Nixon not for me— Sen. Morse
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1968, VOL. LX, NO. 25
Topping:
USC is a
vast family
enterprise
By ROZ SILVER
President Norman Topping yesterday told the Guardians of the Jewish Home for the Aged that the university was a “vast family enterprise,” which in its relationships transcends its existence as a legal corporate entity.
Dr. Topping spoke of “The Corporation Behind the Classroom” at a dinner held at the Hillcrest Country Club. He was named the Guardians’ Citizen of the Year.
The student may seem to be merely a customer and a faculty member an employee of the institution,” said Topping, “but in reality each is much more.”
“Students have a key management function; and at my university they have been key participants in decisions for many years. Faculty as the primary source of power play a vital role in the creation of policy and programs.”
Topping said that the university objective or product was excellence in education and therefore the question to be asked of any proposed activity was whether it advanced the quality of that product.
“The student’s own immediate evaluation of his education may be the cost of his tuition,” said Topping. “But it will amount to thousands of dollars throughout his career, and who can measure the potential value to society of a student who accomplishes great things in later life?
Topping outlined the financial complexity of a university, which he said is based on its operatation of small businesses, research and library facilities and other practical details.
Second phase of remodeling to begin in Student Union soon
ASSC commends ousted athletes
By ANDY MILLER Editorial director
The ASSC Executive Council voted 7-4 yesterday afternoon to send a letter to Olympic sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, commending the two for “courage demonstrated at the Olympics 1968.”
Ron McDuffie, junior representative, introduced the letter to the council. Bill Mauk, ASSC president, will sign the letter for the council and send it on to the two sprinters.
Smith and Carlos, after finishing first and third in the 200 meter race, stood on the victory stand with gloved hands upraised in a black power salute and with eyes fixed on the ground during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner.
The United States Olympic Committee kicked the two off the team after the incident.
The letter reads:
“The Executive Council of the Associated Students of Southern California representing the students of the University of Southern California commends you for the courage you demonstrated at the 1968 Olympics.
“We stand with you committed to the cause of racial justice and racial harmony. You have used the best means available to you to further this cause.
“It is our fervent hope that more students at this university and at other colleges and universities around the nation will also use the most effective means available to them to advance their cause of freedom, justice and equality to all men.”
In other business, Mauk began to ask the council for allocation of $66.92 personal travel expenses over the Stanford weekend, but hesitated after recognizing the Daily Trojan reporter.
Mauk said he could take the expenses from either his $100 discretionary fund in his administrative budget, or his $1,000 travel fund, also in his administrative budget.
Ken Kaiser, ASSC treasurer, informed Mauk that he could only take the money from the discretionary fund.
The approved ASSC budget says that the travel fund can be “used for ASSC representatives to National Students Association and various other conferences.”
The President’s Discretionary Fund is “to be used at the President’s discretion for expenses associated with the operation of the ASSC.”
Last year, the top three officers of the ASSC obtained a $30 expense account, but only after requesting it prior to the weekend.
Mauk, who used the money for plane fare and car rental, did not request an expense account from the council or the budgetary sub-committee. He did not discuss the situation with the council beyond notification that he had incurred expenses at Stanford.
Voting for the Smith-Carlos letter were Matt Pasternak, Steve Clemons, Bob Ennis, Ron McDuffie, Tim McDuffie, Nadir Oskoui, and Fred Minnes.
Voting against the measure were Suzanne DeBall, Mike Davis, Karol Wahlberg, and Liz Carr. Steve Foldes abstained.
The council voted unanimously to reaffirm its position in regard to the placement of the Open Forum Area. Dean of Students Paul Bloland had suggested to the council that the proposed area. Alumni Park, would be too near classrooms.
Bloland suggested the area behind the Student Activities Center, but the council reaffirmed that they felt the Alumni Park area was better.
Hughes takes time out to speak on pollution
By BILL DICKE City editor
“I can’t trust (Richard M.) Nixon,” Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said in a telephone conference call with reporters from California college newspapers yesterday.
Sen. Morse said he didn’t have the slightest doubt that Vice-president Hubert Humphrey could give the sense of unity which the nation needs. “I know' Nixon couldn’t,” he said.
If Nixon is elected, there will be more militarism in the policies of the United States, he said.
“He has already asked for more military power for NATO when this is the opposite of what our policy should be.” he said.
“His election would mean a continuation of the Dulles program in Asia.”
Sen. Morse is up for re-election Nov. 5 and is asking for student volunteers to help with his campaign. A bus will leave Los Angeles next Wednesday for Oregon and will return on Nov. 6. A Morse spokesman said further information may be obtained from Bemie Fischer (769-2465) or Steve Beidner. on campus.
Sen. Morse said, “I need their (students’) help. I‘m not at all pessimistic, but this thing can’t be won if we go to sleep in the last weeks.”
The senator said he feels the bracket between Humphrey and Nixon in Oregon is narrowing and that Humphrey will carry’ the state.
“I think one thing you have to recognize is that we are not going to get the war ended under Nixon,” he said. “Some of the McCarthy people are unhappy with me because of my endorsement of Humphrey, but I remind them at this stage that a vote for McCarthy is half a vote for Nixon and half a vote for Wallace.”
The important thing in Vietnam is to withdraw in an orderly fashion, Sen. Morse said. “We’re not going to get peace out of Paris.” he said. “For that you’ve got to have a multilateral table and at the head of the table the noncombatant nations.
The noncombatant nations would have to run the conference, he said, and the United States would have to agree beforehand to abide by the results. He added, “Well, we’re a proud people and we won’t tolerate this even though we went into this war without the slightest moral or legal justice behind us.”
The senator said Guatemala could very well be another Vietnam. He said he opposes all military aid to Latin American because it creates more communists there than any other reason. “We support juntas and keep down freedom,” he said.
He said he believes his opposition to the war is a great political asset, because increasing numbers of persons are realizing that there isn’t the slightest reason to stay in Vietnam.
The Student Union is about to undergo the last phase of remodeling. Complex plans for redeveloping the upper three floors are in the making. Work is slated to begin immediately after contractors’ bids are taken in January.
The final project on the student
BELL TO TALK AT NOON TODAY
Derrick Bell, executive director of the Western Center on Law and Poverty, will speak at noon today in the Faculty Center.
Bell, who is also Adjunct Professor of Law at the USC Law School and teaches a course in race relations law, will deliver a speech titled, "The Western Center on Law and Poverty—Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane?"
Prior to coming to USC, Bell was Deputy Director of the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. He has also been an NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney.
“Hindu Philosophy and the Values of Meditation” will be the topic of a speech to be given by Icgacharya Behav Narayan on Friday in Hancock Auditorium. Narayan, who will speak at 1:15 p.m. will be presented by the Forum for Student Awareness.
Narayan is the head Secretary ol the Yogoda Sat-Sansanga Society, an Indian sister organization to the Self-Realization Fellowship. He will explain many of the central truths of Eastern religions and of his organization. He is also an authority on all forms of Yoga.
Dan Steffens, spokesman for the Forum said the speech will explain,
activities complex will be conducted in two phases. The first phase will consist of a double decking of the student lounge on the third floor of the building.
The new area will be set aside for the offices of 19 groups, some of them student groups which had not previously had offices in the building. Dean of Students Paul Bloland, in cooperation with student representatives, will decide how the space is to be allocated.
In the second phase, the remaining portion of the upper three floors will be remodeled to suit the purposes of the groups there.
The remodeling is designed to serve specifically four groups. These include Dean Bloland and his staff, student organization including the ASSC offices, student publications, the Daily Trojan and El Rod and the School of Journalism.
The ticket offices also will remain in the building. The athletic offices, however, will move to Heritage Hall. Construction on Heritage Hall will not begin until January and completion will take a year. Heritage Hall will be located at the west end of Bovard Field.
In order for the remodeling to be done a double move may be necessary
“the philosophies and religion that has been propounded by the saints and sages of India for thousands of years
... showing that these doctrins are essentially one with all the religious teachings in the world.” Discussion will include the techniques of meditation Narayan developed from years of research in India.
Steffens, who himself teaches an Experimental College course on mystical insights, explained that the Self Realization Fellowship attempts to “take the best of the East and the best of the West and serve as a medium of exchange.”
for some of the facilities located there. During the second phase of the remodeling, the Daily Trojan and the School of Journalism may be located in the present lounge area.
Exact planning of the facilities is still being carried on, so details are not available yet. Anthony Lazzaro, associate business manager and director of campus development, said. “I think the new facilities will expand the School of Journalism some, to permit it to function properly. Its requirements will be met.”
The School of Journalism will be given better office and Library space. It is recognized that there is also a need for more classrooms and if this need can’t be filled in the Student Union classrooms in other buildings will be used.
The three-floor remodeling is' estimated to cost $615,000. Samuel Lundeen, architect, is designing the plans. Lundeen was the designer of Doheny Library and architect for the remodeling of Doheny Library and Bridge Hall.
The completion of the Student Activities complex, which includes the Commons, the Student Union and the Student Activities Center, was a prime objective of the Master Plan as conceived by Dr. Topping.
ARRAIGNMENTS SLATED TODAY
Four students involved in last Thursday night's disturbance on the Row are tentatively scheduled to be arraigned today at 1:30 p.m. in Dividion 59, Municipal Court.
Those expected to appear in court are: Robert Barry, a sophomore in history; Ronald Egenes, a senior in business; Walt Failor, a sophomore and punter on the football team; and John O'Leary, a sophomore in history. Each of them is currently out on S625 bail.
By KEITH MacBARRON
Governor Richard Hughes of New Jersey, campaigning in Southern California for Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, took time out yesterday to address the students and faculty of the USC Air Pollution Control Institute.
The Institute is a division of the School of Public Administration located at the Civic Center campus. Hughes discussed the current fight against air and water pollution being waged in New Jersey.
“New Jersey now has one of the tightest air pollution controls in the nation,” said Hughes. “This can be attributed to a law passed in early 1967 in New Jersey which cracked down heavily on the industries and utilities that contribute greatly to the pollution problem.”
Hughes said that one of the reasons he was supporting the
Humphrey-Muskie ticket is because of their strong stand on air pollution control.
“For those interested in control of air pollution there can only be one clear choice this election year-Hubert H. Humphrey.” said Hughes.
Hughes emphatically praised the students for their work in this field and their dedication to the betterment of the world. “America is not the riot at Columbia or the riots in the cities. America is the three astronauts. This is the real America. America’s heartbeat is as strong as ever.” he declared.
Hughes stressed the urgency of the pollution problem. “We are slowly poisoning ourselves,” he said. He added that there is a need for regional efforts across the nation. He is personally working for regional co-operation between New Jersey, New York, and Delaware.
Hindu philosophy speech set for Student Awareness Forum
FIRST MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION
Veteran actors spur 'Honourable Gentleman’
Carol Soucek, Wynn Pearce and Vickie Rue in "Right Honourable Gentlemen."	Photo by Jamie Baldwin
By LIN FARLEY Ass't editorial director
Well-turned performances by two middle-aged doctoral candidates and an extremely polished female grad student helped bring down the opening night curtain of “The Right Honorable Gentleman” in rainbow hues.
The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow will be found if the play is selected by the judges to represent Southern California and Arizona in national competition this May.
But once opening night tightness is past, this extremely appropriate and moving production can’t do anything but get better.
Set almost 200 years ago in Victorian London, the play has a pecular applicability to contemporary problems. Its central question is one of personal, moral responsibility: where does it begin and where does it leave off?
The play has an answer and Sir Charles Dilke, a crusading liberal politician ruined by a Profumo-like sex scandal, delivers it in the play’s final scenes.
Dilke is played by Wynn Pearce, a 40-year-old actor of considerable experience, who milks the scene for all they are worth.
In a highly charged encounter with a former mistress who has been largely responsible for his predicament and whose daughter has brought it all into court, Dilke self-righteously declares:
“One thing has always been completely honest about me—my political career. I want my reputation back.”
The mistress named Lila Rossiter, outstandingly portrayed by Camille Rezutko, had come to Kilke’s chambers to plead for her daughter, who attempted suicide. She coldly replies:
“Even if it means the life of one human being.”
“I’m involved with issues that affect literally thousands of lives,” Dilke hurls at the mother, who retorts:
“This is your personal responsibility. Isn't it worth more than all the flag-waving in Parliament,”
And so it goes, the see saw between the two of them.
Both are superbly played, and the force of emotional power which travels between them is always accurate.
Miss Rezutko sounds convincingly like an old woman in the play, her inflection and gestures are flawless; she exudes an air of cold, imperial power at all times.
She achieved a powerful characterization and held it for the length of the play without a single break in consistency or style for one instant. It was a masterful job.
Pearce, as the noble yet selfish, womanizer Dilke, also turns in an almost flawless performance. No mere reading of lines here: Pearce knows how to build for climactic affect. Also, his use of facial gestures is beyond improvement.
The other stellar performance was by Eugene Carlson who portrayed Joseph Chamberlain, another top-ranking liberal politician close to the prime minister and a friend of Dilke.
Carlson carried off the ambivalent portrayal of Chamberlain with masterful precision. Is he or isn’t he the noble friend? Once again an excellent use of gesture, inflection and timing.
Richard Green, as Bodley. John Adams, as Sir James Russell. Sandy Helperin, as Mrs. Gray, and Vickie Rue. as Emilia Pattison also turned in fine performances.
Especially Adams’ precise portrayal of the wiley, old lawyer and Miss Helperin’s brief but very effective portrayal of the perverse, determined housekeeper.
The play will run at 8 p.m. nightly through Saturday.