Skiers give sample slope run
Tuesday's predicted showers never materialized, but there was enough snow on University Avenue for Bill Schneberg, a member of the USC Ski Club, to display his skill.
A ramp was constructed and snow was brought in to make skiing conditions fair.
The exhibition was one of several on campus Tuesday as a part of the University Recreation Association's “Focus.”
The program continues today with sample activities including mountain climbing and scuba diving. DT photo by Danny Alaimo.
University of Southern California
DAILY fp TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 102 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1972
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
‘2001 ’ author to speak
By RICHARD SIMON Staff Writer
Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer, will speak at noon today in Bovard Auditorium. The speech is sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
The 54-year-old Englishman has written 40 books that have sold 10 million copies, as well as hundreds of articles for magazines ranging from scientific journals to this month’s Playboy.
Clarke’s writing bridges the gap “between the far reaches of science fiction and the intricate realities of scientific fact,” said Time magazine in 1968.
Clarke, the best-known space prophet since Jules Verne, wrote “2001:A Space Odyssey,” also a motion picture. A speculation about the evolution of the human race, Clarke’s book states that extraterrestrial beings, many millions of years ago, had a hand in the development of intelligent life on earth.
Born in England, Clarke has lived in Ceylon for the past 16 years. During World War II, while serving as a radar instructor in the Royal Air Force, Clarke wrote an article entitled “Extraterrestrial Relays,” a detailed proposal for a synchronous communications satellite. Twenty years later, the satellite became a reality.
Following his five-year stint in the service, Clarke attended Kings College in London and graduated with honors in physics and math.
After graduation, he published his first book, “Interplanetary Flight,” describing the coming space age. Within months Clarke won the permanent allegiance of science fiction lovers.
Clarke has almost made a
habit of predicting history. In the early 1950s, he predicted that the first landing on the moon would take place by 1978.
Three years ago, Clarke said that landings on the planets will be made by 1980.
For flights that would take hundreds of years, Clarke offers a solution to the problem of aging. Merely put egg and sperm cells on a journey, he says, and program computers to mate them about 20 years before the spacecraft reaches its destination.
The embryos could be brought through to birth by means already envisioned in present-day labs, and the babies could be raised and taught by robot attendants, he said.
Clarke believes that once man ventures deep into space, he may eneounter intelligent life. “That contact may be one-way, through the discovery of ruins or artifacts; it may be two-way, over radio or laser circuits; it may even be face to face,” Clarke said. “But it will occur, and it will be the most devastating event in the history of mankind.”
Clarke has startled the world with his predictions. He envisions the end of the gasoline-powered automobile. “We have much more important uses for petroleum than burning it,” he said.
Clarke’s most important prophecy is of an advanced communications system. “I can imagine a time when a brain surgeon can live in one place and operate on patients all over the world through remote-controlled artificial hands,” he said.
The British author forsees a communications satellite bringing education to millions
through direct television broadcasts to homes or schools.
Clarke offers answers to the questions of what life will be like on earth in a few billion years and what travel to the end of space is like. The answers often sound like something beyond our comprehension.
ASSC election to start today
Polls for the spring ASSC elections open today, as the ranks of candidates still fluctuate with drop-outs, drop-ins and kicked-outs.
By Tuesday, the ASSC Elections Commission had disqualified five candidates, four of them because their grade point averages were found to be below the 2.5 limit.
But after an ASSC Student Court meeting Tuesday night, three of the five were back in the race.
Craig Clemence (running for Associated Men Students president), Hillary Hilton (for Associated Women Students president), Chuck Jones (for vice-president, academic affairs), Jamshid Tadjiki (for
For more on the ASSC elections, see the candidates' "battle columns," pages 6, 7 and 9. For the Daily Trojan's endorsements of a candidate slate, see page 4.
international students representative) and Herbert Wills (for ASSC president) were the five disqualified, but Hilton. Jones and Tadjiki are now again eligible to run in the election.
Tadjiki was originally disqualified because the commission did not consider him a foreign student, and thus ruled that he could not serve as international students representative.
The ASSC Student Court ruled, however, that because Tadjiki is a citizen of Iran and because the ASSC Constitution does not define “foreign student,” he was eligible for the position.
Tadjiki, the incumbent, is running unopposed for the office.
Jones and Hilton were at first disqualified because incompletes were originally included in the determination of the grade point average, but after an appeal by Jones, the commission finally decided not to count incompletes as part of the grade point average.
Hilton is unopposed for Associated Women Students president, while Jones faces competition from Greg “Hands” Cole and Cliff Ishii for the vice-presidency, academic affairs. Laura Kotsiris was also in that race but withdrew her candidacy Friday.
Clemence and Wills remain disqualified and have until late today to appeal their disqualification to the ASSC Student Court.
Both Joel Jacobs, current Associated Men Students president, and Niessen Foster are running write-in campaigns for next year’s Associated Men Students presidency, the post Clemence was running for before he was disqualified.
Wills’ elimination still leaves a field of four contesting for the ASSC presidency. Jim Lacy, Bruce Mitchell, Melvin Murphy and Ed Hurst, write-in candidate, are the presidential candidates.
These candidates—and most other eligible candidates, plus Clemence and Wills—have battle columns appearing on pages 6, 7 and
9	of today’s Daily Trojan.
The ballots that will be distributed today and Thursday may add to the election’s confusion. They were printed last week and do not reflect the disqualifications that have occurred since then.
A central polling area in front of Bovard Auditorium will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. both days. Polls near the Row, engineering complex, Hoffman Hall, the dorms and the School of Dentistry will also be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Another poll will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the School of Medicine campus.
The balloting areas will be manned and votes will be tallied by a women’s service club.
There are 27 eligible candidates for the 11 ASSC offices. The sole initiative on the ballot will be a proposal to tax each student 50 cents on his fee bill, which would go to support of Troy Camp.
Results of the primary elections will be tabulated and announced late Thursday night. Runoffs will be next Wednesday and Thursday, April 19 and 20.
Free clinic a success
By WILLIAM BLACKTON
“Doctor, I’ve missed one period. Does that mean that I’m pregnant?”
That’s the kind of practical, down-to-earth question that Bill Vicary has to answer every Friday night.
Vicary, who is a third-year student at the School of Medicine, volunteers one night a week of his time to work at the Hollywood-Sunset Free Clinic on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
Vicary is only one of the many USC medical students who do volunteer work for free clinics in the Los Angeles area.
About one-third or more of USC’s medical students have volunteered to work at one time or another in one of 30 local free clinics.
Vicary has been working at Hollywood-Sunset since last summer. “I procrastinated a long time,” he said. “But one day I realized that I was talking about helping people all the time, and I wasn’t doing a goddamned thing about it.
“I called up the clinic, and the next Friday night I went down there. I expected to work as a nurse or as a lab technician.
but they wanted me to see real patients.
“One of the M.D.s there told me, ‘You’ll watch me examine two patients, and then you’re on your own.’ I was never so petrified in my life.”
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On a typical night, Vicary sees five or six patients. Most of them are single young people. The older people in the area, he says, think ofthe free clinic as a haven for pill-popping, bed-hopping revolutionaries, and they tend to stay away.
Usually, Vicary’s patients have ordinary complaints: colds or flu, suspicious of venereal disease, or pregnancy. Surprisingly, not too many people come into the clinic with bad trips or drug overdoses.
The practical experience Vicary gets in the clinic rounds out his medical school training nicely. One of the questions that he is frequently asked is, “Doctor, I just took my first birth
control pill this morning. Can I have sex tonight?”
“They teach you a lot about hormones and the physiology of the reproductive system,” he said. “But they never tell you how to answer this kind of question. You have to know a lot of things that you can only gain from experience.”
One of Vicary’s more unusual patients was a man who complained of pains in his legs and arms. He also had a bad appetite, felt tired and couldn’t sleep. When Vicary gave the man a routine test of his mental status, he found that he was having auditory hallucinations, too, and that, in fact, he was a borderline psychotic. Vicary, who is interested in psychiatry, referred him to a group therapy session in the clinic. The man continued to come back to the group for many weeks.
Vicary, along with the other medical students who work at Hollywood-Sunset, are supervised by several M.D.s. Many of the physicians-in-charge are interns and residents at L.A. County-USC Medical Center.
After Vicary has examined a patient, he summarizes his find-
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