Admissions report
stirs controversy
Staff photo by Wayne Levina
PROTEST — Members of ABSSC-Black Student Union and MEChA protest what they call "unfair" admissions policies. Students paraded in front of the Student Administrative Services Building waving signs and shouting for the resignation of Jay Berger, director of admissions._
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Volume LXXXVII, Number 16 University of Southern California Monday. October 8. 1979
Five fraternities fined $500 each for violating dry rush guidelines
By Todd Cooley
Staff Writer
The Interfratemity Council fined five fraternities $500 each for violations of the IFC dry rush policy during pledge rush this fall.
Three of the five houses, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Phi Epsilon, were reported in a Daily Trojan article (Sept. 26). The names of the other two, Phi Kappa Tau and Delta Sigma Phi, were released last week.
The fines resulted from rush parties during which either "large numbers of people were openly drinking or alcohol was served to anyone who wanted it,” said Victor Vandergriff, IFC president.
A non-affiliated member of the Greek system,
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under the auspices of the IFC, inspected each house three times to determine whether the policy was being followed, Vandergriff said.
"This person made no pretense of rushing," Vandergriff said. If asked, he was to answer that he was an IFC representative.
The violations occurred Sept. 19, the first night of sorority exchanges. No subsequent fines were levied.
Dry rush, which is both IFC and university policy, has been in effect since spring 1978. It was enacted because of violations of state liquor laws and a "general attitude of lawlessness during rush," Vandergriff said.
A benefit of dry rush has been to limit the (Continued on page 2)
By Teresa Watanabe
Assistant City Editor
Contrary to criticism that the university has failed to respond to recommendations made last May by a special task force on minority admissions, a progress report issued Friday shows that several steps have been taken.
The report indicates that President John R. Hubbard acted promptly and utilized a number of university resources to implement the recommendations. However, some persons have charged that the report is misleading and paints a brighter picture of the progress than is actually the case.
The 24 recommendations of the Special Task Force on Minority Admissions, Financial Aid and Staff-Faculty Appointment and Tenure came in response to heated charges last spring that the university was discriminating against blacks and Chicanos in its admission policy.
The report outlined the progress made in each of the 24 areas. The highlights:
—	Formation of a minority recruitment planning committee in Student Administrative Services. According to the report, the committee w’ill plan and implement projects designed to expand the minority applicant pool.
—	Formation of a university admissions committee to help oversee the admissions process, recommend admissions policies and review admissions criteria.
—	Preparation of a brochure directed specifically at the recruitment of minority students.
—	Addition of three new positions in the admissions office, one of which will be devoted entirely to recruitment in inner-city schools.
—	A change in financial aid policy which allows students to receive the same amount of scholarship aid as the previous year by maintaining a 2.0 grade
Owner of black history collection asks university to house books, memorabilia
By Roger Wed berg
If Avery Clayton, 30, pointed around the two dor-mitorv-sized rooms of the Western States Black |§ Research Center — a little bungalow’ in the back !§ yard of his mother's Los Angeles residence.
The rooms, surrounded by ceiling-high shelves H of books and cluttered with typewriters, house H one of the largest collections of Black history ,
II	literature, films, records and memorabilia in the
II	West.
II	Avery's mother, Mavmie Clayton, 54, a former sg librarian at the university and the compiler of the | collection, is asking the university to provide I housing for the estimated 12,000 volumes and 1 other cultural materials she and her sons believe H the public should see.
She will make a slide presentation and talk It about her proposals involving the university at a m meeting of the Neighborhood Relations Commit-P tee of the President's Advisory Council on Oct.
B "What we want to do is have a proper facility H to place the collection in, a facility that addresses H itself to use by students, the faculty, the com-j|| munity and anyone who might want to come in B and do research," Avery Clayton said.
§1 A specially-built museum structure housing the
■	collection would be advantageous for the univers-P ity, he said.
■	"The establishment of a black cultural center SI and museum at the university would have a H number of far-reaching and significant ramifica-j| tions," Avery Clayton said.
> It would serve as an attraction to tourists and m scholars and its approval would be a significant
factor in improving community relations with the university, he said.
The material is of little use as a cultural resource now because about two-thirds of the collection is in storage, and the other third, although stacked in the research center, is not ready to be loarfed to the public.
The collection includes sheet music dating from 1854, about 2,000 records dating from 1907, and
150 short- and feature-length films dating from 1903.
A tum-of-the-century recruiting poster shows a handsome black soldier going off to war and is captioned, "The Colored Man Is No Slacker."
"We have one slave document dated 1790 which tells us about what we believe to be the largest plantation at that time," Avery Clayton said.
The plantation is also said to have had a distillery and 62 breeding women.
One outstanding piece in the collection is a book written by abolitionist-sympathizer William Cowper in England in 1826.
The book, entitled "The Negro's Complaint: Pity for Poor Africans," contains colorful hand-painted pictures and is believed to be the only copy known to exist in the world.
Only one private collection and the New York Public Library have more material on black culture and history, Avery Clayton said.
Maymie Clayton began the collection in the early 1950s when she realized, through her work in libraries, that few people were collecting black cultural materials, he said.
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point average instead of a 3.0. However, new students must still have a 3.0 GPA to receive their initial university scholarship.
—	Implementation of a May
1	deadline for applying to the university and a guarantee that if students complete their application by Jan. 1 they will receive an admissions decision by March 15 and a financial aid decision by April 15. This is designed to assure that highly qualified applicants will be notified in time to consider the
Minority groups continue protest
Members of two minority groups demonstrated Friday in front of the Student Administrative Services building, protesting alleged discrimination by Jay Berger, director of admissions.
This was the second protest in two days.
Protestors from a coalition of Associated Black Students of Southern California-Black Student Union and MEChA, a Chicano student organization, carried signs reading "USC is racist" and "Berger...get out."
Randall Craig, president of ABSSC-BSU, said the coalition staged the two demonstrations to emphasize the group's posi-(Continued on page 2)
university offer, the report stated.
—	Authorization of $300,000 to augment the compensation of staff members whose salaries were especially below market levels. Of the 109 Student Administrative Services stafi members who were eligible, 106 received special increments, the report stated.
Robert Biller, dean of the (Continued on page 2)
AVERY CLAYTON