Media plan defended by author
By RICH WISEMAN News Editor
Fear that the proposed rationale for student media is an attempt to abridge the freedom of the press and to set guidelines for underground papers such as the Free Trojan is unfounded, Clarence Anderson, director of Student Publications and author of the rationale, said yesterday.
The rationale sets up basic administration and operational guidelines for student media, including the provision that a student media board coordinating all university-funded student media under one roof, be established. The rationale was submitted by Anderson to Paul Bloland, vice-president of student affairs, February 9. Bloland passed it on to President Hubbard, who sent it to his advisory council, where it is now being considered.
“The rationale reflects and invokes specifically the Statement on Student Rights and Responsibilities,” Anderson said. Regarding student media, the statement reads: “In the delegation of editorial responsibility to students, the university shall provide sufficient editorial freedom for student publications to maintain their integrity as vehicles for free inquiry and free expression in the academic community.”
The rationale lists the following safeguards for the editorial freedom of student media:
•	The student press shall be free of censorship and advance approval of copy, and its editors and managers shall be free to develop their own editorial policies and patterns of news coverage.
•	Editors and managers of student media shall be protected from arbitrary suspension and removal because of student, faculty, administrative or public disapproval of editorial policy or content.
•	The medium shall state explicitly on the editorial page that the opinions there expressed are not those of the university or the student body as a whole.
On the matter of the Free Trojan, Anderson said the plan is not aimed at anything but official university publications.
“The whole point of this matter is that this rationale is not case in concrete,” Anderson said. “It has long been the goal of the university to establish basic guidelines for the conduct of student media and this proposal is just to get things going.”
In his cover letter to Bloland, Anderson said he was trying to establish a philosophical tone for a detailed statement of administration and operation to be worked out by the media board, which could “assume any of an infinite variety of patterns.”
As it stands now the Daily Trojan is the only campus medium that is under the supervision of an advisory group (the Journalism Council, composed of student editors, Anderson, the journalism faculty and two ASSC representatives). Other student media include KUSC, the yearbook. El Rodeo and the student literary magazine.
The rationale includes a provision for setting up advisory groups for these other media. These groups would draft their own guidelines as applicable to the nature of their activities.
The media board would figure in the picture in the following proposed
ways:
•	It would endorse a statement on the prerogatives and responsibilities of the student media (essentially the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities).
•	It would frame budgetary and production procedures.
•	It would set procdures for processing applications for editorial and management offices.
•	It would set procedures for censure or removal of an editor or manager under the general principles laid down in the Statement on Students Rights and Responsibilities.
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University of Southern California
VOL. LXII
NO. 100
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1971
'TOMMY' ON STAGE	Photo by Bruce Bolinger
'Tommy'dancers are blurs of motion as they perform during the first matinee of the production. A KNXT television camera stands in the foreground, creating an unusual effect with the arms of one actor.
TOMMY' GOES ON
Star passes out
Tommy passed out after the first act of his premiere yesterday but the show went on as scheduled.
Mike Cantor, in the title role as a deaf, dumb and blind boy who rises to fame as a pinball champion, collapsed as the intermission began, said Chuck Jones, the executive producer.
Jones sand Cantor, a graduate of USC's Drama Department, had a temperature of 106 degress. After a lengthened intermission during which Jones used ice packs to cool off the leading man. Tommy reappared on stage and the show went on.
Joel Rosenzweig, producer-director of “Tommy", said after the show that Cantor is “the type of actor who won t let anything handicap him on stage. ' Cantor's illness, he said, will not affect any of the other performances.
Yesterday's opening was the first time the rock-opera has been performed in the western United States.
Tommy's story is set in a series of multimedia acts, reflecting Bovard Auditorium into a sound-and-light stage full of action.
On hand with about 500 people in the audience was a camera crew from KNXT. which plans
to include segments from the show on its Saturday show, “About a Week,” if legal problems can be solved.
The production crew was directed by Ned Shapiro, a USC School of Journalism graduate currently producing for KNXT-TV.
“Tommy”, written by Peter Townsend of the English rock group “The Who”, will be repeated again this afternoon at 3:15 and then on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at
8:30.
Tickets for all performances are still available except that all of seats on the main floor for the evening performances are sold out. Approximately 200 mainfloor seats are available for today's matinee.
“Tommy," financed entirely by the ASSC. has been the first major drama production shown to USC students free of charge. Rosenzweig said that because the funds for the production came from student body funds, all students should be considered as shareholders.
Tickets are free to USC students with an ID card, or $2.50 for nonstudents. Tickets may be obtained at the Ticket Office Student Union. Room 209.
Free Trojan verdict put off
By GUNTHER MERLI
The Student Court yesterday heard statements from both sides in the Michael Trope-Jack McNamara suit against the Free Trojan, but delayed its decision until the next meeting, Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Student Union. Room 307.
Trope, a candidate for ASSC vice-president has accused the Free Trojan of being a political advertisement for certain candidates and has asked the court to ban its distribution on campus.
Dan Levinson, chief justice, told Randy Goodwin, editor of the Free Trojan, that his motion to have the case dismissed was considered invalid because the court had been designated as the Student Literature Committee and as such had jurisdiction over the case.
The court then asked Goodwin if equal space were available in the Free Trojan to all candidates and advertisers. He replied that “available ad space costs the same for everyone, and is allotted on a first come-first served basis.”
When asked where financing for the paper comes from, Goodwin said that it comes from “a high subscription rate, ads and donations from students. Donations from outside the university come in the form of subscriptions."
The court then turned to Trope and asked him if he had any proof of discrimination in the advertising of the Free Trojan. Trope replied that he had only his own testimony of a conversation he had had with John McGuinness, Jim Lacy and Bill Saracino, three of the Free Trojan writers, in which he found out the cost of the ads.
Trope said he had no substantial proof of any illegality in the financing of the paper. However, he did call a witness in an effort to show the distribution and cleanup of the paper were illegal. They witness tated that he had been on campus the entire day the last issue of the Free Trojan had been distributed.
Levinson then gave Trope and Goodwin twro minutes each to make an oral statement to the court, using a stopwatch to time them.
At this point. Trope said, “As far as I'm concerned, if you say we only have two minutes, this is a total sham.” Levinson replied that the decision was not going to be made right away and asked both the defendant and the plaintiff to submit written statements of their positions to the court within 48 hours.
Trope said the bias of the Free Trojan is present in its news-writing as well as in its ads.
Trope also said because of the paper's slanted reporting, Young Americans for Freedom candidates receive extra publicity during campaigns.
Student evolution in America to be discussed in SAC today
Dr. Nevitt Sanford will discuss the “Evolution of the American Student” today at noon in the Student Activities Center, Room 205.
The author of more than a dozen books, Sanford maintains that colleges will fail whenever they treat the student as less than a person. He says learning depends on the entire person, not an abstract part of the intellect.
The discussion is part of a continuing three-week series on “Evolving Culture and Consciousness” being sponosred by the ASSC Conference Committee. Tomorrow, Dr. Edmund Carpenter’s discussion on the “Electrical Tribalization of the West” will conclude the series.