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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1959
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Caste System The Maori have a rigid caste »'stem with the chief at the top. followed by the family croup and the slave.
‘'Marriage can break the social rule.’’ Wright maintained, ‘■for if a slave marries above his caste, his children will he considered free men.”
In his discussion of Maori social customs. Wricht demonstrated and explained many of the traditional Maori dances and rit-
Class Council Abolition Proposed in Senate
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PLATFORM DEBATE — Last night's Wesley Club meeting was the battleground for a formal debate on the platforms of ASSC presidential candidates Mike Thompson,
Daily Trojan Photo by Bob Holste
left, and Wally Karabian, right. Tom Harrison, center, fired questions at the two presidential battlers. The politicians have campaigned vigorously all this week.
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"Invitations are scnl r delivered bv the villages mosl beautiful maidens.” he said. The host village then begins preparing ihe food for ihe occasion.
"The more food and delicacies on the shelf, the more successful the feast «ill be.” he explained.
Special Treats
Preserved rats and jellied eels are considered special treats bv 1he Maori “Preserved rats are 1he most beautiful food you ean get,’’ Wright admitted.
And jellied eels cooked ihe right wav are just fabulous, allhough he admitted that he had never eaten one.
Activities of welcome are also an important part of ihe feast. "Thctv are rows and rows of merrv maidens dancing and welcoming ihe guests. Wright said.
Welcome Dance
He demonstrated the traditional welcome dance of the Maori and the "stick’’ dance which requires absolute poise and crace in its performance.
‘ When a Maori sits down, he just doesn’t sit d Avn—he dances his way down,” Wright said as be rhythmically sank 10 the floor.
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ASSC presidential candidates Wally Karabian and Mike Thomson determinedly opposed each c,1her last nicht in a discussion of ihe ASSC presidents control over the Senate, ai a “Meet the Voter” quiz session held at the Wesley Club meeting.
Karabian advocated a strong president leading the Senate through student government problems and legislation while Thomson maintained that the president and the Senate should contribute Equally, each complementing the other.
Prompted by a question from a trio of interviewers—Senator Stan Arkin, Daily Trojan Editor Jim Bylin and Wesley Club Chairman Kurt Hahn—the topic of leadership of the Senate combined with the constant presi-dent-Senate conflict was interpreted by both presidential candidates.
Two Alternatives
“There are two alternatives for the president to take,” Karabian said. “Either a strong president leads and the Senate follows. or a strong Senate leads and the president follows.
“This past year we have not had a strong leadership and it has been the Senate which has led and the president who has followed.” he said.
"A good president musl encourage the Senate and keep alive a vital interest in student government by makinc the legislation practical and interesting to the students.” Karabian added.
Full Leadership
"For this reason.” he emphasized. “the next ASSC president must take full leadership of the Senate.”
Thomson said that both the president and the Senate have basic platforms which must be fulfilled and “both the president and the Senate should contribute legislation with no one body dictating to the other.
"We have progressed 1o the poirjt where student government is no longer a one-man circus. Sludent government today is effective only when both the senate and the president show ihe initiative to form constructive legislation and ideas.” Thomson added.
Basie Points
Both candidates also outlined four basic points in each of their platforms for the ‘‘Meet the Voter” audience.
Karabian asked for a university humor magazine, the repeal of certain election legislation hindering the student, a community forum and an extensive
SCope Speakers Evaluate Today s Puppet'Collegians
Par too main siudenis suffer from a lack ol independence and become puppets in the classroom end societv. said two ¡>C prolcs-sors when they reported yesterday on the values of college students.
Speaking at the SCope program, Dr. J. Wesley Robh. head of the religion department, referred to the Phillip Jacobs report on the changing values of students on various college campuses in the east and midwest.
Confident Student
According to the report, the average student is self-conlident. convinced that he can determine his own destiny. He thinks that most people can be trusted. Sometimes lie is naive.
“The studeni is primarily in-
ress in the world. He stresses a career and home rather than religion. community service or leisure.” Dr. Robb reported.
Morality is viewed by the stu-dent as a broad, socially accepted wav of life, he said.
Cheating Admitted
“Cheating is admitted bv 40 per cent of the students who do so with no wrong feelings. It is not morally condemned,” he stated.
In terms of a heirarchy of values. Dr. Robb reported that the American student lists sell-confidence. social acceptance, friendship and moral principles, in that order, as being the most important.
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Thus he conforms to group ( standards and is afraid to be l identified with a ’socially unac-ccpicd’ group." Robb said.
Dr. Robbs inteiprctation of 1 the collcge student was backed i by Dr. James Peterson, associate professor of sociology and j general studies, when he criti- I cized the lack of identity found j in the students.
“In our society the college I student seems to have identification but no identity. He is de- I pendent upon the view of him-! self through the looking glass.
? demonstration of schizoid behavior.” he asserted.
The student’s answer to who ]■* is. is very confused because he is not courageous enough to I
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set himself apart from olhers. Students often do not wean themselves from their piers and thus bccome dependent upon parents for money and emotional guidance, he said.
Dr. Peterson expressed the necessity for students to “grow up” and toss aside negativistic dynamos that inhibit maturation.
“Freedom leads to sensitivity and growing together focuses in dividuality,” he said.
Individuality leads to a sense of real values, and these real values have a dimension into the future, he stated.
‘ Persons who are free and im-aginative will be concerned with ihp world in which their children live,” he said.
foreign student program.
Thomson called for more adequate counseling, more efficient I police protection, an adequate foreign student program and more voice in financial matters concerning the universty.
Friendly Rivalry
Thomson called for friendly I rivalry of independents and foreign students with the people on the Row. “This would be a means to integrate the foreign students into student activities,” j Thomson said.
However. Karabian called this rivalry with the Row “a little absurd, since rivalry should not take ihe place of constructive activities such as a possible ‘Nation Week on campus.”
During the proceedings, moderator Tom Harrison. Wesley Cluh president, keeping an eye ' on his watch (because of Dv. Frank Baxter's SCope Program beginning immediately after the panel discussion), hindered the panel by not letting Kaiabian or Thomson finish many of their j statements.
Last Question
Sensing this, Arkin warned that his would be the final question. He asked, “If either of you boys are elected . . . and I sup-| pose one of you will be, what s will be your administration plan for next semester?
To this Thomson said that he, j if elected, would try to make SC a better place for the college | sludent. through a definite plan to get “our money’s worth now and in the future.”
Karabian said that he would implement all of his 12 platform points, keep the Senate active with university projects and try to make his persona] enjoyment and interest in student government that of the entire student body through the influence of the ASSC Senate.
SC To Hold Career Talk
Leaders of industry will meet w'ith 24 selected Los Angeles high school students for a Community Career Conference at » luncheon in the Town and Gown Foyer today.
The program wii* -'resent a new' approach to the problems of introducing high school students 1o the requirements for a variety of vocations. The event ! is sponsored by SC and the In-rlustrial-Education Council.
Twelve tables will he set up and each will focus on a different industrial or vocational field such as accounting, business,
I chcmistry, education, engineering languages, law management, mathematics, medicine and phy-| sics.
Each table will host two high school students and their teachers, an SC student, a university faculty member, a representative of the profession and an | Industry-Education Council representative.
Dr. L. C. van Atta, head of educational and technical information at Hughes Aircraft Co.. will speak at the luncheon. Mrs. Florence Watt, director of the SC Vocational Placement Bureau is conference director.
By DAVE FARMER
It is hard for a man to write a sonnet sequence while he is sitting on the edge of a volcano.
That is how Dr. Frank C. Baxter summed up the state of the America arts last night in a talk on “Culture in Modern Society.” part of SCope’s "Education for What?” series.
The SC English professor and television personality maintained that the world has reached such a state of uncertainty that it doesn't know what to do next.
In Dark Room
“Art is doing strange things. You ask an artist what his work means and he looks at you and savs ‘You bourgeoise!’ You look at it and you think ‘This is some sort of Rhorshach Test.”
“The poet seems a man stammering to himself in a dark room. Poets seem to have turned away from the people to slammer out their own reactions.
"The most advanced music is also inarticulate. In sculpture, a man takes an acetylene torch and 27 pieces of angle iron. Well, at least he gets it off his chest.
“The graphic arts are so avant garde that they are out there beyond our power to follow them.
“The most popular music is beneath contempt, for any but beatnik consideration.
Reflects an Age
Dr. Baxter, winner of five Emmies for education through television, explained that there is uncertainty about the future — if there is to be a future—that is causing this confusion among the creative elements, the people who help maintain our culture.
“We’ve reached the spot where in a moment’s inadvertance we can blow* ourselves up.” he said. Art reflects an age. buf how can
Talks Cover Future Life
Life in America a generation from now w'ill be predicted and analyzed by Dr. Russell L. Caldwell of the SC history department and Dr. Paul Saltman, associate professor of biochemistry and nutrition, in a discussion at 3:15 today in 133 FH.
Speaking on the topic “America—1988,” Dr. Caldwell will try. on the basis of existing data and trends, to predict the direction American political. economic and international life will take in the next 20 years. He will also analyze what new educational advancements will be required to prepare for life in the future.
Mental Attitude
Dr. Saltman. also speaking on “America—1988,” will discuss the changes, if any, in the mental attitude of the next generation as they meet the challenges of an accelerated life.
The discussion is a feature of “SCope Week” which ends Friday. The “SCope Week” program hopes, by presenting a varied and interesting intellectual program on the SC campus t hroughout the week, to improve academic attitudes and to promote more intellectual consciousness on the part of the studeni body as a whole.
Also on the “SCope Week” calendar for today is a discussion on “The Atom's Place in Today’s World.” featuring representatives from various fields of industry and science. The panel will discuss the role of atomic energy in industry and peacetime lonight at 7 in 133 FH.
Attended Annapolis
One of the featured speakers of the discussion will be Jacques F. Trevillyan, head of the contracts department of Atomics International, a division of North American Aviation, Inc.
Trevillyan joined the staff of Atomics International after attending both the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and Harvard Business School.
After receiving his engineering degree at Annapolis, he served on a destroyer in the Pacific area and was awarded the Commendation Ribbon for service in Korea.
it reflect so insecure an age, unless it is insecure art? So it is.” “Suppose you ‘paint’ for the mass. You get ‘I Love Lucy.’ If you provide entertainment for the masses, you get 37 westerns. Why, there is not a saddle blanket west of the Mississippi that is not under contact,” he said.
The doctor admitted that there is some beauty in the creations of today. "Artifacts today are wonderful.” he said. "I have found a beautifully proportioned paring knife worthy of being in a museum.” He described useful things as the outlet today for the human hunger for beauty.
He pointed out that a rapidly increasing population is adding to the pressures that hamper creative people. “Within my lifetime.” he said, “there has been a vast extrapolation of population. It has doubled in my lifetime and it will double again by 2000.
“It. is getting so that we will all have to turn over together by signal.”
And the mass can’! tolerate oddities, he said. "People say ‘Be like us.’ If Hollywood said ‘This year, the left leg is being cut off.’ we would have quite a humping spectacle by next se-: mester.”
But the professor professes to i be optimistic about the future of culture. “You might well have peace in your time. I hope so. Maybe America will speak. But I don’t think it has yet.”
Debate Team To Compete At West Point
SC's debate team has been invited to compete in the National Debate Tournament at West Point April 22-25 for the national speech championship.
This is the third straight year ! and the ninth time in 14 tournaments that SC has won the | right to represent the West in i the “world series of the debate j world.”
Trojans Paul Sonnenburg and John Fraser were judged the best debate team in the West at the regional qualifying tournament held at Fresno State College April 3 and 4.
Top Teams
The two SC seniors participated with the 37 top debate teams in the four Western states in scoring 1812 points for first place. Two other California schools w'ere runners-up to Troy. Redlands was second with 1784 points and San Diego State tallied 1759 points to place third.
All three schools will represent the Far West in the national tournament, which hosts the top 36 debate schools in the i country.
Outstanding Debater
Among the favorites is the ! highly ranked Northwestern University team that w'on the j title last year. Although SC ! placed only fourth at the tourney. Trojan debater Mike Mil-I ler was named the outstanding debater.
In addition. Troy’s team of Dave Allsvvang and Fraser de-i feated the strong Northwestern pair in the Kansas tourney two weeks ago.
SC has never won the national tournament, coming ihe closest to victory in the first year by taking second place in 1947. Since then. Troy has been in Ihe running every year except four.
Life Testament To Be Premiered
Halsev Stevens, head of the composition department in the j SC School of Music, will conduct the premiere performance of his own w'ork, “A Testament of Life,” today at Stetson University, Deland, Fla.
The composition, based on biblical texts, was written in a tribute to the late Claude Al-mand, former Dean of the Stetson School of Music.
By JOE SALTZMAN
The ASSC Senate passed a revolutionary recommendation proposing the abolition of class councils at last night’s Senate meeting.
The recommendation, proposed by ASSC Vice President Mardy-the O’Mara, was passed by a 17-6 vote and substitutes meetings of the total m^mbeiship of the class for the regular class council meetings.
O’Mara. who suggested that the ASSC Senate tell the incoming Senate to formulate a plan to eliminate the council system, said that the class council of today is “just a group which claims to represent the class but i actually represents the whims ! of a few people.”
Advantage Seen Senator Alii Lockwood, speaking for the motion, said that this recommendation, if accepted next year, would have» a definite psychological advantage.
"If students thought that they were really participating in their class activities rather than just being represented by a few people, perhaps they would take an active part in their class activities,” she said.
She emphasized that in reality the system would not be changed much since class council meetings are “open meetings” and anyone from the class may attend.
Opponents Speak Junior Class President Wally Karabian. ASSC presidential nominee, spoke against the motion as did 3-vear council member Mike Loshin by telling of his experiences with class meetings and of the lack of student attendance at class functions.
"Even though we had regular class council meetings.” Loshin said, “few if any students showed up to view the proceedings.” “After a while we didn't even expect them.” he added.
Somer in Favor Senior Class President Abe Somer said that after talking with President Norman Topping, he w^as definitely in favor of eliminating class councils.
“This type of legislature has far reaching effects.” he said. "It will make the students more a functioning class rather than a body of people with representatives handling all their affairs.’’ The main complaint a gainst councils, as voiced by the Senate members, was that the council members were chosen by their past records, fraternity or sorority houses and other political and social ideals.
The Senate agreed that the students with enthusiasm and good intentions were many times
Opera Theater To Sing Verdi In Translation
Carl Schultz. SC student in the School of Music, has been given the leading role of the portly, jovial rogue Falstaff, in the Opera Theater presentation to be held April 18. 25 and 26 in Bovard Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Tickets are on sale at the SC Ticket Office. Reserved seats are .S3 and S'2. and general admission is $1.50. Phone number of the ticket office is RI 9-6611.
For the sixth time at SC. Dr. Walter Dueloux will conduct and direct the performances. He has also adapted “Falstaff” into English.
Other leading	[»erformers in
Verdi’s classic	are baritone
French Tickner as Mr. Ford. Erena Chillingarian as Mrs. Ford and Milton Briggs, tenor, as Fenton.
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three operas at SC. He played the role of King Phil 'ip of Spain in “Don Carlos,” Lunardo in “School for Fathers,” and Ger-onte in “Manon Lescaut.”
“Falstaff” is the second in the five-year Verdi cycle of the SC Opera Theater.	“Don Carlos”
was presented last year.
Today s Weather
Trojans will enjoy more fair weather today with a predict-i’il hijh or 7? decrees »nil sunny skies In the afternoon.
left out when it came for final member choice.
Running into the late hours of the night, the Senate became noisly and incoherent during the final voting of the ’cancel class council” recommendation
President Scott Fitz Randolph issued the proclamation that "if the Senate wanted to get out of here, they better shut up.” The Senate quieted down and returned to business.
Beer Tabled In other senatorial activities, the beer investigation was tabled after informal conferences with the administration. Ad-(Continned on P:i"p 2)
Theta Xi Tops Blood Drive
The SC Blood Drive began to pick up speed yesterday as Wednesday's donations totaled 10 i pints more than Tuesday's. But the 270 pints already donated are still 12 below the two da> quota set before the drive began.
Theta Xi fraternity leads th<-campus organizations in donations with Delta Delta Delta sorority in second place. The coeds are still ahead of the men students by a large margin, hovv-' ever.
Students may still give blood even if they did not sign up during the formal pledging period. This fact was emphasized by’Bill Steigerwalt. chairman of the Greater University Committee which is sponsoring the drive.
Register Booths Steigerwalt said that those interested in donating may either register at the booth in front of the Student Union or in the basement of the University Methodist Church where the blood drive is being conducted. Donors may sign up between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
More donations are expected tomorrow when the NROTC cadets on campus give blood. So far, however, only 110 of more than 600 students in the Naval program have pledged donations.
May Credit Group Steigerwalt reports that competition between the various campus living organizations is being emphasized as well as I competition with UCLA. Mem-! bers of each group may credit their fraternity or sorority by donating. At the end of the drive trophies will be given to each of four category winners. These are fraternities, sororities, dormitories and the professional and honorary organizations. Students belonging to both a fraternity (or sorority) and an honorary organization can give credit to both for their donations.
All students who have not donated so far are urged to join ¡n the painless sacrifice that may save a life. Steigerwalt declared.
Trophies for Essays Set
Architecture and engineering students will be able to write their way to a trophy and $75 first place and 550 second place awards in this year’s McKinney Essay Contest, the English depart ment announced yesterday.
The contest was begun several years ago by Earl McKin-nev to encourage engineering and architecture students to write and read more extensively. The contestants must read one of five selected books .“Rough Riders." Theodore Roosevelt:	"A Testament.'
Frank Wright; "Life on the Mississippi.” Mark Twain: "Old Man and the Sea." Ernest Hemingway or “Cyrano de Bergerac." Edmond Rostand. The contestants must then write a 1500 word essay on “Individualism" by referring to the book they have read.
Deadline for entering the contest is May 1 and all entries should be sent to the English department McKinney Contest Committee, which is supervising the contest.	*
Additional information m a y be obtained from Dr. W alter M. Crittenden and Dr. Ronald Freeman. associate professors of English, in 404 FH.