McKissick suggests jailing Johnson for rights failures
President Lyndon Johnson and several state and local police officials “ought to be prosecuted and put in .iail themselves for failing to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act,” Floyd McKissick, director of the Congress of Racial Equality, told an audience in Bovard Auditorium last night.
McKissick lashed out at the white men who counsel a "go-slow” approach to racial injustice, saying it was like letting the white man gradually take his foot off your neck so he won't get a backlash." Laughter from the audience was heard often during McKissick’s presentation.
“The University of Southern California barred me from speaking here one time earlier, he recalled at the beginning of his remarks.
Later he said. "When I go around to these colleges and universities, I find that most of the students don’t give a hoot about people. All they want to do is join a fraternity or a sorority. I almost think such socioties ought to be outlawed.
“People around you are living and dying and you don't really care.
“All you folks have to do is walk 10 blocks dowrn the street to find out u'hat's going on.
“The majority of white kids on this campus aren't even here tonight.
He told the racially mixed audience that the dethroning of Muhammad Ali was another ex-
ample of the attempt to castrate every black man who stands up and speaks.” Leroi Jones, Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael and Adam Clayton Powell were other examples he cited of this tendency.
The Interchange program for today will be:
“The Role of a University,” Nathan Giazer, professor at Berkeley, 10 a.m., Bovard Auditorium.
“The Bole of a University,” J. Horace Cay-ton, professor af UC Sanla Cruz, 10:45 a.m., Bovard Auditorium.
Panel—question and answer, Nathan Giazer and J. Horace Cayton, 11:15 a.m., Bovard.
“The Law and Dissenters in American Society,” Leonard B. Boudin, noon, Bovard, sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
Panel—“Achievements of USC in the Community,” 2 p.m., Hancock Auditorium.
Panel—“What We .>11151 Do,” 3 p.m., Hancock Auditorium.
“The only sense of morality that is left in this society is possessed by black people,” he said.
“What we need is power. White people don’t talk about white power because they’ve got it all and they don’t have to name it.
“I don’t give a damn about integration . . . it ain’t never been practiced and it never worked,” he said.
“Have you ever integrated this school?”
He said that throughout the whole movement for civil rights. “All black people ever wanted was the right to do what other people wrere doing.”
Turning to the subject of the Vietnam war, he said. “I strongly oppose the war in Vietnam as a racist war.
“You're killing those people because they don't think the way you think they ought to think: because they don’t love you. We ain’t gonna win. All those people over there are engaged in a civil war.”
McKissick referred to Secretary of State Dean Rusk’s attitude in the recent Senate hearings as “sitting up there like he’s in charge of the police of the world.”
Rusk's talk about the free world wras particularly angering to the CORE leader. “What the hell is the free world?” McKissick asked. “I know damn well that I ain’t free.
“You don’t know your own country. We believe this country is on the brink of genocide. When they get through killing all us black people this summer they are going to turn on the Jews next.”
Floyd McKissick
University of Southern California
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VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1968
NO. 26
SPOCK’S LAWYER TO TALK ON WAR, DRAFT
Lippman adds his name to
ASSC presidential contest
Leonard Boudin
Leonard Boudin, one of the nation's leading constitutional lawyers, will address the Great Issues Forum in Bovard Auditorium today at noon on "The Law and Dissenters in American Society.”
His speech will emphasize the problems of alleged violations of draft law-s.
Currently Boudin is presenting a case in the United States District Court in Boston on behalf of Dr. Benjamin Spock, the 64-year-old baby-doctor and author. Dr. Spock and four others have been indicted for allegedly advocating noncompliance with Selective Service regulations.
The Spock case is not Boudin’s first effort on behalf of anti-Vietnam war advocates.
Several years ago, Julian Bond, a Negro, was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives after conducting a campaign that included a strong dissent from the Administration’s stand in Vietnam.
His fellow representatives refused to seat Bond. Boudin took the case all the way up to the Supreme Court, where Bond won.
Boudin has also represented David Mitchell, the 23-year-old Brooklyn youth who refused induction into the armed services because of his belief that the United States was committing war crimes in Vietnam.
Boudin, a graduate of the City College of New York and St. John's University Law School, has been involved in cases over the right to travel, representing persons who had been denied passports.
In his speech, Boudin will draw on his personal experience to elaborate on the extent to which he feels the court system may be able to protect dissenters in the face of tensions toward increasing conformity.
Ralph Lippman, junior in social science and an independent representative to the ASSC Executive Council. has announced his candidacy for ASSC president.
Lippman said he did not feel the purpose of an announcement was to provide a campaign platform, but added. “What I am concerned with is providing students for the buildings.
“When a candidate places his name on the ballot, he is providing a mandate for the voter. I hope that I can represent a viable mandate for the creation of a student voice on campus.”
Lippman said he is dissatisfied with the current nature of the ASSC.
“In a joint meeting of the Executive Council and Dr. Topping and his staff, Dr. Topping maintained the student had left him no organization other than the ASSC to turn to,” he said.
“If Dr. Topping regards himself as president of USC, Inc., then in order to get a voice for the student stockholder, quite apart from the traditional nature of a private university, we need to start over.
“It is pointless to revamp what the ASSC already is. We need to completely build, not renovate.”
The most logical way to deal with the dorm visitation problem, in Lipp-man’s opinion, is to declare the dormitories open. The Stanford student
Ralph Lippman
body, when faced mth alumni and administration opposition, followed this course of action.
The administration ignored the confrontation but came out with far more liberalized hours than the students had ever hoped for.
“The argument is, ‘What if Dr. Topping says the student can have the dorms?’ ” Lippman said. “Fine — wrhat the students need is a break, a confrontation with a quasi-official administration.
“It is hard for me to believe that students could be so unconcerned as to let a few people dictate an ineffective student government,” he continued.
“By sitting on the council this year. I have gained a broad perspective. While our vice-presidents have done a commendable job, we can never, under our current structure, reach what other universities did many years ago.
“Every time the ASSC council wants to talk about pertinent issues, they are put aside because of procedural problems.”
Lippman said he questioned the effectiveness of the Great Issues Forum. “It is incumbent upon the student body to provide dialogue on pertinent issues,” he said.
Lippman also questioned the letter the Executive Council circulated to governmental officials concerning the draft. Three men on the council, including Lippman, voted against the letter because of its wording.
“It is the responsibility of the council to poll the students’ view if it is to properly represent it,” he said.
No letter of this type should be written without unanimous consent of the council, he added.
Lippman is the only candidate for president w'ho is a member of the Executive Council.
He has served on the Speakers Committee and is a member of Delta Sigma Rho and Tau Kappa Alpha, speech honoraries. as well as Black-stonians. the pre-law scholastic honorary.
Smulyan enters race for senior presidency
KAROL WAHLBERC IN RACE
AWS veep runs for top position
Karol Wahlberg, vice-president of the Associated Women Students, has entered the race for AWS president. She advocates a program of expanding AWS representation by integrating women's organizations into the Executive Council.
Miss Wahlberg said the basic weaknesses of the AWS organization have been the results of failure to maintain representation of all women students.
“I would like to see the newly organized Presidents Council of the AWS become an instrument through which the professional organizations and various schools would aiso have a voice in AWS affairs,” she said.
Miss Wahlberg, a junior in international relations, urged improved communications between women students and campus organizations and foresaw' advancement in that area through a pamphlet, AWS Viewpoint.
Viewpoint is compiled by the Associate Cabinet and recognizes the achievements of women students and faculty members.
“Viewpoint will provide recognition of university women who have been doing things on their own, achieving in activities not necessarily connected with the university,” she *>aid. “For example, it might contain articles on women who have gained recognition in contributions to art. poetry, or literary fields,” she said.	„
Miss Wahlbprg emphasized that 1he leadership training efforts of the aWS Associate Cabinet must be expanded that more women would have the oppor-
Karol Wahlherg
tunity and training to participate in campus government.
"At fall orientation, the AWS program could be reorganized, adjusted to becoming more informative in regard to the role of women students in campus activities and the various professional schools. Fall orientation could be made into an educational experience in leadership training, in addition to introducing students to campus activities,” she said.
Integrating foreign- students and commuters on the AWS Council, another aspect of her platform, would be conducive to students becoming involved in the campus community through their participation and representation on the council.”
Miss Wahlberg feels the speakers program, which she has worked on with present AWS President Karen Mazepink, can be presented both formally and informally through the participation of women’s housing organizations, Panhellenic and informal discussions with campus visitors in the Student Activities Center.
Miss Wahlberg has been a member of the Alumni Tea Committee Executive Board, the Orientation Planning Committee, the Troy Camp Committee and the International House.
She has served as secretary of the AWS Associate Cabinet, as an orientation counselor and has belonged to both Spurs and Troeds. She is also a member of Sigma Gamma Sigma, the international relations sorority.
Jeff Smulyan, considered a probable contender for ASSC president, announced yesterday he would run for senior class president.
Smulyan, a junior in history, said the response to his potential ASSC candidacy had been very gratifying, “but I feel it is more important to get my points of view across and leave the ASSC presidential race to the professional politicians on this campus.
“The problem of student government is that we have too many amateurs trying to be professionals,” he said. “But unfortunately it's just not a life-and-death matter to me.”
As senior class president Smulyan would be primarily concerned with planning the Senior Farew’ell and the senior gift, as well as coordinating alumni activities after graduation.
He feels the area of undergraduate relations with the alumni has been overlooked too often in the past.
“I think the problem has been that the alums can’t see the viewpoints of the current students." he said. “Maybe we can point some of our ideas out to them and draw on their tremendous resources for our present needs.”
In addition to senior activities, Smulyan said he intends to take an active interest in the ASSC as a whole.
He proposed a recreational league in which the younger children of the surrounding community could acquire an understanding of the students and
Jeff Smulyan
give the students themselves a different view of the community.
Smulyan also proposed an artist-in-residence program, which would bring noted artists, poets and writers to campus for discourse with students, “thereby continuing the cultural oasis of the Festival of the Arts throughout the year.”
Smulyan is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Trojan Knights, and is chairman of the ASSC Entertainment Committee. He has served as Squires president and freshman dorm president.