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Alumni to celebrate Homecoming
All hail to Alma Mater,
To thy glory we sing;
All hail to Southern California,
Long may your praises ring;
Where western sky meets western sea Our college stands in majesty.
Sing our love to Alma Mater,
Hail, all hail, to thee
These words will be filling the air this weekend as the people who most cherish them assemble once again in Alumni Park for the celebration of Homecoming.
While Homecoming may not be the social event for the students as it used to be, it is well-attended by the alums—more than 14,000 are expected this year.
Homecoming coincides with Saturday’s football game against the University of Oregon. Kickoff time is 1:30 p.m.
The alumni will be grouped in Alumni Park with others of their graduating class. A special area will be set up for the class of 1950, which will hold its 25-year reunion.
The main event for students will be a pep rally today at5:30 p.m. in the Broadway Plaza downtown.
Today’s Daily Trojan includes a special Homecoming section which includes information on the planned activities, a look into the history of the event and interviews with some of the people involved with Homecoming. The section begins on page 7.
IT'S A DOG'S LIFE—Alums who return for Homecoming festivities Saturday may remember George Tirebiter, former star Trojan mascot, who earned his name by nipping at tires. An adoring coed tries for affection, but doesn't get a nibble. Tirebiter was a university favorite, even though he never raced around the Coliseum track and reared his hind legs to rouse the crowd.
Daily f§ Troian
Volume LXVIII, No. 23
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Friday, October 17, 1975
Lawyer for Emily Harris says reports on SLA distorted
By Mark Patton
feature editor
Press reports of a fist fight between Patty Hearst and Emily Harris—and of where they and Bill Harris hid during the 19 months before their arrest—have been called inaccurate by Leonard Weinglass, Emily’s attorney.
Weinglass, a lecturer at the USC Law Center, said the fist-fight story was absolutely untrue from what Emily has told him. He also said she discredited an article in Rolling Stone magazine that claimed to trace their steps after the SLA shootout.
“I cannot say where they went, but Emily did say that the article was not accurate,” Weinglass said. “I’ve read the article, and I myself know that some of the facts are wrong.”
He said Emily supports Patty Hearst and still regards their relationship as close.
“Emily understands the twofold pressure that is being put on her by the state and her family,” Weinglass said. “She sympathizes with her plight. She isn’t afraid of anything like being sold out.”
He said he has not talked to Patty and does not plan to.
Strong, confident woman
Weinglass, who has lectured at the university since August, 1974, described Emily as a strong
and confident woman. But he said she and her husband have been subjected to “an aspect of cruel and unusual punishment” because of their jail cell conditions.
He said their cell block, originally built to house the Manson “family, and Sirhan Sirhan, is called “the module.” He described the cells as sealed-off metal capsules with no windows.
The Harrises are being kept in solitary confinement, and are the only prisoners on the 13th floor of the Hall of Justice.
“They aren’t going to be able to breathe fresh air or see the sun shine for six to seven months,” Weinglass said. “Even when they are taken to the courtroom, they’ll never pass a window.
“Those types of conditions must have an effect on a person after a while.”
He said, however, that even with the extensive security measures that are being taken, Emily remains calm and unworried.
Not very tense
“She’s not nearly as tense as all the security personnel around her,” Weinglass said. “Anyone who’s met Emily is favorably impressed with her—even Judge (William L.) Ritzi is impressed with her.”
Faculty salary raise clarified
An article on the Faculty Senate in Thursday’s Daily Trojan reported that faculty members were promised a 12% pay increase last spring.
Actually, the 12% hike was in total compensation, including fringe benefits as well as salaries.
The Daily Trojan regrets the error.
FOR THE DEFENSE—Leonard Weinglass, a lecturer at the USC Law Center and defense attorney for Emily Harris, discusses aspects of the case. Weinglass says
news reports of a fist fight between Emily and her SLA companion Patty Hearst are untrue. DT photos by Bob Selan.
He said a deputy sheriff told him that both Harrises are model prisoners. Weinglass explained that the Harrises are not uptight or angry; just confident that their lives are engaged in a “historical process.”
Both Harrises are reviewing and working on the grand jury transcripts of the 11-count indictment against them. They are charged with six counts of as-
sault with a deadly weapon, three counts of armed robbery and two counts of kidnapping.
Weinglass said they will plead not guilty to all 11 counts today.
Dismissal of judge
He also said they will move for a dismissal of Superior Court Judge Homer Bell, who was recently assigned to the case by Ritzi.
“I had hoped Ritzi would make
a more responsible decision than that,” Weinglass said. “Bell is one of the more frequently removed judges in this district.
“In cases like this, you sometimes run into the problem of the assignment court failing to consider the needs of the particular trial. Now, the assignments made in the Angela Davis trial are models of judicial excellence.”
(continued on page 6)
Campaign to seat student on Board of Trustees underway
By Larry Tuck
staff writer
Increased interaction between students and the Board of Trustees will be one of the long-range priorities of the Student Senate this year, David Blackmar, chairman of the senate, said in a report on the group’s goals.
The ultimate aim would be to seat a student on the board, he said.
“The board is insulated from the students by too many layers of administrators,” Blackmar said in an interview Thursday.
f‘I don’t think it (the board) should be a group of 40 individuals isolated from the campus, representing people they don’t know.”
Blackmar stressed that the effort to seat a student on the board would be a “long, drawn-out campaign.”
More immediately, the senate will work toward two lesser goals: student representation on committees established by the board and opening the board meetings to outside observers, including the press.
Blackmar did not anticipate serious problems in placing students on board committees.
He said that there were students on some of these committees before the Associated Students of Southern California, the old student government, collapsed in 1972.
Student presence at board meetings might be more difficult, he said.
“I’m not overly optimistic,” he said, “but that doesn’t mean I won’t work to have it done as fast as possible.
“Private universities like USC have a tendency to react a year or two behind public schools.”
At a forum including students and members of the board in 1970, Justin Dart, then chairman of the board and now vice-chairman, said, “Students, I thought, came to USC to learn, not to remodel the university. Wisdom, in part, comes from experience. You don’t get your experience all in a bunch as a freshman, or sophomore, or junior or senior.”
He also said that students and faculty members would not be objective about distribution of funds.
He said that a trustee should be an individual who has distinguished himself in his own profession, and who has wealth or access to wealth.
“The three commandments for trustees are give, get, or get off,” Dart said.
(continued on page 15)