University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1969, VOL. LX., NO. 73
2 all-white frats pledge 3 blacks
Two previously all-white fraternities have announced that they have pledged Negroes this semester.
Both the Kappa Alpha Orders, and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house have pledged blacks prominent on campus.
While this is not the first time Negroes have been pledged—Tau Epsilon Phi has two black members, for example—this pledging has been considered significant.
The Kappa Alpha Order, who boasts of the fact that every one of their chapters lies below the Mason-Dixon line, pledged Jimmy Gunn, an All-Coast football player from San Diego. Steve Watson, rush-chairman for the KA’s said that Gunn was
good friends with many of the members.
“He is one of the best people at USC, and that was our sole consideration,” said Watson. “When his name came up at rush meetings, there was no mention of his skin color.”
Don McDuffie, junior representative, and his brother Tim McDuffie, freshman representative, have both pledged Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Garry-' Edwards, SAE president, said he is very proud to have the McDuffies as brothers.
“We felt that the fraternity system has to change with the times, and the times are becoming more liberal,” said Edwards. “There is no difference anymore. The color barrier is down.”
URBAN ILLS TALK TONIGHT
John W. Dyckman will speak tonight in the second of a series of 29 lectures entitled "Urban Problems and Challenges, 1969."
Dyckman, of the Department of City and Regional Planning of the University of Caliifornia at Berkeley, will focus on defining a new role for the federal government in urban development.
The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in Founders Hall 133. Tickets are $3.50 to the public and free for full time students and can be picked up at the Institute of Urban Ecology, Von Kleinsmid Center 347 before 5 p.m. tomorrow or at the door.
Trustee is new head of CBS-TV
Robert D. Wood, former Trojan and now trustee of USC, has been named president of the CBS Television Network, Frank Stanton, president of Columbia Broadcasting System Inc. has announced.
Graduating from USC in 1949 with a degree in advertising, Wood has been active in USC Alumni affairs and is a member of the university’s Public Relations Council.
Wood received a merit award from the General Alumni Association in 1966. He is also honorary past president of the Trojan Club.
His first job was at KNX-CBS Radio, Hollywood, in 1949, where he later became sales service manager. He served as account executive with KTTV television station in Los Angeles from 1951 to 1952.
ASSC calls for student role in dorm rule-making
Editor to talk on U.S. policy
Harrison Salisbury, the Pulitzer Prize-winning managing editor of the New York Times, will speak on the New Look for U.S. Foreign Policy today at 2 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium. His appearance is under the sponsorship of - the Great Issues Forum.
Salisbury won his coveted Pulitzer Prize for his foreign affairs reporting in 1954. He wrote a series of articles called "Russia Re-Viewed."
The series was based upon his five years as Moscow correspondent for the New York Times. From this series of articles and others, he wrote many books.
The ASSC Executive Council said yesterday it does not recognize as valid any existing residence hall rules and regulations that do not include students in their formulation and execution.
A resolution adopted at yesterday’s meeting also states that no administrative body has the right to demand compliance with rules that were not created through representative means.
The resolution, however, was adopted only after the defeat of sections urging students not to comply with those rules, and giving ASSC executives the power to abolish or alter those rules.
These defeated sections, which in effect called for civil disobedience, were the primary subjects of discussion at the meeting.
The power and usefulness of civil disobedience was generally accepted, but several members of the council said disobedience was not a practical solution for this problem.
“I don’t think civil disobedience is justified in this case,” said Jim Blackstock, vice president in charge of programs. Blackstock advocated the formulation of an alternative set of rules for residence halls.
If these were not acted upon by administrative officials, he said, more drastic action could be taken.
Bill Mauk, ASSC president, who recently demonstrated his belief in civil disobedience by stealing some sign-out and sign-in cards from the women’s dorm, was obviously displeased with the council’s deletions from the proposal.
“It is gutless because it says very little,” Mauk said. “We are not taking any steps toward the elimination of these rules. The only way to change them is by civil disobedience.”
Mauk said that things will never get changed as long as everyone goes along with the rules. He also said that there must be an end to the students themselves implementing these policies of the administration.
“These people are just the tools of the administration—the student judiciaries, the WHA, MHA and this executive council^who refuse to take the power that is theirs,” Mauk said. He said they are all afraid of offending the trustees.
“By only asking that the rules of in loco parentis be changed, we are, in fact, agreeing with them,” Mauk said.
Boycott ends as law groups meet
The Law School boycott came to an end yesterday morning as the first year students returned to class and their representatives met with the Law School faculty and presented their requests.
“I invited four students to meet with the faculty at our weekly faculty meeting,” Dorothy Nelson, dean of the Law School, said. “At the meeting it was judged that request number two be adopted and that a committee be adopted to actively and aggressively attempt to solve the grievances of the first year class.”
The committee will be composed of four members of the first year class, including the class president and vice president and two members of the faculty. This committee will make any recommendations it feels may resolve the problems of the class.
“I have appointed David Slauson and Michale Reiss, both professors, to serve on the committee and I have asked Joseph Porter, class president, to serve as chairman,” Mrs. Nelson said. “The committee has been directed to report to both the faculty and the students no later than March 4.”
The faculty also passed a resolution in connection with request number one which asks that students’ papers be graded and returned with all possible diligence.
“The students agreed that the second sentence of the request, that test papers reflect an honest and fair evaluation, was inappropriate and asked to withdraw it,” Mrs. Nelson said.
“As dean, I feel that most of their requests were legitimate and had the students come to me before the boycott and requested consultation I would have gladly complied.
“The students presently have a voice in making school policy. Two students sit with the faculty, the president of the Student Bar Association and the editor of the Law Review.
'Anna Karenina’s run in Bovard ton
The Chamber Theatre production of “Anna Karenina,” Leo Tolstoy’s novel of intense passion, metaphysical and philosophical searchings, deceit and psychological upheavals will open tonight at 8 p.m. in the Hall of Nations, in the northwest wing of Bovard. The production will continue through Saturday.
“Anna Karenina” involves the story of a woman, trapped by the Russian social system, whose all-encompassing passions destroy her relationship with her lover and her husband, finally driving her to suicide.
This tragic plot is juxtaposed with a more philosophical one concerned with Tolstoy’s philosophy and concept of
society as embodied in the guise of Konstatine Levin. This sensitive character ceaselessly attempts to create some meaning and coherence from the fragments of his existence.
Chamber Theatre is an especially effective medium for the interpretation of a novel since it does not alter the text from prose to the dramatic form.
Tickets are available through Friday at the Bovard ticket office from noon to 2 p.m., or at the Speech Department office, Founders Hall 409, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. They can be purchased for $1 by students and $1.50 for general admission.
Members of the cast of Anna Karenina rehearse scene.