Elections code hearings today
University of Southern California
DAILY m TROJAN
VOL LXIV NO 4
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1971
1,000 witness fine arts building groundbreaking
Bv MARILYN MERRITT
A “Celebration of Construction" was held Tuesday evening at the site of the new School of Architecture and Fine Arts building, currently under construction next to Harris Hall on Exposition Boulevard.
Against the backdrop of a 30-foot pile of earth heaved from the site, a crowd of 1.000 dignitaries, alumni, students and local architects heard speeches and witnessed the presentation of construction hard hats to President Hubbard and Trustee Ray Watt, whose name the building will bear.
Sam Hurst, dean of the School of Architecture and Fine Arts, who is a supervising architect of the project, spoke of the challenges that the building symbolized for the school.
“What more comprehensive and urgent task is before us than the application of the most advanced design, production, financing, delivery and management system to the building of shelter for all people?" Hurst asked.
Watt, a guest speaker, echoed Hurst's sentiment. “The work to be done in the new facility will. I am certain, do much to improve the quality of living in our cities, in our suburbs and in the rural areas of the nation for decades to come." he said.
Watt, the major private donor to the project with a gift of $1 million, has a distinguished career
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in the housing field, currently as chairman of the board of American Mobilehome Corp. of Los Angeles and chairman of the board of the federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco.
He also applauded the “extraordinary effort and ability of the dean and faculty" which allowed them to make their “high standard even though there has been a growing inadequacy of suitable space."
Construction of the much-needed facility comes as a climax to an expansion program for the school that began in 1964. The drive for building funds began in 1968. and now only $500,000 is needed to complete the budget.
Completion of Watt Hall next year will double the permanent teaching space, make room for 200 more professional students, double the space for the school library and provide such facilities as studios for fine arts, architecture and urban and regional planning: visual communication center: classrooms; a lighting laboratory: and offices of the school.
The three-story building will be connected to the school's current home. Harris Hall, by two second-floor bridges. Renovations planned for the existing facility include a new photography room and expansion of the university galleries.
Total project budget, including construction and renovations, is $2.7 million.
Whites blind — Momaday
By ROBIN NEWCOMER Editorial Director
The white American must, at some time, come to moral terms with the physical world. M. Scott Momaday. a Kiowa Indian and Pulitzer Prize-winner, said in Bovard Auditorium yesterday.
Momaday. a graduate of Stanford University and presently an English instructor at UC Berkeley, lived most of his life on Indian reservations in the Southwest.
Today, he says he's able to see the sharp contrasts of the white American's failure to perceive and articulate the beauty in his land, and the American
By RIVIAN TAYLOR Associate Editor
A situation such as Attica could occur in California or any other state because prisons are operated without regard to penal reform, said Richard Ala-torre, administrative assistant to Assembly Majority Leader Walter Karabian and a former instructor for the federal bureau of prisons.
“The California Department of Corrections doesn’t have any conception of what penal reform means," Alatorre said in a campus address to law students yesterday. “Since the birth of modern penology 100 years ago, prisons have had one primary purpose: rehabilitation. But the internal operation of pri-
Yarbrough in concert tonight
The ASSC entertainment program will start the year on a strong upbeat with the Glenn Yarbrough concert at 8 tonight in Bovard Auditorium and a Ballin' jack concert in the Grill after Saturday's USC-Illinois football game.
Indian's appreciation for his environment.
“We Americans must imagine what we are in respect to the earth and the air." he said. “We must develop a land ethic — an ethic which includes what the land is and what it must be.”
Such an ethic is alien or dormant in most Americans as a result of technology. Momaday added.
“The technological revolution has uprooted Americans from the soil. The sense of a natural order has become dull and unreliable."
Momaday sees a distinct connection between language and the will to preserve the land
sons is contrary."
Alatorre, who is the Democratic candidate for assemblyman in the 48th district, cited abuses in prisons such as a lack of due process in parole procedure. Often the inmate, who doesn't have a right to have an attorney present or to have access to his file, can never know why he was turned down, he said.
“It may seem like a little thing to us on the outside, but these are big things to the guys inside," Alatorre said. Many inmates who have taught themselves law while in prison are organizing others, he added.
“The prison system at best is a custodial one." Prison officials show “no real care for the rights of the inmates, particularly blacks and Chicanos. They pick on certain segments, usually those most distasteful to them." said Alatorre.
Then when a prison riot occurs rather than looking at the causes, the public only considers the riot itself, he said. “It's a tragedy that the people outside don't look at the disease, but only look at the symptom."
"The regard for language has deteriorated for most of us, but I believe that language becomes more and more important in regard to morality and the landscape," he said.
Americans will once again become sensitive to the beauty of land and their expression of it, once they are able to change their basic priorities and attitudes, Momaday said.
“It's far more important to change how we perceive the earth, than to have an antilitter campaign unless we convince ourselves that our actions are meaningful and that the earth is worthy of our respect and concern."
Momaday concluded that because Americans have suffered material loss here in the states and spiritual loss abroad that it is now time for them to deal in the language of morality and the morality of language.
“The only thing that stands between man and oblivion is the human voice," he said.
NYU educator to speak today
Allan M. Cartter, chancellor and executive vice-president of New York University, will speak on graduate education at noon today in Bovard Auditorium. The speech is sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
One of the nation s leading authorities on graduate education. Cartter will be the first Raubenheimer Fellow at the university this year.
He will hold an informal discussion with the vice-presidents before his noon speech on “Higher Education in a Decade of Paradox." Following the discussion. Cartter will hold a coffee hour for students and meet with members of the Council on Graduate Education.
He will conclude his visit Friday with a luncheon with President Hubbard.
By PETER WONG Staff Writer
The ASSC Executive Council will discuss a proposed elections code and a possible increase in student fees at its meeting today.
The council will convene in Student Union 311. its new conference room, at 7 p.m., after a closed session of the ASSC budget committee at 3 p.m.
At last week's meeting, the proposed elections code was formally presented to the council by Joel Jacobs, vice-president of the Associated Men Students and one of the code's revisers.
Jacobs explained some of the major changes in the elections code, which will serve as the regulating mechanism for the ASSC fall elections, including the long-delayed presidential race.
The proposed code will allow the ASSC president to appoint three voting council members, representing “a broad and equitable spectrum of student opinion," to serve as a selection committee for the three elections commissioners.
After the selection committee has appointed the three elections commissioners (who must have completed two semesters at the university*), an elections commission approved by the council will administer the elections.
The commissioners will direct the work of the commission, set election policy and investigate all election complaints.
Decisions of the commissioners may be appealed to the ASSC Student Court, which shall have final jurisdiction.
“This is meant to prevent two situations from ever occuring again — an override of a court decision by the ASSC Executive Council and intervention by the university's Student Behavior Committee." Jacobs said.
The filing fee has been cut from $25 to $5 in the proposed code, and primary spending limits have been set at $300 for ASSC president, $200 for the two vice-presidents and $100 for other offices.
Candidates may not pool their money into a common fund, but they may spend up to one-third of their original primary limit in a runoff election.
Improved drop, add to continue
Drop and add ends Saturday at noon, not at 7:30 p.m. as was previously reported in the Daily Trojan.
Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and Friday and 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Under new rules announced by Registrar William E. Hall, students who wish to change their programs must turn in to the registrar their change of program card, their original fee bill and the appropriate class cards for any classes they wish to add.
The Registrar's Office will process the materials and mail to the students both the original and supplemental fee bills.
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Healthy, happy, holy
Escaping the rush of drop and add, Krishna, a Kundalini yoga instructor, releases built-up energy in front of Bovard Auditorium.
Classes in Kundalini yoga will be given Tuesday and Wednesday at noon in the Town and Gown Foyer under the direction of Krishna, a member of the Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization.
Classes are sponsored by the Center for Social Action and are free ot charge.
Through the use of exercises, chanting, breathing and meditation, a practitioner is reportedly able to withdraw all causes that could lead to unhappiness or make him subject to his lower nature. DT photo by Will Hertzberg.
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Ex-prison teacher says Attica could occur here