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Volume XC, Number 57
University of Southern California
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1981
URGES RENEWAL OF STRUGGLE
Mrs. King assails social injustice
By George Aguilar
Coretta Scott King urged university students to renew the struggle against social injustice Wednesday during her address to a capacity audience in Bovard Auditorium.
“Be ashamed to die until you have won a victory for humanity,” Mrs. King quoted from a speech made by her late husband.
Mrs. King spoke of the need to wipe out poverty, racism and violence in a nonviolent manner.
“We meet a greater challenge, an age-old challenge. It is to break the vicious cycle of poverty, racism and violence,” she said.
“Material poverty still exists in the wealthiest nation in the world, 26 million people live below the poverty line,” she said. "Most of the world’s population lives in material poverty.”
This leads to higher unemployment, lower wages, poorer food and medical care. It leads to “a life of want and deprivation.”
She spoke of another kind of poverty:	.	a
poverty of the spirit that often afflicts despair and hopelessness.” Mrs. King warned that it can also be found “in the halls of the rich.”
The need to wipe out overt racism was a concern of Mrs. King. She criticized the racism that still exists in South Africa and the open segregation and the hate groups that still exist in the United States.
She criticized the discrimination that still exists today and noted that black workers make 59 percent of the income that white workers take home. She criticized the last hired, last fired mania that often means fewer jobs for minorities.
Referring to the murders of 26 black children in Atlanta, King said, “Something is definitely wrong with a society that produces that type of individual.”
She warned that this kind of violence could happen in cities like Los Angeles. She cited the shootings of Allard Lowenstein, Vernon Jordan and President Reagan as proof that society needs to solve its problems in a nonviolent manner.
King warned of other potential violence. "We not only need to fear physical violence, but we must not fail to recognize institutional violence.”
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CORETTA SCOTT KING
Zumberge discusses importance of education
‘Education is at least a 50-50 proposition ’
By Brian Johnson
Staff Writer
“The reasons for learning” wets the topic of a scholar's symposium held yesterday as part of the Inaugural Week Celebration.
More than 100 people, including honor students, facul-
ty, staff and administrators, gathered in Town and Gown to hear university President James H. Zumberge speak and to discuss some of the important issues honor students confront.
Zumberge addressed the important idea of why students should leam.
“We Homo sapiens,” said the president, “believe we are unique, and we are. What sets us apart from all other animals is not our ability to learn but rather our ability to transmit our accumulated knowledge from one generation to another. What sets us apart is our cul-
	WEST OF HOOVER	UNIVERSITY VILLLAGE	EAST OF HOOVER	USC CAMPUS
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other	0	0	1	2
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Arsoivfire	0	0	3	4
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ture.
“If we could take a newborn baby from his fur cradle of the Stone Age and, with Star Wars technology, transfer that child to the present time, he or she would grow up without any distinction from the rest of us.”
“That child would grow up in a culture that has taken 35,000 years to develop. Culture is not transmitted by genetic processes, it is passed on by one generation imparting all of its accumulated knowledge in the next. So, in spite of being bom in the Stone Age, our child would have the ad-
vantages of growing up with 35,000 years of accumulated knowledge,” Zumberge said.
“What makes us, as a race, unique is our ability to transmit our culture. Learning can only be transmitted by learning, and that is why we do not each have to go out and rediscover the whole world of knowledge. It’s all in Doheny Library.”
"We are no different biologically from our Stone Age ancestors. For 35,000 years our species have not changed physically—our only develop-(Continued on page 6)
CRIME STATISTICS The above chart represents the number crimes commited in the university area for the month of March.
Auto burglaries and armed robberies rise dramatically
By Ruben Castaneda
Staff Writer
University Security has released a crime report for the first quarter of this year.
The incidence of serious crimes shows a dramatic increase compared to the same quarter of last year.
The most dramatic increase is in the number of auto burgularies.
In the first three months of 1980, there were 53 auto burglaries in the university area, compared to 126 this year.
Armed robberies are up from 2 to 16, an increase of 800 percent.
Residential burglaries almost doubled, increasing from 14 to 27.
For March there were two assaults with a deadly weapon on campus. In the same month there were two armed robberies on 28th Street and one attempted rape on 30th Street.
Security has always kept statistics on local crime, but has onl recently started plotting out on a map what specific crimes oc-cured in which areas, said Kathy Reger, a crime analyst for University Security.
“People should know there's a lot of crime on campus and in the university area,” Reger said. “Also a lot of times there’s a pattern of crime in a certain area, and without these statistics, our people wouldn’t be able to watch problem areas.”
The areas relevant to the university are: 327—The area around Helena Apartments and Jewel Manor; 328—The Row and the west side of 27th Street; 329—The area which encompasses the 32nd Street Market, Portland North and the Severance Apartments; 338—The apartments on 30th Street; 358—The USC campus; 378—The Coliseum area and parking lot; 433—The Health SciencesCampus; and 357—The area directly west of campus, across the street from Vermont Avenue.
But no matter how stringently Security keeps its statistics, it may not be an accurate reflection of the amount of crime occuring in the area. "We’ve come across instances where people say, ‘This
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