University of Southern California
TROJAN
VOL. Lvm
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 16. 1967
NO. 91
Mayocks TIP Platform
Old Policies
Mike Mayock, president. of the Trojan Independent Party, has issued a spring TIP platform based on increased student liberties, including a liberalization of liquor and lockout policies, a student activities fee, and a definitive speakers policy.
None of these proposals are new. but they are all under discussion this
semester. TIP claims that a number of its previous proposals, issued through its ASSC executive board independent representative, Mayock. have since been enacted.
These include the book-bartering center (SCaffold), course description handbook and foreign students Thanksgiving Project.
'THE SAND PEBBLES'
feeve McQueen is shown in a scene from the potential Academy-award-winning trove be shown a* the Wilshire Theatre, corner of Wilshire and La Osnega April 8 at 9 a.m. Proceeds ($1.75 per person) will go to Troy Camp.
Chief of NSA Board Set to Speak Today
Sam Brown, chairman of the National Supervisory Board of the National Student Association, will speak on behalf of that organization in 133 Founders Hall at noon today.
Brown, who is sponsored by the ASSC. is a graduate of Redlands University and a graduate student in divinity at Harvard. He was interviewed on Meet The Press two weeks ago.
“He is as aware of the issues in XSA as anyone can be,” Taylor Hackford. ASSC president, said.
The National Supervisory Board ts Jiot the staff, he emphasized. Its members are representatives of member schools and those on the Boarrf represent regions of the United States. Brown's speech will be from thp mpmber-pchool's point of view.
Rrown will also appear before the TFC at 3:30 where he will debate with Fulton Lewis, who spoke against joining NSA before the Trojan Young Republicans yesterday.
“I think Mr. Brown will be able to satisfactorily refute the arguments « gainst NSA that Mr. Lewis put forth.” Hackford said.
Tonight Brown will speak to the Panhellenic League.
“I make a plea to the students of USC to come to the noon forum and Hear this individual who can explain the proper side of this issue. I believe. better than anyone else. Stu-
dents have shown an interest in having the issue on the ballot and I w^ould hope that they will be enlightened enough about the issues to vote objectively on the merits of USC's affiliation with NSA,” Hackford said.
3 ELECTIVE POSTS STILL UNCONTESTED
The offices of senior representative, junior representative and AMS vice-president still have no takers. Elections Commissioner Laury Scott said yesterday.
All petitions must be turned in by 4 p.m. today in the elections office in the YWCA.
The candidates who have turned in their petitions for office so far are: _
ASSC President: Clyde Doheney and Martin Foley.
ASSC Vice-President of Stu-
dent Activities: Karen Weston and Norm Wilky.
ASSC Vice-President of University Affairs: Boh Lutz.
AMS President: Ralph Pinkert and John Wardlow.
AWS President: Karen Maze-pink.
AWS Vice-President: Concetta Haas, Sue Mansueto and Karol Wahl berg.
Senior Class President: Al Levine and Mike Truher.
Sophomore R e p r e s entative: Scottie Beven and Ron Jacobson.
TIP members also have one thing in common according to Mayock. Whether Greek or non-affiliated. each has an independent mind dedicated to the ideal that all students are created equal and should be endowed by themselves with certain inalienable rights.
The spring platform consists of three major points.
First is a codification of Rules. A handbook should be issued, listing University rules which contain the following modifications pertinent to student behavior.
Revisions of the present policy are: use of alcohol in the dormitories and on the Row. liberalization of lockout regulations, establishment of visitation privileges for the men’s dorms, modernization of dress regulations. maintaining open dorms during midsemester vacations, abolishment of censorship of literature to be distributed on campus, formulation of a concrete definition of a speakers policy and of rally areas, and a statement of rules governing the use of the new Activities Center (which, hopefully, will be under the management of a student control board).
The second point is the enactment of a student activities fee. The fee would finance speakers, social and
American College Backed by NSA-
Students Not Fulton Lewis Jr.
By JACQtE LINDSTROM
“The myth of the alleged representation provided to the American college student has been exploded," Fulton Lewis, news commentator and analyst, said yesterday at a speech sponsored by the Trojan Young Republicans.
“The National Student Association is purporting to represent the American student. Three hundred out of 2,000 colleges are members of this organization. This actual enrollment constitutes only 15 percent of the students in the country,” Lewis said.
"It is pretty w’ell known on Capitol Hill that NSA is a fraud and does not represent the students.”
Inequities in Faculty Pay Scales Discussed
Th* University Senate chose to discuss inequities in faculty salaries yesterday, ignoring charges made f*p*un*t it in a letter to the editor in Monday's Daily Trojan.
In the letter, John Powell, assisted professor of international relations. said the election of Dr. Robert Ma nnes. associate professor of mechanical engineering, as president r»f tjie Executive Committee, broke a lone-standing tradition of elevating the previous vice-president to the top Spot. The election left him with a feeing that he was inadequately represented in the Senate.
But the Senate, in its first meeting since the publication of the letter. discussed and passed a resolution asking for a study of salaries.
Dr. David Malone, professor *>f English, said professors in humanities and social sciences wrere being paid far below the scales of other, richer departments of the university.
“Our assistant professors in English ar* gptting $1,049	ppr y«a.ar than assistant professors in the rest of the university," Malone said. *"Thpre are means which can reduce these inequities.” *
He proposed a minimum pay scale for each professorial rank, and asked that departments which bring in large amounts of tuition revenues be allowed to use a large percentage of those revenues themselves, rather than seeing them used to subsidize other programs.
Dr. Milton Kloetzel. interim vice-president of academic affairs, said tlie problem was getting outside support for underpaid parts of the university. He said certain departments demand more money.
"If you want to remain competi-
tive in those areas, you have to pay the going rate.” he said.
“Don’t you w^ant to remain competitive in English?" he was asked.
“Yes. as long as we don't have to print the money ourselves.” he said.
A report on salaries and revenues for the entire university will be presented at the April meeting of the Senate.
Resolutions were also passed asking President Topping to seat three faculty members as ex-officio members of the Board of Trustees, and to include a faculty committee in all budget processes.
Lewns. past new'« director for radio station W.IOC in Jamestown. N.Y. has served as research analyst for the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
His interest in NSA dates back to its founding. His role is urging non-affiliation is not a new one as he has traveled widely throughout the United States urging just such a course on many college and university campuses.
“In dealing with national recognition of foreign student affairs, NSA carries no weight. This organization has killed off any possibility for many years of a student organization that would represent the American student,” Lewis said.
“College students, who represent 10 percent of the population, are one of the few groups not represented by a lobby in Washington. The best thing that the NSA could do would be to commence dissolution of the organization and close their doors.**
Lewis proposed as a replacement to NSA, a national student congress which would be established to represent all college students. Delegates w'ould be representatives from various campus organizations.
The organization of the student congress would resemble that of the United States Congress. Lewis feels that this system would create legitimate representation of the sudents and restore a sense of cohesiveness betw’een foreign and American students.
NSA in it* current form provides services for student governments by supplying material on various projects a government may wish to attempt.'
The organization reached an all-time high membership of 399 schools in 1960, but an NSA resolution on civil rights prompted a pullout by-several Southern schools.
Lewis' objections to NSA are partially due to student body presidents elected not on the basis of their po-
litical affiliation but hecause of their grasp of campus politics.
“The National Student Association is a farce and a fraud and should be forced out of existence. I hope that the American student community will not be content to let this organization continue to represent them,” Lewis said.
John Wardlow Announces Candidacy for AMS Head
John Wardlow. second candidate for the Associated Men Students presidency, said yesterday that if elected he would form a committee to investigate the Board of Trustees.
Wardlow. a. philosophy junior, is running against Ralph L. Pinkert.
Wardlow said he will campaign on three main issues:
•	Forming a trustee investigation committee. “The reason is that people are making decisions about what students do with their lives,” he said. “This is the Board of Trustees.”
•	Pass-fail grading in physical education classes.
•	“Finding out why liquor is permitted in married students hous-
ing and not in other university housing."
Wardlow said he will he "the advocate for students to the administration.”
Cochairman of the ASSC Speakers Committee, Wardlow is also a justice on the Studet Court. He has a 2.6 grade point average.
Concerning the National Student Association, he said, “I don't see any reason not to try it out for a year. I’m not particularly excited about it though.”
Wardlow was chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for Better Parks at USC, which investigated the formation of a Hyde Park area.
cultural events, a student telephone directory, an on-campus mutual ticket agency, a DT independent of administrative pressures, and affiliation with NSA.
The third point is "student interaction." According to Mayock. student interaction involves the membership of students on faculty committees (such as those fcr tenure and scholarship), communion of students with scholars through eating clubs and other social groups, and the enactment of a University Free Hour (a certain hour of each day in which no classes will be held to allow maximum participation in convocations, club meetings and speakers programs).
Also under the third point are a free tutorial program for USC students, cultural exchanges with foreign students and the addition of Free University colloquia.
TIP is willing to endorse candidates for any ASSC office who most closely espouse the ideas set forth in its platform. Mayock said. The endorsement committee will meet after Easter vacation.
Alan; Levine To Run for Senior Prexy
“I can provide the aggressive and dynamic leadership that the post of senior class president demands. ’ Alan Levine said yesterday in announcing his candidacy.
Levine is running oppoejte Miks Truher for the office.
‘‘The senior class president can't he the type of guy who will retire from the public eye after he is sleeted —such as our curr«jnt junior class representative has done,” he said.
Truher, junior class representative, could not be reached for comment on Levine's statement.
Levine, a pre-law junior, said, “I feel this office is one of unlimited potential, potential that hasn't been tapped. It's been a stale office.”
“It's been mainly concerned with the awards banquet and the class gift.
"I want to place more emphasis on student participation in university-wide projects. My hope is to bring unity back to the university.”
"I'm campaigning on my qualifications.” he said.
Levine is a member of Trojan Knights and former vice-president of Squires, the sophomore men's honorary. He has been a member of the ASSC High School Relations, Rally, and Social Committees.
He is past president of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. His grade point average is 3.4.
“I'm primarily concerned with getting out to meet with juniors now and getting them involved.” he said.
Concetta For Veep
Haas Files
of AWS
Concetta Haas, an elementary education sophomore who is a member of ASSC. announced her candidacy yesterday for Associated Women Students vice-president.
She said she is seeking the office to extend her involvement in student government.
This extended involvement entails another term on ASSC which would enable her to pursue her pet student government project: an inter-women's organizational newsletter, commuter relations and women’s orientation.
Miss Haas .said that the newsletter w’ould promote awareness within the entire structure of women's organizations by serving as an informational media and clearing house for ideas and needs on campus.
Each organization would be pro-
vided a monthly questionaire concerning activities, projects and project ideas. This newsletter would be sent to each member of a women's organization and formed from the information supplied by the questionaires. “It needs to be done if our organizations are going to be worthwhile,” Miss Haas said.
The proposed social tax could play a decisive role in on-campus involvement for commuter students. It would provide funds for events which would keep commuters on campus for reasons other than classes.
Concerning orientation. Miss Haas said, “I know what I'm getting into in that area.” She served as Orientation Committee Chairman for Spurs this fall.
USC IS FALLING BEHIND'
ACLU Begins Rights Campaign
By SUSAN HAYTON John Medford, president of the campus American Civil Liberties Union, told the Daily Trojan that “USC is being badly hurt by its failure to appreciate the changed concept of student rights.”
He made the remark while announcing the first ACLU meeting of the spring semester which will be held today at 3:30 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the Law School.
“Any student, whether Republican or Democrat. Greek or Independent, SDS or whatever, who believes that things ought to move forward at USC, is urged to come and vote today.
“I honestly think that w^e can get the necessary changes this spring,” he said.
USC is falling far behind the other top private and public schools in personal student rights, according to Medford.
“All the top schools allow liquor in the dorms ?nd on their Rows, and allow visitors in dorm rooms. The dress regulations in the dorms need to be updated. A free speech area on campus is needed. Censorship of materials handed out on campus must stop. Open polling places are needed so that three-fourths of the voters don’t come from the Row,” he said.
Medford, a second-year law student, said the faculty cannot be expected to carry on the entire battle for student rights, especially when the students have failed to show that many “personal sacrifices” of
faculty members have not been in vain.
“At the eleventh hour last year, the student Senate withdrew its invitation to the communist speaker, Dr. Herbert Aptheker. The faculty had worked long and hard to eliminate a speaker's policy that was detrimental to USC. The students put Dr. Topping in the position of having to issue his own invitation.
“The unbelievable apathy on this campus will cease when students are given the same Constitutional rights which the non-student population seems to be able to handle.”
As disturbing to Medford as the restrictive University policies is the resultant loss of a number of USC’s finest student and faculty minds.
“It is reported that 70 percent of the Ment Scholarship winners do not remain to graduate from USC. but transfer to places like UCLA and Stanford. Our imaginative freshmen are leaving. Professor Saltman left.”
The general noninvolvement extends to all areas of campus life as evidenced, Medford said, by newly-elected Los Angeles Police Chief Thomas Reddin’s Bovard audience of 40, and by the fact that two polling places for the forthcoming election each registered a scant 30 voters and had to be closed.
The first serious and consequential action on the part of students will come from what Medford calls “a coalition of hippies.” of which he intends the ACLU
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