THE SHOW MUST GO ON - Though 50-mph winds knocked down the Lunchbox Theater set Tuesday night, destroying a piano and a number of microphones, the troupe performed Broadway -
The Singular Sensation Wednesday. Two guards watching the set managed to get people from a nearby rehearsal to help save other equipment
CAAB votes to release funds to Iranian student organization
By John Antczak
Staff Writer
Funds for the appearance of an Iranian poet sponsored bv the Iranian Students Club were released by the Campus Activities Allocation Board at a meeting Wednesday.
The board released the funds on a 5 to 1 vote. There were two abstentions, including Stan Kiyota, the board chairman, who raised the issue.
The board froze the club's funds following a recent antishah rally. Kiyota said the rally showed the group had a political nature, creating doubt about the nature of the club's board-funded events. Board bylaws prohibit funding of political events.
After the meeting, Farrokh Abnshamkar, the club president, commended the board's action but said the board should never have taken action against the club.
He said the board had no reason to question the nature of the club's activities and de-
manded an apology from Kiyota.
In a commentary submitted to the Daily Trojan, presenting his personal opinion, Kiyota said, the board was concerned about whether or not Abrishamkar had “lied and deliberately misled the board in his allocation hearing.''
Kiyota said the board decided in executive session it would not ask that question and would confine itself to the nature of the poet's appearance.
Kiyota said he abstained from voting so that there would be no charge of bias. He said he would not apologize for his personal view.
The meeting drew many spectators who wanted to speak on the question.
However the board did not allow spectators to comment on the question — whether the poet's talk would be a political or educational event.
"We do not like the establishment of a precedent by which a writer or a poet will be inhibited directly or indirectly," said Abrishamkar at one point in the
ASSAULT CLAIMED
proceedings.
However, the board asked him to confine his statements to questions from board members on iwhat kind of program the poet would have.
Afterwards, Abrishamkar expressed anger that he was not able to make a prepared statement to the board. He said he wanted to refute statements made bv Kivota at a board meeting connecting the Iranian Students Club with the Iranian Students Assn., a national political organization. He added that while he was in favor of the association and its goals, the club was not connected to the association.
Holiday issue
Today’s paper features a Holiday Entertainment Issue devoted to the many tvpes of leisure activities offered in L.A. during the break. The section includes places to go, albums to enjov and discos to visit
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University of Southern California Volume LXXV, No. 50	Thursday. December 7. 1978
Housing favors granted to officials, senate says
HE’D RATHER BE SKIING — Wednesday's weather was appropriate for snow, as any red-nosed student could tell you. Tommy got his share, as well as his own ski shirt, courtesy of the USC Ski Club.
Attendant may sue security officers
By Carole Long
Staff Writer
A university gate attendant may file a lawsuit for injuries he received in a skirmish with campus security officers over a month ago.
The skirmish occurred after a student entering the university at Entrance 2 at 36th and Figueroa Streets drove over the foot of Tallie Baldwin, a gate attendant {Daily Trojan, Nov. 1).
Campus Security officers reportedly arrived on the scene to get a report on what had occurred.
A confrontation then developed between Baldwin and the officers.
Students witnessing the scene said security officers hit Baldwin with a broom several times and then finally drew a gun on him.
Campus Security sources denied that the officers had struck Baldwin. They claimed that it was they, not Baldwin, who were attacked with the broom.
Baldwin has since hired Edward Morris, an attorney, to handle his case.
Morris said Baldwin is undergoing treatment for the injuries he received in the skirmish.
A couple of weeks after the incident he was still in a lot of pain. He had headaches and dizzv spells from head injuries he suffered and he also received injuries to his torso area.
"Those security guards hurt Baldwin pretty bad. He could sue somebody for batten,'," Morris said.
No charges were filed against Baldwin or the student who drove over his foot or the security officers involved at the time the incident occurred.The case
was left in the hands of the city attornev and if he saw fit charges would be filed.
Morris said the city attorney has not yet filed charges and doubted if they would be.
"If charges haven't been filed by now, if they haven't reviewed the case after this long a time, thev will probably let it lie.
"We hope we don't have to file the lawsuit if the defense will own up to their responsibilities financially, but if they don't, we will have to file suit, ' Morris said.
The potential defendants to be sued are Michael Kennedy and William Baxlev, campus security officers, who would be charged with battery; and the student, whose name was withheld, on charges of negligence.
Morris said the case will not be settled until Baldwin is released from the doctor's care. Morris has not yet received a medical report.
The incident also reportedly had racial overtones with Baldwin protesting to officers, "All you listen to is the white boy's story. I'm a human being too. I'm the same as vou guvs."
A number of sources felt the security officers were trving to assert their authority over Baldwin, although he was a fellow employee.
When security guards think of lower-level employees like parking attendants as someone to be policed, it is not a good situation, one source said.
Since the incident, campus security has held meetings to deal with employee relationship problems.
By Shari Cookson
Staft VV nter
The Residential Assignment Office saves at least three to four dozen spots for a few university vice-presidents to fill at their own discretion, a Student Senate task force on housing has disclosed.
According to the task force's report, auxiliary' services will receive the requests of these vice-presidents even if space has not been saved.
In theory, this means that someone could be denied housing to make room for another student whose housing request is backed by one of these vice-presidents, said Jeff Gates, senate chairman of student affairs.
Gates said some vice-presidents might be "rolling over in their easy chairs" because this information was leaked out.
The task force was able to confirm that three to four dozen spaces are held open for vice-presidentia! requests, Gates said.
After talking to some of those benefiting from this "vice-presidential service", it is likely that even more spaces are reserved, he said.
The task force report stated the vice-presidents involved can request that a student be housed in a particular room with a particular roommate.
The report also stated that three or four dozen spaces are set aside for the athletic department and five to six dozen spaces for international students.
The task force agrees that this kind of activity is bound to go on, but feels that such activity can easily get out of hand.
Administrators requesting housing should be required to submit written justification to the President's Advisory Council's Student Affairs Committee, the task force recommended. The committee would then have the veto power to override each request.
The Student Senate had planned to vote on such a resolution at its meeting Wednesday, but decided to table the motion until its next meeting.