Mauk leads Rafferty to run-off
DAILY
University of Southern California
TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1968
72
NO. 45
Bill Mauk celebrates primary victory
USC doctors separate Siamese twin girls ...
By MIKE PARFIT City editor
In an extremely rare operation performed at the County-USC Medical Center Tuesday, a team of eight surgeons and anesthesiologists separated two Siamese twin girls. Drs. Frederick Leix and George Weitzman, associate professors of surgery at the Medical School, headed up the team.
Both girls survived the day-long operation. Dr. Arleen Powars. an assistant professor of pediatrics, who is in charge of the babies, said yesterday that one, Charron. is in extremely critical condition. She is having trouble breathing and in maintaining her own temperature. The other twin. Chandra, is still in serious condition but is progressing well.
“She cries lustily and sucks on her fist.” a bulletin released by the hospital yesterday said. “We are pleased with the way she is doing, and we are considering removing her chest tubes.”
The twins were bom two months ago to an unmarried 16-year-old.
All the doctors involved with the operation are being kept from the press until a press conference Monday. when the condition of the girls is likely to be more stable.
“I'm sure that they are so busy trying to save the babies’ lives that they don’t have time to discuss the case fully.” a hospital spokesman told the Daily Trojan.
The girls were connected by a tubular section of skin reaching from the breastbone to the navel. In order to separate the twins, the surgeons had to operate on the liver, which the girls shared. Because of this, the babies lost a tremendous amount of blood during the operation. “Char-ron’s blood was replaced about twice,” the spokesman said.
Dr. Leix. who is the chairman of the hospital’s pediatric surgery section. said that there are seven documented cases in which twins joined at the same point have been separated by surgery and have survived.
Although the incidence of Siamese twins is very low. about once in every 50 non births, operations have been sufficiently written up so as to provide surgeons with operational steps. This is the third such case at the Medical Center. One has been successful and tRe separated twins are still livi"".
The nosnital spokesman said that if Chandra and Charron survive, they can expect to lead normal lives.
Siamese twins are born when a developing embryo begins to split into identic* 1 twins but somehow stops fialfway. This can result in only a skin-deep connection, or it can result fn a pair which uses many of the fame or<™ns. Such twins can seldom be separated.
In the case of Chandra and Char-
ron only one organ—the liver—was shared. Other twins have not been so lucky.
Masha and Dasha, the well known Prussian Siamese twins, who were featured in Life Magazine last year, share almost an entire system. The two girls, who are now 18 years old, have different personalities, but only one pair of legs. They walk as one. dance, ride a bicycle and climb stairs, but they fall asleep, feel pain and get ill separately. Although they adapted well to their problems early in life, some of the doctors who took care of them said that as they grew older they would need psychiatric care.
The term Siamese twins was first given to Chang and Eng Bunker, two boys born in Siam in 1911 who were joined in the same manner as Chandra and Charron. The boys were exhibited in P. T. Barnum’s circus.
Panty raid but access
By ANDY MILLER SoCal Editor
"Come on guys. I don’t want to get arrested. Why don’t you all go home?”
Don Mulhaupt, sophomore in political science and a Fiji, was pleading to a surging mob of 200 men who were supposedly bent on getting inside the women’s dorms in an old-fashioned panty raid.
The panties, and the bras, and the falsies, and the nylons, and the toilet paper, and the water, and the campus police, and the Los Angeles Police Department got to the mob, but the mob didn’t get to the women.
The raid started about 11:45 last night, and lasted for an hour, mostly in the courtyard between Elizabeth Von Kleinsmid and Harris dormitories.
Rumors attributed the rally to many sources. Some said the women had phoned all the fraternities. Some said a naked girl on display in a window facing Marks Tower drove the men dormies to it. Some said it was an after-election rally for the victorious candidates.
But Mulhaupt took almost all blame for instigating the raid. He also was instrumental in dispersing the crowd after tlie campus police had dragged him by the belt-buckle to the just-arrived LAPD car.
Mulhaupt will probably face someone from the dean’s staff today.
“I admit I was the loudmouth of the crowd, and I was instrumental in getting a pair of panties or two, but
Results please Mauk; Rafferty plans protest
By STAN METZLER Editor
Bill Mauk and Gary Rafferty will go at it again next Wednesday. Maybe.
Mauk beat Rafferty by 170 votes (920-744) in the two days of voting, but the 203 ballots cast for Ralph Lippman and 60 write-ins made him 44 votes short of a total victory.
“I'm very satisfied,” he said after the results were announced last night. “I'd like to thank all the people who supported me and ask them to please take time to vote again next week.”
Then Rafferty, who was not present at the YWCA when results were announced, let it be known that he was not satisfied at all.
“I will seek an invalidation of the election,” he told the Daily Trojan late last night.
“My protest will be based on the questionable procedures of the Executive Council in conducting this election.”
The news of Rafferty’s reaction didn’t do much for Mauk, who labeled it a political play.
“I feel that if he had a legitimate complaint he should have made it before or during the elections, instead of waiting to see if he had won.
“He knew as well as every other candidate how the election was going to be run and who would run it.
“It appears to me that. Gary Rafferty is asking for the abolishment of the existing ASSC in favor of one more favorable to his candidacy.”
Before Rafferty revealed the news of his protest, Mauk was enjoying the flush of success as a near victor.
Lippman announced early in the evening that he “entirely endorses the candidacy of Bill Mauk in the run-off, primarily because I favor capability.” AMS president John Wardlow, Graduate Representative Jim Marshall and Matt Pasternak, who was elected vice-president of student activities over wiite-in Bob Rollo, all came out for Mauk.
“There is no doubt he is much more qualified to bring about the necessary change in the ASSC.” Pasternak said. “I could go on and on.”
Mauk had also challenged Rafferty to debate in front of Tommy Trojan Monday noon “ to take the campaign beyond personalities and political propaganda.
“The students deserve a chance to hear a discussion between the two presidential candidates on the needs of the campus and the ways to effect change,” he said.
Rafferty said Mauk's challenge was based on the assumption they were in a run-off.
“I am seeking to invalidate the election,” he explained. “Based on the outcome of the protest, I will be- more than happy to debate the issues with the candidates for student body president.”
Immediately after the results were announced the Board of Inquiry held a mandatory meeting to hear any complaints. Since none were offered, it ruled the results valid.
ASSC President Marty Foley announced that the run-offs will be held only next Wednesday, in conjunction with Choice ’68. He also said McDuffie must file as a candidate within 48 hours or face the penalty of disqualification.
Suzanne DeBall, who will face Jane Lindenthal in a run-off for vice-president of university affairs, said she was “very happy with the election results. I look forward to presenting the issues to the students again.”
Miss DeBall received 694 to Miss Lindenthal's 504. Danny Brandt got 368 votes and there were 273 write-ins.
Karen Wahlberg, elected AWS president over Penny Scott by a vote of 511 to 203, said she looks forward to integrating the AWS programs with the ASSC, faculty and alumni groups.
In conceding his defeat, presidential candidate Lippman said he had thought his position was “clear-cut” enough to enable the voters to make an intelligent choice.
“I don’t think the delay hurt me. If I were playing politics I would try to invalidate them again. But to be a leader you need the popular support of the people you are leading.”
yields men everything into women s dorms
I did disperse the crowd,” Mulhaupt said.
The raid reached a climax in the courtyard where the crowd, hungry for unmentionables, roamed from window to window where girls were watching, yelling or throwing the desired items.
Although they had many chances, the men never seriously penetrated the walls.
The Los Angeles police finally arrived around 12:30 a.m. to rescue the impotent campus police, who were watching the action from the back-
ground.
Mulhaupt was immediately referred to the LAPD by the Campus Police.
Badge 4062, on viewing the situation, advised Mulhaupt: “Don’t play any games with the den mothers or the rent-a-cops.”
That’s when Mulhaupt decided to urge the crowds to return to their rooms.
As he walked out of the courtyard, he pulled a panty out of each front pocket, and said “Put me in as the leader. I’m proud of it.”
COMPLETE RESULTS
ASSC PRESIDENT
Bill Mauk (run-off) ................... 920
Gary Rafferty (run-off) .............. 744
Ralph Lippman .............................. 203
Write-in .......................................... 60
VICE-PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS
Suzanne DeBall (run-off) ............ 694
Jane Lindenthal (run-off) .......... 504
Daniel Brandt ................................ 368
Write-in	.......................... 273
VICE-PRESIDENT OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES
Matt Pasternak (elected) ............. 818
Bob Rollo ............. ......................... 690
Write-in	....... 273
AWS PRESIDENT
Karol Wahlberg (elected) .......„... 511
Penny Scott ............................. 203
Write-in	............. 30
AMS PRESIDENT
Fred Minnes (elected) ................ 630
Doug Gallup .................................. 287
Write-in ........ .................... 40
AWS VICE-PRESIDENT
Donna DeDiemar (elected) .......... 444
Janice Tait ........................... 194
Write-in	...... 106
AMS VICE-PRESIDENT
Andrew Miller (elected) .............. 529
Tom Kirby ...................................... 198
Write-in .......................................... 53
SENIOR PRESIDENT
Jeff Smulyan (elected) ............... 360
Write-in	......................... 44
SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE
Ken Walter (elected) ............. 330
Write-in	38
JUNIOR REPRESENTATIVE
Steve Turner (run-off) ................ 218
Ron McDuffie (run-off) .............. 123
Joe LaTorre ...... ............... 88
Write-in .................................
SOPHOMORE REPRESENTATIVE
Tom Levyn (run-off) ............
Peter Salvatori (run-off) ...... 170
Jay Cohen	74
FOREIGN STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE Nader Oskoui (elected) . ... . 52
George Kuruvila	................ 33
Write-in	3
AMENDMENT I
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AMENDMENT II
AMENDMENT III
AMENDMENT IV
1198
177
1460
222
1250 . J60
1487
. 233
Emotions surface at Vietnam forum
By BILL DICKE Night editor
Emotional interruptions from the audience punctuated a forum on the Vietnam war last night in Hancock Auditorium.
One student shouted at the Rev. Harlan Weitzel. one of the three members of the panel, “Shut up! That’s not a realistic question.”
A student had just told Mr. Weitzel he felt the military should obey all orders from superiors, because civilians have effective control of the military.
Mr. Weitzel asked the student how far he would follow orders. “Would you kill me? Would you kill me?” he asked.
He was interrupted by the shouting student and never got an answer
The program, sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness, was supposed to include a public relations manager from the Dow Chemical Co., Jack Jones, but he did not appear.
His father died and no substitute could be sent without the approval of a Dow executive who was unavailable.
Mr. Weitzel is an Episcopal minister active in Friends of the Resistance, a group of clergymen which supports draft resisters.
In his opening statement, he said the United States had not met any of the seven crittria for waging a just war.
He listed the criteria: legally declaring war; fighting for a just cause; having a good motive: waging war as the last resort: using appropriate methods: having proportionality; and having a reasonable hope of success.
Lt. Gen. L. C. Craigie, former commander of the Allied Air Forces in Southern Europe, was the second speaker.
Rights of the individual are accompanied by responsibilities, he said. “It is all wrong for a man to honor certain decisions and have others h1 wont’ honor,” he said.
After World War II the United States was thrust into world leadership and has been opposing Communism ever since, he continued.
“Once the Commies take over, they don’t let go,” he said. “I think it is important that four successive presidents have each decided to do whatever necessary to stop aggression in Southeast Asia.”
He said it was in response to treaties that the United States is in the war today.
He said. “If the Communists win. then the eventual cost to use will far exceed what we are paying now.”
Dr. Robert Peck was the third member of the panel. A graduate of the School of Medicine, he is a mem-per of the Board of Directors of the Committee of Responsibility, Inc.. a medical group concerned with the suffering of Vietnam children.
We are appalled by the human waste occuring there and are trying to see that something is done for the victims,” he said.
In 1967. 10,000 to 20.000 children were seriously injured in the war. he said. “It will require vast amounts of professional skill and vast amounts of money to make any impact,” he added.
In the discussion period, one of the main issues was the individual’s conscience and his duty.
Mr. Weitzel said the United States is performing war crimes in Vietnam and said it was the responsibility of each soldier to follow his own conscience.
Lt. Gen. Craigie said. "In combat there isn’t a constant debate. Moral issues don’t come up.”
NOTED COMMENTATOR
Edward P. Morgan to speak today
Edward P. Morgan, distinguished news commentator and author, will speak on “The Credibility Gap: What Can We Believe?” in Bovard Auditorium at 10 a.m. today.
The lecture, part of the Great Issues Forum, is being presented in cooperation with the Institute of World Affairs program on
American foreign policy.
Morgan is senior correspondent and commentator of the Public Broadcast Laboratory.
A winner of various journalistic and reporting awards, Morgan has attained recognition as a news commentator, war correspondent and columnist.
Starting as a reporter with the Seattle Star in 1932, Morgan went on to work as a United Press foreign correspondent for nine years.
From 1943 to 1946, he was a war correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, covering major European stories.
In 1946, he worked for Colliers as an associate editor, in addition to broadcasting for CBS from London and Berlin.
After free-lancing for two years, in 1950 he joined Edward R. Murrow’s “This I Believe” radio series.
In 1951, Morgan returned to CBS as a radio and television correspondent.
He joined ABC News in 1955, and continued to present news analysis and report until 1966 when he took a two-year leave in order to promote Ihe new Public Broadcast Laboratory.
Since his association with ABC, Morgan lias been best known for his coverage of political conventions, election nighte, presidential
inaugurations, as well as foreign news and analysis.
His reporting assignments have taken him to Africa, the Near East, Western Europe, the Far East, Moscow, the Balkans and Vietnam.
He has received numerous awards for his reporting and writing including the Peabody Award for the outstanding radio news program, the George Polk Memorial Award, the Sidney Hillman Award, the Dupont Award, the Headliner Award, and the University of Missouri Journalism Award.
In 1956, the Overseas Press Club honored Morgan for his coverage of the Geneva Summit Conference.
It presented him with another citation in 1965 for his foreign reporting from behind the Iron Curtain.