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University of Southern California
Friday, November 5, 1982
Activist speaks on peace
Calls for global nuclear pact
Student senator quits post; third to resign this year
By Ellen Plotkin
Staff Writer
Gigi Fairchild, dormitory senator and undergraduate representative for the Student Senate, handed Dan Dunmoyer, Student Senate president, a letter of resignation Wednesday.
“I have resigned,” Fairchild said matter-of-factly. “It’s been a progressive decision that I've been weighing throughout the past month.”
However, almost 24 hours later Dunmoyer said that Fairchild asked him if she could “have until Sunday” to make her final decision.
Dunmoyer had not officially accepted her resignation and said his decision, was also not to be made final until Sunday.
Fairchild is the third senate member to resign during the 1982-83 school year.
Patty Minor, former dormitory senator, and Kirby Tanimura, former commuter senator, resigned after last spring’s elections.
Tanimura reportedly resigned because he was "exposed to petty politicking and backstabbing” and could no longer work in the senate.
Minor withdrew from the presidential race when her “good friend” Dunmoyer unexpectedly ran against her. She resigned from her position of dormitory senator after Dunmoyer was elected.
Fairchild said her reasons for resigning are “mostly personal” and have nothing to do with conflicts involving the senate.
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WHO? — Either CARP leaders have misspelled the name of a well-known activist or they have invited the Beav's sousin to speak on campus. Misspelling aside, Jim Borer, CARP director, and Vito Baiardi, of World Student Times, tell a student about the upcoming event
would enact and interpret world law.
He said that unless codes and laws are obeyed, a constructed building will not stand. In comparison, ‘‘the human race cannot stand unless there is a building of peace,” he said.
Cousins says he believes the solution to the proliferation of nuclear arms and to decrease the potential for war, lies in the formation of an organization much like the United Nations, but with the strength to enact, interpret and enforce world law and reduce the
wide-open arena for global antagonism. “The world is a geographic unit, and we must unite or fight.”
The author spent a considerable amount of time outlining the history of Soviet policy toward the United States. He explained that Nikita Khrushchev, after a trip to the United States during the 1960s, realized that the fear Stalin had instilled in the Russian people was ruining the country’s production.
Russian government officials labeled the Chinese as the (Continued on page 2)
University’s disaster plan includes nuclear shelters
By Steve De Salvo
Staff Writer
The university is now developing a disaster plan not only for earthquakes and fires, but for a nuclear holocaust as well.
The new disaster plan will coincide with the civil defense plan established long ago by the Office of Civil Defense in Los Angeles. In the early 1950s, the city office designated 17 buildings on campus as fallout shelters. The buildings range from Doheny Library to Hancock Auditorium to the Student Union Building.
Michael Regan, director of the Office of Civil Defense, believes that fallout shelters can help people survive a nuclear exchange.
“Given sufficient warning and evacuation, people can survive and recover from a nuclear war," he said.
Regan said his office updated the university’s fallout shelters three years ago. Outdated supplies were removed from the shelters because “they wrere only crackers and things like that.” Since people should stay in shelters about 14 days, the crackers were not feasible, he said. Instead, “shelter managers” would require people to bring their own food for the long stay, he added.
Even though university buildings were designated as adequate fallout shelters as far back as the 1950s, Regan still believes they could be effective in protecting people from radioactive fallout.
“When you put a shirt on at the beach, it acts as a shield between you and the burning sun. Fallout shelters are shields from the fallout, which emits gamma rays.”
Regan said most fallout shelters would not be destroyed in a nuclear attack.
“The primary targets in a nuclear attack are airports, harbors and railroads. Cities and civilian areas are only secondary targets, so they are less likely to be attacked,” he said.
The university “probably wouldn’t be bothered at all,” he said.
But Larry Ehrmann, environmental health and safety officer at the university, said that if there is a nuclear attack on Los Angeles, “you can forget it.”
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Gays hear ‘coming out’ speech
By Kelly Briggs
Adele Starr, founder of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays of Los Angeles, spoke to the university’s Gay and Lesbian Students Union Wednesday evening about “coming out" to parents and friends. She also discussed the need to educate the public on homosexuality.
Rejection of a gay person by his or her family is a tragedy for everyone involved. Starr encouraged gays to “come out” to their families wrhen they feel comfortable with themselves.
One member of the audience said his family found it hard to accept and deal with his homosexuality.
“I have grown farther and farther away from my family,” he said.
Starr encouraged those in the audience to bring their parents to a group meeting, not just tell them to go.
“It is your responsibility to get help for your
parents,” Starr said.
“Your family has come from a family that thinks that gays are child molesters, drag queens, etcetera. They think the worst.
“Pick a quiet time to tell your parents. Be calm and explain to them. Don’t come home for Christmas vacation and suddenly drop the bomb and, by all means, don’t bring home a lover,” Starr advised.
Another concern of parents and gays is the increased violence against gays, Starr said. Ever since the “New Right” evolved there have been massive outbreaks of violence, Starr said, adding that in the Midwest, it is a sort of game to go out and beat up a bunch of gays. There have been beatings, mutilations and castrations, she said.
“What we are hoping to do is gradually change attitudes of the public so this doesn't continue,”
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ADVISED TO GET HELP FOR PARENTS
NORMAN COUSINS
By Bill Truman
Staff Writer
“Is it of no consequence that a nuclear war will involve the entire world? Is it of no consequence that it will be a war against God?” asked Norman Cousins, famed author and peace activist, of a large crowd in Hancock Auditorium Wednesday night.
The 70-year-old former editor of the Saturday Review spoke to about 170 people at the program sponsored by Architects Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility, and was hosted by the university’s school of architecture. The sponsoring organization is a group of architects, designers and planners concerned with environmental issues, especially nuclear weapons proliferation.
Cousins lectured on “The Architecture of Peace.” This architecture. Cousins said, is not simply the freeze or reduction of nuclear arms, but requires the development of an effective global body that