Daily ||gp Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, No. 72	_Los Angeles, California______Thursday, February 14, 1974
Take government out of hands of powerful few, Moretti demands
WILLIAM MATSON ROTH
DT photo by Marjie Lambert.
POUTICAL CAMPAIGNS
Candidate for governor favors public financing
William Matson Roth, a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, spoke Wednesday in favor of public financing (use of tax money) for political campaigns.
Roth, speaking before a political science class, said that he had not intended to spend any of his personal wealth on his campaign.
“I found that I was a little naive,” he said. Roth has put substantial amounts of his own money into the campaign.
He said that one of his first projects, if elected would be tax reform, including closing loopholes that he said he has used himself.
He advocated budgeting more money to education and the environment, and was asked where he would get the additional funds.
“It’s my belief that to a certain extent, it requires a change in priorities,” said Roth.
Roth, a member of the University of California Board of Regents, stressed improvememts in the UC system as a major plank of his platform. This would include increases in allocations for student aid and faculty salaries.
On the subject of marijuana, Roth said, “I am against anyone going to jail for smoking marijuana. I am for decriminalization.”
Roth said that he was not against the building of nuclear power plants, but expressed concern that the disposal problem had not yet been solved.
He said that he was jn favor of putting the oil industry under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission in theory. He added, however, that at present the regulatory agencies are controlled by the industries which they are supposed to control and as such the move would not be effective.
BY STEVE HESS
Assistant City Editor
Listening to Bob Moretti, one might get the impression that he is just another politician in the worst sense of the word.
But looking at his record in the California legislature one may decide Moretti is truly one of the new breed of politicians.
“I’m running for governor because I want to take California government out of the hands of the powerful few and put it back where it belongs—in the hancis ofthe people,” his campaign literature states.
Moretti spoke to a crowd of about 300 students at UCLA Wednesday and told them that he is interested in getting the people “who’ve lived govern ment and those who know it best” into his administration if he is elected governor.
He lashed out at the Reagan administration for its lack of
minorities in positions of power. “Only Wilson Riles (superintendent of public instruction) is in Sacramento and that’s because he was elected to his position,” said Moretti.
Speaking in front of Ackerman Union, Moretti said that from information he has, the oil shortage is being perpetrated on the American public.
“We have enough petroleum in this country to last us 500 years. The oil people have pulled off the single largest con job in the history of American business,” he added.
He said he supports a current initiative to put oil resources under the control of the Public Utilities Commission.
The 37-year-old Democrat from the San Fernando Valley was elected speaker of the Assembly in 1971 and reelected to the post two years later.
In recent months Moretti has
supported what he terms “voluntary forms of tax contribution.”
These include dog racing and the more recently discussed state lottery.
“I helped get the horse-racing bill through the legislature six years ago and the state has realized more than $150 million in additional revenue,” Moretti said.
After his brief 15-minute speech he answered questions from the noon-hour crowd.
Several students asked his stand on lowering the drinking age to 18. “Each year we’ve gotten that bill out ofthe House and the Republicans have blocked its passage in the Senate.
“They are afraid that the measure will end up on the ballot which will cause the 18-year-olds to go out and vote. And we all know which party young people vote for—the Democrats,” Moretti said.
FRISKY FIGURINE—A prancing statue gets in some last-minute roadwork prior to participating in this year's Rites of Spring. The annual contest begins today, pitting young campus figures against each other for the coveted Heartthrob Trophy Award. Informed sources have listed the perennial champion Tommy Trojan as the favorite. DT photo by Bob Chavez.
Funds for arts festival
may not
BY LINDA CIRIGLIANO
Staff Writer
Whether there will be enough money available for this year’s Festival of the Arts will not be known until an interim Student Programming Board is officially appointed, Allan Casebier. festival director, said Wednesday.
The board is in the process of being appointed and should begin functioning within the next few weeks.
Casebier said the festival, planned for March 12 to 15, was at first in danger of cancellation because of a planning delay during the fall semester.
“Fall is the time when planning for the festival should begin,” he said.
“But because there was no programming board during the fall, a festival director was never appointed, and no plans were made.”
Festival almost cancelled
Last December, when the Student Activities Office discovered there were no festival plans, it seemed the event would have to be cancelled, Casebier said.
“But John Sullivan (assistant director of student activities) knew that I had been arranging for a conference on the changing aesthetics of the performing arts,” Casebier said.
Sullivan approached Casebier with the idea of making the conference the core of this year’s festival.
Casebier, an assistant professor of philosophy, said the conference was originally going to be funded by the Speakers Bureau and the Matchette Foundation, a New York group interested in supporting conferences in philosophy and the arts.
But when the decision was made to expand the conference into a festival, more money was needed.
be available
“The interim Student Programming Board had not yet been appointed, and we needed money to sign contracts with performers after the first ofthe year,” Casebier said.
Sullivan approached the Speakers Bureau in December and asked for a loan.
Bureau loans money
The Speakers Bureau loaned the festival $4,500 with the understanding that an attempt would be made, once the interim board was formed, to have it allocate enough money to repay the loan from the bureau and cover additional festival expenses.
“The Speakers Bureau took a calculated risk by loaning the money,” said Juanita Mantovani, assistant dean for student affairs and a bureau faculty member.
“No one knows for sure if the Programming Board will decide to repay the Speakers Bureau loan, or how much money it will allocate.
“The loan of $4,500 has depleted Speakers Bureau funds, and if the loan is not repayed, the bureau will not be able to schedule campus speakers this semester,” Mantovani said.
“The bureau was willing to take that risk because it was felt that the Festival of the Arts could offer so much to students.”
Casebier estimated that about $9,300 will be needed to put on the festival.
“The Matchette Foundation gave us $1,500,” he said, “and
we ll be asking the Programming Board to allocate $7,800."
If the board grants that amount. $4,500 of the funds will be used to repay the Speakers Bureau.
The rest of the money will go toward paying additional festival expenses and publicity costs.
Past budgets higher
In past years festival budgets have been much higher—often as high as $20,000.
“We've only been able to work within this lower budget by using an extreme amount of volunteer help to plan the festival and do much of the work,” Mantovani said.
“Also, in the past, a great deal of money was spent on publicity.
“This year, we’ll be doing most of our own publicity—students have given us some very exciting ideas for this.”
Cutting publicity costs will be a way of enabling the festival to work within its budget, Casebier said.
What will happen if the interim Student Programming Board refuses to allocate festival money?
“I would assume we will not cancel the festival.” Casebier said. “We’re too committed at this point.
“But it will mean that we’ll have to cut back on many of the festival activities that are now being planned.”
Referring to the interim Programming Board, Casebier said, “We'll be at that first meeting to submit our request for funds.”