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VCH. XI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1961
NO. 10
GOLDEN AGE
Spaniard to Show Sin9erS t° Review Velasquez Work Op©T3 m3StGrpiGC6S
The paintings erf Spanish artist Diego Velasquez will be discussed today at 2:15 in FTI 133 by Dr. Isidore G. Montiel, visiting professor of Spanish and an expert in Hispanic manuscripts.
Dr. Montiel will illustrate his lecture with slides taken of the artist’s paintings during the Third Centennial celebration of Velasquez's life held last fall in Madrid.
Paintings done by the 16th
DR. ISIDORO MONTIEL
. . . will lecture
Hawaii School Starts Center For East-West
An East-West Center, which eventually will have 2.(XX) students from southeast Asian nations and the United States, has been started at the University of Hawaii by the U. S. Department of State, it was reported Thursday at the weekly school administration - supervision conference.
One hundred students are already enrolled, a chancellor has just been appointed, and a $10 million building program will be completed in two years, according to Dr. Lowell Jackson, associate professor of education at the University of Hawaii. He is teaching this summer at USC, his alma mater.
Dr. Jackson was superintendent of schools at 29 Palms for nine years arid for 14 months at Sierra Madre before going to the
islands three years ago. He started here as an elementary school teacher in Lennox.
century artist were sent to Ma- i drid from collections all over j the world for the event. Dr. | Montiel will limit his talk to the most famous paintings of Velasquez in this country.
‘‘The main collection of his paintings, and the most interesting, is in the Metropolitan Museul oi New York,“ he said, j ’However, the Washington National Art Gallery and museums in Chicago. Toledo, San Luis, Miamo and San Diego also own Velasquez paintings.”
Dr. Montiel ranks the Golden Age artist as one of the three greatest Spanish painters. He listed him along with El Greco and Goya as a leader in the | history of Spanish art.
Dr. Montiel. who has worked as an expert on Hispanic manuscripts for the Library of Congress and who 'is currently a professor of Spanish and litera-| ture at Marquette University.
will discuss the three periods >f j Velasquez’s art and place the | subject matter of the paintings j in historical perspective.
Dr. Montiel is planning a book | on Velasquez’s paintings in the United Slates th-i «’ill :llustra>e and describe the 31 masterpieces that are owned in this country. He is the author of eight books on education, 45 articles for journals in Spain, the Philippines and the United States and more than 1.00() book reviews.
GRAND THEATER -Students of opera will present excerpts from the works of famous composers Wednesday night in Bovard Auditorium. The program, which is open to the public, will feature Verdi, Debussy, Puccini and Mozart.
Crime Certainly Does Pay, Sociologist Tells Audience
Chorus Plans Noon Music
The Summer Session Chorus, conducted by Dr. Charles Hirt, will present a special program for the student body tomorrow at 12:15 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
The 90-member group is composed of high school and college teachers and choral conductors who are on campus for the summer semester.
A noted criminologist who believes in the elimination of prisons, punishment and the jury system spoke Thursday about some fallacies in the field of crime and correction.
One of the falsehoods is that crime does not pay, said Dr. Negley Teeters, Temple Univer-! sity sociology professor who is ] teaching at USC this summer.
“Of course it does,” he said bluntly. “It pays the overlords and the upperworld of crime ! about whom we do little or j nothing. It does not i>ay society I nor those who get caught.”
It’s a fallacy that most criminals have high IQs. Dr. Teeter | continued. ‘Their intelligence is about that of the general pop-ulattion,” he observed. “They prove they’re not smart because they get caught. Psychological tests in prisons have proved that the majority of convicts are stupid and dumb. The smart, shrewd criminals seldom go to prison.”
Another misconception is tlvat the United States is the world’s most criminal nation, the Philadelphia sociologist said.
“You can't compare the amounts of crime between nations.” he explained. “Crime must be appraised against the background and culture of a country. We are such a mobile country, such a mixed-up collec-
tion of people, so obsessed with freedom and liberty ami so intent on material things that perhaps we get — as a French philosopher once said -the crime we deserve. But I don’t think anyone can say we are the most criminal nation in the world."
Although he opposes punishment and prisons because they
i don't really work. Dr. Teeters told his USC audience that he doesn't have 'the answer as to their replacement.
“You can't punish and reform people at the same time." he ; said. "Yet that is what we are trying to do.
“Imprisonment as a concept (Continued on Page 2)
Ducloux To Lead Students
Excerpts from some of the . finest oijeras in history will be presented by the department of opera Wednesday n'ght at 8 in Bovard Auditorium.
Scenes from works by Gluck. Debussy. Verdi. Moaart and Puo | cini will be featured in the cun-I cert, which will be directed by Dr. Walter Ducloux. head of the 1 opera departmenl. The event j will be open to the public.
Settings for the program have been designed by Gary Campbell and costumes have been provided | by Julianna.
Featured works will include ' scenes from “Orpheus and Eu-, ridice" by Gluck:	“Cavalleria
Rusticana" by Mascagni: “Pel-!eas and Melisande" by Debussy; and “Aida’’ by Verdi.
After intermission, the evenin'! of opera will conclude with cenes from "Madame Butter-i fly” by Puccini: The "Saint of Bieecker Street" by Menotti; "Don Giovanni" by Mozart: and “The Marriage of Figaro” by Mozart.
Pianists for the opera event will be Henrietta Pelta. Carl Schultz and Richard Kelley, all students in the School of Music.
Dr. Ducloux. who was an as-j sistant to the late Artuie Tos-| canini and guest conductor of : his NBC Symphony, has directed i the Of>eras for eight years as the | head of the opera department.
The conductor, an experienced I symphony conductor and opera , director, received his Ph D. in j philosophy at the University of Munich in 1935 and then was one of the few students accepted by Felix Weingartner at the : State Academy of Music in Vienna. where he graduated with honors in conducting in 1937.
Geologists Chart Nevada
A number of USC geology students, headed by Dr. W. H. Easton, have abandoned the classroom and are spending the summer doing field work in the hills of Nevada.
The students are getting practical instruction in such field techniques as interpretation of ; aerial photographs. measure-| ment of rock sequences and prej»arat ion of maps and reports.
The residents of Ely, Nevada j make their land available to the | students for study and, in re-J turn, they are able to use the maps, charts and surveys completed by the students.
The course was first taught in Ely in 1951, and the university has since returned to teach similar courses seven times.
Dr. Easton, professor of geology a( USC. w-riles that the students have taken field trips
to the Eureka
district
I	uuitiM.	mining
I and have examined the geologic features of the Roberts Moun-! tains area in central Nevada.
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The students have spent several nights camping out anti have made a practice of cooking their own breakfasts. Al-: though the breakfasts have oc-j casionally turned out to be such ; "delicacies" as a bucket of hom-i iny grits. Dr. Eastcn writes that ! the students do not complain.
‘This might not be a significant test, for I have ruled that anyone who complains of either breakfast or lunch can thereby qualify for preparing it the next day,” he explains.
The rough-and-tumble desert course will end on Friday, following a student survey of the Ruth Pit of the Kennecott Copper Corp., the largest man-made excavation in the world.
Dr Easton has also taken time to address the local Geological Society, ami has led i groups of more than 60 geolo-j gists each across the outcrops of adjacent areas.
The geologist has found that i Ely. located in White Pine C oun-j ty. Ls an unusually g~>od p'ace . to teach geological mapping.
Upon completion of their work, most of the students will i take jobs from oil companies,
! drilling contractors. research j organizations, geological surveys and teaching institutions.
Some oceanography students have taken the course to use the mountains of Nevada for comparison with the features beneath the sea floor.
The students have also visited geologic and mineral sites in the House and Confusion Ranges of Utah.