University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1969, VOL. LX, NO. 87
Bradley to speak in Hancock
Thomas Bradley, candidate for mayor, will speak today at noon in Hancock Auditorium.
In his campaign Bradley has charged the Yorty administration with a lack of effective leadership and rampant corruption.
One of his main areas of concern is the Los Angeles Police Department. He believes police are trained to catch criminals instead of being trained to relate and respond to the people in the community.
To remedy this, he advocates a program consisting of confrontation sessions with community representatives coupled with sensitivity training and problem solving programs.
As councilman he has expressed faith in the concepts of civil liberties and the rights of peaceful and orderly dissent. He sponsored the investigations of police and their conduct during the Century City demonstration and the Watts Festival disturbance.
Bradley was graduated from UCLA and obtained his law degree while working full time for the LAPD. He opened his law office in 1956. In 1963 he was elected to the City Council from the 10th district and has earned recognition in the areas of law enforcement, politics, law and banking.
ASSC MEETS TODAY AT 3
The ASSC Executive Council will meet today at 3 p.m. in the Student Activities Center. It is expected that the filibuster, led by Bob Ennis, graduate representative, will continue.
Ennis is filibustering over an Elections Code revision concerning the number of graduate representatives.
L.A. C.C. DEMONSTRATES TO BACK STRIKERS
(UPI)-Los Angeles City College entered the national collegiate fray yesterday with a demonstration in sympathy with the strike called at a number of city high school and junior high schools.
Nine police divisions were placed on a tactical alert after student picket lines were thrown up on the LACC campus and at a number of the high schools.
The picket line at LACC was set up by black students to protest the summoning of police to predominatly Negro Carver Junior High School last Friday to quell a disturbance. One LACC instructor suffered a cut over the eye when struck by a placard while attempting to cross the picket line.
Dr. S.I. Hayakawa, acting president at San Francisco State College, suspended publication of the Daily Gator, a student newspaper supported by the Associated Students. The paper has backed the black students' strike at the school.
Hayakawa said the newspaper was suspended because there was no board of publications supervising it.
Savit runs for VP of academic affairs
Mark Savit, a junior in philosophy, is unopposed in his bid for vice-president of academic affairs.
Savit, who is currently serving as administrative assistant for academic affairs, was the author of the student bill on governance and expresses interest in granting a more equitable system for running the university.
“I intend to use my office to work toward fostering a more cooperative system of university governance establishing more evenly distributed participation,” Savit said. He sees a need to clearly distinguish separate, as well as cooperative, areas of governance.
“Policy hasn’t yet defined where the students govern, where the administration governs, and where we all work togather,” he said.
Savit expressed his belief that the university is governed by crisis. He plans to establish channels to make changes before crisis occurs.
“I intend to organize meetings for committees so the ASSC can establish student policy for coordinating action, and eventually put the ‘Statement of Students Rights and Responsibilities’ into action,” he said.
The statement is a guideline along which the university would organize policy decisions. The guideline has not been approved by the Board of Trustees, but Savit said he intends to work with it if it is approved or not.
Savit said he feels that a basic problem in the university is poor communication between the administration, organizations and students. He plans to develop an effective means of passing information from the administration to the student body.
“I think that the fact that no one else is running for vice-president of academic affairs is tragic,” Savit said. “It indicates that students don’t have concern. I know that there are students who disagree with me, yet there is no opposition.”
Savit said he hopes the presidential candidates will publicly react to his platform.
“I intend to take action to initiate programs, but I can’t do it by myself,” he said. “If the students want the changes, they should work for them. If they don’t want the changes, they should work against them.”
Campaigns begin; 7 seek presidency
By ANDY MILLER City editor
ASSC candidates began their week-long campaign last night, with the prospects that none of the races will be as vigorous as the presidential contest.
Twenty-seven students had announced as official or write-in candidates for the 12 positions by the time campaigning began at 4 p.m. last night. Primary balloting will be held March 18 and 19, with the runoffs March 26.
Seven presidential candidates have announced: Eric Cohen (write-in), Michael Guarino, James Helfrich, Ed Hurst, Ron McDuffie, Fred Minnes and Joel Rosenzweig.
Perhaps outside of the sophomore representative race, the presidential race has drawn the greatest number of diversified candidates.
The race shapes up to be between Hurst, McDuffie, Minnes and Rosenzweig, all candidates who have been running long before 7 p.m. last night.
It is through the presidential candidates that the major issues on the university will be discussed the most, before all types of audiences.
Major issues will be the role of student government, the relationship of the university to its surrounding community, and the quality of student life and services.
This afternoon will be the first day of a series of Candidates’ Confrontation in the Student Activities Center. Today’s schedule features AMS presidential candidates at noon r AMS vice-president at
2	p.m., senior class president at 3Tr.m^ and AWS vice-president at 4 p.m.
Prior to the starting gun last night, the candidates and members of the Elections Commission were subjected to a series of meetings and a judicial review
Approximately two dozen candidates attended the three-hour pre-campaign briefing on the workings of student government, the structure of the university and specific problems.
Sponsored by the Elections Commission, the convocation was intended to be a myth-dispelling and general information session.
Pat Lawless, elections commissioner, began the convocation by telling the candidates “where to go, who to talk to, and what to stress,” according to the results of a voter reaction poll taken after last spring’s election.
Posters and banners have little effect on voters, said Lawless, adding that friends are the most influential factor.
Paul Bloland, dean of students, then attacked myths, saying that tenure and salary decisions are made on the departmental level, and that alumni are not as influencial as rumored.
After Bloland answered a number of questions, Bill Mauk, ASSC president, explained the relationship of student government to the university.
From the convocation, it was on to a meeting of the Student Court, which is renamed the Board of Inquiry during ASSC elections.
The board heard two cases, and approved a chart of fines to be assessed against candidates if they iolate the Election Code, revised this month. Any candidate with $25 or more in fines will be automatically disqualified.
Chuck Jones, who had filed for AMS president, was then declared ineligible for lack of the required grade point average. The board then denied a request by Mauk to reopen the filing period for the offices with no formal candidates: AMS vice-president, senior class president and foreign student representative.
Then the candidates attended a mandatory meeting yesterday where they were informed of all the guidelines in the elections code.
Law Students send for funds
By STEVE BOLINGER
The meeting of Mexican-American law students from USC with heads of area law schools and Mexican American lawyers and judges Thursday night proved to be a weak confrontation, according to Dorothy Nelson, dean of the School of Law.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss raising money for minority scholarships, but a confrontation arose when the representatives of the legal profession questioned the students’ right to a free legal education.
“They recognized, however, that money is harder to get at this time,” Dean Nelson said, “and even though most of them worked their way through school, they said they would be willing to help in our fund raising.
“There was no argument at the meeting about whether or not there was discrimination. We passed that hurdle a long time ago. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss fund raising.
Dean Nelson said many different avenues are being explored to raise the necessary $750-thousand to support USC, UCLA and Loyola, the three law schools in the area.
She added that Sen. Edward Brooke, (D.-Mass.) has expressed great interest in a bill drafted by local lawyers
to provide the funds. The bill is presently in the hands of Robert Finch, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
“We are also encouraging the students to seek out loan funds in the community but we do recognize that loan funds are limited. In fact, we had loan funds that were promised by the federal government but have been cut in half in the last year,” she said.
“We could use 400 times as many loan funds as we have now. All loan funds available are fully utilized. They are gobbled up immediately.”
Both sides agreed that fund raising was difficult but agreed to help.
“We have agreed to form this tri-school group and that Geoff Gilchrist of the USC planning staff will set up appointments with major concerns, many of whom have dealings with the Mexican-American community to ask them for money and scholarships.”
Jesus Melendez, one of the representatives of the United Mexican-American Students, said these measures aren’t quite adequate. He said, “No definite plans were made, they didn’t say we will start in such and such a place. We are aware of some of the efforts Dean Nelson has begun, but we were aware of these before the meeting. The meeting added nothing new.”
According to Dean Nelson the goal of the fund raising drive for this year is $250 thousand. “And we are well on our way toward doing this,” she said.
“We have been raising money alone, for instance I raised enough money last year for 10 minority students who are on full scholarship.”
“At the beginning of the year the students thought that they could raise the money and they formed the Law Students Community Service Association.
“I was delighted when the Law Students Community Service Association came in and said we don’t think you raised enough money, we want to do it ourselves this year, will you cooperate. I was happy to cooperate but no funds were raised.
“It came to a head in December when the students realized that they had no money, that they had been turned back. They felt very frustrated so they turned to us and said you must do it.
“They look around and see that results have been achieved by other groups by coming on strong and they feel that maybe this is the only way to get results.
“We, of course, disagree. It is not easy to raise money and when the students come on strong they often cut off the sources,” she said.