Drug, alcohol meeting to begin Monday
By Patta Steele Editor
For four days next week USC will host a unique kind of conference on alcohol and drug abuse. It has not tried to attract a hard-nosed group of narcotics agents to sniff out drug users nor stuffy matrons from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. (Yes, that organization is alive and well.)
Rather, this conference on alcohol and drug abuse offers something for everyone from ex-alcoholics to housewives who are just curious to find out more about drugs and drug abuse.
Mel Baron, coordinator of the project, anticipates the conference to play a part in changing attitudes by
providing people with helpful information and giving them a chance to gain new insights into problems caused by excessive use of drugs and liquor.
“The way our program is designed will give people a chance to get a broad scope of the problems caused by alcohol and drug abuse/’ he said. “We have a youth section of the conference for 30 high school students that will give them a chance to find out about other young people who have had problems with drugs and alcohol.
Another highlight of the conference will be for people in alcoholic rehabilitation to make rounds at the County-USC Medical Center with staff members and review specific
cases in alcohol rehabilitation and also go through other programs.
A series of field trips during the conference to various related facilities dealing with alcohol and drug problems is scheduled.
Some other programs included in the conference are:
•	military section
•	alcohol training section
» occupational alcoholism section
•	alcohol community action section
•	drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation section
•	clergy section
•	education action session
•	education action session
•	criminal justice section
•	pharmacy section
The fee for the conference is $82. The conference, which is under the direction of the Haynes Foundation Drug Research Center, is also available for two units of credit in Education Administration 690. “Readings,” or in Public Administration 501, “Problems.”
A display of posters, periodicals, articles, and equipment will be located in the Student Activities Center. This exhibit is open to all the university.
Senator Alan Short (D-Stockton) will be the first speaker at the Haynes Foundation Drug Research Center’s conference on alcohol and drug abuse on Monday, June 25, in Bovard Auditorium at 9:30 a.m.
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University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI. Number 2
Los Angeles, California
Friday, June 22, 1973
80 neighborhood youths will study futurism in Mini-College next week
By Nancy Shinabargar Hoover High School Glendale
USC’s Mini-College, aimed at serving children living in the vicinity of the campus, opens next week.
‘‘Mini-College is beginning education designed to open a youngster’s mind to the world around him,” said Mrs. Thelma Eaton, Mini-College director.
This year the emphasis is on futurism. Eighty children, all junior high school aged, visit several departments on campus and talk informally with professors and researchers. They learn the current basic ideas of many fields. Then new directions, what the future holds in terms of those areas, are discussed.
Independence and creativity are encouraged. After meeting with experts the students break up into small groups to discuss what they’ve heard. Each student works up a project about any area of interest to him. The one requirement is to show the futurism in that area.
Twelve high school and college students who are veterans of Mini-College serve as counselors. They participate in planning and carrying out the program, leading group discussions, and are resource aides for the students.
USC students are the majority of counselors. Eaton remarked that ex-students are almost beating down the door to become counselors.
Mini-College is so popular among its students that many youngsters want to return year after year. But because of a limited budget they may attend the program only once, with the option of returning as counselors.
President John R. Hubbard initiated Mini-College five years ago. USC is still the only university in the nation conducting this type of community service.
There is no tuition and students provide their own transportation to campus; field trips are conducted from there. Classes are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and last for six weeks. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for the first group of 40 students, and 1:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. for the second group of 40.
Mini-College hopes to expand into a year-round operation, but USC has no money available for expansion. So Mini-College is turning its attention to private foundations for the expansion funds.
“Many applications for Mini-College come from Palos Verdes, Pasadena, and Glendale. These areas are sensitive to college-oriented programs,” Eaton stated. “They immediately respond to them.”
Students are accepted on a first come, first served basis. Applications from outside areas are put on a waiting list.
“We want a wide range of students, particularly those who haven’t had the opportunity to be in an academic program,” Eaton said. “The application the student sends in is an indication of motivation, that he wants to be in an academic program.”
Trip to Africa to see solar eclipse cancelled because of lack of interest
By Jackie Markin Crescenta Valley High School La Crescenta
Imagine this:
The Department of Astronomy had initiated a summer program in East Africa* The program involved the observation and study of a total eclipse of the sun and the astronomy of the southern hemisphere.
The program. Astronomy 400. “Observation of the 1973 June 30 Total Solar Eclipse” was worth two units of academic credit. The East Africa trip was to be a seven-week program which would include a 20-day safari.
In preparation for the safari, classes were to be conducted June 18 through June 21. On June 23, the scientific teams would leave for Brussels, Belgium. The following day, the students would fly to Nairobi, Kenya.
The first leg of the tent safari would begin June 26. The team would travel across the equator to the Samburu Game Reserve where they would see rare African species of giraffe, zebra, and the gerenuk.
Between June 29 and July 1, the safari would travel to an area which will be in the center of the solar eclipse in
order to observe and photograph the eclipse.
Following the eclipse, the remaining time would be used to explore Eastern Africa and the astronomy of the southern hemisphere.
It sounded like a very unique way for 17 students to spend five weeks. And a very unique way to spend in excess of$l,800, the total cost of tuition and travel and tour expenses.
Although the program involved excessive planning and preparation it was cancelled because of lack of interest. Only one student applied for the class.
FREEBIES—Kittens, anyone? Liz Gately tried desperately to find a home for two baby kittens on Tuesday. She sat near Tommy Trojan offering them to people passing by but few seemed interested. Some stopped to look at the kittens but even the fact that they were free couldn't convince people to take them. Photo by Steve Wright.
Med Center guard may be ‘Lone Ranger rapist’
The Hollywood division of the Los Angeles Police Department has arrested a County-USC Medical Center security guard, vho, wearing a Lone Range' type mask, is believed to be responsible for at least 15 burglary and rape incidents.
David Francis Wilson, 32, was arraigned on Wednesday in municipal court after being arrested Saturday, June 16, while in the Hollywood area that the complaints of burglary' and rape had been coming from. He entered a plea of not guilty to charges of burglary and rape.
Wilson has been identified in a line-up by four persons as the man who broke into their homes wearing a Lone Ranger mask, put the mask on them and threatened them with a screwdriver or
knife if any noise or protest was made.
Steven Hodel, a police investigator, believes Wilson could be responsible for at least 15 and possibly 30 burglary and rape incidents in the past two years.
The “Lone Ranger rapist” attacked single-member families, usually students and housewives ranging from 18 to 42 years old.
“He came between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. and would stay anywhere from two to three hours,” Hodel said, “usually making his entrance through a side or rear window.”
After the arrest, a mask was found in Wilson’s apartment that was like the one victims had described.
Bail is set at $50,000 and a preliminary hearing is scheduled in the next two weeks.