Editor quits; Alumni Review dies
By ROGER SMITH Editorial director
The Alumni Review, a university magazine published since 1917 for alumni, will cease publication with the June issue.
Its death will apparently not be peaceful.
T. Bradford Sales, 24, editor of the Review since July, 1968, resigned April 2, charging harassment and censorship by Dale Hilton, executive director of the General Alumni Association.
“I resigned because the operation of university business has not been done in an honest and forthright manner,” Sales told the Daily Trojan in an interview yesterday. “Financial decisions were made without my knowledge and editorial decisions were imposed upon me.
“The decision to discontinue publication of the Review is an example of this. I was not consulted about it. I resigned not knowing it was going to occur.
“There should be a hell of a furor from the alumni when they hear the review won’t be published next year. They’ve already paid their dues to the General Alumni Association with the idea that they will receive the magazine.”
Three other publications will replace the Review, Leonard Wines, executive director of university relations, said.
Sales said he encountered several instances of censorship.
“I was not allowed to run the Black Student Union and United Mexican-American Students demands and Dr. Topping’s reply. Leonard Wines said it was better to ‘let a sleeping dog lie.’ The Board of Publications of the Alumni Association voted to permit its publication, but Hilton sided with Wines, and it never got in.”
Sales said he was also aware that the administration didn’t like the changes in graphics he had made in the Review. “They called it the ‘mod approach,’ ” he said.
Sales said he was told by Hilton not to go to President Topping with complaints or Sales would be fired.
“Everybody, from Topping down, is afraid of controversy,” Sales concluded. “And the publications that will replace the Review will reflect it. They’re just public relations jobs. We at least tried to be frank with the alumni.
Hilton told the Dailv Troian yesterday that he was distressed that Sales feels this way.
“I always had a happy relationship with him,” Hilton said. “I consider him a most talented individual. Our difference is essentially over the philosophy of what an editor of an alumni publication is.”
He said there was a misunderstanding about Sales being fired if he went to President Topping.
“If Dr. Topping wants to see the editor of the Alumni Review, that is his previlege,” Hilton said. “If the editor wants to see Dr. Topping, however, he normally goes through the executive director.”
The Review is a slick magazine averaging over 40 pages per issue. It is published four times per year. Its circulation is 54,000.
One of the Review’s replacements will be Trojan Family, a newspaper-like publication begun in November. Another will be Items, a mimeographed sheet featuring three news items, published since 1963. Both publications will be sent out monthly, if tentative plans are followed, Wines said.
Trojan Family and Items will be supplemented by an annual slick magazine, containing feature articles.
The decision to discontinue the Alumni Review was made by Hilton, Wines, Harvey White, vice-president for student and alumni affairs, and Thomas Nickell, vice-president for planning, Wines said.
“We feel we can serve the alumni better by keeping them informed in different ways and more frequently,” Wines said. “We can utilize university resources more efficiently as well.”
All three publications will be put out by the University Planning Department.
Wines said no alumni was consulted before the decision was made.
University of Southern California
DAILY « TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1969, VOL. LX, NO. 102
ASSC GROUPS NEED MEMBERS
Applications for committee chairman positions, for membership in numerous committees, and for other ASSC positions for next year are now available.
The applications, available in the Student Activities Center, the YWCA and the ASSC office, are due April 25 in Student Union 321.
The positions open under the Executive Committee are as follows: Elections Commission, Publicity Commission, Personnel Commission, Public Relations, ASSC parliamentarian, ASSC independent representative and at-large student member of Fee Allocations Board.
Under the Academic Affairs Committee these positions are open: course evaluation guide, conferences, literary magazine editor. Experimental College, Academic Affairs Council and Internal Research Commission.
Positions open under Programs Committee are: Troy Week, Entertainment Committee, Grill Programs, Cultural Affairs, Forum for Student Awareness, House Concerns, SCaffold and Programs Council.
Other positions are open under the Standing University Committees and the ASSC Student Court.
Dizenfeld wins junior rep post without 2nd run-off
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Dorms to up rates $10 to $50 per year
A $10 to $50 yearly increase in room and board rates for all dormitories except Harris Plaza has been announced by Elton D. Phillips, business manager.
It is the first rate increase in the last two years.
Rises in the cost of living and inflation which have hiked the price of food and its preparation are reasons for the 36 percant rate increase.
Phillips said that the increased cost of security in and around the dormitories also contributes to the need for the new rate. Maintenance costs have also risen.
Room and board rates for Birnkrant, EVK-Harris, Uni\?rsity, Marks, Marks Tower, and Trojan halls will increase from $1100 to $1150 per year for a double room. Included in the $50 raise is the $10. residence hall activity fee, that students previously paid upon moving into the dorms.
Residents of Stonier, Touton, and Town and Gown will pay only a $10 increase in room rates. Residents of these dorms who buy board contracts will be charged an extra $20 per year, or $740 instead of $720.
The rate increase will not put
USC out of line with other colleges and universities in this area, Phillips said.
Occidental charges $1075 to $1119 for room and board; Cal Tech, $1100; Pomona, $1120 to $1150, and Stanford, $1140.
By RICKSENUTA
Dave Dizenfeld is junior representative—without a second run-off election.
Pat Lawless, election commissioner, announced early yesterday evening that Dizenfeld gained a majority of the votes cast.
Four of the votes were voided because nonstudents cast them. The elimination of the votes gave Dizenfeld 265 votes, one above what he needed for a majority.
Lawless said the “sole determining paragraph” in the case appears in Article III, Section H in the ASSC Constitution. The Article states: “If any candidate is disqualified during an election or after any election has taken place, votes cast for him shall be declared void.”
Lawless was delighted that the Election Board accepted his appeal, but Roland (Happy) Trope, a member of the Board of Inquiry, was not.
Trope said he believed a run-off election was necessary. He said the write-in votes represented a protest that neither candidate was acceptable, or that another would serve better.
Trope’s main objection was that voters were never told about the validity of write-ins. He called the decision to void the votes arbitrary, and without precedence.
Trope said the decision to reject a run-off election proves “that the Student Court is not wrong, but the administration has more power.”
For Trope, the administration is continuing “the consensus of the mistake,” because it can correct voter ignorance about write-in votes and could rectify immediately its error of voiding certain votes.
Lawless said a second run-off election would be useless and a waste of valuable time that might be used for studying.
He said it would be impossible to inform the voter of every nuance in the voting procedure. However, he conceded that in the future more information would be distributed to clarify write-ins.
Trope accused the administration of being interested in the candidates and the election commission rather than in the candidates and the voters.
He said the administration valued expediency over completely fair play, which is often harder to get.
CREATIVE WORKSHOP PLAYS OPEN TONIGHT
A series of one-act players conducted by the Creative Experimental Workshop begins tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Stop Gap Theatre.
Tickets are $1 weeknights and $1.50 on Friday and Saturday nights. Tickets for the plays, which will run through next Tuesday, are available in the Drama Department office, Parkview 304.
Students with activity books will receive a 50-cent discount
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Debt said to be tool of progress
The United States government should be willing to go further into debt in order to create assets which would increase the quality of life in this country, Spencer Pollard, professor of economics, said yesterday.
“It is interesting to live at a time when the American empire is the most powerful ever seen—perhaps the largest if our economic empire is measured,” Pollard told an audience at the Faculty Center.
Pollard then related a story about an Oxford professor in England who once said to his class that the United States would be the only country to go from barbarism to decadence without a civilization.
The new buildings on campus are part of the rise now taking place, he said.
“But one certain thing is that all will be in ruins someday. I wonder whether our schools of architecture and engineering have considered what our ruins will look like, and whether tourists from newer empires will want to come and see them.”
Pollard said that empires trying to extend into larger areas of the world often meet with the same type of crisis now becoming apparent in the United States—conditions at home decaying while revolution threatens and finally succeeds.
“During the national crisis of the Civil War our federal government borrowed $2 billion,” he said. Later we borrowed $20 billion during World War I and $200 billion during World War II.
“If the present situation is regarded as equally critical to the
welfare of our empire, I believe another $300 billion or so in new debt would be required over a period of 10 or 20 years to save the situation.
“Our attitude to our national debt is therefore crucial to the fate of the empire.
“My suggestion is that the national debt is an important tool for the rehabilitation of our economy and we should cast away our prejudices against it and our groundless fears about it.
“Debt is a tremendous human invention. I’m not aware of debt in other forms of life.
“If we are prejudiced against doubling it, I’m sure the empire will
fall sooner.”
It is unconceivable that the federal government could go bankrupt in the way an individual or business does, Pollard maintained.
“We needn’t worry about passing the debt to posterity, so long as we also pass on the assets that make a good economy,” he said.
How quickly *we should increase the debt depends partly on whether there is enough skilled manpower to build new assets, Pollard said.
“Skilled ‘liveware’ may not be available as fast as the money is, though rechanneling of ‘liveware’ from war projects to peace projects would help,” he said.