University of Southern California
DAILY S TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO 70	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA WEDNFSDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1971
Hurst announces he won't seek reelection
By RICH WISEMAN News Editor
Sam Hurst, the junior who made the meteoric rise from a noncandidate to ASSC president on a write-in in the span of three weeks last semester, announced yesterday he would not seek reelection.
“All people go through a maturation stage." Hurst said. “There is a stage where one can be in student government.
“I've spent a pretty positive year as student body president. There are other things I can get into now. I'm moving on."
Hurst, who had been allowed to run last year only after the student body voted to change the unit requirement, said he is grateful that the experience came earlier.
"It's rare that a person gets a year to do some synthesizing and analyzing of what he's done. I'd like now to write, teach, research and get academically involved in the Political Science Department."
Hurst took office on the heels of a long line of Row-based student body presidents. He received the quick reputation of being more radically inclined than his predecessors with his vocal participation in the May Days of Concern. His main concern at USC. however, has been students' rights.
“There are no new issues." Hurst said. “Our efforts have been aimed at protecting students' rights, but students have refused to realize it as a problem. I spoke of the democrati-
Hurst's appearance at the trustee convocation where he was heckled by students.
'The convocation was a terribly psychologically frustrating experience.'' Hurst said in reply. “First of all it was tactically bad to invite the trustees. The student body we were dealing with was not conscious enough to support a vanguard action.
“As far as my being representative. I politically reject the notion. It's a denial of my political responsibility. People don't just pay $4.50 and leave the politics to me."
“Vanguard action" figured gain when Hurst tried to describe where he stands now.
“I feel myself moving in a general direction to violence." he said. “We cant escalate tactics much without having violence.
“This puts me in a quandry. I can't sit on a committee and talk about things that seem terribly inconsequential.
“The question we have to answer is whether this sytem is to survive.”
One of Hurst's regrets is that he has not nurtured a successor. He said it is doubtful whether he and his supporters will run a candidate. If he does, he doesn't foresee a confrontation with a Young Americans for Freedom-backed candidate.
“You can run an alley cat and beat YAF." Hurst said. “Thev are no match intellectually."
BARKLEY MOORE
A "Kentucky hillbilly" with sensitivity
Former volunteers speak of experiences in Peace Corps
By SHARON HASS
In recent years the Peace Corps has lost some of its glamor in the public's eyes. It has come under attack from various factions, both within the countries volunteers were sent to. and within America itself. Yet there are still people who feel that serving in the corps is the most worthwhile experience a person can have.
Barkley Moore and Peter Bradley are two such people. Each is the product of different experiences and backgrounds, yet they are united in their favorable attitudes towards the corps. They conveyed these attitudes to a group of journalism students Tuesday morning.
Moore has just completed six years and tour months as a volunteer in Iran. He is proud of his accomplishments in that country and is quick to praise the people he was sent there to aid.
He is. by his own description, a "Kentucky hillbilly" whose sensitivity to people's problems stems from his partly Appalachian upbringing. A graduate of the University of Kentucky, he has had two years of law school.
He joined the corps in September 1964. and was located in the northeastern section of Iran. He was the first foreigner to live among the Turkoman villages of that region.
He prefers to be viewed as a catalyst for local independence, rather than the sole leader of community life.
“The first thing the people asked me to do was teach." Moore said. “I taught, although I didn't, because it was the first need that the people expressed." With class sizes ranging from 56 to 102 people, he taught 54 hours a week, his entire stay in Iran.
Among the projects Moore helped organize was
a quasi head-start progam. the first nongovernmental education program in the area, out of which four private schools for younger children evolved.
He is confident that he left worthwhile ideals with the people, but readily acknowledges that he gained just as much.
Moore, who admits that he would gladly return to live with the Turkomans for the rest of his life, warns of the necessity that the volunteer be sensitive to cultural differences. “You can't just go and say. I'm here to develop you.' "
Bradley is a graduate of William and Mary with a B.A. in history. He received his M.A. in oriental studies from the University of Texas. He is currently working as the associate western region representative of the corps.
Bradley, who taught English in a large Iranian city, feels that there will be a revival of interest towards the Peace Corps this year.
He is quick to admit that humility was the most important thing he learned from serving in the corps. “The corps sensitized me to people's problems and other people's points ot view.' Bradley said.
He is p'oudest of helping to institute the concept of free expression in arts and crafts, an idea which was not accepted until recently.
If he had it to do over again. Bradley said he would live with an Iranian family.
Both Moore and Bradley acknowledge the cross-cultural problems and the resentment that accompanies any new arrival. Many of the people are suspicious of foreigners in general, not just Americans, and one must give of himself to be accepted.
Photo by Bruce Bolinger
BATMAN PAYS A VISIT
For details see page five
Grad students form group to improve science program
Science and engineering graduate students on campus have organized to overcome alleged deficiencies in science instruction at USC and problems related to the scientist in society.
The Science and Engineering Graduate Students Association (SEGSA) was formed to act as a lobbying force and to represent graduate students on faculty committees.
It will work towards reducing alleged inadequacies in the Ph.D. program and improving working conditions in the laboratories.
SEGSA will meet Thursday at 1 p.m. in Olin Hall Room 122.
Results of a survey conducted at the first SEGSA meeting indicated the following problems to be among the most serious in the graduate program:
—Some departments require students to spend considerably more than five years in obtaining a Ph.D.
—Ph.D. candidates are often required to do extensive work unrelated to their dissertations.
—Research assistants have not had a raise for over 10 years, regardless of huge cost of living increases.
—Many laboratories fail to meet even minimum safety standards.
—Most graduate students do not have telephones accessible to
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zation of the university as a goal of mine when I took office, but we have not been successful."
Hurst said he will take another tact this semester by investing in programming. He is trying to bring to campus among others black militant
Photo by Greg
SAM HURST
wants to write, teach and research
Huev Newton and Carl Oglesby, founder of the Students for a Democratic Society.
There was talk the past semester that Hurst was not representative of the student body. One student. Michael Lance Trope, circulated a recall petition against him. but failed to secure the necessary number of signatures.
Anti-Hurst forces pointed to