1960 ELECTION WAS WILD AFFAIR
(Editor's Note: This is Ihe first of a six-part series of articles on ASSC elections. Each article will deal with the events of an election during one of the last six years.) By GREG McANDREWS
Based upon voting participation in campus campaigns, student government reached its lowest ebb in years in the spring of 1959. Less than five per cent of the electorate voted in the annual election. This tiny segment of the student body did, however, finailv authorize a reconditioning of the ailing government.
A proposal for revising the ancient constitution and setting up a provisional government was passed.
With Wally Karabian as acting ASSC president, the entire first semester of 1960 was spent in an effort to completely overhaul the old form of representation.
At the beginning of the spring semester, it seemed as if a new progressive attitude toward government would be able to eliminate memories of former administrations.
February 16 should have been the beginning of more intense student participation and accomplishments in government. Dean of Students Robert J. Downey approved the revised Senate. He also advocated 14 new committees to form resolutions and statutes for administrating student activities.
The Senate was most greatly improved when field-of-study Senators were added, so that every 200 students in a field of study would have a delegate in the Senate.
The intended new ASSC government never became effective however.
From the very beginning the administration was plagued by disputes between contenders for ASSC posts. Charges of favoritism in appointing
officers hurt Karabian’s plea for the new honest and open government. When petitioning for ASSC offices closed on March 7, only Bill Steigerwalt had filed for the presidency. Twenty-nine other students filed for the remaining 16 ASSC offices. The next day a blow was dealt to serious student government when Mike Kaye announced his candidacy the presidency. Kaye only promised an interesting and very strange campaign and had no platform.
The next day, however, Kaye was ruled out because of having grades below the 2.51 all-university average.
One day later, Ed Nelson, a fraternity brother of Kaye, announced that he would take Kaye’s place in running for the office.
Nelson said they had planned a dual candidacy all the time.
Each knew Kaye would be disqualified, but “wanted to see if there was really any need for carrying on a campaign at all.”
Nelson did not present a platform either. He only desired to destroy the cliques in student government and expel political grooming for offices.
Ken Layne was a late write-in candidate with a platform of active nonparticipation.
In effect, he wanted to abolish student government before it took hold.
Steigerwalt believed Kaye, Nelson and Layne were out to make a farce of the system.
The Karabian administration and Steigerwalt were severely criticized as products of a clique government by several candidates, but there was no debate between contenders for the presidency.
Lack of interest in the presidential race was reflected by the students. On tlie eve of the election day a drive to elect a fictitious Norman Top-notch was initiated to reflect contempt for the two late presidential candidates’ antics.
Steigerwalt won by almost three times the number of votes cast for the write-ins. However, this vote of confidence was soon to be clouded by presidential hopefuls for 1961.
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Vol. XVI	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1965	No. 102
Glenn Brown Seeks
ASSC Presidency
Returns to Race With Board OK
MEN’S FASHION—Traditional initiation dress is modeled by seniors who were informally inducted yesterday into Skull and Dagger, men’s honor society. These
Battle Column Statements, Pictures Due
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Materials should be brought to 432 Student Union.
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A $2 processing fee will be charged.
This is the only time materials will be accepted and pictures taken.
Statements should be approximately 150 words.
m ceremonies morning in Bovard Tower.
Students, faculty.
L.A. Woes Listed by Dr. Strevey
The serious problems existing in cities like Los Angeles stem largely from two factors. Dr. Tracy Strevey, vice president in charge of Academic Affairs, said yesterday.
Dr. Strevey, speaking for Dr. Norman Topping, who is away on university business, listed the factors as inadequate knowledge of the large cities' natures1 and lack of communication among agencies able to improve city life.
Addressing the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Dr. Strevey said one of the most important of large cities' problems is maintaining law and order.
Most major cities are content to leave the preservation of order almost entirely to the police. But the problems of keeping cities desirable and safe are no longer problems which anyone should expect the police to deal with alone, he said.
“For some reason there has been too little communi-	. . . _ _	,
cation amon<* the institutions competing in the Rose Bowl Kahn. Robert Kardashian, dedicated to "the improvement of intercollegiate debating — David Kenner, Eugene Kop-
students, and outstanding faculty members, alumni and others will become members of the society in formal ceremonies Saturday. Club is oldest men's honorary.
Skull and Dagger
Will initiate 70
| tion from these fields is the Seventy new members will Center; Alvah Hall, dean of	system Possible,
be initiated into Skull and the School of Pharmacy;
Dagger, mens honor society, Herbert Harbeson, director of
Glenn Brown announced his candidacy for ASSC president yesterday.
A junior in international relations, Brown was originally disqualified by the Election Commissioner for insufficient units, but was reinstated Tuesday by the Board of Inquiry.
Brown emphasized leadership by the student body president, legislative responsiveness to student wants and ad-j ministrative skill as the basis for his campaign.
The candidate criticized the laziness of past ASSC presi-! dents who let bills passed by I the Senate drift along as well as they could.
Gabrielson Vows Not to Use Senate
ASSC presidential candidate Brooke Gabrielson, cur-Brown also said he believes rent Senate president, said the current ASSC govern- yesterday he will not work mental structure is “the most: through the enlarged Senate nearly representative system!next semester but through
we could have.”
Because students are j rolled in a particular field
ithe initiative process if he is en -! elected.
“The enlargement of Sen-
he said.
Executive Responsibility
He said it is the responsi-
^Tmvpr 1 ^ residence halls; Charles Hirt, biuty of the executive to
prof. of church music, alumni Alfred Ingersoll, dean
the School of Engineering;
I plain to his constituents what of is going on.
Brown therefore intends to inaugurate a series of weekly,
and those who have shown
outstanding interest in USCjMilton Kloetzel, dean of the
have been tapped for mem- q r a ^ u a t e School; George no-holds-barred question-and bership.	Maurer, secretary. Office of -answer sessions where stu-
Thirty-eight students were the Registrar; Rodger Swear- dents can interrogate mem-chosen for their exceptional ingen, prof. of history bers of the executive cabi-work in their major areas of ^ n d international relations net, senators, committee study, or in activities such and director of the Research1 chairmen, and faculty and as student government, de- Institute on Communist Stra-: administration members on batine and athletics.
jtegy and Propaganda; Wil- all facets of the university.
Student Initiates
The students elected to the organization, both undergraduate and graduate, are Jo-iseph Austin, Robert Bennett, Arne Bruflat, Frederick Davis, Richard Fenton, Craig | Fertig, Lawrence Fisher, j William Fisk, Brooke *Gab-jrielson, Carlos Galindo, Ralph J Grierson, Robert Griffin. Lawrence Grosberg, Robert !Hann, Gary Hart.
I Fred Hill, Gary Hill, Chris-Two USC students are topher Johnson, Terence
liam Victorson. supervisor of Gift Accounting; Jerry Wil-ja summer
If elected, he will propose training program
2 Debaters In National Tournament
cox, asst, athletic news direc-{for all elected ASSC officers tor; and Willis Wilson, asst, to study proper legisJative track coach.
i procedure.
ASSC Secretary Post Sought by Judy Austin
life" Strevey contin-National Debate Tourna-penhaver, Douglas Lawrence, ment at West Point, N.Y. Tom Pedrini, Gregg Peter-this week
of civil ued.
“Perhaps the impasse in communication is owing to! points of view which are in longstanding conflict.”
The police are concerned more with stopping antisocial behavior than with a clinical examination of it. They have stated that the activities of social workprs have too often impeded police efforts, he added.
In ensuing charges and counter charges, useful communication between police and rehabilitative agencies has collapsed.
Major issues now being given little attention will lie major determinates in the direction Los Angeles takes in years to come, he stated.
The Trojan teammates are Rosendahl, Roy Saari.
Judy Austin entered the race for ASSC secretary yesterday, promising to represent the views of the students in addition to her secre-son, Martin Piscovich, Roger tarial duties
David Kenner and Larry Stein.
Both have been active in debate for three years. Kenner is a junior in the Law School. Stein, a political science major, is a prelaw student.
The Kenner-Stein record in debate for the 1964-65 aca-demic year is a remarkable 71 wins against 17 losses.
This will be the 14th year a USC team has been a contender in the 19-year history of the West Point competition, a record which estab-1 i s h e s USC as the district leader in this respect.
They will debate the ques-
Gary Shimokawa, Christopher Stevens, Michael Straet-er, Jon Swedlow, Thomas Thie, Howard Weitzman, Ramon Werts, Thomas Wooley, Emmett Yoshioka and Alan Young.
Faculty Initiates Fifteen faculty members were chosen for their out. standing teaching and for their interest in the progress and problems of their students.
New members from the faculty include Paul Bloland, dean of students; George Chilingar, assoc, prof. of petroleum engineering; Sheldon Disrud, student activities ad-
Dr. Strevey also said prob- tion, “Resolved: That the viser; Roger Egeberg, dean
“The job of ASSC secretary should involve more than merely licking stamps and writing letters,” Miss Austin said.
“An important part of my job is to honestly represent the views of the students in all phases of government.
“That's the difference between hiring a secretary and electing a student”
She said she believes student government can be effective only through the participation of the student body.
“If only a few people vote, the students who are elected will not have the support to be effective officers.”
lems in a large city may be United States should adopt of the School of Medicine; been given a government and tical one is to make the most
approached by means communitywide forum.
of a national program of public Paul Greeley, medical direc- they should support it.
Iwork for the unemployed." itor of the Student Health, “We are working in an iso-
| of study, senate representa-1 ate enrollment from 32 to 66
is the most ridiculous farce in Situdent government since I’ve been at USC.’’ Gabrielson said.
“It is due to only a small minority of Senators that the Senate has managed to exist this year. How beneficial could a larger Senate be?”
On KUSC-TV Gabrielson aired his views on KUSC-TV’s “ASSC Elections ’65.” He was questioned by former Senate president Bob Griffin, Daily Trojan reporter Greg O’Brien, and KUSC newsman Scott Bice.
Gabrielson feels the defeated SCA Constitution offered the means toward more effective student government by abolishing the Senate.
He said the first act after his election will be to submit a modified version of the SCA document to the students for ratification.
ASSC Budget If it fails to pass, he said, he will submit the customary committee chairman nominees and ASSC budget for Senate approval, but he will take care of all legislative actions thereafter through student initiatives.
Gabrielson also discussed his intention to institute a newsletter to publicize all legislation and proposals of student government.
“Students have not been made aware of what government has done in the past when it has actually accomplished something worthwhile,” he said.
Part of Promise The newsletter is one of Gabrielson’s solutions to his campaign promise, “Abolish Student Ignorance.”
He explained he is not running his campaign “in the popular manner of some of his opponents.”
He dismissed the customary banners, signs, fact sheets and parties as unimportant to the true purpose of a presidential contest. However, he conceded that (Continued on Page 2)
PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL—Glenn Brown, IR major, announced his candidacy for the ASSC presidency yesterday. Brown was reinstated by the Board of Inquiry.
JUDY AUSTIN
. . . Secretary Hopeful
lated environment in the university.
“The only way to make this
She said students have j isolated environment a prac-
of the opportunities we have here.”
Speakers Policy Stated by Robb
By LYNNE REGGIARDO
In view of the Berkeley situation, a set of policies for controversial off-campus speakers at USC has been formulated. Dr. J. Wesley Robb, chairman of the Student Activities Committee, told the Faculty Senate yesterday.
acceptable speaker
Fund Drive Started for Senior Gift
“An
program must represent an educational, social or cultural contribution to the university,” he said.
In addition, the sponsoring organization must register the speaker with the dean of students, who will consult with the committee befors giving approval.
Senior Class President Fred
Cassidy and his cabinet have
initiated a campaign to raise A ureat issues ruruiu wmi	- ,, 1Qfi-
also be established to bring	,£>r the 1965 Sem0r
j class gift.
Their goal is $2,500 to be
contributed by the seniors
over a five-year period. The
current leaders in politics and other movements to the campus.
“These new policies may money win be used to furnish or may not allow Communist one compiete room in the fu-speakers on campus, accord- ture student activities building to their educational in-
Cassidy expects to reach ithe 1,000 seniors living on i campus individually through la team of 80 fund raisers. The 1,500 other students
tent, but the speakers must enhance the learning process.” he continued.
More Policies A third set of policies provides for the establishment of	reminded each week
campus organizations. They must also represent academic, cultural or social contriKu-
through the mail. Mailed reminders will be sent out an-nually to solicit funds for the
tions, follow the established project administration p r o c e d ures Contributions should be and may not discriminate in sent to Noel Hanson, who is
choosing members.
An organization can be disbanded at the request of its
in charge of the fund raising department in the Alumni Planning Office at 918 W.
names engraved on a in the
membership or by action of 35th. Contributors will have the dean of students.	their
Dr. Mary Mahl, chairman plaque to be placed of the Student Aid Commit- furnished room, tee, also reviewed the pro- The gift will be presented gram of the past year at the to the school unofficially at faculty meeting. Undergndu- the Senior Breakfast on June ate scholarship policies have 10 and formally by the 1965 been revised, she said. cabinet in five years.
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