Court reveals facelift
By GUNTHER MERLI Staff Writer
Major changes have taken place in the structure and membership of the Student Court, Steve Knowles, chief justice of the court, said in an interview yesterday.
New rules of procedure have been formulated over the summer for the court, including two substantial changes: The creation of four new court positions (three court advocates and a court secretary), and the strengthening of the exclusion power, allowing the court and the chief justice to exclude a justice from the decision on any case.
Three new associate justices and three alternate justices were selected last spring to fill vacancies created on the court when the terms of several justices ended.
The court will meet tomorrow at noon in SU 307 to hear a case, described as an interpretive matter by Knowles. Colin Kurata, former Associated Men Students president, resigned recently to
go to another school. The AMS constitution provides that Joel Jacobs, the AMS vice-president, should succeed to the post, while the ASSC constitution says that the executive council shall appoint someone to fill the vacancy. The court must resolve this conflict.
As set up by Knowles, the rules of procedure provide for the court s jurisdiction. method of filing cases, acceptance of cases, hearings, decisions, quorum, exclusion of justices from cases, alternates, selection of the chief justice. judicial advocates and court secretary.
Formerly, only the justice could exclude himself from the decision in a case, for such reasons as conflict of interest. Under the new procedure, the court can exclude a justice by a unanimous vote, or the chief justice can exclude him by recommendation, subject to veto by a unanimous vote of the court.
Knowles has established new court positions. Three judicial advocates, appointed by the chief justice, will investigate cases for the court and be
available to aid contesting parties. The court secretary will be appointed to keep records and prepare written material for court members. Applications for these offices are available in the ASSC office on the third floor of the Student Union.
The court's three new associate justices are Gail Foltz, a junior in prelaw, Don Ramsey, a sophomore in urban studies, and Lyle Morris, a senior in engineering and math who was reelected after serving on the court last year.
The three alternates are Jeff Birren, a junior. Catherine McMillan, a junior, and Greg Woodson, a sophomore business major. These six were selected from 25 applicants by a panel composed of Robert Mannes, dean of student life. Paul Moore, director of student activities, Joel Rosenzweig. acting ASSC president, and Knowles.
The court consists of seven justices. Continuing from last year's court are Knowles, Jerry Reitman. a graduate student, Lee Wilbur, a junior in religion, and Bruce Mitchell, a junior in philosophy.
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 3
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1971
Extended visitation OK'd
Residents of College-Univer-sity Hall, the dorm that has had no-visitation policy since it opened for the semester, will have liberalized visiting hours within the next two weeks.
After several conferences be-
tween university administrators and officers of the Women's Halls Association (WHA), almost all areas of the Women's Complex will be open for male guests from 10:30 to 2 a.m.
However, the third floor of
Pulitzer winner to talk about Indian heritage
N. Scott Momaday, will speak on ‘ The American Indian in Conflict'' at noon today in Bovard Auditorium.
Momaday, who won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his book, “House Made of Dawn.” was invited by the Great Issues Forum to discuss his views on the American Indian in society today. He will explain the problems of growing up in America as an Indian from past to present.
The author earned his A.B. from the University of New Mexico in 1958, his M.A. from Stanford University in 1960 and his Ph.D. there in 1963.
Momaday taught English at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1963-65 and 1968-69. He is now a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley.
College-University Hall will still be under the no-visitation policy.
“We just had to get this situation changed,” Laura Kotsiris, WHA president, said. “It is only a small minority of girls who wanted closed visitation.”
The current confusion over visitation began this summer, when the university mailed out postcards to women students asking them if they wanted to live in dorms with extended visitation hours that were set last spring by the Board of Trustees.
If a student was under 21, she had to obtain parental consent to live in a dorm with the extended visitation.
Karen Howze, president of the Associated Women Students, said that 493 requested the extended visitation hours. Those who did not (172) were assign-
ed to College-University Hall.
However, some 200 students who did not return the cards and. consequently, did not indicate a preference, were assigned to College-University Hall on the premise that they would have answered “no.*’
Many did not understand the new rules, and others were away on summer vacation and never replied.
As a result, women students in EVK and Birnkrant residence Halls were allowed to have male guests in their rooms, while women in College-University Hall could only have male guests in the downstairs lounges of their hall and those of EVK, and Birnkrant.
All lounges of the Women's Complex will be open 24 hours; they were previously open to men from 7 a.m. to midnight.
By next week WHA officers
and university administrators hope to relocate the 200 women students.
“Were going to work it so that only one day will just be spent moving,” the WHA president said. “Maybe we’ll have a dance and call it ‘Kick the Habit' just for those who have suffered in the ‘convent' (College-University Hall) in these past weeks.”
The ASSC Executive Council was asked last week by some of its members to support possible legal action through the university judicial system to remedy the confusion on visitation.
This was averted, however, when the council learned that Dan Nowak, acting vice-president for student affairs, had ordered a new survey on visitation and had asked the WHA to intervene in the situation.
NATURE BOY AT 60
Gypsy Boots doesn't panic, goes organic
By DEBBIE RANDALL
While California is known for its colorful personalities, USC can say that it hosts its own lively individual: Gypsy Boots.
“I'm just an ordinary fellow who happens to love people, and when I talk I get so excited I sometimes jump around.”
Gypsy is the 60-year-old self-styled nature boy who has become a halftime show of his own at the USC football and basketball games.
“I was first introduced to USC and its wonderful people when, about three years ago. I was guest of the Sigma Chi fraternity. After that they invited me to be a guest of theirs at a football game.
“Everyone I've met has treated me so nicely here that I've been an SC fan ever since. ”
Gypsy has also become a frequent fan at the basketball games. “Craig Caldwell, head cheerleader, last year invited me as his guest at one of the games and I've been coming ever since. He said with my spirited character and enthusiasm. I could yell my heart out all I wanted to.
“I also met Mike Walden. .the
Trojan's sports broadcaster, and really got to know what great people I was rooting with.”
Gypsy came to USC as a previously established television personality, author and organic food enthusiast. He has appeared on 27 Steve Allen shows, the Tonight Show and in Life and Esquire magazines.
“I had long hair and wore sandals long before the Beatles or the hippies.
“For a fellow who didn't even finish high school, I think I've done pretty well for myself. I*ve produced and sold health products trying to make people's lives better; written a book “Bare Feet and Good Things to Eat,” now in its third printing, and have a lovely wife and three children, and above all. we re all happy.
“Some day when I have a lot of money I would like to take people on a nature retreat in the mountains to show them how to live by the laws of nature."
Gypsy has also been a goodwill ambassador of health and happiness, as Steve Allen put it on one of Gypsv*^ appear-
ances on his television show. Since his boyhood days in Mill Valley near San Francisco, he has done numerous odd jobs including picking fruit, washing dishes, entertaining at private parties and selling fruit door-to-door in Hollywood. He also worked as a life guard, caddied briefly and chauffered.
“Even though I have a beard and long hair and wear sandals, I recognize the good in everyone and don’t care what they look like.
“I realize that I can't please everyone because I've heard remarks from negative sources. They say that I should act my age and leave the craziness for others.
“But I say that is one of my secrets of staying so young and positive at age 60. I eat natural foods, have a positive outlook on life and keep active by cheering for those who I believe in.
“Most importantly, I always tell everyone my motto: Don't panic, go organic: get in cahoots with Gypsy Boots: Bless your soul: Trojans to the Rose Bowl. Naturally yours: Gypsv Boots."
BOOTS LEAVES PRINT AT TROY — Health food enthusiast and USC rooter Gypsy Boots visits his favorite campus. DT photo by Pat Murphey.