'ONE ASSASSIN'
University of Southern California
Lawyer Will Defend Warren Commission
Joseph Ball, senior legal counsel to the Warren Commission, has debated with Mark Lane, author of “Rush to Judgment,” many times.
“And we think he just smashed Lane to ribbons,” Dr. Dorothy Nelson. professor of law. said yesterday.
Ball, who will speak today at 12:30 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium, won’t get a chance to confront Lane here.
But he will be following a week-long “Inquiry Into the Death of a President” sponsored by the Trojan Young Democrats last month.
In that investigation, three presentations (including a tape by Lane) brought out arguments against the single-assassin theory, which was used by the commission as part of its proof in charging Lee Harvey Oswald with the killing.
Ball, who will 6peak on "The Warren Commission Controversy,” was in charge of the report’s factual investigation. Dr. Nelson said.
“He’s one of the most informed people in the United States on the factual material in the report,” she said.
“He will answer the arguments posed by Warren Commission critics, reply to criticisms of the report, answer the questions posed by Lane and others and tell how' the commission conducted its investigation.
Ball, a 1927 graduate of the USC Law' School, was associated with the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office for 17 years..
He is now a criminal lawyer with the firm of Ball, Hunt. Hart and Brown, The former California governor joined the Long Beach firm after his election defeat last fall.
He took a leave of absence from the firm to w-ork for the Warren Commission, and since returning has spent much time lecturing on the report across the nation.
Ball, who teaches a mght courne at the Law School on criminal law and procedure, specializes in anti-trust, land condemnation and murder trials.
Law Dean Orrin Evans and Duane Zobrist. second-year law student and member of the Great Issues Forum Committee, will introduce Ball’s speech.
His formal talk will be included in time for 1:15 classes, but he will stay after that time to answer any questions from the audience.
VOL. Lvm
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1967
NO. 117
USC at Stage of Change, Academic Challenge—Elliott
By STAN METZLER Assistant to the Editor
“USC is at a stage of both change and challenge.” Dr. John Elliott noted yesterday.
And as the university grow's in size and complexity, the need for a serious reexamination of our goals and policies also grows, he said.
“It is very likely that the next decade will see important changes in the governance, the academic, the administrative and the fiscal organizations of the university.
“The question is whether we shall rationally and intelligently shape our future more-or-less shape us.”
Dr. Elliott, president of the Southern California Conference of the American Association of University
Wilky Refutes Attack On Programming
Bv c athi SCHTNBLER
“If all those who have been belatedly criticizing the program fee had gotten out and voted ‘nyet,’ I doubt if the fee would have passed.” Norm Wilky, next year’s vice-president of student activities, said yesterday.
Wilky wras speaking m defense of the student tax, which was attacked yesterday by five professional schools.
The School of International Relations ha* also joined the Schools of Business. Dentistry, Engineering. Law- and Medicine m expressing its dislike of the pending fee. a $4.50 assessment on each student’s fee bill each semester to provide the ASSC with a larger budget.
"The Daily Trojan adequately publicized the student fee before the election,” Wilky said.
“It frosts me that certain student groups would sit back, and only after the election, look into the fee, see what they felt to be weaknesses and then threaten, in effect, to secede from the ASSC.
"However. I am perfectly willing to forgive their past laziness and apathy and sit down and w<yk out Mffif mutually satisfactory agreement.
"Th* pmpn«s of thp programming fet ip to provide certain a 11-university function* which the separate schools cannot provide.
“I, personally, have yet to see any
Phi Bates Add Prof
Members
Dr. Hubert Busemann. who holds the post of distinguished professor of mathematics, has been elected to honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa
Dr. Don Smith. USC chapter president, also announced the addition of three students to the list of candidates made public earlier.
They are Donald Emerson Sch-miedel, who is working on a Ph.D. in Spanish; Tugrul Aladag. a senior economics major from Turkey; and Steven Robert Poole, a junior in English. Schmiedel took his undergraduate work at Kent State University.
Dr. Busemann has served as editor of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics. Transactions of the American Mathematics Society, the Memoris of the A.M.S., and of Advances in Mathematics.
New officers of the Epsilon Chapter are Dr. Donald E. Queller. associate dean of the Graduate School, president; and Roy H. Copperud, associate professor of journalism, first vice-president.
Dr. John E. Cantelon. university chaplain, second vice-president; Stephanie Adams, assistant dean of women. secretary: and Margaret G. Morehouse, associate professor of biochemistry, secretary and treasurer.
argument which proves that the individual schools can better perform this function.”
Martin Omansky, chairman of the International Relations Graduate Student Association, also voiced his school’s concern over the programming fee.
“We in the Graduate School of International Relations are in full
sympathy with the other professional school in regard to this matter,” he said.
“We would favor some kind of an equitable distributive system, so that each professional school could allocate the new source of funds in a manner appropriate to their needs, rather than to have one central redistribution system for a campus as our*.”
Professors, and Dr. Kenneth Harwood, former member of the AAUP National Council, were at the Faculty Center to discuss a statement adopted by the AAUP last week on the Government of Colleges and Universities.
That statement, written and approved jointly by the AAUP. the American Council on Education (a group of college presidents) and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and College, will likely become a national standard for governing universities because of its adoption by all three of these groups, they said.
(The statement also refers to students as the fourth major university group, but refrains comment on their position at this time because of wrhat it considers a lack of a responsible organization to voice their view’s).
Dr. Elliott said the USC chapter of the AAUP will do all it can to see that, “rational and orderly change d^es occur and that needed dialogue is eneaged in” at USC, especially in twro critical areas:
#	The selection of the new vice-president of academic affairs; and
#	The fiscal relations among the different segments of the university.
He indicated later that this dialogue would be conducted through such established organizations as the University Senate.
Dr. Harwood noted that although the report recognized similarities between a university and a business institution, the two differ from each other in their primary purpose.
“The important difference is that
the main job of a business is to make a profit, while the main job of a university is to develop people,’’ he explained.
“Therefore, there is a difference in how the two are put together and governed.”
In the university. Dr. Harwood explained, a direct correlation has been
found between the quality of academic work and the extent of faculty influence in the school s government.
Now that USC has moved from a period of physical chang to one of academic challenge, Dr. Elliott indicated, the time has com*' for the faculty, administration, governing boards and students to w'ork together iointly in the university’s governance.
U. S. Papers Cuban Exile
Biased,
Charges
By DON KRUGER
“The greatest crime is not what the Communists are doing, but that the American people aren’t told what's happening,” Cuban exile Jose Norman told the Trojan Young Republicans yesterday.
Norman, who lived in Cuba during Castro's guerrilla war and ultimate rise to power, charged that American newspapers deliberately overlooked Castro terrorism
“The United States press was pressured not to disclose the whole truth,” he said.
Citing several disregarded exposes that he gave to the New York Times, Norman said the big U.S. papers were “socialistic in many ways” and as a result “didn’t really hear the facts.”
Norman said he had talked to the Communists often during his two years under the Castro regime. “The Communists told me what they were going to do. First, they
MAN OF TROY
Rick Gaskins
It'* spring; in their senior year. A handful of men, active in student affairs and distinguished by their grades, begin to aw’ait the Man of Troy announcements.
Five men are named every year, but few have achieved the academic credentials of Rick Gaskins. USC’s sole winner of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, a Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year and a triple major with a 3.9 grade point.
And of thp perennial five, few have anticipated the award less than Gaskins.
"I was totally surprised.” he explained. "1 didn't even know what it was.
“I suppose I was named partially for academic achievement, as wrell as the fact that this last year I’ve been quite involved with a large number of people in working out the faculty evaluation.”
Believeing that students should take a concern in the type of teaching they receive. Gaskin was one of four men wrho initiated and edited the Guide to Faculty — published last month.
“I found it interesting to explore the problems of good teaching, especially since I w’ant to teach myself, but I ve really come to no conclusions about USC.” he said.
“In my own experience, I’ve come across a small number of truly outstanding teachers, but I just don’t see on this campus a deep enough concern among the faculty for doing an effective job.
“Maybe it’s because in most universities research is rewarded and teaching is very rarely recognized.” he noted.
“Perhaps the evaluation can help recognize the outstanding teacher.” Gaskins came, to USC on the Residents Honor Program for high school seniors from Garden Grove to major in economics.
He was seriously considering transferring to Pomona. College, but he was pursuaded to stay and continue his studies on a special, more-flexible course combing the Departments of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science.
“I’m quite satisfied with the way things have wforked out at USC,” he said. “I don't feel I could have had a better situation at any other school in the country.”
Gaskins will continue his education for the next four years at the Yale School of Philosophy.
After including a year of study in Germany in his four-year program for a Ph.D., Gaskins hopes to teach, on a college level, social or political philosophy.
RICHARD GASKINS
One of Five Men of Troy
54 Knights to be 52 Selected
as
Fifty-four new Trojan Knights will be initiated Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. They will meet tomorrow at 3 p.m. in 226 Founders Hall, at w'hich time they must pay their $35 initia-ion fee.
Fifty-two new Trojan Squires will meet with the outgoing Squires today at 3:30 p.m. in 133 Founders Hall.
The new Knights are: Rick Aguirre, John Anglin, Tom Arganese, Gary Ashcraft, Craig Bagley, Bob Best, Bill Boggs, Dean Bower, Bill Caldwell, Glen Cass.
Randy Coomb6, Chuck Culp, David Denenny, Len Eckel, Norm Elder, Tom Fuller, Richard Gere, Lee Goldberg, Larry Goodnight, Jerry Graves, Phil Hauger.
Brian Heimerl, Wayne Hersh, Greg Hoffman, Richard Hoppe, Don Hudson, John Johnson, Mike Kirsh-ner, Bill Krantz, Lynn Krause, Dennis Kristan, George de La Guardia. Pat Lawiess.
Bob Linden. John Marquis, Frank Manart, Bill Mauk, Bruce McEwen, Warren Melnick, Bob Nelson, Perry Nicassio, Steve Nicholson, Dick Nick-um. Randy Noble, Matt Pasternak, Randy Port.
Tim Prangley, Gary Rafferty, Bob Rollo, Jack Sander, A1 Simon, Tim Smallwood, Jeff Smulyan and Steve Sparling.
The new Squires are: Bill Aracon, Bruce Armstrong, William Barnes. Arthur Berkowitz, Ralph Brunner, Don Caskey, James Chinn, Steven
Initiated Sunday Trojan Squires
Cockriel, Tom De Mary, Eugene Erb-stoesser, Jerry Finster.
George Fleming, Peter Flour, Den-ov Freidenrich, Michael Gerhards, Richard Gordon, Terry Hackett, James Halferty, Joe Hannon, Randy Harris.
James Howlett, Ronald Jacobson, Steven Jay, Chuck Johanson, William Kennon, Bill Kesler, James Kitner, Mickey Koleszar, Andrew Krough, Jack Langson, Tom Layne, Robert Lee.
Kevin Lindsay, Bill Lowe, Jim McAllister, Duane McKay, Bob Meyers, Robert Moore, Stephen Moore, Joseph Murphy, Jack Reynolds. Jonathon Ritter, Thomas Rhoads.
Jordow Rubenstein, Robert Slaby, Norman Shusher, Bruce Thompson,
Stephen Turner. Thomas Usher. John Whitaker, Jon Zanotti and Kenneth Ziskin.
Trojan Knights is a junior and senior men's service honorary. They are the official hosts of the university and are the oldest service group on campus.
Squires, a sophomore men's service honorary, will be entering its second year of complete autonomy in the fall. They were orginally formed as an auxiliary to Knights but passed their own constitution last year under the presidency of Paul Saba.
The outstanding Squire award, which will be given this afternoon at the meeting, has been renamed in memory of Saba, who died last June.
would stir up police brutality, and secondly infiltrate the schools and universities.
“And now I'm seeing it.” said Norman referring to protest marches and demonstrations at universities as Berkeley and Harvard
“Pro-Castroites are very active m the Berkeley demonstrations and fres speech movements." he said
Norman said there were about ^0 terrorist schools in Cuba to train American and Latin subversives m the arts of "torture, protesting, noting and police brutality."
Citing the 59 American students W’ho illegally visited Cuba after Castro’s take-over. Norman said they were back in American universities and were dedicated agents of Fidel Castro.
“They told me.” cried Norman, tacitly labeling the Progressive Labor Party as a Communist Organization.
Very excited at this point, Norman warned that. "If you don't ^ct like your enemy, you won't win."
He suggested that patriotic students “open your mouth3 and ;®t your information tables going. If you don t, you and your country ar* going to lose.-’
Commenting on the sparse audience of only 20, Norman lamented the administration's supposed lack of support for conservative speakers.
“Dorothy Healey or Gus Hall would have been publicized for a week, and would have spoken in the biggest hall,” he said.
SDS Officer
Says Schools Spur Isolation
"The American educational system i* utterly successful—in isolating people from each other." Greg Calvert, national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society, told 10 students in a speech yesterday.
Carl Davidson, national vice-president. was scheduled to speak, but he didn't come to the rostrum.
Calvert said the educational system is a “question of power and powerlessness.”
“We find a paradox—the powerlessness of you and me — and the power of this country. Until people address themselves to America, the power, and their own impotence, they are not meeting the question.” Facing this pow’er. people are forced to change their situation by developing another type of power, a power they can control. Calvert said “Until they ask who controls the university for what reasons, students aren't facing the question. That's why we talk about student power.” he said.
“Until we demand that wc will set our own priorities, we will not come to terms with this America and our own power.”
Calvert said such issues as the protest movement are beginning to develop a very close relationship with the slogan “Student Power.”
“You can't change the university totally until you change America, but you can begin to change Amenca by raising questions here.” he said.
“You can’t do human research in the university until more people in the ghetto control their own Kves.” Calvert compared student movements with guerrilla movements — “We must begin to see ourselves in these ways.” he said.
“We need to begin to see that we start with the individual, turning them on to a new vision.”
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