University of Southern California
Volume LXVIH, Number 4__Los Angeles, California	Friday, June 27, 1975
Summer
Trojan
SUMMER VIBES—The "Hallelujahs," a group sponsored by the Trojan Christian Fellowship organization, livened up a lazy afternoon Monday with a noon concert. The Student Activities Office will not sponsor concerts during the summer because of a lack of funds. All noon concerts will be sponsored by individual organizations. ST photo by Mike Ito.
USC professor finds poisonous ‘sea food’
“For years we told our marine biology students that all the crustaceans — shrimps, crabs, lobsters — were perfectly safe to eat. Now we have discovered that we were wrong.”
So says John S. Garth, professor emeritus of biological sciences, who has been conducting research into this field of marine biology.
Venomonous fish and certain sea creatures with poisonous spines and barbs have been known for many years, as have fish whose flesh is poisonous. Only recently have scientists discovered that there are several species of crabs, in various locations in the Pacific Ocean, that for reasons yet unknown are poisonous.
These crabs do not possess a poisonous bite. Rather, their flesh is poisonous to those who eat them. Garth said that all of the crabs under suspicion are of edible size and have been found in areas where food foragers normally hunt for crabs.
The research into the poisonous crabs is being funded by a biomedical-science research grant to the university from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Garth, who is working with A. Alcala of Silliman University in the Philippines, has discovered perhaps a half dozen brightly colored or marked crabs of the coral reef areas that are highly toxic.
“We still don’t know whether the crabs are poisonous because they eat something toxic and retain the toxicity, or if the poison is generated in some manner by the crabs’ metabolism,” Garth said. “The bright colors might indicate a warning to natural predators.
“One species has bright, red, protruding eyes.”
At least two of the poisonous crabs had not been seen by experts before and were unidentified and unnamed until they were sent to USC.
Frequent fatalities among persons eating the poisonous crabs have been noted in the island areas from the Philippines and elsewhere in the Pacific.
Garth will offer scientific papers on the findings of his research to the Philippine Journal of Science, published in Manilla, and the Records ofthe Australian Museum, published in Sydney.
“It is important that the popular press be contacted,” he said. “People who live off the reefs — food gatherers, sailors, even servicemen from crashed aircraft or wrecked ships who have to catch sea creatures for food — must be made aware of this hitherto unsuspected danger	(Continued on page 3)
USC STUDENT SURVEY
Secret files opposed
A large majority of university students surveyed recently believe that police should not maintain secret files on citizens.
The poll was part of a survey of six Southern California campuses by the National Commission on Law Enforcement and Social Justice. At USC, 100 students were polled.
Seventy percent of those agreed that secret files should not be kept and 6 per cent “sort of agreed.” Only 14 per cent disagreed and 9 per cent “sort of disagreed.”
An overwhelming majority, 90 per cent, said that a citizen should have the right to see any file kept on him by the police and that he should also have the right to correct any false information.
“The creation of false dossier systems is responsible in a large measure for creating a criminal society,” said Reverend Heber Jentzsch, regional director of the commission. “The use of these false reports and the refusal of police and related agencies to allow the individual to see his file strikes at the personal integrity of the individual like an unseen hand.”
Half of the students surveyed
agreed to the statement that the image and effectiveness of police has deteriorated in the last five years, and 14 per cent “sort of agreed.” Only 13 per cent agreed to the statement that the police can be trusted to be fair, objective and truthful when issuing reports on citizens or groups to other agencies.
An interesting point, however, was that 57 per cent of the students agreed to the statement that “There is nothing wrong with police. They are just as honest or dishonest as any other profession and no different.” Only 16 per cent disagreed.
That trend was maintained at the other surveyed colleges (UCLA, Cal State University at Long Beach, UC Santa Barbara, El Camino College and Santa Barbara City College).
The commission conducting the survey, which is sponsored by the Church of Scientology, recently submitted testimony to Senator Joseph Montoya’s (D-N.M.) hearings of Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization).
“Interpol may turn out to be a major threat to the right to privacy,”Montoya said.
A Baltimore newspaper, The
News American, broke a story in March that said that law enforcement organizations all across the country have been regularly providing top-secret information to Interpol.
Recently declassified U.S. and German documents about Interpol have revealed that top leaders in Interpol have been former ranking officers in the German Gestapo and the Nazi SS.
Interpol’s president during the early war years was Reinhard Heydrich. On Jan. 20, 1942, according to the article, he convened the meeting at which 15 top-ranking Nazis worked out plans for a mass execution ofthe Jewish race. The meeting was held at Interpol headquarters.
Its president from 1968 to 1971 (and German representative until 1973) was Paul Dickopf, Nazi SS officer 337259.
Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies have freely and regularly exchanged confidential information with Interpol since 1947 by electronic communication links and personnel exchanges.
Interpol receives direct funding from the U.S. Treasury Dept, and has its U.S. offices in the Treasury building.
‘Newshound’ Duniway retires
Willis Scott (Bill) Duniway, Director of the News Bureau since 1948, will retire today.
His wife, Dorothy, will also retire from her position as medical secretary at the Student Health and Counselling Center. Prior to her nine years at the center, Mrs. Duniway was personal secretary for 12 years to Frank Baxter, Professor Emeritus of English and a television personality.
In his positions in the Department of University Planning and now University Affairs, Duniway has served under three university presidents—Fred Fagg, Norman Topping and John R. Hubbard.
Under his direction, the university News Bureau scored first among 180 other colleges and univefsities in the first annual news and information writing competition conducted last year by the American College Public Relations Association.
Duniway also has won recognition from Time Magazine as a “Newshound,” from ACPRA as a “Seasoned Sage,” and his efforts have been acknowledged by the Public Relations Society of America for the establishment of a Student News Bureau under his direction at the university.
Duniway is the descendant of a pioneer Oregon newspaper family and has been in some form of news or public relations work all his life.
Duniway was a 1932 graduate of the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism where he was editor of The Oregon Daily Emerald, the campus newspaper, in his senior year, and campus correspondent for a Portland paper. He later joined the staff of the Eugene, Ore. Daily News.
He was a general assignment reporter on The Portland Oregonian in 1933 and 1934, and was its Lincoln high school correspondent several years before.
From 1934 to 1936 he was bureau manager in Salem, Ore. for United Press (now United Press International), reporting sessions of the State Legislature, covering the great fire which destroyed the Capitol building and reporting one of the riots at the state prison.
United Press then transferred Duniway to Seattle where he was bureau manager until 1942. He was responsible for news coverage of Alaska and British Columbia as well as the State of Washington.
One of the biggest stories of the period was the Mattson kidnapping in Tacoma, Wash.
After working briefly for the Associated Press in Seattle, Duniway was commissioned as a lieutenant (j.g.) in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He served as a public relations officer from September of 1942 until May of 1946, and was discharged as a lieutenant commander.
After his naval service, the Duniways came to Los Angeles. He was on the staff of The Examiner a few months before joining the public relations force at Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank, for two years as assistant to the news bureau manager.
Duniway is a member of Phi Kappa Psi, social fraternity; Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, and the American College Public Relations Association.
His maternal grandmother, Abigail Scott Duniway, known as “the mother of women’s suffrage in Oregon,” came to the West in a covered wagon in 1852, seven years before Oregon became a state. She edited and published her own suffrage newspaper, The New Northwest, on which all five of her sons (one of them Duniway’s father) worked as printers.
Duniway’s great-uncle was Harvey W. Scott, noted pioneer editor of The Portland Oregonian.