Volume XCIV, Number 57
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University of Southern California
Tuesday, November 29, 1983
Anderson in ‘84: new party, same platform
Gotcha: Yellow cards found on valuables
‘Don’t leave property unattended’ warns security
John Anderson, former presidential candidate and Illinois Congressman, is once again touring the college circuit to generate support for his recently formed National Unity Party.
While the party is new, his policies are roughly the same as those when he ran on the Independent ticket in 1980 and received 7 percent of the popular vote in the presidential election. And his campaign style is still the same: he will talk to anyone willing to listen.
Speaking before more than 300 students in Hancock Auditorium last Wednesday, Anderson reiterated his fundamental belief that the American two-party political system does not offer enough room for debate on crucial issues and that money, donated to campaigns by political action committees, is undermining the integrity of the political process.
Before taking the stage, Anderson spoke briefly with the Daily Trojan about his political beliefs and the National Unity Party.
Daily Trojan: Will you briefly describe the National Unity Party and how it compares with the views expressed in your presidential campaign in 1980? Anderson: In the intermediate three years I have come to the conclusion that what we need is a continuing force in our politics that provides competition to both parties. I think that is best accomplished through the structure of a party that was organized on a permanent basis and one that will be around not just for one election but will hold up the promise of being a permanent part of the political scene.
(The National Unity Party) would retain many of the proposals that we made in 1980. I think there's a lot of validity to the energy conservation proposals we made on that platform and the importance of adopting some means of dealing with inflation other than the measures that the Reagan Administration used, mainly to let the Federal Reserve Board choke-off money in credit to the point that we were thrown years in reverse so radically that we are in the worst recession in 50 years.
If you really want to deal responsibly with inflation and the economy, you better have an income policy that would restrain wages and prices rather than to leave it all to the Fed, as Reagan is willing to do.
Another principle we think both Democrats and Republicans have demonstrated a total inability to deal with is the S200 billion budget deficit. They have now adjourned for the year without even voting on a revenue measure just six months after promising that they would produce a budget resolution.
DT: As far as the budget goes, what would you cut to deal with the deficit? Anderson: I would cut the defense budget. I simply think $250 billion is excessive, yet both the Democrats and the Republicans are in agreement that we have to have steadily increased defense budgets. There's no argument about that.
The only argument betwreen the two parties is the question of degree. The Democrats say it should go up 5 percent. The Repubicans want it to go up 7 percent. I don't think a 2 percent difference is a very substantial difference. It doesn't invite the kind of debate on the national security policy that the country is entitled to have.
We should begin examining some of the underlining premises and assumptions of American foreign policy that we've had since the end of World War II. The world has changed since 1945. But we go on pretending that the same basic assumptions will support the projection of American influence and power only by maintaining huge armed forces and a huge military establishment. I think that is questionable.
I	don't think that we are more secure today than we wfere three years ago or even than we were five years ago when Carter was still in the White House. A new party, I think, would try to provide the debate, the discussion, the dialogue and extend it beyond the very narrow limits at which it has been compressed by both the parties.
The Democrats, you see, are so afraid of being called soft on defense, and therefore soft on communism, that they won't challenge any of the basic ideas that will lead to the creation of these even larger kinds of questions. I don't think we're showing any imagination, any creativity, in challenging the Reagan Administration.
DT: How much zvould you cut the defense budget?
Anderson: Oh, I think you could cut it about 25 percent. I don't
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JERRY HOLDEMOAILY TROJAN
John Anderson, former presidential candidate, talks to students after his speech last Wednesday.
Two emeritus professors die; are praised by peers
By Jean Evans
Staff Writer
Two recently deceased emeritus professors, who served a combined total of 58 years at the university, were praised by their co-workers as hardworking individuals dedicated to their students.
Pauline Alderman, emeritus professor of music, died Nov. 11. Four days later, Milo Don Appleman, emeritus professor of bacteriology, died.
Appleman, who was also a former chairman of the bacteriology department and member of the faculty from 1947 to 1975, suffered a fatal heart attack one day after surgery at 74.
"He's someone who's really going to be missed,'' said Harrison Kurtz, vice chairman of the department of biological sciences and longtime friend of Appleman.
"He had many friends at the university," he said. "He loved people and as a result people gravitated toward him.
"Students loved him because he had an informality about him and an interest in students."
The bacteriologist and chemist wrote approximately 80 scientific articles related to foods, water and public health, his specialty. His most recent book, "Epitaph for Planet Earth: How to Survive the Ap-
proaching End of the Human Species," was published in April 1982. It's about air, population, food, soil and how they relate to human survival.
The book was the result of a course he taught, "Man and His Environment."
Kurtz described Appleman as a "leader in the Trojan Family.
"He literally built the bacteriology department," said Kurtz, adding that the department, like Appleman himself, was nationally recognized.
Appleman, bom in Wellston, Mo., received his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Illinois. He taught at that university for seven years after earning his doctorate in bacteriology there in 1940.
He came to the university in 1947 and was made chairman of the department just two years later. He served as a member of the university faculty senate and was elected chairman from 1953 to 1954.
He contributed to the "Encyclopedia Brittanica" on soil microbiology, and was listed in "Who's Who in America," "International Who's Who in Science" and "Who's Who in the World."
Appleman and his wife donated $135,000 to the
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By Bobette Cohn
Staff Writer
While returning to her office after momentarily leaving it last Wednesday afternoon, university employee Joye Day was surprised to find on her typewriter a small yellow card which said, 'Gotcha. You could have been ripped off.’
The yellow card, placed by university security officers, is part of a new program to warn university students and employees about the danger of leaving their personal property unattended.
Dexter Thomas, University Security's crime prevention officer, said that "the whole point of the program is to get people to watch out for each other."
"We had 750 thefts, mainly of unattended property, last year," Thomas said. "We're trying to cut down on those crimes this year.”
A staff member for the El Rodeo yearbook, Van Ling, learned a crime prevention lesson when he left his office and desk Wednesday afternoon.
"I got yellow carded because I left my office door open and my office vacant," Ling said.
Those officers were new University Security recruits, who were assigned the job of issuing the cards and warning office workers and students about the high crime rate in university buildings.
The officers informed Ling not to leave his valuable article unattached, and they also said not to leave his office unlocked.
"I definitely will be more aware in the future of unlocked doors. I'll lock my office if I leave it," Ling said. "I think the program will bring about a broader awareness of potential crimes."
Jo Ann Miles, an employee of Student Publications, located in the Student Union Building, did not leave her office last Wednesday, but she did receive a yellow card. Security officers entered her office and handed her a card.
"There have been multiple burglaries on this floor, and they have happened very quickly," Miles said.
"This is an excellent program to make everyone more aware of what easy marks we are," Miles said. "The cards are worth the money it takes to print them, and they're worth the time it takes to distribute them."
GOTCHA
yon could have been ripped SECURE YOUR PROPERTY
UNIVERSITY SECURITY 743-6000
"Last Wednesday afternoon, when this place was a wasteland, I left my office to work on a computer terminal in a office down the hall. That's when I saw a girl and a guy in security uniforms wander into my office.
"I ran down to the office to see what w'as going on. They said ’Hi' and handed me a Gotcha card," Ling said.