University of Southern California
DAILY @ TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, NOVEMBER 15, 1968, VOL. LX, NO. 40
8 turn in draft cards despite ruckus
Cat staff
redefines
purposes
Following the resignation of its president, the Executive Board of the Cheshire Cat Coffee House has issued an official statement redefining the goals and purposes of their organization.
“The purpose of the Cat has been, and will continue to be, to provide an informal meeting place for students which features both campus and professional talent,” said Daryl Rech, who was named the new president of the organization.
Steve Milner, the past president of the Cat, wished to make it more professional than the other members of the Executive Board desired,” said Miss Rech.
The Executive Council is elected from those who help run the Cat each Friday and Saturday night. It consists of a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and kitchen manager.
“Some students approached us and asked when more amateur campus groups would be featured,” said Miss Rech. “They wanted to hear the on-campus entertainers.”
As to the limits on number of people admitted. Miss Rech said that they would allow only 80 people for the sake of comfort and safety.
“We didn’t want the Cat to be just another entertainment club,” said Miss Rech. “We wanted something where the audience could become an integral part of the show.”
By MELODY GILLARD Assistant news editor
Four men turned in their draft cards at a tense ceremony in Alumni Park yesterday despite attempts of several students to disrupt the assembly.
A total of eight turned in their cards during the two-hour event that marked the Fourth National Day of Resistance. The additional four cards were turned in when the group moved from the park to the Methodist Church. Complicity statements, admitting that the signer had openly helped others avoid the draft, were submitted by eight persons.
But their acts of resistance were met with resistance from a group led by Steve Rados, a senior business major.
Rados challenged the group’s right to meet in Alumni Park, argued with resistance sympathizers and, at one point, prevented one of the scheduled speakers from using the microphone. Members of both factions of the dispute were, at times, tense and confused. But
"I HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK"-Larry Kulesza, co-chairman of SDS, shouts at the crowd shortly after having his hat knocked off.
Photo by Robert Herrup.
Israeli ambassador to talk on Middle East problems
In personality, training and interests, Gen. Yitzhak Rabin belongs to the generation whose task has been first to win and later to defend Israel’s freedom.
Rabin, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, will speak on “Political Problems in the Middle East,’' Monday at 2:15 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium.
Born in Jerusalem in 1922, Rabin graduated from the Kadoorie Agricultural School in Lower Galilee, and shortly thereafter enlisted in Palmach, the underground citizen army, to fulfill his national defense service.
Rabin was promoted to
deputy battalion commander in 1944. Two years later he was arrested by British authorities and held for several months.
At the end of 1947, with the outbreak of war, he was appointed deputy commander of the Palmach. His major role in the war was as commander of the Palmach’s Har-El Brigade which played a crucial part in the defense of Jerusalem.
In the second phase of the war, Rabin took part in the campaigns for the liberation of the Negev Desert and the Red Sea port of Eilat.
From 1953-1959, concluded studies at
he
the
Weekend more than O.J.
Camberley Staff College of Great Britain, and made various visits abroad with the purpose of becoming acquainted with the armed services of other countries.
Rabin said he assumed his military tasks in response to the needs of the times rather than as a career. He looks upon his military career as a national service in the deepest sense.
“I regard myself there as the representative of the entire Israel Defense Forces,” he said upon receiving his honorary doctorate of philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
“Our warriors prevailed not by their weapons but by their sense of mission ... to ensure the right of the Jewish people to live in their own state, free, independent and in peace.”
An Academy Award-winning film, a hootenanny, a barbecue and a formal dance make up this week-end’s campus entertainment.
“The Pawnbroker,” starring Rod Steiger, will be shown by DKA tonight at 7 and 9:15 in Founder’s Hall 133. Admission is $1.
Folk singers Vincent Michal and Land Perhacs will perform at 8:15 and 10:30 in an open hootenanny at the Chesire Cat Friday night.
Michal has performed on the Joey Bishop Show and made sound tracks for five motion pictures. He has played concerts in Europe, South America and Canada.
The Cat is located in the basement of University Methodist Church on 11th Street. Admission is 25 cents.
A barbecue and dance sponsored by the
Newman Guild, Newman Association and Catholic Center Council will be held following the Oregon game at the Catholic Center, 3201 University Ave. Tickets are available at the Newman Center for $2.
The Troy Ball, will kick-off Troy Week activities Saturday evening from 8 to 12:30 at the International Hotel. The highlight of the semi-formal affair will be the crowning of Helen of Troy, chosen from the five finalists, Leslie Barnett, Sue Himstreet, Penny Pedersen, Cynthia Watson and Sue Wright.
Deep Purple, who recently had the hit records “Hush’‘ and “Kentucky Woman,” and Things to Come will play. Two footballs autographed by the football team will be given as door prizes.
Tickets are on sale for $2.50 at the Bovard Box Office and in front of Tommy Trojan.
COLOR-IN
CONTINUES
The Troy Week Committee is sponsoring the first Trolios "Color-ln."
All students have to do is find the picture, color it in with any coloring materials and have it reposted by noon Sunday.
despite the opposition, the program continued.
Planned by The Resistance and Students for a Democratic Society, the day was to be a “celebration of life” with songs and a talk delivered by Father Arthur Melvillee, a former Catholic priest.
But as Daryll Skarbok strummed his guitar and began to sing, the arguments broke out.
Rados said that he wasn’t debating anyone’s right to protest, but that he didn’t want it done on campus.
“I don’t want my name associated with trash like that,” he said of the protesters. “These clowns are going to get off.”
As a crowd gathered around Rados, another large group settled itself on the ground to listen to Melvillee, who was a minister in Guatamala for seven years. The opposition quieted while Melvillee spoke.
When Melvillee finished, a speaker for the Resistance announced that an unscheduled speaker would like to say a few words and Rados took the floor.
“I’m not here to debate your right to burn your draft cards,” Rados said. “I’m not here to debate the pros and cons of the war in Vietnam. I’m not here to debate anything with you people except for one thing. Myself, as a student of the University of Southern California, and several of these students around in this group have a slight disagreement with your right to do what you’re doing, not in the sense that you’re doing it but in the sense of where you’re doing it.
“I, personally, and I think many of the students here, feel that we don’t want our name and our university associated with this particular resistance movement.
Rados charged that the program was being sponsored by the Resistance, a group which is not officially recognized by the university, and therefore asked that the group peacefully move to a public place, off the grounds of the campus. After he finished, Rados was told that the program was sponsored jointly by the Resistance and SDS.
Rados also argued that the Resistance meeting was scheduled to take place in the Methodist Church on 34th Street and did not have permission to use Alumni Park for their assembly.
This was confirmed by Daniel Nowak, dean of men.
“Any recognized student group can petition for use of facilities on campus,” Nowak said. “The petition has to be handled 10 days prior to the activity. That could very well include the park.”
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