VOL. LXI, NO. 10	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA	FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1969
University of Southern California
CACC backs
Smith charges
Community Action Coordinating Council members yesterday unanimously supported the charges and recommendations made at Tuesday ’s ASSC meeting by Dan Smith, executive director.
“I don’t foresee any major problem resulting from the pres-
Officer linked to $22 theft
An unidentified campus policeman was seen in the Black Student Union office the night before $22 was found missing, Danny Grant, BSU member, said yesterday.
According to Grant, Shirley Shoals, another member of the organization, saw an officer rummaging through the desks and file cabinets of the BSU office at 701 W. 34th St. at 10:34 p.m. that evening.
Miss Shoals, wondering why the office lights were on at such a late hour, stopped to investigate when she saw the campus policeman. The following morning, shortly after Miss Shoals reported what she had seen to the BSU, the organization’s secretary discovered that the money was missing.
“We’re not accusing the officer of taking any money, but we are accusing an officer of being in the office at that time,” said Grant.
In reply to the BSU’s suspicions, Victor Sargent, head of the campus police, said, “I don’t know anything about it. You’ll have to investigate.”
Sargent pointed out that other uniformed men have occasionally been mistaken for campus police.
entation of these recommendations. All of us involved with student government have a certain dedication that supersedes difficulties resulting from conflicts,” Smith said.
The recommendations which were accepted by members of the CACC for submission are: the CACC asked that budgetary meetings be held in public.
“I feel that because of these recommendations, the ASSC and the CACC can now look forward to a more honest and meaningful relationship for providing programs and activities for USC students,” Smith said.
Members of the CACC also unanimously endorsed the resubmission of the BSU budget plan. The originally proposed budget totals $4,100, $1,000 of which was to go for office equipment such as ditto machines and Xerox machines, which were to be used by all campus organizations for printing and distributing pertinent material.
The ASSC only allotted $1,400 of the originally submitted budget, prompting the BSU to eliminate the $1,000 for office machines, and the new budget which will be submitted will total $3,100.
Much of the proposed $3,100 will aid the community communications process. The money will be used to publish a BSU paper, the Black Trojan, which will be made available to members of the school and the community.
A portion of the remaining money will go toward enabling high school students from the surrounding communities to go to USC.
Assistance will come in the form of coordinating guides and counseling for the students, and instructions on how to obtain and fill out applications for scholarships.
COED ENJOYS RIDE WITH SPLASHY END
She’s headed for dunk in Alumni Park fountain.
Photo by Steve Bolinger
Master tenant will remain
A master tenant of two student apartments, the subject of an investigation by the Hoover Project office, will stay on the job, the project director said yesterday.
The master tenant is Phillip Gerber, who leases the Country Club and Club House apartments from the Community Redevelopment Agency.
Ralph Jarrett, the CRA’s Hoover Project director, said “We had a long discussion and a meeting of the minds. We laid down some guidelines and he will have an opportunity to perform in those parameters. He now understands exactly what his obligation is.”
Jarrett also said the two apartments would not be moved until the end of the semester.
Officials had said Wednesday the apartments were about fourth in priority to be moved and could go in about 60 days. At the time they were unaware that both were fully occupied.
“As long as the building is occupied, then it isn't within our best interest to move it,” Jarrett said.
Apartment buildings in the Hoover area arc being moved to other areas for low income housing.
THE TEMPORARY HOME OF THREE HUNGRY PEOPLE
Hunger strikers plant views outside tent in Pershing Square.
Photo by Henry Sokolski
Hunger strikers hold vigil
“The vast majority of students at USC, if they knew what the North Vietnamese were doing to the POWs, would be sympathetic to the strike,” he said.
McFarlin feels that many people will show up at the park Saturday afternoon for the planned hunger strike rally.
BITCH-IN MONDAY
The first open forum Bitch-In this academic year will be held Monday noon at University and Childs Way.
Bitch-In, designed as an cutlet for students to air their grievances against the university, will feature speakers Mark Savit, Steve Foldes, Lowell Ponte, Dan Smith, Jeff Ullman and Ed Hurst.
Chuck Jones will act as moderator.
Following the presentations by scheduled speakers, interested students are invited to express their views on a variety of topics, including student rights and responsibilities and the Vietnam war.
Bitch-In originated last year under the sponsorship of the ASSC Social and Recreation Committee.
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Students from the University of California at Riverside and San Fernando Valley State College are expected to join the three hunger strikers at Pershing Square who are protesting the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong treatment of POWs in Vietnam today.
The three students, Charles Stephens and Carl McFarlin of UCLA and Stan Pash of Long Beach State, have been on a diet of water and fruit juices since Wednesday afternoon. The purpose of the strike is to hold Hanoi publicly accountable for the atrocities perpetrated on the POWs. Several USC students helped plan the protest.
During the day the hunger strikers sit in front of their tent behind a table distributing descriptive pamphlets and papers on the subject of POW mistreatment. Most of the pamphlets'and papers have been prepared by the Student Coordinating Committee for Freedom in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
All three of the current strikers are members of this committee. Stephens contends that neither the committee nor the strike are rightist oriented.
“The committee supports peace with freedom in Vietnam and Southeast Asia,” he said, “and believes the United States’ stand there against totalitarian aggression, which is not only a threat to Vietnam but to all of Southeast Asia, is consistent with the ideals of peace and freedom.”
Stephens explained that the current lack of visible support of the strike is due to prior commitments on many people’s part and the spontaneity and lajk of planning of the strike.