More words end bitter Senate race
ByGEORGE SKELTON
(UPI)—California's bitter Senate race ended Monday with angry accusations about the rock-throwing protest during President Nixon s campaign visit for Sen. George Murphy.
Murphy said the violence made it clear the issue between him and Rep. John V. Tunney was “anarchy or law and order."
Tunney, leading in the latest poll, accused Murphy of “political terrorism" for exploiting the riot.
Gov. Ronald Reagan's underdog opponent. meanwhile, attacked the Nixon-Reagan “miracle makers" who can pro-
duce “a war. inflation, depression and unemployment at the same time."
Seemingly running as hard against Nixon as Reagan. Democratic Assemblyman Jess Unruh charged “if we re not careful, with another two years of Richard Nixon and another four years of Ronald Reagan we ll have to rename this state ‘Appalachia West.' ” All major California candidates chartered airliners to fly around the state and urge friendly voters to turn out at the polls today.
The secretary of state estimated 6.8 million voters—78 per cent of those registered—would cast ballots in an election
that political leaders privately conceded has been marked by public apathy.
Polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at
8	p.m. statewide.
Plainclothed National Guardsmen were ordered by Reagan to protect candidates. It was in California two years ago during an election night victory celebration that Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Murphy took out a full page ad in several newspapers to tell voters:
“The riot last Thursday night at the Murphy rally in San Jose which threatened the lives of President Nixon, Gov. Reagan and Sen. Murphy ought to
make it clear that the decision you will make tomorrow will be between anarchy or lav/ and order.
“Sen. George Murphy has supported every law and order bill. Rep. John Tunney has not. It’s that simple."
Tunney, 36, the handsome son of former heavyweight champion Gene Tunney, angrily replied that the ad “makes it appear that a vote for me is a vote for anarchy.
“Now George Murphy, by such political terrorism, has forfeited his right to serve in the U.S. Senate.”
The congressman accused his 68-year-old opponent of “cynically trying to ignite the flames of fear.”
University of Southern California
VOL. LXII NO. 30
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1970
Charges brought against McDuffie in BSU letter
By CLARENCE BROWN
In an open letter submitted by the Black Students' Union yesterday, the BSU made various charges against Ron McDuffie, interim director of the Norman H. Topping Scholarship Program for Low Income Students.
For the past semester, this controversial topic within the BSU has become one of the most pertinent issues on campus.
The governing board of the scholarship program, appointed by the ASSC. yielded administration policies without the consent of the student body.
It was reported that the administration set the standard of eligibility as being a 3.0 grade point average, which eliminated many deserving students according to the BSU. The board did nothing to solve this problem they said.
Four members. Alfonso Baez, Henry Blackburn, Angel Perea and Carolyn Roper, felt that the jurisdictional power of the board had been threatened and successfully taken by the ad-
ministration. Consequently, the four members resigned from the board.
For a short time, this program caused divisions within the BSU as the administration reportedly attempted to play Black Students against Black Students. They insisted, through McDuffie, that the board vacancies be filled, and they were.
In the letter concerning this issue, the BSU said,
“Two so-called ‘black’ students, John Aaron and Joe Porter, ignored the BSU policy and acted individually as representatives of the Black Students in filling the vacancies.
“The Black Students' Union makes it cle?.r that these two individuals do not and have never represented the feelings of the Black Students on this campus and do not represent the goals and aspirations of Black Students on the board.
“We reiterate that the administration is using Ron McDuffie. Joe Porter, and John
Dad will win, says Jess Unruh’s son
By CHERYL MILLER
A smiling skeleton was still hanging on the door and paper pumpkins were decorating the entrance way, but a more permanent art object and perhaps a more seasonal one was placed on the mantel, a portrait of the house's owner, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jess Unruh.
Bob Unruh. a USC freshman engineering major, considers politics just a hobby, even though his father has been a participant ever since he can remember.
“I really haven't been involved very much with the campaign since school has started,” Unruh said during a Sunday interview at his Inglewood home. “During the summer I worked from eight to 14 hours a day in the voter registration drive in the San Fernando Valley."
Unruh believes that his father will win the election against Republican incumbent Ronald Reagan, even though he didn't always believe so.
“I had my doubts in the beginning," he said. “The Field Poll, not the most extensive and accurate, said that he was 20 percentage points behind. We believed Norton Simon’s poll more because it was better financed It said that dad was seven to eight points behind."
Father and son have a “fairly close relationship." according to the younger Unruh. “The only thing we disagree about politically is John Tunney.”
“If I could vote. I'd probably vote for George Murphy because I don't think Tunney could last through another term.”
Orange County and other counties usually considered strongholds of conservatism and Reagan, will not be as solidly Republican in today’s election, Unruh believes.
“Orange County has a very large percentage of unemployed and these people are just as discontent over Reagan's policies as anyone else. This area will surprise many," says Unruh.
Mrs. Unruh came walking through the living room and also commented on this question. “We were in Barstow yesterday and we received a great reception. I think we’ll carry it.’’
Aaron to make USC students and the black community believe that the program is meeting the needs of low income students.
“On another level, we question the right of the administration to dictate policy on money given by students to their own programs. We contend that it is the ASSC, through the governing board of the fund, not the administration that should control and dictate policies of the program with the consent of the ASSC. In plain and simple terms we believe in student control of student funds.”
The BSU also said that it felt when the program was passed by the student body, the university had finally decided to make a sincere effort to change what it considered to be USC's innate “racist attitudes.”
The letter continued, “We now feel differently. We believe that it has been the administration's plan all along to destroy the effectiveness of the program. They have successfully made it impossible for students who need the most help and have the poorest chance of getting it from receiving any type of financial assistance.”
To alleviate this situation, the BSU letter made four recommendations to the student body, the ASSC and the administration. They are as follows:
“1. The removal of Ron McDuffie from the position of interim director of the program. We believe, because of past dealings with Ron McDuffie, that it will be impossible for him to relate to the students who are directly affected by the program. We also know that it will be entirely impossible for him to work in anyway with the Black, Brown, and Yellow students who have worked so diligently for the development of the program.
“2. That the $600 monthly salary McDuffie is being paid be placed in a pot with the other funds in order to enable the entrance of more low income students.
“3. That a student whose interests are not entirely monetary be made interim director until the program meets the objectives for which it was established. (Non-pay status)
“4. That the ASSC appoint a governing board that can deal effectively with the problems of low income students.”
Photo bv Linda Biber
ALUMNI AFTERMATH
Ignoring potential incidents, alumni went about their business
‘Zoo for a Day’ at homecoming
By LINDA BIBER City Editor
Brandishing their life style on swizzlesticks, the usual swarm of alumni, enough to fill 20-odd boxcars, showed up at homecoming Saturday, v
It was an incidentless day. Frustrated “concerned students” with their sophisticated trustee tracking equipment were not taken very seriously, since the majority of the crowd had a game-plaving orientation and had no use for thoughts on trustees, war, politics or strange business bedfellows.
Even the BSU’s “Free Angela” table was viewed with mild acceptance.
Instead it was a day for chicken picnicking, toting plastic cocktail glasses, and expecting to get the campus long-hairs to do a disappearing act. It was as though Alumni Park had won the title, “Zoo for a Day.”
The most exciting development was the strong attachment which the campus police showed toward the display on the trustees —forming a chevron around it with their arms crossed behind their backs for the duration of the festivities.
In retaliation, the students who had put it up stated a mock assault on a few of the police.
The traditional hour or so passed, separating the point at which the alums gave hostile looks to students who were scanning the goings-on with curiosity and the point at which they were approached by student photographers unabashed, wanting their picture taken regardless of what condition they were in.
One older alum, who identified himself as “that’s my business.'' gripped a copy of Friday's Daily Trojan and muttered: “Kids have too many gripes today.”
He called today’s students “too controversial,” and added. “They have too much free time.”
When asked how he would have reacted if something like the trustees' Policy Relating to Political Activity had been in effect when he was a student, he retorted:
“You're lucky that you're in a country where you have freedom
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