PAGE THREE
New Bergman Film Shows Light Touch
Universrty o*f
DAILY
Southern CahTornia
TB O JAN
PAGE FOUR
Tracksters to Begin Cinder Season
VOL. Llll
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1962
NO. 75
Senate Passes Bill to Open' ASSC Meets
By DAN SMITH
Senate Reporter
The ASSC Senate passed a bill last night establishing a regulatory system guaranteeing public representation at meetings of all groups and committees under ASSC jurisdiction.
A statute streamlining the administrative arm of the ASSC Cabinet and a resolution expressing sorrow at the recent deaths of May Ormerod Harris, member of the board of trustees since 1938, and Jesse P. Mortensen, head track and field coach for 11 years, were also passed.
Open to Public The public meetings bill, in troduced by Tom Bell, biologi-c a 1 sciences senator, requires all groups considering legisla tion, student activity policy, transfer of student funds and the selection of officers to be open to the public.
The bill stipulates that in cases where mass public attendance would prohibit th proper functioning of the meeting or where tampering might result in ballot counting, a representative from the Daily Trojan may attend as a stand-in for the public.
Emergency Announcements Groups coming under jurisdiction of the statute would have to notify the Daily Trojan and post an announcement on bulletin boards three school days before they meet. In emergency situations, one day’s notice would be sufficient Passage followed a semester-long campaign by the Daily Trojan for open political meetings.
Meeting no opposition, the resolution grieving the 106S of. Mrs. Harris and Coach Mortensen was immediately passed upon presentation. Bob Kendall, Senate president pro tern explained that the Senate had not passed a resolution for Mrs. Harris earlier because this was its first meeting since her death.
Unanimous Decision The Senate also unanimously passed a statute that reorga nized the ASSC executive committee system, cutting down the number of standing committees from 19 to 14.
The functions of the Greater University Committee w i 11 be incorporated into other committees, including the Special Events Committee.
The internal and external public relations committees were combined into one Public Relations Committee, while the Student Speakers and Orientation Committees were eliminated.
New Statute
Formerly, the executive committees were organized by five administrative heads. The new statute provides for the appointment of one administrative assistant instead.
Another bill, asking that professors place syllabi of their classes and other material providing students with further' information about the classes in the university library, was referred to the Senate Academic Affairs Committee.
Artist Plagens Dram Honor For Cartoon
Daily Trojan cartoonist Peter Plagens recently captured third place in a nationwide safety contest.
His win, worth $25 prize money, marked the 12th consecutive year the Daily Trojan has won honors in the contest, which is sponsored by the Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company.
The winning effort was part of a safety campaign run before Christmas vacation. The cartoon appeared on Dec. 13, 1961.
Plagens, a senior majoring in fine arts, has been drawing Daily Trojan cartoons since his freshman year. He was awarded an honorable mention in the same contest last year.
Two Speakers Will Lecture On Addiction
Junior Class Receives OK For Program
Exclusive rights for handling all college orientation programs in Los Angeles high schools have been granted to USC by the Los Angeles City High School District.
Dann Moss, president of the Junior Class which iS sponsoring a growing high school relation assembly program, received the approval recently in a letter from the Senior High School Principals Association’s Student Body Activities Com mittee.
The letter praised the Junior Class program as “worthwhile” and “interesting” and “one that would be of real help to high school people who need more information about the overall aspects of university life.”
The letter urged members of the college orientation committee to contact individual principals regarding dates for presenting the assemblies.
Moss spoke to the association during semester break.
“We have been striving to get our program accepted by the city for a long time,” Moss said. “However, it was difficult because officials felt that if USC received permission, other universities in the area would demand equal rights.”
Seven assemblies have already been planned for five Los Angeles high schools — Canoga Park, Grant, Hamilton, Marshall and Hollywood, Moss said.
The Junior Class program has already sponsored three orientation assemblies — two in Bellflower at Bellflower and Mayfair High Schools, and one at Palm Springs High School.
Two members of the Synanon community wil speak on their controver sial organization tonight at 8 at the Westminster Foundation, 854 W. 36th St The speakers, both.members of the disputed Santa Monica home for dope addicts, will discuss “The Quest for Meaning— as Found in the Synanon Community” as part of the foundation's current lecture series.
Synanon was established almost three years ago as “self-help” rehabilitation center by a former member of Alcoholics Anonymous, Chuck Detferich.
The community has since been attacked by Santa Monica organizations as an illegal hospital and a criminal resort.
Center Defended
Walker Winslow, writing in the February, 1961 issue of Manas, defended the narcotic center and described it as small, intense culture that should exist at peace within the larger culture, and perhaps teach it something.”
The use of an “open door” technique and self-help therapy meetings, he noted .give the members the personal responsibility and integrity they need to fight the drug habit.
Winslow writes that founder Dederich developed the psychological and philosophical approach of the community during informal group meetings with dope addicts prior to the establishment of the organi zation.
The group, he noted, has adopted a slogan from Lao-tze, “By enabling man to go right, ’ disabling him to go wrong”.
50 Members
The community, which is scheduled for a story in Life magazine this March, now has a family of 50 members who police themselves and hold synanons, or therapy meetings, three times a week, Winslow writes.
The organization is being presented on campus as part of the Westminster Foundation’s current “Quest for Meaning” series, campus pastor Charles W. Doak explained.
He said’ future topics in the series will deal with interpretations of the need for meaning in such fields as drama, art, politics and literature.
‘We invited representatives from Synanon to speak so the community could tell its story,” he said. “We want to be aware of a movement that deals with a subject so significant to our times.”
Pastor Doak said the speakers will discuss criticism of their community at the session and will conduct a group discussion following their talk.
Groundbreaking to Herald Construction of Olin Hall
$2.2 Million Edifice To Rise on Campus
TOP FLIGHT — David Stabbe (right), engineering graduate student, shows student group a model of steller-inertial
Daily Trojan Photo
guidance system for guided missiles now on display in front of Bovard Auditorium as part of National Engineerings' Week.
Rainy Day Savings Pour Into Troy Chest Coffers
The Troy Chest campaign has netted $715 of its $4,000 goal in spite of recent rainy weather, chairman Ken Payne reported yesterday.
Classes “have donated $565 to the student-sponsored charity drive.
Fraternities supported the fund with $150 Monday night and figure to “kick-in” more in support of their Miss Trojanality contestants, Payne noted.
Sororities and other campus
groups are expected to the drive toward its
Professor Wins Post
Professor John A. Russell, head of the astronomy department, was re-elected to membership on the board of directors of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific at a meeting of the board Tuesday in San Francisco.
This is Dr. Russell’s second term on the board. He is also a member of the society’s meeting committee.
living boost goal.
Payne added that . living groups are competing for a trophy that will be awarded for the most money collected in a one-night campaign.
Committee Will Collect
Committee members will be collecting in 1:15 classes today and in night classes and sorority houses this evening.
The drive will be launched again in full today with the delayed opening of the Mr. and Miss Trojanality contest.
Contestants’ pictures will be on display in front of the Student Union from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with containers placed nearby for “voting” with mon ey. The winners will be determined by the amount in the donation cups.
In the brief voting earlier this week, Mike Gless, IFC president sponsored by Pi Beta Phi, and Dr. Norman R. Fertig, assistant professor of international relations sponsored by Alpha Phi, moved ahead in the Mr. Trojanality race.
Faculty Ask For Lights On Campus
The University Senate yesterday urged the university to improve campus area lighting and asked that funds be allocated for immediate lighting improvements.
The action came in a resolution passed unanimously by the faculty body on the recommendation of the University Committee on Buildings and Grounds.
Faculty members pointed to several areas around the campus which are poorly lit, including areas around Clark House, the speech barracks and parking lots and cited the dangers of bad lighting. One faculty member termed the problem a “burr under the saddle.”
The faculty requested that Immediate action be taken on
the prob’.cm “evei though proper or full development of lighting plans in accord with the Master Plan may not be feasible at this time.”
All-University Freshman Dance To Be Sparked by Twist Rhythms
TWIST TICKET — Student purchases ticket to Sunday's all-university Freshman Class - sponsored dance from chairman
23B&Itti&SSSS Daily Trojan Photo Carlos Galindo (center) and freshman vice president Bcbbe Hensley (right). The Red Jackets will provide tlie twist beat.
Stomping and twisting will be featured at the all-univer-sity Freshman Dance Sunday night from 8 to 11 p.m. in Town and Gown Foyer.
Tickets for the event, which will be hosted by Yell King Rich Miailovich as master of ceremonies, are selling in the Grill and at other campus locations for 75 cents or $1.25 for couples.
The Red Jackets will provide music for the dance, which will be the first all-university event sponsored by this year’s Freshman Class.
Proceeds from the dance are expected to help provide funds for the freshmen in their future class programs, Vice President Bobbe Hensley said.
“We also think it will help unify the class and the entire university,” she said.
Miss Hensley said students from junior colleges in the area have been invited to attend the event because the class hopes to promote good student relations between USC and possible future Trojans.
Carlos Galindo is in charge of the dance. Working with him are Ruth Simons, Julie Ayres, Judy Lawrence, Elena Beilby, Edyth Forsans, Pat Davis, Carol Anicic and Lee Allen.
Tau Epsilon Phi contestant Pris Morgan was leading in the Miss Trojanility contest.
Due to the rain the campaign has been extended through next Wednesday, according to Payne and Marcia Northrup, co-chairman. The money received from the* drive will be allocated among such charities as Radio Free Europe, Red Cross, Community Chest, American Cancer Society, City of Hope, Multiple Sclerosis, United Cerebral Palsy Association, Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, Los Angeles County Heart Association and the Los Angeles County Association for Mental Health.
Funds will also be given to the campus YWCA, ASSC Christmas project and the 1963 Trojan Chest Drive.
Next week’s campaign will feature a pie-throwing contest. Campus personalities will submit to the ordeal of donors’ deadly aims Monday and Tuesday between 10 a.m. and noon a booth near the Student Union.
“Troy Chest is purely a student drive,” Payne said yesterday. “The faculty and alumni have nothing to do with it, so we will need a lot of student participation.”
Check donations may be made at the Special Events Office, 230 SU, in care of USC Troy Chest, he said.
front of Bovard an Engineering
Folk Dances To Be Given By Africans
Sixteen African dancers in colorful African costumes will move to the beat of eoight drummers in the “African Ballet” Saturday night at 8 in Bovard Auditorium.
The cultural piesentation, sponsored by the American Society on African Studies at USC and the African Scholar-s h i p Association of Southern California, will feature African artists, choreographers and dancers from the different African countries.
Tlie program of traditional, social, religious and magical dances of the African people will include the initiation of young girls to a secret cult,'the adoration of a king, a burial ceremony of a boy in the pnmf of youth, the African itch dance, the Ashanti war dance, the Fanti Konkosa, the Yoruba Woro, the Ibo and Effik dances.
Admission will be by donation.	— . —j
Woman Dean Will Undergo Eye Surgery
Mrs. Joan Schaefer, assistant dean of students, women, is scheduled to undergo surgery for a detached retina this weekend, her office reported yesterday.
Mrs. Schaefer went into Good Samaritan Hospital Monday afternoon for tests after seeing a doctor at noon. According to her secretary, Mrs. Schaefer’s right eye had been bothering her since last week and she lost sight in it an Sunday.
Dean of Students Robert J. Downey predicted that Mrs. Schatfer will need three to four months to recover from her rperation.
The dean has appointed Mrs. Kay Chertok, coordinator of campus tours, to supervise Mrs. Schaefer’s office during her absence.
Miss Shirley Barkley, counselor for women’s organizations, will continue to h3"'v'< sorority relations during Mr Schaefer’s absence:
“We hope that Mrs. Schaefr* will recover quickly and vi” back with us as soon as possible,” Dean Downey said. “However, it may take as long as four months for her to recuperate from the operation.”
Mrs. Schaefer has served as the advisory officer for women students for the past six years.
Groundbreaking ceremonies signaling thc start of construction on the $2.2 million Olin Hall of Engineering will be held today at 2 as part of the university’s observance of National Engineers’ Week.
Also highlighting the week’s festivities is a $60,000
two-day display of engineering progress in Auditorium,
Queen Contest and an engi neers’ dance tomorrow night.
The groundbreaking program for Olin Hall, representing start of work on the first of several new buildings to be constructed under the university’s Master Plan, will be held at the comer of McClintock Ave. and W. 36th Place.
Old Gives Way
The first shovelfuls of earth will be turned over at the construction site by top administrators of the university and the Olin Foundation. Concrete foundations of the old barracks buildings, in use since 1947, will be broken up by machine to clear the way for the new building.
Dr. Alfred C. Ingersoll, dean of the School of Engineering and President Topping will welcome students and faculty attending the ceremony and thank the Olin Foundation for its gift.
Also taking part in the program will be trustee H. Leslie Hoffman, national chairman of the committee for the Master Plan; James O. Wynn, vice president and legal counsel of the Olin Foundation; and Dr.
Charles L. Horn, foundation president.
Students Dismissed Engineering students will be dismissed from classes for the groundbreaking and the dean’s reception which will follow at 3 p.m. in the Engineering Building.
The planned five-story Olin Hall, a 55,000-square-foot concrete and brick structure, will contain classrooms and laboratories for the electrical, mechanical and industrial engi neering departments. It will also house a 10.000-volume li brary and a 200-seat auditorium.
The engineering display, which went up yesterday, will cover a wide range of engineering fields from space exploration to sewage control.
The exhibit will be open today until 2 p.m. and tomorrow from 8 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.
Full-scale Model A working full-scale model of a life support system like the one used by John Glenn in his recent orbital jaunt around the world will be featured in the display. The system controls all life functions such as temperature, humidity and oxygen in a space capsule.
Among the other exhibits will be a stellar-inertial guidance system which computes the position of a missile by the presence of three stars, a thermionic reactor which converts heat to electrical power, a model of a missile computer used in the Polaris and Hound Dog missiles and a water purification system for removing industrial wastes.
Electronic Equipment Also on display will be a bus with electronic equipment, an oil exploration system, a solar electric power unit, a scale-model and sketch of Olin Hall, a scale-model of the East Los Angeles freeway system and a U.S. Army engineering exhibit containing slides of construction projects.
“The exhibits were solicited and obtained from industry on loan by members of the School of Engineering Council." school president Bob Weiner said.
"This is the first time we are holding the USC engineering program concurrently with the national observance of Engineers’ Week.”
The Engineering Queen contest is being sponsored by Sigma Phi Delta, engineering fraternity, and will conclude tomorrow night at a dance in the conference room of the Rodger Young Auditorium.
Legalities Remove 37 From Ballot
A fast shrinking election ballot lost 37 more candidates yesterday due to insufficient grade point averages o r protests from fields-of-study, Election Commissioner John Moyer reported yesterday.
As it stands now, there are less candidates on the ballot than offices available. There are 94 surviving candidates while 99 offices are open.
Earlier this week 15 candidates were eliminated either because they missed a mandatory meeting or withdrew their own names.
Written Protest Moyer said that any disqualified candidates who wished to get their names back on the ballot coudd file a written protest today, signed as their names appear in the registrar’s office, between 1 and 3 in 301 SU.
Alice Huber was dropped from the ASSC secretary race when it was found that she did not have the 90 units of college work required for the office, Moyer said.
Eliminated Candidates Six candidates were eliminated from the running for biological sciences offices because a protest was filed with Moyer showing they failed to meet the requirements of the field-cf-study constitution. It requires them to have served on the department’s student council.
They included Richard Lu-ros. candidate for field president; Steve Klevens. vice president; Dave Barthold, senator; Russell Hicks, senator: Garry Rodrigue, senator; and Steve Schwartz, senator.
A protest was also filed against TRG candidate Phil Bonnell, who was running for AMS president. Both the old and pending AMS constitutions require its president to have served either on the AMS cab-(Continued on Page I)