volume Ixv, number 115 friday, april 27, 1973
Daily tg# Trojan
university of southern californit los angeles, California
U.S. study says USC was ‘too lenient’ in Teacher Corps strike
USCALEIDOSCOPE V—Students construct tents in Alumni Park in preparation for the university-wide open house to be held Sunday. The activities scheduled are designed to acquaint students and
newcomers with all aspects of university life. All departments will be represented in the exhibitions. See story page 3. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
Feminist says young women key to future
By Nancy Centofanti
assistant campus editor
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Human Rights Commissioner of New York City, described the ’’young women of today who are capable of leading us all to change,” in a noon speech as part of the Women In Public Life Conference which ended Thursday afternoon with panel discussions and an evening of feminist films.
She compared the civil rights movements of the past decade to the feminist movement of today and posed the question, “Can women do for the 70’s what Blacks did for the 60’s?”
The increasing scarcity of social movements in the chilly climate of the 70s is being challenged only by the women’s rights movement, she said. “Equality that begins with race can be applied to all other spheres of injustice.”
Designating young women as the leaders of the social revolution, she defined them as “The luckiest people in the world .. .freshly alive.” Looking out to the predominantly female audience she challenged them to break out of sexual bonds in order to expand the world. “Women are everybody .. .when you change yourself you change everybody.”
Admitting that the women’s movement is missing a strong guiding force such as the Blacks found in Martin Luther King, she said, “Martin Luther King was a once-in-a-century person.” Norton said there are signs that the feminist movement can be successful. As an example of problems which should unite all women, she cited the lack of day-care centers in the U.S.
She said that Blacks and women are oppressed though to a different degree.
“The Black people didn’t have to outline their issues, they had been outlined for them for 250 years.”
Stating that Black men are freer of sexism than white men, she attributed this to .the history of the Black people. “Black people have to fight for their rights and half those people are black women,” Norton said.
Norton is deeply involved in the civil rights movement. She said that the Commission of Human Rights in New York City has more power to eliminate injustice than any other agency in the country.
She discounted any indication that she would soon be running for mayor of New York. Norton sees New York City as falling into a period of entrenchment. “I’m wholly unfit to lead New York into that period,” she said.
Debate to feature representatives of student governance proposals
By Kevin McKenna
staff writer
Representatives advocating each of the seven proposals in next week’s student governance referendum will debate Monday at noon outside the bookstore, the Elections Commission announced Thursday.
Keith Keener, election commissioner, also reiterated an earlier statement that the election would not determine the future of the collection of the student programming fee.
“Attention so far in’the campaign has been diverted to student fees,” he said, “when the real issue should be representation of students’ interests.”
An interpretation this week by James Appleton, vice-president of student affairs, held that the fee is a university fee imposed by the Board of Trustees, which can only be changed by the board itself.
“We should be talking about the administration ofthe fee,” said Keener, “not its collection.”
He said the debate Monday would give sup-
porters of the seven proposals an opportunity for a last pitch to attract attention to the election.
Speakers will include Bobbi Tillmon, representing the Assembly-Council Plan; Mike Dotson, advocating the SC Coalition (Berkeley Plan); and Joe Flanagan, speaking for the Union of Associated Students proposal.
Other speakers announced by the Elections Commission will be Robert Camargo, of Alliance of Student Government; Cliff Ishii, from the Board of Representatives; and Stan Mollrich, of Voluntary Student Association.
A representative of the remaining proposal, No Student Government, has not been announced. Keener said one of the commissioners may explain the proposal.
The forum will be moderated by one of the commissioners. Each speaker will be allocated a few minutes time.
Each representative will have one or two minutes for rebuttal, followed by a question-and-answer session.
By Bettye Wells
associate editor
Teacher Corps officials were too lenient in dealing with 11 Chicanos who boycotted their classes last November, according to a study commissioned by program officials in Washington, D.C., that was released this week.
The report was written by Manuel Reyes Mazon, director of the Institute for Cultural Pluralism at the University of New Mexico, and Oliver Wendell Wilson, a professor of Afro-American Studies at California State College at Dominguez.
“University of Southern California failed to properly perceive the intent of the interns demands, thereby creating a time frame vacuum which was exploited by said interns,” the report said.
The study said that the university, “while attempting to accommodate or placate, in the interest of harmony and fear of creating a negative image, failed to make decisions that could have operated to define the standards of the university.”
The report also accused the striking interns of acting in an unreasonable manner.
“Although it is recognized that Mexican-Americans, Blacks and other ethnic groups have legitimate grievances, it must also be recog-
nized that there are empirical realities that must be considered so that justice will prevail.
“In this particular instance, the boycotting interns were only concerned about their rights and not the rights of others.”
One of the Chicanos who participated in the boycott called the report’s conclusions broad generalizations and said, “That shows you where their minds are at.”
The report includes discussions with a variety of school districts, federal Teacher Corps officials and Chicano interns who did not join the boycott, but omits direct comments made by striking interns.
Referring to a statement in the report that the interns’ demands were nonnegoti-able, Donald Wilson, director of Teacher Education, said the study absolves the university from all blame in the matter.
The conflict began last November when 11 of the 20 Chicanos in the Teacher Corps program began boycotting their classes and issued a list of demands. Among them were a request that interns be allowed time off one morning a week to intern in an East Los Angeles school and that future sites for Teacher Corps Urban training be established in areas where Chicanos com-
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Pool ace on campus
Jack White, champion pool player, who has a degree in poolology, demonstrated his art Thursday to students in the Student Activities Center. White earns $800,000 a year playing pool. See storyr page 2. DT photo by Gehrig Ikeda.