Council rules write-ins to be counted
By RICH WISEMAN Assistant city editor
Sam Hursts’ and Sam Towers’ write-in votes in today’s election will be counted, the ASSC Executive Council ruled yesterday after a stormy two-hour debate.
The council, by a 9-7 vote, adopted the following motion, proposed by Stan Diorio, graduate representative:
“In response to the decision of the Student Court in the case of Pat Nolan and Wayne Johnson versus the elections commissioner, the ASSC Executive Council wishes to clarify the provision in Section 3-H of the Elections Code. It is the intent of the ASSC Executive Council to allow all ballots for write-in candidates to be counted in all phases of the general election including runoffs, provided the candidate conforms to the other provisions in Section 3-H.”
The Student Court had ruled Sunday
night that write-in votes would not be included in the runoff but left the door open for the council to clarify the code provision.
There will be three polling places open today between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. They will be in front of Bovard, in Hoover Park between the dorms and on 28th Street. Results of balloting will be announced tonight at JO, following a Student Court hearing. For a list of candidates and their endorsements turn to page three.
Voting for the motion were Jeff Ullman, James Booker, Jonda Rourke, Diorio, Mark Savit, Mrs. Rick Flam, Donna DeDiemar and Dan Lunham. Voting against it were Dave Dizenfeld, Dave Irvin, Tom Levyn, Sadrollah Alborzi, Wayne Howard, Bob Brooks and Loyd Kirk.
“The council shirked its responsibility by failing to clarify the issue of write-ins,”
Dizenfeld said afterwards. “It did so by not putting legislation into the Elections Code, in which all regulations governing the election are embodied. By not complying with the requests of the Student Court, the court’s ruling thus stands that write-ins shall not be allowed.”
Dizenfeld said he anticipates that someone will contest the motion before the Student Court tonight if the election is won by Hurst or Tower.
Nevertheless, Minnes said afterwards that he instructed Dan Wallace, elections commissioner, to count the write-in votes today.
Ron McDuffie, Dizenfeld’s opponent on the ballot in the presidential race, took a stand similar to Dizenfeld.
“Whatever action the council took I wanted them to make sure that they don’t create any additional controversies,” he said. “Therefore, I asked the council to make its clarification firm by putting it
into the Elections Code. The council did not see fit to make it part of the Elections Code due to political considerations.
“The issue thus remains very clouded as to the validity of write-in ballots.”
“There is a substantial precedent for letting write-ins be counted,” Diorio said. He used as an example Ed Hurst’s campaign last year, for which all write-in votes were counted.
“It’s my belief that it was the intent of this council to let this amendment take effect for this election,” he continued. “I think the voter approval indicated the
same thing.
“It’s not really our right to exclude these candidates. We should allow the „ students the right to decide.”
Kirk said he assumed the clarification would be the same thing as an amendment and would, thus, require a two-(Continued on page 2)
University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LXI.NO. 106
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA
WED., APRIL 15, 1970
COUNCIL VOTES TO END DEBATE
After a heated meeting, the ASSC will allow write-in candidacies.
Photo by Steve Bolinger
Rubin to speak at one today on Bovard Field
By MARY ANN GALANTE
Jerry Rubin, Yippie founder and convicted Chicago Seven defendant, will speak today at 1 p.m. at Bovard baseball field.
Rubin’s speech, sponsored by the Moratorium Committee, is part of the Vietnam Moratorium Day activities.
Rubin first gained notoriety in 1964 as a participant in the Berkeley free speech movement. He served as program director three years later for the antidraft march on the Pentagon.
Rubin came into the public spotlight again in 1967 when he and Abbie Hoffman founded the Youth International Party.
The Yippies became one of the major disrupting forces of the 1968 democratic convention in Chicago. Rubin made two speeches which were determined during the Chicago Seven trial as leading to violence.
He was convicted and received a sentence of five years at the trial for crossing state lines to incite to riot.
He is currently out on bail, and appealing his conviction.
Rubin’s book, “Do It,” was released immediately following the trial. The book advocates the Yippie philosophy of adaptation of a new life style with a different value system. When members drop out of the status quo, it is reasoned, they will no longer partake in the basic functions necessary for the system’s survival.
While Rubin’s book indirectly recommends the
burning of universities to establish universities of the streets, it does not advocate the violent overthrow of the government.
Only university officials, staff and students will be admitted to Rubin’s speech. Identification may be checked at the entrances to Bovard field.
Security measures for the speech began last night when 9 students and a German Shepherd slept in the field to avoid a repetition of the Oct. 15 sabatoge.
During the first moratorium, the stage was sprinkled with termite poisoning.
“The only evidence of possible disruption has been advanced by members of YAF,” said Jeff Ullman, chairman of the Moratorium Committee. “They mentioned that there were five . . . fraternities who were more than annoyed about Rubin’s presence and just might do something.”
The Moratorium Committee has deployed 150 student monitors, 30 clergymen and 10 faculty members to maintain order during the activities.
“Plain-clothes police will be circulating throughout the crowd,” Ullman said. “The most important thing for USC students to do is to stay cool under all circumstances, and if need be, contact the nearest monitor.”
Activities for the Moratorium Day begin at 12:15 p.m. with Ullman making introductory announcements. Mark Savit, ASSC vice-president of academic affairs, will address the crowd at 12:25 with introductory remarks.
A petition will be circulated by Moratorium (Continued on page 2)
Fall ceramics open —senior majors only
By MELODY GILLARD Managing editor
The fears felt by some ceramics students that their classes would not be offered next fall seem to have come to an end, at least for those who will be seniors next year.
The fears arose about three weeks ago when students in the Fine Arts Department became aware that Mrs. Susan Peterson, associate professor of fine arts, would take a sabbatical leave next fall and, therefore, no instructor would be available to teach ceramics courses.
At that time, Lee Chesney, associate dean of fine arts, told students who inquired about the situation that the clay studio facilities would not be open to students next fall because there would be no instructor to supervise their work.
Since then, he has arranged for two instructors — Harold Gebhardt and Jay Willis — to supervise and guide ceramics students who will be seniors next fall.
This work will be in addition to their usual teaching duties.
However, those students who will be juniors next year will be asked to delay their studio work in clay until the spring semester.
Chesney said this is to limit the work to advanced students who must complete a certain amount of work before graduation, and to keep them in constant contact with their work.
The new plan to accommodate seniors came after numerous meetings between Chesney and Caryn Brady, a junior in fin'' arts, and Chesney with Mrs. Peterson and Sam Hurst, dean of the ! .hool
of Architecture and Fine Arts.
After hearing Chesney’s decision to allow seniors to continue
working in clay next fall, Miss Brady said:
“This new plan is at least a step in the right direction. But that’s all I consider it — a step. I don’t consider the matter closed.
“It is, to a large extent, very good for seniors who have found direction in their work and don’t need as much intellectual or
creative supervision.
“However, it completely ignores other students, especially
beginning students in three-dimensional work who may never be exposed to this art area because it was skipped in their freshman
year.”
Chesney intends to present his plan to advanced students this morning.
Miss Brady’s concern for the future of ceramics students began the Friday before Easter Vacation when another student told her the Ceramics Department would be discontinued in the fall. She first met with Chesney the Thursday after vacation.
At that meeting Miss Brady said Chesney suggested that students who wanted to take ceramics in the fall should double their load in the spring because no classes would be offered in the fall.
Miss Brady said Chesney told her it was a matter of inadequate funds that kept them from offering ceramics next fall.
Chesney said he could not hire an instructor to take Mrs. Peterson’s place because that might jeopardize her sabbatical leave.
There is a university rule that instructors can’t take sabbaticals unless their teaching load can be absorbed by other instructors
already in the department.
He said the only way a new instructor could be hired is if the
instructor took a full year off at half salary.
If this happened, the other half of her salary could be used to
hire another instructor.
However, Mrs. Peterson will only be gone for the fall semester
and will resume her usual duties in the spring.
Another issue which has concerned the students is the failure of the department to rehire Rachel Miller, an instructor who was hired for a flat fee on a temporary basis to teach two night courses for non-art majors and one class for beginners during the day.
Chesney said she did an excellent job and was well liked by her students, but due to lack of funds and a redesigning of the
classes, she would not be rehired.
Graduate assistants will probably supervise these classes next
year, Chesney added.
“The plan fails to take into account the dismissal of Rachel
Miller, a blow to sculptural ceramics students,” Miss Brady said.
The instructors appointed to supervise ceramics next fall are fine
sculpture teachers, but have not had as much experience or interest
working with large sculptural clay pieces other than casting pieces.
“Therefore they will be of little technical help to these seniors
who could otherwise have the benefit of Rachel’s experience in
the media. This is not to mention her influence on future students
toward sculpture not pottery.”