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Volume C, Number 9
University of Southern California
Wednesday, January 22, 1986
Feb. 11 deadline approaches for Cal Grant applications
By Sharon Nazarian
Staff Writer
The filing deadline for those applying for a new or renewed Cal Grant is Feb. 11, 1986, according to a memo from John Wright, assistant director of admissions evaluation. The Cal Grant application, the Student Aid Application for California and the Cal Grant supplement must be postmarked by that date.
"The reason why we are stressing the deadline is that, in the past, students have got them in late, and we could not give it to the government on time, so we could not help them," he said.
Wright also said that if students wait until Feb. 10 to turn in their applications, there might not be enough time to complete the grade verification by the Feb. 11 deadline.
Transfer students and freshmen who entered the university last fall or this spring should take the Cal Grant supplement to Student Administrative Services rm. 207 for grade verifications.
Continuing students should submit their Cal Grant supplement forms to the information window of the Registrar1 s Office on the first floor of SAS. Both offices will complete section I of the form and have it available for students to pick up within two working days.
"The Cal Grant is the major scholarship given by the state and it is a large part of the student's aid package grant or scholarship," Wright said. "This is as opposed to (Guaranteed Student Loans) which are loans that have to be paid back."
Aid eligibility is based on need and scholastic records.
Bishop Desmond Tutu thanks students for help
Policy on cheating studied
By Gordon Gary
Staff Writer
A survey put out by the Student Senate's Gold Seal Task Force on Academic Integrity last semester found that nearly 75 percent of the university's student body is unaware of the university's policy on cheating.
Only one-fourth of the student body has read the pamphlet that outlines the policy, the survey found.
The survey, which went to about 2,000 students and 50 faculty members, was passed out between Thanksgiving and Christmas last semester, according to Wally Bobkiewicz, chairman of academic affairs for the student senate.
"They were handed out (randomly) in classes, and there was really no scientific system, but ultimately, that gave us a good cross-section," Bobkiewicz said.
Originally, an administration task force was set up as a result of academic integrity violations that occured during the Fall of 1984, particularly grade tampering and the alleged sale of diplomas, Bobkiewicz said.
The provost's office set up a committee that "concentrated on the discovery and preparation of recommendations directed toward both the specific kind of grade tampering . . . and other varieties of cheating," said Vice Provost Sylvia Manning,
who was named to head the committee.
As a result of its investigation into the problem last summer, the provost's committee outlined a set of 21 recommendations before dissolving itself, Manning said.
One of the recommendations was that the senate form a committee of its own to inform students of regulations against cheating.
"The task force recommended that the Student Senate institutionalize in some way, sustaining and channelling student concsm," Manning said.
The senate formed the Gold Seal task force to meet this recommendation.
The senate selected 25 students from a group of 40 to 50 applicants to form the committee.
In a report to the senate from Erica Crystal, chairwoman of the task force, the committee found that "close to 75 percent of the. . .student body is unaware of the university's policy on cheating and only about 25 percent of then have ever read the pamphlet."
Bobkiewicz said the pamphlets, entitled "Academic Integrity at USC, A Guide for Students and Faculty," are included in orientation packets given to entering freshman.
Crystal said the study also found that cheating varies between classes and is more concentrated in general education classes, "where students ob-
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TOM WOOD ALLDAJLY TROJAN
By Aaron Van Curen
City Editor
On the same grass where 15 months earlier thousands of chanting, rowdy Ronald Reagan supporters stood to see Vice President George Bush speak, an estimated 5,000 people listened with quiet attention as a priest from South Africa began a speech by making Reagan the butt of a joke.
The executive branch of the United States received a great deal of criticism from Bishop Desmond Tutu, the South African anti-apart-heid leader and Anglican priest, in his noon address to the university community from the steps of Doheny Library yesterday.
American students, however, were the recipients of a great deal of praise from Tutu for their support of the movement to force the white Pretoria government of South Africa to stop its policy of racial segregation know as apartheid.
After receiving a standing ovation from the audience, he asked them to turn their applause to themselves.
President Ronald Reagan signed an act last year that imposed economic sanctions on South Africa, but Tutu said he did so because his hand was forced. He said Reagan feared a congressional override of his veto and a national mood against apartheid, which student protests had helped to direct.
"There was a time when students were concerned about degrees and good grades. I will not pooh-pooh degrees and good grades, but (through your protests) you are saying that there is something more than good degrees and good grades," Tutu said.
Tutu was to address the subject "Peace, Family and Unity," but strayed from this topic.
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Bishop Desmond Tutu (above) delivers an emotional speech to a capivated audience (above right). President James Zumberge has Tutu calm a group of hecklers that began shouting 'Divest' during Zumberge's closing remarks.
Large crowd causes few disturbances at speech
By Terry Allen
Staff Writer
A crowd of more than 5,000 people gathered in front of Doheny Library yesterday and quietly listened to Bishop Desmond Tutu’s address, punctuated occasionally with hearty rounds of applause when the Nobel laureate struck chords of approval in denouncing his country's policy of apartheid.
"We had a real good day," said Sgt. Dave Ritch, field supervisor for University Security's afternoon watch. "It seemed like most everybody agreed with him. He was real popular, and there was no animosity. It was just a smooth operation."
Twelve officers from University Security were joined by five others from the Los Angeles Police Department in securing the area for Tutu's 39-minute address, Ritch said.
An undisclosed number of undercover officers were also on hand for direct surveillance of the crowd, he said.
But the crowd was clearly not interested in protest or demonstration. For the most part, onlookers were orderly and supportive.
A group of 40 students from nearby Occidental College, bearing a big, bright yellow banner reading, "Tutu: We support you," assembled on the lawn to the bishop's distant left.
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