Cinema student shot at local gas station
Groups discuss senate programming proposal
By Carole Long
Assistant Gty Editor
Concerned students met with members of the Student Senate in an open forum Monday to present and discuss their revisions to the USC Student Programming Proposal.
About 25 Asian American students, including Norman Kawakami, director of the Asian Pacific Student Outreach, asked the Senate to include an Asian American group to the programming assembly.
Representatives from the Associated Black Students of Southern California presented a revision that would increase their percentage of funding from programming fees.
The black student association was also concerned over the amount of weight a student survey would hav e in deciding how the programming fee is spent. They asked that instead of only
300	students being polled at least 50% of the student population be involved in the survey.
Ron Okamoto said he and other concerned Asian students noticed in the original proposal no programming fees were going to Asian students.
"One out of eight students at the university is Asian American and we contribute over $13,500 to the programming fee; it seemed unfair that wre weren't getting' anything."
the Senate approved the revision along with a 2% allocation of programming funds to the Asian American group.
The Senate also approved an
increase in black student funding from 5 to 7%, but Count Mingle-ton, treasurer of ABSSC, said they hope to get 10%.
"The 2% increase will give us $3,000 but we still need more."
Jeff Gates, a senator, proposed an amendment which the Senate approved, that would make results from a student survey weigh 50% in funding decisions if and when a comprehensive survey becomes available.
"If computer registration comes in before next spring then every student will be polled at registration on their views about the programming fee," Gates said.
"At that point the weight of the survey results will go to 50%. If not, the audit team at the annual review' next spring will interpret the survey results as they so decide."
The Student Senate will vote Friday on the full proposal with the revisions approved at the forum.
Mingleton said representatives from ABSSC will be there to push for an extra 3% increase (about $5,000) in black student programming from floor funding amounts.
"Having the groups come and present their concerns represents the type of changes that should happen under the proposal each year. Throughout the process efforts have been made to maximize inputs,” said Rick Wacula, a junior in business management, who drew up the USC student programming proposal.
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Volume LXXVI, Number 40
University of Southern California
Tuesday, April 17,1979
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FUNDING FORUM — Students met Monday to discuss new funding proposals for distribution of student programming fees.
BILLS INTRODUCED
Students to protest against draft
California loan plan to replace federal program
By Chuck Coppola
Staff Writer
As of June 1 loans to first-time borrowers under the Federally Insured Student Loan program will be replaced with loans guaranteed by the State of California.
Students who are already borrowing under the program can continue to borrow their loans through the federal program.
State financial aid officials said there will be little difference between the federal loans and the new state guaranteed loans.
There are no additional requirements for the state loan.
"The only difference so far is that with the FISL, the federal government insures the loan. Under the California State Guaranteed Student Loan Program, the state insures the loan to the lending institutions. It's primarily a decentralizing process," said Janet Waters, program coordinate for the Federally Insured and Guaranteed Student Loan programs at the university.
If the state defaults on over 5% of its loans the federal government will reimburse 90% to the institution that made the loan.
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By Karen Holloway
Staff Writer
The university chapter of Students for a Libertarian Society has decided to sponsor an antidraft demonstration on May 1 as part of a nationwide effort to encourage student draft resistance.
Two registration bills were introduced in both houses of Congress last January which would require the President to begin registration no later than Oct. 1, 1979.
If passed, the bills would amend the Privacy Act to permit the selective service system access to "age and address information in the records of any school, any agency of the United States or political subdivisions of the state, for the purposes of conducting registration."
Plans for the university May 1 demonstration have not been completed. Kurt Ayau, a student who is helping to organize the society, said there would probably be a band and one or two speeches promoting the antidraft movement.
Louise Hitchcock, a member of the university chapter of the society, said students had not yet recognized that the draft could become a reality for them.
"Students at USC don't seem to be conscious yet of what's going on, but we're hoping for a good turnout (at the demonstration)," Hitchcock said.
Hitchcock said university administrators would have little recourse if asked to surrender their files for registration purposes.
"It depends on how much leverage the government will have on USC as far as funding is concerned," she said.
The society's primary target in the drive to eliminate the selective service system is the registration procedure necessary to begin the draft process.
"We are demanding that local administrators refuse to deal with the draft board," said Justin Raimando, a traveling organizer for the society. "We fully expect them to cave in and we fully expect students to be outraged."
Raimando said that administrators will have the option of turning over files for registration purposes or of refusing such information and taking the case to court.
Raimando was confident that the draft will be reinstated but expected immediate student resistance to the movement.
"We expect campuses to explode the minute the draft comes back," he said.
About 70 colleges and universities plan to stage antidraft demonstrations, Raimondo said.
Raimando was pessimistic about the sensitivity of Congress to the antidraft movement.
"We have to make this gesture anyway," he said. "We don't expect Congress to listen to us."
On March 13 press conferences were held in 20 cities across the nation to formally initiate the society's antidraft movement.
The 20-member university chapter of the society was formed last September as a reorganization of the Young Liberatarian Alliance.
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FACE LIFT—Recent discoveries required this mural of Jupiter, located in the bookstore, to be updated. Using an actual photograph, the artist added the newly found volcano and barely visible ring.
A senior in rinema-television was shot during spring break after being involved in an argument at a local service station.
The 27-year-old student said he pulled behind another car to wait at the station located on the comer of Adams Boulevard and Hoover Street because he was unaware that a pump was available.
The victim said station attendants started yelling at him to use the other hose. He thought they wanted him to use another island which was more expensive.
"One of the attendants came over and began making threatening remarks/' the victim said.
This led to pushing and eventually punches. The two were separated by spectators.
As the victim went to a near-by drinking fountain to wash off cuts and bruises, the attendant returned with a .38 caliber revolver. Witnesses said several shots were fired but only one struck the victim.
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