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University of Southern California
Volume LXX, Number 20	Los Angeles, California	Monday, October 18, 1976
Careful Secret Service planning preceded President Ford’s visit
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BY LINDA BROWNING
President Gerald R. Ford's speech at the university Oct. 7 was no impromptu affair.
Preparations for his visit were extensive as the university took a week to make plans following specifications from the Secret Service.
The number of Secret Service men who were here that day is unknown. But it is known that they took precautions to protect every step the President would take, said Leonard Wines, associate vice-president for university affairs.
“Security was much, much tighter than when the university had then-Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Richard M. Nixon speak in I960." Wines said.
During the Ford speech, no one was allowed above ground-level, which meant that no one was permitted on top of buildings to take pictures.
Each person who stood near the President, such as Ricky Bell and John Naber. who together presented Ford with a varsity letterman's jacket, was cleared by the Secret Service before the visit and required to wear a button issued by them.
The Secret Service did not inform the university officials involved of what measures were taken to clear them.
Charles Weisenberg, director of the Student News Bureau, told how photography was arranged of the President stepping from his limousine (behind Doheny, which was a blocked-off area) to greet President John R. Hubbard.
The Secret Service cleared photographers and told them to meet Weisenberg at the south side of Doheny, which was roped off. An agent then took them to the
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BY MARC CROSSMAN
Staff W riler
Although a national survey has shown that college students are more interested in state and congressional elections than in the presidential race, some students here appear to be more concerned with the latter.
“College students, who provided much of the manpower for George McGovern's 1972 presidential bid, do not seem to be nearly as interested in this year's contest between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford."
This observation by the Chronicle of Higher Education was based upon last summer's convention of the United States National Student Assn. where there “wasn't enough interest among the delegates for a straw poll, much less an endorsement.”
The Chronicle reported that student activists are concentrating on congressional and state races and attempting to get students to register to vote.
“Students believe that state races will have some impact on the financial state of higher education and rising tuition,” the Chronicle said.
Most of the students surveyed at the university, however, said the presidential race interested them most.
“1 definitely think the presidential election is the most important. 1 don't know many of the propositions on the ballot and I really haven’t made a choice as to who 1 want for senator,'' said Rich Decker, a sophomore in business.
“To me it really doesn't matter who wins the (presidential) election. The propositions involve me more directly. They affect the way I live.” said
Doheny courtyard, where they waited for the President behind a barrier of wooden horses.
Weisenberg worked with the Secret Service on arrangements to accommodate 250 members of the press, 150 of whom represented national interests. The remaining 100 represented the Southern California media.
Both students working for the Student News Bureau and hired members of the bureau greeted the press, providing them with box lunches before the speech and supplying them with press kits explaining the university's history and background.
W'eisenberg also noted the difference between the Kennedy-Nixon visit and the Ford visit. “The advance White House staff came earlier for the Ford speech, and the details were supervised down to the building of the platform the President stood on and the special media platform, which held television cameras, photographers for newspapers and reporters," he said.
In addition to the seven regular Campus Security officers and eight Parking Security officers, there were an extra 11 Campus Security officers and nine parking officers, “to make sure that, starting from the motorcade on. the President's visit was as uneventful as possible." said John Lechner, director of Campus Security.
Lechner said 1.000 more visitors showed up than were expected.
“In the same area, we can seat 10,000 for graduation. and these people were standing," Lechner pointed out.
He added that the official (White House) release of the number of people was estimated at 15,000, but Lechner thought it was between 20.000 and 25.000.
SLUDGE—Robert Douglas, an associate professor of geology (center), supervises a student lowering a box over the side of the university’s oceanographic vessel, Velero IV. The box is used to obtain sediment samples from the bottom of the ocean. DT photo by Dean Dunn.
Ed Davis dinner will benefit arts program
Presidential race attracts students more than other battles for office
BY VALERIE NELSON
St*fT W riter
Partial proceeds from a testimonial dinner honoring Edward M. Davis, Los Angeles police chief, will be given to the Community Schools Performing Arts program.
Davis, an alumnus, received the Flame-of-Truth Award Sunday from the Fund for Higher Education, a national organization that annually recognizes a community leader of national prominence.
The amount of money that will be received from the dinner is unknown, said Nancee Cortes, director of the community schools. Large corporations purchased tables at the dinner for $2,500 each. A table seated 10 people.
The community schools are a division of the School of Performing Arts and offer group and individual instruction in music, dance and drama to students from preschool to retirement age.
Davis chose the university and the Weizman Institute of Science as recipients of the net proceeds , from the dinner. Two-thirds of the money will come here and the remainder will be given to the institute’s earthquake division.
Davis is in charge of earthquake relief in Los Angeles, Cortes said.
Davis chose the university because he has a great fondness for the performing arts and because he acknowledges the excellence of the program here, Cortes explained.
She said Davis believes people who study the arts are less likely to become involved in criminal activity.
The community schools will place the money in an endowment fund for scholarships and grants in keeping with the school's policy of beginning the education of children at an early age, Cortes said.
The fund was originally organized to help institutions of higher education in Israel. One-third of the money raised annually by the fund is sent there, another third to
an institute in this country and the remainder usually comprises grants and scholarships, Cortes said.
However, two-thirds of the money is going to the university this year. This could have happened because many people from the university have~been involved with the fund, Cortes said.
The dinner’s chairman was Kennedy B. Galpin, a member of the Board of Trustees. Justin Dart,
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a dinner committee member, is also a university board member. Mrs. Frank Roger Seaver, one of the dinner’s cochairman, was a university board member.
Cortes said the university has received money from the fund before.
One hundred people from the university, including selected faculty, parents and children attended the dinner.
Buddy Ebsen was the master of ceremonies. Four students from the community school, all about 10 years old, performed the first movement of Bach’s “Double Concerto in D-Minor.”
The fund-raising dinner was organized without the aid of the university. Cortes said the school was approached about being the recipient of the funds.
Renee Lewis, a senior in history.
The Chronicle reported that the California Student Lobby tallied the vote from precincts where students make up two-thirds of the electorate.
“In those student precincts, Carter was beaten by Gov. Jerry Brown (D-Calif.) and Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) in the California primary.
“Only in Illinois, where his only active opponent was Sargent Shriver, did Carter win in the student precincts."
The Chronicle said both parties’ candidates have been campaigning heaviiy on college campuses because they may feel the student vote is up for grabs.
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