University of Southern California
DAILY W TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 91
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1972
■WOMEN S BOLE. IN POU77CS'
Romney’s wife to talk
LENORE ROMNEY
By RICHARD SIMON Staff Writer
Lenore Romney. one-time candidate for the U.S. Senate, will discuss “Women s Role in Politics'* at noon today in Bovard Auditorium. The speech is sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
She unsuccessfully campaigned for the Senate from Michigan in 1970 against Sen. Philip A. Hart, a three-term Democrat. She attributes much of her failure to sex discrimination.
“I found in my campaign that many men and women openly resented the idea that a woman would even try to unseat a man.” she said in a magazine interview.
She was even accused by her opponent of fronting for her husband. George, former governor of Michigan and presently U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Romney recalls some of the prejudice she encountered during the campaign. “In factories.
I encountered men standing in small groups, laughing, shouting, ‘Get back in the kitchen. George needs you there. What do you know about politics?’ ”
One farmer told her, “Ma'am, we don't vote for women or niggers in this country.”
She said many people didn't even listen to her credentials or opinions on the issues. “For 30 years I have worked at all levels of community endeavor—for the adoption of a new state constitution. for community schools, educational reform, the Council for Human Resources, and with ghetto problems.” she said.
“I was especially discouraged by women themselves saying that women don't know enough to be public officials."
Romney, 63, believes women need to be liberated “from the belief that they are not pertinent. not relevant.” She said women want equal jobs, but they are not willing to help one another get elected to deal with the problems.
“Unfortunately, the women's liberation movement is not erasing prejudice against women because many members are abrasive and resentful of their own roles in society," she said. “Women can be effective by being magnificent figures in their own right rather than small facsimiles of men.”
By lacking confidence, women lack stature, status and any feeling that they can be just as effective as men, she said. “Many women today are college graduates, but after marriage
and children, they give up intellectual pursuits. They lose their political acumen and awareness.”
Last year in a Look magazine article, she said the strongest prejudice she experienced was from some male members of the press, who regarded her as a stand-in candidate for her husband.
“Far from being a stand-in for George, I divorced myself from the administration in that I made my own decisions and discussed the issues as I saw them.” she said.
A national director of the YWCA and of the American Field Services, Romney is a George Washington University graduate and holds six honorary degrees. She remains active in politics despite her senatorial defeat, and still believesthe U.S. Senate needs the social insight of more than one woman to meet many of today’s problems.
Office petitions to be available
Petitions for ASSC offices will be available starting Monday in Student Union 309. it was announced Thursday.
Pat Nolan, who was one of three elections commissioners selected Tuesday by the Executive Council, made the announcement at the council meeting. Although ASSC President Kent Clemence vetoed the appointment of the commissioners Wednesday the commission is proceeding with its duties. In a straw vote at Thursday’s meeting the council voted to override Clemence’s veto.
Love learned, prof says
By GUNTHER MERLI Staff Writer
Leo Buscaglia spent the first five years of his life in a little town at the Swiss-Italian Alps, where he learned to love. He's spent the rest of his life trying to pass this knowledge on to others.
Buscaglia. an associate professor of special education, is the organizer of the Experimental College's “Love” class and an energetic speaker. He spoke at a Roundtable luncheon Thursday in the Upper Commons.
“As an educator, I believe that love is learned.” said Buscaglia. He works on the premise that everyone has learned love at a certain level, but says that we can change this level if we want to.
“I am enough of an existentialist to believe that you do paint your own paradise,” he said. “If you’re ionely it's because you will it—so reach out!”
At five years of age. he returned to Los Angeles. “Talk about cultural shock!” he exclaimed. “I was sent home from school because 1 was touching everybody.”
He believes that people are loving when they are really in contact—if not hugging each other, then at least holding hands.
Buscaglia described etiquette manuals as a distancing phenomenon, tending to push us farther apart.
He talked about his Experimental College class, so popular now that he regretfully has to turn away students. “I don’t really teach it,” he said. “I learn it.”
A book of his, about to be published, was “written by myself and at least 400. 500. 600 of my students.”
A student he knew once, said Buscaglia, was a beautiful girl who contributed fantastic ideas to the class. When she stopped coming, he found out that she had jumped from a cliff in Pacific Palisades and committed suicide.
“Even now it haunts me,” he said. “What does
it matter if she could read and write and construct sentences with the proper syntax when we've lost the person?”
In the educational process, said Buscaglia, we must look at individuals. “If we lose the individual, we lose everything.” In humanizing education, we must bring out the uniqueness of each person, he said.
Buscaglia said that he liked to observe the "elevator behavior" of people—how they act when close to strangers. People in elevators look like zombies, he said, all standing straight and staring at the door. Sometimes when he gets on, instead of facing the door, he faces everyone else and says “hi." Usually, he said, the elevator empties at the next floor.
He disliked the setting for his talk, saying it was too formal. “We should be under an apple tree with a sack lunch or something. This is hardly a conducive place to talk about love,” said the educator.
“Have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
Hoover project bans parking
The Los Angeles Police Department, in response to a call from the Community Redevelopment Agency, enforced the ban on parking at the vacant lot between Hoover Street and Jefferson Boulevard Thursday by issuing about 100 parking tickets at $10 apiece.
Wallace Green, director of rehousing and property management for the agency, which owns the lot, requested the police action.
“We regret we have to do it, but our liability is too great to permit unauthorized parking,” said Green. He said the agency feared it would be sued if someone was injured on the lot or if a car was damaged.
Although Green requested that police enforce the ban on all agency property near USC, tickets were issued Thursday only to cars in that one lot.
Green said he believed that
warnings were put on cars in the lots last week, but he could not verify it.
Earl Phillips, one of four police officers who spent one and a half hours writing tickets, said, “We don’t enforce an area until someone complains.”
John Lechner, director of Campus Security and Parking Operations, said that he tried to intervene and have the police issue only warnings Thursday.
Although signs are posted that prohibit parking, these signs have been taken down several times by students, Lechner said.
Green said he will request the police to issue tickets to cars parked on any agency property. Cars can not be towed away unless the police receive permission from the agency, said Green, who is unsure when this will happen.
Unofficial approval given for elections
By CATHY MEYER Executive Editor
The ASSC Executive Council held a nonmeeting Thursday to confirm. if unofficially, spring elections procedures.
Lee Blackman, vice-president for academic affairs, took over the chair when ASSC President Kent Clemence did not show up for the scheduled 5 p.m. meeting.
At 5:30 p.m. Jamshid Tadjiki, international students representative, appeared and read a letter to the council from Clemence that said he had been called away by a family emergency and was forced to cancel the meeting.
Pat Nolan, elections commissioner, said he had seen Clemence leaving the Student Union at 4:50 p.m.
Since a quasi-meeting was already underway, the council voted to continue with the scheduled business, though the votes would not be binding until formal votes are taken at an official meeting next week.
The council immediately voted to override Clemence's veto of the Elections Commission on Wednesday, selected Tuesday by the council at a special meeting.
Clemence said the commission, composed of Gardner Beale. Pat Nolan and Mary Ann Galante, was partisan. The council can override Clemence’s veto by a two-thirds vote at an official meeting, but the straw vote taken Thursday was termed by Blackman as a vote ofconfi-dence, permitting the commission to proceed with its duties.
The council discussed Nolan’s proposed Elections Code and plans to complete the code at Tuesday’s special meeting, called by a two-third majority of the council members.
Pot petition circulated Day-care head lauded
Field representatives for the California Marijuana Initiative have been on campus recently seeking endorsement by petition for a measure that would remove state penalties for personal use of marijuana.
However, volunteers are being sought to man the petition table at USC. With the present sporadic help, only about 500 signatures have been obtained; thousands of signatures are needed from this campus, Bill Steel, a spokesman for CMI said.
Those interested may contact Steel at 627-2694 or talk to representatives of CMI at a meeting of all Los Angeles County workers, Saturday 10:30 a.m. at 2214 Sunset Blvd., near the Olvarado intersection.
Anne Greene, head of the Small Fry Day Care Center, was honored for her contribution to the community at a luncheon by the university Thursday.
She received a resolution of appreciation and an offer from USC to improve the classroom at the center by paneling and painting the walls and installing a new floor.
Among the guests at the luncheon were Anna Bing Arnold trustee, and President John Hubbard.
The center, located at the Greenes' home, is nonprofit and operates 24 hours a day.
Greene takes care of approximately 30 children from preschool through the primary grades. She also counsels anyone who comes to her with a problem.