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Students form campus picket line seeking to get Teacher Corps into local Chicano communities
By Mary Ann Galante
campus city editor
Approximately 30 Chicanos picketed Waite Phillips Hall of Education Tuesday, protesting what they termed “the administration’s insensitivity to the Chicano community.”
Chants of “Viva! La raza!” could be heard as the students carried placards reading, “El Barrio also needs Teacher Corps,” and “USC No. 1 in football, No. 1 in racism, last place in helping the Chicano community.”
One of the main purposes of the picketing was to provoke some official response to a list of seven demands members of the Teacher Corps Urban had presented to the administration last January. The Chicano students felt their demands weren't being considered seriously.
Yesterday afternoon members of the group met with Wallace Muelder, associate dean for administrative affairs. After discussing their demands with Muelder, the Chicanos still had no official answer to their proposals.
In a private interview with the Daily Trojan yesterday evening, however, Muelder indicated the university is likely to respond positively to the students’ demands.
The Chicanos’ two basic demands both concern charges of ihsensitivity within the Teacher Corps program. The demands are:
•	That the Teacher Corps administration help the protestors seek funds for estab-
lishinga school in Lil Valley, a Chicano barrio.
•	That “community” be redefined in the Teacher Corps current program to include Chicano communities outside Compton and Juvenile Hall.
The Chicanos’ charges stem from a meeting held on Nov. 28, 1972, by members of USC’s Teacher Corps Urban.
Teacher Corps Urban is a group of largely minority graduate students who are working for teaching creden-tials under a federally funded training program. The program, Teacher Corps, allows potential teachers—called interns—to work with delinquent youths in Chicano and black communities while getting classroom teaching experience.
At the November meeting, the Chicano interns discussed with administrators the funding of a potential volunteer program. Under federal regulations USC’s Teacher Corps may submit one volunteer program for approval. The Chicano students suggested that USC submit a program establishing an “alternative school” at Lil Valley, a Chicano barrio.
USC’s Teacher Corps interns now work within separate programs—the rural program (serving Ventura), and another district program, which serves eight schools in the Compton Unified School District and the Los Angeles County Special Schools (Juvenile Hall).
The Chicanos said they originally suggested the Lil
Valley alternative school last November because they felt the Teacher Corps program does not give interns enough teaching experience in the Chicano community.
At a press conference yesterday. Leo Alvillar, Chicano group spokesman, said, “We discovered that out of the total student population served by Teacher Corps, only 14.5% are Chicano. In population, our numbers nearly double that of any other minority group in Los Angeles County.
Alvillar added, “The alternative school, which would be voluntary for interns, w’ould take a step toward cor-recting the imbalance in populations served.”
The alternative school proposal called for a school to be established in Lil Valley for delinquent youths who couldn’t get through the public school system. The Chicanos claim they were not initially told the volunteer proposal had to be within the Compton area.
“On Nov. 30, at a second meeting, USC’s Teacher Corps told us our Lil Valley proposal would not be submitted because it would upset the balance in the Compton schools,” said Alvillar. (A number of the Chicano interns already work in the Compton district, which is predominantly Black.
Alvillar said the director of the USC Teacher Corps, Annette Gromfin, promised the Chicanos she would help them get private funding for
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University assembly to decide student governance framework
By Brian Robinette
staff writer
The framework of any future student government at USC could very well be determined as a result of an all-university governance assembly scheduled for March.
The all-university convocation on March 17 will be preceded by a meeting March 7 called by James Appleton, vice-president for student affairs. The purpose of such a meeting, said Appleton, will be to select a committee of 15 students who will be charged with the responsibility of establishing an agenda for the all-university session.
“I’m asking for 15 students who will be able to represent some diverse opinions,” said Appleton.
The purpose of the assembly will be to examine possible solutions and options available to students regarding the fate of a
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popularly-elected student government. Since the old ASSC form of student government was dissolved last year, the Interim Student Programming Board has handled the various student-oriented functions previously directed by the ASSC.
However, when first instated, the programming board was tentatively given a one-year lease until a new student governance plan could be formulated for the following year.
In deference to this original plan, Appleton hopes that the final product of the alluniversity assembly will be two or three model plans, one of which might be incorporated into a plan for a future student gov-ernment before the end of the 1972-73 academic year.
Appleton said that he has invited representatives from diverse university groups to participate in the general assembly. These groups include representatives from the residence halls, the Row, various constituent groups and organizations, such as MECHA, Squires and the Men’s Halls Association, the Daily Trojan, and the programming board.
In addition, Appleton said that he intends to invite 19 members of the newly-formed University Council as well as students who have been appointed to university committees this year, which includes the Student Life Commission. Interested, non-aligned students will also be welcomed, said Appleton.
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PICKET LINES—A Chicana student carries a placard urging that the Teacher Corps-Urban program be restructured to better serve Chicano communities (barrios). DT photo by Michael Sedano.
Health fee increase will not start in fall reports vice-president
By Frank O’Donnell
The proposal to double the $32 annual student health fee will not take effect next semester even if it were recommended to the university, Zohrab A. Kaprielian, vice-president for academic administration and research, said Tuesday.
Kaprielian told the Daily Trojan that students must be aware of such hikes well in advance. “The feeling here is not for next year,” he said.
The fee hike also dominated the discussion at the Student Health Advisory Committee meeting Tuesday, as members discussed alternatives to the 100% mandatory hike.
The Daily Trojan was criticized for having presented the issue of bolstering health center funds as an all-or-nothing, fee-hike-or-no-hike proposition.
“It is unfortunate that we’re tied in only to the doubling of the fee,” said James Appleton, vice-president for student affairs, who sat in one the meeting.
Appleton encouraged the examination of a variety of solutions that could double health center funding without doubling the fee.
The idea of doubling the funds was originally proposed by Dr. Addie Klotz, director of the health center.
Although she admits that she sees “the flat rate as the simplest method,” Dr. Klotz also said that she was open to suggestions.
“The Daily Trojan picked up the story and made it all-or-nothing, which it isn’t at this point,” Klotz said.
Joe Flanagan, chairman of Commuter Students, spoke out against the fee hike.
“They (commuters) were incredulous over paying a fee for a service they didn’t use in the first place,” he said. “To double it across the boards would not be fair.”
Dr. Klotz disagreed with Flanagan concerning commuter use of the health center. “Commuters use the health center as much as residents.”
She said that many commuters don’t feel comfortable going to their family doctors about some health problems. For example. she noted that 50% of students seeking birth control information and devices are commuters.
Several students suggested systems where students would pay varying amounts, depending on the services they were interested in. Students could pay a minimal amount for basic health care, or pay more if they wished additional coverage.
Dr. Klotz welcomed the suggestion, although she later expressed concern over "hassles and barriers” that might arise from such a system.
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