Daily tp Trojan
Vol. LXVI, No. 85
University of Southern California
_Los Angeles, California_
Friday, March 8, 1974
3,000 jam row to watch streak
The number of persons expected to streak down 28th Street Thursday diminished drastically after the Los Angeles Police Department threatened to arrest the nude runners for prosecution for a sex offense.
Over 3,000 onlookers jammed the Row to watch approximately 40 streakers instead of an earlier prediction of 250.
The event, called the First Annual Greek Streak, attracted streakers from outlying areas, including a 31-year-old woman.
Sudi, the woman streaker, said that her actions stood for human liberation.
“There are movements for liberations going on all over the country," she said. “I can identify with any event which makes people happier and I feel that streaking does.”
Sudi, who wore only a charm signifying her feelings about womanhood, said she expected to encounter problems with the male spectators, but didn't.
“The fellows were respectful and understood the need to keep their hands to themselves," she said. “This shows that women can streak without getting mauled.”
Sudi said that she has been working for the feminist and lesbian movements. She is on the editorial staff of the Lesbian Tide.
She said that she identifies with the “legalization of prostitution and weed** and she feels that “the socialistic movement is one of the best things going."
Streaking, which has become a recent craze on college campuses, was seen by a 58-year-old woman spectator as “just a fad. Streaking compares to the flag pole-sitting
and goldfish-eating of yesterday," she said.
“1 want to prove to my parents that they're getting their money's worth at USC," one streaker said.
“Two years ago, when ! first came to this school everyone was bored — so they were dropping acid," another streaker said. “Now everyone's still bored but they're dropping their pants."
One streaker was anxious to say that the reason he paraded in the buff was to promote spirit for the USC-UCLA basketball game.
' Another participant, wearing only tennis shoes and a ski mask, said that he was embarrassed but wanted to, do something to look back on after his graduation this spring.
Another, dressed in a flowing robe which blew in the breeze, said that “half the people in this world are exhibitionists and half are peeping toms. We're just satisfying the urge of these peeping toms," he said.
One streaker from a fraternity said that he was tired of this year's tranquility.
“It’s been really quiet on the Row — nothing has been happening that is really fantastic on the entire campus except for this," he said.
An onlooker explained his feelings like this: “It was splendid and delightful and extremely stimulating for people of the gay sex.”
Another said he was streaking for his country.
“We had to have some way to get the country's mind off Watergate,” he said.
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HAN E YOU GOT A LIGHT? The young man (no doubt about it) riding the unicycle on 28th street near Exposition is just out for an afternoon ride. Meanwhile, several of his friends set out to
prove to President Nixon that “streaking'’ is definitely not a cover up.
DT photos by Bob Chavez and Gehrig Ikeda.
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Judicial plan awaits approval
By SHERRIL STRAL SFOGEL
A new university judicial council that would have the authority to hear cases involving faculty, staff, administrative and student disputes is awaiting the approval of administration.
The present council is only able to hear disputes that involve the Statement of Students’ Rights and Responsibilities found in SCam-pus. The proposed University of Southern California Judicial Council would hear disputes under a new set of codes called the University Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.
This set of guidelines would be applied to students, faculty, administration and staff. A draft of the statement has already been made by the Student Life Committee.
‘Times’ reporter to talk on free press at Newspaper
Day
Bill Farr, the Los Angeles Times reporter who was sentenced to jail for refusing to reveal his sources in a story on the Charles Manson trial, will be the featured speaker Saturday at the ,49th annual Newspaper Day.
Farr will speak on “Is a Free Press Worth Going to Jail For?’’ at noon in Edison Auditorium of
Hoffman Hall.
The day's activities, sponsored by the School of Journalism, will be attended by over 400 students from high schools and junior colleges.
Three seminars are also scheduled. One will deal with “Women Who Write," and will feature four women journalists; Betty Preston,
Programming Board sets budget request deadline
Organizations must submit budget requests for the spring semester by March 15, the Student Programming Board announced at its meeting Thursday.
I he board also elected the following officers: Arturo Abarca, president; Jack Fields, co-chairman; and Dave Blackmar, treasurer.
Decisions on budget requests will be made between March 15 and April
4.
A representative from each organization must meet with the board’s appropriate area director (e.g. social-cuitoiral events director, academic-educational events director) before appearing in front of the entire board.
The board works with an annual budget of approximately $140,000. Randy Zomar, assistant director of student activities, said he expects at least 20 organizations to submit budget requests.
Request forms are available in Student Union 309.
city editor of the Glendale News-Press; Donna Hale, news editor, Farmers Insurance Group; Jackie Lapin, free-lance sportswriter; and Nancy Smith, associate editor of the Santa Monica Evening Outlook.
“Don't Just Sit There — Go Out and Get That Job” will feature four members of the faculty of the School of Journalism, Joe Saltzman, Bill Faith, Russell Leadabrand, and George Laine.
Two newspaper sensitivity sessions for students and advisers are also scheduled.
Pat Haden, USC quarterback, will speak to the students at 9:15 a.m. in Edison Auditorium. His talk will be preceded by opening remarks by Roy H. Copperud, professor of journalism.
The winners of the Newspaper Day writing awards, stories submitted in advance by the students and judged by USC journalism students, will be announced.
A tour of the Daily Trojan offices in the Student Union and the paper's composition facilities on Hope Street will also be offered by the Daily Trojan staff.
More information on the day's activities is available from the School of Journalism, 746-2391.
The new’ council would be made up of students, faculty, staff and administrators. Representatives of these groups would be involved if a case of complicated or mixed jurisdiction should occur.
Separate panels
However, the council may be broken down into four separate panels in situations where conflicts are only concerned with one panel's jurisdiction. The panels may be arranged in any combination in order to satisfy the requirements of the conflict.
The proposal was made because the present judicial was disturbed that many student grievances exist without a forum where they can be resolved. The members of the council felt that the present judicial has no jurisdiction over anyone but students.
The present council felt it was appropriate to bring pressure bn the university to develop a comprehensive judicial system to insure that future complaints will not be ignored because of institutional shortcomings.
Therefore, the judicial decided to make up a proposal to start discussions in the university community and to snowball a movement to fix up an insufficient judicial system.
Bruce Cohen, one of the two chief justices of the present judicial, met with Robert L. Mannes, dean for student life and coordinator of the present judicial, to develop the proposal.
Mannes pointed out the need for a more comprehensive judicial system and suggested that the proposal for the new system take into consideration the draft of the Student Life Committee report.
“I know that there is a lot of support on this campus for something like this,” Mannes said. “Other schools have gone in this direction and my personal feelings
are that there has been some real gains for these schools and there can be some real gains here too.”
Cohen echoed Mannes' observations of the support for the new council.
“The time is ripe, as indicated by the favorable administration, student, faculty and staff response to create a new judicial system that will fill the voids that now exist,” Cohen said.
“The proposal provides for a comprehensive, unified mechanism for resolving all disputes which may arise involving any segment of the University committee."
Procedure outlined
Although the response to the proposal has been favorable to date, the implementation of the plan rests with the administration.
Mannes described the process for working out the details:
“First it must go through the President’s Advisory Council to decide which committee should consider A. Then it will be discussed by one of the university’s committees.
“From here it will be presented to the President's Advisory
Council. If it is agreed upon, it will be recommended to the president to implement. If he agrees, it will be implemented.
“If the president feels that this is important enough to require immediate action, he will request an ad hoc committee, which will speed up all this.”
Mannes said that he can't foresee the proposal being enacted before this fall.
“Given the number of things which must occur, if everyone agreed now, I don't know if we could get it working for next year.”
The council hopes that the university will draw upon the talents of interested students to assist and take some responsibility in the drafting of the proposed council.
Caucus will discuss health fee increase
The Student Caucus of the President's Advisory Council will meet today to discuss a proposal to increase student health fees.
Also included on the agenda is a briefing on the proposed constitution for the board of directors of the USC Student
Association.
The noon meeting will be in the conference room of Town and Gown.