University of Southern California
Volume LXVII, Number 107	_Los Angeles, California___Tuesday, April 15, 1975
DOCTOR'S ORDERS—KMET radio's Dr. Demento entertained an enthusiastic crowd as he broadcast his syndicated show live from campus Sunday evening. The good doctor was presented with an honorary Ph. D. in dementia from the residents of Men's Residence West. DT photo by Ed Moy. (See story page 6.)
Complaints filed in election controversy
BY ROY CHAPMAN
Three commuter students have filed complaints with the Student Elections Commission chargingthe Row with a “blatant power grab” for the 12 seats on the President’s Advisory Council.
Ed Morgan. Mike Peterson and Dave Blackmar. members of the USC Commuter Students Organization. told the Daily Tmjari that “obvious injustices” have occured during this year’s elections for the council.
Ten candidates in three living group constituencies have been endorsed by the Interfraternity Council's IFC Row Report, constituting the basis for the complaint that the Row is trying to take over student government.
The undergraduate seats on the President's Advisory Council (PAC) are divided into three living group constituencies. There are three seats each for the Row and the residence halls and six commuter seats.
“The frats are completely trying to take over the total seats by running candidates on all three slates,” said Morgan, a commuter candidate.
The official complaints charge that Mike Abell and Jerry
Papazian, two candidates violated a section of the Election Code that states that any candidate that is a member of a campus media staff must not actively participate in that medium during the campaign.
Abell, sports editor of the Row Run, had a bold faced byline and his name in the staff box of an issue that was distributed during the campaign period. There was no mention ofthe election in the issue. Abell may defend himself by seeking to prove that the Roic Run is not a campus medium.
Craig Coleman, a Row candidate running on the slate advocating “The Economic Survival Plan,” charged Papazian with a similar compaint saying that he had actively participated in a campus medium after Papazian’s name appeared in the staff box and on a bylined story in the April IFC Row Report.
A hearing by the Student Elections Commission is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday morning.
Neither Abell nor Papazian was available for commet at press time.
Daily
Trojan
Nixon receptive to giving papers to USC—Hubbard
BY TOM ROSA and KARI GRANVILLE
Former President Richard M. Nixon seems to be receptive to the idea of donating his prepresidential and presidential papers to the university. President John R. Hubbard said in an interview Monday.
Hubbard approached Nixon about donating the papers. They have met twice in recent weeks at Nixon’s San Clemente home.
“The judgment of history on the Nixon Administration is going to depend on the availability ofthe Nixon papers to the world community of scholars,” Hubbard said.
He said the university is not interested in the publicity surrounding the papers.
“The only thing we are interested in is making these papers available in an orderly and systematic fashion to scholars. The best vehicle for this should be a major research library.” Hubbard said
Although a master inventory of the donation is not available as yet, Hubbard said the donation should include everything in Nixon's political career—tapes, correspondence and films from his presidential and prepresidential years.
The ownership of some of Nixon’s presidential tapes and papers is a major uncertainty at this time, Hubbard said.
In his talks with the former President. Hubbard said that Nixon “seemed to be in splendid condition and absolutely alert."
“At this point he has seemed to be receptive to the idea that the collection ought to be together and it ought to be available to scholars,” he said.
“He seems to be convinced that USC could perform that function.
“The judgment of history is a central concern of his (Nixon’s),” Hubbard said
Any details for housing the papers will not be made until a decision is reached by Nixon. Hubbard said.
He said that if Nixon donates the papers, anybody who has a legitimate reason to see them will be allowed to do so. “Any future judgment rests on the accessibility of these papers,” Hubbard said.
Hubbard said he believes there will be no controversy if the university acquires the papers.
“There is no question about the fact that these presidential papers are among the most significant, if not the most significant, in the history ofthe presidency,” he said.
The ties between the Nixon family and the Nixon administration and the university have been extensive.
Several members of the Board of Trustees are personal acquaintances of Nixon who supported him in his campaigns.
Pat Nixon graduated from the university in 1937 and received an honorary' doctorate of humane letters from the university in 1961.
Prominent figures in the Nixon Administration and the Watergate-related activities also attended the university.
The Los Angeles Tmies said Nixon's alma mater. Whittier College, recently acquired the minimal assets from the Richard Nixon Foundation—which originally was set up to build a Nixon library' and museum—when the foundation was formally dissolved last week.
The college received some files and records, about $2,000 in cash, office furniture and tapes from a Whittier-directed Richard Nixon Oral History Project, consisting of interviews with Nixon acquaintances, the Times said.
Married-student committee asks for
moratorium
BY WAYNE WALLEY and FERRIS KAPLAN
A formal complaint requesting a moratorium on all activity regarding a proposed university day-care center was submitted to President John R. Hubbard on Monday by the Married Student Housing Committee.
Hubbard was unavailable for comment, but his secretary said a meeting with the committee will be arranged in the near future.
The complaint was filed in response to a decision by the Board of Trustees to approve a plan to locate a day-care center next to the Married Student Housing Complex at Exposition Boulevard and Vermont Avenue.
“We are worried where they put it and the impact of such a location,” Arnold A. McMahon, chairman of the committee, said.
The three-page complaint asked for reconsideration ofthe location ofthe site, the manner of the decision, the impact on married student housing and the nature of the center.
“It is a high-noise, high-pollution site, maybe the highest on campus. Is this a suitable place for babies and young children?” McMahon asked.
Anthony D. Lazzaro, vice-president for business affairs, said he was totally surprised by the adverse reaction expressed in the letter.
“The recommended site for the projected child care center was selected so that the married students would gain the max-
on day care center
imum benefit,” Lazzaro said.
Regarding to the impact on married student housing and the nature of the center. Lazzaro said married student housing representatives have been asked to work with Virginia Zoitl, communications coordinator for admissions, in establishing requirements for the center.
“Participation on the part of not only the married students but others who will benefit from the center will certainly take place,” Lazzaro said.
“At this stage the project is simply an approved project but
no work has been done on plans and the project is not fully funded.”
In response to Lazzaro’s comments, McMahon restated that he was displeased with the proposed location for the center and added. “We were never asked to cooperate. It is a classic case where you are not consulted, only used.”
In regard to McMahon’s objection to lack of married student input. Zoitl said early meetings to plan the center were open to everyone and campus-wide input was actively solicited.
TINY BUBBLES—Hundreds of alumni and their offspring rushed from exhibits to displays at USCaleidoseope Sunday, but some were content to sit on the steps of Bovard Auditorium, enjoying the more calming pursuit of blowing the perfect bubble. DT photo by Bob Chavez.