McCloskey woos youth to GOP
By ANDREW ERSKINE
Assistant Editorial Director
Representative Paul McCloskey, Jr.. a Republican peace candidate, speaking at Friday's Great Issues Forum, urged voung people to register for the vote, and, specifically, to register as Republicans.
McCloskey said he was troubled at the large number of young people who are registering as Democrats.
“Competition is the lifeblood of the country.” he said. “If there are not two parties, the Democrats will continue such things as the seniority system in Congress and the type of foreign policy that got us into the Vietnam war.”
McCloskey devoted much of his speech to criticism of the Vietnam conflict.
“There is no doubt that Communism is an evil force — that it deprives its sub-
jects of free speech and other liberties,” he said.
“But we denied the basic concept of our democratic society (in Vietnam) — that we will let other countries have self-determination.”
He said the Vietnam war is an internal civil conflict, not a case of Communist aggression, and that the United States had no business interfering in Vietnamese domestic affairs.
“In the 1945 Nuremburg trials we insisted that it was a war crime to destroy villages or forcibly relocate the population. Yet we are doing the same thing in Vietnam.” McCloskey said.
“We use cluster bombs — which put a piece of steel in every square yard for miles around — against people in order to deny soldiers their support.”
He felt that the most dangerous conse-
quence of this war was that the government had to lie to the American people in order to continue it.
“This secrecy has now pervaded even the domestic scene — the government will not release facts even to Congress,” he said.
McCloskey cited as evidence the administration's refusal to release photographs of villages in Laos which had been bombed. He said Laotian villagers told him that many had been destroyed but the government steadfastly maintained that U.S. planes had not purposely dropped bombs in Laos.
“Congress cannot perform its checks-and-balances function if it has only the facts which support the administration's side." he said.
When asked what he had to offer that was truly new. McCloskey replied that
he differed with Nixon's approach to government, which places too much value on pride and prestige.
“The United States’ posture of power, pride and prestige should be abandoned. It’s not war that's bad. it’s the use of war to preserve pride, prestige and power.”
He referred to President Nixon's address to a joint session of Congress, in which he used the words “great'’ or “greatness” 10 times in the last few sentences.
“If someone says ‘I am great’ 10 times in 10 minutes, do we necessarily think he's great?”
“I don’t think I'm the greatest man around, but I don't think the United States can stand another four years of Nixon. Agnew and Mitchell.”
University of Southern California
DAILY® TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 2
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1971
Author to talk on Indian life
N. Scott Momaday. a Pulitzer Price winning author, will speak on “The American Indian in Conflict” at noon Wednesday in Bovard Auditorium.
Momaday has been invited by the Great Issues Forum to discuss his views on today's American Indian. He is a professor of comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley.
Momaday offers a double view of how it used to be to grow up Indian in America and how it is now.
He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 for the “House Made of Dawn.” Momaday is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and Stanford University.
‘I have a great deal of respect for the power and beauty of language, and I believe that only in language can man realize himself completely. Momaday said.
The Great Issues Forum will also be sponsoring Allan M.
Cartter, chancellor of New York University, who will discuss college education at noon Thursday in Bovard Auditorium.
He will be named USC's first Raubenheimer Fellow on Wednesday.
Classes begin officially today
Although many classes were held yesterday, the fall semester will not officially begin until today, President Hubbard announced.
Confusion occurred yesterday as a result of the inadvertent scheduling of classes on Rosh Hashanah. the Jewish New Year, but some classes did meet as part of the orientation program.
Classes do not officially begin until today, when first-day roll call to determine enrollment will take place.
DEAN SELECTION QUESTIONED
Council vows end to rhetoric
By PETER WONG
Staff writer
The ASSC Executive Council delayed action on several proposals at its meeting last Thursday and asked that its language be toned down.
“We don't want to play rhetoric games on the council this year as we did last year.” Lee Blackman. ASSC vice-president for academic affairs, said near the end of the two and one-half hour meeting.
Further investigations will be conducted into why the selection committee for the new dean of the School of Business did not consult with students before making its choice, and the confusion over visitation for the women's dorms, especially in Col-lege-University Hall.
Ben deMayo. senior representative, will head the group on the business dean. He will talk to Ted Brannen. the new dean arriving from the University of Houston, and other university officials.
DeMayo had prepared a resolution in condemnation of the
entire selection procedure but was persuaded to withdraw it pending further investigation.
Meanwhile. Blackman and Dan Nowak, who is acting as vice-president for student affairs while Paul Bloland is on sabbatical, are discussing ways to clear up the visitation confusion. Blackman said that Nowak has ordered another postcard survey on visitation.
Mark Spitzer, independent representative, proposed an investigation of the $2.50 per student fee for construction costs of the Student Activities Center. (In the spring elections, the ASSC Executive Council endorsed a proposal to abolish the fee, and it won student body approval.)
Paul Moore, director of student activities, said that the $2.50 fee cannot be abolished unless — or until — the building costs are paid for.
Spitzer will look into the issue.
The council will take up these proposals again at its meeting Thursday at 3 p.m. in SU 311.
At that time, council members will also discuss two important items — a proposed elections code and a possible increase in student fees.
The elections code was presented formally by Joel Jacobs, vice-president of the Associated Men Students and one of the code's revisers. There was no debate over the merits of the code, however, as the council allowed one week for individual examination of the seven-page document.
Last week the council heard officers' evaluations of their summer work and deferred or rejected some $4,500 in budget requests at its first meeting of the school year.
In his state of the university address to the council, Joel Rosenzweig, vice-president for programs and acting ASSC president, briefly reviewed his four and one-half months of policy-making during the summer.
After mentioning two top controversies of last spring — the recognition of the Gay Liberation
Forum as a campus organization and the 24-hour visitation for women's dorms — Rosenzweig called once again for the drafting of a statement of university rights and responsibilities to define the roles of faculty, administrators and trustees within the university community.
The acting ASSC president once more criticized the Board of Trustees for its actions last spring on those matters.
“We received the administrative run-around until gay liberation was unceremoniously denied a place in the university by the Board of Trustees, and this same board also took it upon itself to subvert the dean of student life (Robert Mannes), the residence halls associations and the president of the university (concerning the 24-hour visitation question.)
Rosenzweig voiced his frustration in his attempts to secure student rights on campus.
“I will simply say that as acting ASSC president, I have encountered what ASSC offic-
ers have encountered in the past — and the results are just as disappointing. ”
He called on President Hubbard to issue a directive for all university agencies to begin recycling all solid wastes, including paper, and for university vehicles to convert to nonleaded gasoline, natural gas or electricity for power.
“Let us resolve to act to stop the university from polluting,” he said.
The acting ASSC president urged the university community to strive to eliminate racism from within, “then by improving our minority recruitment programs — not only in entrance, for we have seen in the Law School that that in itself is not enough — but let us continue our efforts through a university tutorial sponsored by upperclassmen and professors.” Rosenzweig also requested that ASSC officers attend at least one intercampus conference on student government this year, and that the council vote (Continued on page 5)
BOOKSTORE CONFUSION — A University Book store clerk gives directions to a befuddled shopper as students pour through the bookstore to purchase
supplies for the upcoming semester. Bruce Bolinger.
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