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Letters Set th( DEAR MR. BEEBE, Jerry Calabrese has accused me of "flagrant misuse of my office." Let's set the record straight.-The IFC sponsored both the James Taylor and BS&T concerts. Both groups were booked in the Coliseum before we negotiated with them for sponsorship. Our motives were simple. Because the concert committee has failed to present to the USC students a first class program of entertainment and because the Coliseum booked shows backed by outside promoters who charged outrageous prices for admission; we wanted to somehow lower the ticket prices. We did this by ob taining a 50 cents discount for the Taylor concert and a one dollar discount for the BS&T concert for all USC students! This isn't much on an individual basis, but on the whole, we saved the students approximately $7000. Both promoters wanted us to distribute window cards, arrange for newspaper and radio ad vertisements, obtain various in struments, and assist the artists on the day of the event. Both promoters offered a fee for this work. Ralph Bridges offered $200 for the Taylor concert and Rick Bowan offered $300 for the BS&T concert. The fees were not for Book To acquaint you with a We offer the following more discount Red Clay Reader w Alan Watts Joous Tosmol Abbie Hoffman Randell Jarrell r m John Berryman Berryman's Hermann Hesse Wilhelm Reich Leroi Jones edirI Steven Kelman Ib:ldridge Cleaner Andrei Voznesensiky Norman MailerCanblac H Rap Brown .htmes D)ickey 'f e Mart Crowley Th y We have a fine selection oi cerning things from philosol politics, and hard back child PRICES. CHECK US OUT. .From 10 to 10 Mon. thru Joyful Alt 2009 Green St4: record r sponsorship, they were for the actual labor involved in publicizing and staging the concerts. I and the four other people who received the fees had had experience in con certs before. However, before I accepted the fees, I discussed it with the IFC and the Greek Week Committee. Both groups felt that since I had experience in concert promotion and since I was doing all the actual labor, then I was en titled to the fees. Then I called Dave Phillips of N.E.C. and asked him if he thought there might be a conflict of interests involved. He said that as long as the fee was for the actual labor of promotion, then he could see no conflict. After this assurance, I proceeded to go about my work. How can Mr. Calabrese accuse me of "flagrant misuse of office" when I gdt the go ahead from the organization in which I held the off ice? Calabrese says that his "only question" is whether I was "ethically eligible" to accept a fee for work my organization was sponsoring. Is it not the business of the IFC to raise such questions of ethics which involved the IFC? They raised no questions; they simply gave me the go ahead. If the IFC didn't choose to raise any questions being fully aware of the circumstances, then why should a Sale ur bookshelves books at 25% or as 5.00 now 3.75 was 1.95 now 1.45 a 2.95 now 2.25. an institution 2.25 now 1.70 Sonnets 1.95 now 1.45 1.95 now 1.45 Nritins 3.45 now 2.60 re3.50 now 2.60 5.95 now 3.60 '5.95 now 1.98 ~ 1.95 now 1.45 2.45 now 1.85 ~ 1.95 now 1.45 L5.95 now 4.70 IhBnd 1.95 now 1.45 F quality paperbacks con ihy to pets from UNoetry to rens books AT DISCOUNT Sat. ernative at 5 Points ;traight complete outsider like Calabrese raise any questions? Calabrese's first charge was that the IFC ripped-off the students by selling their name to outside promoters. As I said earlier, the I FC saved the students ap proximately $7000 on the whole. I feel that this pretty well disproves the notions that the IFC ripped-off anyone. The second charge, which Calabrese directed toward me personally, was "flagrant misuse of office." The fact that the IFC and the Greek Week Committee were fully aware of the fees and the fact that I did all the actual work involved disprove any charge of misuse of office. Calabrese is the one who has misused his position. He has used the power of the press' to deliberately slander the IFC and me. Unfortunately we are playing the debate game on his playground and by his rules. The only reason I have bothered to rebuke his ac cusations is because there are many students at USC who believe anything they read. feel that my explanation proves that Mr. Calabrese was misin formed. I also feel that I have proven that I am innocent of the charges that Calabrese leveled against me. PETER MCCAUSLAND 0} Hoppe: TI B ARTHUR HOPPE Columnist ri "At ease, gentlemen. Welcome w to the Army's new Advance Legal Trraining School. Once you have tt successfully completed the ni mandatory six weeks course, you will be certified fit for combat. Any ei questions?" in "Excuse me, Colonel, but s( frankly it sounds like a waste of df time. I mean I joined the Army to y( fight. not to be a barracks room th lawyer." "I understand your feelings, ie Lieutenant. But ever since the My w, Lai mess, the Army's come under th heavy criticism for not sufficiently grounding its officers in the Rules sc of War. This school is the answer." mn "But six weeks, Colonel? You'd gi think we could learn the Rules of F~' War in an afternoon. They're ri pretty simple." bI The Lbomi Rest-i U.er.d Student Monday NI This is a chance to visit Cc Restaurant For a minimum includes choice cut sirloin steak Items at salad bar) choice of 3 p coffee Appropriate I Please Call for I 741 S..h..d. . I 4.1 Home ie rules of v "You think so, Lieutenant? All I(m) yc ght, when, in a combat situation, Sh ould you employ poison gas?" VC." "Never, sir. Everybody knows An e use of posion gas is an woma ,.,, , "An "Wrong. 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