WATER HOLE—SDS demonstrators sit around the fountain at the Century Plaza Hotel as inside the hotel Nixon supporters wait for the final vote count.
Not all cheer Nixon victory
By MIKE PARFIT Editor
In the carpeted hall a man stood behind a table and shouted: “Hats! Buttons! Pennants! Hats! Buttons! Pennants!”
Inside the huge room a large, sweating man sat at a microphone in front of a vast scoreboard and bellowed: “The great potato state of Idaho has just gone to Richard M. Nixon! That’s four more electoral votes.” The hatted, buttoned and pennant-waving crowd cheered.
And outside the Century Plaza, along the sidewalk, a group of students gathered, talking and laughing, began to chant at the echoing building: “F~ Nixon. F— Nixon. F— Nixon.”
A teenage girl walking towards the building with two friends, each wearing a Nixon button, looked back at the dark Figures moving about on the other side of the rail.
“I’m going to start to cry,” she said. “They’re so obscene.”
But her tears were all but unnoticed Tuesday night because the evening after the election was already Filled with strong emotion and crammed with noise.
In the main room of Nixon’s Los Angeles headquarters, most of the noise was supplied by the man reading election results into the microphone. He competed effectively with three color television sets, numerous private radios and the chatter of some 700 Nixon supporters.
Many of the supporters who wandered around, glancing at the televisions,waving at friends and joining in the shouting when a gain was announced were USC students.
“I think approximately 70 percent of the voters at USC voted for Nixon,” said Art Berkowitz, chairman of Youth for Nixon. “I found the students a lot more interested in the election than I had expected, though on the whole they would be considered fairly apathetic.”
As the band played a jazzed up version of “John Brown’s Body,” John Davis, another student, analyzed the results:
“It’s going to go to the house,” he said. ‘Then it will depend on what Wallace does with his power.”
A small, gray-haired woman walking by heard him and said:
“It won’t go to the house. It won’t. Don’t even talk about it.”
Near the door stood a young man wearing beads, tinted glasses and a Nixon button. A reporter stepped up to him.
“You don’t look like a typical Nixon fan,” the newsman asked. “How come you support him?” —
“I don’t really know,” was the answer. “I guess it’s because Humphrey had too much to do with the present administration.”
But while the band played and the Nixon people talked, analyzed and drank, the chanting crowd outside grew larger.
“Elections are a fraud!” they shouted, and the curved, towering building threw it back. “Elections are a fraud! ”
Most of the students there were members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and had participated in an afternoon SDS rally in Pershing Square.
“Right now we’re having a meeting to decide what to do,” said one SDS member, who was from Long Beach State College. “Either we’re going to have a few more yells to let the pigs know that not everybody is sucking their pacifier during the elections or we’ll make some sort of movement towards this buildling until we reach the top.”
The thin, blond student said he was on the Defense Committee of the local SDS chapter, which meant he was responsible for arranging for bail money, lawyers and legal advice in the case of arrests.
But the crowd never attacked the building. Two people tried, but members of SDS held them back.
No one was prepared for a mass assault, but the talk was bold.
“I’m going in.”
“Go ahead. I’m not stopping you.”
“Won’t you come with me?”
“No.”
One man, silhouetted beside the fountain, tested the water with his hand.
“Me and my old lady is going to go swimming in the old water hole, man,” he said.
Slowly the crowd moved towards an area where hotel security police had formed a line. One high school student tried to intimidate a large, gray-coated man but was pulled away by his friends.
“We’re not prepared.” somebody said. “This is poor tactics. Let’s split.”
‘This system is dying, man,” another student said. “It died in Chicago, it died in Miami and it’s dying in universities all over the country.”
Somebody was passing around a box labeled: Uncle Sam Cereal. “It’s a natural laxative,” he said.
A girl in a long dress tapped a man on the shoulder. “Hi,” she said. “Weren’t you down at Pershing, too? Outasight.”
For a moment there was confrontation. The crowd pressed toward the building. The students had seen the police cars moving inconspicuously to the back of the Century Plaza, but for a moment the mood urged motion.
But the man from the Defense Committee moved quickly through the crowd. “Come on, lets split. We’re not prepared. We don’t have any helmets. Let’s split.”
Then everybody was going home.
“Need a ride to Hollywood.” “Anybody going to Venice?”
And when ABC announced that it predicted a victory for Nixon; when the students downstairs shouted, jumped and clapped; when the crowd inside First began to feel the joy of victory after a close race, there was no one in the street.
23 girls compete for Helen of Troy
The Field of contestants for the crown of Helen of Troy has been narrowed from 161 to 20 junior and senior girls.
The semi-Finalists are Patricia Barber. Leslie Barnett, Scotti Beven, Janet Bullweg, Liz Carr, Cheryl Delahousie, Celeste Freemon, Melissa Furer, Sue Hemstreet, Scarlett Huenergardt, Joanne Knispel. Judi Latimer. Hariet Lees. Laurie Lynch, Karen McCroskely, Nancy Mesher. Claudia Paulin. Penny Pederson. Lyn Silverstein. Valerie Thompson, Teddi Tindell. Cynthia Watson and Susie Wright
Judging has been going on since Monday when the field was reduced to
University of Southern California
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Nagy will speak at forum today
Ferenc Nagy, former premier of Hungary. Nagy will speak on "The Fight of the Intellectuals for Freedom in East-Central Europe” today at 77 a.m. in Hancock Auditorium. The speech is sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
Social Action Center head sees more racial violence
By LARRY SHEINGOLD
We’re just on the eve of more violence, William Williams, director of the Cencer of Social Action predicted yesterday at the First Sociological Honor Society Symposium.
“Racism is just a word and nobody bothers about that,” he contended. “But now people are beginning to deal with the ingredients that sustain racism in this country. That creates problems and causes struggles for power.”
Speaking to an audience of about 75 students in the Student Activities Center, Williams said that both white and black people were going through therapeutic changes in identity.”
Only when the problem of identity has been confronted can people in this country address themselves to the broader problems of racism, he added.
“I’m not sure that we’ll ever be able to deal with these changes,” he said. “But until they are realized, we’ll have to resort to threats of violence and disruption to bring about social change.”
The essence of the identity change is to accept the fact that black and white people dislike each other and unless we face this idea, Williams said, the blacks can’t develop a self concept and the whites will be unable to address themselves to the facts of white power and the white world.
As an example of the black person who is engaged in the struggle for a concept of herself, Williams described a student who was unsure whether to call him a Negro or a black.
“I said that I was a black,” he said and then asked her what she called herself.
“I’m still a Negro,” she answered.
Williams student said that she was afraid to be anything else at the time because she was trying to get a masters degree and was afraid that she would “give off black vibrations” that her professors wouldn’t like.
Williams said that the whites must face two obsticles. First, they must overcome their tendency to consider themselves missionaries when attempting to assist in the black community.
Secondly, the whites must learn to see that there is work to be done in the white community.
It is the whites who now hold the power, he said. “It is the establishment which will resist efforts for change because no man wants to be a party to his own dismissal.”
The fear of the white community impedes the white man who is sympathetic to social change, Williams said.
‘The whites say, ‘We want you to tell us what to do.’ But what they actually want to know is ‘What can I do that is safe,”’
In the Final analysis Williams said, there must be the therapeutic change in identity. Without it, the only way that social change will occur is through a power struggle between the haves and the have-nots.
But that struggle is likely to take place anyway, he said because the therapeutic process may only show us how deep the hostility really is.
80 girls. These 80 appeared before the judges again on Tuesday and were again reduced, to 50. The 50 girls were judged again last night and the 23 semi-Finalists were chosen.
From the 23 girls chosen, Five Finalists will be selected tonight. These Five will undergo an intensive period of judging, lasting all next week. The judging will culminate in the crowning of Helen of Troy at the Troy Week Ball on Nov. 16 at the International Hotel.
The first ofFicial appearance of Helen of Troy after the ball will be at
the Nov. 23 UCLA game with her court of four princesses.
Valley State clash; police seek action
GRANADA HILLS (CNS)-Grimi-nal complaints against some of the students who seized the Administration Building at San Fernando Valley State College Monday will be sought by Los Angeles police.
Lt. Rene Rock, chief of detectives at the New Devonshire Division in Granada Hills, said 33 participants have been named in reports made to police.
Rock also said some students allegedly connected with the incident have been asked to surrender voluntarily. No one has yet done so, he added.
The incident involved about 100 members of the Black Student Union (BSU), the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the United Mexican-American Students (UMAS).
The students seized control of four floors of the Five-story Administration Building for nearly four hours, holding 34 persons as hostages.
The seige resulted in a tactical alert being called in 11 of Los Angeles’ 17 police divisions. There was no violence reported, however.
Police Chief Tom Reddin, at a news conference Tuesday, said he had reports that some of the students involved in the confrontation had used knives to threaten the hostages.
He emphasized, however, that the reports were just rumors and needed checking out.
The siege of the Administration Building ended when the acting college president, Dr. Paul B. Blomgren, signed a document presented by members of the BSU, demanding amnesty for the students involved.
The next day, however, Dr. Blomgren announced he would refuse to honor the document, claiming his signature had been obtained under duress, and therefore was null and void.
PROF SAYS VOTER 'FEAR’ DEFEATS PROPOSITION 6
Proposition 6, the measure that would have prevented the imposition of a tax on the retirement programs of independent colleges and universities in California, has been defeated by a vote of about three to two.
"I think this is an extremely interesting case of the voters voting 'no' on a proposition on which they have very little information," Dr. Chester Hyman, president of the Faculty Senate, said yesterday.
"To my knowledge there was no organized opposition and no argument against it. The moral is that whenever we're confronted with any matter that is strange and foreign to us, the tendency is not to shut our mouth, but argue that we must reject it," he said.
Dr. Hyman diagnosed it as a case of xenophobia, that is, fear of the unknown.
Jubilant crowd cheers Cranston at headquarters
By MICHAEL HARRIS
He was wearing a Humphrey-Muskie straw hat, several campaign buttons and a small Humphrey-Muskie flag which protruded out from his buttonhole. Sweat was beaded on his forehead and the stubble was heavy on his face.
“Thank God this only comes once every four years,” he said, “I don’t think I could take it if it was any less than that. My heart just couldn’t take it.”
The time was late Tuesday evening and the place was the Biltmore Hotel, headquarters of Alan Cranston, U.S. senator elect.
Floors were covered in a thick carpet of confetti and streamers with crushed paper horns and tom campaign stickers strewn here and there.
People gathered around the various television sets trying to see who had the lead in the presidential race but the race was going evenly for anyone to really be enthusiastic.
The Cranston group hired a mariachi band to play for the supporters and build the already growing hopes of the people gathered to cheer for Cranston and Humphrey.
A few people danced to the music of the Mexican hat dance while the bartenders continued to pour the drinks.
Each of the television networks had their comer of the Cranston room, while the powerful arc lights burned down on the people who entered.
Once in a while an ofFicial would climb up onto the stage and announce that one of the networks had predicted Cranston the winner and a huge roar would Fill the cavernous room.
Upstairs on the seventh floor Cranston had taken a suite for the evening. People who had an invitation would be allowed to enter this room, where the party was being held, while all others waited downstairs to see Cranston.
Around 11 p.m. Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly, came down from his suite to join Cranston in his message to the people who were waiting below.
Leaving with friends and security men, Cranston walked down the long hall toward the elevator with a smile on his face.
“I’m going down to greet the people who have been working with me now,” he said in answer to one newsman’s question.
“I’m also looking ahead to the Senate and what can be done for peace and for progress and to get people working together,” he added.
Downstairs a huge crowd had gathered to greet the future senator.
Someone inside the room yelled “Here comes Cranston,” and the whole audience cheered and waved. Some threw streamers, some threw confetti and most held up their hands in the victory sign.
The crowd was tremendous. There was just no more room for others. People yelled Cranston’s name and other welcoming slogans which were lost in the noise.
His security people pushed back enough of the crowd to make a path for Unruh and Cranston to pass toward the stage and podium.
Toes were stepped on, hats were lost, cameras were dropped.
But there they were on the stage with the press straining to get close to them.
It quieted down after a few minutes and Cranston began to speak:
“We have won a great victory. It came from a coalition of people who have faith ... and believe we can have peace. Peace in America among all the peoples of this land.”
He continued to speak after being interrupted by the tumultuous cheers of the people.
“I look forward to representing all the people of California—for the good of all the people—in the Senate of the United States. This is only the beginning.”
In the background was the noise of people who have seen their candidate win and speak out to them and say the things which one expects to hear at victory rallies.
Then he left the room through a side door and the people quickly dispersed.
The arc lights started to go off. Cameras were shut down. Newsmen yawned.
And Finally all that was left was the confetti and the streamers with crushed paper horns dropped here and there.
SPACEMEN INFILTRATE?
Speaker tells of aliens
By NANCY GUMMESS There are aliens living and working among us according to George W. Van Tassel, chairman of the board of the Ministry of Universal Wisdom, Inc.
Van Tassel claimed in a speech at the Student Activities center that as the people of the horse and buggy day would not accept the automobile, people now will not accept spaceships from other planets. Our ego is what is holding us back from believing non-terrestrial beings have intelligence enough to travel through space to our planet, he said.
Most people are also limited to what their senses or the machines can tell them, he said. “No matter how much man learns, he is still ignorant compared to what there is to know.” Van Tassel now operates an airport seventeen miles north of Yucca Valley which covers more than 2,700 acres. He just renewed the lease with the government.
“They don’t issue leases for airports to psychos,” he said.
He told students that the Air Force has been experimenting with antigravity ships since about 1957, and
is seeking an electromagnetic porpulsion system.
Any news of our advances or spaceships spotted has been hushed because of what it would do economically, he said.
If an antigravity ship were announced, oil and rubber. stocks would crash, he said because
POEM DEADLINE SET FOR NOV. 20
"Entries have been flowing into the 'Son of Daily Trojan Poetry Contest,"' mused Pat Reid, the feature editor.
"So far, they have all been concerned with sex," Bill "Lech" Dicke, city editor, noted with pleasure. The deadline for entries is Nov. 20 in the Daiiy Trojan City Room, 432 Student Union.
antigravity ships require no tires or oil fuel. These ships would also eliminate the need for roads, he said.
Of the legitimate spaceship reports. Van Tassel says one percent are due to people seeing weather balloons or experimental ships which are only used two or three times a year.
Van Tassel has reported seeing from 100 to three spaceships flying in formation at a time. He has even been close enough to see portholes in the ships, he said.
Van Tassel said he has seen aliens living among us and that he went aboard a spaceship himself in 1953.
There were four men inside and they all looked as if they were brothers, he said adding that their complexions were olive. One of the men answered all of Van Tassel’s questions before he could ask them, showing that he had telepathic powers. Van Tassel said.
All of the men on the ship could have put on our clothes and walked the streets without being recognized as aliens, he said.
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