Administration OKs 2 ASSC requests
By MELODY GILLARD News editor
The ASSC made two requests of the administration at a meeting yesterday—first to review the request made by a Black Student Union (BSU) group that it be reinstated in Songfest and second, to not take action on decisions made by autonomous student groups.
The administration, led by President Norman Topping, agreed to both requests, which were the results of recent disputes.
The BSU protest came after the group, which had entered a monologue with a musical background, was eliminated by the Songfest judges.
The request that the administration not overrule decisions made by autonomous student groups was prompted by the close race for junior representative between Dave Dizenfeld and Steve Ogle.
The Elections Board of Inquiry ruled that Dizenfeld received 50 percent of the vote but not a majority. The decision was appealed to the Student Court which turned it down. Pat Lawless, elections commissioner, and Dizenfeld then appealed to Daniel Nowak, dean of men, who declared Dizenfeld the winner.
Bill Mauk,-ASSC president, said the administration does not have the right to overrule student decisions, and the administration said that it does not want to become involved.
Mauk then announced that he would request the
Student Behavior Committee to review the case. If the committee does not feel that the decision is within its jurisdiction, Mauk said he would request that Dizenfeld not be seated on the new ASSC Council and that another election be held next year.
Paul Bloland, dean of students, said he felt the confusion over who should make the final decision on a case such as this arose because no distinct channels for appeal are written in the ASSC Constitution.
“The administration should not have become involved and will not become involved in the future,” Bloland said. “The ASSC should work out an agreement and write a constitutional amendment to define the channels of appeal.”
The ASSC Council said it was asking the administration to review the Songfest protest because the program is financed by the university and not by the Associated Students.
“I request that the BSU be reinstated as a guest participant/’ Mauk told the administrators. “Since Songfest is not under the jurisdiction of the ASSC but under the university, the Executive Council requests that the administration, since it is an administration-financed program, direct the two chairmen to reinstate the BSU group.”
Dr. Topping said administrators would review the situation with the possibility of some reinstatement. Songfest will be held May 10.
The reason for the group’s elimination, Mauk said, was not because of the quality of the monologue, but
rather because the judges did not feel that it fit the traditional format of Songfest. Before the try-outs, groups of Greeks and independents, including the BSU, had conferred to change the format, but, Mauk said, the judges seemed to select groups with traditional entries.
In loco parentis and curriculum innovation were also discussed at the meeting.
Mauk said the Executive Council, representing the student body, did not approve of the university taking the stand that students of 18 to 21 years of Age are not capable of handling their own affairs and that the university should not take action to restrict behavior.
Members of the administration said that most rules are made for the security of the students. On the question of drinking on the Row and in dorms, Dr. Topping said:
“There is a state law that has to do with the age one can purchase and consume alcoholic beverages. The university can not flaunt that law. If the Row can come up with a proposal that will conform with the law, we’ll give it a real hard look, but I’ve been here 11 years and no one has come up with such a proposal.”
On the subject of curriculum, Steve Foldes, a student representative on the Curriculum Committee, said he felt a small committee should be formed to hear plans for student-originated classes which do not fit under any particular department.
The administration agreed that this would be a good idea and that the matter should be brought before the Curriculum Committee.
Upon Bayh’s reelection, former President Johnson called him “one of the most likely candidates for national office in the next 10 years.”
Bayh holds a degree from Purdue University in agriculture and a law degree from Indiana University.
Previous to his Senate career, he served in the Indiana House of Representatives; four years as Democratic leader and two as Speaker of the House.
Alum may be first on moon
Neil A. Armstrong, the astronaut who was recently named to be the first man on the moon, took graduate courses in aeronatucial engineering and mathematics from USC when he was a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base from 1955 to 1959.
Armstrong, 38, will command the Apollo 11 flight which will send him and Air Force Col. Edwin Aldrin to the moon’s surface in a lunar landing July 20.
Armstrong will be the first to set foot on the moon. Aldrin will follow after a few minutes and the two will spend nearly three hours on the moon.
Before coming to Edwards AFB to fly the X-15 rocket plane, Armstrong earned a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from Prudue University.
USC teaches courses at Edwards AFB where Armstrong registered for advanced calculus, introduction to thermodynamics, introduction to the theory of complex variables, aircraft jet propulsion, engineering vibrations, advanced thermodynamics, orbital mechanics, advanced heat transfer, aircraft dynamics and the mechanics of compressible fluids.
gets $1,000 from Greeks
Troy Camp finances received a sizeable transfusion from a rather unexpected source Wednesday night at the Greek Awards banquet.
Scody Hage, treasurer for Greek Week, announced that $1,000 in Greek funds were being donated to the Troy Camp project and, that if an expected surplus in the $7,000 Greek Week budget materialized, it also would be turned over to the project at year’s end.
Gary Sandor, head of Troy Camp, accepted the gift. The money will be used to continue the project’s activities which are primarily concerned with providing recreational facilities for neighborhood children.
Hage said, “The gift was first of all intended to begin tying the Greeks in closer with the local community. We have been under a great deal of criticism lately for not being involved in local problems. Well, I think that this is a positive example of doing things for people and not just talking about them.”
BLACK LEADER TO SPEAK TO CLASS
Tommy Jacquette, a leader in Watts, will speak to an Experimental College class Monday night at 7 in Harris Hall 205. All students are invited.
Jacquette's topic will be the Watts Summer Festival, for which he is one of the coordinators. Members of the class, Ghetto Rehabilitation, will be helping design and plan the project.
Jacquette is a member of the Black Panthers and Ujima, a community action group. In Swahili, Ujima means let us build together.
University of Southern California
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 18. 1969, VOL. LX, No. 106
Bayh to talk on liberalism
Two coeds, Katie Heinz, left, and Mandy Heyler, watch the competitive drills of the NROTC and the campus police at Cromwell Field. Samuel Maskimuk, left, and Vernon Delozia, campus police, were asked to let only NROTC men on the field. Midshipman Lynn
Krause visited with them.	Photo by Steve Bolinger
Police guard NROTC drills
By TIM TAYLOR Ass't. city editor
For the first time, the gates to Cromwell Field were closed yesterday for the Naval ROTC’s annual company competition.
When the 120 midshipmen assembled on the field at 1 p.m., two officers from the campus police were there to prevent any spectators from entering.
Only uniformed Navy men and members of the track and football teams were allowed to enter.
Last Thursday during the Navy’s inspection, about 35 students were on the field to protest the status of the ROTC as a regular credit-granting department of the university.
Captain Garrison Brown, commanding officer of the naval unit and professor of naval science, said that unlike last week’s inspection, this week’s session included more marching.
Midshipmen from each company were judged on their marching drill—with weapons—as well as on a standard inspection. Judges for the event were from the Marine Corps facility in Long Beach.
“If we had something like we had last week, it wouldn’t be a fair competition because the boys might get flustered,” Brown said in an interview.
Commander John M. Jones is second in command to Brown and academically is an associate profe;«or of naval science.
“We took this precaution,” he said, “because of what happened last week. We didn’t want any disruptions so we limited access to the field. I feel ashamed that we are obliged to have someone guard the gates of an institution of higher learning such as this.”
No one tried to forcibly enter the field and the competition was conducted without incident. Company “B” outscored Company “A” 1589.6 to 1575.4 and will be designated “color company” for the annual dress parade to be held Thursday, May 8.
Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) will speak on “The Future of Liberalism” Monday at 1 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium. The address is cosponsored by the Great Issues Forum and the senior class.
The junior senator from Indiana is now serving his second term in the Senate, working on the Judiciary and Public Works Committees. His special fields of interest are Constitutional revision and lowering the voting age to 18.
He sponsored the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, the “Bayh Amendment,” which defined the line of presidential succession. He is now working toward the abolition of the Electoral College, serving as chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments.
Bayh was elected to the Senate in 1962 when, at 34, he won an upset victory over 18-year incumbent Sen. Homer Capehart. In last November’s elections, he carried a 72,000 vote margin to win reelection.
SEN. BIRCH BAYH
Troy Camp