Eight Professors Honored
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FARSIGHTED -- Mrs. Blanche Seaver, member of the Board of Truslees, and President Norman Topping look over a model of the Master Plan. Mrs. Seaver is presently under fire by two students for alleged donations to TYR.
University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LVIH
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1967
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NO. 112
Second NSA Election: Hackford Asks Affiliation
By KATHY GALLOWAY
A second election to decide the fate of USC's affiliation in the National Student Association will take place today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in front of Tommy Trojan.
The first NSA election, held on April 3 and 4, was ruled invalid by the Student Board of Inquiry because of alleged impropriaties and illegalities by the Trojan Young Republicans in their campaign against USC's affiliation.
Taylor Hackford, ASSC president, told the Daily Trojan yesterday, “USC should affiliate with NSA because it is the most progressive and eloquent organization of student governments.”
“My office has purposely been
2 Students Seek Seaver Ouster Over Donation
city for the week, but he has con-
By STAN METZLER Assistant to the Editor
The resignation of Mrs. Blanche Seaver from the Board of Trustees for a “breach of trust" has been requested in a resolution released by the presidents of two campus organizations.
Mrs. Seaver, who was given an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters at the Von KleinSmid
42 Elected ToPhiBete Fraternity
Students elected to Phi Beta Kappa were announced yesterday by Dr. Don C. Smith, professor of telecommunications and president of the university's Epsilon of California Chapter.
Twenty-seven seniors from the 1966-67 graduating classes and 15 juniors in the upper two percent of their class are the newly elected.
Election to the society is based on academic standing. Only majors in subdivisions of the College of Letters. Arts, and Sciences are eligible.
Seniors elected are: Terry Wallace . Bales, journalism; Jack Balias, sociology; Hannelore Buss. German; Virginia Lcuise Clark, psychology; Diana Jean Dennis, international relations: Sharon Elaine Giannetta. social science.
Richard Horace Goodrich, history; Theodore Richard Harris. English; Adrienne Laurel Hjorth. history; Ronald Jernigan. philosophy: Glen Robert Justice, medicine; Gregory Howard Kieselmann. journalism; Sharon Marie King, sociology; James Michael Kushner. telecommunications.
Ilona Lehet. English; Ronald Sheldon Marks, psychology; Patricia Threse McGinn. English; Mary Frances Miller, journalism; Sharon Yuriko Moiiwaki. sociology: Margaret Ann Oliver, physical education; Karen Eleanor PeLeisen. public relations; Regine Podiizki. sociology.
Steven Fisher Peahens, medicine; Kathleen Sue Ross, speech; John Charles Sandberg, international relations: Raymond Lawrence Sarna, economics and Peter Johnson Thurston. political science.
The juniors are: Randal Paul A rase, premedicine; Carl Joseph Bel-lone. political science: Patricia R. Bjorkland. French; Christine Reh-bock Burrill. comparative literature; Andrea Caldwell, English.
Alice Fumiko Katagiri. psychology; James Stephen Kilbury, philosophy: Edward Stuart Little, history; Janice Louise Mackey, classics; Bruce Clement Matzen, French and English; Edward Michael McMonigle, premedicine.
Chris Warren Patterson, physics; Eugene Robert Pocock, premedicine; James Robert Smoot, political science; and Norman Leslie Wilky, history.
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Center dedication last fall, was recently accused of making a $240 donation to the Trojan Young Republican's anti-NSA campaign. She has denied making the contribution.
The resolution, submitted by David Lang, president of Students for a Democratic Society, and John Medford, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, reads:
“The title ‘trustee’ carries with it not only a profound embodiment of trust to the bearer to act in the overall interests of the University of Southern California, but a responsibility not to interefere in student campus politics.
“We feel that Mrs. Seaver has seriously compromised both the trust and responsibility that were given to her. and that her actions have created a crisis of confidence in her capacity to continue to function in such a position. We, therefore, feel that it would be in the best interests of the University of Southern California both present and future, if she would relinquish her position, and we strongly urge her to expiate her violation of trust by resigning from the Board of Trustees immediately.”
Linda Dulgarian. president of TYR, told the Daily Trojan she thought it “truly tragic that SDS or ACLU would demand, or even recommend. that a woman who has given so much moral support and encouragement to youth as Mrs. Seaver be replaced.
“As I have said before, neither Mrs. Seaver nor any other outside source, have ever given financial aid to TYR for the NSA referendum campaign; and certainly even if it were true, this would not be grounds for removal.”
Dr. Topping could not be reached for comment, since he is out of the
By JUDY BORGERDING
Two USC students have slammed heavy criticism against their school in an interview with a representative of the Center for Research and Development in Higher Education. They are doing a study of “Freedom in American Higher Education.”
The group, which describes itself as “ecumenically constituted churchmen." is interviewing students from universities and colleges throughout the nation to draft a consensus definition of the proper role of a university and the dimensions of freedom that impinge on the proper work of a university.
The two students — one who shall be described as a high-ranking student government electee, and the other as a radical campus political leader, to protect the anonymity of their criticisms — characterized the USC administration as "dictatorial and authoritarian.”
They called on the administration to step aside and allow the faculty
stantly and consistently praised Mrs. Seaver for her many contributions to USC.
When she was named Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year in 1963, Dr. Topping commented on her activities on the Board of Trustees, to which she was appointed in 1960: “Her 31 gentlemen compatriots have constantly held her in highest regard. She is alv iys a delight, and they value her for her intelligence and her generosity, both in contributions of time and financial support to the university.”
Elaborating on their resolution, Lang made it clear that he and Medford were concerned over her alleged interference in a student political issue.
“Their position is supposed to be neutral to student politics,” he said.
The board cited Mrs. Seaver last September, when she received the honorary degree, as a “dedicated civic worker, distinguished composer and patron of the arts, energetic supporter of higher education, (who has) given of her talents and her devotion to the betterment of mankind throughout her life.”
A member of the board of Pomona College since 1965, she has followed her late husband as a major benefactor of Loyola University, Pomona and USC.
She taught music at Ja,ne Adam's Hull House in Chicago, organized the Women’s Society for Homeless Boys in Mexico City and is founder of numerous charitable organizations in Los Angeles.
Her major financial contributions to USC have been for Seaver Residence Hall at the School of Medicine, the Von KleinSmid Center and the Seaver Science Center.
to become a major voice on campus. They said that “the administration makes all the decisions. The faculty doesn’t have the strong voice it would like to have.”
The University Senate was next. Again the administration bore the brunt of the criticism as they were accused of dispersing the senate's power since a number of the members sit in the senate as representatives of the administration.
Professors on this campus were depicted by the two students as underpaid and as dupes and defenders of the administration. They said that the American Association of University Professors has been on the verge twice of censoring USC (without mentioning the specific incidents) but said that certain USC professors prevented the censures.
The professors are apparently getting the short end of the deal, however, according to the interviewees who having previously decried low salaries added that there was a ter-
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silent on the second NSA election, although we tried hard during the first election to express our position. I'd like to make it clear that this office did not push for the invalidation of the first election.”
Hackford said that any student who is interested in the question had ample opportunity to find out about NSA from numerous articles in the Daily Trojan.
“Although we strongly disagreed with the sensational and illegal campaign of the Trojan Young Republicans, we hope the students were not swayed by this sensationalism, but evaluated the issue objectively in the true tradition of the university.”
There have been many questions about NSA since the CIA connection was disclosed but this has done no real harm.
“Many American universities have joined together in an effort to cure the organization's past weaknesses and make it truly representative of the American students.”
Hackford said five schools have affiliated with the organization since the CIA disclosure. He named the University of Alabama, Michigan State University, and Southern Methodist University in Texas, as three of the recent affiliates.
He also said many people have claimed that USC should stay out of NSA and use its prestige as a bargaining point in order to promote changes in the organization.
“This argument is completely fallacious.” Hackford said. ‘‘The changes must come from within. USC can do nothing unless it joins.”
The TYR campaign, conducted this time mainly by word-of-mouth, has emphasized three points:
1.	That NSA is undemocratically structured.
2.	Resolutions passed at last year’s convention were often contrary to USC’s opinions.
3.	The CIA controversy has discredited NSA’s value in dealing with foreign student governments.
Instead, TYR has urged USC to
rible communications gap between the two groups, a slowness of procedure when professors want to change their curriculums, and. finally, that if the professors are “too liberal they get the boot.”
The plight of the professors has a direct effect on the students, the two said. “They are hired at low salaries, and once they establish a reputation they leave for greener pastures. This is unfortunate for the students.”
USC’s milieu is all wrong, they continued. “The kind of student this university tends to draw is the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.” Couple this with an “unforunate faculty orientation toward the professors own self-interest and academic discipline in-steod of toward the students’ and you have the crux of what these two students see as being wrong with USC.
The student government leader, who was much milder in his criticisms erf USC than was the other student,
join with other observers at the next convention to demand the reforms they seek.
Hackford named the following as being in favor of NSA affiliation: Bob Braun, student activities vice-president, Stu Benjamin. AMS president, Mike Mayock independent representative, Kevin Lindsay, freshman representative. IFC president Tom Ternquist. AWS president Charla Hindley. and Julie Sheehan, university affairs vice-president.
Marty Foley and John Wardlow,
By SUSAN HAYTON
John Medford, second-year law student, president of the campus American Civil Liberties Union and a founding member of the Trojan
JOHN MEDFORD
Geisler Grant recipient
obviously viewed his criticism as a constructive answer to the interviewer’s questions, not as an attempt to embarass USC.
“We must work through the existing channels — the faculty and the administration — to right whatever wrongs need to be corrected." He viewed student government as the most effective way of changing the status quo.
Continuing, he said he would like to see USC institute new courses, or revamp all the old ones, so that they related to the problems that students are concerned about today.
One suggestion was for a course in Vietnamese history which would also include treatment of the war in Vietnam. They urged that the present race relations course being given here include field trips down into Watts.
The study is being funded by the National Committee for Christian Faith and Higher Education Projects.
ASSC and AMS presidents for next year. Bob Lutz, newly-elected university affairs vice-president, and
Norm Wilky, next year s student activities vice-president, also support NSA.
“Those interested in seeing concrete evidence of what NSA has to offer may pick up material at a table in front of the student union," Hackford said. There will be several NSA publications which explain student government programs and school projects.
Independent Party, has received the Geisler Memorial Grant.
The SI,000 award named and presented by the Criminal Courts Bar Association, is in the name of its first president, the late Jerry Geisler.
Medford. 27, a graduate of Ohio State, was selected on the basis of academic achievement, interest in criminal trial work, and financial need. He plans to practice criminal law in I.<os Angeles and to enter tho Public Defender's office, where he is presently involved.
A frequently vehement and occasionally random commentator on the USC ethic. Medford speaks fondly of a “coalition nf hippies" at USC and also (as a Republican) of the virtues of the two-party system and Republican involvement in civil rights movements.
Medford opines that “Tom Rcd-din. new Los Angeles police chief, appreciates the changing needs of his job and will make a good chief. “It’s not going to be easy to undo the harm that Parker did to law enforcement in L.A.,” he added.
“I think, as Professor Whitehead has said, the lawyer needs to be the revolutionary' in the midst of com-placenv and the stabilizing force in the midst of chaos.”
On the USC law school: “The students at our law school are far out of line with the activities and involvement in community and campus shown by the students at the other top law schools, which tend to have a disproportionately large number of law students in political leadership positions.”
On campus affairs: “The new student court, the board of Inquiry and the new rules and policies being formulated at USC need involvement of law students. The administrators cannot play games with words with law students.”
On the law school policies: “Pres-dent Topping told me of two law students who were crying to him that the new law professors were teaching only sociology, psychology and philosophy. I think he well understands that our law school now is ahead in the vigorous new concept of the law in our society. I wish all the law students could be as aware.”
UGLY MAN
Today is the last day to vote for your favorite ugly man.
Ten nominees are represented by either photograph or drawing on a canister in front of the Student Union. A penny constitutes a vote. The one receiving the most pennies will win the title of USC’s ugliest man.
Neil Bardak, Cliff Fenneman, Jeff Herteo. Red Hargraves, Jim Xebel, Bill Symes, Boris Yaro, Jim York. Dan Zinke, and Elliot Zwiebach are in the competition.
Debbi Rhodes, chairman of the Ugly Man contest, said that the proceeds from the contest will go to Troy Camp and the Student Emergency Loan Funds.
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CITY COUNCIL APPROVES HOOVER AGREEMENT
The Los Angeles City Council took another step toward the acquisition and demolition phase of the Hoover Urban Renewal Project yesterday when it approved a cooperation agreement between the Community Redevelopment Agency and the U.S. Dpartment of Housing and Urban Development.
The council voted 10 to 3 to approve the contract which will make federal loan funds available to begin buying land in the $90 million redevelopment project bordering the USC campus.
The agreement was one of several which must be executed before $16.2 million in federal funds is released to the CRA.
Councilman Ernani Bernardi led the opposition to approval of the agreement on t he grounds thatt it should be submitted to City Adminisra-tive Officer C. Erwin Piper. Piper had previously called the redevelopment agency “ineffective and without a clear-cut policy.”
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