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VOL. Llll	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA,%MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1062	NO. 96
Upton Sinclair Asks Students To Keep Abreast With Times
Institute Sets Red' Series Fcr
Summer
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IF HE CAN GIVE — Recruitment Chairman John Saur (left) and Blood Drive Chairman Jim Walsh enlist Tommy Trojan as a "heavyweight" to aid in this year's blood drive. Today is the deadline for pledges to be made.
Blood Drive Asks For Transfusion'
Signups for the Blood Bank lingered 150 pints below quota Friday evening, giving rise to fears that the annual drive may be cancelled.
“Promises to give blood are coming in very slowly, and we only have one more day to pledge our required 600 pints,” reported Jim Walsh chairman
“This is USC’s test year,” Walsh said. "We are on probation because students have not been able to donate enough blood in recent years to fill the bank.
Last Chance
“If we do not make the total this year, the drive will be discontinued, the bank will close and it will cost students more than $25 a pint whenever they need blood,’’ he said.
“At the rate we are going, it will be nearly impossible to beat UCLA, which went 52 pints over its 950-pint quota this year,” he asserted.
Walsh predicted that today and tomorrow would be the decisive days for the drive.
“Monday is the last day to
Austen Book To Be Read During Noon
A comedy of manrnrs, “The Pride and the Prejudice” by Jane Austen, will be the subject of the English noon reading today at 2:30 in 133 FH.
Dr. Francis Christensen, professor of English,, will read from the humorous, ironical study of middle-class society.
Dr. Christensen feels that Austen's exquisite style, both in dialogue and expository treatment, make her an outstanding writer.
Ironic Insight
“She is an expert in handling dialogue,” the English professor explained as he referred to her as the best writer of the comedy of manners.
“Miss Austen also has ironic insight into the comic aspects, and occasionally into the tragic aspects, of the society that she depicts,” Dr. Christensen said.
The late 18th century book is a psychological study of the shedding of pride and prejudice end understanding one another, he noted.
Pride and Prejudice
Dr. Christensen will choose passages from the book to illustrate the dialogue and some of the broader range of the book by presenting passages other than those in which the central characters are presented.
“Tlie Pride and the Prejudice,” Miss Austen’s second book was rejected by publish ers under the name of “First Impressions" in 1S97. It was published in England under it5 present (Wie in 1S13,
sign up, and Tuesday is the first day to give,” he said. “If we fall behind on the first day, I doubt if we will be able to catch up during the rest of the week.”
Blood donations will be taken tomorrow through Fri day in the Methodist Church basement, 817 W. 34th St., across from Founders Hall.
Bow Leads
New competition results handed in by Walsh Friday showed the Row leading independents with 340 signups.
In intra-sorority competition, Alpha Gamma Delta retained its lead with 31 pints, paced by Alpha Chi Omega in second with 22 pints and Alpha Phi in third with 18 promises.
Theta Chi kept its fraternity lead with 29 sign ups, TEPs stayed in second place with 12 pledges. Theta Xi and Tau Delta Phi tied for third place with nine pints each.
The dormitory lead taken over by Town and Gown with 11 pints, followed by Harris Plaza with 7 and EVK with 4.
Men’s dormitory figures did not change as Stonier Hall registered 5 pints and Trojan and Marks, 3 each.
Forty-four NROTC men have signed up, ad though there has been no record for AFROTC.
In the service organization competition, Amazons maintained an 11-point lead over Spurs, and Squires were reported still ahead of Knights.
Worthwhile
“The Blood Drive is such a worthwhile activity and does so much good for so many people, that students should feel proud and honored to be able to contribute to it,” Walsh commented.
He added that students go through a minimum amount of pain for a maximum benefit. If the Blood Bank is killed, it will effect not only Trojans, but their families and friends, Walsh said.
He urged all students to remember this and if they are at all eligible for giving blood to sign up anytime today before stations close.
Plans for a six-week insti tute on communism for teach ers and school administrators to be held this summer, were announced last week by Dr. Rodger Swearingen, director cf the Research Institute on Communist Strategy and Prop aganda.
Nearly 100 high school teachers, junior college instruc tors and school administrators will be enrolled in the Sum mer Institute, described as the “most substantial and signifi cant effort of its kind America to date.”
Designed to aid teachers and administrators in formulating their own courses of study on the subject of Communism, the institute will include four courses, a lecture series on Communist doctrine, a teach ers’ seminar-workshop and a series of evening forums on Communism, which will be open to the public.
Support Scheduled to begin June 25 and run through August 3 the Institute on Communism will be a part of the regular Summer Session, receiving support from the schools of Education and International Relations and from the polit ical science and economics departments.
Faculty for the institute and speakers for the lecture series and evening forums will be drawn from the university’s own faculty, the staff of the Research Institute on Communist Strategy and Propaganda and from such universities as Notre Dame, Columbia and Stanford.
“Those attending the Institute must be prepared for some hard work,” Dr. Swearingen warned.
Each person attending the institute will have to take at least two of the four core courses: Soviet Russia in world politics, seminar in Soviet foreign policy, government of Russia and Soviet economic development.
Doctrines Studied Members will also have to attend weekly sessions of the lecture series on Communist doctrine, including Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Khrush-chevism, Titoism and Maoism.
In the seminar-workshop, material from the core courses and the lecture series will be evaluated, integrated and prepared for presentation as study units on the high school and junior college level.
The workshop, under the direction of Dr. William Georgi-ades, associate professor of education, will be concerned with the selection of bibliography, (Continued on Page 2)
RARE APPEARANCE — Students sat in aisles, on stage and crowded the lobbies of Hancock Auditorium to hear author-journalist-politician Upton Sinclair, shown
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here with (l-r) Dean Martha Boaz of the School of Library Science, and Mrs. Sinclair. The white-haired writer told his audience to keep abreast of society.
Hofstadter Describes Rise Of Experts in Government
Historian Richard Hofstadter traced the development of the role of experts in government since the progressive era when he concluded the five-part Haynes Foundation lecture series Friday night.
Dr. Hofstadter, professor of history at Columbia University, spoke on “The Rise of the Expert” in the final presentation on “Anti-lntellectualism in American Life.” Speaking to a crowded Founders Hall audience, the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar said that in the progressive era American society entered new phase.
There was an attempt to control, humanize and moralize the great powers, to purify politics and to subject the American economy to control, with experts in great demand, Dr. Hofstadter said.
“The national self-criticism stirred new ideas and the intellectual came back into a position of centrality,” he said. “In the new moral atmosphere the intellectuals were in an unprecedented rapport with the political regime.v
The claims of intellectuals were no longer based on so-
cial position, but on their use-[solved in the 1920's, but dur-fulness and reforming energies, j ing the New Deal there was he explained.	| again harmony between the
He described the period as two groups, Dr. Hofstadter
a “little renaissance,” where there was a large possibility for the influence of muck-rakers, scholars and technicians of all kinds.
“No one benefited more than the intellectual. The gulf between the world of theory and the world of practice had been mastered. It was no longer possible to dismiss something by calling it academic,” he said.
“Theodore Roosevelt did more to restore repect for mind and talent than any president since Lincoln, probably since Jefferson,” Dr. Hofstadter asserted, telling the role of the presidents.
In the 1912 election Woodrow Wilson had some support from the intellectuals, but in 1916 the liberal intellectuals swung to his side as part of a war-time effort, he said.
“The important result of the intellectual’s role in World War I was the general public acceptance of scholars in an advisory role,” he commented.
The connection between the people and the intellectuals dis-
commented.
The New Deal made use of the professors and ideas and criticisms took on a new value he said.
One function of the “brain trust” was as a lightning rod for F.D.R. Much criticism fell on the “brain trusters” that would have otherwise been directed to Roosevelt, Dr. Hofstadter said.
New Deal criticism portrayed the “brain trust” members as impractical experimentalists who were performing lab experiments on the “life and liberty” of the American people, he commented.
After World War II, when the knowledge of the intellectuals was again used in a war effort, there was another anti-intellectualism and anti-expert movement.
Dr. Hofstadter explained some of the problems involved in the 1952 presidential campaign connecting Stevenson with the intellectuals and Eisenhower’s popularity with the people.
Alumni Day Opens Jobs
Applications for committee positions for the 1962 Homecoming are now available at fraternity and sorority houses and in 301a SU, Publicity Chairman Sandee Boots, re-jiorted Friday.
Appointments for interviews will be made only aftei; applicants have turned in their application forms, she said. Interviews will begin April 2.
Homecoming Chairman for 1962 is Bob Frinier, with Wen-jdy Eibhonden co-chairman.
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Scientists Question 5tudVaSS^i::
civilization from barbarism.
By ARLINE KAPLAN
Three USC scientists looked askance Friday at the American Medical Association’s report that moderate exposure to radiation, such as through the diagnostic X-ray, is not harmful.
The scientists, Dr. Sidney C. Rittenberg, professor of bacteriology; Dr. Paul Greeley, medical director of the Student Health Center; and a professor who preferred to remain anonymous, eyed cautiously the effects of radiation from X-rays and nuclear testing in the atmosphere.
Professor Rittenberg and Dr. Greeley expressed qualified approval of the AMA statement, while the third professor disagreed with it.
AMA Report
The AMA statement said that “at lower levels, such as diagnostic X-ray, there is no objective evidence of harm to man.”
The report also said that the society's "definitive study’’ of the possible effect of radia-
tion on health was made because the United States is preparing to resume nuclear testing in the atmosphere.
“The X-ray should not be used unless it is essential to the diagnosis,” Dr. Greeley declared. “We do not really know its full effects, even though all the evidence seems to point to no ill effects.
X-ray Dosage
“Unless a doctor thinks that you will benefit from an X-ray being taken, he will not order it.”
Dr. Greeley claimed that thc unfavorable publicity about chest X-rays a few years ago caused many USC students to refuse to have them taken.
“Actually you get more radiation from the cosmic rays when skiing up in the mountains on a weekend than you get from a chest film,” he reported.
The third professor questioned the harmlessness of X-rays.
“W h i 1 e diagnostic X-rays certainly cue necessary for
many purposes, it would ap pear highly desirable to be able to obtain from the doctor giving the X-ray a reasonably accurate estimate of radiation doses given to the patient in the process,” he said.
“Since the permissable limits of exposure to radiation have been lowered by the Atomic Energy Commission very considerably in the past few years, and at present are in the range of five roentgens per year, it would appear important that the patients know their exposure,” he felt.
The third professor remarked that he had tried many times to obtain information about the exposure when having an X-ray taken, but had always been told to “shush.”
Fallout
Dr. Rittenberg expressed concern with the issue of testing.
.“President Kennedy has to decide on the basis of technical, military and scientific evi-
dence whether or not failing to test would put this country in jeopardy, and whether that jeopardy is greater than the degree of harm to be encountered with fallout,” he said.
The bacteriologist pointed out that there was a moral issue involved.
People Periled
“As a result of testing, a group of innocent people, the Laplanders, will probably suffer,” he claimed.
Medical director Dr. Greeley felt that testing is essential to progress, but that every effort should be made to cut down and to eliminate fallout.
The third professor expressed greatest concern on the testing subject.
“The special danger of nuclear bomb fallout is that radioactive isotopes permanently build up in the tody,” he explained. “These isotopes will produce radiation continuously, and depending on their life-
700 Crowd Hall To Hear Author
By HAL DRAKE Daily Trojan City Editor A voice from an era of economic strife and turmoil in America appealed to students Friday to keep abreast of developments in their complex society so that the human race will win the “struggle for existence.” Aging Upton Sinclair, a man whose name once aroused hatred and terror j among the “malefactors of j ^ ^ great wealth,” warned 700 stu-i dents jammed into Hancock;
Auditorium for a School of Li-j brary Science-sponsored lecture that new weapons make war the responsibility of everyone.
“You can’t any longer say ‘Let these other fellows fight it out and I’ll stay home and wait,’ because you will die along with all the others,” he said
Bathed in the applause of students who sat in the aisles and on the stage and crowded the lobbies to hear him, the life-long socialist intertwined his advice on world problems with reminiscences of his long and colorful career as a muck-raker, politician and social reformer.
From the Heart
“I don’t have the slightest trouble going back to the days when I was your age,” he told his enchanted audience. “I recall my own troubles and studies, and so I can talk to you from my heart to yours.”
One of the problems of his nine college years at New York City College and Columbia University, he recalled, was that his professors didn’t prepare him for the realities of life he was to face and reveal ultimately in some of the most influential exposes of our century.
“I came out of those nine years without knowing anything about modem economic problems, modem economic affairs or modem theories of remedy,” he said.
Troubled World’
But student in today’s “troubled world” cannot afford this ignorance, he said, calling on them to take advantage of libraries “to find out what you want to know about this world and then go and get it.”
More than 1,000 students were turned away from one of the rare public appearances of the 83-year-old author-journalist - politician as hundreds more strained to get a glimpse of the man whose thunder against injustice rumbles still in his more than 60 books, read in 47 languages around the world.
The one - time candidate for the governorship of California credited the course of his own career to a haphazard brush with socialism after he left college.
Modem Movement “I suddenly learned there was a modem movement of revolt against all the economic and political injustices I had
Wife Finds Audience Joy Enthralling'
By PONCHITTA PIERCE
The eyes of one woman in a sea of more than 700 students and faculty gleamed a little brighter than the rest last Friday.
The woman was Mrs. Upton Sinclair, who had come more than 30 miles to Hancock Auditorium to hear her husband talk.
Tears welled as her gaze swept across the packed room, and she heard thundering applause for the man whose cryptic and fact-finding pen brought America to attention for more than half a century.
“It was an inspiring audience,” the b 1 u e-c 1 a d gentlewoman smiled happily. “The audience’s warm reception and enthusiastic response brought tears to my eyes. I don’t think I have seen or felt anything equal to it.”
Prize-Winning
Mrs. Sinclair, who married the Pulitzer Prize-winning protest writer six months ago, was thankful the world had not forsaken her husband.
“When I looked around I saw evidence that my husband had not faded out of public consciousness to become a forgotten man, as happens to so many people once they retire.”
The enthusiastic author’s wife recalled the vitriolic pen with which her husband had spoken out against social and economic injustice since the turn of the century.
“Upton has always been a very optimistic man,” she reminisced. “He has never considered this the best of all worlds. Yet he has consistently kept alive hope for its improvement.”
Many Letters
His lead is still being followed today, she said, pointing to the numerous letters her husband receives daily from students and others around the world.
“Students write to Upton every day. Most of them have read his books or are doing papers and want more ideas, comments and suggestions from him.”
“Socialism is a movement for social justice brought about by an appeal to the conscience of humanity and to a scientific study of our (social) problems,” he said in response to a student’s question.
“It tries to find ways to apply the process of democracy to industry and finance to bring about a world in which the workers and the people have control of their own fi nancial destiny and enjoy the full product of their own labor,” he noted.
•Revolt of Frenzy’
In contrast to this scientific study, which will be effected in a democracy through public education, communism is a “revolt of frenzy” by a Russian people who knew nothing about democracy, the Pulitzer prizewinner said.
“We don’t need anything like that in the United States,” he said firmly. “We can get our industrial social democracy in a..u utr^uuu.^ UKU	the same way we got it in our permitted
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Documents To Be Due
Newly elected field-of-study officers were warned Friday that they would not be permitted to take office unless they filed revised field constitutions with ASSC President Hugh Helm’s office, 321 SU, by April 10.
Helm said the revisions must be made in compliance to a recent ASSC Senate bill, introduced by Pharmacy Senator Dennis Hayes, that provides for elimination of many of the discrepancies that caused several controversies in the recent elections.
He said no field officers, including senators, would be in stalled at the April 11 inauguration of new officers unless constitutions are revised.
Fines for election violations are also due April 10, Helm said.
Elected candidates will not be allowed to take office and all fined students will not be to participate in