trojan
Volume LXXXIX. Number 45
University of Southern California
Thursday, November 20, 1980
BALL SALUTES 205 YEARS
Marines toasts corps ’ birthday
By Laura Horton
If it had not been for their uniforms, one might never have guessed they were Marines, especially since they spent most of their time saying "Happy Birthday" to each other.
But the Marines' military training and traditions became more obvious later that evening as university ROTC students celebrated the 205th birthday of their service at the formal Marine Corps Birthdav Ball last Friday in the Faculty Center.
The Marine Corps was founded Nov. 10, 1775, and the Birthdav of the Corps is officially and socially celebrated in a traditional ceremony bv Marines throughout the world, according to midshipman David W. Thompson.
"The spirit of the evening is dedicated to 205 years of devotion to duty, self-sacrifice, versatility, dependability and loyalty to Country and Corps," Thompson said.
Officially, the Birthday Ball is a formal affair predictated on tradition. Socially, the evening is very lively.
The schedule of the evening is strictly enforced by the Vice President of the Mess, David L. Kensinger, who is the youngest Marine at the university. For the evening Kensinger was known as Mr. Vice.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the bar is open," Mr. Vice shouted at exactly 7 p.m.
During the cocktail hour, all midshipmen, who dressed in their dinner dress blues, were expected to introduce themselves and their ladies to the honored guest. President James H. Zumberge and the President of the Mess, David W. Thompson, the highst ranking mid shipmen.
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HAL LINDSAY
Author Lindsay warns world heading to disaster
By Jerrold Dale
Staff Writer
"We are on a countdown with disaster," warns Hal Lindsey’, author of The Late Great Planet Earth.
Lindsey was at Bovard Auditorium Wednesday to speak and to promote his latest book. The 1980s: Countdoum to Armageddon.
Repeating many of the thoughts presented in his book, Lindsey said mankind faces three unique perils that threaten to destroy civilization.
First is the combination of massive famine and tremendous population growth. "No other generation has had that problem," Lindsey said.
Second is pollution. The waste products from nuclear power have a life expectancy of at least 500 years, he said, posing a threat to, "this and the next generation."
And finally there is the threat of nuclear warfare. "There is evidence that the Soviet Union has 100 megaton warheads on their intercontinental ballistic missiles," Lindsey said. "If one of these missiles were set off at San Bernardino, it would wipe out everything from San Diego to Santa Barbara and east to Barstow."
Lindsey said the fight for raw materials by industrial nations might set off a nuclear war. "If you honestly look at the conditions you, can see that we're running out of time," Lindsey said. "Man is heading towards a catastrophe."
After listing the dangers mankind faces, Lindsey described how he became interested in biblical prophecy.
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Row magazine to get funding
$2,875
By John Lamb
Staff Writer The Greek-oriented magazine Trojan Columns will receive $2,875 from the academic assembly budget to help pay for the magazine's first issues, chairmen for the policy’ and audit boards said Tuesday.
Dianna Amorde, chairman of the audit board division of the student programming teams, said the decision to allocate the funds to the magazine was made Nov. 5 (a Nov. 7 Daily Trojan article incorrectly stated the programming team was still arguing the fate of the allocation).
When discussing the allocation, questions arose whether the magazine actually fulfilled the requirements set forth by the policy board. Both of the boards, Amorde said, agreed that Trojan Columns had fulfilled the requirements.
"The audit board, along with the policy board, decided that Trojan Columns did not violate any by-laws or stipulations and, therefore, will receive the funding for which it applied," Amorde said.
Tim Henry, chairman of the policy board, agreed. "(The policy board) felt the stipulations we assigned to the Intraf-ratemity Council (sponsors of the magazine) concerning Trojan Columns were carried through in spirit," he said.
The stipulations were that the Intrafratemity Council publish a magazine for the university at-large about Greek life and distribute it throughout the university.
"The board was of the opinion that the Row deserved a publication, since the students on the Row make up one-third of the undergraduate population," Henry explained.
Amorde said another error in the Nov. 7 article was that the $2,875 was used only for the first issue, implying that Trojan Columns was a one-time effort.
"You have to realize that the money went toward setting up a magazine publication, not just for a one-shot issue o f a
allocated for first issues
magazine," Amorde said.
"Trojan Columns is an ongoing endeavor. They just needed money to start the publication."
Glenn Wilk, editor of Trojan Columns, said the next issue of the bimonthly publications would appear in kiosks and other distribution points on Dec. 8.
"We've already sold three-fourths of the advertising space for the December issue, and we are totally self-supported by the advertising we have recieved,"
Wilk said.
The editor also said any money left over from the first issue's revenues would be put into the second issue. "It may be only $50, but every little bit
helps."_
Board chairman explains structure of program team
Although the program team is repsonbile for distributing the money collected from the $7 programming fee students pay each semester, few students know how it operates.
Some students, for example, questioned how Tro/an Columns had been supported with these funds.
Kim McAlpin, one of the chairmen on the program team, explained how the programming fee is filtered down to various organizations. This semester the team distributed $164,000.
The program team consists of a five-member policy board, a seven-member audit board and a 13-member program board.
The policy board makes the policies for the program team and decides which organizations fall into one of eight programming assemblies: academic, Asian-American, black student, campus-wide entertainment, Chicano student, recreational and dub sport, international and service. These eight assemblies are the groups which get the university programming dollars.
The organizations in the assemblies decide among themselves how to devide the money.
The audit board is responsible for monitoring assembly budgets, impounding funds if necessary and managing budget ratification hearings.
A representative from each assembly is on the program board in addition to five core members from the university at large.
The Student Senate selects the members of all boards after conducting interviews and reviewing applications in the spring.
Because of some confusion stemming from the Nov. 7 article , both board chairs stressed the importance of letting student population know exactly from the programming team operates and money is distributed.
"The policy and audit boards do not allocate funds to individual organizations within the eight assemblies,” Amorde said, "but allocate a lump sum to each assembly to be divided up among the organizations after discussion — and haggling"
A lump sum of $12,500 was given to the academic assembly, Amorde said, and was split up ammong the individual