Preparations for Rubin speech continue
JERRY RUBIN
By ANDY MILLER Editor
Jerry Rubin, the controversial Yippie founder and Chicago Seven defendant, will speak during Vietnam Moratorium campus activities Wednesday at 1 p.m.
The decision was made by a joint committee of various administrators, faculty members, and students who first met in the President's Conference room Friday at 2:30 p.m. The ad hoc committee met again yesterday at 11 a.m. to discuss the arrangements further, and will meet today and tomorrow at 11 a.m.
Dr. Norman Topping, president, made it clear in Friday’s meeting that he had the power and responsibility under the Speaker’s Policy to cancel Rubin’s speech
at anytime.
The two-hour long program is currently scheduled for Bovard baseball field, where up to 150 student monitors, 30
clergymen and ten faculty marshalls will
be deployed as security provisions by the
sponsoring Vietnam Moratorium Committee.
Rubin’s appearance is also sponsored by the ASSC Executive Council, which is underwriting his appearance with a
$1,200 loan; the Trojan Young Democrats and the Great Issues Forum. Donations will be accepted at the speech.
Rubin’s appearance was protested Strongly in the two ad hoc meetings by campus members of the Young Ameri-
All students wishing to serve as monitors for Rubin's speech tomorrow are requested to attend a special meeting at
noon today in the Student Activities Center. Contact Jeff Ullman, Moratorium coordinator, for further information at 748-
1433 or 749-3664.
cans for Freedom who argued that the
ASSC should not have funded Rubin’s
appearance, and that the possibility of
violence would be great while Rubin is
on campus.
Only university officials, staff and students will be admitted to the program
on Bovard field. Identification cards may
be checked at any of the field’s three
entrances. The Moratorium Day activities will begin at 12:15 p.m. with speeches by Mark Savit, ASSC vice-president of academic affairs; Ed Caprielian, professor in the
school of public administration; Rich Hilton of the Moratorium advisory committee; and William Williams, director of
the Center for Social Action.
Then the program will be turned over to Terry Poplawski, a senior, and Dr. Robert Mannes, professor of mechanical engineering, who will introduce Rubin at
1	p.m. Michael Tiger, UCLA law professor and one of the original Chicago defense attorneys, will also speak.
Rubin will appear at 6 p.m. at the Civic Center for additional Moratorium Day rallies.
A script for the entire two-hour program will be presented this morning at the 11 a.m. meeting of the ad hoc committee.
University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXI.NO. 105
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1970
Court rules write-ins will not be counted
The ASSC Student Court ruled Sunday night
that no write-ins will be allowed or counted in Wednesday’s runoff election.
The ruling will stand unless the ASSC Executive Council clarifies the write-in provision of the
Elections Code by the morning of the runoffs.
The executive council meets this afternoon at
3 in the Student Activities Center and is expected
to consider the court’s ruling.
The courts decision barring write-ins was the result of two cases brought against the elections
commissioner, Dan Wallace. One case was brought
by Pat Nolan, Young Americans for Freedom member, and the other was brought by Wayne Johnson,
campaign manager for Dave Dizenfeld.
The court considered both cases together since
both were related to the question of whether the
student body election is one election or two and whether, as such, write-ins should or should not
be counted in the runoff.
“Technically the Student Body Elections are defined as one election as stated in Article 6-2A of the ASSC Constitution,” said Maurie Markman, chief justice, in a statement issued by the court.
The article states, “There shall be a general election no earlier than the sixth nor later than the 12th week of each spring semester.”
'Referring to the decision that the election is only one election and acting upon section 3-Dl of the Election Code, the court said “that no write-ins shall be allowed (counted) in the runoff election.”
Section 3-Dl of the Elections Code states: the runoff shall be held between (or among) those candidates with the two highest numbers of votes.”
The court, declared that the ptovtsious the code that referred to write-ins were not sufficiently clear to countermand the provisions of Section 3D-1.
1 he court ruled that if the executive council desired to clarify the write-in provision to the student body by the morning of the runoff election they may do so as long as the runoff elections are completed no later than the twelfth week of the spring semester.
Two write-in candidates made comments on the court’s decision.
Senior rep runoff changes
The Student Court upheld the disqualification cf Jeff Morton from the runoff election for senior representative Sunday night on the grcunds that he does not have the 96 units required of candidates by the elections code. Morten hcs 93 units. Rcbert Reiss, who placed third in the primary election, will be placed on the ballot against Dave Druker.
Sam Tower, who had declared himself as a
write-in for the runoff after being defeated by
Ron McDuffie and Dave Dizenfeld, termed the
court’s ruling as “a slap in the face to the students.”
“The election should be open to write-ins. The
fact that so many candidates were so close show
that there was a varied opinion on who should be
president. These people should have another
choice,” Tower said.
Tower, in announcing his candidacy as a write-in. said, “I firmly believe that the students of
this university are dissatisfied with almost every
aspect of the present student government. From
what I have witnessed the ASSC council has
made little effort to inform the students on matters concerning the expenditure of student fees,
nor have they made any attempt to discover the
wants of the students they claim to represent.”
Sam Hurst, also a write-in candidate for ASSC President, called the court’s decision a political one.
The court compromised and threw the question of write-ins back to the executive council. Hurst said. He was confident that a majority of the council would favor allowing write-ins to be counted.
“I don’t think the court had any other choice,” Hurst said. “It was a forced political decision made by a nonpolitical body.”
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Soviets maintaining Mid-East tension
By RODGER KEE
A State Department expert on the Middle East said Friday that Soviet policy may be aimed at maintaining a state of controlled tension between Israel and the Arab
states.
Rodger P. Davies, U. S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and Southern Asian Affairs, spoke to students and faculty members at the final meeting of last week’s 47th Session of the Institute of World Affairs at von KleinSmid Center.
Davies said also that face-to-face negotiations between Israeli and Arab leaders are necessary to insure a lasting peace in the Middle East. He said neither the Arab nations, nor Israel would respect a solution drawn up by outside powers.
“The situation is too complex to solve by remote control,” Davies said.
Davies toid the gathering that a high-level group of State Department officials, including Joseph Zisko, assistant secretary of state for Near-East Affairs, is now making a tour of Arab capitals, and that he has hope that a result of the tour will be an enlightening of Arab leaders to possibilities and methods of settlement.
Davies, a career d\p\oYnat who has served in high-level capacities under that past four presidential administrations, was asked if the United States was doing anything on behalf of the Palestinian refugees in those territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 six-day war.
“We can only deal through governmental channels,” he said.
He added that he felt thre was a question of authenticity regarding reports of maltreatment of refugees by the Israelis.
“Many of the reports seem to be originating from persons living outside of the occupation areas,” Davies said.
Davies explained that United States policy in the Middle East has been aimed at avoiding the sort of polarization he feels the Soviets are attempting to maintain as insurance of retaining influence there.
He said the United States had been trying to slow the arms race in the Middle East since the mid-fifties, but that increasing numbers of shipments of Soviet arms made it necessary for the United States to “maintain a balance of military power by providing arms on a selective basis” to nations that expressed a desire for military aid.