University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXIf NO. 38
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THURS., NOV. 6,1969
IN THE LATE EVENING FOG
Two couples wait for the tram to take them home.
Photo by Don Shoarsr
Banquet to honor Johnson, Reasoner, Graham tonight
Harry Reasoner, John Johnson and Katherine Graham, well-known American journalists, will be honored tonight at the Journalism Alumni Association’s 10th annual awards dinner.
Each will be recipient of a Distinguished Achievement Award, in recognition of outstanding contributions to journalism in the fields of broadcasting, periodicals and newspapering respectively.
Herb Klein, a USC graduate and director of communications for the executive branch of the U.S. government, will accept a special award, according to Vernon MacPherson, association president.
Telford Work, publisher of
the Daily Journal and an alumnus who received his degree in journalism 50 years ago, will also be honored.
The dinner will be held in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. It will mark the golden anniversary of Journalism at USC.
Presiding over the banquet will be Hal Kanter, creator and executive producer of the television show “Julia.” This will be the second time that Kanter has been the master of ceremonies for the banquet. Before he became a television producer, Kanter was a top comedy writer for such celebrities as George Gobel and Jack Benny.
Harry Reasoner, well-known to television viewers as a poli-
Reddin, Seidenbaum discuss press freedom
By BERNARD BECK
Tom Reddin and Art Seidenbaum presented their views on the relationship of a free press with law enforcement at a luncheon of the Delinquency Control Institute Wednesday at noon in the Commons Lounge.
The Delinquency Control Institute, established in 1946, offers a 12-week training course to law enforcement officers to aid in the handling of youth and their problems. Under the auspices of the School of Public Education, the institute has enrolled in this year’s class some 40 officers from various police and sheriff departments throughout the nation.
Reddin, the former police chief and now a television newscaster, saw his role as a newsman allowing him to communicate regularly with large numbers of people on the realities of life.
He urged the officers to develop a good relationship with the press in order to lift the “blue curtain of secrecy” that many citizens feel surrounds most police agencies.
He believes that he can factually present the news and comment on problems from a practical basis because of his experience in dealing with such problems in real situations.
Seidenbaum, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, emphasized the chasm that has developed between elements of society, particularly young people and police. He used as an example the Homecoming incident in Alumni Park.
He said that this occurrence, which resulted in the students feeling brutalized and the alumni feeling abused, dramatized the split at USC between alumni and students.
He felt that this had been pointed out by USC’s reaction to his article on the school in West magazine this summer. Alumni felt that the article was too abusive, but students felt it to be too kind.
He described his role as a columnist as one of convincing middle class parents that the long-haired dissenters and radicals are really their children.
tical reporter and former White House correspondent, started his journalism career in 1942 on the Minneapolis Times.
Reasoner attended Stanford and the University of Minnesota. In 1956, he joined CBS News in New York, and took over the CBS Sunday News in 1963. Reasoner has been a reporter and cohost on many CBS television broadcasts.
John Johnson is the publisher and editor of Ebony, Tan, Jet and Negro Digest magazines. He was a student at the University of Chicago and at Northwestern University. Johnson founded Negro Digest in 1942 and three years later started Ebony. Ebony now has a monthly circulation of 1,200,000.
Johnson is the recipient of many national awards and honors. In 1951, he was the first Negro businessman to be selected by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of the 10 outstanding young men of the year.
Katherine Graham is a member of the Women’s National Press Club and Theta Sigma Phi. Mrs. Graham is a graduate of the university of Chicago and trustee of the Committee for Economic Development.
She joined the editorial staff of the Washington Post in 1939, and following the death of her husband, Philip, in 1963, became president of the Washington Post Co., which owns the newspaper, Newsweek magazine, and several radio and television stations.
Among those who have received the Distinguished Achievement Awards are William Buckley Jr., Chet Huntley, Otis Chandler, Bob Considine, Merriman Smith, Ralph McGill and the late Drew Pearson.
The Alumni Association is sponsoring the dinner in cooperation with the USC School of Journalism. The proceeds will be used for the school’s scholarship program .
War protest to continue
By TOM VIRGIL
The Vietnam Moratorium Committee plans to continue its protests against the war as long as necessary, members said Wednesday.
The committee said it was disappointed with President Nixon’s speech of Monday night in which he reaffirmed a position of gradual troop withdrawal.
A statement outlining the committee’s objections will be sent to campuses throughout the state.
One reason the committee rejected Nixon’s proposals was that “in 10 years the South Vietnamese army has proved unwilling and incapable of fighting, and it would probably be longer than a decade before American troops could be withdrawn at the present rate of improvement,” the objection statement said.
The statement will be read to the public at a Saturday morning press conference in Fresno. The press conference is being called by the moratorium committee to launch a drive to bring congressional members home from Washington to protest the war.
Tentative plans for the November campus moratorium days will include a mass funeral service in Alumni Park and guest speakers on Nov. 13. On Nov. 14, the Moratorium Committee plans to repeat last month’s activities of canvassing the city, concentrating on large shopping centers and door-to-door drives for Support.
The statement which will be read at the Fresno press conference condemns President Nixon for failing to present what the committee feels is the central issue involved in the Vietnam War— “Whether or not American men should die to defend the existence of a political regime fostered by corruption, political fraud and police methods.”
Directly following the President’s speech, the national moratorium committee issued a statement which was endorsed by the campus group.
The statement said the members of the group were disappointed in the President’s speech because they had hoped that he would announce a new policy for troop withdrawal.
The statement also criticized what the committee calls Nixon’s dependence on the actions of the Saigon regime, ignoring possible areas for compromise and disregarding proposals for a ceasefire.
The committee’s statement concluded by saying that “the President is making a serious mistake if he believes that his proposals will satisfy the desire of a majority of Americans . . . To our regret, . . . Mr. Nixon’s message leads to the conclusion that he has so far been unable to reassert America’s control over her own destiny.”
Profs to march for peace Sunday
By ANGELA CURCURU
Teachers and professors in the Los Angeles area are scheduled to hold a march Sunday in the first antiwar demonstration involving thousands from a single profession.
John Schultz, law professor and the USC campus coordinator for the march, feels the demonstration will be much more significant due to President Nixon’s speech Monday evening.
“I think it will result in a much bigger march than expected,” he said. “The march has become a better idea in view of the President’s speech.”
Schultz said that Nixon’s policy resembles Johnson’s to a horrifying degree.
“One of the most important things is that Nixon assumes the so-called silent majority will support his policy,” Schultz said. “I think Nixon has misread the significance of the vote in the last election.”
The demonstration will consist of a one-mile march on Olympic Boulevard, from Ridge-ley to Rimpau. The march is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. on Ridgeley, a few blocks west of La Brea Avenue. Following the teachers’ march, there will be
a peace rally at the Los Angeles High School football stadium on the corner of Rimpau and Olympic.
Members of the Teachers’ Council for Peace in Vietnam, sponsors of the demonstration, feel that such a march will elevate the peace movement to a new level of popular appeal. They believe that by taking a stand against the war, teachers can strengthen the peace movement by adding to its prestige.
Although the march is restricted only to teachers and their families, the rally is open to the public.
“This is the first opportunity for the people to show they are not part of Nixon’s silent majority,” said Schultz.
Scheduled speakers at the rally include Rep. Al Lowenstein, founder of the “Dump Johnson” movement. Lowenstein has just returned from Vietnam, and has found basis for a great credibility gap. For instance, the majority of the troop withdrawals from Vietnam are for the most part just normal rotation, he said.
Demonstration participants will include teachers and professors from the 45 colleges and 150 public schools in the Los Angeles area.