Marines display arms, students not hostile
By Holly Houston
Staff Writer .
The university was prepared for any military uprising Monday as military equipment, including a tank, 105mm Howitzer, and a Bazooka appeared on campus, courtesy of the Semper Fidelis Society.
The Society, sponsored by the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps, has one of its 150 university offices here. The Society is made up of people enrolled in an officers candidate program for the Marine Corps.
“We want to provide an orientation for members interested in the Marines and also give information to college students," said Lt. Col. A. W. Hitchens, USMC, a Marine Officer Instructor and assistant professor of naval science at the university. "We want to correct the misinformation students have about the Marines.'' Hitchens said students do not realize the highly technological artillery that the Marines operate and the education thev need in order to. work the equipment.
A display was set up of all Marines equipment and several officers were present to answer questions students might have concerning the artillery or the Corps, Hitchens said. "Most of the
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Group attempts demonstration
By Tim Lynch
Staff Writer *
A handful of protestors, demonstrating against what they said was a return to militarism in the United States, had to cut their rally short yesterday when campus security forced the group to leave the university.
•	The demonstrators, representing the Vietnam Veterans Against The War, gathered near Bovard Auditorium to hand out antiwar leaflets, wave a camouflage-designed banner reading, "Fight All U.S. — U.S.S.R. War Moves," and speak out against the future U.S. military activity.
Although the veterans staged their protest near an expansive Marine Corps display, they did not physically disrupt the Marines' activities. However, campus security evicted the group because the demonstrators did not have a permit to assemble on campus.
Steve Ward, chief of security, said university officials did not object to nonstudents coming on campus, but if they want a forum to express their
views, they have to get a permit from the office of Campus Life and Recreation.
The group never registered to speak, and if it had, it would have needed the sponsorship of a campus organization, said Jeannine Zakaryan, the secretary who handles permit applications for Campus Life and Recreation.
Steve Arno, who headed the veterans' protest, said his group decided to come to campus without a permit when it heard that the Marines would stage a large display.
"It was almost a whole unit," Amo said. "We thought it was important to bring out the fact that World War III is on the horizon. We saw it as our responsibility to tell the students that the Marines were here to test the waters about stu-, dents' feelings toward a war, to see if USC would support a war."
The Marines' display was sponsored by the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps.
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Senator asks for honor code
Minority admissions examined
Students form ad hoc committee
ALL’S QUIET — Robert Johnson, gunnery sergeant, watches over a 105 mm Howitzer cannon Monday at a display Marines Corps and help recruit students for the armed ser-of Marine equipment designed to inform students about the vices.
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Volume LXXXVIII, Number 35
University of Southern California
Tuesday, March 25 1980
By Kathy McDonald
Staff Writer
The adoption of a student honor code was recommended by the Student Senate Friday, largely "because of recent violations or circumventions of academic integrity, such as the football scandal involving the speech department."
J.D. Crouch, the senator who proposed the recommendation, said that he felt an honor code should be adopted soon because of the recent scandals and the need for students to "voice their concern to the faculty, administration and the Board of Trustees."
"Other colleges — such as Stanford and Occidental — have honor codes. Each states the university's position on academic honesty and the fact that students should look out for the integrity of their fellow students as weft as their own.
"We want them (the faculty, administration and trustees) to be aware that students care about the university's reputation and integrity, and that they should too," Crouch said.
An honor code would make a significant impact by creating a moral and psychological barrier to academic dishonesty, such as cheating and plagiarism, he said.
"Incoming students would read the code and sign it when they apply to the university. That way they would know right away that USC students are honest and are concerned about academic integrity.
"USC is a community of scholars, and everyone should feel a shared responsibility for promoting the fundamental goals of education. I think the third party involvement is important to emphasize because students would share responsibility for their fellow students' actions."
Returning students would see and affirm the code when they receive their next registration packet," he added.
Crouch emphasized that "the purpose of an honor code would not be to eradicate cheating, but to heighten student awareness and act as a psychological incentive to be honest."
By Cliff Tan
Staff Writer	_
The University Admissions Committee came a step closer to establishing subcommittees Monday when it appointed an ad hoc committee to identify possible barriers to fair minority admissions.
Weslev Robb, acting chairman in place of William Weber who was in Texas, told the committee "we'll be here until August 1981" if an ad hoc committee is not formed.
Weber, Margaret Bernstein, a sophomore in journalism, and John Morris, a sophomore in political science, were appointed to the ad hoc committee.
Findings of the ad hoc committee should be presented to subcommittees, Robb said. Subcommittees have not been discussed by the admissions committee.
Morris said admissions criteria, conversion (getting an accepted student to enroll) and retention (preventing enrolled students from leaving , the university) should be studied by subcommittees.
Efforts have been made to increase black student admissions, but the final results will not be evident until a report on minority recruitment efforts is presented in July, said Francesca Roberts, assistant director of admissions.
About 1,000 black students have applied to the university so far, Roberts said. Between 50 to 100 black students with acceptable grade point averages and test scores had been accepted automatically by the end of February.
Peter Brown, associate director of the Office of Admissions, said all of the information needed to evaluate black applicants has not been received.
An effort to close the files of black students as soon as possible is being made, Roberts said. A file is closed when the needed information is received.
"We have seen a great deal of improvement in files closed to date," Roberts said.
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Staff photo by Wayne Levine
KARATE LESSON — Bugs Tomorrow performed at the Student Activities Center patio Monday in a concert sponsored by the Student Committee on Popular Entertainment.