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Trojans Voice Opinions On SC Problems

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VOL. LI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1960
NO. 79
Steigerwalt Faces No Opponents; Election Apparently Is Unanimous
Senate s Ideas Are Stifled, Says Dr. Reith
By BARBARA EPSTEIN
The University Senate should bp a dynamic p’omotor of ideas for universily improvement but under its present set-up any new ideas seem to be stifled and never reach administrative ears. a former Senate member said today.
Dr. John \V. Reith. head of the department of geography, told the Daily Trojan that lack of permanent, standing committee« on the Universily Senate prevents it from bringing forth new plans.
He also said that the administration could only interpret such lethargy as an indicat »on of complete faculty satisfaction for all university policies and programs.
Everybody's Happy
“If nobody does anything, the administration will think that everybody’s happy and in many cases this just won't be true,” said Dr. Reith.
Without committees to call forth ideas and consolidate active plans, recommendations can never emerge from the Univer- : sitv Senate. Dr. Reith feels.
"Individual faculty members ran never get anywhere on their i own. Only on committees can we make ourselves heard and listen- j ed to.” Dr. Reith said.
Ony Two Committee«
At present there are only two : standing committees on the Uni- j versity Senate, an eight-man Kxecutive Committee and a ; Rules Committee.
All other committees were j done away with two years ago, i said Dr. Reith.
“If the University Senate j wants to take action in a spe- i cific area it can create a soe-rial ad hoc committee for that j
PRE-PUBLISHING RESEARCH—Dr. Herman Harvey, associate professor of psychology, conducts a laboratory experiment as part of a nationally supported research project. He maintains, however, a university's function is to develop creative individuals primarily through teaching, not through pre-publishing—and often mediocre—research.
PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE
Harvey Issues Myth' Warning
purpose, but the committee is dissolved as soon as its immediate work is done,” he said.
No New Ideas “With an organizational set-up like this there is no generation of new ideas coming up from underneat h.’’
“There must be a constant committee program to bring these ideas up and to re-evaluate university standards and practices.” he continued.
The University Senate is an advisory body made up of 74 faculty representatives chosen popularly within the various schools and departments of the university for two-year terms.
Ex-officio members, including the chancellor, president, the several vice presidents and deans, the chaplain and university librarian, serve on the Senate in a non-voting capacity.
Ended Term Dr. Reith just ended a four-year term on the University Senate. According to constitutional requirements of the body, no member can serve more than two two-year terms in succession.
“I don’t know whether or not T will seek re-election to the University Senate next year,” Dr. Reith said.
(Editor’s Note:: This Is the third in a series of articles on the problem of “publish or perish” and how it affects SC).
By .JOE SALTZMAN Daily Trojan City Editor
Dr. Herman Harvey, associate professor of psychology and ac-i tive research scientist, said ves-: terdav that any university policy emphasizing research as the sole j mark of academic worth, fosters mediocrity at that university.
“Explaining what he called the national mvth of contemporary ¡education. Dr. Haryev maintained that any university which measures itself by the proportion of published scholars on its fac-; u]ty—an extended conclusion of I “publish or perish” — will hurt ] that university.
“Unfortunately there are indications that SC has become embroiled in this myth,” he said.
“And this is unfortunate, for a university’s major and first responsibility is the development of creative individuals, not a long list of publishing professors.” he said.
“So important is this that no other function must be allowed to detract from it,” he added.
Dr. Harvev. a member of the American Psychology Associa-
Life-Depicting Poetry To Be Read at Noon
Poetry presenting a vivid picture of everyday life will 1#> the subject of Dr. Walter Crittenden's presentation at the noon reading today at 12:30 in 129 FIT.
Dr. Crittenden, associate professor of English, will read the poetry of Kenneth Fearine at the sccond reading of the series. •‘Writers of 1960 s.
“Fearing catches the moods ef people with his interest in thinrs that are immediately around ui.” Dr. Crittenden said.
“His poetry is taken from everyday living, for example. •Travelogue in a Shooting Gallery’,” he added.
With poems such as “Radio Slues," Fearing captures the moods of the day.
“He has been compared in style to Walt Whitman, in that b*» wriles a very lone line. Fearing tends to disregard usual me-
ters and almost never uses
rhyme.
"But I do not feel that the comparison between Fearing and Whitman is a fair one in other
respects,” he said.
“Fearing compares most favorably with other poets of today such as Stephen Spender, Richard Eberhardt. Karl Shapiro and to a certain extent Hart I Crane,” Dr. Crittenden con-j tinued.
He has a surface quality which would keep him from , being among the tup rate men j in poetry, but he shows flashes i of brilliance in his phrases, he
said.
Dr. Crittenden commented lhat Fearing is "one of the better writers of verse among the a few words.
tion, is presently working in two nationally supnorted projects, one sponsored by the National Science Fund, the other by the U.S. Public Health Foundation.
Still, he maintained that a university accomplishes the function of developing creative individuals, not through research, but primarily through teaching.
“I am not referring to lecturing. or reading textbooks with students, or nrogramming 46 minute films. I mean teaching,” he added.
“I mean communicating a se n s e of excitement about a world of ideas. I have in mind a manner of intellectual guidance and inspiration that instills a zest for intellectual exploration,” Dr. Harvey said.
He said that he had always considered the university as a place where people of distinctive talent and accomplishment convene.
“I find it hard to accent the suggestion that a university can he any less than this.” he declared. “There is no nlace in a university for mediocrity — not in teaching, research or administration. and certainly not in the student body.”
“A policy emphasizing research as the sole mark of academic worth, assumes mediocre teaching by its failure to support and foster substantial teaching talent” he said.
“But sadlv enough, this also fosters mediocritv in research because these publication pressures which result foster abys-m: ’ pebble-picking,” he declared.
Dr. Harvey said that this form of policy discourages the sort of carefully considered, unnressur-ed exploration which is the very substance of any creative contribution.
“And so, having forced the unpublished rreative teacher out of the institution, this policy also forces that potentially creative researcher out of substantial research by reason of frequently unsuited and inordinate teaching demands.” he said.
“The final result of all this is that the student is cheated,” he added.
“It is awesome indeed to behold the quality of instruction to which we occasionally force exposure of students," he said.
Dr. Harvey said that, in addition, it appears that creative and (Continued on Tag* 3)
2 Professors Begin 21-Day World Junket
It will be around the world in 21 days for two SC professors of business.
Dr. Robert R. Dockson, dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, and Dr. G. Preston Martin, associate professor of finance, left Los Angeles International Airport yesterday at 1:30 p.m. by TWA jet for New York.
From there they will go to Rome. Italy; Karachi, Pakistan, and Tokyo, Japan, before returning here on March 26.
Probe Opportunities
They will investigate foreign opportunities in Europe, the Middle East, and the Orient for the SC Graduate School of Business Administration program.
Serving as consultants to the International Cooperation Administration of the U.S. Department of State, the two SC professors will first visit in Rome the director of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Turin, Italy.
This is a private university with aims similar to SC’s, and Professors Robert Schultz and | Walter Meigs in addition to | Martin have served as faculty I members there.
International Venture
In Karachi, Dockson and Martin will survey an opportunity given SC to serve as curriculum advisers and faculty members at the Institute of Public and Business Administration.
This is the first time the SC Graduate School of Business Administration has attempted to become involved in international activities of this nature, Dean Dockson said.
The broadening influence of SC’s business program has led to several inquiries from foreign schools, he said.
In Honolulu, Martin will talk to business executives about attending the Institutes of Business Economics which SC holds each summer.
Competitors Can Enter Race Via Write-In Ballots
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Junior Class President Bill Steigerwalt has become the apparently unanimous choice of his classmates for next year’s ASSC president ... by default.
Though his election is by no means officially in the bag, Steigerwalt appears to be in because the deadline for candidates to petition for entry
BY DEFAULT? — Bill Steigerwalt, junior class president, will probably be the next ASSC president by virtue of default since no petitions were filed by deadline time, Friday afternoon, by anyone wishing to oppose him.
Law Men Hear Of Global Revolt
The entire world today is in the midst of the most unprecedented combination of global revolutions in the history of mankind, said Preston Hotchkis at the Pacific Southwest regional conference on international law held Friday and Saturday at SC.
Dean to Seek Sincerity of Truth' Quest
The question of whether or not universities are sincere in their quest for Truth will be discussed today by graduate students and Dr. William H. McGrath, assistant dean *of stu-dents-men.
In the graduate student discussion at noon in the Presbyterian Episcopal center, the purpose of a university with special emphasis on the aims, place and problems of this university in society, will be analyzed.
Episcopal Chaplain Michael Hamilton and Presbyterian Chaplain Chuck Doak will lead the discussion. Dr. McGrath said that he would just be an individual contributing to the discussion, not a dean giving a speech.
Role Is Not Clear
“The role and purpose of the university in this age is not a clear one,” said Chaplain Hamilton.
“Is its sovereign aim to serve the needs of society, the direction of the government, the financial pressure exerted by business interests, to search for Truth or to teach what Truth we know?” he asked.
Variety of Answers
Chaplain Hamilton believes, “the variety of possible answers themselves illustrate the intellectual and social fragmentation of our culture which is in turn j illustrated within the life of col- ! lege itself.
“The lack of community and the difficulty of communication is a problem to be solved on a deeper level than that of issuing directives,” he added.
During a question period,
: Chaplain Hamilton said, the | group will discuss the issues of “publish or perish,” student j government, academic standards i and the place of religion.
Hotchkis, a former U.S. representative on the economic and social council of the UN, said that “the first revolution has been man’s weapons.
“These new weapons mean the capability of any one of three nations, soon to be five nations, to wipe out much or most of the planet's population in a few hours,” he pointed out.
Second Revolution The world’s population explosion resulting from greatly improved sanitation, health and medical practices with reduced mortality has brought about the second revolution, Hotchkis said.
"This explosion presents the prospect of a double world population in three decades,” he said.
At the same conference Dr. Carl Q. Christol, SC professor of international law and political science, discussed the Connally amendment, which prevents the U.S. from living up to Hotchkis’ hope for “U.S. leadership of the free world.”
Dr. Christol urged the repeal of the amendment, which limits the effectiveness of the International Court of Justice at The Hague by preventing the court from considering international legal disputes to which the U.S. is a party.
Paint, Wood On Display
Student design exhibits from thj SC School of Architecture Hotchkis pointed to the birth exploring answers to student of new nations as the third problems through paint and
wood is currently on display at the Library of Architecture and
worid revolution.
“Over a billion people have recently emerged or are now in the process of emerging from colonial status to independent states.
Close to Stravatlon
“Further, these states have a dearth of capacity for self-government, and their masses are mostly illiterate and close to the line of starvation,” he said.
Scientific advancement has contributed to the fourth revolution in the world scene, Hotchkis felt.
“The record smashing achievement of science has made more scientific discoveries and breakthroughs in this one generation than in all of the preceding history of mankind combined.
On Way Out
These four world revolutions point to the conclusion that the old world order is on its way out and that the decade of the 1960s will see a new world order evolve, the speaker felt.
“These revolutions also point up' the fact that a key part of the new world order will be an increasing reliance on the rule of law in place of the rule of force in relations between nations.
“In all of this the U.S. has a rare opportunity and a responsibility as a leader of the free world,” he said.
Hotchkis also pointed out that in order to survive a* a free nation the U.S. must “exert its power and influence toward shaping the new world order so that it will be compatible with its own fundamentals beliefs.”
Allied Arts.
Included in the exhibit which closes April 15 are student solutions to problems in basic through fifth year design. These answers are illustrated by wood sculpture and paintings.
The library, located at 3723 Wilshire blvd., is open to the public without charge from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday evenings.
★ ★ ★ Outsider Ryan In Veep Race With 2 Kappas
Kappa Delta Carol Ryan dropped a bombshell in the laps of the women of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority by tossing her hat into the previously exclusive territory dominated by Kappas Sharon Kelly and Marianne Arrington in the bitter race for ASSC vice president.
Minutes before the deadline Friday, Miss Ryan submitted her petition, hurling herself into a violent tussle between the two sorority sisters. For two women from the same sorority to run for the same office is nearly as much without precedent at SC as Junior Class President Bill Steigerwalt’s lack of opposition for student body president.
Miss Kelly, commenting on the internecine strife in her sorority, denied the rumors that the loser in the contest would be thrown out of the sorority, and faithfully expressed her respect and friendship for her sorority sister.
“It is not true that we aren’t speaking to each other,” she said. “I think we are both qualified for his position, and I know that if Marianne is elected, I will do everything I can to help her in her office.”
Miss Arrington, in addition to expressing the same sentiments, added. “I feel that I've worked very hard for this office and, since the election means very dent, with three candidates run- | much to me, I feel that I’m the
most qualified for the job.” As for Miss Ryan? She was unavailable for comment.
Another development that came as a surprise to many campus observers was the race between Vince Stefano and Ken Unmacht for senior class president.
Y to Show Towle Silver
Any student interested in sterling silver may view their favorite pieces at the Towle Silver Display now being % held on campus.
Representatives from the Towle Company said that there is no obligation for participants to buy any of the silver since many students are invited to just come in and browse around. The display is in the YWCA Hubenthal for AWS treasurer, j from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
into the race was Friday afternoon.
According to the election rules, the only way now open for a candidate to oppose the popular junior is through the use of write-in ballots.
Twenty-nine students submitted petitions for candidacy for 16 student body offices, announced Election Commissioner Eddie Tannenbaum Friday.
Tannenbaum was quick to emphasize the fact that the petitions don't necessarily mean the students who applied have met the election rules' requirements for candidacy.
An official list of the candidates who do have the proper qualifications will be released this afternoon.
First Reaction Steigerwalt's reaction when he heard the news was one of surprise and concern for the future of student government.
Promising to explain his ideas concerning student government, Steigerwalt said he would sp*nd “the next two weeks discussing with as many students as I can the problems involved in making student government a vigorous and vital force on SC’s campus.” Two men squared off in the contest for senior class president, with Vince Stefano and Ken Unmacht submitting petitions for the post. Unmacht's candidacy came as a surprise to some who expected Unmacht to oppose Steigerwalt for the top campus job. Sharon Williams is running unopposed for senior vice president.
More Races In other contests for class offices, Jim Hannon and Denny Metzler will face each other for the office of junior class presi-
ning for junior vice president. They are Gil Cader, Mike Cohen and Hyla Holmes.
Running unopposed for sophomore president is Dan Moss, but a contest will take place between freshmen students Steve Perloff and Jacqueline Winn for the job of sophomore vice president.
AMS Contestants
Two men, Michael Guhin and Ted Schmitt, are in the race for Associated Men Students’ president. Running for AMS vice president are Marc Alpert and Steve Feldman. Bill Orovan will be unopposed for AMS secre-tary-treasurer.
A three-way race developed between Marian Bertotti, Marilyn Spigle and Carol Ann White for Associated Women Students’ president. Paula Makinson, Jil-lene Lee North and Kay Yunker are running for AWS vice president, Sara Morrow is unopposed for AWS secretary, as is Karen
Trojan Blood Drive Lacked Heart; Feldman Blames Students, Faculty
The SC Blood Drive ended its week-long campaign for donors Friday 160 pints short of its 660 pint goal.
A disappionted Steve Feldman, chairman of the drive, attributed its failure in great part to a lack of interest throughout the university community. He included faculty and university employees as well as students in his accusation.
“There was a great apathy on the part of the entire student body toward the whole program,” said Feldman.
Only 500 Trojans donated their blood during the five-day period, about five per cent of the student body.
Of the total 500 pints. 132 were donated by the school's NROTC unit.
The cadets were excused from drill practice to give blood, said Lt. Fred William. Eight were turned away becaus’e the Red Cross unit ran out of bottles for collecting the blood.
Chairman Feldman also pointed to a Jack of publicity from student publications for the drive's apparent failure.
“Students just didn’t know a thing about the drive until the week of the drive and then it was too late,” he said.
Bad support from faculty and students also was laid to lack of planning time.
“We just didn't have enough time to plan the drive sufficiently,” said Feldman.
He said the committee for next year’s drive would be selected earlier and plans for it
would start rolling sooner. I^st year's drive brought 617 pints from the Trojan student body, 17 pints above the 600 quota.
A similar blood drive beffin« on the UCLA campus this week. Feldman said that the Bruins would probably surpass Troy by a large amount in student and faculty blood donations.
The SC blood bank is now slightly lower as a result of poor student support of th« drive, said Feldman. All pints donated on campus go into th# school blood bajik and may tn? drawn out by any Trojan who has given blood.
Last year, studenis withdrew more than 60 pints of the life-saving ptUsma, said Feldman.