Libertarian talks set for this weekend
Relationships between humanist psychology and libertarian philosophy will be explored in a weekend symposium, “The Psychology of Freedom,” beginning Saturday in the Town and Gown Foyer.
David Harris, draft resister and author of “Goliath,” Nathaniel Branden, head of the Institute for the Study of Biocentric Psychology, and Carl Faber, UCLA psychology professor, are among those who will be taking part in the radical psychology symposium.
The symposium, which begins at 9:30
a.m. and ends at 5:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, will be the First gathering in the nation in which psychologists will jump from their own specialties into political philosophy.
Admission is free for students because of a $1,000 appropriation from the ASSC Executive Council. Nonstudents can buy advance tickets for $5 and tickets at the door for $6. Tickets for one day of the two-day program are also available at half price.
The psychologists hope to take sides in the individualism vs. collectivism debate
which has been central in political discussions for the past century.
Other topics on the agenda include an analysis of the humanist vs. the behavior-ist schools, the similarities between the humanist and the libertarian, the authoritarian personality, the state and individualist behavior, political authoritarianism, and the need for self-respect.
Alan Ross, psychology professor, and Don Lewis, chairman of the Psychology Department, will debate the humanist vs. behaviorist issue.
Everett Shostrom and George Bach will also take part. Shostrom, author of “Man the Manipulator,” “Between Man and Woman,” and the soon-to-be-published “Freedom to Be,” was a close friend of Fritz Peris, a founder of Gestalt psychology.
The symposium, sponsored by the California Libertarian Alliance, will include workshops on various themes such as aggression control, social deviance, sexual role playing and the different schools of therapy.
University of Southern California
VOL. LXIV NO. 68
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1972
COLLEGE TOUR
Holy Hubert holds forth
SPREADING THE WORD—"Heaven can wait," Holy Hubert, an amateur evangelist, told hundreds of students Thursday. DT Photo by Tony Korody.
By DAVE DANIELSON Assistant Editorial Director
A man who calls himself Holy Hubert was on campus Thursday, preaching Christianity in front of Tommy Trojan, with shouts, flamboyant gestures and sweat-soaked enthusiasm.
Hubert spoke for over an hour, using Tommy’s cement platform as a makeshift stage. He smiled through his missing teeth as he called his listeners “miserable sinners,” and hundreds of students stopped on the way to lunch or classes to listen to his message.
He also helped block University Avenue next to Tommy with a crowd of students later in the afternoon, when he again voiced his views.
Hubert was supported by members of the USC chapter of Campus Crusade for Christ, who mingled with the noonday crowd to help reinforce Hubert’s evangelism.
The preacher memorized the entire Bible two
days after he converted to Christianity, Marshall Foster, Campus Crusade director, said, and Hubert has offered to pay $15,000 to any person who names a Bible verse he can’t recite.
Hubert’s home base is the University of California at Berkeley, Foster said, but he’s now on a tour of Southern California colleges. He spoke at UCLA Wednesday and is visiting Los Angeles City College today.
Now in his sixties, Hubert has been preaching since he was 20.
His enthusiasm has its drawbacks. One crusade member, Jim Varney, said Hubert visits the hospital about nine times a year because he’s often attacked after his preaching.
“I’ve been shot before,” he yelled at his audience, “and I love the men that shot me.”
When one heckler yelled at him, “You’re crazy!”, Hubert smiled widely and answered, “I know—but I’m happy!”
Bitter Ashtray will stay open
By MIKE REVZIN Staff Writer
The Bitter Ashtray, the coffeehouse in the Grill, almost came to a bitter end this week, but it now looks as if it can continue operating.
Residence Halls and Food Service had been considering closing the Bitter Ashtray to save money. However, the coffeehouse will be allowed to operate 21 nights this semester.
Elton Phillips, vice-president for business affairs, said that poor attendance in the Grill at night had caused a tentative decision to close it at 8 p.m.
But complaints from Jim Gross, ASSC entertainment coordinator, caused the service to reconsider the decision.
Herbert Harbeson, director of the service, said that an average of only 40 people a night came to the Bitter Ashtray, so the number did not justify the expense.
Daniel Nowak, acting vice-president for student affairs, said, “It seems to me that we have little enough programming on campus now. If the Bitter Ashtray is being used by a reasonable number of students, then we should support it.”
Nowak supported Gross in the fight to keep the Bitter Ashtray open. “Granted, it might cost a little to keep it open. But it’s the only entertainment except movies on campus,” said Gross.
Convention won’t reconvene
After an angry plea from constitutional convention chairman Dave Howe and debate on students’ interest in self-government, the ASSC Executive Council voted not to reconvene the constitutional convention that expired Tuesday.
The convention, because of its inability to meet a quorum, did not produce a document by the Tuesday deadline and was disbanded. Howe, after being refused an extension of the deadline or the reconvening of the convention by the council, said that a group of convention delegates will present a docu-
ment to students on the spring election ballot,
In other business, Bruce Mitchell, an associate justice of the Student Court, was appointed to replace Patrice Edwards as chairman of the Community Action Coordinating Council.
In discussion over the trustees’ refusal to pass the student-approved Center for Law in the Public Interest returnable fee, the council directed Kent Clemence, ASSC president, to contact the trustees about a joint council-trustee meeting.
Firing of Stanford prof sparks debate
By PETER WONG News Editor (This is the first in a series on academic tenure—the Editor.)
A major issue on college campuses in California in 1972 will be the question of faculty tenure, defined in the 1970-71 USC Faculty Handbook as‘‘the right of a teacher to hold his position, because of rank, until the age of retirement.”
Professors and associate professors, in keeping with nationally accepted professional practice, have tenure, and only for specified causes and under strict procedures may they be dismissed, demoted or prematurely retired.
The causes for dismissal from the university faculty, as stated in the Faculty Handbook, are similar to those on other campuses. Those with tenure on this campus may be dismissed if one or more of the following is proven:
•	Neglect of duty.
•	Dishonesty.
•	Moral turpitude.
•	Misconduct which causes grave injury or brings extreme discredit to the university. (The refusal of a tenured faculty member to answer questions
before any government agency, for whatever reason, shall not be interpreted as such misconduct, although it may serve as the basis for an inquiry.)
•	Recent activity knowingly and willfully directed toward the violent overthrow of either the government of the United States or any of its constituent parts. (Past membership in an organization engaged in such activity shall not by itself prove such activity, but it may be admitted as evidence in support of such a charge.)
The most important recent incident concerning faculty dismissal procedure on California campuses is that of H. Bruce Franklin, associate professor of English at Stanford University, who was fired by that university’s board of trustees Jan. 22 for inciting violence on the campus.
By a 20-2 vote, the trustees upheld the recommendations, of the majority of a seven-member faculty advisory board that were accepted by Stanford President Richard W. Lyman on Jan 9 and passed on to the trustees for review.
Franklin is the first tenured faculty member to be dismissed in the history of Stanford University. The implications of
his dismissal for other universities are still not clear.
However, Lyman said after the trustees fired Franklin, “I think this decision will stand as a landmark in a difficult but essential effort for higher education: to distinguish between the protected free
expression of ideas, no matter how repugnant to how many people, and a license, on the other hand, to wield any weapon and exploit any opening to attack and bring to a halt the functioning of one of the greatest strongholds of free expression in the world today—the American university.”
A dissenting viewpoint was offered by Denis Hayes, a former student body president at Stanford University and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.D.
“There would now be hesitancy on the part of professors to say anything which
dissents from the norm. Free speech on American college campuses has been at least tentatively damaged,” Hayes, one of the two trustees to vote against Franklin’s firing, said after the meeting.
The series of events that led to Franklin’s dismissal began Jan. 11, 1971, when Franklin participated in the disruption of a speech on the campus by Henry Cabot Lodge, now President Nixon’s special representative to the Vatican and former U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam and the Vietnam negotiations in Paris. Lodge was prevented from speaking, and the meeting at which he was to have appeared was cancelled.
On Feb. 10, just a month later, Franklin participated in a rally in protest of United States actions in Southeast Asia. (During this time South Vietnamese military units, with heavy U.S. air support, invaded Laos to stop North Vietnamese infiltration on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.) The rally, held at White Plaza on the Stanford campus, was peaceful until Franklin urged the audience away from the use of tactics aimed at unfluencing government policy off-campus, the faculty advisory board’s report said. (Continued on page 8)