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COMMUNICATION NEEDED
Ethnic unity sought
By Loren Ledin
staff writer
Imagine a campus where ethnic groups communicate freely and where complete, open dialogue among the races is a way of life.
Robert Haro, assistant librarian for public services and cochairman of the Minority Affairs Commission, said, “You go on campus and the Asian students are on one side of the Student Union, the Chicano students on another side. The blacks are on the VKC steps.
“That’s the extent of communication. There’s got to be a dialogue between the minorities and the dominant Anglo society.”
Envision a faculty, staff, student government and class studies program completely representative of all groups.
Gloria Myklebust, director of the Student Services Center and
cochairman of the commission, said many class programs, particularly ethnic studies, are in danger of being dominated by one group.
“We’re working toward the point where the students are separate but equal,” she said. “We should work away from that.”
Contemplate this and you’ve got an idea of the goals of the Minority Affairs Commission—at least the ultimate goals.
But the No. 1 minority organization on campus is not bogged down in a sea of idealism. It realizes that it alone cannot bring complete racial understanding here.
The commission is satisfied at the moment to represent the combined campus minorities before the university administration and to work at solving the problems plaguing minorities on campus.
“The very broad basis of the Minority Affairs Commission is to serve as a communications line between the various minorities and the president,” Haro said.
“As well as being attentive to the problems of the minority organizations that are in existence,” added Myklebust.
The chairman of the commission is Dennis Fukumoto, also chairman	of the	Asian-
American Studies Program. He oversees 18 fellow commission members,	including 3 co-
chairmen.
Each of the three major campus minorities—blacks, Chicanos and Asians—have 5 members and one cochairman on the commission. Students, faculty and staff are all represented.
Fukimoto said the lack of representation for one campus minority bothered him. “The one gross omission on the commission is the native American Indian,” he said.
The commission meets every Thursday for 1 hour in Student Union 311 to discuss minority-concerned issues. The meeting is open to everyone.
The commission has also several subcommittees. Fukumoto said the amount of work involved in serving as commission chairman is exhaustive. “I attend an average of 2 or 3 meetings a day,” he said.
The commission has been in existence less than a year. It was appointed as a permanent commission in January by President John Hubbard.
It began as an offspring of the Student Life Commission, but it quickly outgrew that. “It became (Continued on page 2)
Cranston to talk today in support of McGovern
Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) will speak today at noon by Tommy Trojan in support of the presidential candidacy of Sen. George McGovern.
Cranston, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1968, serves on the Senate’s Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, of which McGovern is chairman.
The senator is also a member of the Housing, Banking and Urban Affairs Committee; Labor and Public Welfare Committee; and Veterans’ Affairs Committee.
He has been a leading figure in state politics since 1953, when he became the first president of the California Democratic Council, a grassroots party organization. From 1959 to 1967 he was state controller.
Cranston once worked as a foreign correspondent for the old International News Service and later as a divisional chief of the U.S. Office of War Information.
Cranston’s speech today is sponsored by Students for McGovern.
University of Southern California
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Daily
Trojan
Tommy looks for his treat
A typical USC student, clad in a Tommy Trojan outfit, anxiously waits for night to fall so that he may join other such costumed students in ^ celebrating Halloween. The
student, who asked that his name be withheld, was last seen cavorting across Alumni Park humming Conquest, after soaping several Bovard Auditorium windows. However, 2 trick-or-treating students, who were disguised together as a white stallion, sustained minor injuries when the prankster tried to ride them in Fagg Park. An investigation is pending. DT photo by Danny Alaimo.
Ingle proposes new children’s dental program
By Betty Gaynor
Approximately half of the nation’s 58 million children aged 15 or under have never had dental care, according to national statistics.
Due to such serious dental needs in America, especially for children, the American Dental Association Task Force on National Health Programs has set as its top priority “comprehensive dental services for children.”
In accordance with this goal, Dr. John Ingle, dean of the School of Dentistry, has proposed a totally new method of delivering preventive and therapeutic dental care to the children of America.
The best way to break the cycle of insufficient dental care is to start with a new generation of federally funded dental clinics that will be based in elementary and secondary schools, Ingle said.
The program includes children between the ages of 3 and 15. At that age, patients will see private dentists or go to dental dental clinics under one of the national health insurance plans presently forecast, said Ingle.
In order to carry out the program successfully, Ingle foresees the creation of two new
categories of dental paraprofes-sionals: the school dental nurse therapists and the school dental therapist assistants.
The school dental nurse therapist would make examinations, diagnoses and treatment plans. He or she would also restore decayed teeth, treat minor gum conditions, extract baby teeth, guard against overcrowding of patients’ teeth and prepare novocaine injections.
All treatment beyond his training will be referred to dentists.
Gay Lib suit to get rewrite by lawyers
The dental therapist assistant would be primarily responsible for a program of dental education both in school and at home.
In school, he would visit classes and instructthem in dental hygiene. He would also visit students’ homes, where he would encourage parent involvement in dental health care by instructing mothers on such matters as proper diets and toothbrush instruction. In addition he would screen preschoolers’ teeth, making sure no cavities or gum problems exist.
A civil suit being directed at the university by the USC Gay Liberation Forum is in the process of being rewritten by lawyers representing the GLF.
The suit was filed in Superior Court in April but the case was dropped at the request of the GLF due to a minor technicality.
The suit has stemmed from the refusal of the Board of Trustees to recognize the GLF as a legitimate campus special-interest group.
A spokesman for the GLF said the denial of recognition “violates the Board of Trustees’ own Statement of
At school, the assistant would also perform work on his own. However the work would be limited to such treatments as applying fluoride and inserting, carving and polishing fillings.
Prevent distrust Ingle proposed that the assistants be familiar in the school neighborhoods to prevent any suspicion or distrust of an outsider invading the community.
Together with his corps of assistants, each school nurse would be assigned to handle 500
Student Rights and Responsibilities, which guarantees that students shall be free to form groups to promote their interests.”
Larry Bernard, a spokesman from Gay Students Coun-cil of Southern California, said the American Civil Liberties Union is handling the case for GLF. The suit will still seek a preliminary and permanent injunction to prevent the university from interfering with GLF’s rights of freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of assembly. He expects that the suit will be filed in court again before the end of semester.
school children and 500 preschoolers.
Ingle emphasizes that both the dental nurse therapists and his assistants would be carefully checked by dental supervisors who, in turn, would report to the Public Health Department. To insure maximum quality, the nurses would never receive lifetime licenses, but would be subject to periodic examinations and recertification by a board composed of public health personnel, dental educators, public school representatives and faculty from training programs.
At all levels, both dental supervisors and paraprofession-als would be periodically examined to measure their competency.
In order to properly train these new personnel, Ingle proposes the establishment of train-ing centers funded by the federal government. He anticipates the training period for school nurses to take 2 years for an inexperienced applicant and 1 year for a person who is presently a dental hygienist, dental assistant or technician.
Once the necessary course requirements are completed, the applicant would serve an
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