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

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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

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' the sum total ' The painful fact is that we are living in a most difficult time in our history — a time when this richest, most powerful and most fortunate nation on earth is undergoing what can properly be called a crisis of confidence Given the nature of our society, it was inevitable that the American colleges and universities would be caught up in the prevailing currents of uncertainty, confusion, and even violence My exhortation to you in the midst of all this sound and fury is to stand steady, to merit from those who are watching us and testing us the accolades of poise and pride. If this institution as a whole, or if any essential element in it starts to run scared, we may never recover. If we try to reset our sails at the buffeting of every noisy gust that sweeps across this campus; if we do not mean what we say about an honest commitment to the process of reason; if we dilute our academic standards and intellectual honesty with trivia in a puny plea for peace, then we shall abundantly deserve our demise. A great university is perhaps the most delicate and complex mechanism ever devised by man. It is more than those students currently enrolled, the present faculty, and the present administration. It is the sum total of its history, its alumni who once sat where you are sitting, its many friends in the community, the parents of students past, present, and to come, all those people who treasure scholarship — in short, all those who believe in the idea of a university A university can never be a static entity but must change and adapt as society itself must change and adapt. Our role is to orchestrate that change with harmony rather than dissonance. — President John R. Hubbard 17