volume Ixv, number 11 2
jesday, april 24, 1973
Daily (ftp Troian
university of southern California los angeles, California
A three-day conference examining “Women in Public Life” begins today with a noon speech by Rep. Pat Schroeder (D-Colo.) in Hancock Auditorium.
The conference will feature women who hold legislative, judicial and administrative posts.
There will be two panel discussions today. The first will be at 1:30 p.m. and will feature three city coun-cilwomen from the Los Angeles area. Pat Russell of Los Angeles, Clo Hoover of Santa Monica and Betty Wilson of Santa Fe Springs will participate in the program in Hancock Auditorium.
At 3:30 p.m. “Women and Winning Elections” will be discussed in Hancock Auditorium. Four women who are active in campaigns: Connie Friend, president of the Political Research Institute; Cathy O’Neill, a recent candidate for the State Senate; Arlie Scott, organizer for the presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm; and Ann Nielsen, campaign manager for Councilwoman Pat Russell, will participate.
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Schroeder, the featured speaker today, w?as elected to Congress in November from Colorado’s First District. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Minnesota in 1961 and received her law degree from the Harvard Law School in 1964.
She has been a field attorney for the National Labor Relations Board and a law instructor at three colleges in Colorado. She is married and has two children.
A dinner program will be held this evening at 5:30 in the Faculty Center. A slide show by Toni Carabillo from the National Organization of Women will be presented.
Wednesday’s feature speaker will be Abigail McCarthy, wife of former Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.)
examine public life
The day’s program will present “Women in Traditional Roles.” She will speak in Hancock Auditorium.
A panel at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Hancock will be concerned with committee women and women in civil service. The panelists will include Mary Lepper, director of the Executive Training Center; Patricia Reilly Hitt, assistant secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Romana Banuelos, United States treasurer; and Jean Westwood, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
“Women in Law” will be discussed at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in Hancock. Joan Dempsey Klein, Municipal Court Judge; Roberta Ralph, president ofthe Women Lawyers’ Associa-
tion of Los Angeles; Ramona Ripston, Los Angeles director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Fanchon Blake, a Los Angeles policewoman, will be members ofthe panel.
The dinner program for Wednesday will be held at 5:30 p.m. on the Row and will feature the Thank You Theater, an improvisational group.
Eleanor Holmes Norton ofthe New YorkCity Human Rights Commission will speak on “Women Seeking Social Change” at noon Thursday in Hancock.
The afternoon panels will feature Mickey Bodek, Women’s Equity Action League; Althea Scott, a talk-show hostess; and representatives of the National Organization of Women, the National Women’s Political Caucus, and the Los Angeles Women’s Liberation Union.
The final activity ofthe conference will be a dinner program Thursday evening in the residence hall dining room at 5:30 p.m. A film program will
also be presented.
Campaign begins for . student government vote
By Sarah Heck
staff writer
Final campaigning is underway this week for the May 1 and 2 student government referendum.
Students will be asked to vote on seven proposals for student government structures ranging from a nogovernment plan to a voluntary participation proposal.
Booths will be set up in four locations on campus. From 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. students can go to the walkway in front of the Administration Buildingto receive their ballot and vote.
Other voting locations will be in front of the law center, in the engineering complex and along University Avenue between Founders Hall and Waite Phillips Hall. Those will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p. m. both Tuesday and Wednesday.
Students desiring to vote will be given an information sheet summarizing each of the proposals. The summaries will be the official statements of the Election Commission and give a skeleton of each proposed government. The information sheet will appear in Wednesday’s Daily Trojan along with statements about each proposal from its supporting group.
In a further attempt to make students aware of the upcoming election a public forum to discuss the referendum will be held Monday at noon in the intersection of Child’s Way and University Avenue.
The Student Government Assembly will meet Saturday, May 5, at 10 a.m. to learn the result of the elections and iron out any problems
with the proposal. The meeting, open to all interested students, will be held in Student Activities Center 204.
From there the accepted proposal will be sent to a committee made up of members from the Programming Board, Election Commission, Student Affairs staff members and any interested students. These students will work over the summer to draft a constitution from the original proposal. The new constitution should be ready for student body vote by next fall.
The Election Commission, composed of Keith Keener, Pat Nolan and Mike Vi 1-leneuve, was set up to supervise the referendum. Each was interviewed by the Programming Board and worked through Easter vacation preparing for the referendum.
Budget requests for fall cut by programs board
By Kit Spalding
Budget requests for student-funded programs including the Experimental College, noon concerts and CACC projects were victims ofthe economic axe at a free-swinging marathon meeting of the Programming Board.
The pre-Easter meeting, one of the last before the board's charter expires on April 30, lasted nearly eight hours and resulted in a final budget of $83,444 for some 25 student-funded programs.
The existence of all the programs budgeted by the board, however, will be contingent on the continuance of the mandatory $4.50 student programming fee after after the May elections.
Most severely cut was the budget for academic and educational programs, including funds for the Experimental College, the Course Evaluation Guide, Stonecloud magazine, and the Forum for Student Awareness. It was reduced from requests of $17,820 to a final budget of $11,600.
Social and cultural programs, including budgets for noon concerts, Project Fasten, Commuter Students, International Students Festival and the Bitter Ashtray and other campus entertainment, was set at $6,629.
The most discussion came w ith the presentation of budget
requests for CACC, which funds about nine programs from
student funds, including a Troy Camp follow-up weekend at
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1,500 see Jane Fonda talk, hung in effigy
A crowd estimated at more than 1.500 gathered at Tommy Trojan on April 12. to hear Jane Fonda, and midway through her speech, turned to see her hung in effigy by the Young Americans for Freedom.
Fonda told her audience that although the war has now ended, they should continue to seek the truth about the way the w'ar was conducted.
She said she did not accuse all prisoners of war of lying, but said men who returned complaining of being shackled and living under inhuman conditions, “came off the planes looking like football players.”
As she spoke, the Young Americans for Freedom took a human-sized rag doll, spat upon it, called it “Jane,” and threw it
over a scaffold bar with a noose around its neck. Fonda continued her speech without making light of the incident.
Robert K. Dornan, former television commentator and an unsuccessful candidate for Los Angeles mayor, attempted to engage Fonda in debate by yelling at her from behind the podium.
When a scuffle appeared imminent, Dornan ceased yelling.
Dornan was then led to the scaffold and, with the aid of a megaphone, continued to yell at Fonda from the scaffold platform. Fonda still did not recognize Dornan, and when asked in a question period if she would debate Dornan, she said, “Let him get his own audience.”
DT photo by Michael Sedano