University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 15,1969, VOL. LX, NO. 103
Houston /. F7ornog, California state controller, will speak on California tax problems in Hancock Auditorium at 11 a.m. today. The speech is sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
Religious Center retreat scheduled
The applications say, “I see you there off in the distance and I fear you will come closer . .Those planning it call it “a legal high” and “a weekend of intensive interaction with staff and students.” But there are few words which will actually describe the encounter planned this weekend in the San Gabriel Mountains by the Religious Center.
“It’s forgetting about conventions and acceptable responses and allowing ourselves to be human,” said Kendra Lince, a senior in philosophy, responsible for planning most of the event.
The encounter will be a time to forget the academic bag—to get people away, so their only responsibility is discussion,” said Miss Lince.
The activity will be held at the San Fabriel Mountain Lodge Friday evening through Sunday.
The weekend of experience and awareness will be relatively unstructured. It will include semi-sensitivity sessions, body awareness, and experiments in exchanging roles and trying to live within someone else’s experience. There will also be some time out for skiing.
The number of participants in the encounter will be limited to 20. Students interested in coming should call 746-6114 between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. or stop by room 202B at the Religious Center. The cost of the weekend is $5. Transportation will be provided.
One-stop
counseling
available
A one-stop, all-purpose student counseling program which was jointly developed by the School of Education, the Department of Psychology, and the Dean of Students’ Office is new in operation.
Based in the Residential Counseling Office, Student Union 228, the new unified service incorporates the services of the Student Health Center, the Marriage Counseling Center, the Religious Center and the Psychological Research Center.
Volunteer counselors will include both faculty and advanced graduate students. Many of the students are nearing completion of doctoral degrees.
Services will include individual and group counseling. Appointments can be made for Monday through Friday, day or evening.
Paul Bloland, dean of students, said, “This has been a long-time, critical need for the university. We are very happy £o be cooperating with other agencies on the campus to make counseling services available to every student on the campus.”
Information can be obtained by calling 746-2616 or 746-2617.
SONGFEST ’69 NAMES JUDGES
Johnny Mercer and John Scott Trotter will be among the panel of judges for the 1969 Songfest, it was announced yesterday.
Mercer has won an academy award for his music.
Trotter composed the music for the Peanuts television specials.
Songfest '69 will be held in the Hollywood Bowl May 10.
Court criticizes Lawless, Nowak in election ruling
The elections are finally over, but the noise of their aftermath goes on.
In a statement released yesterday, the ASSC Student Court has accused the administration and the elections commissioner of actions that ‘‘must be considered questionable” in the election of Dave Dizenfeld to the position of junior representative.
Dizenfeld was declared the winner over Steve Ogle Thursday after a heated controversy about the validity of some of the write-in votes.
In Friday’s Daily Trojan it was reported that the Board of Inquiry had made the decision to validate Dizenfeld’s election.
However, statements from both the Student Court and Pat Lawless, elections comissioner, report that Daniel Nowak, dean of men, overruled the board in making the decision.
“Nowak ... ruled that as dean he disagreed with the Board of Inquiry’s interpretation . .. ,” the court’s statement reads.
The statement charges Nowak with pressuring the court to make the decision itself “so that he and the administration would not have to publicly take a stand.”
The court refused, the statement continues, “in the belief that it was being asked to
play ‘patsy’ and ‘lackey’ for the administration.”
The statement also reports that the court went to Paul Bloland, dean of students, following the ruling and that he agreed that in the future “all appeals regarding decisions rendered by the ASSC Student Court must be made to the university as represented only by the Student Behavior Committee.”
In another statement, also released yesterday, Lawless explained his side of the issue, saying, “My sole appeal was that Dizenfeld had a majority ...”
Both statements are printed below.
Statement from Student Court
On April 8,1969, the ASSC Student Court met to adjudicate two charges against the Board of Inquiry (which consists of the Student Court joined by the elections commissioner). Since the Daily Trojan articles on those cases contained more fiction than truth, the court is compelled to provide the facts necessary for students to understand the conflict. To guarantee that the understanding will be comprehensive and complete, the court must also reveal how the actions of the elections commissioner and the administration must be considered questionable.
In the run-off election for junior representative, candidate Dave Dizenfeld failed to gain the majority constitutionally required to be elected. The elections comissioner, in the belief that the board’s only concern in an election should be for the candidates and himself, pleaded with the board to disregard the few votes needed for a majority and, in the light of Dizenfeld’s plurality, declare him the winner. The board decided, however, that there should be a second run-off election so that the integrity of every student’s ballot would not be corrupted by the desire for expediency. Unlike the commissioner, the rest of the board feels that its proper concern must be for both the candidates and the voters.
The next day, Dizenfeld challenged the validity of the write-in ballots. Commissioner Lawless discovered that four of the write-in ballots were cast for persons other than students registered at the university. On that arbitrary criterion, never articulated to the student voters, Lawless voided the four ballots, apparently awarding Dizenfeld the majority. That night, Dizenfeld appealed to the Board of Inquiry to legitimize a new vote total and declare him elected. The board ruled against Dizenfeld’s appeal, for it believed that the sacredness of a write-in ballot would be violated if it could be voided on a criterion that had not been (Continued on page 9)
Statement from
elections
commissioner
As most people know by now, last Wednesday Dave Dizenfeld was finally validated as being the winner of the junior representative race. However the circumstances leading up to Wednesday’s decision have been clouded by rumor, misinformation, and ignorance of what exists as law and procedure, by the public and the concerned parties. As elections commissioner I instigated the case in the student courts solely because it is my job to run a fair election, and make sure a winner is a winner. I will now try to account what occurred in the events leading up to Wednedsay’s decision.
On March 26, 1969, the ballots for junior representative were counted. The procedure used was that: 1) all blank and double markings were void, 2) all write-ins had to be eligible for office—at least a student at USC. Two of the 20 write-ins (“Ronnie Reagan” and “Ray Charles, King of Soul”) were challenged and voided during the counting on grounds of ineligibility. Then the results were announced as being: Dizenfeld 265, Ogle 247, misc. writen-ins 18. Dizenfeld did not have a simple majority (50 percent plus 1) so a run-off election was set up for April 10th. Within 10 hours the other 18 write-ins were challenged legally on ineligibility grounds and two were found to be nonstudents. I therefore, following correct procedure set down in the elections code, declared Dizenfeld the winner because he had a simple majority.
According to the elections code all results of elections must be validated by the Board of Inquiry (whose voting members are members of the Student Court). On March 27, 1969, upon hearing my testimony in their deliberations, the board made the following three part decision: Any written expression is a valid vote such as “Mickey (Continued on page 9) ’
Involvement aim of Greek Week
The aims of the traditional Greek Week this year are to involve the entire university and to take a critical look at the Greek system.
All of the events except the Greek Week Ball are open to all university students.
Coheads of the Greek Week Committee are John Mork of Sigma Chi and Judy Latimer of Gamma Phi Beta.
A street dance Sunday night officially kicked off the week’s activities.
Speakers have been planned to analyze the role of the Greeks in the university structure. All students are invited to the speeches.
Tonight at 7 Captain Reese of the University Division Police Station will speak at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house.
The subject of his talk is the problems the Row creates for area policemen. He will outline the difficulties that student water fights and disturbances make for the police and the University Division police on controlling the pranks.
Dr. William J. Williams, head of the Center for Social Action, will speak Thursday at noon in Administration 305 on the redirection of social involvement and will offer suggestions to make community involvement more meaningful.
Greek Week Awards Night is scheduled for Wednesday with a tour of Occidental Center. The featured speaker will be George Deukmejian, state senator.
Awards will be given for best fraternity president and best judicial
member, and scholarships will be presented.
Thursday night Bovard will rock with the sounds of the Righteous Brothers. Tickets for the 8:30 concert are $3.50, $2.50 and $1.50. The concert is cosponsored by the Greeks and ASSC.
Free beer will be served after the concert at McKeever’s at 10:30. Ticket stubs from the concert are needed to get the beer.
Friday’s speaker will be Leonard Wines, executive direction of University Relations, in Administration 305 at 11 a.m.
His topic concerns the programs at USC which presently involve the community and how they will change and function in the next few years. He will cite programs such as the Community Redevelopment Project.
Friday afternoon beginning at 2 the Row will be the scene of inter-Greek competition. Rope pulls, relays and chariot races will pit the strengths of the various Greek groups.
The Greek Week Ball on Friday night will culminate the week’s activities. Beginning at 8 in the Embassy Room of the Ambassador Hotel, music will be provided by “Love,” and the “Hollywood All-Stars.” The final voting and crowning of the Greek Week king and queen will take place at 10.
The candidates for Greek Week king are J.J. Johnson, Kevin Kramer, Bruce McEwen, Larry Goodnight and Mike Holmgren.
The candidates for queen are Pam Woods, Karen Curtis, Celeste Freeman, Susie Link and Paige Merrill.