University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
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VOL. LXil
NO. 42
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1970
Three-level parking structure proposed
DR. JULIAN NAVA
Photo by Donnie Wallace
Nava agrees with education critics
By MICHELE DRAKE
“Criticism of public education is justified because too much is being asked of schools today,” Dr. Julian Nava, Los Angeles Board of Education president, said yesterday.
Nava, speaking on “What Direction is Education Taking." called for new leadership in what he said was a field critically lacking it.
His noon appearance before 50 people at the Student Activities Center was sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness.
“Very few people are trying to redefine and shape education today,” Nava said. "So much money is being spent and so little is being done.”
One of the major difficulties Nava pointed out is the classification and evaluation of the mass of information available today. “Young people now are definitely better informed than any other youthful generation before but this information has been filtered by the television, newspaper and magazine media,” he said.
We are going through a revolutionary period in education today because we know more than man ever has known, he said.
Nava said he believes that a profound decline in many basic institutions relating to social and moral issues has placed a burden on public education
The church, the family and the neighborhood which were formerly strong disciplinary and authoritarian figures are no looger as important, he added.
“Public schools are now being asked to shape the characters
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By WILLIE WOODS Assistant Focus Editor
A 900-car, three-level parking structure exclusively for student use will be built on Lot D between the men’s and women’s dormitories, Elton D. Phillips, vice president for business affairs, announced yesterday.
The announcement came after the Finance and Budget Committee of the Board of Trustees approved financing of the $2.2-million structure out of parking fees. The planning committee of the Board has okayed the need for and the location of the building.
All cars will be parked under cover, said Phillips. One-half of the first level will be below ground, and ramps will lead to it as well as to the second and third levels.
Recreational facilities in the form of tennis courts, and space for volleyball, badminton and shuffleboard will be provided on the roof of the structure.
Preparations of precast concrete forms for the building will be started as soon as plans are drawn. Lot D will be closed during the summer to permit construction of the parking structure, which the university hopes to have completed by
Daily Trojan receives award
Last spring’s Daily Trojan received an All-American rating from the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP).
The ACP’s All-American rating signifies that the Daily Trojan is among the best in student publications.
The newspaper was cited for excellence in coverage and content, writing and editing, editorial leadership and photography.
“Readers of the Daily Trojan get a good picture of life at USC,” said the ACP’s report.
The ACP, based at the University of Minnesota, provides critical evaluation for more than 1,000 member colleges and universities.
September 1971.
Phillips added that the structure is a result of the trustees seeing the need for additional parking and not necessarily because of pressure from the university’s administration.
He said the recreational area will be on the roof of the structure and will not have any cover. Trees and other types of natural life will be planted on the roof so that the area doesn’t look so bare.
There is no definite date set for beginning the construction. However, Phillips said that whenever the work begins the lot will have to be closed to the students.
He said that if the vacant area west of the campus, which is property of the California Redevelopment Agency, is not in use when the work begins “we may be able to supplement our space while the construction is in progress.”
Birchers condemn visit by Froines
By RICH WISEMAN Assistant SoCal Editor
Rex Westerfeld, national public relations director of the John Birch Society, objected to the USC appearance of Chicago Seven defendent John Froines and any other paid appearances of “revo-lutionaires” and “Communists” on college campuses, in a press conference at the Beverly Hilton yesterday.
Westerfeld said the Birch Society does not oppose the right of Communists to speak on campus but is peeved that student fees and taxpayers’ dollars are used to fund them.
But once these people espouse revolution, he continued, they don’t belong on the campus at all.
Referring directly to a statement Froines made in his Wednesday appearance in which he advocated the shutdown of the government if the war isn’t ended by May, Westerfeld said, “This approach may have been all right before the Civil War but it isn’t now.
“Violence is the very thing we re objecting to. I don't believe in any group stopping the government. Take the principles of Democratic action and solve it that way. Changes won’t come overnight but they will come.”
Westerfeld revealed a suppressed report compiled by the House Committee on Internal Security on the honoraria given guest speakers at colleges and universities. The report had been enjoined from printing by District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell in an October ruling.
Westerfeld branded Gesell’s decision as an infringement of freedom of the press and called for his impeachment. He pledged that the Birch Society would report the findings to the American public.
“It is evident that the Committee on Internal Security has found one method by which the revolutionaries and Communists obtain their financing for the revolution,” he said. “It is to expose this source of financing which would lead to appropriate legislation that the committee wanted to publish its report.”
Among speakers with honorarias listed are Angela Davis. Jerry Rubin and Benjamin Spock, all of whom have spoken at USC earning a collective $5,000. Froines received $600 for his talk.
Gesell said he based his decision on the contention that publication of the report will tend to inhibit free speech. Westerfeld said no one but the Communist conspiracy will gain by it.
“J. Edgar Hoover observed, ‘Communism can exist only where it is protected and hidden,’ ” Westerfeld began. “ The spotlight of public exposure is the most effective means we have to use in destroying the Communist conspiracy.’ ”
Gitelsonasks student support of judiciary
By PETER WONG
If students could teach others about the need for an independent judiciary to uphold the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, it would be a great step forward for society, Superior Court Judge Alfred Gitelson said yesterday.
The judge, who was defeated for re-election Nov. 3 by attorney William Kennedy, spoke to some 150 students in the new Law Center. His appearance, sponsored by the Student Bar Association, was the first under the “Advocates' Forum.”
Gitelson, a 1927 graduate of the USC Law School, said he was not bitter about his defeat by Kennedy which has been attributed to his decision last February to order integration in the Los Angeles City School District.
“All the people who voted against me were not racists. But a climate of fear exists. I have regret, not for myself. but for the people who did not
understand the issues," he said.
People were shocked at the supposed costs of integration through busing of students, the 13-year judge pointed out. “Public officials claimed that it would take $40 million to implement my decision and $20 million a year afterwards in order to comply. They had no basis
Others perhaps rationalized against the decision, and only education can solve the problem of human acceptance, he said.
The judge said he did not know in advance that Joseph J. Wapner, presiding judge of the Superior Court, had planned to bar Kennedy from ever hearing integration cases because of his statements in the campaign.
“But no lawyer could allow such a judge to handle these cases, since he (Kennedy) had already expressed opinions on these matters. In fact, he might even now lean over backwards just to prove that he’s not bigoted," Gitelson
noted.
He responded to a student suggestion that he should have taken the opportunity in the campaign to educate the public on judicial responsibility. “Who can you kid?,” he said. “If you campaign. sooner or later you’ll be indebted to certain groups for favors in return for their support.”
Gitelson said if judges listen to the ever-changing will of the public and interpret the Constitution by opinion poll, “there can be no justice, and we’ll go back to guns as a means of settling disputes."
Gitelson termed recall of judges as a horrendous weapon of intimidation, evidenced by the case of a state assemblyman campaigning for the recall of two judges because they had overruled the decision of the UC Board of Regents to fire former UCLA philosophy professor Angela Davis.
"The bar association must take re-
sponsibility in keeping politics out of the judicial system,” the judge said. He suggested that the bar have veto power over nominees for court positions instead of holding a popular referendum.
But he opposed the idea of having the state’s chief justice nominate judges instead of the governor. “Then the politics are just transferred to him." he said.
Only in the past 25 years has the law strengthened the rights of human beings over those of property, he said.
"But even 16 years after the 1954 US Supreme Court decision terming segregation in schools unequal, people are reluctant to grant rights to others, regardless of their race, creed, color, social or economic factors." Gitelson said.
“Otherwise, we might face trouble in the future, when nearly half the nation will belong to minority groups. What if they aren't educated then‘> "