University of Southern California
DAILY a TROJAN
VOL. LXIV
NO. 22
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1971
Senate calls for power
By LAURINDA KEYS Staff Writer
The University Senate expressed frustration yesterday over what many members consider to be their impotency in influencing university affairs. They passed two motions that would require the administration to give them more say.
Arnold Dunn, chairman of the faculty group, said, “I feel, with these motions, we can do something. If we don’t, we might as well break up and go back to our laboratories and our students.”
The motions ask that elected faculty representatives be seated on all planning committees
of any sort and that all university task force recommendations be processed through regular university committees.
Dunne, who at one time refused to serve in the senate because he felt it was an impotent body, began the meeting by stating that he felt it would begin to have a more important voice in administrative decisions.
The senators did not agree. J. Wesley Robb, professor of religion, said he was dissatisfied with President Hubbard's statements that the senate should be concerned with housekeeping matters, while the administration's committees are concerned with long range goals.
Richard Hesse, secretary of the senate, said that the senate can advise the administration but. “we have to be asked. Our authority is zero.”
Hesse said. “The administration's basic line is. Trust me'.
“We are told that we will get a report, but when we do we have no more information than we did before.” he said.
Douglas Basil, professor of management, expressed the senate's desire to have President Hubbard appear before the body to explain the long delays in implementing their suggestions.
Dunne said he would get the president to come to the next meeting.
Cities termed obsolete
By JULIE DELANY
The city as it exists now is outmoded. We have outgrown cities. The city simply doesn't serve its purpose anymore. Meryl Ruoss, director of Urban Semester, told a graduate dialogue supper on Tuesday evening at the Religious Center.
“My thesis is that the city is obsolete,” he said. “The concept is of no use to modern man; they never get around to identifying what they deal with. ”
“The city as a concept is a very ancient one,” he added. Archeological studies show that cities and urban dwellings are several thousand years old.
Cities were established in their earliest form as religion rituals of tribes, he said. Tribes came together and deliberately created cities. They paid allegiance to their city and ultimately developed as human beings with a sense of citizenship.
In the United States it is important to understand why there is a dilemma. “Citizenship never meant this. We've always been schizophrenic. We try to make a city become a nation at the same time, he said.”
This has begun to develop a new kind of entity that is no longer a city. “We are no longer cities,” he said. “We are met-ropolities,” (“Polity” meaning “a cohesive unit.”)
The problem is that cities don't know how to deal with the interdependent metropolis. “Freedom is in our hands and we don't know7 how to use it,” he said.
What is emerging is a nation of urban regions. “We are an urbanizing nation for the first time in civilization,” he said. “This is a unique time we are living in that nobody has been faced with.
“We are still caught up in the
19th century mentality in approaching social and cultural reality. Cities are outmoded, they don’t deal with civilizing problems.
“Hopefully,” he said, “this generation and future generations will reach new levels of consciousness, and say,‘that’s not where we are. we re over here'. And until we reach new levels of consciousness we won’t know where we are going.”
But most important is that “we must take the metropolity seriously,” he said.
Apparently, since the city has not been able to satisfy the needs of it’s citizens, it can be justifiably warranted obsolete.
In turn, the development of the metropolity as a replacement for the city will be able to more readily deal with our social, cultural and political needs, Ruoss said.
Frosh runoffs will end today
Today is the last day of voting in the runoff election between Bob Glushon and Dan Strong for freshman representative.
Polls will be open in front of Bovard Auditorium between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Freshmen must present their ID cards to be eligible to vote.
Hubbard offers to aid MECHA
By PETER WONG Staff Writer
President Hubbard said Wednesday he would find office space for MECHA, the Chicano student organization, if the Student Union Board does not resolve the problem soon.
Meanwhile, the board will meet again at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Student Union 307 to reconsider MECHA’s application for office space in the Student Union through new hearings.
“I am not trying to intrude in any way into the Student Union Board’s decision, but I am convinced that MECHA is deserving of more space for their activities than is currently provided,” Dr. Hubbard said after he met with MECHA members Wednesday morning.
“If it is not possible to satisfy their needs through the Student Union Board, then an alternate solution will be found.”
He said that the meeting gave him a better understanding of MECHA's activities and problems. “No one suggests that space alone is the ultimate solution to every problem they confront.”
Mary Ann Pacheco, a MECHA spokesman, said she thought the meeting with Dr. Hubbard was productive, and that MECHA would now concentrate its efforts on the presentation to the Student Union Board on Tuesday.
However, she would not say whether MECHA planned any action beyond next week.
In a meeting Wednesday, the Student Union Board agreed that new information presented by MECHA on Tuesday justified a reconsideration of MECHA's original application for office space in the Student Union, which had been turned down by the board Monday.
The board also received a request from Kent Clemence, the new ASSC president, for a review7 of current space allocation to ASSC agencies.
Therefore, board members will rehear the requests of MECHA and the ASSC concerning office space on Tuesday. The new hearings will be considered the final appeal for all groups.
For the hearings, the board asked that all groups that ap-
plied for office space in the Student Union before Oct. 8 submit statements to the Student Activities Center by 5 p.m. Friday.
The board will use these statements for background information.
Groups that are appealing their requests were asked to list programs and their purposes, financial support and present location. The board also asked the groups to classify their programs as either community-oriented or student-oriented.
The groups were requested to tell what they would do with their office space if the board decided to allocate space, whether or not they were considered to be service organizations and why, and what political activities they sponsored, if any.
“If a group considers themselves part of the ASSC, then it is up to the ASSC to request office space for that group,” the board said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.
“All independent clubs and organizations will be considered on their own merits.”
In its original decision Monday to deny office space to MECHA. the board said MECHA was not ASSC-affiliated and that its activities were directed to the community rather than to the campus.
Gary Wayland, chairman of the board, said that Dr. Hubbard's comments after the meeting with MECHA members did not change the situation, and that the board would proceed with its hearings Tuesday.
Wayland said he understood that Dr. Hubbard had offered space to MECHA in a building other than the Student Union. However, Dr. Hubbard did not make any reference to any specific building in his comments.
Meanwhile, the investigation of the incident that touched off the entire controversy—the takeover of the third floor of the Student Union by some 50 Chicano students Monday afernoon—is continuing.
Robert Mannes, dean of student life, requested the chairman of the university's Student Life Committee on Tuesday to appoint a fact-finding panel to investigate complaints about the incident, and to recommend any necessary action.
OPEN WIDE — Kingland Woo, a junior majoring in Asian studies, takes advantage of the services offered by the Mobile Dental Clinic, which will be on campus today until 3:30 p.m. The clinic gives free dental examinations, x-rays and diagnoses to USC students, staff and faculty. Patients will be notified of the findings and may either contact their own dentist for further work or become patients at the School of Dentistry. DT photo by Will Hertzberg.
Experimental College to begin classes tonight
The Experimental College will begin tonight with the first meeting of an astrology workshop taught by Ralph Sterling.
Sterling is a professional astrologer who usually holds these workshops for a fee.
Although classes are scheduled to begin next Monday, Sterling’s class will be held tonight at 7:30 in the von KleinSmid Centerall. This is due to tonight’s favorable position of the stars, Sterling said.
There is no preregistration for the class. To become a class member all that is required is attendance at the first meeting.
Classes will also meet Monday regardless of the university holiday.
A table has been set up in front of Tommy Trojan where Experimental College catalogs are available. Registration is not required for any class except Leo Buscaglia’s love class. Enrollment for this class is limited
to 50.
An addition to the catalog is also available at the Experimental College table. Some new classes as well as time and location changes have been made. The new classes are in Scientology, concepts of room acoustical control and mystical insights.
Mike Clark, Experimental College committee chairman, explained the purpose of the program saying, “Experimental College is for the student who wants to become more aware of different subjects he can’t learn about in the university.”
Clark said that the program is geared to small groups and is entirely organized by students. Courses are taught by faculty from the university, students who have ideas for classes and have information they feel would interest others, or people from outside the university who think that their topics would be appealing.