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Volume XCI Number 53
University of Southern California
Monday, November 16, 1981
Accused rapist to face hearing
Search for accomplice continues
Gov. Brown, educators join in
anti-nuclear teach-in at UCLA
By Suzie Abdalla
Staff Writer
Gov. Jerry Brown, actor Robert Blake and other anti-nuclear leaders urged participants at an anti-nuclear teach-in Wednesday at UCLA to become actively involved in the protest against nuclear arms proliferation. “There is not a politician who will . not respond to the public mind,” Brown told an estimated crowd of 1,500 gathered at Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom.
“Each one of us can have an impact,” said Brown, who added that “the worst mistake is to think the political machine is rolling and we can't stop it.”
Brown analogized the arms race to “two boys standing in a room 2 feet in gasoline, with one having five matches and the other ten and feeling more secure because of it.” David Mermelstein, an economist from the Polytechnic Institute of New York, said the current administration represents “the problem of male ego at the highest levels of government. And with Reagan and (Caspar) Weinberger in power, we have reason to be concerned.”
A number of military strategists have noted that the arms race is needed to close the nation’s "window of vulnerability.”
“Strategic specialists have located the window of vulnerability,” said another panelist, George Miller III, from the House of Representatives. “It is the blank space between the
right and left ear of Caspar Weinberger.”
Miller reiterated what almost every panelist told the audience, that “every concerned Californian should be planning now to get involved.”
But Blake said, “The faculty is concerned because they can’t entice students” to become involved.
“Isn’t that funny?” he asked. “In the ’60s we were scared to death of you. We were saying, ‘Damn! What’-re those kids gonna do? They’re marching, they’re demonstratin’
Blake said the faculty, the politicians and citizens “have to come to you and say, ‘We’re sorry. We're sorry that we shut you up in the ’60s.’ ” He urged the crowd to demonstrate and speak out as their forerunners did in the '60s.
Robert Scheer, national reporter for the Los Angeles Times, moderated one of the panels in the five-hour forum which was sponsored by faculty and students at UCLA as well as Caltech students and Four Minutes to Midnight, an anti-nuclear group based at this university.
Scheer said he was asked to play the role of devil’s advocate for the panel, which included Brown, Marvin Goldberger, president of Caltech, Spurgeon Keeny Jr., former deputy director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Barton Bernstein, history professor from Stanford University.
“What would you say to a 13-year-old child who came to you and said.
‘I find this issue boring and too complex, so goodbye and good luck.’?” the reporter asked. Bernstein said he would “describe an individual death and multiply it by millions.” Scheer also asked the panel whether the Russians are arming themselves for a first strike against the United States after which they will go on to take over the world.
“There is little evidence that they are aiming (their nuclear weapon build-up) at a first strike on the U.S.,” Keeny responded.
When Scheer asked the panel how sensitive the Soviets are to the issue of nuclear proliferation, Goldberger replied that he does not think they have meetings such as this one. But they do have a saying, he said: “In case of a nuclear war, wrap yourself in a sheet and crawl to the cemetery; but crawl slowly, so as not to create a panic.” This first panel was interrupted before Brown spoke by a group of UCLA students who were protesting tuition hikes at the UC campuses.
Before Brown addressed the nuclear issue, he told the students he had been trying to avoid the hikes for a number of years.
Brown also told the demonstrators that he would be willing to meet with their representatives to discuss the tuition issue.
A number of the panelists said the best alternative now to nuclear proliferation is a nuclear freeze in which the United States and Russia would
agree to provisions prohibiting further arms build-up.
Mermelstein pointed out that more spending on military build-up is detrimental to our nation's productivity and economic health.
But David Cortright, national director of SANE (an anti-nuclear organization). disagreed. “Several million people depend on the arms race for their livelihood,” he said, adding that those who want to halt the arms build-up need to “communicate to these workers that we are concerned about their economic stability.” Cortright and many of the panelists urged the audience to become involved in the nuclear freeze campaign. “You need to make the commitment to spend the rest of your lives to reverse the nuclear build-up race,” he said.
Rabbi Laura Geller of the university’s Hillel House asked the audience to join the Interface Center to Reverse the Arms Race, which she said is an active group against the nuclear race.
“We must protect human life,” she said. “All human beings are created in the image of God, and we must live as if we are that image.”
She said the theory behind the center is that many people in California are involved in religious groups, and these people "must meet their faith. They must choose life.”
She said they are trying to “force the religious community to live up to their religious faith."
By George Aguilar
Staff Writer
As the Los Angeles Police Department continues its search for a second suspect in the spree of university-area crimes, the suspect already in custody will appear at a preliminary hearing today.
Antoine Jordan, 19, has been formally charged with 26 crimes committed in the university community between May and October. Steven Ward, chief of University Security, anticipates that the charges may eventually exceed 30.
Jordan, arrested Oct. 29 by University Security and LAPD, was arraigned Nov. 2. He is accused of committing two rapes, three kidnaps, two attempted kidnaps, one count of oral copulation and a number of robberies, assaults and grand thefts.
In a majority of those cases, according to Marissa Batt, the deputy district attorney who is handling the case, a knife was used in the attacks.
LAPD Detective Dave Hudson said the investigation into Jordan’s alleged crime spree continues and that a second suspect, an accomplice, could turn up. Testimony from every victim has not been collected, however, and Jordan has not given any leads himself.
Hudson believes the case against Jordan is a good one.
“Lo and behold, we haven’t had a rape or even an at-
tempted rape since October 26 and the suspect was arrested on October 29,” he said. “We probably have solved our rape problem.”
Both Batt and Hudson were reluctant to reveal further information due to the sensitivity of the case.
At a Student Senate meeting Wednesday, Ward said Jordan committed his alleged 26 crimes in 16 separate incidents. Jordan has a previous criminal record and was in prison as late as last April. He was released May 1 and the
first reports of Jordan’s crime spree were taken May 22, Batt said.
The preliminary hearing will be held to determine whether there is enough evidence against Jordan to warrant a trial. Batt would not elaborate on the chances of that occurring. but she did speak of the possibility that Jordan's defense counsel might ask for a continuation of the hearing in order to build his defense.
If the judge determines that enough evidence exists to warrant a trial, a date will be set.
Student input utilized in planning of center
By Jim Radcliffe
Staff Writer
A Student Senate representative Thursday presented the results of a recent poll of students’ preferences for facilities in the planned University Center.
The poll will help the University Center Planning Committee decide which facilities will be constructed in the center.
Committee members include James Appleton, vice president of Student Affairs; James Dennis, associate vice president of Campus Life and Recreation; Ingrid Calle, chairman of the Student Affairs Action Unit; and Andrew Littlefair, chairman of the Student Senate.
The poll was conducted by a task force set up by the senate to make sure the students’ desires will be met. “We're not basing any of our choices totally on the poll,” Calle said. “We're just making sure we’re heading in the right direction.”
Calle said the survey is a follow-up to one taken a couple of years ago to ensure that the changing ideas of students are identified.
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COVERUP — University workers perform the annual wrapping of Tommy Trojan one week prior to the USC-UCLA football game. It is traditional for UCLA students to attempt to cover the statue with blue paint
Staff photo by Joe Fives