Auto strike to be discussed
Paul Schrade, Western regional director of the United Auto Workers, will discuss the Sept. 15 strike and its consequences to students and society in the Student Activities Center at noon Thursday.
Schrade was the first labor leader to support the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley and was active with the USC Vietnam Moratorium Committee. He is a former rank-and-file union member and was a four-term president of North American Aircraft Local 887.
Schrade, who was wounded during the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, will be accompanied by two rank-and-file members of the General Motors Workers Unity Committee.
The speech is being sponsored by the Student Worker Action Collective (SWAC), which was formed during the Cambodia and Teamster's strike last spring.
SWAC. which has chapters at UCLA and USC. publishes a labor newspaper, “Picket
Line.” Elaine Waxer, a USC member, said, “SWAC feels that problems of students and workers stem from the same basic causes.
“It is important to break down the myths that have arisen concerning students and workers. Government leaders have continuously fed false images of these groups to the media in an effort to dilute their impact.”
UAW workers have been on strike since September 15, in an effort to secure better working conditions and fringe benefits.
They are fighting for a “cost-of-living clause” in their contracts and a more adequate health insurance program.
“Because of inflation, wages of UAW workers have gone down 17 cents an hour since the last contract.” said Wendy Thompson. another SWAC member.
GM has been accused of carrying out President Nixon's anti-inflationary program by refusing to give wage increases in the belief that wages are inflationary.
The UAW believes inflation is not caused by wage increases. but by the war in Vietnam and by runaway price increases.
Besides showing interest in bringing workers and students together. Schrade has been active in forming community unions in Watts, Delano, and East Los Angeles.
Counselors advise some to give up deferments
The USC Selective Service Counseling Center is trying to bring to the attention of students a recent selective service memorandum, which will enable a good number of young men to escape the draft.
The director of Selective Service, Dr. Curtis Tarr. has issued local board memorandum 117. It allows any male student to give up his student deferment, provided he was in the first lottery drawing of December. 1969. and his lottery number is 196 or higher. explained Steve Mandell. one of the draft counselors.
Any selective service registrant who wishes to expose himself to the draft should write his local board immediately, stating he wishes to give up his student deferment and be reclassified I-A immediately. Mandell continued.
“He should receive his I-A before Dec. 31, 1970, in which case he enters the second priority selection group at 12:01 am., Jan. 1, 1971. His chances of being drafted thereafter, except in case of any national emergency or declaration of war. will be virtually nil.” said Mandell.
Students seeking more information on the memorandum or other draft questions can contact the Counseling Center at the Student Union. Room 312P. extension 6092.
University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. 31	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA	WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1970
Revision asked of council proposal
By PETER WONG
The proposal for a University Council will undergo specific revision by an ASSC committee after it recommended a flat rejection of the entire plan to the ASSC Executive Council yesterday.
Stan DiOrio. graduate representative and chairman of the committee, will work with the other four members in writing specific changes in the “Articles of Governance.” as the proposal is titled.
The committee's revisions will then go to the Executive Council and then to the ad hoc committee on university government, headed by Dean Paul Hadley of University College and Summer Session, in time for its next session Nov. 13.
At that meeting. Hadley's group will consider the ASSC-suggested revisions as well as those from the University Senate, representing the faculty, and the Council of Deans.
DiOrio replaced William Hesse, graduate representative, who resigned. Hesse will retain his committee membership, however.
Chuck Jones, ASSC vice-president for academic affairs who presided over the meeting in the absence of ASSC President Sam Hurst, asked students to read the document and express their opinions to their representative through the ASSC offices on the third floor of the Student Union.
(Key sections of the document will be presented in a separate article.)
The ASSC Executive Council will meet next Tuesday at 4 p.m. to consider the committee's work.
“The mechanism of this proposal must be made much more responsive to the needs of students," Hesse said, in explaining his chief objection.
He presented the majority report of the committee to the 11 council members, who could not act on the proposal for lack of a quorum to conduct business.
“The Committee feels the document as it is
presently written doesn't do enough,” Hesse said to the council. “It should be modified severely or rejected entirely.
“While the document is an attempt in the right direction, the progress is zero. What change is there if students on the proposed council can be outvoted two-to-one?”
The 15-member council of students, faculty, and deans would recommend policy on university activities.
Hesse also said the legal and financial power of the university would remain with the Board of Trustees and the administration.
“It is the recommendation of this committee that we flatly reject the Articles of Governance as presently written.” he concluded.
Other members of the committee were Steve Goldfisher. sophomore representative: Jim Lacy, freshman representative: and Tom Levyn, ASSC vice-president for programs.
DiOrio, the new chairman, said, “This proposal is a measure only halfway between a council with real control over the university ana minor adjustments in the university bureaucracy."
But Steve Foldes, one of the student members of the ad hoc committee appointed by former President Norman Topping last year, said, “I don't consider this document a defeat for students but a significant step for better government."
He pointed out the new council would be given the responsibility to set academic and financial priorities, which he said were now largely under administration control.
Hesse argued that student interests could be lost in the new system, for students would have to go through the council with their proposals instead of directly to the administration.
Some ASSC council members suggested the proposed University Council and university committees should represent student interests to a greater degree, rejecting the one-third division of students, faculty, and deans.
Photo bv Steve Bolinger
HINT OF A NEW WORLD GAME
Emblem signals the spread of a global plan to USC
World Game will be set up tonight
As the global gameboard is being pulled out from under the politicians and the powers that be while they attempt to solve world problems their way, World Game is being set up, piece by piece over the earth. Tonight an extension of the game will be laid out at
USC.
World Game is the evolved brainchild of R. Buckminster Fuller, the thinker-architect-writer-philosopher, who gained world recognition years ago as the inventor of the geodoesic dome.
The object of World Game is to take stock of all the world's resources and devise a distribution plan for those resources, paying attention to the needs of different segments of humanity rather than national boundaries and interests. The result would be an improvement of the standard of living of all of humanity.
Tonight's World Game meeting, at 7:30 in the Student Activities Center, will establish the World Game Extension Center of Southern California and review a prepared constitution, sort of a declaration of interdependence of humanity, technology and the earth:
“Whereas the paradigmatic crisis of Western man in the later half of the 20th century has brought him to a potentially fatal state that can be trajected as being divergent from his continued existence upon his planet, the World Game—by gaining access to and in the establishment of sophisticated technologies applied to the simulation of alternative future states—proposes specific paths by which energy resources might be allocated so as to reflect the intrinsic whle system responsiblity necessary for successful functioning in a global syntax ..."
Membership in this World Game extension will be limited to registered students, faculty, alumni and trustees of the university.
The major moves scheduled for World Game this year include cooperation with the Festival of the Arts in setting up a network of workshops during the “Earth Festival and Fuller s visit in February.