University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1968, VOL. LX, NO. 20
Congressman George Brown
Student Activities Center
McDuffie, Polier run-off set today
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McCarthy to endorse HHH, Brown claims
“I’m betting even money that Sen. Eugene McCarthy will endorse Vice-president Humphrey within the next week,”
George E. Brown, candidate for his fourth term in Congress from the Monterey Park area, told a small audience in the Student Activities Center yesterday noon.
“There have been increasingly strong committments to end the bombing and win peace in V ietnam on the part of Humphrey.
“An endorsement could be a tremendous shot in the arm for the whole Democratic ticket from top to bottom.”
Congressman Brown supported McCarthy in the primary but does not feel McCarthy's loss hurt him (Brown). He now supports Humphrey. “I can do this on the basis of issues I feel are important.” Congress deserves more criticsm than the vice president for not speaking up sooner on Vietnam.”
“If Kennedy or McCarthy were President, the youth would find out within a year that the system is still there, the changes still need to be made.”
He pointed out that changes in the Democratic national convention methods take four years to go into effect. “This perspective of gradual change is what I’m asking the young people to see.”
“George Wallace and the issues that his campaign are based on are going, but we have to have something in his place.”
“We’re in a period in which alliances and coalitions are in rapid change. I want to see the Democratic Party and the Republican Party reflect the tension between tradition and progress.”
Steve Beidner. chairman of the USC-McCarthy Students which is supporting Brown, presented him with $100 for his campaign.
Brown pointed out that the Republican Congressional candidates get more help from the Republican organization than do the Democrats from their organization but he personally has the largest number of contributors to his campaign of any Congressman in the state and probably in the nation.
“It’s hard to stimulate interest in this election,” Congressman Brown said. “Getting out the vote will be the main problem. We want the activists that are turned off and the apathetics who never were turned on.”
PRESIDENT MAKES SELECTION
Tim McDuffie and Dan Polier face each other today in a run-off election for the position of freshman class representative.
Freshmen may cast their votes today between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. in front of Bovard Auditorium, in Fagg Park and in the Architecture complex.
In a campaign statement Monday, McDuffie stated that the university’s committee system must be broadened to include more freshmen if it is to represent the entire student body.
“The committee structure forms the entire meat of our student government program,” he said. “I feel that there is a great need for a complete revamping of the committee system in an effort to make it more representative of the entire student population.”
“At least five seats should be left vacant on each committee so that freshmen will have a chance to serve.”
Polier said yesterday that the present committee system is exactly as McDuffie wants it. “Freshmen now can become members by relating their interest to the committee chairmen.” He continued, “It is ridiculous to leave five seats open on each committee when some committees have only four members to begin with.”
Polier himself has proposed a way of reorganizing committee structure. He feels that committee chairmen and members should be appointed in May.
Polier proposed a Freshman Grievance Board that would include 30 freshmen who would voice the complaints of their classmen. McDuffie said 30 was too large a group.
McDuffie has also said that he would like a committee composed of all the candidates who lost in the election. Polier commented, “I do not feel that only the losing candidates should be
allowed to participate in student government, but the entire freshman class should be offered the opportunity.”
McDuffie denied Polier’s accusation that he (McDuffie) had said that the other candidates in the primaries had no ideas or platforms.
“I think they had ideas, but they just did not present them,” he said.
“I don’t claim that my platform meets all the needs before us, but I do sincerely believe that it is an important first step in improving and changing the structure of student government and our own academic curriculum,” Polier said.
Polier’s platform includes the pass-fail system for all general P.E. courses except for P.E. majors, and a freshman seminar program that will be given for credit.
Michael Drakolich, Mindi Evans, Danial Levin, Ron Palmieri and Barbara Felts, defeated candidates for frosh rep, have announced their support of Polier, Palmieri said for the group. “We urge all of the voters who cast their ballots for us to unite behind and vote for Dan Polier. He is a concerned individual who wants to get the students’ ideas before student government.”
Ken Walter, senior representative, and Tom Levyn, sophomore representative, have also endorsed Polier.
“I have found the basic concern of the freshmen elections not to be a question of preferable platforms and impressive ideas, but rather one of unifying purpose, leadership, and achievement,” said Bob Fredericks, former candidate for frosh rep.
“In consideration of these points, I am supporting McDuffie as the ruh-off candidate who can best represent the freshmen class, its abilities, and desires to the student council and student body.”
TYR, COHEN HAVE WORDS
The Trojan Young Republican Board yesterday passed a resolution commending Eric Cohen for his decision to run for ASSC president. The resolution also took issue with Cohen's statement that "TYR is a radical group."
"They cited me as a man of courage," said Cohen. "I am only a man who stood up alone when no one else would and when my school needed me.”
Prof to head LBJ library
By JOHN COFFLAND
Dr. Chester A. Newland, professor of public administration, was named by President Johnson yesterday as the director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, to be built on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.
The library will house the complete collection of President Johnson’s personal papers and other writings and exhibits of importance to the historical period.
Dr. Newland, who came to USC only this fall, will be given the task of readying the collection for the library’s scheduled opening in 1970.
“It will be essential to arrange the papers into a consistent records system. The collection is more extensive than any other . . . some of it dating back to the thirties,” he said.
The Johnson Library, one of several Presidential Libraries, will operate as
DR. CHESTER A. NEWLAND
a part of the National Archives and Record Service of the U.S. General Services Administration. The $12 million building, however, will be built by the University of Texas.
It will contain all of President Johnson’s papers from his congressional, senatorial and presidential years, Dr. Newland said. “Also, in this instance, we have things that are interesting and totally different. President and Mrs. Johnson have an enormous audio-visual collection. There are films of signifigance from various T.V. networks, official films, and some made privately by the Johnsons showinghimas an individual. There will also be an oral history collection that will be very valuable ”
He will begin his leave of absence in February’. Dr. Newland commented that he was sorry to be leaving USC, but grateful for the opportunity to direct what he termed “a contribution to the heritage of the nation.”
'Honourable Gentleman’ to open Monday
“The Right Honourable Gentleman,” the Drama Department’s first Mainstage production of the year, will open Monday and run through Saturday in Bovard Auditorium. Curtain time for all performances of the production, based on the true story by Michael Dyne, is 8 p.m.
The department is entering production in national competition for an opportunity to participate in the American College Theater Festival next spring in Washington > D.C.
Representatives from a committee of 13 judges will review “The Gentleman” on any or all of the six performances. The committee includes professors, educators, professional actors, and newspaper critics. Ten schools will be selected to participate in the festival.
The two-act play, which is being performed for the first time by a collegiate group in Southern California, is based on the “Profumo sex-scandal which rocked Victorian England.”
Directed by Herbert H. Stahl, it features Wynn Pearce as Sir Charles Dilke. Pearce is a graduate student and is an experienced actor in stage and television.
Other prominent actors are Vicki Rue as Emilia Pattison; Carol Seucek as Nia Crawford; Alan Hubbs as Donald Crawford; and Carol Brown as Maye Dilke.
“The Gentleman” is Stahl’s 35th production as director. He has also directed such plays as “Death of a Salesman,” “Summer and Smoke,” and “The Taming of the Shrew.”
Sets were designed by Robert H. Johnson.
Lighting was designed by James Gross.
Tickets may be purchased in advance at Parkview Building 304 on campus or by phone at 746-6063. Tickets will also be sold at the door.
Admission is $1.50, Monday through Thursday; $2, Friday and Saturday.
Students with Activity Books will receive a $1 discount.
Sen. Eugene McCarthy at Cal Lutheran
Sen. McCarthy: cause continues despite defeat
By MIKE PARFIT Editor
A local Thousand Oaks newspaper man turned to his photographer and said:
“Last time I saw it so crowded was when we had Reagan here two years ago.”
His statement was probably accurate: Cal Lutheran College only has 1,000 students, and the gym holds over 1600. The small building was crammed, as it had been when Reagan came, but this time the students had come to see a man from a different side of the political spectrum—Sen. Eugene McCarthy.
McCarthy, who lost to Hubert Humphrey in the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination in August, is carrying out a strange sort of part partisan, part independent campaign. He has refused to endorse the top of the Democratic ticket, but is stumping the country to back minor Democratic candidates who favor peace in Vietnam.
At Cal Lutheran yesterday, McCarthy was endorsing Stanley K. Sheinbaum, a candidate for the House of Representatives, and he included several words to that effect in his speech. But most of the twenty-minute talk was devoted to the students.
“I may not be heard from again.” he said, “But I think they’ll be hearing from you for a long time.” His words were cheered.
McCarthy spoke in his familiar flat tone, which added to the impression he gave of being a slightly dispassionate non-candidate. But his audience clung to the words and was ready at any time to thunder their approval.
“This cause was born on college campuses,” he said. “We will not let it die there.”
Again the cheers.
But McCarthy didn’t seem to think that the cause had been completely rejected by the politicians.
More and more people have joined us.” he said. “And the people, not just the politicians, have come to accept that the Vietnam war is not defensible.”
“After nearly 10 months—since we started in New Hampshire—almost everyone involved has come around to the position that a few politicians, a few professors and most of the students of this country had felt was right.”
And once more, the small gym was filled with appreciative shouts and applause.
McCarthy made it clear that he was not, at the moment, endorsing Humphrey.
“I feel that in recent years there has been a personalization of the office of president,” he said. “When someone starts talking about my cabinet, my White House, my congress, my vice president—” McCarthy had to pause for the laughter to fade”—then there must be something wrong.”
After the speech was over the students in the front row poured into the aisles to try and shake McCarthy’s hand. For a while his exit was blocked, then about 10 large men wearing “usher” labels forced the students aside and made room for the senator to leave. The crowds pressed out after him and watched as he drove away, headed for Los Angeles and then Oregon for more speeches.
And when the gym was almost empty a girl of about five straggled back in dragging her McCarthy sign.
“I got to shake his hand,” she said to her mother. “Really, I did.”
New party, CRAP, now organized
on campus
Bill Mauk, ASSC president, and Bob Riddle, a sophomore majoring in architecture, jointly announced yesterday the formation of the Campus Reform Action Party (CRAP).
According to Mauk, a primary function of the party will be to take over action after the ASSC Council has gone through the appropriate university channels on a proposal and met administrative opposition.
“We want to provide a good climate for action on campus,” Mauk said. “We are looking for students all over campus who are interested in doing things and getting them together under one umbrella.”
The party had its first organizational meeting Monday night. Riddle was appointed temporary chairman and Mauk honorary chairman. Eleven people were present to comprise a steering committee.
CRAP will hold its first open meeting next Monday at noon in the Ecumenical Center, at which time officers will be selected, goals will be set, and events planned.
“We expect people from all the various campus political groups to participate, since they are supposedly interested in student action,” Mauk said. “If someone wants an office in the party, we’ll make it for him,” he added.
Riddle said that the party hopes to be somewhat of a “comic relief” from SDS, YAF. TYD and TYR—organizations which he considered often taking too serious an approach to their issues.
“CRAP is going to fill the gap of the campus political organizations,” Mauk declared. “It’s a fun organization to work on serious projects,” he said.
Blues and gospel slated in Grill
The blues and gospel sound of Reverend Gary Davis, continuing in the tradition of Negro gospel music and the old time religion will be heard in the Grill from 9 to 1 a.m. Friday, as one of the Grill Entertainment Committee’s weekly presentations.
Reverend Davis, a 69-year-old blind South Carolina-born Baptist minister and former Harlem street singer, he’ps to bridge the gap between his music and his young audiences by an intensely personal relationship between his singing and his guitar, nicknamed Miss Gibson.
Spirituals aand gospel songs become his sermons, with Miss Gibson carrying the melody, a technique that once led
REV. GARY DAVIS
a largely college audience in Ottawa to join in on “The Old Time Religion.”
In recent years, Davis has sung his spirituals, as well as songs like “If I Had my Way” and “Candy Man” at the Newport Folk Festival, Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin, as well as other universities and many clubs in the United States and Canada.
Also appearing in the Grill Friday night will be the J & P Sound, winners of last year’s Songest from the Kappa Alpha house, and a group from the Cheshire Cat.
Admission to the performance will be 50 cents, to be paid at the door.