Guarino sees involvement trust, action
Mike Guarino, junior in philosophy, announced his candidacy for ASSC president yesterday, saying, “I am not one of the darlings of Trojan student government. I am completely free to start the necessary reconstruction of student government.
“I’ve seen what student politicians have done so far, and I am opposed to this form of government. Students can run their own affairs. The practical student politicans have created the situation that1 now exists. People with ideas rather than experience could not have done worse, and possible, infinitely better.”
Guarino disagrees with the present student government.
“Good results measured in public utility rather than the involvement of people is the ultimate goal of student government,” he said.
Citing an example, he said, that rather than have the ASSC Council use part of its $60-$70,000 budget to support a scholarship, they should strive for student participation by sponsoring an art show where students sell their works and give the proceeds to the scholarship.
Guarino said he believes that if a reconstruction of- society is ever to take place, it must occur internally. He cited the insensitivity of student government to student problems as the hindrance to better government.
“As it stands now,” Guarino said, “student government is transitory in nature.” What he advocates is student participation in the hope of creating lasting human relationships in an academic community where people are friends rather than competitors.
Guarino proposes a volunteer student union in order to gain the ideas of those students who have valuable contributions to make, but shy away from any form of government.
With the Executive Council acting as an advisory board, and graduate and senior students as ombudsmen to meet and speak with students, Guarino hopes to eliminate the hierarchy of student politicians and the general student body.
Concerning student activity in the surrounding community, Guarino said he plans to be in constant contact with Dan Smith, coordinator for the Community Action Coordinating Council, and relates the success of community activity to the creation of a cohesive philosophy in student government.
“By the creation of an internal community feeling, people couldn’t help but to extend this feeling to the surrounding community,” he said.
“Students must be sincerely involved with and for people. There must be an internal realization.”
Concerning his philosophy, Guarino said:
“I realize my ideas may not coincide with what most people think about human nature or have seen among USC student, but that is precisely why
I	am proposing it, and that is precisely why it is worth proposing.
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1969, VOL. LX, NO. 85
MIKE GUARINO
ED HURST
Court finds Mauk guilty of stealing
The Men’s Judicial Court has found Bill Mauk, ASSC president, guilty of violating the “acts inimical to the welfare of others” section of university rules by taking a box of sign-out cards from College Hall, a women’s dormitory Feb. 14.
A copy of this decision will be put in Mauk’s disciplinary file, which is destroyed at his graduation, and Mauk will have to pay $6.30 to replace the items stolen.
“I admitted to taking the cards, and it’s reasonable for the Men’s Judiciary to find me guilty,” he said yesterday.
Mauk had contended at his trial that although he took the cards, he was not guilty because the cards were an implement for executing an unjust regulation.
“The important thing is that the court has consented to review the principle of in loco parentis,” Mauk said.
“If the Men’s Judiciary reviews in loco parentis, I think that the administration will be forced in some capacity to take a stand on the issue,” Bill Course, associate justice who presided at Mauk’s trial, said.
Course added that although the motivation of Mauk’s action was an issue, the action was considered separately.
“When someone takes such an action even in the realm of civil disobediance, he must accept the responsibility for the action,” he said.
“The channels available for this discussion haven’t been used. I think Judicial Review and the Student Behavior Committee are excellent channels.”
Mauk said that he will submit a brief so that the review can get started. He said that he wants the court to take a stand in three regards. First, he wants a philosophical stand about the merits and demerits of the in loco parentis policy.
Second, he wants a court stand on the procedures by which dormitory regulations can be changed. According to Mauk, the authority to make dormitory rules should be transferred from the administration to the Women’s and Men’s Hall Associations.
Third, Mauk wants the court to take a stand on the university regulation that requires all freshmen and all women under 21 years of age to live in university-approved housing.
Ed Hurst seeks living community
To make USC a viable living community is the aim of Edward Hurst, an ASSC presidential candidate.
His expressed purpose is, “to create an atmosphere in which the students and faculty can look at the campus as the place to be and to be able to live here without fear.”
Hurst is a junior political science major with a 3.2 grade average. He is the head of the Forum for Student Awareness and director of the Experimental College. Other activities include ASSC social and recreational chairman, Project Fasten steering committee and USC varsity debate squad. He is participating in Urban Semester and is a university scholarship student.
Hurst is running an issues-oriented campaign and has divided these issues into three areas—life, thought and action.
Under “life,” Hurst has proposed the development of a student village surrounding USC.
“The results of the Hoover Redevelopment Project will be inadequate for students and area residents,” he said. He proposes that students, along with area residents, have a voice in determining the future of the USC community.
Hurst said he believes that the counseling programs at USC are not adequate and advocates the development of better professional, psychological and academic counseling. He said he would utilize more trained counselors, better facilities and involve the USC Medical Center in psychological help. He also hopes to centralize counseling.
On the problem of in loco parentis, Hurst expressed the belief that the university should not act as parents.
“The authority for determining lock-out and other procedures should lie with the living groups; IFC and Panhellenic on the Row, and WHA and MHA in the dorms,” he said.
In his “thought” area, Hurst will seek an undergraduate research center with a search for funds to aid students in research, credit for Experimental College classes and student involvement in the curriculum committees of every department.
Campus security is the main focus of Hurst’s third area of “action.” He said he stresses increasing campus security to avoid the feeling that a student is jailed.
Hurst’s last point is community involvement. Included in the mechanics of this is funding action through the Community Action Coordinating Council.
“I want to get away from this idea of students just coming to classes,” he said. “We need a commitment both to USC and to the community. We must create a psychology of involvement.”
CAMPUS POLL
Grads indifferent to ASSC
Even though Bob Ennis has been filibustering in the ASSC Council for more graduate student representation, it appears that the graduate students themselves don’t seem to care one way or the other.
In an informal survey conducted by the Daily Trojan yesterday, most students said they felt more graduate representation would not make a great deal of difference in university policy-making.
When the ASSC Council met Tuesday, Ennis, one of four graduate representatives, began to filibuster in an effort to stop the passage of election code revisions. The filibuster was successful and as a result, campaigning for ASSC offices will begin on Monday without the proposed revisions.
Ennis has decided to continue his filibuster when the council brings up the revisions again, because he feels that an amendment to change the number of graduate representatives on the council should be voted upon.
The graduate students polled feel that student government is useless, and graduate representation therefore makes little difference.
“Campus politics are meaningless because student office has traditionally been used by the student solely as a way of personal improvement;
not for improving things for the student as a whole,” Tom Starrett, a graduate student in law, said.
Many of the grads had no opinions on the question and said they are uninformed about the ASSC Council and its functions.
“Graduate law students don’t really care that much,” Tom Gamble said. “Most of the law students are interested in getting a legal education and not in whether or not the school will have rock and roll bands at lunch time.”
Bruce Dunn agreed. He replied, “I can’t be concerned about other grad students, but I hate to see anyone filibuster reforms.” He added however, “I would be opposed to more representation. The needs of the undergraduate school do not conform to those of the graduate school. The graduate students should have their own structure of government.”
One opinion was expressed in favor of giving the grad students more representation on the council. An anonymous grad in international relations said, “I think it would be extremely useful if the graduate student were given a greater voice in student government. After all, he is more mature* generally more intelligent and certainly more experienced than the average undergrad.”
CANDIDATES TO MEET SATURDAY
A candidates convocation will be held Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p,m. in the Student Activities Center. The student body is invited.
The convocation, sponsored by the Elections Commission, is designed to inform ASSC candidates of problems and programs connected with their prospective offices.
Paul Moore, director of student activities, will start the convocation with a speech on the interrelationship of the university and student government.
Paul Bloland, dean of students, will then give a talk on the structure, goals and direction of the university.
Bill Mauk, ASSC president; Jim Blackstock, vice-president in charge of programs, and Suzanne DeBall, vice-president in charge of academic affairs, will brief the candidates on student government problems.
The candidates will have an opportunity to talk with the candidates for their particular office about its reponsibilities and direction.
"The purpose of the convocation is to give the candidates the facts, and then let them work out their own alternatives and solutions,” said Pat Lawless, elections commission head.
"A lot of candidates who run know nothing about the offices they are running for," Mauk said. This fact, coupled with the increase in the responsibility of the ASSC, led to the setting up of the convocation.