University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. IXII
NO. 96
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1971
Students claim trustee evasion
By KIP STRATEE
In a survey conducted yesterday, some students agreed with the trustees’ answers to student questions, while most voiced dissatisfaction.
Martin Morfeld, chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom, said that the trustees’ answers destroyed the myths that they aren’t doing tbe university any good.
Yet Tom Levyn, vice-president for programs, said that the answers of the trustees are so general that they really don’t say anything.
The following are the responses of some student leaders concerning the trustees’ answers.
Martin Morfeld, chairman of the Young American for Freedom, said, “Some people say that the trustees have too much hand in student affairs, yet I think the trustees dispelled that charge.
“The trustees are generally moderates or conservatives, and if they really had a way of controlling the political atmosphere of USC, some of the things that have happened here—for example, last May’s student strike—wouldn’t have occurred.
‘‘People sometimes make untrue statements about the trustees because when they see something wrong with the university they automatically tie it onto the trustees.
“The trustees dispelled some of the false accusations that are made against them. And they showed that they are not trying to rigidly control the minds and students on this campus.”
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Tom Levyn, vice-president for programs, said, “The trustees say they are concerned with only the financial matters of the university, yet they have the attitude that if they give money they can run other things.
“Their answers are so general that they really don’t say anything. The whole thing was just a diatribe.
“Justin Dart thinks he is doing a great service to students by publishing this, yet he is missing the point—it all goes back to tbe idea that there’s no student representation on the Board of Trustees.
“Students think it’s a right to be on the board. The trustees think it’s a privilege.
“The trustees answered the questions the way they wanted and in the process, they didn’t really answer the real points of the questions.”
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Chuck Jones, vice-president for academic affairs, said, “It’s interesting that it took them five months to answer 32 questions.
“Furthermore, they said nothing really new or significant. They just said the same old thing.
“I’m confused about the role of the trustees. They say they’re only concerned with the ‘fiscal’ things, yet they control the political climate.
“I’m very disappointed.”
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Mark Savit, graduate representative, said, “The trustees’ answers really don’t get to the point. They evade a lot of the details.
“Yet a large number of people who read and listen to these things have their minds already made up. The people who expect dialog are disappointed.”
Kathy Fleming, president of the Young Democrats, said, “Some of the answers leave one to believe that the government can be bought by the wealthy.
“Perhaps they (the trustees) should be the fund raising committee instead of governing committee.”
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Mystic to speak
Krishnamurti, philosopher of the Inner Self and author of “The Only Revolution,” will speak at noon today and again Monday in Bovard Auditorium. His lecture, “Discussion with Students,” will give his philosophy of the inner self.
The event is jointly sponsored by the ASSC Conference Committee and the Great Issues Forum.
Writers such as George Bernard Shaw and Henry Miller have praised his ideas. Aldous Huxley once said that it is through Krishnamurti's thinking that we find a clear contemporary statement of the fundamental human problem, together with an invitation to solve it.
Of most concern to Krishnamurti are the exploration of the crisis in consciousness which leads us to attempt an understanding of the meaning of life and its values, the clarification and reorientation of perceptions and beliefs through authentic exploration and individual and social man. and the denial of drugs as a deceit to the mind.
Lee Blackman, chairman of the ASSC Conference Committee, said. “I think that those
attending the speech will get something more meaningful than merely an intellectual discussion of a subject.
“The student will have a chance to come away from the discussion with a new sensitivity, a new self-knowledge, a suggestion for solutions to human problems and perhaps, a new strength.”
Krishnamurti has been giving talks for more than 40 years. In doing so he has at-
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tracted audiences from every walk of life.
His rare television appearances have exposed thousands more to his singular way of thinking and lecturing.
The purpose of his talks, Krishnamurti said, is to discuss the many problems with which every human being throughout the world if faced. “Whether we live in Russia. China, Europe, India, or America, we all have the same common factors of sorrow, of fleeting joys, of fears, and unresolved despairs,” he said.
“We are all caught up in national divisions, religious doctrines and beliefs, the everlasting wars and the continuation of hatred, and we are surely aware of the immense loneliness of modern existence and the utter meaningless of our lives.”
His book, “The Only Revolution,” is a record of his conversations in India, California and Europe with those seeking guidance.
The revolution he speaks of is an inner revolution. In the book he says, “no dynamic golden pill is ever going to solve our human problems. ”
Security explains need for LAPD aid Saturday
Fears that the Black Student Union protest at Saturday’s baseball game with Brigham Young University would erupt into violence prompted the bringing of police officers from the Los Angeles Police Department onto campus.
This first time that the LAPD has been called on campus to aid campus security in breaking up a demonstration. The trustees in a statement published yesterday in the Daily Trojan said that off-campus police would be called onto campus only as a last resort.
“We felt this was a last resort in order to prevent any violence from occurring.” said Jim Bowie, the officer temporarily in charge of campus security.
“At Saturday’s game there were about 18 students just sitting around the baseball diamond who refused to move. There were only five security officers present, including myself, said Bowie.
“We spoke with the students all to no avail.
“We were afraid that if we tried to force the students off the field, there would be bloodshed. Five security officers would not be enough for this task so we decided to call in the LAPD in order to prevent any violence. When the police arrived, the students got up and left peacefully,” he said.
The demonstration did, however, delay the game for 36 minutes between the third and fourth innings. This was the second demonstration this year involving the Mormon university. The first was over a basketball game with BYU. The BSU in both cases was protesting alleged racial discrimination of BYU and the Church of Latter Day Saints.
Although a spokesman from BYU denied charges of racial discrimination earlier this year, the BSU apparently disagree. Henry Blackburn, chairman of the BSU, said that the outcome of the demonstration also showed USC unresponsiveness to its black students.
Tutors give love, teach English
By RUDI SCHMIDT
Jaime really gets embarrassed, especially with girls. When they say Hi’, he just cringes.
Jaime is typical of all young boys, but he is Chinese and can t speak English. Lani Suenaga. a volunteer in the Asian-American Tutorial Project, is his tutor and she knows just how to reach him.
“I think smiling is the biggest encouragement for Jaime.” she said. “And love is what he really wants.”
The tutorial project, funded by the Community Action Coordinating Council, involves children from four Los Angeles schools and four Gardena schools. Solano, Castellar, 6th Avenue, and Hobart are the schools in Los Angeles where children of Asian descent are taught to speak English as a second language.
Sam Rowe, principal of the Solano school, said the first step in getting a child a tutor is to ask the teachers.
Ron Chen, curriculum chairman and a
tutor in the project said, “Teachers submit names telling us who needs help. We then choose which children have the most pressing problems and give them priority.”
In addition to teaching the child English, Rowe said part of the goal is to in-
still confidence in the tutee. He said vocabulary and concept development are key factors but the child’s progress is really not measurable.
“What happens is that the tutor and the tutee want each other, and even though it may not be beneficial academically, the child does develop confidence in himself.
“The project hasn't gone on long enough to actually determine whether it is a success—we have to wait until the
child matures,” he said.
The project first began in 1968 when six tutors from UCLA placed an ad in the Daily Bruin requesting additional volunteers. Clayton Ikei, director of the USC project which acts jointly with groups from Cal State Los Angeles and UCLA, was one of those six. He said after two weeks 70 people had volunteered and, since that time, the program has grown steadily.
Speaking about the program here, Ikei said. "Essentially we are the largest group of this kind. We even attract more people than UCLA does, and we have less people to choose from.”
Lani, who tutors at Hobart on Saturdays as well as being secretary for the project, said that tutors usually become attached to their tutees and vice-versa, so it is necessary to stay with the child an entire semester.
Citing field trips as beneficial in establishing trust in the child, Lani said first a tutor must get to know his tutee
and field trips make it considerably easier to accomplish that.
Ron Chen said this semester tutors took the children to Ferndale in Griffith Park for a picnic. Last semester they went to Marineland and the zoo. He noted that there could be more field trips, but the expense is too great.
“Our policy,” he said, “is to have the kids not bring a lunch. We provide it, and wTe bus them everywhere because cars are just too risky. That runs into some money.’’
The tutorial program, established at USC last spring, is. like all other CACC projects, short of funds. With the ASSC budget cut. Clayton said the program must supplement its income and volunteers have even donated their own money.
“We have so much expansion,” he said, “yet the funding doesn’t expand with us.”
Tutoring is done on a one-to-one basis (Continued on page 6)