University of Sourhern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. m
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1971
3 ASSC OFFICES
Election put off
By TIM TAYLOR Managing Editor and
JIM HART
Assistant City Editor
The runoffs for the three ASSC offices still at stake were put off by the Student Court early this morning.
Voting will take place tomorrow and Thursday instead of today and tomorrow as originally scheduled.
The court's decision came at 12:45 this morning, climaxing a day that was highlighted by two separate court meetings, five new cases, and an admission of ballot box stuffing.
After consultation yesterday morning with Al Rudisill. university chaplain. and Robert Mannes, dean of student life, a student submitted a letter to the Student Court detailing how he voted a total of 14 times for Chuck Jones, a candidate for ASSC president.
Jones won a place in the runoff by polling 11 more votes than Kent Clemence, who came in third in last week’s primaries.
The court met privately for more than two-and-a-half hours last night to consider his letter. The court did not mention his name when they issued their decision, and the student asked that it be withheld.
After hearing testimony from Charlene Bandurraga, elections commissioner, Jones, Tom Levyn, ASSC vice-president for programs, and the student himself, the court convened to make its decision public: ‘‘The Student Court has decided by a three-to-one-to-three vote that the ASSC presidential election between the top two candidates of the April 20 and 21 primaries will be held on Wednesday and Thursday.” The top two candidates are John McGuinness and Chuck Jones.
The court made no statement on the validity or invalidity of the alleged ballot-stuffing. After the court adjourned, Dan Levinson, chief justice, said that the court’s decision was “based on the chaos that has revolved around recent controversies regarding alleged election irregularities/’
The court, in its first meeting yesterday, validated the ASSC presidential primary held last Tuesday and Wednesday. Validation of the election had been held up last Wednesday night pending a recount of the votes.
It was this turn of events that led the student who had stuffed the ballot box to ponder his actions. In an interview with the Daily Trojan early this morning, he said that he had gone out of town for the weekend to think it over and decided to discuss it with the chaplain and the dean yesterday morning.
The court’s official validation of the presidential primary took place at 1:45 p.m. yesterday. several hours before the court learned of the ballot-stuffing incident.
During that noon meeting of the court, the justices, by a vote of three to one, denied a complaint calling for invalidation of the primary elections due to violations of the Elections Code during tabulation of the ballots.
In its majority opinion, the court said. “Based on the fact that neither fraud nor illegal tam-
pering has been proven, the ASSC election of April 20 to 21 is hereby validated. ”
The brief had been submitted in behalf of Clemence by Mark Savit, Dan Wallace, Glen Dresser, and Levyn. Wallace and Dresser are former elections commissioners.
They called for invalidation because of inadequate supervision at the polls, innumerable possibilities for tampering with the ballots in a room with free access, the disparity between the ballots and signatures and the fact that certain candidates counted their own ballots.
After a half-hour closed session, the court held an hour-long public session, followed by closed-door deliberation for about 15 minutes from which it emerged with the decision.
In the oral arguments, Charlene Bandurraga, elections commissioner, testified for validation of the elections. Miss Bandurraga said all the charges were brought up after the results came in, and that they were brought by the losing candidates’ supporters.
Kent Clemence, who probably would be back in the ASSC presidential election if either one of the two court decisions had gone the other way, criticized the court this morning.
“Twice in one day the court has reneged on its responsibility to rule on a fair and equitable election,” he said. “It can possibly be excused in its first decision since it said fraud and deceit were not proven although the degree of evidence presented appeared to be sufficient to invalidate some part of last week's primary.
“But there’s no way they can be excused in the second decision. It is totally inconceivable that they could reject the testimony of a student whose academic career has been put in jeopardy.
“Sour grapes has nothing to do with it. The cause of justice has not been served.”
John McGuinness, who polled the most votes for ASSC president in last week's primary, said, “I have no objection to having the election on Wednesday and Thursday. I think it will positively help my campaign. I haven’t exposed my views to enough students yet and the extra day will be of help. ”
With all of the recounts and court cases, the presence of Chuck Jones in the runoffs was not a certainty until the court made its decision this morning.
Ed Hurst, Jones’ campaign manager, declined to comment on the court’s decision nor on the ballot-stuffing incident.
“It has been a very difficult election for all of the candidates and it has become a very unfortunate situation. We are going to meet tonight to reassess the entire situation.”
The run-off elections Wednesday and Thursday will determine the political fates of ASSC presidential condidates Chuck Jones and John McGuinness; AMS presidential candidates Colin Kurata and Ron Rus; and candidates for junior representative Bob Spira and Steve Wiley.
Students may vote from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. in front of Bovard Auditorium, and from 11a.m. to 1p.m. in the Medical School.
A debate will be held between Jones and McGuinness today at noon in Hancock Auditorium.
Photo by Bruce Bolinger
IT'S NOT OVER YET
Runoffs for ASSC offices will be held tomorrow and Thursday.
Dorm visitation proposal stalled
By ANGELA CURCURU News Editor
A stalemate has developed between the Women’s Halls Association and the administration in regard to the experimental 24-hour visitation in the women’s dorms.
The Student Activities Committee, a group composed of students, alumni, faculty and administration, proposed a week of grace last Thursday to all those involved in the controversy.
The week of grace, which will end Thursday, has put a stop to visitation in the women’s dorms after 10:30 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on weekends. It has also halted university prosecution of any violators.
“The committee has made it more of a stalemate now that it s stopped everything,” said Laurel Phinney, WHA president.
The rejection of the visitation proposal by Paul Bloland, vice-president of student affairs, was appealed to the committee by Miss Phinney two weeks ago. The committee asked Bloland to present the specifics of all reasons for rejection of the proposal.
“What it means is that Bloland will have to explain thoroughly the reasons he gave for rejecting the proposal,” Miss Phinney said. “He said he thought that there would be a security problem. The committee has asked for the reasons why he thinks there would be a security problem, and what he would do to solve the problem.”
The committee has asked WHA to submit a variety of options to the visitation proposal which could be used in compromising with the administration for a workable program.
The committee will meet Thursday morning along with Bloland. WHA and its lawyers to decide on Miss Phinhey’s appeal case Also, on May 1, the Board of Trustees meeting to review, among other things,
Government for the living groups. The governance policy last June.
The biggest controversy over 24-hour visitation has been whether or not the women in the dorms have the right to decide on matters which the university believes govern security and legal matters.
“What most of the girls are concerned with now is that the visitation policy will meet with the administration's summer stall. " Miss Phinney said. “But the fact that we actually declared it policy really speeded it up—probably by about a year. "
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Packets still available
Preregistration packets for the fall semester are available through Friday at the Registrar’s Office and at the Information Center.
The completed envelope packets must be returned with postage by April 30, and registration material will be mailed to students during the week of May 11.
Students who do not avail themselves of the mail service can pick up their registration material in person from the old Law Building according to the following schedule: A-C 9 a.m. to noon, May 10; D-G 1 to 4 p.m., May 10; H-K 9 a.m. to noon, May 11; L-0 1 to 4 p.m., May 11; P-S 9 a.m. to noon, May 12; T-Z 1 to 4 p.m., May 12.
Starting May 13, “H” cards will be available in the department offices and “R” cards will be available in the old Law Building according to the following schedule: A-C 9 a.m. to noon, May 13; D-G 1 to 4 p.m., May 13; H-K 9 a.m. to noon, May 14; L-0 1 to 4 p.m., May 14; P-S 9 a.m. to 12 noon, May 17; T-Z 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., May 17.
Registration materials and class cards for early registration will be available until July 7.
OUVER, MEGGYESY
Ex-football stars to talk
A panel discussion entitled “The Role of Sports in Society” featuring former professional football players Chip Oliver and Dave Meggyesy is scheduled for noon tomorrow in Hancock Auditorium. It is being sponsored by ASSC Forum for Student Awareness.
Steve McConnell, a graduate student at USC in physical education and former middle guard for the Trojan varsity in 1967-68, will also be on hand in addition to a yet unannounced senior from last year’s team.
Invitations to participate have also been extended to coaches and members of the Athletic Department.
A press conference before the discussion will
also be held in the Student Activities Center at 10 a.m.
Oliver is a former ail-Pac-8 middle guard on the 1967 national champion USC football team. He spent two seasons as a linebacker on the Oakland Raiders.
Last year he quit and joined a commune in the San Francisco area.
Meggyesy played linebacker for seven years on the St. Louis Cardinal football team before he quit, calling it a dehumanizing experience.
He is	also the author of a book entitled, “Out of	Their League,” which details his philosophy	and his personal experiences in the sport.