University of Southern California
Trustees to study DAILY HI TROJAN remission of tuition
The possibility of allowing 10 to 20 law students to enter the school with their tuition remitted was announced by Dr. Norman Topping at a meeting yesterday with six law students and Dorothy Nelson, Law School dean.
This announcement was in answer to the law students’ earlier demands for greater scholarship funding.
The meeting was held to discuss the amount of money that the Law School could expect to receive from the Associate’s $600,000 matching scholarship fund for economically disadvantaged students.
Topping said he would submit to the Executive Board of the USC Board of Trustees a proposal for the tuition remission, providing the Law School faculty approves the program and that the school will not incur any additional faculty or administrative costs in taking the additional students.
Dr. Topping said he would give the board’s final answer by April 16.
Commenting on the eligibility to receive money from the Associate’s fund, Mrs. Nelson said, “We have been assured of $50,000 a year for the Law School.”
The same amount will also be allotted to the three other professional schools: Business, Pharmacy and Dentistry.
It may also be possible that some of these schools can receive more than the $50,000 originally allotted. Mrs. Nelson explained how this could be achieved:
“Dr. Topping did say that at the end of each year, and only then, if it appears that a professional school will not use its entire proportion of money, then another professional school may apply for that amount, providing they can find matching funds.”
The Associate’s fund, announced on March 18 by the university’s administration, makes $600,000 in scholarship money available for economically disadvantaged students. The money is to be divided evenly over a three-year period and will be given on a two-for-one basis to match private donations.
University administrators also reiterated yesterday that the money in the Associate’s fund for the four professional schools is entirely separate and in addition to the money offered to the undergraduates.
The original announcement of the Associate’s fund mentioned that any money raised by the undergraduates from a selfassessed fee each semester would also be matched on a two-for-one basis to provide more scholarships. The constitutional proposal for this self-assessed $4 fee will be voted on by the student body during the elections on April 7-8.
Statements by candidates for ASSC offices are due in the Daily Trojan Office, 151 Science Building, today at
4	p.m.
The battle columns will be run in a special election supplement to the Daily Trojan on Tuesday, April 7, the first day of primary voting.
Lengths for the battle columns are 80 typewritten lines for the presidential candidates, and 50 for all other offices. The statements must be typed, doublespaced, with 15 and 75 margins. All statements are subject to editing due to mechanical, stylistic or space requirements.
Any candidate may have his picture taken today between 1 p.m. and the 4 p.m. battle column deadline.
ASSC
candidate statements due today
Ch icano leaders to speak at symposium
An all-day Chicano symposium will be held today beginning at 10 a.m. and continuing into the late afternoon in Hancock Auditorium.
Prominent Chicanos will speak, and the Teatro Campesino, a Chicano theatrical group from Los Angeles, will perform several “actos” or acts.
MECHA, Movimento Estudiantil Chicano de Atzlan, a campus organization composed of undergraduates, and La Mesa Directiva, a similar group of graduate students, are sponsoring the symposium. The main topic for the day’s events is “Chicano Liberation.”
“The intent of the symposium,” said Miguel de la Pena, a senior in urban studies and the head of MECHA, “is not only to inform the Chicano community of civil affairs convening it, but also lo make the student body of USC cognizant of the Chicano community, MECHA and La Mesa Directiva.”
In the morning, Richard Cruz, head
of the Catolico por la Raza will speak on unresponsiveness of religious institutions to the plight of the Chicano.
Following Cruz, Rosalio Munoz, leader of the Chicano Moratorium, will speak. His topic will be “Genocidal Aspects of the War in Vietnam in Relation to Chicanos.”
“Failure of Education in East Los Angeles in relation to USC” will be the subject of Sal Castro’s speech. Castro, a Chicano educator, is a veteran of the racial disorders of East Los Angeles in 1968.
Oscar Acosta, an attorney-at-law, will speak on Los Angeles Grand Jury’s indictments against members of the Chicano community.
After Acosta, Froben Lozada, chairman of Chicano studies at Merritt College in Oakland and candidate for the office of attorney general of California on the Socialist ticket, will discuss the Chicano National Political Party.
Coci Rodriguez, a student of Roosevelt High School a leader of that school’s Chicano student strike, will speak on the Chicano high schools student movement.
Ending the morning session of speakers will be 'Mongas Coloradas, who will speak on barrioism in relation to Chicanos, and Richard Martinez, chairman of MECHA Central, who will address the Chicano student union.
Following a lunch break Luis Valdez of the Teatro Capesino, the only Chicano theatrical group in Los Angeles, will present his acting troupe. The group will perform various “actos” concerning contemporary problems of Chicanos.
Emceeing the symposium is Oscar Parra, organizer of the event and member of La Mesa Directiva.
De la Pena said that if the response to the symposium was favorable and there were near capacity crowds, MECHA and La Mesa Directiva would consider making the symposium an annual event.
MIGUEL DE LA PENA
Organized Chicano symposium.
VOL. LXI, NO. 98	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1970
ASSC candidate calls eligibility rule unjust
By MERRY ELKIND
Ron McDuffie, ASSC presidential candidate, filed a complaint with the student court yesterday charging that the amendment reassessing the eligibility requirements for the offices of ASSC president and vice-president will force sophomores to run as write-in candidates, and is therefore unfair and unjust.
The amendment states that a student may run for the office of ASSC president, vice-president of programs and vice-president of academic affairs, if he has completed 60 units at the end of the semester in which he runs for office.
McDuffie asked Dan Wallace, election commissioner, to postpone the election for student body offices one week and conduct a special election on April 8 for the students to vote on the aforementioned amendment.
Wallace refused the request on the grounds that the ASSC ordered him to place the amendment on the primary ballot.
“A postponement will, in effect, allow any sophomore desirious of running for these three offices to enter the respective race with their names printed on the ballot,” McDuffie said.
“If students want the sophomores to run for office, as will be indicated by the vote on the
amendment, then students will want to hear all prospective candidates for the whole duration of the campaign, and would not, in fairness, want to see any student forced to run as a write-in candidate.”
McDuffie said he desires a fair election where all issues are brought to life and where sophomore candidates will be heard.
In a complaint sent to the student court, McDuffie said the court may take one of three actions on the proposal: “The court may find no grounds upon which to interfere with the course of the elections; the court may demand that the election for office be postponed for one week and that a special election must be held on the amendment on April 8; the court can find the placement of the amendment on the primary ballot and administrative oversight on the part of the ASSC president because it places prospective sophomore candidates in an unfair position.
“It then can order the amendment placed on only the final run-off ballot on April 15.”
The complaint was filed at 3 p.m. April 1, and the student court must hold a meeting regarding the complaint within 48 hours of its filing.
LAW STUDENTS SIGN TUITION STRIKE PETITION
Partial requests for minority scholarships were met yesterday.