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VOL. LI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1960
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NO. 97
Elections Climax Hectic Campaign
JOINS NOTABLES
Strevey Named Host
For 1960 Songfest
Dr. Tracy E. Strevey, vice pi esident-elect of academic affairs. will join the sparkling list of SC administrators to act as official host of Songfest as he steps into the Songfest spotlight this year.
Dr. Strevey will act as mas-1er of ceremonies of Songfest 1960, announced Bart Porter, Songfest Chairman, today. In assuming this role, the educator will join the ranks of six other top SC administrators who have hosted the collegiate musicale.
In its first joar, 1954, Dr. Bernard Hyink was Songfest master of cei-emonies. He was followed by Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid in 1935, Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer in 1956, Dr. Robert Gordon in 1957, Dr. Robert Craig in 1958 and President Noi-man Topping last year.
“It is traditional to always j ha\e someone from SC's admin- ! istration act as master of ceremonies for Songfest,’' said Porter.
Dr. Strevey, who has been dean of the College of Letters, i Arls and Sciences since 1948. i will become the new vice president in charge of academic af- j fairs July 1. This announcement i was made early this year by President Topping.
As vice president and super- ! visor of SC's educational and research programs, Dr. Strevey | will succeed Dr. Albert S. Rau- j benheimer, who will retire June { 30. Dr. Raubenheimer leavers SC j after serving 37 years w'ith this university.
In preparation for Songfest 1960, preliminary judging will be held in Bovard Auditorium next i Wednesday and Thursday, said Porter. There are about 40 cti-Iries scheduled to be judged, he added. The names of the judges i will be withheld until after the judging.
The names of the campus groups that have applied to sing in this year’s Songfest were an- j nounced last week by Porter and JoAnne Nootbaar, co-chairman. Titles for the groups have not as yet been revealed, said Porter. The entries, however, fall into several categories, mixed division. small division, production division, novelty division and men's and women's divisions.
Tickets for Songfest goon sale April 18 at the SC ticket office. Porter said. Prices will range from $2. S1.50 and SI, he added
“Living groups should be reminded that block seats are not being provided this \ear,” he said. “But,” he added, “representatives from living groups can buy as many seats at one time as they desire."
Some 10,000 are expected to attend Songfest 1960, Porter explained. viuest conauclor for this year's musicale will not be announced until the end of April. John Scott Trotter was guest conductor in Songfest 1959.
Recordings of the 1957 and 1958 Songfest performances are now- available to students in the sludent activities office at the reduced rate of SI.50.
OFFICIAL HOST—Songfest Chairman Bart Porter (standing) and Dean Tracy E. Strevey discuss plans for 1960 Songfest to be Held May 14 at the Hollywood Bowl. Dean Strevey has been appointed Official Host of the allstudent production and will serve as master of ceremonies. Dr. Norman Topping was last year's Official Host.
Forum Learns Value Of Today s Scientists
The scientist today is the most precious commodity on the international market, while the artist is relatively unimportant and must often debase his w’orks in order to earn a living in today’s “mass media” world.
Such was the opinion of Dr. Arthur J. Knodel at yesterday’s Philosophy Forum.
“Yet the role of the artist may prove to be more important than the role of the scientist in the spaceminded, technological 20th century,” ihe SC French professor pointed out.
In the first half of his lecture. Dr. Knodel discussed pure science and the fine arts.
“The direct effects of scientific theory on the fine arts are largely negligible,” he said, “but secondary and related effects are very important.”
To illustrate this point he cited the invention of photography. "A scientific discovery, photography has had a great influence on the fine arts,” he observed.
Another example he used was
in music. “The scientific perfection of musical instruments in the 18th century opened the way to different, new musical compositions,” Dr. Knodel noted.
Ke also mentioned literature as the one branch of fine arts which utilized verbal discourse. “The remainder of the fine arts do not belong to or use verbal discourse and are impervious to direct science,” he pointed out.
The lecturer emphasized that scientific progress and artistic progress were not synonymous. He quoted a passage which credited scientific achievments with making possible the invention of the 12-tone scale.
“This is ridiculous although many people believe it,” he emphasized.
The remainder of Dr. Knodel’s discussion was spent in an analysis of the attitude of the artist toward the scientist from the 17th century to the present time.
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History Professor Claims African Outburst Overdue
By PENNY LERNOCX Asst. City Editor
The ageless fight for independence has once again erupted —this time in “darkest Africa." where the light of equality is beginning to penetrate.
Dr. Colin R. Lovell, SC associate professor of history and Fulbright lecturer in South Af-frica for one year, feels that the current outburst in South Africa has been long past due and that even the country’s government admits rigorous separation cannot be maintained or obtained.
African frustration sputtered to the surface last week in an attempt to organize a nationwide African passive resistance campaign against South African race 1 ✓ s.
Mass rioting began March 21. and, by the morning of March L'2. 56 Africans had t*een killed biid 230 injured. Most of the ca>.ualties occurred when polite moved into action on an almost militaristic scale against angry African crowds, thousands strong, which had attacked po-
licemen with stones and sticks. I Yesterday great fires set by j mobs raged northeast of Cape j Town as white police battled i with Negroes. The widespread j violence and arson erupted when the militant leaders sought to j enforce a work boycott against j other Negroes in piotest to last | week’s shootings.
“Whether the time for com- ; promise on the ‘white suprema- i c> ’ issue has passed, is a debatable issue. The current situation ! may be such that neither side ; will he willing to give in.” says Dr. Lovell.
The Europeans may now rely on their superior economic and military forces, while the Pan-Africanist Congress will proba- j j bly resort to economic pressures, he feels.
“The Pan-Africanist Congress j has recently emerged in African ; : politics to challenge the older! j African National Congress as j j too moderate.
i “While the African National j Congress seeks equality for all ! j racial groups, the Pan-African-1
Colleges Shirk Teaching Job, Report Claims
Most American colleges fail to offer students a “decent education.” a college professor-au-thor charged yesterday in a report summarizing two years of research he conducted on college and university campuses throughout the nation.
“Too many schools are adolescent reservations, fenced off from serious adult concerns,” claimed David Boroff, writing in the April issue of Harper's Magazine, which went on the stands yesterday.
Boroff, who visited more than a dozen colleges and universities interviewing administrators, instructors and students, criticized the entire higher education system—from curricula to scholarly journals—in his article.
‘Research Factories’
He held that too often universities are nothing but research factories w'hich have little to do with the exercise of ideas.
This failure, he reported, exists because “intellectualism and teaching don’t pay off.”
“Research, however, does pay off,” he claimed, “since it builds professional prestige—the key factor in the academic marketplace.”
Boroff went on to blast college administrations for being “undereducated, smiling products of teachers’ colleges.”
‘Self-Pity’
Professors suffer from a feeling of "dignified self-pity” as a result of their relatively low incomes, he pointed out.
Boroff suggested that visiting lectures by outside businessmen, journalists and union people, as well as a freer exchange of ideas among professors and students in a seminar situation, might remedy the current system’s shortcomings.
He also recommended that teams of teachers handle the same class in active opposition to each other in order to encourage educators to develop the will to “leap for excellence.”
University's Teaching Quality Wins 'Informal' Accreditation
Another SC first was announced yesterday as the university became the first member of the Western College Association to be renewed in accredited standing without a formal report or review by association committees.
SC’s high quality of instruction prompted the association’s Commission on Membership and Standards to recommend that accredidftion for the university be extended another five years without the usual formalities.
Previously, all institutions in the association have been required to make a full report of activités, and submit to an official inspection at the end of each five-year period before having their standing renewed.
However, a new policy of the association allows institutions of distinctive academic strength to receive extended accredidation without additional formal reports.
On receiving news of the decision, President Norman Topping said, “We feel that it is a special honor to be the first institution in the association to which this policy is applied.”
Only a brief report of progress in all academic fields in the past five years will be required for approval of SC’s status.
The Western College Association is the official accrediting agency for this region. It includes more than 100 colleges and universities in California, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii.
Organized in 1924, the association works for the professional advancement and accreditation of its members, which include all colleges granting liberal arts degrees, junior colleges and specialized institutions.
Rights of Citizens To Be Discussed
Students Decide On New Senate At Voting Sites
By HAL DRAKE
Attacks on the new ASSC government are still flying this morning, although students are on their way to the polls today to climax one of SC’s most critical—and criticized—elections in years.
As an obvious conclusion to this year’s unusual pre-
‘ election
Faculty Group To Hear Talk
% % Despite Delay
campaigning, Norman Topnotch appeared mere hours before polls opened this morning to dramatically challenge Bill Steigerwalt’s almost clear berth to the ASSC presidency.
Extreme Electioning Lampooning the extreme j trends of the past week, posters for the fictitious Topnotch promised voters athletic de-emphasis, moral de-emphasis and Man-Tan.
Charges of “railroading” a new student body constitution, grooming a hierarchy of officers
Economist Dr. Arthur F.
Burns will speak at a faculty seminar today after a sudden illness forced a one-day delay
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Dr. Bums, past chairman o sen^ g0Vernment during the past I President Eisenhower's Council j of Economic Advisers, will dis-
ist Congress pursues a tougher and specifically anti-white line which aims at complete control of South Africa and looks for support from other native populations on the continent.” Dr. Lovell says.
The Pan-Africanist Congress last year broke away from Albert J. Luthuli’s African National Congress on the grounds that Luthuli’s group was too soft toward the white man.
“Growing dissatification with j present laws may increase the new’er group’s popularity. It 1 should also be noted that demonstrations inspired by this or- , ganization did result in a police pronouncement that past laws would not be enforced.” the history professor points out.
While the Pan-Africanist Congress is attempting to put an economic squeeze on the situa- | tion, the outcome is anyone’s : guess, especially since such a >queeze would mean tremendous sacrifices on the already pover- 1 ty- stricken natives, Dr. Lovell 1 says.	I
Ex-Character Heads Cast In Clearing'
Ken Shanks, self-a d m i 11 e d campus character, feels that, for once, he has had to submerge his personality to take on another, that of the sophisticated but reserved George in “Clearing in the Woods.”
Arthur Laurents’ psychological play, in which Shanks will take a leading role, will make its SC debut April 7, 8, 9 and 10 at Stop Gap Theater,
Tickets on Sale Tickets for the drama are now on sale for $1 and 51.50 at the University Ticket Office and the Drama Office, 3709 Hoover st.
“George is a suave, irresistible charmer with plenty of savoir faire. but he is also serious and sometimes reserved, while I myself am usually flippant,” says Shanks.
Dr. Jit Kapur, the play’s director, is currently training him to drop many “Shankisms” to keep George sophisticated without an overdose of alumni party spirit, he says.
Similar Characters “To the extent that neither George nor I have any serious emotional attachements, we are similiar in character. However, morally I don't think I fit the same pattern as he does.
“He believes in having a good time and that the world is full of girls willing to help him. Thus, in moral attachments we are the same, while morally we differ,” Shanks points out.
Both Shanks and George are quite similar in their adjustment to life, the actor thinks.
Knows Himself “George knows himself in comparison to Virginia, the woman around whom the psychological drama revolves, w-ho does not. Consequently, George is well adjusted to life.
“I feel that I am also well adjusted to life for the same reasons. Of course, if a psy-chiatrist heard me say this, he’d probably say just the opposite was tiue,” the blue-eyed tiiespi-an claims.
Shanks’ role in “Clearing in Ihe Woods” is one of the most difficult he has experienced be-(Continued on Tag? 3)
What protection does the individual citiztn have against the infringement of his rights by the state?
This question will be answered by Dr. Robert Kingsley, dean of the SC Law School, when he addresses the Faculty Club at its weekly luncheon meeting at 11:45 in the Commons dining room today.
The Law School dean wi^ speak on “Protecting the Rights of the Criminally Accused: Today and Yesterday.”
Prosecution Favored
The balance of power in trials of the criminally accused favors the prosecution, Dean Kingsley believes.
Even though laws are written to protect the rights of the individual, the tremendous resources of the state tip the scales against the person accused of crime, he says.
“The state has at its disposal all of the funds necessary for successful prosecution, while the individual must dig deep into his pocketbook to secure the services of a competent lawyer who can defend his case for him.” the law dean feels.
Resources Available
In addition, the resources of highly developed police investigatory agencies are available to the state as wdll as a large, highly skilled legal staff, he adds.
Focal point of today’s discussion will be the protection available to the person accused of crime against this array of state power.
Dr, Kingsley has been dean of the SC School of Law since 1952. He joined the faculty of the Law School in 1928.
From 1928 to 1954 he was faculty editor-in-chief of the Southern California Law Review*.
Active in local, state and national affairs, Dr. Kingsley has served on many committees to further the interests of law and justice.
He has been a member of the Special Study Committee on Juvenile Justice, the Citizen’s Advisory Committee to the State Attorney General on Crime Prevention and the Advisory Board on Contract Appeals.
Scholar Wins German Cross
Dr. Harold von Hofe, professor of German and chairman of humanities at SC, will be presented with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany at noon today.
The presentation will be made at a brief ceremony at the German Consulate General, 3450 Wilshire blvd., by Dr. Eduard C. Schneider, German consul general of Los Angeles.
Dr. von Hofe will receive the order in recognition of his services as a teacher of German literature and an interpreter of German culture for his students and the general public.
The professor has been at SC since 1939 and was chairman of the German department for 11 years. In 1955 he was made president of the University Senate.
Dr. von Hofe is also managing editor of the German Quarterly, published by the American Association of Teachers of German.
cuss trends in spending by both consumers and the government at 3:30 p.m. in Bowne Hall.
An internationally know’n authority on business cycles, Dr. Burns arrived on campus last night in time to speak w-ith graduate business students. However, a luncheon set for earlier in the day at Union Bank had to be canceled.
Wife Feted Also this afternoon. Dr. Burns’ wife will be guest of honor at a luncheon at the Jonathon Club given by the wife of Professor Robert R. Dock son, dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration.
Those invited to the luncheon include the wives of Dr. Norman Topping. SC president, and
! week.
Write-Ins Protest
Earlier, Ken Layne and Ed Nelson announced themselves as write-in candidates for ASSC president in opposition to Bill Steigerwalt’s unopposed position on the official ballot.
Both charged that Steigerwalt had been groomed for the office in a show’ of power politics.
Jim Harmon, campaigning for the junior class presidency against previously f 1 u-handi-capped Denny Metzler, joined the attacks on the “clique” with his one-man war on government practices.
Topnotch Pop« l’p
But Topnotch appeared yesterday from nowhere in favor of everything. Elections Commissioner Ed Tannenbaum was bewildered bv this latecomer to
deans of the various schools and thp ^ fcut	ised	swift	re
colleges of the university.
Commerce Associates, a group of alumni and friends of the School of Business Administration which is sponsoring the economist's visit to SC, will hear his views on inflation tomorrow night at the Ambassador Hotel.
Plans Lecture
The New’ York economist will round out his week of activities on Friday with two lectures before students and faculty.
He will talk to students In managerial policies and investment classes on his experience as counselor to President Eisenhower at 10 a.m. Friday.
Later in the day, he wiil discuss “The Role of Business Research in a University” with a group of faculty members.
In addition to his recent role as adviser to the Eisenhower ad-
prisal for the action.
“I've been tearing down every poster of his I see,” he angrily told the Daily Trojan yesterday. “They are completely unauthorized.” he added.
Speculation that Topnotch might become a favorite among voters who want to protest agaitist the new government and management of the election was put aside bv Tannenbaum.
Wastes Vote “Anyone who uses this char-! acter as a protest candidate just wastes a vote,” said the commissioner, who has previously expressed regret at the unethical tactics of this campaign.
The elections commissioner reasoned that a vote for Top-notch is about the same as a vote for Steigerwalt since the i ficticious candidate would take votes from the unofficial write-ins.
ministration, Dr. Burns h a s j served as consultant to the i -phe write-ins can only win if Treasury Department, Depart- they receive a majority, but ment of State. Department of steigerwalt can win just by be-xl. -vt_.	,	man	on	ballot.
Defense and the National Security Council.
he pointed out.
He is a professor of economics ’ “All you’d be doing is hurting at Columbia University and is the w-rite-ins chances. Nelson also president of the National and Layne are legitimate write-Bureau of Economic Research. J	(Continued	on	Page	2)
Croup Plans Foggy Talk
The “emotional fog” of romanticism is the greatest evil affecting the American people's approach to marriage.
This onclusion will be amplified by the Rev. Joseph E. Wyler, chaplain at the Newman Center this evening at 8.
“A preliminary false notion of this whole matter is based on the collegiate acceptance that ‘steady dating’ is permissable at all times,” the Rev. Mr. Weyer said.
It is the philosophy of many students that when they are struck by “Jove” they are helpless. he added.
“The modern maxim of ‘Follow Your Heart, Not Your Head’ is an erroneous idea w hich has led to the corruption of family life in our society,” he said.
In addition to the weekly speaker series, the club is making Easter baskets to be distributed at the children’s ward at Camarillo State Hospital on Easter morning.
Karabian Lists Public Relations Among Important Aspects of Job
(Editor’s note: This Is the second In a series of articles evaluating Wall y Karabian's term a* ASSC president. The series will deal with Karabian's campaign promises and actual accomplishments.)
By NITA BISS Assistant to the Editor
ASSC President Wally Karabian believes that one of the most outstanding accomplishments of his year in office has been his extensive work in the field of public relations.
“Although this work doesn’t produce immediate results and doesn’t affect the students directly, it has been one of the most important aspects of my | job,” Karabian told the Daily I Trojan.
Karabian reported that he has : devoted approximately two and a half afternoons per week, or j 60 per cent of his time, to this j job.
He pointed out that he felt , it is the duty of the student : body president to take full ad- | ington vantage of the university travel game program in the public relations and u phase.	I	days,”
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part of this program. I the University of Wash-for the SC-Washington during their Homecoming as their guest for three he explained.
During his visit, Karabian s public relations activities included speaking before the Washington Alumni Association and Faculty Club and addressing a rally of about 8000 students.
“Last year I spent a week in Reno with Scott FitzRandolph (Karabian’s predecessor) with the Pacific Student Body Presidents’ Association,” he said.
He added that this 13-state conference gives outgoing student body presidents an opportunity to evaluate their terms and incoming officers a chance to orientate themselves to the year ahead.
Karabian will go to Tucson in May with the newly elected ASSC president for the same annual conference.
The student body president has also been to San Francisco three times representing the university and has attended regional conferences for the National Students Association.
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