RUSSIAN DIGNITARIES TO VISIT TROY
Famous Composer Will Head Delegation In Tour of Southland
By PENNY LERNOUX
Dmitri Shostakovich — a man alternately honored and maligned by the Soviets, a musician often considered Russia’s greatest living comooser and a recipient of the World Peace Council Peace Prize — will arrive at 6 p.m. today at Union Station and officially begin his SC visit.
I He and five other visiting USSR musicians will tour Southern California landmarks but will make SC their focal point of | interest.
SC Visit
They are scheduled to visit th** university's music studios and rehearsals, its opera workshop, and chamber singer and chamber music groups. They will hear student compositions .concerts a J even a composers’ fomm.
The only other grouns included in their itenerary will be the Sr.n Francisco Onera Comoanv on Friday, and Disneyland on Saturday.
Shostakovich is the composer of 11 symphonies, many concertos, quartets, quintets, sonatas and an opera.
‘‘However, he is probably best known and best beloved for bis Fifth Svmphony,” said Dr. Rav-mond Kendall, dean of SC’s School of Music.
Russ Romanticism His music is full-blown Russian romanticism with use of a complete symphonic orchestra and harmonic melody, explained Dr. Kendall.
Although Shostakovich is an ardent Communist suonorter, his music has been out of Soviet fa-v-pr several times.
“This is probably beGause he attempted to experiment too much,” said Dale Reubart. SC leoKi»'er in n^ano .
“Much of his mu«ic is outstanding. such as his Fifth Sym-nhony, but some of his compositions seem to be stagnated because of his inability to experiment with new forms of music th t are considered ‘unnational-istic’ bv his countrymen,’’ Reubart added.
First Difficulty Shostakovich’s first difficulty with the Communist government
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1959
NO. 28
John Kennedy To Talk at SC On US Labor
By NIT A BISS Assistant to the Editor
riobleni' concerning organized labor in the United States will be examined Monday by one of the Senate's leading labor legislator.
Under the sponsorship of ihe Trojan Democratic Club. US Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass. t will speak to SC students at 2:15 in Bovard Auditorium.
Senator Kennedy, a meml)er of ihe Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee and chairman of the Subcommittef on Labor, boasts a 100 per cent voting recQrd on all labor issues during his 13 years in federal government.
Supports Labor
Elected to the House of Representatives in 1946. Kennedy began to support a strong labor movement by \oting against the controversial Taft-Harltey Act rnd against over-riding President Truman's veto on the bill.
In 1952, with the support of organized lal>or, Kennedy was elected to the Senate by an overwhelming margin and carried his crusade for the workingman to the upper house.
The senator introduced and fought for legislation giving increased unemployment compensation benefits in the 83rd, 84th,
85th and 86th Congresses.
Top Candidate
Kennedy is presently couriered 10 be a top possibility for came in 1936 when be introduced
Academic Partnership to Undergo Senate Debate
the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 1960.
At the party’s national convention in 1956, he came within 20 one-half votes of capturing the vice presidential nomination and has been a strong presidential contender ever since.
The 42-year-old senator received his education in the public schools of Brookline, Mass., and attended the Choate School and Harv ard- University.
He graduated from Harvard with honors in 1940 after atted-ing the London School of Economics from 1935-36 and did graduate work at Stanford University in 1940.
Awarded Degrees
Kennedy has been awarded honorary doctor of law degrees by 18 colleges and universities, including Harvard, Syracuse and Notre Dame.
The senator is the author of the 1940 best-seller “Why England Slept.” an account of England's unpreparedness for war.
Student Leaders
Offer Resolution
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By JOE SALTZMAN Daily Trojan City Editor
Ahe “Academic Partnership” resolution, proposed by Parliamentarian Cfary Dubin and Senator-atLarge Ron ' Goodgame, will be presented at tonight’s ASSC Senate ; meeting as the. first resolution of President Wally Kara-■ bian’s “administration-faculty-student partnership.”
! The resoultion, an attempt to
an opera that Pravda. the Moscow newspaper, attacked as "bourgeoise and decadent’’ and “a mess of music.”
Althoueh the opera was highly acclaimed by music critics and the Russian population .some of- j ficials felt that he had become a bit too free in Ihe nature of his wit.
When he was criticized by the [ crovornment for the third time in i 1948. Shostakovich announced i that he would “endeavor to cor- ' i rect his ideological errors.” Critics Laud Much of his music — especially the extremely Russian themes — has been lauded by
Sov'^t critics. His Piano Quintet
received ihe Stalin Prize of 100 000 rubles in 1940. and his oratorio. “The Song of the Forest.” the Stalin Prize in 1949.
TROY' CONQUEST—Happy Trojan Knights gather around
the new victory banner which was purchased by the UCLA student body. The victory banner symbolizes Trojan success on the gridiron and will fly above Bovard Auditorium for the entire week following an SC victory. Larry Young, Snatcr at Large, kneels at the feet of Tommy Trojan as
~DT Photo By Bob Holste Officer Armstrong of the University Police and Bill von KleinSmid support the left side of the banner and Wayne Warga, Knight President, and Dave Berg (extreme rt.) pcse at the right. The banner measures 15 ft. by 10 ft. and costs the UCLANS 3175. Warga said a special casing will be made to protect the banner from the coming rains.
REPENTANCE GIFT
Bruins Buy New Victory Banner
Expert on Color To Talk Tonight
A special lecture on the use of celor in the theater, television, industrial design and fine arts will be given today by Robert Dorr of the Color Key Corpora-tion. at 7 p.m. in 102 Harris Hall.
A new $175 victory banner is now flying atop Bovard Auditorium through the courtesy of the UCLA Bruins.
It is their gift of repentance “His sense of Russian nation- ! after stealing the banner from alism is particularly anparent in h*^ Seventh Symphony,” said
ner out of its Bovard room, said Knight president Wayne
Warga.
The Bruins reportedly climbed the four flights of stairs to Bo-
Rcubart.
Tnis work was composed during the war when Shostakovich stayed in Leningrad, where he
the Bovard tower after last vard tower after the game and year’s SC—UCLA football game, snatched the flag from its rest-Measuring 15 ft. by 10 ft. and di. playing a crimson Trojan
Head and ihe words “Trojan Conquest” on a gold field, the
joined one of the voluntary fire- victory banner replaces the ori-
watching brigades.
Since 1951 Kabalevsky has “You can almost hear the soldiers feet marching and feel the great Russian patriotism in this symohonv,” Reubart pointed out.
Also included in the Soviet delegation will be Dmitri Kaba-(Continned on Page 2)
ginal 4 ft. by.8 ft. banner stolen by the UCLANS.
Besides the 5175 paid by the overzeajous Bruins, they will have to pay $80 to cover the repairs in a damaged air conditioner and five broken doors.
ing place.
More than five separate doors j lead to the tower, making it almost impossible for the Wesf-: wood thieves to have found the banner, let alone abscond with : it, Warga said.
Warga Wrong However, Warga was wrong. The UCLANS figured out the complicated mate, stole the ban-
3-Day
Brings
Federal Tax Meeting 500 Notables to Troy
More lhan 500 lawyers and accountants from throughout ihe nation will be welcomed today bv the SC Law School at the first meeting of ihe 12th annual Institute on Federal Taxation.
John W. Ervin, director of th® La'>’ School-sponsored institute, explained that the 3-dav meeting has been organized as a practical aid for those dealing with tax problems.
“Persons from many parts of the I’.S. will attend this meeting l>ecause taxes are no longer a S|>ecial field tor a tax lawyer or accountant but have premated every field of law and accounting.” Enin said.
Code Grow*
He pointed out that tod?.'’s Internal Re' enue Code has j fro'1?! from s few pates in 1914 to nearly 10^0 pares.
"Far reaching changes in tax legislation are expected next, year In the field of corporations, partnership, and trusts" Ervin tdded.
Paul E. Treusch; special assM-int to Hi“ chief counsel of the fillet nal Revenue Service, will ‘peak to the group Friday on the
legislation policy and the tie-in of his office with other parts of the government.
The Friday afternoon session will also hear Walter Slowinski of the Chicago firm of Baker, McKenzie and Hightower.
The doors were broken during ner anc* are now buying a new UCLA's attempt to get the ban- banner for the SC student body. -----—------------------------------ Although UCLA's administration is footing the bill, there has been no official comment from the Westwood area.
Created 15 years ago, the vic-torv banner has become a one of SC’s popular “Trovditions.”
.................... Hules Victory
Hules Victory “Following every football vic-torv the banner has been hoisted The subject of his lecture will to the'top of Bovard Auditorium be “Loss and Recovery of Tax bv the Squires, and it has been Exempt S^apjs of Foundations, proudly displayed for a full week Trade Associations and Social a tribute to the Troian foot-Clubs.	foa]i	team,” said Don Simonian.
Slowinski is a member of the assistant athletic news director Illinois Bar Association, chair- and unofficial guardian of the man of the Committee on Tax- banner.
ation of the District of Colum- He expressed relief upon bia Bar Association, vice chair- learning that the victory flag
DOWNEY ASKS STUDENTS FOR COOPERATION AT CAL
Students traveling north for the SC-Cal football game this weekend are urged by the administration to conduct themselves in a manner reflective of the high moral and social standards of SC.
Dr. Robert Downey, dean of students, said, “My suggestion to the students is to conduct yourselves like ladies and gentlemen and exemplify the proper conduct of Trojans.”
“Retnember,” he added, “we are the guests of the city of San Francisco and should show our appreciation ’for their hospitality by p^iper behavior.”
If any student needs to contact a member of the dean's staff, Dr. Downey may be reached by calling the St. Francis Hotel and asking, for the message center.
As for as transportation to the game, only two major airlines have open flights this weekend.
United Airlines has one first-class flight Friday at 7 a.m., several first-class and tourist-class flights Saturday and one return plane Sunday at 7 a.m., first-class.
Western Airlines has one San Francisco flight Friday morning at 8:15, first class and tourist, with one return fligh.t Sunday at 7:15 a.m. Several reservations are still available for Saturday.
Round-trip fars for both airlines are $33.11 tourist-class and 552.69 first-class. Flying time is 1 hour • via jet and 1 hour, 35 minutes by coach.
Seats are still available on the rooter's train, but today is the last day to buy tickets for the specially-chartered cars of the Southern Pacific Daylight. Round trip is $21.00.
WALTER A. SLOWINSKI
. . . institute speaker
man of the Committee on Taxation of Foreign Source Income of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation.
Foreign Income He is co-author of “Federal Taxation of Individual and Corporate Income from Foreign Sources.”
Among topics to be discussed « ill be tax planning for corporations that may choose to be taxed as partnerships and a more practical approach to tax 1 problems connected wdth property and divorce seiiements.
Payments to widows of corporale employees and retroactive taxes and the valuation of stock of a closely held cor|>ora-tion will also be discussed at the meeting.
will be ready to fly for the remainder of the season.
“It should have l>een up there following the Oregon Stale. Ohio State and Washington games,” Simonian said.
create some student participation in academic affairs at SC, will let the “guinea pig” student body speak through a sampling of student opinion.
New Dimension
Dubin and Goodgame said that their resolution, based on the 1958-59 “Resolution on Academia” presented to the Senate by former Daily Trojan Editor Jim Bylin. Senator-at-Large Stan Ar-kin and Senior Class President Abe Somer, will add an additional dimension to the academic affairs of SC.
The resolution calls for student representatives on three university committees dealing either directly or indirectly with academic affairs.
Seat Students
Senate approval of the new proposal, then administrative acceptance would seat students on the Curriculum Scholarship Standards and Advisement committees now' concerned with academic affairs.
Dubin said that the resolution 'makes it quite clear that the student representatives would he nominated by the ASSC president and then approved by President Norman Topping and Dr. Bruce McElderry, Faculty Senate president.
Student Voice
“The resolution gives the administration and the faculty a chance to let the students spsak for themselves,” Dubin said.
“Our proposal is only the first step in a determined effort by the student body to assist the university in its evaluation of the curriculum.” he added.
Dubin said that the resolution Is requesting the administration and the faculty to recognize and officially encourage sincere student interest in the academic policies of the university.
Three Committees
‘‘We are asking that student representatives be placed on the three university committees and given a chance to voice their opinions,” he added.
“However, the resolution is also seeking support from the student body and we hope that this piece of senatorial legislation will stimulate the student body to offer its opinions and to offer was accidental and not the re- suggestions on how those aca-sult of criminal negligence.	demie policies may be improved.”
he said.
Written Pica
Co - sponsor Dubin explained that it is the motion’s written The	weatherman predicts	plea that the administration and
low morning	clouds which will	faculty accept the role of the
clear for	a	sunny afternoon.	student in the all-uriiveisitv
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Administration Surprised by Swanson Edict
The recent recommendation by a special Grand Jury Committee for a full investigation into the hazing death of Kappa Sig pledge Richard Swanson has come as a “complete surprise to university administrators.
Dr. Robert* J. Downey, dean of j students, said he was “shocked
by yesterday’s recommendation by the Criminal Complaints Committee.
After hearing testimony from 12 witnesses, including Dr. Downey and Dr. William H. Me- j Grath. assistant dean of students — men, the committee urged a formal review of the case by the Grand Jury. This will include sv orn testimony.
The committee declared that the testimony involved many conflicts which were attributed to “perjury or the excitement of the situation.”
“In view of the report given by the committee, the university seems to be all right,” Dr. Downey explained.
The committee report said the recommendation was made despite action of SC authorities in punishing the men responsible for the hazing and in taking steps to present recurrence of such an incident.
Swanson, a 21-year-old predent student, choked to death on a piece of raw liver during a Sept. 17 initiation ritual in the Kappa Sig house.
Committee hearings, requested by the dead pledge's father. Dr. Arthur Swanson, were held last Thursday and Monday, in the hopes of turning up new evidence in the case.
A coroner’s jury had previous-lv ruled that Swanson’s death
Today s Weather
Good Drama Must Reflect Audience Ideological Concepts Says Professor
Pledge Relays Hosted Today
Phi Sigma Pledge Relays will take place today at 2:S0 at the i*id Si* liuu«*, W. 28th.
The 85th running of the semi-annual relay* was originally scheduled ln«t Monday hut rain cancelled Ihe event.
By BARBARA EPSTEIX
Good drama must reflect the ideas, morals and values of the audience declared a drama professor yesterday in the third of the Philosophy Forum’s v.Six Experiments in Value Conflicts.’’
Speaking from the p 1 a y-vvright’s point of view Dr. Herbert M. Stahl told his audience that the play must get at the base of people’s thoughts in order to be an educative and dynamic force in society.
“Drama is a reflection of the people themselves,” said Dr. Stahl.
Escape Cited
He used John Galsworthy’s play “Escape” as ran example of a play’s penetration to the foundations of the sudipnoes moral judgment.
’ A scene for the play was enacted by advanced drama students Richard Lang and Lynn
Raynor to illustrate the problems the playwright faces when he tries to create a plausible revelation of the human scene.
“Escape” is the story of a convict whose 48-hour escape from an English prison makes him a free but hunted man.
Matt Denant, convicted for manslaughter in the accidental killing of a policeman, feels he has paid his moral debt to society after serving two years of a five year jail sentence.
Series of Nine In a series of nine episodes John Galsworthy brings the sol-dier-gentleman Denant face to face with a number of persons, some of whom are eager lo help him and others uln. are afraid and vindictive.
’ “What we are seeing is a cross-section of the English social fabric,” said Dr. Stahl.
In the scene piesented, the
fourth of the episodes, Denant encounters an old gentleman who can turn him n: or let him remain free.
Some Madnes»
“There is some madness in Galsworthy’s choice,” said Dr. Stahl.
The old gentelman is a retired judge. In deciding what to do with the escapee whom he believes has comitted an excusable murder, the old gentelman must reconcile hi? own * moral codp with.that of the law.
He decides to “wink the other eye” and allows Denant whatever freedom is left him.
The problem does not come to a focus until the filial scene when Denant, seeking refuge in a church, must decide whether or not to let the pafson lie for him.
The question ¡s answered <*nlv fleetingly by Galsworthy when
Denant exclaims, is he gives himself up, that "one cannot escape one’s decent self,” said the drama professor.
“The dramatist need not give any solutions,” said Dr. Stahl. "The good playwright poses the problem and lets the audience ; solve it.”
This means that the audience must become so absorbed in the play that it thinks, acts and feels with the characters.
“The theater is like a transmitter without a receiver unless the audience gets involved in the action.” declared Dr Stahl.
This requires that the playwright must w’rite with a certain amount of detachment so that the situation may i>e presented with perspective.
•The audience will reject the play as propaganda if it l>clievcs the situation has been distorted,” he said.
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