Election dates set by ASSC
By CATHY MEYER Executive Editor
April 19 and 20 were set as the dates for the spring ASSC elections by the ASSC Executive Council at a special elections session Tuesday.
Petitioning will begin March 20 and end April 4. Primary campaigns may run from 3 p.m. April 5 through April 13; primary elections were established for April 12 and 13.
Runoff campaigning will be April 14 through April 20. and the council stipulated April 26 and 27 as additional runoff dates if necessitated by election complications.
The council also named three elections commissioners to supervise the elections.
Gardner Beale, a junior in premed. Mary Ann Galante, a junior in journalism; and Pat Nolan, a senior in political science, were elected in a closed session.
Beale was one of the founders of Big Brothers and Sisters, a community aid group oriented towards black youths. Galante is currently serving as associate city editor of the Daily Trojan and was recently named top magazine writer in the state by the California Intercollegiate Press association. Nolan was named to a student-trustee liaison position in February by the council and is a member of the national board of directors of Young Americans for Freedom.
He has also served twice previously as an elections commissioner.
Galante’s sole comment upon hearing of her appointment was,
“I demand a recount.”
Much of the controversy in the elections commissioner debate centered around the partisanship of each applicant and his sincerity and leadership ability. In interviewing the candidates, the council quizzed each applicant as to the amount of time and effort he could afford to spend during the strenuous four weeks of the annual elections. which often call for lengthy hours and innumerable conferences.
The council also examined and passed the first section of a new Elections Code proposed by Laura Kotsiris, Women's Halls Association president, at Thursday’s meeting. In past elections, loopholes and weak spots in the Elections Code have caused problems.
Included in the proposed code was a mandatory $5 filing fee for all candidates to insure funds for adequate clean-up after the elections.
The council voted to consider the additional three sections of the proposed code at Thursday's regular council meeting. ASSC President Kent Clemence's proposal for a legal services center will also be discussed at that time.
Clemence recall drive under way on Row
University of Southern California
Herbert Wills, chairman ofthe committee to recall ASSC President Kent Clemence. began his Row campaign for signatures Tuesday night.
Wills’ recall effort will continue every day until Easter vacation in order to get the 2.000 signatures to bring the recall issue to a student vote.
Two hundred names have alreadv been received on the
Band to play
Funk Campaign, a 10-member jazz rock group, will perform at the Student Activities Center patio today at noon. The group, which has backed Isaac Hayes, has been together for two years.
petition from dorm residents alone.
Wills has been accused of using this recall issue for political ambitions. “To me as a black man. it's a slap in the face to have to use a white man to get into office,” he said.
“The problem is that USC is an apathetic campus. Student government has not set up an appropriate mechanism for communication.
“Informing the people will get them involved. I want to let the student body know that Kent Clemence has done nothing for them as their ASSC president.”
Anyone interested in helping with the recall petition or needing information can contact Wills at the Student Services Office, Student Union 301.
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VOL. LXIV NO. 89 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1972
EX- PEYTON PLACE’ ACTRESS
Talk on youth vote set
By CHARLENE BANDURRAGA
Patricia Morrow, who played “Rita" on the “Peyton Place” TV series, will speak on the youth vote today at noon in Bovard Auditorium.
She first became involved with “Peyton Place” during her senioryear as a political science major at San Fernando State College.
Morrow now writes the news for KHJ-TV during the day and attends Glendale College of Law at night for her second year of law school.
Although her part as “Rita” was only supposed to last two weeks. Morrow became one of the stars and worked on the series for over four years.
During that time she made two trips to Vietnam because she wanted to visit a war.
She campaigned for the late Sen. Robert Kennedy (D-N.Y.) in California, and spent three weeks traveling with Hubert Humphrey to see what the inside of a campaign looked like. She has also campaigned for Tom Bradley, Los Angeles city councilman, and Jess Unruh, ex-Assembly speaker.
After she finished shooting “Peyton Place”, Morrow' worked with teeji-agers on probation and high school students with drug problems.
With five years on “Peyton Place” behind her, Morrow decided she could be more effective “out of the acting syndrome” and decided to go to law school.
“It's really fun,” Morrow said. “In law school you have to be twice as good as the men. All my teachers in law school went to Harvard. Yale, or Stanford and became deputy attorney gener^ als, but they never liked law school. Maybe that’s why they try to make it interesting for us.”
Morrow said that she began working for KHJ-TV when Baxter Ward, the news director at the time, called her up and wanted her to report on the air. “Oh. no,” she said. “Let me work
where all the wires are.”
Now she cuts and edits six films a day. which are used in the news program, and writes the copy that the broadcasters read on the air.
“News is really exciting,” Morrow said. “Today I cut a film on presidential preferences and another on the retail clerks’ strike.”
At the end of the month Morrow plans to work one day a week on the new version of “Peyton Place,” not because she wants to act, she said, but purely for economic considerations.
While Morrow’ is not supporting any presidential candidate now, she would like to run for office some day herself.
Since this is the first time students between 18 and 21 can vote, Morrow said, “we have to prove we re an effective force. If we don’t show them that we re organized we’ll lose our effectiveness.”
Morrow’s speech is sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness and Student Vote, a national nonpartisan organization to get newly enfranchised voters registered.
Registrars will be in front of Tommy Trojan through the day and in the dorms during the
PATRICIA MORROW
evenings until Friday as part of a joint effort by various campus political groups.
Independent rep cleared
Craig Clemence, ASSC independent representative, was declared eligible to retain his position by the Student Court last night in a 3-3 vote.
Clemence, who was appointed last October by his brother Kent. ASSC president, recently pledged for Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Kit Spalding, a junior independent student, brought Clemence to court, charging that as a fraternity pledge. Clemence could no longer constitutionally represent independent students.
The court refused to comment further on the case at the time it announced its decision, but Chief Justice Steve Knowles said that both sides will present their formal opinions later.
Before the Clemence hearing started, it was announced that Jerry Reitman, an associate had resigned as of Feb. 1. He presented a letter stating why he resigned, and attacking Knowles' performance.
Knowles announced that the vacancy is open to students, who may pick up applications in Student Union 309.
BSU helps blacks with studies, money
By KAREN HOWZE
With the dawn of black consciousness and pride, black students across the country began to realize a need for cultural growth outside America's institutions of higher education.
The black student movement originated in the 1960s as a response to the needs of these students. The same is true of the black student movement here.
The university’s first confrontation with blacks came in 1967, when a group of students, in an organization they called the Black Students’ Union, sat in at then President Norman Topping’s office, demanding that more blacks be admitted to USC.
The group's action resulted in increased blackenrollmentof50 that fall and the establishment of the black studies division of the Ethnic Studies Department.
Where has that group of students under the name of BSU gone from those days to 1972? The people involved in 1967 are
not around, but their goals are.
Some students believe blacks have a better position on campus than they did a few years ago, since there are now about 500 blacks enrolled. Others feel the imbalance still exists, since 500 is only 2.5% of the estimated
20,000	students here.
Joe Conner, chairman of the BSU, listed the financial, academic and social dispositions of blacks as the most important of the union’s priorities in 1972. “Blacks have always had the fear of losing their footing because of the cost here and the alleged academic superiority of the university,” Conner said.
“We re desperately trying to get rid of these fears through such programs as Black Scholarship. Inc., and the major study groups we have set up.”
Black Scholarship. Inc., is a fund designed to offer financial aid to black students in preparation for the coming increase in
tuition. Conner said the program has been in the making since September. A number of unsuccessful attempts were made by the union to carry out a plan for
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a concert series to help the scholarship fund before the first successful program, Sunday in Hancock Auditorium.
“Anyone—student or professional. on or off campus—who wants to contribute talent to a program expressive of the art forms and black people, is welcome,” Conner said.
“Along with getting the fund started, we re interested in tapping all the talent that is lying dormant among black students on campus.”
The major study groups are
the result of the work of a group of black students, who realized that group studying helps get students through academically. These study sessions are informally organized and coordinated through the BSU office.
Eventually, the students hope these study groups will become centers for academic advisement and personal counseling.
Many programs that the BSU initiates are hampered because of the bad image that some students have of the organization. Conner said the damage has beencaused by the bad publicity mass media give to the name BSU. He believed that newspapers, both on and off campus, equate BSU and other organizations of its type as the cause of the problem, rather than searching for the real problems within the educational institutions.
“Comments on militancy and radicalism seem to put a monkey wrench into the organization's endeavors, ’’ he added. “If the
BSU is in trouble with the establishment, it’s not necessarily the fault of the organization itself.”
The BSU here has faced the problem of eliminating bad images from the minds of black students.
Another BSU member, Dianne Chatman, presently Helen of Troy, said, “Involvement is a touchy point for blacks entering USC. Parents have picked up the stereotype of the BSU as being militant and destructive and fear that their children may lose their place in the academic world because of the organization.”
Students themselves have said that academic as well as social pressures keep them from getting involved. One student said, “I have to work full-time and keep my GPA at 3.0 to stay at this pl ace. How can I spend time working with the BSU?”
Faced with these observations and comments, Conner said that