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Volume XCVIV, Number 10	University of Southern California	Wednesday, July 24, 1985
Former prof Art Laffer announces Senate bid
Dr. Arthur Laffer, a former USC economics professor and creator of the “Laffer Curve," announced last Wednesday that he will seek the Republican nomination for the United States Senate.
“A Senator from the State of California, where America's future is invented and created and lived each day, must be far more, far better than a professional politician," Laffer said in his announcement last week. "He or she must see the world with a clear vision and open heart. My devotion is to my fellow Americans — affluent or of modest means, educated or uneducated, healthy or sick," he added.
Laffer's involvement with public policy began with his appointment as Chief Economist at the Office of Management and Budget in 1970. From 1974 to 1977 he consulted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. For the last 10 years, Laffer has been an advisor to legislators Sam Hayakawa, Jesse Helms, and Ronald Reagan. He is presently active in politics as a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board.
Laffer is perhaps best known for his development of the "Laffer Curve," a pedagogic device which depicts the relationship among taxes, production and government revenues. According to the curve, taxes must remain low enough to provide the incentive for production, yet at the same time generate sufficient revenue for government.	(Continued	on	page	2)
USC, UCLA to hold international student conference in August
By Stacey Schmeidel
USC and UCLA will temporarily abandon their longstanding rivalry to co-sponsor a student conference of international proportions next month.
The International Association of University Students Founding Conference will be held on the USC campus from August 17 — 21, said Scott Webber, assistant director for International Programs of the American Association of University Students. Webber hopes the conference will draw 150 to 200 students from around the world.
"The conference is the product not of the two universities, but of the student governments at both schools," Webber said.
"The meat of the conference will be handled in small group discussions of the three conference topics: the responsibilities of students within society, the evolution of the student from learner to leader, and the importance of international student communication and cooperation. We hope to have no more than 10 people in each group," Webber said, "so that the students can intimately interact, find things in common, talk about common problems and share solutions."
Webber said the discussions would not be monitored or moderated in any way.
"There will be free discussion. There will be no leaders," he said. "A well structured confer-
Frat suspended for hazing violations
Suspension will begin day after fall rush ends
Hazing violations have led to the suspension of USC's chapter of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Dr. James Dennis, Vice President of Student Affairs, announced Monday. The suspension is a joint action of the university and the fraternity's national chapter, he added.
"This is an unusual instance of hazing," Dennis said, "and some might not call it hazing at all."
An active member of the fraternity, Dennis explained, was kidnapped on the evening before graduation and left stripped and tied to a lamp post on campus. Because the action was against an active member and not a pledge, Dennis said, it is "contrary to our usual perception of hazing." Adding to the difficulty of the decision of the administrative review panel that heard the case was the fact that the action occurred after the end of the school year and was perpetrated by only a few students and not organized by the fraternity.
“One question people always ask," Dennis said, “is should an individual chapter be held responsible for the actions of a few? In this case, the panel believed there was enough culpability to impose sanctions on the fraternity."
The unusual circumstances surrounding the situation may have contributed to the panel's administration of what appears to be lenient sanctions, Dennis said.
The chapter's suspension will begin on September 20, 1985, the day after fall formal rush ends. For 60 days, the fraternity will be prohibited from
Final Summer Trojan
This is the final issue of the Summer Trojan. The expanded Orientation issue of the Daily Trojan will be available each day of registration week beginning Tuesday, August 27, and daily publication will resume Wednesday, September 4.
participating in social or athletic events, initiating pledges and participating in rush activities.
After the suspension is lifted, the fraternity will be on probation until December, 1986.
Before the suspension begins, however, Delta Tau Delta will be able to participate in fall rush and recruit new members.
“It (the 60-day suspension) is the minimum sanction they could have received," Dennis acknowledged, “but on the other hand, 60 days is 60 days." The fraternity's rush could be affected, Dennis said, because students might not be enthu-
'Because of the fraternity's own swift action in dealing with the individuals involved, we have agreed to impose a 60-day sanction.' — James Dennis
siastic about joining a fraternity unable to offer them immediate social benefits. "But the panel felt that the loss of the opportunity to take new members at the time school begins is a sanction too severe to place at this time.
We have a very strong policy against hazing at USC," Dennis said. "Because of the fraternity’s own swift action in dealing with the individuals involved with the incident, we have agreed to impose a minimum 60-day suspension.
"Hazing is contrary to the laws of the State of California," Dennis added. "The Office of Greek Affairs works hard to ensure that'students understand that hazing is breaking the law, and not accomplishing what they hope to accomplish. There is no evidence to show that humiliation, degradation and abusing of peers will create brotherhood, respect and love for one another or improve scholarship — all the things that fraternities and sororities say thev stand for. When fraternities haze," Dennis said, "they are working against their own proclaimed values and ideals."
ence is necessary," Webber added, "but we feel we do not have the right to determine what should be discussed. The groups are open so students can express their own beliefs and share the experiences they've had in their own countries, systems of education and cultures.
"The dream for this conference began eight years ago," Webber said, “with Leonard Ginsburg, who's now the director for International Programs of the AAUS."
Ginsburg presented his idea for a conference to the International Association of Universities, a consortium of the top 800 universities in 120 nations.
It took eight years for the dream to become reality, Webber added. Last February Ginsburg, Webber, and Mark George presented the plan to both USC and UCLA for consideration.
According to Webber, this is the right time and place for an international student conference to occur. In the first place, he explained, the United Nations has proclaimed 1985 International Youth Year. In addition, the USC-UCLA student conference follows on the heels of a similar conference for university presidents at UCLA.
"The International Association of Universities is having its eighth general conference at UCLA from August 12 — 17," Webber explained. “At this meeting, all the university presidents and chancellors come together to discuss education. This year, as a result of our efforts and because it's International Youth Year," Webber added, "the IAU has extended an open invitation to students to attend their conference as part of their university's delegation.
"We're hoping that 10 or 15 of the students at that conference will come on over here to our conference afterwards," Webber added.
Webber also hopes that the conference will bring about the
founding of a new organization, the International Association of University Students.
"If formed," he explained, "this would be the only nonpolitical international student organization developed between universities to improve higher education. We hope the group will form a communication network between universities. And we believe communication will break down barriers of ignorance, then open doors to understanding and acceptance, which w'ill then lead to increased cooperation and interaction.
"All over the world universities produce the same product," Webber added. "But the ways in which universities get these people to become educated can be very similar or very different. We want to develop some communication between students on the structure of their universities and their curriculum."
Although eight years in the making, the conference has received overwhelming local and international support. The United Nations has endorsed the conference as an official International Youth Year event and Webber says Bishop Desmond Tutu has written a letter of support. In addition, Mayor Bradley has proclaimed August 17 — 21 International Student Week.
Mayor Bradley will speak at the conference's opening ceremony. He will be joined by Robert Woetzel, a USC professor of international law and Dr. Robert Kaplan, a USC linguistics professor and recent recipient of a Fulbright Grant.
The conference will also feature international student demonstrations of their countries' education systems and a demonstration of an international student computer system.
Students "with an international spirit" interested in learning more about the conference can contact Webber at the USC Student Senate Office, 743-7570.
Michael Hal lor an. Dean of Financial Aid, was the chef d’jour at the 1983 Staff Carnival. For information on this year’s carnival, see story on page 4.