McGuinness takes primary lead
By RICH WISEMAN
News Editor
John McGuinness led the field in the race for ASSC president, election returns indicated early this morning, but the race isn’t over yet. He faces a runoff next week with either Kent Clemence or Chuck Jones.
McGuinness polled 874 votes in the election, followed by Clemence with 779, Jones with 763, Craig Caldwell with 385 and Marsha Naify with 142. Paul Moore, director of the office of student activities, announced that there will be a recount today of Clemence s and Jones’ votes because of the closeness.
The Student Court validated the election at 2:30 a.m. The runoffs are scheduled for April 27 and 28.
“I tried to tell the truth,” said McGuinness, in analyzing his good showing. “I didn't try to play both ends against the middle. I think even people who disagreed with me saw it as a virtue.”
“I owe thanks to the dedication of a lot of guys who worked for me,” Clemence said. “I tried to poll votes from all the factions.”
Caldwell's Students for Representative Government ticket laid a big egg as only one of its
10	candidates won, Karen Howze, who ran unopposed for AWS president. Two SRG candidates, Bob Spira, junior representative candidate, and Colin Kurata, AMS president candidate, are in runoffs with Steve Wiley and Ron Run, respectively.
Other winners are Lee Blackman for the office of vice-president for academic affairs; Joel Rosenzweig, vice-president for programs; Ben DeMayo, senior representative; Jim Lacy, sophomore representative; Joel Jacobs, AMS vice-president; Marlene Kristovich, AWS vice-president; and Bayatti; international students representative.
“The salesmanship, neatness and the great handouts (of the SRG) made students wary of it,” said Blackman, who trounced his SRG opponent, Michael Lance Trope, 1,824-756. “I think the students were intelligent enough to look at the individual candidates.”
Both Wiley and Spira pledge to bring their campaigns to as much of the campus as possible in the coming week. “I’ll go to those places I didn’t get a chance to get in contact with—the girls' dorms and the sororities,” Wiley said. “I want to talk to everybody,” Spira said.
Election results
ASSC PRESIDENT—*John McGuinness, 874; *Kent Clemence, 779;
Chuck Jones, 763; Craig Caldwell, 385; Marsha Naify, 142.
ASSC VICE-PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS—Lee Blackman, 1,824; Michael Lance Trope, 756.
ASSC VICE-PRESIDENT FOR PROGRAMS—Joel Rosenzweig, 1,910; Gilbert Lopez, 654.
ASSOCIATED MEN’S PRESIDENT—*colin Kurata, 796; *Ron Rus, 437; Rocky Springstead, 225.
ASSOCIATED MEN’S VICE-PRESIDENT—Joel Jacobs, 1,071; Martin Morfeld, 645.
ASSOCIATED WOMEN’S PRESIDENT—Karen Howze, 667.
ASSOCIATED WOMEN’S VICE-PRE SIDE NT-Marlene Kristovich, 251 (write-in)
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS REPRESENTATIVE—J. Bayatti, 59 (write-in)
SENIOR PRESIDENT—Ron Palmieri, 372; Dennis Winston, 243.
SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE—Ben DeMayo, 379; Vic Torres, 261.
JUNIOR REPRESENTATIVE—"Stephen Wiley, 259; *Robert Spira, 238; Marilyn Smith, 176.
SOPHOMORE REPRESENTATIVE-Jim Lacy, 397; Steve Leon, 313
(*•—denotes runoff election candidates)
University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. 108
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1971
Court reverses injunction on Free Trojan
By NANCY MYERS City Editor
The official decision reversing the Student Court's injunction against distribution of the conservative underground newspaper, the Free Trojan, was released yesterday.
The majority opinion, passed by a 4-2 vote, stated: “The court, in reexamination of the case, deems that the injustice (against the Free Trojan) is contrary to the Statement on Students' Rights and Responsibilities. The court holds that the statement is to be preeminent over any court decision.”
In its April 1 decision, the court voted to ban the Free Trojan because it would give unfair publicity to candidates it endorsed. The original decision read in part; “. . . the court felt that the Free Trojan's manipulative and onesided tactics represented such a threat to the election process. ”
This was based on the election code limits for campaign spending of candidates, and publicity in the Free Trojan would create an unfair election.
The court banned the Free Trojan from distributing on campus during the elections: however, the Free Trojan came out twice during that period.
The court reheard the case after requests for rehearing were presented by Pat Nolan. Free Trojan representative, Michael Trope, plaintiff in the original suit and Bruce Mitchell, an associate justice.
The original vote to ban the Free Trojan was approved by Ron Palmieri, Steven Knowles, Jerry Reitman and Bruce Mitchell. Voting against the ban were Dan Levinson, chief justice, Michael Yagjian and Lyle Morris.
The reverse was approved by Mitchell, who changed his vote, Levinson, Yagjian and Morris.
Justices Reitman and Knowles issued (Continued on page 7)
Trope accused of blackmail by Leon
Judicial acquits BSU chairman
Henry Blackburn, chairman of the Black Students Union, was acquitted last night by the University Judicial of charges of instigating BSU disruptions at the USC-Brigham Young University baseball game March 20. Further details will appear in tomorrow’s Daily Trojan.
ROGERS MORTON
Sec. Morton to give speech on environment
Rogers C. Morton, U.S. secretary of interior, will deliver his Earth Day speech at noon today in Bovard Auditorium.
Morton has been invited to speak about the environment by the Great Issues Forum and Biology Semester.
This appearance will mark Morton's first public address since his appointment by President Nixon last January.
In related Earth Day activities, the Biology Semester students and members of the People’s Response on a Better Environment have arranged for the California Air Resources Board to check automobiles entering USC for hydrocarbon and harmful exhaust emissions.
An ecology sticker indicating the amount of waste emitted will be issued to each car tested.
Three check stations will be established around campus measuring student and faculty cars. Faulty exhaust systems will receive green citations warning the motorist to repair his system.
The speech and the exhaust-emission tests are a cooperative effort on the parts of Dr. David Malone, Great Issues Forum: Dr. Edwin Perkins, director of Biology Semester and Jack See, president of PROBE.
By PETER WONG Assistant Editorial Director
Steve Leon, a candidate for sophomore representative on the slate of Students for Representative Government, charged last night that Mike Trope, the slate’s candidate for vice-president of academic affairs, had tried to threaten him with disqualification from the election if he left the slate.
Leon also accused Craig Caldwell, the slate’s candidate for ASSC president, of trying to use him and other members of the slate in order to win his own race.
At the Student Court meeting last night to validate the ASSC primary election results, Leon presented his charge involving Trope and another charge accusing the Daily Trojan of political motives in deleting a section of a front-page article on the election in Wednesday's edition.
He did not ask for specific court action, but he explained why he was presenting the charges to the court. “Let the voters look at the facts and choose for themselves from the full information,” he said. “Let the students make decisions.”
Trope called the charge of blackmail “a pure, unadulterated lie.” Caldwell had no comment other than: “We ran as a slate, we will win as a slate, and I feel that if he wants to be part of the team, he's still welcome.”
The Daily Trojan said political considerations had no bearing on the decision to cut Leon’s remarks from its front-page story on the election.
The series of incidents began Tuesday afternoon, when Leon submitted a statement for publication in Wednesday’s Daily Trojan giving three reasons why he was leaving the slate of Students for Representative Government.
“Caldwell had tried to use me and other members of the slate in order to win his own election,” Leon claimed. “He repeatedly did this, first at the candidates' debate in Birnkrant Dining Room Monday night, and then in a Battle column in the Daily Trojan.”
Caldwell’s column stated: “Look at the people supporting me by running on my slate. They know me and my philosophies.”
The third incident that Leon cited as a reason for leaving the slate was the alleged blackmail incident involving Trope.
Leon said Trope threatened him with disqualification if he left the slate,
“on the theory that I would have spent more money than all the other candidates. I did not buy this threat,” he said.
Trope's version of that incident was different. “Before the Students for Representative Government ran a full-page ad in the Daily Trojan on Tuesday, I had heard that Leon was vacillating and wanted to leave the slate. I talked to him and asked him if he wanted his name deleted from the ad so that he wouldn’t get unfair publicity,” he said.
“Leon was insistent—he said he was definitely going to stay with the slate.”
Leon said. “I decided to write another statement saying that I would stay on the slate because Caldwell had admitted his mistake, and I did not want to hurt the chances for Colin Kurata (Associated Men’s Students presidential candidate) and Bob Spira (candidate for junior representative) to win their races.”
Leon also credited Jeff Birren. co-president of Students for Representative Government and campaign manager, with his decision to stay.
But a second point of controversy arose. While Leon was drafting his second statement, Caldwell and Trope came to talk to Daily Trojan editors. Leon charged that Caldwell’s comments to the editors convinced them that his statement should not be printed. “Caldwell knew the election story might hurt him,” Leon said.
Daily Trojan editors said that Caldwell’s comments were not a factor in having Leon's statement cut from the election story.
Caldwell said, “I was under the impression that Leon's statement was going to go in the paper. Apparently it was at the end of the election story and was cut, for we were looking for it in the paper.”
“Bringing up the matter of the election story after the election booths are closed serves two purposes,” Leon said. “This now has no bearing on my election, and it is clearly not a political gesture. And the voters will know about two candidates—Caldwell and Trope.”
Trope said, “After all our efforts for Leon—the full-page ad, the literature we passed out, the stand set up by Caldwell’s sister and her sorority members to work for additional votes—Leon just wanted to leave the slate in an effort to pick up votes from other candidates.
“Leon did this without regard for the (Continued on page 7)