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Ron McDuffie ^ TROJAN
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 6,1969, VOL. LX, NO. 84
unite campus
Ron McDuffie, a candidate for ASSC president, said he feels his experience as a resident adviser in the dorms, a fraternity pledge and a member of the black race will help him unite these three segments on campus.
McDuffie, who is presently junior ciass representative and a University Scholar, said he feels the major problem is a lack of communication and association between the three student segments.
McDuffie, an economics pre-law major, maintains a 3.0 grade point average and is on the Dean’s List. He is also vice-president for university programs, a member of the Student Life Committee under the Board of Trustees, resident adviser for a men’s dorm and a pledge of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
“The student government can act as a catalyst for the students at this urban university and can come to grips with our social problems,” he commented. He said he believes that four goals can be accomplished by focusing on the following' areas: Academic enrichment, creation of a community feeling on campus, definition of USC in relation to the overall student movement in America, and directed efforts toward the surrounding community by the executive council.
“In essence,” McDuffie added, “these four areas relate to the student government’s need to provide student service and projects to meet academic and social needs.” He said he thinks a pragmatic course, along the lines of Community Encounter, a course already offered, should be directed specifically toward the first two goals.
He said he feels there should be more free concerts, more scheduled meetings with the faculty and students in a relaxed situation and more all-university functions in the dorms and on the Row.
“There should be subsidies for the remote schools such as engineering, and architecture or to any special interest groups,” he remarked. He said he believes that anyone with a non-ASSC project should be able to present his purpose, philosophy and goals to the overall university.
“At least 20 per cent of the university student fee should be directed toward community projects,” McDuffie added. He said he feels that three or four major projects should be decided upon at the beginning of the new student administration.
“The remainder of the funds should be used by individuals or groups for other worthwhile community projects,” McDuffie said. “For example, there should be a project to start a community college where birth-control or income spending could be instructed by graduate or undergraduate students.”
As another example of this idea, McDuffie suggested the use of campus facilities by people in the community.
SCHOLARSHIPS MUST BE RENEWED
Scholarship and loan renewal forms are now available at the Student Aid Office.
The deadline for picking up renewal materials is March 12.
All students on state, university, Economic Opportunity Grants, National Merit and other scholarship funds, as well as National Defense, Health Professions and Federally Insured Loan funds must pick up renewal forms.
Ennis says graduate vote disproportionate
RON McDUFFIE
Action council to coordinate community aid
The Community Action Coordinating Council (CACC), the supervising body of community project chairmen, met yesterday for the first time to describe its functions and discuss future plans.
“This body has control over all campus ventures into the community,” said Dan Smith, CACC chairman. “We are essentially a coordinating body for all off-campus projects.”
The committee consists of community project chairmen and representatives from various other campus groups.
Currently, the committee is working on establishing a policy which would pertain to all comunity projects. The three vital areas covered in the policy include workers’ goals, attitudes and approaches in their aid to the surrounding community.
Smith said there would be “orientation for all those who will go into the community, like in the Peace Corps.
Bob Ennis, graduate student representative, feels the graduate students are not proportionately represented on the ASSC Executive Council.
At the council meeting Tuesday, Ennis launched a filibuster which stopped adoption of election code revisions until after campaigning for ASSC offices begins Monday.
Ennis said hej plans to continue the filibuster until ttie council agrees to let the student body vote on a constitutional amendment that would change the number of graduate representatives from the present four to five.
The council voted down the resolution which would put the amendment on the general election ballot. Ennis said he feels the student body should decide an item like this, not the ASSC council.
Ennis explained his views during an interview yesterday. He said that 62 per cent of the USC students are graduates and therefore they contribute 62 per cent of the council’s funds. Of the 19 voting members on the council only four must be graduate students.
“It is contended that many of the offices could be filled by graduate students,” Ennis said, citing ASSC president, the two vice-presidents, associated men and women student presidents and the two dorm reps as examples of offices which could be held by graduate students. “However, these positions will almost always be filled by undergraduates; because of the much heavier time commitment of graduate students to their studies.
“The Men’s Hall and Women’s Hall Association presidents, in particular, will always be undergraduates because there are almost no graduate students living in the dormitories. Even granting that these positions, in some far-fetched way,
represent both graduates and undergraduates, the positions that must be filled by undergraduates still outnumber those that must be filled by graduates by a large margin.”
The eight offices of the 20-nian council that must be filled by undergraduates are the four class representatives, representatives from the Inter-Fraternity Council and Panhellenic and two independent representatives. Ennis said the four graduate representatives are presently the only graduate students on the council.
“Some of the council members have long complained that the council should be a representative body—particularly two of the candidates for ASSC president, Ron McDuffie and Fred Minnes—yet they were the first to maintain that graduate students should continue to be under-represented on the ASSC Executive Council.
“I think that any consideration of elementary principles of fairness would dictate support for increased graduate representation. Some opponents of such a move claim that graduate students are not interested in student government.
“I would first like to point out that the graduate representatives on the council have been among its most active members. But more importantly, interest or lack of it should not affect their right to be adequately represented in accordance with their financial contribution to the council,” Ennis said.
The other graduate representatives are Chris Hamilton, Skip Clemons and Mike Davis.
Grad representatives are currently appointed, but a resolution to make the office an elective one will appear on the run-off election ballot March 26.
Children’s theater auditions start
A special children’s theater project is being organized by Joel Rosenzweig, a participant in the Urban Semester.
Auditions will be held today from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Student Activities Center 202. Interested students are invited.
Rehearsals will begin next week. Besides performing the players will make their own costumes and paint the sets.
The players will perform in four public schools throughout Los Angeles. Rosenzweig said he hopes to give the first performance in three weeks at 32nd Street School. Other shows will be scheduled for Avalon Elementary School, an East Los Angeles school, and a San Fernando Valley school.
After the performances are given, Rosenzweig said he hopes to get the children interested in producing the play themselves, and eventually establish a children’s repertory theatre in each of these schools.
Rosenzweig is a drama major, and a candidate for ASSC president. In this project he said he hopes to combine his knowledge of the theater with his concern for the city.
PALMIERI CHALLENGES CANDIDATES TO DEBATE
Ron Palmieri, a candidate for sophomore representative, has challenged the other candidates for this office to a debate.
Palmieri has scheduled the discussion for Wednesday, March 12, in the lobby of Stonier Hall, a men's dormitory.
Explaining the reason for the debate, Palmieri said, "The issues of in loco parentis, the black studies program, dorm food investigation, the Hoover Redevelopment Project and student rights are too important to be left undiscussed."
Other issues Palmieri said he hopes will be brought up in the debate are the Daily Trojan, the campus police and student positions on the Board of Trustees.
SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT
Gary Kief runs as write-in
Gary Kief, former elections control commissioner, announced his write-in candidacy for senior class president yesterday.
Kief, a junior in public relations, said he had planned to apply for the public relations position on the ASSC President’s Cabinet. He said that because the duties of class president and public relations director are almost the same, he decided to campaign for president and ward off the threats of eliminating the office because of lack of interest.
“Jeff Smulyan, the present senior class president, and Bob Rollo, the present public relations director, have done too much to have it
lost because people don’t feel the president performs a useful function,” Kief said.
He said the major functions of the president are “to speak to local organizations to give a realistic picture of the university and its graduating class and to present the views of the senior class to the ASSC Executive Council.”
He said he hopes to reestablish class councils, which were abolished three years ago. This could be done through a revision of the ASSC Constitution, which will be up for review in October by a Constitutional Convention appointed by President Topping.
Revolution in geology to he lecture topic
Dr. J. Tuzo Wilson, professor of geophysics at the University of Toronto and noted for his theory on continental drift, will speak on the “Current Revolution in the Earth Sciences” in Founders Hall 133 today at 4:15 p.m.
Wilson’s reputation as a top-notch scientist has been established by his studies on the origin of ocean basins and the formation of mountains as well as in the theory of the drifting of continents, which he believes originated from the break-up Of one supercontinent.
The lecture is sponsored jointly by the Geological Sciences Department and the Graduate School.
Wilson, who was the director of the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto, is now the principal of Erindale College of the university.
The distinguished scientist was awarded the Penrose Medal by the Geological Society of America last year.
With four degrees—A.B. from the University of Toronto, A.B. and M.A. from the University of Cambridge and Ph.D. from Princeton University, Wilson became a professor of geophysics at Toronto in 1946 and director of the institute in 1960.
From 1957 to 1960 he was president of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.
A traveler on all seven continents, Wilson is the author of “One ^hinese Mocn,” an account of his month’s visit to China in 1958 to study the state of geophysics.