University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. 23	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA	FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1970
REP. JOHN V. TUNNEY	Photo by Greg Ash U.S. Senate candidate addressed campus gathering
Complaint to be filed against scholarship fund
A complaint will be filed against the ASSC Executive Council s decision to change the name of the Norman Topping Scholarship Fund to a student aid fund on Monday.
In the test case for the ASSC Student Court, a member of the fund’s governing board will challenge the legality of the Executive Council’s action of Oct. 13, Ron McDuffie, interim director of the fund. said.
The court action is intended only to clarify the original aim of the program, which McDuffie said was to provide grants, loans and scholarships to low-income students and not to change its scope.
The governing board member has said that the council's action changed the intent of the program, which as a scholarship fund under university rules could provide money only for students with a minimum 3.0 grade point average.
McDuffie said the ASSC will try to prove that when students voted last spring to levy a $4 per semester fee for the fund, they intended to vote for a student aid fund as well as a scholarship fund.
If the council s position is upheld by the court. McDuffie said that the fund s governing board could then move to establish program criteria and set up open hearings.
1,000 hear Tunney
By ED MARTIN
The crowd shuffled out of Hancock Auditorium, muttering and laughing as they went, “another bomb scare.” It was the fourth scare of the day.
But this was not just another bomb scare. This time it threatened the life of the man a large number of people consider to be California’s answer to better government.
That man is Congressman John V. Tunney, Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. Senate.
He had been scheduled to deliver a campaign speech in the auditorium at 2 p.m., but because of the threat, the crowd was asked to move to the steps on the west side of the Von KleinSmid Center, the sight of yesterday’s trustee convocation.
Standing on the grass, dodging the playing dogs, sitting on the steps and among the bicycles propped up in the stands, the audience waited to listen and to question.
“There he is,’’ someone on the side said. And there he was, looking tired and dragged out from a long day of campaigning. He looked nothing like a man ready to do battle with the approximately 1,000 university students who had gathered to hear him speak.
Tunney smiled, revealing his pearly white teeth, and walked to the microphone. Simultaneously, as he began to talk, two dogs in the back, as if on cue from his first word, began to fight, and if any tension existed between speaker and audience, it melted in the laughter of the crowd when he said, “George Murphy will go to any lengths and any place to get at me.”
Feeling that the crowd was for the most part on his side, Tunney got down to the business at hand-, He was no longer the tired man who had just walked up to speak another time in a long line of speeches for the day.
Calling upon students to support their system, their laws and their country, Tunney said, “Perhaps our institutions have not been as responsive as they could be, but ours are the best that exist.
“If we work outside of those institutions, we play into the hands of some who would de-
stroy our system. Playing into those hands could create a society similar to World War II Germany. People will stand violence only so long.”
Expanding on his theme of law and order, Tunney spoke emotionally of the Soquel murders in which an eye surgeon and his family were shot and thrown into their swimming pool.
“There are good, older and more conservative people than you who would have the police take over the town because of what has happened. Because of these violent murders these citizens would have more violence committed to correct the first.”
Tunney stated during a question and answer period that he believed students could stop
campus violence if they accepted the system in which they live.
“Student bodies are their own best source of intelligence. When violence is in the offing, they know it and should bring the matter to the attention of the authorities.”
Tunney's comments concerning student rights to engage in political activities on campus won him a long round of applause. He stated simply, that students are citizens and as such are protected by the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution.
The question-and-a n s w e r period was cut short by an aide and Tunney was hurried off, surrounded by his security and aides. He refused to answer any more questions or to talk to anyone except his associates.
Amendment votes declared invalid
The Student Court has announced that in the ASSC election for freshman representative, six graduate representatives and AMS president, all results have been declared valid. Approximately 600 ballots were cast.
However, the three proposed amendments to the ASSC constitution did not gain approval. On the basis of insufficient coverage, the vote on the three amendments was declared invalid. The ruling of the court read:
“Due to total lack of public notice, concerning the exact changes resulting from proposed amendments to the ASSC constitution, the Student Court hereby directs the elections commissioner to include said proposed amendments in the subsequent run-off election. This decision is made with the stipulation that public notice be clearly given as to the exact changes of such amendments. Therefore, election results on the amendments for this election have been declared invalid by this court.”
In the run-off election set for Wednesday, Colin Kurata will face John McGuinness in the race for AMS president, while James Lacy and Donald Ramsey will vie for the freshman representative post.
The first of the three amendments requested that the constitution, Article III, Section I be amended to include an international student as an elected representative of the Association. The second proposal, also an amendment to Article III Section I, read: “The International Student Representative shall represent the Foreign Students to the Executive Council.”
Had article IV, Section I. been approved, the amendment would include: “The International Student Representative sha\l be a foreign student who will have completed at least two academic semesters at the university by the end of the semester for which he is elected. Qualifications for being a foreign student representative shall be in accordance with the procedure established by the university’s Office for International Students and Scholars."
Dan Levinson, chief justice of the student court, said the student court is required to meet 48 hours after the closing of the polls to validate the election before the election results can be announced.
Justices who served on Wednesday's court were Mike Yagjian, Lyle Morris, Steve Harris, and Levinson.
The court has seven regular members and three alternatives. It must have a quorum of four members present to conduct its business.
Weekend agenda offers movies, plays, dance
No one can say that USC doesn't provide enough weekend culture and entertainment for its students.
Not only can one see three different movies and two stimulating plays on campus in the next few days, but in addition a dance will be held in the Grill tonight at 8 p.m.
Music will be provided by Paper Rain, a group of four boys and a girl who entertained at a noon concert during Orientation Week. Paper Rain will perform from 8 p.m. to midnight. Tickets are 50 cents at the door.
Ken Foster, head of ASSC entertainment. said that if the turnout is successful, other concerts in the Grill will follow.
Theater-goers will have a chance to see Edward Albee's famed shouting match in “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in Stop Gap Saturday night at 8.
John Ashton portrays George, the heckled husband who resorts to malicious mental games to squelch his wife, Martha's nagging.
Martha. George's bitchy wife with the spark of death, is performed by Trilby Conreid.
The roles of Nick and Honey, the unsuspecting young marrieds who come to visit during the wee hours of the morning. are portrayed by Richard Doughty and Susan LeBeau. The play is directed by Chuck Jones.
Tennessee Williams' “The Glass Menagerie," a story of a family who is more fragile than the crystal it keeps, will be presented Sunday in the Town and Gown Foyer at 8 p.m.
Amanda, the confused mother in Williams' “The Glass Menagerie." is portrayed by Kim Sudol. Her daughter, mentally scarred by a childhood illness
which left her crippled, is played by Laura Owens.
Jack Bender is Amanda's son Tom. a young man trying desperately to escape the grasp of his smothering family. The gentleman caller, who finds that he almost shatters the women in this household, is performed by David Perry. Kevin Fishburn directs the production.
Tickets for each play are $1.50 or $1 with a student activity book.
Both plays are being presented by the USC Experimental Workshop.
Delta Kappa Alpha. USC cinema fraternity, is sponsoring both “The Dirty Dozen" and “Lord Jim."
“The Dirty Dozen." Robert Aldrich's film depicting a group of convicts chosen for a possibly fatal war mission, stars Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine. Charles Bronson. Jim Brown. John Cassavetes
and Telly Savalas.
The film will be shown tonight and Saturday night in Founders Hall 133, at 7 p.m.
“Lord Jim," with Peter O'Toole. James Mason and Eli Wallich, is based on Joseph Conrad's novel of a young man's adventures. It will be shown Saturday in Founders Hall 133 at 7 and 9:15 p.m. Tickets for the DKA movies are $1 each at the door.
Anyone interested in chariot traffic jams during the Roman days should enjoy “Ben-Hur." sponsored by the Trojan Honor Guard. The film features Charlton Heston
The film will show in the Edison Auditorium in Hoffman Hail Friday and Saturday at 7 and 10 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Admission is $1.