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So the Easter bunny won’t have to make a trip to the university, no classes will be held March 20-24. Classes resume March 27.
No Daily Trojan will be published Friday. Publication resumes March 28.
University libraries will be open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and closed weekends from March 19-26. Von KleinSmid Library will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
Curbs against conflicts on programming board
Lawsuit accuses band of negligence at game
By Jim Saenz
SUIT Writer
A lawsuit charging negligence on the part of the Trojan Marching Band has been filed against the university by the parents of a sixteen-year-old youth who was injured at a football game in October 1977.
The incident occurred during the pregame show of the university’s football game against California at Berkeley when David Shipman, a Cal band recruit, attempted to retrieve a Cal hat from Trojan Band members. In the process, Shipman suffered multiple fractures in his left leg.
A complaint has ben filed, bu the amount of damages being sought was not listed. “Let me emphasize that matters like these are strictly routine," said Alex Ratka, director of risk management and insurance at the university.
Ratka said the amount of the suit was left open depending on how the matter is handled.
Ratka could not specify the contents of the suit other than it basi-
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By Gary Maloney
The Student Senate voted down a proposal aimed against potential conflicts of interest in the distribution of programming funds Tuesday.
The clause in the senate’s programming report would fiave prohibited chairmen of recognized student organizations from membership on the Campus Activities Allocation Board (CAAB), which distributes funds to these groups.
The clause read: “No member of the Student Senate, nor any president or chairperson) of an organization, may serve on CAAB. If a board member becomes a chairperson or president of another organization, he or she must resign from CAAB.”
This year two organization heads served on CAAB — Karen Posnick, chairn^n of the Associated Black Students of Southern California (who later resigned), and Mitch West, president of the Skydiving Club.
The proposal’s supporters claimed this would eliminate much of the potential for undue bias in the allocation of funding.
Opponents suggested the clause would prohibit worthy individuals from serving on the board.
The clause’s defeat seemed inexplicable to Bill Dauster, senate chairman and an author of the report. “It seems like such an obvious and reasonable thing to have a clause like this when money is being handed out,” he said.
“There is the distinct possibility that the people who voted against the clause may have feelings stronger for their own pet organizations than for the unhindered operation of CAAB.”
Most of the full report, which implements a major restructuring of the programming boards, was approved with little debate. Measures such as funding for graduate organizations, newspapers and newsletters, as well as the conflict of interest clause, were either deleted or amended.
The senators approved a measure that Dauster said would take away an indefinite amount of funds now used for undergraduate programming and rebate them to graduate student
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organizations.
Graduates pay a $5 fee each semester and undergraduates pay $7. The original proposal would have increased the graduate fee to $7 to compensate for the funding from the rebate scheme.
Graduate senators were joined by some undergraduate members in turning down the $2 increase, while keeping the rebate scheme.
“You can’t really fault the graduate representatives for voting in their own interests,” Dauster said afterwards. “But those undergraduates who voted for the rebate alone don’t seem to be voting in the best interests of their constituencies.”
Another amended proposal would originally limit the amount of funding a newspaper, magazine or newsletter may receive from the allocation board to $250. This was changed to include only newsletters, leaving such publications as AllUsWe, El Nuevo Sol and the USC Engineer open for unlimited funding.
KABC-TV claims administration
tried to bar reporter from campus
By Gail Asayama
SUIT Writer
Wayne Satz, KABC-TV news reporter, was told Wednesday by his station manager, who had spoken with President John R. Hubbard, “No newsman from ABC who wants to talk about the Robb situation is welcome on campus today.”
Satz was on campus to report on Charles Robb, a Campus Security officer suspended for 60 days without pay after appearing in an earlier KABC series on university crime.
John Severino, general manager of KABC, said the university’s position was expressed to him in a telephone conversation with Hubbard. Hubbard called after he was notified Satz would be returning to campus for a follow-up story, Severino said.
Satz and a crew of cameramen were admitted when they arrived at the gate located on Hoover Street and Exposition Boulevard.
The guard said he had received instructions to notify Campus Security and Charles Weisenberg, news bureau director, of the crew’s arrival.
Weisenberg said this is a standard policy and that “Whenever a newspaper person, magazine or radio reporter enters the university, the guards are to notify the news bureau.” He added that the news bureau generally has someone accompany news people to assist them with their work on campus.
Weisenberg elaborated on the presence of Lynne Jewell, the news bureau’s assistant director. "Lynne was there specifically to report on what he
was doing because of the nature of his previous comments.”
Robb was suspended for “willful and false statements and unwarranted derogatory remarks concerning the university,” said Carl Levredge, director of Campus Security.
In his report, Satz was attempting to get a reaction from Dorothy Nelson, dean ofthe Law Center, on the freedom of speech issue involving Robb.
Nelson said, “I didn’t know he was suspended. I’ll have to get the facts first.”
Nelson inquired about the Robb suspension for the next two hours, opting not to rely solely on the Daily Trojan report. After failing to reach Leonard Wines, associate vice-president of university affairs, she repeated she did not want to speculate until both sides were heard.
Severino said that on two occasions President Hubbard had been extended the invitation to come on the news program and express his views.
Severino and KABC-TV’s news director extended written invitations and a verbal invitation but President Hubbard indicated that he preferred not to come, Severino said.
In addition to Robb's suspension, four security officers have received letters of reprimand.
A mandatory meeting that was scheduled for Wednesday was cancelled, Levredge said, because of “mitigating circumstances.”
The meeting was to have been the first since Levredge became director in September.
University of Southern California	press pass — Wayne Satz, KABC-TV news reporter, came to campus
even after he was told he was unwelcome by university officials in an attempt
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Special education majors experience being handicapped
By Gigi Golden
Feature Editor
By the time a student has completed Special Education 419, he will have experienced blindness, deafness and stuttering, among other things.
“I’m into the gut-level psychological problems (ofthe handicapped),” said Leo Buscaglia, professor of special education, who teaches the course. “What does it really mean to be blind or deaf?”
In the course, Buscaglia tries to have students experience, as well as study, the kinds of special prob-
lems they will be dealing with in their profession. He does this by asking the students to handicap themselves in some way and then write about the experience.
“Learning is doing,” said Buscaglia, “And I believe in letting the students experience as much as they can on an emotional level.”
One of the assignments is to stutter while make a transaction in a store or other public place. Buscaglia says that when students do this, people become either frustrated or angry with them.
“People just don’t want to deal with someone who is different,” he said.
He said the society places a great value on not being handicapped. “Nobody wants to be different...people see difference as a threat,” he added.
Another assignment is for the student to be guided around the campus blindfolded. Buscaglia said this experience with blindness shows the student how much learning takes place through sight and how sighted persons tend to ignore smells and sounds, Buscaglia said.
One student said, after a blindness experience, that she noticed “how wonderfully good the world smells.”
Another student could detect the sound of water rushing under a storm drain in the middle of campus, while her sighted guide could not hear the water until she bent her head down.
During some semesters, Buscaglia has had blinded students spend up to six hours on their own.
When the, students are studying special medical problems, such as amputations, Buscaglia has them bandage their hands together for 24 hours.
“At first they think it is a joke,” he said. “But it is enough to freak most of them out... They almost always come back from that experience devastated.”
Buscaglia would like to include a day in a wheelchair as one of the learning experiences but this has not been possible since he does not have access to wheelchairs, he said.
Students try to experience deafness by watching television without the sound on. A deaf person also visits the class.
“There are, of course, special problems that can’t be experienced,” Buscaglia said. Among these problems examined in class are cerebal palsey, mental retardation, autism and being gifted.
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