Recount puts Jones in runoff
By ANDREW ERSKINE
A recount of the ballots cast in the ASSC primary elections determined that Chuck Jones squeaked out a narrow victory over Kent Clemence, securing a place in the runoff election for the ASSC presidency.
The votes, which originally totaled 874 for McGuinness, 779 for Clemence, and 763 for Jones, have been revised to 876 for McGuinness, 763 for Clemence and 775 for Jones.
Several parties have charged that the counting process was disorganized and irregular. Tom Levyn, ASSC vice-president for programs and a Clemence supporter, said he would file a suit to the Student Court asking for a new election.
Levyn charged that the counting of ballots was done in an inefficient and unorganized manner, and that there were 17 less ballots at the recount than there were at the first count.
“The race was so close and the stakes were so high that we must have another election,” he said.
Levyn said that, if the court rules on
precedent, that it will call a new election. According to him, the precedent was set when the court called a new election between Bill Mauk and Ralph Lippman, when the latter's name appeared on the original ballot misspelled.
Ed Hurst, campaign manager for Chuck Jones, also felt that the counting was done inefficiently.
“The counting process was completely irregular,” he said. “We hope that in the final election we will have’ stricter control. There were just masses of people counting. ”
Paul Moore, director of student activities, replied, “We had the system set up so that there was sufficient supervision so that anyone could count the ballots.”
Clemence was unavailable for comment, but he is expected to call for another recount.
Jones described the headaches caused by the election mixup. “The biggest problem is the fact that Kent and I are both in a state of limbo,” he said. “Neither campaign can go into high gear, which unfortunately gives Mc-
Guinness a boost.
“I already went through the trip of emotional catharsis last night.”
When asked what the nature of his campaign would be, Jones said. “If the figures are true, then what we see on campus is a real ideological split.”
Hurst agreed, saying, “The campaign will emphasize the choice between Chuck, who is a proven student government administrator, and John, who is representative of a very conservative political faction on campus.”
McGuinness felt that the strong showing of two conservative candidates represented a “clear repudiation of the politics of confrontation.” He also felt that the race will be an ideological rather than a personal contest.
In the wake of the ASSC primary elections the Student Court nullified the Peace Treaty proposition due to excessive campaign expenditures and called for another referendum to be held during the ASSC general elections April 27 and 28.
Dan Levinson, chief justice of the Student Court, said that the court’s ac-
tion was the result of clearly provable overexpenditures, namely a full-page advertisement in the Daily Trojan. The advertisement, which cost $144. exceeded the $100 maximum limit on campaign costs.
The complaint was intially received by Elections Commissioner Charlene Bandurraga, who felt that the charge had no merit because the Ad Hoc Indochina Treach-in Committee was not the official sponsor of the peace treaty. She said that the Elections Code did not provide for the existence of more than one sponsoring committee, and she recommended clarification of the code.
Levinson said, “The rationale was based on the assumption that the court had to take into account the expenditure of the campaign as a whole. Otherwise, if you had 10 groups sponsoring a proposition, you would be able to spend $1,000.”
Before the proposition can again be placed on the general election ballot, it much be approved for student vote
by the Executive Council.
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. 109	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA	FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1971
Lack of evidence acquits Blackburn
By ROSELLE VELLIS
Henry Blackburn, chairman of the Black Students Union, was acquitted Wednesday evening by the University Judicial of charges of violating the university Policy on Student Dissent. The charges stemmed from his alleged disruption of the USC-Brigham Young University baseball game March 20.
The hearing lasted approximately 10 minutes, and then the case was dismissed on the grounds that the university had no evidence to support it.
Blackburn’s hearing was scheduled to begin at 6 p.m., Wednesday evening, but was delayed because over 100 people showed up to support him, with no room for them to be seated. Consequently the trial was moved from the Student Activities Center to the Law Center.
Blackburn was formally charged with engaging in activities that violated the university's Policy on Student Dissent and pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Aaron Jones, acting as defense attorney for Blackburn, asked to hear the case of the prosecution first, to determine what Blackburn was actually being tried for.
Adrian Maravich. chief justice, then called the witness on behalf of the university, Officer Joseph Gayson of campus security.
He retold to the court the events of the March 20 game, stating that “after two Negro males refused to leave the field,
a supervisor for campus security decided to call the Los Angeles Police Department.”
When asked if he could identify Henry Blackburn as being on the field, Gayson said he could not, but pointed to two men in the audience, accusing them of disrupting the baseball game. Jones questioned the two men in the audience and
both denied being at the game.
Jones finally asked that the case be thrown out of court on the grounds that Gayson could not identify anyone on the field and that the university had no evidence whatsoever to support the case. As a result the case was dismissed.
“The university never had a case against Blackburn, ” said John Johnson, co-attorney for
Blackburn. “In any court of law, one always has to have that minimum level of evidence to bring charges against a man. The university could bring no witnesses to testify that they saw Blackburn or any member of the BSU on that field.”
And according to Johnson, in no part of the police report did it ever state that Blackburn was on, or taken off the field.
Morton urges ecology action
By BILENDA HARRIS Assistant Campus Editor
“The need today is for a realistic national commitment for a healthier environment,” Rogers Morton, secretary of the interior, said in a speech for Earth Day yesterday.
This national commitment must be from the people of America rather than just the federal government, he said.
“In today’s modern dialogue and rhetoric the words we often hear are environment and ecology,” Morton said. “We hear the world ecology used in many different ways, and I think both of these words have many different meanings in the minds of different people.
He then defined environment as everything that was here before Man, all that he created and even Man. himself.
“I think it is fair to say that each individual has his own attitude and his own concept of environmental quality. But basically and constructively we are searching for change, for action that terminates the destruction of values of this earth necessary to support our life systems and our cultural aspirations.”
Relating these statments to his specific purpose on campus Morton said, “This is the second Earth Day and the concern for our environment has grown from a few voices to thousands. As young people, you are part of that effort and should be congratulated for your past leadership and involvement. Your challenge however, is to do twice as much this year and double your efforts to recruit more young people into our cause.”
The most important environmental issue, Morton said is land-use planning and the public acceptance of it. He said long range plans with guide lines are important especially where large watersheds are to be partially reserved or preserved.
“We have an example in the Everglades National Park in Florida,” Morton said. “Here was a beautiful park consisting of 1,325,910 acres. Much of its wildlife and fauna, however, are at the mercy of the upstream portions of the watershed which drain into the park and which are not in public hands. The values of the park are not threatened because there was no plan to control the watershed upstream.	(Continued on page 2)
Local train hits coed's car
A Southern Pacific freight train slammed into the car of a young woman, identified as a USC law student, as she waited to make a U-turn at the intersection of Exposition Boulevard and Kinsey Avenue yesterday afternoon.
After sounding several warning whistles, the engineer applied the brakes in a vain attempt to halt the train, but the engine hit the 1970 yellow Plymouth. The car was dragged almost 35 feet from the intersection, with the rear end of the car trapped under the steel awning next to the rear wheels.
Within minutes, police and firecrews arrived. With the use of an hydraulic cutter, firemen freed the young woman from the wreckage. She emerged from the crushed auto with only a few cuts from the shattered glass.
A waiting ambulance took her to California Hospital Medical Center where she was treated for minor abrasions and later released. She requested that her name be withheld.