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LYING IN LIBERATION AT A DIFFERENT FESTIVAL
The freedom of an individual—to attract mud and glances
‘Festival of Liberation’ to call for free society
Those who lean left, right or anarchy-wards will join in a call for a free society this weekend at the “Festival of Liberation.”
The festival, sponsored by Rampart College, the California Libertarian Alliance and the Action Coalition for Freedom, is focused on changing society with the realization that there isn’t much freedom to be found at the end of bomb fuses.
Paul Goodman, famous social
critic and author, will be the featured speaker of the festival. His appearance on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. will be partially sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
Thomas Szasz, a controversial professor of psychiatry of the State University of New York at Syracuse will speak at 2:45 p.m. Saturday. Szasz has won notoriety and been dubbed the rebel psychiatrist for his contention that com-
mitting people to mental institutions is a crime against humanity. He said he considers liberty more valuable than mental health, no matter how it is defined.
Joel Fort, a physician and UC Berkeley professor who has crusaded against the A.M. A., the drug and sex police, the alcohol and tobacco industries and Congress, will speak Sunday at 3 p.m.
Other featured speakers at the festival will be Murray Rothbard, a New York professor who thinks that the government is conditioning people to believe that its actions are never violent and Robert Le-Vevre, the president of Rampart College and a prominent libertarian intellectual.
A further listing of the events of the liberation festival will appear in tomorrow’s Daily Trojan.
Free student tickets to the festival are available in Student Union, Room 303.
Selective service misinformation will be corrected tomorrow
The column on the selective service system which appeared in Tuesday's Daily Trojan contains some incorrect information, said Steve Mandell, a counselor at the USC Selective Service Counseling Center.
His clarification of the most recent rulings, which have particular importance to those students with II-S deferments and lottery numbers above 195, will appear in a column on the editorial page tomorrow.
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. IXII NO. 36	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA	THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1970
Funds OK’d for study of ASSC incorporation
By PETER WONG
The ASSC Executive Council voted Tuesday to allocate $500 for an investigation of a possible incorporation of tbe ASSC.
Sam Hurst, ASSC president, said the money may be used to hire an attorney who would examine the legal and financial problems of incorporation.
Hurst pointed out that if the ASSC decided sometime in the future to make itself a corporation separate from the university, the ASSC would be able to direct its own legal and financial matters free from university control.
As an example, an incorporated ASSC would be able to manage such student services as the bookstore and cafeterias for student profit, not for the university, he said Also, the income from interest on ASSC funds would go to students instead of to the university’s general fund.
However, Hurst said that he and the ASSC’s business manager, who will supervise the investigation, will seek free or low-cost advice on incorporation.
In response^to the suggestion that law school faculty be used in the investigation, Stan DiOrio, graduate representative, said the staff’s primary concern was teaching and members would not have time to do the necessary research.
The ASSC Executive Council also approved an increase of $480 for the production of “Tommy,” a rock opera written by “The Who,” which is tentatively set for staging in early February.
However, the council rejected two requests previously approved by the budget subcommittee—an extra $100 for a part-time secretary for the ASSC Student Court and $150 for the newly-formed International Education Association.
The council was informed that as of Oct. 31, the ASSC budget had $58,076 left from its total budget of $80,125.
Two resolutions on bomb scares were turned down by the council.
The first resolution, authored by John McGuinness, Associated Men’s Students president, and introduced by Jim Lacy, freshman representative, would have proposed the establishment of a monetary reward for anyone who gave authorities information on those calling in bomb threats. It was defeated, nine to seven.
Another resolution, authored by Dennis Penrose, Men’s Halls Association president, would have denounced “as completely intolerable the use of bomb scares, bombings or any other acts of violence on this campus. ”
It was tabled, nine to three.
Some council members felt the resolutions were not appropriate. “We aren’t having any real problems with
bombs and violence—it’s those who are calling in threats to evade tests who are the problem,” Bill Hesse, graduate representative, said.
Other members did not want to be labeled as pro-violence if they voted to reject the resolutions. DiOrio, chairman of the ASSC committee on the plan for a University Council, said his group had not yet completed work on suggestions for the Articles of Governance.
“It’s no surprise that we haven't finished,” he said. “After all, the ad hoc committee on university government has taken a year to put the present proposal together, and we've been asked to make major suggestions in only two weeks. ”
Hurst said the ad hoc committee, headed by Dean Paul Hadley of University College and Summer School, would wait until the ASSC committee had completed its work before it proceeded to work out a final document.
Public believes too much—Hersh
By RIVIAN TAYLOR Associate City Editor
The United States is, in an explicit sense, as brainwashed a nation as the Third Reich, Seymour M. Hersh, Pulitzer Prize winning author of “My Lai 4,” told a Great Issues Forum audience of about 100 people in Bovard Auditorium yesterday.
Hersh, whose coverage of the My Lai massacre was responsible for starting a government investigation of the incident, has also written on chemical-biological warfare and is currently researching prisoners of war. He said all three areas were closely related in that they show the tendency of the American public to believe anything the government says.
“Working on all three stories I can’t help to think that we are probably as thoroughly a brainwashed nation in a sense, not implicitly, but explicitly as the Third Reich,” said the 33-year-old muckraker. “We have a great capacity to believe things that aren’t true, to turn away from the truth.”	i
He told of the President Nixon’s pledge of a year ago to stop using biological warfare. Hersh said there has been no serious governmental attempt to get out of the biological warfare business.
“One year later nothing has happened, but everyone considers that issue pretty much dormant because the President said something,” Hersh said. “People want to believe Him and they get upset if you say he is not acting.”
Hersh said the double talk and double thinking on this issue shows a connection with the My Lai incident.
On March 16, 1968, a company of the American Army entered My Lai 4, a small hamlet in South Vietnam and systematically murdered its inhabitants. Hersh told the audience of how villagers were raped and then killed, how body parts were cut off and how heads were mounted on stakes.
“Although the most shocking part about the My Lai massacre was the atrocities committed by members of Charlie Company on that day, the American public has missed the most important point concerning the incident—responsible men in the Army and State Department knew about the mission, but they buried the incident,” he said.
Hersh said that on the day following the massacre, five officers met in a trailer near the headquarters of the task force to discuss the incident and the best way to handle it. “The best way to handle it, of course, was to bury it,” said Hersh.
After the incident, the South Vietnamese dug up 441 bodies, 112 of which were children who were two years old or younger, Hersh said. The South Vietnamese reported this fact to American authorities.
“But nobody saw fit to file the official report, to start an investigation and to look around for whom to court martial,” said Hersh. “It was an incredible conspiracy of silence on the part of the officers.
Hersh said My Lai was not an isolated incident because in 1967-68 the Army was engaged in a policy of genocide. “All the officers wanted was to make a go of it—to make a good body count.”
Hersh credited a young man who wrote a letter to his congressman 13 months later for getting the machinery going. “I wrote my first story in November 1969 and it took the government !0 days to say it was going to investigate.
“There is something really wrong with us. Where it is and what’s going on—I don’t know. But its bad. That much savagery, that much information about it.
“The real villains were the guys who knew about it and looked the other way. No one wanted to put his career on the line. We’re all manikins,” he said.
After his speech Hersh expressed concern over the small turnout at Bovard until the dynamics of USC involvement in current issues was explained to him. He then said to some journalism students, “You’ve got a lot of work to do here.”