University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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I Then it was October 7. Gamal Abdel Nasser was dead, and in Egypt young men were cry- ing in the streets. Vice-President Agnew was developing his alliterative pitch against Re- publican Senator Charles Goodell of New York and others of the radic-lib set. The Scranton Commission on Campus Violence had just appeared, labeling both students and National Guardsmen on the Kent State campus as trag- ically responsible for the four student deaths the spring before. Fire had swept the hills of Los Angeles. At use the semester was wearing into a routine. The football team was winning again, and bomb threats had become a common- place distrubance. Fear stalked the campus briefly after a girl was stabbed superficially in Doheny Library. But on the seventh, the trustees were on campus for their regular meeting and politics superseded fear. Shortly after noon, a group of students, who had been rallying by Tommy Trojan in an effort to get the trustees to meet with them, stormed the Commons Dining Room. In a tiny hallway packed with bodies and noise, Justin Dart, chairman of the board, debated heatedly with Stan DiOrio, the artic- ulate head of the Caucus of Concerned Stu- dents, and Don Pine, a nonaligned student who gets involved only when I ' m really mad, he said. The confrontation, the only one of significance during the fall semester, resulted in the Trustees Convocation, held October 21. VOL. LXIi NO 13 ] 1 DAti Wildd By RIVIAN .Associate Cii Yesterday morning the a events was anything goes, a There were many give c ignored, but the way in v I created probably one of I ( recent campus hi.story Yesterday was the day iv Concerned .Students had sefiJSo Justin Dart, chairman oftt! had said Tuesday that tie participate in that convod i mat had been arranged had invited the trustees i % student group. ■ Both the caucus and tije last week to .support IheK cided Tuesday evening t

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With no national crisis to stir the campus, and the football team fresh off a stirring tie with Nebraska, the attack focused on the trustees. A day after the opening of school, an elab- orate exhibit was set up in front of Tommy Trojan detailing the inter- locking web of trustee financial and political activity. The thoroughly re- searched exhibit brought some protest from the consolidating right-wing groups on campus, led by the Young Americans for Freedom, but the mood of new classes and fresh stimulation kept the voices down and the crowds small.

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Convocation format set After J week of ! : nt-trustee convoc. liiiip of Jii-lin ]):,- , , John fh;hi. ivocation nextTuesdj The group met when a ;. hedLiIod meeting or, cimvocaiion formal between Dart. Hubbard. . SSC President Sam Hurst and ASSC vice-presidents Chuck Jone- and Tom Lewn was interrupted by a crowd of concerned students which marched from a rally in front of Tommy Trojan to the upstairs Commons Restaurant to gain admit- tance to the closed meeting. Dart and Hubbard came outside of the meeting room 10 minutes later to talk to the determined crowd. .After about an hour of some- what loud and emotional discussion between the administrators and the students on the planning of the convocation. Dart turned to Hurst and said he had enough coniidonce in Hurst to allow him to select students, not necessatil . SS( officials, to sit in on the planning session, one of the main points the crowd of students was driving at. On Tuesday Dart had announced the board would not participate in yesterday ' s planned convMcation because the trustees were wary of entering into a convocation without a format. Hubbard said the iConiinued on page 2) Uni ' ersity of Southern California •AILY ® TROJAN DC CAUCUS COMPROMISE df LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA THURSDAY OCTOBERS. 1970 ends in settlement IW ' IR lor the day s guess could not be ey interrelated iviest ' davs in the Caucus o; onvocation ird of Trustees, ees would not ecause no for- caucus I which a recognized I which voted atiom had de- ;ad with plans the trustees ■ ' . .v ' l ' f ' number , , , ont of Tommy entered the • iilding to obtain a written state- ment from I ' trustees on whether they would participate ihe convocation at noon. The trustees refu u to issue a written statement, but they verball aid they were not going to take part in the pn tram. At this po t the campus police ordered the sound truck : campus on orders from Dr. Paul resident for Student and .Alumni us member told the Daily Trojan :; first told students who ques- Kin that the truck wa.- in violation ! code dealing with sound fre- er when the students challenged •-aid it was an executive decision If 1 meeting yes- lard and .ASSC for next week rally had d-door meeting 1 hour-long ex- ingry students ally forced a leaflets saying ito take place. Bloland. vici .Aftairs. .A c that Bloland tioned this a ' of a univer-, quency. but this point, li- on his part ASSC representatives quickly got portable sound equipment and began urging students to rally around Tommy Troian Between 200 and 300 people did gather and most stayed throughout the hour as about 15 people took turns denouncing the trustees. The rally was interrupted at about 1:10 p.m. when a caucus member yelled. The trustees are meeting upstairs. We ' re going over to talk to them Enough of this empty rhetoric. He got up and started walking toward the commons and most everyone at the rally fol- lowed suit. Dart and Hubbard decided to come out and talk and thev were engaged in a heated dialogue with the students for over an hour. The students. Dart and Hubbard almost found themselves in a shoutine match on several oc- CHAIRMAN MEETS THE STUDENTS Justin Dart discusses plans for convocation Dart is reelected trustee chairman Justin Dart was reelected chairman of the Board of Trustees at yesterday ' s annual meeting of the board. Dart, chairman and president of Dart Industries. Inc.. was also