ASSC to name election group
By PETER WONG Staff Writer
The appointments of three elections commissioners will be considered by the ASSC Executive Council today at 5p.m. in SU 311.
Though Joel Rosenzweig. vice-presi-dent for programs and acting ASSC president. would not disclose in advance the names of the nominees, he did say the new Elections Commission would be balanced politically, with one member each from the left, right and center.
Under the Elections Code, passed by the council only last week, commissioners will supervise the ASSC fall elections. set for Oct. 13-14 and 20-21. Their first duties will be to establish filing dates for candidates and a system of fines for code violations.
On the question of admissibility of the five presidential hopefuls who were in last spring's invalidated elections. Rosenzweig said the commissioners
would probably ask those running again in the fall elections to submit application during the filing period. Candidates who do not run again would not file.
However, the procedure is expected to be decided by the commissioners in consultation with the council, which has final approval. No matter how the council votes on the matter, the Student Court is scheduled to meet today or Wednesday to hear any appeals made on the council s decision.
In other business today, council members will review recommendations from the budgetary committee and examine several other monetary matters.
Of these, the most important will be a report on actions of the Fee Allocations Board, which is scheduled to meet this morning. The board plans to consider its policy on fees from medical students and on an increase in funds for the ASSC budget.
The board is expected to pay 100% of ASSC fees collected from medical students to the Associated Students of the School of Medicine (ASSM), the student government on the medical campus. Previously it was the policy of the board to grant only 50% in fees back to student organizations in all graduate schools.
The proposed action would stop any attempt by the ASSM to secede from the ASSC. as was proposed last week, because the funds from the $4.50 ASSC programming fee would now fully benefit medical students. The ASSM could then cut its present $6 fee to $1.50 and still retain an affiliation with the ASSC.
It was argued last week that because of medical students' distance from the University Park campus and their 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily schedule, they could not take advantage of ASSC activities. Therefore, they were wasting money in paying the ASSC fee — especially
since the ASSM had its own fees and activity program.
Medical students would be granted this change from fee board policy only because of their location from the main campus.
The fee board will also consider an increase in funds for the ASSC budget, which would set the current budget at $92,000, well above last year's $80,-000. Rosenzweig said the extra money would come from uniform imposition of ASSC fees on students with six or more units. Prior to this year, exemptions from the fees were granted by the university.
Council members may also look at the issue of matching funds for partial tuition remission for the top ASSC officers, proposed September 16 by the acting ASSC president, and a possible increase in student fees to boost the ASSC's program development fund.
University of Southern California
DAILY® TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 7
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1971
Cal tickets
Student rooter tickets for the USC-California football game at Berkeley, Oct. 30, will be on sale at the Student Union and Information Center ticket offices today.
Priced at $3, the student rooter tickets are available only to holders of activity books, one ticket per book.
The sale will run through Oct. 9.
Trope to head Student Senate
By JERRY TROWBRIDGE
Michael Trope was named president of the Student Senate in a senate executive council meeting held last Friday in Pacific Palisades.
The organization, once a part of the student government structure. is now a chartered USC organization much like a fraternity or sorority.
“We have no power to do anything to anybody, except of course to make investigations,” said Marshal Oldham, chairman of the senate's investigations committee. Oldham looks to a series of far-reaching investigations to reestablish the senate as a powerful body in the eyes of the students.
Faculty discusses pay
By LAURINDA KEYS Staff Writer
Discussions in the University Senate yesterday over faculty salary guidelines and a faculty/ staff insurance benefits program resulted in postponed action on both proposals, pending further study.
A minimum faculty salary proposal by the ad hoc senate committee on faculty salary guidelines was a major point of debate. It began when a dissenting addendum written by Michael Levine, committee member and associate professor of law. was passed out.
Levine said the universitv is
limited as to how low a salary it can pay an individual by the demand for that individual's services by other universities, and a grievance committee would solve problems of equity.
William Weber, assistant professor of chemistry, concurred with Levine's opinion, insisting that the university wanted to raise salaries as much as the faculty wanted them raised.
“Our business is to strive for excellence,” he said. “If we are excellent, the money will be there. If we are not, it won t be there.”
Arthur Adamson, professor of chemistry, also saw no need
for minimum salary. He said if a faculty member was worth more than he was getting paid, he would leave.
The chairman of the ad hoc committee objected to this, stating that in the 1970s there would be fewer places for dissatisfied faculty members to go.
Richard Hesse, assistant professor of quantitative business analysis, emphasized the new situation brought about by USC's membership in the American Association of Universities, which — he said - demanded less of a salary disparity not only within the university but among other universities.
“The thrust of the senate should be academic, rather than political,” said Jeff Birren, speaker of the Student Senate and alternate justice for the ASSC Student Court.
At the meeting held in his Pacific Palisades home. Birren proposed an investigation into English 101. Birren said he had serious doubts about the value of the course and looked to a large scale senate study to investigate it.
The University Senate (a university body of administrators and faculty) was named as the main recipient of that study. “That's really where the power in the end lies. They (the University Senate) obviously aren't going to take the initiative to investigate English 101.” said Birren.
Trope, who arrived after the meeting to learn of his presidential selection, announced that he would try to convince the university to offer alternatives to the foreign language requirement. Among the alternatives, Trope mentioned a foreign language semester to be spent in a country where the
chosen language is the native tongue.
The procedure for the removal of incompletes was also suggested for the scrutiny of the Student Senate. Eric Hammer-berg, who advanced the proposal. said that the present university procedure is unwieldy
—	particularly when it involves professors not currently teaching at the university.
Trope indicated a desire to “keep the Student Senate as impartial as possible to the politics of the ASSC,” but investigations would be made into certain ASSC practices.
In referring to the proposed ASSC procedures investigation, Steven Knowles, senate parlimentarian and chief justice of the Student Court, said, “Certain members of the ASSC are or were reputed to be involved in certain business dealings in which they have made money off the top.”
The senate will also look into the decision of the ASSC to deny the song girls an $850 transportation budget.
Gay lib to defy trustees
By TERI LOBREE Assistant Campus Editor
Larry Bernard and Del Whan, representatives and members of the Gay Liberation Forum (GLF), declared yesterday that the GLF will continue to meet as a student group this year.
Bernard said. “The ASSC declared the Board of Trustees decision to refuse recognition. null and void’ in a resolution unanimously passed last April 21. They said we would be provided with any campus facility normally allowed any recognized campus organization. That's exactly what we re going to do. use them."
He said. “We want a lot of people to know how society oppresses us, how the administration denies our rights. ,We weren't picketing or protesting, all we did was to present a piece of paper to the board asking for recognition.
When asked if the GLF planned to file another petition to the board, Bernard said. “We feel two separate petitions to them are sufficient.
“Some time during the semester, someone will go to the board and say ‘Hey, I thought you got rid of those people. What are they still doing here?' and at that point the Board of Trustees will be forced to act."
On Dec. 15. 1970. the GLF submitted their request for recognition to the administration. In January, the Student Activities Committee and Sub-Commit-tee on Student Housing and Organization (made up of faculty, students and administration) voted to recommend to the administration that the group be recognized.
Instead of granting recognition, the administration took the matter to the
Board of Trustees, which on April 14 voted 11-8 not to grant recognition. The GLF filed a second petition and was refused once again in June, 1971.
Bernard said, “We feel we have to continue with our meetings. None of use are campus politicos, we re just average students. The only difference is we're gay or bi.
“We feel the need to reach out to other people at USC who are the same way. Not having an outlet has resulted in suicide, alcoholism, and drug addiction for many of them. The lives of these students are literally at stake and we will not give up our goal."
Bernard said the GLF is planning a series of meetings which will be held off campus. “The first two meetings will be a sort of consciousness raising. An interaction to help gay people get their heads together. After these, we have a regular program of meetings, each on a different subject."
“Some of the topics will be. Religion and the Homosexual.’ Gays Since Before Christ,' and ‘Women s Liberation.' "
he said.
Ms. Whan said. “In our first few meetings we will talk about how sexism affects gays. Sexism affects all people, it limits our human precepts."
Bernard said that GLF is premiering a film documentary made by a student in the Cinema Department entitled. “Gay Liberation: First Six Months." The film is the storv of the Biltmore Rebellion.
Ms. Whan explained the Biltmore Rebellion occurred when 50 or 60 homosexuals held a seminar on curing homosexuals with electric shock, at the Biltmore Hotel and caused a stir.
Bernard said. “People ask us what all the fuss is about. Gay people are simply fed up with shouldering the guilt of the so-called straight society because of the hypocritical ways in which they behave. We will stand up and show them we have the same human capacities to love and hate as everyone else. We will go forward into a new humanity where gay people are proud and no longer afraid or ashamed."