Volume XCIV, Number 18
University of Southern California
Thursday, September 29, 1983
Petra Kelly fills Hancock ...
DAN CANALES
PETRA KELLY
... and brings disruptive protest
By Mark Lowe
Assistant Qty Editor
Petra Kelly, leader of West Germany's anti-nuclear pro-environment Green Party, called on the United States and its NATO allies to stop the planned deployment of Pershing II missiles in Europe and asked Americans to support the Greens, in a campus speech Wednesday-
Kelly, speaking before an overflowing audience in Hancock Auditorium, denounced both the proposed placing of the missiles and the arms race in general, calling NATO and Soviet defense policies “perverse."
"We call on all the nuclear powers to listen to the people who say any use of these weapons is contrary to international law and criminal," said the 35-year-old Bundestag member.
Kelly's speech was interrupted several times at the beginning by hecklers who condemned both her and the Green movement. Members of the Institute of Politics and Government, which sponsored the event, led each one out of the auditorium as they individually rose from their seats and shouted at Kelly from the aisles.
Kelly was unperturbed by the
By Jeffrey Tylicki
Assistant City Editor
The university's endowment pool, similar to other institutions around the country, bene-fitted greatly from the last year's strong stock market, returning about $50 million, but university officials say its capital gains could have been more.
As a result of this disappointment, the administration may begin re-evaluating its 21-month relationship with Fayez Sorofim Co., the university's investment firm, said Lyn Hutton, university treasurer.
However, the good news for the university is that the almost $150 million endowment pool brought in a 30 percent return from its 1982-83 investments. But despite a 24 percent improvement over the previous year, administrators were not altogether pleased.
"Given the significant upturn in both the stock and bond markets, the performance could
protestors. Considered to be the most radical established political force in Western Europe, the Greens have become accustomed to being attacked for their political stances.
Kelly is the most visible member of the Green Party, which won 5.6 percent of the vote and 28 seats in West Germany's parliament in the March election.
The Greens have been particularly outspoken against NATO's plans to station Pershing II and cruise nuclear missiles in West Germany, which will take place in December unless Soviet and U.S. negotiators in Geneva come to an agreement on arms control by then.
Officials of both the U.S. and European governments say the missiles are needed to counter the SS-20 missiles the Soviets have aimed at targets in Western Europe and to modernized the Western alliances nuclear arsenals.
Kelly said the new weapons are unnecessary, though.
"If the overkill is 20 or 30 times . . . removing one weapons system does not make us insecure," she said, adding the Greens "have a basic responsibility to say we are stopping this
have been better,” said Jon Strauss, senior vice president of administration, and Hutton in a memo last week.
The university's endowment pool is made up of all gifts of cash, stocks or other liquid assets given to the university, Hutton explained. These are turned over to either the university's equity manager (stocks and short-term investments), or fixed income manager (government and corporate bonds).
"Our overall investment policy is only to spend the net income from these investments, that's why they're called endowments," Hutton said. "We want to make sound investments with the maximum return possible, incurring as little risk as we can."
The investment managers are given discretionary freedom to handle these funds as thev see fit, Hutton continued. She said it would be ridiculous to tell so-(Contmued on page 2)
now."
She added that Western nations do not speak of using the Pershing II missiles as deterrents, but as tools for knocking out Soviet forces in the event of a war.
"First strike does not only mean you wipe out all the ICBMs (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles), you (also) surgically cut off the military base," Kelly said.
She said the Greens seek actual disarmament, and not arms (Continued on page 5)
By Steve De Salvo
Qty Editor
Members of the National Democratic Policy Committee, a radical group of right-wing extremists, protested the campus visit of Green Party leader Petra Kelly outside of Hancock auditorium Wednesday and disrupted the beginning of Kelly's speech, calling her a "genocidi-list" and a "Nazi witch."
About five of the protestors, each sitting in a different spot in the audience, took turns in heckling Kelly. People in the audience attempted to shout down the agitators, and both students and members of the university's Institute of Politics and Government, the sponsor of the noontime speech, forced the protestors out of the auditorium.
The protestors weren't students, but followers of Lyndon LaRouche, a 1980 presidential candidate who has called for the abolishment of the international monetary system and for further development of high-tech nuclear weaponry. The protestors have been on campus numerous times before; once to demonstrate against Tom Hayden, another time to demand the firing
Students
criticize
university
By Catalina Camia
Staff Writer
The Student Senate passed a strongly worded resolution Wednesday evening condemning the administration on its handling of the proposed $14 million student recreation center.
The resolution, authored by student senators Nancy Calle, Lino Izzo, R. Davis Taylor and Mark Sloane, states that the university has been "grossly negligent in its obligation to include students in all stages of its development, and in informing the student body of its progress."
The proposed center, estimated to cost $14,850,900, would be built above the recently completed Olympic Swimming Pool.
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of Gerald Larue, a university gerontology professor who advocates the legalization of euthanasia. Despite its name, the group, which claims a national membership of 25,000, has no connection with the Democratic Party.
Kelly was not fazed by the hecklers and she began and finished her speech without further incident. Later, Kelly said, "They're the same people I've met all over the United States. They don't bother me anymore."
Marianna Wertz, a spokesman for the local chapter of the National Democratic Policy committee and one of the protestors, said Kelly's politics "are the same politics the Nazi Party represented in Germany during the 1930s."
"The Greens are fascists . . . they stand for zero-growth and deindustrialization. These are the same things that lead to the concentration camps (in) Germany," she said.
"The Greens paint themselves in romanticism, but they are in alliance with and funded by (Libyan leader Col. Moammar) Quaddafi. The students today were sold Malthusian, neo-fascist, pro-Soviet policy."
Wertz said it was not the group's intention to prevent Kelly from speaking, but rather it wanted to "alert the student population that they were listening to fascists."
"The people in the audience were sheep. We wanted to set a tone so people would think about it. Do you know how Hitler came to power? Because of the bitterness of the German people. That same bitterness is what people like Petra Kelly play on. People are told there is no future . . . that would make anyone bitter and responsive to a radical like Petra Kelly."
Another group of protesters, four members of the conservative group Young Americans for Freedom, appeared outside the auditorium where Kelly spoke. Two of them, Noel Macaulay, a law student, and Scott Allman, a sophomore and political science major, posed as Soviet military officials, wearing mock-Soviet military garb, complete with felt ensignias and badges. The two students carried a sign sarcastically welcoming Kelly.
"She supports the nuclear
freeze. She is so biased that the Soviet Union supports her. She's anti-American. Petra Kelly is very blind to what the communists are doing," Macaulay said.
"The Greens aren't communists, but they're pacificists. All of them are biased. All of them are anti-American. All of them are hopelessly naive."
Although the intention of the YAF members was to "do a little satire, street theatre," as Macaulay put it, they apparently didn’t succeed. Many passersby took the uniforms and sign seriously, believing they actually were Soviets or supporters of the Soviet Union.
Of those passersby who did understand the satire, most of them were not amused by it. They shouted at the YAF members and, according to All-man, they used profanity "straight from an unabridged dictionary."
"We didn't try to yell down Kelly's speech. We're perfectly willing to let people hear her and let them decide for themselves," Macaulay said.
Also contributing to this story is Mark Lozve, Assistant City Editor.
A protester displays her opinions during Petra Kelly's ap-prearance on campus Wednesday.
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IBM	$5,420,042
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Philip Morris Inc.	2,499,678
American Telephone & Telegraph	2,012,553
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Pfizer Inc.	1,836,153
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