CONSTITUTION PROVIDES ADVISERS
(Editor’s Note: This is the last in a series of five articles dealing with the new constitution students ill vote on todav and tomorrow.) By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH
Tlie Southern California Association (SCA) Constitution states that a staff consultant may be appointed by the Dean of Students to serve as a nonvoting member of the SCA Council and the Personnel Commission.
The convention hopes that this consultant would act as a historian, coordinating the activities and legislations of the present council with those of past councils.
The SCA Council may also ask the Dean of Students to appoint permanent faculty consultants to any committees and commissions that it may designate to act. again, as a coordinator.
Article VIII of the constitution outlines the method for petitioning the Council to hold special elections.
A petition containing the signatures of 10
per cent of the student body and presented to the Council requires the Council to call an election within three weeks of receipt of the petition.
“Any proposals approved by a majority of the members of the SCA voting at such an election shall become law in the same manner as a bill approved by a majority of the Council,” the constitution continues.
However, a petition will be deemed ineffective unless the signatures are “certified by the Registrar or accompanied by other evidence of authenticity satsfactory to the Council.”
Article IX states: “Proposed amendments to this constitution may be introduced and approved
at any regular or special meeting for submission to the voters of tlie SCA by a two-thirds Council vote.”
Amendments to the constitution may also be made if a petition containing the signatures of 25 per cent of the student body calling for a special election is presented to the Council.
A two-thirds student vote and approval of the president of the university will be required to ratify such an amendment.
The power to accept petitions and call elections was invested in the ASSC Senate under the old constitution. Under the SCA Constitu-tution, however, the Council takes over most of the Senate’s former duties, and the Senate is nonexistent.
Another important change concerns the method of ratificiation.
A two-thirds, rather than a majority, vote is needed to pass an amendment.
The final article of the SCA Constitution, Ar-
ticle X, says: “All existing constitutions, charters, by-laws, rules and regulations which are inconsistent herewith shall be repealed after approval of this constitution by a majority of tlie student body casting votes in a ratification election and by the president of the university.”
The individuals sent as delegates to the constitutional convention feel that student government, in its revised form, is worth continuing.
But an opposite view was taken by John Betinis in a statement shortly before his election: “The facts point to the absolute necessity of abolishing this cancerous growth (the ASSC government) which has infected our campus for so long.
“When such a growth is allowed to linger, the entire body becomes infected. This is what is happening at USC. We must cut off the growth; we must abolish student government.”
The students will make the final decisions todav and tomorrow.
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Vol. XVI		LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1965	No. 85
SCA Constitution Set for Vote
2 Delegates Defend Presidential Clause
Two members of the Constitutional Convention have defended the presidential candidate qualification clause of the proposed constitution.
The clause was attacked Monday by John Sullivan, convention delegate from the Interfraternity Council.
Richard Takagaki. junior
class president and delegate to the convention, and Brooke Gabrielson, chairman of the convention, both defended the clause. They also charged-Sullivan with failing to attend many meetings of the con-1 vention during the drafting of1 the constitution.
Takagaki stated that John |
One of the most pressing problems of married students on campus is the need to establish a liaison with the university, a committee of married students decided Monday.
Possible improvements in married students' housing were also considered at the meeting.
The needs of married students on campus were brought out in a survey conducted last month by the committee.
Alien Cultures
“An opinion was expressed that the university and the married students' housing seem to be two alien cultures." a report issued by the committee said.
It also said that something must be done to bring them closer together.
Dean of Students Paul A. Bloland welcomed a committee for the new married students because it wil help them to get acquainted with USC.
Most of the students surveyed the thought that a recreation hall would promote social as well as intellectual endeavors. They suggested that the hall be equipped with
Sullivan missed four of the five weeks work that the convention spent on the constitution. During this time, the convention studied recommendations presented by a subcommittee which analyzed and attempted to define the purpose, meaning and substance of student government.
| ment.
The convention also studied I recommendations made by Dean of Students Paul Bloland and by an Ad Hoc Committee chaired by Dr. Carl Cristol and Dr. Fred Krinsky.
“Studying these recommen-game rooms, lounges and dis- dations the convention con-! cussion rooms.	eluded that one of the three
Housing Supervisor Phyllis I functions of student govern-F. Fetter pointed out that the ment is ‘to provide the edu-married students' dorms have cational experience of self-been treated as an indepen- government for the entire dent unit rather than as a student body and to provide
Married Students Seek Closer University Ties
residence hall where pro- f°r tlie development and grams are coordinated by the training of mature and reuniversity.	sponsible student leaders,
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One proposal accepted by	, . !,
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the committee which will bei °
instituted by next fall is a	Trained Leaders
brochure that will contain in-i This emphasis on the edu-formation helpful to married: cational experience and destudents.
Other ways suggested to promote a greater relationship with the university were intramural sports (incorporated into the URA program) and faculty discussion groups.
Live-in Faculty The possibility of having a staff member or campus pastor live in the married students’ dorms to act as a co-ordinator-counselor was also suggested.
The survey showed a desire for an overall organization to carry out the committee's proposals.
Marlynn May, chairman of the committee, said small committees will be formed to begin work on the programs until an overall committee can be formed next fall.
Blood Donations Topple Record
One hundred forty-five pints of blood were given yesterday, more than doubling last year's first day total of 62 pints.
“This is still not enough,” stated Roger Rosendahl, blood-drive chairman.
“To go over last year’s total we must average more than 145 pints per day.”
Blood may be given until Friday at the University Methodist Church, 817 W. 34th St. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Anyone between the ages of 18 and 60 who weighs at least 110 pounds and is in good health may participate. Those under 21 must have the written permission of a parent or guardian.
Each person who gives blood is entitled to life time access to the Red Cross Blood
Bank. He will also receive an “I did it” ribbon.
Trophies will be given to campus groups for the highest amount blood given.
Knights, the service organization sponsoring the drive, will give a perpetual trophy to the group with the most contributions. The Interfraternity Council will present one to the fraternity house with the greatest percentage.
Two trophies will be given by the Red Cross, one for the highest percentage and one for the largest number of pints given.
Blood is needed for three reasons: to replace the depleting supply, for research, and for derivatives used in treatment of specific maladies.
Blood derivatives are used to treat shock and bums,
velopment of mature, trained leaders enables student government to stay within the education process of the university. It also attempts to guarantee responsible leaders in our student government, he continued.
“It would thus seem highly improbable that such a thorough study and proposal will occur for several years if this proposed constitution is defeated,” Takagaki said.
Gabrielson said, “Sullivan assumes that the success or failure of the constitution will be entirely independent of the clause dealing with the experience requirement. It was the convention’s feeling, however, that this section would be vital for the success of student government in the future.
More Experience
“The proposed SCA Constitution insures that in the future there will be an SCA President who will have more experience in student government than the last two ASSC presidents combined,” h e added.
He added that to specify experience as prerequisite for SCA president is no more an abridgment of the' democratic process than to state that any candidates for that office must have maintained a 2.5 grade-point average.
“It is no more restrictive than having an IFC president who knows something of the fraternity system.”
The clause (found in Article IV, Part 4, Section 7) reads: “Any candidate for the office of SCA President, except a candidate for that office in the first election held under this Constitution, shall have served for one year as a voting member or nonvoting member of the Council or as a chairman of a Commission ...”
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DAILY TROJAN EDITORIAL
An Inadequate Replacement
The newly proposed SCA Constitution has set forth three admirable goals. Certainly No. 1 should be able to take issue with a document promising to provide “free exchange of ideas.” “enrich university life,” and to “provide educational experience of self-government for the entire student body.”
It is with regret then that the Daily Trojan must find fault with three clauses in the proposed constitution, inherently weak in themselves, and contradicted by those very goals.
The first, and perhaps most glaring, is found in Article IV. It deals with the qualifications for student body president.
The clause, conceived for the puriwse of providing capable student leadership, demands that a candidate for that office have been a voting or non-voting member of student council or chairman of a commission for at least one year prior to his candidacy.
While at first glance such qualifications may seem deserving of merit, in actual fact they entirely ignore the very reason that the SCA Constitution is being considered at all — the election of John Betinis.
Betinis’s election was a protest vote. In the future, under this document, there could be no such recourse.
In addition, this clause would effectively eliminate all other qualified candidates who have for any number of reasons not served on student council.
It would exclude fraternity and sorority presidents and their subordinates; officers of Knights, Squires, Chimes, Spurs; and subordindate officers of AMS and AWS.
Also excluded would be dorm and
other housing presidents; it would force all junior college transfers to go to graduate school to even become eligible; it would ignore the president of Blackstonians and like officers in other professional societies; and of course, the remaining 90 per cent of the student body who also have not served on the Student Council.
The clause is not only a slap in the face to USC students, it ignores basic principles of freedom of choice. Possibly worst of all, it allows a small group the advantage of deciding among themselves who shall head the government.
Its springboard nature distorts out of all proportion the dimensions of the offices within tlie student council by making election to these offices crucial to ambitious politicians, inviting corruption and encouraging dishonesty.
The second inherent disadvantage to the SCA Constitution is the establishment of a Personnel Commission. This commission is selected by another commission, made tyi of the president, vice-presidents and representatives of the deans’ offices.
It recommends and recruits candidates to yet other commissions eventually appointed by the council or the president or vice-president. If it sounds confusing, it is.
The Daily Trojan finds such policy to be not only wasteful, bureaucratic and time-consuming, but unnecessarily involving the administration in student affairs.
Furthermore, since Article V stipulates that SCA vice-presidents shall have been voting members of a commission, it does to a degree make such an appointment a political plum.
Thus a potential vice-presiden-(Continued on Page 2)
Fate of ASSC Will Ride On 2-Day Election
Students will accept or reject the Southern California Association (SCA) Constitution drafted by the Constitutional Convention today and tomorrow.
The election will be held from 0 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Alumni Park, in front of Doheny Library.
Students must present ID cards to vote. They must also f A be carrying 12 or more units \J\JVCr I 11 (J f if they are undergraduates.
Graduates must be carrying /V, _ f‘ r A a eight or more units.	I TCllS65 i ; / I
The SCA Constitution requires that the president	u serve one year either as a Du/iv/uCiv/f voting or nonvoting member
of the SCA Council or as a Governor Pat Brown has commission chairman.	commended Dr. Arm d
The constitution does not Hammer, president of Occi-exclude graduate students dental Petroleum Corporation, from running for student f°r his gift of more than SI body office	million worth of paintings to
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Prerequisites Needed
The two vice-presidents es- Iu a letter to Dr. Hammer,
tablished by the new consti- Governor Brown wrote:
tution must have served as “On behalf of all Califor-
voting or nonvoting council nians, I express my sincere
members or as members of appreciation for your extra-
one of the student commis- vagant act of generosity
sions.	which will be enjoyed-—not
Class presidents must be Jus^ hy the staff and students
members of the classes they °f the university-
represent for at least one full semester after their election.
A Personnel Commission will be appointed at the time of each general election to screen applicants for SCA secretary and treasurer on the recommendation of the president.
Voting Procedures Election Commissioner
but by art lovers of the State and of the West.
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“The magnitude and magnificence of your presentation is truly overwhelming. Dr. Hammer.
“Please accept the heartfelt gratitude of the State of California.”
Official presentation of the
Mary Gumbinger warns that private Armand Hammpr Col-disciplinary action will be lection of 50 old masters of taken against any students the 15th through the 17th trying to vote twice.	centuries was made during a
At the opposite extreme are black-tie dinner in Town and those who don’t vote at all. Gown Foyer March 10. Dr. she says.	Norman Topping officially
“People here don’t use their received the collection for the right to vote. We’re running university, a clean, fair election, but we Los Angeles Mayor Samuel need in return the support of Yorty took part in the cere-the student body,” said Mary mony on behalf of the citizens Ann.	of Los Angeles.
Tis a Fine Day
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For the Irish
By PAM MARIN that some invading Norsemen
“Top o’ the morning to heard of a “Paudrig.” which
you.” '	to them meant “toad-ex-
Aye, ’tis St. Paddy's Day. peller.”
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o the Green.	gj. Patrick had expelled toads
March 17 brings to. the from Ireland/rhe legend ^
mind of any loyal Ins man and jn time was believed (or Irishwoman) St. Patrick,igt Patrick had banished nat who banished snakes from ^ toadg feut snakes from Ireland and used the sham- the count rock as a symbol of the Trinity	1 Another legend concerns Or did he? St. Patrick's using a sham-“Much that is known of St. rock to explain the doctrine Patrick is pure legend,” says the Trinity. Stories say St. Father Laurence Donnelly of Patrick held the shamrock the USC Newman Center. before King Laegaire of Ire-St. Patrick’s life is im- Jand as an argument for the mersed in fiction as well as Trinity.
fact.	.	“The truth is that the Irish
“Since there were never people had worn the sham-any snakes in Ireland, St. Pat- rock because it had a resem-rick could never have ban- blance to the cross, not be-ished them,” Father Donnelly cause St. Patrick used it to added.	symbolize the Trinity,” Fa-
The story is now legend ther Donnelly concluded.
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