UPCOMING PLAY AT STOP GAP
Students rehearse scene from “Ballad of Sad Cafe'
University of Southern California
DAILY © TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. 18
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1970
ENTERTAINMENT OFFERED
BSU to back Davis’ cause
USC's chapter of the Black Students Union has joined the fight to free Angela Davis. Tommy Brown, chairman of information for the BSU, has announced. A wide-variety of activities are planned for the campus in support of Miss Davis in the near future.
The announcement came after Wednesday's rally at UCLA, in which 475 students gathered in Meyerhoff Park and raised $470. At the time. Miss Davis' bail was set at $250,000. Bail has now been rescinded.
When asked for his immediate response to the Angela Davis case. Brown replied, “Ronald Re?gan and his kind have been out to get Angela for a long time. She's bucking his system, where some people work eight hours a day so that others can sit around their country clubs all day.”
USC's BSU chapter has been in close contact with the UCLA chapter and other chapters across the state in an effort to generate widespread unity for Miss Davis' cause. The USC Black Students Union expects to send delegates to the Davis trial in San Marin County.
Plans for campus activities are still being formulated. The BSU hopes to have a booth set up on campus beginning next week. It will seek to present Angela Davis’ side of the case and answer charges which have been brought against her.
Brown indicated that he felt the media in general has not given the case fair and unbiased coverage and that an activity such as this would defend Miss Davis, while arousing student support.
BSU plans also include an on-campus debate with the Young Americans for Freedom concerning the controversial case. Brown said he urges students to free Angela Davis and all political prisoners in the “Fourth Reich.“
Schools to halt prior to election
Movies, plays scheduled
A variety of movies and plays will be presented on campus this weekend.
On Friday night. Delta Kappa Alpha, cinema fraternity, will be presenting “The Flim Flam Man," starring George C. Scott. Michael Sarrazin, Sue Lyon and Harry Morgan. It will be shown in Founder's Hall 133 at 7 and 9:30p.m. Admission is$1.
Friday and Saturday evenings Trojan Honor Guard will be showing “West Side Story at 7 and 10 p.m. in the Edison Auditorium of Hoffman Hall. This feature, including a Road-runner cartoon, will also cost $1.
A third movie. “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?", starring Betty Davis and Joan Crawford, will be shown by the DKA on Sunday. This feature
Hubbard to offer views
A President’s Convocation for all students will be held in Bovard Auditorium at noon on Tuesday. Dr. John R. Hubbard will outline his views on higher education, explain changes in USC’s administration and answer questions from the audience.
will be shown at 7 and 9:15 in Founder's Hall 133 for $1.
Also on Sunday, USC's Experimental Workshop will be presenting “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," adapted for the stage by Edward Albee from a novel by Carson McCullers. It will be shown at the Stop Gap Theater at 8 p.m.
At that same time the ASSC-USC Inter-Arts Council will present “Garden Theater, Ltd.," a theatrical experience a la 1890. It will be presented without charge at the Carriage House Garden, 2625 Portland St., just north of 28th Street.
The Princeton University-based Movement for a New Congress has announced that classes at that institution and at several other schools will be suspended for one or two weeks prior to the November election.
Other schools which have committed themselves to the so-called Princeton Plan include College of Wooster, Cornell.
Columns due Monday
All candidates for ASSC office may submit a 10-15 line, typed statement of views to the Daily Trojan by Monday at 1 p.m. The Daily Trojan is located on the fourth floor of the Student Union. No platforms will be accepted after 1 p.m.
City University of New York. Lowell State, Lutheran School of Theology. Macalaster. Mundelein. M.I.T., Oberlin. and Rutgers.
Some universities and colleges have announced their outright rejection of the Princeton Plan. They are Harvard. Yale, Columbia. Notre Dame. Johns Hopkins, Georgetown. University of Virginia. American University and University of Maryland.
The movement claims that 24 of the 30 congressional candidates it has supported were victorious in their respective primaries. mostly in the New England area.
The movement contends those candidates have a chance to win their November contests, but further support from students will make or break it for some of them.
Senate has innovative potential — Caldwell
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH
The USC Student Senate held its first meeting last May 21. but it s doubtful whether many people were aware of it.
The campus was still reeling under the staggering effects of the “Days of Concern" that had closed down the university two weeks earlier.
But 50 students, elected senators just before the strike by other students in their departments of study, met to approve a constitution and a set of bylaws for the Senate and thereby established what they hoped would become a model for other universities to follow in the area of student governance.
Proving that students are responsible and making this model work are the goals the USC Student Senate will strive for during the coming academic year, according to Craig Caldwell, newly elected president of the Senate.
In a Daily Trojan interview, Caldwell voiced his optimism about reaching this goal and also attempted to straighten out some misconceptions that have arisen about the Senate s purpose.
“The Student Senate is solely an academic body, not a political or legislative organ." Caldwell explained. “It is intended to serve as an addition to the existing student government framework on this campus. Its purpose is to augment that framework, not to conflict with it. In no way is the Senate involved with the ASSC structure."
Caldwell believes the Student Senate
will pave the way for a new era in stu-dent-faculty relationships at USC and, ultimately, for the nation's colleges. “With its academic orientation, the Senate has the potential to provide us with the opportunity to take a giant leap forward in education." he said. “If we are successful here. USC can lead the way for other universities to establish similar close student-facuity relationships."
The actual formation of the Senate last spring was the result of a year's work by the Student Council on University Governance, an ad hoc committee to the ASSC chaired by Ron Prince.
“The council felt that new systems would have to be developed at the department level in order for students to fully perform their role in the academic organization of the university," Caldwell said
“The result of their discussions was the concept of a student senate based on the voluntary association of the departments and schools of the university."
Caldwell said that getting this voluntary association formed and functioning is a two-step process. "Our first step is to organize student cabinets within approximately 60 schools and departments of the university." he added
“Two weeks after the cabinets are formed.they will hold elections for senator. The senators elected last spring represented only about 40 departments and will serve an abbreviated term unless thev are reelected. Under ordinarv
procedures, senators will serve for one year, from November to November."
When the new Senate convenes, it will discuss how to operate the second step in establishing closer student-faculty ties by setting up department councils.
“There have been no formal areas of communication between students and faculty before and no formal structure for the development of academic policy at the department level," Caldwell explained.
“Under the system of department councils, students and faculty will be able to meet on equal terms to discuss mutual problems.
“Not only will the councils establish channels of communication within each department, but also the student cabinets will link each department through the Senate." he continued. “The resulting ability of the students to serve their constituencies will approach levels of effectiveness previously unknown among student governments at most universities."
Caldwell pointed out that several schools, such as business, international relations, pharmacy, engineering, dentistry and education, already have student cabinets, while other schools and departments, such as astronomy. Asian studies and journalism, already have department councils where students and faculty meet on an equal basis
Caldwell expects some department councils to be strong and others to run
into opposition from department chairmen who don't want to work with students on an equal basis. One of the Senate's first actions this year will be to submit a resolution to the Faculty Senate calling for student-faculty equality in academic policy matters.
Caldwell said indications are that the resolution will be passed and said he hopes department councils will be set up by February. “The Senate will meet a minimum of once a month throughout the year so the representatives can find out what's happening in other areas of the university and discuss academic improvement in general. " Caldwell said.
Caldwell was elected by the Senate's executive committee composed of Ron Prince, who stepped down as president to concentrate on graduate work: Bob Kaufman, vice-president: Jim Hodge, secretary; and four members at large.
“Caldwell was selected because of his involvement in the academics, through his work on the Dean s Advisory Board in the School of Business. Prince said.
Senate representation will be based on the number of students in each department. Each one will b^ able to elect one senator for every 100 undergraduates and one for every 100 graduate students. Departments with less than 100 students will combine to elect one representative for every 100 undergraduates and every 100 graduate stu dents :n the schools