Trojun
University of Southern California
Volume LXVI, Number 56_	|.os Angeles, California	Wednesday, December 12, 1973
Security Guards
Seize Flyers
NOT KARATE-Ray Bradbury, science fiction author, said Tuesday we are living in the greatest age ever because of modern technology. His appearance at
the Religious Center was sponsored by Urban Semester. DT photo by Gehrig Ikeda.
BY SARAH HECK
Staff Writer
Cries of suppressed civil rights and freedom of speech rattled the campus Tuesday as Campus Security officers confiscated flyers distributed early that morning. The flyers were identified as a product of UPSHOT, whose backers remain anonymous.
THE FLY'ERS mistakenly reported that:
“At a meeting of the Board of Trustees and President Hubbard held Saturday, Dec. 8, final plans were adopted for the closingofthe university at the end of this semester. The shocking news was leaked Sunday to several campus organizations despite the secrecy surrounding the meeting.
“It is believed that a press
Bradbury Praises Scientific Era
BY BRIAN ROBINETTE
Staff Writer
Ray Bradbury, science-fiction author and highly touted futurist, told a group of students Tuesday that the recent boon in technology has made the present era the greatest in history.
“This is the time of science and technology.” said Bradbury. “I started investigating science fiction 40 years ago because I saw it all coming.”
HE SAID that it was technology, not the political liberals, which inadvertently liberated American Blacks by manifesting itself in such mass media as radio and television.
These innovations. Bradbury said, have solved some problems and simultaneously created new7 ones.
Bradbury’s remarks were part of an informal discussion in.the Religious Center sponsored by Urban Semester.
Bradbury assumed a controversial stance as he argued thatthe proliferation of machines has tended to humanize mankind.
He supported his argument by citing the movie camera and projector, which he said preserved the truth for thousands of years. A television set w as another illustration of such a repeti-
Trustees to Decide Today on Tuition
The Board of Trustees is expected today to make a decision on next year's tuition.
The board will consider a recommendation from its Finance and Budget Committee, which met Fridayto discuss the issue.
The committee considered a resolution by the University
Council that recommended tuition be raised by no more than S210 for the 1974-75 academic year.
There was speculation before the council adopted its resolution Dec. 3 that the board might raise tuition by a substantially larger amount.
Today’s decision is expected to be the first major test of the influence of the council, formed in the spring as President John R. Hubbard's chief advisory body.
Although its function is only advisory, the council serves as the chief university governing body and represents students, faculty and staff.
There is little doubt that the trustees will raise tuition, but any increase beyond the $210 limit would be considered a major blow to the council's stature.
The trustees may also act on the council's recommendation that a permanent commission on tuition and fees be established to begin work immediately.
As is customary, the board will meet behind closed doors and the press and university community will not be admitted.
However, if the board reaches a decision on the tuition issue, that decision is expected to be announced later today.
tive device, he said, since it provided information to aerate society.”
MOST OF THE questions directed at Bradbury required him to make prophecies. On one of these, he foresaw the revitalization of most ofthe major religions by the end of the century, ac-companied by the subsequent decline of astrology.
“We start in ignorance, live on faith and use that ignorance constructively,” he said. “Something like astrology, though, is fraudulent and stupid. We should get back to astronomy.”
Bradbury was asked to gaze into the crystal ball once again to predict which new technological gadget would most alter society.
He suggested that the development of holograms, three-dimensional objects that could be projected in a
room, would probably have a profound impact.
“With these holograms, we will be able to make a file of all the great leaders, teachers and philosophers,” he said.
THE AUTHOR claimed that the two most destructive forces in society were of a mechanical and psychological nature.
The first, he said, was the automobile.
“The car is the most disastrous thing ever to affect our country,” he said. “ I’d like to see more efficient car use through carpools. I'd like to cut the use of cars 70% to scare the oil companies.”
Bradbury lamented the vast nonusage of solar energy that bombards the earth daily, because of a lack of solar receptors that could convert sunlight into usable
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conference Wednesday will officially disclose the decision to end the school s 90-vear existence.
“The source of this revelation reported that both trustees and administration agreed with reports that ‘student apathy, distrust and outright hostility' had grown to critical levels and that closure would be 'the easiest policy.’
“Hubbard, it was said, outlined the increasingly visible evidence that students are no longer accepting the incredible tedium of school or the expectation that they should continue to be bored to death as spectators in their own lives.
“HUBBARD ASSERTED, however, that the crisis is larger than USC, citing the recent evaporation of the last shreds of credibility possessed by the state, and the many wildcat strikes by those (ex-students) disgusted with the absence of control over daily life that they too experience.
“Football, religion, and electoral politics,’ he continued, are appealing only to the most backward .. .The old show no longer fools anyone interested in taking pleasure from existing. They’re just not playing ball anymore.’ ”
The flyers referred readers to Hubbard’s office phone number for additional information.
LEONARD R. Wines, executive director of university relations, authorized the confiscation on the grounds that, “the document was slanderous and libelous and designed to disrupt the university.”
The flyers quoted Hubbard as saying things he didn't say at a meeting that
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MUSIC FILLS THE AIR—Wendell Hoss, lecturer in French horn, conducted 10 French Horn players in a noon concert Tuesday in front of Bovard
Auditorium. The concert was one in a series performed on the steps of Bovard Auditorium by the chamber groups. DT photo by Bob Chavez.