University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, Number I	Los	Angeles,	California	Tuesday,	June	19,	1973
WALTER R. ELY, JR.
New phone system will cut toll call cost
Approximately 2500 index fingers that dial telephone numbers daily from 2500 campus phones have three more numbers to dial now. As of last Friday a new system of the Pacific Telephone Company has been in use for campus phones when dialing numbers out of a certain designated area.
The new system will save the university at least $90,000 a year. This is possible because message unit calls in the greater Los Angeles area will be charged on a flat fee basis rather than -charged according to each message unit call and overtime rates under the old system.
To get a numer off campus previously, the number 9 had to be dialed, then the sevendigit number. Now callers will only dial 9 to get off-campus numbers for local
Paper schedule set for summer
The Summer Trojan begins publication today and will appear for six weeks Tuesdays and Fridays during the general summer session. Beginning the first week in August it will be published once a week on Wednesdays for the four-week postsession.
Anyone who is interested in writing for the Summer Trojan should contact Patta Steele.SummerTrojan editor in Student Union 420, ext. 2203 or 2204.
Photographers who are interested in working on the Summer Trojan should contact Michael Sedano. ext. 2203 or 2204.
area calls. Other calls to different areas in the 213 area code must be preceded by a three-digit code, which may be found on dialing information cards distributed to all departments.
Mrs. Daria Lanak, director of Special Services, explained that the new system would drastically cut the monthly message unit bill of the university, which, under the old system, was ranging from $15,000 to $20,000 every month.
“The amount of money we were paying for messsge unit calls was getting tremendous, so we did our own studies to find out where most of the message unit calls were made to, how long each call lasted and how much that amounted to, and then we took our findings to the phone company. They did some studies of their own. measuring calls and areas where the most calls were made, and then recommended this system,” she said.
“Basically all this new system does islurn the 213 area into a local dialing area. By dialing the code for a number in Palos Verdes, for instance, you will get a different dial tone which will be the same one if you were dialing the number from somewhere in or around Palos Verdes.-It’s just that instead of dialing 9. callers will be dialing a three-digit code that will automatically put them in the area into which they are dialing,” she said.
Any calls made out of the 213 area are still considered long distance calls: the new codes have no effect except in the 213 boundaries.
Summer
Trojan
Commencement speaker stresses need for more concern with law
By Patta Steele
Editor
Graduates were reminded that they would generally be concerned with law during their lives no matter what course of study they decided to pursue by Walter R. Ely, Jr. of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at the 90th annual commencement exercises Thursday 'une 7.
Speaking in Alumni Park to more than 3300 students, Ely stressed the need for citizens to be concerned with the creation of laws and the manner in which they are administered, not just laws in general.
More specifically, the average citizen should become well acquainted with the laws that affect him, such as taxation laws, the security of property rights and the personal safety and welfare of himself and his family.
Since laws are made by humans they cannot always be perfect, but “our laws have been generally conceived in wisdom and administered with essential fairness and impartiality... There will be disrespect for, and disobedience of, a law with which the majority of our people come to disagree, and in our democratic society a particular law cannot survive beyond the time when the majority of our citizens believe that the law is wrong,” said Ely.
Dissent in a society is necessary for improvement, and it is an important characteristic of a free society.
“As good citizens, we are obliged to listen to dissenting utterances. But those who, in the name of free speech, trench upon the personal rights of others are more offensive, as I see it, than one who commits similar crimes to satisfy his hunger.
“Even more loathsome is criminal conduct, often exposed by our free, vigilant, and courageous press, committed by intelligent
officials to whom there has been given a public trust. Those cowardly offenders, violating the law behind a shield of power, are particularly abhorrent, and they invite unto themselves the utomst contempt and scorn of an outraged people.”
If a citizen is concerned with law and if he is perceptive and generally objective, he will not use the court as his scapegoat, Ely said.
“It is true that there are defects in our judicial system, and we of the courts are striving mightily to correct them. There is too much delay in the disposition of cases, resulting, in part, from the ever-increasing, positively back-breaking volume of litigation.
“Every effort is being made, especially in the federal and California courts, to reduce the delay for which we are criticized, but some delay is necessarily incidental to the type of justice which Americans have always preferred.”
The basic cause of crime is a Lack of discipline from parents, said Ely. This is the case in privileged as well as in underprivileged homes.
Ely said the worst aspect of the youth offenders is that about 60% of those who break the law in some areas repeat their ciminal conduct.
“Obviously the initial efforts as related to our juveniles have been ineffective, and the adult parolees from prison face a hostile society without adequate supervision,encouragement or assistance. The ordinary difficulties in finding suitable, honorable employment are, in their cases, vastly multiplied. I cannot excuse their return to crime, but the desperate histories of many recidivists are not only pathetic, they reveal one of the more regrettable of our society’s derelictions.”
Summer study begins
The major seven-week summer session that began yesterday will continue through August 4 and will be followed by a postsession on August 6 through September 1.
Registration for the general session and also for various other summer sessions continues this week in the Physical Education Building.
Registration will be held in the Physical Education Building through June 27 weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon.
There will be no registration June 28 and 29. All registration after June 27 will be in the Office of the Registrar. Registration will be closed on July 4.
Various special sessions that do not follow the general session schedule or the postsession schedule are listed in the Summer Session Bulletin. The bulletin is available at the Information Center or at the Summer Session Office, Administration 356.
Students should check with individual departments to find out about academic advisement. Some advisers will be at the registration area, but most advisement
will be done through department offices.
Additional information on the Summer Session may be
obtained through the Summer Session Office, and other department-related announcements.
REGISTRATION—Walt Dillon and Frank Peele await their fee bills at the fee computation station. They are members of a Navy combat (Atlantic and Pacific) photo team and are enrolled in the Cinema Department's summer program. Registration continues in the Physical Education Building daily through June 27. All registration after that date will be in the registrar's office. Photo by Michael Sedano.