McDuffie, Minnes make runoff
Results of primary
ASSC PRESIDENT
Eric Cohen (write-in).........104
Michael Guarino.................176
Ed Hurst............................301
*Ron McDuffie....................549
♦Fred Minnes.......................731
Joel Rosenzweig.................156
VICE-PRESIDENT
FOR
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
©Mark Savit.......................1,616
VICE PRESIDENT FOR PROGRAMS
*Stuart Bloom.....................726
Bert Rebeaud.....................348
*Sandra Sorenson.............1,388
AWS PRESIDENT
©Donna DeDiemar...............682
AMS PRESIDENT
©Tom Levyn........................877
AWS VICE-PRESIDENT
©Sue Semple........................665
Candidates marked with • will compete in runoff Wed.
Candidates marked with@) are winners.
AMS VICE-PRESIDENT
©Marc Geller........................146
Marc Myers..........................41
SENIOR PRESIDENT
©Gary Kief (write-in).............60
SENIOR
REPRESENTATIVE
Robert Barr........................217
©Robert Brooks...................292
JUNIOR
REPRESENTATIVE
*Dave Dizenfeld...................146
Robert Kaufman................138
*Steve Ogle..........................169
Norm Reed (write-in).........124
SOPHOMORE
REPRESENTATIVE
Brian Cox.............................78
*	Jordan Kerner....................205
*	Jeffrey Ullman...................181
Patrick Nolan.......................91
Ron Palmieri......................166
FOREIGN STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
©Sadrollah Alborzi (write-in) 93
Ron McDuffie and Fred Minnes will face each other in election run-offs for ASSC president Wednesday. Minnes and McDuffie led the six presidential candidates with 731 and 549 votes respectively.
A total of 2,713 students voted, topping last year’s presidential vote of 1,927.
Ed Hurst came in third with 301, followed by Michael Guarino, 176; Joel Rosenzweig, 156, and Eric Cohen, 104.
“I’m happy with the results,” McDuffie said after the Elections Commission announced the vote totals. “There is a lot of work ahead to convince students who is the right person to vote for.”
“I want to compliment all the candidates on a well-run, honest campaign,” Minnes said. “I urge all my supporters to get the vote out again Wednesday. I’ll be working very hard this week to clarify some of my positions on the issues facing student government.”
McDuffie and Minnes hope to talk with more students this week, although no formal debates have yet been set up by the Elections Commission.
Some of McDuffie’s proposals include alloting
one-fifth of the ASSC budget for community projects, establishing a course to study the problems of USC and higher education as a whole, defining USC in relation to the overall student movement, and creating a community feeling on the campus.
Minnes proposes student participation in formulating rules and policies involving student conduct, formation of a presidential steering committee to aid the ASSC, student-faculty committees in all departments, and student determination of rules affecting those who live in dormitories and on the Row.
Commenting on the election, Pat Lawless, elections commissioner, said:
“It was almost 500 more voters than last year. But it should have been 1,000 more. There was more dialogue this year. More should vote because you’re never going to have completely responsible government until you have a completely responsible electorate.
“I hope the people take the opportunity in the next week to talk to the candidates so they can make a responsible choice.”
University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1969, VOL. LX. NO. 94
Senate discusses
FRED MINNES
air gripes
“I was floored,” said Bob Klie, a senior in international relations. “It was exciting that for once students really cared about a class and wanted to do something about it.”
Most of the students, however, have little enthusiasm for the class on the whole.
“The class is a reflection of the whole educational process,” said Mike Berry, a sophomore majoring in history. “I think the kids in the class want to learn about each other ... but, the way it is now, if you have questions to be raised that are pertinent, you can’t ask them.”
Berry, a black student, feels Farmer is partially to blame for the students’ apparent disappointment in the class. “He doesn’t even want to answer questions,” said Berry.
“He doesn’t allow any kind of controversy whatsoever,” said Donna Schultz, a sophomore in social science. “Whenever someone is opposed to what he believes, he just cuts them off.”
“If he doesn’t want to talk about militancy in class, I think he should at least stay after and talk with those who are interested,” she added.
The future of USC’s race relations course seems uncertain. Students apparently don’t know quite what to think, but most are adopting pessimistic attitudes toward the class.
“We’ve reached an impasse with the professor,” said Bob Klie. “It’s driven us to the extreme and him to an extreme. Now there’s no communication between us and the teacher.”
Race class stays late to
By LINDA BIBER
The class wouldn’t leave.
On the evening of March 6, Dr. George Farmer, a black professor, dismissed his Thursday night race relations class at the usual time, but the students remained in their seats.
Five, 10, 15 minutes—Farmer was probably already off the freeway and home by then, but his students had tumbled into what they felt was a relevant racial dialogue, and they weren’t about to stop.
Students fired topics at one another—black power, student power, Governor Ronald Reagan and the irony of blacks having to fight in Vietnam.
Students rapped about everything from Booker T. Washington as an Uncle Tom to the relevance of the class.
“I haven’t seen any race relations yet, and this is supposed to be a race relations class,” said one black student. His voice wavered, and frustration seemed wrapped in his words.
“I don’t want no one telling me I’ve got no pot to piss in,” the student continued. “Man, I know that. I don’t want no one telling me I can’t go out and find a job. I’ve been trying.” Again he asked that the class begin to focus on race relations.
Farmer, however, had defended the present format and structured atmosphere of the class.
“How is a professor going to reach 70 students in approximately two hours and a half?” he asked before he left the classroom.
“The important thing isn’t that you, as one person, reach us,” answered a student. “You should just be
directing all of us, including yourself, to interact, because that’s what society is—interaction.”
“It’s time for the black man to stop hating himself, and stand up and be a man and be counted,” said a black student, bringing the discussion to a climax.
“You tell me about Patrick Henry standing up and saying, ‘Give me liberty or give me death.’ I want to know what’s wrong with me saying that.
“And if that means getting a gun, then that’s what I’m going to do.”
At that point, Farmer broke in. “The class is -dismissed, but if any of you want to stay and talk, you may,” he said.
The class stayed.
All students—black, white, brown—found that they shared a common disappointment in the class, and they rapped on that topic for nearly an hour.
What has happened since that time? What happened last week?
Mickey Mouse—that’s what Farmer called it, as he bawled out the class last Thursday for the activity of the previous week.
But many students enrolled in the class apparently did not agree.
“Race relations has never been, and will never be Mickey Mouse,” said Miles Mitchell, a freshman in sociology, when interviewed by the Daily Trojan. “He (Farmer) is against it because it was conflict and it was argument, but that’s the only way you work out race relations.”
Others agreed that the discussion had a great deal of value.
campus unrest
Student and faculty unrest was the main topic of debate at the monthly meeting of the University Senate held yesterday in the Faculty Center.
Colin Lovell, history professor, introduced two resolutions favoring immediate dismissal or severance from the university for students, faculty or staff members who encourage or take part in disruptions of the fundamental function of the university— education.
Lovell said, “I urge that if we accept the first resolution against students who disrupt the university we must accept the second resolution against the faculty.”
Rather than accept either, however, the senators approved a motion to form an ad hoc committee to incorporate the two resolutions into the existing Executive Committee’s resolution on _ dissent.
The motion, proposed by Hal Speer, professor of business, passed 44-28.
Speer added, “I wish that the Student Activities Committee be allowed to continue its efforts to meet the problem of student unrest.”
Paul Bloland, dean of students, said he was not sure if the Student Activities Committee would act on the resolutions.
Discussion concerning the resolutions continued until the senate passed a motion to move on to other matters.
Before closing the senate moved to instruct the Executive Committee to look into the closing of Harris Plaza, women’s dormitory, over the 10-day Easter vacation.
RON McDUFFIE