PETITIONS, APPEALS, PLEAS
Firing of Vick Ignites Hot Controversy
GEORGE VICK
No Fh D. — No lob
By GREG KIESELMANN DT Editor
Administrative attempts to discharge George Vick, instructor in philosophy, have precipitated widespread student response in his behalf.
Petitions are being circulated among students, written appeals have been made to several members of the Board of Trustees and additional pleas have been made to administrators who have refused to renew Vick’s contract for next year.	*
A loose, leaderless organization of students supporting Vick has reportedly been formed. One of its members, Ron Jernigan, told the Daily Trojan that some students are extremely upset over the firing of Vick, and that these individuals “are considering steps that could cause this university to get a black eye in the community.”
Jernigan, in a letter to Trustee Henry Salvatori. said Vick is being fired largely because he has not yet completed his doctoral work. A secondary reason given was that USC traditionally does not hire its own graduates unless they have had other experience.
Another student involved in Vick's cause, who asked to remain anonymous, told the DT that talks with Dr. I. Wesley Robb, interim director of the School of Philosophy, substantiated the belief that Vick was being fired because
of issues “involving his Ph.D. and the university’s desire to avoid in-breeding.”
Robb also was reported to have said that there were other issues involved which could not be discussed with students.
Vick has completed all his doctoral work except for his dissertation, which he is presently working on. He received a BA. from Yale, where he won numerous awards and honors, and an M.A. from USC.
He later received a Ce-.’tificate of Studies after three years at L’Ecole de Theologie de St. Maximin-Var. and then earned a degree of Lectorate of Sacred Theology after studying four years at the College of St. Albert the Great. Both degrees are rated close, if not equal, to a Ph.D.
He has been on the University Senate for over a year and is a member of the University Committee on Undergraduate Affairs.
When contacted by the D.T.. Vick said he did not want to get directlv involvpd in the student efforts to retain him. But he did confess that he would like to stay at USC.
“A lot of students have asked me if I would want to come back,” Vick said.
“I feel I have fairly deep roots here, and I've told these students I would definitely consider coming back after a year.”
Vick said he ha* received recommendations for his retention from Dr. William Werkmeister, former director of the School of Philosophy; Dr. Paul Weiss, Sterling professor of philosophy at Yale; Dr. Geddes MacGregor, distinguished professor of religion; and Dr. John Wisdom, distinguished visiting professor of philosophy from the University of London.
Jernigan, in his letter to Salvatori, said Vick “has earned the deserving devotion of almost all the students who have taken his very full and popular classes. His lectures are interesting and stimulating, and he is particularly gifted at the clear explication of the most difficult and complex subjects in a manner understandable to all.”
Another student working in Vick’s behalf. Bob Braun. ASSC vice-president of student affairs, predicted that the ASSC would eventually involve itself in the controversy.
“Because of the amount of student involvement the ASSC can't remain passive, otherwise it wouldn't be a legitimate channel of student opinion.” he said.
He said that students, by remaining passive, are responsible for the loss of good teachers, but added that Vick's dismissal might reverse the trend of student apathy.
“This situation typifies a deep-rooted problem on this campus. Student tolerance was lowered with the discharge of Charles Hadwin last year and the demotion of Delmore Scott. Something might explode now.”
University of Southern California
DAILY f> TROJAN
Council Upholds Signature Rule
VOL. LVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1967
NO. 75
Legalized Abortion To Be Forum Topic
Legalized abortion, one of the few topics of concern that religious leaders and students have in common, will be discussed at the weekly meeting of the Trojan Young Democrats today at neon in 102 Von KleinSmid Center.
Urging legalization of abortion in the talk will be Jim Biltchik. public information officer for the California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion.
TYD President Shelley Linderman explained his organization is presenting Biltchik’s speech as an informative session and will not take a stand pro or con on the issue.
“The whole purpose of this type of forum is to open the minds of the students on campus to some of the controversial issues being discussed today,” Linderman said.
Biltchik is the first of a series of speakers dealing with controversial subjects that TYD plans to sponsor this semester.
Future speakers will discuss legalization of marijuana and Black Power.
TYD is rebuilding this semester after having sunk into relative obscurity during the past year and a half, while their counterpart. Trojan Young Republicans, have gained the ascendancy.
Since Linderman's election late
School Board Candidate Will Speak
Dr. Manuel H. Guerra, assistant professor of Spanish and a candidate for the Board of Education, will address a meeting of Trojan Young Republicans tomorrow at noon in 13.°. Founders Hall.
He is running for office three in the Los Angeles Public Schools Board of Education.
Dr. Guerra agrees with the Reagan administration's program of economy and feels that the taxpayer deserves more for his tax dollar in terms of quantitative and qualitative education, Richard Shirley, TYR publicity chairman, said.
Dr. Guerra is executive officer of the Modern Language Association of Southern California and president of the Southern California chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portugese.
He received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.A. und Ph.D. in Spanish studies and Latin American history from the University of Michigan.
He believes there is a need for a qualified Mexican-American on' the Board of Education to understand this minority group.
A general meeting of TYR will follow the speech. Topics to be discussed inculde resolutions and NSA affiliation, the latter of which has been the subject of a TYR-initiated and TYD-supported petition calling for a referendum on the issue. The ASSC Executive Council has already voted to affiliate with the National Students Association.
last semester. TYD has participated in the March to Sacramento, and has urged students to sign TYR’s petition on the NSA referendum.
Biltchik is the spokesman for one of several California lobbies planning to present the state legislature with a bill asking for the legalization of abortion.
Under these plans, abortion would be permissible by a physician in cases wherein the birth of the child would prove detrimental to that child’s future welfare.
The question of whether to legalize abortion has been the topic of several other panel discussion on campus in the past, the most recent of which was presented by the Law Center last spring.
NATURE PHONE—There are now three such booths at strategic points on campus — at University Ave. and Childs Way, in front of Founders Hall,
emergency line.
and in the park between the dorms. Each includes an
Troy Camp Pebbles' -
Movies - Seasons/ Lead in Oscar Race
By NICK SPANOS Entertainment Editor
This semester's two Troy Camp benefits, “A Man for All Seasons” and “The Sand Pebbles,” along with “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” dominated the Academy Award nominations for this year’s Oscars.
“Seasons” and “Pebbles” each received a total of eight nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, while “Virginia Woolf” led the pack with 13. All three films were nominated for Best Picture.
“Seasons” will be screened on Saturday, March 4. at 10 a.m., at the Beverly Hills Music Hall Theater, on Wilshire Boulevard at Robertson Boulevard.
Tickets, priced at $1.75, will be available at the Student Activities Center in the YWCA this week, and at a ticket booth in front of the Student Union next week.
“The Sand Pebbles” will be shown in April.
The two benefit films are vying in three other categories:
• Best Actor— Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More in “Seasons” and
FASHION CONTEST DEADLINE TODAY
Today is the deadline for USC’s Best-Dressed Coed contest. Application blanks must be returned to the envelope on the door of Ihe Daily Trojan Society Office before 5 p m.
The contest, sponsored by the Daily Trojan, will select a best-dressed coed to enter in Glamour magazine's America’s Ten Best Dressed College Girls contest.
Entrants will be judged on understanding of fashion type, individuality, use of colors, imagination, good grooming and attractiveness in the three categories of sporty casual, campus wear, and short cocktail dresses.
Any coed taking more than 12 units is eligible to enter. She must he sponsored by a recognized organization and pay a $2 entry fee.
Steve McQueen as the engine-room sailor, Jake Holman, in “Pebbles.”
•	Best Supporting Actor— Robert Shaw as King Henry VIII in “Seasons” and Mako as the Chinese cooley engine-room laborer, Po-Han, in “Pebbles.”
•	Best Color Cinematography— Ted Moore for “Seasons” and Joseph MacDonald for “Pebbles.”
‘Seasons” received nominations for
best supporting actress (Wendy Hiller); best director (Fred Zinneman); best screenplay, adaptation (Robert Bolt); and best costume design (Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge).
“Pebbles” received mention for best editiong (William Reynolds); best music score, substantially original (Jerry Goldsmith); best art direction (Boris Levin); and best sound (Murray Spivack).
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH
City Editor
The ASSC Executive Council voted down the first bylaw ever proposed for the ASSC Constitution Sunday night, thereby dashing the slim hopes of the Trojan Young Republicans that _ they would have to collect approximately 1.200 signatures rather than 2.000 on their NSA referendum petition.
The council upheld the advisory opinion given by the as-yet unofficial Student Body Court that the signatures of ten per cent of the entire student body (between 1.800 and 2.00*3) were needed rather than those of ten per cent of the voting student body (approximately 1.200).
The constitution is vague on this point.
However, the council did vote to place an amendment on the ballot to clear up the vague constitutional reference.
Tlie amendment will specify that only the names of ten per cent of the eligible voting student body will be required on petitions.
CALL FOR BYLAW
After the council had approved the placement of the amendment on the ballot. Senior Repreesntative Carl Richards, TYR's principal spokesman on the council, proposed the passage of the bylaw.
The proposal died for lack of a second.
If the bylaw had been added to the constitution (by a two-thirds majority vote of the council), the ruling would have gone into effect immediately. thus directly affecting TYR’s petition.
The council also discussed the question of CIA intervention in NSA activities, which had come to light since they voted to affiliate with NSA last week.
The mood of the council was unchanged from the previous week when they had voted 12-4 to affiliate.
ASSC President Taylor Hackford said he was sure the CIA was not interfering with NSA policy.
“If it ia discovered that they have been interfering. I would be hesitant to join, but until such allegations are proven. I have no qualms about being a member.
“I still stand with the organization."
AMS President Stu Benjamin said that only NSA's Executive Committee had been in contact with the CIA and that the link had no effect on the member schools at all.
AWS President Charla Hindley agreed, saying she had spoken to several informed people who said the CIA had had very little influence over NSA policies.
Engineers Will Tour IBM Center
USC engineering students will visit IBM’s data center on Wilshire Boulevard today as the second event of Engineering Week, which will continue through Friday.
They will be shown the IBM 2250 graphic display system and the IBM 1130 commercial engineering computing system.
The tours, leaving the campus at 1 p.m. and at 5:30 p.m., will feature demonstrations of one hour each on both of the featured IBM systems.
The IBM 2250 graphic display system, similar tc a television set, will show pictures of various objects whose forms may be changed by an operator's use of a unique “light pencil.”
Tomorrow will feature a presentation by the Douglas Aircraft Missile and Space Systems Division on “National Problems for Engineering Students.”
NEGRO COUNCILMAN
Mills Cites Services of King, Carmichael
By ELLEN TAVAKOLI and ANN SALISBURY
Stockely Carmichael is indirectly performing an excellent service to America, Billy Mills, councilman for the Eighth District, explained in a recent Daily Trojan interview.
“Not that I agree with his methods and excesses, but as a ‘shock troupe’ he is making my communication with the white power structure easier,” USC’s councilman said.
Mills, who is running for re-election against three other candidates in the April primary, thinks Martin Luther King and Carmichael are not actually separated by as wide an ideological chasm as is often believed.
“They are both concerned about a better life for the American Negro,” he noted.
“But King is an older man, a mature and seasoned individual, and he moves in and appeals to a different group. Carmichael deals with the problem of youth.
“To be effective in politics, you must have power, and to show your power, you must look like you have power equipment,” Mills said. •
Mills said he feels people who label men such as Carmichael power grabbers and try to dismiss them as unimportant do not really understand what is going on.
“Theirs is a reaction of fear, and some people, though familiar with the problems, show amazing intolerance when things don't happen in a way
which is understandable to them,” he said.
Today, Billy Mills is one of the first three Negroes elected to the Los Angeles City Council. At 37, he is also chairman of the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee.
Mills graduated from UCLA Law School in 1957. Since then he has opened his own law practice, taken a job as a legal counselor to the probation department, and joined the Herman English Law Firm in 1960.
As a councilman he introduced the motion to set up the Human Re-
BILLY G. MILLS,
Los Angeles City Councilman
lations Commission of Los Angeles. He is the chairman of the Personnel Committee and vice-chairman of Revenue and Taxation Committee.
Mills has not always held positions with so much influence. He calls his earlier years “a continuous struggle to stay out of trouble.”
“This was not only because of the peer group, many of whom were school drop-outs, smoking marijuana, looking for trouble; but as a Negro teenager, it was hard to keep out of situations where the police might barge in and make arrests. Mills said.
“I never smoked anything, nor drank, and I still don’t and yet there were many times when I missed being jailed by just a hair."
A police record would have made it impossible for him to get into law school or be elected to public office.
Mills attributes his drive toward success to the fact that he lived in the South near a college when he was very young, and was able to picture himself attending one. His parents were not impoverished, and his grandfather was a city engineer.
However, in 1947 his parents were divorced and he and his father moved to Los Angeles into what he considers “a real ghetto situation.”
“Most Negroes are walking through a maze in our society. They need secure institutions to guide them and support them on the way.”
Mills said he is committed to working toward that end.