University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. 86
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1971
78 tickets left
The 78 tickets for the UCLA game that were not claimed after Monday's lottery will be raffled off in a second drawing following the basketball rally Thursday at noon in front of Tommy Trojan.	*
To be eligible, students must be present at the rally and bring their original stubs from the Stanford and California games.
If there is a Pac-8 playoff game Monday, March 15, at Pauley Pavilion, tickets will be sold to students and faculty holding season ticket books on Sunday, March 14, at the Coliseum peristyle box office starting at 9 a.m. Tickets will be SI.
Approximately 2,800 seats have been reserved for the USC students and faculty with a strict limit of two tickets per person.
The Sports Arena box office will also be open at 9 a.m. Sunday for the convenience of USC basketball season ticket holders.
Elections delay upheld by court
Margaret Mead to talk Monday
Margaret Mead, author and anthropologist, will head a series of noon discussions delving into the evolution of American culture and consciousness.
The conference, beginning Monday. March 15. and continuing for three weeks, is sponsored annually by the ASSC Conference Committee.
The purpose of the program is to view several different facets of a general subject from an expert's standpoint, said Lee Blackman. chairman of the committee.
This year the subject deals on an abstract level with the individual changing consciousness. The topics range from Buddhism and yoga to the media and its use in America's changing culture.
Dr. Mead will speak on the ideas in her book. “Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap. " in Bovard Auditorium on Monday.
Presently. Dr. Mead is curator emeritus of ethnology with the American Museum of Natural History in New York and adjunct professor of anthropology at Columbia University, where she received her Ph D in 1929.
Other speakers will include Hakuyat Maezumi. a Buddhist monk since 1945. on March 17. and Clara Spring, author and director of her own yoga studio on March 26. Both will be in the Student Activities Center. Maezumi will talk about how some Americans look to Buddhism to understand themselves. Mrs. Spring will discuss yoga as a way of life and philosophy.
Berkeley professor and author Nevitt Sanford will speak on the evolution of the American student on March 31 in Hancock Auditorium.
Dr. Edmund Carpenter, author of “They Became What They Beheld." will discuss the role of the media and how it is used by Americans in a changing society on April 1 in Bovard Auditorium.
Krishnamurti. an author and philosopher, will speak March 25 and 29. He is sponsored by the committee, but will not be in direct relation to this program.
By ANDREW ERSKINE
The Student Court decided yesterday that the ASSC Executive Council acted legally in postponing the elections until after the new Associated Students of the University of Southern California Constitution is put before the student body.
The unanimous decision was reached after less than 10 minutes of deliberation. A formal written opinion will be released today.
“We OK'd the right of the Executive Council to change the date set by the Elections Commission." said Chief Justice Dan Levinson. “All other points in the brief revolved around that one central issue."
In response to the Elections Commission contention that once the election process has begun it cannot be changed. Levinson said. “The election process had not reached such a stage that the changes might impair the election.''
Both sides were given five minutes each to make a final statement to the court before it went into closed session to deliberate.
Elections Commissioner Charlene Bandurraga stated her position: “My objective is to try to put on a fair election. We cannot have a fair election because we do not have the power to make any decisions without their approval."
Another member of the Elections Commission said. “There's a question about whether changing the by-laws can be done retroactively." The Elections Commission's opinion, which was overruled by the court, was that the council had no right to interfere with the election process once it had begun.
Graduate Representative Stan DiOrio. who argued the case for the ASSC, said that the Elections Commission is an agent of the ASSC. existing by and lor the ASSC council.
“If a legislature could not change the rules of its agents, then it would never make rules in the first place. DiOrio said.
DiOrio said that a precedent was set during the elections last spring when the council changed the election requirements while the election was in progress, enabling the current ASSC president. Sam Hurst, to run.
Upon hearing the decision. Miss Bandurraga said. “I'm relieved that the legalities of the situation are settled and that the Executive Council and Elections Commission are one big happy family again.
“The Elections Commission will work with the Executive Council in setting up a fair election."
A letter sent to the Daily Trojan by Jerry Reitman. an associate justice who took part in the decision on the elections suit, stirred up more
controversy in the court. In the letter. Reitman. who was defeated last week in a bid for the position of graduate representative, attacked the council as being too powerful.
Levinson said that Reitman's letter raised serious ethical questions about his impartiality in the case, although he did vote in favor of the ASSC.
“I don t think court members should involve themselves in campus politics." Levinson said.
Levinson pointed out that four of the associate justices in the Student Court are defeated ASSC candidates: Reitman. Steve Knowles. Colin Kurata and Ron Palmieri.
Knowles also wrote a letter to the Daily Trojan Feb. 17. which criticized the lack of power of the Student Court. Levinson said that involvement in campus politics does not in itself make a bad justice, but it does not help.
New dates set for constitutional, general elections
A special election for the proposed ASUSC constitution will be conducted Wednesday. March 17. Approval of the document will result in several changes in the structure of the student government so the general elections have been postponed until April 20 and 21.
Copies of both the present and proposed constitutions are available in the Student Union. Rooms 303 and 309. The present constitution is printed in SCampus. available at the Information Center. The proposed constitution will be published on page four of the Daily Trojan tomorrow.
The present Elections Code allows for the formation of both pro- and anti-constitution committees for the purpose of campaigning. Committee members must register with the Elections Commission by tomorrow.
The filing period for the general election will be the week of March 30 to April 2. Spring vacation follows, and campaigning starts on April 12. The general elections will be on Tuesday and Wednesday. April 20 and 21. If any runoffs are required, balloting will continue on April 27 and 28.
For the first time, eligible write-ins will be counted only in the general elections. Ballots for the run-offs with names written in will be declared void.
Prof cites earthquake causes
By DONNIE WALLACE
An intense amount of energy concentrated beneath the San Fernando Valley and the great number of faults in the region were primarily responsible-for the damage of the Feb. 9 earthquake. a USC assistant geology professor said recently.
Thomas Henyey. who has been studying the damaged areas since the powerful jolt one month ago. said the force of the quake was extremely compacted for its size. Henyey said the quake had a far greater destructive potential than indicated by the 6.6 magnitude reading recorded on the Richter scale
“There is an indication that faulting might have been developing in the area, however, no evidence along that line has been uncovered. Henyey said. He added that seismic activity in the area was unexpected to the geologists who are familiar with the area. “There has been no evidence of faulting in the valley area in the past 100 years," he said
“We really haven t built up our knowledge and statistics so as to suggest where faulting and earthquakes are
likely to occur."
Donald Palmer, assistant professor and chairman of the Geology Department. has also been involved with Henyey in the research project. The two men have been busy in locating the fault breaks from the earthquake.
“These are the cracks along which the earth actually broke as a result of the quake." said Palmer. “The cracks are not cracks that have resulted from any shaking or slumping, but cracks from which the actual bedrock moved."
According to Henyey. the area north of the biggest break moved out. then over regions south of the break in the San Fernando Valley. “When we talk about breakage, we are talking about an uplifting of a couple of feet." he said.
Henyey said that because of California's geological complexities as well as the irregularities in the ground below. it is difficult for scientists to predict any sort of future movements.
In the Feb. 14 edition of the Los Angeles Times, a map was presented showing a breakdown of the location of faults in the Southern California area. Many
people who are residents of areas shown as not heavily faulted began to feel that they were safe from experiencing a quake the magnitude of the one which ruined thousands of buildings in the valley. Henyey believes they might be mistaken.
He pointed out that those areas showing a limited number of faults were so because they had been covered by asphalt and concrete. It was impossible for geologists to map the cracks as they did in the earthened and hilly region of the valley. “Geologists can t record faults if they can t see them when they are covered by surface debris. " he said. "Unless we can see an area in terms of the bedrock, we can t detect any faults."
It is difficult to say that an earthquake is more or less likely to occur in one area of Southern California than another, he added.
Because earthquakes act upon the formation of mountains, such areas are more prone to temblors than flat lands. Henyey said. “It is more likely that there is an earthquake in the mountains than in the Los Angeles basin Moun-
tains are the manifestations of earthquake activity."
The recent quake was said to be the largest recorded in Southern California
in over 38 years.
“In terms of damage the last quake
was major. " Henyey said. “Geologically speaking, it was not what I would consider a 'great' earthquake, though it was an important earthquake.
Following the shock, many people were under the impression that the major earthquake of this generation had come and gone.
“The recent earthquake hasn't really reduced the potential for another even larger quake." he said.
Numerous aftershocks of last month s quake will continue for at least another two months, he said.
“It will take several years before this area quiets down seismically to the point that our instruments don t record any activity. Henyey said. “People will continue to feel the aftershocks for the next two months although they will feel the number of them diminish rapidly. "