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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1961
NO. 95
Polls Open for First Day of Voting
NOON MUSIC
Verdi Translator To Review Opera
Guiseppi Verdi's opera. "Simon Boccanegra." will' be discussed at the 'Music at Noon" series today in Hancock Auditorium by Dr. Walter Ducloux, head of the opera department.
Dr. Ducloux has prepared the new English translation of the
Pullias to Cite Five Problems Facing Schools
Some of the major problems which will face higher education in the 1960s will be discussed at the faculty luncheon today by Dr. Earl V. Pullias. professor of higher education at USC.
Dr. Pullias. w ho is a cert if ed psychologist, will deal with five problems which he believes higher education must face. The first problem is that of academic freedom or “higher education remaining free."
“I believe we can remain free if we use our responsibility,” Dr. Pullias said.
Collegian Abilities
The second problem that Dr. Pullias will discuss is the great increase in the number of young people in colleges and the varie- j ty of abilities they bring to a school.
“We must be ready to handle these abilities and to develop their potential,’’ the educator j said.
Dr. Pullias will also discuss the urgent need for college Mist motors. He says that “there | is almost certain to be a serious shot tage soon.”
Financial Problems
The problems of financial support, obtaining this support without loss of integrity or freedom and the need for unity within i universities will also be dealt I with by Dr. Pullias.
The educator, who has been a’ USC for lour years, received j his AB from Cumberland University in Tennessee and his MA f.'om the University of Chicago. H? received his Ph D. from Duke j University and studied for one year in England at the Univcrsi- j ty of London and other schools.
Dr. Pullias was dean of instruction at Pepperdine College before coming to USC. He is a member of the Los Angeles County Beard of Education and the California Teachers Associations Commission on Higher Education.
opera, which will be presented by the USC Symphony Orchestra and Opera Chorus on the nights of April 8. 14 and 16, in Bovard Auditorium.
The lecture will feature selected scenes from the opera. It is offered particularly for those who plan to attend the full opera Jn order to better understand the opera as an art form and “Simon Boccanegra" in particular.
Legendary Figure
The opera is based on the life of t he first of Doge of Genoa, Boccanegra, who was a towering figure i»n the early Renaissance and whose youthful exploits as a seaman made his name a legend in his own time.
After he was installed as the ruler of Genoa, he devoted his life to bringing peace to the strife-torn city. But 14th century politics were not ready for democratic principles, and Boccanegra w as poisoned by his enemies.
Two Aspirants Slap Platforms In Hot Debate
BvJULIE PORTER
A debate between Junior Class president candidates Steve Croddy and Dann Moss turned from cool formality, to lukewarm denial of party affiliation, to heated argument on the eve of the 1961 elections last night.
The debate, wljich lasted from 7:15-8:1.1 p.m. at the Alpha j Phi house, began with a formal introduction by each candidate, i followed by four questions from moderator Kay Yunker. Questions from the floor followed, i adding spice along with inevitable mudslinging from the audience.
Major Points
Croddy endorsed three major points in his introduction: (1) we must have a president who i works for the class members, not just himself: (2) there must be cultural, working unity within the class; (3) an open class council is the best way to carry out Junior Class activities .
Moss maintained that a title j means nothing unless accomplishment backs it up. The Bill of Rights Week success was achieved by people working together, he said.
"Academically and culturally the Junior Class and its presi-i dent must work together. Then,
Ideals Praised
Five hundred years later, Boc-eancgra’s ideals became the battle cry of Italians everywhere, and no one uttered the cry more i anc^ on*y then, can we progress, fervently than Verdi in his op- 'ie stressed.
Moss challenged the value of an open class council. “You cannot just call an open class council — nobody will think you are interested. You have to convince yourself that you are working for a worthy cause, then you can prove it to others.”
Candidates Disagree The candidates disagreed on the relative importance of studies and student government. Croddy said he wants to serve the school and the class, but, maintained that “studies come first and activities second."
Books represent just one person, but an office-holder can represent as many as 1.400 persons, Moss said.
Croddy emphasized the importance of getting students behind a program they are interested in and can be a working part of.
“This is not done by attempting to talk to all the members of the class, because you cannot get a completely representative cross-section. I advocate talking with a few people, gathering their ideas, and showing people that you have confidence in the program.”
"Delegation of duties, good organization, and effective publicity—these are the things that make a workable class government,” said Moss.
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In a climactic scene, faccvd with the hate-ridden mob ready to plunge Genoa into a civil war. Boccanegra utters sentiments that might have been worthy of Abraham Lincoln, particularly when he pleads, “Let this strife be ended and teach us love, my Lord.”
The opera is lieing offered by USC as a part of a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the unification of Italy. This recognition will be an all-university affair in which the opera will be only a part of the celebration.
First in English
The campus performance of "Simon Boccanegra" will lie the first presentation of the opera in English, sung in the U. S. It has been considered one of Verdi's less popular works but is rapidly coming info its own, according to Dean Raymond Kendall of the USC School of Music.
The fourth production in USC's series on the late Verdi operas, it will star Bernard Bollinger as Boccanegra, with William Venard, Orville White, French Tickner, Ahthony Thomas, Barbara Phillips and Diana Smith Yeaman.
2,800 Expected To Cast Ballots For Candidates
By HAL DRAKE
Assistant City Editor
The polls have finally opened in one of USC's most flamboyant and confusing student elections.
Confidently predicting the largest voter turnout in years. Elections Commissioner Art Kay officially opened the polls 'at 9 this morning in Alumni Memorial Park.
The polls will close at 4 p.m.
today but will reopen during same hours tomorrow .
the
MANY POSTERS — It has been a flamboyant and confusing campaign, and many posters still adorn campus buildings and
bushes proving that "all is not lost" yet. The lene man is Art Kay, elections commissioner", waiting to count final votes.
U.S. Meets Russ Challenge In Economic, Military Policy
Poets Lead Man to Ultimate, Unveil Being, Forum Learns
By KATHY REHO
The aim of the poets, in Hei-degger’s belief, is to lead man to the ultimate, to communicate to n-.cm what he has learned of the gods and to name what he has found to be holy, the director of the School of Philosophy said yesterday.
Dr. William H. Werkmeister. speaking at the Philosophy Forum on “Heidegger and the Poets." said that this great philosopher believed that the holy is veiled to man because of the distractions of the present.
He believed that the era of the old gods has pa sod and that the new god« have not yet come. Heidegger felt that the poets should be the guides during the period of man's waiting for the new gods.
Two Courses
He:degger thought that during this period man might take two courses other than following the poets. Dr. Weikmei>ter said, lie fell man might either invent a God or blindly accept the traditional God
Dr. Werkmeister said Heideg-C^r frit that p«ietry is “th*' positive of Being” and "the deepest
meaning of Being.” He believed that poetry is the foundation which supports history and “the creation of Being through the
word.”
Language Ruilds
He described language as the “house of Being" and thinking as that which “builds within the house of Being," the director of the School of Philosophy said.
Dr. Werkmeister added that recent existential thought has displayed a “mood of disillusionment" and a “strong reaction to scientism." Heidegger felt that this “darkening of the world” an.i concern w ith external events rcijects the basic “single truth” oi life: that "we live in untruth.”
Heidegger believed that 'we have lost ourselves in the struggle to lie ourselves" and that we have lost our personal inwardness and personal integrity.
The great philosopher believed that contemporary man needs a complete tran-formation and a îea—ei'tion of hi> authentic self. In order to find the meaning of existence, he felt that man should lock to the pre-rational level of rmxids.
He lielieved that, if man does this, he will find that he is “just
there” in the world of things at hand. Dr. Werkmeister said.
Heidegger thought that man was cast in a role and that there is “nothing he can do about it.” The second facet of Dasein is existentiality or w hat Dr. Werk-meistcr described as “making my world mine.” This state involves “our reaching out beyond ourselves" and anticipating ourselves as ourselves, Dr. Werkmeister said.
The third portion of Heidegger's Da.sein is forfeiture, the director said. Heidegger believed that “in our creative endeavor we become forfeited."
Creative Try The result of this forfeiture is a double tension. We are "determined" but yet free, and we are free and yet enslaved. Dr. Werkmeister said. In this double tension lies our despair and also our hope, he added.
Heidegger believed that “man cannot force understanding of Being must wait in human exigence until Being reveals itself to him,” Dr Werkmeister said.
Heidegger's ultimate aim was to “understand being as being,” Dr. Werkmeister said, ‘'and he looked on existentialism as a new approach to ontology.”
Post World War II American foreign policy has largely been a response to Russia in that its main objective is based on economic and military’ containment of the Communist country.
This statement, was voiced by Dr. Joseph Boskin, professor of American history, when he spoke to the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity earlier this week in the first of a long-range series designed to foster better understanding between students and faculty members.
The topic of his talk was “Ideological Challenge and Conflict to American Expansionism."
Power Challenged
Dr. Boskins noted that, for ' the first time in its history, American power is being challenged by another power (Russia) that is contrary to our economic interests and powerful enough to destroy us.
To amplify his thesis, he traced American expansionistic policies from their earliest inception.	,
“Our policy has always been one Of expansion, whether polit-| ical, physical, geographical or ! ideological,” he explained.
Provokes War
"Take physical expansion, for I instance. We have purchased territory — Jefferson's purchase ! of Louisiana, for example—and | subdued obstacles by force to expand across the continent.
| For instance, in order to obtain | territory in the Southwest, the U.S. provoked a war with Mex-! ico, making possible the Gads-j den purchase.
“Our presidents have also continually added states. To expand means progress; not to expand means stagnation,” he emphasized.
When the United States felt
it had reached its zenith in the these countries to put them
early 20th century', it began a grass-roots policy of establishing American policy wherever its elongated arm extended, the professor noted.
“We set forth on the foreign policy of Americanizing other countries and establishing our authority — economically—over
Class to Test New Spanish Films, Books
Travel Hints To Be Given
Students interested in participating in the month-long study program at Cambridge University this summer should attend a special meeting at noon today in 121 FH.
Dr. Tracy E. Strevey, vice president of academic affairs, reports that questions regarding the nature of the program, travel and torn- arrangements, selections and financial aid will be answered at this time.
Dr. Strevey announced that President Norman Topping has secured funds which will provide partial financial aid to a number of students participating in the program.
Applications for the program are available in 213 SU through March 27.
Visions of sombreros and señoritas will accompany thoughts of verb conjugations in the minds of future students of Spanish when finals roll around.
A test, now in progress in ló universities, will determine whether films make deeper impression on the minds of language students than do basic textbook courses.
The films are being made by the USC cinema department under the direction of Dr. Dwight L. Bolinger, head of the department of Spanish and Italian.
A total of 24 stories will be taken from the first year Spanish text and enacted by Spanish-speaking actors, in three to eight minute sequences.
Film number 19 is now in production.
Textbook material will not be eliminated in Ihe new visual course, however. The films are used as a supplement, not a substitute.
The experiment is being conducted with three groups of J USC students. The first group | is using only the text in a regular language course.
Group number two uses the text along with the supplementary films.
A third group is using the text, films and a language lab in which tape recorders are available for the private use of students.
At the end of the year, all three groups will take the same final tests and the experiment results will be recorded.
in
a position favorable to us," he said.
But all was not sweetness and light.
Germany and Japan began to
industrialize and expand their imperialistic policies at the same time that the U.S. was engaging in these activities, he said.
“Isn’t it more than ironical that we eventually went to war with them and. by defeating them, made their position favorable to American interests?” he pointed out.
Democracy Instilled
“We installed the American democratic system in West Germany and Japan after the war, and now they are blocking Soviet expansionist designs."
Since the end of the Korean War, Dr. Boskin said, the U.S. has been bent on containing Russia economically by not trading with the Soviets and militarily by stringing air bases around the country.
I.ethal Contest
Now, of course, the two adversaries are engaged in that ' lethal contest of trying to develop the missile that will destroy the missile ad infinitum, he concluded.
Dr. Norman Fertig, international relations professor, is scheduled to give the next lecture on April 10. Professors from the Spanish, psychology, business and English departments are tentatively on the agenda for the near future.
Hot Contest
Kay predicted that the hotly ! contested three-way race for the ASSC presidency would attract a total of 2.800 voters during ! the two days of balloting. Last year, a record turnout of 2.000 voted in the presidential race, with a total of 1,200 ballots cast on the first day.
Although opening of the polls was only a day away, campaigning for ASSC offices moved to an even higher pitch yesterday with caravans for write-in yell king »candidate Rich Miailovich and a last-minute convention of the new Representation Party keeping the university in an election atmosphere.
The pepresentation Party, with a reported membership of 90 students, chose basketball player Chris Appel for endorsement in the presidential race over his opponents. Jim Harmon and Hugh Helm. The vote was Appel, 13; Harmon, 10; and Helm. 3.
The expected endorsement of Appel followed a five-minute plea from Mike Robin«on, organizer of the party, to choose the basketball player as “the best representative of the independent community.”
Robinson, who was officially elected provisional president of the new party, barely avoided having the meeting change from a nominating convention to another of the now-familiar series of TNE hate sessions.
Seven Endorsed
Once settled down to nominations. the party members chose to endorse Maryalice Herrick for ASSC secretary. Jim West for AMS president, Steve Croddy for junior president and Tom Northcote for sophomore president.
The “Reps" refused to endorse either of the two candidates for senior president, but added, on Robinson's suggestion, endorsement of three party members running for ASSC Senate seats They are John Saur, humanities; Chuck Marson, social studies; and John Stephenson, business.
With the polls officially opened this morning, Election Commissioner Kay again cautioned students to have proper identification of their field of study before going to the polls.
Wesley Panel To Interrogate Hopeful Three
A panel of students will question the three candidates for ASSC president today at 6 p.m. at a meeting of the Wesley Foundation.
The panel will be composed of Joe Saltzman. Daily Trojan editor; Genta Hawkins, president of the Wesley Foundation; and Sue Pearson, social actions chairman for the Methodist group.
Point of the student panel will be to get the basis behind the campaign slogans used by the candidates. Questions will be taken from questionnaires sent to the candidates prior to the meeting.
Questions Seen
The panel will ask the candidates whether they think the Row dominates student politics, if they favor legislation outlawing racial and religious discrimination in campus organizations and if they are a member of any secret political group on campus.
How much control the administration should exercise over student government and what plans the candidates have to make to the commuter segment of the students more a part of campus life will also be considered.
The question period will follow a dinner at 5 p.m. and will feature ASSC presidential candidates Chris Appel. Jim Harmon and Hugh Helm.
Two Affiliated
Both Harmon and Helm are affiliated with Row groups, while Appel’s affiliation has been disputed.
Jack Shaffer, Wesley adviser, said that the purpose of the discussion is to probe the candidates' thinking on issues broader than the ones which are usually discussed.
“The issues will be of interest not only to a select group of students directly involved with student government but also to the whole student body and the university community.”
Solar World Conversations May Be Near, Chimes Hear
New Exhibit Fetes Artist
A showing of 50 drawings by Schuyler J. Standish of the university library staff are currently on display at the Ernest Rab-off Gallery, 517'- N. Robertson Blvd. -
Standish was recently called one of the nation’s finest draftsmen by a Los Angeles Times critic.
By BARBARA EPSTEIN
Daily Trojan Feature Editor
It will not be too long before earthlings can "talk" with inhabitants of yet-to-be-discover-ed worlds eons of light years from here.
That is the conclusion of Dr. John L. Russell, head of the astronomy department.
Dr. Russell predicted yester-day. in a talk to Chimes service group, that’we may soon tie holding radio conversations with any : number of beings who might “live" in other solar systems.
If we don't have a lively dis- ; cussion it won't be any fault of ours, he said.
Our “walkie-talkie"system fo? solar talks is currently being developed as part of “Project Oz-ma,” a vast program now being developed by the U. S. Govern- ( ment, the astronomer explained, j
Project Ozma, named after the mysterious, hardto-get-to, land of Oz, is concerned with the j building of telescopic "parabolic 1 dishes" which are capable of sending and detecting radio sig-
nals to and from stars many ( “Failure” may mean ‘hat light years away.	"life systems aren t within
The telescopes are capable of i range of our telescopes or that
receiving signals from stars one
light year distant, for every ten feet of diameter of their receiving antenna, Dr. Russell explained.
The United States experts to have a 140-foot telescope reai’y for use within a short time, ine astronomer said. Plans are also being made to build telescopes up to 2.000 feet in diameter.
To date. Project Ozma scien-t:sts have not yet been able to "talk” with anyone from outer suace. but Dr. Russell has confi dence that they will.
“As tclescopcs grow larger and as the number of stars in their range increase the chance« will become greater,” he said "There is every reason to believ« that success is bound to come tc the project.”
If scientists do not receive radio "signals” from other star systems that will not necessarily mean there is no life in these systems. Dr. Russell pointed out.
the “life” is not using radio.
Because radio and atomic energy discoveries have occurred on earth within relatively the same time span it is also possible that similar discoveries by intelligent beings in outer space have occurred in a similar manner and that they have blown themselves up.
The problem of communica-I tion also- enters the picture. If ! we send signals and others receive them, how do we all <1e-I cide what to •’say." Dr. Russell wondered.
We may receive no “answers because our correspondents don t know what answers to give, he I said
Even if we do “communicate” the communications problem won’t be solved. Dr. Russell smiled. Because radio waves in empty space travel at the same rate as light waves, there is hound to be "a tremendous time lag in conversations." Maybe .V> or 60 years tie tween “hel-i los.”