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By ROBERT EMMER
During last semester's student strike, the USC Law School drew much praise for its role in helping formulate the Days of Concern.
Politically the Law School was quite active. Through its organizational efforts more than 50.000 letters condemning President Nixon's Cambodian decision were signed through the Los Angeles community.
However, some students were apprehensive as to whether the Law School would continue being an instrumental political force on campus after the summer interim.
Some felt the action taken by the Law School last semester was more of a fad brought about by current events rather than a new tradition.
Others felt that the more politically vocal law students had left USC, and and the remaining law students would not resume activities.
This year the Law School will move to a new multi-million dollar building. Moving with it will be a concern for dynamic action both on campus and in the community.
“Singling out specific faculty and students for their role in last year’s activity would be impractical,” said' Michael Reiss, assistant law professor. “Faculty only responded to the students who in turn were initially motivated by current events.
“There is no way at this time to predict what the Law School will do politically this year. It is up to events, and the student responses to these events to set a course of direction,”
Michael Levine, law professor, added, “There were no unanimous views last year about anything. A silent majority or minority expressed opposition through Days of Concern and other strike activities at this university.”
While no events sponsored directly by the Law School are being implemented. a new action program within the school is being tried. The new program, similar to Urban Semester, is Clinical Semester.
Clinical Semester affords 25 second and third year law students the opportunity to try actual court cases. It is in the form of a work study program. Under a recently passed California law,
students under the supervision of an attorney can practice law in this state.
Students in Clinical Semester will be required to participate in one of two criminal law programs. Either they participate two full days each week at the District Attorney’s office under the supervision of a Deputy District Attorney handling misdemeanor cases, or they participate two full days assit-ing attorneys appointed to represent indigent defendants in felony cases in the federal courts.
As a prerequisite to assisting the attorneys the students must take a seminar on “Criminal Trial Advocacy,” Such a course deals with an examination of decision-making and the skills and techniques of trials in the litigation of criminal cases.
The students have a choice of assisting attorneys at the Long Beach Legal Aid Society, or at the Los Angeles Neighborhood Legal Services. Both locations will permit the students to handle civil cases for indigent clients.
Typical cases might include landlord-tenant, consumer, or welfare and employment problems on behalf of both individuals and groups.
Another seminar must also be taken by these students. “The Lawyering Process” involves an examination in the conceptual and practical aspects in the handling of civil legal cases.
In addition to these two required seminars, students in the Clinical Semester may choose one of several other courses. Some of the option courses are Law and Social Change, Family Law, Welfare Advocacy, and Employment Discrimination and The Law.
Students in this program are assigned either to the Inglewood Municipal Court or the Huntington Park Municipal Court. At these courts students will spend certain mornings observing and assisting Deputy District Attorneys. At the end of each week the student is evaluated by the attorney that he has assisted.
Similiar programs to this one have been carried out on many other campuses. The Clinical Semester program benefits both the community and the student. Such “social personal” programs may be the vehicle needed in other schools to transpose a static learning process into a dynamic potent force.
University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXM NO. 6
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1970
YAF takes issue with display
By CLARENCE BROWN
“They're Reagan supporters” was one of the many cries from a group of approximately 15 students who were debating about the “trustee ballot” in front of Tommy Trojan yesterday at noon.
A few members of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) were reportedly reviewing the trustee display and making witty remarks about some of the board members. Some students passing by and observing the board disagreed with the YAFers’ puns and tried to defend the issue.
The ‘ ballot,” an exhibit made of wood and illustration boards, linked the majority of USC's trustees to the military-industrial complex and showed the interconnections of political and business bonds between them. It appeared on campus last week near Tommy Trojan.
“The trustees of this school are quite liberal with the students. ” a student shouted. “During the Days of Concern, the students violated every code and policy the university had. And what did the trustees do? Nothing! I think they're okay.”
» Other students added their comments saying in essence that the trustees of USC have the power to stop any student action on any issue, and that the trustees are quite liberal.
fUSTEES MAKE THE WORLD SAFE Luce first
REACHING OUT	Photo by Bruce Bolinger
YAFer Pat Nolan (center) argues against anti-trustee display
SEEKS COMMUNAL LIVING
Liberal frat drops rituals
DT starts new section
Tbe Daily Trojan begins a section today featuring investigative and interpretative reporting. The section, on page 6, today explores rising insurance costs and bow USC is affected by them.
The section, entitled Focus, is edited by Michael Coates.
By ART CAMPOS Co-news editor
Mention the word fraternity to a freshman and there is a chance his mind will close instantly.
After all. he's probably heard of the drinking parties, pledging, or Hell Week, enough to scare him away from a fraternity.
One who would like to change that image is Larry Kohn, president of one of the more liberal fraternity houses on the row, Zeta Beta Tau, which he prefers to be called ZBT.
“I’m in favor of leaving the name but changing the organization to fit the needs of people,” said Kohn. “Fraternities are the closest thing to communal living on campus.
“People are in school for an education. They're not here to be degraded and put into a subordinate place. Fraternities should exist for friendship. The whole concept of a fraternity revolves around that word.”
Art Nathan, vice-president of ZBT. agreed. Nathan did not favor rituals like pledging or Hell Week.
“This concept may lead to
animosities among some of the members,” he said, “We need to get away from putting pressure on new members. A guy that visits a house will recognize whether or not he will fit in to form a part of that fraternity.”
When asked what rewards a fraternity member should receive by the time he leaves, Nathan said, “Friendships and the experience of com-
Directory data forms in SAC
Forms are still available in the Student Activities Center for students who wish to have their names deleted from the 1970-71 Student Directory.
The deadline for returning these forms is Thursday.
Additional forms are available for those who have had a change of address or telephone number since registration.
All data for the directory entries is taken from information on registration cards.
munal living.”
Kohn said ZBT avoids sending out mail and rush booklets.
“Mailing puts us in the same boat as everyone else,” he said. “The only way to make friends is to meet them. We want people to see just how different things are today.
“A fraternity is like a springboard. You get the opportunity to get involved in other activities through others. Some people feel a fraternity keeps you locked in but we re not like that.”
Kohn said that ZBT never commits the whole house toward one goal.
“We are a house of individuals. There are no rules governing the activities of new members or older members. The fraternity sets up functions which a member may or may not attend.”
Kohn said fraternities do become involved with such things as politics and community life. He also offered a bit of advice.
“Don't look at the parties, buildings, and things like that.” he said. “Look at the people. And look where their heads are. ”
to speak in series
By PETER WONG
Phillip Abbott Luce, philosophical leader of the New Right, will speak on “The Counter Culture and Education” Wednesday noon in the Student Activities Center.
His appearance is sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness, which is presenting Luce as its first speaker of the semester.
Luce broke with the new Left movement in 1965. He had been editor of Progressive Labor, the magazine of the Progressive Labor Party, and a leader of student trips to Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
One of his books, “Road to Revolution” has sold more than half a million copies. Another book, “The New Left”, will be published in a revised version this winter.
He has also written “The Intelligent Student’s Guide to Survival” and a book of poetry, “This is Dedicated to the One I love.”
Luce has had articles in Reader’s Digest, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, Human Events, Rally, and colleges and universities. Recently he debated Jerry Rubin on ABC-TV’s Dick Cavett Show, and took on Carl Oglesby, a co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society. before an audience at Kent State University in Ohio, prior to the violence there this spring.
Optometry correction
An article appearing in the Sept. 24 Daily Trojan incorrectly stated information concerning the experimental research program at the College of Optometry.
The article stated that the program was for students who wear contact lenses. The correct information should have stated that the special program is open only to students who do not wear contact lenses.