Frat project is conscience-easer-Mauk
By LYNN PINEDA
Bill Mauk, ASSC president, invoked a council-wide debate yesterday when he charged that the “racist fraternity system” was using a community little league as a device to soothe its conscience.
After overriding Mauk’s veto of the Interfraternity Council little league appropriation, passed unanimously last week, the Executive Council then appropriated a $4,000 budget for the Black Awareness Festival.
The festival, to take place April 14-22, is expected to lose about $2,800. The loss will be covered by the $4,000 appropriation.
Most of the costs for the festival will be expended in the presentation of a jazz concert featuring the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, the Jazz Crusaders, the Watts Jazz Orchestra and in the production of an Ebony Showcase play.
Mauk explained his veto of the $200 little league budget by charging that the little league was a device used by racist fraternities to soothe their consciences.
“I know tuat as least one of the fraternities involved in this project won’t even consider pledging a black student.
“We put on all kinds of missionary programs to ‘help our little black brothers,’ but we ought to channel our
efforts to the high schools and to the black students on this campus.”
When Mauk stated that the Panhellenic Council had refused his offer to expand the Christmas program for neighborhood children to four more events a year, Suzanne DeBall, vice president of academic affairs, voiced dissent.
“It seems to me that every time someone attempts something, they get kicked in the head. I admit that there are bigger problems to be tackled, but the little kids are made happy by these community programs,” she said.
Mauk’s statements then led to direct countercharges by Norm Barker, IFC president. He claimed that Mauk was using the veto as a personal vendetta against him.
“The fraternities,” he continued, “are not participating in this project to soothe their consciences or to gain publicity. Furthermore, the project is not just for the Row. We originated it, but we have invited the dorms, the Knights and other organizations to participate. We have requested that there be no publicity for the project in the Daily Trojan.”
Ron McDuffie, who later voted to override Mauk’s veto, as did the two other black students on the council, said, “We need a set mechanism for reviewing programs,
but let’s give the IFC the money now, and review this and all other projects at another time.”
Jeff Elliot, the senior representative, was the only council member to vote against the veto override. Mauk cannot vote unles there is a tie.
Mauk then stated that he had vetoed last week’s council resolution calling for the Men’s and Women’s Hall Association to make new dormitory rules within two weeks.
“This resolution,” he stated, “adds another issue to the already complciated question of dormitory regulations and in loco parentis. We aren’t dealing with the reality that the WHA and MHA are autonomous of the ASSC Executive Committee.”
Elliot introduced a motion to overrride Mauk’s veto, but Nan Maples, WHA president, pointed out that the MHA and WHA constitution already gives them power to make dorm regulations, regardless of the council’s resolution. Elliot then withdrew his motion, leaving Mauk’s veto standing.
In other council action, $150 was appropriated to send students to an Easter conference of the Black America Law Student Association in New York City'.
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1969, VOL. LX, NO. 93
In a moment of fantasy excellence. Countess and Mme. Gabrielle of the importance of the issue
Aurelia (center) reminds Mme. Constance (left) at hand-the salvation of the world.
REVIEW	Photo bv Jim Kni9h,
Little fantasy seen in ’Chaillot’
By HENRY SOKOLSKI
I went to the Mainstage production of the “Madwoman of Chaillot” expecting Disneyland, and ended up with Pacific Ocean Park.
I went to see “The Madwoman of Chaillot,” and I walked out feeling cheated. Not disgusted, cheated.
The actors were capable of so much more, if only they could get into the fantasy of the play.
With an audience of only 60, this is far from easy. The play runs in Bovard through Saturday.
I felt cheated when I saw the fabulous performances of Alex Hermann as Dr. Jardin, Karen Smith as the stupid blonde, Mme. Gabrielle; and Nine Shaw as the majestic Countess Aurelia.
But why didn’t the others realize the fantasy?
Why didn’t I see the oil on the President’s sneer? Why didn’t the Baron look more like a lecher? Why did the policemen sound unsure and lifeless? Why didn’t the guitarist play the guitar? But most of all, why didn’t the audience respond; and while I asked these questions, I was falling out of Fantasyland.
Finally, in the last half of the first act, two of the Walt Disneys appeared—Dr. Jardin and Countess Aurelia. Herrmann, as Dr. Jardin, gave a minor role the life that all of the roles needed. So was the case with Miss Shaw’s performance, which excelled.
I was encouraged. The audience finally responded, and we were on our way.
Act Two began. It turned out to be what I came for. The combined performacnes of Michele Dedeau, Miss Smith, Diane Gibson, Jack Bender, and Miss Shaw brought me back into Fantasyland, and kept me there until the end. Well, almost until the end. For some strange reason, the group decided all to sing—all off key. To say the least, it was distracting.
The play had its faults. Most plays do on the opening night.
These faults can be corrected. But first, an audience will be needed. Not only a large audience, but one that is willing to be led into the world of the make believe and be thankful of the insight a fantasy can give.
DT is corrected on endorsement
Dan Smith, executive director of the Community Action Coordinating Council (CACC) said yesterday that the endorsement reported yesterday in which he and his position were named was incorrect.
"It is the policy of the CACC to restrict itself to community affairs," he said. "We wish not to make exceptions to this policy."
Cities are losing diversity—Weaver
“From Biblical times, men have felt ambivalence about building cities. People have thought of cities as having something bad about them. Thomas Jefferson felt that urban society was destructive,” Robert Weaver, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said yesterday.
Weaver, in a discussion with a group of students in Bovard Auditorium, outlined the historical perspective of urban difficulties, the urban problems themselves, and necessary directions to future solutions of those problems.
“In the city, there is a degree of enmity and also of neighborliness. The city is a place where those who come from other cultures become assimilated into the mainstream.
“But cities are now at the crossroads. They are losing their diversity.”
Weaver noted that there have been two basic failures in modem urban areas. The first, concentrated in the central city area, lies in the fact that newcomers such as Negroes and Puerto Ricans are denied the same opportunities for upward mobility that other groups have had.
The second failure, he said, is a political one. Weaver believes there has been a proliferation of local governmental units dealing with such problems as pollution, transportation, and land use.
“Often, these units are too small to effectively perform their functions. In the area of land use, for example, we have inconsistency and chaos,” he said.
He based solutions to urban problems upon three fundamental needs. Initially, resources must be greatly enlarged in the fact of increasing urban problems and an erosion of the tax base.
“We’ve been an urban nation for 50 years, but we still have an agricultural approach to these problems. This must change,” Weaver said.
The next need is based on commitment and priorities. He said, “We need the will to do this job, to feel that it can and will be done. We need more knowledge and more technology.”
The last need would be for trained personnel. “We need more trained people, not only people trained for specific things, but also generalists,” Weaver said.
“It is popular to look to all problems of today and say that they are due to urbanization. The city is here to stay and can be made viable and attractive. Our nation is capable of solving urban problems if it has the dedication and the will.”
ASSC voting ends today
Voting in the ASSC elections ends today at 4 p.m. The results will be announced some time after 10 tonight in the YWCA.
The polls, which open at 9 a.m., are located in front of Bovard Auditorium, in Hoover Park between the men’s and women’s dormitory complex, in front of the International House at the corner of University Avenue and 28th St., and at the Medical School campus, 2025 Zonal Ave. The booths at the Medical School will only be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Voters must present their student identification card at the polling place.
In addition to the 29 formal or write-in running for 12 offices, the following eight questions appear on the ballot:
•	Do you approve of residence hall regulations which place the university in loco parentis?
•	Would you favor residence hall regulations
established solely by the student governing councils of women’s and men’s halls?
•	Do you approve of the presently existing residence hall regulations regarding lock-out, sign-out, and visitation?
•	Do you approve of the student government dealing with political issues?
•	Do you think USC is meeting its responsibilities as an urban university?
•	Would you be willing to pay an extra $4 per semester for scholarships for minority students?
•	Do you approve of raising the number of graduate students of the Executive Council from four to six?
•	Do you feel that graduate representatives on the Executive Council should be increased to better reflect the graduate student composition of the student body?