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California
DAILY
TROJAN
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VOL. II
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1960
NO. 77
Philosophy Director Explains Promotions
Dr. William H. Werkmeister, director of the School of Philosophy, said today that the School of Philosophy expects any SC faculty member to publish if he wants to be promoted to the tenure rank of associate professor.
He affirmed the belief that a modified form of ‘‘publish or perish" does exist in some
of the SC schools and departments, but he added that it was Dr. William S. Snyder's own decision to resign from the university .
He said that Dr. Snyder, who had three years to go before he would be eligible for promotion, had written him a letter in December telling the university that he could not accept a renewal of his university contract because he had accepted another position.
Equal Treatment
“I certainly did not ask him to resign.” Dr. Werkmeister «aid. “I treated him the same wav I treated the other assistant professors in my school.” (The other assistant professors jeierred to are Dr. Gordon Mat-rbeison and Dr. Paul Miller).
Dr. Werkmeister explained that any instructor is promoted io the rank of assistant profes-*or on the basis of teaching and service to the university and community.
"But from here on out. it is assumed that he is a good teacher,” the director said. ‘‘We must expect more from an associate professor at this university than from an assistant professor.” Publish and Teach
‘‘We must expect that any assistant professor who wants to be promoted to associate professor will publish and leach doing both effectively,” he added.
He said that he could see no reason why both could not be combined successfully.
Dr. Werkmeister explained that he had sent one letter to | the three assistant professors in | his school, adding that he had not said anything about resignations in the letter.
Dr. Werkmeister explained j that an assistant professor must I be appointed to associate pro- | Lessor or dropped after a mini- i mum of five years ai ihe uni- i versify.
Ri»« or liMVC
“At the conclusion of the fifth academic year, hi* contract ends and he is either promoted or dropped.” he added.
The director explained that j the procedure for promotion it arts with his office.
“I obtain all revelant information together with offprints of i articles in professional journals nr books actually in print,” he ■aid.
“This material is «ubmitted. with a recommendation for promotion. to the head of Ihe divi- ! «ion of humanities." he continued.
"The head of the division of humanities appoinis a three-man rommiltee who investigates the c*<* thoroughly and decides on the merit of the publications.” he said.
Give« Re<*onimenda tion
“This committee gives a recommendation to all of the full professors in the department and they make the final decision.”
Dr. Werkmeister explained j that he could not see an> reason for Dr. Snyder to resign since he had three years left on his j five-year assistant professor contract to publish.
"He has proven himself as an able teacher and he was pro- | moted for this,” the director 1 said. "Now all we ask of him. i as wp ask of all assistant professors. is to publish and teach." ,
He said that this was expected of anvone who desired the teniu e-posit ion of the associate pi ofessorship.
Phil Soloist To Aid Band
SC's symphonic band under j the direction of William A. Shae- j fer will perform tomorrow night | fer will perform tomorrow night with Robert Marsteller as trombone soloist.
He will be heard in Seven Variations on a Theme Irom Mozart's "Magic Flute" by Bee-thovan. The composition was ni iginallv written for cello and r,ann hui ha’« been rearranged lot the tiombone hv Shaefer.
Also included on the program «ill be the "Old Comrades" march by Tickc, Overture for Band by Carl Fuerstner. Quatre Contes by Prokofieff and Russian Sailor’s Dance from Gliere’s “The Red Poppy.”
Concluding the program will be Sonata Piano Forte for Brass Oioir and Band by Gabrielli, Theme and Variation« for Band by Shoenberg and the Finale ftom Dvorak's Fourth Symphony.
Russians Talk Whenlsolated, States Crown
By BARBARA EPSTEIN
It is easy to talk to a Russian when he is alone but as soon as he joins a group of his countrymen he tightens up and becomes smug, an SC professor said yes-j terday.
John Crown, who was one of I the hosts to a delegation of well-\ known Russian musicians w ho visited Ihe SC campus last October. told the Faculty Club that the Soviets "close ranks' whenever they are approached eollee-j tively.
“When Russians aie dealt I with individually they are charming, lovely people,” he said.
"But when dealing with them collectively one has the feeling , that he is dealing with that de-! plorable state of the human ! mind which says w?e are right and you are wrong,” Crown said.
Piano Head
Crown, an accomplished concert pianist and head of the SC piano department, met and talked with six of Russia's most highly regarded musicians when they visited SC through the State Department's cultural exchange program with the Soviet Union.
Among the musician-visiiors was Dmitri Shostakovich, "one of the greatest living composers of our era.” said Prof. Crown.
Crow n also met Tikhon Khren-nikov, the man responsible for a 1948 degradation c a mp a i g n j against Shostakovich. Khren-nikov. general secretary of the 1 Union of Composers of the USSR, attacked Shostakovich for allowing "Western formalis- j tic. decadent, bourgeoisie,” ideas to creep into his music.
"Hatchet Man"
Crown said that "hatchet man" Khrennikov was ihe most : significant political figui-e in the group.
Also taking part in a seties of events planned for them by Crown. Dean Raymond Kendall of the SC School of Music and Dr. Ross N. Berkes, director of the School of International Relations, were pianist Dmitiri Kakalevsky, Konstantin Danke-vich. Fikrel Amirov and Boris (Continued on Page 2) ★ ★ ★ Red Tourists See Yankees Poetry Numb
Five Soviet writers, visiting Los Angeles through the Foreign Leader Program of the SC School of International Relations. observed that Americans ' are almost indifferent to American poetry.
The four men and literary critic translator Sofya Semen- j ovna Krugerskava will meet with SC students at a campus luncheon tomorrow. They are | meeting with local members of the Writers’ Guild ai a luncheon today.
"The American poets I’ve talked to complain that they re not being read by the American people." said Stephan Shcpachov. I chairman of the Moscow' Writers Union.
Too Occupied
He said that American poets seem to pay less attention to the spirit of the people and are too occupied with matters of style. J
“Some of them manliest a cynical and indifferent approach to their audience and are too much concerned w i t h themselves Shepachov said.
Aleksandr Terentevich Gonchar. a Ukranian and literary spokesman for the Communist
Party, expressed surprise thaf during their tour of the Lnited States the Soviet writers often hear questions about Boris Pasternak and Dr. Zhivago" hut never are asked about other works in the multi - national character of Russian literature.
“We have many outstanding writers in our national literatures,” Gonchar said.
"In addition, we in the Soviet Union publish far more American writers - in scores of editions. in millions of copies and in I 25 to 30 languages than does (Continued on Tag* 3) j
Vacation May Be Late Due to Senate Ruling
Doheny Opens Drive Collapse Extra Week of Study For Librarians FacesTrojans Proposed for Students
Meet Today
HIDDEN MEANING—Dr. Heinz Politzer, poet-author-lecturer, told Trojans yesterday that the beauty of Franz Kafka's and Albert Camus' works is the "inexplicableness." He pointed out that readers can interpret the works from their own viewpoints.
Kafka, Camus Works Gain in Beauty--Poet
The modern - day parables of Franz Kafka and Albert Camus gain their beauty from their, very inexplicableness, a noted poet-author-lecturer said yesterday at SC.
Dr. Heinz Politzer, speaking on “Kafka and Camus: Parables for Our Time” as part of the university’s humanities lecture series, told a standing - room-only crowd that the works of both modern authors left room for varying interpretations from everv reader.
“Camus is deeper than one can j try to explain, while the greatness of Franz Kafka stems from the fact thal no person can singularly identify himself with him.” said the Oberlin College scholar.
Author’s Symbols
Because there are never assigned, specific meanings to the , symbolism each author uses in j the structure of his parables, their meanings become signi-cant for different reasons to different readers, said Dr. Politzer.
He pointed to the present-day parables in Camus's most frequently read novels. “The Stranger.” The Plague" and “The Fall.” The numerous parabolic situations in Kafka's "The Trial” were also singled out as similar examples.
The basis similarities between the works of the two contemporary authors, one a Frenchman, the other Czech, are found in their parablistic tendencies,, said Dr. Politzer.
Modern Parable
“The beauty of Ihe modern parable is that it has as many meanings as it has readers,'' said the co - editor of the first edition of Kafka, published in 1935.
Dr. Politzer. an associate pro-
fessor of German at Oberlin Col-
lege. said that neither Camus nor Kafka ever attached limited meanings to the symbolism they used while they were writing.
“Camus's symbols more often than not turn out to be mere allegories,’’ said the lecturer. “Camus usually appears to be siding with one of his figures against another.” observed Dr. Politzer.
Paris Death Albert Camus, who met his death on a Paris highway last December, has achieved fame for his excursions into philosophy. in addition to his literary achievements.
“Camus the author surpasses Camus the philosopher and Ca-mu; the journalist by uniting the physical and metaphysical planes of our existence," said Dr. Politzer. *
In 1958-59. Prof. Politzer held a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent a year's sabbatical leave finishing a book on Franz Kafka in his native Vienna.
He said of his subject that “Kafka is at best a Hebrew' fallen from the Hebrew' tradition anr’ trying to recapture it.
Old Vistas “Kafka operates in the vista of the medieval and archaic and loses himself in it." Dr. Politzer observed.
Dr. Politzer’s lecture at SC yesterday is one of eight he is giving on a current lecture tour.
He is also scheduled to speak at the University of Washington in Seattle, the University of British Columbia, the University of California in Berkeley, Los Angeles and Riverside and at Washington University in St. Louis.
His talk at SC was sponsored by the departments of comparative literature, French and<German.
Branch libraries, “bookmobiles." and library furniture and equipment will be discussed in talks sponsored by the SC School of Library Science in the Art and Lecture room of Doheny Library at 9:30 this morning.
Miss Roberta Bowler and Harold Hamill of the Los Angeles Public Library will explain national and state standards for branch libraries.
Public librarians from Long Beach, Riverside and Los Angeles will also participate in the discussion.
The group will consider such questions as how many hours branch libraries should be open and how many staff members should be on duty.
Types of service that should be given, including reference and adult and child service, will also be discussed.
Magazine and book collections and standard versus popular titles will be examined as well.
Library furniture and equipment will be discussed at 10:45 a.m. by librarians from I^>s Angeles, Compton Junior College,
; Valley State College. San Diego,
! Whittier, San Bernardino and i Kern Counties.
Japan Music To Be Topic Of Discussion
A survey of Japanese music j between the years 700 and 1900 j will be presented by Dr. Wil- I liam P. Malm in a noon humanities lecture.
Dr. Malm, lecturer in music and curator of the Music Museum at UCLA, will speak before ■ SC Medical students in the main auditorium of the Los Angeles County General Hospital.
"The Music of Japan,” will be , i illustrated through actual recordings and demonstrations on i authentic instruments of old ] court music, Noh drama music j and Koto music.
An authority on Kabuki music. Dr. Malm spent two years in Japan on a Ford Foundation grant learning to play many Japanese instruments
Although he was assorlaled with the University of Fine Arts in Tokyo, his instructors were private music teachers of the old school.
Red Cross worker* sat Idly for one hour today waiting for Trojan donors who failed to come.
During that hour, as time and money were wasted needlessly. not one person donated blood to the failing campaign.
“Unless 165 donors give blood today, the committee will be forced to close the drive and Troy’s failure will j be final,” said Denny Metxler, drive publicity chairman.
“We only have 200 pints donated to our credit, and we are ‘J95 pints behind our schedule. If Trojans don't begin to feel guilty about their defeat,’ we will surely lose to UCLA and also darken our community reputation,” he said.
Y to Institute Building Wing At Rite Today
Ground breaking ceremonies for the Evelyn Brooks Gifford dining wing, an addition to the YWCA building on the campus will be held today at 3 p.m.
Robert Ladd Gifford, retired civil engineer of Pasadena and a member of the SC board of trustees for 16 years, gave the money for the dining wing in memory of his late wife, who was always interested in the welfare of women students at SC.
The addition to the YWCA hospitality house will be built to ihe east of the present building and will be an extension from the kitchen. The dining wing will seat betw'een 75 and 100 persons.
Those Attending
Participating in the ground breaking will be Gifford. Mrs. Roberl Vivian, president of the SC YWCA advisory board; Mi*s Emery E. Olson, chairman of the building committee: Judith Wolf of San Gabriel, student preside nt oi the YWCA; and Dr. j Norman Topping, SC’s President.
Construction contract has been awarded to Meyers Brothers, and the building may be j ready for use this summer or at least by the start of the fall semester in September. The ad-visory board will furnish the new wing.
The original $114,000 building was dedicated in April. 1951, by Mrs. Loyd Wright, then president of the advisory board.
By MIKE ROBINSON
Clashes may let out one week later for summer vacation next year as the result of	a resolution unanimously
passed by the ASSC Senate last	night.
The resolution calls for the scheduling of fall semester final examinations one full week after classes end in
January. By university policy.
school days missed during the	^	^
interim would have to he made up at some later time in the year.
“There is a problem of fitting the final exams week inio the calendar because we cannot cut the number of school days, we cart only add to the number.”
Dym of Students Robert J.
D<Jvney said.
PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE
Dr. Baxter Encou rages Teaching Not Publication, for Main Criterion
( Mitnr'« Note; In yesterday’* Daily Trojan, a statement was published by Dr. Tracy E. Strev-ey. dean of the College of letters. Arts and Sciences, emphasizing the role of the faculty in the pursuit nf excellence and outlining some of the policies largely followed In the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences concerning faculty employment and promotion.- Today,- Dr... Frank Baxter, begins a sériés of articles exploring the principle of “publish or perish,” and explaining the situation at SC), tty JOE SALTZMAN Daily Trojan City Editor Dr. Frank Baxter. SC English professor, television personality, Shakespearian scholar and teacher. considered the present situation of American education and reflected on more than 30 years of teaching SC students: “If. I'd have to publish the sorts of papers which in my particular field qualify man as being academically respectable. 1 doubt that I'd go into teaching today,” he decided.
“I don’t think I could do it, I don’t 'think I would do it, and of course, I never would be allowed to go along as far as I’ve gone here, up to the moment of retirement without having published »nythine of importance,” th*? educator declared.
“Quite frankly, T feel that mass education has extrapolated into such a tremendous mechanism that the quantitative judgment has become almost ir-resistable t o administrators. And a man. with my temper-ment. with my interests and with my lack of interests in certain things, just cannot go into teaching today.’’
Popular Teacher Dr. Baxter, selected by Life magazine as one of the eight most popular teachers in the United States, said that administrators seek the quantitative judgment because qualitative judgments are hard to make.
“Obviously, you see. a man who has written 12 papers is 12 times better than one w'ho has written nothing at all. and he is eight times better than the man "ho has written only four,” he said.
4,ond Sense
It seems that these simple, naive people see in a sheer quantitative judgment a key, an easy, workable, objective guide to the selection of teachers,” he declared.
“Now, happily, at SC,” he continued, “there has always been good sense beneath the lip service given to publication, and the University, although mafiv times driven with a’ rather loose rein.
still rewards people who have had some of the other attributes.”
He listed community service, university service and teaching as definite factors in deciding the merits of the SC faculty.
“We are here less bedeviled than many people in other schools where people are dropped all the time from universities because they have not fulfilled the ritual of publication,” he said. Shows ‘Life’
“The idea is that by publishing you demonstrate that you are alive.’’ be added. “Do forgive me for thinking that you can be alive in many ways.”
While admitting that America does need specialized learning and new discoveriees of truth through research. Dr. Baxter insisted that one of the great needs of America today is that people be educated.
“I feel that the teacher must really come into his own and that to teach classes is in itself a noble career,” he said.
Dr. Baxter, the first individual to receive the George Foster Peabody award for television education. said that the answer to the problem is that a great university must he “a house with menv mansions.”
| He explained that some people can teach, while others enjoy research.
“Let them do a jjreat deal of that but don't let's force all men into one mold, particularly a mold which says, by quantity ; shall you be judged, so that *
, man who publishes six papers— they may be dreary, unread, unnoticed, speaking only to a few specialists around the world — is somehow better than the man who has four, or even to carry it to an exteme, none,” he reasoned.
. Absurd Idea
“This, of course, is an indefensible position and is absurd in the eyes of the gods.” he said.
Dr. Baxter said that he believed man could be a scholar without being a research man.
“Now I am an example of the fact that a man can get along pretty well without ever writing anything, without ever having an interest in writing things." he explained.
He called himself a “jobber, a merchandizer of the wxiting of my betters.”
“I’ve had very good fortune and I think been surprisingly well treated, indeed far beyond the expectations of a man who has cared as little as I have for what is technically knowm as research.” he said.
Possible Times
Although the resolution introduced by Senator Gary Dubin, does not suggest when the extra week of classes should be held, there are only three possible times when the week may be made up.
There are the possibilities of the week between fall and spring semesters. Easter vacation week or at the end of the year. Registration usually fills the week between semesters, and Easter vacation week is not likely to gain popular student support. That leaves only a week at the end of the year.
Dean Questioned After Senator Dubin read the bill. Senator Marianne Arrington questioned Dean Downey on the acceptability of the plan to the administration.
Dean Dowmey answered, “I must say that I am the one who suggested the plan to Gary for presentation to the Senate so that it could submit the proposal to the university' calendar committee.”
Dean Dow ney is a mem bet of that committee.
"This is the strongest voice : you can have in presenting the plan to the administration.” Dean Downey said, “for it is the calendar committe which is in charge of submitting class schedules to the administration.”’
The dean of men revealed that the university committee | had long been wrestling with the problem of allowing adequate study time between the end of fall classes and final exams.
Good Chance The senators were told by j Dean Downey that the bill would | stand a good chance of being ap- j proved by the calendar commit- ! tee. which would then forward it to President Norman Topping's administrative council with a recommendation for ratification.
Dr. Downey closed his talk on Ihe bill by advising the senators. “Of course, your contemporaries may not want it. like this.”
Senator Ron Goodgame then suggested that perhaps there could be less than a week be- ; tween classes and exams, and, j therefore, less than a week : taken off summer vacation.
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Robb, Harvey To View Paths On Life s Road
"Approaches to Life'' will be discussed by Dr. J. Wesley Robb, j chairman of SC’s department of religion and Dr. Herman Harvey, SC associate professor of psychology, at the Theta Xi fraternity house tonight at 6.
The program is part of an intellectual development campaign sponsored by Theta Xi to broaden the individual horizons of knowledge and information of the undergraduate student, said Davie Baines, president.
“Learning needs to invade all aspects of our experience," Pr Rohh slated. “Social life should not he one segment and academic another.
"It is unfortunate thal Jeffer- j son st. is a symbol of the dichotomy of the academic over and against the social.
“When the student crosses Jefferson to come to classes, he puts on his academic hat, and when he returns to his living group, he puts on his social hat. Seldom does he wear both hats at Ihe same time,” he pointed out.	1
Senate Offices Open to Forms
Till Tomorrow
Eighteen student government offices will be open for petition I until 5 p.m. tomorrow, ASSC I President Wally Karabian, said.
“Anyone who wisnes to get in on the ground floor of the new student government should submit their petition to 215 SU.” he added.
All officers must have a grade-point average above the all-university average of 2.5.
( andidates for ASSC' president. ASSC vice president and i ASSC secretary are also required to have taken 90 units of-courses.
First Time
For the first time in SC's history. the AMS and AWS presidents may be juniors or seniors with 60 units. -The offices of AMS vice president and secre-tary-treasurer. and vice president, secretary and treasurer are open to members of any class.
Petitions will also be due tomorrow from the candidates for ; the four class presidencies and vice presidencies.
When 215 SU closed its doors for the afternoon yesterday, only one field-of-study constitution had been submitted, thfï of the School of Public Administration.
Other Fields
This leaves 18 other field-of-study constitutions to he turned in by' 2 p.m. tomorrow. Thos# fields that do not meet this deadline will not be represented on the ASSC Senate.
If the other field-of-study constitutions are not submitted by tomorrow, ne*t year's Senate roll call may include the name of only one senator representing 70 public administration students. Karabian said.
Audio-Visual Called Old By Educator
Dr. James D. Finn. SC professor of education, called audiovisual devices “old stuff” today when he was installed as president of the department of audiovisual instruction of the National Education Association.
“Recently, the public has been led to believe that the use of audio-visual devices in improving the quality of American education resulted from the Ford Foundation’s recent active support of television.” he said.
“Nothing could be further from the truth. THe first striking advances in the use of au-dio-visuat materials in schools came after the successful application during World War II." Dr. Finn pointed out.
Earlier Efforts
In fact, the armed services program was based on earlier efforts in civilian education, particularly those of the American Council on Education film research project of 1038-42, he said.
“Consequently, the exciting program that taught the imagination of the public during the war w hen millions of men and women were trained with the lielp of audio-visual devices was not the invention of th* armed services." Dr. Finn sain.
Changed Opinions
Today the armed forces a<>d public education have both changed their opinions considerably from the post-war idea that audio-visual materials and devices were only novelties, he felt.
A new technology of learning has developed in this field. This includes teaching machines and self-instructional devices, television. massed film programs, video tapr*. as well as expansion of the other tested devices such (Continued on Page Î)