Interchange on campus island
McKissick to highlight conference schedule
Floyd McKissick. national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality. will lead a discussion tonight on “Black Power—Green Power" at 8 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium as part of Interchange: The Black Community—USC.
Former legal counsel for CORE, McKissick became national chairman by acclamation in June, 1963.
His civil rights involvement began in 1947. when along with James Farmer. CORE'S national director, he participated in the “Journey of Reconciliation." a forerunner of the 1961 “Freedom Rides."
In 1951. he and Thurgood Marshall. now a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, helped to integrate the University of North Carolina Law School.
McKissick defended sit-in demonstrators in North Carolina who were instrumental in achieving desegregation of lunch counters and theaters in the city of Durham in 1961.
The Interchange program today will begin at 10 a.m. in Hancock Auditorium with Thomas Saheridan,
executive director of the Governor’s Commission on the Los Angeles Riot, who will speak on “Since the Report.”
Los Angeles Councilman Billy Mills will speak on “Politics and the Community Representatives" at 11 a.m. in Hancock.
Jim Fish, Los Angeles Police Department public relations director, will speak at 2 p.m. in Hancock on “Human Rights in Law Enforcement.”
"The View from Our Side" will be discussed by Tommy Jacquette, local black power leader, at 3 p.m. in Hancock.
A panel discussion on “Community Action" will take place at 4 p.m. in Hancock. Bob Hubbard, of Operation Bootstrap, and Dorthea Moore, of the Welfare Recipients Union, will participate. Dr. William Williams, professor in the School of Public Administration, will be the moderator.
At 6 p.m.. Manual Arts High School students will tour the campus as part of the Interchange program.
Congressman James Corman at student leader luncheon
D.	University of Southern California \ILY • TRO J A:	N
VOL. LIX	LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1968 72	NO. 25
Mauk announces new platform for presidency
Bill Mauk, the first candidate to announce for office this spring, upped his sights and expanded his platform yestercmy as he decided to run for the ASSC presidency.
Mauk. who had declared earlier for vice-president of student activities, told the Daily Trojan he made the switch because of his conviction that "none of the other candidates have a firm grasp of the issues.”
He said conversations with several leading members of the ASSC had reinforced his feelings, and made the new announcement with their encouragement and support.
“I have always felt my background ana experience would be sufficient for the post of ASSC president," Mauk said. “But only in the last two weeks did I realize the great obstacle facing other probable candidates because of their lack of experience and knowledge.
“I can't allow myself to sit idly
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Scholars capture third College Bowl victory
By MARK VASCHE Assistant City Editor
The USC varsity scholars started slowly but gathered momentum in the second half and defeated St. John's University. 340 to 145. for their third consecutive victory on the GE College Bowl Sunday evening.
The win raised USC’s College Bowl earnings to S9.000 in scholarship grants and gave the team a chance for even more when it meets Syracuse University March 24.
St. John’s started fast and led 100 to 65 at halftime. The second period was all USC however, as the Trojan scholais scored 275 points to St. John's 45, including one spree of 165 consecutive points.
Ironically, the question which marked the turning point of the contest involved the ancient Troians. Host Robert Ear! asked for the type of sense the early Trojans lacked, and USC correctly responded with “horse sense.”
If the USC squad, composed of
CONCERT TICKETS ON SALE TODAY
Tickets for tne -Jefferson Airplane Concert will go on sale today at the Ticket Office, 209 Student Union, and the Student Activities Office at the YWCA.
Tickets for both concerts are priced at $3, $2, and $1.50.
Tlie concerts are scheduled for 8 and 19:80 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium on March 30. The Iron Butterfly will also appear.
Gary Cohen. Barclay Edmundson, Marcia Hastie, and Richard Hilton, captain, can win against Syracuse and Dartmouth (March 31), it will be retired as an undefeated champion. At that point, the total winnings should be $18,000.
Dr. James McBath, coach of the varsity scholars, credited the victory on an improved method of consultation.
“We were greatly improved on the bonus questions. This week we answered almost all the bonus questions correctly.” he said.
He said the St. John's team “seemed a little awed by USC. It was an able team, but quite reserved.
"We felt that if we were going to lose a match, St. John's wouldn’t be the school to beat us.
"We have had and will continue to have very strong competition. The schools we have played have been some of the strongest schools on the show,” he said.
The win boosted USC’s season record to a perfect three wins and no losses, and raised the overall record to three wins and one loss. Last week, the scholars defeated City College of New York and the previous week Furman University. USC’s lone loss came in 1959, when a team from Barnard College beat the Trojans.
McBath pointed out that the USC total Sunday of 340 points was the 23rd highest total in the history of the show.
The number one position is held by Rice University, which posted consecutive scores of 455 to 75 and 450 to 5 while on the program in 1965.
by any longer while merely hoping to see my aspirations accomplished as a vice-president.”
Mauk headed his expanded, fivepronged platform with a call for creation of student facilities on levels “so every student at least receives $4.50 worth of student government.”
Within this area of student involvement, he called for a mechanism of allowing any organized student group to petition the ASSC Budgetary Council for financing and for a monthly program of culture, entertainment and speakers.
“We must also place skilled and knowledgeable people on the appropriate university committees,” he said, “so that student members, chosen for their talent and ability, can make a worthwhile contribution beyond tokenism.”
Mauk’s concerns for academic improvements included a new definition by the university of the degree of influence exerted by students, especially in such concerns as student representation on faculty committees, pass-fail classes and University Senate support.
Under the broad base of community activity, Mauk, who is now serving as executive secretary of the Community Action Coordinating Council, proposed a complete program of community involvement at all age levels.
Mauk said current programs should be expanded to provide for trained tutors at all grade levels and to assist the Teacher Corps in help-
ing with slow and remedial students in area schools.
“We must also provide a variety of cultural classes for the neighborhood community for high school, college and adult residents,” he said.
On speakers and forums, Mauk said, the ASSC should sponsor four major discussions on “Drug Use and Abuse,” “Foreign Policy: The Elements of Power,” “Domestic Policy: Stability and Change,” and “Revolution in Latin America.”
For continuity and change, he said, the ASSC should establish a commission on university governance, in which “students, faculty and admm-istration members would investigate the problems, structure and inefficiencies of decision and policy making as a prerequisite for change.”
Mauk also called for a student leadership conference for all committee chairmen and members, and other interested students and creation of a three-year plan for ASSC long-range needs and development.
“We should perpetuate and continue all of the existing worthwhile programs and eliminate the remaining vestiges of candy-apple student government,” he said.
Mauk, former vice-president of Sigma Phi Epsilon, was chairman of this year's Troy Week Committee. He has also been a Troy Camp counselor, chairman of the Christmas Project, and a member of Knights, Squires and the Freshman Forum.
By ROGER SMITH
“White America and USC are blind to an approaching national tragedy caused by institutionalized racism,” Herbert Hill, NAACP labor director, charged yesterday.
Hill spoke in Town and Gown Foyer on “Employment, Race and Poverty in the Urban Ghetto,” as the main afternoon Interchange speaker.
“This university sits in the middle of a vast Negro ghetto.” Hill said, “yet students continue to justify the tragic racial conditions in America as unavoidable and then do nothing about these conditions."
His voice charged with emotion and conviction. Hill pleaded with his student audience to become the "conscience of America.”
“You must be nay-sayers and dissenters,” he said. “For God's sake, at least start asking questions. Don't blindly accept the ethics and values of your church, family and school. Above all, don’t accept the morally and educationally bankrupt attitudes of the older generation.
“If you don't stand with Negroes, if you let them stand alone in their struggle, then your white society is going to go down the drain.” he said.
Hill said that there are really two separate American societies, one black and one white.
Hill said that he felt a sense of unreality in talking to college students because he couldn't communicate to them the utter despair and hopelessness of the ghetto.
“Negroes are outside the labor force, outside any power base, and outside the mainstream of American life," he said. “For the sake of this nation, we have to destroy the ghetto and bring the Negro into American society.
Hill said that Negroes today are saying “No more, no more” to the despair of the ghetto.
“We have to make this the num-
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ber one priority project. We must commit the full skills, means and resources of this nation, as the President's Advisory Commission r commends, or else we will be on the road to Johannesburg,” he concluded.
“There are several areas in which this is evident.” he said. "One is the obvious housing pattern of our cities. When N?^rc:s move in, whites move out to greener and whiter pastures.
“Another is the massive technology crisis and gap. Negro unemployment is unbelievably high, running conservatively from 34 to 38 per cent in Watts in the summer of the riols, and it has become worse.
“We also have the phenomena of the working poor, which means that a Negro man may work a 40-hour week, but lie’s still living at the poverty level," he said.
CACC TO RECRUIT VOLUNTEERS
Any student with the urge to participate in his community l>c-yond the usual university activities will get his chance this week. The Community Action Coordinating Council (CACC) will be recruiting students in front of Tommy Trojan this week to participate in various tutoring and community projects throughout the semester.
The purpose, of the campaign is to solicit student involvement in all existing and proposed community projects,” said Bill Mauk. CACC executive secretary.
“As a result of campaign registration we hope to institute new programs in areas presently lacking. for instance junior hij;h school tutorial programs and adult cultural classes.’’
The CACC includes the Tutorial Program, Troy Camp, Student-to-Student Counseling, Project Chance and Project Small Fry.
Elimination of ghettos stressed by Corman
By STAN METZLER Editor
All the programs Congress could devise to make life in the ghetto desirable and advantageous wxmld not be enough to cure this nation’s racial ills, Congressman James Corman told a Bovard audience yesterday morning.
“Segregation is a mean, degrading and destructive force,” the Democratic politican said, and those areas where people are forced to live because of their color must be eliminated completely.
Corman. a member of the President’s 11-man Riot Commission, opened the ASSC’s three-day Interchange program with a low-keyed but informative discussion of the commission's report and the nation's reactions.
Revealing that some members, including himself, had thought the commission's numerous but unranked recommendations should have been given priorities in the report, Corman said that he believed the upgrading of law enforcement was the most urgent need.
“The first thing that must be done before the summer,” he stressed, “is to establish better relations between the people who live in the ghetto and
the policemen who are there to serve and protect them.
“The police have no training in what to expect when they enforce the gaetto areas: and the ghetto residents. sealed in because of their color and frustrated feeling, see the policemen as the seed of their frustration.
“The police need to realize that its rcle is to protect the 95 percent of law-abiding ghetto residents,” he said.
"And the ghetto resident must also understand that that is his purpose for being there.
“As long as the police think they are supposed to protect those citizens outside the ghetto from those inside, and the ghetto residents think that there will be no progress,” he said.
The second demand, Corman said, is to “get the young people in the ghetto something useful and constructive to do.”
While working on commission investigations. he noted, he had gone to Tampa to talk to the leaders of the White Hats, a group of young ghetto gang leaders who had stopped a quelling riot there.
One gang leader revealed that when he had left his house in the
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STUDENT ACTIVITIES CANDIDATE
Pasternak enters VP contest
Matt Pasternak, junior in sociology, announced his candidacy yesterday for the office of ASSC vice-president of student activities. He is presently the only person running for the office since the previously announced candidate, Bill Mauk, is setting his sights on the ASSC presidency.
“My basic policy includes the creation of a seven day-a-week community,” Pasternak said in a statement to the Daily Trojan. “What counts is the continuation and expansion of existing programs such as Grill entertainment, the Tutorial Project and other community action programs.”
Pasternak's platform includes six basic proposals:
1.	Expansion of the Small Issues Forum through increased financial support from the ASSC budget. This program will be expanded additionally through the creation of a “university free hour,” at which time no other meetings or classes will be scheduled.
2.	Expansion of the Great Issues Forum concept to its original purpose, which, Pasternak says, is the university’s total involvement in great issues that are confronting it.
3.	Draft counseling by students, faculty, the cam*
Matt Pasternak
pus ministry, and the Law Center, coordinated through the Dean of Men’s Office, plus psychological counseling through improved communication between troubled students and responsible and competent people.
4.	ASSC Christmas Project-type programs to bring underprivileged children to USC sports events and other activities.
5.	Fulfilling what he calls the greatest need in this university, maximizing quality and frequency of cultural, social, and entertainment programs.
6.	Improving the quality of dorm life through greatly increased recreational and social facilities as well as improved present facilities.
“These proposals are not mere suggestions,” Pasternak said. “They are realistic plans, the implementation of which has been carefully considered.”
Pasternak has been a member of Squires and Knights, and served as chairman of the Troy Week Dance Committee. He has also participated as a student counselor at Manual Arts High School.
He pledged his cooperation with the ASSC president, saying that “coordination among officers is essential in order to oring about meaningful change and improvement.”