Vandals Ransack 'Little Chapel'
U niversrty o"F	Southern Calrfomia
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. Llll
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1962
NO. 79
DIRECTING COMPUTER - Dr. Robert R. Brown, director of USC's Computer Sciences Laboratory, to be dedicated at ceremonies today, operates console of powerful electronic data processing system. The battery of
eight magnetic tape transports at right are each capable of reading or writing 96,000 decimal digits a second. Other components include a central processor with 8,000 words of memory and a high speed printer.
Computer Center To Be Dedicated With Demonstration, Open House
The university’s $2-million Computer Sciences Laboratory will be dedicated today as part of an opening celebration that will include an open house for students and faculty, a computer demonstration, a news conference and a banquet.
President Topping and Dr.
Book Expert Will Lecture On Writing
Genevieve Foster, author of illustrated books for children, will speak on “Writing and Illustrating Books" today at 3 in 133 FH.
Mrs. Foster, sponsored by the School of Library Science, has written and illustrated a series of childrens’ books depicting the world as it existed during the lifetimes of various historical figures.
She reports she began writing these books in order to help children visualize the relationships between historical events which took place at the same time but in different places.
Her books have received the praises of the New Yorker, the Library Journal, the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Times.
Among her works are "George Washirgton’s World," “Abraham Lincoln's Worl d” and "Augustus Caesar’s World.”
The mother of two was graduated from the University of! Wisconsin and studied at the Chicago Academy of Art.
Robert R. Brown, director of the new center, will join officials of Minneapolis Honeywell and Remington Rand, the companies whose equipment is in operation in the laboratory, for the dedication.
Walter W. Finke, president of Minneapolis Honeywell, will be on hand for the event, as will J. Presper Eckert, vice president of Remington Rand, and Dr. John Mauchly, president of Mauchly Associates.
Eckert and Dr. Mauchly, as student and professor at the University of Pennsylvania about 16 years ago, invented the first electronic computers.
The five men will participate in a news conference at the laboratory at 11 a.m. following demonstrations of the a 11-transistorized Univac 80 and Honeywell 800 computers.
A dedication dinner will be held at the Statler Hilton tonight, with a social hour set for 6:45 and dinner at 7:30.
Open house will be held from 1 to 4 at the Computer Center, 1010-20 W. Jefferson Blvd., at the northwest corner of the campus.
The computer equipment will be explained and demonstrated by both manufacturers for all visitors.
Speed is emphasized by both the Remington Rand and the Honeywell computers that will be displayed.
Univac tape units read or write data at a rate of 1.5
million characters a minute. The magnetic tape system in the Honeywell 800 can read or write ail the information in the Los Angeles central telephone directory in about six minutes.
The laboratory, the only one on a university campus in the country with computers installed by two manufacturers, is used by professors and graduate students in business, engineering, medicine and the physical and social sciences for research projects.
The Remington computer, which performs 11,760 additions or subtractions a second, currently runs eight hours a day at the laboratory.
The Honeywell machine can do eight different jobs at once at lightning speed. It includes, in addition to the central processor and electronic control units, six magnetic tape drives, a high-speed printer, high-speed card reader, a highspeed card punch and the floating point option for scientific computations.
Committee to Check Material for Election
Examination of campaign material for the March ASSC election is scheduled to begin today between 1 and 4, Elec tion Commissioner John Moyer reminded candidates yesterday.
The Election Committee will check banners and posters today, tomorrow and Friday to see if they meet the specifications outlined in the Election Code, Moyer said.
Only committee-approved material can be displayed in the campus area during campaigning, the commissioner emphasized.
Posters may be no larger than 18 by 24 inches, and pic-
tures on them may be only 8 by 10 inches. There is a 100 poster limit for each candidate.
Candidates may each have two banners no larger than 4 by 15 feet. Moyer warned that candidates must tie banners on all four corners.
He said only 10 posters may be placed in the islands of University Ave. Two posters on one stake will count as two, he noted.
Posters and banners must be removed from the campus area within 24 hours after the j polls are closed, Moyer pointed out.
Light Voting May Decide Trojanalities
Mr. and Miss Trojanality contests enter their final day today with the running so close “a couple of dollars could make the difference,” contest chairman Judy Crum-rine revealed yesterday.
| Light donation-voting during ! the contest has made the race jverv unstable, with no clear i leaders yet insight, MissCrum-rine reported.
I At the close of “voting" yesterday, Tau Delta Phi candidate Marsha Black took the lead from Alpha Tau Omega’? Bonnie Rowland, and baseball coach Rod Dedeaux regained his lead.
Leaders Change Early leader Mike Gless, Alpha Gamma Delta entry, drop ped back in the men’s race, with Kappa Kappa Gamma’s Chris Appel and Chancellor vor KleinSmid, backed by Alpha Gamma Delta, edging him out.
Alpha Chi Omega’s Bob Fra-nier also became a front-runner yesterday, making his first entry into the top positions.
In close competition in the women’s race, are Phi Kappa Tau’s Cathy Scott and Tau Epsilon Phi’s Pris Morgan.
Last Day “Backers of contestants have been waiting until the last day to make their big contributions," MLss Crumrine explained. “This is one of the reasons voting has been so light and haphazard.”
Winners of the Trojanality contests will be announced Friday. The top man will receive Trojanality trophies, as will the sponsoring fraternity and sorority.
Proceeds from the Trojanality contest will go to the current Troy Chest drive, which will also end today except for an extra day of classroom donations on Friday.
Almost 5100 was added to the drive by the two-day pie throw on Doheny lawn, at which 100 pies donated by Helms Bakeries were pitched at campus personalities.
Short of Goal The drive has passed the halfway mark toward its $4,-000 goal, but chairman Ken Payne predicts the final total, after the Trojanality contests and Friday collections are finished, will fall about $400 short of the goal.
Chairman Payre was hopeful the goal could still be reached.
“This is the only charity drive we have on campus all year and it is entirely student-supported,” he said. “We hope everybody will dig a little deeper during the final collection on Friday.”
Doily Trojan Photo
DAMAGED CHURCH — Arrow points to swasiika drawn on altar cloth during yesterday's damaging of the university's Little Chapel of Silence. Altar cross, as seen in background, has been turned upside down.
Cabinet Vetoes Bill, Calls It Hodgepodge
By DAN SMITH Senate Reporter
The Executive Cabinet last night voted a Senate bill establishing and defining open closed ASSC meetings because of “hodgepodge" terminology.
A Senate bill reorganizing the administrative arm and establishing an administrative assistant to the ASSC president, recommended earlier by the cabinet, was passed at last night’s session.
The public meeting bill, as passed by the Senate, calls for a means of determining which meetings would be open. It guarantees public representa-
Professors Will Speak
The Quadri-Centennial Anniversary of the birth of Lap.1 de Vega, Spanish dramatist, will be the subject of the Faculty Center Association meeting today at noon in the Faculty Center.
Speakers will be Dr. Herbert M. Stahl, professor of dram i and Dr. Everett W. Hesse, pro fessor of Spanish and authority on do Vega.
The two men are coordinating a series of eevnts to honor the Renaissance Spanish play wright during the month of March. Conceris, art exhibits, motion pictures, book display, and lectures related to thc Golden Age of Spain will be fef tured during thc festivitie>
High point of thc month's programmings will be a pro duction of “The Gentleman From Olmedo" by the drama department, directed by Dr. Stahl. Performances will be !riven March 16. 17, 22, 23, and 21 in Bovard Auditorium.
Stop Gap Will Stage One-Act Plays
Hidden behind the bushes at the 9orner cf Hoover St. and Exposition Blvd. is the home o? USC's Experimental Theater, Stop Gap, which is currently being prepared for the opening tomorrow ni^ht of three one-act play*.
Originally a warehouse for the railroad crew laying track down Exposition Blvd., Siop G- p was turned into a theater by the late head of the drami department, Cecil B. DeMille.
The theater derived its n?nr from DeMille, who referred to it as a stop gap between the construction of a new home for the drama on campus and the drmolition of an old one.
That was in 1929. Today it is still a stop gap. although the Master Plan includes planr for a facility to house the department of cinema, fine art? and drama.
Another story concerning the o. igin of the name Stop Gap relates that in the early day-of the unive-sity, trains ran down Exposition Blvd. with a great deal more frequency than they do today.
It was almost a surity that at any given performance a
train would come by and stop the production with its noise, leaving a gap in the p 1 a y— htnce, Stop Gap.
The ancient theater, which has gained a reputation among Los Angeles playgoers for its experimental productions, has been the home of such Los Angeles premieres a s Camus’ “Caligula" and Becket’s “Waiting for Godot.”
The series being prepared for Thursday’s opening includes another debut for the informal arena, an adaptation of Janv^s Penrod’s short story, “The Scarlet Ibis’* into a one-act dance drama.
Also included in the trio of one-acts will be Moliere’s “The Doctor in Spite of Himself" and Bertolt Brech’s “The Exception and the Rule.”
The Moliere farce, in which the leading character thinks h5mself thc greatest doctor in the world, will be juxtaposed with Brecht’s philosophical drama of murder and intrigue that involves the death of a Chinese coolie and the implications it has for his murderer, a German.
DEADLY COMBAT — John Meade and Roger Towne portray the German and the Chinese coolie in one of Stop Gap theater's upcoming one-act plays "Exception and the Rule," a philosophical drama of murder and intrigue
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Steal
Church Money
By BARBARA DERDZIN'SKA Vandals ransacked the university’s Little Chapel of Silence yesterday morning, breaking into a cupboard containing church property and causing extensive damage.
Hymn books were tom, chairs overturned, wine spilled and papers littered the floor. Damage Bible
Vandals also turned the altar cross upside down, ripped out sections of the Bible and drew a swastika on the altar cloth with a ball-point pen. Candles on the altar remained untouched.
The damage was discovered by the Rev. James Leovy, new undergraduate Episcopal explain, and a group of stuu .its who had come for the Holy Communion service scheduled for shortly after noon.
“We have had minor problems in the past but this is the most outrageous attack of pure vandalism we have ever had.” University Chaplain Dr. John E. Cantelon said.
The chapel, located behind Town and Gown, stands open all day for private meditation or group religious meetings. The building was a gift of the late Mrs. Walter Harrison Fisher, who, before her death, was a member of the Board of Trustees.
Money Missing
“The only thing we have found to be missing so far is money from the coin box,” Dr. Cantelon said. “We will be able to ascertain the total amount of damage after we clean up and take an inventory.”
The University Division police were notified of the vandalism and officers checked the chapel for latent fingerprints.
‘The police found so few prints that they think the damage was done by a person or persons wearing gloves," Dr. Cantelon said.
Religious Protest?
“It’s hard to say whether this was done by someone who wants to protest against society and religion in some way or if it just reflects a general breakdown in respect for property in the culture at large," he added.
Lt. Morris of the University Division police said detectives have not found any religious basis for the incident. Similar incidents have been reported in the Wilshire area, he said. Prior attempts at breaking (Continued on Page 2)
Music Talk To Be Given By Professor
A lecture on music instruction statute provides for the tion wm ^ presented by the elimination of five administra- School of Music today at noon
in Hancock Auditorium as this one of the leading authorities with one officer with the re- week-s offering in the Music at on the subject in the Unitedjsponsibility of coordinating ^s-oon series
_j Prof. Ralph Rush, department of music education head, will discuss “Teaching Music I in Higher Education” at the lecture geared to prospecUve music teachers in junior «.nd senior high schools, colleges and universities.
Food for Thought “Food for thought will be provided by this lecture, for all people who are seriously interested in education in the United States,” Brandon Mehrle, program director, stated.
He said Professor Rush is considered by many to be the dean of music educators in America today.
The educator Is currently on three California state teams for evaluating California alleges’ music teacher training programs.
Clinical Director He also works as adjucator and clinical director in music festivals and contests.
Professor Rush served as national president of the Music Educators National Conference from 1952 to 1954. For the past eight summers he has directed the orchestra and chamber orchestra at USC’s Idyllwild summer session program. Dqtly Trojan Photo by 3teve Somody Music at Noon programs fea-that invofves the death of the coolie and the implica- ture graduate and undergradu-tions it has for his murderer, the German. The author, ate campus musicians in free Bertolt Brecht, uses the drama to plead for a form performances open to the en-of justice based on humanity as well as formal logic. tire university.
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City Official Will Speak On Scandal
John P. Kenney, associate professor of public administration who was appointed to the Los Angeles board of police cmmissioners last July, will discuss the “Social Implications of the Denver Police Corruption at 11 today in 207 Anx.
In November, at the request of the Denver city council, Kenney went to that city to investigate a police scandal.
The scandal started when eight ranking members of the Denver police force were arrested on charges of robbery. Before it subsided, 42 other policemen were implicated in over 200 robberies involving more than $2.5 million in stolen property.
Professor Kenney has published many books on police corruption, and is considered
tions, either in mass or by a Daily Trojan reporter, at meetings defined as open.
It also defines as “executive sessions” meetings of judiciary bides, suggesting these are closed meetings.
The major complaint against the bill, brought up by ASSC President Hugh Helm, was that it implied “executive session” meant “closed session” but didn’t actually say it.
Bill Fails
ASSC Secretary Maryalice Herrick said the bill must include a means for groups to notify her as well as the Daily Trojan of proposed meeting dates to be constitutional.
After defeating the bill, the cabinet recommended the senate pass it over the veto after making the suggested changes.
Struggling to save the bill, its originators—Biological Sciences Senator Tom Bell and Social Studies Senator Ned Taylor—tried to convince the cabinet members either to pass the bill with an executive declaration of intent or to make the changes themselves.
Helm declared that the cabinet couldn't make changes itself and asserted he wouldn’t allow it to set a “bad” precedent.
“If we’re going to do this at all, we should do it right,’’ Helm said.
Recommendations
The cabinet finally recom-, mended executive sessions be specifically as closed session? j and a provision be added pro- j viding a way for the ASSC sec-1 retary to be notified of meet- j ings.
The administrative reorgani-
States.
lASC committees.