volume Ixv, number 71 tuesday, february 13, 1973
Daily m) Troian
university of southern California los angeles, California
Programs board chairman resigns
By Bob Evans
staff writer
Bruce Mitchell announced his resignation from the chairmanship of the Interim Student Programming Board Friday at the beginning of the board’s two-hour budget meeting.
Mitchell told the board he decided to step down from the position for “personal reasons” and “because I want to devote my energies to other things within the board” as one of its undergraduate members.
The board unanimously approved his nomination of Arturo Arbarca, vice-chairman, as his successor, and Vincent Yip, graduate member, as vice-chairman, and then turned its attention to scheduled business—allocation of funds to student programs for the rest of this semester.
Caution in spending characterized the meeting. In January the board came under fire from the Daily Trojan and some individual students for voting to buy personalized business
cards for its members. Under pressure, the board rescinded the allocation.
At Friday’s meeting the board, sensitive to criticism and anxious to jus-tify student trust, carefully scrutinized requests for program funding.
Out of six requests considered, three were funded at lower levels than requested, one was deferred pending study, and two—one for $2,500 for FASTEN (Faculty and Student Enrichment) and $135 for Troy Camp, were given as much money as their sponsors asked for.
USC Helpline, Stonecloud literary magazine, and a Career Day at USC for elementary school children are programs that got less money than was requested.
By leaving $1,500 of Stonecloud’s budget unfunded, the board was inviting the President’s Circle, a university support group, to renew the
$i,500 grant it gave the magazine last
year.
The board also voted to pay only half the $371 cost of a Career Day at USC for Menlo Avenue Elementary School students, and to urge the university and community groups to pay the other half.
The decision indicated that although the majority of its members strongly support the concept of community action, the board feels that the university should bear a larger share of the responsibility for such programs.
In other actions, the board continued to build up its program’s development fund to make money available for tlxe creation of new
programs.
It transferred to the fund $500 from the account of the disbanding Draft Counseling Center and $1,000 from a leftover ASSC administrative salaries account.
Chicano group charges USC with racism
Gerontology Center’s dedication opens four-day seminar on aging
Members of the Chicano Student Social Worker Organization charged the administration with institutional racism at a recent seminar held on campus.
As a result of the group’s grievances, Robert Arias, chairman of Trabajadores de La Raza, presented five recommendations at the seminar, which first had been scheduled as a discussion on Chicano culture.
Arias said the charges stem from the group’s complaint that Chicano student presentations are relied upon as the main source of input for the ethnic curriculum at the School of Social Work.
“We do not object to student participation,” said Arias in a personal interview. “We do object to (the administration) depending on us 100% (for presentations). We have
professionals in the community who could contribute to the courses.” Through this semester, students in the School of Social Work will be presenting a series of seminars that deal with various topics such as ethnic and racial cultures and sexism.
Another part of the Chicano students’ complaint is that these seminars do not require mandatory attendance. All students who attend must do so on an extracurricular basis.
“The ethnic content should be included in the day to day curriculum,” said Arias. “It should be set up so it is compulsory for everyone to learn about each other.” Arias presented five recommendations at the seminar. The Chicano students have asked the administration at the School of Social Work to
By Kari Granville
The new Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center was dedicated Monday morning, beginning a four-day convocation on aging that will include a number of prominent authorities and guest speakers.
More than 500 members of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and the National Retired Teachers Association (NRTA) from across the nation heard speakers acclaim the facility as a pioneering landmark to meet the needs and solve the problems of the nation’s 21 million elderly.
Tuesday there will be a panel presentation on the “Changing Images of Aging” at 9:30 a.m. in Bovard Auditorium. Panel members include John Brademas, majority floor whip ofthe U.S. House of Representatives; Bernice L. Neutgarten, professor of human development at the University of Chicago; and Buckminster Fuller, philosopher-author.
Also included in the week’s activities are Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist and professor in USC’s School of Performing Arts; and Henning K. Friis. economist; who will both speak on Wednesday.
Nathan W. Shock. Chief of the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute of Child Health and Development, will speak on Thursday, the final day of the convocation.
The principal participants in Monday’s ceremony included President John Hubbard; James E. Birren,
take “immediate action” toward resolving the problems. However, they added that action should not be taken through the formation of “ineffectual committees.”
The recommendations made reference to a recent workshop sponsored by the School of Social Work in Idyl-lwild. The students suggested that workshops should be held on campus in order to make education relevant to the surrounding community.
The recommendations also included a request for more minority faculty members along with the use
of consultants and technical assistants from the surrounding community in studies related to Social Work.
In an interview after the recommendations had been read, Maurice Hamovitch, dean of the School of Social Work, said that minority instructors already are trying to be located for six vacant facuRy positions.
He added that in the last three years, the School of Social Work has filled 11 openings by hiring six Anglos and five minority members for positions as instructors.
gerontology center director; Leonard K. Firestone, member and former chairman of the Board of Trustees; Leonard Davis, honorary president of AARP-NRTA; Bernard E. Nash, the associations’ executive director; and architect Edward Durell Stone who designed the center.
The official opening of the center began when Joseph A. Fitzgerald of New Haven, Conn., and Foster J. Pratt of Long Beach, presidents of NRTA and AARP respectively, received the key to the building from Nash and then presented it to Hubbard.
The highlights of the dedication ceremony were the placing of a cornerstone containing a time capsule to be opened again in the year 2,000 and the unveiling of the Ethel Percy Andrus Memorial Plaque.
Participants in this segment of the program were Cecelia O’Neil of San Jose and George Schluderberg of Baltimore, Md., past presidents of the NRTA and AARP respectively, and Lisa Pomeroy of Los Angeles, president of the gerontology center student body.
It was the members of the AARP and the NRTA, who through fund- “ raising campaigns and individual contributions, donated $2 million to the construction cost of the $3.5 million center located at W. 37th Street and McClintock Avenue.
The center was dedicated with the goal of improving the quality of life for older persons everywhere.
Faces of a philosopher
Eric Hoffer, the philosopher, spoke at the Gerontology Center’s dedication Tuesday, telling his audience to go back to school after retirement. See story on Page 2. Daily Trojan photo by Michael Sedano.