University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 63
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1972
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A chain of bikes was strung halfway across University Avenue in front of the Student Union yesterday afternoon, blocking traffic.
The 16 bikes were chained together by members of the Trojan Knights, a campus service organization, “just for the hell of it,” said one Knight.
Two campus security officers arrived on the scene and were contemplating cutting one of the bike chains to clear the path, but some of the
Knights arrived just in time to break the train which ran from a lamppost in the middle of the street to a tree on the sidewalk.
When it was over one security officer’s reaction was, “Aren’t they just wonderful. I just love them.”
As he rode off, one of the Knights gave a hint as to the reason for the prank. “Did the DT get pictures?” he asked. DT photo by Will Hertzberg.
Black candidate to speak Friday
“Women in Politics: Why Not?*’ will be the theme of Rep. Shirley Chisholm's (D-New York) presentation at noon Friday in Bovard Auditorium. Her appearance is sponsored by Great Issues Forum and Associated Women Students.
“It is women who can bring empathy, tolerance, insight, patience and persistence to government—the qualities we naturally have or have had to develop because of our suppression by men." she wrote in an Aug.. 1970. article in McCall s.
But women are not the only concerns of the first black woman to serve in the United States Congress. Rep. Chisholm advocates an active political and social coalition with the poor, the young, minorities, antiwar groups, women and trade unions.
An active member of the Black Caucus formed on Capitol Hill last year, she has announced her intention to seek the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.
“Some see my candidacy as an alternative and others see it as a move to make other candidates start addressing themselves to the real issues,” she stated at the fifth annual National Welfare Rights Organization last August. “I'm doing it to shake the system up.”
Her efforts have been addressed to attracting as broad a representation of American voters as possible. Her issues are women's rights, the war. the fulfillment of the American dream for blacks and the concerns of the politically forgotten American people.
Rep. Chisholm was originally a nursery school teacher and director in her native Bedford Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn, N.Y. She has been active politically for over twenty years.
In her political debut as New York legislator, she fought for the interests of her black and Puerto Rican constituency.
She has been known for her spunk through her two terms as congresswoman, speaking her mind and challenging the old traditions of Congress.
One of the founders of the National Women's Political Caucus, she believes she has had more obstacles on the political scene being a woman than she has had being black. She feels that more women have been brainwashed and are content with their roles as second-class citizens than blacks ever were.
Grassroots to politics rising on campuses
By PETER WONG Staff Writer
(Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series on the college scene in California for 1972.)
Though finances will be the major topic at college campuses in California during 1972. students will take interest in political issues, including the
1972	presidential campaigns, although most issues will be local.
Political movements around national and international issues have generally disappeared however.
In all. 1972 promises to be an active political year on college campuses, but not a violent year.
“If any of the presidential candidates are able to generate much excitement among students, then they will be able to make a big difference in the way that students look at politics and politicians," Craig Oren. editorial page editor of the Daily Californian, the independent newspaper serving the University of California at Berkeley. said.
“But if the race for the Presidency comes down to Scoop (Sen. Henry M.) Jackson of Washington for the Democrats
and Nixon for the Republicans, or (Sen. Hubert H.) Humphrey and Nixon again, as in 1968. then people aren't going to have a good goddamn."
Oren, who described the editorial policy of the Daily Californian this year as “liberal-radical. whatever that may be." said he avoided commentary on national issues in his editorials.
“It's really a little early for politics. There has been some activity for (Sen. George S.) McGovern already and I expect it will pick up in the spring, " he said.
David Lees, editor-in-chief of the UCLA Daily Bruin, agreed that things were slow at this point. However. Westwood is the glamor center for politics in Los Angeles, and the presidential candidates will be setting up their headquarters around here soon." he said.
Registration of voters in the 18-to-21 range has been emphasized at several campuses, including USC. especially since the ratification of the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in mid-1971. which lowers the national voting age to 18.
Not all the political activity has been confimed to regular
Democratic and Republican Party channels. At Stanford University, an ad hoc coalition called the Emergency Conference of New Voters has been somewhat influential. Lang Atwood. associate editor of the Stanford Daily, reported. The aim of the coalition is to thwart President Nixon's bid for renomination and reeelection.
Both Rep. Paul N. McCloskey (R-Calif.), a challenger to the President for the Republican nomination, and former Rep. Allard K. Lowenstein (D-N.Y.) have spoken on or near the Stanford campus. Lowenstein is credited with urging former Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) to run in the New Hampshire primary against then President Lyndon B. Johnson in March. 1968.
However, at other campuses, interest in presidential campaigns is minimal.
“This is a pretty small college. and there isn't that much political awareness here." Mark Sachf. coeditor of the Quaker Campus at Whittier College. said. There have been speakers for Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, the Democratic front-runner, and Sen. McGovern (D-S. Dak.), plus a
nearby office for Rep. McCloskey. But that's all.
“Political activity? On this campus?" Lloyd Herberg. editor of the Forty-Niner at California State College at Long Beach, said. “It really will depend on who are the candidates, and whether another series of events such as that of spring. 1970. with the U.S. incursion in--
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to Cambodia and the shootings at Kent State University (Ohio), takes place again to arouse students."
Glenn Barr, editor of the College Times at California State College at Los Angeles, agreed with Herberg. “This campus is pretty apolitical, unless something happens to galvanize students into action."
In fact, there may be action against the presidential campaigns.
“The majority of the outspoken people on this campus are highly adverse to the political system in general and against the established political part-
ies," Rita Cash, executive editor of the Los Angeles Collegian at Los Angeles City College, said. “They're not interested, period."
At USC. Rep. McCloskey spoke in September, as has Sen. Fred Harris (D-Okla.) just before he withdrew from the presidential race. Scheduled appearances by Sen. McGovern and Sen. Birch Bavh (D-Ind.) were cancelled. Bayh withdrawing because of his wife's illness.
Harris spoke on the influence of money on politics in November at a panel here, sponsored by the Political Science Department and the ASSC.
However, whatever the attitudes toward presidential campaigns. the mass political movements on national and international issues have pretty well disappeared.
“There are no issues in the sense of isses that existed two or three years ago." Oren. the editorial page editor of the Daily Californian at Berkeley said.
“The kind of leftist ideology on campus for the past seven years (since the Free Speech Movement in 1964) demanded immediate change but did not (Continued on page 3)
Emergency loan fund approved
The Fee Allocations Board, which manages student fees, approved $15,000 in reserve funds Wednesday for an ASSC-proposed emergency
loan fund for student use.
Now the only step that remains before the first loans are granted is the selection of the student members of
the ASSC Emergency Loan Commission, the agency that will establish specific guidelines for loans and the administration of the fund.
Applications for the seven student positions on the commission will be available in the ASSC office, Student Union 309, until Jan. 21. Two of the seven students on the commission must be graduate students.
After the student members
are selected, they will meet with the commission members from the Student Aid Office, Business Office and the office of the assistant vice-president for student affairs. The full 10-member commission will elect a student member as its nonvoting chairman, and then it will set the guidelines for loans.
The first loans are expected to be granted by the start
of the spring semester Feb. 7, Lee Blackman, vice-president for academic affairs and sponsor of the emergency loan proposal to the ASSC Executive Council, said. The council passed the proposal last week and sent it to the fee board.
The loans will not exceed $250 per student, although the Student Aid Office may make exemptions because of extreme need.