Library refusal may prompt ex-student to offer CIA files to different organizations
By Robin Oto
Staff Writer
If the university library does not agree to accept the Central Intelligence Agency files on the university, Daniel Brandt, a former student, who made the request, may offer the files to another organization.
Roy Kidman, university librarian, said the library’s acceptance of the CIA files depends upon any academic interest shown by various departments on campus.
Brandt has requested CIA files on the university under the Freedom of Information Act and hopes to waive a $500 processing fee with the endorsement of a public interest group. A library agreement to accept the files would waive the fee.
In a letter to Kidman, Brandt gave him until May 12 to accept the files, after which he said he would refer the matter to other organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Los Angeles Times and the American Library Assn.
Brandt said if the library refuses to accept the CIA files, a negative reaction toward the university library would result since the files are valuable to the public.
But Kidman said the library receives a large number of gifts and requests to add to its collection but cannot accept all of them because of li-
mited resources and academic interest.
“The library has a fair number of requests to add to the collection, but it’s not possible for any library to take on everything it’s offered.
“We just don’t add everything, that wouldn’t be possible. But I don’t want to make any predictions from the information I have now,” Kidman said.
Kidman has been away on business and said he has not had time to investigate the possibilities of accepting the CIA files.
He said the library has to consider several factors. including the volume of files released, whether the material needs to be indexed and if there is a genuine academic interest in the files.
Kidman said normal procedure in acquiring library materials involves consultation between the special library department where the materials would be placed with faculty of a department interested in the material.
Kidman will probably send copies of Brandt’s letter to faculty members but does not know which departments he will consult.
“What goes into the collection is what the faculty and librarians collect. But the important question is whether or not the academic community finds it useful. I haven’t heard of any academic unit that wants the files,” he said.
But Brandt feels Kidman will decide whether (continued on page 2)
University of Southern California
Volume LXXIII, Number 56
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, May 9, 1978
Group seeks to recall councilman, charges inefficiency, insensitivity
'BECAUSE IT'S THERE'—Michael Swiderski, coordinator of the Outdoor Adventure Program of Campus Life and Recreation, sealed the walls of Student Union Friday to enter his third floor office. DT photos by Paul Rodriguez.
By Pamela Samuels
Staff Writer
A group of citizens has filed nearly 6,000 signatures in a move to recall Los Angeles City Councilman Robert C. Farrell charging he is inefficient and insensitive to the slum conditions in his district and the needs of senior citizens.
Farrell, councilman for the 8th district, which includes the university, issued a statement Monday saying, “The filing of signatures on petitions seeking my recall is simply another political attack by a disgruntled few folks in my district. It is like similar attacks in the past on other black members of the Los Angeles City Council. If the signatures are in fact valid and we ar^ obliged to have an election campaign, I will win.”
The Concerned Citizens of the 8th District, the group behind the recall, filed petitions Friday containing 5,939 signatures with the Los Angeles city clerk.
Under city charter, 20% of all votes cast at the council election is needed to recall a councilman.
Dennis Hale, Jr., a member of the group, said he is confident the recall will be a success. Only 2,919 signatures were needed, but the group collected twice that number. Hale said he believes that 95% of the signatures are valid.
“We are going to take the message door-to-door,” he said. “We received very few negative responses. Out of a 100, maybe 2 or 3 people would say, ‘No I’m not going to sign that petition because I think Robert Farrell is a good man.’
“Personality-wise, he might be, but as far as his district, he’s done a lousy job.”
Representatives of Farrell’s office said the charges are vague and totally unfounded.
“It’s an effort to weaken him for his reelection in 1979.” said Channing Johnson, Farrell’s director of economic development. “After a second term it’s difficult to knock someone out
of office. The best tactic to weaken an election is a recall campaign.”
LorrettaWalker, special assistant to the councilman, feels the recall is “a waste of taxpayers’ money.” She said the group should wait and challenge him when he is up for reelection in 1979.
AN EYE ON CAMPUS
Hale cited specific incidents that sparked the group’s move for a recall. “At one time the streets in the community weren’t being swept. He said funds had run out, but later he came up with $115,000 to reactivate the street sweepers.”
Hale also said Farrell is in (continued on page 2)
Moths return to Doherty
By Devra Lieb
Staff Writer
It could easily be a scene from one of those low-budget Roger Corman science fiction films (Pit and the Pendulum, Little Shop of Horrors) of the 1960s. But, unfortunately for library staffers and students, it’s a scene from real life: a horde of moths have returned to their spring roosting spot in Doheny Library.
Unlike a sci-fi film, however, the moths are not terrorizing innocent citizens. Instead, the insects’ target has been the outside covers of books and the deep, dark and cozy rear areas of the bookshelves.
Pat Hanson, a reference librarian, said the moths have returned to the library every spring since she’s worked there.
“They usually just sort of sit and and then fly out at you when you open a book or something,” Hanson said.
She said library staffers are more aware of the insect problem and have tried to keep a sense of humor about the situation.
“Actually, we’re trying for a TV series,” one librarian said. “They’ve got Spiderman, so why not Mothman?”
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The warm-weather, junk-food war is on. The opponents are the university’s food service lemoni.de and ice cream stands versus tL<; snow cone stand sponsored by Phrateres, a women’s service organization.
The snow cone stand is the victor, if long lines count for anything.
The cones, which come in cherry and lemon-line flavors, are the Phrateres pledge project.
Sources have hinted that food service is considering opening a university slip ‘n’ slide and giving away cocoa butter candy bars as a retaliatory measure.
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Belle Benson has set up shop this week at the university’s Spring Crafts Faire.
Benson features perfumes, oils and natural fragrances that she mixes personally.
She said one of her most popular scents is a concoction called “score oil.” Benson created “score oil” by combining the scents worn by famous courtesans throughout history.
“I have the greatest selling agent in the world — sex — but I also have a good product,” Benson said.
Benson said her clientele includes many men. “Men don’t like to go into department stores and get sprayed like a gnat by a girl with long eyelashes,” she said.
“I also have the only strawberry oil in the world that doesn’t smell like jam,” she said.