University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LVin
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9,1966
NO. 55
TYR dialogue on NSA:
Is it worth the money?
Bv ELLIOT ZWIEBACH Editorial Director
The student dialogue on USC's possible membership in the National Student Association centered on finances as it left the letter page of the Daily Trojan and emerged in a public discussion at yesterday's Trojan Young Republicans meeting.
Participating in the dialogue on an organization often characterized as liberal were Mike Mayock, TIP present and an admitted liberal, and Carl Richards, senior representative and an admitted conservative.
Speaking first, Mayock said NSA's budget is approximately $825,000 a year, $18,000 of which comes from
member student governments. The rest comes from Ford, Danforth and Rockefeller Foundation grants, among others, he said.
The first year, NSA offers a school a trial membership for only $8 Mayock said. After that dues cost $150-$200 per year.
“This money will not come out of
TROJANS AND CRETANS REJOICE IN THEIR NEW-FOUND BROTHERHOOD IN "IDOMENEO"'
Lorraine Doggett, p! ay ing King Idomeneo's son (?), watches from foreground. Opera runs Dec. 9 and 11 in Bovard.
STUDY PROJECT ATTACKS PROBLEM
Remedy for a city's ills lies within the city itself
By KAREN RAVN
Assistant Editorial Director
Does a city harbor the seed of its own construction? The Crenshaw Community Study Project believes in this “good seed."
Funded by the National Institute for Mental Health, the demonstration-research program began when Los Angeles school officials asked the Youth Studies Center to explore behavior problems at Dorsey High School.
The ensuing investigation revealed that the difficulties were really outgrowths of broader community-wide
problems.
The project was consequently redefined and its scope enlarged, Herbert Sigurdson. project director, said.
ATTACK SOURCE
Attacking source, rather than symptom, the program has been based on the assumption that community problems are best recognized and understood by members of the community, and similarly, that the solutions to these problems are best sought within the community itself.
The first year of work in the
Crenshaw district was spent in developing a curriculum. A series of community seminars, begun in May, 1965, established a nominating system to identify community leaders. These people were then contacted, and their cooperation was enlisted.
Sigurdson sees the project as a catalyst to a community's development through its own efforts. It is being conducted in the Dorsey High School District, which includes a population of 126,000, ranging from upper middle class status to poverty level.
Work is being done in the areas of education, youth counseling, recreation, legal aid service for the poor and, eventually, employment training for school drop-outs and noncollege-bound students.
YOUNG PEOPLE WILLING
Sigurdson has found that “the young people are much more willing than adults to study troublesome issmes and stay with them until they are satisfied with adult answers.
“They possess an idealism that is refreshing, and they have insights into the needs of community youth that the adults often do not have.
Anti-protest protest at Air Force display
Three student Vietnam war protestors. who had stationed themselves in front of an Air Force recruiting station on campus yesterday, were almost involved in a fray when an unidentified student grabbed one of the signs and ripped it.
Bill Weinstein, John Sack and David Lang. SDS vice-president, were protesting the war because “we are not convinced that there is Communist insurrection in Vietnam and there is no justification for U.S. intervention.”
They said they were demonstrating frorm personal motivation and were not sponsored by any group.
One of the signs Sack held said “God Bless Our Murder” and pictured an American GI with a rifle.
The Campus Police, summoned when Lang's sign was torn, checked the protestors’ ID cards.
Master Sgt. Millikin, a member of the two-man rccruiting team, said the student demonstrators became more and more discourteous.
“Although I agree with their right to protest,” he said, “I feel that it is ridiculous when they’re practically sitting right on your lap with their signs.
Master Sgt. Whetson, the other member of the team, said that he had seen this type of action before. Their policy is usually to move away rather than get involved.
“I feet that the resultant crowds do our efforts more good as the bystanders frequently ask more questions and, perhaps, recruitment is furthered.”
Weinstein pointed out that with the general apathy at USC, he didn’t expect students to become so concerned as to tear up the signs.
In essence, they bring a great deal of honesty and integrity to the work of the project.”
Last year the young people helped to organize a tutorial project in which 250 high school students tutored elementary school children. Other youth projects include a community-services oriented Youth Board and the Crenshaw Teen Post.
The project was established by a three-year grant. For USC it is an experiment through which the effectiveness of this kind of technique can be evaluated.
CONTINUING CONCERN
However, for the Crenshaw7 community itself, there is a vefy present and continuing concern. Therefore, the community has established a nonprofit corporation, the Crenshaw Community Youth Study Association, to carry on the program.
A three-year grant from the Rosenberg Foundation of San Francisco has enabled the association to hire its own professional staff.
ESTABLISHED IN 1958
The Youth Studies Center, which launched the project, was established in 1958 by a grant from the Ford Foundation.
Sigurdson described the center’s purpose as “building knowledge of deviant and delinquent behavior through research, demonstration and training activities.”
He believes the project has made a good start and hopes “other communities will see our results and find the human and financial resources to support their own efforts on a continuing basis.
“If they do, I believe we will have taken a step toward averting youth problems and delinquency.”
'SOUND OF MUSIC' TICKETS AVAILABLE
Tickets for “The Sound of Music’’ are on sale this morning in front of the Student Union. Priced at $1.75 each. They will not be available at the door.
The movie, sponsored by ASSC for Troy Camp, will be shown at the Beverly Theater, 206 N. Beverly Blvd., tomorrow.
Doors will open at 9 a.m.
the ASSC treasury,” he said, “but from administrative funds.”
Non-member schools may not use NSA’s services, Mayock went on. Although some publications are available to non-members, the cost is great and “subscribing to only one NSA service would be worth the cost of membership.”
Richards said he has conducted an intensive study into the advisability of NSA membership since the idea of USC's joining first came up and “I am surprised and disturbed about some of the things I learned about NSA.”
$200 TO $1,000
Richards said he still has not been able to ascertain just how much NSA membership will cost. “I have heard no concrete amounts. I have heard it will cost anywhere from $200 to $1,000 to be a member.”
In addition, he pointed out the cost of sending delegates to the national convention each summer. USC would be eligible to send at least five, he said, and, estimated the trip’s expenses would cost more than $200 per person for a 10-day convention.
USC was once a member of NSA but pulled out in 1957 for financial reasons, ASSC President Taylor Hackford said.
Richards said that in talking to “people who were at USC during that era,” he learned the school pulled out because students felt they were not getting an adequate voice in the convention.
MINORITY OPINION
Upon questioning, Richards said the students had found themselves in the minority on many stands the group took and had pulled out because it did not agree with the consensus.
Mayock was asked by a member of the audience to explain why NSA’s membership had dropped 25 per cent since 1961.
Mayock said the reasons were sometimes financial, sometimes because of Southern resentment to the strong civil rights stands taken.
“And some schools, like Yale and Radcliffe, pulled out because they thought the organization wras too liberal,” he said.
THE NEGRO AT USC
Student assimilation breaks ghetto barrier
This is the last in a five-part series on USC's relationship with the Negro commnnity and its own Negro students—The Editor.
By GREG KIESELMANN Managing Editor
Is USC an island in the heart of a Negro ghetto?
Not so, says Leonard Wines, executive director of university relations. To back it up, he points out a set of statistics compiled by the Community Redevelopment Agency to determine the racial makeup of the Hoover area. These statistics showed that the immediate area around USC is 65 per cent White and only 21 per cent Black, figures which seem to contradict common sense.
Wines, it should be noted, did not deny that there are many Negroes in the USC vicinity, but he did attempt to repudiate the “Island” thesis supported by a majority of those interviewed on this topic.
LIMITED .AREA
These statistics do not tell the whole story, however. For one thing, they cover a limited area. The Hoover project only goes as far north as 30th Street, as far west as Flower, as far south as Exposition, and as far east as Wisconsin (one block east of Vermont).
Of the 3,700 people in this area, some 900 are students.
Another problem is that these figures were compiled almost six years ago, and, to quote one Negro student, “Negroes can fill up an area almost overnight.”
But getting back to the university’s relations with the Negro community (if it does exist), Wines said he knows of no official policy directed to this particular segment.
“Neither Dr. Topping nor the Board of Trustees have developed programs involving the community. And I don’t think anybody would want the university to pressure its members, like soldiers,
(to go out and do something.” Wines said.
RECOGNIZE COMMUNITY SERVICE “Dr. Topping, in the new-student convocation at the beginning of the year, asked students to recognize community service, but this type of encouragement is as far as we believe the university should go.”
Wines said he knew of no past record of a particular concern for the university’s immediate environment.
At the same time, he said USC is proud of its record of service to the community, the word “community” in this case being used in a very broad sense. These services have grown largely out of the interests of individual faculty members and students—and not out of any university plan.
“Any programs of aid to the Negro community are up to the predilections of the deans of individual university departments. The university does not attempt to encourage things one way or another,” Wines said.
USC is involved in several projects which offer assistance more or less, to the Negro community. Some of these are: PROJECTS IN PROGRESS
•	The Tutorial Project offers individual guidance and instruction by student volunteers to children of low-income minority communities adjacent to the university.
•	Teen Post, funded by the Economic Youth Opportunity Agency and directed by the University Methodist Church, brings in some 40 children for weekend, live-in sessions.
•	“Project Chance,” initiated by students, is a Headstart-type program for pre-school children.
•	Troy Camp, a student-supported, student-operated, summer camp, gives 120 children the chance to spend a week in the mountains.
•	The Family Neighborhood Health Services Center in Watts, which is USC-sponsored, will offer a number of medical, dental, and counseling services to Watts-area residents when it is completed.
IS THIS ENOUGH?
Efforts like these plainly show that USC has been doing something in the wfay of community service. But is it enough, and is it of the right variety?
Most people interviewed say no on both counts. They argue that what has been done to help the Negro community thus far is insignificant, not only in the number of actual programs but in the number of people affected by the^ programs.
Sending a hundred kids to the mountains is thoughtful, but it will not help cure the multitude of problems afflicting Negroes; (Continued on Page 2)
Tuition to be boosted in 1967? No decision yet, Topping says
By HAL LANCASTER City Editor
The rumor spread around campus quickly. “They’re going to raise tuition,” everyone said.
Of course, that rumor starts spreading every year. Two years ago, the rumor was right, when tuition was hiked from $600 to $750.
This year?
“There has been no decision made,” President Topping told the Daily Trojan yesterday. “We have to get a budget together first and present it to the Board of Trustees Committee on Budget and Finance.”
Dr. Topping did admit tuition would eventually have to be raised to meet rising money demands.
“We have to take into cognizance the rising costs, inflation. We have to take into consideration the problems of a university.
“Certainly they will eventually be raised. I don’t say this year, necessarily. It might be down the road.
“Let us say, for example, that the cost of everything the university does goes up five percent. This is the inflationary trend that’s going on. This is a fact of life. We have to keep competitive as far as faculty salaries are concerned. We have to keep competitive with the community for people who give us services.”
The decision on tuition will probably be made in late January, Topping said.
“This isn’t done capriciously,” he added. “It's done with a good analysis of the problems.”
That analysis starts with budget requests from individual departments, schools and deans. It eventually ends up with the vice-presidents, who formulate a budget and present it to Dr. Topping. After they put it all together, it is presented to the Trustees’ Budget Committee, who also comb through it before taking it to the full board for approval.
“Not until they approve it does it become a budget,” Dr. Topping said.
As far as tuition is concerned,
there is a secret little committee that works on the problem and makes recommendations each year.
“After their report is accepted, their names are revealed,” he said. “The committee is usually made up of deans of some of the schools.
If a decision to raise tuition is made, Dr. Topping said the first to be notified would be the students’ parents.
Until then, all anyone can do is hope.
Yuletide programs to benefit disadvantaged LA children
Operation Bootstrap and the ASSC Christmas Project will combine the help of several hundred students before vacation to benefit underprivileged children in the Los Angeles area.
Operation Bootstrap, a “self-help” organization in the Negro community, enlisted Amazon support in collecting toys to be donated to underprivileged children.
Each Amazon will donate at least one toy and encourage students to add to the bag. The toys will be collected this Wednesday.
“We would love to have other individuals or organizations donate toys through us,” Ruth Rosenshine, Amazons president, said.
“Operation Bootstrap is a worth-*
while organization and our donations can help further our involvement with the community.”
Toys should be left at the Alpha Delta Pi House, 814 W. 28th St.
The Christmas Project, an annual event, directed this year by Bill Mark, Jane Stevenson and Norm Wilky, will hring 1,000 children on campus where they will lunch with university students in fraternity and sorority houses and residence halls.
A Christmas program of music and singing, in Bovard Auditorium, coordinated by the Drama Department, Marching Band and Trojan Chorus will precede a visit from Santa, rumored to be cheerleader Jeff Herten, who will distribute gifts to each child.