University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXI, NO. 108
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1970
Unruh to speak at teach-in
Student expression of concern for the environment of the world will be the theme of the USC Environmental Teach-in’s Save Mother Earth activities to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, April 22 and 23.
The USC activities are a part of a national teach-in on Crisis of the Environment to be held on many campuses across the nation.
The teach-in idea was brought about by Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.) and Rep. Paul McCloskey (R-Calif.) who are the cochairmen of the national teach-in. The idea was prompted by student interest in pollution problems.
Sen. Nelson said. “This generation of youth is vitally concerned about the environment, because it will inherit the disaster of deadly waste and destruction.
“I am convinced that the same concern the youth of this nation took in changing this nation’s priorities on the war in Vietnam and on civil rights can be shown for the problems of the environment. That is why I plan to see to it that a national teach-in is held.”
The teach-in is also being sponsored and organized by the Student Environmental Confederation, which puts the main emphasis of the teach-in on education, said Ora Citron, the Southern California chairman.
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Library will hold Amnesty Week
Students with long-overdue library books, or stolen ones they don’t want anymore, will have a chance to relieve their consciences next week. All books may be returned Monday through Tuesday to the library they were taken from, or to Doheny library, with no questions asked and no fees charged.
John Leuenhagen, student library liaison, emphasized that this is “almost a once-in-a lifetime chance.” Library Amnesty Week was last declared five years ago.
Although the Student Library Committee recommend-ded that all books fall under the amnesty, the Faculty Library Committee excepted re* served materials and library use materials, because students who want to use these materials and find them unavailable “would be upset if these people were let off free,” Leuenhagen said.
“But we want them back anyway,” he added.
Also any book checked out from today on will not be under the amnesty.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN TUNNEY
Photo by Brucc Bolinger
Provost tells Sigma Nu of USC's rating
“Our election to the Association of American Universities is not an end — it means that cur job is just beginning,” Dr. John R. Hubbard, university provost and vice-president of academic affairs, said Wednesday.
Speaking to a Sigma Nu symposium, which was composed of about 20 faculty members and 40 members of the Sigma Nu fraternity, Dr. Hubbard explained that USC must continued to increase the standards of academic excellence it had when it joined the association.
“Of the 24 private institutions in the association, USC is 20th in endowment per student with $2,562, while number one Princeton has an endowment of $83,524 per student,” Hubbard said. “Also, USC is 21st in faculty compensation with $14,-739 to Harvard’s $19,800.”
Dr. Hubbard said USC’s library ranks 15th. The 1,400,-000 volumes in the library, however, arc still a long way from Harvard’s eight million and Yale’s five and a half million.
USC is competing with schools which have tuitions of $2,500, Dr. Hubbard said. USC’s tuition will be $1,950 next semester.
• “USC has never operated from a deficit,” he continued. “Last year, Stanford had a deficit of two million dollars and this year has an expected deficit of six million dollars.”
Dr. Hubbard also talked about what membership in the association means to USC.
“The Association of American Universities was formed by
14 universities in 1900,” he said. “Its membership has always been limited to colleges which are generally considered to be preeminent in the fields of graduate and professional study and research.
“Many educators have felt that with about 1,600 universities that could qualify, an organization that has limited its membership to 46 universities in the last 70 years is too exclusive to be representative.
This resulted in the forming of the American Council of Education, which anyone may join.
However, lurking in the heart cf every college president is the
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PRESIDENTIAL WRITE-IN
Tunney warns U.S. of Cambodian pitfalls
By ALAN LaGREEN
“Unless very decisive action is taken by the Nixon Administration soon, we will find U.S. troops in Cambodia and Laos on a full-time basis,” John Tunney, congressman and candidate for the Democratic party nomination for the U. S. Senate, said yesterday.
At an assembly sponsored by the Great Issues Forum, Tunney, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, spoke on “Cambodia: Another Vietnam?”
“I am very much afraid that 1970 may be the year that will mark the extension of United States operations from South Vietnam proper into Laos and Cambodia,” Tunney said. “On Easter Sunday the White House announced that the President had given orders allowing the crossing of the Cambodian border by U.S. troops.”
“For all the rhetoric about ending the war in Vietnam, the old scenario is being followed in Laos and Cambodia. We are allowing the generals and the Pentagon to decide our policy in Southeast Asia.
“Generals are poor historians and poor politicians in knowing what the people want. They have told us for five years that we are winning the war in Vietnam,” Tunney said.
“The situation is deteriorating with our involvement in Laos and Cambodia. Nothing could be more detrimental to our society than continuing the military madness in Southeast Asia.
“I believe in the quagmire theory instead of the domino theory. Once you get involved in one quagmire it is easy to get involved in others.”
Tunney went on to call for total United States withdrawal from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia within the next 12 months.
“The only possible way to disengage ourselves is to decide once and for all that we are on the way out of Vietnam and then to get out.
“We must encourage a political settlement of the war. As long as the Thieu-Key government feels that the United States will stay, they will drag their feet and not make the accommodations necessary for a setlement,” Tunney said.
“Mr. Nixon must appoint a top-level ambassador to the Paris peace talks. Since Henry Cabot Lodge left Paris, the top negotiating post has been left vacant.”
On the issue of the draft Tunney said, “I am against the abolition of the draft. A professional army could prove to be very dangerous. The British fought their wars that way and look what happened to them.”
“If we had an all professional army, I doubt that the public would care about involvement such as Vietnam.”
Tunney, a supporter of the recent Vietnam Moratorium, was questioned as to the effectiveness of such protest.
“It is important to bring grassroots pressure on the administration until they realize that the American people want no more war, no more engagements and no more military flirtations.”
In a press conference immediately prior to his address, Tunney was asked about the recent controversy over Sen. George Murphy’s relationship with the Technicolor Corporation.
“I feel that it was a very serious mistake for Sen. Murphy to remain on their payroll. This is an issue between him and the people of California, and it is up to the public to decide whether they want Sen. Murphy to continue to represent them,” Tunney said.
In reference to the campaign, Tunney said, “Sen. Murphy must declare that he will not be the rubber stamp for the administration he has been in the past. He has a separate constituency and should not merely follow the administration’s lead.”
BSU chairman supports Cohen
In reaction to Wednesday’s election results, Bob Birt, chairman of the Black Students Union, proposed a coalition with the Young Americans for Freedom, the Young Republicans, and MECHA to actively endorse Eric Cohen as a write-in candidate for the ASSC presidency.
His plan included the possible seizure of the ASSC during which Cohen would be declared president.
iBirt, who had his head shaved in accordance with an African tradition to show respect for a dead leader, said, “Student government at USC is dead.
“There is no government at USC, and since there is none, there is no reason for a make-believe government.”
His support for Cohen, he said, reflects the political pun of the writings of Jonathan Swift, who satirized the weakness and corruption of the human race.
“The university already has a bad racial image in the eyes of the community,” he said. He feels that this election will worsen the image.
Race, however, is merely a manifestation of the class issue, Birt said.
“There is a small group which feels it can act fin the best interest of the majority, but it has no regard for the law and actually has no concern for the governed.
“This ruling class which governs this campus simply tries to perpetuate its own ideas and interests.”
To revive what Birt termed USC’s “dead government,” he said that the ASSC must be more responsive to student needs, not just the needs of the majority. It must also be responsive to the unrepresented minority needs.
Cohen, whose campaign for a military dictatorship gained him a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times, was reached late yesterday afternoon with the message of Birt’s support.
Cohen said, “When my followers and I come out of the hills and march triumphantly down University Avenue to assume power, we will shave our heads too.”