volume Ixv, number 128
Wednesday, may 16, 1973
Daily if® Trojan
university of southern California los angeles, California
Expelled Chicanos claim ignorance of teacher plan
A representative for the 11 Chicano students expelled from the Teacher Corps one month ago said that they did not know until recently about a proposed plan to place teaching assistants in predominantly Chicano areas.
Phyllis Arias, spokeswoman for the group, said they were nottold ofthe proposed program until they were officially expelled.
Donald Wilson, director of teacher education, said the 11 students knew about the proposed Contract Specialist Teacher Program when they started boycotting classes last November, a measure taken to expand the
Teacher Corps program into Chicano schools.
Wilson said that the suggested program, which has been in the planning stages since October, is not an outgrowth of the current conflict with the Chicano students.
“We were not pressed into this. We have always been aware of the Chicano's problems,” he said.
Phillips Copeland, executive assistant to President John Hubbard, said when he informed the Chicano students of their expulsions he suggested they enter the proposed program in the fall if it is accepted.
He said the Contract Specialist Teacher Program is not as attractive as the federally funded Teacher Corps program, which pays for the teaching assistants’ tuition in addition to $90 a week. The proposed program only pays the student teachers $2.50 an hour.
Arias said that by the time the 11 students were told about the new plan, most of them had already applied to other schools.
She added, “I really don’t trust this school. If we get back in, the administration might make trouble for us. That’s just my feeling.”
Pharmacy class boycott fails; students disavow connection
By Kevin McKenna
staff writer
A boycott of a biostatistics class by first-year pharmacy students failed to materialize Tuesday morning, and the instructor of the class. John S. Martois, refuted charges made in the Daily Trojan by two members of the class.
Martois said that 16 students, some of whom had signed a petition charging him with "willful neglect of his duties as instructor,” came to him personally Tuesday to apologize and disavow any connection with the planned boycott.
“The vendetta appears to have been the work of two students who are not only uniden-tified in the newspaper but apparently remain anonymous to a substantial number of fellow students as well,” Martois said.
John Biles, dean of the School of Pharmacy and Edward S. Brady, associate dean, met
with the class for 30 minutes Tuesday to discuss any complaints or constructive suggestions they had to offer.
“I sensed no hostility among the students, but only a dissatisfaction with the course itself,” Brady said. “The class wanted reassurance that this was a course like any other.”
Brady said that neither he nor anyone else in the school had been presented with the petition. “This is an academic matter, not a political one,” he said.
The students who released a copy of the petition to the Daily Trojan on Monday could not be reached for comment. The petition was signed by 102 first-year pharmacy students and about 70 second-year students.
“I think many students signed the petition not so much for what it said but because the final was coming up,” Martois said. “I think they were just plain scared of the final.”
Students seek funding to stage major rock concert for next fall
If the Fee Allocation Board passes a $16,500 budget request today, rock groups such as Stephen Stills and Mannassas. the Grateful Dead. Hot Tuna and Loggins and Messina will perform in September.
The fall concert will be a major benefit for Troy Camp. The Troy Camp Benefit Concert Committee will meet at noon in the Student Activities Center to discuss plans for laying the groundwork.
Students are needed to aid in such things as stage building, campus promotion.
crowd monitors and graphics. Radio station KMET has agreed to advertise the benefit concert. Students who are interested, but unable to attend the meeting are requested to contact Troy Camp or Marilyn Smith, director of social and cultural programs.
Endorsement of a concert initiative by the Programming Board on May 1 made the proposed concert possible. Concerts in the last few years have had to settle for lesser name bands, because ASSC funds were not granted for the events.
Steve Leon, a member of the committee in charge of the concert, credited Sean Steele, writer of the initiative for the present concert, for bringing the plans as far as they’ve come. Steele had also organized a concert featuring Hot Tuna for May 27, but the group backed out at the last minute.
DT photo by Audrey Chan
LT. COL. LOU SHUTTOCK
Former POWs tell of prison torture, Hanoi propaganda
American prisoners heard only news about riots and the burnings of Banks of America on campuses while imprisoned by the Communist government, said Cmdr. Bill Stark, Maj. John Fer, and Lt. Col. Lou Shuttock. three former POWs. Tuesday.
“We heard everything that was bad and nothing that was good,” Stark said, in speaking to students at a noon conference.
“In order to propagate all their doctrines they wired all the rooms (with Communist radio) in order to pump their garbage,” said Fer, a former USC student, who was imprisoned at the “Hanoi Hilton”.
After 1970, there was an overall change in the camps, in the kinds of information wanted and the torture methods used to obtain it, said Stark.
Prior to 1969, physical and mental torture methods were used. After this time psychological tactics were utilized.
Accordingly, before 1969, military information was wanted. After this time political and social data was desired.
“At first they wanted to know what was our target, and what would be your next one,” said Stark. “Later on they asked about nifty things like, ‘How much money does your father make?’ ”
“The most difficult thing was the constant threat,” said Shuttock.
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Fraternity member saves girl’s life during retreat in mountains
‘Stonecloud’ is on sale in front of Tommy Trojan
The second issue of Stonecloud, a student literary magazine, is on sale for $2 in front of Tommy Trojan.
Stonecloud is a combination of poetry, short stories, interviews, and graphic designs. Its contributors are from the five schools that have a Stonecloud staff: USC, Stanford, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Foothill College.
“There’s so much negative feeling in this country now that we wanted to put out something creative that says positive things,” said Dan lives, coordinator of Stonecloud.
Stonecloud is accepting work for its third issue. All manuscripts and drawings must be submitted by the end of the semester to Student Union 312F.
By Lyndi Gully
The annual retreat of Tau Kappa Epsilon ended with the life of a 14-year-old girl being saved Friday night in the Angeles Crest area.
Marcia Garcia, after falling from a 200 foot cliff, was rescued by Jim Kono, a member of the fraternity.
Jim Ishii, an observer and member of the fraternity, said the retreat was just ending as a car full of longhaired youths drove up.
“The youths appeared to have been drunk or high,” he said.
A girl then jumped out and
started running towards the canyon, Ishii said, adding that the youths yelled and started running after her.
“All of a sudden breaking branches and sliding was heard and several fraternity members said the girl had fallen,” he said. “Kono followed the girl in hope of saving her, but ended up falling and landed right beside her.”
The girl, buried in six inches of mud, was pulled out by Kono, Ishii said.
“When the sheriff arrived
at the scene, the youths split,” he said.
A rescue squad took an access road to the canyon, and treated Garcia with first-aid, he said.
Ishii talked to Garcia’s parents Friday night and said some youths had phoned them, told them their daughter was lying in a canyon and hung up.
Garcia suffered a concussion, fractured left elbow and many cuts and bruises. Kono received stitches in his right knee and also suffered cuts and bruises.