University of Southern California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 99
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1972
Socialism talk set
Howard E. Kershner. founder of the Christian Freedom Foundation and editor of its monthly journal, Christian Economics, will speak at noon Monday, in the Student Activities Center.
His talk will center around his latest book, “Dividing the Wealth/’ in which he cites fallacies he sees in the theories of socialism and foretells the ultimate failure of socialistic schemes.
Kershner studied economics at Harvard University and retired from business activities in 1938. In that year he became executive vice-president of the International Commission for the Relief of Refugee Children in Europe. He also organized and was president of the Committee on Food for Europe’s Children.
His work led to his appointment as special representative of the secretary-general of the United Nations where he sought grants for the U.N. Children’s Emergency Fund. He was on the first board of directors of CARE.
Kershner has received seven international awards for his work, including the French Legion of Honor. He is currently on a speaking tour.
Kershner is sponsored by the ASSC Forum for Student Awareness, the University Conservative Forum and Young Americans for Freedom.
Seats still available for ‘Fritz the Cat’
All of the Division of Cinema’s film conference panel discussions have been sold out. but there are still tickets available for the film premieres tonight and Saturday night and for the student films showing on Sunday.
Tonight’s film is “Fritz the Cat.” the first X-rated cartoon. Steve Krantz. its producer, will be at the premiere.
“Culpepper Cattle Company” will be shown Saturday night. Its director. Dick Richards, will be present.
Sunday night’s showing will consist of new student films from Southern California film schools, including many from USC.
Tickets for the films tonight and Saturday night cost $2 each, and for Sunday night's films. $1. The movies will begin at 7:30 in
Zinn speech rescheduled
Howard Zinn. radical historian and antiwar activist, was scheduled to speak today in Bovard but was forced to cancel his appearance because of illness.
He was to speak as part of a conference on radical politics sponsored by the ASSC.
Zinn's appearance has been rescheduled for April 21 at noon, with the location to be arranged.
The conference will continue Tuesday at noon when Marcus Raskin, codirector of the Institute of Policy Studies in Washington. D.C., speaks in Bovard.
Bovard Auditorium on all three nights.
Tickets may be purchased from 6 to 7:30 p.m. through Sunday at Bovard, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Division of Cinema today, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., also today, at Edison Auditorium in Hoffman Hall. Students and faculty must present ID cards.
The first panel today, at 10 a.m.. will discuss the question of who goes to the movies and why. Robert Radnitz. producer, will speak. The second panel, at 1:30 p.m.. will focus on the economics of survival.
The 3:30 p.m. panel, which will discuss “The Art of Survival,” includes Rouben Mamoulian, director, as topic speaker. Peter Bogdanovich, director of “The Last Picture Show.” and Ernest Tidyman. who wrote “Shaft" and "The French Connection.”
The 10 a.m. panel on Saturday will discuss the technology of survival. The 1:30 p.m. panel, which includes Charles Cham-plin and Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times and John Russel Taylor, a London Times critic, will talk about critics and the symbiosis of survival.
The last Saturday panel, at 3:30 p.m., will discuss young film-makers and the future. All the panel members are filmmakers.
The final panel of the conference will be at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. Entitled “The Techniques of Survival,” it will feature panelists from earlier sessions who will correlate and summarize the proceedings of the conference.
Physician favors abortion
By JENNIE TROMBLE
“Survival depends on us controlling the population,” Dr. Boyd Cooper said Thursday in his speech, “Sex Without Tears,” sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
An advocate of voluntary population control, the obstetrician-gynecologist is currently conducting a nationwide tour to implement legislative reform in abortion laws.
“In the primitive age the average female had an average of 16 pregnancies. Eight of those babies lived past the first year and only two of those lived long enough to repreduce.
“That was all right when tfye world was hostile and many people had to reproduce in order to get a few to survive. But now the population has to decrease in order for the race to survive,” the doctor warned the small crowd in Hancock Auditorium.
One way of controlling the population, the doctor suggested, was to not harass those who don’t want children.
“People tend to think it is the duty of every female to reproduce. As soon as a couple marries, relatives start asking when they are going to start a family. If they say ‘no, they’re not going to start one,’ they are called selfish,” Cooper told his audience.
Society dictates that it is not normal for people to be married without having children later, the obstetrician said.
Cooper has been a obstetrician-gynecologist for 15 years, and has performed over 3,000 abortions.
He said that seeing these women and their problems has changed his attitudes towards abortion.
“There are few tragedies as bad as unwanted children. They are burdens that many people can't cope with,” Cooper said.
The doctor gave such examples of unwanted children as the many battered children in hospitals and the many young heroin addicts.
Abortion is not murder in the legal sense, which says that a person is a legal human at the time of the live birth. In a country that believes in separation of religion and state the religious aspects of the case should not be elevated over the legal aspects. Cooper said.
"I am not an expert in the souls of unborn babies.
I have less concern for the hereafter than the here and now. It is less evil to remove a fetus then to warp a woman who is not ready for motherhood.” Cooper told the audience.
“The idea that abortion marks the woman psychologically is vastly overrated. Most take the experience well. In the first few months of pregnancy, the mother doesn’t think ofthe fetus as being alive. If the fetus is taken quickly and simply in the early months there is little loss.
If people are given the chance to limit their families and are allowed to live the kind of lives they want I believe we will have fewer children. So many people have babies because of outside
pressures, and not because of their wants and
needs.”
INJUNCTION STILL SOUGHT
Gay lib suit postponed
Tuition battlers seek aid
The Tuition Action Committee, a group of law students seeking to roll back the scheduled tuition increase, is looking to the Row and the ASSC for financial support.
The committee is currently bringing two suits against the university. One is in the state courts for breach of implied contract; the second is in federal courts alleging breach ofthe Economic Stabilization Act of 1970.
The law students have already contributed $250 for attorney’s fees and court costs. However, a minimum of $400 more is needed.
Members of the Tuition Action Committee will be visiting the various chapter executives individually hoping to collect $30 from each house to meet the expenses.
Receipts will be issued for money given. If the suit is never brought to court because of an early settlement, donations will be returned wherever possible.
While the great majority of the reaearch and clerical work involved is being handled by the members of the committee itself, legal aid has been obtained from outside the university.
Jack Levine, a labor attorney of Levy and Van Burg, has been retained to represent the students, both in court and in further negotiations with the university.
By MIKE REVZIN Staff Writer
A legal technicality delayed the Gay Liberation Forum’s attempt Thursday to receive a preliminary injunction against the university in a Los Angeles County Superior Court, but the forum will return to court Monday.
Seven members of the forum and their attorney from the American Civil Liberties Union were told in court Thursday that they lacked a legal form known as an order to show cause.
This form must include sufficient evidence to warrant the issuing of a preliminary injunction. sometimes called a temporary restraining order. Without this, the case could be dismissed without the university contesting it, explained H. Russell Hal-pern, the attorney representing the forum.
If the temporary restraining order is issued, the university would be forced to allow the forum to use campus facilities until a trial over a permanent injunction is held The Board of Trustees, at a meeting of April 14. 1971, denied recognition to the forum and banned it from campus facilities.
The forum is basing its case on two main points. One is the rights of freedom of speech and assembly in the First Amendment to the Constitution. The second is a violation ofthe Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities which the Board of Trustees ratified in April 1969. The suit alleges, “as a result of defendants’, wrongful conduct ... the members of the Gay Liberation Forum . . . individually, have suffered great humiliation and mental suffering.”
Six members of the forum went to the office of Carl M. Franklin, vice-president for financial and legal affairs, Thursday at 9 a.m. to notify the uni-
versity that the forum would be in court that afternoon seeking a temporary restraining order. Franklin declined to comment.
Two attorneys representing USC were waiting at the courtroom when the forum attorney arrived. They were Leonard E. Castro and Michael W. Conlon of Musick, Peter and Garrett.
The forum filed a complaint against the university on March 29. A summons will be issued next week, said Halpern. and the university will have 30 days from the date of summons to reply.
Halpern said he suspects that if a preliminary injunction is granted, the university will grant recognition to the forum rather than fight a court battle.
Larry Bernard, a forum member, said he would prefer to fight a court battle. Although gay student groups have been granted recognition on some other campuses across the country, this would be the first time a suit involving a private university has taken place.
John Jacobson Jr., an undergraduate student and forum officer, said, “We have no recourse but the courts. We must
show the trustees that there is a higher authority than them, that USC is still part of the United States, and that the Constitution and the laws of this country apply there as well.”
Halpern believes that precedent is on the side of the forum. “Last year Superior Court Judge William Gallagher ruled that Sacramento State College could not bar the Society for Homosexual Freedom,” he said.
The ruling stated, “... refusal to let it register as a student organization violated students’ rights of free speech.”
Del Whan, a forum member, said to those who deny the forum recognition, “If you dare to look at us, you will see that we are not crazy, we are not monsters. If you dare to look, you will see that we act and speak and look just like everyone else ... just like you. And that is why the university and people in general do not want to recognize that gays exist.”
“It is frightening to people to see their myths and stereotypes of gays shattered. It is much safer to deny recognition, to become blind and deaf to new (Continued on page 3)
DELAYED AND DISGUSTED — A legal technicality held up the Gay
Liberation Forum's suit for recognition against the university Thursday. Members of the group, from left, are John Jacobson, Larry Bernard and Mike Bennett, chairman. DT photo by Tony Korody.