volume Ixv, number 84
tuesday, march 6, 1973
Daily ms Trojan
university of southern California los angeles, California
Diplomat executed in Mideast was alumnus
By Bettye Wells
associate editor
Intense loyalty and an enthusiasm that one foreign correspondent labeled Boy Scoutish were traits that characterized George Curtis Moore, the American charge d’affaires executed by Black September guerrillas last Friday, in his career as a student at USC and as a career diplomat in the foreign service.
Ross Berkes, director of the School of Politics and International Relations, knew Mr. Moore well and followed his rising career in the State Department, describing him as a man of great warmth and intelligence.
“Moore was the kind of man in the State Department you could be proud of, could point to with real appreciation,” he said.
Mr. Moore, 47, was responsible for the United States and the Sudan resuming diplomatic relations after the U.S. ambassador was expelled from that country following the Arab-Israeli six-day war in 1967.
“A great deal of credit must be given to Moore for helping develop this atmosphere” where diplomatic relations could be resumed, Berkes said. “He was a real professional.”
Mr. Moore graduated magna cum laude in 1949 with a B.A. in international relations. He received his M.A. two years later and immediately entered the foreign service.
While a student here, Mr. Moore was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity; Delta Phi Epsilon, foreign service fraternity; Blue Key, senior men’s honorary; and Skull and Dagger, all-university men’s honorary.
Mr. Moore’s career in the State Department began as a resident officer in Frankfurt, West Germany, in 1950 and included service in Egypt, Ethiopia, Lebanon and Libya and the State Department desk officer in Washington in charge of the Arabian Peninsula.
Paul Hadley, dean of University College and Summer Session, was one of his instructors here and said he believes that Mr. Moore’s interest in the foreign service came as a result of his service in World War II.
“I think he felt that through diplomacy, one might lessen the necessity to fight for national defense,” he said. “He could make a genuine contribution to his country and the world there.”
Mr. Moore’s dedication to his responsibilities in the foreign service also included recruiting capable and interested students, particularly from his alma mater.
“One of his last words with me was that he would like to come back here and talk to students and tell them about how working (for the foreign service) was a worthwhile career,” Berkes said. “This
Independent student committee resubmits coed dorm proposal
By Mike Small
An independent student committee from Trojan Hall, third floor, resubmitted a proposal for a coed dormitory plan Monday to the director of residential life.
The original plan, which was submitted last Wednesday, was returned to the students for revision the following day by Hans Reichl, director of residential life, to include specific physical plant and security arrangements.
For three months, Leo Elizondo and Mike Smith, the resident adviser, conducted a seminar on coeducational living for the members of their floor and interested students, with the proposal drafted as a result.
The proposal provides for a two-year experiment in coed living involving Marks and College-University Halls.
The group is also currently circulating petitions throughout the dorms, Smith said, to draw student support from the residents for such living arrangements.
The study included the necessary physical plant adjustments, costs and philosophy behind coed living.
Elizondo said that the coed dorms would provide the residents with a more realistic environment since dorms segregated by sex do not prepare students for the real world. Smith said that statistical research and the results of other studies were incorporated into his floor’s proposal.
Reichl said that there was nothing to disagree with in the body of the originally submitted report.
This is the first formal proposal for coed living submitted to Reichl as director of residential life.
He said that the Commission on Student Life Report recommended that alternate types of living be considered for residents by the university.
If Reichl approves the proposal, it will go on through the university’s chain of command for further consideration.
was despite his own heartaches and feelings of not being appreciated.”
Berkes said that Mr. Moore had just renewed his membership in the international relations support group three weeks ago with a $100 check. “He had that kind of loyalty (to USC),” Berkes said. “He was proud of his degrees from USC and he made a case of it.”
Both Berkes and Norman Fertig, associate dean of honors and advisement, characterized Mr. Moore as an excellent student and “a man with a lot to give.”
‘“He wanted so badly to do well that if he was deficient in something, he worked harder at it,” Fertig said. “It frustrated him.”
That frustration was apparent in a recent article in the Los Angeles Ti nes. which said that Mr. Moore was depressed because the State Department had pulled him out of the Sudan without reassigning him immediately. The reporter wrote that Mr. Moore felt it was humiliating and that “the State Department thought so little of him that it did not know what to do with him.”
Berkes said he thought that the article might have been true. “He had the feeling that the department hadn’t recognized adequately what he had done,” he said. “But I don’t know what the department was going to do. I can’t believe that he wouldn’t have been promoted to Class I (the top level; in the foreign service) and an ambassadorial assignment sometime.”
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Fight on for frisbees
Tim Neely is a graduate student with a plan.
Neely and his frisbee partner, J.J. Glassman. both students in Urban Regional Planning, believe there should be a greater emphasis put on frisbee playing through the athletic department.
“We want the athletic department to refocus their perspectives,” said Glassman.
“It is our considered opinion that the athletic department should scrap all athletic programs in which they are not assured a national title, i.e. basketball and swimming" said Neely.
Glassman said, “We advocate an active recruiting policy for frisbee, improved playing conditions and a frisbee stadium.”
Commenting on the condition of Alumni Park on Monday, Neely said, “It’s a bit murky and we’re hoping to have O. and M. (Operations and Maintenance) improve the playing conditions.”
Programming board Camp’s plan for 50-
By Bob Evans
staff writer
Bob Shiota attempted unsuccessfully to win a Programming Board endorsement of Troy Camp’s plan for a 50-cent hike in the student programming fee Friday.
Shiota, Community Action Coordinating Council director and a board member, asked the board at the opening of its three-hour meeting to express its moral support of the plan to the administration.
He withdrew the request, however, after a discussion in which some members expressed reservations about the plan.
What the Troy Camp plan proposes is a refundable 50-cent fee bill tax, exclusively for Troy Camp, that would be charged to fulltime students. After enrollment a student could get his money back at the Troy Camp office.
Board members expressed doubts about the exclusive use of the fee for Troy Camp, the inconvenience a student would be put to get a refund, and the propriety of the board taking a stand on the plan.
Realizing that he would not be able to get enough support for his endorsement motion. Shiota withdrew it before it could come to a vote.
After talking about the Troy Camp plan for half an hour, the board began a lengthy discussion of the legal problems concerning a proposed copyright plan for Stonecloud, the intercollegiate creative journal.
fails to endorse Troy cent tax on fee bills
It decided almost an hour later, to copyright the journal in the names of its USC and Stanford University editors. However. Paul Moore, director of student activities, doubted the legality of the board’s decision.
In effect, the copyright would represent a contractual agreement between the two universities—an agreement the board could not make for the university, he said.
Moore had asked the board to approve the copyright in the name of the Programming Board only, and to work with the university to set up contracts spelling out property rights later.
The decision, as in all board actions, is subject to approval by James Appleton, vice-president for student affairs.
The business of budgeting more money for student programs took up the other half of the meeting. Added to the noon concerts budget was $1,435. Students had indicated in a poll conducted last semester that they preferred the more expensive monthly top name band concerts over weekly performances by less well-known groups.
Two Community Action Coordinating Council projects, Smallfry and Partners (formerly Project Chance) got money for field trips for community children.
The board also approved part of a request for funds for the Spittoon coffeehouse program at Men’s Residence Wrest.