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Vol. LXVI, No. 36
University of Southern California
_____________Los Angeles, California_____________
Thursday, November 8, 1973
Council Proposes Increase in Members
BY KARI GRANVILLE
Assistant ( it> Kditor
The University Council adopted a seat-allocation plan late Monday that would increase the council's membership from 87 to 124.
That proposal and a second one that formally spells out the role of the council will now go to President John R. Hubbard for approval.
Both are key provisions of the council's proposed bylaws, and the first two agreed upon by its membership.
THE NEW SEATING alio cation plan would add 18 faculty members. 14 students. 3 deans and directors, and 2 staff members to the council.
It would also change the manner of representation for both faculty and students.
Faculty representation was previously determined by the senatorial plan, under which two representatives were elected from each academic unit.
Under the new seating
plan, the number of faculty members in each unit determines the number of representatives the faculty in that unit may elect.
Based on the latest apportionment of faculty in the academic units, the faculty would get 62 representatives.
THE NUMBER OF student seats would be increased from 19 to 33—13 undergraduates representing living and interest groups. 3 student s from the Graduate School, and 1 student from each ofthe 17 professional schools.
The seat-allocation plan also calls for an addition of secretarial and blue-collar workers in an effort to include all constituencies.
This move would increase staff representation by two. adding one each from secretarial and blue-collar staff members to the four middle-management seats already represented in the council.
Representation of deans and directors wou1d be
r a i s e d b y t h r e e w ith the addition of Hancock Foundation. the Center for Urban Affairs and the Annenberg School, bringing the total to 23.
THE PROPOSED seat allocation would give faculty 50r^ of the council membership. with students receiving 21r'c. deans and directors 18rr. and staff 5°r.
The plan was presented to the council in the form of a chart that listed only academic divisions and the number of seats allocated to each.
Bylaws s p e c i f y ing the procedures by which council members are to be elected and the units to be represented by the 13 undergraduates still have to be drawn up.
Other actions by the council included the approval of nominees to the Academic Planning Board and Human Resources and Environment Planning Board. Both lists will be sent to Hubbard for approval.
STATE SEN. GEORGE MOSCONE
DT photo by Gehrig Ikeda.
Moscone Wants National Revote
TWO WINNERS—Mike Wallace. CBS news correspondent (1), and Bob Woodward. Washington Post investigative reporter, met before the start of the 14th
annual Journalism Alumni Association awards banquet Tuesday night. DT photo by Marc Groothaert.
BY MARJIE LAMBERT
Kditorial Director
State Sen. George Moscone (D-San Francisco) suggested Tuesday that a special election be held after the predicted resignation of President Nixon to put a new person in the White House.
“If the people could enter into a special election well in advance of 1976. that would be the most acceptable action to them because they could then decide on his (Nixon's) replacement." said Moscone. speaking in the Law Center at a program for the impeachment or resignation ofthe President.
Moscone. an all but announced candidate for the
Care Urged in Reporting Scandals
BY PETER WONG
Managing Kditor
The American press should not get the impression from coverage ofthe Watergate scandal that it i.s free to report any kind of information any way it wants, some ofthe nation's top journalists told the Journalism Alumni Association banquet Tuesday night.
“It is not to say that our threshold for dealing with the inconceivable has not been tested by Watergate." Bob Woodward. investigative reporter for The Washington Post, said at the 14th annual awards dinner “It is to say. rather, that we do have to tell it straight, and ifwe ever had an obligation to do that, we have it more even now.”
MIKE WALLACE. CBS news correspondent and co-editor ol 60 Minutes. agreed.
“There has been too much totally unfounded, irrational skepticism and public hostility toward the press in recent years. What a pity it would be ifwe gave our detractors solid reasons now to cast doubt upon us.” Wallace said.
Woodward accepted the association's Distinguished Achievement Award on behalf of The Washington Post: Wallace, the award for broadcasting; Hobart Lewis, editor-in-chief of the Render's Digest, for periodicals.
A special award was given to Jim Karayn, president ofthe National Pub lie Affairs Center for Television.
WOODWARD, who along with Carl Bernstein did much ofthe reporting on Watergate that won a Pulitzer Prize for the Post, said that the press in general should not congratulate itself on its performance in uncovering the scandal.
Out of 2.000 correspondents in Washington, he said, only 14 made any substantive contribution to the Watergate story.
Woodward said he and Bernstein merely carried out the mandate of Ben Brad lee. executive editor, and Katherine Graham, the publisher, to seek the truth behind the break-in—a mandate that reporters from other newspapers lacked.
•	WE WERE ABLE to establish that there was something there, indeed.” he said.
But the Nixon administration. Woodward said, “successfully made the issue in Watergate (before the 1972 election) not the conduct of the administration but the conduct ofthe news media."
Because ofthe success ofthe Post. Woodward said, other reporters now
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1974gubernatorial race, predicted the resignation of Nixon, saying that if Nixon is really as much a patriot as he likes to believe and would like the people to believe he is. he is obligated to resign.
MOSCONE SAID that although such a radical move as holding a special presidential election was once thought to be unconstitutional. he has recently had legal advice to the contrary.
The senator is circulating a petition urging the resignation of President Nixon. He said that he fully supports impeachment moves, however.
“If it ever gets to the level where impeachment is imminent." said Moscone. “Nixon will resign."
H e added that should i m p e a c h m e n t moves s 1 o vv down, the President would not r e s i g n under the decreased pressure.
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Impeachment Speech Set
Marvin Sehaeter. president ofthe Southern California American Civil Liberties U 11 i o n. will speak on impeachment today at noon in front of Tommy Trojan.
The ACLU is one ofthe prime movers behind the legal movement to have Pres-i d e n t Hi c h a r d Nix o n impeached.