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MIKE CANTOR AND MIKE MORE rehearse a scene from “West Side Story” in preparation for tonight’s performance in Bovard Auditorium. The Drama Department will also present the play April 24, 25 and 30, and May 1 and 2. Admission is $2 with a student I.D. card and $2.50 without.
Photo by Steve Bolinger
SCLC director will speak on Monday
By MARY ANN GALANTE
Rev. Jesse Jackson, national director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Operation Breadbasket, will speak Monday at noon in the Student Activities Center patio.
The speech is being sponsored by the Great Issues Forum, the Black Students’ Union and the Los Angeles branch of Operation Breadbasket.
Jackson advocates using black economic power to coerce white-owned businesses into providing more black employment opportunities and black products within chain stores.
The young minister was featured early this month on the cover of Time Magazine.
Jackson first became involved in the movement in 1963 when he led a demonstration in Greensboro, N.C., in opposition to crowded jail conditions. Three years later he was appointed director of the economically oriented Operation Breadbasket by Dr. Martin Luther King.
Based in Chicago, Breadbasket aims to provide more black employment opportunities and black products through the use of economic pressure, including boycotts and picketing.
Jackson neither supports nor deplores the use of violent tactics, but doubts their effectiveness in the black revolution, reported Time.
His basic approach to stimulating blacks to force white support has been successful enough to open 5,000 new jobs for blacks
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VOL. LXI.NO. 112
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1970
Nelson calls Vietnam and moonshot cop-outs
By CRAIG PARSONS Editorial director
The Vietnam war and the moonshot are copouts on American problems, Gaylord Nelson, Democratic senator from Wisconsin, told a student and faculty audience in a speech given yesterday morning as part of the Environmental Teach-In.
Nelson, who first suggested the idea of the teach-in, spoke about the need for reordering America’s priorities to concentrate on the environmental problem. One of these misplaced priorities, he contended, has been the space race.
"Although the moon shot may have important scientific implications, it is not a priority right now, in my judgment. The moon will be there 150 years from now; this planet might not be,” Nelson said.
The senator said the battle should be with environment and not in Vietnam. “We could terminate our involvement in Laos in 30 days and we should; we could conclude our involvement in Vietnam in 90 days and we should,” he said.
“But the real battle,” Nelson added, “is to create an environment that restores a proper relationship between man and all other living creatures and .the environment in which they live. This will require a long, sustained, moral, ethical, philosophical and financial commitment far beyond any investment we ever made in any other war.”
Nelson said that the environment problem was the most important challenge facing mankind. “It’s not just surviving, but how we survive. Our goal should be, and is, an environment with decency and quality and mutual respect for one another and all other living creatures,” he said.
The senator divided the environmental issue into two critical categories—the philosophical and the physical aspects of the environment.
“We have to change our own views of ourselves and our relationship with all other living things or it won’t be possible for us to do something meaningful about preserving the environment,” he warned.
“We’re the only one of all the animals in the kingdom that considers itself more important than the works of nature,” he added. “We’re the only species massively intruding on nature and destroying the habitat in which other creatures survive.”
Nelson contended that every individual and each level of industry and government has a responsibility to the ecological problem.
Speaking about the large amount of funding it will take to preserve the resources, he said, “Thus far, nobody, in or out of politics, save a handful of thoughtful biologists, botanists and a few others, has really addressed himself to the
dimension of the resource allocation that it will take.”
Commenting on the status of these resources, the senator said that iby 1980, people will be using 600 billion gallons of water per day, which is the current national supply. He added that by the year 2000, nearly twice that number would be used.
“In the past 40 years, we have disasterously degraded the quality of water in every major watershed east of the Mississippi, and polluted the water to some extent in all the major watersheds west of it,” he said.
Nelson cited the pollution of Lake Erie, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior as examples of this destruction. He added that the destruction of the ocean has begun at a very rapid pace.
“Destroy an ocean and you’re destroying the greatest single resource on the globe,” he said.
Overpopulation could pose the most serious threat, he said. “By any environmental standard, the United States is overpopulated right now. We have either demonstrated our lack of capacity or will or both to maintain the quality of our environment,” Nelson commented.
“With 200 million people in the world right now, you tell me what it will be like following the same environmental policies with 300 million,” he said.
Nelson added that if the current birthrate of two percent per year continues, the world population will reach nearly 100 billion in 165 years.
The senator stated that policies on ibirth control, a broad educational program, and more effective birth control devices would help to alleviate the problem.
On the subject of abortion, Nelson said, “The answer to the problem is a very simple one—this is peculiarly a woman’s problem. You ought to put a referendum issue on the ballot in which the woman decides what the law is and men should be prohibited from voting on it.”
Nelson offered several national policy programs as solutions to the environmental problem. The major plan calls for a national policy on water and air which states that all industrial and gov-(Continued on page 2)
DT editor forms due
Today is the final day to turn in applications for Daily Trojan editor for the fall semester.
The forms are available in the journalism office, Science Hall 165. Any student who will be a senior next year is eligible.
Applications will be reviewed by the Journalism Council and an editor will be recommended to President Topping.
Row women granted extended lockout
By CATHEJEAN McGILLIN
The privilege of extended lockout will be given to women on the Row beginning April 30. It will be the first time that sorority members have been allowed to stay out, on a regular basis, beyond midnight on weekdays and 2 a.m. on weekends.
Some houses, however, will delay the extension because their security devices are not fully installed.
The new hours, which are identical to those currently offered in the dorms, come after months of discussion of security and implementation problems.
Twelve women, serving as the judicial chairmen of their respective houses, have met regularly with school officials since the fall to devise a plan for extending hours on the Row. Initiation of the plan required the installation of a computer lock at every sorority, an alarm system and the programming of keys for each resident.
“There were a number of things to fee considered in adopting this plan,” Karen Chappell, assistant dean of women said.
“Among these things to be considered were the security measures to be taken. With 12 separate houses along the Row, an indepth research study had to be made on the methods of security to be developed.”
Each resident will now carry a computer key which looks like a razor blade and is programmed for her particular house. The minute a foreign object is inserted into the lock, the house alarm system is set off.
In addition, should a resident lose her key, that particular program can be withdrawn from the system. This prevents nonresidents from entering the house illegally.
Eileen Miele, a freshman who served on the standards committee for her house, Chi Omega, said that if a key is borrowed and those involved are caught, the girl who borrows the key and the one who lends it will be campused for two weeks. Eileen feels the extended lockout is a good idea because girls had been coming in late, which required the door to be opened for them.
“At first there was a problem of security,” Barbara Miller, a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority said. “Now that the new security measures have been introduced, it is good to have the hours. There are about two times a year, following a big event like a concert, that I might like to stay out a little later.”
A member of Kappa Alpha Theta, who preferred to remain unidentified, said that house rules had a purpose at one time and provided an excuse for girls who wanted to get in from a bad date.
“I am not against the extended hours just because people are not obeying the rules anyway, so why have rules that people are not going to obey? Personally,
1	don’t think it is killing me to get in toy
2	a.m. A person can be in if she tries. Now a girl won’t have the excuse of hours to get in from a bad date, she will have to say she is tired, or something like that.”
Ellen Tongish, a member of Alpha Phi sorority, feels that the women should be able to regulate their behavior themselves.
“We are college students now and
should have the responsibility for our own behavior,” Miss Tongish said. “The initial resistance to extended hours came from parents, alumni and chapter advisors. To the extent of hours, they now have allowed us to decide behavior.”
If the door of a house is left open for more than three minutes, an alarm system will be triggered. This second type of alarm alerts residents that the door has not been properly closed.
“These are security measures which are necessary to assure residents, safety, but are measures that might never have to be used,” Karen Chappell said. “This system leaves enough responsibility with each individual. Hopefully, these systems forsee the possibility of something happening, and at the same time, give residents something to rely on.”
To gain approval, the proposal had to be submitted through a number of channels. Karen Chappell, Daniel Nowak, the interim dean of students, and Joan Schaefer, dean of women, reviewed the (Continued on page 2)