Interchange tornado leaves
campus shaken
By MIKE PARFIT City Editor Interchange, the tornado of racial candor that swept through the university this week, blew itself out Wednesday evening. But although most of the events sponsored by Interchange were sparsely attended, comments on the program are beginning to flicker on campus like the flames in an abandoned ghetto building.
“At first I was disappointed because of the poor attendance,” said Bob Lutz, vice-president of academic affairs. The conference was sponsored by the ASSC under his office. “But the reverberations of the program are now becoming apparent to me. One professor told me that a lot of talk is going on around the campus just about the fact that this conference took place.”
The conference, officially titled Interchange: The Black Community and USC. began Monday morning with a speech by Congressman James Corman, a member of President Johnson’s 11-man riot commission, and ended late Wednesday afternoon with a panel titled “What We Must Do.” Packed into the three days were films, speakers. panels and a lot of restrained, powerful emotion. Some of the speakers were Herbert Hill, NAACP labor dirctor; Floyd McKissick, director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); James Fisk, head of Community relations for the Los Angeles Police Department and Tommy Jacquette, executive director of SLANT (Self Leadership for All Nationalities Today), who said power would solve all problems of his people.
“I thought Jacquette’s speech was the high point of the conference,” said Lowell Ponte, who served as program coordinator. “He was in his best form and the audience responded at its best.” USC drew criticism from many of the speakers. Horace Cayton, one of the elder statesmen
of the civil rights movement, called it "the most reactionary, provincial university I've ever seen." Cayton, 65, said that his appearance here was his last on a college campus.
Dr. Joseph Boskin, professor of history, charged that USC is a white island and attacked a faculty and student noninvolvement in the community.
Herbert Hill said he was shocked at the university’s attitude. “I've spoken on hundreds of college campuses,” he said, “but I don’t think I’ve ever encountered this kind of conservative reaction.”
Hill said the most important thing students here could do to change the situation is to “start raising hell on this campus.”
Floyd McKissick also challenged the university's position in the community. “People around you are living and dying and you don’t really care.” he said. “All you folks really have to do is walk 10 blocks down the street to find out what’s going on.”
The tightly scheduled pattern of Interchange was often broken by the bright, haphazard stripes of emotion.
Holland Curtis, Councilman Billy Mills’ field deputy, found it difficult to speak about his youth and his mother, who only received a second grade education.
Horace Cayton spoke sadly of the prospects for racial peace. “Undoubtedly we'll be engulfed in racial violence at any moment—not next summer but any moment,” he said.
The emotion also swirled into the audience.
One woman attacked the whole concept of intellectual investigation of racial problems.
“We have been researched and researched to death—until we are sick of being researched!” she cried.
A student pleaded with the audience after Tommy Jacquette’s speech. “I think its about time we started taking the crap out of our head and listening to the feelings in our gut, he said. Try feeling sometime.”
When the speeches, panels, emotions and bared conflict of Interchange were over, many of the participants felt that the university was not the same.
“Interchange made the students become aware of the problems,” Bob Lutz said yesterday. “Those students who did become aware are still shaken. I know I am. I'm sure that in the final assessment this will have an important, significant effect on the university.”
“It showed the students where they are.” Lowell Ponte said. “For Mom and Dad the enemy is 90 miles away in Cuba. This showed that USC is only a matter of a rifle shot away from the danger and that there is more and more inclination to use those rifles.”
“We had a group meeting Wednesday night after the last panel." Lutz said. “From a group of about 20 we had offers of money, program ideas and several proposals for action. Th^re are now three or four terribly committed people here who are ready to do anything.”
Lutz said that because of the interest developed by Interchange. Hill will be coming back to the campus within a month. Lutz also said that the Community Action Coordinating Committee, which represents several student-sponsored community projects, has signed up about 25 new workers.
“I view this thing with optimism." Lutz said. “You can’t expect a quantity outcome here, but the potential and quality of the people who have been inspired by this are magnificent.”
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VOL. LIX	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1968	<0*72	NO. 28
Kroger enters ASSC race doesn't like smell, leaves
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Doby Gray
Doby Cray to highlight weekend activities
Doby Gray will highlight this weekend's campus entertainment when he appears at Saturday night’s dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Grill.
Gray was the first act at the Whiskey a Go-Go when it opened and
Sen. Brooke will address businessmen
Sen. Edward Brooke (R-Mass.) will be the featured speaker at the fourth annual Institute on Finance, which will be held here Monday.
The conference on “Pension Planning. Administration and Regulation" is sponsored by the Graduate School of Business Administration and its Office of Executive Programs.
Registration for the program will begin at 8:30 a.m. Monday in the lobby of Hoffman Hall.
The first session will begin at 9 a.m. and adjourn at 11:45 for a luncheon in Town and Gown.
Dr. Robert Dockson. dean of the School of Business, will open the morning program with a welcoming speech and Robert Slater, president of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.. will deliver the keynote address.
Gordon P. Smith, former director of finance for the State of California, will be the luncheon speaker.
At 6 p.m. there will be a nohost cocktail party in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel. Dinner will be served at 7 in the Embassy Ballroom.
The first annual John Hancock Awards for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism—six prizes of $1,500 each—will be presented by Slater.
Sen. Brooke, a member of the Aeronautical and Space Sciences and Banking and Currency Committees in the Senate, will conclude the conference with an address following the awards presentation. The title of his address was not available.
was held over for three months. In 1965 he recorded “The In Crowd,” which was voted the best record of that year. He has also cut such hits as “Look at Me” and “See You at tne Go-Go.”
Appearing with Gray will be the Flesh and Blood, a rock group which plays everything from the Cream to Jimmy Hendrix to old rhythm and
blues sounds.
The food services will provide limited refreshments and admission
is free.
Ken Walters, Grill Committee chairman, said the Electro Tingle Guild will appear in the Grill from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. Wednesday with the Turbines, a soul-rock group being featured at next Friday’s dance.
Walters also said the dance last Saturday night was very successful and drew over 1,100 people. In the future he said he plans to have some jazz and Dixie groups.
Tonight Delta Kappa Alpha will present “The Hill,” a film directed by Sidney Lumet which stars Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Michael Redgrave, Ian Henry, Ossie Davis, and Alfred Lynch.
The film will be shown in 133 Founders Hall at 7:00 and 9:30; admission is 75 cents.
The Cheshire Cat, located in the basement of the University Methodist Church, offers entertainment every Friday from 8 p.m. until 1 a.m. It features folk and rock music.
Tonight the Cat will present Bob Konikow. a second year graduate student in cinema, who will sing comical folk songs and lead the audience in a hootenanny-typc songfest.
DEADLINE TODAY
The deadline for filing applications for student body offices is 2 p.m. today. Thus far three Candida te* have filed for ASSC president: Ralph Lippman, Rill Mauk and Ciarv Kafferty.
By ANN SALISBURY Contributing Editor
Frank Kroger, a junior in psych o 1 o g y , announced yesterday he would run for ASSC president. He also announced he would not run.
His final decision was that he would not run, but he went through quite an ordeal before making it. It is unclear what his plans actually were should he have run.
“I actually don’t want to have anything printed but my picture,” he said, when he still wanted to run. “I don’t want a lot of quotes printed.”
Before he left, however, he said. “But there’s so much to say, that’s the thing . .
Kroger said he was scared to run. Other reasons for not running were, “It didn’t smell right for me. I mean running would be trying to be in between. You can’t do that. The system doesn’t allow it. I wanted to do it as a joke, but the very fact of running would mean I'd be copping out (just being a politician), and I don’t want to be a politician.”
Should he have run, Kroger would not have had a platform as such. He did have ideas as to what he would do if elected, however.
“University students are a group who could be able to wield significant power which should be used to change university policy,” he said. “Apathy results from the fact that this power has not been recognized.
“There has to be a revolution in thought, (not violent, that kind is out of date, I mean violent thought-wise) and it might as well begin here.”
When asked for his qualifications Kroger said, “I was a Boy Scout for
many years, but I never made Eagle.”
He wanted to appropriate funds so the Daily Trojan could join the Liberation News Service, an underground newspaper service. He also wanted to initiate library reform, “which has been talked about for many years, but I have the means to make it happen.”
When asked for an explanation of library reform, his campaign manager, Rocky Stegman said, “To make it speedier. This means we will get better books.”
While in the Daily Trojan office Kroger and Stegman pondered numerous methods of declaring for office and presenting a platform.
At one point Kroger said, “You could just make it a farce and go through and paraphrase everything everyone else has already said—You know, fill it with cliches!”
And upon realizing that it was Daily Trojan policy to write an equal amount of each candidate for the ASSC presidency, his campaign manager gave the following quote to be credited to Kroger: “I believe in the birds and bees, but wait—let me clarify that statement.
“The birds are all right if they don’t do on you, and the bees are all right if they don’t sting you.
“Unlike the other candidates,” Kroger said. “I have not been involved in the impotent student government. I want to get involved in it now to make it potent.
“We will have concerts by name groups out on the lawn every so often at noon when I’m elected,” Kroger said.
Frank Kroger
He and Stegman were Mg on a
quote they attributed to George Bernard Shaw. “Those who cannot do, teach,” which they embellished with, “Those who cannot teach, administrate.”
Kroger was not available for comment on what he would do should he be drafted to run by an enthusiastic student mob. Perhaps he would run as a write-in candidate. That wouldn’t be being a politician.
Kroger is Dutch, but lived in England for five years. Last year he was seen around campus manning a display for KPFK radio station.
He is currently living at Ellis Island, a student communal housing experiment located in the residential area directly west of the university between McClintock Street and Vermont Avenue.
Soph rep candidate has 6-point platform
Tom Levyn. a first semester sophomore who announced his candidacy for sophomore class representative yesterday, outlined a platform of sLx ideas he would like to see initiated.
First, he wants to change the parking system from its present 3tate of separate lots for students and faculty to one of unrestricted parking privileges.
“Students are paying $25 a semester for the worst spaces," he said.
Levyn also wants to initiate the pass-fail system of grading. His system would allow a student to take one nonmajor course each semester on the pass-fail basis.
“People are afraid to take difficult classes, although they may be of in-
MHA modifies visitation stand, asks open door
By ANDY MILLER SoCal Editor
MHA officers have agreed to modify their open house proposal, with the addition of an open door • clause, in order to insure speedy administration approval.
Five weeks ago a new visitation proposal was submitted to President Topping for men’s dormitories after a combined men and women’s proposal was refused.
The concession was the second made by the MHA.
Two weeks ago, after negotiating with Dean of Students Paul Bloland, the MHA agreed to include either a student or president advisor supervisory officer on duty during open house hours on each floor.
“Finally, after two more weeks of discussion, the MHA agreed that room doors would remain open during open house hours,” Fred Minnes, MHA president, said.
Minnes met with Dr. Topping March 6. Minnes said Dr. Topping said a proposal with an open door clause would insure a quick decision, eveR though Dr. Topping would be in New York raising funds.
Dr. Topping returns from New York Monday.
“Dean Bloland and others on Dr. Topping's staff
profess to have no knowledge of Topping's statement that a decision could be made in his absence if an open door clause was included in the proposal,” Minnes said.
Visitation would allow women to visit men’s dorm rooms during specified hours under supervision of students or resident advisors.
The proposal asks for the hours of 7 p.m. to midnight on Fridays, and 2 p.m. to 5 on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
The same proposal, asking for visitation in both men and women’s dorms, was rejected by Dr. Topping after an adverse reaction from parents of women students and backers of the university.
Dr. Topping and his staff have been considering the same proposal, but for men only, for the past five weeks.
'‘The provisions for open doors and one supervisor per floor in the new proposal represents significant concessions on the part of the MHA,” Minnes said.
“The students have been bending over backwarus and have worked very hard, through proper she nnels, to please and meet the demands of the administration,” said Minnes. “All we ask is chat they show us the same respect and consideration and make a prompt decision.”
terest to them, for fear of failing,” he said.
Concerning dorm visitation, Levyn said, “The definite position of the students should be carried out. We're being taught 20th century ideas in the classroom, but Victorian ideas outside of class. The administration should support the students’ views, not those of the parents.”
Levyn. who is athletic chairman of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, would like to eliminate the two required physical education classes, so that students would have four choices instead of two. The swimming requirement should be abolished first, he added.
He also wants to put all PE courses on the pass-fail system and eliminate final exams in those classes. He explained. “Having finals in a PE class takes away from study time for other classes.”
Concerning class councils. Levyn wants to amend the ASSC constitution to allow for their existence. Levyn, a member of the Student Court, said the councils were declared illegal because there is no mention of them in the constitution. He said that the class councils involve more people in student government.
Levyn also wants to investigate the possibility of reducing the student hpalth fee._
’AIRPLANE' TICKETS’ ON SALE NOW
Tickets for the two performances by the Jefferson Airplane on March 30 are on sale now in 209 Student Union and in the Student Activities Office in the YWCA.
Seats for the 8 and 10:30 p.m. concerts are priced at $1.50, $2, and $3.
The concert: will also include the music of the Iron Butterfly and an assortment of light shows.
Thc event is being sponsored by tlie ASSC, which has invested $8,000.
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