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University of Southern California
VOL. LXIV NO. 8
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1971
ASSC council appoints election commissioners
BULLETIN The Student Court ruled last night that the ASSC fall presidential ballot will be limited to those candidates who ran in the presidential election last spring. Write-in votes will be illegal.
Steve Knowles, chief justice of the court, announced the majority decisions at 9:45 p.m. He said that candidates running again in the fall presidential election will be required to file with the ASSC office.
In an advisory opinion to the ASSC Executive Council, the court said, “Those who can’t serve (in office) can’t run.” However, Knowles did not elaborate.
By PETER WONG Staff Writer
The ASSC Executive Council unanimously approved the appointments of three elections commissioners Tuesday, as well as several details for the fall elections.
However, the council left the question of presidential candidates open in asking the ASSC Student Court for interpretations on three issues — who may file in the presidential race, who may run, and who will be listed on the ballot.
The court began its deliberations shortly after the council ad-
journed at 6:45 p.m. Steve Knowles, chief justice of the court, said that the court's decisions were expected to be is-used before midnight.
At the council meeting, Joel Rosenzweig, vice-president for programs and acting ASSC president, presented his nominations to the Elections Commission — Pat Nolan, senior and member of Young Americans for Freedom; Nader Oskoui, graduate student and a former elections commissioner: and Lauren Sherman, junior and a member of the university's Student Aid Committee.
The nominations were to give the commission political balance, Rosenzweig said, as he classified the nominees as representative of the liberal, conservative and middle-of-the-road factions in student politics.
His appointments were approved. 11-0.
In other business concerning the fall elections, the council agreed on the following procedures:
•	The primary will be held Oct. 13-14. with a runoff Oct. 20-21, if necessary.
•	Candidates may file in the ASSC office (Student Union 309) starting at noon today for ASSC president. Associated Men Stud-
ents president, freshman representative and graduate representative.
•	Filing will be allowed until the deadline of 4 p.m. Monday, at which time the candidates for all offices will meet with the Elections Commission to review campaign procedures.
•	Formal campaigning may begin at 7 p.m. Monday.
The council designated Lee Blackman, vice-president for academic affairs, to file a cause-of-action suit with the Student Court, requesting the justices to determine several controversial issues in the presidential race.
•	Will write-in votes be acceptable in the primary?
•	Is the new primary limited to those five candidates in the original presidential election last spring, which wras finally declared invalid by President Hubbard? Or may others who were not on the original ballot now run for ASSC president? And must all five original candidates appear on the fall ballot?
•	Who is eligible to run for president? Those who were eligible last spring, or those who have since qualified in the interim period?
Two juniors disappear
By DENISE GARTLAND
Two USC juniors vanished Friday and both the Los Angeles Police Department and Campus Security are searching for clues to their disappearance.
Laurel Ann Ford, a 19-vear-old junior transfer, has been missing since leaving a Russian 120 class Friday afternoon at 1:55 p.m. Paul Edward Woodward, a 20-year-old junior, was last seen Friday evening after working a two-hour shift in College Library.
Ms. Ford is described as Caucasian. 51. 100 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes. She was last seen wearing a beige blouse, purple striped pants and black shoes.
Friday afternoon she left her off-campus apartment with her boyfriend. John Ackerman, and they walked to school together. After her class she spent a few minutes talking to her teacher but that was the last time anyone saw her.
She and Ackerman had made plans to meet at her apartment at 5 p.m. for dinner but he returned there after his class at 3 p.m. and she was not there. He said that they had been very close for about two years and that there was no friction between them and that Ms. Ford had seemed to be in the best of spirits.
Ackerman continued to go back to the apartment about every half hour but began to seriously worry when she did not return at 5 p.m. He had the landlord let him into the apartment where everything was just as they had left it earlier that afternoon.
Ackerman then contacted Campus Security and with them began to call the hospitals and the police. He continued to return to the apartment every half hour and drove around the area with friends searching for her.
He called the airlines to see if she might have possibly flown to her parents’ home in Maine. He had hesitated calling her parents so as not to alarm them but he did finally call Saturday afternoon but they had not seen or heard from her.
After 24 hours he filed a missing persons report with the Southwest Division on Santa Barbara Avenue. However, the police said that they could not put a detective detail on the case until Monday unless they had evidence of foul play.
Ackerman, unable to speed up police action, continued with his own checking. He found Ms. Ford's address book and called all of her friends but no one had seen or heard from her.
Monday, Ackerman again went to the police station and the police searched her apartment that night and found everything untouched. She had not returned and all she had with her. besides what Ackerman described as skimpy clothes, was a purse, very little cash and her Russian book.
Ackerman said. “I’m just praying that she just went off somewhere to think ..
The leads to Paul Woodward's disappearance are just as few. Woodward, who is described as a male Caucasian. 5 8, 135 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, was last seen wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt and olive slacks.
Woodward left College Library Friday at 5 p.m. and went to the Hancock Building to add an ecology class. He then returned to the library to tell a friend that he had gotten into the class but when she was not there he decided to go to her dorm.
One friend saw him walking west on Childs Way sometime between 4:50 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. but could not place it at a specific time, leaving the question open as to whether it was before or after his visit to the library.
The meal register at his dormitory, Town & Gown, was checked but he had not signed in for dinner that night. Woodward's roommate became concerned when he did not appear for work at the library the next morning, nor had he called in, which he had never done before. His roommate called Campus Security, all emergency rooms and the Police Department. He then called Woodward's mother and friends who said that they had not seen him. His mother filed a missing persons report with the police Sunday night and when Woodward did not return for classes Monday, the concern grew since he is described as studious and considerate enough not to worry anyone needlessly.
All of the people he had come in contact with before his disappearance said that he was in a good mood and there seemed to be no indication of anything unusual in his behaviour. Woodward evidently never returned to his dorm room since all of his possessions were intact. Woodward, who has poor eyesight, disappeared without his glasses, contact lense cleaner, checkbook or jacket.
There seems to be no connection between the disappearances. If anyone has any information about either of the students please contact investigator John Doll at 485-2806 or John Ackerman at 731-1745.
Court chances 'silly' to discuss — Nelson
By GUNTHER MERLI Staff Writer
”It seems too silly to even comment about," said Dorothy Nelson, dean of the Law School, about her chances of being nominated by President Nixon to fill one of the two vacated Supreme Court seats.
Dean Nelson. 42, has been recommended for the post bv Sen. Edward Brooke (R.-Mass.). whom she worked with during a conference on children at the White House last December.
She was also among six wom-
en recommended by the National Women's Political Caucus.
An aide of Sen. Brooke informed Dean Nelson last Thursday that she had been recommended. Since then she has been deluged by newsmen seeking interviews.
Suggested along with Dean Nelson was Judge Shirley Huf-stedler of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles. Judge Hufstedler is a member of the board of councilors for the Law Center and an honorary member of the Order
of the Coif, a law scholarship
society.
Dean Nelson spoke very highly of Judge Hufstedler, citing her great deal of experience as a trial court judge. “I feel very strongly that whatever boost I can give Judge Hufstedler. I will give her,” she said.
She was concerned that Judge Hufstedler's chances might be limited by the fact that she is a Democrat being scrutinized by a Republican president. Mr. Nixon's two previous appoint-
ees to the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Associate Justice Harrv Black-mun, are considered to be conservatives. Dean Nelson herself is a political independent.
When asked why she tought she had been suggested. Dean Nelson replied. “Anatomy is destiny." In other words, she is one of the few qualified women at a time when a woman is being sought to sit on the Supreme Court.
She is the only woman dean of an accredited law school in
the United States, having been dean for five years. She is also an expert in the field of judicial administration. She spoke last February at a conference on this subject, along with President Nixon and Chief Justice Burger.
“It is generally conceded that a man will get on seat and. maybe, a woman will get the other." said Dean Nelson. She continued that the first nomination will probably come next week, but “it's difficult to say how long this will take."