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DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LVin
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1967
NO. 105
SOAP AND SMOKE-Among the poetry enthusiasts at Allen Ginsberg's reading was a bubble-blower. Each soap bubble was filled with smoke, a new twist to the game. The poet was sponsored by the English Dept.
ACLU
Rights
Defends of TYR
By STAN METZLER Assistant to the Editor
“No matter how much the ACLU disagrees with the opinions of the present members of the TYR Executive Board, we cannot agree that their rights can be ignored.” John Medford. American Civil Liberties Union campus president, told the Daily Trojan yesterday.
Medford, a registered Republican and maverick s pokesman, said the Trojan Young Republicans are doing their party a great disservice.
“They have no realistic sense of history when they are contemptuous toward the long-hair movement, civil rights or personal student freedom,"
he said.
“They're not where it's at. I would not affiliate with the organization as it is presently constituted.”
But he still defended TYR's right t<"> exist, while cautioning the problem Monday, to be very careful in their decision.
“I don't really think they have the right to be talking about withdrawing the TYR recognition.” he
said.
“They should be very, very careful about withdrawing it. Recognition is a right, not a privilege.
“The Student Activities Committee should be exceedingly careful in dictating internal policies of student organizations: that strikes at the very dignity of those organizations."
Medford announced that the campus ACLU chapter will meet today at 3:15 in tht Law School's second-floor lounge to consider a clarification of their TYR position.
Members and others in attendance will also discuss the immediate establishment of a campus Hyde Park and sponsorship of a forum on "Legalization of Marijuana."
“Dean Bloland is now talking about the possibility of having SQme free speech area in the new Student Activities Center, when it is completed,” Medford explained.
“But a free speech area should be designated immediately — not in the indefinite future and not in some out of the way place; but now, in front of Tommy Trojan.”
Returning to the TYR problem. Medford said: “A good many deliberate lies have been told to the campus by the officers of TYR, but the Board of Inquiry recommendation to replace the entire Executive Board is too broad and unnecessarily harsh.
“We disapprove of any censorship of literature on campus, including the True Trojan.
“They should be held responsible for deliberately fraudulent statements in such literature, but free speech has long included the right to distribute literature and otherwise persuade."
Medford said he generally agrees on this point with the Young Democrats. who issued a statement earlier this week objecting to the board's "attempt to dictate who should be officers of TYR."
Ginsberg Worship: Poet in Alumni Park
By BILL DICKE Assistant Editorial Director
Allen Ginsberg, the bearded bard, mouthed Eastern chants and read his poetry before an assemblage in Alumni Park yesterday afternoon.
Ginsberg, wearnig brown sandels, began about 20 minutes earlier than the scheduled 3 p.m. starting time, but a good-sized “hippie" crowd was already seated on the grass in front of him
Clothed in many-hued vestments, they watchcd him start a chant which slowly grew in voulme. He struck two small, bronze cymbal-like instruments together, “ching-chinging” in time to the chant.
Meanwhile, somebody in the “hippie” contingent was blowing soao bubbles, taking a drag on his cigarette and then blowing a bubble. In the process he formed nice mellow gray bubbles.
Ginsberg wore a dark suit and a pin-stripe shirt. Around his neck he had a striped tie and two bronze symbols. His black beard covered the knot in his tie.
He sat on a cold white marble bench.
After he finished chanting, he moved to the lectern, shuffled the two microphones around and started to read some of his poetry.
All the works he read w'ere written in the past two or three years, he noted. “You won't find any of them in the books,” he said.
The poems boomed out of a loudspeaker on top of a trash can which said simply “Keep Our Campus Clean.”
Perhaps some poets would feel irony in having their poems emanate from the top of a trash can.
Ginsberg wouldn’t. A trash can could even appear in one of his poems along with the effective images and the four-letter words.
Four-letter words which will never find their ways into newsprint, were found in several of his poems
Their use in Ginsberg’s direct, outspoken manner drew laughs from the audicnce which by this lime included many students dressed in usual campus clothes.
Administrators and faculty members stayed generally to the back of the crowd.
Ginsberg's poems ranged from an elegy for a friend who got run over by a cab to one he wrote on a plane after he had been thrown out of an Iron Curtain country.
Ginsberg's voice and appearance were recorded by several tape recorders and about a dozen cameras.
One gentleman with “Underground Press Syndicate” inscribed on the back of his blue-levi jacket scurried back and forth in front of Ginsberg, checking his tape recorder.
Ginsberg asked him and others to quit moving around because they were distracting him.
One girl sat near the front and never took her eyes off the poet. She seemed entranced either by his beard or his pcetry.
Another girl didn’t seem too interested. She was six years old.
After the poet had concluded his reading, a crowd gathered Sround him, but he seemed a little ill at ease. “What is there to do now?” he asked under his breath.
In answer, a couple of people asked for his autograph although they seemed a little awed by the bearded man.
They asked him in the way you might ask Jesus for his autograph.
GUIDE TO COURSES, PROFESSORS
Handbook A vailable Wednesday
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACII City Editor
The first edition of the USC Student Guide to Courses and Professors will hit the stands Wednesday at a cost of Si per booklet.
The 280-page booklet is being published by the Committee Organizing a Responsible Course Handbook and edited by Richard Gaskins, Robert Gaskins Jr., James Kilbury and Bob Lutz.
Lutz and Karen Weston were chairman and vice-chairman of the committee, respectively.
The Student Guide to Courses and Professors has been one of the major goals set by the Hackford administration this year.
Four to Represent USC In 2 National Debates
Four Trojans will represent USC two debate tournaments next week at the University of Chicago.
Rick Flam, a junior in political science, and Bert Rush, a sophomore in political science, will compete against 37 entrants in the 21st National Debate Tournament at the university's Kellogg Center for Continuing Education from April 16 to 22.
Flam and Rush will debate on the subject, “Resolved. That the United States should substantially reduce its foreign policy commitments.”
Alan Denney, a freshman in physics, and Marc Ruth, a freshman in international relations, will constitute USC's team in the second annual National Novice Tournament.
The National Debate Tournament Is Flam's second national tourney. Last year he competed in a tournament sponsored by the U.S. Military Academy and took third place with another partner.
Last December Flam was named top speaker at the Air Force Academy Tournament, and in February he captured first speaker honors at Harvard University. He placed second in the Heart of America tourney
held at the University of Kansas in March.
Rush also competed at the Military Academy tournament in the freshman competition and placed fourth individually and fifth with a partner.
As a team, Flam and Rush finished first in the district qualifying tournament at San Fernando Valley State College on March 18. Their score for the tournament was 8-0, bringing their record for the past year to 81 wins and 18 losses.
They have also been in the finals of every tournament in which they have competed.
Denney and Ruth have a record of 43 wins and 15 losses in this year’s competitions. They won two championships in junior division competition, placed third in senior division and fifth at the University of Denver.
The four students represent debate coach John DeBross’ eighth team in the national competition and his fourth from USC.
USC holds the best Western record for going to the National Debate Tournament 16 times, a close second to the 17 of Augustana College of Rock Island, 111.
Work on the book actually began last summer when Lutz toured the United States, talking to students and professors at other universities concerning handbooks on their campuses.
ASSC President Taylor Hackford also sent out letters to most of the major universities around the country asking for copies of their handbooks and how they went about collecting the data.
The committee finally decided to limit the first edition of the handbook to basic LAS courses. Questionnaires were distributed at the end of the fall semester.
The facultv was almost totally amenable to the entire project and cooperated completely by allowing students to distribute the questionnaires during class time.
The administration is also helping with the financing and distribution.
However, Lutz emphasized that major control of the handbook rested with the students.
The handbook includes three sections on each professor:
(1)	Descriptive information about the professor’s background and the structure of his course.
(2)	Results of the questionnaire.
(3)	Representative student comments gleaned from the questionnaire.
TV STAR TO TALK AT APRIL BANQUET
Danny Thomas will he the featured speaker at the 13th annual Telewards Banquet on April 28, sponsored by the Department of Telecommunications and Alpha Epsilon Rho, national radio and television fraternity.
The banquet, which will be held at the Redwood Restaurant, 234 W. First St., is open to all interested students.
' Reservations can be made In the Telecommunications Office, 244 Allan Hancock Foundation, until • next Friday.
The purpose of the banquet is the presentation of the Telewards, given annually to those telecommunications students who have excelled in academics and service.
MULTITUDE OF ADMIRERS—Allen Ginsberg, poet and here of the hippies, chanted and read his recent works to a large audience standing, sitting in Alumni Park yesterday. He will appear today at 11 and 7:30 in Hancock.
Dulgarian
Previous
Corrects
Charges
The booklet will be sold Wednesday through Friday in front of the Student Union and in the morning at Founders Hall.
After these first few days it will be on sale at the University Bookstore.
The booklet is designed for use by the students in planning their fall schedule. Registration material for the fall will be available on about May 10.
Other members of the committee, besides those already mentioned, are Rick Fertig, Rosemary Karmelich, Marie Robinson, Cathy Salveson, Julie Sheehan and Trish Vick.
The following is a statement by Linda Dulgarian, president of the Trojan Young Republicans. This is not to be construed as a retraction —the Editor.
By LINDA DULGARIAN I am taking this opportunity to correct certain errors which have appeared in the DT in the last few days. The headlines Anril 11 stating “TYR's Accuse Dulgarian of Lying about Donations", is net only erroneous but is bad taste, as ethical journalism. TYR is the official 146 member Young Republican Organization which at no time has ever accused me of anythin?, but did. in fact, elect me only a few months as;o by a 4-1 majority as its president.
The statement that I was not telling the truth about a S240 donation to the TYR treasury was made by four temporarily suspended members of the board. These members were put on suspension at the TYR meeting Friday, April 7, after all members of the TYR Board in attendance (except themselves) voted to ratify the seven charges against them for unauthorizing acts and untrue representations concerning the TYR and YAF organizations and the NSA referendum.
This alleged $240 donation was first hinted at by Stan Metzler. April 3. when he stated that he heard rumors from a YAF official. Allan Brandstater. that Mrs. Frank Seaver was the “wealthy donor.”
Mrs. Seaver has vehemently denied making a donation (April 3 Daily Trojan). I have a signed letter in my possession (April 6) by Arnie Steinberg, executive director of California YAF. Bill Steel, president of California YAF, and Allan Brandstater, publicity director of California YAF stating: “Allan Brandstater never signed any statement stating that a donor by name gave money to finance a phase of the anti-NSA campaign at USC. I challenge anyone to produce a statement by Allen naming such a donor.
“Any remarks made by any indi-
viduals at USC ... or members of the Trojan Young Republicans, which contradict the above statements are inherently, absolutely and wholly lies.”
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Statements of TYR Leaders Contradicted
The following is a statement by David Berg and Dick Shirley in reaction to comments by Linda Dulgarian on this page —the Editor.
It is self-evident that Linda Dul-garian’s statements in today s DT are invalid. Miss Dulsrarian is doing the university and TYR a great disservice by making the internal disputes and personality conflicts in TYR a public spectacle. TYR elections will be shortly forthcoming, and it is apparent that Miss Dulgarian is determined to remain in power at all costs, even at the expense of the good reputation of TYR. The following is a resolution from the floor that Linda Dulgarian refused to recognize at the April 12 general membership meeting.
Resolution — "Whereas the TYR membership is concerned with the present operation of the club.
“And whereas John Lindlcff. Roger Thomnson nnd Ron Jernigan have resigned from the board.
“Be it therefore resolved that the general membership instruct the board to halt any action or intended actions of impeachment or suspension of its individual members.
“And be it further resolved that the membership request Dr. Barker to call the TYR annual elections as soon as possible.
“And be it finally resolved that the general membership recommends that the infighting and purging desist and that the TYR moves forward.”
Ahmanson to During Alumni
Receive Award Day Luncheon
A look at a university on the move and a reflection on service gratefully recognized will highlight Alumni Day proceedings tomorrow.
Howard Ahmanson, a member of the Board of Trustees and president of Home Savings and Loan Association, will receive the Asa V. Call Outstanding Achievement Award at a Town and Gown luncheon.
Several hundred graduates are expected to gather at 9:30 a.m. in front of Bovard Auditorium, where tours of the new Robert E. Vivian Hall of Engineering and Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs will begin.
Dr. Frank Baxter, English professor emeritus, will speak in Hancock Auditorium at 11 a.m. on “A Garland of Teachers.”
The luncheon will be highlighted by the award to Ahmanson, for bringing the great distinction to USC during the past year, and seven Dther prominent graduates.
Ahmanson, who graduated from the School of Business Administration in 1927, has been landmarked through Southern California by the Ahmanson Center for Biological Research, the County Museum of Art’s Ahmanson Gallery and the Ahmanson Theatre of the Music Center.
Awards of merit “in recognition of worthy achievement which has reflected credit to USC" will be presented to:
Dr. J. Howard Payne; School of Medicine, 1942; assistant clinical professor of surgery at USC;
Robert Wood; School of Business Administration, 1949; CBS television vice-president;
J. Robert Fluor; School of Busi-
HOWARD AHMANSON
University Trustee
ness Administration. 1946; Board of Trustees member and president of The Fluor Corp., Ltd.;
Gwynn Wilson: LAS, 1921; Board of Trustees secretary and retired businessman.
Service awards “in recognition of loyal service rendered to the Alumni Association and USC" will go to:
John MacFaden: LAS, 1931; public relations executive and the first to raise $1 million f^r the universit'-in one year as chairman of annua! giving at USC;
Eugene Clarke; LAS. 1932; real estate man and past president of the USC Associated Alumni Clubs;
Jack MacDonald; School of Architecture, 1936: owner of an architectural and construction firm and chairman cf the Alumni Thrift Shop committee.
Also featured at the luncheon will be talks by President Norman Topping on the universtiy’s planning commission and by Chaplain John Cantelon on the Festival of the Art?.
The day will conculde with a showing of tne new Warner Brothers movie on USC, “A University on the Move,” and a*tendance at concluding festival attractions.