NSA AFFILIATION
Decision Climaxes Return to Normalcy
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH City Editor
With the approval for USC to affiliate with the United States National Student Association. Sunday night, student government here has seemingly completely rejected the philosophy that prompted the election of John Betinis three years ago.
Glimmers of student awareness had appeared when John Sullivan was elected ASSC president on a community government platform in 1965.
But it remained for Taylor Hackford. working under a new constitution and unfettered by a defiant Senate, to push through the proposal to get into the mainstream of student opinion by affiliating
with NSA.
When the students of USC voted Betinis into office in the spring of 1964 by an overwhelming majority, student government had reached
its lowest point.
Betinis' entire campaign, based on the slogan “Abolish Student Government." was indicative of the unfortunate farce that the ASSC
had become.
Betinis failed to destroy student government, however, and the very futility of his efforts caused a reversal in student feelings. The resultins upsurge swept Sullivan into the presidency.
Student government began its slow climb back to respectability during Sullivan's administration last year, but the ascent a’mnst turned into descent when the Senate, the legislative branch of the ASSC. tried to block the executive’s paths.
The Senate was finally abolished, not by legislative vote, as Betinis had attempted to effect, but by complete constitutional revision.
The record of accomplishments so far this year includes:
•	The publication of the ASSC course description handbook is exnccted in April. The information from the samplings taken last semester has been correlated and is now' at the printer.
•	An extensive survey of student budgets at other colleges and universities has recently been completed, and the $5 000 budget, which has keep the ASSC from providing greater student benefits, may soon be enlarged to allow more worthwhile programs
•	The maior accomnlishment. however, from the standpoint of the future, is the NSA affiliation.
Critics of NSA (specifically the Trojan Young Republicans, the only camnus organization to actively oppose USC’s membership) claim the organization presents a liberal image which is out of tune with the feelings of the majority of USC students.
However. Mike Mayock. independent students representative, has pointed out that if USC wishes the American college student to have a more conservative viewpoint, they can only accomplish this from inside NSA.
TYR. however, has refused to listen to all arguments in favor of NSA. When an amendment to put NSA affiliation to a student vote failed to pass in Sunday's council meeting. David Berg, second vice-
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University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LVHI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1967
NO. 70
Reagan Hangs in Efligy, Loses His Feet in Process
By STAN METZLER Assistant to the Editor
Ronald Reagan lost his feet in front of Bovard Auditorium yesterday, but everyone else seemed to take things in stride as the governor was hung in effigy by a student activist.
David Lang, president of Students for a Democratic Society but acting independently, yanked a dummy of the governor up a tree near Tommy Troian at the stroke of noon.
The dummy's figure ended abruptly a few inches above where his ankles should have been, giving visable illustration to the slogan painted on a sign leaning against the trunk:
“Reduce Reagan by 10 percent. Not Education.”
The Von KleinSmid chimes had tolled twelve times, a couple of Campus Police had smiled as they wandered by and a few students had taken the leaflets Lang was passing out when Linda Dulgarian, TYR president, came upon the scene.
“This is a new low," she exclaimed to Lang.
“WTe're going to get lower yet before this semester is over,” Lang asserted.
“This just proves I was right in my earlier statements about TYD,” retorted Miss Dulgarian.
“The hanging is symbolic,” returned Lang. “It just gets the students’ attention so I can pass out my leaflets.”
With that comment Miss Dulgari-
an crossed the street to the front of the Student Union, where both TYR and University Conservative Forum tables were set up. while Lang continued passing out his leaflets.
The leaflets were headed with the statement, “REAGAN’S POLICIES AFFECT ALL EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.”
Billed as a personal comment rather than an official policy statement, they attempted to prove that the governor had injected politics into education, made education less accessible to the poor, caused the firing of Clark Kerr as University of California president and indirectly reduced the quality and openness of teaching throughout the state system.
Meanwhile, as Dave Bert. TYR second vice-president telephoned the Campus Police to report the hanging as a possible infraction of university posting rules. President Topping walked by on his way from his office to the Faculty Center.
“I merely quoted Jess Unruh's comment a couple of weeks ago at UCLA.” Dr. Topping later explained.
“This is absurd. That's the way you get rid of football coaches, not governors.” the state assembly speaker Unruh had said.
Lang w’as still passing out leaflets when the Campus Police arrived, in the form of Officer Abraham Turen-ne, to ask Lang to go to the police headquarters across campus.
“You’re not being arrested, we
Small Union Changes Seem Big To the People Who Work There
By FRED SWEGLES
Recent changes in the Student Union have proven beneficial for administrators and student leaders, although they might appear small and insignificant in the shadow of current construction projects on the USC campus.
Foremost among the changes in the enlarged Student Aid Office, which had previously made student aid officials “sorely pressed for
space,” according to Mrs. Florence Scruggs, student aid director.
Construction changes in the office, in 301 Student Union, began during the semester break after AMS-AWS officials vacated their office, which was adjacent to the Student Aid Office in 301-A Student Union. A w'all and a large door w^ere removed to add the former AMS-AWS office.
The change adds almost one-half
the space of the old Student Aid Office and will be used as a more effi-cent reception room to accommodate the university’s many loan and scholarship students and those seeking employment.
Although the entire change in the Student Aid Office is still incomplete, it was already of significant help in aiding loan and scholarship students during spring registration. Mrs. Scruggs said.
DOMESTIC PEACE CORPS
VISTA —Soldiers in War on Poverty
“Join VISTA and see the other America."
So urge Martha Marcy and Judy Conger. VISTA representatives, in their two-day recruiting drive at USC today and tomorrow. A VISTA film, “A Year Towards Tomorrow,” narrated by Paul Newman, will be shown both days at noon in the YWCA Lounge.
VIST A, the domestic Peace Corps, trains and send volunteers into poverty areas in the U.S. and its territories. VISTA stands for Volunteers In Service To America.
The tw'o-day recruiting drive at USC is part of a three-week campaign' in Los Angeles and surrounding areas for YISTA volunteers.
VISTA, funded by the Office of Economic Opportunities in 1964 and placed under the direction of Sargent
l-House Vote Establishes New Officers
Mahmoud Fouad was elected interim president of the International House in elections held Thursday.
Other election results included Pam Pollock, vice-president: Thomas Barnet and Clyde Doheny, U.S. student directors: and Karamat Azim. Angelica Aguilar and Rawya Ammar, foreign student directors.
Lucille Hino was appointed student director from the Foreign Student Committee.
Faculty participation includes Dr. Theodore Kruglak. chairman of the Foreign Student Committee; and Dr. Alan W. Johnson, director of the Foreign Student Office.
Permanent I-House elections will b« held in Apni
Shriver. seeks recruits who are willing to live among the poverty-stricken in the U.S. and “help them help themselves.” Miss Marcy said.
To qualify, one must be over 18 and have no dependents.
Applicants are carefully evaluated during a six-week training period, in wiiich sanitation, local government and specific problems of the area the prospective VISTA worker is to be sent to are studied.
The key attributes looked for in VISTA workers, explained Miss Con-
ger, are a “desire to help and an ability to relate.”
Miss Marcy added that a VISTA worker must be “able to communicate with the community.”
A VISTA volunteer spends a year in the field, living anywhere from a Negro ghetto to an impoverisehd Indian reservation.
Today the 3,200 VISTA workers in the field are represented in 48 states. The current recruiting campaign hopes to swell that figure to 4,000.
just want to have a conference with you,” he told Lang.
Lang, however, still had some leaflets left, and prevailed upon Don Birnbaum, SDS vice-president and a friend, to represent him at the conference.
Birnbaum agreed, and was taken to Officer William McAlarney at the headquarters.
“We've had three calls about this already, including one from the President's Office,” officer McAlarney said when Birnbaum walked in.
After a short talk, during which he checked Birnbaum's I.D. Card to make sure he was a student. Officer McAlarney ordered another officer to remove the dummy from the tree.
“Anything posted on university grounds must have a USC stamp on it.” he later explained.
Asked if any action would be
taken against Lang he replied, "There's no action to be taken. We just want it off of there. Since it wasn't stamped, we wanted it down before it was even put up.”
Officer McAlarney told Birnbaum he could go. and then asked to check his I.D. once more. Birnbaum. who was only representing Lang and had no responsibility for the hanging, protested that he had already shown it once.
Birnbaum wa3 soon prevailed upon to relinquish his card once more, however, and hi3 name and number was taken down too. Birnbaum said, “to be sent to Elton Phillips," university business manager.
In front of Tommy Trojan. Lang had now finished passing out his 200 leaflets and had removed Reagan's
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Other changes in the Student Union were not construction changes, but strategic shifts of several offices.
IFC moved from its small second-floor office in 218 Student Union to two offices on the third floor. These two offices, 324 and 326 Student Union, which had been the ASSC vice-presidents’ offices, offer Fraternity Affairs Advisor Pat Ryan more room and closer relations with the Panhellenic Office, which is next door.
When IFC left the second floor, its old office was given to the AMS and AWS, which have not yet moved in completely.
Leaving 324 to make room for IFC, the ASSC vice-presidents moved across the hall into 320 Student Union.
Basically, w'hat all of these changes amount to is initial confusion for students but more efficiency in the long run.
The larger Student Aid Office will offer a less crowded situation; IFC will have a larger office and will be better coordinated with Panhellenic and ASSC, AMS and AWS will all have new facilities.
What all of these changes also a-mount to is a variety of office equipment, benches, cabinets and other products of the changes that linger in the Student Union halls.
WORLD WAR III SURVIVORS?—No, it's only a pair of diehards who ean't kick the habit of spending their spare time in the Grill, a place now thought to be part of an ancient myth. Yes, there really was a Grill there once.
Man vs. Environs To Be Forum Topic
"A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS"-Based on Robert Bolt's
Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the movie, starring, from left, Susannah York, Paul Scofield and Wendy Hiller,
will be the feature of a Troy Camp benefit screening at 10 a.m. March 4 at the Beverly Hills Music Hall Theatre. Tickets are on sale at the YWCA for $1.75.
“As residents of Los Angeles —• with the smog giving us visible evidence daily — we of all people should be conscious of the potential problems inherent in the urban sprawl.” Paul Bloland. dean of students and member of the Great Issues Forum, said yesterday.
Discussions Will Consider 20th Century
“The Meaning of the Twentieth Century: The Great Transition,” a book by Kenneth Boulding. will be probed in depth at seven faculty discussions this semester.
Professor Eric Pawley, architecture, will inaugurate the discussion series Friday at noon at the Faculty Center with a short presentation on “The Great Transition.” His talk will 1 be followed by discussion.
Cosponsored by the Faculty Com-mittee on Religious Interests, the Ecumenical Mission and the Chaplain’s Office, future presentations will include:
“The Growth of Knowledge,” Dr. Edward Borgers, telecommunications; “The War Trap,” Dr. A. K. Basu, political science; “Economic Development,” Dr. Spencer Pollard, economics.
“The Population Trap,” Dr. Robert Tranquada, community medicine; “The Role of Ideology,” Dr. Howard Miller, history; and “The Future of the Great Transition.” Dr. Harold Spear, business administration.
It was with this problem in mind, and in anticipation of alerting students to the grave possibilities should no solutions be soon forthcoming, that the forum scheduled Wednesday's Hancock discussion on "Man vs. His Environment.”
Five professors, all associated with the Institute of Urban Ecology, will seek answers to the questions “can man survive?” and “will civilization kill us?”
Participating in the 3:15 p.m. forum will be Dr. Arthur Atkisson, executive director of the institute; Dr. Melville Branch, professor of city and regional planning; Dr. Leslie Chambers, director of the Hancock Foundation and chairman of the institute; Dr. Roger Egeberg, dean of the School of Medicine: and Dr. Alfred Ingersoll, dean of the School of Engineering.
“This may not be the mosrt dramatic issue of our time.” Bloland said, “but it certainly is one of our most serious.
"The Great Issues Forum felt that any discussion of current problems would be completely inadequate without some attention to this issue.”
Dean Bloland notei that the ecological problem — the problem of man and his environment — affects many realms, including the air, water, space, the earth and the population.
Wednesday’s program will be the first of two on man and his environment. It is coordinated by Bloland and Dr. Milo Appleman. professor of bacteriology.
Kathy Braun is student chairman of the presentation, which, in accordance with Great Issues Forura policy, will end with a time for students to question the speakers.