University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1968, VOL. LX, NO. 39
Cheshire Cat head quits; calls staff egotistic clique
By CECILIA WILKINSON
The Cheshire Cat, one of the budding entertainment centers for a campus lacking in entertainment, has lost the man who made it into one of the “in” places on campus; its president, Steve Milner.
Milner has left his position because of what he called “the Mickey Mouse tactics of a self-centured clique that is running the club.”
Milner took over leadership of the club after it had floundered for six years.
This year, under the leadership of Milner, the Cat had begun to stage concerts with name personalities.
For several weeks the concerts drew “tum-away” crowds at all but one of the concerts. “Crowds numbered from 200 to 250 a night,” Milner said.
Because of these crowds, the Cat was hoping to bring even bigger name personalities to the club. But the Executive Council had other ideas.
Milner said it told him that, according to the club’s constitution, the president’s activities would be up before executive review, by the executive council.
Milner said the council also reported to him that a limit would be set at 80 people per concert; there would be fewer shows on nights when professionals were playing, and that at least once a month the group would return to its previous hootenanny format.
He said he regrets that he had to make this move, but under the demands the executive council had set up, Milner said he could see no way in which his presence could benefit the Cat any longer. Milner said he did not want to be “talent coordinator for the clique.”
Milner also was emphatic in stating that not everyone in the group fits the description he has set, but said that “the group collectively is terribly Mickey Mouse.”
“A small group is denying the whole campus something that I believe there is a great need for,” Milner said. “I think it is extremely unfortunate that there are people who can’t aDPreciate quality or professionalism.”
Milner said he hopes to work with the ASSC Entertainment Committee next semester.
TROLIOS TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Trolios, the student musical satirical revue, will be presented Monday and Tuesday in Bovard Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets for the production, entitled "The Lovin' Haps," are on sale for $1.50 for reserved seats and $1 for general admission at the Bovard box office.
Times editor speaks on 'watchdog’ press
A CRANE, NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT—Some trick photography by Robert Herrup creates an interesting effect with a common construction
machine. Cut the picture in half diagonally, and the result is the crane now at work on the Seaver Science Center.
S.F. State HIS?! classes are shut down
Group organizes to combat institutionalized white racism
“I am a racist to the extent that when I see a black man I see ‘black’ and then I see ‘man’.”
This candid comment of a white undergraduate has a disturbing ring of truth to it, and is a prime example of what has motivated a small group of USC students to begin organizing what they call a white liberation school.
“Before we can begin to bridge the socio-economic gap between whites and racial minorities we must understand that the problem of racism is a white problem.” said Nancy Wint, a junior in economics. Miss Wint is one of the organizers of the group which will hold its first meeting today at 12:15 p.m. in the Student Activities Center 203.
These groups formed to combat white racism, commonly known as white liberation schools, have sprung up on many college campuses in an effort to, as the organizers term it, “help white people reconigize and understand their racist society.”
“We hope that through discussion and analysis of past and present conditions which have fostered the racist institutions existing in the United States today, and by acquainting ourselves with the histories of racial minorities, white students will be able to begin to understand the cries and demands of the black and other oppressed peoples around the world,” Miss Wint siad.
“The white racist is not only the person who votes for George Wallace and joins the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, but is also the person who unknowingly, or unwillingly, typecasts all racial groups and then acts accordingly.
“By patronizing the institutions which foster racism or by listening to the slanted comments of parents, friends, or fraternity brothers, each person is contributing more towards perpetuating and strengthening the racist attitudes held in the United States,” she said.
The liberation group feels that the white man continues to hold fast to a superiority complex and that he must revamp his own self-image if racial harmony is to ever come.
‘The racism which we see today is the product of 200 years of belief in the theory of white supremacy as illustrated by the genocide of American Indians, the relocation of Japanese Americans into camps during World War II and the economic and sociological problems which face the black man today,” Miss Wint said.
“Black and brown Americans have been attempting to become a part of the melting pot phenomena for over two centuries. Their hopes have not yet been fulfilled.”
50 Negro youths laugh, sing way to jail in protest
SWAN QUARTER, N.C. (UPI)-State police arrested about 50 young Negroes protesting school and welfare policies Tuesday and crowded them into a tiny jail, where one girl hung up pink curtains.
They joined six youths arrested Monday when police used smoke bombs to flush children out of the courthouse, where they were staging a demonstration.
A group of about 40 demonstrators, ranging in age from about 10 to 15. stood outside the jail singing. Steel-helmeted state troopers watched them.
Most of the demonstrators were high school students protesting alleged discrimination. Nearly all of the county’s 80 Negro students have been boycotting classes for months, and new tensions arose last week when the Welfare Department threatened to cut off payments to parents whose children were participating in the boycott.
Those arrested Tuesday were taken into custody while parading down the middle of Swan Quarter’s main street singing, “Ain’t Gonna Let No Nightstick Turn Me ’Round.” They were charged with blocking traffic.
Bundled against a cold and gusty day, the demonstrators marched the mile and a half from the church where they had marshalled their demonstrations to the tiny town of about 400.
State Police stood shoulder to shoulder guarding the two-story white stone courthouse but the youths made no attempt to force their way in, as about 20 did Monday. Those 20 were routed from the school superintendent’s office by police who tossed smoke grenades into the room and slammed the door.
The smell of gas and smoke lingered Tuesday in the superintendent’s office, which was a shambles of ripped books, overturned furniture and shredded papers.
“You still can’t go in there,” Allen Bucklew, the school superintendent, told reporters. “I hope you can report what they did to that office.”
About 40 to 50 students marched toward the single-story red brick jail Tuesday around noon singing, and shouting “Arrest me, too.” But they turned back from the state policemen guarding the courthouse.
They marched out the main street away from the courthouse. They locked arms in the middle of the street. Patrolmen in parked cruisers pushed into the crowd and arrested all their cars would hold. The other students literally begged police to arrest them, too. A handfull of disorganized youths were left in the street following the rush.
Crowded into the jail, which is behind the courthouse, the youths continued to sing and laugh.
POETRY POURS INTO DT OFFICE
Entries are continuing to pour into the Daily Trojan "Son of Daily Trojan Poetry Contest."
Most popular subjects thus far are love, hate, life, death, love the second time around, sex. Mayor Daley and other assorted emotions.
Deadline for entries is Nov. 28.
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-The San Francisco State College faculty voted Wednesday to shut down the troubled school indefinitely after police and students clashed again on the campus.
The Academic Senate, representing about 800 permanent faculty members, voted to discontinue all classes for the college’s 18,000 students “until the immediate and long range problems are resolved.”
The announcement came shortly after a squad of riot police charged into a crowd of about 350 rock-throwing students.
At least eight persons were arrested.
The crowded campus, located in a residential part of the city, has been in turmoil for more than a week since a black student group called a strike over a number of grievances, including suspension of a Black Panther graduate student-instructor.
Police have been called repeatedly to control student activists who tried to disrupt classes being held in defiance of the strike.
The clash occurred Wednesday shortly after a news conference was held by the Black Student Union. The students began throwing rocks and other objects as about 40 officers marched onto the campus.
After several attempts to reach the students hurling the rocks, the officers rushed the crowd, swinging their riot clubs.
The crowd then increased to about 1,000. They marched to the Administration Building, shouting demands that the college president meet them.
The violence occurred as the faculty spent most of the day discussing ways to force the
resignation of the State College System Chancellor, Glenn S. Dumke.
By LARRY SHEINGOLD
Reopening the investigation of the Kennedy assissination would accomplish nothing more than to satisfy the curiosity of the general public, Nick Williams, editor of the Los Angeles Times, said yesterday.
After a speech delivered before 50 students in the Student Activities Center, Williams responded to a question saying that the Times has had six reporters investigating every aspect of the assassination since the Warren Report was released.
“We’ve had men all over the country,” he said. “And to date, there has been no evidence whatsoever to indicate that the Warren Report might be erroneous.”
Analizing the note of the press as a watchdog of the government, Williams said that the national political scene in the past four years has provided an excellent example for study.
The disaffection of the Washington press corps for President Johnson, Williams stated, was the result of the administration’s attempts to evade direct questions.
“Reporters had great difficulty in getting candid, truthful answers,” he said. “And they resented getting lies, especially when they knew they were lies at the time they were getting them.”
Williams said that the press corps for Johnson was not biased until they received a negative reaction from the administration. The same will be true when Richard Nixon is president, he predicted.
“Nixon must remember that the media, over a period of time, exerts a great deal of power—for better or for worse, by the portrait which is portrayed,” he said.
“If the press is to be a watchdog, it has the obligation to report on the administration and success of programs. The Johnson administration rarely gave facts about programs.”
Nixon is in a see-saw position at the moment, since he is not enormously popular with reporters at the present, the Times editor said.
“When it comes down to the ranch, it will be interesting to see how close his pre-election statements will be to his actions,” Williams said.
Williams contended that it was unlikely, for instance, that the United States will ever have a volunteer army, even though this was one of Nixon’s campaign promises.
In Los Angeles County the Times has frequently been called a smear organization rather than a watchdog, Williams said.
“Reporters went through the public record of city zoning practice and came out convinced that it was necessary for someone to investigate,” Williams said. “We printed this and the District Attorney’s Office double checked it.
“It was decided that it was at least worth pursuing. So far there have been three convictions and there is at least one trial still pending.”
Resistance will sponsor draft card turn-in at noon
By KEITH McBARRON
The USC Resistance will sponsor a draft card turn-in at r.oon today at the University Methodist Church on 34th Street. USC is serving as one of 12 centers in Los Angeles for The Resistance’s fourth national draft card turn-in.
Father Arthur Melville, an expelled Guatamalan priest, will be the keynote speaker at the turn-in. The group feels the event will show a “significant growth in the Resistance at USC and across the nation.”
Last April USC was one of three turn-in centers in this area. At that time, 20 young men turned in their draft cards. Five of them were USC students.
The Resistance is a group of about 5,000 men, eligible for the draft who have refused to co-operate with the Selective Service System. They do so by either returning their draft cards to the government or by publicly delcaring their failure to register upon reaching their 18th birthday.
Those who turn in their draft cards are, a Resistance spokesman said, “expressing their refusal to support the American military—refusing not with words of peace and cries of anger, but with their lives.”
Those who escaped the draft by fleeing to Canada are not considered a part of the Resistance because jail is considered the only acceptable alternative to military service by the Resistance. Refusing induction is a felony punishable by up to five years imprisonment and/or a $10,000 fine.
BUCKLEY, Me GEE, MURRAY
3 journalists to be honored tonight
Three outstanding journalists will receive distinguished achievement awards tonight at the ninth annual Journalism Alumni Association and School of Journalism awards dinner at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Frank McGee, National Broadcasting Co. reporter and commentator; Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times sports columnist, and William F. Buckley Jr., editor, author and lecturer, will receive gold medallions at the 8 p.m. dinner.
The awards are presented each year to a journalist in three categories: newspapers, broadcasting and periodicais.
The medallions will be presented to the three by Dr. Norman Topping. Each of the recipients is scheduled to give a 20 minute acceptance speech.
Preceding the dinner will be a press conference for the three, as well as two receptions. A reception, hosted by representatives of several companies attending the dinner, will be held at 7 in the Empire Suite of the Beverly Hilton. A no host reception will be held at 7 in the International Ballroom.
A sellout crowd of 900 is expected for the affair. AH proceeds from the dinner will go to the scholarship fund of the School of Journalism and to the journalism library in Doheny Library.
Toastmaster for the evening will be Bob Crane, star of “Hogan’s Heroes” on CBS television. Dr. John Harrington, president of the Alumni Association, will introduce the award recipients.
Murray was selected “not because he is one of the funniest sports columnists in the country, but because he has developed a new journalistic dimension, in which he has looked with perception and compassion on great issues,” Dr. Harrington said.
Harrington particularly cited Murray’s column on the Watts Riots and President Kennedy’s assassination as “helping millions gain in perception and understanding.”
Murray began his career as a police reporter for the New Haven, Conn., Register after graduating from Trinity
College.
Frank McGee will receive his award for “keeping his cool during times of crisis and his dedication and brillance as a reporter.”
McGee, who writes most of his own scripts, started out at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Oklahoma.
Buckley will receive a medallion for his “outstanding wit and ability to charm even the most ardent Democrat” as well as his roles as an intellectual, philosopher, and master communicator.
Buckley, nationally recognized as one of conservatism’s most stimulating and articulate spokesmen, began at Yale University after service in World War n.
Past winners of the awards include Chet Huntley, Walter Cronkite, Art Buchwald, Otis Chandler, Eric Sevareid, Theodore White, Drew Pearson and Bob Considine.