Hurst to debate ex-VIVA chief
ASSC presfr-.'nt S a in Hurst will debate Steve Frank, previously national chairman of Voices in Vital America, at noon today at Hancock Auditorium.
The debate, to consider whether the campus should be political, is sponsored by VIVA.
University of Sourhern California
DAILY ©TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. 27	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA	THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1970
ASSC TO MEET
New body pondered
By PETER WONG
A new proposal for university government will be considered by the ASSC Executive Council at its meeting today at 4 p.m.
Council members will review the plan for a University Council which would recommend policy on university activities.
The 14-page proposal was drafted by a special committee of students, faculty and deans on university government. Former President Norman H. Topping, who is now chancellor, appointed committee members last year.
Chuck Jones, ASSC vice-president for academic affairs, said the Executive Council will make its recommendation on the proposal at today's meeting, which will be held in the Student Activities Center 201.
The plan will also be examined by the University Senate, the representative group of the faculty and the Council of Deans. Jones said.
He predicted the ASSC would complete its work on the proposal within a week. Council members received copies of the proposal on Tuesday.
Alquist to talk
By JILL JOHNSON
Senator Alfred E. Alquist. Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, will speak about his campaign on campus todav at 2 p.m. in Founders Hall 129.
The main theme of his speech will be that the lieutenant governor should be independent from the governor.
For that reason, although he considers Jess Unruh the most qualified man for governor in the history of California, he is running independently.
There are three primary functions which he. if elected, intends to serve:
First, he believes that the lieutenant governor should serve in a watchdog capacity to protect against environmental pollution and the squandering of public lands. He charged that in a year of ecology. Gov. Ronald Reagan allowed little significant environmental legislation to pass.
Secondly. Alquist points out that there is potential for the lieutenant governor to serve as an ‘'ombudsman to deal with citizen complaints
on campaign
and to act as a lobbyist for people who have no lobby in Sacramento.
Finally, he wouid like to serve as a leader to help restore peace and purpose to the college campuses.
Alquists appearance is sponsored by a group of students who want to form an active Young Democrats Club cn campus.
Joel Roseneweig. a spokesman for the group, said that at one time there was a strong Young Democrats Club at USC. but after it became affiliated from the California Federation of Young Democrats, the club iost ail form and is no longer in existence.
He also saia that he recognized that the Democratic Party was dead in California and that it is up to the youth to rebuild it. if it is to be built at all.
USC s new chapter of Young Democrats will wait until after the November elections to have its main membership drive because they want the club to be issues-oriented. Its aim will be to help rebuild the Democratic Party by putting pressure on the state Senate and national Congress.
Hughes calls for massive change
By LINDA BIBER City Editor
Calling for “massive, legal nonviolent change' and calling for young people who had shown their social adeptness in the civil rights and peace movements to help make that change. Sen. Harold Hughes (D-Iowa), addressed a campus audience yesterday.
“A repressive society we might get, but a successful revolution by the radical Left is not in the cards,” Hughes warned
He talked of America as a “nation more deeply divided than any time since the Civil War.”
“The principal target of the blame is youth," Hughes said. “It’s wrong that some are making a whole generation a scapegoat for their own fears.” he said. He added that it was also wrong, however, for young people not to recognize the feelings of those who were older.
Hughes attempted to clear up the impressions that people on opposite sides of the political spectrum have of those politicians like himself who call themselves liberals.
He said that because they constantly speak of nonviolence, liberals are “now being pictured as soft on crime " by conservatives “pictured as being secretly pleased by incidents of repression by radicals.
“We condemn violence,” Hughes said in reference to the shooting of policemen and bombings. “But we also condemn unjustified counterviolence such as occurred at Kent State. ”
Hughes attacked “the violence of greed and neglect” that enabled critical problems such as pollution, urban decay and mass transit to remain unsolved.
He also attacked the use of violence on television and society’s stressing of the fact that an act of crime is committed every three seconds, rather than the fact that an act of kindness is committed every few seconds.
Hughes' prepared speech brought a lot of ho-hums from the audience, but the answers he gave to questions afterwards brought a better response and eventually brought part of the audience to its feet in a standing ovation.
Hughes most popular remarks concerned J. Edgar Hoover and Spiro Agnew.
When asked if he would get rid of Hoover if he were in the position of President, he said: “Yes, I think it’s past time for J. Edgar Hoover to be replaced. ”
He then denounced activities of the FBI such as infiltrating college campuses to collect the names of those involved in demonstrations.
STATE SEN. ALFRED ALQUIST
The recommendations of the ASSC, the University Senate and the Council of Deans will then go to the special committee on university, headed by Paul Hadley, dean of University College and the Summer Session.
Committee members will incorporate the recommendation and submit the document to the three constituent groups which include students, faculty and deans for ratification.
The proposal must then be approved by the Board of Trustees before it takes effect.
Jones said that President John Hubbard estimated the ratification process would take about a year to complete.
“But if it's going to be delayed, it’s not going to be by students, but by the other two groups,” Jones noted. “I hope the process will move much faster.”
The “Articles of Governance,” as the proposal is titled, establishes the, University Council as a 15-member group — five students, five faculty members and five deans.
Members of the new council would be elected by their constituent groups and serve overlapping two-year terms. No member could serve more than two consecutive terms.
“The University Council as the prime instrument of University governance shall have the power to recommend policy as to any university activity, including the establishment of program priorities,” the proposal stated.
“The council shall be considered to speak with the voice of the university community.”
JAMES A. LOVELL, JR.
Astronaut Lovell will tour campus
By KATHY McKAY
Astronaut James A. Lovell, Jr., an alumnus of USC, will be on campus tomorrow. His schedule includes visiting classes, students and faculty.
Lovell has spent more time than any other living man in space— a total of 715 hours and 5 minutes. He has also had the privilege of being first in many of the United States space accomplishments.
Astronaut Lovell will have a full schedule following his arrival on campus at 10:30 a.m. There he will hold a news conference on the second floor of the Student Activities Center.
Lovell has expressed a desire to visit some of the classes and seminars at USC. He will be visiting classes before and after his luncheon engagement with student leaders, faculty, and administrators.
He will also be visiting some of his former teachers and administrators of USC’s Institute of Aerospace Safety and Management.
One of the classes he will visit is a Community Encounter Seminar. Their topic of discussion will be on how the space program and all of the American achievements in space can be applied to helping the ghetto and other problems of our society.
At 5:45 p.m., Aatronaut Lovell will eat in Birnkrant Dining Hall. After dinner, he will say a few words and have a brief question and answer period.
As a USC alumnus, Lovell will have an opportunity to cheer for the football team when he will go to the rally. It will be held on Friday night at 7:30 in front of Tommy Trojan.
The last chance for students to talk with Captain Lovell will be between 8:15 and 9:30 on Friday night. He will have a rap session with all interested students at the Student Activities Center during that time.
On December 4. 1965. Lovell was on the Gemini mission with Frank Borman. The flight lasted 330 hours and 35 minutes and had the first space rendezvous between two maneuverable space crafts. He later went on another flight — Gemini 12.
On December of 1968, Lovell went along with Frank Borman and Wiiliam A. Anders as the first humans to leave the gravitational influences of the earth and go around the moon. This was when they went on the six-day Apollo 8 mission.
Lovell was the Space Commander of Apollo 13. With crewman John L. Swigart, Jr., and Fred W. Haise, their flight would have been the second one to land on the moon, but it was the first flight to have serious operational difficulties instead.