SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL. LXV NO. 2
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1972
Behavior panel sends cases in ROTC seizure to student judicial
IN CONFUSION — Brian Cox (left), a supporter of President Nixon's military actions in North Vietnam, is interviewed by Jake Jacobs, KNXT -TV reporter, near the takeover (May 11) of the Air Force ROTC Building.
El Rodeo available
Copies of El Rodeo, the university yearbook, are being distributed to holders of student activity books at the first floor of the Student Activities Center, west entrance. Students may redeem their coupons (the front cover of the activity book) until July 1. Distribution hours will be 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily.
Those who have lost their activity books may go to Receipts Audit in Owens Hall Annex after July 5 and pick up a slip that will entitle them to the yearbook without added expense.
Those who want to buy the yearbook should put their names on a list in the Office of Student Publications, Student Union 400. If copies are still available after July 5. they will be sold in accordance with the list.
By PETER WONG Editor
A Student Behavior Committee panel has ordered the cases of five students suspended by the university for their part in the seizure of the Air Force ROTC Building May 10 back to an all-student judicial.
Panel members decided that the Student Behavior Committee did not have original jurisdiction over the five cases; that is, authority to hear evidence and make judgments. In this, they agreed with the defendants’ contention that the Student Behavior Committee is basically an appellate body, to which appeals from decisions of allstudent judicials are sent.
It sent the five cases back to a student judicial, presumably the University Judicial, although this is not certain.
The students involved, who agreed to the disclosure of their names, are Rick Frishman. a second-year law student; Jim Glick, a first-year law student; Sam Hurst, senior in political science; Jerry Reitman, graduate student in international relations; Rick Saslaw,
senior in cinema.
Scott Bice, associate dean of the Law Center and chairman of the Student Behavior Committee panel, explained to the student defendants at the hearing that ifthey insisted on their right to a hearing before a student judicial, then there would be a delay in determining their cases.
But the students insisted on an original hearing before a student judicial, and the panel members agreed that they would consider only whether the panel had jurisdiction to hear the cases, not on the merits of the suspensions by the university, and the series of events in the ROTC seizure.
The panel’s action in sending back the cases to a student judicial may mean that a special session ofthe University Judicial or other student judicial will be convened during the summer to consider the cases.
Although some members may have graduated or have left the judicial, terms are usually staggered, so that not all members of any judicial are appointed at one time.
Summer classes begin Monday
Classes in the major seven-week summer session will start Monday. The deadline for registration in this session and changes in program will be Tuesday.
Registration for all summer sessions, including the major seven-week session, is continuing in the Physical Education Building today through June 29. Hours today are 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. Monday through Friday of next week from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.. June 26from 9a.m. to noon, and June 28-29 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
After June 29 registration will be closed until July 5, when it will resume at the service windows of the Registrar’s Office,
from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Summer Session Bulletin should be consulted for the registration deadlines.
Academic advisement will be conducted in departmental offices, rather than in the registration area as in the past. H-eards will be available in departmental offices; R-cards will be at station 3 of the registration area until June 29. when they will be at the Registrar's Office.
In addition to the major seven-week summer session (code number 907), and the four-week postsession to begin Aug. 7, there are a number of special sessions that range from four to twelve weeks.
Activist role of courts officials’ inaction, law
Beginning Monday were the eight-week session in aerospace operations management, sponsored by the Institute of Aerospace Safety and Management, to close Aug. 5; the twelve-week term of the Graduate School of Business Administration, to close Sept. 2; the twelve-week semester ofthe School of Education, to close Sept. 2; the eight-week session of the School of Public Administration, to close Aug. 5.
The sessions that will start with the major seven-week session Monday are the eleven-week session of the School of Engineering, to close Sept. 2; the six-week sessions of the School of Library Science and the School of Music, to close July 31.
forced by grads told
The courts’ role in furthering reforms has often been forced upon them because ofthe failure of the executive and legislative branches to deal with such issues as public school finance. State Controller Houston Flournoy told the 176 graduates of the Law Center at ceremonies June 8.
Because the courts have assumed such a role by default, “we must protect the courts from irresponsible criticism, and especially from castigation by public officials, for without special care, public confidence in the judiciary can be lost,” Flournoy said.
Justasthe U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954 on racial equality and in Baker v. Carr in 1962 on legislative reapportionment furthered reforms in society, so may the decision of that court in Rodriguez v. San Antonio affect the way states
finance public education, the controller said.
The outcome of Serrano v. Priest, in which the California Supreme Court ruled that the system of financing of public schools primarily through local property taxes is unconstitutional. “would be the first step in remedying the almost universal neglect of the states in providing a reasonable educational opportunity for all children,” he said.
Equal opportunity should not have to depend on the property-tax base of school districts, he said, and the state should be responsible.
Flournoy hopes the U.S. Supreme Court in the Texas case will affirm the substance of Serrano v. Priest.
“But it should not have taken a court to recognize what is morally right. The failure of our executive and legislative branches to act on such issues as school finance is underscored
HOUSTON FLOURNOY
by the obvious inaction,” he said.
“Until elected public officials start acting, the courts will be subjected to severe criticism because they have assumed a more controversial role.”
The School of Education will have a six-week session starting June 26 and ending Aug. 5.
On the other hand, the four-week sessions of the School of Library Science and the Physical Education Department will not begin until July 31. They will end Aug. 25.
Summer sessions provide an opportunity for students to continue their education through the year, Mary Ludwig, assistant dean for Summer Session, said.
Such sessions also permit incoming freshman and transfer students to begin their work at the university ahead of the fall semester. Special invitations have been mailed to these students in the hope of increasing summer enrollment.
More intensive study, particularly in foreign languages, may be conducted during the summer sessions, the dean said.
For example, the German Department is offering an eight-unit course in the seven-week session that is equivalent to the first two semesters of German, and a four-unit course in the four-week postsession that is equivalent to a third semester.
The Asian Studies Department has scheduled a special eight-week session (to Aug. 11) with eight-unit courses in elementary and intermediate Chinese, and elementary, intermediate and advanced Japanese.
The summer session also provides for a number of short institutes, workshops and lecture series, including the eleventh annual series of Distinguished Lectures in Special Education and Rehabilitation. The first ofthese will be at 3 p.m. Monday in Edison Auditorium, Hoffman Hall, with Reginald Jones, chairman of special education at the University of California at Riverside, speaking on “Special Education and the Minority Child.”
SAM HURST
However, if a judicial cannot be convened soon, the panel recommended the charges be dismissed, because of time.
The panel rejected the interpretation ofthe university, as made by Daniel Nowak, acting vice-president for student affairs, and Robert Mannes, dean for student life, regarding the behavior committee's jurisdiction.
At the panel’s hearings June 2. Nowak and Mannes contended that the university’s Statement on Dissent provides an exception to the rule that students are entitled to a hearing before a student judicial.
They quoted from SCampus. the student handbook:
“Coercive disruption initiated by any person or persons within the university community will be met by that action of the university which is necessary to restore the order and communication required for the rational solution of problems. Such action may include interim suspension, suspension, expulsion, and arrest.”
They said that this statement gives the vice-president for student affairs the power to suspend students engaged in “coercive disruption” without a hearing by a student judicial, and that appeals from such administrative action can be made to the Student Behavior Committee.
The panel, however, disagreed with this view.
Also, the procedures of the committee indicate that exceptions to the rule of a hearing before a student judicial are limited to two situations—one in which the nature of the offense requires confidentiality and in which the student requests an administrative hearing, rather than an appearance before a student judicial, or in which student judicials have adjourned for a vacation period.
The guarantee of the right to a hearing before a student judicial is section 6 ofthe Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities.
It was argued by Nowak and Mannes that a clause of section 6 allowed the panel original jurisdiction over the cases, that the right to a hearing before a student judicial is valid, “unless unusual or extraordinary circumstances require that the president establish emergency hearing procedures.” They said President John Hubbard had made that determination May 11, but the panel did not interpret it that way, pending further clarification by Hubbard.