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VOL. LIU
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1962
NO. 67
NOON READING
Baxter Will Eye Essayist Prince'
Dr. Frank C. Baxter will open the spring semester’s
Noon Reading series today in 133 FH with a discussion of the works of the “prince of the familiar essayists,” Charles Lamb.
Dr. Baxter wiH discuss Lamb’s life and read from some of his letters and essays.
Dr. Baxter, professor erne lit us of English and famed Shakespearian scholar, has tra-
Voters Learn From Tactics,
Senior Says
By DAN SMITH
Candidate campaign tactics ere indicators to voters of the aspirant’s chances of becoming effective student leaders. Senior Class President Gary Elder declared Friday.
“Those who run their campaigns with a minimum of ‘mudslinging’ accomplish more and .run into less roadblocks than those who deal in personalities,” Elder said at a meeting of the Westminister Campus Christian Council’s “Quest for Meaning” 9eries.
Elder explained that the “mudslingers” make enemies of their opjjonents and their supporters because of the personal level and negative attitude of the campaigns. This animosity must be constantly battled as the new leaders take office, he said.
Methods Important
Elder suggested several other criteria voters could use in selecting their leaders. The methods the candidates propose to use for accomplishing their promises are at least as important as the promises themselves, he said.
“A candidate must have a| logical and feasible way of’ carrying out his promises tf he, C J	■
expects to be a satisfactory IZOLICdrOrS leader,” Elder pointed out. j ^ Cecil Hardesty, superin.
Elder felt that it was neces- j tendent of schools for San sary for voters to find out | Diego County, will speak to what candidates had accom- members of the Student Cali-pished in former offices. Hefornia Teachers Association said that this would be an in- from Southern California uni-dicator of their ability to versities and colleges on cam-
ditionally opened the popular noon series.
“I’m an institution, I guess,” he quipped Friday.
Dr. Baxter is a close literary ‘friend” of Lamb, having first met him through his writings while working as an office boy and cleric, much as Lamb did.
“The sort of literary friends you make sometimes can become more real than anyone you actually know,’’ Dr. Baxter said.
Dr. Baxter described Lamb as a very sad yet funny man who met a lot of tragedy in his life.
Worked Hard
“He was never very well. He stammered. He never married. He went to a charity school. He worked from his early youth on. He died feeling he was a failure as an artist,” Dr. Baxter said.
Yet his familiar essays and his “preciously wonderful” letters made him one of the most memorable of the English romantic writers, the Shakespearian added.
“He knew all the exciting people of the romantic era— Wordsworth, Coleridge. Shelley, Keats,” Dr. Baxter commented.
Great Punster He said Lamb had a great capacity for friendliness which reaches out to the reader today.
"The humanity of the man is the key to him.” Dr. Baxter said. “He had a great, humble, decent heart.”
The essayist was one of the great English punsters. He liked joking, paradox and word play.
“No one yet has been able to imitate him,” Dr. Baxter noted.
AEPhis TO OPEN HOUSE AT 'CHRISTENING' PARTY
Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority will hold an open house featuring the music of Bruce Johnson at their new home, 624 W. 28th St., tonight from 7:30 to 10.
Johnson’s rock and roll band is known for its recent hit recording “Surfer’s Stomp.”
All students are invited to the house warming, which will include twisting, free parking and free refreshments, Elaine Gealer, house president, announced. She encouraged all those who attend the open house to bring their yo-yos.
The new AEPhi house, formerly owned by Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, can accommodate twice as many members of the growing sorority as the old house, which was located at 729 W. 28th St., Miss Gealer said.
The sorority now owns both houses and has leased the old location to Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity for three years, she said. Alpha Epsilon Phi plans to build a house at the old site as soon as possible.
“The new residence is so large,” Miss Gealer said, “that the women must follow strings along the hallways to their rooms to keep from getting
lost.” *
Future plans include remodeling and redecorating as soon as the sorority can raise the necessary funds.
School Chief To Address
Professors Will Join On Pakistan Project
achieve their goals.
Better Prepared
He said that he planned to prepare a set of questions embodying these criteria for distribution to anyone interested in obtaining a “better insight” to the abilities of candidates.
“Jf the candidates are forced by the voters to consider these things, they will be better prepared to undertake the responsibilities of their offices,” Elder contended.
He also suggested that the needs of student government and the motives of its leaders could be brought closer together if an unbiased standards committee were created to determine whether office
pus this Saturday.
The luncheon will be sponsored by the USC chapter of SCTA and will include as guests members from UCLA, Pepperdine, Loyola and Occidental. as well as those in Phi Lambda Theta and Phi Delta Kappa, honorary education societies.
Education Dean Irving R. Melbo will preside at the luncheon which is set for noon in the second floor commons dining rooms.
Tickets at $1.75 per person may be ordered from the directed teaching office, 353 Adm., or from SCTA President Carol Emerzian at RI 7-5750. Deadline is Thursday. No
holders were carrying out the tickets will be available at the duties of their offices.	door.
Dr. Frank Sherwood, acting dean of the school of public administration, and Robert Berkov, associate professor and director of the school’s international programs, will soon leave for Pakistan.
Sherwood and Berkov will join Emeritus Dean Emery E. Olson and 17 other faculty members in evaluating the progress of the Pakistan Project. They will also lay out future development plans with Pakistani public administration officials.
They follow Dr. John Ger-letti, associate professor of public administration, who left for a two-year stay in Pakistan during semester break.
Pakistan Locations
The PA faculty members are working in three different areas in Pakistan: in Karachi, the old capital; in Lahore, capital of West''Pakistan; and in Dacca, capital of East Pakistan.
Aside from the three capitals, Sherwood and Berkov will also tour Nawalpindi, Pakistan’s new capital.
Initiated in 1960, the Pakistan Project will terminate in 1963 when USC’s contract with the defunct International Cooperation Administration will expire.
New Agency
“But the program will most likely be extended from five to 10 more years,” Berkov said.
Main reason for the project is to give technical advice and assistance to cooperating countries to strengthen programs of training, research, consultation and education in public administration.
Berkov explained, however, that all technical assistance programs are now being undertaken by the Agency for International Deve 1 o p m e n t (AID).
Educational phases of the Pakistan Project include help-
URA Offers IFC Sports, Special Clubs
A reorganized program for the University Recreation Association has started this semester and includes a wide variety of activities, the URA office reported Friday.
In addition to men’s and women's co-recreational tournaments in such sports as bowling, tennis, basketball and swimming, the URA now provides clubs in many areas of | special interest.
Special Clubs I Sixteen special interest clubs ■have scheduled events for the ] Spring semester. Any student may become a member of a (club by attending the meetings ing establish a public admin- j and participating in the events
AMS, AWS to Hold
Improvement Week
Panels to Discuss Students' Gripes
istration curricula at the University of Punjab and the University of Dacca; conducting an in-service training program for government officials at Karachi, Lahore and Dacca; and advising the director of the Civil Service Academy in Pakistan on new courses and changes in curricula.
Projects Listed
The USC professors will also assist Pakistani officials in
sponsored by the club. No dues are collected except in cases where special instruction or equipment rental is necessary.
The dates, times and room numbers for '■*ach club’s first meeting of the semester have been posted on a bulletin board in the hall of the PE building.
Regular activities for men will begin with IFC and alluniversity baskethall tournaments next week. The playing
Library Gets Taylor Letters
A collection of 11 letters from Laurette Taylor, the late tlreater great, to producer George Cukor have been presented to the university library.
The letters, used as source material for the book “Lauretta” by Marguerite Courtney, will be added to the Ethel Barrymore Theater Arts Collection, librarian Lewis F. Steig reported.
Miss Taylor, regarded by many as one of the foremost actresses of the American stage, ir. remembered particularly for her role in Tennessee W i 11 i a m s’ “Glass Menagerie.”	.
times are posted on the bul leeching a public administra-;tin board in PE building, tion journal, and will suggest	Deadline
ways to create a professional Deadline for co-recreational association of public adminis-	entries * Feb. 14. Any
team of two men and two women may compete in six days of play for the first place
trophy.
Badminton, bowling, fencing, surfing, skin diving, sailing, swimming, volleyball and skiing fans, among others, can in 1 check the bulletin board in the PE building.
tra tors.
Other aspects of the program include selection of Pakistanis for education and training in the United States, and a program in Los Angeles for the training of instructors for the National Insutute of Public Administration (NIP A) Pakistan.
Chancellor Names Leader Of World Affairs Institute
Researcher Eyes New Credit Tally
A simple numerical score!score, the more likely it would may soon be your credit rating, be that John Doesmith would This prediction comes from pay his credit obligations
Appointment of Dr. J. William Robinson of Whittier College as director of the 39th annual session of the Institute of World Affairs was announced recently by Chancellor von KleinSmid.
The institute, which will be held Dec. 2 through 5 at the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena, is the oldest continuous meeting of its kind in the nation. It will again be sponsored by USC in cooperation with the colleges and universities of the Pacific area
Positive Side
Its theme will be "Commitment to Freedom — the Positive Side of the American Record in Foreign Policy.”
Outstanding speakers will be scheduled on such topics as the price and opportunity of power, moral ism and morality, world affairs in the time of Christ and the present, the moral iustification of defending the national interest, national goals and the world around us,
DR. J. WILLIAM ROBINSON
. . . institute director
American economic and social
in 1950, 1954 and 1958. He has been a member of the institute’s executive committee for several years.
At Whittier College, Dr. Robinson has been chairman of the department of political science and international relations since 1947. Before joining the Whittier faculty, he taught at Stanford University, the University of Idaho, UCLA, and Purdue University.
Writing Fifth Book
Dr. Robinson has three degrees from Stanford, and did additional study at Harvard, the University of Wisconsin, UCLA and the University of Chicago.
He is a recent president of the Southern California Political Science Association and
policy, American policy and * member of	passional
progress in science and in m-. organizatiOTS. He is currently ternational cooperation.	working on a new book, “A
Dr. Robinson has served three j Short History of International times previously as director of Organization,” which will be the Institute of World Affairs, this fifth such publication.
Dr. James H. Myers, assistant dean of the School of Business, as a result of research studies he and others have completed with numerical credit rating systems.
Representing the first major change in decades for evaluating credit applications, the numerical scoring system already has been tested and approved by a number of firms in Los Angeles and elsewhere.
Factors long considered in evaluating credit risk are the same in the new system as they are in traditional systems. The change comes, Dr. Myers points out, with the application of numerical values to each of these factors.
New Tools Needed
“Never before in American business history have we, needed new tools in determining credit risk so badly,” Dr. Myers declared. "The problem of passing judgment on large ‘ numbers of new credit applications has been a particularly acute one in the postwar period and doubly acute in the Los Angeles area because of our population explosion.
“We sincerely believe that the numerical credit rating system offers major relief in this difficult situation.”
Dr. Myers, who is also an associate professor of marketing, gives this example of how the numerical credit rating system would work for a credit applicant:
IPP Score
John Doesmith might receive 10 points for being a foreman or a supervisor, 7 points for being on the job more than five years, 12 points for having a bank account, and so on.
But he would lose three points because he was a renter instead of a home-owner.
Scores for each of the several factors in an applicant’s personal and financial background would be totaled to determine what might be called his IPP — Index of Payment Potential The higher the IPP
New Classes Will Improve Reading Skill
USC students may still register for a basic reading and study skills course to be offered by the Reading Center starting Thursday.
The course will run through April 26 and has been divided into 10 class sessions from 4 to 6 p.m., with laboratory periods to be arranged. The fee is $20 plus $5 for textbooks.
Class instruction will be de voted to building speed and flexibility in reading, compre hension and retention, efficient study habits and note-taking skills, vocabulary development and analysis of individual reading and study problems.
The laboratory sessions will provide am opportunity for students to use the tachistoscope, an apparatus for exposing colors, figures, or other visual stimuli for one-fifth of a second or less, and a rate controller.
Lab hours may be arranged at the convenience of the student.
For further information and registration, students may telephone Dr. Charles M. Brown, director of the Reading Center, at RI 8-2311, Ext. 362.
promptly.
How many factors are needed to determine credit?	m In one test application, made SoniHrQ C ■ C* t in a study by Dr. Myers for a U ^
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chain, statistical analysis of several hundred accounts showed that just 17 items of financial and personal background distinguished between good (paid up) and bad (unpaid) accounts.
Bad Accounts Reduced The analysis also showed that if all applicants scoring less than 82 as their IPP had been denied credit, 5 per cent of the chain's unpaid accounts would have been eliminated without any loss of good accounts.
If 87 had been used as the score at or below which credit was denied, bad accounts would have been reduced 23 per cent with a loss of only 3 per cent of good accounts.
As few as eight factors have been used successfully in a numerical credit system, Dr. Myers said.
Although further detailed testing of the numerical rating system will be undertaken by USCRIBE — USCs Research Institute for Business and Economics — Dr. Myers believes several advantages already can be listed.
The fact that the system is both objective and consistent is one of these. Two evaluators will arrive at the same score for the same applicant.
Credit Control Also, the numerical rating system affords top management an opportunity to control credit operations in a manner impossible without such a tool and credit decisions become less subject to the variables in human temperament such as the natural over-caution of the credit manager who has just learned of recent losses, or the ovsr-optimism which often develops from a succession <rf right decisions.
An AMS, AWS sponsored “Improve Your School Week” will open on campus today to give students their first coordinate chance to pen their recommendations, suggestions or gripes for the improvement of the university.
Critics will find suggestion boxes and printed forms available at vital points on campus.
This marks the first time that Trojans will be allowed and encouraged to put their; views on paper and to submit; them to AMS, AWS for action,
Kay Yunker. AWS president, noted.
“Many times students are asked individually the course they would follow in improving the university and invariably they have a lot of answers.
AMS President Gil said.
Collective Work
“As a result of our program, we hope to make these individual answers more effective through collective work on them.”
During this week, he added.
Theologians Will Initiate Talk Series
Dr. Hans Hofmann, professor of theology and director of the Harvard Unrw?rsity Project on Religion and Mental Health, will arrive on campus Garcetti tomorrow for a three-day series of lectures and discussions.
Dr. Hofman will be the second of three noted American theologians who will appear here as part of a lecture program series sponsored by the office of Chaplain John E. Can-telon.
all students - day, night/ At the	session to-
foreign, Rowite and indepen- i1™”™ at	^ Hofman
dent - will be urged to nail speak te student leader»
in the Commons on “Leader-
down practical suggestions and objections regarding changes in curriculum, parties on the Row, extended lockout, students rating of professors, longer library hours or any other problem areas.
He said the current program | was launched to determine the "representativeness” of student government.
“Only in this way shall It be clear whether students at USC have a student government which represents their ideas or if the student legislators - are ignoring student opinion,” he said.
Change Perhaps Valid
“If the student government
ship Responsibilities and the Maturing Personality.”
He will address members of the Faculty Center Association on "Some Faculty Dilemmas,” and on Thursday noon he will discuss “The Function of Theology in Contemporary Culture” before the faculty of the Graduate School of Religion.
Open to Public
Tn meetings open to the public Dr. Hofman will speak on "Making the Ministry Relevant” tomorrow night at Covenant Presbyterian Church, and will participate- in a panel on “Religion and Mental Health’*
cannot represent each student Wednesday afternoon, effectively,” he continued, “then i Wednesday night he will lee-perhaps the charge that stu-; tare on “The Vision of a Genu-dent administration is a farce ine Culture in an Age of Sd-is valid.”	ience and Technology.” He wiH
In the past few years student government has been severely criticized for failing to represent the ideas and wishes of the student body to the administration. Garcetti noted.
He attributed much of this shortcoming to apathy on the part of student leaders, clique control of the political process and the difficulty of not ailways knowing exactly what students want.
Committees. Faculty After AMS. AWS receive students’ pros and cons, committees will be organized to
Seniors may start making appointments today at the University Photo Shop to have their pictures taken for the Senior Section of the 1962 El | initiate the practical sugges-Rodeo. editor Charlotte Haw- tions. If the matter does not kins said Friday.	come under AMS, AWS juris-
Seniors whose last initials diction, it will be referred to are from A-M may sign up im- the Faculty Senate, mediately, Miss Hawkins said. “We will expect an answer They must have their pictures : from the committees or Senate taken by Feb. 28. Seniors with one way or another.” Garcetti initials of M-Z may make ap- said. “If the answer is no, pointments for dates beginning we’ll find out why the recom-March 1.	mendation cannot be followed.”
speak at Delta Delta Delta sorority on “Faith, Sex and Love” on Thursday.
Dr. Hofman’s appearance I* being jointly sponsord by the WestminsteF Foundation Lecture Fund.
Business First Bom and educated in Base), Switzerland, Dr. Hofman spent five years studying business administration before undertaking work m theology, philosophy and psychiatry at the University of Zurich.
He holds a ThD degree and is an ordained minister of the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church.
The lecture series was inaugurated last November with the appearance of Father Gustave Weigel. S. J.. Roman Ca-t h o 1 i c ecumenicist. Samuel Sandmel, provost of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, is scheduled for March.
Nobel Chemical Scientist Will Inaugurate Lectures
A Nobel prize-winning chemist will begin a month of scientific lectures on campus today.
Dr. Peter J. W. Debye, professor emeritus of chemistry at Cornell University, Ithica. New York, vill lecture each Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4 p.m. in 335 FH. He will address members of the scientific community.
Dr. Debye will lecture, for four weeks, spending a week on each subject. His first lecture will be on the interaction of electric fields and matter.
Radiation Scattering
Next week the chemist will speak on structure determination by scattering of radiation, and intermolecular forces as electrical interactions will be the topic for the week of Feb. 26.
The final week will be devoted to some special problems in the field of macromo-lecules.
DR. PETER J. W. DEBYE
. . . prize-winning chemist
A native of the Netherlands, Dr. Debye succeeded Albert Einstein as professor of theoretical physics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He fled Germany at the out-
break of World War II, escaping to the United States by way of Italy. He joined the Cornell University faculty in 1940 and retired in 1952.
When director of the Mat Planck Institute in Berlin. Dr. Debye received the Nobel Prize for his research on the structure of molecules.
Other Seats
He also taugh* at the University of Utrecht, the University of Goettingen, the Technical College of Zurich and the University of Leipzig.
' In addition to the Nobel Prize, he has received the Rum ford Medal of the Royal Society of London, the Lorentz Medal of the Royal Dutch Academy of Amsterdam, the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, the Willard Gibbs Medal of the American Chemical Society of Chicago and the Max Planck Medal of the West German Physics Society.