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DAILY® TROJAN
VOL LXIV NO. 117
LOS ANGELES, CALFIRONIA
FIRDAY, MAY 5, 1972
INQUIRY CONTINUES
ASSC awaits decision
By BERNARD BECK Focus Editor
The ASSC is in a limbo.
The ASSC Executive Council members formally left office April 30 and a new council can't take office until a faculty review board completes its investigation of this semester s elections.
But the essential business of the ASSC is being conducted by the standing committees and programs ofthe association and by two special committees.
The three-member elections review board will conduct a second session of hearings today at 2 p.m. in the Student Activities Center. Robert Mannes, dean for student life and chairman of the review board, said that hearings would continue until all concerned could express their views. No completion date was set.
Daniel Nowak, acting vice-president for student affairs, announced Thursday that he has asked the ASSC president and vice-president to stay on as spokesmen for the ASSC until the elections review board has completed its work.
Ordinarily, the ASSC officers would be drawing up a budget for next year's programs at this time. But since there is no ASSC Executive Council, this cannot be done.
Randy Zomar, ASSC business manager, said there may be some problems with next year's budget if the elections review board doesn't reach a decision soon. If a new budget cannot be approved, some programs could be hurt, because chairmen of the programs would need the summer for planning.
Approximately $580 remains in the current ASSC budget. Before it left office, the council had established a special committee to allocate the remaining funds.
The committee which is equal to any ASSC program in status, conducted hearings Thursday to determine how the funds would be spent. Several persons presented requests. Additional hearings will be conducted Monday at 12:30 p.m. in Student Union 303.
At this time the ASSC would usually be processing applications for student positions on university committees. Nowak has appointed four students to screen the applications and make recommendations to President Hubbard.
Applications are available in Student Union 303 and 309 and at the Student Activities Center desk. Completed applications must be returned by May 19
Thursday's meeting of the allocation committee, informally dubbed the “Leftovers Committee,” was at times dull and at times comical. Members of the committee are Ben DeMayo, former senior representative; Kit Spalding, a junior; and Steve Wiley, former junior representative.
Appearing before the committee were Steve Knowles, chief .justice of the Student Court; Kent Clemence, past ASSC president; Michael Trope, candidate for vice-president for academic affairs; and two representatives of the Asian American Tutorial project.
Knowles asked the committee for $4.59to engrave a gavel that he bought as a momento of his tenure as chief justice. Knowles explained his need: “When the ASSC collapsed so did my financial backing and sustenance.”
Knowles' estimated engraving cost was based on the rate of 51 letters at 9 cents each. Wiley, a member ofthe board and former junior representative, figured that “Knowles CJ 71-2’' would be sufficient and would save the board some funds.
Trope offered to pay for half the cost of the engraving and jokingly told the board that if they gave him $1,000. he would sign a contract agreeing not to involve himself in ASSC affairs.
Knowles also presented a $15 request, supposedly from Kent Clemence. The money would be used to provide trophies for the “prime players of the game board,” he said. Trophies would be given to the Gameplayer of the Year, to the Best Programmer and to the Lackey of the Year, Knowles said.
Clemence, upon being shown the request form for the $15, responded, “That is not my signature.”
The board asked Clemence to return Monday with receipts from his campaign for president from last fall. The council had authorized the reimbursement to Clemence, who was the only candidate, but it has not yet been made.
In another request, Laura Kotsiris, Women’s Halls Association president, sought $50 to finance what she called “a fact-finding trip" to Stanford University. The board asked that she appear Monday to present more details on her trip.
Prof says Stanford should allow class on racial inequality theory
By MIKE REVZIN Staff Writer
Donald J. Lewis, Psychology Deparment chairman, disagrees with Stanford University’s decision not to allow William B. Shockley to teach a course based on controversial theories of racial superiority.
Shockley, a professor of engineering at Stanford and a Nobel Prize winner as coinventor of the transistor, believes that hereditary rather than enviornmental factors are largely responsible for blacks averaging lower scores than whites on IQ tests.
Lincoln Moses, dean of Stanford’s graduate school, overruled a majority report by a special faculty committtee Monday. The committee had recommended that Shockely be allowed to teach the graduate
Ken Foster at Neophyte
Ken Foster opened Wednesday night at the Neophyte. Foster plays the piano, guitar and sings his own material, mainly pop music.
The coffee shop, located at 817 W, 34th St. in (he basement. is open from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. today and Saturday. Admission is 25 cents.
course for one quarter only, without credit.
Commenting on this decision. Lewis, social sciences dean-designate, said, “In my view, he (Shockley) is most likely wrong. But if we suppress him, some people will always think that he’s right.
“The only way to really bring this issue to rest is to get guys like that out in the open.
“If he’s a fool, the best thing is to allow him to be foolish. That’s what happened to Sen. (Joseph) McCarthy (R-Wis., 1947-57). They put him on TV and he was all through.”
Lewis said that although he disagrees with Shockley’s views, the facts cannot be proven one way or the other at the present time.
“He may be doing a social disservice for bringing it up,” said Lewis, “but the purpose of the university is to allow qualified people to exchange ideas. Certainly, they're not always right.”
Lewis added, however, that he does not know enough about Shockley to judge whether or not he is qualified to teach the course in question.
Shockley wars of regressive evolution due to a disproportionate reproduction of people with low IQs. He has proposed that such people be paid for voluntary sterilization.
Shockley claims that the
experts are afraid to do research on this subject. He expressed his disappointment at not being able to conduct a class to combat what he says is the illusion that there is mental and physical equality between the races.
“The flat human quality illusion that thwarts objectivity is, in my opinion, far more threatening to the future of the United States than was the flat earth illusion to the future of Italy in Galileo’s day,” said Shockley.
Registration to begin
Students who have already received their registration packets by mail, tnay pick up 11 cards from departments Monday.
On Tuesday, students may pick up packets in person at the Registrar's Office.
Beginning Wednesday at 9 a.m. packets will be accepted at the Registrar’s Office for the pulling of R cards.
July 5 is the deadline for return of packets by students to the Registrar’s Office.
Candidate sees local corruption
By AL FLORES
“In November, when I decided to run for county supervisor I knew of Warren Dorn as rude, abrasive, arrogant, deceitful and corruptive. Since then I have found that he is a bad guy as well,” Baxter Ward said Thursday to a small Hancock Auditorium audience.
Ward, a local television newscaster and a former candidate for Los Angeles mayor, is running for county supervisor in the 5th district—the largest in area and population. His opponent is Warren Dorn, a 16-year incumbent and current chairman of the County Board of Supervisors.
“Warren Dorn is owned by his contributors, lock, stock and barrel. He does what they say,” said Ward in describing his opponent. “I am convinced that if he had been in television instead, he would have sold out to the advertisers, just as he is sold to the people who finance his campaign.”
Ward claimed that there are many cases of the corruption in county government.
He said that Dorn will soon dedicate a new county administration building in Newhall, which a supporter instructed him to buy, even though others objected because of the price of the land and the farming it was good for.”
Ward claims that the land was assessed at $18,000 per acre and the supervisors bought 10.8 acres of it at $50,000 per acre. “The taxpayer will make up the difference,” he said.
He claimed there was another case in which Clinton Best and Robert Mitchell, members of Dorn’s campaign committee and executives of Conrock. a corporation dealing in rock products, allegedly sold the company’s Tujunga wash property, which was assessed at $100 an acre, for $7,000 an acre.
A third case, Ward charged, was one in which Paula Graf, a San Fernando Valley resident, received an increase by Philip Watson, county tax assessor, in her property taxes from $381 to $1,642 in one year.
Ward calls these inequitable assessments totally unfair to the taxpayer, and says that the county supervisors should
install a permanent board of assessment inquiry to study tax complaints and to make continuing examination of assessor valuations, to bring fairness and equality to assessments.
He also believes there should be a change in the specifications by which Air Pollution Control District directors are appointed.
“We have allowed the agency to become nothing but a massive
BAXTER WARD
thermometer,” he said. “All they do is go out, take a few temperatures, and put them down in a book.”
Ward favors putting a physician in charge of the district because,” he said, “he’ll respond to the high levels of ozone, carbon monoxide, and oxides of nitrogen in a way unlike the present head.”
Additionally he believes that each plant emitting pollutants should be required to install at its cost a monitor on each individual stack, plus sufficient ground monitors to provide complete aerial and surface information to the district.
Ward also thinks there are too many county employees. He said that, last year, there was an increase in 30.000 county residents and a increase of 15.000 county employees. He believes that personnel can be reduced by not hiring replacements for employees who retire or resign (the county has a yearly retirement rate of 87c to 10%.)
Ward is limiting individual contributions for his campaign to $45. He is doing this because he feels that big contributions usually come from big companies.
KUSC will receive federal grant
A $15,000 government grant has been awarded to KUSC after approval of the terms of the new proposal, Roy J. Adamson, associate dean of University College and Summer Session and general manager of KUSC, announced Thursday morning.
This grant, from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, will be matched by the university, with equal funds.
The grant was to have been awarded on the terms of an original proposal, which would have forced the hiring oftwo full-time and two part-time professionals.
However, student staff members of the station voted unanimously to oppose the proposal Sunday and the university sent a revised proposal to the corporation for approval in a telegram late Tuesday night, not Monday night as was reported in the Daily Trojan Wednesday.
The revised proposal including the hiring of two professionals, a full-time general manager and a full-time chief engineer. But the positions of station manager, program director and production
director would remain filled by students, who will be employees on part-time salaries.
The modifications were made and agreed upon in special sessions Tuesday by Adamson and Doug Culver, present station manager, who represented the staff position.
Culver had been appointed staff mediator to the university after the original proposal was criticized at a KUSC staff meeting.
Student operation is an important consideration of the radio station. Adamson said.
Under the terms of the new grant, a professional full-time general manager will be hired to supervise the operation of the station.
The general manager will now be able to devote full attention to managing the station instead of having to handle other administrative or professional duties.
The chief engineer, the other full-time employee, will be responsible for maintaining high technical standards for the radio signal, 91.5 FM.
The grant funds of $30,000 will be in addition to increased regular budgets.