RICHARD PERRY NEW ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
John Robinson named head coach
By Steve Jahnke
associate sports editor
John Robinson, an exassistant coach here and currently the offensive backfield coach for the Oakland Raiders, was named Monday as the successor to John McKay as head football coach.
In a news conference in Heritage Hall, President John R. Hubbard also announced that Richard R. Perry, an associate professor of physical education at USC the past eight years, will become the new athletic director.
Both positions were left open 11 days ago when McKay formally announced his plans to become the new head coach of the National Football League
franchise in Tampa in 1976.
“Of course, I got a lot of advice on this decision,” Hubbard said. “I talked to a lot of people about a variety of candidates for the coaching job. In the end, though, the decision was my own.”
Hubbard emphasized that several groups were in on the decision-making process, in-cludingthe President’s Advisory Council, the university’s Board of Trustees, the General Alumni Association, Cardinal and Gold, the Trojan Club, the Faculty Senate and the Council of Deans.
Robinson, 40, was an assistant under McKay from 1972 to 1974 after spending 12 years as an assistant coach at Oregon. Ironically, it was at Oregon where
McKay began his coaching career.
Robinson said he was deeply proud to be given the opportunity to carry on the tradition that USC football carries.
“Without a doubt, Coach McKay is the greatest coach I have ever been associated with, if not the greatest coach ever,” said Robinson. “But the tradition I will have to carry is the USC tradition.”
“It was here before McKay was here, it will be here after McKay leaves and it will be here long after all of us have left.” Although McKay was not present at the press conference, he was quoted as saying, “I believe USC has made an excellent choice'for football coach. In
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Volume LXVIII, No. 38
Los Angeles, California Tuesday, November 11, 1975
Black geneticist expects inferiority theory rejection
By Sherie Stark
staff writer
Richard Goldsby, a black geneticist, says he is confident that the argument that blacks are inferior genetically to whites will not be proven in a campus debate today.
Goldsby, of the University of Maryland, will argue against the proposition in a debate with William Shockley, a professor of physics at Stanford, in the debate at 12:30 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
“Like it or not, there are many people in this society who have deep-down questions about this subject,” Goldsby said in a telephone interview Monday. “Facing up to the matter and listening to both sides is the most responsible action to take.”
(Shockley’s views on the subject were presented in a Daily Trojan article last Friday.)
“Because of the lack of research in the area Shockley has to present, probably the best thing that could happen for him would be to prevented from speaking. If he’s banned, the debate will become more than a USC phenomenon; it will be publicized nationally.”
He said that when a debate at Yale had been interrupted, newspapers all over the world had covered the story, but that when the debate was rescheduled, there was hardly any press coverage devoted to it.
While the publicity Shockley receives has put a spotlight on his views and on the debate, the effect of the publicity should not run beyond getting people out to listen to the views, Goldsby said.
“Any reasonably intelligent person who hears the debate should be able to look at it objectively and realize that no research has been conducted in
a very complicated, loaded issue.
“Also, if this type of research is subsidized with public money, as Shockley suggests, the question of priority arises. With a list of areas of research priority including cancer and environmental stability, how could can a subsidy for establishing racial inferiority be condoned?”
He said that he recognizes Shockley’s right to speak, but that he is glad that he is able to fulfill his personal obligation to deny Shockley’s assertions.
Goldsby has debated with Shockley before, and has written books on the role of genetics in racial differences.
“I don’t kid myself that I have the power to change the misconceptions that white America holds. But I can have an input in shaping them if I’m cagey. It really comes down to a matter of survival with me, making sure that I maintain inputs, as opposed to being cut off.
The debate has led to protests from the Associated Black Students and MECHA organizations. They will hold a demonstration before the debate, expressing their disagreement with Shockley s views “We expect to have a peaceful, orderly demonstration,” said Chris Winfrey, director of university affairs for the Associated Black Students. “We have no intention of keeping Shockley from speaking because we respect the value of free speech, and we think that that in itself is a just cause for his being here.”
Winfrey said that the purpose of the rally is to question the credibility of Shockley’s views, and to cause other universities to consider the pros and cons of allowing him to speak.
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knowing John for two decades, I’ve been impressed with his tremendous dedication to football.”
Robinson said he will complete his obligation with the Raiders this year, and will try to stay out of the USC football picture until the Trojans have completed their season.
“The circumstances are unusual because they (the Trojans) have two more games left.” Robinson said. “I don’t want to be visible here until after the season is over. I think it’s important for this team to go out now and concentrate on winning their last two games against Washington and UCLA.”
Robinson said he has talked to the present staff and asked them to stay on at USC. He stressed, however, that the staff next year will be starting from a clean slate.
While Robinson was offensive backfield coach at USC, the Trojans compiled a 31-3-2 mark and won two national championships. Why did he decide to leave and go into professional coaching?
“I was very ambitious at the time,” Robinson said, “and like every assistant coach, I was looking ahead. I felt it was time to bi oaden my experiences.
“I will say, though, that I learned a great deal under Coach McKay the three years I was here. I love him (McKay) and he has had a great influence over my life. And there are a lot of great individuals up in Oakland that I admire very much.
“But I missed the horse, and I missed Conquest, and I missed college football.”
Robinson said he will try not to become preoccupied with pressure.
“The pressure comes after you win or lose,” he said. “We must perform the best we know how as a staff. The pressure is for us to do the best job we know how.”
Although Robinson refused to comment on this year’s USC team, he did say that McKay was leaving behind a quality football squad. When asked how long it will take him to instill his new philosophies and start winning games, Robinson said, “Well, I hope somewhere around September.”
Another reporter asked if Robinson was going to keep the Power-I formation McKay has made so famous.
“I like power,” Robinson replied, “but I don’t know about the ‘I.’ I understand, though, that there is a candidate down there for the running back position in the ‘I’.”
Robinson coached at Oregon from 1960 through 1970 under Len Casanova and Jerry Frei. A freshman coach for his first two years, he was defensive backfield coach for the next three seasons. From 1966 through 1968 Robinson was in charge of the Duck defense, and the following three years he designed the Oregon offense.
In introducing Perry, Hubbard explained the nature of the athletic director decision.
“We decided from the start that the athletic director should be separate from the coach,” Hubbard told the press. “We felt it would be unfair for anyone new to have both positions.
“We also felt that athletic director should be full-time employment. Our dilemma was an acute one, but it was a happy one because we had so many qualified people interested in the job ”
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Support group to help grad research
Funding graduate research is expensive, and the funds in the Graduate School are running low, said William W. May, associate dean of the school.
That’s why a support group has been formed by the school to develop another source of income.
The group hopes to receive a minimum of $50,000 a year in pledges to reinforce programs of the Graduate School. So far, they have $3,000, said Harold von Hofe, the interim dean of the school.
“There is never enough money to do the things we’d like to do for graduate students,” he said. “We want to help deserving students support studies and finance their research.
“Every year, there are dozens of people who come to us for aid. They have nowhere else to go. There are many things we want to do—create interdisciplinary programs—the sky is the limit.”
May said that the main reason funds are so low is because government support programs, mostly aimed at scientific re-
search, have been cut.
“There were three or four major programs that are now gone,” May said “As a result, our budget for student fellowships has been cut by about five times.”
He attributed the end of government funding to a tightening economy and to a change in the priorities of aerospace research.
One of the goals of the support group is to recruit students from a variety of segments of the society, with special emphasis on the needs of low- and middle-income families, women and minority students, said an informational paper about the group. *
The executive committee formed to help promote the fund drive includes Houston I. Flournoy, the dean of the Center for Public Affairs; Yvonne B. Burke, a Board of Trustee member; and several members of the faculty.
“We tried to identify the peo-
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WHAT, LEFTOVERS AGAIN?—Local fowl feast on the delicacies of oil and vinegar salads, hamburger buns, pie crusts, and spilled coke in the quietness following
the lunchtime turmoil. The tearing apart of leftover food by pigeons is one of the least known but most vigorous activities on campus. DT photo by Bob Selan.
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Petitions are available in Commons lobby, in front of Tommy Trojan, in the residence halls and on the Row.
The petitions will be part of a Student Senate report on tuition that will be submitted to the Resource Management and Planning Committee.
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