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SCHOOLS REBEL AGAINST STUDENT TAX-
Programming Fee Under Fire
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH City Editor
The student programming fee. which was approved by the student body on April 3 and 4 by an 80 percent margin, has come under fire from five professional schools.
Students in the Schools of Business. Dentistry. Engineering, Law and Medicine have independently approached members of the administration about their dislike of the pending fee. a $4.50 assessment on each student's fee bill each semester to provide the ASSC with a larger and more meaningful budget.
The fee ->vas approved by students last month by a margin of 1.650-365. When finally put into operation, the fee will provide the ASSC with a budget of *105.000. as compared to the $5,000 now given student government by the university.
Although several members of the incoming and outgoing ASSC governments are confident the S4.50 will be included on fee bills in the fall, there is at least one major hurdle that must be cleared before the fee can be
imposed—a financial control board must be set up.
Dean of Students Paul Bloland is working on a recommendation to President Topping concerning the establishment of an Ad Hoc Financial Control Board to discuss the guide-
MARTY FOLEY
ASSC President-Elect
lines, policies and procedures of the permanent control board.
His recommendation will follow the approximate makeup proposed by the ASSC Financial Committee, whose report earlier this year resulted in the placement of the programming fee on the ballot.
The board will be composed of five students—the ASSC president, vice-president of student activities, treasurer, and one graduate and one undergraduate appointed at large— plus four others chosen from the administration and/or faculty.
This board will have complete administrative control over student funds. It is at this point that the professional schools express their opposition.
The professional schools have been outside the jurisdiction of the ASSC for many years.
Under the ASSC Constitution passed in March, 1966, however, all graduate and undergraduate students taking at least six units were brought into the ASSC, and, under an amendment passed last month, were given voting powers.
The Daily Trojan was unable to contact representatives from the Business and Medical Schools. However, those contacted from the Schools of Dentistry and Engineering felt they should have complete control of any fees imposed on them, while those from the School of Law felt they did not want to become subservient to any outside control.
Many of the professional schools already impose their own fees on their student bodies to provide funds for their activities.
The Engineering School, for example, gets money from their dean's office and from alumni contributions, and the Dentistry School collects student body and class dues.
Gary Ottoson, president of the Law School Student Bar Association, said, “As graduate students with particular interests, we feel we should be able to spend our own money as we see fit.
“By imposing this $4.50 fee on all students, it becomes difficult for us to increase our own fee system within the Law School.”
Gil Snow, president of the School of Dentistry, said he and his council are opposed to the fee because it boils down to taxation without representation.
“We’ll be paying a fee to a fund in whose administration we have no say so,” he said.
“We would like the money to be fed back into the Dental School for us to use as we see fit.”
Bob Braun, outgoing ASSC vice-president of student affairs and chairman of the financial committee, said the financial control board would be both completely autonomous from and above the ASSC, and all student groups would have the same method of obtaining needed funds.
“All students in the university were eligible to vote on the programming fee, since all are in the ASSC,” Braun said.
No official action has been taken by the professional schools as yet, although several of them have spoken to Clive Grafton, director of student activities.
“The vote on the programming fee last month didn’t cover the intricate relationship that exists within the entire university student body,’’ Grafton said, “specifically the graduate and professional schools.
“There is no common denominator for these grotrps," he continued. “When the ASSC had no programming role, these schools collected their own funds.
“We should not decentralize the fund collected from the programming fee. This fund should be for the entire university.’’
ASSC President-elect Martin Foley agreed.
“The fee is designed to provide programs and services that individuals and individual groups are not able to adequately supply for themselves,” he said.
“This involves not only entertainment, but also speakers programs and culturail events, as well as a wide range of other activities.”
Both Foley and Braun expressed confidence that the fee would be included on the fee bills in the fall.
University of Southern California
DAILY i> TROJAN
WOMAN OF TROY
Suzanne Hunsucker
VOL. LVin
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1967
NO. 116
Red China Expert Puts Mao In a Minority Role
By JEANNE SMITH
Mao Tse-Tung, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, and his faction are in the minority position in the Chinese Central Committee, Mong-Ping Lee, research assistant for the Research Institute on Communist Strategy and Propaganda, said at a noon speech yesterday.
“It is obvious that Mao s policies nt home and abroad could not get sufficient support from the Central Committee,’’ Lee said.
This happened because Mao has not allowed the Party Congress or the Central Committee to convene for several years in the fear that these bodies would elect new leadership, he explained.
"Whenever the power to rule a country is concentrated in the hands of a few and the decision as to who should be the next ruler is not made
by popular vote, there is always the possibility of a power struggle for the change of leadership,” Lee said.
These power struggles are “always conducted under the cloak of ideological differences, hence the launching of the great proletarian cultural revolution in China since last summer,” he said.
Since 1945 the top level leadership in Peking has been, in order of their position on the Standing Committee; Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-chi, Chou En-lai, Chu Teh. Cheng Yun, Lin Piao. and Teng Hsiao-ping.
“With maneuvering by the Mao-Lin faction, the 11th plenary session of the 8th Central Committee finally took place last August,” Lee said.
The election resulted in the loss of membership in the policy making Politburo Standing Committee for
Liu Shao-chi, Chu Teh, and Cheng Yun.
The number-two leader in the party hierarchy and the one who has emerged as “the heir-apparent to the authority of Mao, is Defense Minister Lin Piao,” Lee said.
Chou En-lai, who has managed to maintain his position during the power struggles in the past, still maintains third place in the hierarchy.
"The reason for retaining Chou En-lai in the new leadership is because he has been a very capable administrator and a suave negotiator,” Lee said.
"He is the one leader within the hierarchy who possesses all the prestige and qualifications, but not the apparent ambition to succeed to Mao's authority.”
Tao Chu was fourth in party
1967—Songfest's Swan Song?
The fourteenth annual production of Songfest Saturday night may be the last at the Hollywood Bowl or ever. The University Senate will decide on the fate of Songfest at a meeting Monday.
In a statement to the Daily Trojan yesterday. Songfest Chairman Bob Tefft said:
"The 500 Trojans who will fill the Hollywood Bowl this year may have a unique opportunity—the opportunity to participate in the last Songfest held at USC.
"For the past few years the greatest concern of all the administrators and faculty who have worked with Songfest has not been the quality of the show, but rather the behavior of the onlookers.
“In 1966 this situation reached the boiling point.
“The Hollywood Bowl Association has informed me they intend to arrest and charge any members of this year s audience who are boisterous and unruly.
“There is no doubt in my mind that a repeat of last year's disgrace will end the tradition of Songfest, but I am also sure that Trojans are equal to this challenge.
“I am therefore publicly asking -—publicly begging—all students at USC to join in the spirit, to participate in the experience that is Songfest.
“Or else you can tell your grandchildren :
'Yes. I was there the night Tommy Trojan appeared for the last time on the North Kill. I heard the last ‘Conquest’ that ever rang out in the Hollywood Bowl.
“ 'I saw the last Songest.’ ”
Remedies for improving the actions of students at Songfest include moving it to the Shrine or Bovard Auditorium^
leadership. In August he was elevated to this position and within four months, he.was one of the principal targets of attack of the Mao-Lin faction.
The ghost writer for Mao was elevated to fifth position with the task of directing the cultural revolution.
“Chen Po-ta is not only the creator of the so-called Mao Tse-tung's thought but also the one who started the adulation of Mao Tse-tung's thought since 1950,’’ Lee said .
“Chen is the one who brought the tablets from the mountain and placed them in temple.”
Teng Hsiao-ping, who originally remained in the hierarchy, has subsequently fallen and is presently a target for Mao-Lin attack.
The two factions in China consist of Mao-Tse-tung, Lin Piao, Chen Po-ta, and Mao’s wife Chiang Ching on one side; and Liu Shao-chi, Teng Hsiao-ping, Tao Chu, and many of the party officials in the provinces on the other, Lee explained.
Mao has accused the Kiu-Teng faction of treating him as if he were a dead parent at a funeral. Mao has exclaimed “now the dead parent has sprung to life to lead a cultural revolution.”
Lee said the greatest problem for the Mao-Lin faction today is that the Communist Party has been control-ing the government through its branches in the cities and provinces.
Party members and workers and farmers opposed to Mao's revolution are not going to give up without a fight, he said.
SUZANNE HUNSUCKER AND DAUGHTER
Mrs. Hunsucker: One of Seven Women of Troy
By MARY MILLER Feature Editor
(This is the last in a series of seven articles on the 1966-67 Women of Troy.—The Editor)
Suzanne Hawley Hunsucker has always been the spark in everything she's done. Her Mortar Board fellows describe her as the organization’s inspiration. the member most likely to have an idea about everything.
That’s probably why Mrs. Hunsucker has been selected as one of the Women of Troy.
“Suzanne was very concerned a-bout Freshman Forum. If she hadn’t taken over the project of becoming a mother this semester, she would have taken over the job of writing a summary of what USC is really like,” Bill Hunsucker, her husband, said.
“She felt so many of the freshmen didn’t know how things were done here, about the bureaucracy and the restrictions, so she would have written a guide for those who wanted to know what was happening.
“Suzanne was very interested in finding out why USC is like it is — the relationship between the faculty,
administration and students. She sees basic problems there and was going to help spell them out for the underclassmen,” he said.
Suzanne, a columnist for the Daily Trojan and former staff writer for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, is also a Phi Beta Kappa. Her GPA is 3.7.
She graduated from Garden Grove High School where she was the editor of the school paper. She has been on an academic scholarship for four years.
Her husband will graduate in June as a field geologist, and the couple will be transferred out-of-state. Because of this, Suzanne i3 not sure whether or where she will go to graduate school.
Her major interest is writing, and 3he wrote part of Trolios 1967, “Out to Lynch.”
Mrs. Hunsucker is also involved with Project FASTEN, an acronym, which is attempting to determine certain relationships and problems at USC. She is interested in that program for the same reason she would have written a summary of what's happening at USC — she wants to find out why things are as they are.
SDS Spokesman Will Discuss The Education Machine of 1984
REFLECTIONS OF THE 1966 SONGFEST
The Songfest tradition may end due to spectator ^isconduct.
By SUE HAYTON
Carl Davidson, national vice-president of Students for a Democratic Society, will discuss “US Education— 1984” at noon today in 129 Founders Hall.
His purpose, in accordance with an article published last September in New Left Notes, SDS’ monthly newsheet, will be “to sabotage the knowledge factory machinery for producing the managers and the managed of 1984.”
“We must take actions to organize, to build a movement on the campuses with the primary purpose of radically transforming the university community,” he wrote at that time.
David Lang, campus SDS president, explained in a recent faculty newsletter that “the American educational system is presenting antihumans,” and indicated USC as an outstanding example of this sort of system.
"USC is building a marvelous
physical plant,” he said, “but some of the best members of the faculty are going elsewhere.
“The intellectual climate at USC has been reduced by the administration to a miasma worse than LA's own smog.”
Davidson and Lang both advocate the abolition of the grade-system and propose student-faculty collaboration on class content.
To this end, Davidson believe3 students must “nonviolently attempt to occupy and liberate” such student concerns as campus government, regulatory boards, oversized classes, publications and other communications media.
Accusing today's educational system of producing “moral morons,” Lang wrote:
“When self-esteem depends upon extent of ownership, when education is degraded to professional preparation, when there is no social institution to impar* to successive genera-
tions an awareness of the basic human problems, which are existential and interpersonal, not technological, then there is something profoundly and basically wrong with the premises, techniques, and gf'als of that society’s educational institution.
“Education should prepare individuals to control their technology rather than vice-versa, but even more importantly, develop in individuals their capacity to be loving, creative and sensitive,” he said.
The approach of SDS. Lang explained, is not to superficially curs the techniques of the educational system. but to change in the nature of the institution itself.
“The educational process is so ciety’s primary instrument for the self-generation of its way of life.” he said.
“And it is the American way <Jf life, and therefore that which reproduces it, that we condemn.”