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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1958
NO. 54
Medieval Nativity Plays Begin SC Campus Christmas Festivities
SOVIET THREAT
Berlin Crisis Said Aimed at U. S. Role
By DAVID C. HENLEY
The present crisis in Berlin is just another maneuver by the Russians to put the United States on the spot because the Soviets know, from past experiences, that America, even if it did threaten action against the aggressor, “she (America) would not carry the action out.”
This is the belief of Dr. Harry A. Kissinger, associate director of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and a frequent critic of American foreign policy and diplomacy.
Concluding: Session Speaking before the concluding session of the Institute of World Affairs in Pasadena, Dr. Kissinger said that Russia's improbable gambles, such as its recent announcement advocating West and East Berlin to be amalgamated into a “free city,” are perpetrated with safety and absence of fear by the Soviets because of the continued past actions of the United States in making threats “which she does not carry out.”
America must alter her present course of weakness, Dr. Kissinger told his audience in the ballroom of the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel, not only to protect our allies from Russian domination, but to vie with Russia in the diplomatic war which is being watched by nations that are only too ready to join the side of the victor.
Demands Strongness The sole way to win this diplomatic “war,’ ’the speaker believes, is to be “strong in our attiude.”
“This country must be less clever, less cautious, and less upset by our risks so that we can address ourselves to our opportunities.
“Otherwise, our defeat is almost certain in due time,” he warned.
The speaker, a dapper man with a pronounced German accent, also warned that the American military environment must be related with current military situations.
“We need a clearer understanding of the nature of strategy and the role of force and its proper application,” he added, in explaining how America should be more forthright in its Berlin and West German moves.
Role of USIA
Another authority on Communism and Soviet pressures throughout the world, George V. Allen, director of the United States Information Agency, told the Institute that contrary o public opinion, the U.S.I.A. is not attempting to sell America to the world or to areas behind the Iron Curtain.
It is, however, rying o promote international understanding ... to break down barriers between nations and “of course, to advance the leadership of the United States while doing so.”
America must not attemp an overt act of trying to sell itself to the wnrld Allen said because it “irritates” these nations.
Troy Songsters Add
AAood to Production
Christmas comes to SC tonight with the opening performance of the drama department’s two fifteenth-century nativity plays in Bovard Auditorium at^iSO p.m.
“The Second Shepherd's Play’ ’and “The Pageant of Shearmen and Tailors” will also be presented tomorrow7 through Sunday nights, with a
DT Photo by M. A. H. Faruqui
FLIGHT TO EGYPT-Rehearsing a scene from one of the Nativity plays to be presented in Bovard tonight are Ellen Elliott and Roy Williams. The plays, written in the 15th century, will be enacted as they were in Medieval days.
Police Chief Hits At Evidence Rule
Cites Barbara Graham Movie As Slight to Law Enforcement
Police saved Susan Hayward . less the name of the informer is from death by suicide when they made available to the court.
entered her home without a
search warrant and rushed her to the hospital. Then she shows her gratitude by condemning them in the movie “I Want to Live,” Police Chief William H. Parker declared here yesterday.
Even if the tip of the informer is found to be true, the court reserves the right to judge the information on the basis of the informer himself, he pointed out.
“If an informer's name gets out, he could be killed by people
Parker cited Miss Hayward as j in the narcotics trade,” Chief an example of a poor public at- j Parker told the members of the titude toward the police in his i law fraternity, speech about the Cahan Decision ; search warrant is also re-at the Phi Alpha Delta law fra-; quired to search any premises,
i even if a criminal has confessed,
Saltman Says Life Origin Ideas Vary
QUICK, HimOii to the prese ment of lif< of years. Dr ed vesterdaj The 30-ye, told 1 llP t-’ar
velopm » non-] ponder« reeorde
•1 the age-old ques-origin of life have early theories that generation is a immediate process t idea that develop-mav take millions Paul Saltman stat-
r old SC biochemist eultv Club that Spon-•neration — the de->f a living thing from ; thing — has been ince the beginning of
I ternity luncheon yesterday.
The Cahan Decision of the | California State Supreme Court enforced the Exclusionary Rule which says that evidence believed by a court to be contrary to the Fourth Amendment cannot be accepted in court. This has included the non-acceptance of lap« recordings as evidence al-I though the Fourth Amendment rules only against illegal search-, es and seizures, Parker said.
Criminals Encouraged “The Cahan Decision results in giving greater encouragment ! to the criminal because it makes
unliving material in the bottom and, finding that no life originated. won a prize offered by the French Academy of Sciences by concluding that life will not originate without micro-organisms, eggs or other living things, j it harder for the police to obtain In other words. Dr. Saltman | legal evidence,” the Police Chief stressed, life will not spring up j pointed out.
from nothing, but must originate ; Proponents of the decision from a living cell.	have battled unethically, Parker
Spontaneous Generation maintained. They say . there But in the 1930 s scientists be- would be no rise in the crime
No Relisi ou* r from contra
Conflict
sting with
ligious 1<	?achings. he noted, spon-
taneous	generation finds its
counterp	art in t he Book of Gene-
sis in st	atcments such as “God
created \	
Tlie it	lost notable early work
concern ii	ng the rapid develop-
ment of	life, Dr. Saltman said.
was don*	1 around the middle ages
v hen p	rofessions such as Al-
chemist r	y emertred as “sort of a
dawn of todav.”	science as we know it
A] thou	igh an Italian named
Francesc	o Reddi had concluded
in the l1	600 s that there was no
spomane	ous generation at all.
Dr. Salt	man went on. science
still held Id fener	1 to the theory of a rap-alioii of life
l*a	XV urk ( ilfil
1 he i	U at n\a tor e\pei iment
disprovin	ig tiiis theory, lie said.
was tlv*	work of 1 ouis Pasteur.
Pasieur	look a boltle with a
long co	nvoluted neck, planted
gan to turn again to the concept of spontaneous generation, Dr. Saltman noted, this time with the idea that it may take millions of years to come about.
In 1952 Stanley Miller, of the University of Chicago, created conditions in a glass globe that approximated as closely as he could discover the conditions thought to have existed on the earth when life began some .100 million years ago.
Acids Isolated
In this experiment Miller isolated six important amino acids and a number of other compounds.
“The poini of this" the SC bio-chemist lold his audience, ‘‘is that it is conceivable from this work that simple molecules which are joined together in an organic soup may form polymers.”
“Ii is also conceivable," he said, “that the colloidal systems ur the eai tii together became surrounded by a membrance, or sheath ai one time and began the process of self-duplication of molecules.”
rate: but “when it is harder to
Parker went on.
In some cases, however, getting a search warrant takes too long if the police are going to catch a criminal with evidence, he explained.
Pointing up some of the weaknesses of the rulings demanding warrants, he said if a policeman has a warrant to search for narcotics and finds drugs on a knife which was used to kill someone, the narcotics may be used as avidence, but the knife may not be used as evidence of a killing.
In many cases the court has actually legislated on eivdence in a case, he went on.
“Rightly, only the Legislature has the power to make laws,” he said.
Declines Views
When asked bis views on capital punishment, Parker
catch a criminal, it is natural j said.” My answer to that is I
won’t give my views on canital punishment to anyone, but I do have records of seven cases where a person was convicted of murder, later released, and came out to kill again.”
The question brought up by the Cahnn decision is one of practicality versus emotionalism. Parker explained.
"If we want to identify ourselves as a nation, we must deal with facts and not seditives. Otherwise, this nation is going to rewrite history and fall to pieces.” Parker said.
“After ail.” he said, “who is suffering. Society is suffering for it."
for more crimes to be committed.”
Parker also cited Walter Wan-ger, producer of Miss Hayward's movie “I Want to Live,” as another person responsible for the condemning of police tactics in the Barbara Graham case.
Criminal C undents Police
After Wanger shot a man and was convited of assault, he was sentenced to one year in the county jail.In 4'j months, Wanger asked for parole and was refused. “Now he produces a movie condemning police.” the chief said.
When the court rules against police evidence — such as a tape recording—they are saying that two wrongs make a right. They set free a known guilty criminal because they don’t agree with the police method of getting evidence, according to Parker.
Tape recordings are not the only types of evidence which aren’t accepted. An officer cannot use the evidence of an informer in a narcotics case un-
J-Schocl Alums
To Elect Officers
Officers of the newly-formed SC journalism alumni organiza-tion will he elected at a board of directors meeting scheduled for today in the commons.
Sunday 2:30 p.m. matinee performance added.
The first play is a humorous account of a shepherd, Mak. who steals a sheep, takes it home and tries to conceal it as his “newborn child.” His ruse is discovered by the three shepherds from whom he took the lamb, but they only bounce him | in a blanket for punishment.
Angel Appears j. An angel later appears to the soft-hearted shepherds and tells them of the new-born Christ Child.
The second play takes over at this point, with a scene at Herod's court as he hears of the ! new "King of the Jews” from | the Three Wise Men.
The Magi present their gifts to the child, and a scene from ; the shepherds play is inserted here to show the three rustics ' presenting their simple, but i equally important gifts to the baby. Then the story of the Flight into Egypt is told.
Howard M. Banks is director of the plays. Settings and costumes are by John E. Blanken-chip, and lighting is by student Tom Costello.
Choir Sings
The SC A Cappella Choir, conducted by Edward Wojtkow-ski, will present liturgical music to establish the religious mood of the second play.
The two plays were originally presented by trade guilds as parts of cycles of Biblical dramatizations during the three-day Feast of Corpus Christie in fifteenth-century England. The 30-odd plays of each cycle were presented on “pageant wagons" which moved from location to location so that spectators could see all episodes over a period of hours by staying at a particular j spot.
The cycle from which “The Second Shepherd's Play" was I taken has come down to us in only one manuscript. It is called the "Towneley Cycle’’ after one of its former owners, and is now in the Huntington Library at San Marino. Banks wyent to the original for his transcription, but had to change the language from its old English form.
Favorite Play
“From the wear on the pages of this play in the Towneley Cycle, which must have been used for a prompt script, it's apparent that the shepherd's play was a favorite piece,” Banks said last week.
The program cover for the plays has a photostatic reproduction of the first page of the Towneley Cycle, with its elaborate illumination illustrated.
“The Pageant of Shearmen and Tailors" was taken from the Wakefield Cycle.
Well-Known
The shepherds play is well known among theater people, and many will be in the audience to see the SC performance. The Joan Wilcoxson Players, a group known for its production <^f cycle plays for several years in the Paper Mill Playhouse in Santa Monica, will be here for the Friday performance.
The cast of animals, including two horses, a sheep and a donkey, have been raising quite a commotion on campus. A young lady walking by Bovard during a rehearsal heard the bleeting sheep and thought she was going mad, and a resident of Stonier Hall reported that the barnyard noises on Child's Way broke up his studying.
Tickets are .$1 and may be bought at the Student Union, drama office or Eovard box of-! fice 1-4-p.m. daily. Activity book ticket 9 may be exchanged for admission. Reservations can still be made for seats at all per-) formances.
Senators Hold !Special Meet
A special meeting of all the senators-at-large will he held tonight at 6:15 in the ASSC ; office at 215 SU.
The purpose of the meeting is to carry out Senate reso-j lution on particular assignments for senators.
SC Matador Will Discuss Fiesta Brava
What flashes through your mind when a 1200-pound bull comes charging at you at more than 20 miles per hour?
SC student Alan Kishbaugh will discuss this and other aspects of the life of an aspiring bullfighter today on KUSC-TV's “Trojan Personality" at 12:15 p.m.
Kishbaugh, a 20-vear-old junior who was born in Pasadena, will relate experiences from his three years of training and six months of actual bullfighting in Spain from February through August. 1958.
“The bullfight is not a sport.” stales Kishbaugh. “It is a spectacle, a science and an art."
Blue-eyed, blond Kishbaugh, an International Relations major, feels one of the reasons bullfighting is non-existent in the U.S. is “the American's attitude toward death.”
Reviewal Stems From Recruiting
By GARRY SHORT Daily Trojan Sports Editor
The NCAA, czar of college athletics, is on SC's back
¿gain.
The bitter news has been confirmed by Faculty Athletic Representative Hush Willett.
The trouble stems from supposed illegal recruiting
piactices during the summer of
195;.
Two Students Involved
Willett's prepared statement said that the alleged irregularities involve two prospective student athletes. And the Daily Trojan learned last night that at least one of these students is not a football player, but rath-I er a track man.
The NCAA committee meets January 7-9, in Cincinnati!,, and will discuss the accusations at that time. SC will definitely i have a representative at this meeting, probably Willett or 1 Athletic Director Jess Hill.
Accuser Unknown
Willett denies knowing who levied the accusations against the Trojans.
It was learned, however, that an Eastern newspaper has been taking pot-shots at the SC recruiting system for our taking away such top Pennsylvania stars as Angie Coia and Dan Ficca. It is highly possible that this might have led directly to some school issuing the complaint.
SC officials deny emphatically that Coia and Ficca are involved in the mess. But the Trojan rosters in both football and track include many other eastern athletes.
Students Assured
Willett	assured	students	in ,	, ,	, ,
his statement	that SC	0fHcjals	toward laiowledse	and apprcc,a-
tion of the arts	an Associated
Women Students	audience was
told yesterday.
In the last of a series of Women's World forums sponsored by the AWS. Dr. Donald Goodall, head of the fine arts depart-has i ment. and Professor John Crown, of the School of Music, discussed ideas pointing to the fact that "The Feminine Touch Means Art in Everyday Living.”
Although women have been a heavy influence in promoting cultural activities throughout the country in the past few years. Crown said, there is room for improvement. He noted that they “are a passive generation, and often refuse to stand up for their rights.”
Foster Spirit
“You can foster spirit.” he
said, talking to the women, “and you must not be awed by the
HUGH C. WILLETT
. . on NCAA action
Foster Spirit Women Told At Club Meet
It is the function of the women of this generation to foster spirit.
have made a thorough investigation and have filed with the NCAA committee information and affidavits which they believe completely refute the charges.
The NCAA has a knack, however, of implying that an insti tut ion is guilty before it been proved so.
The complaint apparently involves a technical point in transporting an eastern atjilete to campus.
Under normal circumstances, the Trojans would	merely be
slapped on the wrists.
But since SC is still on probation by the NCAA for illegal recruiting of athletes, many in the athletic department feel that the NCAA might again throw1 the book at SC.
Large Fine
SC was fined the equivalent i of $63.400 by the Pacific Coast '
Conference in Julv, 1956, when j	.	.	.	.
, j .	., n expert who might cow vou into
it was banned irom the Rose | r .	.	”	______j ,______,
Bowl for two years in the af-
termath of gridiron violations.
An NCAA official was on campus last month talking to certain athletes and asking for detailed reports from the athletic
edge.”
Dr. Goodall urged the women to try to learn more, saying, “There is always more to know’. Prudence and intellectual risk
SC students will enjoy warmth and sunshine again today as the forecast remains nearly the same as yesterday.
department. But he would not are the two factors important divulge any information at that *n finding out about new things, time. All he was doing was J You must escape prudence, he “gathering facts.”	emphasized,	“to establish	the
Don Clark, SC coach who is	risk- Beware	of prudence.”
developing one of the	strongest j Crown joined in this	idea,
football powerhouses	in the	stressing the	good that knowl-
eountry, defended SC’s recruit- | edge docs for appreciation. "The ing program. “Our recruiting is more you know.” he said, “the as well-controlled as any in the \ greater your enjoyment of life country. We'll cooperate with becomes. You must provide your the NCAA on any investigation, children with the nourishment We’re anxious to open our j to foster a knowledge of music books.”	|	and art.”
ASSC DEFENDED
MYERS
SPEAKS
(Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of articles by Daily Trojan Senate Reporter Joe Saltzman interviewing ASSC Senators for their evaluation of SC’s sftnlent government and its role in the university.)
By JOE SALTZMA.N An angry Barbara Myers, No. 1 Senator-at-Large violently protested that “do-nothing critics” of the ASSC Senate are individuals who “are sorry to see that the days of big scandals, unfounded fire and fury and boastful juvenile senators have passed.”
“These so-called critics have said that the Senate is doing nothing." she said, “but the truth of the matter is that the Senate has done much more than it has ever done in the past hut it has done it quietly and efficiently.”
"And it is this ‘quietness’ which has been the foundation of criticisms.” she exe’aimed.
Two Year 3Iember Member of the ASSC Senate for two years (under the Larry Sipes administration as Spur President last year), Miss Myers said that President Scott Fita-Randolph is “an outstanding president. lie is a monitor at the Senate and a leader outside of Senate.”
“By maintaining order and
reason at the meeting as a monitor.” she said, “Scott has j increased the' effectiveness of I the Senate. By acting as the | leader outside of the Senate, he | has gotten his ideas into the ac-1 tual meeting through other senators.”
“The individual senators can handle their specific business in their own committees,” she said, “but the Senate can delve into public relations (in its general sense which includes intellectual and cultural fields) and create a new form of student influence.”
Miss Myers claims that the j Senators’ main role, anyway, | should be that of a public relations body.
One of her pet grievances is the malfunctioning of the nine senators-at-large. “This is no fault of the individual,” she said, “for we (the senators-at-large) have been bogged down in a messy evaluation of our-
I
selves; and a re-evaluation of! our duties.”
Motion Tabled “I personally did not see any j reason for having senators-at-large, but the group decided that there was a good reason and the motion to replace the senators-at-large with directors (and specific duties) was tabled,” she said.
“Without duties and obligations,“ she maintained, "the senators-at-large have no directed place to go: it is impos-; sible to represent 17.000 students at random. Specific duties for i
each senator-at-large is imperative.”
She also said that four to fiva “directors” would be much better than the present nine senators-at-large.
Three Point Plan
Emphasizing the importance of the “Academic Life program,” Miss Myers told of a three point plan to increase the intellectual standards on campus.
(1)	A committee project to contact Phi Beta Kappa members and try to get them to give their ideas for the most beneficial courses offered at the university.
(2)	Evaluation forms made available to the faculty so that areas such as testing, discussion and grading can be surveyed.
(3)	Daily Trojan feature stories explaining the introductory courses in all departments— printed as a servioe for the students.
This program is being formed. she said, and will, be worked on the rest of the semester.
When asked about the apparent lack of legislation, she said that most, of the legislation usually comes from the senators-at-large and the lack of legis-Itaion is generally a fault of these senators.
Chong Praised
Willie Chong, chairman of the Homecoming Committee, was cited as an excellent example of a student working for the university without political ambitions anil a “what's in it for me" type or- atutude.
“This is indicative of Senate work at its best,” she said.
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