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Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the French oceanographer famous for his more than thirty years of inquiry into the nature of the world s seas, will speak today in Bovard Auditorium.
Cousteau's address, scheduled to begin at noon, is entitled "The Ocean's Environment and the Living Sea. Ronald Linskv. director of the Sea Grant Program on campus, has arranged the event.
The focus of the speech will be on the increasing pollution of the seas. In a recent appearance before the Senate advisory subcommittee hearings. Cousteau expressed his concerns. “We must put our emphasis on saving the world from poison first...then we can make it beautiful."
His long years of research have gained publicity from articles in National Geographic magazine, and more recently.
a series of twelve ABC-TV specials entitled “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
One of the pioneers in his field. Cousteau first became known through his collaboration on the development of the Aqualung in 1943. The first book on his explorations, entitled "The Silent World." appeared ten years later.
His oceanographic engineering organization, known as CEMAifrom Centre D Etudes Marines Avanceesihas sponsored three underwater living experiments. designed two small research and observation submarines and sponsors the research vessel Calypso.
The Calypso has been in operation since 1951. She has been involved in archeological excavations. oil explorations, and photographic projects. In 1967.
Cousteau took her on a three-year world cruise.
Beginning in Monaco. Calypso sailed to the Red Sea. the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic. and the Pacific, stopping at Peru. Alaska, and the Galapagos Islands before returning to France in September of 1970.
Cousteau, who has spoken about the environment for a number of years, became even more concerned after his three-vear voyage. "The sea is the universal sewer. ' he said "All pollutants on land eventually reach the sea.
The producer of three Oscar winning films. Cousteau is now working on a new series of television specials and has created a Museum of the Sea. on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach, which will open on Fridav.
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DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 49
LOS ANGELES,CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY,DECEMBER 7, 1971
Scientists may have found cancer virus
Editor’s note: This story was written by Bob Cooke, staff writer for the Pasadena Star-News, and is used with permission. The Daily Trojan was not invited to the press conference at which the announcements were made.
Two advanced teams of cancer researchers—working with malignant human cells injected into cats—report they may finally have hit cancer s toughest target—isolation of a human cancer virus.
According to Drs. Robert McAllister. professor of pediatrics, and Murray Gardner, associate professor of pathology, virus particles isolated in their laboratories “represent the best can-
didate so far for the human cancer virus. We re almost certain this is the virus we've been after.”
They cautioned. however, that further tests, expected within a few weeks, are needed to confirm it is indeed a human-specific virus.
Dr. McAllister, who is also head of the virology research group at Children s Hospital in Los Angeles, and Gardner announced their findings at a news conference in Los Angeles.
Their report is also scheduled for publication today in a British scientific journal.
Joining them in Los Angeles for the announcement was Dr. Robert Huebner. director of the
viral carcinogenesis branch of the National Cancer Institute
CANCER VIRUS—The virus RD-1 14B, which was discovered by two USC researchers, may be the first virus to be isolated from human cancer cells. The photo is 250,000 times original size.
in Bethesda. Md.
Dr. Heubner. after Dr. McAllister's explanation of the findings, said. “Our next step, of course, is to prove that it is a human cancer virus. So far it meets all the specifications: it looks good. Still, this doesn't prove it really is characteristic of the human virus. But we now have a bird in hand, and we want to find out what it is.
“One step will be to get more isolates (viruses) from human cells, and now we think we know how to do this. If this is a human virus, then we ll study it like we do the cancer viruses from other species, testing for the presence of antigens (which stimulate the production of
antibodies), for the activity of an enzyme called reverse transcriptase. and for any human-specific qualities of the viral envelope."
If it does prove to be a true human cancer virus, as the researchers now expect, “it will be the first human cancer virus found." Dr. Heubner said. "It'll mean we re light years ahead of where we've been, and I think this means very much for the human species. First, it means we've reached a point we didn't expect to reach for years."
Dr. Huebner added that the announcement was made with great caution "because we'd (Continued on page 6)
Students nearly reject governance draft
By PETER WONG Staff Writer
(Editor’s note: This is the second in a series on university governance.)
The first draft of the Articles of Governance, an overall system of decision-n king for the university, was formally presented to the ASSC Executive Council, the University Senate and the Council of Deans in October. 1970.
It drew strong reactions from the university community, primarily from students, who nearly rejected the proposal before it got to the final stages. However, students made suggestions on the proposal and finally got involved in developing a governance plan, if only as critics.
A committee that was formally appointed in February,
1970.	by then-President Norman Topping worked to develop a system of decision-making. The committee was headed by Paul Hadley, dean of University College and Summer Session.
In the draft presented by Hadley s committee, the key mechanism by which the constituencies were to be unified in a decision-making system was the proposed university council, with five members each from
the student body, faculty and deans. Council members were to serve, overlapping two-year terms.
“The University Council, as the prime instrument of university governance, shall have the power to recommend policy as to anv university activity, including the establishment of program priorities. " the draft stated.
Hadley s committee made the council a cross-section of those in the University Senate's governance plan and the Council of Deans' plan. The senate's plan would have made the council part of the regular decision-making process: the deans' plan would have placed the council as the key decisionmaker only in crisis situations.
The university council would have supervised the university committee system, reviewed recommendations from university committees and constituencies. resolved policy conflicts and made policy recommendations to the president.
However, the president would have been able to veto council recommendations within 30 days after they were sent to him.
Since the faculty and deans had previously submitted overall plans for university gover-
nance. it was relatively easy for those two groups to make suggestions about the first draft and send them back to Hadley s committee quickly.
Henrv Reining, dean of Von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs and a member of Hadley's committee. remembers that the Council of Deans last fall held an all-day session on the merits of the governance draft.
But the students spent much more time in looking over the governance draft than the faculty or deans, and their actions generated much more controversy. One reason for this was that the debate in the ASSC Executive Council took place in public sessions, which got much more coverage in the Daily Trojan than those of the faculty or deans, which were private.
Another reason for the greater student activity, however, was that student leaders never submitted an overall plan for university governance, as both the faculty and deans did.
In this respect, students were limited to being critics and not architects. The 1960s had caught up with USC in that students here began to ask for a greater role in determining
policy, as students in other universities across the nation had done earlier.
However, students failed to offer any real alternatives in the area of university governance until November of this year, usually contenting themselves with such partial attempts at reforms as student representation on the Board of Trustees. Even this has not happened yet.
Chuck Jones, then ASSC vice-president for academic affairs, predicted on Oct. 29. 1970. that the ASSC Executive Council would complete its work on the governance draft within a week.
It didn't work out that way.
At the council meeting of
Oct. 29. Sam Hurst, then ASSC president, appointed a five-member panel to study the 14-page governance draft, after several council members strongly criticized the proposed university council.
“It is nothing but another consulting body. Without any ultimate power of decision, it becomes another cog in the
bureaucracy." Jack McNamara, then ASSC independent representative. said.
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French farce to open
Some slightly off-color hanky-panky will be going on in Bovard Auditorium tonight through Sunday.
It'll be part of "A Flea in Her Ear. which opens its six-day run tonight at 8 p.m. and will conclude with a Sunday afternoon matinee.
Each showing will be at 8 p.m. except for the Sunday matinee. The matinee s curtain time has been moved up from 3 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Prices for tickets are $1.50 for Tuesday through Thursday and $2 for Friday through Sunday. Student activity book discount is 50c.
Tickets may be purchased from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on weekdays at a booth in the Commons Lobby. Those wishing reservations or information mav call 746-SHOW