volume Ixv, number 106
thursday, april 5, 1973
Daily w Troian
university of southern California los angeles, California
Caucus students file protest over members of University Council
Julian Bond names racism as country’s most pressing problem
“The problem with committee selections has occurred because many of the academic units are not organized and department chairman make the appointments,” Ishii said.
To counteract that problem Ishii submitted a proposal to the group that recommends a change in the structure of the University Council. It was unanimously approved by the group.
Ishii plans to try to get his plan endorsed by as many student organizations as possible.
There are five basic elements to the plan to revise the present University Coun-cilsetup.
•	The total number of council members would be increased from the present 87 to 100.
•	The present five at-large faculty members would be eliminated.
Ishii feels that the faculty is well organized within academic units, unlike students, and does not need at-large delegates.
•	The number of student members at-large would be increased by 18.
This would allow student groups that would not be represented by academic units to get representation on the council, Ishii said.
•	There would be no change in the number of deans, administrators and staff votes.
•	The at-large student positions would be filled by a general student body election using the preferential ballot where the student would vote for candidates in order of preference.
“America’s single most problem is racism,” said Julian Bond, the first Black nominee of a major political party to the vice-presidency, of the United States. Bond spoke to an audience of about 150 people Tuesday. His appearance was sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
“While Superfly runs rampant,” he said, “we are getting the shalft”
Forms available for election posts
The Interim Student Programming Board will select three election commissioners to conduct the referendum on student government election on May 1.
Applications may be picked up at Student Union 303 or 309. The deadline is Friday. Interviews will be conducted on Tuesday.
Six proposals for student government have been submitted by the assembly for the referendum.
Other proposals may be added if they have the signatures of 300 students. They should be turned into the Student Activities Office, Student Union 303.
Bond said that in the 1972 presidential elec-tion, all major groups voted against McGovern except Blacks. MocGovern received 75% of the Black vote.
Bond said, “Just as Jesse Louis Jackson once said, ‘The issue wasn’t the bus, it was us.’ . . . The election was a racial issue.”
Nixon’s reelection has enabled him to “put more conservatives on the Supreme Court, castrate the budget, strengthen the Federal Bureau of Intimidation, and make money ... tighter,” said Bond.
He said that the struggle of the 60s taught Blacks to protest and march and saw them being beaten and jailed to exercise the right to sit at a lunch counter and eat a hamburger.
“But now that we can sit at a lunch counter and consume a hamburger,” said Bond, “we are unable to reach in our pocket and pay for that hamburger.”
Blacks must seek this economic equality in the 70s, he said.
The general solution is increased majority concern for the minorities. The silent majority must become a “noisy, agitated majority,” Sc id Bond.
“Since 1968,” said Bond, “America has been sliding backwards—inflation, war, sexism, elitism, and racism run wild.”
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JULIAN BOND
DT photo by Barry Brown
BIG SCOOP—Workmen have been busy tearing allow access to buried pipelines. DT photo by Danny up Childs Way between Town and Gown and Alaimo.
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University to provide additional funds for scholarship students
By Joy Barrett
staff writer
University scholarship students who have worried about the recent increase in tuition can start to relax.
James R. Appleton, vice-president of student affairs, announced Tuesday that the university will contribute more financial aid from its own financial resources to combat the tuition increase.
Appleton stated that there will be a 9.76% financial increase on top of this year’s tuition base. This increase keeps pace with the tuition increase and affects all university scholarships. This area of increase totals approximately $150,000 in university funds.
From tuition increase of $240, $15 will go to student* aid. This amount involves approximately $200,000.
Between $150,000 and $250,000 will be allocated to attract graduate' professional and transfer students in specific academic areas to attend USC.
The amount of university-financial contributions is in excess of $3 million.
Appleton stated that the increase in university contributions illustrates the commitment on the part of the university to allow' any student who wants to attend USC to do so.
He said that the increase is a far more substantial increase than before but
feels that it is wrong to imply that all needs will be met.
Pam Walbom, director of Student Aid, attributes the increase in scholarship funds as the result of the concern on the part of the university.
“The university is more concerned than ever before about the cost of an education. Financial aid is an important part in attracting new students and keeping present students here,” Walbom said. “All private colleges are now concerned in maintaining their students.”
“What pleases me the most is that this is kind of a first,” she said. “There hasn’t been this kind of an increase before.
By Don La Plante
assistant city editor
The Organization of Student Caucuses filed formal protests Wednesday concerning the composition and selection process of members of the University Council.
The Organization of Student Caucuses is composed of all ofthe student members of university committees.
The group passed a resolution to be sent to Robert Mannes, dean of student life, and James Appleton, vice-president for student affairs, demanding that the university censure the methods being used to select some members of the University Council.
The complaint about the present system is that some departmental representatives who attend the meetings that select the three student representatives of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences are being selected by department chairmen.
The University Council plan put into effect by President John Hubbard calls for the departmental representatives to be elected by students in the department.
Examples cited by members of the organization included the Department of History, where the chairman, Paul Knoll, allegedly appointed the representative.
Knoll was out oftown Wednesday and wras unavailable for comment.
The Department of Chemistry supposedly held a meeting “but no one ever heard about it,” said Cliff Ishii, an organization member.