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VOL. LVm
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1966
Demonstrators blast war policy
fTherf r?n He no dmiht that demonstrations have played a large part in rolleff liff*. The following story is a first-person account of Saturday’^ Van Nuys demonstration that included six student mem-her* of USC'* Students for a Democratic Society—the Editor.)
By BILL DICKE
Assistant City Editor
The sky is full of big gray rain clouds. On the right there is a six-foot chain link fence with three strands of barbed wire across the top. Behind it the grass is green and the buildings are austere.
Two men in green uniforms seem to be carrying a garbage can back and forth. On this side of the fence i* Balboa Boulevard. Van Nuys residents w'hiz by in their automobiles.
The area on the other side of the fence w called the Van Nuys National Guard Rase It is the largest such base in The country and it is *uppoeesd to be the target of a demonstration by a group of college students, including members of the USC chapter of Students for a Democratic Society.
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However, the Santa Monica Freeway is still being washed by the rain, which has been falling since Friday. It doesn't look like very good weather to demonstrate in.
Then the first carload of demonstrators turns up. They stop and look in the trunk for the signs.
One of the signs they pick out says. “War Defiles Peace.” Another says. “Stop American Aggression in Vietnam.” Two more say. ‘‘It doesn’t matter — Asians aren’t human anyway” and “Thou Shalt Not Kill (except while in uniform)." Men inside the base stare as six USC students walk across Balboa to the base.
They talk to a green-clad soldier on duty at the base entrance. He tells them that they will have to stay in back of the yellow lines painted out near the street. He is very polite.
The students are also polite. The barbed-wire fence even looks polite. The student? move back to the yellow line and start marching. A white car passes and a person yells. “Hey. yea. yea yea. ya freaks.” One of the demonstrators comments a few min-
utes later. “This is awfully, pathetically ineffective."
A few minutes later the lone six get support. About sixty more people march across the street. They had marched from Valley State College with signs, handing out anti-war leaflets along the way. With them come members of the press and one television newsman.
The whole group starts marching back and forth in front of the base. One man has a guitar and he strums chords for a few protest songs.
Then a mass meeting is called. The whole group, signs and all, gets together to discuss tactics. The group votes to go up to the gate and ask permission to go inside the base and hand out leaflets to off-duty personnel.
They mass in front of thp entrance gate. A couple of the demonstration's leaders talk with a base officer in low tones. The television newsmen crowd in while a grim-faced man in a blue uniform gets the whole thing down on tape. Photographers snap pictures. No one can hear what is going on.
Evidently the request has been refused because everyone is returning to the other side of the yellow line.
The picket line resumes. “What do you want?” someone shouts. “Peace!” 50 people scream.
“When do you want it?1’
“Now!” -
It’s time for another meeting. They decide to go up and ask again. One demonstrator is in favor of drafting a letter and presenting it to the base commander. “I’d be willing to take a shot at writing it.” he says. “That’s a bad choice of words,” a woman demonstrator laughs.
They cros's the yellow line again.
A man who identifies himself as the base legal officer shouts to the congregation after they are massed in front of the gate. “You've been advisesd a couple of times that this is base property.”
“If you do not disperse immediately you will all be arrested.” He is obviously not too happy. There would be two of us unhappy if I got ar-
rested I more back. Everybody else moves back.
The yellow line is still there so they plant their toes on it and have a mass reading.
“Today, while we are leafletting. and you are perhaps jeering, arresting or merely looking on . . they read. Somebody laughs because the sentences are so long. A photographer with five stripes on his sleeve stands on the military side of the line and takes pictures of everybody present at a distance of about five feet.
There is a grade-schcool kid with a ten-speed bicycle on the military side of the line. He is shooed away. The readers continue, “Is the fourteen year-old being interrogated to see if he is a •commie?" A white Wonder Bread truck rolls into the base, unmoved by the mass-reading .
The demonstrators finish and start singing a song with the chorus, “We shall not be moved.”
Three soldiers are standing near the fence scanning the yellow line. One, whose uniform says his last name is Tuxford. notices that my
left foot, has wandered across th* yellow line. I notice that he is staring at it. I pull it back to safe+y. Everybody goes on singing We Shall Not be Moved."
The leader of the song, evidently running out of verses, sings. “Tuxford has a conscience. Tuxford has a conscience."
Tuxford smiles. He is happy that someone besides his mother has recognized one of his finer qualities. Everybody laughs. They sing a verse of “Tuxford won't you join us?” Tuxford smiles again. “We will net be moved; W’e will not be moved.” Tuxford is called away by his soldierly duties.
After the singing and the reading, the demonstration starts to fall apart A little picketing goes on and people driving past still shout and gesture the usual obscenities. But. Tuxford gone and the demonstration is tapering off. A mass meeting is called, to decide what to do next. A vote quit and go home fails by a small margin.
I leave anvway.
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Hillel to debut unique drama on Chanukah
Its producer-ciirector-writer. Paul Lion, savs it will be unlike anything the viewer has seen or heard.
“It" is a theater piece about
BOWL DUCATS STILL ON SALE
More than 6.000 rooter tickets have Keen sold for the Rose Bowl on Jan. 2, John Morley, ticket office manager, said.
Applications for tickets for fulltime students not having Activity Books are available in Receipts Audit, 100 Owens Hall, daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The sale will end when all tickets are sold.
Re*»erved tickets cost $7 and are limited to one per person.
Chanukah and the holiday season, to be presented tomorow night at the Hillel Foundation.
A dinner at 5 p.m.. featuring Israeli singer Eldad Perry, will begin the program. Lion was deliberately vague about his groups part of the show. He wants that to be a surprise.
“The Chanukah and holiday theme will be of interest to non-.lews as wrell as Jews. It is on a theme of national interest,” Lion said.
Drama students. Sue Gross, Lynn Rayner. Maya Rosseen and Lion, will perform the show.
There will be a discussion period after the performance. Lion said he expects many questions because of the uniqueness of the show’.
The dinner and show' will cost 75 cents for Hillel members and $1 for nonmembers.
Mail pre-registration Starts December 12
CHANUKAH CELEBRATION COMMEMORATING JEWISH QUEST FOR FREEDOM Participants featured in Hillel theater drama will perform at show tomorrow
NEGRO IN THE COMMUNITY
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This is the second in a five-part serie? on USC's relationship with the Negro community and with its own Negro students - the Editor.)
By GREG KIESELMANN Manager Editor
USC, no less than the well-to-do wrhite America it represents, can only hope to improve its relations with the Negro community when it decides to lose its self-righteousness and begins working together with the Negro people on their level.
“The problem is that wrhites don t want to get themselves tainted by association with ‘bad’ people," Richard Bailey, a sociology teaching assistant. says. “The popular concept of individual morality has something to do with it; people don't want to get involved because of ego."
Bailey spid any attempt to help the Negro must hp accompanied bv personal involvement. “To fight evil you must get down in it. You have to get down in the ditch, work together, and mjll the person out. Right now w'hites are just dandling a string in front of the Negro in the ditch." he says.
USC's privileged w'hite student can be changed by contact wath Negroes, Bailey says, and his class in racial relations represents an attempts to bring the two races together to find a basis for mutual understanding.
He tries to encourage his students, as a laboratory, to attend meetings of “Operation Bootstrap” in Watts, a sometimes disquieting confrontation between militant Negroes and whites wrho argue their viewpoints on an equal-to-equal level.
“There is no inferior-superior relationship at these Bootstrap meeting®. The Negroes with whom my students come in contact hate whites
* they were the one? throwing the Molotov cocktails." Bailey says
“After these meetings, some students will confirm themselves as racists, but the majority will want to go back down there. They will not run awray because they want to relate to the Negro.”
Although he holds high hopes for the present generation, Bailey says individual USC students must start to relate themselves to the Negro problem.
“Right now I fear they are more concerned with property rights and individual rights than with human rights.” he says.
Bailey said the Tutorial Projects, through which USC students help grade-school children in the ghetto, only perpetuates the superior-inferior relationship that exists between whites and blacks.
“We want to lick the problem, and to do this w’e have to get together wdth the rest of the people." he said.
The USC Negro is a type apart from the ghetto-dwelling Negro who resides in the community around the university, Bailey observed.
For one thing, the financial basis of the student is different; these wealthier Negroes have a degree of motivation not often found among those who have been raised in the ghetto's squalor.
Another factor is that many USC Negroes are related, in their outlooks, to the house Negro of the old slaveholding South. The house Negro lived and worked inside the master’s home and
adopted the dress and attitudes of his boss. He looked down upon his brothers wrho worked in the fields.
"This diversification still exists today. There
are still a lot of 'field hands’ in the ghetto striving, and a smaller number of house Negroes who w'ould rather not identify with the community,” Bailey said.
Regardless of w’hether he is a house or field Negro, the black man is subject to discrimination at USC and throughout the nation.
To exemplify this plight, Bailey mentioned the case of the football player whose roommate didn’t want to live with him because he was a Negro. The athlete politely moved out.
When the team was in Florida this year to play Miami University, this same individual left a theatre w'hen he felt the whites around him were “uncomfortable.”
“It's a racist country,” Bailey said. “While Negroes practice brotherly love, their is racism in wThites who claim to be so Christian.”
There seems to be a consensus of opinion that USC is an island surrounded by the Negro ghetto, and Bailey says the urban renewal called for in the Master Plan will not help matters any.
“There is a problem with urban renewal anywhere. All that counts is expansion; you don’t ask the people what they think. They are never consulted,” Bailey said.
He recommended that adequate housing be provided for the residents before they are forced to move.
“I think Americans have forgotten people and human needs,” Bailey said. “This country’s problem is its self-righteousness with a stress on self. We should be cultivating responsibility, but it appears that white Americans have abdicated responsibility.”
(Tomorrow - Interviews with area residents.)
By JON KOTLER
The Registrar's Office yesterday released the schedule for mail preregistration. which will begin Monday, Dec. 12.
Students whose last names begin with letter-s I-M may pick up their packets at 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 12 at the old public library, 34th Street and Hoover Boulevard.
The remainder of the packets may be picked up as follows:
N-R, 1-4:30 p.m.. Dec. 12: S-Z. 9:30 a.m.-noon. Dec. 13: A-D. 1-4:30 p.m., Dec. 13; E-H, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Dec. 14.
“R” Cards will be available in the same building in the following, last-name order:
I-M, 1-4:30 p.m.. Dec. 14: N-R. 9:30 a.m.-noon. Dec. 15: S-Z. 1-4:3ft p.m Dec. 15: A-D. 9:30 a.m.-ncon. Dec. 16: E-H. 1-4:30 p.m.. Dec. 16.
ENDS JAN. 6
Students may pick up either their registration packets or "R" cards at any time after their letter is scheduled. until the end of the mail preregistration period Jan. 6.
“H" Cards must still be picked up at the individual departments. Mark Frazin. assistant registrar, said. They will be available “sometime between Dec. 12 and Dec. 14."
Foreign students must pick up their packets in the Foreign Students Office.
Even though the Schedule of Classes won’t be available until Dec. 14, students may get class schedules by going to the individual departments. Frazin said.
NEW CARD
A new card, called the Registration Processing Card, will be included in the packets for the first time. This card will enable the Registrar's Office to keep track of materials as they are being processed.
Frazin said the most common mistakes made by students in completing their registration forms are:
NO CLASSES? SEE TOMORROW
The USC riverbed roared up again as the newest storm deposited 2.21 (by early Tuesday morning) inches of rain on the half-darkened campus, dimmed by a major blackout in a Law Center generator.
The rain s h o u 1 d continue through Wednesday but information on the possibility of classes being cancelled, as they were in the last storm for the afternoon and evening, was unavailable.
But if they don’t meet today, the Daily Trojan will tell you why tomorrow.
•	Not filling out and signing all required places on the forms
•	Filling out Program Card differently from the Schedule of Classes.
Not returning all required H”
Cards.
Blackout— Dorms hit after dusk
By STAN METZLER News Editor
The lights went out at 6:57 p.m. The clock underneath the dartboard on the fourth floor of Marks Tower testifies to that.
They were set to go on again this morning., possibly at 2 or mavbp a! 4 or 5. The women man ning the desks of the dorms co"H tell us that.
Tne reasons they went out are * little harder to pin down, but a consensus of university opinion and rumor seems to blame it on the water
The most repeated story, circulating around the dormitories but apparently unheard by the Campus Police. who professed no knowledge except that it had happened, said the not-too-hard but steady rains had dislodged a man-hole cover near the University Avenue Law Center.
The water had cascaded down to a generator room, and the flooding had short circuited the wires. Electricians were still working to fix the generator at midnight.
Besides the men s and women s dormitory complexes, the lights were dimmed at Dohenv Library at fh<» Von KleinSmid Center. Town and Gown, the Faculty Center, the Alumni Cente;. Whitney Hall and the Married Students Housing.
“Mrs. Neida Cheever. receptionist at Birnkrant Hall, said all male visitors had been asked to leave the women s dorms as soon as the lights dimmed, and said the only further intruder throughout the night was a cat, which “we had to chase out.”
Four Mark Towers residents, Randy Blaisiell, Dave Naftzger, John Jacobson and Partick Worthington, did manage a brief and spirited intrusion into the University-College Hall patio.
The four 4th floor members serenaded the coeds with Christmas carols, for half an hour, responding to their listeners' enthusiasm Tith repeated renditions of sprite and somber holiday songs But the Campus Police soon discovered the major legal infraction and silence meet the darkness once again.