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University of Southern California
SUMMER ® TROJAN
VOL. LXII, NO. 5	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1970
20 to get Topping scholarships in fall
Twenty students will receive full tuition renewable scholarships beginning this fall by funds collected on next semester’s fee bills, Dan Smith, chairman of the governing board of the fund, said.
The money is being made available both from students, who will pay $4 each semester, and the USC Associates, who have pledged to match the funds on a two-to-one basis for three years. The students voted to tax themselves in a special election last spring.
The fund, named after President Norman Topping, who is retiring, will be used to help people from low-income families pay for their college education.
The tentative criteria for selecting applicants was set up by the governing board of the fund, which is comprised of eight voting student members, a faculty representative, a representative from the Business, Admissions and Student Aid Offices, a director and a student chairman, Smith. Ron McDuffie is currently interim director.
The criterion the committee has set up for the fall, Smith said, is that only students who have been accepted for admission in the fall and have been turned down by all other scholarships available through the university because of lack of funds will be eligible for the Topping scholarships.
In addition, the students must come from a family whose income is less than $6,000 for a family of four, adding $1,000 for each additional dependent up to an annual gross income of $10,000.
The final criterion for selection, Smith said, is that those students elected must be the neediest of those who are eligible.
The Office of Student Aid, under the direction of James Smith, is serving as the central distribution point for the scholarships.
Jim Smith said that if all the students who enroll pay the $4 per semester fee that students could raise about $160,000 next year, based on a 20,000 enrollment figure. Based on that figure, the associates would contribute $320,000, bringing the total to $480,000 for the year—enough for a substantial increase in the number of Topping Scholarships awarded.
“While the governing board has voted to assess the fee to everyone, there are some questions in the minds of some part-time students who feel that since they can’t receive any of the money, they shouldn’t have to pay for it,” Jim Smith said.
To help solve this and other problems which are arising, the governing board plans to hold hearings beginning in October, Dan Smith said.
These funds will go to students on all levels of the university —undergraduate, graduate and professional. The deadline for naming applicants is July 10.
Hopefully, the recipients will be notified by the end of July, Smith said.
Jim Smith said he had received applications from students across the nation, specifically asking for the Topping scholarship. Dan Smith added that “in at least the black community, the Topping funds has been met with a hearty ‘amen’.”
“The understanding that this type of program generates must continue and it is my goal to see that the creative resources of the university and the community are brought together to guarantee that the high cost of education will no longer be the barrier to promising, but poor, students,” Dan Smith said.
Larger goals, different tactics foreseen in antiwar movement
The peace movement may be taking on additional goals and trying to obtain them in ways other than mass demonstrations, Stan DiOrio, one of the people in the Student Movement for Peace, said after returning from a national peace convention in Milwaukee.
“It became quite evident from the proposals that came out of Milwaukee that there are now a group of people in this country who think that the traditional forms of dissent that have been tried in the last five or six years are ineffective in changing national policies,” DiOrio said.
“The deep frustration that has built up, because of the unresponsiveness and the really gross disregard of the people in Washington to six years of civil strife, has led many individuals to believe that the situation now requires stronger forms of dissent than have been used in the past.”
DiOrio emphasized that specific plans for what forms this stronger dissent would take had not been formulated, but added that groups were working on it and the results will be published when they are ready.
The conference, held at the University of Wisconsin, was actually two conferences which emerged as one in a Sunday meeting. Throughout the weekend, people attended workshops at both conferences, DiOrio said. The first was a Resistance Summer Conference, an outgrowth of the National Yale Conference held in May. The other was the Strategy Action Conference, called by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Black Panthers and other organizations.
Besides DiOrio, Ed Scanlon, Jim Lowery and Frank Mullin also attended.
DiOrio said many of the people at the conference; including Rennie Davis and Dave Dillin-ger, two of the Chicago Seven defendents; foresaw another military escalation in Southeast Asia either before school resumes in September or at least within the next six months.
“They saw the escalation possibly in terms of public admission that there are American troops
in Laos and a distinct possibility of bombing Hanoi and Hai Pong, and they have not ruled out the use of tactical nuclear weapons if the other tactics don’t work,” DiOrio said.
“Given that assumption, the analysis went that the movement can no longer be a response-reaction movement, and the stakes are getting so high that the movement has to try to be based on the theory of prevention, not reaction.
‘To be able to do that, they believe that it has to be made clear to the people who make the decisions about the war that the cost of increasing the escalation of the war would cause such massive disruptions as to make this country unmanageable.
“The significant thing is that people are now talking and planning to take the civil disobedience tactics of the 1960s and apply them more systematically with the hope of showing the Nixon administration that any increased military escalation or repression in this country will bring on such resistance, in terms of massive disruptions affecting different aspects of the economy, that it will make that decision too costly to put into effect.”
DiOrio said that another significant thing that came out of the conference was a growing recognition by the antiwar movement that repression of black people, economic conditions, political repressions and Vietnam are all interrelated.
“It may be now that the antiwar movement, which has been seen by the blacks and the other people in the community as a white, middleclass bag, will now become a peoples’ movement and that the delegates of the conference are going back to their respective areas to form local and regional organizations,” DiOrio said.
“This doesn’t mean that the focus of the movement will be diverted all over the place; the focus will still be to end the war, but there will be closer channels of communication and use of energies in relating all the problems together (Continued on page 4)
Student designs in various media on display at Space Museum
An exhibition of creations made by some of the best student designers in Southern California is currently on display at the Museum of Science and Industry. Eight students from USC had three works selected for “Design West.”
The exhibit features a wide variety of creative media including photography, woven sculptures like those pictured on this page, pottery, metals and electricity.
Students from 12 colleges had their works displayed, the participants being selected by the museum after being recommended by the school.
The exhibit provides a showcase of advanced
student work in design, provides recognition of the students and instructors involved and develops an interest in design, a museum spokesman said.
Cosponsored by the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce, the exhibit is free and will continue through July 26 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
Works by Beth Merrick, Melinda Naish, Tom King and Robin Mead, all under the direction of Mrs. Marilyn Cremer, art instructor, were selected for the exhibit.
Other USC student works on display were done by Suzanne Hayashi, Ann Fraser, Ellen Springer and Marsha McMillan, from classes taught by Mrs. Hideko Nishimura.