Faculty Center liquor license case rests
By CAROL FRIEDMAN
The Faculty Center took its request for a liquor license to court yesterday, and after nearly six hours of testimony, left it there at the mercy of the hearing officer.
B.J. Showers, hearing officer of the Department of Administrative Procedures said after the hearing that he would consider the evidence and then make his recommendation to the director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department.
He assured both parties that they would be notified as to the department's decision at the earliest possible date.
About 30 elderly men and women crowded into the small hearing room to protest the Faculty Center’s application, which was filed with the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department on April 2,1968.
The application had been denied at first because of numerous protests made to the department and the question of whether, under state law, a liquor license could legally be granted to the Faculty Center. The hearing was held to argue the case.
The principals in the case were Showers, Mrs. Doris Jaffee, attorney for the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department; Dr. Robert Craig, USC professor of management representing the university; and Mrs. Ruby Newel. Miss Iva Emsberger and Mr. Wilcox who represented the protesters.
Also present at the table with those opposed to the liquor license application was Mrs. Ruth Ann Houser, who aided the elderly Miss Emsberger in reading documents placed in evidence.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Department presented the results of its investigation, dealing primarily with the physical and organizational details of the center, when the hearing opened.
The protesters were then given the opportunity to present their case against the issuance of the liquor license.
The first witness to be called was Howard B. Smith who described himself as “an ordinary citizen with more than a passing interest in USC,” having taken a course at the university and having friends who have obtained degrees here.
Smith declared that “in this day of lessening moral tone, USC must maintain integrity.” Smith pointed to USC as an institution with great responsibility, a responsibility he believed would be shirked if liquor was permitted on the USC campus.
“A professor who has had one or two or three drinks will suffer a loss of keeness in the classroom,” Smith said.
Dr. Craig declined to cross-examine Smith on the grounds that the witness was not an expert in the field of the effects of alcohol and that his testimony had no direct bearing on the case.
Twelve more witnesses took the stand to express their convictions that the issuance of a liquor license to the Faculty Center would be detrimental to the morals and welfare of the students and the community.
Morals and welfare became the battle cry of the angry protesters who objected when Showers, the hearing officer, sustained an
objection by Dr. Craig to refuse the admission of inexpert testimony repeated over and over again.
“A thing once said does not need to be said again,” Showers remarked as he sustained Dr. Craig’s objection.
Mrs. Newell protested the ruling, stating that the entire case rested on the question of “morals and welfare.”
When Mrs. Ruth Ann Houser was brought to the stand only to reiterate what had been said before, Showers dropped the patient demeanor he had maintained up to that point.
“Mrs. Houser, you are wasting your time and our time,” Showers said.
The university’s case was brief and its main purpose was to prove that the Faculty Center Association had been in existence for at least 35 years, a requirement for all organizations in California in order to be considered a private club.
Affidavits and letters were introduced into evidence to prove that the Faculty Center has been in existence since 1928.
Dr. Kenneth L. Treffetzs, professor of finance and business economics and former president of the Faculty Center Association was called to the stand to identify and explain the documents introduced into evidence.
Treffetzs confirmed the fact that all activities and memberships of the Faculty Club were continued under the auspices of the Faculty Center Association and that the Faculty Center is a non-profit organization whose dues go to the maintenance of the center.
	University of Southern California DAILY • TROJAN	
VOL LX	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1968	NO. 7
GOP-Negro split argued at Tower speech
By MIKE PARFIT Editor
Sen. John G. Tower (R. Texas) came to the campus yesterday to speak about Richard Nixon. He also answered a lot of questions about the presidential candidate and even found himself in the position of moderator in an impassioned argument about the Republican Party and the Negro people.
The argument started during the question and answer period when a Negro stood up and said:
“Considering your voting record on issues affecting the black community and also the voting record of other Republican senators from the South, combined with the stands of reactionaries such as Ronald Reagan and Spiro Agnew, do you really think that the Republicans can give support to the black community?”
Tower answered by elaborating on his own record and saying that Agnew’s record was excellent on civil rights issues.
Tower spoke quietly, but the next speaker, who identified himself as Rayfield Lundy, the Republican candidate for Congress from the 21st district, was obviously more moved.
“I have lived 25 years in Watts.” he said. “I want to say once and for all that these rumors about the Republican Party and Ronald Reagan in particular have got to be stopped. Ronald Reagan now has 62 black people employed in the government, three times as many as any other governor of California put together.”
One of the moderators on the floor stepped in and asked that there be no speeches given, but several members of the audience yelled “Let him finish,” and Lundy was given back the microphone.
“The Republican Party will get support in the black community,” he said, then gestured to the man who had spoken before him. “And this gentleman should come down election night and start counting the vote.”
Tower answered Lundy quietly too. after the applause died down.
“I certainly think that no apologies are necessary for the progress the Republican Party has made in this field, starting with the liberation of the slaves.” he said.
Tower, who is the chairman of Nixon’s key issues committee, had opened the afternoon’s program with a brief speech on the candidate’s platform.
“We recognize that there are, categorically, three primary issues confronting the American people,” he said. “The candidates themselves don’t determine what the issues are. The issues are those things that are of popular concern. And we spend a great deal of money and effort in taking surveys to determine just what the people are concerned about.”
The issues that Tower listed were the Vietnam war, the “growing crime rate and the deterioration of law and order” and the rising cost of living.
“The main theme of the Nixon campaign is that if we are to resolve these problems we must have new leadership that is not hostage to the mistakes of the past.” he said.
In dealing with the Vietnam issue. Tower said that Nixon favors “negotiation from a position of military advantage.” He said that if Nixon is elected he will work to make the government of South Vietnam responsible to the people of the country in an effort to defeat the purpose of the Viet Cong infrastructure.
Turning to the topic of crime, Tower said that Nixon considers street crime the fallout of syndicated crime and that the latter would be the candidate’s prime target.
“It is our belief that we must institute sound fiscal policies,” He said, explaining Nixon’s stand on the cost of living. “Basically the government must live within its means. We Republicans have raised the cry ‘Balance the budget’ for years and it has had no political sex appeal. But now the housewife is beginning to feel the pinch in the market basket where it counts.”
Tower, who holds the senate seat vacated by President Johnson in 1961, spoke under the auspices of the Great Issues Forum.
Mauk is challenged to debate by YAF
SEN. JOHN G. TOWERS
Seminars on urban problems scheduled
The USC Center for Training and Career Development will offer two experimental Urban Problems Seminars this fall and next semester.
The seminars are designed to analyze and explore the current urban environment and will utilize the extensive resources of both private and academic organizations in Southern California.
Coordinator for the program is Murray Brown, editor and manager of Western City Magazine. He has coordinated past seminars, lectured, and instructed at USC.
“The seminars will attempt to bring department heads, city managers, and councilmen together in a classroom environment to discuss urban issues,” Brown said.
“Also, the public is involved in these discussions, since they are the frequent criticizers of our local government,” he said. “All together we want to examine the problems, and if we can’t solve them, we’ll know the reason why.”
Dates for the two seminars are Oct.
11	through Dec. 20, and Feb. 28, 1969 through May 16, 1969. Both seminars will meet on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at selected locations.
“We plan to hold classes first in the Student Activities Center,” Brown said, “but I want to move into the areas of interest which we will eventually discuss.
“For example, when we discuss health problems, we will visit local health facilities; when we talk about
community relations, we’ll be in Watts.”
The seminars are sponsored by a grant from the California Coordinating Council for Higher Education, which defrays one-half of the total program cost.
Fee for each seminar is $250, including texts and materials. Two units of university credit are available to those who qualify.
Enrollment deadline is three weeks prior to the first meeting of each seminar. For enrollment applications, write Melvin J. LeBaron, director, USC Center for Training and Career Development, 206 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, 90012, or phone 626-0531.
By MARY LARIMER
ASSC President Bill Mauk was challenged yesterday by members of Young Americans for Freedom to debate with Philip Abbott Luce, YAF director Oct. 9 on campus.
Mauk was issued the invitation Monday afternoon by YAF officers Allen Brandstater, Bill Johnson, Pat Nolan and Bill Saracino. Mauk could not be reached for comment.
“We feel Mauk’s views represent the minority of student thought on this campus and that they reflect a radical political position,” Brandstater said.
“We were very disturbed over Mauk’s orientation address to freshman. He attacked the educational institution, but presented no alternative for a solution.”
Brandstater added that both views should have been represented at the orientation meeting.
“We did not talk to Mauk personally, but we did speak to Ralph Pinkert, who said that Mauk would probably decline because of his position, whatever it is,” Brandstater said.
In reply, Pinkert, ASSC publicity chairman, said, “I don’t consider the YAF proposal a challenge to Bill, but merely an invitation to speak to Luce,”
Luce, 30, was formerly a member of the Progressive Labor Party. He left the party in 1965 to become field director for YAF.
The local chapter of YAF was organized in August of this year. Pat Nolan, chairman of the group, said “we have about 20 paid members as of now, but we hope to have 40 or 50 new members after our first meeting this Wednesday at noon in Student Activity Center 203.”
“YAF is first and foremost a conservative, activist youth organization,” Brandstater said. “We are not affiliated with any political party and are independently financed. We number about 30,000 members nationally and have 2,500 in the state.”
“We advocate the conservatism of William Buckley, Max Rafferty, Barry Goldwater, George Murphy and Ronald Reagan. We classify ourselves as the responsible right wing.
“It’s time that conservatives take the initiative and become reactionaries.” Brandstater added, “Liberals seem to be winning by default on our part, we of the silent majority.”
The YAF program this year will consist of distributing literature in front of Tommy Trojan Nolan Said. Their leaflets concern such issues as social security, minimum wages, Vietnam and the draft. He said the group feels the war should be
fought on a volunteer basis. The YAF will also campaign in support of presidential candidate Nixon and U.S. senatorial hopeful Dr. Max Rafferty.
“We challenge the liberal bent of USC student officers,” Brandstater said. “We will demonstrate and campaign to air the ways of the leftist corner.”
Cast chosen to appear in 'Gentleman’
Casting has been completed for the Drama Division’s first major production of the year, “The Right Honourable Gentleman” by Michael Dyne.
Dr. Herbert M. Stahl is the senior director for the production, which will run Oct. 21-26 in Bovard auditorium.
An experienced cast will handle the leading roles. Wynn Pearce will play the principal role of Sir Charles Dilke, Richard Green as Bodley, Vicki Rue playing Emilia Pattison, Eugene Carlson as Joseph Chamberlain, Carol Soucek playing Nia Crawford, and Camille Rezutke as the mother, Lila Rossiter.
Others in the cast are Jack Bender as the footman, Carol Brown as Maye Dilke, Alan Hubbs playing Donald Crawford, John Larsen as Sir James Russell, Sandy Halperia as Sarah Gray, Jean Ormsby playing Helen Garland, and Mary Burkin and Tony Christenson as Mrs. Pelham and Captain Forster respectively.
FOREIGN STUDENT DIRECTOR NAMED
Bertha Von Allmen has been appointed acting director of the Foreign Student Office, replacing Dr. Alan Johnson, who is now a counselor in the foreign student office at Long Beach State College.
PEACE RETURNS TO CAMPUS
SDS movement at Columbia falters
NEW YORK (UPI)—Columbia University moved peacefully Monday toward resumption of classes Thursday and evidence indicated the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was beginning to lose momentum in its fall campaign against the administration.
Registration continued in the university gymnasium while the SDS planned strategy meetings. Last week, guards checked students as they entered the gymnasium to prevent SDS leader Mark Rudd and other suspended students from trying to register, but Monday students came and went freely.
The attention of radical students on the campus had hisfted from Columbia to Mexico, where the government has been using troops to suppress a student revolt. SDS members met during the day to plan a demonstration for Saturday to protest events in Mexico.
For a brief period last week, the SDS began to attract popular support when the university denied it the right to use campus
facilities on Wednesday night for its International Assembly ot Student Revolutionary Movements.
The following day. however, acting President Andrew V\ Cordier restored the suspended rights and the larger question of the SDS charter as a student organization was postponed.
The SDS also planned an afternoon meeting to discuss ways to gain the initiative from Cordier. SDS leaders claim his moves to dismiss charges against some students and to end the suspension of others were designed to isolate the radicals.
“Cordier is attempting to defeat us by fragmenting our movement,” the group said in a statement. “We must respond to repression as a group and not as individuals."
The rest of the campus was not paying much attention, however. While the SDS sought ways to continue its revolution, most students sat on the grass, ate lunch on the steps in front of Low Library, or tried to figure out course schedules, their minds on every thing but politics.