University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LX	L0S ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1968	NO. 9
YAF meets, makes plans for grape-in
Young Americans for Freedom, which, in its first week of unofficial existance on campus, has already become known as an active group, held a third organizational meeting yesterday.
A full room of prospective members, numbering about 40, heard acting officers Pat Nolan, Allen Brandstater and Bill Johnson criticise Bill Mauk, ASSC President, the left wing, and the Daily Trojan, then describe some of the activities the group has planned.
There was some confusion about how the YAF can operate until it is recognized. The chairman, Pat Nolan, a freshman, said that he was told the group cannot use its name until it is official. But Paul Moore, director of student activities, said yesterday afternoon that the use of the name was acceptable, but that the group can not use university facilities until it is recognized. “Under the literature code, however, individuals from the group can still distribute literature on campus,” he said.
After criticising Mauk for not offering solutions to the problems he attacked, the new left for being destructive, and the Daily Trojan for using biased reporting. Nolan told the group about its next activity.
“Allen Cranston has been urging a nationwide boycott of California grapes in support of Ceaser Chavez’s strike,” he said. “Good thinking, bald Allen. Grapes are California’s biggest export, and this would hurt our entire economy. So Monday night at 8 in the Century Plaza we are going to have a grape-in. Cranston is going to be there and so will we. We are going to bring truckloads of grapes and crush them on the sidewalk with our feet. It should be a fun time for all.”
Nolan also announced that Philip Abbott Luce, field director for the California YAF, will appear on campus on October 9.
“We don’t know if Mauk will be on the platform with him,” Brandstater said, “but perhaps Mauk and his comrades would like to offer solutions to some of the things they have
attacked.”
The group also discussed the national and state campaigns.
“We must realize that if the forces of individual liberty are to be kept alive in America, the Nixon-Agnew ticket must win, and we have to get Rafferty in,” Nolan said. Representatives from both Nixon and Rafferty groups spoke, urging active participation in the campaign. The Rafferty organization is hoping to sponsor an appearance of the senatorial candidate sometime in October.
Following the discussion of the campaigns, Brandstater said that he has been trying to get William F. Buckley, Jr. to appear on campus some time during the semester, but has so far been unsuccessful.
The organizing members were confident that the group will succeed on campus. Bill Saracino, chairman of the Rafferty group, said:
“If all the people that oppose the new left on this campus got together they’d find that they compose 95 per cent of the student body.”
Bill Johnson, vice-chairman of YAF, said after the meeting:
“YAF is on the crest of a wave that is going to sweep through this campus and change a lot of things.”
After a vote of the national members of YAF in the audience, the acting officers were established as official for the academic year. They are: Pat Nolan, chairman; Bill Johnson, vice-chairman; Allen Brandstater, membership chairman; Man- Larrimer, publicity chairman; and Amanda James, secretary.
Alumni official is recovering
Eldridge Cleaver may speak here
HALL CONDEMNED-"G roov” Stevenson, John E. Cantelon, the university chaplain (dark
president of Stonier Hall, condemns his residence suit), waits to read the eulogy for the dorm.
to a public death in front of Tommy Trojan. Dr.	Photo by Robert Herrup
Eldridge Cleaver may speak at the university in the very near future, Truman Clemons, chairman of the Black Student Union, said at an organizational meeting yesterday.
He said his group had been in touch with the Black Panthers.
Cleaver, the minister of information for the Panthers, was the cause of a controversy last week at the University of California at Berkeley when he was scheduled to lecture 10 times. He spoke at USC over the summer.
The BSU is also developing a black curriculum which it will submit to the university, Clemons said.
Warren Hewitt, chairman of the Black Studies Committee, said university courses do not cover the contributions of Afro-Americans.
“We have a very fruitful past which is being overlooked,” he said. “We are going to be rectifying a major discrepancy.”
Clemons said that reports that the BSU was going to merge with the Students for a Democratic Society were false.
He said that the BSU was trying to remain separate from other groups but
would assist any group with the same aims.
He said that the BSU was responsible for getting more black professors and a black coach hired at USC over the summer. He also said the group was responsible for getting the Center for Social Action formed.
The BSU’s efforts to get scholarship assistance were outlined by Larry Burton, the scholarship committee chairman. He said the committee’s aim was to get more black students on campus.
ASSC at fault says Black Student Union
The failure to produce a plan for a conference on Oct. 29 and 30 was attributed to the Black Student Union in yesterday's Daily Trojan. The ASSC academic affairs committee was the group which was unable to come up with the conference plans, a BSU spokesman told the Daily Trojan yesterday.
Stonier is dead, new image to arise
By TIM TAYLOR
old and generally
unrespected men’s
Dr. Mulvey White, vice-president of student and alumni affairs, is “very much improved” after an automobile accident, a spokesman at Good Samaritan Hospital reported.
The spokesman said Dr. White will remain hospitalized until at least next week.
Dr. White suffered a severe neck sprain, a fracture of the seventh cervical vertebrea and compressed nerves in the brachial plexus.
According to police reports, Dr. White was struck from the left while driving north on Linda Vista Avenue in Pasadena on Sept. 14.
Stonier Hall, an dormitory, is dead.
Stonier Hall was burned at the stake yesterday noon after “Groov ” Stevenson, president of the hall, read off a long list of Stonier’s crimes.
Speaking for all the residents, Stevenson said that Stonier Hall had been found guilty of, among other things, gross apathy, suffocation of social impulse, wanton moral homicide, the atrophy of man’s physical prowess, sterilization of intellectual creativity and the frustration of sexual vitality.
“For these and other crimes against humanity,” Stevenson continued, “we, the oppressed residents of Stonier Hall, do hereby condemn to a slow and painful death, once and forever, the name Stonier Hall.”
He then asked the condemned if he had any last words. Stonier Hall, represented in the ceremony by a large sign bearing its name, remained silent to the end, accepting its fate without visible signs of remorse.
The executioner, his head covered with the traditional black mask, then lit “Stonier Hall.” Death was quick and apparently painless.
In an eloquent summary of the feelings of the residents, Stevenson said, “In the name of your innocent victims and as guardian of this benevolent revolution, I commend your dilapidated spirit to those depths where all that is obsolete and outdated eventually wends its way. May God not waste his mercy on your soul!”
The execution, which followed a long and solemn procession by the mourners from Stonier Hall, took place in front of Tommy Trojan.
Keith Keener and “Happy” Trope, Stonier’s two RAs, led the procession and were dressed in Navy-weather-balloon orange. They pulled “Stonier Hall” behind them in an old red wagon, a throwback to the charrette de condamnes of the French Revolution.
SPECIAL PERMIT NEEDED TO PARK IN DORM LOT
Special parking permits are now needed in addition to the regular USC parking permit for university residents to park in Lot D between the men’s and women’s dormitory complexes. This permit while guaranteeing a space in Lot D, will prevent residents from parking in any other university lot until after 6 p.m. Nonresidents will not be permitted in this lot.
About 440 of these special permits have been issued to the men’s and women’s dormitories. Elton Phillips, business manager, said that if there is a demand in excess of the 440 car limit of Lot D permits will be issued for guaranteed space in Lot B, directly north of the women’s dorms.
The mourners, about 50 in number, followed behind in pairs. All were dressed in jeans, T-shirts, and sport coats with a black sock tied around the right arm.
The eulogy was delivered by Dr. John E. Cantelon, the university chaplain, who said: “I am faced with the problem most clergymen have in conducting some funeral services and that is that it is sometimes very difficult to find anything decent to say about the deceased. I think that the residents of Stonier agree with me that to conduct a eulogy for a place like Stonier Hall is one of the more difficult tasks that a clergyman might be asked to perform.”
The cermony closed with a sometimes solemn, sometimes raucous clarinet rendition of “God Save the Queen,” played by Frank Shinneman, one of the residents.
To the accompaniment of a genuine funeral dirge from the VKC carillon, the procession reformed and solemnly made its way back the way it had come.
The ashes were collected by the mourners as they filed
out. Half of the last remains of Stonier were placed in front of Tommy Trojan, and half were carefully spread throughout the newly-christened “Stonier H&ll Memorial Park,” a plot of grass between the Student Union and Owens Hall.
Few now at USC know when the deceased was bom, and no cornerstone can be found. But there is a dab of concrete in the back with the words “2nd sem. ’32” and a dozen or so initials scratched into it.
The building was for a long time a privately owned dorm known as Aeneas Hall, apparently named after the famous Trojan. In 1955, USC bought the building and renamed it Stonier Hall.
Stonier Hall is survived by 117 miscellaneous residents who are temporarily living in a nameless building. In spite of the sadness, feeling of expectancy pervades the mourners. A new home will rise from the ashes of the old hall, they say, and it will be nothing like this university has ever seen before.
History prof tells how to do own thing at
USC
By HEIDI FLYNN
Dr. Howard Miller last night told a group of students, mostly freshmen, “How To Do Your Own Thing At USC” at the first dorm happening of the year in the University Hall lounge.
Before the doctor’s speech the students were treated to cider and cookies and entertainment by Jeff Meilandt and Ken Foster. There was even an old-fashioned sing-along to make the atmosphere informal. |
Dr. Miller, a professor of history, began by asking the students why they wanted him to tell them how to do their own thing since he is over 30, and therefore not to be trusted.
He said, “You want to do your own thing, but if you are not doing your own thing, what are you doing?”
He explained that students today suffer from what sociologists call other-directedness.
“Students walk into class and ask the professor ‘What do you want of me? What are you expecting of me? But for God’s sake, don’t let me do
what I want. During the first year in particular, there are enormous pressures to avoid doing your own thing. So you try to do what others want, and education becomes a bummer.
“Students must be willing take a risk to say what they really believe. However, few students today are willing to risk a grade for the sake of a principle.”
Dr. Miller thinks that there is a great withering away of creativity today. “We are all consumers rather, than performers,” he said. “It is awfully hard to recapture creativity. It has been beaten out of you by the educational system.”
Dr. Miller closed his talk with a quote from Shakespeare: “This above all, to thine ownself be true, and thous canst not be false to any man.”
Expert attacks citizen disinterest in smog
Columbia radicals seen dwindling
NEW YORK (UPI)—The number of student radicals at Columbia University is decreasing by the day, Dr. Andrew W. Cordier, the school’s acting president, said last night.
Addressing alumni at 27 locations around the country via closed circuit television, Cordier said in a pre-taped appeal for funds that there was “a sense of forward movement ... A sense of cooperation ... a desire for teamwork” at the university.
“There are those, there have been those, who would disrupt university life.” Cordier said. “That number, happily, is decreasing by the day.”
The official told alumni that
student riots “are not peculiar to Columbia. They exist widely over the world.”
Cotdier’s remarks opened the second phase of a $200 million fund drive by the university. The three-year drive, which began in 1966, has already raised $93.4 million.
The acting president also said he has received almost 5,000 letters from alumni, with between 80 and 90 per cent supporting the actions taken last spring by the university against students involved in campus disorders.
Earlier yesterday, the eve of the fall term, a student council committee demanded that Columbia give its
students the exclusive right to regulate their campus organizations.
The committee announced its demand as the militant Students for a Democratic Society led a small band of student radicals and elderly neighborhood residents on a march on the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine to protest institutional expansion in Morningside Heights.
About 40 students and a handful of elderly onlookers joined in the SDS-led march on the cathedral, demanding a meeting with the Rt. Rev. Horace W. B. Donegan, Episcopal Bishop of New York.
“We came to see the bishop. It’s only the people,” the demonstrators shouted outside Donegan’s residence adjoining the cathedral.
Rally to be held tonight
A send-off rally for the football team will be held today at 5 p.m. on the north side of the gym. The Trojan Band and several campus organizations will be present.
Nobody cares, an expert on smog told an audience of eight yesterday.
The expert, Roger J. Diamond of the Clean Air Council, condemned the lack of concern over the smog problem on the part of most citizens.
“Present technology can eliminate smog,” he said. “Eighty per cent of the smog in the Los Angeles basin is caused by cars.” He went on to add that stricter rules applying to cars would eliminate the problem.
Diamond, an attorney, said that the state standards are inadequate because they apply only to smog devices on new cars.
What the council proposes is a proposition by the initiative process. The proposition would put stricter standards on car emission. It would also require a car to be tested at a licensed air pollution lab before registration once a year.
If a car does not pass the test the driver would be restricted from driving and registering his car. This will result in mandatory smog devices on all cars, both new and old.
“Our hope is to enact a broad law and have the legislature implement it,” he said. He stated that it would be up
to the legislature to handle the question of costs.
Diamond added hopefully, “Who could vote against anti-smog?” But realizing that people highly value their right to drive, he expressed regret that although everyone is against smog, when it is a question of their own car, it is seen in a different light.
Joni Mitchell concert tickets on sale today
Tickets go on sale today for the Joni Mitchell performance on Oct. 4, the first ASSC-sponsored concert of the year.
A new system is being instituted for ticket purchase. Ticket order blanks will be sold at the Student Activities Center or in front of Bovard Auditorium. Students will be given a receipt to use as a ticket, and, if lost it will not be replaced.
The receipts may be redeemed later at the YWCA or at the box office the night of the performance.