Second runoff set: Hurst vs. McDuffie
By RICH WISEMAN Assistant city editor
Sam Hurst celebrated his first week of candidacy by compiling an impressive vote total of 895 to lead the field in yesterday’s runoff for the ASSC presidency.
Because Hurst did not poll the necessary majority of the vote, he will meet second-place finisher Ron McDuffie in a second runoff Tuesday, April 21.
A total of 2,496 votes were cast in the election.
McDuffie polled 536 votes, two more than write-in candidate Sam Tower with 534. Art Berkowitz and Randy Goodwin, two of the vote counters and Tower supporters, said they would ask Tower not to call for a recount. Dan Wallace, elections commissioner, said the McDuffie-Tower vote was counted four times.
Dave Dizenfeld finished with 415 votes. Eric Cohen, who benefited frim a frontpage article in the Los Angeles Times yesterday, managed 54 write-in votes. There were 12 additional write-in votes.
Wallace said that 50 votes were counted in a separate column because only the last name Hurst was written on the ballot. Ed 'Hurst, no relation to Sam Hurst, had been a candidate for the presidency before he withdrew.
In the ether races, Chuck Jones out-polled Carolyn Roper, 1,165-796, for the office of vice-president of academic af-
fairs. In the the senior representative race, Dave Druker defeated Robert Reiss. 284-210. Miles Mitchell beat Chuck Benninghoff, 400-222, for junior representative.
Hurst was allowed to run only last Wednesday when an amendment permitting sophomcres to run for the presidency was passed by the voters. He and his followers were elated when Wallace read the results in the YWCA last night. They displayed their elation with screams and hugs.
“The results indicated the charisma the campaign has generated in a week’s time,” Hurst said, as well-wishers tugged at him. “The need for solidarity is desperately needed.
“I think we’ll double our support in the upcoming week,” he said.
The reading of the vote was preceded by the Student Court’s deliberation on complaints raised by McDuffie and Bill Saracino, Tower’s representative. McDuffie and Saracino asked that write-ins not be counted.
After a one-hour deliberation, Maurie Markman. chief justice of the court, an-nounuced that the court, by a 4-2 vote, with one abstentiin, ruled in favor of allowing write-ins.
The majority decision read “the court acknowledges the fact that the Executive Council did not overrule the decision of
the Student Court. The court states, however, that the Executive Council did not follow his action but rather followed the correct procedure of clarification as spe-ified by the court. Therefore we accept write-in votes for this election.”
Further, the statement read, “The court reminds the Executive Council of its constitutional mandate to have the elections completed by no later than the twelfth week, to have student body officers take office by May 1.”
This provision in the Student Court decision could initiate another constitutional hassle if another runoff is required after next week’s runoff. The twelfth week of school ends April 24.
There was talk late last night of entering another candidate into the race as a write-in to accomplish just that purpose.
A minority decision was also released by the court. It read, “Because this decision implies inevitably ceaseless elections with all candidates deciding to continue their campaigns, and because the Executive Council failed to properly clarify the Elections Code, we maintain the only realistic attitude is to stand by our previous decision to not count write-in votes.”
The other winners also made statements.
“The excruciating agony that all the candidates had to go through has been significantly rewarded by the Student
Court’s decision to count write-in ballots,” Jones said.
“As for me, I’m ecstatic.”
“I’m glad it’s over,” Druker said. “I expected a close vote. It’s wild.”
“I plan to do my best to make the ASSC a respectable institution in this university,” Mitchell said.
After the court ruled in favor of write-ins, it adjourned. The overflow audience of 75 hushed as Wallace took the center stage to read the results.
Upon his announcement of Mitchell’s election, the group broke out in a cheer, but tensely quieted again as Wallace read the senior representative results.
Announcement of Druker’s election brought another volley of cheers and another sudden hush.
Jones received the similar treatment, but the tensest outlet of emotions occurred in the reading of the presidential results.
Announcement of Cohen’s vote brought forth a nervous laugh. Hurst’s total was read next. . here were several gasps, tinged with hesitancy pending the vote totals of the other candidates.
Dead silence followed the resulting of Dizenfeld’s total. The audience remained silent while McDuffie’s and Tower’s votes were read. Only when it was announced that Hurst would meet McDuffie
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University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LXI.NO. 107	LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA	THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1970
'Destroy America, spell it with K/ Rubin says
By CRAIG PARSONS Editorial director
“We want to destroy America, spell it with a ‘k’, and create something different,” Jerry Rubin, the infamous Chicago Seven defendant, told an enthusiastic crowd yesterday afternoon in a speech given as part of the campus moratorium activities.
Speaking before an estimated 3,000 students, faculty and administrators on Bovard Field, Rubin’s speech focused on the trial in which he and seven other were charged with inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago and an explanation of the revolutionary’s concept of a different society.
Rubin, speaking at what he termed the University cf Southern California penitentiary, said. “We want a society based on cooperation and love and not on profit. We are natural anarchistic Communists; we’re going to share everything and it’s going to be free.”
Rubin, who is presently free on bail and appealing a five-year sentence for crossing state lines with the intent to incite riots, claimed that he and the other defendants were freed by “the jury of the streets.”
“We’re forbidden to make seditious speeches,” Rubin said, in reference to the conditions of the defendants’ bail. “What is a seditious speech? It’s any speech that Richard Nixon doesn’t like; that Ronnie Reagan doesn’t like.”
Speaking about the trial, Rubin said, “I spent five months in Chicago trying to figure out what I was on trial for. They said it was for ‘crossing a state line with intent to incite a riot.’ What the fuck is a state line? The only purpose of a state line is to give the FBI something to do.”
“Intent?” he continued. “Like what’s in your head, what your thoughts are? Man, if they could put me in jail for my thoughts, I’d roast in hell!” Rubin, heavily punctuating his descriptions of the trial activities with “fuck,” spent much of the time talking about Judge Julius Hoffman, whom he referred to as “Adolph Hitler” and “the nation’s number one Yippie.”
“If the judge didn’t like what you did. he kept you after school.” Rubin said. “We only had one strategy during the trial, and that was to give Old Julie a heart attack.
“Hoffman is every judge. He’s typical, normal —you can find a Julius Hoffman in any courthouse in this country.
"Hell, we got two weeks for smiling. It was fuckin’ easy to disrupt that trial. I got six months for saying ‘bullshit.’ ”
In regard to the charge levied against the defendants, Rubin said, “We were on trial for a sexual offense—child molesting. We were guilty of corrupting the ideals of youth.
“They said we were guilty of a conspiracy. We are a conspiracy; everyone here’s a conspiracy. But it’s a helluva lot of fun to be indicted; I call it the Academy Award of Protest.”
Rubin’s emotionalism was most clearly evident when he spoke of fellow-defendant Bobby Seale, who Hoffman had forcibly bound and gagged during the trial.
“Hoffman used to tell him, ‘Mr. Seale, I’m the best friend your people ever had,’” Rubin said. “Then he’d tell us he was the first judge in the North to desegregate schools. So what? That just shows how irrelevant the desegregation of schools in the North is—how meaningless it is.
“Every time Hoffman would send Bobby out cf the room, the jury wras moved out. We used to call it the yo-yo jury. The average age of the jury was 65. We asked that the trial be postponed for two generations.”
Rubin claimed that it was impossible to restrain Seale or any of the defendants. “No matter what technology the pigs have, it’s not equal to the power of free people,” he said. “No matter what they do, it’s impossible for them to silence us.
“That image of Bobby Seale gagged and chained in a courtroom in Chicago went across the world, and it was the most accurate and poetic picture of America today. It’s quite an honor to say we disrupted the myth of the court system.
“There is no justice in this country. The court system is full of shit. Jails are nothing more than a place where white America jails black people; where the rich jail the poor.”
Rubin said a wide-spread revolution is happening everywhere because those suffering from injustice are finally speaking out.
“Everything in this society that is privately owned was stolen from the Indians and black people and brown people, and the people sitting out there are inheriting stolen property,” he said.
“You’re going to have to realize that there are people out there who are going to take it back and we’re going to join them and take it back with them.”
Rubin also addressed himself to the problems with education. “People on this campus have to realize they have power right here,” he said. “But (Continued on page 2)
JERRY RUBIN
Photo by John Furtak