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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1958
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FitzRandolph Wants Evaluation Continued
Defies Faculty and Administration Group
GENERAL
UTERARY LAB-Going over publication plans for the long awaited SC Literary Magazine, due to hit the stands next semester, are, left to right, Fen English, Joe Saltzman,
Daily Troian Photo by Tohn Brady
John Fountz, Priscilla Rockwell and Ron Marren. The five, who form the nucleus of the magazine's editorial staff, invite contributions from fledgling Hemingways.
Trojan Literary Magazine Readied for Spring Debut
TV DEBUT
Law Student To Appear on
TV Dec. 28
First year Law Student Joel Fisher will appear on the cost-to-coast television show "College News Conference" at 3:30 p.m. on Channel 7. Sunday, Dec. 28.
Fisher will be one of four students on the show which comes from Washington. D.C. The oiher three students will be from east coast colleges.
Dr. Hugh Dryden. director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will be interviewed on the program by Fisher and the other students.
Model I X Members of the show are chosen because of leadership and activities. Fisher is the Assistant Secretary General of the Model Uniled Nations and International Affairs Vice President for the Pacific West division of the National Student's Association.
He was asked to appear on the program last year, but couldn't attend. This year he is representing SC as a student in M.U.N. activities.
Questions Readied In preparation for the program. Fisher has developed a list of questions which he hopes to ask Dr. Dryden during the interview.
Some of them are. “How soon do we get any real cooperation «rnong the military sen ices?"; “Why not pool all three plus the Civilian Agency?”
SC's long-awaited literary ma-j gazine is scheduled to hit the j stands near the beginning of the j I spring semester. English Club president Jerry Foster announc- j ed yesterday.
The magazine has been in j preparation for months. Foster I said, by him and a small group of interested students.
Foster, library science major John Kountz and journalism majors Joe Saltzman and Priscilla Rockwell (the present group pushing the literary effort » will meet again at noon today in the YWCA to discuss final plans for the publication.
Bible Book Folio Edition Coes to SC
An unfinished folio edition of the new translation of the Book of Psalms, authorized by the late Pope Pius XII, is being given to SC from the estate of Mrs. Eduard L. Doheny. The folio will be placed in the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library on campus.
This new translation was started by Brother Antoninus at the College of St. Albert the Great in Oakland. He started a six year project to print a 300 j page book of the Psalms in Latin, but when he had finished only' 72* pages the Dominican order asked him to stop and devote all his time to study for the priesthood.
The book was to honor the 500th anniversary, occurring in 1957, of the first printing of the Psalter. Only 48 copies of the unfinished work were printed on a Washington handpress from type handset by Brother Antoni-
Any students interested in working on the periodical are invited to attend.
When it begins publication, the magazine will be open to all students at SC, including graduate and evening groups. Plans now are set up to enable its staff to print many different varieties of creative writing.
The emphasis, however, will be on opinionated writing, not scholarly research, Foster said. Poetry, short stories, first chapters of novels and critical essays have all been suggested as acceptable types of material for the publication.
Controversial Figures
Stories need not necessarily contain a plot situation. Foster said. Short critical pieces on new authors, particularly on controversial figures, are desirable, too. he pointed out.
Deadline for materials for the first issue is set for January 9. All manuscripts must be typewritten and double spaced. There is no limit to the length of the contributions, but shorter pieces are preferred to allow the magazine to cover as wide a variety of types as possible, he said.
Submit Material
Students who have material the.v would like to submit for publication should send them to Foster in the English department office or to Saltzman or Miss Rockwell at the Daily Trojan.
A board of students editors will read and choose from the manuscripts those works which they feel merit being included in the first issue. Further planning and layout of the magazine will be done by students, however it will be published under the auspices of SC's English department.
| Thief Takes Auto Reg Slip
A thief who wanted a registration slip for a 1958 Chev-j rolet convertible has one now, j Rhoda Schoepflin told L.A. i police Tuesday.
Miss Schoepflin, 23, 9422 S. LaSalle, reported that someone opened the unlocked front door of her Chevrolet and took the registration slip from the steering post. Nothing else was taken.
Ousting of Mao Tze-Tung Indicates Strategy Change
The recent resignation of Mao Tze-tung. chairman of the People's Republic of China, shows very clearly that it is the Communist Party, not the people, lhat runs the "people's" government .
Dr. Theodore Chen, head of the Asiatic studies department, declared that the Communist Party’s Central Committee is "showing its true colors” b.v forcing the resignation instead of waiting for the National Congress to convene, in January and elect new officials.
Congress Should Elect
Dr. Chen explained that the leader of the republic is elected by the National Congress. On paper, the National Congress is 1he supreme body as stated in the Chinese constitution.
' But in reality, the few men who run the Central Committee of the Communist Party decide all major policies," he said.
A nevv congress has just been elected and will hold its first meeting m January. At this lime all new government officials will fco clertci or re-elected as is ordinarily done in the case of a
new congress. Mao- was last elected in September 1954.
"The discussion to have somebody other than Mao as chairman was made by the Central Committee. This committee held an important session during the past week and announced Mao's retirement from the chairmanship at the end of the session. No matter what reasons are behind the move, we are shown very definitely that it is the Communist Party that runs ihe government in Communist China." Dr. Chen said.
Program I npopular
Under ihe communal program, to speed production in Red China's drive for industrial power and agricultural self-sufficiency. the people are herded into working communes. They live in dormitories and their children are taken to be raised by the slate.
‘‘There are indications that Chinese peasants do not meekly accept the complete abolition of individual farming and family life. Perhaps there is even more opposition to communes than is
indicated in reports that have leaked through to the outside world,” Dr. Chen stated.
If this is so. a change of top leadership would enable the Army, would at best be only a transitional person holding office communists to modify’ their strategy and to slow' down the process of communization. On the other hand, he said. wre must always realize that when communists change iheir strategy or methods, they are not giving up their goals. They are merely postponing their program in view' of popular opposition.
Ties With Russia
One is Liu Shao-chi. the second most powerful man in Communist China. He is the chair-! man of the Standing Committee of the National Congress.
"Liu has much closer ties with Russia and is a more dogmatic Marxist than is Mao. If he should corne to the tup position, China’s tie with the Soviet Union would l*e even cio^er. lie may’ not take over right away, but eventually he may become the top man of Communist China,” Dr. Chen maintained.
City Schools Blast Erratic SC Bicyclists
Erratic SC bike riders drew criticism from the Los Angeles City Board of Education recently in a letter to Interfraternity Council adviser John Berne.
The letter, from the board’s safety section, said that some SC students are "endangering themselves and others in traf-fice" and setting “very poor examples” for children at the Thirty-Second Street School near the campus.
Bad Examples Donald Rector, a specialist in safety education, said in the letter to Berne that the erring bicyclers are upsetting the safe patterns of behavior established for the elementary school children.
Rector said the SC riders “pass directly in front of Thirty-Second Street School in large groups, filling the street. Some ride on the sidewalks. Others weave in and out creating traf-fice hazards on University Ave., and all cross streets between the Row and SC.”
Enclosed in the .letter was an extract from California laws, which spotlighted these facts relating to bicycles:
A bike is regarded as a vehicle. and all vehicle code provisions apply to bikes as well as to motor transportation. A hike rider is required to ride as close to the right hand side of the roadway as possible.
No Riders Every rider must give proper ] arm signals. Any person riding j a . bicycle may ride only on the regularly attached seats and may' not carry any' passengers except on a regularly attached seat.
The vehicle code also requires a person riding a bike at night to equip his bicycle with a white light in front, visible for at least 300 feet, and a red light or reflector on the rear, visible for at least 200 feet.
A Los Angeles County ordinance forbids riding on sidewalks or holding on to any moving vehicle. The Los Anseles municipal code also makes it illegal to ride a bicycle on ihe public streets without first obtaining a bicycle license from the police department.
Air Force s Safety Chief Will Speak
Major General Joseph D. Cal-dara, director of flight safety research for the U.S. Air Force, will speak .to 71 military pilots completing SC’s Aviation Safety course at noon today in the foyer of Town and Gown.
Sixty-nine Air Force, Navy and Army pilots and two Canadian pilots will be given certificates at the ceremony by Dr. Louis Kaplan, direclor of SC’s aviation safety division, marking the end of the eight-week training course.
Staff Supervisor
Assigned to flight safety in 1955, General Caldara is responsible for staff supervision of all matters dealing with the prevention of aircraft accidents in the U.S.
Since* his assignment, the rate of major aircraft mishaps has declined from 20 accidents for every 100.000 hours flown to less than 14 in 1957. Putting an emphasis on accident prevention before the craft gets off the ground. General Caldara took the problems of design deficiency to industry through the organization of a series of Air Force-aircraft conferences.
Pacific Seen«
He began his flying career over 25 years ago with his appointment as a flying cadet. He spent 18 months in the South Pacific during World War II as Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations, Air Headquarters and U.S. Armed Forces. He also served as Commander of the Far East Air Forces Bomber Command in Yokota, Japan. He has been the recipient of the Legion of Merit and the Air Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster.
The aviation safety course in SC's University College is the only college course of its kind in the world. Over 1300 students have completed this specialized training. Each student is concerned with the subjects of aeronautical engineering, aerodynamics. the handling qualities of aircraft, aviation psychology', aircraft accident investigation and analysis.
Simulated Speed
A unique feature of the course is the laboratory session where students have the opportunity to experience the various effects of accelerated gravitational forces encountered in high-speed flight and under operational stresses in a human centrifuge.
Upon returning to his home base, the new flying safety officer is expected to apply the principles of flight safety which he learned and to conduct training programs for the promotion of aircraft accident prevention.
Study Begins On Dental ' X-Ray Effects
Senior students in SC’s School of Dentistry will soon begin checking the amount of radiation put out by X-ray machines in the offices of some 200 local dentists.
The purpose will he to find out if the radiation is excessive enough to cause premature aging of the dentists.
This pi'oject, part of a cooperative study involving a total of ten university dental schools in ten states, is the result of findings from scientists at the University of Illinois who suspect that, while the radiation is not excessive enough to harm an individual patient, its cumulative doses may be causing a breakdown in the genes and bodily tissues of the dentists, thereby resulting in their premature ag-’ ing.
The local radiation check, in which SC dental students represent the southern California area, will be made only for dentists who request it after answering a preliminary questionnaire prepared in cooperation with the American Dental Association.
Over-all radiation studies will last two years.
'59 Club Gets More Members
Fourteert of 33 seniors named for membership in the ’59 club failed to receive mention in a story printed about them in last Wednesday’s paper.
They are Rich American, Lee BeDell, Sharon Bliss, Joe Braun, Don Buford. Dick Burroughs, Lou Byrd, Sally Case, Monte Clark, Ted De Pew, Mike Donohew, Rosemary Fankhanel, Barry Freeman and Nelson Gilman.
Chest X-Rays Not Harmful Greeley Says
The annual chest X-rays given students do not result in harmful radiation effects, Dr. Paul O. Greeley, medical director of the SC Health Center reported this w'eek.
This verdict was reached at ; the 21st annual meeting of the \ Pacific Coast College Health Association, from which the SC medic recently returned. Dr. Greeley is a former president of the association and is now' a permanent member of the executive council.
He said that the meeting held at San Francisco State College provided good conclusions on the controversy about the hazards of radiation exposure.
“Since the development of X-rays, all radiologists have not been found to have a shorter life span than the average population, and this includes those who have received radiation burns,” said Dr. Greeley.
He said that cumulative evidence has shown people receive more radiation from skiing at very high altitudes than they would from having one x-ray at the Health Center.
“In certain diseases, such as tuberculosis, detection can first be seen only from an x-ray,” he conceded.
ADPi Gets Row Prize
Alpha Delta Pi’s depiction of the Madonna and Child and the Three Wise Men was judged the most beautiful Christmas decoration on the Row, in a contest sponsored by Alpha Tau Omega this week.
Alpha Chi Omega’s Santa Claus with comical reindeer was awarded a prize for the most humorous of the decorations.
The ertry by Alpha Delta Pi was the only religious decoration on the Row this year.
B.v GERRY RLEVES
ASSC President Scott FitzRandolph last night announced that the Student-Faculty Evaluation Committee will continue to function despite a formal recommendation from the Faculty Senate that it cease activity.
In a formal resolution passed by the Faculty Senate. Colin Lovell, professor of history, recommended that the Faculty Senate go on record as not approving a faculty-curriculum evaluation, because the student Senate was not qualified, and this type of activity was not the proper function of the Senate..
Refusal Requested
The resolution also stated that members of the faculty should refuse to participate in this evaluation. Thirdly, it was resolved that this resolution be sent to the University Administrative Council and that the resolution be made known to the Dean of Students and that it be forwarded to the ASSC President.
Commenting on the decision of the faculty Senate. FitzRandolph promised that ‘‘this won't slow us up.” He said that the student Senate wanted to make clear to the faculty what was being done, and he hoped that the Senate would get 100 per cent cooperation from the faculty.
FitzRandolph stated further that this project would definitely continue and that the students would have to prove their competence to the faculty Senate if this project was to bear full fruition.
A by-law amendment, which is in reality an insertion to the deletion made by the Senate at
the last meeting, was passed once again, providing rules for electioneering. The new amendment is basically the same as the part deleted, but it leaves the decision of electioneering rules up to the Elections Commissioner. .	...........
Homecoming Chairman Willi« Chong presented a by-law amendment which would form an ASSC Community Service Advisory Board to be know n. as SCerve. After lengthy debate on parliamentary p r o c e dure, the Senate defeated the by-law amendment and then passed a motion to accept the formation of the organization without put-ing it into the by-laws.
NSA coordinator Tom Harrison urged that the project proposed by Chong be turned over to Troy Chest so that it might handle service projects as well as financial. The Senate passed the original proposal 10-4.
Dorm Council Formed
In other business, FitzRandolph announced that the presidents of the dormitories had met and that a Dormitory Council would be formed to deal with dormitory problems.
A resolution allowing a foreign student to sit on the Senate although he is not carrying minimum units for a legal position was presented by Harrison. He contended that a student who was only studying in the United States for a year could learn much from attending Senate meetings and that perhaps this knowledge could be put to use in his own country. The resolution was passed by the Senate.
Caldwell Will Direct European Study Tour
Two SC history courses will be held in Europe this summer with Dr. Russell L. Caldwell, associate professor of history-, acting as instructor-guide.
Classes will be given during an 8-week, S1595 tour through six European countries and will be open to junior and senior students, or those petitioning for lower division credits.
Beforehand Preparation Students taking the courses, which have been sanctioned by SC for six units of credit, will have to do assigned reading prior to the tour, attend lectures throughout the tour at universi-ies in Oxford, Heidelburg, Rome. Florence, Paris and other cities, do a research paper on same phase of the trip and take a general examination on returning to this country.
Most tourists i..ink of Europe as an archeological treasure-
house that is decaying or -decayed,” Dr. Cad dwell said, “but there are dynamic development* still going on there in thè nomic, cultural and social fields.
"With the experience gained from my other two tours, in 1957 and 1958, I will try to focus the students’ attention on Europe'» changing face, and how thi* change is affecting the position of the U.S. in the world," he said.
Boorish Cadillac«
"Because of then*” he said, "many of the overseas people think we are a nation of rich, but boorish. Cadillac owners.”
Dr. Caldwell hopes the "Changing Face of Europe” tours will help break this barrier of unfamiliarity and bring the nations to a closer understanding so they can better withstand the threats of comruunism.
DISASTER INVITED
Evidence Links Cancer, Smog, Claims Speaker
Bv RON KIBBY
In the past few years smog has been accused of every- antisocial act from ruining marriages to contributing to high death rates in some diseases.
Mounting circumstantial evidence now indicates that polluted air is a cause of lung cancer. The chief of the U.S. F^iblic Health Service, Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney, recently told a national conference on air pollution that prompt steps must be taken to cleanse the air. “Although the effort will cost big money, delay would invite disaster,” he said.
Costly Problem
Dr. Paul Kotin, SC associate professor of pathology, attended the three-day meeting in Washington which was aimed at awakening interest in the air pollution problem which costs the public an estimated SI1? to $4 billion annually, not counting damage to health.
Burney said it would cause unnecessary suffering to wait for absolute proof of a relationship between air pollution and lung cancer.
"We know that lung cancer death rates in the largest cities
are twice as high as those in non-urban areas. The case has not yet been proved, but the weight of circumstantial evidence grows heavier as research progresses.” he declared.
Urbanltes Die
A Public Health Service booklet, prepared especially for the Washington c o n f e r e nee. said mortality for a number of diseases, notably certain heart ailments and cancer of the stomach, lung and esophagus, is markedly higher amotjg • city dwellers than among rural people.
While noting that excessive cigarette smoking has been “strongly implicated as a contributory factor” to lung'cancer, the report said a number of pollutants in community air supplies are known to produce cancer in experimental animals.
It also said chemical analyses have turned up many other cancer-producing agents. “Taken together this admittedly fragmentary evidence points unmistakably’ to a relationship between air pollution and lung cancer which demands further exploration and study.”
Experimentation on the rela-
I tionship between smog and lung cancer is being conducted at SC by Dr. Kotin who told an Assembly F*ublic Health ' Subcommittee in 1956 that “studies on the occurrence of lung cancer in terms of frequency, geographic susceptibility, occupational exposures and sexual differences in its incidence strongly suggest that .atmospheric pollution may play a role in its development.” Mice Tested
Last year Dr. Kotin reported that he found two and one-half times as many lung cancers in mice breathing polluted air as compared with other mice living in washed air in a laboratory’.
A five-year research program at the SC School of Medicine has shown that highly complex mixtures of irritants in the atmosphere produce lung cancers in experimental animals. Dr. Kotin’s findings, too, indicate that it is also unlikely that a single agent produces lung cancer in man.
In a lecture at Yale University in March, 1957. Dr. Kotin said, "We feel that our laboratory experimental data are applicable to man to a remarkable degree.