volume Ixv, number 107
friday, april 6, 1973
Daily w§ Troian
university of southern California los angeles, California
By Alan Freisleben
asociate city editor
The failure ofthe administration to provide ironclad guidelines for the selection of student delegates to the new University Council has resulted in mixed responses from the departments involved.
In a letter to the university community written at the beginning of January, President John Hubbard stated that each of the university’s 20 schools or divisions would be asked to send two faculty members, the unit’s dean or director, and one student to sit on the council. The only variation on the formula would be in the case of the library, which would send the director and a staff member.
The selection process for both students and faculty was left undecided by original policy statements.
A survey of the academic units involved made by the Daily Trojan has found that
although the selection of faculty delegates was uniformly democratic throughout the university, the methods used to select student delegates have ranged from completely democratic to chaotic.
In the graduate and professional schools where students are organized, the process has been fair, while in the three divisions of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences confusion has apparently reigned, particularly at the grassroots level.
Under the plans drawn up by the administration, each unit was asked to determine what was best suited to its particular structure in choosing delegates, explained Don Pyke, academic planning coordinator.
According to the results of the Daily Trojan survey, many departments whose students are not organized took the easy way out. The school of business, dentistry and education
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Writer discusses politics, drugs, career as national correspondent
Departments divided over method to select council
Eleven students expelled from Teacher Corps submit appeals
By Sarah Heck
staff writer
The 11 students expelled from the Teacher Corps program after a disagreement concerning school district contracts filed their appeals for reinstatement Thursday with Irving Melbo, dean ofthe School of Education.
The appeals will be reviewed by Melbo and the Scholarship Committee.
Phyllis Arias, one of the expelled students, said that the letter received from Melbo stating that they could appeal their dismissal was
“The charges are very con-clusionary and no stipulations about what kind of information is needed are given,” Arias said.
The Teacher Corps demands have continually been misstated, Arias said.
“We are trying to get the program to nondis-criminately meet the needs of the community. We are principally concerned with working with a large Chicano population,” Arias said.
Area G of the Los Angeles City School District, a predominantly Chicano area in East Los Angeles, has shown
Corps interns in its program, said Donald Wilson, director of teacher education.
The controversy arose over the statement by Wilson that the university had no power to make contracts with school districts but must wait for Washington, D.C. to draw up any contracts.
Darlene Robles, another expelled student, made a trip to Washington, D.C. to speak with Louise White, director of Teacher Corps there.
Robles said that White said USC is the prime contractor and that Washington will abide by any local decision.
The hidden statue
If one happens to look into the Operation and Maintenance yard, he is sure to notice this charming couple done in bronze.
As it sits there crumbling, it has interested many people including a group from Touton Hall that wanted to keep it.
Unfortunately for them, the statue will someday be returned to Doheny patio in back of the library, its real home.
The statue was removed while work was being done on Jthe patio. DT photo by Michael Sedano._________
DT photo by Michael Sedano HUNTER THOMPSON
By Kit Spalding
“What the hell am I going to talk about?”
“Well, I can talk about why McGovern lost, or I can talk about journalism, or I can talk about how to extract adrenelin glands . . .”
Hunter Thompson, national correspondent for Rolling Stone, eventually touched all of those subjects and added a few more off the top of his head Thursday before aboutt 70 students in the Student Activities Center.
Plied with a six-pack of beer to assure his longevity, Thompson answered questions from the crowd about all aspects of his career, ranging from his abortive attempt to be elected Sheriff of Aspen, Colo., on the Freak Power ticket to his coverage ofthe 1972 presidential campaign.
Having just been reimmersed in campaign fervor by attending Tom Bradley’s victory celebration, however, Thompson spoke primarily of politics.
He told the audience that the overwhelming defeat of Sen. George McGovern was part of the liberal death-
wish.
“If they’d won, they’d think something was wrong with them.”
He said that McGovern was finished after he lost his image as a new politician, yet never managing to attract traditional Democratic support.
“Even Charles Manson couldn’t have lost by more
than 30%,” he said. “They assumed that Nixon would eventually crack under pressure, but you can’t apply much pressure when you’re 23% behind.”
Thompson said he was seriously thinking of running for the Senate in Colorado—this time not on the Freak Power ticket—and
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Fear, loathing at USC? ‘New journalist’ tells all
By Frank O’Donnell
(Editors note: In ivriting this story. O'Donnell tried his hand at imitating Hunter S. Thompson's style.)
Hunter Thompson at USC?
Hunter Thompson—the drug-crazed maniac responsible for page after page of senseless garbage in Rolling Stone and a couple of books—here, at our university?
Yes, strange as it seemed, I opened the door and there he was, sitting at a table, sipping a bottle of beer, speaking quietly to a roomful of the gonzo journalism set.
Mmm—Thompson, the man Raoul Duke once called an acid-intellectual-truck-driver-type.
Tall, budding beer belly, well-tanned, hair short enough to be an insurance adjuster.
Loose shirt, slacks, no socks, tennies, sunglasses indoors, bush hat, shark's tooth around neck—the kind of attire that laid-back costumers used to prescribe for those hippie, college-revolutionary movies that festered like malignant crabgrass in the late sixties.
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