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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, MAY II, 1962
Songfest to
HOUSING, COMMONS
Medical School Receives
$450,000 Building Grant
A grant of $450,000, the bulk;of the Medical Board of Coun-|tory of the Medical Sciences of which will be used for a stu-|Cilors, described the grant ao and the two-story Paul S. Me-dent commons and residence a "most significant gift.” JKibben Hall. They were built hall for the School of Medicine, “This tangible expression of st a cost of more than $3 mil-was announced yesterday by. support will provide one of four President Topping.	buildings much needed to fin-
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Mr. and Mrs. Roger Seaver, both active in hospital philanthropy, charities and education, earmarked $350,000 of the
ish the medical school campus,” he said.
The commons-residence hall, a project estimated to cost
lion.
Tlie new commons-residence hall is one of four additional buildings for the medical campus that are included in the $30 million first phase of the Master Plan for the university, able equipment and furnish-1 The medical campus construc-
grant to assist construction ofj$950,000 plus the cost of mrve-the commons-residence hall, and the remaining $100,000 for undesignated use by the medical school.
ings, will house 100 medical students. The residence hall
tion will require approximately $6 million of the phase one
portion of the building will be i goal.
Mrs. Seaver, the only woman member of the Board of Trustees, is also on the Board of Councilors of Medicine.
financed from other sources I Construction is expected to start this September and be the School of completed in time for occupan- the third on the campus;
cy for the opening of the fall post-graduate school and med-
The other proposed medical buildings are a nine-story research structure, which will be
a
The commons - residence hall semester of 1963.
will provide medical students with their first on-campus dor mitcry and dining facilities, President Topping said. The
24 Rooms
The 35,000-square foot building will contain 24 single rooms, 29 double occupancy
ical forums building medical library.
and
building will be the fourth on rooms and six rooms housing! Forensic Duo
the 12-acre medical center three students each. The dor-!	—
campus near Los A n g e 1 e s^piitory facilities will be on thej T ^	| Amnfif A
County General Hospital. The:Upper three floors of the four-: I U	ViwlllliJwlC other three buildings are usedjstory, reinforced concrete, air- _ ■
for teaching and research. [conditioned building.	j I ■*	|	L|
500 Voices
Record Crowd Will Witness Bowl Musicale
By ALAN BINE
More than 500 students will blend voices on the Hollywood Bowl stage tomorrow night for the grand finale of the 1952 version of Songfest, the nation’s largest and most professional collegiate musicale.
The biggest crowd and closest competition in the (show’s nine-year history have been predicted by Songfest Chairman Bill Heeres for the event, which will start at 8 p.m.
“We'll break the 1960 rec-j |ord of 9,200” Heeres claimed; yesterday. “More importantly, though, I believe each number in this year’s show will be a serious contender for a Tommy’ award.
Balanced Array
The balanced array of entries will be judged by the six prominent musicians — Nelson voctpVrtav Riddle, Dimitri Tiomkin, John |Scott Trotter, Lionel Newman,
(Jud Conlon and Frank Comstock.
Read Books To Survive, Fadiman Says
By SUE BERNARD
Reading great books is a practical necessity for the survival of civilized man, literary personality Clifton Fadiman
Kenneth T. Norris, chairman i
Culture Show To Present Japan Study
A main dining room on the first floor will accommodate , 225 persons. There will also be private dining rooms for 16, ; 2-4 and 36 persons where meetings and seminars can be held,
Debaters John Deacon and Ken Moes will enter the final round in NBC-TV’s collegiate debate championship tomorrow when they meet finalists from
SONGFEST MEET — Planning for tomorrow night's ninth annual Songfest at the Hollywood Bowl are (l-r) Co-chairman
Daily Trojan Photos by Knute Crawford Vivian von Hagen, guest conductor Elmer Bernstein and Chairman Bill Heeres. Bernstein will conduct the grand finale.
Speaking to a capacity Hancock Auditorium audience at a School of Library Science spon-Guest Conductor Elmer|sored lecture, the pun-loving Bernstein will direct the 554-lwr'ter anc* cr*t*c that all voice chorus during the grand of our civilization’s institutions finale, “The Sound of Troy.” are based on ideas that we can which he arranged himself. Tie ^inrl in boo^s‘	1
and a patio dining area and j North Texas State College in
modem bookstore will be included.
The modem design building, A Japanese cultural program j conceived by architects Flew-will be held Sunday night at eUing, Moody and Horme, will 7:30 in Bovard Auditorium to;house lounge facilities for stu-help promote better Japanese-1 dents living in the building an J American relations.	,he rest of the medical student
Haruo Kimura, president of j body, as well as a visitor s the Japanese Students Club, (lounge and a faculty women’s said the program, which in-'lounge.
eludes music, dancing, art and a film, would present the non-Japanese students with an intimate study of the artistic and cultural life in Japan.
Proceeds from the event will be donated to the Oriental section of theproopsed Von KleinSmid Center for International busings. Relations and Public Affairs,
Kimura said.
Professionals Kimura said professional Japanese entertainers will participate in the program.
Events , will include performances on ancient musical in-
Master Plan
The architect firm has designed the building to blend in with the Master Plan that it has drawn up for the medical campus, for which it has already designed the two newest teaching and research
The plan for the new' medical campus was started last spring with the dedication of the six - story' Seeley Winter-smith Mudd Memorial Labora-
the last match of this televised series.
The question to be argued is “Resolved: that labor organizations should be under the
Report Asks University To Teach for Individuals
A plan for course structures i to the appropriate sources of
jurisdiction of anti-trust legis-1 that would stress tutorial, in-1 vital knowledge.
lation.” USC, by flipping a coin, was given the negative. The program, originating from New York, will be aired over KRC <4) at 4 p.m.
Teams Defeated Deacon and Moes have already defeated teams from the University of Oregon, University" of the Pacific and King’s College to qualify for the finals.
Deacon estimated yesterday that researching a debate topic takes him and his partner from 40 to 60 hours apiece, but the
dividual learnmg over the pres-, ^ ^^tee emphasized ent group system has beemthat the growth of presented in the final report ^ institullons makes im.
of the Educational Affairs I
Committee
Senate.
to the University
In rejecting the trimester plan discussed earlier this year, the committee proposed instead a re-evaluation of the student work load to increase depth learning and individual guidance for students.
The trimester plan, which
struments. Kazue Kudo will
Daily Trojan
final subpect — this year's col- essentially would change the legiate debate topic, selected by! operation of the university in-the American Forensics Associ-! to a year-round program of
three 15-week semesters to improve the economic efficiency of the institution, was re-
The Daily Trojan will not be
play a solo on the Koto, a type |k|	C-- J
of harp, the biw'a, a lute and iNv^dlS Ell Cl the shakuhachi.
Kangiku Sanjo will perform a Japanese dance and Akira Endo will present a violin solo.
Japanese Film The present-day pattern of life in Japan will be depicted in the film “Enchantment in Japan.”
ation's members — will take less time.
“Each year’s topic is announced by the association injjected for failing to "strike at
the major need for academic review” in the committee report.
late August, so we can start research then,” he explained. “With the previous semi-finals only three weeks before the finals, there would not have been sufficient time to do the
published on Monday, Editor regular four to six weeks re-Barbara Epstein r e m i n d e d readers yesterday.
The year’s publication will be rounded out Tuesday with
search that a new topic requires.”
Pre-law Student Deacon, a sophomore pre-law
iperative the need of the university to “offer our students a superior variety of learning experiences.
“If we take our task seriously and sincerely, the curriculum could be revised within an academic year and (USC) could become the pioneer institution on the Pacific Coast to stress tutorial learning of major blocks of knowledge rather than fragments of information,” the report predicted.
Short Exam Periods
"By moving in the direction of tutorial teaching and away from merely the lecture system, (the university) will have a distinct and unique kind of education to offer individual students.”
will tax to the limit our existing library facilities,” the committee predicted. “More library space will have to be provided when more emphasis is placed on learning outside the classroom.’’
The report suggested that the number of hours spent in class need not coincide to the number of units assigned, as
first lyrics to “Conquest” will be sung as part of the closing number.
Small Division!
Small division entries are Alpha Phi and Theta Xi with “The Cat Came Back,” Alpha Chi Omega with “A Tribute to Gershwin” and Delta Sigma Delta with “Lizzie Borden” and the “Hammersong.”
Alpha Epsilon Phi and Sigma Alpha Mu will offer "U.S.A.— the Earlier Years,” while Pi Beta Phi and Sigma Phi Ep-s i 1 o n presents “TV Special” and Alpha Chi Omega and Theta Chi stage “Politics and Poker” in the novelty division.
The NROTC with “Songs of the Sea” and Chi Omega with “Are You from Dixie?” are the
under the present system, if single men’s and women’s divi
Trimester Calendar
“The amount of effort necessitated in converting to a trimester calendar might be better expended on a vastly more significant and creative i en*n£ °f ^ie examination period, so that another week
The report also suggested that concentration on fewer courses could lead to a short-
a six-page edition which will student, said that the restricted
academic reform,” the report stated.
feature a special section giv-
An art exhibit, which will be \ ing full coverage of Songfest. in the Hall of Nations, will dis-
time limit in a half-hour tele-1 The committee felt that the vision show also prohibits them present “fragmented curricu-
play a collection of block prints loaned to the Japanese Students Club by Louis Gille.
Tickets are being sold for $1 at the university ticket office and the Asiatic studies department.
Copy for the last edition on from going into the subject too Tuesday must be submitted to thoroughly, the City Room, 432 SU, by 1:30 “We have to use the most Monday.
Summer Trojan publication will begin June 25 and will
continue through August 28 for jour allotted 16 minutes, the summer season.	'said.
could be added to each semester.
the new program were adopted.
"There is nothing sacred about gearing units of courses to the number of hours a professor stands before a class, the committee claimed. “Some of the most exciting learning takes place when the professor becomes free to talk with the individual student about his projects and primary intellectual interests.”
Teaching Credit In this line, the report suggested professors receive “teaching load” credit "for time devoted to guiding and helping students on an indivd-ual basis.”
“The office . . . should become a place to direct students to source of knowledge, to test the student’s understand-
sion entrants.
Mixed division participants are Delta Gamma and Phi Kappa Psi with “The Westside Story,” Kappa Alpha Theta and Beta Theta Pi with “Saturday Night, May 12, 2062,” Delta Delta Delta and Phi Delta Theta with “Sound of Trumpets,” Alpha Gamma Delta and
“Our whole vast economic system, for example, is based on the faith men have in each other’s promises to pay. The inert materials our cities are built from are dead without basic mathematical formulas which began as ideas,” he explained.
Live By Ideas
“We live not by bread alone, but by ideas,” the Book of the Month Club critic said.
But being w-ell-informed through the traditional means of communication has nothing to do with being an aware person. he noted.
“The ideas we learn in great books help us to digest, arrange, synthesize and interpret the information poured into our brains by mass madia,” Fadiman said.
The former general editor of Simon and Schuster added that Americans have somehow gotten the impression that intellectuals — those men who conceive our ideas — are out of step with American life.
Absurd Situation
It is an absurd state of af-Tau Kappa Epsilon with “Songs fairs when men who live by of the Rivers.” the School of;their brains are afraid to show Dentistry with “Showtime on them, but they would rather Broadway” and Kappa Gamma foe neglected than suspected.” and Sigma Chi with “Zero The concept of ideas cannot Minus One.”	be understimated just because
Production Division
Alpha Phi and Theta Xi’s “Six Months Out of Every Year” and Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Tau Omega’s “Circus Time” compose the Songfest field in the production division.
Songfest tickets will remain available today until 4:30 at
there have been bad men with bad ideas, he explained.
Great books are not easy to understand, Fadiman pointed out. “You must fight with them in order to get anything out of them, but they exercise a lasting and enduring influence.”
The forces of radio and tele-
350 Pounds to Galumph For Troy in Elephant Trot
ing of material discussed in The reP°rt acknowledged! the lecture and to leam some-lum” of the university forces l*1e impact such a new system thing of the changing interest
many students “to take six and would make on present library j patterns of collegians,” the re- a limited amount are scheduled public’s attention, i a d i m a n seven courses per semester to facilities.	| port claimed.	to go on sale at the Hollywood pointed out, but he fails to see
obvious and the most compel-j carry a full load.	"The suggestions concerning! The committee’s annual re- Bowl an hour before the show that they have created any new
ling arguments to convince both j ..jt becomes increasingly ap- curriculum reform and profes- i port will be discussed by the. Tickets sell for $2.50, $2 and , ideas in their forty-yeai is-the judges and the audience *n i parent that our students are lsor responsibility as a scholar! University Senate May 16. SI.50.
^e| getting exposed to the surfaces _ j of many bits of knowledge,”!
| the report continued. "Extensive reading assignments are I difficult to assign because of I the honest reaction of the stu-
the Ticket Office, 309 SU and | vision rival reading for the
|tory.
Squires Select 71 Men
USCs Sammies will enteri The Sammies and their fol-Orange County State’s first In-1lowing will begin the half-hour tercollegiate Elephant Race to- j trek to Fullerton and the spe-day with galumphing, stamped-!cial elephant-racing field with ing and crushing Carolina, a|a parade leaving the Row at 350-pound baby elephant rented 3 p.m.
from World Jungle land in Carolina, who will wear the Thousand Oaks.	Sammie colors in the race, will
Mahout George Rosenbeig, cornfortably to Fullerton who claims he's spent
five
hours behind the trunk, hopes his mount won't gain an inferiority complex from the bigger
in her personal trailer.
finisher beteween the two Sammie pachyderms will cop the grand prive — 500 pounds of peanuts, although the victorious animal may have to do its own shelling.
Rosenberg warned race spectators to take precautlbns. Some elephants, including Carolina. will stampede at the drop
of a hat,” he said. To avoid Orange County State College iextra-curricular activities, he
has carefully measured off a
2.000 pounders she must face in I'^ld for the race, which it
the biggest race of her life.
Post lime will lie at 4 p.m., when a Carolina and Rosenberg
hopes to make an annual event. The other elephants will have
asked spectators to not bring along mice.
“Insurance coverage may also be a probelm, because
will face an expected 13 en-itina may fifid the course to her trants contesting from such ( liking, since the half-mile is schools as Cal Poly. Pomona, j her speciality, her rider claim-Ling Beach State College and ed.
Caltech. UCLA probably will The Sammies have challeng-not enter since there aren’t led their University of Washing-enough pachyderms 10 go Jon chapter to enter the race, around in the local area for all:and the Washington group is schools, Rosenberg said.	|said to have accepted. The tpp
at least one handicap — Caro- Orange Coast College vvas only
able to secure $20G;000 of the crushing insurance required for
dent when he states ‘I havej Seventy-one new members five other courses besides yours and if you require too much I will have to drop your course,' ” the report continued.
Increase Value
The committee recommended strongly that the number of two-unit courses be minimized in favor of increased values for three- and four-unit courses to increase the student’s “concentration of effort.”
will be initiated into Squires tomorrow' at a 12:30 banquet at Julie’s, culminating four days of testing and interviewing 120 applicants.
The candidates chosen for Squire membership have a grade-point average	^w’iMark
Ankeny, James Araujo, Harry j Ralph Ross.
Arnold and Ron Azzolina. | Ira Sacker, David Schulze, Joseph Baldi. Frank Barbaro, I Bill Scott, Steven Scroggie,
give Christmas parties for underprivileged children.
Selection is based upon the
Beer, Donald Benjamin, Frank
Douglas Beauchamp, Robert ;Michaei Sgambellone, S t e v desire to^aSe in Squires ac-
imiuuHT	tivities. The candidates must
have a minimum 2.0 grade-
point average, must pass a
written examination and a per-
of 2.65, average of the
the highest group in years, Wayne Gert-menian, chairman of the
Bessenger and Don Brown.
Lawrence Cahn, Fred Cassidy, Carlos Cisneros,
Robert Cliff, Mark Collons, Cook, Warren Cross,
Shore, Tom Stevens, Lawrence Stickney, Gordon Strachan, Thomas Thie, Rich Tindall, Brian Wald, Kraig Westra, Bill
Wilson and Daniel Zinke.
Squire Director Gertmenian said that he was especially
sonal oral interview.
The written test covers material given in SCampus about USC traditions, rules, adminis-
, So*™ Interview Board, an-Gin John George. Dennis, -We believe that if our stu- nounced.	Giulia™. Tom Giwin. Dale
dents were taking a full load consisting of three or four courses per semester that significant progress could be made toward the concentration of effort on the part of both student and professor,’’ the committee reported.
“It might also become possible for our students to dig deeper into primary source
The interviewing board was Gribow, Michael Harahan, Wil-composed of Tom Hull, coun-liiam Harmon, James Hastings selor of men’s organizations:’and Mike Howard, iJim West, past vice president
each pachyderm entered,”
Rosenberg added.
The city of Fullerton had proclaimed the day Elephant j materials and to begin to shift Racing Day. Dignataries, in- some of the emphasis from eluding several local mayors, classroom learning via lectures will attend the event.	to the guidance of our students
of Knights; Ron Fauts, fall 1962 vice president of Knights; Bob Chettle, Knights member-lat-large; and Gertmenian, current vice president of Knights.
The men selected for the sophomore men's service organization are:
Kirk Aiken, Darryl Anderson. Anthony Angelica, Alan
Fred Davis and Richard Dotts.
Van i uhriman, Noel Gabri-	wjth thg group Df men'trative heads, campus organi-
elscn, Carlos Galindo, R^chardl that appijed for Squires this'zations and other pertinent
year.	facts about the university.
•■I was pleased with the large I The P^nal interview s by number of qualified candidates the Squire selection board cov w'ho applied and am sorry that we couldn’t have accepted more of them,” he said.
Michael Jacobson, Jack Jacobs, Tom Jett, Buddy Jolton, Terence Kahn, Robert Kard-ashian, Thomas Kidd, Stephen La Franchi, Damon Lawrence and Jim McDaniel.
Harry Martin, Rod Maxon, Randall Monson, Rich Moore,
ered a period of four days, beginning Monday. They were held to determine the character of the candidates anti the There were more qualified suitabiUty for membership in
Squires.
Gertmenian requested that all those chosen for mem.
applicants this year than there have been in along time, Gertmenian added.
The Squires were formed in bership into Squires be present 1926 as an auxiliary group to at the banquet at Julie’s. William Perry. Wialliam Piva-|the Knights. They help with; “The S10 initiation fee will roff, James Polentz, James card stunts during footballJbe payable at this time, he Powers, Roger Rosendahl and games, serve the university and,said.