University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. 3
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23, 1970
BUSINESS LINKS OF TROJAN FAMILY’
Exhibit shows a surprising number of business links between trustees.
List of ‘indictments’
Dart. Justin Whitlock Political: Fund raising chairman for Reagan, 1970. Member, Reagan Finance Committee, 1966. Business: Chairman of the Board, president, Dart Industries. Inc. (Rexall Drug).
Firestone, Leonard K.
Political: Top Rockefeller Aide. 1964. Vice-chairman. Reagan Campaign Fund, 1966. Business: President, Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Director, Wells Fargo Bank.
War-related: Defense producer: Polaris missile, munition dispensed, tanks, cannons, recoilless rifles, artillery shells.
Fluor, J Robert Political: National Vice-president, National Association of Manufacturers. Americans for Winning the Peace. Major 1970 Reagan contributor.
Business: Chairman and chief executive officer, Fluor Corp. Director, National Association of Manufacturers.
Call, Asa V.
Political: Director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Board, 1966 Reagan Campaign. Major 1970 Reagan Contributor. Business: Member, Executive committee, Western Bancorporation. Member, Executive committee. Cypress Mines Corp. Director, United California Bank.
War-related: Former director, North American
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Photos by Bruce Bolinger
WATCHING A SCOREBOARD OF FORBIDDEN FRUIT’
Students peer at a list of trustees' political and military activities.
Trustees hit on ‘politics’
By LINDA BIBER City Editor
An exhibit linking the majority of USC’s trustees to the military-industrial complex and showing the complex web of political and business bonds between them appeared on campus yesterday near Tommy Trojan.
Under large lettering that read, “Help these trustees make the world safe for democracy. Please read ballots and then vote for one below,” appeared lists of directorships, chairmanships and activities credited to the trustees.
Also on display were charts showing the trustees’ Republican party committments, their companies’ involvement in the manufacture of the weapons of war and indications of the age of some of the trustees.
Dennis Thomson, a leader in the Student Movement for Peace, said the display was the result of more than a month’s work by 50 to 100 students, many of whom were involved in the strike of last May. It was prepared in response to the Policy Relating to Political Activity issued this summer by the trustees, which prohibits any partisan political activity or “activities which amount to influencing legislation’’ on campus.
Thomson said the students were “distraught over the policy” because of the process that was involved in its origin.
“The Board of Trustees’ just handed down a manifesto and said dig it because you don’t
have a choice,” said Thomson.
He also said they objected to the content. “The message they (the trustees) seem to be saying is ‘let not your brand of politics differ from ours. We run this place.
“We feel that they’re attempting to set up a double standard. Since they’re obviously going to be involved in politics themselves, they have no right to impose on the rights of the students.”
Thomson called the exhibit “a vital part of the education of every student here.” He said that it would help them understand “why certain decisions are made and that the actions of the trustees were based on their vested interests. He said it would also help students see that the trustees “impose their personal values and life styles on everything they touch.”
TTie exhibit gave an extensive rundown of the business, political, social and war industry ties of the trustees — information which Thomson said was acquired primarily from the Los Angeles Times and the McGraw-Hill Library. A portion of the list is published in today’s Daily Trojan.
The exhibit in various modifications will appear for the rest of the week and ballots for the trustee with the most objectionable achievements tfill be distributed beginning today. Students responsible for the display have not yet decied what this tria 1-by-students will lead to.
Left film festival to begin long run
The Radical Film Festival, sponsored by the ASSC, begins tonight at 8 in Hancock Auditorium.
The film series, which runs from Sept. 23 to Jan. 6, includes films dealing with black liberation, Vietnam, pollution, China, women, C h i c a n o s, Africa, Cuba, and the domestic scene.
Among the 29 films to be
presented are “Battle of Algiers,” “Huey,” “In the Year of the Pig,” “Ratcliff Blues,” and “No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger,” a film by Michael Wadleigh, who produced “Woodstock.”
Tom Levyn, vice-president for programs, said that the films are in a social-contemporary
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Hurst innovations confuse ASSC officers
By RICH WISEMAN Assistant SoCal Editor
Dennis Penrose, Men's Hall Association president, strolled up to the second floor of the Student Activities Center yesterday for the usual Tuesday, 3 p.m. ASSC Executive Council meeting.
He had heard that the council would not be meeting regularly this year but had not been officially notified by the ASSC office.
There was no meeting.
While it is true that the council will meet at regular intervals this year once members’ classes schedules are taken into consideration, Sam Hurst, ASSC president, said he will add a new wrinkle by holding the meetings in various campus locations. Yesterday's lack of communication between the front office and Penrose appears to be just the
tip of an iceberg of malcontent among some council members.
Vice Presidents Chuck Jones (activities) and Tom Levyn (programs) told of the frustrating time they have had communicating with Hurst.
“Right now, communication is not the best,” Levyn said. “I’d like to get Sam away from his little coterie ol people to discuss the priorities for this semester.”
The split between Hurst and Levyn is understandable, Hurst typifying the liberal breed and Levyn the conservative. But the split between Jones and Hurst is odd since they are politically alike.
“It’s a combination of things,” Jones said in analyzing the situation. “It s not so much a pure schism as a difference of opinion on the priorities.
Sam’s expertise is in administration, intangible things such as students’ rights. Tom and I have very concrete, tangible, responsibilities. It’s a matter of us adopting our goals, and Sam adopting his so we can work together.”
Jones also acknowledged the difference in personality.
“Sam has a different lifestyle,” he said. “He works and lives with a different kind of people. Both Tom and I are outside that group.
“Also, Sam by nature is a very theatrical person. He believes in the use of speeches, fliers and more confrontation politics. I’m more of a traditionalist, working through the system.” Different as he may be from the president, Jones does not favor having the president and vice president run on a ticket, a measure Hurst will promote when the constitutional revision com-
mittee reconvenes.
“I’m very much against slate politics,” he explained. “Since there are so many different interests on campus as many as possible should be represented.”
Jones also mentioned the danger of cliques with the adoption of slate politics. He said the best interests of all students would not be served if a small group decided legislation.
There’s not much left for Jones and Levyn to do but try and get along with Hurst.
“Sam and I talked a lot this past summer and I think we’ll learn to live with one another,” Jones said. “I’m optimistic.”
Possibly to melt the iceberg a bit, Hurst has scheduled weekly closed-door meetings with Levyn and Jones, and the secretary and treasurer.