University of Southern California	KUSC	may	get
DAILY®TROJAN grant, hire pros
VOL. LXIV NO. 112 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1972
A SHOT FOR THE MOVEMENT — Sharon Lockwood, alias "Sarah Bullitt, Feminist!!" is about to shoot Walter Pennybank, the elderly Chamber of Commerce president, (played by Jack Dowding) because he rejected women's demands for equal employment
rights. The San Francisco Mime Troupe came to campus Tuesday and presented "The Independent Female or A Man has His Pride!" as part of Women's Week. DT photo by Rivian Taylor.
Construction hampers parking
By SHANNON ALTER
Anyone who parks his car on 35th Street between the Women’s Complex and the new parking structure on Tuesdays or Thursdays during the next four weeks will have to go to a compound to pick it up.
“It will be necessary for the construction crew to operate several large cranes during that time,” said John Lechner. director of Campus Security and Parking Operations. “Cars will be towed away largely as a safety measure; if they are left there, there is a chance that a brick might be dropped on one of them.”
The street will also be closed on Monday and Wednesday nights to make sure every car is off the street by 6 a.m. the next day.
A chain will be put up across the entrance to the street both nights to prevent visitors who may not know about the order from parking there. Warning slips will also be placed on cars already there.
No cars were impounded on Tuesday, the first day the order was strictly enforced. The compound is at the intersection of 35th Street and McClintock Avenue.
For cinema students, who often park on the street in front of the Division of Cinema Building, the order poses a few inconveniences.
“It's harder to carry heavy equipment in and out
of the shop when you can’t park right in front of the department,” said Bob Shipp, a senior in cinema. “We’re allowed to park in Lot B, but there usually isn’t any room, so they send us all the way down to 35th Street and McClintock Avenue (Lot 31).
The lot is situated in the best place possible, parking-wise, Lechner said, but despite this, it has raised some concern among women in the dorms.
“Right now I can see why the street is closed—for safety reasons—but I also think it’s the university’s responsibility to find more parking places for the students who usually park here,” said Laura Kotsiris, Women’s Halls Association president.
“A lot of kids are late for classes because they can’t find a place to park. So they park in the red and then they get a ticket. It’s also dangerous for them to park too far away, especially at night.”
“Kids can take the tram to their cars at night if they’re unsure about the area and don’t mind being delayed 10 minutes,” said Lechner. “And as for more parking lots, we used to lease a lot directly across from campus on Figueroa. We couldn’t lease it during the summer and someone else bought it who doesn’t choose to lease the lot. We’re still watching the market, though.”
The university has applied for a $15,000 government grant for KUSC, and has agreed to match that grant with an equal amount. In addition, plans to hire professional management for the station have been announced.
The powers that management would have are not yet certain. “There is no clear determination at this time. That would have to be worked out,” said Roy J. Adamson, associate dean of University College and Summer Session.
The grant from the government is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The terms of the grant agreement would force the hiring of two full-time and two part-time employees.
“There is no reason why the persons hired could not be graduate students or recent graduates in telecommunications,” Adamson said.
Differences exist between Adamson’s view of the proposed managerial system and the view of present KUSC Program Director Steve Miller, who helped develop the plan submitted to the corporation.
The professional management proposal would lower the level of student control, said Miller, but it would provide that there will always be competent people to manage the station.
“The corporation would quite likely not give us the money if we didn’t hire management,” Miller said.
“The proposal for the grant was ready for four months. I went around trying to promote it. When I had almost given up, it was approved on the deadline day.” he said.
The professional management proposal came on the day a corporation executive came to visit the station. It is reported that he suggested professional management, and the proposal was developed shortly thereafter in a meeting and taken to the executive’s hotel room.
The university will match the grant with $15,000 if the money is awarded. The decision will be known Monday.
“When the representative of the corporation came out it didn't look like we had much chance of getting our grant.” said Miller. “But Dean Paul Hadley came to meet the man and said that a $15,000 matching grant had been OK’d, but only to be used if the grant was approved.”
“The plan will not freeze out the students,” Adamson said, although he admits that some decisions now made by students would be handled by permanent hired station personnel.
Adamson, in an interview, talked about keeping the executive staff ofthe radio station separate from the hired managers. The executive staff is made up of students appointed by the station manager subject to the confirmation of the general manager. Under this plan, the professionals would merely assist with students still making decisions.
Miller says this is not the case, and that a hired station manager or program director would take over the position described in the KUSC policy handbook.
“Students would still fill the positions of news director, public affairs director, and executive “Rapline” producer. Students would still exert control over blocks of programming,” Miller said.
Two years ago, the university changed the radio station from Telecommunication Department control to the control of the University College and Summer Session. Although the station would still be under that control, the move was made to preserve student operation of the station.
Editor forms available
Applications for the fall editorship of the Daily Trojan are available in Student Union 406.
The deadline for returning applications is Friday at noon.
Any student who will be a senior or graduate student in the fall is eligible to apply.
Candidates will be interviewed May 2 by the Journalism Council, a panel consisting of Daily Trojan editors, journalism faculty members, the university editor and two ASSC representatives. The council will recommend a candidate to President John Hubbard, who will make the appointment.
Chinese team gets protest, ovation
By MIKE REVZIN Staff Writer
The 32-man People’s Republic of China table tennis team delegation was greeted with a warm airport reception, received a thunderous ovation at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion, and had a bitter protest directed against it during the first day of its three-day stay here Monday.
The team arrived here from Memphis, Tenn., as part of a two-week tour of the United States that has taken it to six cities.
About 70 people, most of them Chinese, were waiting at the airport to greet the visitors. Many of the Americans waved Chinese flags, wore Mao buttons, and carried welcome signs.
One sign said: “Los Angeles Chinatown—Warm Welcome for our Brothers and Sisters.”
While waiting for the place to arrive many people joined in singing the modern revolutionary song “The East is Red,” one of the most popular songs in China today.
The Pan American jet taxied
in with a Chinese flag painted on one side of the open cockpit window and an American flag on the other.
The plane carried about 90 people, including security men, American ping-pong players, officials and newsmen.
The Chinese disembarked, wearing Mao suits of various shades of black or gray, and all had short hair.
Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, former governor of California, and others made brief welcoming speeches. Brown said, “The Chinese have played a great part in the history of California.”
Although all speeches were translated, the entire welcoming ceremony was brief.
When Chuang Tse-tung, head of the Chinese group, expressed his people’s appreciation, he gave special welcome to the overseas Chinese. Don Klein, an American host traveling with the Chinese, said he believes this is the first time the visitors made any reference to the Chinese in the United States.
Klein said he believes that security problems are responsible for the visitors not touring American Chinatowns.
About 20 American ping-pong players have been traveling with the Chinese team during its U.S. tour. Because of work commitments, some American players
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only travel to one or two cities, and then others take their places.
After a day-long tour of Disneyland today, the team will fly to San Francisco. From San Francisco, the team goes to Mexico for two weeks.
Monday afternoon, as the team toured Universal Studios, Klein said that there had been no major indicents or demonstrations. There have been minor incidents, said Klein, such as an
American speaker saying the incorrect name when referring to the People’s Republic of China.
That night, however, the largest protest of the team’s tour took place outside UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion.
The teams were already inside the Pavilion practicing when about 50 protestors began showing up around 6:30 p.m. but it is believed that the Chinese visitors saw none of the protest.
Most of the protestors were being led by the Rev. Carl Mcln-tire, the radio preacher, but they said they came individually and did not represent an organization.
Mclntire, who said his home is in Collingswood, N.J., has followed the Chinese visitors to every city on their U.S. tour, organizing demonstrations.
The protest outside the pavilion was larger than in any other city.
Although most of the protestors were middle-aged or elderly, there were a few young
Chinese in the group. Some said they were from Taiwan; at least one said he is an American.
The protestors marched in an oblong circle that stretched the length of one side of the pavilion. Earlier, some of them stood on the sidewalk of the nearby street, where they could be seen by passing table tennis match.
There were a few minor confrontations, such as when a woman waved a Chinese flag in front of one of the women protesting.
The woman opposing the picketer, who gave her name as Alexis Thompson of Hollywood, said, “These Christians make me ashamed I’m a Christian.”
When a protestor walked by carrying a sign that read. “We want our POWs, not ping-pong players.” someone shouted out, “We want tickets."
Every once in a while, people on both sides of the political spectrum paired off and argued on a one-to-one basis. A student carrying a Chinese flag spent a (Continued on page 5)