Scholastic Honorary Chooses 26
Scholars Get Bid As Life Members Of Phi Beta Kappa
Twenty-six USC ‘students were awarded membership In Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary society icr outstanding scholastic achievements, it was announced yesterday.
Initiation of new members will take place May 11, at 5 30 p.m. in the Art and Lecture Room of Doheny Library.
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DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. Lll
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1961
NO. 103
Test Balloons To Measure Air Pollution
In a year-long air pollutant research project conducted by USC's Allan Hancock Foundation and the U.S. Weather Bureau. silver-colored weather balloons will he released for three days over the Southlanc starting today.
This will be the fourth in a series of balloon launchings in six months from aboard the Velcro IV, USC’s 110-foot oceanographic research vessel. The investigation may be helpful in relieving the heavy sn.og problem of California coastal cities, scientists said.
Research Ship
The Vclero will join a Lock-h?ed Aircraft research ship when the balloons are released between Point Conception and Ventura to determine if Los An-geles atmospheric conditions originate in the Santa Barbara area.
A U.S. Weather Bureau air-p'ane w .11 follow the 42-inch research balloons as they lift inland over the coast.
Aerometric Incorix>rated personnel will use tethered balloons on shore to measure the marine air as it crosses the coast.
The project is a joint effort between USC, Lockheed Aircraft, Aeroinetric. I n e., the Weather Bureau, U.S. Air Force. U.S. Navy, the Forestry Service and local fishermen.
chapter dinner and program will foilow in the Foyer of Town and Gown.
Fifteen majors were represented among the newly elected Phi Beta Kappas. Journalism and history led the list with four members apiece.
Members Chosen English, zoology, psychology, political science and biochemistry had twu members each. Other majors included cinema, Slavic studies, sccial studies, so-: eiology. medicine, mathematics, economics, international relations and Spanish.
Seniors named, numbering 20, j are Darryl Wilson Adams, psy- | etiology; Margaret Ann Carroll, sociology; Fatricia J. Clayton, English; Bruce Lloyd Derwing, j Slavic studies; Carolyn Helene j Entield, English; John Joseph | Faulkner, social studies; and j Judith Ann Friedman, journalism.
Also honored were Bruce • Francis Kennedy, political science; Melvin Lloyd Lcrner, medicine; Penny Mary Lernoux, journalism and Spanish; George Dennis Loo, zoology; Richard Newby, history; Joan Carolyn Robinson, history: Joseph Saltz-man. journalism; Carole Marsha Spector, history; and Marilyn Joan Spigle, history.
Other seniors were Robert William Taylor, mathematics; Pieter Dirk Van Deusen, cinema; Michael Arthur Wells, biochemistry; and Jerry Nelson Zebrack, zoology.
Juniors Elected
Six juniors also elected to the scholastic honorary are Jon Hall Barrett, psychology; Dennis F. Dclavara, economy; Joan Ruth Edmonds, international relations; Barbara Dale Epstein, journalism; Michael Alan Guhin, political science; and John Robert
Research Institute Takes Steps To Encourage Business Studies
Car Accident Hurts Student
A ISC graduate student from Pakistan is in critical condition at the White .'Memorial Hospital ait^r a recent freeway accident.
The victim, Khalid Khwaja, has been in a state of semi-consciousness for almost two weeks as a result of severe shock and injuries suffered in a car collision on the Santa Ana freeway.
Khwaja, who was driving a Volkswagen, was sideswiped by a car which suddenly «'lit into his lane. IIis friend, a Persian student, a passenger, was not injured.
The Pakistan student is presently being attended by < two physicians at the hospital.
The doctors have given Khwaja an even chance of surviving, although he may not he able to regain full consciousness for a while.
The 26 students were selected I by the faculty chapter of USC’s Phi Beta Kappa honorary so-; ciety.
Currents Drift
Dr. Robert E. Stevenson, director of the inshore research
pTogiam, explained that past in- ; Schottland. biochemistry, vestigation has indicated that local air currents, returning to sea at night, drift southward toward San Diego in the early morning.
"The frequency of such movement is not yet known, but it is one of the major points of our investigations," said Dr.
Stevenson. “Air changes its chemical content as it travels over water, and it collects large amounts of moisture going from land to sea.”
It is expected that the unique plastic-covered balloons will give information on heat and moisture flows over the ocean and the movements of air pollutants inland.
The director stressed that the triangular shaped three-sided balloons are inflated with helium gas which is non-toxic and non-explosive presenting no hazard whatsoever to property, aircraft or people.
Belle Chosen Teacher 61
Dr. Rene Belle, professor of French at USC. has been chosen “Teacher International 1961" by the International Senior League.
Dr. Belle was cited for this coveted award for his outstarcling service to education in France and the United States, according to Ann Angelo, international chairman of the International Senior League.
The advisory board which chose Dr. Belle to receive the award is comprised of such outstanding persons as Bernard Baruch. Superior Court Judge Lerov Dawson. Mi's. Dw ight D. Eisenhower. Mrs. John F. Kennedy. Dr. Rufus B. von Klein-Smid and Chief Justice Earl Warren.
The award will be presented on Teacher Remembrance Day. June 4. at a luncheon at the Ambassador Hotel.
Dr. Belle was notified of the award by a telegram from Judge Daw s. n, who is the group's nominations chairman.
The International Senior League choo-es one om>tanding teacher from a foreign country who has contributed to the culture and	of	h:s bvi'C
j-nd and the United Stales for the awara.
Top 10 Per Cent
i The seniors were selected I from among the top 10 per cent ; of their class. Other require-j ments include the completion of I at least 40 units at USC afid i maintaining a B plus grade av-| erage or better. Juniors must I have had a 3.5 average or higher to meet the requirements of the organization.
Last year six juniors (now seniors) and last semester 15 seniors were picked for membership, bringing the total senior class Phi Beta Kappa membership to 41 students.
Students selected last year included Nita Helen Biss, Frank-lyn Bradshaw, Gary Frederic Krieger, Susan Eve Laemmle,
Nanelle Rappoport and Anne Elizabeth Storer.
Seniors Chosen
Seniors selected last semester included Kyle David Brown,
Heather Campbell, Patricia Ann De Puls. Emma Gee, Ruth Ann Gore. Janet Rose Kazan jian.
Dora Jean McQuillin. Louise Esther Nocas, Judy Ann Oster-gard. Dale R. Scharer. David E. j Dr. Norman Topping and Dr. Silverston, Cecily Bond Thom- Mario Tedeschi, Italian Consul,
Students See Desert Area
Power Plants
A group of foreign exchange students headed by Dr. Jess N. Swanson, director of International Public Administration, recently concluded an ICA-spon-sored trip to Arizona.
Riding in four station wagons, the students left campus on March 25 and returned April 1 in time for classes.
The students, most of whom are on scholarship grants by the UN, the Organization of American States and the Pan American Union, visited Arizona’s power plants and dams, river and housing projects and a number of government and private agencies in the area.
The purpose of the field trip, according to Dr. Swanson, was to gain more insight into the administrative aspects of water and power projects. “Field trips add more meaning to classroom lectures,” the IPAC director said.
Students from Egypt and Pakistan had good reason to be enthusiastic about the trip, for these students come from countries with huge dams — Aswan in Egypt and Warsak in tan.
Senate to Get jlO-Point Scale Grading Plan
One of the most controversial resolutions to be introduced to the ASSC Senate will be prescn-¡ ted tonight through a bill requesting a new gradyig system ¡ at USC on a lC-point scale.
The bill, to be introduced by physical science senator Tom j Bell, is a direct answer to stu-! dent questions about the pitfalls j of the university grading system, j It is aimed at widening the nar- j | row margin between a C grade iand a D.
Nai row Margin
| “You can tlunk out of school on a very rarrow margin. Th.s I bill is designed to widen the mar 1 gin of tl.e celermining factor,”
<aid Bill Stei[;erwalt, ASSCpres-! ident.
i The resolution endorses the | following grading scale: A+,
10 points; A, 9 points; A—, 8 j points; B -,7 points; B, 6 points; i B—. 5 points; C + , 4 points; C,
3 points; C—, 2 points; D, 1 point; and F, no points.
If passed by the Senate and the Administration, the proposed program w ould begin with the incoming freshmen in tno fall. If it were applied to all students, there would be confusion in figuring out grade averages, |
Steigerwalt said.
Parties Recognized
A bill to officially recognize political parties will be introduced by Bernard Elias. It is designed to give the campus political parties more rights and draw more members into the organizations.
To be officially recognized, a political party must either have 300 members or have supported 20 victorious candidates in the previous election.
Elias is also expected to introduce a statute to establish a new orientation program, providing that the incoming freshmen move into the dorms a week ear- Ítime wiU ^ a Proposition to in-
lier than before. This would give : corP°arte East ^ An"eles as a to acquaint seParate community. If the measure is passed, the five elected cpuncil members will take oifice.
Miss Tellez, a -Phi Beta Kappa, was editor of the Trojan Owl,
New Research Group To Analyze Business
USC has taken another step forward in better community relations by creating a Research Institute for Business and’Economics to encourage bold, new management and economic studies, Dr. Robert R. Dockson, dean of the Graduate School of Business administration, announced yesterday.
Explaining this new research	f
tool, which will be called US- | ^/|S63S6 LUTG
enee editor of the win a seat in the
COUNCIL CANDIDATE - Armida Tellez Trojan Owl, is confident that she will Los Angeles City Council elections next week. She is one cf 15 candidates vying for five positions in the city.
If elected, her plans include a careful analysis and concentration on the youth problems confronting her area. Miss Tellez was graduated by the School of Journalism cum laude. She is presently taking-g r a d u a t e studies.
Grad Student to Seek City Council Position
Bv KAREN GUSTAFSON
Foundation grant in a specialist
A USC graduate student may | teaching program. She is work-
become a member of the East inS towards her mast*rs dc^ee
in secondary education.
j “The incorporation of East Los Angeles alone will help the ; community by inducing greater j pride on the part of the citizens," Miss Tellez said.
i Los Angeles City Council in tw o ! w eeks.
ac-
them more time themselves with the school tivities and the campus.
A bicycle license requirement will be introduced in a Dill by Carole Whitson, social studies senator. The bill was passed by the Senate but defeated by the Pakis- ; ASSC Executive Cabinet ' year.
Armida Tellez, 24, who graduated cum laude from Troy in 1959 with an AB in journalism, is one of 15 candidates running for the five council positions. She explained that incorpora-j Voting will be held April 25. tion would bost eligibility of the | On the ballot at the same residents for u r b a n-renew al 1
loans as recommended by Pies- I ident Kennedy.
"These individual loans would help the people help themselves because they could then improve their housing conditions,” she said.
Miss Tellez is aware of the ma-
night edition of the Daily Trojan, as an undergraduate.
After a year and a half of last newsaper work, she has returned j to USC to study under a Ford
CRIBE, Dean Dockson said it would be aimed at strengthening the private enterprise business system through research into some of its most pressing problems.
To begin its work. USCRIBE already has $120,000 in financial backing, which has been provided jointly by the Ford Foundation and by American business leaders. Dean Dockson explained that these leaders “have more to gain from an objective analysis of economic and management problems than any other group.” Expenses Paid
The money. Dr. Dockson said, will pay for the immediate expenses of launching the new research vehicle which will “probe the problems of the present while looking ahead for at least a quarter of a century.”
Immediate goals of the new institute will be:
Help provide new leadership through research for the American business community and the problems affecting the business ! system.
Assist business and industry >n training and retraining personnel.
Study the growth problems of
| business.
Impact Probe
Probe the impact of automation on the development of management talent in a grow ing economy.
Study the application of our most advanced knowledge of human behavior to the operations of a business.
Research the inter-relationships between business, government and society.
Study the development of management performance standards.
Evaluate the impact of management education on business performance.
Access the contributions of all disciplines to the growth and de-
jor problems of the area— velopment of business enterpris-problems that she feels have es.
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Italian Week Program Gets Praise As USIS Agency Plans Coverage
son. Robert Thomas Vigen, Harvey Lee Waterman and Don Clinton Winkler.
In 1929. USC’s chapter was established. During its 32 years of existence on campus over 1.540 students and 150 faculty members have been elected to membership.
The principal consideration
for membership is scholarship, and there are two types of membership— those who are elected as students and those elected as honorary members (rare).
Chapter Officers
This year's chapter officers are Dr. Tot ton J. Anderson, political science, president:	Dr.
James Butler, drama, first vice president: Howard Patmore, admissions. second vice president; Dr. Colin Lovell, history, treasurer; and David l ian-, regis-tiar, secretary.
Phi Beta Kappa, the national honorary scholarship society, was founded in 1776 at the college of Williams and Mary and was the first Greek letter society in the United State^.
were recently commended for their efforts to increase friendship and understanding between Italy and the U.S.A. by Frank G. Bonelli, supervisor of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors in the Board's "Italian Centennial Weeks” resolution.,
Dr. Topping and USC are sponsoring a 21-day program on the campus of Italian operas, fine arts displays, drama and
of Nations and other events of the 21-day program.
USIS representatives, w h o called from Washington to make preliminary arrangements for the coverage, explained that the pictures would be duplicated in quantity in Washington and serviced through USIS channels to various newspapers and journals in Rome and other Italian cities.
“Open City.” the 1945 Italian film which captured the grand
still	an Italian	| the plays.	Dr. Dorothy McMa-
, hen. head	of the Spanish and
to all	Italian departments, will intro-
filmmakers that the	cloistered	^uce eac*1	presentation with
walls	of	the studios	had sealed	' comments	on Luigi Piiandello
them off from life.”
that there was film industry.
"They also suggested
cinema presentations, arts and j prize in the Venice and Cannes crafts showings and cultural and ! Film Festivals, will be shown at business seminars to salute It- I 8 this evening in Hancock Audi-
aly's contributions to the Western World culture.
Goodwill Built
The Centennial Celebrations at USC will enable the residents and visitors in this area to participate in building mutual goodwill l>etween the two nations.
Highlight features of USC’s Italian Perspectives programs will be coveied fur the United States Information Service.
USIS has requested photographic coverage of the Contemporary Art show, the performance of Verdi's opera “Si-
torium. Admission is 50 cents.
Magnani Stars
The story of an Italian Resistance leader in Rome during World War II, the movie stars Anna Magnani. The film took first prize in Zurich and Rome Film Festivals.
Arthur Knight, visiting associate professor of cinema at USC • and film critic for The Saturday Review, said that ; "when the first of the Italian 1 neorealist films, ‘Open City’ and I Shoe Shine.’ made their appear-■ ance immediately after World
Movies Shown
In addition to “Open City," three other movies — “The Bicycle Thief,” “La Strada” and “The Roof" — will be shown in the “Four Milestones in Italian Cinema” program.
“The Bicycle Thief” will be shown Saturday, “La Strada" on April 19 and "The Roof" on April 22.
Casts and production staffs for three plays by Luigi Pirandello will present "The Vise" tomorrow night, . “The Man with the Flower in His Mouth ’ Friday night and “Chee Chee" Saturday night.
The productions will be given in Stop Gap Theater at 8 p.m. each night. Admission is 50 cents. Tickets may be obtained at the drama department box office.
Dr. James H. Butler, chairman of the USC drama depart-
and his place in modern European theatre.
More than 2.000 participants in a "Festival of Nations” will give special tribute to Italy with a ¿arade, folk music, dancers, bands and orchestras on campus from 10 a m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
Lecture Given
The lecture on ‘ Pioneers of the Italian Unification Movement” by Dr. Paul Rinaudo-De-Ville, the only American citizen of Italian descent who can trace his ancestry to a pioneer of the Italian unification movement.
Southern Problems
Initially, USCRIBE will turn its attention to the problems of business management and economics in Southern California— not because it expects to confine its thinking regionally but because, Dean Dockson says, “here in Southern California we have the nation's most unique laboratory for the study of business and economic problems.
“We are strategically situated for the purposes of our intended research," says the USC dean.
Element» Here
“We have virtually all of the troublesome elements generated anywhere by bulging business growth. We have a crying need for additional leadership, further diversification of our industry and adjustment of a highly mobile labor force to expanding levels of productivity.
“Leaders of the Southern California business community repeatedly have told Us of their concern over the lack of both trained leadership and trained manpower,’’ Dean Dockson declared.
“Ways must be found to meet
Using Protein To Be Heard
Recent developments in nutrition will be discussed today at the Faculty Luncheon by Dr. G. C. Cow gill, professor emeritus of nutrition. Yale University, and presently adjunct professor of biochemistry and nutrition at USC.
One of the topics which Dr. Cowgill will disucss will be recent work in sources of protein to cure Kwashiorhor, a diseas« common among people in underdeveloped countries such as Africa. Dr. Cowgill noted that the disease often occurs in such countries as Indonesia, India and Jamaica and in Buddnist countries like Burma and Thailand.
Kwashiorhor is an “important world-wide protein shortage problem,’’ Dr. Cowgill said. He added that it is not common in this country, for we know enoug h about proper nutrition and feeding of infants and so we have a sufficient intake of protein.
“Proteins are one of the factors we knew to be important to nutrition long before vitamins were discovered. However, after the discovery of vitamins, much attention was switched to them, and proteins were relatively neglected.
“Now. we are realizing again how important proteins are,’* the former Yale professor said.
Dr. Cowgill received his AB at "Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He has served on the Board of Food and Nutrition of the National Research Council and was editor of the Journal of Scientific Nutrition for 20 years.
mon Eoccanegra," the Festival j War II, they reminded the world ( ment, is supervising du'ector of j April 30,
will be given a week from today.
Yesterday's Daily Trojan was these needs with the least possi-in error when it reported the ble waste of time and motion, lecture was to be today.	i	Through USCRIBE we expect
An exhibition featuring Ital- j to assume a vigorous leaderhip ian industrial items including j in research which will heip us automobiles, typewriters, fumi-i consolidate the gains which we ture. sewing machines and ac- are making in these fields." cordions will be on display in USCRIBE has a management the Lecture Room of Doheny ; problem of its own at the mo-Library from noon Saturday to ment, the USC dean admitted.
¡The problem; Find a director.
State Croup Names Head
A USC graduate, Joel Fisher, was elected president of the California Young Republican College Federation at the state convention in Oakland last weekend.
The convention was attended by members of 30 young Republican clubs from college campuses in California. TYR, with 25 members present, was the third largest delegation.
Modeled after the national party convention, the meeting included discussion groups, committee meetings, general sessions and regional caucuses of the northern, central and southern regions. Through these mediums, the program for the coming year was formulated.
Haney Harris, TYR president and Young Republican college chairman for LA. County, was a member of the USC delegation.
“The main objective of the convention is to achieve a unity among the Young Republican clubs in the state," Harris said.
“For those interested in politics, the convention provides an excellent testing ground.
With the strength of the Southern delegation rapidly rising, Harris is hoping to bring the convention to the Southern California area next year.
Another USC student. Nancy Root, was elected assistant treasurer of the group.