New direction for ROTC cases uncertain
By PETEK WONG Editor
The situation is still uncertain as to what will happen in the eases of five students suspended by the university for their part in the seizure of the Air Force ROTC Building on the night of May 10.
A Student Behavior Committee panel ordered the five cases back to an allstudent judicial on June 6. (The decision was reported in Friday's Summer Trojan.) However, the panel of two students, two faculty members and an associate dean recommended that if no all-student judicial could be convened within 14 days of the announcement of its decision, then it recommended that the university administration dismiss the charges.
“It is important to hold the factual hearings on the disruption before memories fade and witnesses become unavailable,” the panel’s decision stated.
“Of course, in the interim, the Student Affairs Division is free to reevaluate the sanctions imposed in light of the information which has become available subsequent to the original suspensions.”
Daniel Nowak, acting vice-president for student affairs, first informed the students in the building May 10 that their presence was a violation of university regulations and that if they did not leave.
they would be suspended. Sometime afterward. Nowak told the students remaining inside that they were suspended. Of some 35 students in the building, only five were identified by members ofthe students affairs staff, and they were the only ones suspended.
Nowak and Robert Mannes, dean for student life, presented the university’s case at the hearings of the Student Behavior Committee panel June 2.
However, since the panel’s decision, no formal statement by Nowak has been issued, although he is still studying the situation. He may proceed in a number of directions.
•	He could try to get the members of the University Judicial Council, an allstudent panel, to meet in a summer session to consider the merits of the charges against the students. (It should be noted that the Student Behavior Committee panel only considered the issue of jurisdiction.)
This would be difficult, but since judicial members are appointed for staggered terms, there would be enough holdover members to hear the five cases.
•	He could get President John Hubbard to interpret a presidential order of May 11 as establishing emergency hearing procedures, thereby giving the Student
Behavior Committee panel the jurisdiction to hear the cases. (The panel did not agree with Nowak’s interpretation of Hubbard's order, but said it would proceed to consider the merits of the suspensions if clearly directed to do so by Hubbard.)
“In light of the strong commitment made throughout SCampus and our own procedures to student hearings, the panel believes that we should not presume that emergency procedures were meant to be invoked without a clear statement to that effect,” the decision stated.
Hubbard said May 16 in the Daily Trojan that he would review the committee's actions.
•	He could, with Hubbard’s approval, dismiss the charges, although this is not likely, given the serious sanctions imposed by the university on the five students—indefinite suspension.
Nowak's actions in suspending the students on the basis ofparticipation in coercive disruption, then sending the appeals from such suspensions to the Student Behavior Committee, were based on the university’s Statement on Dissent. But the panel disagreed with this interpretation of that policy, saying that the manner in which sanctions are imposed is not specified.
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It did agree, however, with the defendants’ contention that in the absence of the establishment of emergency hearing procedures by President Hubbard, they were entitled to a hearing on the charges before an all-student judicial, provided in section 6 of the Statement on Student Rights and Responsibilities.
The panel asked that the provisions of four documents—the Statements on Student Rights and Responsibilities, the Statement on Dissent, the Student Conduct Statement, and the Student Behavior Committee procedures—be clarified. “(They) contain overlapping and perhaps inconsistent statements concerning student discipline, and the relationships between these documents is not clear,” the decision stated.
Members of the panel were Scott Bice, chairman and associate dean of the Law Center; Melvin Sloan, professor of cinema; William Steier. associate professor of electrical engineering; Robert O'Rourke, student, and Gary Habekost, recent graduate.
The students involved are Rick Frishman, a second-year law student; Jim Glick. first-year law student; Sam Hurst, senior in political science; Jerry Reit-man, graduate student in international relations; Rick Saslaw, senior in cinema.
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL. LXV NO. 3
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1972
Students, prof organize group to create pollution-free city vehicle
Lawmakers in Sacramento to Washington, under pressure from concerned citizens and environmental groups, may be taking the wrong road in their imperative demands for costly and often technologically ill-conceived automobile modifications in the name of safety and cleaner air, a professor of mechanical engineering said.
Registration deadline for session set
Registration for the major seven -week session (code number 907) without late fees is today.
Students who want to add another class to their academic load this summer will find that there are still a number of classes with open enrollment, Mary Ludwig, assistant dean for Summer Session administration, said.
In other summer session news, the University Recreation Association will begin its program of recreational tours with a trip to the Huntington Library and Art Galleries from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday.
Reservations are to be made with J. Tillman Hall, chairman of the Physical Education Department, in Physical Education Building 107 between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. through Thursday.
A fee of $2 will be charged for this trip, payable when reservations are made.
Temple University president to speak
Martin Wachman. the newly appointed president of Temple University in Philadelphia, will speak in Hancock Auditorium next Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. He will be sponsored by the Summer Session administration.
Wachsman will discuss racial problems in American higher education today.
Changes undertaken in an atmosphere of hysteria are likely to create more problems than they solve, Martin J. Siegel, the professor, said.
“There must be an interim, achievable, and less traumatic process applied to this problemsolving,” Siegel, who believes that the creation of an urban or intracity vehicle would achieve that interim goal. said.
To this end. Siegel and 30 students headed by Dean Athans, a doctoral candidate, have organized the Auto Design Group and established an urban vehicle laboratory in the basement of the oldest School of Engineering building on the campus.
Using a Ford Mustang, preliminary studies were made by the group last year. Considerable testing and some modifications were undertaken. Now the group has a second vehicle that Siegel and his students believe qualifies as a type of intracity car, and work will begin shortly on a third vehicle that they hope may meet the more rigid standards they envision for the urban vehicle.
The Auto Design Group sees the ideal urban vehicle as a small, perhaps two-passenger car. designed particularly for the commuting worker and the shopping housewife. They expect it to be virtually free of exhaust emission pollutants, inexpensive in operation and propelled by a system or systems using readily available fuels.
Although they expect the ultimate in urban vehicle design will be capable of freeway speeds, it will be limited to a 60-mile range, depending on the accessibility of the fuels used.
Siegel and his students envision the urban vehicle as a 10-to 20-year interim step between the widespread use of the large fossii-fuel, internal combustion engines as we know them today and some other nonpolluting, energy supply system that will ultimately take their place.
“It is wholly unrealistic to expect that the motormakers can
change the ‘spots’ on their ‘leopards’ to the extent that law-makers think they can and within the time span they seem willing to allow,” he said.
“It took a century or so for motormakers to bring today’s engine to the level of cost, efficiency, performance and sophistication that has been achieved. And it could take another 100 years to find a replacement, which will be nonpolluting and probably non-oxygen consuming. Byt that time, whatever vehicles people are using may be powered by some kind of direct heat-to-energy — possibly nuclear — or receiving their energy via microwave transmission.”
Even the modifications which can be made as soon as possible will be extremely costly and that cost will be borne solely by the consumer, Siegel said.
“And whether they will substantially cut the total volume of smog remains a question—especially in such places as Los Angeles where we live in a ‘smog box’ and where there are so many millions of internal combustion engines in constant use. We face the contradiction of continued funding for new freeways, making roon for more cars, and the concern of lawmakers for reduced pollution.”
Siegel also argues that while the low-pollution intracity or urban vehicle would be the logical interim step in cleaning up air befouled by exhaust, there still is a need today for the internal combustion engine as we know it.
“Fossil fuels such as gasoline and natural gas are still the most feasible energy source we have. All the generations of development which have gone into the gasoline engine have given us a much-needed power plant. An interim solution is to limit the use of that power plant to the long-haul and inter-city needs of people and commerce and let the urban vehicle do the city work,” the professor said.
The Auto Design Group presently has in operation a mod-
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HERE'S YOUR NEW CAR—P.J. Brennan (center) of the Department of Water and Power hands over the keys of the department's Electrauto Mars II to Martin J. Siegel, professor of mechanical engineering, so that students may plan further modification of the all-battery powered vehicle. Melvin Gerstein, chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department, is at the right.
Youth corps members begin program here in tutor-training
Some 1.000 Neighborhood Youth Corps members from 40 city high schools began a week here Monday of training as tutors. They spent the first day in workshops discussing goals for the summer and in exploring programs that help society to function.
Actual training begins today and continues through Thursday when one-third ofthe members will go to classes each day to learn specific skills of tutoring children. All members will meet for the concluding session Friday, during which films will be shown and discussions about cultural aspects of learning and education in general will be held.
After training, the members will be placed in schools in their own neighborhoods to help students who are having difficulty in their school work, and to help teachers.
The program, sponsored by the Center for Urban Affairs and the School Volunteer and Tutorial Programs Unit. Los Angeles City School District, began last year with some 800 students under the direction of Barbara Gardner, research associate for the center, and Jack Maguire and Nolan Porter of the city schools.