University of Southern California
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1969, VOL. LX, NO. 97
DAILY
TROJAN
3-way race nears — Hurst a write-in
One of the losers in the ASSC presidential primary decided yesterday to run as a write-in candidate while the two winners, Ron McDuffie and Fred Minnes, engaged in a debate in the Open Forum area.
The loser, Ed Hurst, ran third with 307 votes in last week’s primary and said he was optimistic of forcing another run-off in the balloting tomorrow.
“I am trying to offer an alternative,” he said. “If I draw strong support it will demonstrate a great number of students are interested in change.”
It only takes 40 per cent of the vote to win in the run-off if no other candidate polls more than 25 per cent. Thus Hurst could force another run-off if nobody gets more than 40 per cent, or if somebody gets between 40 and 50 per cent and another candidate gets more than 25 per cent.
Polling will take place between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the same places as in the primary election: Bovard Auditorium, Hoover Park, University Avenue near the Law Center and the International House. Polls at the Medical School will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Eric Cohen, who received 104 votes as a write-in candidate in the primary, said he will also continue his campaign.
“We’ve come a long way together, my supporters and
I, and I will not abandon the dream that began in New Hampshire, or did it begin over wine and a burrito on 28th Street?” he said.
Mike Guarino, another unsuccessful candidate in the primary, endorsed McDuffie yesterday. He said, “To reconstruct society you have to deal with people and I think an awful lot of him as a person.” I wish more students could talk with him and notice his sensitivity and total absence of evasion.”
Joel Rosenzweig, who was also eliminated after the primary, endorsed Fred Minnes. “What he is calling for sounds a lot like what I was saying,” he said.
The debate between McDuffie and Minnes drew about 100 students.
Minnes, who spoke first, said, “The biggest difference I can see between Ron and myself is that he has many schemes and grandiose plans for curing all the social ills which confront our entire greater downtown Los Angeles area, the United States and everything else.
“First let’s put our own house in order, let’s establish a respectable and constructive student government that can build up this university. Then let’s concentrate on the surrounding community.”
McDuffie said in reply, “I notice an awful lot of tendency for him to say, ‘We’ve got to, we’ve got to.’
The only question that came up in my mind is ‘What have you done?’ ”
He said Minnes did not introduce any legislation to the Executive Council this semester except that which was automatic because he was chairman of the budgetary subcommittee. “That did not involve any intellect, only mechanism,” he said.
Minnes said his accomplishments in student government include refurbishing and visitation in residence halls, getting basketball courts in Hoover Park, serving as budgetary subcommittee chairman and chairman of the Campus Police Committee.
McDuffie, who was vice-president for programs for a month and a half, said his accomplishments include budget revision, serving as chairman of a committee on the Daily Trojan, and authoring election revisions and by-laws to protect committee members.
He said he also fought for the statement on students’ rights and responsibilities, the right to dissent, and reorganized the Program Council while he was vice-president. He said he was a member of a team which argued for academic reforms before the Board of Trustees.
Meanwhile, Stuart Bloom, who was defeated in his bid for ASSC vice-president of programs, has filed an appeal with the Election Board of Appeals.
Dorm rules rejected in voter opinion poll
Students polled in last week’s ASSC primary elections decisively rejected present dormitory rules and regulations established by the university.
The poll, taken March 18 and 19, elicited opinions on such campus-related topics as dorm regulations, student participation in political issues and financial aid for minority students.
When asked whether they approved of residence hall regulations which place the university in loco parentis, students voted 817 no, 590 yes.
Students also feel that residence hall regulations be established solely by the student governing councils of women’s and men’s halls, 1,733 yes, 613 no.
Other results are as follows: Do you approve of the existing residence hall regulations regarding lock-out, sign-out and visitation? 1,929 no, 477 yes.
When asked whether they felt student government should deal with political issues, the vote was 1,278 no, 1,210 yes.
Bill Mauk, ASSC president feels that the closeness of this return has definite implications.
“If student government is to participate in political issues, it will have to be extremely cautious as to which
issues they participate in. In addition, it will depend on the time period.
On the question of whether students
Endorsements
The deadline for turning in candidate endorsements to the Daily Trojan is 2 p.m. today. No endorsements will be accepted after that time.
thought USC is meeting its responsibilities as an urban university, the vote was 1,458 no, 967 yes.
When asked whether they would be willing to pay an extra $4 per semester for scholarships for minority students the vote was 1,284 yes, 1,277 no.
Approval of raising the number of graduate students on the ASSC Executive Council was accepted by a 1,373 to 1,009 vote.
Students were also in favor of increasing graduate representatives on the council in order to better reflect the graduate student body composition. The vote was 1,414 yes, 967 no.
Women’s Judicial Court tested by sign-in case
The Women’s Judicial Court was forced to consider whether it would use its power of judicial review yesterday afternoon on a test case involving a simple infraction of sign-in rules.
The council for the defense of Cathy Moore, a freshman coed, was Bill Mauk, Lowell Ponte and Steve Foldes. They maintained that the court should use its power of judicial review and acquit Miss Moore of her infraction—refusing to report to the Standards Committee after forgetting to sign in.
Maryann Lees, chief justice, agreeing with the defense, that the sign-in rules were injust, hesitated to use judicial review. She feared that a pending proposal for dorm ruie changes might be jeopardized by such a move.
To this Miss Moore said, “Going to a higher court is a legitimate way of changing rules. I did not appear before Standards because I feel that the majority of the rules are inappropriate and that Standards is hypocritical and extra-legal in its application of the laws.”
At the start of the hearings, the court
said that the procedures would be closed for the protection of the defendant. Daily Trojan reporters were then refused entrance.
Miss Moore said that for purposes of making the case a test case, she did not want the protection of the court.
With this, reporters were allowed in. Mauk began the hearing by saying that the court was protecting its own integrity by refusing to take initiative and exercise judicial review. In doing so, it was remaining an “errand boy of the administration.”
One member of the court, Adrienne Maravich, answered Mauk’s charge by saying, “we’re protecting that system as far as it works, until we get a better system ... an alternate procedure.”
Mauk suggested “no rules” as an alternate.
One member of the court, Carolyn Cheley, said, “What do you suggest? That we throw out the system, introduce chaos, and declare our liberty?”
“My God yes, you declare your liberty!” Mauk replied.
RON McDUFFIE	FRED MINNES
USC granted $3-million from science foundation
A $3-million grant to USC has been made by the National Science Foundation, President Norman Topping announced yesterday.
The award, said Dr. Milton C. Kloetzel, vice-president for research and graduate affairs, is a two-year extension of a $4.47-million grant made in 1965 as part of the foundation’s University Science Development Program for creation of new “centers of excellence” in science and engineering.
Part of the original grant, together with a matching contribution from Mrs. Frank R. Seaver, member of the Board of Trustees, is being used for construction of the $8-million Seaver Science Center which is scheduled for completion this year.
The center, under the direction of Dr. Z.A. Kaprielian, director of the graduate
center for engineering sciences, will provide a common location for interdisciplinary research by the School of Engineering and Departments of Physics and Chemistry in the solid state sciences, a field of vital interest to local electronic and aerospace industries.
The Seaver Science Center will consist of a seven-story research building and a three-story Science-Engineering Library.
USC, under auspices of the National Science Foundation’s Science Development Program, has during the past three years expanded its faculty and strengthened educational and research programs in the following seven departments: Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Geological Sciences.