UNIVERSITY REVEALS TUITION HIKE
A tuition increase of $200 per year, effective in September, was announced yesterday by Mulvey White, vice president of student and alumni affairs.
The increase includes a $4 per unit tuition increase for students taking from one to 13 units and a flat rate rise of $100 for students enrolled for 14 to 18 units.
New undergraduate rates will be $36 per unit or $600 per semester, and all graduate courses will be $36 per unit. Flat fees of the schools of Dentistry. Dental Hygiene, Law, Pharmacy and religion will be $500.
Library Science will be $400; Medicine, $700; and Social Work $500, a semester.
The night law course of fewer units will go up $60 per semester to $400.
Summer session tuition will remain at $27 per
unit during 1962, the report from Vice President
White said.
Dr. Carl M. Franklin, vice president of financial affairs, said the bulk of the increase would be used for faculty salaries and to provide for promotions within the university.
“Without proper funds, we will not be able to attract the nation’s top scholars and retain the ones we have,” he said.
He said no figures on the new revenue could be released until seen by the Board of Trustees.
A financial study was begun last November and the tuition increase was considered by the Deans Council, the Financial Affairs Committee, the President’s staff and the Board of Trustees, Dr. Franklin said.
Hints of the increase had been published in Business Week as early as last fall.
A letter to parents explaining the tuition increase was sent Monday by Vice President White. “Like all private universities, we are faced with the problem of making each dollar do the work of two,” the letter said. It also told parents that inflationary pressures made the increase necessary. “Tuition traditionally has never paid more th?.n half the cost, of a student’s education at independent colleges.” it read.
“Through private philanthropy from such sources as alumni, parents, professional school supporting organizations, corporations and educational foundations — and through consistently sound business practices — we have been able to keep the cost of our educational program lower than in most institutions of comparable quality,” it continued.
“The university’s action, taken only after care-
ful financial review and analysis, was motivated by constantly rising operating costs and the need to maintain and improve our high level of instruction and academic achievement,” the letter said.
The new tuition was compared to a list of tuition charges in various private colleges and universities.
The ivy-league colleges, such as Brown, Dartmouth and Harvard, charge more than $1,500 a year, while California schools such as Claremont, Occidental, Pomona, Stanford and Redlands reach about $1,200 a year.
Only one college, Whittier, with $910, charged less tuition than USC last year.
Franklin pointed out that in comparison with other noted private universities, USC is below the usual tuition rate and the increase will bring the university to near financial equality with many other instituitions.
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NO. 94
Leddel Moss to Meet in Finals
MEDIA WAR
Janitor Dies
Journalist Recalls Sinclair After Beating As Vicious Smear’ Target Severe Attack
The most brutal and outra-: pressed in his early writings, geously vicious political cam- 1° addition, it was generally peign ever waged by the Cali -known that the politician had fornia mass media preceded
the defeat of Upton Sinclair in the 1934 gubernatorial election, Frederic C. Coonradt, associate professor of journalism, said yesterday.
Sinclair, who will speak in Hancock Auditorium at 11 a.m. tomorrow, was hit by one of the biggest smear campaigns in California history practically all media turned against him, the journalism professor explained.
His socialistic ideas were ex
j connections with the Socialist pj-rty.
Sinclair, however, was extremely popular with many California people, but in the campaign he was linked al most entirely with bums who might profit under a welfar state.
“O n e statewide chain-radio station ran a program called when | ‘W^ary and Willy’ every night at 10, a’xmt two bums who were riding the rails to California because Sinclair was going to be elected governor,” Professor Coonradt recalled.
Newsreels, actually made on movie lots, showed a supposed I rush of undesirables coming to U _ * I _ A I_______! j California in anticipation of a
II 3 11 S Alumni; welfare state.
Gimmicked Interviews
Dr. Topping
ularity amidst all the unfavorable publicity, he noted.
Sinclair, who had been active in the Socialist Party in New Jersey and California, ran for tlie governorship on the Democratic ticket.
Tomorrow’s lecture will be sponsored by the School cf Li brary Science and has been ar ranged by Paul Baker, genera manager of the Pacific Library Bindery.
The university is enjoying flourishing, energetic growth and increasing prominence in national consciousness. President Topping told the Kern
“In man on the street interviews, little old ladies watering their roses backed Sinclair's opponents and down-
County USC Alumni Associa- and-outers (you could almost tion at a meeting in Bakers- see their make-up) supported
field Tuesday.
Dr. Topping, on the first leg of a personal tour through the state to explain the Master Plan to alumni, said that the fundamental source of vitality for any university is an interested and dynamic body of alumni.
“No university could survive for 82 years — and certainly not seek perpetuity — without them,” the president noted.
The Master Plan, announced less than a year ago, has gotten off to a fine start thanks to alumni support, Dr. Topping added.
The $250,000 ‘challenge gift’ from trustee chairman Leonard K. Firestone has been met
Upton,” he said
The newspapers were more sophisticated in their attacks on Sinclair, but none of the Los Angeles dailies supported him, the journalist said.
The old Daily News almost supported Sinclair. It was “not mean to him like the other pa-p e r s,” Professor Coonradt, a former Daily News staffer, remarked.
Paper Support
One of the smear methods in the campaign was picking out of context statements from Sinclair's writing and then saying, “Would you want a governor who said this?”
The Epic News, a weekly published by Sinclair’s backers,
by alumni, and a record $659,-1 had the largest circulation of
000 has been raised from all annual giving sources, the president reported.
any California newspaper during the campaign. This proved
Spurs Seek Applicants, Members
Petitions for membership in Spurs, national women’s honorary fraternity, will remain available through March 30 in 301a SU.
Deanne Koziol, membership chairman, said applicants must have completed not less than 28 and not more than 55 units at the end of this semester, and must have a minimum 2.5 accumulative grade average to be eligible.
“Interviews will be held at the YWCA from March 26 to April 6,” Miss Koziol said. "All applicants must sign for an interview when they turn in their petitions.”
Spur selection emphasizes interest and participation in college activities, dependability and a sense of humor, democracy, and unselfishness, she said.
Spurs’ biggest job is orientation of “little sisters” at the beginning of each semester. The members also assist with card stunts at football games, sell “Spurbells” and Spur suckers, work at the polls during elections and help wiMi the an-
Sinclair had some definite pop- nual Blood Drive.
The coroner’s report on the death of USC custodial supervisor Dee A. Wade Monday revealed that he suffered a coronary attack following a severe beating during an argument over a minor traffic accident.
Mr. Wade, 47, chief custodian at the university for the past six months, died shortly after he was taken to Orthopaedic Hospital for treatment of a bloody nose and various cuts and bruises.
Mr. Wade, traveling with George L. Dixon, custodian foreman, reportedly interceded when an argument developed between Dixon and the driver of the other car at 53rd St. and Central Ave.
Wade was attacked by the driver and two other passengers in the car, who allegedly knocked him down and kicked him.
Two of Mr. Wade's attackers have been booked by police on suspicion of murder, and are being held pending further investigation.
Alfred E. Shafer, superin tendent of operations and maintenance, said that Wade “was considered a top supervisor and was well known in his field.”
Shafer said that Dixon suffered only minor bruises in the scuffle and “is l>ack on the job.”
Mr. Wade, who is from Seattle, Wash., was transported to a San Diego military cem etery where a military funeral will be conducted on Friday, Shafer said.
Dixon, who drove Wade to the hospital after the fray, said that 30 to 40 people wit nessed the brutal beating without making any attempts to stop it or to contact the police.
Superintendent Shafer reported that Dixon and Wade were not involved in any university business at the time of the accident.
PIATIGORSKY WILL JUDGE RUSS MUSIC CONTEST
Internationally acclaimed cellist Gregor Pia-tigorsky, now teaching master classes at the university’s new Institute for Special Musical Studies, has been chosen as one of the judges for the second International Tschaikovsky Contest, opening in Moscow on April 2.
Among the 32 American contestants in the 35-day competition will be three former students and one current student of the School of Music.
The United States is scheduled to have the largest number of competitors in the contest, including 21 men and 11 women.
There will be 26 competitors from the Soviet Union and approximately 100 other competitors from 31 countries.
The former USC students involved in the competition are Olegna Fuschi. who studied under Lillian Steuber and is currently in Rome on a Full-bright fellowship; violinist Tze-Koong Wang, who studied under Eudice Shapiro; and cellist Joanna De Keyser, who studied with Gabor Rejto.
Douglas Davis, currently enrolled in the Institute for Special Music Studies, will compete in the cello competition. He was the first winner of the Piatigorsky Biennial Award of the Violin-cello Society, and is now studying under the master personally.
Christol,
Debate
Krinsky
Correction'
Groups Issue Blood Call
The features and flaws of the controversial American Civil Liberties Union became the topic of two political science professors Tuesday night at the Stonier Hall showing of AC-LU’s “Operation Correction.”
An audience packed into the hall’s viewing room heard Dr. Carl Q. Christol, head of the political science department, concur with Dr. Fred Krinsky, visiting associate professor, that the oft-attacked society sometimes courts its criticism.
Although both agreed that the ACLU, which has been at-
volved was not whether the riots were Communist-inspired, but rather whether American citizens have .the right to protest that with which they don’t agree.
He said he wanted to see “the prevalence in America of a spirit of democratic give and take, where people who can oppose each other from today till doomsday stiU retain enough courtesy to respect the integrity of people with whom they disagree.”
Dr. Christol denied the contention that the Communists
Inquiry Board Fails to Reach Flyer' Verdict
ASSC presidential balloting will open for the third time this morning at 9 in Alumni Memorial Park as another campaign storm-cloud, in the form of a Board of Inquiry investigation, darkens the elections horizon. Yell leader Bart Leddel and Junior Class President
tacked as a Communist and fas- have a reasonable opportunity cist front for its defense of un- to gain a stronger foothold in popular causes, serves a neces- America at this time during sary function in society, they his discussion of the meaning of were critical of the fashion in the film.
which it may operate.	pje sai(j the Communist Par-
Rather than concern itself ty IS weaker here than it has with the constitutional issues 1>een *n manv \ears due to the
BLOOD DRIVE — Signing up to donate blood to reach 600-pint goal are (l-r) Mark Jansen, Richard Freedman and
Daily Trojan Photo
Barbara Will. So far, 150 pints have been pledged. Two sign-up boothms will be open from 10 to 3 today and tomorrow.
A flock of Blood Drive challenges were issued yesterday by fraternities, sororities, faculty and other groups to add impetus to the race with UCLA for donations of, the largest percentages of blood.
However, donations pledged up to 3 p.m. yesterday, with the Monday sign-up deadline only two school days away, are far short of the 600 pint goal set up for USC, drive chairman Jim Walsh said. Only about 150 pints have been pledged so far.
Challenges issued yesterday Included Theta Chi and the Tri-Delts against. Phi Sigma Kappas and a sorority unnamed as yet; Tau Delta Phi against Alpha Tau Omegn;
Sigma Alpha Mu against Tau Epsilon Phi; Tau Kappa Epsilon against Sigma Alpha Epsi- felt-Ion; Sigma Chi against Phi' Nevertheless, the ACLU ver Delta Theta: and against NROTC.
Awards Chairman Plomteaux emphasized
at stake in its cases, the ACLU often acts as a judicial body,! Dr. Krinsky said.
He added that the group thus j tends to get itself associated with the people it defends.1 Rather than being regarded as an organization trying to de-! fend its client’s right to express himself, it comes to be seen as defending that which its client is saying.
Although they defended the ACLU against its “Communist front” label, the film that prompted the whole discussion:
high level of economic prosperity in the country.
Dann Moss, the only candidates left in the ASSC presi-i dential race, and candidates] for social studies senator will be the only aspirants running in the third balloting.
The polls will be opened even though the Board of Inquiry was unable to reach a decision yesterday concerning the fraudulent insertion of Moss campaign flyers in the March 14 edition of the Daily Trojan.
Missing Witnesses According to ASSC President Hugh Helm, the Board of In quiry was unable to make a final decision in its nearly three-hour meeting yesten/iy because two witnesses could not be contacted.
Elections Commissioner John Moyer said poll workers would require signatures from voters as they pick up their ballots. Earlier this week he announced signatures would not De used. A protest from TRG claimed, however, that signatures were needed.
Moyer will announce the runoff results tonight at 6 in the Senate Chambers.
In other election activity yesterday, a rejockeying of ASSC presidential support resulted in foreign student groups apparently shifting their backing from eliminated candidate Gil Garcetti to TRG candidate Leddel.
Barking Leddel
Farhad Nourai, vice president of the Intercultural Club, announced after the political scrambling that the informal foreign students committee that had chosen Garcetti had decided to place its support behind Leddel.
Nourai and six other foreign student leaders formed the committee earlier this month to organize the potential political power of the more than 1,200 foreign students on campus. The group first announced it would support Gar-(Continued on Page 2)
Versatile Poet Will Discuss Own Writings
Creative writer Paul Engle will read his poetry tomorrow
afternoon at 3:30 in Hancock Auditorium at the second Bing Fund Lecture of the semester under the auspices of the English department.
Engle, a widely known Iowa poet, magazine writer and lecturer, currently directs a creative writing program at Iowa State University.
He is the author of eight volumes of verse, one novel and is editor of several books, including the O. Henry Prize Stories. Engle joined the Iowa faculty in 1937.
The poet, who appeared at USC in the spring of 1960, lectures extensively at universities throughout the country for the W. Colston Leigh Bureau.
He has also contributed to many literary magazines, including The Sewanee Review, The Kenyoii Review and Poetry, and popular magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Post, Reader’s Digest. Mademoiselle, Esquire and The Ladies’ Home Journal.
He is a book reviewer for the New York Times, New York Herald-Tribune and the Chicago Tribune.
In 1932 Engle presented his first book of poems, “Worn Earth,” to the University of Iowa for his master's thesis. The volume won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize that year.
His other volumes of poetry are "American Song,” “Com,” West of Midnight,” “American Child 1945,” “American Child 1956” (enlarged edition), “The Word of Love” and Poems in Praise.”
University Students Party Gets Qualified Approval
By DAN SMITH	I Thc Senate did not consider I constitution to be probed until
Senate Reporter	j the party’s constitution or its after the two recommendations
The ASSC Senate gave quali- motives since Bob Kendall, Sen- had passed. Afterwards, few tied approval last night to the ate president pro tem. insisted senators took advantage of the
that the Senate was obligated to approve the party.
He explained that both the
University Students Party (USP), the second political organization to seek recognition
from the student legislature ini statute regulating campus or-two weeks.	iganizations and the rules gov-
In contrast to the stormy jeming political groups did not was scored by both professors. SPSSj0n at which the TRG party require the Senate to study the “Operation Correction,” bill-j was passed, a short and quiet j constitutions of new groups, but ed as an answer to "Operation 'meeting with little opposition left it to the Executive Cabinet Abolition," the House Un.|*«wcteme<l last night s pas-Activities Commit- Ba^' resolution recommendlng
USP be recognized as a campus organization and a bill providing for recognition of the group as a political party were
American tee's version of rioting in Berkeley last year, lacks as much quality as its predecessor, they
and the administration.
Both Kendall and recently elected AMS President H a 1 Stokes, proxying for absent Social Studies Senator Mark Frazin, claimed that a precedent had been set at the last
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unanimously passed after salu- meeting when Trojans for Representative Government Party (TRG) was approved by the
AFROTCjsion did expose inaccuracies initory debate.
its counterpart, they said. I The party will not have full Analyzing the value of the approval until it receives ap-film and its purpose. Dr. Krin- proval from the Executive Ca-j stitution read, sky said that the question in-tbinet and the administytion. | Kendall did not permit USP s
Senate without having its con-
opportunity.
A few senators appeared disturbed because they could not ask questions about the party's organization and purposes before it had been approved.
The Senate also passed a resolution recommending a system of student evaluation of course curricula, text books and presentation of materials by professors. The measure was recommended by the Executive Cabinet and the University Senate earlier.
The evalution system, a program of the University Senate, provides for a rating scale on which students would be able to show professors their thoughts on strong and weak points of classes.