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Daily |p Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXV1, No. 29	Los Angeles, California	Monday, October 29, 1973
Leniency Recommended
For Stunt-Card Thrower
Applications forms for the renewal of university scholarships are available beginning today at the Student Administrative Services Building, first-floor information counter.
Is USC’s Student Aid Enough?
BY PETER WONG
Managing Editor
If its federal funds were to disappear tomorrow, USC would have difficulty in providing financial aid to students because its own funds are relatively low.
This is why, in part, the university’s plan for academic improvements in this decade—A Priority for the 70s—placed the acquisition of an additional $1.5 million for scholarships, fellowships, loans and work-study programs as the top fundraising goal.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED since the plan was approved by the Board of Trustees in April. 1970, under President Norman Topping's administration?
President John R. Hubbard has said the plan was only a preliminary step toward a comprehensive fund-raising drive to coincide with the university's 100th anniversary in 1980.
However, no specific plan to replace A Priority for the 70s has yet been approved.
Some figures provided by the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities indicate just how badly USC needs more of its own student-aid funds—and how much it currently depends on federal programs.
MAJOR DIFFERENCES are apparent when USC and Stanford University are compared.
The association's figures show that Stanford students got more than $5.5 million in university student-aid funds for 1972-73. as compared with the slightly more than $1.1 million received by USC students.
These funds were for scholarships, regular loans and shortterm emergency loans.
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ADVOCATE OF MORE AID—Pamela H. Walbom, director of the Student Aid Office, hopes the university will make the acquisition of additional student financial aid funds a top priority. DT photo by Tina Pasquinelli.
tion card. The defendant voluntarily surrendered his ID.
“I DID NOT hear the Yell Leader say ‘don’t throw cards’ until after the first cards were thrown,” the defendant said. “It was very high emotion; we were ahead at half-time and there was too much noise from the band and the football team that was coming on the field.”
There were 5,000 in the card stunt section and 80 to 100 Knights, whose job is to maintain crowd control, at the Oklahoma game.
“I did make a stupid mistake,” the defendant said. “And I noticed that he (Smith) was the only Knight that was doing anything to control the crowd.”
“I saw many people throw cards,” Smith said. “But only 2 out of 5,000 people in the card stunt section were caught. The people who threw the cards were freshmen or new students. Everyone else knows how the Knights come after people who throw cards.”
THE defendant com-
mended Smith for doing his job. “At the next game there were no cards thrown,” he said. “I have not thrown a card since and I do not plan to.”
A witness for the defense said, “I just don’t think he should take the blame for all the other people who threw cards.”
Before the judicial deliberated, Rick Zwern, one of the justices, said that he did not want the defendant to feel he was a scapegoat.
The recommendation of the judicial was that because of the nature of the case, no formal sanction will be imposed. A record of the hearing will be written up and placed in the records of the council.
AFTER THE TRIAL, the defendant said the council was “pretty objective because they listened to both sides.”
They gave me every chance to defend myself,” he said. “They understood the predicament I was in and they gave me all the opportunities due to me as a student.”
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Scholarship Forms Available Today
Representatives from the Student Aid Office will be on the first floor to answer any questions about the forms.
This year’s forms are in two parts—an application for renewal and a financial statement. The application should be submitted to the Student Aid Office no later than Dec. 19. The financial statement should be mailed directly to the processing service.
Students who hold any form of university aid are asked to pick up forms soon, because they will not be mailed.
400 \\ ork-Study Jobs Available
About 400 positions under the federal College Work-Study Program this year are still available.
Students may work up to 20 hours per week in university offices and off-campus nonprofit organizations. Under-graduates'may get up to $2.75 per hour; graduates, up to $3.50.
Ron Mills, employment coordinator in the Student Aid Office, may be contacted for more information. His office is in Student Administrative Services Building 301 (formerly Town and Gown Hall), phone 746-6780.
ASSC Abolition Caused
By Student Distrust
Governance: Part III
BV BOB EVANS
Staff Writer
While elections fiascos left the ASSC Executive Council with no officers after spring, 1972, it was student opinion that finally killed the ASSC form of student government.
In a referendum conducted by the administration last fall, students voted
overwhelmingly—3,624 to 821—not to reestablish the ASSC.
THE ELECTIONS review board had recommended revalidation of the spring ASSC primary results with ASSC Student Court decisions removed, and completion ofthe elections process.
The administration, however, wasn't sure that students w anted to continue the ASSC government.
Approximately 1,200 students had signed a petition to the administration ex-
pressing their “distrust and lack of faith in the current student government,” and calling for its abolition.
The ASSC Executive Council endorsed that petition for the second time April 27, 1972. three days before the council expired.
AT THE SAME time, the Executive Council called for the reconstitution of student government; recommended the creation of a nonpartisan interim board to continue student programming; and
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JUDICIAL REVIEW—The University Judicial Council listens to a case involving card-throwing at the USC-Oklahoma game. A recommendation of no punishment will be sent to Robert Mannes, dean of student life, for the final ruling. Council members are, left to right; Jim Gregory, Cindy Allison, Bruce Cohen, Tim Offet, Rick Zwern. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
The Univeristy Judicial Council recommended no punishment last week in the case of a card-throwing incident at a recent football game.
A transfer student whose name was withheld by the council w as apprehended by a Knight for throwing a card during the half-time card stunts at the USC-Oklahoma game Sept. 29.
He admitted throwing the card. “Everyone was very pleased with himself,” he told the Judicial. “To show their emotions, they threw cards. I saw other people all around me throwing cards and as a spur-of-the-moment thing, I threw a card.”
Clif Smith, the Knight, saw the defendant, who was in the middle of the card section, throw the card and demanded his USC identifica-