Day at races offered
Troy Camp ‘72 will hold its second annual USCDay at the Races Saturday at Santa Anita Race Track.
Race track facilities will open at 10:30 a.m. Post-time is 12:30 p.m. Those attending are invited to make use of food and drink concessions or bring picnic lunches.
Tickets at $3.50 for students, faculty and staff, and $5 for alumni and general public are tax-deductible donations for Troy Camp.
Tickets will not be available at the track, but may be obtained at Tommy Trojan or Student Union 312F today.
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Egypt-lsrael differences not great, official says
University of Southern California
DAILY W TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 81
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1972
Clemence faces charges
The basic differences contributing to the conflict between Egy pt and Israel are not as great as has been thought, Meldon Levine, legislative assistant to Sen. John Tunney (D-Calif.), said Thursday.
Levine, who was sponsored by the university’s Great Issues Forum, discussed the situation in the Middle East with about 20 people in Hancock Auditorium. He and Sen. Tunney toured the area a couple of months ago, spending three days in Egypt and a week in Israel.
“Substantive issues were not nearly as great as the newspaper accounts would lead one to believe,” said Levine. He found that Egypt’s prime concern was for its occupied territory and a return to the boundaries of 1967, while “Israel is virtually paranoid about security.” The Israelis define peace in terms of secure borders, said Levine.
Israel is willing to return the bulk of the occupied territory and Egypt is considerably more flexible than expected, said Levine. The proglem lies not with the substance ofthe issues, but with disagreement over the procedure of negotiations.
“The level of trust is so low,” said Levine, that most Egyptians believe that the Israelis want to expand their territory' from the Nile to the Euphrates, while the Israelis believe that the Egyptians want to push them into the sea.
The Egyptians don’t have such bargaining chips as occupied territory or military superiority, as the Israelis do said Levine. Their only bargaining point, he believes, is their willingness to negotiate directly. “Sadat feels this is one of the few cards he has left,” said Levine, and is holding back negotiations.
Levine feels that American diplomatic mistakes have increased tensions, and he cited the peace plan by U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers, which the Egyptians agreed to.
MELDON LEVINE
They felt the American position was the same as the Israeli position, he said, but when the United States was unable to convince Israel to adopt the plan, Egypt was left holding the bag.
Levine said that the proper role of the United States would be to maintain the military balance of power and show a very low diplomatic profile, unlike the high profile we have shown in the past.
By CATHY MEYER Executive Editor
Three charges have been filed with the Student Court against Kent Clemence, ASSC president, attacking him for improper conduct of his duties.
Jim Lacy, sophomore representative, filed malfeasance and misfeasance charges against Clemence Thursday for cancelling two ASSC Executive Council meetings without 24-hour notice and for manipulating the ASSC election dates.
Senior Representative Ben DeMayo’s charge of malfeasance was directed against proxy ballots Clemence submitted at Tuesday’s special meeting to elect trustee liaisons.
The council voted to throw out the proxy ballots, which Clemence said he obtained by telephone.
Lacy based his misfeasance charge on Clemence’s cancellation of the Feb. 18 and Thursday’s council meetings for which Clemence posted a sign, “Meeting Cancelled,” on council mailboxes both days. Lacy main-tains Clemence violated a resolution that says council notices must be sent by the ASSC secretary 24 hours before scheduled meetings.
Lacy speculated that Clemence’s actions awere planned to interfere with the ASSC election dates. Thursday’s meeting was to be for discussion of the elections code proposed by Glen Dresser, graduate representative, and for discussion of election dates.
Clemence, who has considered a reelection campaign, would conceivably be affected by whatever dates are set, as would Lacy, a potential presidential candidate. However, Clemence called the charge preposterous, and said the meeting was called off because Dresser was unavailable and that only two people had applied for the three elections commissioner positions, also on the agenda.
“The business could be discussed just as easily at the next meeting,” Clemence said. “The whole thing is ridiculous. It’s political rhetoric on Lacy’s part.”
DeMayo’s brief criticized Clemence’s submission of four
proxy ballots in Tuesday’s trustee liaison election.
Clemence said he called the absent members and that they gave him permission to vote by proxy. “Every council member should have an avenue to express his opinion if he or his proxy can’t be at the meeting,”
However, one of the absent members said Thursday that Clemence merely called her, told her she could vote by phone and did not need to send her proxy, and then recommended a particular person for liaison. She did not know and was not told that there were 15 applicants, who they were, or that there were three positions open. She maintained, however, that her vote though solicited, was legitimate. Clemence did not, as he claimed, before the council, obtain her signature on the handwritten ballot.
Clemence said proxy ballots had been submitted and counted in other elections, and he had acted on that premise.
Met Opera finalists chosen from region
Eleven finalists and two encouragement-award winners were chosen Thursday night from 33 semifinalists in the Western Regional Metropolitan Opera auditions, at Bovard Auditorium, with the School of Music as host.
The regional finalists will compete Saturday at 7:45 p.m. for the chance to take part in national finals April 9 on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
The finalists are Christine Weidinger, Roger Patterson, Barbara Wilkinson, Kathleen Martin, La Verne Williams, James Wagner, Kathryn Underwood, Thomas Simmons, Claudia Cummings, Robert Gray and Lois Vaccariello.
The two runners-up each received $100 Saunderson encouragement awards.
Participants were judged on voice, musicianship, interpretation, stage deportment and a general evaluation.
“Judging is a terribly hard, cruel and problematic job” said Martin Bernheimer, Los Angeles Times music critic and one of the three judges. “The difficult part is not the five or six obvious winners but the borderline cases.
“If I have to choose between good technique and style, and a gorgeous voice with a few technical problems, I’ll go with the gorgeous voice.”
The other judges were Lawrence Smith, conductor of the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, and Stella Roman, a voice coach
LAPD should be told of thefts—officer
By STAN KELTON
The people responsible for the recent rash of burglaries and thefts are sometimes aided in their escape by their victims, a Los Angeles police officer told a journalism class Wednesday night.
The victims aid criminals when they report their losses only to Campus Security and not to the Los Angeles Police Department, said Mike Lukasiak, an officer.
“We can’t stop the burglaries and thefts if we don’t know about them. It is impossible for us to return stolen goods if we have no record of who the owner is,” he siad.
Lukasiak said victims usually feel they have done all they can when they report losses to Campus Security. However, reports filed with Campus Security are valuable only if stolen property is recovered on campus.
“We do not forward reports taken by Campus Secuirty to the police department; they will not accept reports taken by our officers,” said John Lechner, director of Campus Security and Parking Operations, said Thursday.
“Campus Security officers are instructed to advise people filing reports with them to also file a report with LAPD. We can’t force people to file a report with LAPD, and often they don’t want to take the time and trouble to do it.”
Lukasiak stressed the importance of recording serial numbers of items most often stolen, such as bicycles, radios, stereos, tape decks, television sets and typewriters.
“When you discover a theft or burglary, the first thing to do is call Campus Security, and then report it to us,” William Rogers, a city police officer, said in a phone interview yesterday.
“Don’t touch things before you call us because we may want to come out and take fingerprints,” said Rogers. A record of fingerprints taken is also entered in a statewide computer network.
Stolen truck found;geology project periled
By PETER WONG News Editor
Most of the goods from a truck stolen Wednesday were recovered Thursday, morning, including a container of radioactive material and 20 cartons of computer punch cards. Several items—a refrigerator and geology equipment valued at $9.500—remain missing, however.
It is feared that the theft of the geology equipment will further delay a $33,000 project funded under the Sea Grant Program. The project, which is under the direction of Ronald Kolpack. research associate in the Geological Sciences Department in environmental geology, is designed to study the effects ofthe oil spill off Santa Barbara in January, 1969.
Not all the geology equipment was taken. The central recorder unit of a sonar receiver and transmitter, valued at $12,000, was not taken by the thief and
was delivered to the Geological Sciences Department.
However, the accessory equipment for the sonar receiver and transmitter, worth $9,500, was taken by the thief, who is believed by police to be trying to sell the equipment to electronic shops.
The sonar receiver and transmitter with a high-resolution profiler was to be used by the Geological Sciences Department for measuring the sea floor off Santa Barbara. Two of the four boxes containing the complete set were taken.
A spokesman for the department said the grant for the project is scheduled to expire in August, and it has taken two months for the equipment to be delivered to campus.
“If it takes another two months to replace the stolen equipment, then we won’t have the time to carry out the project,” the spokesman said.
The original theft took place
about 3 p.m. Wednesday, when Randy Shifman, a part-time student and the driver, parked the 1960 Chevrolet flatbed truck near the intersection of Hoover Street and Jefferson Boulevard and left the keys inside. The truck was double-parked. He was to have delivered the radioactive material to Gary Trump, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the School of Dentistry, for a research project.
But minutes later, the truck was stolen, and after a futile search by Campus Security, the Los Angeles Police Department was called in. Units from the department’s Southwest Division were dispatched to the area north of the campus in hopes of locating the truck.
However, at 4:30 a.m. Thursday, the truck was located somewhere within the department’s 77th Street Division, south of the campus. Police reports did not indicate exactly
where or at what time the truck was found.
Police searched for fingerprints on the truck, then sent it to Kaiser Tow at 8466 S. Figueroa St., where Central Receiving personnel checked for stolen items and drove the truck back to campus Thursday afternoon.
Both Los Angeles police and Campus Security officials said Wednesday night that the thief probably wanted the refrigerator on the truck and was apparently not aware of the other goods, including the radioactive material and the 20 cartons of computer punch cards. This has proven to be correct, for the refrigerator is still missing.
The radioactive material is tetracycline, an antibiotic, which will be used for a research project on root canal surgery. Trump explained that in modern-day dental practice, infected roots of a particular tooth may be removed, leaving
the tooth intact, instead of the extraction of an entire tooth.
When the roots are removed in surgery, tetracycline is inserted into the temporary hole as medication.
Trump said his project was designed to discover whether such antibiotics go into the root canals and through to the tissues of the gums.
The radioactive tetracycline, to be used only with the teeth of rats, was to indicate just where the medicine went after its insertion in the hole left after the surgery.
The material, which was in powder form weighing less than one milligram (not one milliliter, which a Los Angeles Police Department report indicates, was packaged in a cardboard box nine inches deep, six inches wide and six inches long. It was sent from Grass Medical Instruments in Quincy, Mass. and was estimated at $70.