Daily
Trojan
vol. Ixv no. 63
University of Southern California
los angeles, California
Wednesday, january 10, 1973
By Andrew Erskine
associate editor
Speculations are mounting that the month-old Student Programming Board may have its tenure extended until the end of the next school year.
The reasons for the possible extension are twofold. First, some board members feel that the four months” time originally allotted to them is insufficient to carry out the programs they feel are needed. Second, only a small amount of progress has been made toward agreement upon a suitable alternative to the board, and it is unlikely that one will be agreed upon by the end of the school year.
Bruce Mitchell, chairman of the programming board, said, “To do what we really envision would take until a year from May.”
Randy Zomar, ASSC business ' manager and an ex officio member ofthe board, agreed. “I can only project,” he said, “but the amount they have to do between now and the end of the
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Programming board’s term may be extended
term almost necessitates an extension.”
Members of both the board and the administration stressed that it was too early to speculate whether the board’s tenure would be extended.
Mitchell said, “We have no news yet that the board will be extended. The only thing we can do is do our best and then present our case on April 30.” James R. Appleton, vice-president for student affairs, said, “If the members of the programming board can pro-
duce a good case, suitable to the other student constituencies, then it’s possible that it will be retained.”
Among the board’s prime duties are the allocation of next year’s budget and the ironing out of difficulties in the concept of the board. In addition, the board members plan to draft a set of priorities that will direct their future actions.
Board members also plan to originate new programs, which, if approved, will be financed from the board’s program
development fund. The fund now stands at $6,513, but it is expected that belt-tightening on the part of the four division directors will add another two or three thousand dollars to the total.
Gary Wayland, treasurer ofthe board, expected this total to rise to $15,000 when funds from registration fees collected this year are allocated.
The second indication that the programming board may outlive its original four-month tenure is that little headway has been
made toward the drafting of a suitable alternative.
Wayland said, “No way was established to find an alternative and if we don’t get something else, something is going to have to fill the void.”
Wayland and the other board members said that Appleton had suggested that board members and interested students take part in a conference in February.
Appleton himself stressed that the initiative must come from the student body, not from his office.
“It’s not my government, it’s the students’ government,” he said. “The best I can do is support a method to get interested people together.
“There’s a difference between being a facilitator ofthe process and making the decision. I don’t want to do the latter.”
In any case, if the board is extended over the next school year, it is likely that only three of the nine members will return.
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JUDICIAL DECISION
Frat poster libels women’s lib
By Ken Shackelford
Webster has defined the word libel as: “any representation that conveys an unjustly, unfavorable impression of someone.”
You can form your own opinion about the poster on the right. The censor’s bar was added for the benefit of the more sensitive reader.
The University Judicial Council had to consider both the poster and Webster’s definition in a recent case. In Women’s Alliance vs. Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity the judicial body decided that the poster sold by Phi Kappa Tau at the foot of Tommy Trojan “did in fact libel the Women’s Alliance by misrepresenting them damagingly and degrading them in the eyes of the university community.”
The posters were designed in a scheme to raise money for the pledges of the fraternity. About 250 were printed up at the beginning of the semester, not to mention the football season, and the plan was to sell them for one dollar each—a stroke of financial genius.
Bruce McAllister, the President of Phi Kappa Tau, said, “We first tried to sell the posters in the dorms and to other fraternities without much success. When we moved the sales operation to the center of campus those posters went like hotcakes.”
All in all the venture was a pretty successful effort. It netted the fraternity about $250 and brought them a lot of publicity.
McAllister said, “Even if we would have lost money on the deal we still came out ahead publicity wise.” Articles concerning the controversial poster appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the Daily Trojan.
The Judicial Council decided to recommend to the university, “that it review the procedures for administering the Student Literature Code,” insinuating a stricter enforcement of the code.
Patricia Lee, the representative of Women’s Alliance, said that she presented the argument that the posters were obviously a joke aimed at making fun of the female form. Lee said, “The posters were used as something to exploit the female form by bringing it into the market place.” McAllister said, “There was no malicious attempt to slander women at USC. We just wanted to make a few bucks.”
Malicious intent to slander or, just plain old capitalist ingenuity, the Judicial Council has enjoined the fraternity from the distribution of any more of the posters on campus. They also recommended that the university not impose any sanction on Phi Kappa Tau in connection with the incident.
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Diary of Anne Frank will play at Stop Gap
The Diary of Anne Frank, the second production of the year by the Masters Company ofthe Division of Drama, will be presented Wednesday through Saturday 8 p.m. in Stop Gap Theatre.
The play is a dramatization by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, which received the 1956 Pulitzer Prize and Critic’s Circle Award and virtually every other coveted prize of the theatre.
The drama deals with a Jewish girl and her family hiding in a
small Amsterdam apartment during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
The production will be directed by Henry Machtay, a member of the Masters Company. The company is composed of students working towards their master of fine arts degrees in various areas of drama. Alex Segal, Drama Division chairman. will supervise the play.
Further ticket information and reservations may be obtained by calling 746-SHOW.
No leads in Schuler murder case
There are still no leads in the murder case of Sue Schuler, the coed found shot to death Dec. 4 near El Centro.
Both the FBI and the Imperial County Sheriff's Department are continuing their investigation.
Miss Schuler's car, a pale green Cougar with license plate ZNX 643. has still not been found.
Apartment Towers are safe, says architect
By Al Freisleben
staff writer
Fears of poor structural design on the part of residents of the new Apartment Towers resulting from pounding noises and the sight of workmen scurrying up and down the sides of the building are apparently unfounded, according to university officials and the man who designed the structure.
The work, going on some four months after the structure had been occupied, is for the purpose of inspecting some of the 500 steel cables which run through each floor, to determine if they had slipped.
The concern arose when the Towers’ architect, Richard Dorman, noticed that some of the concrete plugs covering the cable ends had popped loose. Dorman, who designed the Married Students’ Housing and the renovation of existing dorms several years ago, requested that the contractor randomly inspect the cables.
The results of the inspection, according to both Dorman and Anthony Lazzaro, vice-president for business affairs, is that none of the cables have slipped.
Lazzaro added that even though he had received only verbal reports of the building’s condition yesterday, he was “satisfied that everyone had done what is proper and necessary” in fulfilling the terms of their agreements with the university.
Lazzaro said he had known of the movement in the concrete plugs for about three weeks, and when asked if it could be considered normal, he replied that it was normal insofar that the owner of a new car might expect a few problems to arise.
Dorman, who was questioned late Tuesday afternoon, described the Apartment Towers as “very, very safe,” and said that they exceeded construction code standards for strength by 75^.
He explained that the elimination of beams cuts the cost of construction. The underside of each floor is structured so as to be a finished ceiling for the level below, he said.
The Towers are among four structures employing this type of design in Los Angeles, Dorman said, adding that if as many as one half of the cables running through each floor popped, there would still be “no problem.”