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University of Southern California
vol. Ixv
no. 55
los angeles, California
tuesday, december 12, 1972
• 3 students charged in ROTC takeover get hearing tonight
The old H card, registration line blues
Monday was the first day to register for the spring semester. As usual, there were lines all over campus.
About 400 students braved the morning chill to wait outside the Information Center to pick up copies of the Schedule of Classes. Many students got there before 8 a.m. but the schedule booklets weren’t delivered by the printers until 9:30 a.m.
After finding out what classes are being offered, students scurried off to more lines at the departmental offices to pick up H cards. Lines for biology classes wound their way through Hancock Foundation’s building and out across Childs Way.
The Schedule of Classes incorrectly states that the physical education requirement is still in effect.
Students who did not received their registration packets through the mail may pick them up at the Registrar’s Office and participate in early registration for the spring semester.
H cards are available in all of the departments and students may return completed packets, beginning Wednesday to the T.V. room of Elizabeth Von KleinSmid Hall, Marks Hall, the exhibit room in the Student Activities Center, Olin Hall 106, or the Registrar’s Office.
FBI to aid Imperial County sheriff in investigating case of slain coed
By Rich Wiseman
editor
The FBI will assist in the investigation of the murder of Sue Schuler, a senior education major.
The 21-year-old coed was found shot to death Dec. 4 at the end of a deserted road 45 miles east of El Centro, near the Arizona border.
There are no leads.
The request for the FBI’s
Proponent of birth control to speak at noon
Bill Baird, leading proponent of unrestricted access to birth control for every woman and founder ofthe Parents Aid Society. a nonprofit birth control and abortion center, will speak in Hancock Auditorium today at noon.
The speech is sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness.
Since 1964. when he decided to devote himself full time to the cause of birth control, Baird has been jailed seven times. In all seven cases, he was arrested for dispensing birth control information in states that prohibit “the indecent exposure of a contraceptive device/’
He said that what he is really challenging is the ban on birth control aid for the unmarried, an aspect of the law that especially hurts the young and the peer.
assistance was made by the Imperial County Sheriffs Dept., that has been investigating the case. James Barclift, a sheriffs detective, met with FBI agents Monday to lay the groundwork for the investigation.
The FBI was approached because there is reason to believe the car Miss Schuler was driving is out of the state, said Barclift. There is still no trace of the 1969 pale green Cougar with license plate ZNX 643, he said.
Miss Schuler was last seen leaving her parents’ home in the car at 5:50 p.m. Dec. 3.
“The investigation may take a long time but we don’t plan to leave any stones unturned,” said Barclift.
Barclift revealed that Miss Schuler’s skirt, brassiere and purse were found last Thursday in a garbage can at the Live Oaks Rest Stop off Interstate 10 in the town of Yucaipa, southeast of Redlands. The information had not been released previously.
Barclift said Miss Schuler’s student identification card and driver’s license were present in her wallet, but that no money was found. A dime was found elsewhere in the purse.
“Her parents said she couldn’t have had more than $10 with her. maybe nothing at all,” Barclift said. “I doubt if robbery was the motive.”
An autopsy report has not yet been completed and may not be for another week, he said. An unofficial postmortem examina-
tion had indicated she had not been sexually assaulted.
“I hardly think there was someone who wanted the victim killed.” said Barclift. “She probably stopped to make a purchase on the way back to her apartment and someone stepped in her car.”
Barclift talked with several friends of Miss Schuler’s while on a fact-finding trip Thursday and Friday to Los Angeles. “Everyone who knew her loved her,” he said. “She must have been an exceptionally fine girl.”
By Kristin Tow
Three of the five students charged in May’s occupation of the AFROTC building will have a disciplinary hearing before the University Judicial tonight . Two of the students who were identified at that time as being in the building are no longer enrolled in the university and. therefore, will not have action taken against them. They are Sam Hurst and Richard Saslaw.
The remaining three will face charges of committing acts “inimical to the welfare of others” as defined in the Student Conduct Statement. They are Jim Glick and Richard Frishman, both law students, and Jerry Reitman. a graduate student in international relations.
The AFROTC building was the scene of the May 10-11 sit-in staged to demonstrate opposition to President Richard Nixon’s announcement of the mining of Haiphong harbor.
Most logical place
“It was the most logical place on campus to have such a meeting,” said Glick.
Students entered the building late in the day. May 10, and left voluntarily late the next day. Glick said.
The demonstrators were asked to disperse and Campus Security attempted to clear the building on the first day. Early in the morning of the second day a directive from the Administration was read to the approximately 45 people in the building. It formally advised them to vacate the premises and stated that those who did not would be suspended.
Up to 300 people l4ad participated in the demonstration. Administration officials, however, were able to identify only five of the 45 who stayed in the building all night.
“We sent out a petition to be signed by people who were also there,” Glick said. “They knew it would be turned in to the administration and about 150 people signed it.” Yet none but the five originally-named were charged.
The defendants had a hearing before the Student Behavior Committee on June 2. The committee’s decision, released on June 9. called for a trial within 14 days, before the University Judicial.
“The defendents had requested a trial by peers, and since the University Judicial couldn’t get a quorum that late in the year it was decided to postpone the trial until this year,” said Carl Emerich. assistant to the vice-president for student affairs.
Technical problems with the University Judicial necessitated further postponements. Only two members returned to serve on the court this year. New members had to be approved and made familiar with the workings of the court.
New code
Before this year the University Judicial had operated without formal procedural guidelines and more time was needed to draw up such a code, Emerich said.
As it turned out, Frishman, Glick and Reitman have not been able to present their case until eight months after the incident. Although they do not deny that they were in the AFROTC building during the demonstration, they are pleading not guilty to the charges.
“Our defense will be based on jurisdictional and procedural grounds,” Glick said.
The defendents will be represented by three attorneys, Michael Shapiro and Andrew Dolan, professors at the Law Center, and VinceChieffo. ofLos Angeles. The university’s case will be presented by Emerich.
The University Judicial will then release its decision within ten days after the trial.
Commenting on the delay in the organization of this year’s judicial body Emerich said, “I’ve been slow, but I think we now have a judicial that can guarantee the rights of students.”
Should they lose this bid for acquittal, the defendents may appeal.
Reporters who refused to disclose sources will appear in panel today
Six newspaper reporters, each of them jailed or threatened with jail for their refusal to disclose confidential news sources, are scheduled to appear here today.
They will participate in a panel discussion of “The Death ofthe First Amendment” in Founders Hall 133 at 7 p.m.
The reporters include Peter Bridge, of the Newark News, who spent 20 days in jail for refusing to answer questions about a housing scandal expose, and Joe Weiler of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, who is under threat of a jail sentence by the Tennessee State Senate for refusing to divulge his sources on a state hospital expose.
Also appearing will be Earl Caldwell of the New York Times, who was threated with jail by a federal grand jury for refusing to divulge his sources on a Black Panther investigation he conducted for his newspaper.
Others appearing will be Ron Ridenour of the Los Angeles Free Press, currently free on appeal of a one-year sentence for interfering with a police officer while covering an antiwar demonstration in Los Angeles; Vi Murphy of the San Diego Union and Tribune, who spent 30 days in jail for refusing to name her sources for a story on political corruption in Colorado in 1961; and William Farr of the Los Angeles Times, currently in jail for refusing to divulge his sources for a story in the Los Angeles Herld-Examiner regardingtheCharles Manson murder case.
Farr will appear only if he is released from jail. The others will discuss the necessity for complete freedom for reporters if the First Amendment is to survive in America.
Admission is free. Senator Alan Cranston is scheduled to introduce the panelists at the program.