University of Southern California
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1968, VOL. LX, NO. 30
Nixon victory forseen by TV commentator
By MICHAEL HARRIS
Fulton Lewis, noted national commentator for the Mutual Broadcasting System, stood next to Tommy Trojan yesterday and told his audience that Richard Nixon will win the presidential election.
Lewis felt that Nixon will win 43 to 44 percent of the popular vote.
Opening the period to questions, he was asked what he thought of Spiro Agnew as vice president, and what he thought of Agnew being a heart-beat away from the Presidency.
“I’ve heard those campaign advertisements about Agnew, and I don’t think they are fair,” Lewis said. “Agnew is just as qualified as Muskie. I do think that both parties could have presented better qualified men for the job though.”
Lewis commented that the office of vice president could be made more attractive in order to draw more qualified men.
“Both men are equally qualified in that they have about the same amount of experience and intelligence for the job,” he said.
Lewis was then asked to comment on what Nixon could offer the North Vietnamese if he were President.
“First off, Nixon’s approach to the subject would be that he would have a more flexible policy to offer ... He is a free agent,” Lewis said.
Lewis said that it is true Nixon’s policy is more hard-line oriented and that this could cause the North Vietnamese to negotiate between now and Jan. 20.
“Why should Johnson negotiate if Nixon would become President in three months?” a student asked.
“I think Johnson would do it because he is for his country,” Lewis said.
Discussing the campaign efforts of the three parties, he said that the advertisements had been, on the whole, free from mud slinging.
“This year’s Presidential race has seen a better attempt to inform the public of the issues at hand and avoid personality attacks,” he said.
Lewis added that 1964 saw few attempts to bring the issues to the public.
“All Goldwater could get Johnson to admit to was that he would not bomb North Vietnam and keep the boys out of the Vietnam war,” he said.
A question was asked about the possibility of the elections being thrown into the House of Representatives, and what Lewis thought of having a 50 state primary.
Lewis said that Wallace has admitted that he would throw the elections into the House and then bargain with Nixon or Humphrey about who would get his votes.
DEAN REBUFFS SDS RULE INFRACTION
The Students for a Democratic Society have received a letter of reprimand from Paul Bloland, dean of students, for minor rule infractions committed last week.
Bloland indicated that the letter, sent to Dan Brandt, SDS cochairman, on Monday, resulted from the group's "unilateral decision to move the speech of David Harris to Alumni Park." The speech had been scheduled to be held on the patio behind the Student Activities Center.
"I don't think that this warrants severe action, but it should be reviewed," Bloland said.
Brandt said that he has not received the letter yet. He expects no more than a warning, however.
In a separate action, Bloland has sent a letter to Bill Mauk, ASSC president, to be filed with the Literature Committee. It concerns a violation of the literature code by SDS. Bloland said that the group distributed literature without using the name of the sponsoring group.
Center lacks support, says social action director
By BILL DICKE City editor
The Center for Social Action doesn’t have the university commitment which it needs. Dr. William Williams, its director, said yesterday at the Faculty Luncheon.
He said the center has received a lot of verbal support but added:
“Somewhere along the line we’re going to have to set up a system of priorities—whether or not we’re going to have a gigantic building program on this campus in the next 10 years or whether or not we’re going to concentrate somewhat on human resources.”
The two foundations supporting the center with grants and other groups have said they will not give more money unless the university supports the center, he said.
“I want to make it clear that they (administrators) have verbally said, ‘We are in your corner and we are going to support you,’” Williams said.
“But they have not come up with X number of scholarships for disadvantaged students. They haven’t said, ‘We are going to change our priorities and address ourselves to this problem.’ But they are going to try to
SPEAKER—Fulton Lewis (left) and Peter Chase, California director of Young Republicans. photo by Jamie Baldwin
Song girls may make debut at Nov. 16 game
Song girls may make their debut on the USC football scene beginning with the Oregon State game pending final approval of their sponsor, Ronald B. Broadwell, band director.
The Yell Squad Policy Board’s decision to allow the seven girls to perform at football games was passed Friday after long deliberation and tradition evaluation.
Penny Ward, head song girl, said that the appearance of song girls will add spirit and color to the game.
“It is a breakthrough in tradition and will widen the scope of the university,” she said. “It shows USC is becoming more open minded,” said Claudia Paulow, a song girl.” “It shows that USC can maintain tradition by updating it.”
The song girls were scheduled to perform for Broadwell today. But, due to his illness, it will most likely be postponed until Monday. With his approval the girls will participate in cheerleading activities and possibly some half time shows for the Oregon State, Notre Dame and UCLA games.
The other five song girls are Susan Knolle, Celeste Freeman, Charlene Gonzales, Susie Wright and Linda Hauf.
All seven were selected last year to perform during basketball games.
Council doing more than previous groups—Mauk
work it out without frustrating the
system.
“But I don’t know if you can work it out without frustrating the system. I see the need for some basic and rudimentary changes.
“We need more than verbal support. We need people who will say, ‘OK, I’ll give so much time, ‘I’m going to change my priorities for this year,’ or ‘I’m going to talk to the president about the posture I think we ought to take in relation to the community.’
Dr. Williams said he considered solving problems of race a matter of survival for the country. He said racism is so deeply rooted in the United States that it is almost a religion.
He said integration could be considered premature. “When I speak on this a lot of people think I am speaking of separatism per se and in a way maybe I am,” he said.
“Integration can take place on many kinds of levels. People can marry whomever they want to and you can have all the friends you want; I think this is a very realistic type of thing, but I think you have to realize the way this country is structured.
“It’s a group country; groups get together to get things done.
Individuals don’t and this is what integration speaks to a large extent—how you make it as an individual—and this is what we are concerned about.
“It doesn’t speak to the conflict within the black man himself—what he is, what is his identity. And it doesn’t speak to the black man’s hate for the white man. There is a great deal of hate, let’s face it.”
Dr. Williams said he didn’t think one particular group was responsible for racism, but that everyone is affected by it.
“Somewhere along the line we’ve got to do something about it if we’re concerned about survival,” he continued.
“As you become more involved, you get to feel more, you become extra sensitive and emotional because you can’t get anything done without emotion. You can rationalize things out of existence if you’re not careful.”
Black people and white people are racists because the United States is a racist society, he said. “It is in the fabric of our society—the things we do, the things we feel, our view of marriage, our institutions,” he added.
RESISTANCE TO MEET TODAY
The Resistance will hold an organizational meeting today at noon in Alumni Park. All men who plan to participate in the fourth annual draft card turn-in day Nov. 14 are urged to attend.
Cohen says vandals defy his candidacy
His administration has accomplished more in two months than former ASSC President Marty Foley accomplished last year, Bill Mauk, ASSC president, said yesterday.
He also charged that the Daily Trojan has not provided sufficient coverage of ASSC activities. “Major publicity centers around controversial issues, but we get minor publicity for our many sincere accomplishments.” he said.
He listed some of the programs which the council has carried out.
In the category of facilities, Mauk listed new bulletin boards, 3 new kiosks, new sound systems in Bovard Auditorium and in the Grill, remodeling of the dorms, and consultation on remodeling of the Student Union.
In the category of entertainment he listed: 10 Grill programs, two concerts in Eovard (including Saturday’s), a science fiction film series, a concert series, art exhibits, a fashion show and Troy Week.
In the category of speakers, Mauk included a number of Great Issues Forum speakers and nine speakers for the Forum for Student Awareness.
Under investigations, Mauk cited discrimination by the Greek system, decentralization of the committee structure, the personnel system, effectiveness of programs, budgetary processes, council effectiveness and election data.
In the academic affairs category, he included Experimental College, the Community Encounter class and the Parents P'ogram.
Items which are pending include the Counseling Center, a Black America film series, the possibility of movies, DKA in the ASSC, art exhibits in the Student Activities Center, travel services, programs on racism, library investigation, a committee to study university government, a coop bookstore, reserve seating at football games and department representatives.
Eric Cohen, ASSC presidential candidate, has charged that the vandalism perpetrated upon the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house was the work of counter-insurgents who oppose his candidacy.
Wednesday morning, between the hours of 2:30 and 5:30, someone painted KKK and Wallace over the facade of the house in red paint. They burned KKK in the lawn, and put a swastika in the doormat. They stuck Wallace bumper stickers on the house also.
The police were called to the scene, but no conclusive clues as to the identity of the culprits have as yet been found.
That is not to say that Cohen does not have his theories. He believes that it was a reaction to the stands that he has taken in the past two weeks since
DRAFT FORMS DUE TOMORROW
The deadline for turning in draft deferment forms to the Registrar's Office is tomorrow.
Form 109 (undergraduates) or form 103 (graduates) must be filled out in the office.
Singer Bob Lind flows in harmony with life
By ROZ SILVER
Bob Lind was strumming his guitar in his driveway when we got there.
“Hi! I thought that was you when I saw the flowers on the car.” he said. “Come in, I want you to hear something.”
The two other students and I filed into his record and newspaper-strewn living room and had coffee while we listened to him sing an unreleased song: “It Takes One to Understand One.”
Bob’s best-known song, “Elusive Butterfly” was a 1966 hit. Some of his other better-known songs are “Mister Zero,” “Truly Julie’s Blues” and “Cheryl’s Going Home,” but he said he doesn’t care much for most of the songs he’s done in the past.
“I only dig a couple of my old things. I’m working on a new album, and since I’m no longer on a label, I can do what I want with it if it takes a couple of years. I’d like to sound as good as I do in my living room,” he said, grinning.
Bob went into the kitchen for coffee and burned himself on the stove. He burst into song “I’ve been burned ...”
“Come on, let’s go outside; it’s too nice a day to stay in,” he said.
“The only thing that’s right and wrong is the steps. There’s no such thing as right and wrong goals,” Bob philosophized while skateboarding in his driveway.
Bob doesn’t beiieve much in the relevancy of facts, or formal interviews.
“I could have been born in Hong Kong or Mexico City (he comes from Baltimore) but what difference does it make?” he said between turns on the trampoline in his leaf-littered back yard.
“It’s like this album of Bulgarian folk music I
have inside. It has harmony like they have nowhere else in the world, but if you just know that it’s Bulgarian you don’t have anything. If you dig down deep enough you come to clear water, but outside of that it’s the impressions and the feelings that matter. There’s a reality that runs like an undercurrent in anything like that that transcends the facts.
“That’s why I like music. I’ve been singing all my life, and even when all the little points of my life are all over the place, music brings it all together. When I’m singing, I have to be in total harmony—I have to have the song go through me.
“It’s like being plugged in for a little while, and that’s all anyone can ask, because we all have egos and identities that keep it from happening all the time.
To me, music is the vehicle that carries one persons’s reflection of pure feeling. I’ve found that the more you interfere and arrange it the worse it gets.” Music carries your characteristics like beads, and that’s what matters.”
Bob just finished a two-week engagement at the Troubadour and he played at the Factory last weekend.
“I can’t really see Bob at the Factory,” said one of his friends that was there. “But they asked for him, and Bob will sing anywhere for anybody.”
At the end of the afternoon, Bob left us in the living room and went for a drive with his friend Laurie.
“Stay as long as you want and play with the toys, kids,” he said. “If you’re not here when I come back, it’s been groovy and be sure and lock up when you leave.”
While we were playing some records in the living room before we left, we found a bubblegum
wrapper on the floor It pictured a butterfly and gave a definition.
“A butterfly is an insect, once believed to steal milk and butter, that sustains itself by flitting from flower to flower and gathering the syrup.”
Hoyt Axton and Bob Lind, folksingers, will be performing in Bovard at 8:30 Saturday night in a benefit concert for the Los Angeles Free Clinic.
Also appearing will be the RFD—a new group formed and led by Richie Furay, formerly of the Buffalo Springfield, and the Three Dog Night.
Tickets may be obtained at the Bovard Box Office, Potpourri, the Free Press Book Store, Alice's Restaurant, and at the Free Clinic. Prices are $1, $1.50 and $2. Tickets for the Bob Hope show Nov. 15 are also on sale.
BOB LIND
he announced his intention to seek office.
The candidate plans to ask the other members of his fraternity to, at the next SC football game, raise white gloved fists with blue stars of David during the entire playing of “Fight On,” as a protest against what he called “the work of Mongoloid idiots.”
Cohen pledged to his supporters that he will not be scared out of the race, even though he, his fraternity, and his family may be threatened.
“I will not make any deals with anyone,” he added emphatically.
Jeff Pop, president of the fraternity, does not feel that the incident is related to Cohen’s position on politics.
“It was, in all probability, an immature act done by irresponsible people,” Pop said.
M usicians claim ghost haunts hall
The Phantom of the Opera has returned to haunt music students practicing in Clark House, the tum-of-the-century mansion turned rehearsal hall on West Adams Boulevard.
There have been reports of the sound of footsteps that go nowhere, locked doors being found unlocked, and mysterious shimmering lights. Two people claim to have even seen the ghost itself.
Skip Kennon, a senior studying piano, has had several experiences with the poltergeist, and is regarded by several other students to be somewhat of an expert on it.
The ghost seems to do most of its traveling at night, and always when there are no more than two people in the house. Kennon cited one incident, however, that occurred at 6:30 a.m.
“It was the week of the Cal game last year. I brought my luggage with me when I went to the house to practice. The suitcase was locked, and I left it in a locked room. I came back to find the room unlocked, and my clothes all over the room. However, the suitcase was still locked, and I still had the key.”
One other person is reported to have seen the ghost, a female teacher who Kennon did not want to name. He said that she saw the ghost manifested as a World War I doughboy.
Even the students who are non-believers admit to having heard wierd noises late at night. They laugh at the idea of it being a ghost though, and pass it off as the house settling.
Skip Kennon does not go to Clark House much these days. And if h® does, it is never at night.