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Volume XCIII, Number 6	University of Southern California	Tuesday, January 18, 1983
University editor to leave post
By Steve DeSalvo
Assistant City Editor
Citing personal reasons. Clarence Anderson, university editor, has announced that he will resign at the end of the month.
In a memo to his staff Friday, Anderson wrote of a desire to seek “a greater amount of freedom to enjoy personal projects and activities” and a “reduction of pressures and demands that are unavoidable in publications and administrative work.”
As university editor, Anderson presides over the editorial and administrative duties of university publications, such as the campus directory, as well as theses and dissertations. He also is in charge of watching over the various student publications, including the Daily Trojan and El Rodeo. He has held the position since 1968.
He said that it has been his intention to resign from his post for “at least a year," but was persuaded by Cornelius Pings, senior vice president of academic affairs, to delay the announcement.
Pings said Anderson was “doing a tremendous job and I hated to see him go.”
“Also, we were in the process of selecting a senior vice president for university relations and we didn’t want his decision to complicate the process.” Pings said.
Although he is “stepping down” from his position as university editor, Anderson said, he will remain at the university as a part-time editorial consultant in the office of development, where he will edit and write fund-raising proposals.
“With the extra time I’ll have, I intend to spend more time travelling with my wife Nancy, and visiting my grandchildren," Anderson said. “I also want to do more writing and editing on my own.”
Anderson said he intends to devote more time to an editing and publishing service in which he is involved. The business venture which he has shared with a friend for six years, involves editing novels and biographies.
Of his 12 years as university editor, Anderson said, “I achieved a great deal in upgrading the university and student publications.”
He said his greatest accomplishment was obtaining a computer system for the Daily Trojan and other student publications.
“I wrote the proposal that got us an S86,000 grant to buy the computer system.” he said. “That grant, in addition to a $25,000 gift from the Times-Mirror Foundation, paid for the computer system and 16 terminals.”
Although he is resigning his post. Anderson said he will still play a role in obtaining another computer system from the Wall Street Journal.
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PRIDEFUL STRIDE — Marchers proceeding up the new Martin Luther King Boulevard, formerly Santa Barbara Avenue, in honor of the slain dvil rights leader's birthday.
Avenue renamed after Martin Luther King
DEPARTING — University editor, Clarence Anderson, will resign at the end of this month, but will remain at the university as a part-time editorial consultant.
By Annette Haddad
Assistant City Editor
A parade of marchers, carrying banners and singing “We Shall Overcome,” proceeded up Santa Barbara Avenue Saturday to join in a rally to commemorate the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and witness the ceremony that renamed the street in honor of the late civil rights leader.
No official representatives from the university were in attendance for the renaming of the boulevard three blocks south of campus. But members of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity volunteered as crowd monitors for the event which was attended by over 50 organizations.
The march came a year after the controversial attempt to rename Santa Barbara Avenue.
Celes King III, w'ho initiated the movement to rename the street, worked with city Councilman Robert Farrell to affect the change. King, no relation to the late Nobel Peace Prize winner, is a bail bondsman and a past president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Though met with some op-postion from residents and local businesses, the city council voted 10 to 1 to rename the street.
Farrell and King led the dedication ceremony' and unveiled the new street signs, emphasizing that the seven-mile boulevard runs through four council districts, one being Farrell’s own eighth di-trict which includes the university.
“This street represents a cross section of the life and the people of south Los Angeles,” he said, adding that Martin Luther King Boulevard will be a major thoroughfare w'hen Los
Angeles hosts the 1984 Olympic Games.
The mile-long procession of about 5.000 marchers that gathered at a supermarket parking lot on Western Avenue was reminded by various speakers, w’ho borrowed from King, that “we still have a dream” to shatter the barriers of radsm.
“Jobs, not jails," and “peace, not the Pentagon." were two of the slogans employed by the speakers, including James Lawson, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of greater Los Angeles, the organization which sponsored the rally and march.
Lawson, an early leader in the civil rights movement and a cohort of King, said that un-
ity of the organizations representing women, minorities, the poor, labor unions, church members and anti-nuclear activists is the key factor in achieving the objectives for peace laid down by the religious leader w'ho wras assassinated in 1968.
Most of the day’s eight speakers urged the audience to maintain King’s philosophy of non-violent protest in the fight against the policies of the Reagan Administration.
“Reagan has done nothing to advance the objectives of Martin Luther King,” said Ramona Ripston, executive director of Southern California ACLU.
The audience, that reached a (Continued on page 6)
Trial delayed again for accused rapist
By Belma Johnson
Investigations Editor
Accused rapist Antoine Jordan, the man police say terrorized the university community' for five months in 1981, saw his trial postponed again Monday until March.
The 21-year-old Jordan is charged w'ith five rapes, five acts of sexual perversion, eight robberies, two kidnappings and one count of grand theft.
He also is accused of attempting four more kidnappings and one other robbery. Most of the crimes were committed against university students.
Jordan has waived his right to a jury trial in exchange for a reduced sentence in case he is convicted.
Since that plea bargain lowered Jordan's maximum sentence to 45 years from life im-
prisonment, he may now sign a routine waiver to lower his penalty even more.
The court pushed back Jordan's trial date because his attorney and judge are booked up until March 23, scheduled to be Jordan’s new trial date.
“I’m in trial now and it's impossible for me to get to (Jordan’s trial) before then,” said Alvin Nierenberg, Jordan’s lawyer.
His attorney is trying a murder case before Judge Gordon Ringer, who is also scheduled to hear Jordan's trial.
Jordan entered the courtroom Monday only' briefly to learn of the postponement and will remain in county jail w'here he has been since his Oct. 29,
1981,arrest while on campus. He has not raised the $100,000 bail.
Jordan's trial has been de-(Continued on page 10)