Daily Cip Trojan
university of southern californit los angeles, californit
PAT SCHOEDER
Representative begins women’s conference
Referendum vote approaches; proposal raises controversy
volume Ixv, number 113
Wednesday, april 25, 1973
A three-day conference on ‘‘Women in Public Life” began Tuesday with a noon speech in Hancock Auditorium by Rep. Pat Schroeder, one of 15 women members of the U.S. Congress, on the topic of “Women in Elective Office.”
Today’s keynote speaker, Abigail McCarthy, author and wife of Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.), will talk on “Women in Traditional Roles” at noon in Hancock Auditorium.
At 1:30 p.m. there will be a panel discussion in Hancock on committee women and women in civil service. Panel members will include Jean Westwood, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Romana Banuelos, United
States treasurer; Mary Lepper, director of the Executive Training Center; and Patt Hitt, assistant secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
A panel discussion on “Women in Law” will be presented at 3:30 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium. Members of the panel will be Joan Dempsey Klein, Municipal Court Judge; Roberta Ralph, president of the Women Lawyers’ Association; Ramona Ripston, Los Angeles director of the American Civil Liberties Union; and Fanchon Blake, a Los Angeles policewoman.
In the opening speech of the conference, Schroeder told many of the difficulties that accompanied her race
(Continued on page 5)
By Kevin McKenna
staff writer
Supporters of two of the seven governance proposals in next week’s referendum disagreed Wednesday on the basic issues involved in the student vote.
Joe Flanagan, president of commuter students, said that democratic representation of all living groups is essential and that only the commuter students’ proposal, the Union of Associated Students, is “diametrically opposed to elitism.”
Bruce Mitchell, an undergraduate representative on the Programming Board and backer of the Board of Representatives proposal, called the commuter plan sloppy and said the issues in the elections are programming, expertise, and unification.
The proposal would create a General Assembly consisting of a president, vice-president, representatives of the undergraduate classes, four representatives of commuter students, two from the dorms, one each from the Row and off-campus apartments, in addition to
two graduates and one foreign students.
“Historically, commuters have been rather ignored by student government,” Flanagan said. He said 47% of all undergraduates are commuters, as well as almost two-thirds of the graduate students.
“This proposal is most responsive to what students want,” he said. “It is not a divisive campaign, not an anti-Row or anti-dorm campaign. All we want is what we’ve always been denied.”
The Commuter proposal is the only proposal on the referendum that was not originally recommended by the student governance assembly in March. It was added after an initiative campaign received almost 400 signatures.
Flanagan accused the governance assembly of being representatives of the “establishment that runs student government now,” and said the Board of Representatives plan was specifically “an elitist proposal to keep the people in there who are up on the third floor.”
Mitchell denied that the Board of Representatives was an elitist proposal and criticized Flanagan’s plan.
"The ‘commuter proposal’ is a misnomer,” he said. “It does nothing more for commuters than any other proposal.”
“Their proposal was rejected by the assembly because it won't do what needs to be done,” he said. “Ours does.”
The Board of Representatives plan, supported by Mitchell and a group called the Committee for Student Rights, provides for six representatives from specific constituencies and seven at-large members.
"We’re not trying to perpetuate ourselves,” said Mitchell. “The channels to get on this board would not be closed. The majority would be elected at large.”
Mitchell and Flanagan both rejected the voluntary governance proposal supported by the Young Americans for Freedom. They said the lack of a mandatory student fee would wipe out most campus activities.
Congress approves supplemental bill for federal student aid funds
By Peter Wong
associate editor
WASHINGTON—Congress has approved a supplemental appropriations bill that will provide $872 million in federal student aid funds for 1973-74.
The measure also provides for an extra $468 million in veterans’ education and training benefits.
Although the student aid money is allocated in a different manner than he originally asked. President Nixon is expected, with some reluctance, to sign the bill into law, or at least let it become law without his signature.
He is not expected to veto the bill because it would further delay money for federal student aid programs.
Colleges and universities across the nation, including USC, have started to accept students for the coming academic year and must know how much money will be available from the federal government, so that their financial aid officers can tell new as well as current students how much money they can
expect.
Furthermore, the President will probably not veto the bill because it includes veterans’ benefits, and because the student aid money he asked for in the supplemental appropriations bill is the total he originally requested—and not a higher one.
The $872 million as approved by Congress is allocated mostly for current programs and not for the new Basic Opportunity Grants Program, for which Mr. Nixon had sought most of the money
. The bill provides $210.3 million for the Supplemental Opportunity Grants Program (formerly the Educational Opportunity Grants Program), $270.2 m.illion for the College Work-Study Program, and $269.4 million for the National Direct Student Loan Program. With carryover funds, the direct loan program will have a total of $293 million for
1973-74.
Only $122.1 million is allocated forthe basic grants program, authorized by the Education Amendments of 1972.
(Continued on page 5)
IN THE SPRING—Photographer Steve Wright's	impenetrable rooftop. Similar scenes were repeated
roving camera caught these unsuspecting coeds tak-;	on campus as Southland weather took a turn for
ing advantage of the sun in the privacy of their	the better last weekend.
Candida to premiere tonight at Stop Gap
George Bernard Shaw’s story of the emergence ofthe new woman, Candida, will be presented today through Saturday at 8 p.m. in Stop Gap Theatre.
Ticket prices are $1 on weeknights and $1.50 on Friday and Saturday.
Candida is the classic example of the marriage triangle that involves not only a battle of love, but also an intense struggle over the social, moral and political issues that were emerging in England in 1894.
At first, Candida, as the ideal wife and mother, is the product of Reverend James Maver Morell’s imagination, but she is transformed into a free-thinking and powerful emancipated woman when Eugene Marchbanks. an aristocratic boy-poet, challenges Morell’s imaginary marriage and ideological foundations by falling in love with Candida.
In the wild confusion. Candida emerges as the total opposite of the ideal wife, mother and lover.
"Zesty wit. biting satire, and a delight in the riches ofthe English language and thought characterize this flamboyantly styled and high-spirited comic-drama,” said Nathaniel Fuller.
Fuller is directing Candida as a partial completion of his master of fine arts degree.