University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL LX	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1968	NO. 8
KUSC expands broadcasting, types of music
KUSC-FM, the university radio station, isn’t dying.
In fact, the station is planning some major improvements this year, a situation the university administration isn’t particularly excited about, says Doug Peck, station manager.
“I’m not bitter about this.” Peck said. “Things are looking beter for KUSC than they ever have, but not because of the university.”
KUSC will sign on Oct. 5 from the Hancock Foundation with a nightly broadcast of popular music spanning the spectrum from soul to acid rock.
The 10:30 p.m. to midnight program, aimed at increasing student audience and interest, is part of the expansion of KUSC’s programming, which will increase its broadcast time from 20 to 84 hours a week.
“In the past we’ve had nothing aimed at the students.” said Peck, “and we’ve had to face being ignored by them and by the university.”
Peck, who was instrumental in instituting the station’s expanded broadcasting schedule, would like to see air time provided for broadcasts of campus affairs, fraternity and sorority news, and even social information such as pinnings.
“Anyone with a valid program idea, or a program they’d like to produce should contact us at Hancock 244,” he emphasized. “While we can’t advertise, we can promote.” KUSC operates on $7,000 a year: the same budget since 1953. To finance their expansion from four hours a day Monday through Friday to 12:30 p.m. to midnight seven days a week, the station workers gave up the weekly salaries they were paid before this year. This move also made it possible for the station to recruit 80 more students in its first promotional campaign.
“There were a few people who opposed this mood,” said Peck, who suggested the plan to the student executive council that runs the station, “but it was necessary, if only so the students who run the station could have something to work with besides the uninteresting job of feeding in educational tapes.”
Each disc jockey on the nightly popular shows and their lead-ins of easy listening music will have the opportunity to develop personal styles.
“If you tuned in on Tuesday night, for example, you’d know that Howard Gershon was going to be on the air,” Peck said.
Student announcers are changed nightly to allow as many to get on the air as possible.
The station has an added attraction this year for Trojan football fans. For the first time. KUSC will be broadcasting USC games as well as the basketball and baseball coverage it has always had. One added advantage for sports fans is that FCC rulings prohibit the station broadcasting commercials.
KUSC isn’t abandoning its educational and classical campaign in favor of rock music and campus news. It’s continuing its simultaneous broadcasts with KRLA. featuring USC professors in informal call-in programs on issues of interest to youth.
“Our biggest problem.” says Peck, “is the lack of interest shown by the school. USC should originate its own educational broadcasts, but nobody seems to know we're here. Most college radio stations have a budget of $20,000 over the year, and they don’t have to work with 23-year-old equipment.”
The station does have a new transmitter with 17.000 watts of power installed last year.
DKA FESTIVAL OPENS TONIGHT
"La Dolce Vita," a recent Italian movie sensation, will kick off Delta Kappa Alpha's Fall Film Festival tonight at 7 and 9 o'clock in Founders Hall 133._
Cheshire Cat opens seventh season
By KEITH MacBARRON
SPLASH
If anyone has failed to
Greeks charged with de facto discrimination
The Cheshire Cat, up to now known primarily as a student gathering place rather than a night club, is starting a new era in its history which began six years ago.
Steve Milner, president of Cheshire Cat, says that the club, which is located in the basement of the University Methodist Church, is on its way to becoming a professional folk club presenting genuine talent to USC students.
The first step in this change is the entertainment scheduled this Friday at 8 p.m. Headlining the bill is Penny Nichols, a contemporary folk singer who has played such places as The Troubador, The Golden Bear, The Hungry i in San Francisco, and the Village Vanguard in New York. She’s also given concerts at the Filmore Auditorium in San Francisco and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Penny is promoted by Billy James, a former associate of Bob Dylan and the discoverer of The Doors and The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. She has released an album by Kama Sutra Productions and will have another one coming out soon called “Penny Arcade.” In a recent feature article. Look magazine commented, “For Penny Nichols, the song is more important than the singer, and that alone refreshes.”
Also included on Friday night’s bill is a contemporary folk act from Orange County called Tony and Gloria. Following the formal show, an informal hootenanny will be put on by USC talent. A thirty-five cent donation will be taken at the door. Admission to the hootenanny will be free and all are invited
In the future, Milner plans to have entertainment by the Jim Schick Show, a stand-up comedy act, and singer Steve Noonan. He also plans a repeat performance by Penny Nichols. In a different vein, Noonan will begin broadcasting a radio show Oct. 15, on KUSC-FM, university radio station. The radio program will feature folk, folk-rock, and rock music.
ENTERTAINER—Penny Nichols, folk singer, will appear at the Chesire Cat Friday.
Urban Affairs program with another, McDuffie said.
McDuffie also pointed out that several of the university’s student committees remain unfilled and therefore are not functioning as they should. He wanted to know why committee membership applications were not made available the first two weeks of school as the Executive Council decided they should be last semester.
Mauk said he did not recall the decision on applications last semester. The council agreed that the remaining vacancies on the committees should be filled as soon as possible.
An ad hoc committee was
established to consider personnel and budgetary problems of student committees.
Mauk then presented his format for the Selective Service conference. He said that the purpose of the conference was to inform students of their obligations and alternatives to Selective Service and acquaint the students with the Draft Counseling Center on campus.
In a unique parlimentary move, the council accepted the Selective Service program proposal and then later moved that no action be taken on the proposal until the Black Student Union has a chance to present plans on an alternate program for Oct. 29-30.
YAF wants Mauk 'hung up to dry’
By MIKE PARFIT Editor
Young Americans for Freedom, not yet recognized officially on campus, has already become unofficially well known. It was challenged ASSC President Bill Mauk to a debate with its national director, Philip Abbott Luce, and at a meeting Thursday night one of its members is reported to have said of the student body president: “Let’s get him and hang him up to dry.”
YAF has been described as “a conservative, activist youth organization.”
The attack on Mauk was reported to the Daily Trojan by Keith Keener, chairman of the Kennedy Action Corps, who attended the YAF meeting. “There was also some discussion about whether Mauk was stupid enough to accept the challenge to debate, Keener said.
Mauk himself responded to the Daily Trojan report of the challenge yesterday.
“I have never been contacted personally by anyone from YAF,” he said in an interview. “I don’t know what they have in mind, and I can’t respond until I know what they are talking about. I will, however, speak to any student as any time in my office about any subject which is relevant to the Associated Students and to higher education.”
In issuing the challenge Monday, YAF members attacked Mauk on the basis of his orientation address, in which they said he “attacked the educational institution, but presented no alternative for a solution.”
“We feel that Mauk’s views represent the minority of student thought on this campus and that they reflect a radical political position,” Allen Brandstater, one of YAF’s members, said Monday.
Keener told the Daily Trojan yesterday about his observations at the YAF meeting.
“They discussed four points,” he said. “How to go about organizing the club; how to use the Victory in Vietnam Associaiton; their program for the year and Bill Mauk”
Their program. Keener said, consisted of getting men such as William F. Buckley, III and Luce to speak on campus and having a different speaker or theme each week. “They are going to have an Objectivism week, for instance,” he said.
The plan for Bill Mauk was more specific. The attack on him. Keener said, would begin with the challenge to debate.
“They hoped that he would refuse, because they thought that they could make a lot of political hay out of a refusal.” he said. “They seem to consider their work on this campus a holy war, and Mauk is the first person to knock off.”
The YAF organizers held a meeting again last night, and Keener was again present. The meeting this time was regional, including Immaculate Heart High School, Loyola High School and UCLA. The YAF members went over plans for these schools as well as those for USC. ‘“We’re really going to shake up the nuns,’ the state president said about Immaculate Heart,” Keener reported. “They also referred to Mauk as Bill Muck, and the president said Mauk is trying to be USC’s David Harris.”
YAF is not yet officially recognized on this campus, which means that for the time being it can only hold meetings for organizational purposes. In order to become officially recognized, a group must have, among other requirements: A faculty advisor, a proposed constitution, officers, a statement of purpose, and at least ten prospective members. David Henley, a journalism instructor, has agreed to serve as the YAF advisor, and officers will be announced at a meeting of the group today at noon in Student Activity Center 203.
King scholarship grants go to six USC freshmen
Sic Martin Luther King Scholarship recipients are enrolled as freshmen at USC this semester. The scholarships provide full tuition and allowances for board and room, books, fees and other expenses.
Brenda Fluence, a graduate of Jordan High School, will study medicine. She was active in student government.
Toya Hicks, a graduate of Manual Arts High School, plans to major in psychology. She was vice president of the girls’ student body, a member of Girls’ Court and a May Co. Teen Board representative.
Shirley McCracken, a graduate of Jordan High School, received the Bank of America certificate as top female student and was named the top student in physiology.
Lionel Newman, a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School, will study engineering. He was a member of the Los Angeles Youth Human Relations Council.
William Wheeler, a graduate of Manual Arts High School, was the general state-wide chairman of an organization that supported Robert Kennedy for president. He was also a member of the football team.
Dennis Winston, a graduate of Loyola High School, hopes to become a lawyer and enter politics. He was very active on speech and debating teams, placing third in statewide debate competition. He was also vice president of the student body.
By RON SMITH
Bob Ennis, graduate student representative, climaxed a stormy meeting of the ASSC Executive Council yesterday when he introduced a resolution calling for President Topping and the Trustees to take action on alleged “hypocritical de facto discrimination” existing in the Greek system of accepting pledges.
Ennis specifically requested that the President and the Board of Trustees see to it that “any black, Mexican-American or Oriental student pledging to join a fraternity or sorority must be accepted, or else good cause be shown why not.”
Ennis claimed that discrimination still exists in the Greek system “despite the elimination from most charters of lilly white clauses.”
Although the motion was tabled pending investigation into the charges, an investigatory committee was established, with Ennis as chairman.
Members of the committee are Norman Barker, Liz Carr, Steve Schmidt, Ron McDuffie, Karol Wahlberg and Fred Minnes.
The council meeting began routinely enough, but the tempo was set when a move to have a Selective Service conference on Oct. 29 and 30 was challenged by Ron McDuffie, junior class representative and member of the Black Student Union.
McDuffie questioned the procedure used in forming the idea for the conference and then said he thought that the operation of all committees in general and the Entertainment Committee specifically were being bypassed this semester.
Bill Mauk, ASSC president, countered McDuffie’s question with the statement that “the Executive Council has the power to accept or reject committee recommendations.” The Selective Service conference proposal was made in order to use Bovard Auditorium on Oct. 29-30. An Urban Affairs program was originally scheduled for those dates, but was cancelled when the sponsor, the Black Student Union, was unable to obtain its speakers.
The Black Student Union, however, wanted a chance to try and replace the
notice, it’s been hot recently. Freshmen Rob Stillwell and Bill Navioks seem to have found the ideal way to beat the heat, and it’s right here on campus. They were found yesterday wading in the fountain in front of Doheny Library. With a little coaxing, a German Shepherd later joined the party.
'CLEAN AIR’ SPOKESMAN TO SPEAK AT NOON TODAY
Roger J. Diamond, speaker for the Clean Air Counsel, will talk on the "Legal Aspects of the Air Pollution Control Movement" at noon today in Student Activity Center 201. A question and answer period will follow.
Diamond contends that clean air is within the realm of possibility. He feels there are a number of contributing factors to smog, but that "the major culprit rides on four wheels out of a kingdom where no consideration is made from the effect of this monster waste on human beings and other living things."
He obtained his degree in law from UCLA, where he was on the staff of the Law Reivew.