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Volume LXXXIX, Number 27	University of Southern California	Thursday, October 23, 1980
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Staff photo by Hugh Robinson
CRUSADE — A student group stresses the need for a president ‘willing to fight the communists" in front of Bovard See story page 6.
Noted cartoonists thrive on negative reactions
Bv Kathy McDonald
Assistant City Editor
Everv morning, Paul Conrad and Karl Hubenthal sit before their respective blank drawing boards, contemplating world issues. Hours later, a biting political cartoon is completed And almost invariably, the next day, comments pour in. Most of the people who replv are angered bv the cartoon.
“You need reaction. If everyone thinks you're great, you're not doing an effective job,'' said Hubenthal, political cartoonist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Hubenthal and Conrad spoke Tuesday night before students and journalists at the Los Angeles Press Club.
Conrad, who works for the Los Angeles Times, agreed that reaction is what the cartoonist seeks.
"The function of a cartoonist is to make a statement, a stronger statement than appears in editorials. Most editorials don’t sav anything," he said.
"No matter how good the drawing is, if it doesn't say anything, it's just wasted space."
Most of the time, making a powerful statement involves stepping on a few toes. But Conrad feels no remorse for the bruised feelings or egos of the public figures he caricatures.
"The only error 1 ever made is that I didn’t get the son of a bitch hard enough," he said
Sometimes the person criticized will be so incensed by the drawing that he will take legal action.
“I've been sued a couple of times," Conrad said casually. The Times won the cases, one of which went to the Supreme Court.
But on other occasions the person lampooned requested the original drawing.
Drawing effective daily cartoons is not easy work, however. It requires much research and an extensive knowledge of world events and problems. Both cartoonists have been stumped at times. Sometimes thev have ripped up a drawing and started all over.	(Continued on page 16)
Row upset by TV profile
Program called ‘melodramatic’
By Karen Klein and Roger Gray
Recent media coverage of racism within university fraternities and sororities elicited strong reaction Wednesday from students on the Row.
A Monday night segment of the KNXT television magazine Two on the Toicn focused on racial discrimination among university Greeks, and an article on a university anti-racism class appeared on the front page of Wednesday's View section in the Los Angeles Times.
W'hile students said the newspaper article did not bother them much, the coverage bv Two on the Town did.
"That TV show really bugged me,” said a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Mark Tober, president of SAE, said the show seemed "melodramatic.’"'They started off with a shot of a bonfire, which I guess was supposed to evoke the KKK or something, and ended with a picture of this confederate flag waving.
"I think people realize discrimination is an issue here, but it isn't being presented right," he said.
The show picked unobjective people to be interviewed, Tober said.
Members of Delta Delta Delta sororitv got particular upset because the show reportedly used film footage of their house, as well as a picture of the group from last year's yearbook.
"They made comments about the Row while showing our house and our picture," said Cindy Gratz, Tri-Delt president. "They didn't get anybody's permission to use our picture and thev didn't let anyone rebut the claims they made about the Row," she said.
Terry Castle, production secretary' for
Two on the Town, said they tried to present a balanced show.
"1 thought it was really well done, it just made a statement that there was a problem. It didn't make any judgments," Castle said. "We're not 60 minutes: we're a public affairs show."
Further, the show tried to cooperate with requests that individual houses not be identified bv eliminating some shots that showed house logos, Castle said
Some Greeks said the program and news story misrepresented the Row. while others said they did not feel racism was greater on the Row than elsewhere at the university.
"People look at numbers, not at attitudes," said Diane Spaeter, a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority.
“I knew a girl who claimed she couldn't get in a sorority because she was Jewish But really she didn't get in because she just wasn't verv likable, " she said.
"People want to retain the stereotype that sororities are 'WASPv' bigots whose parents have a lot of monev. You can deny (that racism exists) until you’re blue in the face, but it's like fighting a losing battle," Spaeter said.
Some SAEs seemed to feel the media attacked the Row.
"The Row is like a club. Sometimes when people can't get in it they're bitter," one SAE said.
"You've got to be able to fit into a house. If a pledge doesn't fit in, he's unhappy and the other members are unhappy," Tober said.
Further, media attention on the racism issue might force fraternities and sororities to take in token minorities, a process that would defeat the group's purpose to accept those with common interests, Tober said.
PLANTS CALLED LEMONS
Physicist attacks nuclear power
By Darren Leon
Staff Writer
"It's like the Three Stooges. Curly pushes the wrong button, Moe hits him with a pie and Larry exposes the reactor core.
"This is the type of operation that's being run," said Michio Kaku, a professor of physics, :n a anti-nuclear speech at Founder's Flail W'ednesdav.
"Nuclear power is an unfinished technology, but it's profitable.''
Kaku showed several formerly classified documents and old newspaper clippings that chronicled the United States' poor relationship with nuclear power.
Kaku, the first anti-nuclear physicist allowed to visit Three Mile Island nuclear plant after its accident, has toured college campuses, debated on national television and authored several articles on the dangers of nuclear power.
Kaku's speech was sponsored by the La Raza Law Student Association, the Asian-American Law Student Association and the National Lawyers Guild.
Kaku gave several examples of faulty construction, failed safety measures and poor waste disposal practices.
"A reactor vessel was put in backwards and for seven
months went unnoticed," Kaku said.
"There is also a problem with the Argonaut, a reactor located in Florida. Its cooling system is rigged to the men's urinal, so when its flushed, they have less water to cool the reactor," Kaku said.
Many nuclear plants have
had problems with their cooling systems. At a Wisconsin nuclear plant the cooling system was connected to a drinking fountain.
"Workers were drinking raw radioactive water from the fountain. The management that studied the S’tuation consid-(Continued on page 81
MICHIO KAKU