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Gary Jung kicks off Asian Celebration '86 in front of Tommy Trojan with his “Tribute to Elvis” Wednesday.
LAS to offer service award
By Gordon Gary
Staff Writer
The College of Letters, Arts and Sciences is offering an award of $1,000 to student groups and graduating seniors who have made significant contributions to the local community.
The deadline to submit an application for the award, which will come from an endowment established by Henry and Grace Salvatori, has been extended from this Friday to Wednesday, March 5.
"I'm looking for a person or group who makes a certain kind of commitment to the community'," said Barbara Gardner, director of Urban Affairs and chairwoman of the selection committee.
"We don't want someone who just goes out and does their (Joint Education Project) assignments. It has become an ordinary thing, and we want somebody who has done the extraordinary,'' she said.
Applicants for the award have been either selfnominated or nominated by others. They will be judged on their service activities in the community in the five-mile radius outside of campus, Gardner said.
"I would really like to emphasize that we've only
had one student organization apply, and we really encourage student groups to become involved," she said.
She said even students from a floor of a residence hall could apply for the award if they felt they had a chance to win.
The award had originally been offered only to graduating seniors, Gardner said.
She said people "should not be shy" about applying if they have done valuable work for the community^. She has received only eight applications, yet 15 nominations were submitted.
Gardner said students who have won the award in the past have "gone on to greater things" and more community involvement in their adult lives.
"Giving of yourself and getting something in return has been a significant part of undergraduate experience," she said.
Applicants will be judged by a committee composed of three faculty members, three students active in various campus organizations and three people from the local community at large.
Last year's recipient, Caroline Ytom, will present the award to this year's winner on April 17.
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University of Southern California	Thursday, February 27, 1986
Volume C, Number 33
‘Hall of Shamer’ Fred Hoggin, sportscaster with KNBC, spoke to members of Sigma Delta Chi, the journalism honor society, Wednesday. See story in Sports.
Fashion
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At Town & Gown’s fashion show Tuesday, Silvia Fine Kaye Cbelow left], wife of celebrity Danny Kaye, and Marilyn Zumberge (right] preview lastest fashions by David Hayes, designer for Nancy Reagan. Nancy has already ordered one short-sleeved white dress Cleft].
Photos by Bruce Johnson
Pulitzer winner criticizes press
'Killing Fields' reporter fills auditorium
By Tania Soussan
Staff Writer
Sydney Schanberg, winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for reporting from Cambodia (now Kampuchea) for the Nov York Times, discussed the determination and objectivity essential to healthy journalism, in an anecdote-filled speech Tuesday night.
Addressing the topic, "The Timidity of the American Press" in the USC School of Journalism's fifth-annual Kruglak lecture, Schanberg examined the
changing role of journalism while touching on his experience in Cambodia and his recent resignation from the New York Times.
Murray Fromson, director of the Center for International Journalism at the university, introduced his colleague from Cambodia.
"After more that a quarter of a century of reporting, the fire (needed to be a great reporter) still burns in Sydney Schan-berg's gut," he said.
The Academy Award-win-ning film The Killing Fields was based on Schanberg's experiences in Cambodia with his colleague, Dith Pran. A clip from the film was shown before the speech.
Schanberg started as a New York Times correspondent in Asia in 1969 and covered the war in Vietnam, the turmoil in India and Pakistan, and the fall of Cambodia.
At the reception held before the lecture, Schanberg said his reasons for lecturing were "a little bit of ego and a tad of money."
He said speaking is not satisfying because he doesn't get any feedback from the audience. "I rarely learn anything while I'm talking; I've heard it all."
Schanberg began by telling the packed audience in a Seeley G. Mudd auditorium that, because he is a writer, he finds it "odd, alien and a little presumptuous" to give a speech.
Schanberg critized the press and said the problem it faces today is "the illness of timidity and nervousness in the face of power."
Schanberg advised the jour-
nalists and students in the audience to stay away from dogma and to establish a code of distance from public figures, and said "don't shift your chair simply because someone changes the music."
He explained journalists must always be outsiders, concerned with the situations they cover but not for personal reasons.
He said the most profound mistakes of journalists have to do with laziness and lethargy. The press only skims the surface of important stories; it lags far behind in social developments; and it spends too much time with the "knowns," the important people, he said.
"We in the press ought to start covering the unknowns and ought to stop giving so many free rides," Schanberg said.
Schanberg also criticized the press's attitude toward freedom of expression. The press asks for a special place in American society and makes a grand speech about the need for freedom of expression but often does not let that freedom flourish within itself, he said.
"The New York Times is the flagship of American journalism, and yet it canceled an opinion on a page devoted to opinion," he said in reference to the column he used to write.
The Times said the column was canceled because it "became too narrow in focus," but Schanberg said it had to do with the opinions and people he was writing about.
One of the issues that he addressed was the New York City mayor's policy for the rich that (Continued on page 2)