus von KleinSmid was fencing with Douglas Fairbanks Sr., director of education for the newly formed American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, when the two decided to add some classes in photoplay to the university curriculum. Since those classes began in 1929 as part of the speech department, cinema has grown from a mere emphasis to a full-fledged school.
Today, the School of Cinema-Television has the distinction of being the oldest, largest and most comprehensive film school in the United States. It boasts an assortment of emphases, including film writing, critical studies, motion picture producing and film production. Moreover, the school has graduated more than 5,000 students, 80 percent of whom have become professionals in the fields of film and television.
Each year, the more than 300 production students complete about 125 films or video projects. Students regularly win awards at international film and video festivals, and graduates fill key positions for many industrial, educational and commercial production companies.
Quite simply, the cinema school is successful.
But Russell McGregor, director of the School Cinema-Television School, insists that the purpose of the school is not for the student to gain international recognition, but for the student to leam the art of filmmaking and to understand the power of film as a medium.
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Acquaintance rape: What happens the morning after?
How victims survive ordeal
By David Jefferson
Assistant Qty Editor
For victims of acquaintance rape — or, as it is more commonly referred to, date rape — the trauma of their ordeal does not end when they escape the grasp of their attackers.
In an acquaintance rape situation, the victim is familiar with her attacker — he may be a casual acquaintance, a co-worker, a friend or a lover. Thus, a problem arises when the woman comes to the realization that she was betrayed by someone she thought she knew.
"I didn't understand what he was really like until a few’ weeks after the rape," said one college sophomore who was raped by a classmate when she was a freshman. "He took a pin off my purse, and I asked him to give it back, but he wouldn't. When I insisted, he just said to me, 'You've got to realize that when you want something in this world, you have to take it.'
"It took that to make me realize what kind of person he is. I just kept asking myself why I was so stupid. Why couldn't I see through him?"
Those who work with rape victims, or rape survivors as they are more often called, stress that once an acquaintance rape is over, the woman's trauma lives on.
"In date rape cases you find a more intensive lack of self-esteem among the victims, more depression, more suicidal tendencies and more of a lack of trust in people — so much so that the rape survivor can't even trust another woman any more," said Linda Bloombecker, a mar-
riage, family and child counselor and member of the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women.
"In acquaintance rapes there usually are no convictions because the woman gets no emotional support from her peers and she does not pursue her case. Date rape just provides an extra layer of stigma that these young women have to deal with," she added.
It is Bloombecker's job as a counselor to help rape survivors cope with the reality of the experience and deal with their feelings.
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Second in a three-part series on acquaintance rape