Council approves constitution
By BERNARD BECK
Editorial Director
The ASSC Executive Council last night approved the new Associated Students of the University of Southern California (ASUSC) Constitution, and halted the filing procedure for the general elections that were already underway.
The Executive Council will meet again Friday to fix a date for a special student vote on the new constitution and fix new dates for the general elections.
In the meantime, a freeze has been placed on the preparatory activities for the general elections.
This freeze was made necessary because the new constitution, if approved by the student body, would abolish several offices which were to be up for election.
The new constitution, which would change the name of the ASSC Executive Council to the ASUSC Student Council, eliminates as elective offices one of the the two vice-presidents, two of the six graduate representatives. the senior class president and
the presidents of Associated Men's Students and Associated Women's Students. In addition, graduate representatives would have to be elected this spring rather than next fall.
Yesterday s meeting was actually two meetings. In order to satisfy questions concerning the procedural correctness of introducing the constitution and approving it at the same meeting, the Executive Council adjourned and called a new meeting five minutes later. This action added to the charges that the Executive Council was trying to force the constitution onto the students.
Some members of the council speculated that the Student Court would question this aspect of the constitution and that the court might delay the constitutional election because of the quick action.
The Executive Council debated several points of the new document but made no major changes.
The question of representation was raised at several points. A motion was made to exclude the living groups (the presidents of the Interfraternity
Council. Panhellenic, Men's Hall Association and Women's Hall Association ) saying that their presence on the council gave representation to a spe-cial-interest group and allowed a student to be represented by more than one person. The motion was defeated in part as an acknowledgment of the Row's ability to defeat the constitution if it were excluded.
A motion to place the two independent representatives back onto the council in order to give representation to students who do not live in the dorms or who are not members of a fraternity or sorority was also defeated. (Two appointed independent representatives are on the present ASSC Executive Council, but were deleted from the new constitution in an effort to reduce the size of the council >.
A motion made by Tom Levvn. ASSC vice-president for programs, to add a second vice-president to the new constitution was rejected. Levyn felt that one vice-president could not handle all the duties now held by the two vice-presidents. However, it was pointed
out that the by-laws for the new con-sitution would shift those duties to appointive officers.
Stan DiOrio. graduate representative, proposed that the president and vice-president be required to run as a ticket. This would have insured cooperation between the president and vice-president after they were elected, he said. This admendment was rejected.
In other activity, the Executive Council endorsed a resolution proposed by Chuck Jones. ASSC vice-president for academic affairs, that supported a plan to revise the university curriculum and general requirements.
The Executive Council also filled three vacancies on the Executive Council. Mark Savit. a graduate student in American studies and last year's ASSC vice-president for academic affairs, was named a graduate representative. Errol Gerson. a graduate student in business administration, was named the international students representative. George Millburn. a junior in accounting and a candidate for ASSC president, was named treasurer, a nonvoting office.
University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LXII
NO. 80
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1971
PROJECT RESURRECTED	Photo bY Bruce Bolinger
The stotue of Christ, displayed in the Festival of the Arts, was accidentally thrown in the trash pile Monday morning.
DUMPED BY O & M
Statue found in trash
A statue depicting the crucifixion commemorated to the Festival of the Arts was torn down and thrown into the Operations and Maintenance dump Monday morning.
The sculpture, a two-year art project by USC art student Angela Masson, was found face-down in a trash pile in back of the 0 and M building Monday with a hand broken off. the face smashed and the crown shattered.
Miss Masson and the Festival of the Arts committee had erected the statue, depicting a nude Christ on the cross, in front of the Student Activities Center Sunday afternoon, with permission of the Student Activities Center.
"Monday morning, we found the statue was gone. Miss Masson said. “So we called all over campus trying to find out what had happened to it.
“We found that Campus Security had picked it up and taken it over to Operations and Maintenance
Miss Masson and .Jack Marquette, head of the Festival of the Arts, went to Operations and Maintenance and inquired about the statue. A secretary told them she had no knowledge of it. so they decided to investigate themselves.
They found the statue in the trash pile behind the building. Miss Masson said, broken off its 600-pound base, which was cracked.
They then secured an art department order asking 0 and M to release the statue that had been impounded, but Carroll Waite, assistant to the director of 0 and M. refused to release it until Dean Nowak had seen it.
Waite was quoted bv Miss Masson and Marquette as saying he considered the statue a “highly obscene object."
When Miss Masson challenged Waite as to why the statue had been damaged. Waite replied that the wind must have blown it over, including the 600-pound concrete base. Miss Masson said.
Yesterday, the statue was returned to Harris Hall by 0 and M covered with a loin cloth which consisted of a rag nailed to the sides of the statue. No explanation was given for its return.
“The statue was a summation of the Festival of the Arts. " Marquette said.
The statue is now being repaired by Miss Masson and will again be erected in front of the Student Activities Center within the next few days.
Victor Sargent, head of Campus Security, said the statue had been carted away Sunday afternoon because "we didn't know who it belonged to or why it was out there."
Operations and Maintenance declined to comment on the incident.
Seismometers recording wind
By LAURINDA KEYS
Assistant City Editor
"The Los Angeles Basin has been oscillating like a king-size bed ever since the winds started blowing." said Ta-liang Teng. assistant professor of geological sciences.
The oscillation shows up as a slight increase in the wiggle of a line on a cylindrical seismic recorder, part of USCs new seismic station. It is temporarily housed in Stauffer Science Hall. Room 569.
Teng said the station, put in operation just one week before the big San Fernando Valley earthquake, has been picking up 6 to 12 aftershocks of magnitude three or less on the Richter scale each day for the last two weeks.
He said that, overall, the shocks are decreasing in number and magnitude each day.
On the day of the earthquake, the seismometer at California Institute of Technology was not working. But the seismometer in Stauffer Hall was busy making a complete record of the quake—a record which has been requested by the U.S. Geological Service, the California State Division of Mines and Geology and Cal Tech.
Also, the USC Geology Department set up three temporary field seismometers in Pacific Palisades. Palos Verdes and Baldwin Hills to catch aftershocks during the first two days following the quake.
He and Thomas Henyey. professor of geological sciences, are doing fundamental studies of the seismic activities and geologic hazards in the L.A. area.
Four permanent seismometers are to be put into operation today along the Newport-Inglewood fault. They will be placed in the inspection chamber of the Baldwin Hills reservoir, at the California Foundation for the Junior Blind, at the Inglewood Park Cemetery and at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Baldwin Hills.
Teng said these places, especially the cemeteries, were picked because. "It s much quieter: we like to avoid traffic noise." The seismometers are so sensitive that Teng invites visitors to the station to make their own "earthquake " on the recorder, simply by stamping their feet.
The seismometers will telemeter signals back to the station on campus by telephone line. Eventually they will be recorded on a large tape unit, capable of handling 98 channels of incoming data.
"This type of study will help us to outline the geologically hazardous area and yield better site-planning for construction in the urban community." Teng said.
"It is relatively easy now to predict where an earthquake is most likely to happen due to the familiarity with the many faults in the Southern California area. " he said. "But to predict when is still beyond the present state of our art. Much more research has to be done. "
Teng did predict that, "in six months USC will have set up another seismic network to monitor the area adjacent to the New-port-Inglewood fault.
"In future planning we want to expand our station network to the Channel Islands area." he added. "Since Southern California is one of the most highly industrialized areas, one of the world's population centers and a research and technology center, there are great interests in expanding human activity to this offshore area.
"It is vital for us. at this point, to know the stability of the sea bed and outline the offshore activity of faults. The network we are proposing, will provide data which will allow us to find the guidelines in major offshore constructions. "