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

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' ■ he fail semester brought a number of speakers to campus, spon- red by a variety of campus organizations. Many of the speeches e e politically-oriented, given amidst last-minute debating befou h e November elections. 9 ... Brathwaite called for a different kind of politics traiU vds the .full participation of all people in order to survive. i.ivter Ward spoke on the corruption at high levels of city govei oe!it. Lots of people believed him and elected him county sup i-nr, Julian Goodman, president of NBC, asked for the elimij on of the Fairness Doctrine. And Cesar Chavez, organizer of t .;ni$ed Farm Workers Union, came to plead his cause in the fif it;oinst Proposition 22 . t xubjra Winslow, feminist lecturer and historian, came to spe n the present status of women. Both candidates for Los AngtS h ' iSrict attorney— Vincent Bugliosi and Joseph Busch— came to jj ill. ' students why each of them was the better man. George Rd ity, secretary for Housing and Urban Development, politicl or President Nixon by explaining how he has made steps in t ■undation of a generation of peace. j S. Senator Alan Cranston spoke in support of presidential hoi) ' ! George McGovern and declared that the reelection of Nixi •!.;!d guarantee four more years of war in Indochina. And £ ,.)min Spock, presidential candiate for the Peace and Freedi ■ told of the need for an independent political movement api wny organized party system. viuse out the semester, Pulitzer-prize winning coiu nderson spoke out on freedom of the press— or lack then