STUDENT UNION TAX VOTE FALTERS
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PAGE FOUR Student Union Plan Raises Campus Questions
University of Southern California
DAILY f> TROTAN
PAGE SIX McKay Says Troy Ahead Of Last Season
Vol. LIV
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1963
NO. 117
UNION VOTE-One of few Trojans to vote on Student Union fee referendum yesterday receives ballot from election
Daily Trojan Photo by Ken Metcalf worker. Only 649 students turned out as polls opened. Union balloting will resume today through Thursday.
Early Referendum Voting Indicates Student Apathy
The first of four days of balloting on the Student Union referendum brought in only a trickle of the 3,500 votes needed to pass the proposition.
Elections Com mis s i o n e r Scott Bice said yesterday 649 students voted on the refer endum that proposes a fee bill assessment of $2.75 a semester for additions to and
Eight Win
Broadcaster
Telawards
Eight telecommunications students have been awarded telawards for their work on KUSC-FM and KUSC-TV.
The trophies and citations were presented by the USC chapter of Alpha Epsilon Rho. national radio-TV fraternity.
Junior Larry Dennison has been named program director of KUSC-FM. Dennison was given a telaward for his distinguished scholarly and extra-curricular activities in the telecommunications department.
Other Awards
A telaward also went to Dennis E. Doty, public rela-j tions director of KUSC-FM i and news director of KUSC-; TV, USC's closed circuit television station.
Awards were won by Tony Holder, program director of; KUSC-TV; Bill Knowles, pro-1 ducer of Trojan baseball on
renovation of the
Union.
“If this lack of interest continues we will never ob tain the votes needed to pass the referendum,” Commissioner Bice said.
Student the recent excitement of the ASSC elections seemed to have dampened student interest,” he added.
If the referendum is not supported, construction of any new structure will be de layed indefinitely, he said.
"Students just don’t seem to realize that 3,500 votes are needed to pass it,” Del Conte said.
“Students are not voting because they do not seem tc know much about it,” he explained.
Information sheets have been placed at the polls to explain the referendum he said. Student body officers will also give speeches at dormitories, fraternities and sororities to arouse interest, he said.
“There appears to be definite support for the proposed tax among those who are informed,” Bice said. “They’re just not voting.”
Most of the votes were cast in front of Doheny Library. Because of the poor turnout at the Engineering School other polls, which were in front of the school yesterday, will be moved to the women's quad tomorrow,
Bice said.
entertainment fund, Dei ASSC President Ken Del Conte explained Conte said that although	the	jf the	measure is support-
voting was slow today,	“it	ed, the	Student Union	will
should pick up during	the	open in 1965. No student	will
rest of the week.	pay the	tax until it is	fin-
“Approaching finals and ished, Del Conte said.
If the referendum is pass ed, the university will receive a $1.5 million loan from the Home and Housing Finance Agency to finance the construction.
Only $2.50 of the assessment will be used to repay the loan. The remaining 25 cents will go into a special entertainment fund.
According to plans, $1 million will go for additions to the Student Union at the south end of the Grill, with the remaining sum being used to renovate the present Student Union.
The tax will provide an income of $66,000 of which $6,000 will be used for the
Baldwin Cites Authors Need Of Experience
By VIRGINIA BODIN
The moral responsibility of the writer is to see human experience as long as he lives, novelist James Baldwin told a capacity crowd in Founders Hall Friday.
The Negro writer said when he decided to become a novelist he realized that all his material would have to come from human experience —his own experience.
The author of three novels about racial prejudice in New York, Baldwin i elates his own experiences as a young man growing ud in Harlem.
Stresses Need He explained the need for a better awareness within society.
“Civilization is in terrible i danger because it has lost the K ability to see itself,” he j claimed.
Baldwin said the two fail-1 ing characteristics of every society were distrust of one another and unawareness of is everyday surroundings.
He said it is the responsibility of the writer to make people notice the thingj that are around them which they take for granted.
‘Must Communicate* Baldwin also explained that the writer must learn to communicate with the reader so that he can separate words from their connotations.
“Words and nhrases set up reflexes in peoples,” he sai'f. “W’iters should try to re-dee -n these words by giving them new meanings. We should pretend we never heard a word before.”
Persons believe in reality for only two reasons. Baldwin said. First, because they cannot live without material things. Second, because they give names to tangible things. The words give a different nerve response to each individual.
Discusses Symbols
Eileen McDonagh Wins 'Laurel'
AWS Assembly
Honors Women For Leadership
Group Lauds Top Scholars
—Daily Trojan Photo
RECEIVES LAUREL—Mortar Board President Eileen McDonagh accepts Order of the Laurel as outstanding senior woman from Associate Dean of Students Joan Schaefer during last night's AWS recognition assembly.
Troy Debate Squad Wins Sweepstakes
The Trojan Debate Squad closed its 1963 season Saturday by winning over 11 California and Arizona colleges at Long Beach State College.
Points earned by students Mike Davis, Richard Rutledge and Lynn Kurz gave USC the highest score and the Tau Kappa sweepstakes trophy at the Southern California Spring Invitational speech tournament.
In
sophomore Mike Davis placed third in the Lincoln-Douglas style debate. Sophomore Richard Rutledge placed third in Men’s oral Interpretation. He read both prepared and unprepared	presentations by
Carlos Williams and William Wordsworth.
Senior Lynn Kurz was rated “excellent” on her presentations by Lowell Mason.
Speech Coach Harry L,
day-long competition, Murray said the students
excellence
Songfesters
over-ali
“All we have to operate,—	.
with are symbols,” he said, i | ^	| i j ^ II
“Words are symbols, too.” | 1 V IUIIU Wp “If you really want to make the reader feel something when he is reading, you must get past his reflexes,” he added.
Baldwin told his audience in advance that his remarks would be overshadowed by the racial ferment in Birmingham, Ala.
He explained that he ha 3 deep persona! fee] ing? on the incident that stem from a bitterness rooted in his preacher at the Bowl,” Hanson exfather.	plained.
the
¡three areas gave USC the sweepstakes.
| “Only students v/ho have ¡shown excellence in the past,
! the top people in the field, Songfest participants will are auow-ed to compete in this
tournament.” Murray said. “Our ranking too in this group of peoole of outstanding ability certainly speaks
By JULIE PORTER Daily Trojan Society Editor Eileen Louise McDonagh. Mortar Board president, received the Order of the Laurel award, the highest honor bestowed upon a graduating senior woman, at the AWS Recognition Assembly last night in Hancock Auditorium.
Mrs. Joan Schaefer, associate dean of students, presented the award, a tribute to J Miss McDonagh’s intellectual and cultural leadership as well as her outstanding con-j tribution in all aspects of uni-1 versity life.	.
Irene Joyce Alexander, In KllCin£^S chief justice of women’s judi-	IriWIIIWJJ
cial court, was honored with
the Elisabeth von KleinSmid Beta Gamma SlS™f- "a* Award, a loving cup present-	business scholarship
ec by Dr. Albert S. Rauben- committee, has selected 85 heimer alumni affairs consul- new members. Dr. Kenneth L. tant, in memory of Mrs. Von Trefflzs, chapter president, KleinSmid.	announced yesterday.
The award is given annual- New members are chosen ly to the senior woman who on the basis of their scholas-has been an outstanding and tic standing. Students who vital force in the progress of are in the top 10 per cent of the women’s program of USC their Senior Class or those during her four years here. persons who have completed
The Town and Gown enough units for their doc-Award, given by Mrs. John torate or master s degrees D. Fowler, president of Tjwn are eligible. an4 Gown Association, was The members are selected presented to AWS President the faculty of the Business Priscilla Partridge Holbert in gcj1QOj wjjQ are members of tribute to her significant ex- Beta Gamma Sigma_ cellence in service, scholarship and creative leadership	* ndergraduate Members
in all university activities.	Members selected from the
Sliver As Gift	Senior Class in the School of
Mrs. Holbert received a gift ^usme?® H"*rt s- Be‘ of encraved silver for her l,nk>'' Stephen T. Braverman. “SE®	Donald G. Brizzolara. Charles
contributions as an under-	,	,	T	.	.,	„
graduate.	M Crawford Jr.. Arthur E.
Susan Winer, a history sen-
Ezor, Baret C. Fink, Hubert
ior with an 3.89 accumula-	G' fFrank;
tive grade-point averag e,	Gilbe:rt I.	Garcetti	and
walked away with two scho- R°bert H.	Glogow.
lastic awards last night at	The list	also	includes	Jer-
the women’s assembly.	rold K. Guben, David A. Hart-
Miss Winer was given the quist. William M. Hendrick-Alpha Lambda Delta Book sen, Stanley T. Hoversten, Award, presented to the mem- Janice E. Hummel, Susan H. ber of Alpha Lambda Delta Hutter, Carole N. Kendall, with the highest scholastic Varzat J. Kocharian, Barton average upon graduation, and i Leddel. Paul T. Locke, the Emma Bovard Award for Barbara L. Long, Peter Mari-the highest grades among niello. Kenneth R. Norton and graduating senior women. Michael R. Ortiz.
on,	Other	members are Charles
The Emma Bovard Award	Claudette	Perier.
is presented m memory of the wife of the fourth president *■**"% ?• of the university. Dr George Pnce,' *hoSer "J Finley Bovard. Miss Winer 'J™ * R«“»"'• D»nalil " f' was announced as winner of SreU'„	SK?**
the award at the recent aca-
rehearse the show’s grand finale tonight at 5:45 in Hancock Auditorium, Chairmen Noel Hanson and Dianne Riley said yesterday.
“They’il run through traditional songs of Troy during the practice session so they’ll be sharp Thursday night for
the musicale’s dress rehearsal ^	.......
when Guest Conductor Mer-I succ“3SfuV¡¡ason7or üíand j throughout her four years. \A/¡ 11 Unci edith Willson will lead them _____________*	Miss	Winer	received	a	cash	TTIII	I	I	D	I
Carl B. Stahlecker, Philip O.
Mghlytf>r quality of pre-:demm
Murray said the forensic	Bovard’s interest in univera-i-------(Co.turned	—
team bows out of the season	ty students and is given an-
with great happiness.	nually to the woman with the II V. r	CfQy/
“It certainly has been a	highest scholastic average
ISH Exhibits French Art
By CLAIRE DAVID
The works of a noted KUSC-FM; Senny Takahashi,I1French painter, now on exassistant producer of Trojan j hibit at the International Stu-Digest for the public affairs dents House, indicate the indepartment of the CBS Radio1 ^uence the scientific age Pacific Network and director upon worlds far removed from
of KUSC-FM's public affairs the laboratory.	____ _____ ______^	___
unit; and Mike Sobel, KUSC- ^he exhibit of the versatile styie can be found in the
scientific advance had a psychological effect on the people, and that was what I attempted to capture in my paintings. This called for an evolution of style,” Constant explained.
The best example of the
FM staff announcer.
President Elected
A special award went to the USC telecommunications department’s newest staff member, Chief Engineer Dennis Nielsen, who came from Utah last fall.
European artist, who paints I under the name “Constant,” shows a step-by-step evolution of style, tirelessly executed under the inspiration of scientific advance in the ato-
massive canvas entitled “Megaton.” Painted during the threat of war. during the extensive testing of Russian atomic bombs last year, the painting represents mic age.	.	¡an	impression	of	the world at
According to the artist, the ^ mornent Gf destruction, style, known as dynamic real-
“Rhapsody in Blue” of Gershwin, he has pictured entire compositions by using a combination of flowing lines and forms which produce the overall effect of music.
“Music is the progression of time sequences, and the canvas must show that proprogression if it is to depict the essence of music. Through the use of lines which take the eye of the viewer through the picture to various representative forms, I have at-temped to present the intervals of time as they exist in
be able to paint its natural exterior well,” Constant said. “If an artist cannot do this, he will find that he has created something which has no particular identification or interpretation.”
Miss Winer received a cash award and her name was en- *	•
graved on the memorial tablet ^SDir0nTS dedicated to Mrs. Bovard and	■
placed in the administration USC Crew will top its
building.	membership campaign tomor-
Bronwyn Anthony Emery row by taking prospective
The Tau Kappa sweep-wa* Prf8€n];e<1 ™th the Tro- members to see a full work-
stakes trophy is on display m Junior Auxiliary Award a out of the crew
the speech department. 934'®1 an years mem rs ip £rew member Larry Cahn
W. 37th St.	,t0 th* au*,1,ary. ^vcn t0 h' said a car pool will leave the
___ _____________—— woman whose influence has	__
, ,	.	|	■ . been deeply felt in coeduca- Physica fUoan_ Th_
Kmahts List'tional activities.	t0n0H°TI !r th To?
l\ I 11 y I I I O 1-131	Miss	Wolf	Honored	taken	to	*****	192
kl^ ,	Rosalie Wolf received the vv dmington, to see the crew s
New LabineT Town and Gown Junior Auxil- final time tnal of the season
iary Award from Mrs. Lan- Shell and Oar. womens
we expect the next season to be equally exciting,” Murray said.
The forensic team competed in 32 tournaments this season, traveling across the United States.
The paintings now on ex-	—	___
hibit at the International junior Jack Gleason took Exleyrschol'arship chair- support group, will serve re Students House represent the over yesterday as president man of the Town and Gown freshments. Cahn said, and various style periods in the of Knights, men’s service or- junior Auxiliary.	the men m11 return to cam'
career of the artist. They ganization.	Miss Wolf was cited for her Pug by 6 p.m.
range from the purely natur- p*jew Knight offioers elect- unique scholarship and con-	r*rew wants to add
alistic to the most recent par- ^	Gleason	week	tribution	to	the	student-life	men so it can work this sum-
tial abstractions.	include Tom Northcote. vice program.	mer. At the time other crews
“Constant,” Dr. Constantin president:	Bill Broesamle, Joan Coulter was recogniz- are starting to recruit naem-
J. David, was a student of secretary; and Steve Parker, ed for her work as YWCA hers the ISC Crew will have
president this year when pre- the nucleus of its group,
Joel Standard was elected ism. is an attempt to find	Visual effects of explosion music.”	philosophy and art at the uni-treasurer.
and confusion are achieved by! Constant maintains his art	versities of Berlin. Munich	Parker	said the cabinet	sented with the \ WCA Award ^ann saia
the free use of brilliant colors is a form of abstraction. It is	and the Sorbonne, Paris. He	will work	for the fall semes-
president of the USC chapter!that power in an object which of Alpha Epsilon Rho, na- wiP indicate the work of man tional radio-TV fraternity. without representing man in anc* lines throughout the can-The awards were announc- the painting.	vas-
ed at the recent 9th annual The action is not limited by	Using a variation	of the
Telawards banquet at the four edges of the	frame,	but	style, Constant has also tum-
Greater Los Angeles Press continues beyond	them,	the	ed to the painting of	musical
Club. Federal Communica- artist said.	motifs. In a number	of such
obtained his doctorate in art iter next year. Knights, men's
tions Commissioner Rosel H. “I found that an age canvases, ranging from the correctly abstract an object,(the United States. The show develop and Hvde spoke at the event-	¡characterized so obviously byf’Eroica" of Beethoven to the he must first understand and will continue through June 1.,stunts.
abstraction in which all unnecessary parts of the object have been removed without
taking away the form of the---------------------	_	-----------„ -------, --------- ------------
object.	This	will	be	the	first com- all home football games and Honor last night, in recogrii- resriitatiVris saul aiu
“In order for the artist to prehensive show of styles in all-university functions and tion of their distinguished can contact any crew mem-
history from the University of Berlin. The majority of his 3how3 have been in Europe.
service organization for upperclassmen, act as official university hosts, ushers at
by Mrs. Robert D. Fisher. The group is looking for president of the YWCA ad- men 6 feet tall or over and visory board.	weighing less than 200
Six senior women were pre-1 pounds. No athletic experi-
aented with AWS Scrolls of ence is necessary, crew rep-
men
direct card contribution to the university ber or go to 200 SU for ap-I	(Continued	on	Page	5)	plications	and	information.