Daily
Trojan
University of Southern California
vol. Ixv
no. 57
los angeles, California
thursday, december 14, 1972
Teacher interns urge more work in barrios
WOODEN WHEELS—A craftswoman displays a fleet of toy automobiles she hopes someone will buy for gifts. The campus was invaded by a troupe of artisans who displayed their wares in Alumni
Park yesterday. The crafts fair added a lively spirit to the usual preregistration gloom. DT photo by Danny Alaimo.
Alumni park gets new look as artisans show wares at crafts fair
Alumni Park took on a new look Wednesday when it was invaded by a troupe of artisans selling their colorful wares.
For the last-minute Christmas shopper it offered the unusual convenience of the marketplace coming to his own front yard. Even the mere browser could delight in the plentiful displays of hand-crafted goods and the occasional sight of a craftsman practicing his art.
The one-day fair was coordinated by Sandy Barnes, an exadvertising agent, who works out of Santa Barbara. She has brought these artists together from all over Southern California and they travel throughout the West to sell their work.
“We’ve held these fairs on
University of California campuses, but we wanted to come here because private schools aren’t often exposed to this,” Barnes said.
Usually non-student activities are not allowed on campus, but because this event would be of interest to Christmas shopping students and because it involved a casual form of salesmanship, the fair was approved, according to Brian Heimerl, assistant director of the Student Activities office.
The fair was officially sponsored by the Women’s Housing Association with the help of Teri Brown, who organized the Renaissance Fair last spring.
All modes of handcrafting were represented, including
candle-making, leather work, string art, jewelry-making and wood-carving.
All of the 35 or 40 artisans at the fair live solely by selling their wares, and they average only one or two fairs per month. However, December is one ofthe busier months, and from here they move to Bullock’s Fashion Square in Santa Ana for the rest of the week.
A group of graduate students who enrolled in Teacher Corps-Urban, a two-year teacher training program, have gained MECHA support in charging the Teacher Corps Cycle VII administration with insensitivity to the Chicano community.
The move took place at a regular meeting of the Chicano students group after a spokesman for the Teacher Corps presented a report on a Nov. 28 meeting of 20 corps interns and administrators. Funding of volunteer programs had been discussed at that meeting.
At the present time Teacher Corps has eight urban sites. Four are located in the Compton Unified School District and four are in the Los Angeles County Special Schools (Juvenile Hall).
The corps interns contend that of the population served by the Teacher Corps-Urban program only 20% is Chicano, while 65% is Black.
Lil Valley
At that Nov. 28 meeting Dar-line Robles, a Teacher Corps intern, suggested that a proposal be drawn up to establish a volunteer program funded by Teacher Corps in an East Los Angeles barrio known as Lil Valley.
“It was decided by a vote of those present that Lil Valley would be the site for the East Los Angeles Volunteer Component program,” said a spokesman for the interns who preferred to remain unidentified.
Robles left that meeting with the “clear understanding and assurance that her plan was
approved and that work could begin immediately,” the spokesman added.
Robles, in an interview, said that she returned to Lil Valley to arrange a meeting between members of the community and the Teacher Corps committee.
However, she later learned that a special meeting of the Teacher Corps administration had been called on Nov. 30. Robles’ proposal was reconsidered at that time and the Lil Valley project was cancelled.
Meeting defended
Arnette Gromfin, director of the Teacher Corps program, defended the second meeting by saying that some people had told her they had not been notified of the first meeting.
“We had discussed where the proposal (for Lil Valley) might go wrong, and it seems more equitable to divide the proposal between two school districts (Compton and East Los Angeles),” she added.
Gromfin said that even though the funding of a volunteer pro-gram in East Los Angeles seemed like a good idea, specific schools already in the program had not been notified of the move towards Lil Valley.
The Compton area has been with Teacher Corps for seven years and Gromfin said districts already part ofthe program must be consulted before any new areas are added.
In a memorandum to the teacher interns, another reason given for the reconsideration of the Lil Valley project was that (Continued on page 3)
Newsmen say courts curtail press freedom and public’s right to know
Hubbard asks Senate to determine own future
By Loren Ledin
staff writer
President John Hubbard has asked the University Senate to determine its future makeup under the new governance plan at its January meeting.
James McBath, professor of speech communication, told senate members Wednesday that Hubbard will initiate the council system of governance by September 1973, and therefore faculty representation must be voted upon in the spring.
“It isour purpose atthe meeting in January to determine the method of electing members for the new faculty senate,” said McBath.
Hubbard released plans for the council system of governance in late November. A university council, with faculty, dean, student, and staff representation will oversee a council of deans, a faculty senate, and a body representing students.	.
The present faculty senate must determine who will sit in on the new faculty senate. The new senate will, in turn, determine which faculty members will serve on the council.
The present faculty senate has requested, and received, assurance from Hubbard that it will have the major voice in determining its new membership.
Various senate members at the meeting yesterday, raised questions as to the importance of the new senate under the council system.
“We will make every effort to make it an important and viable organization.” said McBath. “President Hubbard has pledged that it will be exactly that.”
Wesley Robb, professor of religion, scoffed at speculation that the University Senate should be dissolved.
“I feel very strongly that we should retain the faculty senate.” he told senate members. “I think it would be too bad if only the council would remain to serve the interests of the faculty.”
By Mary Ann Galante
contributing editor
The news media and the public’s right to information may suffer serious consequences as a result of recent court decisions, said five newspaper reporters who participated in a panel discussion Tuesday at USC.
The reporters were each jailed or threatened with jail for their refusals to disclose confidential news sources.
Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) spoke at the session’s opening. Cranston explained his bill that would grant media members the right to protect confidential sources of information.
“Absolute press privilege would do more for order and protection under the law than limiting the press’s protection,” said Cranston. His bill will be reintroduced at Congress’s next session.
Reporters tell
The reporters recounted their refusals to disclose confidential sources, then answered audience questions.
Speaking of his case in the U.S. Supreme Court, Earl Caldwell, New York Times reporter, said, “The government has won the right to use me where it can't get information in its own name. It is saying. ‘You must be a spy for us.’ ”
Caldwell was threatened with
jail by a federal grand jury for refusing to appear before the jury and divulge his sources on a Black Panther investigation he conducted for his newspaper.
Ron Ridenour, Los Angeles Free Press reporter, said. “If reporters tell the truth, it would be so damning to government and the police that ultimately people will take courses of action against them.”
Ridenour is currently free on appeal of a one-year sentence for interfering with a police officer while covering an antiwar demonstration May 10 in Los Angeles.
He claims he was arrested while photographing an antiwar paraplegic veteran being thrown out of his wheelchair and beaten by law officers.
“At times, courts want to take the short cut to ‘justice’ by demanding reporters give their work to grand juries,” said Joe Weiler of the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Weiler is under threat of a jail sentence by the Tennessee Senate for refusing to divulge his sources on a state hospital expose. “In my case, the hearing wasn't called to investigate the charges of hospital cruelty, but to get after the reporters and sources who had stirred up the trouble.” said Weiler.
Another participant was Peter Bridge, Newark News reporter.
who spent 20 days in jail for refusing to answer questions about a housing scandal expose.
Vi Murphy of the San Diego Union and Tribune agreed, saying, “We’ve got to go to civic clubs and women’s luncheons, explaining that every time one of the press’ freedoms is taken away, the public also loses part of its freedom.”
William Farr, reporter for the
Los Angeles Times, was unable to appear. He currently is in jail for refusing to divulge his sources for a story in the Los Angeles. Herald Examiner regarding the Charles Manson murder case.
Registrar’s Office receives packets
Registration packet pick-up stations at the Student Activities Center, Olin Hall. Marks Hall and Elizabeth von KelinSmid Hall will be discontinued today.
From now until Jan. 4 packets may only be returned to the Registrar’s Office. William E. Hall, registrar, said the change was made because not enough students used the other stations. He said that at 11:20 a.m. three of the stations were still on the first priority box, while the Registrar's Office was down to the 13th box.