UmvtTMrv of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 27
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1971
ASSC to draft new constitution
By PETER WONG Staff Writer
The ASSC Executive Council voted Thursday to hold a convention later this year to draft a new ASSC constitution for student body consideration.
Council members also approved the procedures for a convention. which will be the first ever under Article X of the present ASSC Constitution.
The motion for a constitutional convention was presented by
Lee Blackman, vice president for academic affairs, and was passed. 12-1. It was tabled at the Oct. 15 meeting.
Delegates to the convention will be selected by the 22 voting members of the council and the senior class president, a nonvoting member, each member selecting two delegates, making a total of 46. A convention chairman will be appointed separately by the ASSC president and approved by a majority vote of the council.
Responses vary on mixed dating
By MIKE REVZIN Assistant Campus Editor
“Why don't you stick to your own kind?” is seldom heard by interracial couples. But a sampling of USC students who date interraciallv indicates that they often are faced with more subtle pressure.
A Japanese-American girl, who has been dating a white boy for about 10 months, was under parental pressure to date just Orientals.
“My parents didn't dislike him." she said. “But they didn't approve of me going out with him. They just implied, ‘Why don't you find a nice Japanese boy to date.
She said that her parents brought her up not to be prejudiced. but they couldn't understand why she'd date someone who wasn't Oriental.
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She said that the differences in culture present obstacles in the relationship. “You cant put your finger on it but you know it s there," she said referring to what she called “the Oriental philosophy.”
. “I felt really scared when I first went to his house. I would have felt uncomfortable, but for different reasons, if he was Oriental.'’
The boy she is dating said. "My parents don't put any pressure on me not to date her. Her parents are always nice to me. I never would have suspected that they disapproved of me.
“Both of us sometimes feel like people are staring at us when we go certain places. We joke with each other about the racial issue. For example, we went to see Tora! Tora! Tora! and we each rooted for our own side. "
“Because she's a minority, she has been forced to learn about non-Oriental culture. But I know very little about the Japanese culture. So I think Orientals have more of a reason for wanting their children to date other Orientals.
“I get jealous easier if the guy she's paying attention to is Oriental. I guess that's because
I feel I can't compete with him. "
A white freshman girl, who is dating a Chinese-American sophomore, stated a similar reaction. “I feel very inferior when I'm with his Oriental friends, especially girls.” she said.
She said she feels this way because she knows he is under parental pressure to date only Orientals. Because his father has voiced disapproval, they are dating secretly.
“It's a cultural thing to be segregated.” he said. He said that he used to feel it was very uncultured when he saw an Or-iental-white couple on a date. “I d think, ‘look at that strange couple.* ” he said. But he has learned to look at it in a different way since he met his girlfriend.
“I'm slowly becoming Chinese.” his girlfriend said. “Every time I run across something about Chinese in the newspaper I read it because I want to become more oriented toward the Chinese.”
Both of them said that there is no pressure from their friends. But they said that they sometimes get stared at when they go places.
“I feel very uncomfortable when we go to Chinatown.’* he said.
One freshman girl, who is white, said that her mother is violently opposed to her black boyfriend.
She said that her boyfriend came to their house on Christmas. After he left, she and her mother stayed up until 4 a.m. arguing.
“She keeps trying to tell me she's not prejudiced,” said the freshman, “but she also says ‘I'll fight this until my dying day.’ **
His parents do not show the same opposition. She said that when she goes to his house. “I feel like one of the family. They all accept me.”
She said that they avoid going places together where her parent's friends will see them because it hurts her mother when the friends talk.
Any stares they receive, she feels, come from older people. “Sometimes, with older people,
I almost see them retching. I saw a lady grasp onto her husband.” she said.
A white sophomore, who dates a black sophomore, said. “Most of my friends are pseudo-liberal,
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No council member may be a delegate to the convention, the procedures state. The delegates must complete a document by Feb., 1972, and the council will then call a special constitutional election without four weeks.
In other business, the council debated a resolution sponsored by Jim Lacy, sophomore representative, which would have granted $548 to the yell squad for some expenses at the USC-Okla-homa and USC-Notre Dame football games.
The debate turned bitter, however, when Jim Korsen. independent representative, presented a report of two university administrators—Paul Moore, director of the Student Activities Office, and Brian Heimerl, assistant director—that charged Craig Caldwell, head yell leader, with improper spending of university funds.
In the report, Korsen said that university authorities had forbidden Caldwell from going to the USC-Notre Dame game after improper financial actions in the USC-Oklahoma game. However. Caldwell went to Notre Dame anyway.
Caldwell denied the charges at the council meeting, and said that Korsen should have gotten his facts straight.
After further debate, the council voted and deadlocked, 8-8. Kent Clemence, who presided for the first time as ASSC president, voted to break the tie and allow the yell squad to get its funds.
However, some council members said the ASSC bylaws required a two-thirds majority vote on such a question, for the
yell squad has requested $1,000 in September and was turned down by the council.
After more discussion. Blackman found a copy of the ASSC Financial Code, which said that any change in the budget required a two-thirds majority vote for both consideration and passage. At that point, Clemence ruled the resolution dead. Lacy withdrew it before a recount could be asked.
The report on Caldwell had been released by Moore’s office
earlier in the day.
The council will consider two important matters at its meeting next week, for which no date was set. Carl Middleton, ASSC treasurer, said he would prepare a report on the work of the university's Tuition and Fees Committee, which recommended the $370 increase in tuition for next year. Middleton was the only student member of the ad hoc committee when the proposal was made.
ONE, TWO, THREE — Kent Clemence, the new ASSC president, counts one of many hand votes taken at Thursday's meeting of the ASSC Executive Council, at which Clemence presided for the first time. DT photo by Tony Korody.
Senator to speak Nov. 8
Sen. Fred Harris (D. - Okla.), an announced presidential candidate, will appear on campus as one of several prominent speakers participating in a symposium enfitled, “Money and Politics”. Nov. 8.
Sen. Harris, who declared his presidential candidacy last month, has based his campaign on what he terms “New Populism”. Basically, its appeal is aimed at a diverse coalition of the young, elderly, blacks, blue-collar workers, Chicanos, Indians, Vietnam veterans, and farmers.
Born 40 years ago on a southwest Oklahoma farm. Sen. Harris graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1952. Originally an attorney. Sen. Harris served in the Oklahoma State Senate for eight years, and has been a U.S. senator since 1964.
He was Democratic National Chairman for 13 months, and has authored two books, “Alarms and Hopes”, in 1968, and “Now Is the Time’*, in 1971. His wife, LaDonna. half-Coma-che Indian, is actively campaigning for her husband and defending the rights of her people.
“I mean to give people a voice through the campaign itself,” said Sen. Harris, when announcing his candidacy. “I intend to hold hearings on the problem of the elderly. I mean to visit the hospital wards with Vietnam
veterans ... to go into the prisons and to walk the streets where working men and women live. A campaign itself can give power to the powerless. I mean to do that.”
Columnist Tom Wicker, writing in the New York Times, said, “In the long run, (Sen. Harris) believes the winner at the Democratic Convention and over Mr. Nixon is going to be the candidate who lets the people know that if he's elected, things will change. The populist style is aimed at just that”.
In “Now Is the Time.” Sen. Harris discussed the details of his “New Populism”, the basis of which are the following: —redistribution of wealth, including income tax reform, a
higher minimum wage, income maintenance, guaranteed jobs, consumer protection and antitrust efforts,
—redistribution of power, including abolition of the congressional seniority system, national voter and community control of police forces and —restoration of idealism as the basis for U.S. foreign policy.
“By populism, I mean we ought to stand up for the people. We must stand against the interests which are entrenched so solidly that they have prevented the kind of urgent action I believe is desperately needed in this country." concluded Sen. Harris.
'The Dybbuk7 to begin run Nov. 6 in Bovard
Tickets are on sale for “The Dybbuk.” the Drama Division's first mainstage production of the season. Students may buy tickets from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today and throughout the next school week at a booth in the Commons lobby, next to the University Bookstore.
“The Dybbuk" is a tale of the supernatural, and young love and deals with the possession of a young woman by a dead
soul—a dybbuk.
Alex Segal, director of the production and the drama division's chairman, said the play fits in well with current interest in the occult, although the play is a classic originally written in Hebrew.
The drama will open Tuesday in Bovard Auditorium and continue through Saturday, Nov. 6. All performances will begin at
8	p.m.