University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL.LXV NO. 11
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1972
Concert break
Two members of the Performing Dance Group rest after practice. They and the other members of the group will appear in Bovard Auditorium at noon today. The 40-minute performance is free.
Shizuko Iwamatsu, director, will lead the group in four dances. One new dance is a jazz-rock ballet using music on a tape cassette left by the late Ted Courtenay, who taught social and folk dance.
“It is an exciting, imaginative tribute to a man who encouraged thousands of people to believe they could have fun dancing,” the director said. “The music suggests a busy city at night, crowded places, and rushing throngs; yet the number of people seen at one time is small—the others seem to linger just beyond the line of sight.”
Another new dance is based on the classic Japanese court music and dance called Gagaku. which once was entertainment for the nobility; a third will be performed by Darius Mozafarian. teaching assistant.
The fourth dance is a re-presentation of Tempo di Vivaldi.
’72 election called most critical since FDR days
This year’s presidential election will be the most critical—at least as far as a contest of fundamental political ideologies is concerned—since Franklin D. Roosevelt ran against Herbert Hoover in 1932. a visiting political analyst said here Friday.
Sen. George S. McGovern of South Dakota, the nominee of the Democratic Party, is supported by a new coalition of political activists who want sweeping social, economic and political changes, Karl Lamb, professor of politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz, said to a symposium on campaign communication.
On the other hand, President Nixon's drive for a second term tends to represent the status quo, and is supported by its proponents, he said.
Lamb generally agrees with Walter Dean Burnham’s premise in his Critical Elections and the Mainsprings of American Politics, in which it is stated that about every 28 to 36 years in presidential election history, new forces of substantial political change coalesce and confront the status quo.
Change does not come gradually w ith each presidential elec-
tion. Lamb said. “The system of (John) Locke (17th-century English political philosopher) has been only marginally adaptable to change since the time of (Andrew) Jackson,” he said.
Though these forces of change tend to build up and confront the status quo only at so-called critical elections, they do not always win. The advocates of change have won in 1800 (Thomas Jefferson), 1828 (Andrew Jackson), 1860 (Abraham Lincoln), and 1932-36 (Franklin Roosevelt).
However, the forces of the status quo won in 1896. when William McKinley defeated William Jennings Bryan.
Who will win this time?
“I don't know, frankly.” Lamb said. “For all his faults. Richard Nixon is not stupid.
“But I do know one thing—if the countercoalition wins, there will be no new Republican era, as Kevin Phillips (author of The Emerging Republican Majority) suggests. After all, we have some idea of who the 1976 Democratic nominee will be should McGovern lose, and Ted Kennedy will be pretty tough to beat by then.”
Lamb likened this year’s election closest to that of 1932, and
‘Striving toward Blackness’ set
“Striving Toward Blackness,” a production based on the epilogue to Ralph Ellison's prize-winning novel. Invisible Man, will be presented for the second time at 1:15 p.m. Thursday in Phillips Hall B-27.
The production, first presented here in May, will be sponsored by the University College and Summer Session administration.
It is based on a paper by Robert J. Avery, a teacher in adult education in the Los Angeles City School District and
Issue deadline
The Summer Trojan will publish its last issue of the seven-week summer session Friday. Those who want to have notices or stories published should contact Peter Wong, the editor, in Student Union 420. ext. 2203. preferably before Thursday.
Messages may be left in the Office of Student Publications, Student Union 400.
The next issue of the paper will appear Aug. 2.
a stockbroker and insurance agent with Equity Securities in Los Angeles.
Avery first did the paper as a project for the Master of Liberal Arts program, which is run by University College, and got the inspiration from a previous reading of Invisible Man, which was required in his first course.
“It’s about a man seeking his identity, a man exploring the dark side of his personality, an attempt to view it as objectively as possible,” Avery said in an interview.
“It’s about a man seeing America in the world today as a society in which ‘winner takes nothing.’ ”
Avery adapted the play from his paper, and the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles handled the direction and choreography. It was first presented in May.
“I was very pleased with the first production. I think the audience’s response was very wholesome.” he said.
He believed the paper and the
subsequent production “opened up my own soul-searching.”
“I was impressed by the humbleness of the man (portrayed in Invisible Man), his quest for life and what it should be, his journey underground, his dying, and rebirth," he said.
His advisers in the Master of Liberal Arts program were the only ones who read his paper, Avery said, and they commented favorably.
“I saw the writing of the paper and the performance of the production as a growth experience,” he said.
One adviser, Albert Ross, senior lecturer in psychology, was singled out by Avery for special praise.
“I owe much to him — his encouragement and his inspiration. Without him the paper would hardly have been possible,” he said.
said McGovern would provide a strong race.
“He rejects the centrist thesis outlined in The Real Majority, in which the authors (Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg) say that elections are won in the political center, where the votes are,” Lamb said.
“His political and economic proposals are a departure from those of President Nixon. McGovern seems to be saying, ‘Let’s go back to the Declaration of Independence,’ which is definitely not in the mainstream of thinking—at least, not on Wall Street.”
Furthermore, McGovern appeals to those who are disenchanted with government, including those on the left and right of the political spectrum. Lamb said—and this counts the supporters of Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, candidate for the Democratic nomination.
Meanwhile, the Democratic-controlled Congress is afraid to pass any proposal made by President Nixon, just as Herbert Hoover’s proposals for easing the effects of the Depression were not acted on. because the Republican President would get the credit. Lamb said. He pointed to the President’s welfare-reform proposal as an example of this. (The bill is objected to by some Republicans. too.)
As for campaign issues, “Nixon can fly to China and to Russia to make peace, but when the housewife goes to Safeway and finds the cheapest hamburger with the most fat selling at 93 cents a pound, the incumbent will be hurt most.” he said.
Before making his comments on the election. Lamb analyzed the three books referred to above.
Political disputes hamper work of UN environmental conference
By PETEK WONG Editor
(Concluding article of a two-part series that began last week.)
A number of political disputes hampered the work of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden, in June, which Carl Christol. professor of political science and international law, attended.
U.S. air raids on North Vietnam dikes ruled out bv Nixon’s aide
(Peter Wong. editor of the Summer Trojan, had the opportunity to attend a briefing for the press Monday at the Western White House. Here is the news report.)
The Nixon administration is standing by its policy of not ordering air attacks on the dikes and dams of North Vietnam. Ron Ziegler, presidential press secretary. said Monday.
Ziegler, at the morning briefing of the White House press corps, was asked to comment about some remarks made by Melvin R. Laird, secretary of defense, at a news conference Monday morning in Washington.
Laird reportedly said that
United States air strikes may have hit military targets located near the dikes in North Vietnam, which keep the Red River and its tributaries from spilling and flooding the farmlands, where much of the population of the north lives.
“I have not seen the transcript of what he (Laird) said; therefore, I am in a little bit of a bind to respond to what he said.” Ziegler said.
“I would just say this, and repeat again, as I’m sure Secretary Laird pointed out, and the President has pointed out. it is contrary to our policy, it is not our policy, to target dikes or
dams in North Vietnam. We have made statements on this repeatedly.”
Ziegler said that the North Vietnamese were trying to claim that the United States had bombed the dikes—and thereby cause the deaths of much of the population through flooding—so that they can win a propaganda break.
“They are trying to seize upon a matter here ... in order to influence domestic thinking regarding our efforts to cut off the supplies to their forces so that they can support an invasion of the south,” he said.
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However, such disputes, which involved both the great powers and moderate-size nations, did not prevent the conference from reaching agreement on several points, notably the Declaration on the Human Environment, a 200-point program for action of the environment, a global monitoring network and a S100-million fund to help finance it. and a new UN agency to administer these programs.
“Of much greater importance has been the willingness of some 110 states to give their political approval to well-considered technical recommendations which have been carefully designed to advance the total welfare of all mankind and the environment in which he must find his home,” Christol wrote in one of nine reports he sent.
However, a number of political problems came up.
“By far the most controversial subject was the inclusion of a principle (in the final declaration) relating to nuclear and mass-destruction weapons. That this subject should be considered relevant to the subject of the Human Environment is some measure of the wide-ranging concern which has now begun to attract the attention of the
world.” Christol said.
The issue was first introduced in the conference's third committee. which considered the identification and control of pollutants of broad international significance.
Peru, in an attempt to modify France's policy on atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the South Pacific, moved to condemn all nuclear testing for military purposes.
“However, the Peruvian proposal was criticized in Stockholm by many states, including the United States, on the ground that its introduction here would tend to politicize a technical meeting, that the proposal as stated was unclear, and even contradictory,” Christol reported.
The committee did not decide the question, and thus left the original recommendation intact. It was somewhat limited: “Man and his environment must be spared the serious effect of further testing or use in hostilities of weapons, particularly those of mass destruction.”
However, the conference debated a stronger statement, to which some nations, including the United States, indicated they would abstain.
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