Antiwar rally tonight will feature Ellsberg
A peace rally sponsored by the Set-The-Date Committee, featuring Daniel Ellsberg, the discloser of the Pentagon Papers, will be held tonight at 8 in the Sports Arena. Burt Lancaster will be the moderator, and Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland will perform.
The Set-The-Date Committee represents an alliance of antiwar groups, blacks, Chicanos, labor, students, women and ecology organizations that is dedicated to an immediate end to the Vietnam War.
Ellsberg, making his first appearance in Los Angeles since the release of the Pentagon Papers, “Liberated the Pentagon Papers because he favors the people’s freedom to know. He is for action against any congressman who doesn’t represent his constituents,” said Paul Schrade, spokesman for the Set-The-Date Committee.
Tickets are available at all Mutual agencies and at the Sports v Arena box office for $1 and $2.
Clemence outlines plans for reforms, programs
By PETER WONG Staff Writer
Kent Clemence has six months to accomplish that which other ASSC presidents have a year to work on.
However, despite the shortened term. Clemence is going ahead with a program that would normally take a full year to complete and then some. But he isn't worried.
“I intend to be a strong president. I will give definite direc-
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Security gets new chief
“In 22 years you get around a lot.” reflected Jim Bowie, new chief of Campus Security, referring to his experience with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Bowie was promoted Nov. 5 upon the transfer of Victor Sargent, former security chief, to another division of the university. Bowie became a member of Campus Security in March. 1970. after a friend introduced him to Sargent. At the time. Bowie was in retirement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department. However. he became bored with having nothing to do.
Bowie is in charge of Campus Security, which is one of three sections under John Lechner. director of security and parking. The other two divisions are parking and watchman.
While he was with the sheriff's department. Bowie worked on the patrol division, vice detail.
corrections division, and the jail division. He retired from the force as a sergeant.
“I think the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department as well as the Los Angeles Police Department are two of the best law enforcement agencies in the United States.” stated Bowie. The sheriff's department and LAPD are two separate entities. While the sheriff has jurisdiction throughout the unincorporated county, the LAPD is limited to the city.” he explained.
Prior to joining the sheriff department. Bowie was a machinist. He also was in the Air Force, where he worked as an air craft crew chief.
“I enjoy my association with the students and faculty at USC very much — almost more than anything I've ever done. It wasn't hard to convert to the job.” said Bowie.
tion to the general student body,' he said in an interview last week.
‘ The right of leadership is earned—it is not a reward.”
On Oct. 15, Clemence finally attained the goal he had sought since February.
However, what started out as a routine ASSC presidential election in the spring turned out to be the ASSC's greatest mess with a confession of ballot-stuffing in the primary, invalidation of the primary by President Hubbard, postponement of the election until fall, an acting president for five and one-half months and a fall contest with only one candidate on the ballot.
This only added to Clemences problems.
“What are the pressures of office? I’ve got to restore credibility lost in the election fiasco. to succeed in my working relationships with the other ASSC officers, to orient myself to this job in such a short time, to deal with issues and try to resolve them.” he said.
For Clemence, a senior in history and sociology, his introduction to student government was not quite as hectic as his campaign for the ASSC presidency.
“I started out in student government because I wanted to meet people—people who were interesting, intelligent and active in university affairs, he said.
“I've enjoyed my time in government. I've been exposed to different ideas, ideals and philosophies.”
Clemence s first major goal as president is to get a new ASSC constitution drafted and approved.
Why did he call a convention, when in the past two attempts at constitutional revision, the ASSC Executive Council was the channel by which such proposals were drafted?
“The convention is the best way to bring together diverse opinions and philosophies and shape the best document possible through compromise and accommodation.” Clemence said. The 46-member convention will meet for the first time Wednesday.
Though Clemence refused to speculate on the constitution— “There's no telling what kind of document will come out of the convention”—he hopes to see the following goals accomplished:
•	A streamlining of constitutional provisions so that student government would have a workable base.
•	A determination of the role of administrators as advisers to student government.
•	A definition of the relationships of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the ASSC.
Clemence would also like to see some form of the Articles of Governance to be adopted this year that would clarify the relationships of students, faculty, deans and administrators.
He is a member of the task force that is trying to work out alternatives to the present proposal. which would establish a University Council, with equal representation from the three major constituencies, to determine university polocy.
Though Clemence does not plan to work for major changes in other university policies, he wants to look at the Statement (Continued on page 5)
Controversy rages over Children of God
ByJAN SHORT
Up Mesa Road in Santee, where the pavement ends and holes in the dirt make it hard to drive a car, there's an old red ranch house just off to the right. Nobody's there now but a middle-aged redhead with a paint brush and she doesn’t like strangers poking their heads through her open front door.
“Yeah." she said. “This is the place, but those Children of God have left. They wanted to leave California. I don't know where they've gone, and I don't care where." She turned as sharply as she spoke and went back to painting the walls white.
There were no tents set up outside, no scraps of handwritten Bible verses blowing in the wind: nothing of the controversial Christians was left but the words “Garage Sale" lettered on cardboard that was tacked to the front gate.
The brown hills of Santee, about 13 miles southeast of San Diego, were the last Southern California home of the Chiidren of God. The 35-acre ranch is quiet now. except for the wind and barking dogs and kids on trail bikes skidding crazily down the dirt hills.
In Southern California the Children of God were pressured by heartbroken parents, hounded by journalists, dropped by their generous sponsor and worried by premonitions of severe earthquakes.
The Children of God mean business, and they count Jesus on their side. They sell a hard rap of one-way words and many people are trading everything away to hear them. Deserting home, family, car. friends, jobs and college. 2.000 recruits have submerged themselves in 24-
hour-a-day devotion to the Bible during the last three years.
So it is not surprising that the Children of God have caused a little commotion. Based in San Diego and Los Angeles, the Parents Committee to Free Our Sons and Daughters from the Children of God Organization claim that youths are spot-hypnotized off the streets and whisked away to undergo extensive brainwashing in slave-like condition. Some people have suggested the the group slips drugs into fruit punch to keep converts in tow.
Suspicions and fear run high on both sides. The Children are terrified that their brothers will be kidnapped by hysterical parents and committed to mental institutions, while parents pray that their children will be rescued in time for psychiatric help to do any good at all.
Some parents have said that their children would be better off dead or on drugs. Last spring, when the Children of God were allegedly assaulting a mother in the Los Angeles commune as she attempted to take her son out to dinner, she heard her son remark between blows. “Well, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh awav.”
The Children of God parked their bus over at the Colosseum last Sept. 24 and crossed Exposition Boulevard over to campus with their Bibles and guitars.
College campuses are favorite places to do “The Work.” Middle and upper-class converts are solicited because the Children support themselves on what new members bring in. In their intercolonial newspaper, they have printed that their very
existence depends on their growing.
The campus was an ideal place to recruit. The undergraduate liberal arts area is fairly concentrated in the center of campus with students lounging in Alumni Park and walking to class along University Avenue.
Carl Emerieh. administrative assistant to acting Vice-President Dan Nowak, watched the Children of God for a couple of hours.
“They didn't approach any TA-types, or people who seemed to be going someplace." Em-erich said. "I noticed that they'd go up to kids in T-shirts who were sitting in the park or walking aimlessly. They seemed keenly aware of peoples' susceptibility.”
For Paul Woodward, a junior in biology, it was a beautiful, sunny day. He was in a good mood because he'd just gotten registered in a biochemistry class that he wanted. He was walking across Alumni Park, looking for a friend, when two young men approached him.
Laurel Ann Ford, a junior transfer from the University of Miami, had just finished a Russian class in Founder's Hall when she ran into the group on University Avenue.
That night Woodward didn't return to his dorm room in Town and Gown, and Ms. Ford didn't show up for a date with her steady boyfriend. John Ackerman. a senior.
Woodward's mother and Ackerman contacted the police over the weekend. For three days they searched alone for the missing students until the police department assigned a detective to the case on Monday.
When Woodward talks about
what happened to him during and after his five days with the Children of God, he tries hard to be open-minded.
“I can describe what happened, but not my feelings about it.” Woodward said in an interview in his dorm room. “When one of the guys in the park talked to me. he made me feel guilty about being a Christian. You see. I ve been a Christian for four years, and he made me feel like I wasn't doing my duty. That made me very susceptible.
“A lot of people say I may have been drugged and things like that. I never saw any drugs. I did eat and drink. It was something like an instant conversion. The second I said I'd go with them. I was always in the middle of the group. ’’
He had a good time in their Los Angeles commune It was like a retreat for him. He'd get up in the morning and sing and dance and study the Bible. The food was pretty good—sandwiches. fruit, chocolate milk. He happened to have $60 in his pocket from a loan, but they never asked him for any money.
But a month has passed, and Woodward has had a chance to remember the experience through different perspectives.
If the Children of God are what they say they are. then they're living a utopia. If it was a true thing. I'd go right back." But he won't go back because something just doesn't fit.
For one thing, he was under a time delusion. He never knew what time it was. The leaders borthered him too. He couldn't figure out what made them different from the rest of the group.
“Now that I look back at it, I can see that the leaders were
normal people. Everyone else had no emotion but love. But the leaders would come up to you and point, and no one else pointed. They’d talk with their hands and get excited and argue among themselves."
By the fifth day he was with them, Woodward had only one doubt about remaining with the group. On the questionaires that were passed out daily. Woodward wrote under "spiritual fulfillment" that he still had questions about the leaders. After that his contact lenses were gone.
He was careful to wrap the lenses up and put them in his shoe every night, but he said that they could have been lost. His doctor thinks that the lenses might have been taken away to make his eyes more responsive to hypnosis. But all Woodward knows is that from that time on. he couldn't see very well.
Sept. 25. the day after Woodward joined the Children, the Rev. J. Fred Jordan, their sponsor. ordered the leaders of the groups in Coachella and Los Angeles to leave because they were preaching an anti-establishment doctrine.
Mr. Jordan, an independent Protestant minister, provided the Children of God with living facilities in Los Angeles. Texas and Coachella, in Riverside County. He raised over $98,000 for them through his Sunday morning Church in the Home television program.
The rest of the Children of God were allowed to remain, but they followed their leaders. The Los Angeles group camped out in MacArthur Park for three days. “The leaders all laughed (Continued from page 2)