University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1968
NO. 59
Student injured
in attack near Tommy Trojan
By JIM STRAIT
Police reported a USC student was assaulted Tuesday night as he sat at the base of Tommy Trojan reading a book.
The student, Joe Burns, gave the following account of the incident.
He was waiting at the statue for a girl he had invited to dinner. He arrived early and sat down to study by the floodlights around the campus landmark.
He arrived about 6 p.m. and had only been there about five minutes when two men approached him. Bums did not see them approach, but they were standing in front of him when he looked up.
Both of the men appeared to be about 23 years old. One was about 6-0, and the other about 6-3.
“How about a quarter, man?” the smaller man asked. Burns said he did not have one. but the man asked again.
When Burns told the man a second time he didn’t have a quarter, the other man. the larger of the two, said. “What's your major, man?”
Burns told them he was trying to study, and asked if they would leave him alone.
As he said this, the smaller of the two stepped over him. and knocked the book from his hands. Burns stood up to defend himself, but as he did so the larger man swung and hit Burns above his right eye, slamming him up against the base of Tommy Troian.
His head hit the stone, and he was temporarily dazed. Blood was streaming from a cut over his eye, covering his face and running down his shirt.
Burns went over to the emergency nhone on the corner opposite Tom-m'- Trojan and saw the two men walking calmly down University Avenue toward Exposition Boulevard. Although there were people walking all
TUTORIALS BEGIN AT MANUAL ARTS
The Student-to-Student Counseling Service at Manual Arts High School will resume today at 3 p.m.
USC students who wish to participate in the pilot tutorial and discussion project should meet at the YWCA at 3 p.m. for transportation to the Vermont Avenue school. They will return to USC by 5 p.m.
The service, begun earlier this year by Bill Prezant. independent representative, provides a personal link between the university and Manual Arts’ students with a potential for college work.
around the area, his struggle had attracted no one.
After Burns had called the Campus Police, he started to follow the two men. The Campus Police car arrived just as the two men, with Burns following, reached the Science Building.
Burns pointed the two suspects out to the officer, and they both moved in to take the pair into custody. The two suspects appeared to be unsure of exactly what the campus police officer wanted them to do.
Finally, the men were searched, handcuffed and ushered into the rear of the Campus Police car. The campus officer sat in the front seat with his gun drawn, while Burns, who could barely see out of his right eye, was told to drive.
Back at Campus Police headquarters. Victor Sargent, police head, listened to Burns’ story and called the Los Angeles Police Department.
It took 30 minutes for the police car to arrive, while the suspects used the time to recount several versions of the incident.
The larger of the two men sat staring at Burns, slowly shaking his head back and forth. Bums did not know what this was supposed to mean, but he began to stare back and slowly nod his head in response.
When the LAPD arrived, they explained to Bums that he would Have to make the arrest himself as a citizen. because assault is a misdemeanor charge if the crime is committed in his presence.
Bums told them that he wanted to press charges, and would make a citizen’s arrest of the man who allegedly hit him. The other man was released because he had not actually hit Bums.
The police explained they would take the suspect to the University Division for Burns, but that Burns himself had made the arrest and would have to appear in court against the man, probably some time this month.
The Los Angeles Police officers then took Burns and the suspect to headquarters, and, after booking the man. took Bums to the Student Health Center where the cut over his right eye received three stitches.
The doctor told him to report back the next day for further treatment, but when Bums came back, he was refused any further treatment because he had forgotten to bring along his student l.D.
Burns says that he plans to appear in court against the man he ac-cused of assaulting him, but he doesn't know how much of a chance he has of winning.
He said that one of the officers told him, “Don’t feel too bad if he gets off—it happens all the time.”
MIKE CHUCK EXAMINES ASSC DOCUMENTS The frosh representative plans strategy for his class
Debaters in finals of Golden West Tourney
USC and 14 other colleges and universities have entered the final round of the prestigious 6th annual Golden West Debate Tournament which will conclude today at USC.
Entered in the tourney are Trojans Bill Anderson and Chet Actis. This team also won the Pacific Southwest Collegiate Forensic Association Championship held Dec. 2-3 at USC.
Sixteen teams survived two days of preliminary debates in which each team debated eight times. Forty-six schools originally entered the competition.
Other schools now in competition for the championship are Houston, UCLA, Wichita, University of the Pacific, Michigan State University, Loyola of Los Angeles (with two teams in the finals), San Fernando Valley State College, Boston College, O b e r 1 i n University, Dartmouth, Northwestern, North Texas State, Emory College and Kansas State Teachers College.
David Kenner, director of the USC-sponsored ■ tournament, said each surviving team would enter an elimination tournament today. The champion
BRITISH DUPLICITY CHARGED
Palestine: Arab land?
BY STAN METZLER City Editor
The Arabs’ legal rights to Palestine date to secret British and French negotiations during the first World War, a high Arab official in the United States charged here yesterday.
The British and French were committed to the Arabs of the Eastern Mediterranean to work for one united Arab state, Farouk Mawlawi told the Faculty Center Association.
But two agreements, which he called examples of “British double dealing,” revealed their commitment not to Arab welfare but “to their famous secret diplomacy,'’ he said.
The charges by Mawlawi, director of the Arab Information Center for the Western Region in San Francisco, came only a day after a Los Angeles Times article revealed secret offers of appeasement made by the British to Mussolini and Hitler before the start of World War II.
The first agreement about the Arabs, Mawlawi said, allowed the British and French to establish their own spheres of influence in the Arab world.
The second, first proposed by Lord Balfour to Lord Rothschild in the House of Lords, called for a “national home” for the Jews in Palestine.
This home was originally explained to the Arabs as a place for the Jews’ religious rites, Mawlawi said, and as a place of religious identification. In these terms, he said, the proposal was and has remained acceptable to the Arabs.
The more radical Zionists, however, soon pushed the ideas as a national Jewish state, disregarding the population of Palestine at that time, which was more than 90 percent Arab.
The agreement, Mawlawi said, was "a promise made by somebody about the land of somebody else.”
Mawlawi, a former member of the Lebanon delega-
tion to the United Nations, said World War II temporarily interrupted a steady increase of Jewish intrusion into Palestine. But after the war world sympathy for the treatment of Jews by the Nazis further pushed the Zionist ambitions.
“But the world forgot that Palestine was mot vacant land but an inhabited country, in which Arabs had lived for 15 centuries and their descendents before them for time immemorial,” he said.
In 1947, Mawlawi said, the United Nations rejected a proposal that would have created a joint Arab-Jewish-Christian independent state, on the grounds that Arabs and Jews could not live side by side.
“But they negated their own logic by creating instead a Jewish state and an Arab state side by side,” he charged.
In the Jewish state, Mawlawi said, the population was two-thirds Arab, and more than 90 percent of the land was owned by Arabs.
The United Nations called for the state to be created on May 15,1948. But the state of Israel actually came into existence two months earlier, Mawlawi said, because hundreds of thousands of Arabs were forced to flee from the Jews and President Truman gave the state official U.S. recognition.
In 1949, following negotiations aimed at repatriation of the Arab refugees and certain territorial adjustments, Israel was admitted to the United Nations, at which time Mawlawi said it refused to implement the ideas they had approved at the earlier negotiations.
The recent Arab crisis, he said, was but a further display of Israeli aggression and devotion to the force of arms rather than negotiations.
“Nothing Israel has done in the last 19 years,” Maw* lawi charged, “has indicated any willingness on their part for peace.”
will be the only team left undefeated.
Kenner said four final debating rounds would be held, with the championship debate scheduled for later in the afternoon. Any interested students may attend the debate. The time and place will be announced today in Hancock Auditorium.
The topic of each debate is ‘‘Resolved: That the federal government should give an annual minimum cash income to all citizens.” A coin will be flipped before each championship match to determine which side each team will take.
The top debate schools in the nation are attending the tournament, Kenner said.
“We feel we have one of the strongest fields of entry of any tournament in the nation,” he said.
One of the favored teams is Dartmouth's Tom Brewer and John Isaacson, who won the National Debate Championship last year as juniors.
Judges for the tournament were the coaches and faculty from each participating school. Over 180 debaters and coaches participated in the three-day tournament.
In other recent tournaments, USC took a second place in the championship division of the Southwest Missouri State College Debate Tournament held Dec. 8-9. Alan Denney and Marc Ruth were defeated by Houston in the final round.
Denney and Ruth were selected 3rd and 4th best speakers of the tournament- respectively.
In the lower division, USC sent two teams. J. R. Stein and Keith Doddes reached semifinals before being defeated by another Houston squad.
In the Colorado Springs Tournament held at the Air Force Academy, Dec. 1-2, USC’s Ron Gordon and Burt Rush reached the semifinals before being defeated. Rush was named the best speaker in that tournament.
REALIZES POWERLESSNESS
Freshman rep uneasy but cool
By ROGER SMITH
Mike Chuck is too calm to be frustrated, even though he has the often frustrating job of being freshman class representative.
He has a lot to say, but he complains very little, and he doesn't want to burden you with his troubles.
“The ASSC constiution says I’m supposed to attend all meetings of the ASSC Executive Council and represent the freshman class.” He smiled, betraying a hint of mental anguish.
“So far I’ve gone to four meetings. I'm just now getting to the point where I know who has what powers.”
Chuck said he is beginning to realize that he can do little for the ASSC. Even more frustrating, he can do little for the freshman class.
The story of Mike Chuck’s silent dilemma began two months ago when 86 people thronged to the polls to elect him to the class’s only office.
Chuck, a former high school student council president, was initially surprised at the poor turnout.
“After reflection, though, I guess it couldn't be helped. The freshman elections were competing with Troy Week and then the rains came on election day.
“I don’t consider the election an indicator of the interest of the freshman class,” he said.
Then came his introduction to the ASSC Council.
“Somebody told me that it was a mistake to do anything because freshman class representative is a political graveyard. I would like to change that idea and get something done.”
It doesn’t really matter to Chuck what the freshman class does, just as long as it does something.
Overcoming the political graveyard image and galvanizing a class in which the majority of its members don’t even know who Mike Chuck is would go a long way toward soothing his frustrations.
“The important thing is to get the class organized. We’re planning on having applications ready for freshman clars council by Monday.”
Chuck, typically, expects a good number of his fellow class members to pick up applications.
“That is, if the weather holds up,” he added with a grin.
The council, which Chuck hopes to have formed by the beginning of next semester, will act as advisor and helper for Chuck and the other freshman class officers.
He has asked Trcxls to help with the distribution of applications.
After the council is formed and the class becomes well-enough organized, Chuck has another idea in mind.
“I would like to see a freshman male service organization organized here,” he said.
“I know this will be difficult to get going because it requires organization as soon as school starts. If I do present the idea to the ASSC, it won’t be until late next semester, anyway.”
Outside his freshman class office, Chuck has a few other things to worry about along with hisi fellow students.
“I’ve got so much work to do for finals it isn’t even funny,” Chuck, an engineering major, said.
He also thinks a little now about the recent tuition increase.
“I'm on scholarship, and all I can do is hope I can raise the extra $300.
“This increase means we are paying 51,800 a year. It seems to me that we should have some say in the quality of our education, that is, in the hiring and firing of professors.”
But Chuck won’t insist that students have a say in hiring and firing professors. That would be out of character. He just wonders out loud, and hopes somebody hears him.
In spite of what he has so far experienced, Chuck has expressed a desire to run for another ASSC office in the next four years.
If it is left up to him, he wants to eliminate a few frustrations
Tickets for 'After the Fall' available in Drama Office
Tickets for Arthur Miller's “After the Fall” are now on sale in the Drama Office, 303 Parkview Building.
The play will run nightly at 8:30 in the Stop Gap Theatre from Jan. 8 to 14.
Gretchen Kanne, who played in Michael Cacoyannis’ off-Broadway production, “The Trojan Women,” will direct the play as a graduate thesis production.
Veteran TV and film actor Paul Comi, also a graduate student, will play the lead role of Quentin.
Other principals include Meredith Hencken as Holga, Sandy Morgan as Maggie, Kim Rezuko as Louise and Sal Dano as Mickey.
All of the action in the play takes place in the mind of the central character, Quentin, as the other actors portray memories from his past.
There is no chronological sequence to the action, and the images appear and disappear suddenly, as they would in a man's mind.
The central theme of this play, which is considered by many to be Miller’s masterpice, is the intense introspection of a man who is hopelessly dissatisfied with his life and is seeking a new morality.
The set is supposed to represent the gray shadows of the human mind, and the actors add to this image by interacting only with Quentin and not with each other.
Although Miller denies any autobiographical connotations in his work, many have claimed that the play reflects much of the playwright's own life, especially since Maggie resembles Miller’s former wife. Marilyn Monroe.
Student Health Center increases services to cover holiday periods
The Student Health Center has announced plans to increase its service through the Summer Session beginning this June.
Dr. Paul Greeley, medical director, and Dr. Paul Hadley, dean of the Summer Session, said each summer student will be charged a mandatory fee of $1 per week for the Health Center service.
The fee will be charged only for the number of weeks the student attends classes.
“For a regular student continuing through the summer period immediately following the termination of the school year in June,” Dr. Greeley said, “health coverage will continue during the few days between graduation and the Summer Session.
“In other cases, however, the Summer Session student will be covered only during the period for which he has registered.”
Dr. Greeley also announced a number of other improvements in Health Center service during the regular uni-
versity year, between semester and before the start of classes.
All students who pay the regular $16 health fee for a semester or the $32 fee for the entire year will be entitled to treatment at the Student Health Center continuously from the first day of classes through June graduation. Dr. Greeley said.
This coverage will continue through vacation periods and semester break, and will include students who arrive on campus before the official start of semester classes.