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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1962
NO. 70
Election Feud Breaks Out Over Survey
The running feud between ASSC President Hugh Helm and presidential aspirant Mike Robinson broke out again yesterday when Robinson back-; ed up his charges of ‘ manipulated elections” with an informal survey.
Robinson had charged earlier; this week that the addition of the fee bill to the required!
identification of voters was; contrary to the Election Code1 and would discourage many stu-! dents from voting.
He claimed that many stu dents have misplaced or sent home their fee bills and so would not have them to vote. His “admittedly informal” survey indicated that eight out of more than 30 students questioned didn’t know the where abouts of their fee bill.
Departure From Code “In almost every case,” Robinson claimed “students felt that it was unfair for their government to require them to have fee bills in order to vote, especially since this operation Is a departure from the Election Code.”
Robinson suggested two solutions to the situation for Helm’s investigation. The first was that a list of eligible voters be compiled from the registrar’s files.
The second suggestion was that students present their identification cards to the registrar’s office for a stamp that would indicate they were eligible to vote, i Keep Voters Away » "Almost any solution would be better than demanding fee bills.’’ Robinson declared. “It is my opinion that stubborn refusal to retain this system will keep many eligible voters from the polls.”
r Helm countered the survey nvith the claim that eight students out of a university population of 13,000 don’t indicate that the fee bill requirement is e real problem.
“However, we would certainly consider his survey if he could show just cause and if he could determine a more
Hazing Law Draws Assemblymans Fire
PANEL POSES—Panelists (l-r) Dr. Ray Jordan, assistant professor of religion; Dr. William H. McGrath, assistant dean of Students, men; and Hans Hofmann, Har-
vard professor of theology, spoke yesterday in a new series prepared by the Chaplain's Office. The educators agreed that students mature by struggle.
Strain Squeezes Students To Maturity, Panel Says
The stress and strain of college life helps students become mature adults, a panel of three educators decided yesterday.
Guest panelist Hans Hofmann, Harvard professor of theology, agreed with fellow panelists Dr. William H. McGrath, assistant dean of students, men, and Dr. Ray Jordan, assistant professor of religion, that students today meet maturity
through struggle and challenge.
“Mature life is not a neat pattern and a student cannot achieve success without using both his mind and his body to meet and overcome challenges,” the theologian said. “Struggle is necessary to grow and expand.”
Stress, he said, forces the maturing student to compro-
Harvard Theologian Cautions Educators
Educators today need more than anything else to recapture confidence in their profession, Harvard theologian Hans Hof-
suitable method of identifying mann told the faculty luncheon
yesterday.
Dr. Hofmann,
director of
voters,” Helm said.
List of Voters
Helm apreed to accept _	.	_ .
list of eligible voters from the;Harvard’s Project on Rellg,on registrar’s office if Robinson an(J Mental Health, warned the would provide the personnel for faculty members that gauging the job and get the registrar the value of education by ma-to certify the list’s accuracy. , terialistic standards is a “dead-He said he would also con- ly, detrimental affair.” sider the second suggestion cal-:	Provide Leaders
ling for a registrar’s stamp on «Without this confidence, we identification cards, if he re- wm not ^ ab]e tQ	the
ceived a written affidavit from	]eadership that we
the registrar agreeing to the a]one are supposed to provide proposal.	j0r a natjon badly in need of
“Although it causes some in-convenience, the planned method is the only practical solution we have found,” he ex- accomplished in philosophy, psy-plained.	chology and psychiatry, claim-
“I surest that rather than this leadership has been using this issue for free cam- lacking because educators aie paign spnce, Robinson, if seri- starting to behe\e thev must ously concerned, might present prove themselves at least as and discuss his solutions with materialistically able as other Elections Commirsioner John professions.
Moyer,” Helm said.	i “The public has always tried
it,” he said.
The theologian, who is also
IRAuthority Calls Castro Puppet'
By ARLINE KAPLAN |has tried to make himself part Fidel Castro has changed into	Communist Party by
a figurehead prime minister announcing that he is a the wake of a complete Marxist-Leninist.
Dr. Hadley also discussed the
Communist take-over in Cuba. Dr. Paul Hadley, associate professor of international relations, claimed yesterday.
impact of the OA3 Conference on some Americans.
“There is an understandable Speaking to students at a wonderment among Americans luncheon at the Hillel Founda-jas to just what went wrong tion. Dr. Hadley stressed howat Punta del Este, where the old-line Communists in Cuba Latin American foreign minislike tlie secretary of the Com- ters were considerably lessj munist Party, Bias Roca, have than unanimous in voting the come into the spotlight, and strong measures against Cas-how the few remaining mcm- tro’s Communist Cuba which bcrs of the original 26th of the United States had hoped
to compare the output of “eggheads to that of industry and business,” he said. “When we invert this public attitude within ourselves it hurts our integrity and self-confidence as a faculty.”
Calling on educators to “come out of the corner,” the author of “Making the Ministry Relevant” claimed that a continued defensive attitude will lead to the “corruption of education as an activity.”
He said that educators have a duty to try to provide answers to cultural problems for the community.
"We have to constantly channel and feed into society our concern for what’s going on,” he told the faculty. “We as a nation must ask ourselves why we do what we do and what for.”
Lack of Direction
The theologian said that lack of sense of direction in the university “corrodes and corrupts” the nation.
“Nothing causes diffidence in the nation more than a university that, because it doesn’t know better, keeps quiet,” he said.
The theologian, brought to campus by the Chaplain’s Office and the Westminster Foundation, is scheduled to speak tonight at 6:30 at Delta Delta Delta sorority, 834 W. 28th St.
The talk, a discussion of “Faith, Sex and Love,” will be open to all students.
Dr. Hofmann will also speak to the faculty of the Graduate School of Religion before leaving.
July movement are in exile or obscurity.
“Even at the recent Organization of American States Conference Carlos Rodriguez, editor of ‘Hoy,’ the Communist paper in Cuba, seemed to be directing the delegation led by Osvaldo Dortico,” he commented.
Dr. Hadley, who spent two years in Paraguay as a representative of the State Department, emphasized that Castro
the meeting would impose,” he said.
Dr. Hadley pointed out that six countries — Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chili, Bolivia and Ecuador — abstained from voting on immediate OAS action, although they did join the majority in condemning the Communist penetration of the hemisphere.
He felt the.“soft six” countries
Ticket Sales Will Close
Tomorrow will be the last day for students to sign-up for group trip tickets for the basketball game with Cal in San Francisco March 9-11.
mise his personal images with reality.
Dean McGrath agreed with Dr. Hofmann, pointing out that many students lose their ability to withstand stress when their self-images fail to reflect reality.
“The anxieties created either in their own minds or in their parents sometimes force students to lose faith and give up,” Dr. McGrath said.
Voluntary Stress
Panelist Jordan noted that many student stresses are “voluntary” and stem from neglect of values for personal image.
Dr. Hofmann, whose visit to the university is being cosponsored by the Chaplain’s Office and the Westminster Foundation, said that religion helps the student toward maturity with the problems of tension and doubt that it poses.
“When man is able to look at his religion and question it, he is approaching maturity,” Dr. Hofmann said.
The theologian stressed that an important value of religion is that it stimulates a constant transition towards a hopeful goal.
See Reality
“Students today are living under a tremendous strain,’ Dr. Hofmann noted. “Overcoming this stress and strain is vital in achieving maturity, because you must be able to clearly see reality before good mental health is attained.”
Trip organizer Mike Robinson said that 50 tickets are available at the Ticket Office, 209 SU, to USC rooters who want to see the Cal game and spend a weekend up north. Robinson feels the block of were unwilling to votejTrojan rooters can be of value (Continued on Page 2) to the team's morale.
Applications For Grants Will Open
Applications for four 1962 Young Musicians Foundation scholarships of $1,000 each are now available, the foundation announced recently.
Auditions for California’s best young pianist, vocalist, string player and composer will be held in June, the organization reported.
Violinist Jascha Heifetz, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and viola player William Primrose
all new members of the USC music faculty — will be judges in the final auditions.
The famous trio began instruction this semester in a newly established Institute for Special Musical Studies.
Music Dean Raymond Kendall and music faculty members Miklos Rozsa and Gabor Rejto will serve as regional judges for the foundation.
Applicants must be residents or students in California. Pianists and string players must not have reached the age of 26 by May 25, while singers and composers must not be 30 years old by that date.
Applications are available at the School of Music or by writing the foundation, Box 49955, Los Angeles 49.
Winners will be presented during the foundation's 1962-63 concert series in Los Angeles.
Asiatic Head Will Advise On Chinese
Dr. Theodore H. E. Chen professor and head of the department of Asiatic Studies, has been appointed by the California Department of Education to an advisory committee on public school instruction of
the Chinese language.
Dr. Chen will attend monthly meetings of the committee, which will work out plans to start teaching Chinese in the public schools from grades six through 12.
“It is appropriate that California should take the lead in teaching Chinese in grade school,” the professor said. “We are geographically a part of the Pacific area, and our people should get to know other cultures and languages of the Pacific.”
Lower School Classes
Already a part of the curriculum of leading American universities, Chinese instruction is being extended to the lower schools, he said. The Chinese language has already been introduced as part of the regular day program of classes in public schools in Boston and New Jersey.
Dr. Chen pointed out that “California is now ready to launch pioneering work in this area.”
‘The 1961 session of the Leg-1 islature amended the education code and provided that foreign languages must be made compulsory for all public schools in grades six, seven and eight,” he said.
Compulsory Program
The State Department of Education wants Chinese to be one of the languages used in this compulsory program, Dr. Chen noted.
Training programs enabling interested teachers to learn Chinese and teach it to their students are now being planned by universities, he said. Funds have been offered by the National Defense Education Act and the Carnegie Foundation.
“Of all the Oriental languages,” Dr. Chen reported, “Chinese is certainly the most important. It is spoken by a quarter of the world’s population.”
'SPURIFIC'—Celebrating Founders Day of the national Spurs group with a traditional show of spirit are USC members Kathy Kelly, Sandy Hubbell and Margot Burgess. The USC chapter of the sophomore women's honorary service fraternity will host the Long Beach State College Spur chapter tonight at dinner at the YWCA.
Spurs Will Hold
Founders Dinner
Spurs and their “little sis-
Red Jackets To Perform
The Freshman class has scheduled a n all-university dance featuring the Red Jackets for Feb. 24 in Town and Gown Foyer, dance chairman Carlos Galinda reported yesterday.
Yell King Rich Miailovich will act as master of ceremonies for the dance, which will be the first all-university event sponsored by the freshmen.
Galindo said the freshmen have been planning the dance since November and have set it for a dat^ that does not conflict with other campus activities.
ters” from Long Beach State College will celebrate Spur Founders Day this evening from 6:30 to 10 at the YWCA.
The informal affair, under the direction of Melinda Fee, will feature a jointly-concocted pot luck dinner, “fun skits,” a reading of Spur history and group singing.
The National Spur organization was founded at Moitana! State College on Feb. 14, 1922. The sophomore service honor-1 ary became a part of USC in | 1948 with 25 members. Since then “the girls in white with the big red dots” have doubled their membership.
In 1960, Spurs at LBSC, sponsored by the Trojan Spurs, affiliated with national.
Today there are 39 Spur chapters operating on campuses throughout the nation. Coordinated by a National Executive Council, chapters vary in their membership from 15 to 50 women.
At USC, Spur service traditions have included orienting new women in the fall and spring and working at the polls during student elections.
During each semester, members keep busy by assisting at the ASSC Christmas Show for underprivilege d crippled children, helping with card stunts at football games and leading guide tours.
Next week, Spurs will lend a hand to Troy Chest as official “money collectors” and
ing with the university’s Blood Drive in March.
Alarmed by Trojan apathy toward sports, Spurs already have launched a “bring yourself, your date and your friends” campaign to promote more spirit and participation at basketball games.
Folk Ballet Will Appear At Bovard
Student musicians and dancers representing many African nations will appear in an “African Ballet” to be staged at Bovard auditorium Saturday at 8 p.m.
The cultural presentation will interpret traditional, social, religious and magical dances of the African people. Included in the group, all of whose members wiil appear in native costume, will be 12 female dancers, four male dancers and a group of eight drummers.
The presentation is being sponsored by the American Society on African Students at USC and the African Scholar-s h i p Association of Southern California.
The program will includc dances representative of those natives might do in the adoration of a king, a burial cere-wili mony and the initiation of follow up this service by help-‘young girls into a tribal cult.
Attacks Record Of Mosk
Punishment of hazing infractions is a local rather than a state responsibility, a candidate for California attorney general said here yesterday.
Bruce Allen, Republican assemblyman from Los Gatos, also blasted Attorney General Mosk and the Democratic administration in Sacramento for a “do nothing record.” The assemblyman spoke to a small audience of Trojan Young Republicans at the group’s first meeting of the semester.
“Hazing is a public offense just like burglary,” Allen said. “Law enforcement primarily rests with the city attorney, not the attorney general or the state.”
The assemblyman, who has served five terms in the state legislature, said that state laws clearly define hazing and outline procedures for its punishment.
Brown Failed
If the laws are inadeauate, it is the attorney general’s job to propose new legislation, he said.
In the area of crime prevention Allen claimed that Mosk and Governor Brown have failed to admit the existence of organized crime in California.
“Crime is more serious in California than in the rest of the United States,” he reported. “California is at the top of the crime wave with twice the national average, and it is increasing rapidly.”
Reading from a report submitted by the Assembly Judiciary Committee on rackets, of which he was chairman, Allen claimed that organized crime is operating in California.
Assemblyman Allen charged that the Judiciary Committee report was being witheld from public knowledge by the governor.
Big Rackets
“The biggest rackets prosecution in the United States last year was in this county.” he claimed, referring to the Frankie Carbo boxing scandal.
The assemblyman had harsh words for attorney general Mosk’s stand on communism.
“Mosk wouldn’t allow the Board of Education to remove teachers who refused to state that they weren’t Communists,” he said. “We should expect the attorney general to interfere with communism instead of interfering with Americans,” he charged.
Assemblyman Allen, insisted that faculty members or outside speakers who are alleged Communists shouldn’t be allowed at state universities.
“The governor should call a special session of the state legislature on crime, narcotics and communism,” he said. “But he won’t!”
He predicted that Governor Brown would not call a special legislative session for consideration of these matters.
Six Chemistry Professors Combine To Blast President's Shelter Plan
Six U£C faculty members have joined professors from 10 other southland colleges in a national move protesting President Kennedy’s encouragement of the construction of fallout shelters.
Dr. James C. Warf, associate professor of chemistry, is spearheading the USC group in its drive to get signatures and contributions to pay for an ad in the Los Angeles Times. The ad would present the full text of an open letter to the President against shelters.
Joining Dr. Warf in signing the protest were Dr. Wayne K. Wilmarth, professor o f chemistry; Dr. Jerome A. Ber-son, professor of chemistry; Dr.
Howard Taylor, associate pro- in the Ne'.v York Times Nov.
fessor of chemistry; Dr. Robert 10, signed by 180 professors in
the Boston area.
The USC professors have asked their colleagues in the Southern California area to join with them in purchasing the newspaper advertising space to publish the protest in Los Angeles.
Proposing a positive program for peace with freedom, the letter warns that the Soviet Union may not stand by while the U. S. tries to make itself
“bombproof.”
“In addition,” the letter continues, “we believe that the prospect of living indefinitely
Simha, professor of chemistry: and Dr. Norman Kharasch. professor of chemistry.
The state-wide protest began when 657 professors in Northern California signed an “open Letter to President Kennedy” w’hich was published in the San Francisco Chronicle Dec. 1.
The letter criticizes certain aspects of the present civil defense program and describes fallout shelters as a trend which “may be extremely dangerous to the nation and to civilization itself.”
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not appeal to the na-
The original letter appeared;in an underground
fortress
Professors from UCLA, Cal Tech, Los Angeles State. Valley College, Scripps, Claremont, San Fernando Valley State. Harvey Mudd, Pomuna and the Southern California School of Theology have already made contributions to the ad, which would appear sometime next week.
Dr. Warf, who personally deplored the resumption of weapon testing by the Rus-sians last fall, has said tha* thousands of persons may be fatally afflicted by radiation and, as t h e letter points ou*. the shelter program does not protect persons from fallout.
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