Audit shows discrepancy among Trojan Republicans’ membership
By Robin Oto
Staff Writer
An investigation of the Trojan College Republicans, formerly the Trojan Young Republicans, revealed only 30 people out of the 407 names submitted on the membership rolls are actually club members.
The names of persons including registered Democrats who had only contacted the club for information were used on the roll sheets.
Carl Olsen, temporary chairman of the Los Angeles County Young Republicans when the membership rolls were submitted earlier in the year, ordered the "membership audit” and sent out letters to those students on the membership lists.
Olsen employed Matthew Lynch, a lawyer, who drew up the letters that said students on the list who were not members of the Young Republican Club would be subject to a court subpoena. The letter also requested the return of informational forms, from which members of the club were determined by constitutional criteria.
Kyle Walls, current president of the club, said although the initial list of 407 was submitted, the club had planned an internal audit before the final credentials committee reviewed the list in order to get an accurate membership roll.
Hal Furman, the former club president, and other key club members had left right after the initial list was submitted and the internal audit was not completed.
Each new member must pay a $4 membership fee but because there is no bylaw that says the
dues must come out of the new members’ pockets, money from Hunt Braly, a former club member, and campaign funds for Ron Macdonald, now chairman of the Los Angeles County Young Republicans, were used to pay for the percentage that goes toward state and county Young Republican clubs.
“Olsen’s tactic was deplorable. He had a lawyer prepare a very threatening letter and there was a great deal of concern,” Walls said. “A lot of people were talking to their parents.
“It wasn’t done quite as efficiently as it should have been. A certain number of people said they weren’t in Young Republicans and really were, or some hadn’t paid their dues but wanted to be members. Some weren’t included just because they didn’t have phone numbers,” Walls said.
Furman said he had nothing to do with the names added to the rolls and the list was a mistake complicated by his absence right after the initial roll was submitted.
Furman also said he had planned to resign at the beginning of the spring semester because he did not have the time to fully devote his energies as president anyway.
. “When he came back, the letter was out and words like fraud were being thrown around. It was a bad timing but it just happened that the two events of the name additions and his resignation coincided,” Walls said.
The letters sent by Olsen and Lynch were sent only to the Young Republican Clubs of UCLA and USC, whose members claim Olsen had political (continued on page 2)
Daily § Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXXIII, Number 27
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, March 28, 1978
Hubbard, university group to attempt initiating educational ties with China
By Gary Maloney
President Hubbard and 13 university representatives will leave Friday for a 2^-week visit to the People’s Republic of China.
This is the first educational mission from the university to be accepted into the republic since the initial request was made in 1974. The request reportedly went to the desk of the late premier, Chou En-Lai, who died before taking action on it.
Representatives from numerous institutions, including the American Assn. of Universities and Northwestern University, have toured mainland China sir>ce former President Richard M. Nixon’s visit there in 1972.
Hubbard said he hopes to open the avenues of intellectual exchange between the university and mainland China. Because of geographic location and present foreign studies orientation, he said the university would be a logical choice
for educational activities with the Chinese, especially under the country’s present government.
“In a way, we’re fortunate our request wasn’t accepted right away,” Hubbard said. “At that time, the Chinese were trying to achieve complete isolation from Western intellectual and educational bias.”
The tide, however, has apparently shifted.
“Under Hua Kuo-Feng (the present Chinese premier), the educational system has been overhauled. It now emphasizes an elite of merit. There are entrance exams in the higher institutions and rigorous exams for continued participation in education.”
The Chinese government has strictly limited the group to 14 university representatives anu their spouses. All are trustees or administrators — no faculty or students will participate.
The administrators include
Addie Klotz, director of the Student Health Center; Thomas Nickell, vice-president for university affairs; Roger Olson, associate vice-president for university affairs; Jack Steele, dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration; and Rosalind Loring, dean of the College of Continuing Education.
Trustees attending include George T. Scharffenberger, Gordon Marshall, Robert D. Wood, Montgomery Ross Fisher, Raymond Watt, Virginia Ramo and Herbert Klein.
As for Hubbard, it will be another in a series of travels over the past few years.
The group will arrive in Tokyo and then fly to Peking. At press time, the Chinese government had not released the planned itinerary for the group.
The final scheduled stop is Canton, after which the representatives fly to Hong Kong "and then home April 17.
SCAMPUS SCULPTURE — The university's outdoor art collection, once limited to a single bronze statue, has grown rapidly during the past few years. This free-form metal sculpture is located in front of Bing Theater. DT photo by Paul Rodriguez.
Student Senate approves extension for applications
By Carole Long
Stafr Writer
The deadline for submitting applications for Student Senate positions has been extended to April 3.
The extension was proposed by Craig Settles and Dale Head, senators, at a meeting March 14. It was passed on the second round of voting.
Settles said the application forms for the Senate and its committees had been insufficiently advertised.
He said the advertisement in the Daily Trojan had not made clear that the application was for both elective and appointive positions.
Both Settles and Head said they felt additional time was needed for publicity.
Bill Dauster, Student Senate chairman, did not favor the extension.
“We have already spent $540 in our two weeks of advertising with big ads in the Daily Trojan. I don’t see how students couldn’t know about the elections by now. Besides, I don’t know where we re going to get the extra money for advertising," Dauster said.
“This extension is also putting a strain on committees, such as CAAB (Campus Activities Allocation Board) who want to train people for their positions. Everything is being held up.”
Dauster said the application for student government positions had created some of the problems.
“This year, for the first time, all the student government positions were combined in one application. In the past there was one application for the Student Senate and another for committees and commissions but now they're all in one.
“This is the confusion that Settles and Head were worried about. They were concerned that students who wanted to be senators but not involved in the senate committees had not yet responded because of the nature of the application," Dauster said.
Head said the senate will continue advertising in the Daily Trojan this week and posters will be distributed around the campus.
"The problem was not that we didn't have enough people apply for the positions but that many of the senators felt students were not aware of the open positions,” Head said.
Professor relates theories for his success
By Amy Alpern
Assistant City Editor
Students generally attend a university to learn — professors, to teach. If oceanography is the subject, chances are the professor will have to do both.
“When I attended this university as a student, we were told that the earth was just over 2 billion years old. I tell my students now that the earth is 4.5 billion years old,” said Bernard Pipkin, adjunct associate professor of geological sciences.
Pipkin did not intend to mislead students into believing he attended the university 2 billion years ago but was illustrating how much scientists have discovered since he was a student.
“In oceanography you get out of date very quickly. It is necessary to take one-week crash courses to keep in-
formed,” Pipkin said.
Although Pipkin, in his ninth year as a teacher, has continued to work as a marine geology consultant and has researched in coastal geology, he considers himself to be more of a classroom teacher.
“There are two profiles that a professor can take,” he said. “One is a research profile and the other is a teaching profile. I consider myself to have a teaching profile.
“Unfortunately, the university’s reward system is based on the extent of your researching. You can be the best classroom teacher and not get promoted one position.”
Although Pipkin said he is not sure what makes one teacher more successful than another, he said his own success is the result of his attitude.
“If I stop enjoying what I am doing, then I will quit.
“It is the interaction with the students that makes me enjoy teaching, along with my interest in the subject.”
Pipkin’s interest in oceanography is evident as he lectures and his enthusiasm seems to rub off on his students.
While students can usually count on a good 40 winks in a lecture class the size of Pipkin’s, most students don’t sleep in oceanography.
One reason is because they never know when he is going to call a name from the roll and ask a question pertaining to the lecture.
Pipkin’s delivery also tends to hold the students’ attention. He is known to go out of his way to incorporate a joke into (continued on page 2)