University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1967
NO. 27
Troy camp nears goal
The 1967-68 Troy Camp Committee has intensified efforts to achieve its S7.000 goal before the formal culmination of the campus campaign at the USC-Oregon football game, which will host last year's Troy Campers.
The drive to finance the 24th annual Troy Camp, sponsored and operated solely by the student body for 8-to-l 1-year-old youngsters at Camp Buckhorn during August, is geared to facilitate an expanded campout and provide winter activities.
In addition te its fund-raising dtive on campus, Troy Committee is selling USC football press books to the general public.
Co-chairmen of the committee are Maryann Lees and Dennis Kristan.
TROY CAMP THRIVES ON CONTRIBUTIONS Saturday is the last day to give to help Troy Camp reach $7,000 goal.
SDS mock trial condemns Rusk U.S. Viet policy
SEN. KUCHEL SPEAKS
Violence is not path to justice
Bv MELINDA TONKS Assistant News Editor
"No society founded on law and order can give its citizens the "right" to break the law." Sen. Thomas Kuchel said last night at a Trojan Barristers dinner.
“Today, the very fabric of our society is being challenged by some who contend that violence is the path to equal rights and that civil disorder is the key to true justice.
"No individual or group at any time, for any reason, has a right to exact self-determined retribution. All too often, retaliation injures the innocent at random and provokes counter-retaliation against those equally innocent."
Senator Kuchel received the third Albert Lee Stephens Achievement
Award at the Ambassador Hotel dinner.
Sen. Kuchel's solution to these problems is to have an abiding faith in our free and open law society, but offsetting this goal is the cry for immediacy.
"We must continue patiently to build the structures that permit the development of better justice." the senior California Republican leader said.
"The demand for equality cannot be converted into a fight for superiority; we must be for equality under the rule of law.
"There can be no justification for violent disobedience under our constitutional system. But what of the concept of non-violent disobedience?
"It is my belief that this is
equally incompatible with the American legal system and society, which more than any other provides for orderly change.”
Civil disobedience is not necessarily connected with civil rights, he said, but “it occurs when a person feels he must interfere with the launching of a submarine or when someone publicizes government military secrets to the detriment of national security.
“Man-made law, with all its weaknesses, can be changed and improved by well-organized and well-directed persuasion and orderly process better to assure fulfillment of the human needs and spiritual aspirations of all men.”
After receiving the award, Sen.
MHA AWAITS APPROVAL
Proposal requests room visitation of women guests on weekends
By ANDY MILLER Assistant City Editor
A final Men's Halls Association Yisitaton proposal was submtted to the Housing Coordinating Board yesterday morning by Fred Minnes. MHA President.
"It will take at least two weeks, until the next board meeting, before we get an official reply.” Minnes said.
The proposal has to be approved through the board before women guests will be able to visit men's dormitory rooms during allotted hours.
Weekly hours requested in the MHA proposal are Friday 7 p.m. to midnight, and Saturday and Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
"Although it may create some problems, visitation on a regular basis in the residence halls has definite value in promoting maturity and acceptance of responsibility by residents," the proposal reads.
"We believe that the smooth operation of a visitation program, based on the honor system, is an excellent arena in which to manifest such responsibility.”
The proposal asks that a procedure of sign-in and sign-out be established, and that female guests be escorted by the host to the room.
“The reason for sign-in and signout is that we need feedback to see how well the program is operating,” Minnes said.
Man vs. computer-torum peruses future
By KATHLEEN KELLY
Science has not outstripped the social sciences, and the two disciplines may even be compatible.
This was the somewhat general agreement reached by 15 students and faculty in the semester’s second YWCA forum yesterday afternoon.
Faculty members participating in the "Man and Technology” discussion were Dr. Gerald Fleischer, associate professor of industrial engineering: Dr. Milton Holmen. professor of management; Dr. Peter Shugarman, assistant professor of biology; and Dr. Harold Spear, associate professor of management.
The forum began with the question of whether or not the computer is controlling man.
The computer is not making man a thing. Dr Holmen said, but is performing the functions that could eventually make man operate as a
machine if he were left to do them himself.
In the area of memory retention, for example, computers have the ability to retain millions of ^pieces of information and make them available at man's convenience in a matter of minutes.
Dr. Fleischer suggested that scientists, have often come up with ideas that other men, such as those in the social science fields, have used to obtain the power they always wanted.
“The basic question is whether there is misuse of science in persu-ance of power,” he said.
Examples of advanced weapons capable of destroying mankind were given, but it was also pointed out that most scientists don’t want to be asked to make a value judgement.
Dr. Shugarman said that many times man does not recognize his own eventual destructive capabilities.
“A house may elect to be excluded from visitation, or to delete hours from those allotted, by a majority vote of a house quorum prior to the weekend.”
A similar visitation proposal will be submitted by the Women's Halls Association next week.
"We believe that the procedures outlined above are adequate to meet the obvious desire expressed by the residents and, at the same time, offer sufficient safeguards to avoid misuse of the program,” the proposal states.
“It is our firm conviction that informal control, carried out by the residents themselves, is the best means of policing behavior.
"We understand that any infraction of rules or procedures may result in immediate cancellation or suspension of the entire program, at the discretion of the Dean of Students Office.”
RAWLS TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE
Tickets for Lou Rawls’ two concerts tomorrow evening in Bovard Auditorium will remain on sale today and tomorrow at various campus locations.
Main floor seats cost $2.50, first balcony seats are $2 and second balcony seats are $1.25 if purchased in advance. An additional 50 cents per ticket will be charged at the door.
Tickets are on sale in front of the Student Union, in front of Founders Hall, in the Student Activities Office at the Y WCA, in the Ticket Office in 209 Student Union and at 32nd St. Market.
They are also on sale at UCLA, for anyone who happens to be in that neighborhood.
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Kuchel said he was “most honored and deeply grateful for having been selected as the recipient.
“The late Judge Stephens was a great and good man who possessed in the highest degree the judicial qualities of honesty, wisdom, courtesy and learning.”
“I am most proud to receive this award as a public servant, a lawyer and as an alumnus of the same Law School that produced Judge Stephens.”
Judge Stephens was graduated from the Law School in 1903. Sen. Kuchel received his bachelor of law degree three years after graduating from USC in 1932.
“I hold Southern California in the highest esteem, and I am proud of her Law School, one of the finest in our country,” he said.
“My respect for the law and our system of justice forever will be that of a lawyer. It is an education which has served me well in seeking to understand the issues facing our nation and. beyond that, the human race.
"Above all, my legal background has helped to prod me towards a keener insight into the real meaning of justice and a better appreciation for the real value of and importance of order and of law in any human society.
“The law society is both the pinnacle of man's struggle to date and the foundation for his future hope. We recognize that there is an obligation to that law society; an obligation not only for the lawyer but also for the citizen."
By SUE SALZMAN
Dean Rusk was indicted yesfterday at noon.
“We could not let the number three criminal in the nation come to Los Angeles without a demonstration.” David Lang. SDS president, said.
And so. in a “guerilla theater” held yesterday at the Century Plaza Hotel where the Secretary of State was speaking on the U.S. Vietnam policy. SDS held a mock trial for Rusk.
“Our only regret was that we couldn't have as big a demonstration as w’e wanted to, because Rusk's coming here was kept secret too long.
“We thought the theater would dramatize our feelings most effectively." Lang said.
The scenario of the production, which lasted until 12:20 p.m., was a court in session.
“Before the trial. I conducted a study of how the U.S. has violated international law. I compiled a list of all the atrocities for which the U. S. has been responsible,” Lang said.
“I found that Article 6 of the Nuremberg Trials particularly applied to this case."
As the courtroom scene opened, the judge read the article and the prosecuting attorney indicted Rusk for crimes against peace and humanity-
"We want to get American imperialists out of our country." an actress portraying a young Vietnamese girl said.
The judge then addressed the more than 250 people who had come to demonstrate at Rusk’s speech, but found themselves serving as the jury. “You have heard the evidence. What is the verdict?
The throngs of newsmen and cameramen present heard the jury cry "guilty!” ten times, Lang said.
Simultaneous to the trial, constant marching was taking place, as
FROSH ELECTION FORUMS READY
Freshman election petitions will be available beginning tomorrow at 9 a.m. in 321 Student Union.
Any freshman is eligible to sign a petition and run for a freshman office, Ray Cochard, chairman of the ASSC elections committee said. The three freshman offices are president, vice-president and ASSC Council representative.
Detailed information on election procedures will be made available to candidates at a meeting in two weeks. Elections will be held Nov. 21.
well as some draft card burning. Marchers included representatives from SDS. Student M.O.B.. and Resistance.
None of them were arrested today, compared to the 18 people arrested during last week's picketing of the Induction Center at 12th and Broadway.
SDS also had a representative listening to Rusk's speech. Lang disagreed violently with most of the address, especially Rusk’s statement that the U.S. will “unconditionally” negotiate with Vietnamese.
“We use this as a front,” Lang said.
“We have refused to negotiate with the National Liberation Front. We do not negotiate with the people we are fighting against.”
“The speech was all part of the game; a social function. All that was accomplished was the reinforcement of already existing ideas. Nobody believes Washington any more — It nas lied too much."
With that the drama ended.
Cheerleader tryout clinics begin today
Yell King Rusty Jordan will lead the first of four cheerleader tryout clinics today at noon in 229 Founders Hall.
The sessions, which will also be held Oct. 30 and Nov. 1 and 6 at the same location, are the first step of the new cheerleader selection procedure that will go into effect this year.
The procedure, deliniated earlier this semester, sets the cheerleaders’ terms from the beginning of basketball season to the end of football.
“This is just part of our program of upgrading the whole cheer-leading process.” Jordan said.
“Ten cheerleaders will be selected for basketball and the spring sports, and the five w'ho work the hardest and do the best jobs will then become the main cheerleaders for football.”
The clinics will be led by Jordan and Lindley Bothwell. cheerleading coach. They are open to all men with at least a 2.25 grade point who will be at USC through the fall 1968 semester.
Today is also the deadline for returning applications for new pompon girls, w'ho will be selected for the first time at USC just prior to the basketball season.
The more than 50 applicants will take a written test early next month as the first step of their selection procedure.
ASSC Executive Council
asked to reflect on goals
By STAN METZLER City Editor
The ASSC Executive Council conducted a hurried but routine meeting yesterday approving appointments, affiliating student organizations and pausing momentarily to consider its own function.
The lone philosophical emphasis came when Paul Moore, director of student activities and an ex-officio member of the council, reminded the council that it cannot fulfill its proper function merely by handing out money and granting organizational affiliations.
“Last week you gave $110 to a program that had about 40 people in attendance,” he said of an allocation to a United Nations commemoration held in Hancock Auditorium Sunday.
“You can’t just give out money to people or incorporate programs into your structure without some overall philosophy of what you are doing and where you are going.”
The council reacted quite favorably to Moore’s remarks and, with ASSC President Marty Foley seconding his ideas, continued its business.
Its business yesterday afternoon included the approval of Ron Co-
chard. an engineering major affiliated with Sigma Phi Delta fraternity, as chairman of the ASSC Elections Commission; and Rusty Jordan, yell king, as chairman of the new ASSC Rally Committee.
The Rally Committee was formed earlier this semester with the goal of eventually coordinating all activities aimed at generating spirit before and during athletic events.
/Earlier in the meeting Jordan appeared for the cheerleading squad to voice its reservations on having pompon girls.
“The purpose of the rooting section is not to be entertained but to produce more noise and help the team to win,” he noted.
“And the only way to produce more spirit is to work hard. We have to work as hard as we can at every game.”
Jordan said the squad was not “black-and-white against" the proposal, but w’as in favor of wraiting at least one year. They were definitely against having the girls at football games, he said.
“In about four years the students will be used to seeing the girls and then we’ll cease to be one of the
only major schools in the U.S. without girls at football games; and that would be a tragedy."
AWS President Karen Mazepink applauded Jordan’s presentation, but the council voted later in the meeting to not initiate any change in its earlier approval at this late date.
One male member disputed Miss Mazepink’s charge that the council was ignoring the women on campus as well as the cheerleaders.
"I think the w'omen here arc all for pompon girls.” he said.
“You ought to see those chicks flooding into the ASSC Office for their applications. The response is the best of any committee this year.”
The council also gave its tentative approval to the formation of an on-campus magazine devoted to satire, humor and general literary articles, and incorporated the Model United Nations program as an ASSC standing committee.
Both of these moves, however, were purely procedural, and the council suspended any allocation of funds until later presentations on how the money would be spent and the benefit the general student body would derive from each project.