GRIEVANCE RALLY — Members of the Black Student Union and MEChA coalition held a rally in front of Tommy Trojan Wednesday to announce the filing of a letter calling for the resignation of Jay Berger, director of admissions. Speaking is Randall Craig, president of the Black Student Union. Claudia Kidd, chairman of the BSU academic affairs committee, also spoke.
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Volume LXXXVII, Number 29 University of Southern California Thursday, October 25, 1979
University plagued by several bomb threats
At 10 a.m. Wednesday, the School of Public Administration in Von KleinSmid Center received a telephoned bomb threat against the building. At the same time, bomb threats were made against Bovard Administration, the Financial Services Building and Stonier Hall.
A total of four different calls were received by departments located in Von KleinSmid Center. Two of the callers have been identified as female.
No bombs were found in the buildings.
The Von KleinSmid Center bomb threat was received about 10 a.m. by a receptionist who said the caller sounded like an older woman with a New England accent.
A woman with the same accent phoned last week with a bomb threat against the building, said an employee in the Public Administration office.
The only difference in this week's call was that the caller said "this time the bombs are real,'' he said.
University Security and the Los Angeles Police Department did not find any bombs and decided not to evacuate Von KleinSmid Center. Signs were posted on the building informing the public of the bomb threat.
The bomb threat at Financial Services also caused a temporary evacuation of the building.
University Security will investigate the identity of the callers.
Resignation of Berger asked
By Susan Pederson
Staff Writer
A grievance letter calling for the resignation of Jay Berger, director of Admissions, will be filed by the Black Student Union and MEChA coalition. The action was announced Wednesday at a rally in front of Tommy Trojan.
Racial discrimination in admissions, employment and recruitment policies were guidelines the coalition used in calling for Berger's resignation.
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Students face trial in
Caucus to endorse guidelines
Plans for new governance system OK’d
By Brandon Bailey
Assistant City Editor The staff caucus voted Wednesday to endorse preliminary guidelines for a new university governance system. The caucus will express its support for the guidelines in a general prospectus to be presented to candidates to replace President John R. Hubbard.
The caucus endorsed the guidelines in their current form — as endorsed by the Student Senate last week — but the formal statement will specifv measures which the caucus feels should be implemented once actual planning for a new svstem begins. These specific concerns fall within the guidelines, said Susan Brown, chairman of the Staff Caucus.
The Faculty Senate is expected to vote on the guidelines at its next meeting in November.
The Council of Deans, representing the university's fourth constituency, will not take a formal stand on the guidelines. In a resolution adopted
in September, the deans unanimously stated that the present governance system (the President's Advisory Council) should be retained until a new president assumes office.
The deans recognized in the resolution that the present system is not perfect, but changes should not be planned until the new president has had a chance to become familiar with the university, said Melvin Gerstein, chairman of the council.
"I have no objection to (the guidelines) as a basis for discussion," Gerstein said. But the council was not planning to formally vote on whether to endorse or reject the proposals, he said.
The guidelines are important because it will be useful to present a mutual viewpoint from all constituencies to prospective presidential candidates, said David Mars, chairman of PAC and the ad hoc committee which produced the governance prospectus.
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PROTESTS RiVER DAMMING
Speaker urges water protection
By Cliff Tan
Staff Writer
Warning that we might be stepping over a cliff in our efforts at progress, an envi-romentalist urged students to get involved in the fight to save water resources.
Mark Dubois, director of Friends of the River—a California environmental group seeking the preservation of water spots, gained national attention last spring when he chained himself to a rock along the Stanislaus River in Northern California protesting the further filling of the reservoir.
"People don't realize that when the water crisis comes, it will have far greater impact than the energy crisis," Dubois said.
Dubois said technology will not solve our resource problems. He urges that people take action now, saying we are stealing from people in the future if changes are not made now.
This generation must also leam that quality takes time, Dubois said, advocating the use of "Gandhi-power," a willingness to persevere for change, rather than immediate terrorist-like tactics.
Dubois said he was frustrated he could not find more creative ways to stop the filling of the New Mel-ones Reservoir.
His involvement with the Stanislaus River began with an interest in cave exploration. Later, he worked as a commercial river guide on the Stanislaus, getting paid for what he calls "playing:"
As a guide, he said he found people's spirits changed when he took them down the river where they shared an intense, mutual fear together.
The river area also brought out the best in children labeled as "delinquents," when he took them on rafting trips, Dubois said.
Guilt caught up with him. He said he realized that while he was playing, a dam was being built that would destroy the area he loved.
He became actively involved in the Stanislaus issue in 1973 as part of an effort to raise support for Proposition 17, an initiative that would stop further dam development on the river.
Today the future of the river rests on the fate of a bill in the House of Representatives. Supporters of the bill are trying to get more co-sponsors for the it, he said.
In an earlier interview, Dubois said the main opposition to the bill is from "old momentum." A few members of Congress are still supporting ideas which looked good 30 to 40 years ago, but do not meet the needs of people today, he said.
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Carpenteria pumpkin theft
By Craig Gima
Staff Writer
Eleven university students and a student from the University of California, Los Angeles were arrested early Tuesday morning while stealing over 300 pumpkins valued at $800.
The students were booked on three felony charges of grand theft, conspiracy and posession of stolen property.
The incident occured around 3 a.m. in Carpenteria, six miles south of Santa Barbara.
The students originally told arresting officers they were all from UCLA and members of the Sigma Nu fraternity, which was reported in the Los Angeles Times (Oct. 24). The students later said eleven were from the university and only one from UCLA, said a spokesman for the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department.
The Associated Press reported that Sigma Nu-UCLA spokesman Steve Gilmore, a 23-year-old senior from Fairbanks, Alaska, said the captured culprits gave a nonexistent address for the fraternity house on Gayley Avenue near UCLA.
The students were released from Santa Barbara County Jail Tuesday. They are scheduled to appear in court Nov. 2.
Pat Cavaney, president of the university Sigma Nu fraternity,denied that the house had anything to do with the incident or that any of the suspects came from either the UCLA or university-Sigma Nu houses.
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