Daily
rojan
University of Southern California
vol. Ixv
no. 37
los angeles, California
friday, november 10, 1972
USC MAILING DEPT.
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U.S. POST OFFICE
The new stamping grounds
The sight of long lines of pensive students, left, waiting to enter the creaky campus post office will be only a fading memory when the university branch closes its doors for the last time today.
The U.S. Postal Service will open Monday in the new, more modern location at the Dockweiler Station, below, at the corner of Vermont Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard. This will mean that students will now have to go off-campus to keep score of the Ten Most Wanted ratings. DT photos by Danny Alaimo.
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AMERICAN DREAM ADVOCATE
Billionaire supports hard work
By Loren Ledin
staff writer
H.	Ross Perot could be your milkman, your Uncle Louie, your mechanic or even your dad.
He’s glad President Richard Nixon was reelected, he believes in the American dream, and he thinks good, honest, hard work is the way to happiness.
“The most important thing for young people is to lead good productive lives,” he said. “They have got to leave their children all that their parents left them.”
And as one of the richest men in America. Perot doesn’t let his wealth go to his head. He’s the billionaire next door, you might say.
At a press conference before the School of Business Administration's annual awards luncheon Thursday, Perot touched on two subjects dear to him—the economy and the American POWs in Vietnam.
War ending
In 1969 Perot led an effort to obtain humane treatment for American POWs in Southeast Asia. He told newsmen yesterday that he is confident the Vietnam War is coming to an end.
“Without any question, the war is almost at an end and the prisoners will be released,” he said.
Perot said this is so because the North Vietnamese finally see Nixon in firm control of the presidency and because Russia and China want the war to end.
“The North Vietnamese thought they would win the war,” he said. “But Russia is tired of the war now. In fact Russia sold out their friends in the North over the blockade.
“The thing that really broke the spirits of the North Vietnamese was when the Russians let President Nixon speak on national TV to all Russians.”
Perot credited improved treatment of American
POWs to the involvement of the American people.
“When the American people got involved in the treatment of POWs the North Vietnamese got worried,” he said. “They didn’t want the people to focus on these men. They significantly improved their treatment.”
Perot’s wealth is built on business savvy, not inheritance.
Thus, Perot believes that people are the key to the economy. “The people in this country carry the country on their back,” he said.
He described the economy as a river.
“Money for the economy flows from the people. The Mississippi River will always flow as long as its tributaries and streams feed it. The economy will always flow as long as the people feed it,” he said.
Speaking before some 1,200 persons as keynote speaker for the School of Business Administration luncheon, the Texan told the gathering that life is hard, but success is there for those who work for it.
“Life is hard”
“The thing I tell young people,” he said, “is that life is hard. It has always been hard. But there is not a better opportunity for people than business.”
Perot said he has been asked why he lives so modestly. “Because America is my home I have been taught that I can live the way I want,” he said.
"I was asked how does it feel never to have been in a minority,” he said. “I told her young lady, have you ever been a Texan on Wall Street?”.
But mostly he talked about opportunity, saying
that it’s there. Reach out for it.
Quoting a line from The Sound of Music he said. “A song is not a song until you sing it. A bell isn't a bell until you ring it. Love isn't love until you give it away.”
Review backs dentistry school
By Betty Gaynor
“The (Dental Advisory Committee’s) report was very supportive of the School of Dentistry and its programs,” President John Hubbard said in a public statement Thursday.
An overwhelming majority of the allegations examined were found to be either irrelevant or unfounded, he continued. “At no place in the report was there even an intimation that Dean Ingle should not continue in his present position,” he said.
Hubbard’s statement was made after a meeting yesterday with the committee to evaluate the Dental Advisory Committee’s report. The evaluation committee consisted of two vice-presidents, three deans and three faculty members.
Report not public
Hubbard and all the members of the committee agreed that the report not be made public.
Dr. Ingle, former dean of the School of Dentistry and a member of yesterday’s meeting, said the reason for not making the report public, is to try to keep it within the academic community.
Although there is presently no copy of the report at the dental school, one will be forthcoming shortly, said Phillips J. Copeland, executive assistant to Hubbard.
“In the report will be a first order of business for William H. Crawford, the interim dean, and for the new dean when he is chosen, ” Hubbard said.
When the report is forwarded to the School of Dentistry, Ingle said he would be more than happy to work on it with Dr. Crawford.
Suggestions valid
Many of the suggestions of the committee, such as the need to modernize certain dental facilities, are valid, Ingle said. However, “where do you come up with the one and a half million dollars necessary to do the job?” he asked.
Hubbard feels confident that once the suggestions of the Dental Advisory Committee are acted upon, the relations between the School of Dentistry and its various constituencies will be greatly improved.
More criticism hits employment official
By Carla Mortensen
Various women faculty members and interest groups have joined the Commission on Minority Affairs in criticizing Barbara Shell, university Equal Employment Opportunities officer, for failing to correct discriminatory practices regarding women and minorities.
The commission is also saying that Shell is withholding information and action necessary to achieve the goals of the Affirmative Action Council, an agency of the Department of Health. Education and Welfare.
One member of the Women's Alliance said, “She just doesn't have the mentality to competently recognize and solve the major problems regarding the advancement of women on this campus.
“She’s hampered by the fact that she is an administrative puppet with the ability to crumble under administrative pressure.”
Since Shell assumed her position in September, 1971, she has been responsible for compiling an enormous amount of data concerning the status of women and minorities in all levels of university life—faculty, student, staff and clerical.
This collection of information was requested by the Affirmative Action Council to evaluate the discrimination of those groups in colleges and universities nationwide.
If any of these institutions do not comply with the recommen-
dations of the reports and the Affirmative Action Council, government contracts of$10,000 and more can be withheld from them.
Shell gets reports
Various committees of the President's Commission on the Status of Women and the Commission on Minority Affairs here worked last year to compile reports and statistics. These reports were submitted to Shell at the end of last semester as the university report was due to HEW in June.
The HEW guideline to implementing the Affirmative Action Program said that the institutions involved with the program must publish a complete version of their own report within two weeks of submitting it to HEW.
USC’s deadline was June 1. So far, any parties wishing to see the report have been told it is forthcoming.
Lists specific goals
“Part of this report includes specific goals for each department and division concerning the hiring and promotion of women and minorities,” said one faculty member.
“Since this set of goals has yet been released and made public, the department and division chairpersons do not feel the urgency of changing current discriminatory policies.”
Shell is now in Washington. D.C., serving on a panel of the Affirmative Action Program, so she has been unavailable for comment.