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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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NO. 11
LOS ANGELES 7, CALIFORNIA
MONDAY, JULY 30, 1954
Campus Poll Finds PCC Replacements
By Mike O’Neil Diversity of opinion is refreshing or just plain maddening, depending on your mental outlook, but whatever the case, it is newsworthy. The pros and cons of the PCC
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About Concept 'Nothingness'
Alpha Epsilon chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, national honorary educational fraternity. will hear “The Concept of Nothingness’* discussed tomorrow at their weekly noon luncheon.
Speaking will be Dr. Arthur Fallico, visiting professor of education from San
Jose State College. He is teaching educational sociology and intercultural and intergroup relations courses here. He took his MA at Northwestern in 1938 and his PhD in 1940.
Friday, the local Phi Delta Kappa chapter initiated 35 neo-ph ites. They were honored at ceremonies in the University commons and heard Dr. Lionel De Silva, executive secretary of the California Teachers association tell of the current legislation being considered in Sacramento. Dr. De Silva was graduated from Pomona College in 1934 and took his MA and PhD at SC.
Panelists Tell All-Amercias' Real Purpose
“What Was the Real Subject of the All-Americas Conference and W’hat Was Accomplished” will be discussed tonight on SC Chancellor Rufus B. von Klein-Srrrid’s Teleforum at 8 on KTLA. channel 5.
Included on the panel of speakers will be Dr. Clayton Carus, Dr. W’illiam Schurz, and Dr. Robert G. Mead Jr.
Dr. Carus was formerly professor of foreign trade at SC. Dr. Schurz is professor of international relations at the Thunderbird Institute in Buckeye, Ariz. Associate professor of foreign languages at the University of Connecticut, Dr. Mead is teaching at SC this summer.
Official
Notice
Students who expect to complete requirements for the bachelor’s degree in either the Six Weeks Session or Post Session should check the list that is posted in the corridor outside the Registrar’s Office in Owens Hall. Those who have not filled out diploma application cards should do so at once.
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Bill White suggested that SC organize a new system in place of the PCC and start a new game like cricket, rugby, curling,-or something else interesting for investigation.
Doug Robertson was a bit more concerned as he said, “Any punishment the players receive is justified, for they knowingly broke the rules. On the football field penalties are meted out for infractions—the same is true when you’re out of uniform.” "The players are victims of the system,” says Barney Pep-kin, “and they can be compared to Sergeant McKeon who is being used as a scapegoat.” Harold Washington’s view compares somewhat to Pepkin’s but is differently expressed in, “Perhaps the universities’ presidents should be declared inelligible lor one year.’'
Dubious proceedings that might warrant a high level investigation were unearthed in a statement by Joan Brainard. Miss Brainard charges, “If j they’re going to investigate foot- I ball, why don’t they look into !
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the chess team? I know of a lot \ of cheating there.” (Your reporter’s comment is “check.”)
An opinion that seemed to , represent the feelings of many ! students wras voiced by Jack Frawley, who expressed a prognosis by saying, “There j seems to be optimism that the ] player ban will be lifted.” However, if the ban is not rescinded j Gil Salinas suggests a cogent j * remedy to bolster the battered j Trojan ranks . . . “I know of some guys below the border who will play for half the price.”
Taxpayers Speaker Hits Administrators
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Trenham Blasts U.S. Educators
For Emotionalism, Inaccuracies
Bradford Trenham, general manager of the California Taxpayers Association, Los Angeles, took careful aim and fired both barrels at a capacity audience of school administrators, at their iuncHeon Friday.
DR. FRANK BAXTER, professor of English, will be in the University Bookstore from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today to autograph copies of his recording "The Nature of Poetry/' It. is in the Distinguished leachers Series.
Summer Band To Play Free Public Concert
The SC Summer Workshop Band, composed of college and high school students and teachers, will present a free public concert at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in Bovard auditorium.
Also performing will be the University Concert Choir, a Summer Session chorus directed by Harold Decker, visiting professor of music from the University of Wichita.
The band membership varies from eighth grade students to teachers working on their doctor of philosophy degree. It is directed by Clement J. Hutchinson. assistant head, department of preparatory music, and John E. Green, assistant director of bands.	®
It was started five years ago by Clarence Sawhill, former SC band director. "
He said that educators
their description of the purpose of public education. “Schools are not for children but because of them.” Leave emotions out of your propagande,” he said. “Take it for granted that all people love kids and like education and go on from there. Be utterly honest and don’t exaggerate.
“Educators don’t try to sell themselves to the right people. They are too quantitative and not qualitative. The real power rests in a small minority of people, the small percentage to whom other people look for leadership,” he went on.
“They are hard to find, but if you can sell them on the idea that we can t live without education, then you can do almost anything.”
Continuing h i s criticisms, which he said were given as a friend. Trenham said that American children today are weak mostly because they have not been worked hard.
“What has become of homework?” he asked. “Johnny can’t read because he has too much fun and unsupervised free time. I
A child should have to read three hours a night. He said some kids might not have be- j come juvenile delinquents if they had more home work to do outside school hours.
He called upon teachers to admit the failure of some progressive educational methods of the 1920s and ’30s, and to disavow those teachers Who lost faith in the American free enterprise system during the depression.
LOWELL NOONAN INTERVIEW
Political Scientist Analyzes GOP Vice President Issue
By Norm Nager
The whole nation has been caught off guard by the recent Nixon-Herter series of events in the Republican party. First, there was no doubt that the vice president would be renominated by his party. Then Presidential Assistant Stassen suggested Governor Hcrter be selected as the GOP
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veep. Party -leader Hall and a number of influential Republicans opposed this move and within 24 hours it was announced that Herter would nominate
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Nixon.
To get a little more insight into the situation, the Summer News interviewed Lowell Noonan, political science department.
Pointing out that there was no doubt that Eisenhower knew
about Stassen’s intentions ahead of time (as substantiated by the WThite House press secretary), Noonan said that it is probable that the Stassen declaration was either “a kind of cabinet disharmony or cabinet harmony with the taint of skillful planning.”
Asked why Eisenhower himself would not suggest Herter if the latter were the case, Noonan said, “for Ike to say Nixon is inadequate would be admitting on election eve that the vice president is less than adequate, and in his position he can’t afford to do it.”
“The position of Stassen always ha6 been most ambiguous, his personal efforts and objectives never too ambiguous, and he is not the kind of person who has ever inspired confidence on
the part of co-workers or the general public,” he said.
“The GOP is hardly going to come out with another vice presidential candidate,” he said, adding that the only conceivable way this would be done would be after Nixon has indicated he is no longer interested in running a second time — which to date has not been the case.
Commenting on Nixon’s “popularity” as expressed by GOP leaders and the press, Noonan said, “if he were as popular as he is made out to be, then there would be no need for his supporters to plea the case of his popularity every day.”
“I have no objection to Mr. Nixon wanting to be loved — because everyone wants to be loved,” Noonan quipped.
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Lack of School Tracts Called Great Problem
As the population grows in the Southland, the lack of land suitable for school sites is becoming serious in some areas and critical in others, a school administration-supervision conference at the SC School of Education was told Friday.
“Nine hundred new schools will have to be added to the existing facilities in Los Angeles and Orange counties within 14 years to meet an estimated enrollment of 1.8 million children,” said Milton Breivogel, County planning director.
He quoted predictions of the Southern California Research Council that the combined populations of Los Angeles and Orange counties will rise from an estimated 5.5 million in 1955 to slightly more than 8 million in 1970.
“Some feel that this forecast is too low and that the population of Los Angeles County alone will reach 8.5 million in 1975,” Breivogei said. This would mean that 1100 new schools will be needed to accommodate the County’s then 1.9 million public school students.
“Coordination of school site planning is imperative if we want to maximize the benefits we hope to receive from our land resources.
“Confronted with continuously increasing enrollments, limited financial resources and lack of personnel, many school administrations have had great difficulty keeping abreast of the population growth in their districts.
“The planning department offers one avenue through which the hard pressed school administrator may receive aid,” said Breivogel._______
Roundup.
MONDAY — Paintings and sculpture exhibition opens in the Upstairs Gallery, Harris Hall at 8:30 a.m. Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid’s Telefourm at 8 p.m. on KTLA,‘Channel 5. Opera Excerpts I at 8:30 p.m. in Bovard.
TUESDAY—Phi Delta Kappa noon luncheon in commons. Speaker is Dr. Arthur Fallico. Opera Excerpts II at 8:30 p.m. in Bovard.
WEDNESDAY — Summer Session Band, Orchestra, and Chorus Concert at 8:30 p.m. in Bovard.