Trustees respond to invitation
BY RIVIAN TAYLOR Associate City Editor
The Caucus of Concerned Students yesterday urged a massive student turnout for tomorrow's convocation with the Board of Trustees following conflicting reports as to whether the board will take part in the planned student-administra-tion dialogue.
The ASSC office received two contradictory responses yesterday from board members. Stan Diorio. graduate representative and a spokesman for the caucus, reported that Mrs. Anna Bing Arnold, a trustee, said that the board will make a decision on whether to meet with students tomorrow during their meeting. Later in the day. another board member, Montgomery Fisher, called the ASSC office and said he would be glad to participate.
The caucus, presuming that no definite answer to its invitation of last Tuesday for the convocation will come from the trustees before tomorrow
morning/ condemned the board for its delay.
“This is symptomatic of how they handle students,” said Diorio. “We gave them the courtesy of a week's notice and all we asked in return was that they give us their decision by Oct. 5.
“It seems to be a very simple request to have a dialogue with students, but its seems to have become a very heavy political thing with the Board of Trustees."
Although the caucus apparently will not know until tomorrow morning whether the trustees decide to participate in the noon convocation, it is preparing a program that is concerned with the relations of the trustees to the university.
“People won t be coming for nothing." said Diorio. “If large numbers of students are there, we can still affect their (the board's) decision. The students'
coming is a way of insuring the trustees’ coming."
Diorio added that the only way the university listens to students is when they act together and come out in large numbers.
Another spokesman for the caucus, Bill Pittenger, said, “We feel the trustees should be as concerned about this convocation as the students at this university are. Only two trustees have responded to the invitation to meet with students Wednesday. This, in itself, is a very good commentary on the way the trustees view this university. This is not just another business deal.
“If they were as worried about students and communication as they are supposed to be. then they should be able to take a few moments out of their obviously busy corporate schedules to talk to us."
Mrs. Arnold sent a telegram yesterday morning addressed to the caucus.
In the telegram she apologized for the delay, saying that she had been in the East the last 10 days. She apparently was speaking on behalf of the board when she wrote , “The response will come to you from the USC Board of Trustees as a whole.” The board is scheduled to meet on campus tomorrow at 10 a.m.
Later in the day, Fisher phoned ASSC President Sam Hurst and said he would be glad to participate in the convocation. He did not make any mention of Mrs. Arnold’s earlier response.
Caucus leaders have assumed that Fisher was not aware of Mrs. Arnold's response, and they believe they won't get an official trustee answer to their invitation until the morning of the event.
The caucus will hold a meeting, open to all students, tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Religious Center to map out strategies for tomorrow's program.
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AFTER STABBING INCIDENT	Additional photos page 21
Maria Velasquez is carried out of Doheny Library on stretcher following attack.
SHARES EXPERIENCES THURSDAY
Ram Dass will lecture
By BARBARAJONES
Baba Ram Dass will be sharing his experience for the last time in the United States in a special lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Town and Gown Foyer Hall. Students should bring a pillow or blanket to sit on.
He will be sharing his experiences he had during his transformation from Richard Alpert. Ph. D.. to Baba Ram
Dass.
Ram Dass appeared at USC last February. It was one of many stops he made on a lecture tour that started in the fall of 1969. Recalling the large crowd turnout for that lecture. Dan Steffens, adviser for the Forum for Student Awareness which is sponsoring the lecture, contacted Ram Dass a few weeks ago. Steffens was able
to persuade him to make one more appearance before terminating his lecture tour.
The son of the president of the New Haven Railroads. Richard Alpert, was. as some might say. born with a “silver shovel" in his mouth. A wealthy, materialistic, intellectual psychologist he served on the faculties of Stanford. Harvard, and UC Berkeley from 1956-63.
Alpert owned a Mercedes, an airplane, and a sailboat, among many other things. He ran a wide gamut of social and intellectual activities. prizing most highly his intellectual status.
While at Harvard he became friends with Timothy Learv. whose intellect he said he understood. In 1961. Leary-turned him onto drugs.
School of Pharmacy to sponsor teach-in
The USC School of Pharmacy, in observance of National Pharmacy Week, is presenting a three day teach-in series on the general theme “Respect Medicines.”
This evening Dr. Vernon Mitchell, president of the Committee for the Eradication of Syphillis, will talk about venereal diseases.
The topic tomorrow will be birth control. Dr. Marvin K. Levin will discuss different methods of contraception and their physical and psychological effects.
Dr. George Chun, a cardiologist from Long Beach Memorial Hospital, will speak Thursday on marijuana and dangerous drugs. Both medical and legal aspects of the subject will be dealt with by Dr. Chun and a representative of the narcotics squad.
The talks will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Birnkrant Cafeteria.
From 1961-66 Alpert researched and explored with LSD. believing that while on drugs he was able to see himself from outside his skin. But he also realized that as the drug wore off he reassumed his old role.
Despite his material wealth he became addicted to the experience of being high. But he wanted to find an everlasting high—one that would not disappear as the drug wore off.
In 1967 Alpert traveled to India seeking men who were truly wise. He met people who told him what he already knew, and became discouraged. Then he met someone he felt had true wisdom, not an Indian, but a 23-vear-old American from Laguna Beach.
Leaving his material possessions he traveled on foot with his guru, living a simple life. He met his guru's Maharaji and began to learn what knowing is.
Spending five months at a Hindu temple in the Himalayas. he was taught by a holy man who asked for nothing in return. During this time he was renamed Baba Ram Dass by one of his teachers.
Ram Dass believes that to reach a higher inner plane one should spend a portion of each day in meditation, until he can separate himself from his thoughts.
An article in the June Globe, the West magazine of Boston, reveals his tremendous sense (Continued on page 2)
Library employe victim of attack
by TERRY DONAHUE Assistant City Editor
The screams for help went in vain as Maria Velasquez, a 23-year-old employe of Doheny Library, was being stabbed on the ninth level of the library.
At approximately 9:15 a.m. yesterday, Mrs. Velasquez was placing books on shelves 19 and 20 when a man wrapped a belt around her neck.
She hit her assailant with some books and escaped his grasp. The assailant then chased her around the room with a knife and stabbed her seven times, library employes said.
Mrs. Velasquez was stabbed in the head. neck, abdomen, left arm. and left hand.
Mrs. Velasquez ran down the stairs from the ninth level to the main floor on the fifth level, her assailant allegedly following right behind her.
The assailant is described as a male Caucasian. 6 1” in height. 22 to 23 years old. brown hair, medium build and a fair complexion, continued to the fourth floor and left by an emergency exit.
David Campbell, a library employe on duty at the main desk, chased the suspect to the Law Center. The suspect was then seen entering the business building.
Police arrived at about 9:30 a.m. and surrounded the buiiding. They started an intensive search in the building. Students who fit the description were taken out of classrooms and questioned, but the suspect was not found.
A sergeant of the,LAPD said. “He had plenty of time to escape prior to our arrival."
A student entering the stacks said she had a good look at the suspect and might recognize him if she saw him again.
Ophelia Guzman, a library employe, saw Mrs. Velasquez running down the stairs. Miss Guzman said Mrs. Velasquez ran in the room and said, in Spanish. “Look at me."
Miss Guzman said. “I touched her and my hand got full of blood. "
Glenn Hughes, a library employe, arrived about two minutes after the incident occurred. He found a part of the knife blade on the floor between bookshelves. He described it as “a real thin blade, about 112 inches long.
Mrs. Velasquez was taken to Orthopedic Hospital by a Fire Department ambulance. She was treated and released at 11:33 a.m.
A motive has yet to be determined for the assault. Mrs. Velasquez told police she had never seen her assailant before.
Hughes said there was only one way to summon help— the library's intercom system. When showing a Daily Trojan reporter the escape route of the assailant, however, a library employe could not get the intercom system to work.
The police closed off the ninth level of the library until 4 p.m. to take fingerprints and obtain any other physical evidence.
John Velasquez, husband of the victim and a USC student, gave the Daily Trojan a description of the assailant: a 6-foot male Caucasian. 180-190 pounds, dark brown eyes, straight hair parted on one side, average sideburns, clean-cut. very possibly having scratches on his face, wearing a light blue shirt, dark pants, dark shoes and carrying an attache case.
“I’m almost certain that he is a student, said Velasquez. “To get into the stacks of the library you have to have a student card. ’
No DT Next Monday
The Daily Trojan will not publish Monday, but will resume publication on Tuesday, Oct. 13.
All calendar and news briefs items for Tuesday's paper should be turned into Student Union 421 by 4 p.m. Thursday.