Antidraft rally staged complete with peace signs, TV cameras
$5 million settlement bill for med school approved
By Roger Gray
Staff Writer
A claims appropriation bill, which could bring the university $5 million for the medical school, was approved by the State Assembly Thursday, after being delayed by a controversial claim against the state by seven state employees and university professors.
Senate Bill 1252 passed with the aid of an amendment authored by Assemblywoman Teresa Hughes, which set the claims of the employees aside from other claims in the bill, said Houston Flournoy, vice-president for Governmental Affairs.
The amendment, designed to ease passage of the claims bill containing the university's claim against the state, passed several weeks ago.
Although one legislator requested reconsideration of the amendment Thursday, the request was withdrawn and Hughes reintroduced the amended claims bill. The bill passed 55 to 10, Flournoy said from Sacramento.
'Teresa Hughes was very helpful," he said.
The bill must now go back to the State Senate for reapproval in its amended form, then to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature.
Flournoy said he was "about 90% sure" the Senate would give its concuirence.
The university's claim is for $5 million as compensation for improvements made in the medical school in anticipation of money from a state program declared unconstitutional.
The seven state employees and professors asked for $25,000 each as compensation they claim they suffered some years ago by refusing to sign the Levering Oath, a state loyalty oath, also declared unconstitutional.
The two claims are not related, except that they were both aproved by the state board of controls near the same time and wound up in SB 1252.
The Levering Oath claims met strong resistance in the Senate. The bill came up twice for final approval and twice failed to receive the 54 votes necessary for approval, Flournoy said.
Thus, the university wanted to see the claims oath considered separately from the other claims so they would be approved.
A small group of senators wanted to "piggyback" the oath claims on the others, perceiving that as the only way they could get the claims passed.
The university's claim stemmed from a 1973 state contract designating the Student Aid Cpmmission to pay the medical school and other universities $12,000 per year for each medical student enrolled above normal enrollment for a five-year period.
Stanford, as well as the university, increased medical school enrollment and built the necessary expansions. The universities were paid for the first two years, but in
1976	the aid was denied because the program was found to violate the state constitution on funding of private institutions.
CAMPUS APATHY
Protest experienced difficulties
By Amy Luther
Although the turnout at yesterday's antidraft rally was not as large as those held at other universities in Western states, rally organizers were pleased with the results and said the response exceeded their expectations. The organizers had to be pleased, however, because their efforts to start a university antidraft campaigh have been plagued by money problems and student apathy.
USC Students Against the Draft, the sponsor of the rally, is part of a nationwide coalition called CARD — Coalition Against Registration and the Draft — that claims 180 individual organizations with 2,500 members nationwide.
Students Against the Draft is also part of a university coalition that includes MEChA and the Trojan Democrats. The coalition started out with
70	members but slowly dwindled until yesterday's rally. United only by their opposition to registration and the draft, and in most cases by their draft age, the group members are strong in conviction and enthusiasm even though their efforts to stir protest were apathetically met by the student body and its own members.
The university coalition has attempted to hold rallies before, but rain or poor planning cancelled the efforts.
Money was also one of itsmain problems even though it had solicited donations earlier this year. The group had already received money
from MEChA and the Trojan Democrats but both organizations had funding problems of their own and were unable to donate any more money to the cause. A few Students Against the Draft members discussed using their own money to fund the rally.
At a recent meeting to plan yesterday's rally, four of the 70 listed members attended — two women and two men. The four seemed disappointed and discouraged that not even their leader had shown up, and embarrassed by the presence of a Daily Trojan reporter.
The four students seemed to be very politically aware and concerned about world issues other than the draft. All are 18 years old. They discussed where they might stir support. They wanted to approach people in the dorms since many of them are of draft age.
A teach-in sponsored by the group Wednesday designed to give students information about registration drew 15 people. Draft lawyers and American Civil Liberties Union members were there to answer students' questions.
The recent lack of interest at the university was not unusual. . When President Carter first made his draft proposal, demonstrations and antidraft organizations sprang up on hundreds of campuses across the country, but as the urgency died down, so did the protests.
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flashing two-fingered "peace signs" at cameras and fellow students sat on the grass behind the Student Activities Center to listen to six draft opponents speak.
There were even picket signs but this time they were pro-draft.
Members of the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP), holding placards that read "No draft means no peace" and "Unfortunately, we need the draft" were sprinkled throughout the crowd.
One CARP member, when asked to comment on her view, evidently expressed on the sign she held, could not explain what it meant because she was "new to the country and didn't know English well."
Another sign-holder, however, camt to her rescue.
"There is no real freedom," said Gil Phillips, a member of CARP, suggesting students should accept draft registration. "Freedom and freedom movements are only temporary. The worst thing we can do is be passive."
Occasionally a speaker referred to the CARP members, but basically the crowd and CARP members ignored each other throughout the hour and a half rally.
Though the crowd occasionally cheered after certain speakers' remarks, the general mood was subdued but enthusiastic. Television cameras from local stations wandered about the crowd along with radio reporters.
Rally organizers encouraged the crowd to sign antidraft petitions. Some students collected petitions to distribute the sheet themselves.
Jerry Condon, a Vietnam veteran who was a Green Beret, was the first speaker on the program.
"Most Americans have to be forced — or tricked — into an unjust war," Condon said. He charged that the new draft would be for invasions of small, poor countries and President Carter is purposely trying to accelerate anti-Soviet hysteria to justify the draft.
"Minority Americans — now 35% of the military — will have to be forced to do the dirty work in Africa, Latin America or Asia," Condon continued.
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By Kathy McDonald
Staff Writer
"The last time I spoke here was a decade ago," said Sam Hurst, staff director of the Campaign for Economic Democracy and past student body president of the university, Thursday at the first antidraft rallv held here since the Vietnam War.
"I was barefoot and had hair down to
here," Hurst said, gesturing toward his waist.
Hurst, wearing a brown tie, white shirt and tan jacket looked more conservative than the protesting student of a decade ago, but apparently had not lost any of his anger for "American imperialism."
Hurst still opposes the draft as an imperialist move on the part of the United
States. In his talk, he deplored United States aid in establishing "two-bit dictators in repressive regimes," America's unproportioned consumption of energy and seeming reluctance, even at the university, to explore alternate sources of energy.
But shades of the 60s could be seen as about 400 students, many of them sporting long hair, clad in jeans and
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DEBATE — Two students, David Streeter (left) and John Koss (right) argue over the draft Thursday at a campus antidraft rally.