Constitution Faces Student Votes; Senate Majority Okays Document
Southern
California
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. LI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1959
NO. 49
World Affairs Institute Discusses Activities of Science. Education
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Space Travel Needs Mere Than Rockets
,ace travel awaits not only lopment of rockets to soar the earth's atmosphere, hut ion to problems of medical psychological needs of the men in the space ships.
Several of these problems were dot ailed last nipht hv Dr. John Meehan, physiologist in t h e i School of Medicine, in a lecture at the Adult School of Los Angeles High School.
Oxygen Needed The first problem which confronts the general public when considering man's entrance into outer space is the supply of oxygon which would be needed for such an extended trip. Dr. Meehan said.
First inkling that dangers could arise frojn a lack of oxygen in high altitudes came in 1875 when three balloonists sailed to a height of 26.250 feet above sea level. Two of the travelers died.
Oxygen Decreases The phenomenon was later explained when scientists discovered that at 18.000 feet only half as much oxygen is available as at sea level. Although man can live at this altitude, the abilities may be greatly slowed.
Studies continued to prove that as altilude is increased, man's abilities to survive de-creises.
Now scientists are working on 1he problem of converting waste gases in rocket ships to oxygen, to cut down the vast suoolv of oz.vgen tanks which would have to be carried.
Makes Oxygen Snare suits are indeed necessary to space travelers, Dr. Meehan continued. If a meteorite punctured the cabin, passengers would need protection against the nressures of snace, and thev would need the suits’ oxygen apparatus.	-
No adeouate solution to the lack of effective suits has yet been achieved, and the disadvantage that snace suit« greatlv re-strirl mobility is still a great puzzle.
}\e’ghtlessness Looms IV an’s reaction to "weightlessness'’ is another phase of snace travel which must bo resolved before successful flights can be at t "moled.
Present'v scientists have determined that Ihere will be great variability in adjustment 10 this si^’-ition. Dr. Meehan said.
Finally, the different velocities and accelerations which man would expcrienoe in snace travel must be considered. Doctors and psychologists must decide the p^a^tical tolerance lim'ts. and encrjneers mu«t construct space ships within these 1'mits.
Fund Honors Late Artist
A new scholarship, the Francis de Erdelv Fine Arts Scholarship. has been instituted by faculty members in the fine arts department in honor of the late Mr de Erdely.
The new fund is to be used to aid gifted, needy students interested in the field of fine arls. said Dr. Julius Heller, associate proiesstfr and chairman of the department.
^elections of scholarship recipients will be made by faculty members of the department, Dr. Heller said. Contributions are now l>oing accepted.
Mr de Frdely, a well known Southland aih-t and an instructor in the SC fine art< department, died Nov. 28 following a long illness.
Scientist States Man Can Start New Life
The roles of science and education in relation to world affairs were discussed yesterday by four prominent men in the field speaking before the 36th Institute of World were Jack Karp, commerce president; Paul Applebaum,
Campus Election Looms Tuesday
By JOE SALTZMAN Daily Trojan City Editor A new ASSC Constitution, approved by a 13-5 vote at last Sunday’s extraordinary Senate session, will be sent to the student body for final ratification next Tuesday, ASSC President Wally Karabian said today.
Elections Commissioner Marjorie Hirsch called for a special election cc>mmission meeting today at 2 p.m. in 418 SU to establish rules and procedures for the two-day election. Dec. 15-16.
Of the 18 voting senators at the Sunday meeting, 13, one more than the necessary two-thirds vote, ratified the new government.
Approvers Listed
Senators voting for the revised constitution were Trish Dwyer, vice president; Stevie Adams, secretary; Mike Los-hin and Carol Howe, AMS and AWS presidents; Dayle Barnes, senior class president; Bill Steigerwalt, junior class president; Hugh Helm, sophomore class president; Ken Wilson, administrative president; Anne Smoyer. education president; and Senators-at-Large Gene Brooks, Marianne Arrington, Mardi Wulfesteig and Ron Goodgame.
Five Oppose x The five senators opposing the 12-article document
Daily Trojan Photo By Jim Anderson
ANTARCTIC EXPLOITATION—The 36th In-	Taubenfeld, at the podium, are other par-
stitute of World Affairs yesterday heard	$ ticipants in the panel discussion: left
Howard J. Taubenfeld speak on the po'it-	to right, Harry Wexler, Robert P. Sharp
ical aspects of Antarctica. Shown with	and Hugh Odishaw, chairman of the panel.
Two Tourneys fraternity loss
Yield Honors Burglars Swipe
Silver Service
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Admiral Burke Will Address World Affairs
“Tomorrow’s Navy” will be the topic of Admiral Arleigh Burke, USN, Chief of Naval Operations, in one of the main addresses at today's Institute of World Affairs sessions.
Speaking to the 8 p.m. plenary session at the Pasadena Huntington-Sheraton Hotel, Adm.
For Debaters
SC swept the field in two debate tournaments held on campus thks weekend, walking away with top awards in each. Dr. James H. McBaih, debate squad adviser, announced today.
In the Western States Alternate Debate Tournament, held Friday and Saturdav, the SC debate squad captured one of two “School Honor Awards.” given to the top teams in the tourney.
The second weekend speech lournamcnt, the SC Pentathlon, brought a sweepstakes trophy to the Trojans.
;	Defeated 30
The junior-level SC debate team of Sue Sebastian and Mike Thorpe took first place in lower division debate, defeating teams from more than 30 other Southern California colleges and universities.
Ned Taylor earned first place in junior - lev °I extemporaneous and impromntu sneaking. • Won First In junior-level women’s impromptu at the Western States event Miss Thorpe won first p'ace. also climbing into third spot in junior women's oxtomp. Other honors in the SC-hosted ! Western states competition came to junior varsity debaters Bron-wyn Anthony and Lacy Snarks, and var§itv debaters Ned Taylor and M’lt Kle n.
In the second maior weekend debate tournament, the Pentathlon comoetition. Burt Pmes. varsity SC debater, received the sweepstakes trophy for totaling the hichest number of points in the tourney.
Pines, entered in five individu-al events, took first in both symposium debate and persuasive speaking. Fine speaking in the three other events, impromptu, externo and oral interpretation, put the senior division sween-stako trophy in his hands, said Dr. MeBatn.
Sweepstakes Honor Bo'd Lemmon, also entering • he five Pentathlon events, jumoed into first place in impromptu and extemp in senior level competition, winning in addition a third place sweepstakes honor..
In junior level impromptu ‘•peaking at the Pentathlon, SC debater Richard Perle won over entrants from 10 other Southland colleges and universities in | impromptu.
A silver service set worth nearly 51000 was stolen from an SC fraternity hefuse this weekend. University Division police said yesterday.
The 25-piece set was taken from the Alpha Gamma Delta house, 668 W. 28th st., sometime lietween 5:30 p.m. Friday and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, police reported.
Members of the SC fraternity were not in the house at the time of the theft. Francis C. Pohly discovered the silver miss-in? Sunday evening and called police.
Tray Included
Among articles taken from the fraternity house was a silver sandwich plate tray, given to the fraternity by the spring ’59 pledge class.
The Greek letter initials of the
fraternity were engraved on it.
Two silver candelabra, three cream and sugar sets and one large silver tray, 18 inches by 24 inches, were also »tolen. A silver tea pot and warmer, two silver water pitchers, two silver coffee pots and two coffee pots were other pieces taken in the burglary.
Method Unknown The set was stored in the ground floor dining room of the fraternity. Police said the exact method of entry into the dining room was not vet determined.
The silver service theft is the second burglary reported by Trojans this month.
Last week, Syed H. Hasan, an Arabic exchange student, reported that three.suits and $110 in cash were taken.
Affairs on the general topic “New Frontiers in Space and Science.”
Albert H. Hibbs, scientist for Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the gathering at the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel some of the objectives and popular attitudes regarding space exploration.
Another speaker, Guy Benven-iste of the International Industrial Development Center, Stanford Research Institute, repotted on the political effects of scientific progress.
Public Administration Professor Richard W. Gable evaluated the United States’ program of technical assistance to foreign countries.
In the afternoon session of the institute, Dudley T. Moorhead, dean of the humanities and the arts, San Jose State College, declared the need for an academic balance between science and the arts.
“Man’s real purpose for going into space is his urge to explore the unknown." explained Hibbs in his discussion on the objectives of space exploration.
He pointed out that man is driven to explore the other planets by the same force which drove the people of Europe to explore America and the same force which drove Americans to explore the West.
“This is such a basis urge that there can' be no argument about it.” he declared.
Start New Life
Hibbs maintained that when people visit other planets they will leave some traces of their having been there.
This "garbage” will eventually evolve into life forms in much the same manner as life on earth evolved from bacteria, he predicted.
“Perhaps space explorers will take cultures with them to begin life on sterile planets,”
Hibbs said, but added he rather doubted that men would have the foresight to do this.
Speaking on “Some Political Effects of Scientific Progress,”
Benveniste reported that technological changes are inevitable, and people should prepare for them.
“Changes will take place.” he remarked, “and we either have (Continued on Page 2)
pharmacy president; Larry Young, senator-at-large; Judy Beers, Panhellenic president and Sharon Williams, LAS president.
Senator-at-Large Harold Fong, also present at the meeting, did not vote when his name was called, but later requested that it be put in the minutes that he was not in favor of the new constitution.
Parliamentarian Gary Dubin, creator of the new constitution, said the meeting was “historically, the final meeting of the ASSC Senate under the old constitution.
Non-Partisan Coalition
“Last Sunday’s meeting saw the largest non-Partisan coalition ever to be formed in support of a major student body issue,” he declared.
“The credit for this victory goes to all those people who were looking for the best interests of the university and who put aside their personal ambitions to place the constitution on the ballot,” Dubin said.
During the meeting,' the constitution was thoroughly reviewed and several amendments made, but defeated.
An amendment brought up by Engineering President
Opera Star Will Present Concert Tonight To Benefit Koldofsky Scholarship Winner
Soprano Soloist Marilyn Horne will present the ninth annual Koldofsky Memorial Scholarship Concert at 8:30 tonight in Bovard Auditorium as part of a fund drive for this year’s award winner, music studerit, Maurice Allard.
Tickets for tonight’s concert will be available at the Bovard ticket office before the performance.
Allard, a baritone singer, is a graduate student at SC.
He is a candidate for the doctor of musical arls degree and is a teaching assistant in the department of choral organizations. He directs the A Cappella Choir.
Art Songs
Specializing in French art songs of the 19th and 20th centuries, Allard is a graduate of Indiana University and New York University and attended ! the Aspen Institute of Music.
He taught voice and choral mu-.ie at Eastern Illinois University three years before coming to SC last year.
The 28-year-old award wun-j ner, a native of Illinois and a
resident of University City, Mo., plans to combine university teaching with a concert career.
The Koldofsky Scholarship is named in honor of violinist Adolph Koldofsky, who died in 1951 at age 46.
Vienna Festival
Miss Horne, who has pursued a concert career since being graduated from SC. tonight will sing some* of the Hindemith songs which she sang at the Vienna Music Festival last June, with the works’ composer conducting the orchestra.
Miss Horne's next appearance after SC will be with the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. Following that engagement, she will begin another musical tour of Europe.
Coming to SC with a scholarship in 1951, Miss Horne studied with William Vennard, head of the voice department in the School of Music.
She was a member of the A Cappella Choir and the Madrigal Singers while here.
Appearances at the Hollywood Bowl as a soloist with the Roger
MAURICE ALLARD
. . . Graduate award
Warner Chorale and at the Ojal Festival are a feu' of the 25-year-old singer’» local accomplishments.
She sang leading roles in productions of the Los Angeles
Burke will discuss what the size . Alan Widiss at last week's constitutional meeting and
passed by the Senate at that time was reconsidered and defeated.
Doomed Amendment
The amendment called for all school presidents to sit on the Senate as legitimate senatorial members.
Dubin said that at one point in the meeting the people who voted against it could have walked out and the senate would not have had a quorum and could not have held the meeting.
“Conscientious senators such as Young refused to walk out,” he added. “They felt that the question had to be settled once and for all and that nothing would be accomplished by walking out of the meeting.”
Widiss Campaigns “Widiss has been calling up the school presidents asking them to petition the constitution,” he said. We are readying ourselves for a constitutional fight with this small minority.”
Widiss, conspicuously missing from the “final” meeting of the year, had said at the previous regular session that the new government uses an inadequate means of representation.
“This constitutitn fails to correct historic class, school and general student body problems,” he said.
He claimed he was speaking for all of the class presidents when he advocated more revision and thought on the matter.
Presidents Approve
However, Administration President Wilson and Education President Smoyer both voted for the new document.
Meanwhile, Karabian and Dubin both prepared for the coming elections.
They have tentatively set up a provisional government consisting of 40 senators appointed by Karabian to take over the student government between the constitutional election and the next general student body election held in the spring semester.
If the student body ratifies the constitution, the old Senate will be permanently dissolved and the provisional government will be set up.
Will Select 40
“Members of the present Senate will petition the president,” Dubin said. “Out of these petitions, he will appoint 40 of them to serve as a temporary body.
“They will serve from the constitutional election to the general spring election which will probably be held between the seventh and twelfth weeks of school,” he added.
“Working with the 40 senators will be a newly formed Executive Committee.” Dubin continued.
The Executive Committee will already be in existence since the 8-man power-unit includes the ASSC President and vice president, AMS and AWS presidents and the four class presidents.
Plan, Not Legislate
This group will “plan, not legislate,” until the other groups are elected into office, the parliamentarian explained.
The new document specifically lists the 19 major fields of study — Architecture, Biological Sciences, Commerce, Communications, Dentistry. Education, Engineering, Graduate School, Health, PE and Therapy, Humanities, Law, Library Science, Medicine, Music, Pharmacy, Physical Sciences and Math, Public Administration, Social Studies and Social Work.
Dubin’s 12-article constitution includes seven new and radical student government concepts, all which attempt to give student government more influence and better organization.
Seven New Concepts
They are:
1.	A presidential veto, never before in existence.
2.	Fields-of-study representation, eliminating the present senators-at-large and service groups’ direct legislation.
3.	Strong Executive officers embodied in the 8-man Executive Committee.
4.	A shorter general election ballot.
5.	Central control of all university activities and organizations.
6.	Grass roots particiaption in the Senate.
7.	End of Row domination in the Senate.
and shape of America's naval forces will be foreseeable in the future.
In other major address and panel discussions of the day the general theme of “The Changing Shape of War and Diplomacy” will be carried out.
Regional problems in major world areas will be analyzed by many distinguished educators, government officials and scientists as part of the day's events.
The focus will be upon current trouble spots in Europe, Asia. Africa and Latin America.
Opening today's program at 9 a.m. will be Graham H. Stuart of Stanford University in an address on “Crisis Diplomacy.”
The other major morning address will be given by Henry S. Aurand Jr., a member of the Technical Military Planning Operation of the General Electric Co. Aurand will survey the current., world situation in a speech on “The Balance of Terror: the United States and the Soviet Union.”
The morning panel discussions, starting at 10:30, will touch three major areas of world ten- | sion, the Panama Canal zone,! Asia-Africa and Germany.
Dr. Donald W. Rowland. SC j history professor and specialist j in Latin American affairs, will j t5ke part in a panel discussion on the Panama Canal. “Should ! the Panama Canal be Interna- j tionalized?” will be the topic for j the five-man panel, chairmanned i by William S. Stokes of Clare- j mont Men's College.
MARILYN HORN
. . . Soprano soloist
Opera Guild, directed by Carl Ebert, for four years.
Her summer activities this year included an evening of Italian opera with Brian Sullivan in San Diego.