Minority groups disclaim flyers
Anti-Berger posters called a mock
Anonymous flyers making derogatory personal accusations against Jay Berger, director of admissions, have been distributed on campus. The flyers are similar in appearance to those distributed by the Associated Black Students of Southern California-Black Student Union and MEChA coalition, which has protested minority admissions policies for several months.
Berger could not be reached for comment.
The coalition has called for Berger's resignation and plans to meet with Zohrab Kaprieli-an, executive vice-president, today.
"Whoever is putting these
(anonymous) flyers up is trying to make our movement look ridiculous. It is a classless attempt at making us look bad," said a member of ABSSC-BSU.
Clifford Hackney, co-chairman of ABSSC-BSU, said the anonymous flyers have been found in Birnkrant Residence Hall and were also passed out at a student gathering earlier this week.
He said the coalition's flyers have been taken down from where they were posted on campus.
Although he had not seen the flyers, Kaprielian said such anonymous posters were not the way to resolve the issues being raised.
"Berger has done an outstanding job. He has increased the pool and quality of the students at the university," he said.
Pumpkin theft charges eased
Charges against 12 students who allegedly stole over 300 pumpkins in Carpenteria (Daily Trojan, Oct. 25) have been reduced from felony counts of grand theft, possession of stolen property and conspiracy, to misdemeanor petty theft, said Pat McKinley, Santa Barbara district attorney.
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Staff photo by W«yn# Levtne
LAZING ON A SUNNY AFTERNOON — As long as the weather remains warm, many students like this one prefer to study outside, surrounded by trees and grass rather than library stacks.
PAC seeks selection of Olympic coordinator
The Environmental and External Affairs committee of the President's Advisory Council passed a resolution Thursday asking President Hubbard to appoint a university coordinator of planning for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
The person will coordinate all university-related Olympic activities, said Pauline Ragan, chairman of the committee.
Possible university involvement may include providing housing and practice facilities for the athletes.
The committee, the only one formally charged with making recommendations in the planning, is distressed by the lack of a coordinator, according to Bruce Bowman, a PAC staff assistant.
"A coordinator is sorely needed. The university is committed to participation, but no one has been appointed," he said.
"We are hoping for an appointment in the near future," Ragan said. "We need to have his (Hubbard's) cooperation."
Hubbard will assign tasks to the person appointed who will work closely with the committee in developing recommendations.
The committee has a "very long list" of priorities for planning, but Ragan said no aspect has been given particular importance.
"When the coordinator is appointed, maybe then we can rank them (the priorities)," she said.
Volume LXXXVII, Number 30 University of Southern California Friday, October 26, 1979
STUDENTS STRESS RELIABILITY
Senate OKs tram proposals
By R. Jane Zachary
Staff Writer
The Student Senate recently completed a study of the university trams and has made recommendations to improve the system.
"One commuter student recendy told me about waiting on a street comer for 40 minutes for the campus tram which should have come in less than 15 minutes. This is potentially a very dangerous situation, especially at night,"said Mary Wand, a senator.
Wand, chairman of the Environmental and External Affairs committee, rode and studied the tram system with committee members and other students.
"Every day for two weeks both the day and night trams were ridden at least twice. We kept track of the exact routes taken, how well the trams stayed on schedule and timed each route," Wand said.
The lack of a reliable schedule, the lack of student familiarity with tram routes, confusion regarding the location of tram stops and the fact that the tram routes do not include 27th and 28th
Streets, were among the major concerns noted in the study.
"Our foremost concern is safety - convenience is a secondary consideration. Many students relv upon the tram service for transportation and probably many more would if the trams were more reliable. University Security gets a large amount of escort calls from people who could be riding the trams," Wand said.
Recommendations for improving the tram system formulated by Wand and Andy Goodman, chairman of the Parking and Security task force, were endorsed by the senate last week. The recommendations include marking the trams "community" or "campus" depending on their routes, developing a permanent map of tram routes, adding a second tram to the community route and expanding it to include 27th and 28th Streets.
"The one recommendation which I feel is most important is that of having permanent signs marking tram stops. This is an important security measure.
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Freelance writer recalls controversy, exciting days at DT, White House
By Scott Brown
Though Warren Wellington Bums has spent time with Presidents, ambassadors and some royalty during his years as a journalist and foreign correspondent, he still remembers his days at the Daily Trojan where he managed to generate a considerable amount of excitement covering campus stories.
Burns, an associate editor of the Daily Trojan 42 years ago, came to the campus last week to tout a recent book, "A Feast of Spiders," by Kenneth Levans, a university cinema professor.
The now free-lance journalist, who was at one time or another a White House correspondent, managing editor of "The Financial Analysts Journal," Standard Oil lobbyist and Wall Street columnist for La Vie Francaise, a French business journal, has a cache of interesting and entertaining stories about his travels and experiences.
Of his days on the Daily Trojan, Bums loves to tell about the time when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited the campus to receive an honorary degree. Roosevelt, who was a victim of paralysis, had to have a special ramp built in front of Bovard so he could drive up and receive his degree.
Bums, who covered the story for the Daily Trojan, wrote a headline for his story that spanned the entire front page and said, "FDR Gets Drive-in Degree."
Bums said he vividly remembers being awakened at about 3 a.m. the next morning
by Roy L. French, dean of journalism, who said, "You've done it now."
The next day, Bums was called into Rufus
B.	von KleinSmid's office. Von KleinSmid was president of the university at that time and Bums remembers, he "gave me hell."
A few years later, while Bums was working as a White House correspondent, he loitered behind a group of reporters leaving the Oval office one day and mentioned the incident to FDR.
"He, of course, did not know about it," Bums said, "but laughed and asked me if I still had the page. I did and tore it out of my bound copy and gave it to him him the next day. He (then) displayed it, always giving me credit."
While working for Business Week, Burns wrote an article detailing shipping methods in the United States. Since it was wartime, the article had to be passed over a censor to make sure that no information that could be construed as detrimental to America was included.
The day after the article appeared, however, Bums was called into the Secretary's office and asked point blank where he had gotten certain information, even though the article had passed the censor. Although Bums did not reveal his source, he said the Secretary's inquiry made him more curious. He began questioning various undersecretaries to find out exactly what was going on. After some dig-(Continued on page 6)