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Vol. LXVi, No. 21	Los Angeles, California 	Tuesday, October 16, 1973
Dedication Reset For W att Hall
DEDICATION	POSTPONED—Al-
though Watt Hall of Architecture and Fine Arts has opened its doors to students, its dedication has been post-
poned until next year, when final touches on the building will be completed. DT photo by Michael Sedano.
ELECTIONS FIASCOS
Politics Destroyed ASSC
in the midst of a constitutional crisis.
For the second time in two years, complaints of election irregularities forced the administration to suspend the spring ASSC primary results pending an investigation.
Governance— Part 2
THERE WAS no ballot-stuffing this time, as there had been in spring, 1971, but threats and bribery were reported, and some students formally appealed decisions handed down by the Student Court in elections cases.
BY BOB EVANS
Staff Writer
“Be it further resolved that the Executive Council expresses its concern that:
“I. A new model for student government be developed and submitted to the students for ratification by no later than May 1, 1973. . . .”
—Excerpt, ASSC Executive Council resolution April 27, 1972
When that resolution was passed almost 18 months ago, the problem of student governance wasn’t as complex as it is now.
The student government, the Associated Students of Southern California (ASSC)
Executive Council, was then
Security Bank Opens New Campus Branch
The USC branch of Security Pacific Bank has a new home opposite its present 50-year-old branch on the corner of University Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard.
The bank is the first of the buildings to be completed in the University Village, part of the Hoover Redevelopment Project.
THE MANAGERS from the bank’s regional offices sponsored a cocktail party last Thursday night for the administration, faculty and students from USC to kick-off the Monday opening. Regular patrons of the bank were also invited.
The $75 million project, which was launched in August 1967, is directly responsible for such buildings as Men’s Residence West and the Apartment Towers.
The project expanded the university by 35 acres, while displacing and relocating about 1,500 families.
THE UNIVERSITY Village Shopping Center will take up 15 acres of land north of Jefferson Boulevard and alongside Hoover Street.
Other buildings planned for the village include the Security Pacific branch, a Bank of America branch, which is close to completion, and a number of specialty shops and restaurants.
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After a series of hearings, an election review board recommended that the court’s decisions be vacated", but not
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The dedication of the Ray and Nadine W att Hall of Architecture and Fine Arts, scheduled for Oct. 12, was postponed for the second time until late spring or fall. 1974.
Originally, the$1.6 million, three-story building was to be completed last February and ready for use during the spring semester.
The dedication was to take place in conjunction with the Festival of the Arts on campus late in March.
BUT CLASSES were not held in the new building until this fall, and another dedication date was set.
Linda Korber, assistant to the dean for student and public affairs, cited three reasons for the lengthy delay in the dedication of the building.
One of the reasons was that not all ofthe furniture for the building arrived in time for the ceremony. Korber explained that some ofthe furniture from the old building looked too tattered for its new surroundings.
Another cause of the delay was that landscaping for the hall has not yet begun, although the plans have been finalized.
BUT THE MAIN reason
given for the postponement of the dedication is that the administration feels the building should be in fu 11-use for a while before the dedication.
Representatives for the University Affairs division recommended that the hall be completely done and lived in before it is officially presented to the community.
Korber said, “If we are going to have people from the community in to see the building, we want to look our best.”
When the hall is finally dedicated, the School of Architecture and Fine Arts plans to have a symposium to create an academic environment from the very beginning.
Plans for the new school were proposed in 1964 and approved by the Board of Trustees that same year.
In 1969 the architectural firm of Killingsworth. Brady and Associates of Long Beach was commissioned to design the structure. Sam T. Hurst, former dean of tthe architecture and fine arts school has been serving as the supervising architect. The Kemp Brothers of Alhambra are the contractors.
Arabs Blame Conflict On Policy of Zionism
BY BRIAN ROBINETTE
Staff Writer
Though it lacked some of the fanfare and gusto of last week's Israeli solidarity rally, the Arab Student Organization staged its own version Friday with an array of speakers, most of whom lashed out at what they termed a Zionist expansionist policy for perpetrating the current Middle East conflict.
The noontime rally, held in Hancock Auditorium, featured UCLA professor Has-son El Nouty, who focused the" brunt of his address on tracing the historical evidence which precipitated the 25-year-old Arab-Israeli strife.
“THE PROBLEM OF the
Middle East started, not five or six years ago, but half a century ago,” said Nouty. “Zionism has nothing to do with the suffering of the Jews.”
El Nouty said that the roots of Zionism began as a plot by wealthy European Jews to deceive the .Jewish lower classes at the turn ofthe century. The Zionists, he said,
-X&AB VIEWPOINT—Hassan El Nouty, a UCLA professor, tells a group of Arab sympathizers that the Zionist movement was designed to foster Arab Disunity. DT photo by Michael Sedano.
tried to evict the poorer, socialist-oriented Jews and transport them to P alestine.
The initial exodus of immigrants constituted a desire among the Jewish to class struggle with ethnic struggle.
“ZIONISM was a fascistic, racist movement,” he said. “The Zionists clearly had the interests of the ruling class. They were looking for a place for the jobless poor.”
Great Britain also used the mass emigration as an imperialistic ploy meant to drive a wedge between the Arab people, said El Nouty. After World War I, Jordan was created as a state to further divide the Arabs and encourage disunion.
“To create a settlement colony supplies a nation with the best mercenaries to act as watchdogs to secure the
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