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VOL. LIU
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1962
NO. 64
Garcetti Enters ASSC Battle
ASSC Union
SAD MORNING AFTER
NEW METHOD
Platform Asks
Fee Bill Plan To Be Studied
A bond issue proposing a $5 per semester assessment on fee bills for a new Student Union will be presented to the stu dent body during a special election in April, ASSC F*resi-dent Hugh Helm announced yesterday.
The proposal was approved by the union planning commission at its last meeting and is scheduled to be submitted to the administration.
“Students helping to pay for their own building is not a now practice.” Helm, who is chairman of the commission explained. "In fact, most stu-dc nt unions are purchased in this manner.”
UCLA Facility Students at UCLA are paying for their facility. Helm noted. UCLA’s activity book sold this year for $25 while USC’s was $15, with most of UCLA's extra §10 going toward union building and programming funds.
Helm believes USC students want a new Student Union and, more important, that they will help pay for one.
“The union planning commission survey last fall showed they are enthusiastic about the new facility," he said.
The estimated cost of USC’s structure is 51.200,000—$1 million for the building and $200, 000 for furnishings.
Students will be asked to pay for one-fourth or $296,000. of their building during the next four years with the $5 per semester assessment.
Fee Decreases "After four years the fee will go down to $2 or $2.50 until the building is completely ours.” Helm explained. “With assurance of funds from the assessments, construction will be able to begin earlier than now planned,” Helm continued.
The proposed Student Union addition will be located north-w e s t of the Commons, Helm said. The four- or five-story building will house several recreational and all-student facilities, some services and necessary office and meeting space.
Helm said the commission will make definite recommendations for a soda fountain and grill, branch bank, gift shop, record check-out room, billiards, ping pong and card room.
Scale Model Roger Hong, an architecture student, has supervised structural planning. Hong’s sketches will be submitted to the administration along with other Student Union details and upon their approval a scale mode! may be constructed for the student body.
All of the new Student Union recreation facilities will be available to USC students at no charge, Helm said.
“This is a phase of our program that differs from UCLA’s,” he noted. “They charge students reduced rates.”
The commission hopes to present its personal “master plan” to the administration by the end of the month. If the commission’s plan meets with approval it will be passed on to the student body.
Slow Children To Be Taught
Mentally retarded children will work and can learn provided we use the correct incentives, Dr. Charles E. Meyers, professor of education
said recently.
Dr. Meyers outlined three areas of investigation at a workshop on programs for the mentally retarded within Institutions.
The workshop was held on campus under the co-sponsor-ship of the university and the Southern California Region of
verbal reward that satisfies the child of normal mental development.”
All Beverages' In Row Events
Bv DAN SMITH Senate Reporter
AMS President Gil Garcetti filed the first petition Dr. Meyers said his studies I for the ASSC presidency yesterday and released a plat-of the nature of intellect and form calling for “open” traternity and sorority events, behavior sequence, carried out Garcetti’s announcement was closely followed by here and at Pacific State Hos- a statement irom Mike Robinson, president of the
pital, indicate that IQ as a measure of ability, must be replaced with a more articulated and descriptive profile of abilities.
New Test
A newly developed test may permit diagnosis of deficiencies
DANGER — Alpha Gams Sue Cameron (left) and Bennie Lee Sir Kegian hold up a sign at scene of fire in Alpha Gamma
Delta house on Row last week. The fire started in a heater and caused minor damage to the front of the house.
Baxter Praises Television As Rewarding Experience
the American Association on of handicapped children be-Mental Deficiency.	, tween the ages of two-and-one-
half and nine, and provide a basis for training at weak points and exploitation of strong points.
Much good work is starting in institutional circles to investigate the extent to which automation may be used beneficially with the retarded, Dr. Meyers noted.
“Automation is here to stay and take its rightful place as a tool for the teacher, not as a replacement,” he said.
New Trend Conference Chairman Sophia T. Salvin, professor of educational psychology and principal of the Washington Boulevard School for the Multiple Handicapped, emphasized the trend
Analysis of motivation indicates that retarded children are not stirred by the “reinforcers” which work with normal children, Dr. Meyers said.
“An attention-starved retarded child may be encouraged by a friendly smile to perform at a higher level.” he said. “Generally, he needs material reward as opposed to
Teaching through television is a rewarding experience in awakening people’s interest in learning, Dr. Frank C. Baxter, English professor emeritus, wrote in a recent issue of TV Guide.
In his article, “The Education of a Professor,” Dr. Baxter said televisiin is also beneficial to the professor.
“I have been tremendously
Researcher Gets Grant
Dr. Edgar Wamhoff, assistant professor of chemistry, has been awarded an unrestricted two-year fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of New York.
Dr. Warnhoff and 82 other U. S. scientists have been named Sloan Research Fellows and have received grants totaling $1.3 million. No an-nouncement of individual grants has been made.
Organic chemistry is Dr. Wsmhcffs area of interest. He will use his grant to continue research studies in this area.
Dr. Wamhoff did his undergraduate work at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. After receiving a PhD from the University or Wisconsin
Three Men Gain Posts On Campus
The promotion of three administration members to new positions was announced recently by university officials.
John K. Steinbaugh has been elevated to the new post of Director of College-University Relations and George Burns has been named to the newly created position of Director of Annual Giving.
Steinbaugh had been director of admissions, a position he held since 1958. He came	I j L r yy/
the university in 1954 as as-	LI DI O I y
fortunate in having this chance to enter the homes of so many people, through television, and to talk to them about great men and events, about important books and significant idea s,” the Shakespearean scholar wTote.
“No teacher has ever had a mo* personally gratifying experience than this.”
TV Audience Dr. Baxter pointed out that through four decades of college teaching the number of his students in comparison to the number of one night’s TV audience was very small.
“In my calculation, I estimated, rather generously, that an average of 400 students sat in ,my classes each year of the 40,” Dr. Baxter noted. Try as I wrould, I could make the total not more than 16,000.
“Yet, on one television program (the first national broadcast of Sir Laurence Olivier’s movie of “Richard III”), I
Scripps Man Joins Staff
sociate director of admissions from Torrance High School, where he was principal.
Howard W. Patmore was named to replace Steinbaugh and is now acting director of admissions.
36 Years
Patmore has been on the USC staff for 36 years. He has been registrar for the past 15 years and has served as associate director of admissions for the past two.
New director Bums gradu ated from the School of Business in 1955 and joined the university staff in 1959. He subsequently served as staff representative, associate director of development and assistant director of planning, the post he held just prior to accepting his new responsibilities.
New Rank
As acting director of admissions, Patmore will handle all applications for admission to USC by hjgh school graduates, transfer students from junior colleges, other universities and colleges and men and women entering graduate divisions.
Steinbaugh in his new position, will have the faculty rank of adjunct associate professor of higher education.
He is a graduate of Creighton University and studied at the University of Iow'a, Drake University, the University of Washington and USC.
The School of Library Science recently announced the addition of a new member tc its faculty this semester.
W. Roy Holleman, who w-as chief librarian for the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla for the past 11 years, will teach courses in science bibliography and technical libraries, according to Martha Boaz, dean of the Library School.
Holleman is also a director of the Special Libraries Association, an international organization of more than 5,000 information experts. He has served as president of the Southern California and San Diego chapters and as chairman of the science technology division. He is a graduate of Oklahoma State University.
Library School courses for the spring semester, as announced by the school, include reading guidance for adults; the American public library; the library and the mass media of communication; direct ed research; introductory cataloging and classification; storytelling; and personnel administration in libraries.
talked to an estimated 25 million people.”
Disda>n for TV
Dr. Baxter feels that some teachers profess an infuriating disdain for television and its ways.
“There are some teachers who feel that t’. ey would lose caste in joining up with the cowboys, private eyes, low comedians and merchandisers of pills,” he wrote.
“But television is a great operating force to influence the mentality of our country,” Dr' Baxter argued.
Valuable Programs
He noted that commercial networks themselves have sponsored respectable and socially valuable informative programs.
“Commercial networks have sponsored programs such as Sunrise Semester, Continental Classroom, The Twentieth Century, Victory at Sea, See It Now and Omnibus, to name just a few,” he wrote. “So I make thus plea to my fellow teachers in the schools and colleges: By all means, try your hand at television!”
Dr. Baxter retired from active teaching at USC last, spring. He maintains an office on campus in the Physical Education Building.
Peace Drama On A-Tests
To Be Staged
“Which Way the Wind,” a i drama dealing with the problem of attaining world peace, will be staged tonight at 6 at the University Metrodist Church. 817 W. 34th St.
The documentary drama will be presented with a minima1 surrealistic setting, and will feature a cast of professional actors, the group's bulletin j said. A series of discussions, quotations, flashbacks and in { terludes make up the work.
The play by Philip C. Lewis, i is based on voyages of the “Golden Rule,” w'hich sailed twice from California in attempts to enter the Pacific atom test area.
The work has received the praises of actors John Riatt. Robert Ryan and Don Murray. First produced in Philadelphia in 1959, it has since made two national tours.
John Larkin, director of the play, was featured for five years in the television series Edge of Night. He will appear in a new series, Saints and Sinners, in the fall.
Other member of the company are Stan Kahra, Richa.-d Sinatra, Georgia Hester and RoJ Griffis, who is the producer. All/mil Griffis have made frequent television appearances.
Admission to the performance will be free. The play will
Representation Party, questioning the discrepancy between petitioning and voting dates released by ASSC President Hugh Helm yesterday and those on the university's master calendar and in the Election Code.
Social Freedom In a prepared statement, Garcetti said that his administration. if elected, would attempt to get approval for more freedom in the social party system on the Row.
This would, he said, enable fraternities and sororities to serve all types of beverages at parties.
“The purpose of this plan is to help the fraternities and sororities financially,” he explained. “They would be able to hold their parties on the Row rather than have to rent halls off campus.”
Other planks in Garcetti’s j platform designed to help the I Greeks include making it pos-l sible for sororities and frater-i nities to be easily replaced!
GIL GARCETTI
. . . hat in ring
toward an interdiscipl.nary ap- when they are forced to quit proach to education within California institutions.
“We no longer set ' up a school and isolate it,” Dr. Salvin said. “All the services within the institute work closely together with the school, and school personnel attend staff
conferences.’’
Law Dean To Address Instructors
Dr. Orrin Evans, associate dean of the School of Law, will address the faculty luncheon today at 11:45 in the Faculty Center on “The problem of Discrimination in the Public Service.”
Professor Evans, recently appointed by Mayor Yorty to the Los Angeles Civil Service Commission, will discuss the many problems involved in weighing the evidence and accusations brought to the commission from the many facets of civil service university s facilities for cul-
Senate Plans Rush Talks At Row Meet
postponing the signing of dorm-1 An analysis of last semes-itory contracts until rushing is'tg^s accomplishments and a
completed and extending lockout for women to 11:15 p.m.
Foreign Students
Garcetti’s appeal to foreign students called for easing the communications barrier so that the American and foreign students would be better integrated.
He would accomplish this by Rmv increasing the present “Big Brother” program so that the foreign students would have friends as soon as they arrive on campus to introduce them to USC activities. He would also arrange a system by which they would receive more aid during their first registration period.
i-ocal Point
preliminary look at the coming semester’s work will be the major issues of discussion at the first Spring ASSC Senato meeting today at 5, Bob Kendall, Senate president pro tem said yesterday.
For the first time this year, the Senate will meet on the
Garcetti s plan for the general student body calls for a focal point for student activities on campus. He said this could be done by immediate improvement of the Student Union and a broader use of the
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority will host the informal dinner meeting, which Kendall said will still be open to the general student bodv.
Rushing B'll The only legislation expected to he discussed is a bill on "de ferred rushing” introduced by i Biological S ci e n c e s Senator Tom Bell. Kendall said.
He will speak specifically on
tural events.
“Such a system would also
the problems incurred with the riave tfle	°f drawing the
recent charge of discrimination independent student into cam-in the fire department.	‘ Pus activities,” Garcetti ex-
Dean Evans was formerly a Pla>ne<*- Only by such a gen-professor of law at the Univer- era^ P*an can we h°Pe to en* sity of Missouri and came to courage them to participate USC in 1947 as a Henry W. more in university events'
The bill, if passed, would 'postpone annual fraternity and sorority rushing to the Spring semester, with no rushing in the fall.
Rushing in general will also come under discussion. Kendall said that the topic will bo han died in view of the collapse of a fraternity pledge during Hell Week activity last week which resulted in the suspension of the fraternity.
Senators Election The present system of electing senators to represent a particular field of study may also
be followed by a discussion of Bruce Professor of Law. Since! The complaint registered bylcome under discussion. Ken-
non-violent alternatives to war as opposed to those presented by the military.
1952 he has also served as as-
Robinson referred to differ-sociate dean of the School of ences between dates for pe-Law in the field of equity. j	(Continued on Page S)
Robot to Teach Dentists
A teaching machine instead of a teacher is instructing students in clinical techniques in the School of Dentistry.
Although this method is a “first” for any dental or medical school in the world, dental facultymen hasten to add that the “t e a c h i n g’’ thus far amounts'to just one 23-minute illustrated postgraduate lecture on gold foil fillings.
The only “class” w-hich has thus far been instructed by this means was composed of eight practicing dentists participating in a pilot study to test the effectiveness of selfteaching aids in dentistry.
Grades earned by those taking the instruction from the teaching machines were equal to those of members of a “control” group \yhich heard the lecture from a professor.
To produce just one set of 51 35 mm. color slide illustrations and the audio accompaniment which explain them, more than $2,000 and more than 200 man-hours of work (Continued on Page 3)
ROBOT TEACHER - Dr. Rex Ingraham
(with earphones) and Dr. Sanford Golden watch screen on pilot model of pro-
posed teaching machine now being invest gated by the USC Dental School s Human Factors Research Laboratory.
dall said. Prior to initiation of this method two years ago, the senators were elected at large by the general student body.
The discussion of election of senators could mean that the legislative body is preparing i change in the system.
PTA Offers Fellowships
Two fellowships of $1,000 each for the academic year 1962-63 are available for students preparing for work in the public school or public library systems in California.
Application deadline for the fellowships, awarded by the California Congress of Parents and Teachers, is April 15, Library Dean Martha Boaz reported.
The fellowships are offered through the two library schools of the state — here and at Berkeley.
Non-residents of California are eligible for the award f they agree to spend two years following graduation working with children in California libraries.
Application blanks may be obtained from either the School of Library Science at USC or the School of Librarianship at the Berkeiey campus of the University of California.