New School of Business Evolves
Commerce Splits into Two Sections
A ntw .«cliool has been created at SC under the title oi School of Business Administration to replace the SC School of Commerce Dr. Robert R. Dockson, commerce dean, ¿aid today.
Under this new plan, the School of Commerce, renamed I lip School of Business Administration, «ill be known a* ihe School of Business for undergraduate students and the Graduale School of Business Administration for candidates for advanced degrees.
“For almost 40 years SCs School of Commerce has pioneered new curricula and subject courses, but none have been so thorough or far - sighted as the current development." Dean Dockson said.
Program« Needed Th* dean pointed out that re-eent studies by the Ford and f* rneeif Foundations have shown the need for business programs such as SC’s.
“Proof of SC's educational sensitivity is the fact that the new program was well on its way to completion prior to publication of the foundation studies,” he said.
“It is because of this that we • re renaming the school and revamping our course schedules." he added.
An immediate new feature of the school will he a Ihird semester of 12 weeks graduate study in account inc. business management. finance, industrial man-ngement. marketing and personnel administration, said Dean
Dockson.
The third semester will offer a full range of selected courses from .June 13 to Sep. 3 for stu-rient* wishing to speed iheir work toward degrees of mas’ers and doctor of business administration, he said
Sum mo r Clashes Students may take up to 12 units of classes during the special summer session. The new nummer classes will also provide teachers with an opportunity to tr.ke graduate work, added Dr.
Dockson.
In another forward - looking | step, major revision in the un- I dergraduate program of the School of Business w-ill take place with an increased empha- j sis on liberal arts, said Dean Dork son.
The new undergraduate program, the result of several months of study by the faculty, will go into effect this fall.
“Il is hased on an educational philosophy that considers today’s rapid technological changes and Cives greater emphasis to thp natural -sciences and methods of problem analysis,'* explained the commerce dean.
Because business leaders are increasingly faced wilh greater community responsibilities — civic, social and political — a broader base in the liberal arts 1* being required of all undergraduate business students, he «aid.
l.lberal Art*
As patf of their new' libetal arts foundation, business students will be given a two - year preparation in such areas as social studies, science. English, mathematics and logic, said Dr.
Dockson.
“Following this ptrparation, tomorrow’s business leaders will study the foundation subjects of business, including finance, accounting statistics, law. marketing and personnel relations," he ■a id.
Southern
ifornia
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. U
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1960
NO. 77
Comedy to Open On Bovard Stage
By BOB OOI RTEMANCHE
A comedv of errant gods and uncommon human fidelity will be >een in Bovard Auditorium • t 8:30 this evening when “Amphitryon 38" opens a five-performs nc« stand.
rl lie SC' department of drama 1« producing the French play by .t<*an Giraudoux in an Knglish ¡'anslation by S. N. rRehrman. Tn# play » as first produced on Pi oadv» av in 193S.
rerformanc« rial«* will he tonight through Saturday and Mareh 4 arid S, all at R:3n p.m. Admission prices are $1 for tonight and $1.50 for following performances. Activity book holders will be admitted free tonight, and for 50 cent* on other nights.
Ticket« are available at the drama office and at the Student I nion ticket office. They will
■	Iso tie sold at the Bovard box office before each performance.
Director for the play is Dr. Herbert M. Staiil. prolessor of diama. Dr. Stahl has directed 1 hr |ast 1 ) summer »rssion plavs.
■	nr ha« sUn worked °n various
£>iher «how « he**
Starring in the drama will be Dick Kelly as Jupiter. Ray Oden m Amphitryon and Kitty Farren as Alkmena.
“Amphitryon 3N'- is the fourth major production for the drama department in the 1959-1960 school year. It follows “Carousel." "Finnegans Wake” and “Rashomon,” all of which were very wp|| received hv viewers.
The drama is a comedy in prologue and three acts, hased loosely in an ancient Greek setting. Jupiter, kins of the gods, brcomes fascinated by the human Alkmena, wife of General Amphitryon.
Jupiter comes to earth disguised as Amphitryon, after the generaJ has been dispatched to a conveniently created war. Later, Leda, who w<as once seduced by Jupiter in the form of a swan, takes the form of Alkmena to fool Jupiter.
Alkmenas unshakeahle fideli-t> in Amphitryon and the contusion of identities results in * situation of hi^h comedv potential.
Docile Senators Pass Voting Act Other Motions. In Quiet Session
WANTS LIFE
DR. ROBERT R. DOCKSON
. . . new school
Plasma Drive Failure Seen On Final Day
As tomorrow's deadline nears. Blood Drive committeemen fear SC will fail to reach its 660 pint goal.
“The drive is threatened with failure if 300 more people have not signed the contiibution list by 3 p.m. tomorrow," said Steve Feldman, committee chairman.
Nol only will SC lose its challenge asainst the cross - town ri-v; ’ L'CLA. hut Troy's community reputation will ho darkened, he added.
An immediate advantage of the drive is the assurance of a practically unlimited blood supply to any contributing SC student who needs the life - saving plasma.
Every pint donated on campus goes into an SC blood bank account and may be drawn out by any Trojan who has given blood.
“It takes only 15 minti’es to give blood, and that short process may save a life," said Denny Metzler. publicity chairman.
Representative speakers have
been urging fraternity and sorority members and campus organi-7ations io support the drive, hut Feldman added. “We also need the support of the administration. faculty and university employees."
Class presidents Dayle Barnes. Bill Steigerwalt, Hugh Helm and Steve Bershad also urged the members of their respective; Hasses to participate.
Club to Hear Science Tape
A t»|M* recording of » lector»* on "Science »nil the Kclipse of Religion.” hv l>r. Paul Tillich. Hitnjird t'niver-sity professor and internationally known theologian, will he heard at a meeting of the SC Pre«hyterian club at fir.tfl this evening at the Presbyterian Stndent Center.
Death Threat Slow, Waste Claims Dean
By BARBARA EPSTEIN
Capital punishment is ineffective, inefficient, unnecessary and wasteful, declared Dr. Robert S. Kingsley, dean of the SC School of Law, yesterday.
“If punishment is to have a deterrent effect it must first of all be certain and quick. Capital punishment is anything but certain and quick.” the law professor maintained.
Dean Kingsley, long a staunch opponent of the death sentence, said that the entire judicial process will he complicated and hampered as long as capital punishment remains a part of the state penal code.
Juries Reluctant
With the threat of death hovering over criminal trials, juries, always conscious of a human life being at stake, are usually reluctant to pronounce a man guilty, he said.
Jurors are indecisive and often respond negatively to evidence which would put a man in the gas chamber. Dean Kingsley pointed out.
“Consequently it is harder to get a conviction.” the Law7 School dean said.
More Responsive
If there were no death sentence, juries would be much more responsive to evidence and criminals would he justly prosecuted. ihe dean feel«.
"Capital punishment also means that there are more numerous and longer trials." he said.
He explained that lawyers often file appeal after appeal in order 1o save their clients from death row.
Without the death penalty threat this elaborate process of appeals would stop and higher courts would not have to re-examine evidence often brought to them on minor and insignificant points.
Slows Process
The end result is a slowing up of the judicial process, - said Dean Kingsley.
In almost every case where the crime might bring the death sentence, execution is held up from three to four years from the time the crime is actually committed, if conviction takes place at all, he said.
Whatever deterrent effects the death sentence might have are thereby washed away, he pointed out.
‘Both criminals and law; enforcement officers are aware that punishment must take place while the crime is still fresh," he said.
The threat of capital punishment does not reduce crime either, said Dean Kingsley.
No Reduction
“Every study made shows that ttie deuih penaltv does not deter crime more than life imprisonment does." he explained.
He pointed out that the rate of homicide does not vary between states which practice capital punishment and states which have abolished capital punishment. Nine states and 38 countries have taken the death sentence out of their penal codes, he said.
Many proponents yf capita! piiushment maintain that the criminal v> ho is pardoned from a life imprisonment sentence is very likely to commit murder once he is freed.
Dean Kingsley pointed out that latest statistical evidence proves that the incidence of homicidal crime among parolees does not increase.
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DR. ROBERT S. KINGSLEY
. . . wasteful
JOSEPH SHELL
. . for sentence
Full Campaign Opens Against Death Penalty
An all-out campaign to get signatures on petitions to abolish capital punishment will be • held today and tomorrow' as the
| SC Committee to Abolish Capi-I tal Punishment swings into its fourth day of a five-day campus drive to end flie death penalty.
Petition places will be established near Founders Hall and at the north end of the campus, between the Law' School and the Commerce Building.
“The committee asks that as many people as possible take the 30 seconds necessary to sign one of the petitions. They will be
mailed lo key legislators in an attempt to sway opinion on the bill to abolish the death penalty which will be initiated this week." Richard Perle. committee chairman, said.
Petitions Mailed
The petitions will be mailed air-special to Sacramento where the legislature sits in a special session called to handle this specific issue.
“The success of this campaign is contingent upon the cooperation of the student and faculty population in expressing their opinions. Letter writing and telephone calls are encouraged, Perle added.
Thus far in its campaign, the I committee has petitioned for signatures, held an open forum ' discussion of the problem along j with a movie on capital punishment and sponsored a symposi- | um of authorities on the subject | of the death penaltv.
Not Death
The symposium of university i and community leaders told SC I students yesterday that the death penalty cannot he accepted. both from a moral and legal view', as the most effective means of punishing a capital criminal.
Dr. John Nordskog, professor of sociology; Dr. J. Wesley Robb, associate professor of religion; Herbert Sehvyn. Los Angeles attorney and assembly candidate
for the .S4th district; and Dr. William Graves, former San Quentin resident physician, all agreed that capital punishment is fruitless expression of society's revenge on the offender.
Lawyer Selwyn in his arguments against capital punishment stated that the death penalty “cheapens human life” and that the state must realize the dignity and sacredness of preserving a human life.
In supporting him. Dr. Robb declared that “if life is a gift | it cannot be taken away unless for a common good, and capital
punishment is not for the com-mon good.
Separate Trial
“A mote basic good would be to eradicate the roots of social evil that, might lead a prison to commit such a crime," he suggested.
Selwyn also repotted that recent California legislation permits the jury in a separate trial to decide the penalty to be given a capital offender. But he pointed out that this is not an effective method because jurors are hesitant to extend the law' when they know' that they are taking the life of one man in Iheir hands.
“The court, however, is permitted to excuse any juror who is against capital punishment. In such a situation, the juror must testify as to his w illingness to inflict the penalty." he added.
Dr. Graves, who was at San Quentin two years %s a Death Row' physician, testified that "terrible emotional stress” is placed on both the prison staff and prisoners when an execution is about to take place.
“When an execution is about to occur, there is a certain electricity in the air. Even the head of the state board of corrections agreed when he stated ‘I don't know how long we can carry out these executions because of the emotional strain,” Dr. Graves reported.
Today's Weather
The sun will continue to shine on SC today with some dKfurhanee from finty winds. Hiph will Ke RS with * low of 42 degrpf»*.
Troy Cyclist Ends Mystery Of Falling Freeway 'Manna
The money-in-the-air mystery which had freeway police baffled and resulted in a traffic ticket for a goodwill motorist was solved earlier this week by SC student Gary Beckman.
Beckman, while driving his motnrsennter on the Harbor freeway near Slauson ave., unknowingly lost SI60 which flew out of his pocket and spread over the freeway behind him like manna from heaven.
Several motorists who saw the money blowing across the freeway pavement stopped to literally “clcan up.”
One of them, John T. Kcssengcr, 34, of 425*2 N. Culver st., Compton, received a traffic ticket for walking on the freeway as he was picking the money up.
Kessenger had collected 20 bills by the time the policeman arrived and handed him the ticket but hoped to cover the fine with the mystery money.
However, when Beckman, who saw th.e story in th« Mirror News, appeared on the scene with the puzzle’s solution, Kessenger turned over $14 of the money to him. His good deed for the day was rewarded bv the L.A. police when they absolved him of the fine for the ticket.
However, he hopes that the other freeway motorists who picked up any of th» money will return it to him.
LAW VALID
Senator Says Gas Chamber Here to Stay
The minority floor leader of the state senate told SC stu-! dents yesterday' that the state ; legislature will never abolish capital punishment because all prisoners — even those convicted of first - degree murder — could eventually be parolled.
Sen. Joseph Shell (R) told the Trojan Young Republicans at an open meeting yesterday on campus that neither tl\e senate nor the assembly would back any plan to wipe the death sentence from California statutes.
“There is no way you can constitutionally incarcerate a person for the rest of his life.’’ Shell said. “Every person in jail has to be eligible for parole ” Murderers Released Fear that convicted murderers would eventually be releasee’, and commit further crimes was the chief reason that state legislators voted for retention of ! capital punishment last year.
It will also be the main reason the issue will fail during the current session, he asserted.
The senator said that unless
guarantees are set up to prevent
future paroles, no legislature will
ever abolish capital punishment.
“Only a revision of the state constitution would make such guarantees possible and there is no possibility of changing these constitutional provisions." h e said.
New Evidence
Shell explained that there is always a chance for new evidence to be found that would clear a convicted person.
“If the constitution prohibited future pardon, an innocent per- i son could never, be freed.” he pointed out.
In addition, the incidence of crime among persons released through pardon or parole is high. ! Shell asserted.
Shell will be one of those voting on the capital punishment issue during the special session of the legislature called by Gov. Pat Brown last wreek.
Special Call
Brown placed the legislature, j now in its budget session, on spe- I cial call when he granted convict - author Caryl Chesman a last - minute reprieve from the ga« chamber last Friday.
Chessman's fate rests with the legislature. If the state legislators dtride to retain the death penalty. Chessman will die. If the death sentence is abo!is’i?d, Chessman’s term will undoubtedly be commuted to life imprisonment.
The senate minority floo ’ leader said that even if Browr. changes Chessman’s sentenc? to lift imprisonment with no possibility of parole, a future governor could always grant 'he Red Light Bandit a pardon.
Think. Act “People should consider whether they want him ava:lab!e for pardon and parole before they start •throwing stones' at capital punishment,” Shell sain, himself an active proponent for capital punishment.
He also said that he "even questioned" t h e legality o f
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KUSC to Report France s Affairs
“Perspective,” KUSC - FM’s regular Thursday night radio program, will picture France as a democracy anil as a great power tonight at 7:30.
An SC faculty panel including Dr. Lowell Noonan, professor of political science; and Jacques Poujol and Jean Taiiier, both of the French department, will discuss current problems in France under the De Gaulle regime and the recent French atomic bomb explosion's effect on France.
Senate Unanimous On Three Moves
By MIKE ROBINSON
“All hail to Southern California . . .” the Senators sang with a smile on their lips—lips that had been all too quiet for the majority of the Senate- meeting last night when three important bills were passed with only two
questions asked.
The bills — to create Deans' Lists, to establish an election code and to provide an aid to ihe Senate in governing student activities — were proposed and unanimously passed with no additions or corrections.
Recognize Scholars
At 7:15 Senator Gary Dubin outlined the points contained in the resolution he proposed urging the creation of Deans’ Lists, designed to give recognition to students with a grade-point average of 3.0 or above. Dubin asked that the motion to establish the hill be seconded, which it promptly was.
Following the Senate's unanimous acceptance of Dubin s resolution. Senator Bill Steigerwalt | propsed a statute to establish heads to coordinate five de-j partments covering committees outside the Senate.
The five department heads ' would keep the Senate informed ! on all activities happening on
1	campus, and would, he said, enable the Senate to be more ef-
j fective in its operations.
“Greatest Work”
J Steigerwalt’s bill, which he j had spent five months planning and called “the greatest work I have yet presented to this university,” passed unanimously.
Senator Jack Karp asked for
2	lines of 153 lines included within the hill to he clarified by Steigerwalt.This was the extent of Senate discussion.
Steigerwalt, in describing the old Senate committees, said they “fought over legislation like two dogs fighting over a piece of meat, with the dogfight usually-ending with both grovelling in their own vomit.
“There was only a certain capacity of committees and legislation that any body can endure, and the work went way past that on the old Senate.” he said. “There was a lot done by the committees which we never would have approved.”
Only Laughs Though he didn't mean it as it sounded, at one point in his speech, Steigerwalt said. “Not everyone wants to be a senator, some people actually want to do something for the university.” The senators only chuckled.
The lasf business of the evening. an elections code by Senator Vince Stefano, was debated
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BILL STEIGERWALT
. . . junior speaks
Early Thought Will Be Topic
“Transitions in Scientific Thought from Ancient Egypt" will be the topic of Dr. J. B. de C. M. Saundprs when he speaks at the SC School of Medicine humanities lecture series today
at noon in the main auditorium j of the Los Angeles County General Hospital.
Born in South Africa. Dr. Saunders graduated (*rom the University of Edinburgh and j served on the faculty there be- i
fore coming to the United , States.
He has been associated with the Medical School at UC for ! 25 years and is presently dean.
He is a noted authority on the \ medical history of the ancient. I fertile crescent land of Egypt, ' and is a student of medical history in general.
In the past. Dr. Saunders has | served as a surgeon in his native South Africa.
Dr. Saunders has also written a book on the practice of medicine in Turkey during the ages before Christ.
Today's talk will be the third j in a weekly series of humanities ■ lectures designed to jrive medical students a hroader outlook in areas other than medicine.
Collector to Describe Whitman. Lincoln Duo
When Walt W’hitman eulogized Abraham Lincoln as “O powerful western fallen star,” he visualized the Civil War president as the human symbol of American democracy.
The reasons behind this tribute and the relationship between Whitman and Lincoln will lie the subject of a Bing Fund English department lecture by Charles E. Fein berg, tonight at 8 in 133 FH.
Speaking on “Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman." Fein-berg will explain their relationship as contained in Whitman's four elegies, “Memories lo Lincoln,” to the 16th president.
Feinberg. a scholar and collector of Whitman works, has established a widely-circulated periodical, The Whitman Newsletter, and has also written articles on the poet.
“Beside his lecture on Whitman tonight, Feinberg has donated to Doheny Library, a beau-tifullv-bound translation of a French article on Whitman,” : said Dr. Aerol Arnold. English department supervisor of the event.
“Feinbers |S a verv successful Detroit businessman w ho for
many years has been a Whitman student and a colloctor of Whitman materials,” he explained.
“He has come especially to Los Angeles for this lecture, and his talk will lie taped for reproduction by Pacific Foundation, a non-profit radio station in Los Angeles, and also for the Trojan Digest on CBS radio," he added.
Dr. William I). Templeman, chairman of thp department said that Feinberg's lecture is sure to he of interest to »tudent3
and lovers of American history as well as of poetry.
Feinberg is a member of the Detroit Historical Society and is on the publications committee of Friends of Detroit’s Public Library.
The second in a series of Bing Fund lectures, “Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman,” will teature the works of one of America’s greatest jioets and “democra t aria ns.”
On Feb. 12. Robert Speaight, critic-actor. gave a special lecture on "T.S. Eliot: A Recital and Commentary.” He presented Eliot's poems in an interpretation of the man and his writings.