University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. 12
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1970
Trustees will meet with students - - Dart
Photo b\ Tom Komm v
MUSIC ON STEPS OF BOVARD
Telemann Trio plays Renaissance works
FOCUS ON USC
BSU expands programs to reach the ‘new black’
By WILLIE WOODS Assistant city editor
There is a new type of black student on the USC campus this semester, said Henry Blackburn. the newly-elected chairman of the Black Students Union.
He said that the type of student he is referring to is the type whose only obligations are to himself, his community and black people in general.
Blackburn also said that there will be a reorganization of the BSU this semester. He pointed out that the change will be made in order to provide the BSIT with more effective means of dealing with the black problems on this campus and in the neighboring community.
Joe Connor, newly-appointed vice-chairman of Campus Affairs, said that the BSU will be expanding its programs so that it reaches more black students and gives them a chance to get involved in the community and work for the advancement of the BSU.
The organization will be spending more time working on campus than in the community said Connor. He feels that more time should be spent on campus to develop the expertise of individuals so that when they face the community they will be able to deal with problems efficiently.
The BSU is seeking black students with skills that might be useful in community activities. “Whatever the skill of a black on this campus, there is a place for him in the BSU," said Connor.
He stressed that it is very important that all the black students participate in the BSU and the programs it is supporting. Connor said that one program of vital importance is the tutorial program.
Anyone interested in working with the BSU may inquire at 835 W. 34th St., Room 105. the headquarters for the BSIT-MECHA Tutorial Project. The BSU meets every Friday at noon in the Student Activities Center.
The ASSC received a commitment from the Board of Trustees yesterday for a meeting with students sometime next week. At the same time, the possibility of the trustees attending the planned convocation in Bovard Auditorium today wafs virtually killed.
Justin Dart, chairman of the board, said trustees were warv of entering into the convocation without a format because of the possibility of becoming the objects of “harangues.” He added trustees would be willing to meet with students after a format is arranged.
Dart is scheduled to meet with President John Hubbard. ASSC President Sam Hurst, ASSC Vice Presidents Chuck Jones and Tom Levyn. and other trustees for lunch today to arrange such a meeting.
Stan DiOrio. head of the Caucus of Concerned Students, which arranged the convocation, said it would go on as scheduled, with or without the trustees.
“Format wasn't a problem before now. he said. “It seems the trustees are interested in structuring the format to their own best interests. All we want them to do is come and talk.
“We will be waiting for them to come,and we hope for a large turnout of students."
The convocation is scheduled for noon in Bovard.
Dart issued his statements during a meeting yesterday with Hubbard and the Campus Advisory Committee, a group of faculty, deans and ASSC officers formed to advise Hubbard on university policies.
The committee yesterday was made up of Dr. James McBath and Dr. Arnold Dunn of the University Senate, Dean Dorothy Nelson, Dean Paul Hadley and Dean Charles Mayo of the Dean's Council, Jones and Levyn of the ASSC and DiOrio. who represented ASSC president Sam Hurst, who was ill.
Levyn and Jones were pleased with the outcome of the meet-
ing.
“We jeel the best way to deal with the trustees is honestly," Levyn said. “W7e have a commitment that we find perfectly equitable. We don't want to force any issue today. That is not concurrent with our goals."
Hubbard was even more enthusiastic:
“If we work this out correctly, I believe we have begun a new era in trustee-student relationships."
The Board of Trustees will hold a meeting on campus today at 10 a.m. Immediately after the meeting, Dart, Hubbard and the ASSC officers will meet to plan the format of the student-
trustee meetings.
Hubbard said the reason the trustees did not respond to the invitation of the Caucus of Concerned Students to attend the convocation was that the Caucus was an unrecognized student group.
“In the course of the discussion.' he said, “the consensus was that greater communication was highly desirable. So desirable, in fact, that we thought it ought to be in a context likely to produce a fruitful exchange of ideas. WTe did not believe the time suggested by the caucus permitted proper planning and so it was agreed that we try for a later meeting.”
Poor attendance halts concerts
Ken Foster, Entertainment Committee Chairman, told the ASSC Executive Council yesterday that because of poor student response, there would be no more concerts in Bovard Auditorium this semester.
“Our expenditures for the first month of school have been about $7,230 — roughly one-third of our total budget.” said Foster. “We lost $2,000 on the Charles Lloyd-Albert Collins concert. Only about 200 students showed up — the other 350 people there were from the community and other schools.” Foster said the Lloyd Collins concert had been heavily promoted on radio and in the press. “We negated the idea that bad promotion was the cause of nobody showing up — the students just aren't interested.”
At this point. Dennis Penrose, MHA President, blamed lack of attendance on the committee's selection of less prominent bands. In the long discussion that followed, council members criticized USC's lack of facilities, entertainment committee funds, and well-known entertainment.
“It s the students who are getting screwed by not showing up because it's their activity fee we re using." said Foster.
Foster said the success of the upcoming Oct. 30 Dave Von Rouk concert would determine whether more evening programs would be scheduled in the Grill. Foster said that the free weekly afternoon concerts would be continued.
Discussion at the Executive Council's weekly meeting centered on budgetary business and distribution of funds. In other action, the Council set a precedent tby voting 9-2 in favor of sending an ASSC representative to observe selection of participants to Project Fasten. Project Fasten an all-university conference to be held in Malibu. will be attended by about 100 students and faculty, selected by a committee.
Because a select group has attended the conference in previous years, the council voted to allott $1000 to the project on the condition that an executive council member be allowed to observe the committee's selection of participants.
Stabbing victim identifies possible suspects
By LAURINDA KEYS
The Los Angeles Police Department has a possible suspect in Monday s stabbing of a Doheny Library employe. Det. Sgt. G.W Kellenberger said yesterday that the employe. Mrs. Maria Velasquez, looking through old USC yearbooks, had given him two possible suspects.
He said one of the suspects is too short to fit the description but the other one is being checked. The second suspect has a previous arrest record and his police picture will be circulated to the other witnesses for confirmation.
Kellenberger said that fingerprints found on a library doorknob will be good enough to enable identif ication.
Kellenberger described Mrs. Velasquez as “sore, but in fine shape for what she's been through ”
The sergeant seemed almost certain that the attacker was a student since he would need a library card to enter stacks, where he attacked Mrs. Velasquez.
The suspect ran from the library into the Graduate School of Business. “He evidently knew where he was going because he could go right out through ihe front and be near Exposition Boulevard. ' Kellenberger said
When police arrived on campus after the incident, they went through classrooms in the business building looking for someone who fit the witness' descriptions — tall, brown hair parted on the side, fair complexion, possible scratches on the face
One student was taken from a classroom and searched, but when Mrs. Velasquez was confronted with him she said, “No. that's not the one."
Kellenberger said it will take some time to find the right man. “If he doesn't have a police record we will have to go through the photographs taken at registration."
Kellenberger has already contacted the film company that took the registration pictures and they have agreed to cooperate.
Kellenberger doesn't think the criminal will try to escape in the meantime
“My suspect doesn t know I’m looking for him." he said. “Anyone who does disappear will be a prime suspect."
Witnesses who saw Mrs. Velasquez's attacker are Sara Dixon, a student who saw him running down the stairs, and Ophelia Guzman and David Campbell, two library employees.
Campbell, who chased the suspect toward the Law Center with a fellow employe, said they saw a campus policeman and informed him of what had happened, but that the policeman failed to aid them in the pursuit.
Victor E. Sargent, head of campus security, said that Campbell didn't understand the reason for the security man s failure to go with him.
Sargent said his man. stationed at the rear of Do-
heny Library, observed a man running and the other men shouting and chasing him.
“We didn't know who these people were," said Sargent. He said the policeman “observed the direction in which the man was running, then drove behind the Graduate School of Business, hoping to cut him off."
When he saw the man run into the building, Sargent said his man radioed from his car to the other six men then on campus patrol and waited for them to assemble and help him secure the building. A call went out at the same time to the LAPD
Herbert Frankhauser. the campus police dispatcher said he did not receive a call from a radiocar. He said he received information about the incident from the library itself and that he dispatched security police to the scene.
Sargent said it would not have been proper procedure tor the security man to follow the suspect into the building.
“It would be like running after a needle in a haystack It's better to have him sit in there thinking he's safe, then when all the men are assembled and have the building secured. you can go through at your leisure."
Sargent admitted the possibility that the suspect would not remain inside thinking he was safe, but continue on and escape through another door