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still under investigation DAILY % TROJAN
A special committee of lawyers will continue its investigation today of the conduct of the Los Angeles Police Department, regarding a class action lawsuit filed by the Western Center on Law and Poverty on behalf of the black citizens of Los Angeles county.
The committee is comprised of four representatives from the American Bar Association and the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association. They are investigating complaints that the police department has exterted improper pressures on the university and the center because of the suit.
The suit is a class action on behalf of all black residents of the County of Los Angeles. It charges the police department with harassing and intimidating blacks solely because of their color.
The pressures the complaint refers to include letters from Ed Davis, chief of police, to President Richard Nixon and Robert Finch, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; letters from Davis to President 'Norman Topping, and a letter from Mayor Sam Yorty to Dr. Topping.
Yesterday the committee met with Dorothy Nelson, dean of the Law School, Gary Bellow, law professor, and others. Dean Nelson said she thought the committee considered its investigation confidential at this time so she could not talk about the interview. Members of the committee were not available for comment.
The committee will interview more people on campus today, and will also be talking to city officials and members of the police department.
The members of the committee are Samuel Johnson, associate justice of civil appeals in Houston, Texas; Betty Mcjunkins, staff attorney of the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association; William Lowry, of Hahn, Loeser, Freedheim, Dean and Wellman in Cleveland, Ohio, and Ben Travis, attorney from the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Services Foundation.
'Eros and Errors' will be coeds' conference theme
VOL. LXI, NO. 82
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY. FEB. 27,1970
Newly installed chaplain outlines responsibilities
“Eros and Errors” will be the general theme for the Associated Women Students Conference to be held next week, beginning Monday.
Keynote speakers and films on venereal diseases, birth control, abortions and childbirth are scheduled for the conference.
On Monday, Dr. Walter Smart from the County Health Department will discuss the symptoms and treatments of venereal diseases. The discussion is scheduled for noon in Founders Hall 129. A film which explains what their ultimate effects are will follow.
The film will also be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the Bimkrant Dining Hall and at 8:30 p.m. in the Kappa Kappa Gamma house.
Dr. Edward Tyler, medical director of the Family Planning Clinics of Los Angeles, will speak on Tuesday at noon, in Hancock Auditorium. A film entitled “On Planning a Family” will be shown. It will be presented again at 7:30 p.m. in the Bimkrant Dining Hall and at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house.
Telescreen films on the methods of birth control will be shown in front of Tommy Trojan from 10 a.m. to noon and from 2 to 4 p.m. Discussion groups on birth control will be conducted at 8 p.m. in the dormitory lounges and in the Kappa Kappa Gamma house.
Scheduled to speak about abortion on the third day of the conference are Dr. Keith Russell and Dr. Gale Anderson.
The noon talk in Founders Hall 129 will be highlighted by the CBS film production, “Abortion and the Law,” which presents interviews from actual abortion cases. The film will be reshown again in Birn-krant and the Kappa Kappa Gamma house.
The final day of the conference will feature a talk on
childbirth by Anderson at noon in Founders Hall 129. Details of the discussion on the birth process will be dramatized in the film, “Story of Child Birth,” which shows a young couple’s experience with childbirth.
Reshowings of the film will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Bimkrant and at 8:30 at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house. The 8:30 p.m. showing will include “Childbirth, A Family Experience,” a 20-minute color-sound production designed for parent education.
“To combat the sound of silence of our day, we must speak,” Dr. Alvin S. Rudisill said yesterday during his formal installation as chaplain at USC.
Also participating in the ceremonies in the Student Activities Center were President Norman Topping and Dr. Carl Segerhammer, president of the Pacific Synod of the Lutheran Church in America.
In an interview with the Daily Trojan, Dr. Rudisill described the responsibilities of his position. He said that as the university chaplain he would:
—Be the university’s liason with all campus religious organizations.
—Teach in the School of Religion.
—^Establish times and places for prayer other than the traditional Sunday services in the University Chapel.
—Relate to the neighborhood churches on behalf of the university.
—Be an observer and a reflector of and a listener to campus life.
Dr. Rudisill said that the role of religion is relevant to the revolutionary movement of today’s youth. “Students are very interested in this and very open to it,” he said.
“We see a religious meaning in the movement of today’s youth and in their value systems,” he said.
“He described those value systems as being similar to systems which have been institutionalized in the past.
“The goal of the revolutionary movement is quite apt to be a synthesis of Platonic, Judeo-Christian and secular Marxist value structures,” he said. Plato’s Good as interpreted by philosophers, the Judeo-Christian God as interpreted by the religious institution, and the Common Good as interpreted by a Marxist elite would be blended.
In his speech during the installation ceremonies, Dr. Rudisill asserted that the role of the USC chaplain is more complex than it has been in the past. “His role has been subject to the same revolutionary changes sweeping our society. At the very least, we can expect new dimensions from an ancient function.”
Dr. Rudisill attributed much of the change in the chaplain’s role to President Topping. “Ten
years ago, the master plan and the Topping years of the sixties were just beginning. Names like King, Kennedy and Ho Chi Minh meant little.” Turning to the new role of the chaplain, Dr. Rudisill said, “The chaplain . . . will be an interpreter and advocate of the Judeo-Christian tradition, demolishing stereotypes, focusing genuine rebellion, channeling sincere search and seeking always to relate truth to contemporary questions.
“Most significantly, the chaplain will exploit the luxury of being able to be an observer of campus life, a reader of the varied kinds of graffiti of our time.
“Perhaps before we can speak or hear or do we must first read what the prophets have written on subway walls and tenement halls.”
Dr. Rudisill has been functioning as university chaplain since Sept. 1, 1969. The installation ceremonies marked the official recognition of his appointment to the post.
DR. ALVIN RUDISILL
Mind Liberation Festival starts tomorrow
By ED MARTIN
Disagreements separate most groups, but in a few cases opposites attract, bringing opposing factions together in a common effort for the betterment of each.
The libertarian movement professes to be one such group. They will explore their ideology tomorrow and on Sunday at USC in their Left-Right Festival of Mind Liberation.
USC students may attend free, but they must register either in front of Tommy Trojan today or at the door tomorrow, said Don Franzen of the Action Coalition for Freedom, cosponsor of the conference.
Although they would like to eliminate the label attributed to their opposing factions, libertarians consist of leftists who hav« belonged to the Students for a Democratic Society and watched its antiauthoritarianism replaced by a dogmatic Marxism, and rightists, many of whom broke off from the Young Americans for Freedom.
“Understandably, we are divided on many questions,” he said.
“But one objective of this weekend’s festival is unification—mending those ideological rips which divide the polarized activists. Our common bond lies in anarchy and individual freedom.”
The major disagreement between the factions is not over-decentralization of
government or in the rights of an individual to do as he pleases as long as he respects the rights of others to do the same. In these areas they agree. Division comes over economics and poverty rights, Franzen said.
“The rightists believe in total free enterprise, and that freedom does not exist without it. Libertarian leftists advocate per-
For a complete listing of the conference's tentative agenda fci Saturday and Sunday, turn to page 2.
sonal moral freedom in which business has no place,” Franzen said. “But if business must exist, leftists would prefer socialism over capitalism,” he said.
A recent press release from the California Libertarian Alliance, also cosponsor of the conference, states, “The purpose of the conference is to unite libertarians and anarchists who have been active in the right wing and the new left, to find a means by which they can work together, without misunderstanding or antagonism.
“We will be holding the conference to suggest that the old political divisions between liberalism and conservatism, or between Left and Right, are no longer meaningful. They are merely disagreements over
how political power will be used by government against people.
“We think that the most important political division is between those who want to use power, and those who want to have freedom. Those who favor freedom, and prove it by their actions, are libertarians; those who oppose freedom, for any reason, are authoritarians.”
Although no formalized doctrine, standardized beliefs, appointed or elected official spokesman for libertarians exist, some advocates are more outspoken than others. Three of the better known will speak at the festival.
Carl Oglesby, one of the original founders of the Students for a Democratic Society and past president of that group, will speak Saturday at 11 a.m.
Karl Hess, head speech writer for Sen. Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign, will discuss “The Death of Politics,” the topic of one of his most recent Playboy Magazine articles.
Phillip Abbott Luce, the National College Director for the Young Americans for Freedom, speaks on Sunday at 5:15 p.m., relating the history of the movement.
The convention is open to USC students for free. Advance ticket prices are $1.50 for high school students, $2.50 for college students, and $5 for all others. Tickets are Si extra at the door.