Political groups work hard in final month
By ROGER SMITH Assistant city editor
Five campus groups will die Nov. 5.
They’re not too upset by that. They’ll do more work between now and November than most groups do during an entire year.
They only hope their death will not be in vain.
The five are the political groups working for candidates in the Nov. 5 election. Their tables are up nearly every day at the intersection of University Avenue and Childs Way.
Three of the groups, Students for Humphrey, Cranston, and Congressman George Brown, are affiliated with Trojan Young Democrats. The other two, Youth for Nixon and Youth for Rafferty, are Republican.
The Democrats perhaps provide the most interesting story.
The three Democrat groups were organized by TYD in late September in an effort to give support to the party’s candidates.
TYD. however, is badly split over issues and candidates, and the groups tend to reflect that.
Steve Beidner, former campus McCarthy chairman, claims leadership of a group called “McCarthy Students” which encompasses both senatorial candidate Alan Cranston’s and Congressman Brown’s groups.
“We’re thinking of forming our own group outside TYD,” he said. “We don’t think TYD should endorse the national ticket this year.”
This motion of Beidner’s was defeated at yesterday’s TYD meeting.
Some 50 people are in Beidner’s group. The Cranston and Brown people have banded with McCarthy Students because Sen. Eugene McCarthy has endorsed both men, Beidner explained. Marcia Levine, assistant chairman of
the Brown group, said, “Most of our people are in the McCarthy Students, but not all. I’m not, for example.”
In addition, the McCarthy Students are supporting a write-in campaign for McCarthy in California. The McCarthy, Cranston and Brown groups all operate out of the same table near Tommy Trojan.
It’s confusing, but administrative
matters don’t seem to bother the groups at this point.
Students for Humphrey also has 50 workers, according to cochairman Patty Friend.
SEN. TYDINGS
TO SPEAK TODAY
Senator John D. Tydings, Democrat from Maryland, will speak today at 10 a.m. in Bovard Auditorium on vThe Men, the Issues and the Election."
The senator, as a member of the Senate Judicial Committee and chairman of the Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery, vigorously supported Abe Fortas for chief justice of the Supreme Court.
Sen. Tydings appearance is sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
“We are really surprised at the enthusiasm some people have shown for the vice-president after all the sarcastic remarks made about him,” she said.
“We want to make people realize they only have three choices this November. They can’t sit home or drop out unless they want to assure the election of a man with beliefs even further away from their own.”
She sees the main goal of her group as a “re-education of the people.”
“Humphrey is the only man for liberals or moderates.
“I don’t really fear Nixon. I fear the tenor of the times if he is elected,” she said.
She said she was a McCarthy supporter prior to the June primary, but switched to Humphrey before the Democratic convention.
“I didn’t really feel he (McCarthy) was the man for the presidency,” she said.
All of the groups plan to distribute literature and campaign materials as well as to collect donations. Precinct canvassing is also planned.
A slight split is evident also on the Republican side over Senatorial candidate Max Rafferty, but it is played down by TYR members.
Art Berkowitz, Youth for Nixon chairman indicated that the Rafferty people would have “nothing to do” with the running of his group, which is a national organization.
“We’ve got to get a lot more people interested in this campaign,” Berkowitz said. “They don’t realize how strong Wallace is.”
He said he hoped 1,000 people would be working for Nixon from USC before the campaign ended.
Bill Saracino, state chairman of Youth for Rafferty, said the Rafferty campaign effort on campus would be conducted through TYR and Young Americans for Freedom.
“I don’t forsee any trouble getting people to work for Rafferty when they see the alternative,” he said.
Saracino added that 150 Rafferty chapters are located on high school and college campuses throughout the state with 5,000 to 7,000 members.
University of Southern California
Ban on beer in DAILY ® TROJAN Coliseum may lift
By LARRY SHEINGOLD
The Coliseum Commission is investigating the possibility of ending its long-standing ban on the sale of beer at the Memorial Coliseum and Sports Arena.
The plan calls for the sale of beer at concession stands only.
The action came as a result of a motion to the Coliseum Commission by Commissioner A.E. England. During the allowing discussion it was decided that:
•	The Coliseum and the Sports Arena have been losing money because of the beer ban—especially after the opening of Jack Kent Cooke’s Forum in Inglewood.
•	Most publicly-owned stadiums in American now sell beer and others are planning to.
•	People now smuggle both beer and hard liquor into the Coliseum.
Attorneys for the commission have been asked to submit their reports on the
proposal at the commission’s next meeting Nov. 6.
Bill Nicholas, Coliseum manager, commented that he had no intention to sell hard liquor, which, along with beer, is sold at the privately owned home of the Lakers and the Kings, an ice hockey team.
“It’s not right for somebody to get slopped up and be sitting in the same section as kids,” said a spokesman for the Sports Arena. “But let’s face it, a lot of people bring booze into the Coliseum. Our cleanup crews find thousands of bottles after a game.”
Reaction around campus to the proposed repeal of the municipal ordinance against the consumption of alcoholic beverages was mixed.
The middle of the road is perhaps best represented by Roger Smith, sophomore in journalism, who asked thoughtfully, “You mean they don’t sell beer there now?”
The dominant opinion among USC students, however, is that the new city ordinance would not have much effect on the current practice of sneaking various forms of liquor into the Coliseum. A representative comment was, “everyone sits in the student section smashed anyway.”
Paul Moore, director of student activities, was noncommittal. “It’s fine as far as I’m concerned,” he said. “I really don’t feel one way or the other on it.”
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1968, VOL. LX, NO. 17
Unknown man to get shrine
The Ad Hoc Committee to Memorialize Balso Snell grouped around a black cube shrine yesterday and issued a report.
White, 8-inch cardboard squares have been sold for 25 cents each. So far 136 squares have been purchased to be adorned and then affixed to the 40-inch black cube hanging from a tree in the patio of the Fine Arts Building.
One participant carried a white sign. Asked what is meant, he said. “It’s blank.” He added, “The other side is also blank.”
The committee promised a free square to anyone who is able to identify Snell. So far only two people have been successful.
The shrine will be unveiled Monday as a lasting monument to identify an unknown man.
SAFE ANONYMITY—Members of the ad hoc their cube. Their identity, like that of their idol's, committee to memorialize Balso Snell surround is unknown.
Giving campaign supervisors announced
The appointment of four Southern Californians to key positions in the 1968-69 Annual Giving campaign was announced yesterday by Dr. Norman Topping.
Virginia Smith Ramo and J. Robert Fluor will be chairmen of the campaign for collecting contributions from alumni, parents and friends.
Heading the Alumni Fund will be Stephen C. Bilheimer and the Rev. Dr.
Brice Taylor.
Mrs. Ramo and Fluor will take over their duties from John Wayne, actor-producer-director. Wayne, a USC alumnus, recently announced that the Annual Giving total contributions had risen to more than $1.5 million last year. This was the most for any one year in the school’s history. The goal for this year has been set at $2 million.
Mrs. Ramo, an alumna of USC and wife of Dr. Simon Ramo, is president of the Simon and Virginia Ramo Foundation and a member of Commerce Associates.
Fluor, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees, is chairman and chief executive of the Fluor Corp., Ltd., one of the world’s largest engine-ring construction companies. He is honorary vice-president and former chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, and also a member of the National Industrial Conference Board. He holds board membership with Crown Zellerbach Corp., California, Canadian Bank, and the Clorox Co.
Bilheimer is chairman and chief executive of the Silverwoods chain of apparel stores. Named Outstanding Alumnus of 1963 by the School of Business, he was this year’s recipient of the Alumni Award for Outstanding Service.
He is president of the Central City Association, former president of the All-Year Club of Southern California, and a member of the board of directors of the California Museum of Science and Industry, and the Los Angeles County South-, east General Hospital Authority Commission.
An ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Dr. Jones earned three degrees from USC, the bachelor’s, the master of science in education. and a master of science in social work. He also holds the doctor of divinity degree. Last summer he retired after 23 years of service with the Los Angeles City school system. During that time he helped organize the LA Youth Service Program, and was an adviser to the LA Teaching Guide for Corrective Physical Education.
McDuffie, polier in FROSH REP. RUN-OFF
In an unusual display of enthusiasm, 582 freshmen cast votes for their class representative yesterday. The two candidates with the highest vote total, Tim McDuffie and Dan Polier, are now in a run-off election, which will be held next Wednesday.
The two leaders, validated last night by the Elections Committee Board of Inquiry, received 99 and 89 votes respectively. This is over twice as many votes as were cast in the entire freshman election last year.
Votes for the other candidates were: Mark Spitzer, 68; Robert Fredricks, 59; Michael Drakolich, 42; Mindi Evans, 42; John Johnson, 36; Ronald Palmieri, 36; Cynthia Pennick, 29; Jim Marmorstone, 23; Richard Ressel, 9, and Barbara Felts, 7.
Polier had received the endorsement of the Senior and Sophomore Representatives. McDuffie announced his write-in candidacy only two days ago.
Pat Lawless, elections commissioner, commented that the voter turn out showed a definite concern among the members of the freshman class about the affairs of student government. "I hope that, in a sense, this will embarrass the other classes and that they will at least euqal this percentage in the spring elections," he said.
In an accompanying opinion poll, the freshmen expressed their views on current national issues. They gave an overwhelming endorsement to the use of artificial birth control methods, (470-68) and supported immediate and phased withdrawal from Vietnam by a margin of almost two to one over alternatives to remain at the current level of activity or increase action.	_
BAND, ROOTERS PLAN SF RALLY
The traditional pre-Stanford game pep rally will be held in Union Square, San Francisco tomorrow at 9:15 p.m.
The Marching Band will depart from the Statler-Hilton Hotel at 9 p.m., moving up Stockton Street and turning left on Post. They will enter the rally area at the corner of Post and Powell Streets. Students are urged to accompany the band during its march to the rally which is scheduled to last 20 minutes.
Alumni House is sponsoring rooter busses that will travel to and from the Stanford game. Busses will leave San Francisco from Union Square at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Tickets for the busses are now being sold at the Alumni House and in front of Tommy Trojan. The price is $3 per person.
In San Francisco, tickets may be purchased at a reception in the San Francisco Hilton Friday night
DESPITE DRAFT CALLS
Grad School enrollment rises
By BILL DICKE City editor
Enrollment in the Graduate School is up this semester despite the draft, Dr. Charles G. Mayo, dean of the school, reported yesterday.
Exact figures aren’t available, he said, but “what we thought would happen—a drastic reduction in graduate students—did not occur.”
He said this is a national trend partly due to low draft calls which are sometimes found in a political year.
“Most students are terribly alarmed over the uncertainty of the draft, the atmosphere of futility,” he said. “They would like the assurance that they could complete the work for their degrees.
“I have a feeling this is highly deleterious to be abruptly pulled out and put in the military. I think the
national interest is better served by developing a reservoir of educated talent so we aren’t faced later with a shortage of qualified college professors.”
Dr. Mayo was also critical of the fact that occupational deferments are granted for some fields even though work in the same field at the graduate level is not deferable.
Dr. Mayo said that if draft calls increase at the beginning of the year, enrollment may be reduced in the spring.
“However, I don’t want to be pessimistic,” he said.
If this is the case, the number of graduate seminars would have to be reduced and undergraduate education could be affected by a shortage of teaching assistants, he said.
He noted that the school made
efforts to recruit veterans and women, but that standards for entrance were not lowered.
Dr. Mayo is also interim dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and is a member of the committee to select a new dean. He replaced Dean Neil Warren, who resigned last year.
The 12-man committee includes three students and is believed to be the first selection committee for such a post which includes students. The three are Ralph Lippman, a senior in social sciences; Riv-Ellen Prell, senior in speech; and Leta Rae Sugg, senior in biology.
Dr. Mayo said, “1 see more and more students on such committees and this is all to the good. The students very definitely have a right to be heard.”
TYD rejects bid to qualify HHH support
A resolution to reject support of Hubert Humphrey unless the Democratic Presidential nominee would agree to certain policy commitments was defeated yesterday by the Trojan Young Democrats (TYD).
The resolution, sponsored by Steve Beidner, TYD treasurer, was essentially the same as one passed by the recent state convention of the California Federation of Young Democrats.
It stated that Young Democrats should not even begin to consider support of Vice-President Humphrey unless and until he totally endorses the following:
1.	An immediate and unconditional end to the bombing of North Vietnam.
2.	An end to all search and destroy missions in Vietnam.
3.	An immediate phased withdrawal of troops.
4.	The formation of a coalition government.
5.	A condemnation of the gestapo tactics of the Chicago police at the Democratic National Convention.
6.	A concentration on law, equality and social justice rather than law and order.
7.	A total revamping of the Democratic Party.
8.	A restructuring of the draft to provide for selective conscientious ogjection, amnesty for those who have fled the country to escape the draft, an end to discrimination by setting up uniform national standards, and alternative service.
Jeol Rosenzweig, TYD president, proposed an amendment deleting the last two sections. The amendment was passed.
An amendment was then proposed by Roger Kingsley. TYD third vice-president, which added sections favoring a revamping of the convention system to make the Democratic party more receptive to popular opinion: and an endorsement by Humphrey of the draft proposals (which include adoption of a lottery system and alternative national service) of his running mate, Sen. Edmund Muskie. This amendment was passed, and added to the soon-to- be defeated resolve.
Speakers then argued for and against the entire resolution.
Beidner said that the Democrats should not waste time supporting the national party ticket when they could be working for local candidates who support the positions outlined in the resolution.
Rosenzweig said that passage of the resolution would prevent effective work bv Humphrey supporters on camDus.
“If we refuse to support Students for Humphrey, there would ne nothing to prevent refusal to support groups favoring other candidates.” he said.