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University of Southern California
Vol. LXVII, No. 2	Los Angeles, California	Friday, June 21, 1974
Complaint filed against university over all-male frat
BY SYLVIA DiSANTI
Editor
The Women’s Equity Action League, a national womens’ rights support organization, has filed a complaint with the Department of Health. Education, and Welfare against the university for sponsoring Alpha Kappa Psi, an all-male business fraternity.
The complaint, which also names twelve other universities, charges discrimination and violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 by excluding women from its membership.
The particular passage of Title IX cited states that: “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefit of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” Federal financial assistance includes any form of federal monies including grants, loans or contracts.
Representatives of the campus chapter could not be reached for comment.
The league has requested that HEW send a letter to the President of each educational institution named in the complaint requesting that the university dissolve its affiliation with Alpha Kappa Psi. The league further suggested that any institution that does not comply or alter its charters in order that women may be admitted should lose some federal funding in accordance with Title IX.
Alpha Kappa Psi has approximately 150 campus chapters and numerous alumni groups nationwide which, says a league spokeswoman, offer many benefits to its student and faculty members such as employment assistance, career guidance and low-cost loans.
Cynthia D. Bonney, a senior in speech communications, is the first woman at the university to receive a Rotary scholarship.
Bonney has received a one-year, $12,000 scholarship to study at the institution of her choice. The award is given by the Rotary Club for graduate study. She plans to study law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Bonney said that in the past the Rotary Club awarded scholarships only to men.
“But about two years ago, a woman from California applied for the scholarship and got one,” she said. “So I decided it was worth a try.”
Bonney said that the scholarship is awarded to the “top 2% of the potential leaders of the nation.”
She was recently the university’s delegate to the National Women’s Symposium in Dallas. Bonney is also the treasurer of Mortar Board, a women’s honorary society, and an editorial assistant for the Southern California Law Review.
Bonney said that before she begins studying in Scotland, she will lecture at various Rotary Clubs in the United States and England.
“I’ll be a cultural ambassador,” she said.
Bonney also said that since she will be studying in England, she will be a spearhead for the women’s movement.
She said it is very unusual for women to study law in England.
Acting dean of business school named
First woman student granted Rotary award
JAMES H. STEVENSON
James H. Stevenson, professor of marketing in the School of Business Administration, has been named acting dean of the School. The appointment will be effective July 1.
Stevenson, who has also been director of the Food Marketing Management Program, will succeed Ted R. Brannen, who announced his resignation May 15 to return to fulltime teaching and research.
A graduate ofthe University of Illinois, where he earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics, Stevenson holds a master's and Ph.D. in economics and marketing from Purdue University.
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FINALS BOUND—John Andrews, left, and Sashi sity of Michigan. Menon will compete in the singles Menon, USC's No. 1 doubles team, will compete today semifinals today, after defeating Terry Moor of North-in the doubles quarterfinals. Andrews lost in singles east Louisiana. Photos by Michael Sedano. competition Thursday to Freddie de Jesus of the Univer-
Stanford leading in tourney; quarter, semifinals today
The national chapter did con-siderthe possibility of admitting females to its membership during a 1973 convention, but finally voted to retain the present membership requirements.
Since 1970, the league has filed complaints of discrimination in behalf of women against more than 300 universities which have resulted in litigation and legislation for more benefits for women in higher education.
A similar charge was filed by the league early this year against Phi Delta Kappa, a national education society, which agreed to amend its constitution and admit women members.
Other institutions named in the current charge are: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; University of Dayton, Dayton; George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; University of Illinois, Chicago; Indiana University, Bloomington; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; University of Washington, Seattle; Oklahoma State University, Stillwater; University of Texas, Austin; Florida State University, Tallahasse; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Fordham University, New York.
A reorganization proposal of the university’s Idyllwild campus has been endorsed unanimously by the Special Advisory Committee and the Trustees of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation.
A year-round academic program will be planned and instituted on the 200-acre campus situated in the San Bernardino Mountains in Idyllwild.
The responsibility for developing the program will be assumed by an academic director
BY CINDY EISLEY
StafT Writer
The Pacific-8 Conference is dominating the NCAA tennis tournament, being played in the David X. Marks Stadium. Stanford is leading in scoring with 24 points. USC is second with 23 points. The University of
who will be appointed before September. The incoming director will initiate plans for the creation of college level programs appropriate to the special assets of the campus and the region. It is anticipated that short term and extended resident programs in the arts, humanities and sciences will be offered as early as January, 1975.
The campus has been the site of the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts for more than 20 years.
Michigan and Southern Methodist University are third with 18 points each, followed by UCLA with 17 points.
Quarterfinal matches for doubles and semifinal matches for singles and doubles will be held today.
Tournament play began Monday and continues through the finals on Saturday, at which time two of the 210 players that represent the 64 competing universities will meet in the singles match and two of the 100 doubles teams will compete for the doubles title.
Team scoring began with the first round of singles and doubles competition on Monday. Each match won by a singles player or a doubles team counts one point towards the team championship. Stanford, USC and UCLA were the 1-2-3 teams last year.
Of the USC players, Sashi Menon is the only one left in singles competition. John Andrews, the highest ranked player prior to the tournament, was de-
feated in the fifth round by Freddie de Jesus of the University of Michigan. Michael Wayman was defeated in the fifth round by George Hardie of SMA. The USC doubles team of Andrews and Menon will play in the quarterfinals today.
The singles quarterfinals were held Thursday afternoon, in which the eight winners from Thursday morning’s fifth round in the singles tournament competed for the four positions in today’s semifinals.
Menon, a member of India’s Davis Cup team and the Southern California Intercollegiate champion, defeated Terry Moor of Northeast Louisiana 6-1, 6-4.
John Whitlinger of Stanford, the Ojai Intercollegiate Champion, defeated Hardie, an All-American and Southwest Conference singles champion, 6-4, 6-3.
Chico Hagey of Stanford, a 1972 All-American, defeated Victor Amaya of the University of Michigan, the Big Ten Confer-
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Idyllwild campus to be reorganized