Preliminary priorities statement released
By RIVIAN TAYLOR
Editor
A preliminary statement on what priorities the university should aim for in the next ten years has been released this week by a special task force established by the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning.
The statement, entitled “General Aims for the Next Decade for the University of Southern California." is being distributed to the entire university community in an attempt to create a campus-wide debate on the merits of the proposal, before it is formally submitted.
“A fundamental academic policy is being offered for general campus discussion before it is adopted rather than after-
For the full text of the priorities statement please see page six.
wards,” said David Malone, chairman ofthe University Committee, which authored the preliminary statement.
The priorities statement suggests specific directions the university should move toward in meeting the goals of "A Priority for the ’70s.” a master plan announced by the university almost two years ago. (In this general plan the university had
committed itself to achieving greater excellence in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and in the Graduate School. The Board of Trustees recently reaffirmed its commitment to fulfilling “A Priority for the ’70s.”)
“We have tried to map the roads that will lead the university to fulfillment of the announced priority,” Malone said.
The basic purpose behind the committee's proposal is to insure that by the 1980s USC is very much oriented to the future rather than to the past, Malone said. Or, he explained, to make
sure the university is a couple of steps ahead of change in both its education and research programs.
“The essential thrust of the preliminary statement is that priorities should be assigned to those plans and programs that look to the future, rather than those which seek to continue or compete with ‘academic excellence’ as it has been defined in the past or is measured in the present,” Malone said.
Malone, who is also chairman of the Comparative Literature Department, stressed that the preliminary statement is a work-
ing paper which is a long way from being recommended as policy.
He said the priorities committee hopes there will be general campus discussion of the proposal for the next couple of months. Most of the feedback is expected to be in the form of written responses which can be sent to the University Committee on Priorities in the Office of Academic Planning, Administration 154.
In May a series of open meetings will be held on the preliminary statement and on the basis of those discussions.
Antiwar activist will talk of Vietnam peace
By RICHARD SIMON Staff Writer
Stephanie Coontz, a National Peace Action Coalition coordinator and antiwar activist, will discuss ‘‘Peace in Indochina in 1972?” at 3 p.m. today in the Fishbowl Room ofthe Religious Center. The speech is sponsored by the Student Mobilization Committee. Youth for McGovern and Forum for Student Awareness.
An organizer of the first teach-in against the war at Berkeley in 1965, Coontz is presently coordinating antiwar demonstrations in New York and Los Angeles for April 22. They are planned to climax protest activities throughout the world for “World Peace Week” from April 15-22.
The participating peace groups believe the demonstrations will have the effect of bringing the Vietnam War to the forefront of election business.
“The war is still the primary issue that affects the American people,” Coontz said After holding discussions last month with Vietnamese negotiators in Paris, she said the press hascreated an illusion that the Vietnam War is winding down.
“In only the first two months of 1972. President Nixon has ordered more bombing raids against North Vietnam than the total bomb tonnage in 1971,” Coontz said.
The National Peace Action Coalition is confident that when the truth emerges about the continued escalation ofthe war. Coontz said, the American people will join in demanding an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.
In an interview last Friday. Coontz said college campuses aren’t in a lackadaisical or apathetic period “Campuses are beginning to understand that the antiwar movement has accomplished a lot,” she said.
Coontz feels college students are reevaluating their efforts of the sixties. “If Nixon keeps on breaking promises, we’ll see a tremendous resurgence on campuses.”
Unfair labor practices charged to university
University of Southern California
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VOL. LXIV NO. 93 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1972
Two arrested for theft
By MARY ANN GALANTE Associate City Editor
The university will defend itself against charges of engaging in unfair labor practices at a hearing today before the National Labor Relations Board.
The charges involve violation of the Taft Hartley Act for restraining employees' attempts to organize an electricians’ union on campus.
They were originally filed by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. AFL-CIO. after two members of the Operations and Maintenance staff signed affidavits against the university.
The specific charges are as follows:
•	Don Cross, electrical shop foreman, while acting as an agent of the university questioned an employee about union sentiments and activities of other employees.
•	Cross promised benefits in exchange for information.
•	Cross asked an employee to sign a petition withdrawing his support from the Union.
William Emanuel, labor relations attorney for USC, said the university will deny the charges.
“Under some circumstances, what is charged by the union could be illegal*” said Emanuel. “The university takes the posi tion that the charges are false. They simply didn't happen.”
Cross could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Renato J.	Dellarocca,
National Labor Relations Board attorney who will be presenting the case against USC, was also unavailable.
Jamie Maytorena, former O&M worker, one of the two employees who originally signed affidavits against the university, claims the trouble began over a year ago when nine members of the USC electrical shop signed pledge cards to have the union represent them.
“O&M applied pressure to block the electrical union,” said Maytorena. “They got rid of one of the organizers by laying him off. Then they applied subtle pressure to me until I finally quit."
Maytonrena said four electrical shop employees who supported unionization were denied salary raises. “The university used threats to make us renege our union pledge cards,” he added.
Eugene Miller, attorney for the electricians’ union, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
The hearing will be held beforeatrial examinerat 10a.m. in the Labor Relations Board office. While the hearing should be completed tomorrow, the examiner’s decision is not expected for a few months
Both USC and the union have the right to appeal the decision to the Labor Relations Board in Washington, D C.
By LAURINDA KEYS News Editor
A former employee ofthe Com-munity Center and one other man were arrested Friday night for robbing a student’s purse. Lloyd George Ridgeway, 18, the former employee, and Perry Love, 22, were apprehended by Campus Security within five minutes after the robbery but were later released by the Los Angeles Police Department.
A cinema student who did not want to be identified said she was working in a corner of the sound stage in the Cinema Department at about 5 p.m. Friday, when two men entered and began snooping around. “I knew they had no business there,” she said. “They opened the door of the projection room and I told them no one could go in there.”
The two men then left and she went into the office for about 30 seconds. “When I came back out, I just checked my purse and sure enough my wallet was gone. I immediately called Campus Security, gave them a pretty good description and told them
they were still around.”
The student said she told other students to help look around. Then she got a call back from Campus Security for a more detailed description but as she was talking, they told her two suspects had just been apprehended. “It was so fast. It was just like immediate.” she said.
Campus policeman Barry DeForest was patrolling in his car when he got the call. He went to Founders Hall and saw two men who fit the description. Two other officers arrived to help him and he found a girl’s checkbook in Love’s pocket with the victim’s name on it.
The two men were taken to Campus Security headquarters
where three of the student’s credit cards were found in one of Love's boots.
The student said Campus Security called her at 10 p.m. and told her the police department had let the suspects go. "I called them back to find out why,” she said.
“They said it was some technicality. The men couldn't be held for a felony because they hadn’t served time before, although they had both been arrested before. They couldn't charge them with petty theft because I hadn't seen them take it.
“But there was the time element. They caught them just like that, and with my identification of them, and they were the only ones around.
ASSC to meet today
A special ASSC Executive Council meeting will be held today at 5 p.m. to discuss the spring elections.
Council members called a meeting by petitioning a majority of members. Kent Clemence, ASSC president, cancelled last Thursday’s regularly scheduled meeting and wanted to postpone today’s meeting until Wednesday, but the council decided to meet whether or not Clemence shows up.
Commuters get warnings
Commuters who usually park in the vacant Parking tickets were given out last week for
lot between Hoover Street and Jefferson $10, although warning signs claim S15.
Boulevard have found student-made signs Authorities at the Community Redevelopment
warning them that parking on the dirt lot is Agency requested that the no-parking law be
no longer free.	enforced. DT photo by Danny Alaimo.
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