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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1962
NO. 97
Hopefuls Lament 'Culture Void
TRG Status Bills To Face Cabinet
By DAN SMITH	and refining regulations of po-
tenatp Reporter	jlitical parties.
The Executive Cabinet will j The Senate voted last Wed-consider two bills from the AS-jncsday to reorganize TRG as a SC Senate dealing with the political party if it can win the status of the Trojans for Rep- approval of the Executive Cab resentative Government Par- inet and the administration, ty (TRG) tonight at 7 in the	TRG Constitution
Senate Chambers, 301 SU. jf ^e cabinet approves the The cabinet will also review XRG constitution, the organi-bills providing for an ASSC,zation's program will be sent constitutional amendment, re-:tQ the administration for final
organization of fields-of-study
RECEIVING INSTRUCTION—Rick Morse as the servant Tello and Wolfram Von Hanwehr rehearse the death scene from "The Gentleman from Olmedo" under the direction of Dr. Herbert M. Stahl, professor of drama.
Actors Will Stage Tragic Romance
A tragic romance of chival-1 matist, has been said to inject ry dealing with love, honor. I the flamboyancy of his own ^fate and jealousy formulates i life and times into the “Gen-ihe theme for the play “The Gentleman from Olmedo,” to be staged by the drama department this Friday and Saturday and March 22, 23 and 24 in Bovard Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
The tragi-comedy of love, intrigue and murder based on a popular ballad of 15th century Spain will be presented as part of the month-long celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth of its author,
Lope de Vega.
Lope. Spain's greatest dra-
tleman from Olmedo.” The play revolves around the love of the bullfighter Don Alonso for the beautiful Inez.
Human Plight Blending romance, comedy and tragedy, it has been described as a dramatization of the plight of human beings controlled like puppets by the forces of honor and jealousy.
Dr. Herbert M. Stahl, professor of drama, will direct the play, which has been translated into English by Everett W. Hesse, professor of Span-
j ish and an internationally T"p ■%	OnOH known authority on Lope de
■	I V/ w^vl I j Vega, in collaboration with
n I • I • , some of his advanced students. CXniDlT	Comedy Throughout
A preview tea for the open-! The comic relief in the play
ing of an exhibit of “Spanish Draftsmanship in the 17th Century” will be held today from 3:30 to 5:30 in the Downstairs j Gallery of Harris Hall.
The exhibit, planned as part
of the festivities for the university’s month-long celebration of the quadricentennial anniversary of the birth of Spanish playright Lope de Vega, was prepared by Edward S. Peck, professor of fine arts.
An exhibit of Lope de Vega books by librarian Lewis F.
Steig opened in Dohenv Library earlier as part of the festival and will continue on display until Thursday.
Included in the Doheny display are rare editions of Lope’s plays including a facsimile edition of the manuscript of “La Dama Boba,” signed by Lope comic in 1602.	I plays.
is sprinkled intermittently throughout the production, Dr. Stahl said.
“This can be seen particularly in Act II between Tello and Fabia,” he noted. “Fabia
is a sorceress acting as a go-between by pretending to be Inez's teacher.”
“Lope never sustains the tragedy to make it too long,” Dr. Stahl explained. “The comedy is fairly well dispersed in the play and there is a strong forward progression of action.”
Lope, described as the titan of the Spanish Golden Age and labelled a “prodigy of nature” by Cervantes, managed to write many volumes of epic poetry, ballads and several hundred short religious and interludes as well
IR Careerist Cites Needs To Applicants
By ARLINE KAPLAN
Even the most junior foreign service officer is a “mouthpiece for the U. S.,” and if he is indiscreet or just unlucky he could get the country into a difficult situation, a career foreign service officer said recently.
Speaking to international relations students. Richard A-Johnson cited the personal attributes that a foreign service applicant should possess.
Must Have Knowledge
“An applicant should have high intelligence with the capacity to do graduate work with a high degree of efficiency,’ he noted. “He also needs adaptability, an interest in solving the problems of the world and an emphatic capability to understand other people.”
The executive director of the
Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service declared that an applicant should also have substantial knowledge of his own country, be familiar with the most salient trends in the world for the past 200 years, have an interest in current events and have a profound in tellectual conviction that the work of the foreign service is terribly important.
To Johnson, effective use of the English language and precision are indispensible skills. Need People “So much of our work is in the area of communication that we need people who can speak and write with clarity and accuracy.” he said. “The skill of precision is essential, for even a misplaced comma in an international document can cause a misunderstanding.”
When questioned ajjout discrimination in the foreign service, Johnson emphasized that there was no religious or racial discrimination.
“We are making a concerted effort to get more Negroes to come forward and take the examinations,” he claimed.
Application forms for the written examination will soon be available on campus in the international relations office, 420 FH, and in the Vocational as'Placement Bureau, 3462 Uni-I versity Ave.
approval.
Just before it passed the party bill, the Senate voted to permit TRG to petition through the Executive Cabinet for rec ognition as a campus organization rather than as a party.
The cabinet must consider this bill before it evaluates the party bill.
If TRG is passed as a campus organization but not as i political party, it would only have the rights that Knights, Squires and other ASSC groups possess.
Examine Amendment
If the cabinet also approves the party bill, TRG will be permitted to operate as a political group, but it will also be placed under more regulations.
Before either of the TRG bills is considered, the cabinet will examine an amendment to the old political party statute. The amendment further enumerates the requirements for campus parties.
If the amendment is passed,
TRG will be required to meet its standards before the party can be fully recognized.
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Noted Historian to Discuss Unpopularity of Intellect'
The forces opposing the|quite sure of what will remain American intellectual will be | when we have been melted
discusssed by Pulitzer Prize j down.”
winning historian Richard Hof- He added that “various pro-stadter in a series of lectures | jective generalizations arising beginning tomorrow night.
Columbia in 1946, where he is now professor of history.
His most noted work, “The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F-D.R.” won him the Pulitzer I from status aspirations has the Prize for History in 1955. Oth-
The "Anti-Inlellectualism in tendency to be expressed more American Life’’ series, -which in vin(iictiv'eness, in sour memo-\\ ill make up the annual Hayne 1'es’ ^ searc*1 f°r scape-Foundation lectures, will begin »oats, than the realistic pro-with “The Unpopularity of the I P°sal for action.”
He suggested that status aspirations spur the pseudo-con-
Intellect” in 229 FH at 7.
Writing in “The American Scholar," Dr. Hofstadter chose the term “pseudo-conservative revolt” as a representative of one of these forces.
“He is, in good part, the product of the rootlessness and heterogenity of American life, and above all, its peculiar scramble for status and its pe-
servative to demand conformity in life, placing him in opposition to the intellectual.
Dr. Hofstadter, a native of Buffalo, received his BA degree from the University of Buffalo, and his MA and PhD degrees from Columbia.
After teaching at Brooklyn
culiar search for identity, “Dr. College, the City College of Hofstadter wrote. “We boast of New York, and the University
er works include “Social Darwinism in American Thought” and “The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It.” He has also published in various journals and periodicals.
Besides the campus lecture series, Dr. Hofstadter will speak to various civic groups and will make informal appearances at university seminars.
The lecture series will continue in 229 FH on March 16 with “Anti-Intellectualism in Our Time,” followed by “The Decline of the Gentleman,” March 19; “The Fate of the Reformer,” March 21; and “The
the melting pot but we are not,of Maryland, he returned toj Rise of tlie Expert,” March 23.
Theologian To Deliver 3 Lectures
A noted Jewish scholar of the New Testament and its relationship to Judaism will be the third theologian to appear on the campus this year under the sponsorship of the Chaplain’s Office.
Dr. Samuel Sandmel, provost of Hebrew Union College — Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati will deliver lectures and will take part in discussions during a day-long stay tomorrow.
Appearance
He is also appearing under the auspices of the Rabbi Bernard Harrison Memorial Lecture Fund and the campus B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation.
Dr. Sandmel will speak on “Scholarly Writing and the General Public” at the faculty luncheon at noon in the Faculty Center, and will take part in a panel on “My View of the New' Testament” at 6 p.m. in the University Commons.
Panel
Joining him on the panel will be Dr. Herman C. Waet-jen, assistant professor of New Testament, and the Rev. Michael Hamilton, campus Episcopal chaplain for graduate students and faculty.
Dr. Sandmel will also be featured in a lecture on “Judaism and Christianity” at 3:15 in Hancock Auditorium and in a final talk on “Jesus;
Jewish Approach” in the same area at 8.
Education
The Jewish scholar received his BA from the University of Missouri and his doctorate from Yale. He is also a graduate of Hebrew College, where he was ordained in 1937. He returned to its faculty in 1952
GIL GARCETTI
. . favors beer
DENNIS HAYES
. write-in candidate
BART LEDDEL
improved relations
DANN MOSS
. . concert series
Wesley Forum Hears Aspirants Give Problems
Five ASSC presidential, candidates wrestled with the problem of providing an ASSC speaker program for the university last night at a sporadically controversial presidential debate sponsored by the Wesley Foundation in Hancock Auditorium.
Approximately 120 students heard AMS President Gil Gar-
MIKE ROBINSON
. Representation Party ★ ★ ★
HUGH HELM
cautions candidates
Platforms Depict Candidates' Aims
Voters will select this week from a maze of goals and promises the man who will hold the top spot in student government next year.
To help voters analyze and compare the five ASSC presidential candidates, the following summaries of their platforms have been prepared:
GIL GARCETTI
1.	To develop a complete foreign students program, including expansion of the big brother system, an international house on the row, and encouragement of foreign student participation in all parts of campus life.
2.	Extend library hours to 11 p.m. and extend lockout hours for women to 11:15 so they can make use of new library hours.
3.	To work for more all-university events—dances, carnivals, TGIFs and other low-cost recreation activities.
4.	To develop a system allowing entering men students interested in fraternities to have the option of signing dormitory contracts after they arrive on campus.
5.	To use student “contacts” to start a celebrity series, bringing top performers from the entertainment world.
6.	To work out an agreement between the Row and the administration that will allow the gradual use of beverages (beer) on the Row.
DENNIS HAYES (write-in candidate)
1.	To work-out a system providing complete representation to all students and groups.
2.	To provide effecient government with closer cooperation between the ASSC president and Senate.
cetti, write-in candidate Dennis Hayes, yell leader Bart Leddel, Junior Class President Dann Moss and Representation Party President Mike Robinson try to explain the ways in which they would put into practice the speaker programs called for in all their platforms.
Solutions Proposed Solutions proposed by the ASSC hopefuls varied from improving publicity for speakers to lamenting the lack of an effective fine arts committee for the campus.
Speaker Moss proposed that cultural programs are already available on the campus for the students, but that students need to be better informed to appreciate this.
‘There is a great need for better and more prominent publicity covering the speakers to get across to the students the type of program being presented,” Moss said.
Robinson Pro Candidate Robinson, on the other hand, advocated development of an efficient fine arts committee.
“I would suggest that the administrative branch concerned with the program should either devote more time to this activity or let the students take matters into their own hands,” Robinson said.
Write-in Hayes, a pharmacy senator, said that the possibility of bringing top speakers to the campus would be im proved if the ASSC president kept abreast of the personalities who were in town and personally contacted them.
He said speakers would be more available if dates were arranged that were convenient for them.
Radical Speakers Answering criticism that attempts to bring radical speakers from the left or right wing are suppressed, candidate Leddel claimed that no such problem exists for obtaining well known moderate speakers to campus.
‘There’s no political reason that Frost or Nehru or top en-tertianment personalities cam’s be brought to this campus,” he charged. “All it would take is a phone call.”
The candidates also considered Greek-independent problems, the possibility of discrimination on campus and on the Row and whether they as officers speak for a majority of the students.
The audience was momentarily startled when candidate Leddel cautioned his fellow aspirants to answer questions properly.
Cinema Critic Will Review Film Industry
“The Movies: Art or Industry” will be the topic of Arthur Knight, associate professor of cinema and film critic for the Saturday Review, at this afternoon’s Philosophy Forum.
This second lecture in t h e series of “Reflections on the Arts” presented by the School of Philosophy, will be held at 4:15 in Bowne Hall of the Mudd Memorial Hall of Philosophy.
The famed critic has noted that “the motion picture is a major industry in Hollywood, while “for the rest of the world it is a major—if dwindling— source of entertainment.”
“But for the motion picture critics, it is an art form fully deserving the serious study devoted to painting, music, architecture and all the other established arts,” Knight declared,
Knight, an internationally known writer on motion pictures and author of “The Liveliest Art,” was appointed curator of films and tapes for the Los Angeles County Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Museum last July.
Knight started teaching motion picture history and criticism classes here in 1960.
Other lectures in the semiannual series will include “Illusion and Impact” by Theresa Z. Fulton, associate professor of fine arts, on March 20; and “The Eye of the Mind and the Eye of the Hand” by Edgar Ewing, professor of fine arts, on March 27.
Dr. Debye Adds Talk
Dr. Peter Debye, Nobel Prize winner and professor emeritus at Cornell University, has extended his speaking series on the campus for an additional lecture.
The chemist’s final talk will be given Wednesday at 4 p.m. in 229 FH.
Interest aroused by Dr. Debye's previous lectures and their large attendance were reasons for the extension.
The visiting distinguished professor of chemistry is here under the Graduate School Visiting Scholars lecture series.
3. To work for a complete revitalization of stu-and was named its provost in dent government by being an active, forceful president. 1957. He has also taught at 4 To carry out his work for the re-organization of Vanderbilt and Yale.	fields-of-study constitutions.
Alumni
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Fund Nears Years Goal
use alumni are speeding to-1$24 contributions will be equal-
His published works include “A Jewish Understanding of the New Testament,” "Philo’s Place in Judaism,” “The Genius of Paul” and ‘The Hebrew’ Scriptures.”
Previous theologians to participate in the chaplain’s series were Dr. Gustave Weigel, S.J., a Catholic ecumenicist; and Dr. Hans Hofmann, director of the Harvard University Project on Religion and Mental Health.
5. To improve communications among all branches of student government, including ASSC, AMS, AWS and fields-of-study.
6'. To make a complete re-evaluation of governmental, social, cultural and educational elements of campus life.
BART LEDDEL
1.	To develop more and better planned all-university events with the aid of a “Student Cultural Bureau” and special committees.
2.	To strive for improved relations between students, administration and academic departments.
3.	To give equal representation to students in ail
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ward a record $1 million goal in contributions for the year ending in May as a result of trustee Leonard K. Firestone’s “$250,000 challenge gift” offer made last year.
Lynn Robb, chairman of the Annual Giving Program, reporter yesterday that $659,000 has already been contributed since last May and that the challenge gift should lead to the highest alumni contributions in the university’s 82-year history.
Firestone, chairman of the Board of Trustees, announced his gift idea last October in hopes of encouraging alumni to increase their annual giving to the academic Master Plan.
Through the challenge gift. Firestone will match $50 or more gifts with three dollars for every one (for $50 he would give $150).
Gifts between $25 and $49 will be matched with two dollars for one, and $5 through
ed dollar for dollar.
Robb noted that the uddi-tional $250,000 earned through the Firestone challenge “will credit USC with almost $1 million.”
“The university will then need only $91,000 to reach that milestone,” he said.
The $659,000 figure, double that contributed in annual giving for any previous year, prompted President Topping to declare that “this achievement ranks USC as one of the nation's leaders in college and university alumni support.” Our alumni are to be both congratulated and thanked for their splendid effort, and we know they will share in our immense satisfaction,” he said.
The Firestone challenge gift is believed to be the largest dollar-matching gi f t ever made by an individual to any American college or university to be used in the area of annual giving, Robb reported.