University ol Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXIV
NO. 113
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1972
Black leader to speak
Rev. Jesse Jackson will speak today at 11 a.m. in the Student Activities Center Patio.
Jackson—the “Country Preacher,” as he likes to be called— is a leader in black politics and a promoter of black capitalism in America. His activities are aimed at making blacks economically independent.
Some people have called Jackson charismatic, but the “Country Preacher” believes that good planning is the secret of his success. “I am an organizer,” he said.
Jackson was appointed national director of Operation Breadbasket by Martin Luther King in 1967.
Operation Breadbasket is the economic arm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. It unites ministers of different denominations in a common effort to overcome employment barriers that exclude blacks from many jobs.
Jackson organized boycotts of white-owned businesses in ghetto areas that refused to hire enough blacks to satisfy the steering committtee of Operation Breadbasket or that did not buy from black suppliers.
Jackson’s activities have given jobs and business opportunities to thousands of blacks. Blacks have also poured money into black-owned banks to finance more black business enterprises.
RADICAL HISTORIAN
Currently Jackson is president of Operation PUSH— People United to Save Humanity.
In December 1971 he resigned from his position as national director of Operation Breadbasket over a dispute about the way he organized “Black Expo” in Chicago that year.
Jackson, 29, was born in Greenville, S.C. He was graduated from high school with honors and attended the University of Illinois on a football scholarship.
He transferred to A&T College in Greensboro, N.C. during his sophomore year.
Jackson was student body president at A&T and also received many awards for athletic performance and academic excellence. He was selected for “Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities.”
Jackson studied at the Chicago Theological Seminary on a Rockefeller Foundation grant. In Chicago he started working for the economic independence of blacks and other minorities.
He married Jacqueline Brown in 1962. They now have four children.
Jackson’s appearance at USC is sponsored jointly by the Forum for Student Awareness and Experimental College.
Leftist to speak Friday
HOWARD ZINN
Howard Zinn, one of the major theoreticians of the New Left, will speak tomorrow at noon in the Religious Center Lounge.
Zinn, a professor of political science at Boston University, has written several books and is known for his views on radical history.
He was originally scheduled to speak at the radical politics conference held earlier this month, but had to cancel because of illness.
In a recently published book of his, “The Politics of History,” Zinn argues for subjectivity on the part of the historian in the history he writes. He calls for a radical reinterpretation of history which he claims has been
Nazi lieutenant will rap on KUSC tonight
By RICH WISEMAN City Editor
Joe Tommasi, lieutenant in the National Socialist White People’s Party, will appear on campus after all when he is interviewed on KUSC’s Rapline tonight from 7:30 to 9.
Tommasi had been scheduled to speak Wednesday in Bovard but was cancelled last week by the Forum for Student Awareness because of the fear that a confrontation with students and militant Jewish Defense League members would occur.
A confrontation tonight is not totally ruled out, however. When informed of Tommasi’s appearance, Irv Rubin, Western states coordinator o! the league, said: “It's our feeling that Tommasi should not be given a forum where the lives of Jews are threatened. We'll just have to
No DT Friday
Tite Daily Trojan will not be published tomorrow or on Monday. Publication will resume on Tuesday.
put our minds together to decide what to do.”
John Lechner, director of Campus Security and parking operations, said he had not been told that Tommasi would appear on KUSC. “It’s his right to speak but if there’s a protest that’s another thing,” he said. “We will attempt to see that nobody’s hurt.”
Kevin Avery, who hosts Rapline, said he had been trying to secure the Tommasi appearance for several months. “It will be the public’s first chance to see him apart from his circus atmosphere,” he said. “People should see him for what he is—whatever that might be.”
The Rapline format allows listeners to call in and ask Tommasi questions on the air. The Rapline number is 746-7808.
Tommasi, 21, is rated as a “rising star” in the Nazi party by Matt Koehl, national commander. While a junior at El Monte High School he reorganized the party locally after it petered out following the assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell, its founder.
miswritten by historians who have lost their objectivity.
Zinn was involved with the civil rights movement and has the distinction of being the only white ever to be elected an advisor by the early Student Nonviolent Coordinating Council (SNCC).
He wrote the book “SNCC: the New Abolitionists” and “The Southern Mystique” from his experiences with the civil rights movement.
Zinn has also been active in the antiwar movement. He went to Hanoi in 1968 with Daniel Berrigan as an ambassador of peace to receive the first released prisoners of war.
His book, “Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal,” was a moral plea for American disengagement from Vietnam.
Zinn has also written “Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order,” “LaGuardia in Congress” and “New Deal Thought.” He is widely published in Harpers, The American Scholar, New Republic and Commonweal.
According to the editors of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Zinn, along with C. Wright Mills, represents the major influence on the New Left.
News pros will talk to students
Five professional journalists will conduct a rap session with journalism students today at 10 a.m. in Student Activities Center 205. All journalism students are invited.
The journalists include Nick Williams, former editor of the Los Angeles Times; Joseph Benti, KABC news anchorman; Wayne Warga, L.A. Times Calendar editor; Lois Gaines, president of the Gaines Organization, a public relations firm; and Sandi Mettetal, court bureau chief of City News Service.
The rap session is sponsored by the Journalism Alumni Association.
Packets due Friday
The deadline for obtaining and turning in envelopes for fall semester preregistration at the Registrar's office is tomorrow.
The envelopes, which are requests for fall registration materials for continuing students, can also be obtained at a table in front of Tommy Trojan. If the envelopes are mailed to the Registrar’s Office instead of handed in, they must be postmarked by Sunday. April 30.
Registration materials will then be mailed to students in early May. Class schedules for the fall semester will be available next week at the Registrar’s Office.
Preregistration packets for the summer session are available now at the Registrar’s Office, and the summer session class schedules are available at the Information Center.
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Chicanos will protest
program
Association; and David Bourb-ion, dean of students at California State College at Los Angeles.
“I understand that there is a peaceful protest planned to coincide with our program and I think that this is fine,” said James Bertero, chairman of the forum.
Chicano speakers are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. in front of the Law Center. They will include Ben Margoles, a lawyer; Karen Koonan, a legal worker in a law cooperative; and Richard Cruz, a former Loyola Law School student who is fighting for admission to the California Bar Association.
“We have no plans to prevent them from assembling,” said John Lechner, director of Campus Security and parking operations. “We understand that it will be a peaceful gathering of peopleto discuss an issue—after all that’s what college is for.”
law forum
By STAN KELTON
Members of the Chicano community have scheduled a People’s Law Day to protest the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s seventh annual Youth Law Forum being held on campus Saturday.
“We are planning a peaceful program to show the important and influential figures attending the Youth Law Forum that the people are unhappy with the way the legal system is working for them,” said Terry Koosed, a sophomore who is one ofthe protest organizers.
Approximately 300 high school students from the Southern California area are expected to attend the forum, which will begin at 9 a.m. Among the speakers scheduled by the Bar Association are William Hogoboom, Los Angeles District Superior Court judge; Joseph Benti, KABC-TV news anchorman; Stuart Kadison, president of the Los Angeles County Bar
USC Frisbee champ?
Many took advantage of the sunshine yesterday to spend a relaxing lunch hour sprawled on the lawn in Alumni Park with friends and dogs. Others, such as Ron Cohen, a junior in psychology, felt like an energetic game of Frisbee. DT photo by Will Hertzberg.
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