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Alumni cite issues with El Centro leadership
Discussion over possible name change of El Centro Chicano causes tension.
By ELLY WONG
Daily Trojan
USC alumni and former leaders of El Centro Chicano oppose the consideration of a change to the name and location of the organization. which some say excludes other identities within the Latino community
Forums took place during February and March to discuss the name, said William Noe Vela, El Centro Chicano's director
"Students, staff, faculty, and parents have inquired about the use of the word Chicano and feel it excludes other identities within the Latino (community)," read fliers handed out during the forums “Some students turn away from the services and resources that El Cen-
tro Chicano provides because they don’t identify as Chicano."
Cesar Lopez Ph.D., class of 19%, currently a professor of Chicano studies at San Diego Mesa College, said this is not a new debate.
“The term ‘Chicano’ is a political identity," he said. “It's something that comes out of the Civil Rights Movement and is historically been a challenge to mainstream sensibility of assimilation and identity.
The forums took place for students, parents, staff and alumni to discuss issues brought up in focus groups that the center conducted last year, Vela said.
The discussions were hosted to assess the situation, but members of the recently formed El Centro Chicano Stakeholders’ Committee weren't clear why the issue was brought up in the first place, said Jaime Cruz, former assistant director of El Centro Chicano from 1975
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Sample agrees to meet with SCALE
USG signs off on meeting with USC officials, members to discuss fair labor.
By DAN LOETERMAN
Daily Trojan
USC President Steven B. Sample has agreed to meet with members from the Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation to discuss USC’s fair-labor policies.
The meeting comes about two weeks after SCALE staged a widely publicized sit-in at Sample’s Bovard office to protest the administrations decision not to join two independent organizations that promote fair labor and workers’ rights.
SCALE claims the university’s current labor monitoring agency, the Fair Labor Association, is corrupt and ineffective.
The group said it has been vying for a meeting with Sample for eight years.
“We were grateful that we had the opportunity to meet with President Sample, but at the same time we were questioning his motives for meeting,” said SCALE member Teresa Cheng, a sophomore majoring
in political science.
Teresa said she is concerned that Sample has restricted the meeting to one hour, and will allow only three SCALE members to be present.
Though some SCALE members said they believe the meeting is a direct result of their lobbying efforts
—	which have included staging a "knit-in" in front of thc Pertusati University Bookstore and "storming” Sample's office with phone calls and e-mails — Undergraduate Student Government members say the administration consulted them before scheduling the meeting.
Student Body President Sahil Chaudry said Heather Larabee, the director of campus activities, contacted USG alter tha SCALE demonstration.
Larabee told Chaudry the administration was considering meeting with SCALE, and that Sample wanted to know if USG thought it was a good idea, Chaudry said.
“Essentially, we were asked whether or not we (were) OK with having a meeting and whether we felt it was appropriate,” Chaudry said.
Chaudry said it is his under-I see SCALE, page 211
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