DRIVING TIPS OPEN SERIES
(Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles exploring ways in which USC students can help protect themselves in traffic conditions.)
By JO ANN MADRON Assistant to the Editor
Sure, you’re a good driver. But is this enough?
“Good drivers” who were responsible for 38,000 traffic deaths in the U. S. last year probably don’t think so.
The 38,000 1960 fatality total may have been greatly reduced if the so-called “good drivers" had developed their driving skill to the point where they would have been able to defend themselves against the minority of reckless automobile operators.
Several recent traffic safety studies indicate that there is a class of drivers who have no regard for others and who have no courtesy while on the road.
Responsibility rests on the good driver to learn how to defend himself from these highway madmen through proper defensive driving techniques involving thought and quick reflexes.
The defensive driver anticipates what every other driver on the road will do next, and he is prepared to cope with any emergency which may be caused by lack cf skill or judgment on the part of other drivers. The good defensive driver recognizes accident-causing situations and tries to avoid them.
Defensive driving requires alertness of sensory perception, especially sight, which should be coordinated with a skill for making quick decisions.
The most important maxim in driving defensively is to watch the other fellow. It is impossible to prevent an accident if the driver does not know what is happening. In fact, a driver who is not alert may cause accidents of his own.
Drivers should not just glue their eyes to the car in front of them. The over-all picture must be perceived by the man behind the wheel.
Rear-end collisions, the most frequent cause of traffic accidents on Les Angeles freeways, can often be avoided by watching the cars several hundred feet ahead. On city streets the driver should watch a block ahead.
In addition to keeping a car’s length distance between you and the next car for each 10 miles of speed, the Los Angeles Police Dept, suggests that the defensive driver anticipate slow-downs which may occure at grades, curves and on-and-off ramps on freeways.
To avoid being hit by the car in back of you, keep checking the cars behind as well as in front of you. If it is obvious that you must stop, show your intentions with hand signals and by pumping the brakes.
The preventive measures and cautions given from avoiding rear-end collisions can also be applied to other kinds of defensive maneuvers, such as those which involve illegal lane changing, intersection crossings and parking procedures.
There is one pitfall in the defensive proposition presented here. The driver must remember to drive safely himself, as well as watching the other person.
How do you rate? Are you a defensive driver or only a “good driver?”
Daily Trojan Photo by Gerald Allen WINNING SMILE—Mortar Board President Sherry Johnson, who joined the select company of El Rodeo Helens of Troy Friday, fills a crowded schedule with a cheerful outlook. She will be one of eight yearbook queens.
Sherry Johnson Wins Helen'Title
By PONCHITTA PIERCE
Sherry Johnson, a 20-year-old senior who thinks we need to make the best use of time because there is so little of it, was announced Friday as the fourth Helen of Troy.
Miss Johnson, president of Mortar Board, was awarded the honor by the 1962 El Rodeo on the basis of her achievements and contributions to USC.
“We really need to select and make careful use of our time,” the newly elected Helen says. “There is so much that needs to be done in the world.”
She feels that the most pressing question today Is to look for better ways to live with each other.
“It is true that everyone seems worried about the present world situation,” she observes, “but too many talk about it so easily, and many times, non-construc-tively.”
The Mortar Board president says she does not know exactly where her future interests will lie, but she intends to go to graduate school next year and work toward a master’s degree and a secondary teaching credential.
Miss Johnson, a 5-foot 5-inch brunette, is a member of Amazons, service organization. She has also been active in Chimes, junior women’s service honorary, and Spurs, national sophomore service honorary.
Throughout her career as a Trojane, she has been chaplain for Amazons; a justice on Women’s Judicial Court; two-year dorm sponsor for Town and Gown; a member of the Standards Committee; and secretary of the Lutheran Student Association.
She visited Europe in the summer of 1960 as a member of the Wesley Worktown, a group selected to work with German students on a youth hostel and to tour Europe for six weeks.
A graduate of Miraoosta High School in Manhattan Beach, the scholarship student is a life member of the California Scholarship Federation. She came to Troy with honors-at-entrance.
Miss Johnson decided upon history as a major and.English literature as a minor in her sophomore year.
“History tells us so much about people and the world because it provides the best record of what people have thought and what they have accomplished,” she says.
Miss Johnson adds that she is interested in English literature because it enables one to read what people’s innermost thought have been through the years.
Correlating these two fields, she says, allows one to see the past world in its perspective and make predictions about the future.
Although Miss Johnson believes persons should make use cf the world’s “limited time,” she does not feel one should “just rush through things.”
In reference to this, she pointed to the university’s proposed trimester plan, in which a student would be able to complete his education in three years instead of four.
“Students lose a lot when they pursue their education on a year-round basis,” she says. “You miss out on traveling, leisure time to do what you enjoy most, experience at working and a host of other pursuits that are just too valuable to pass by.”
She also fears that “trimester” might push students to degrees without thought of the educational process and the subject matter they are learning.
Miss Johnson points to Mortar Board as one of her most “fascinating annd exciting experiences.”
Other Helens previously chosen are Hedy Davis, chief Justice of Womens’ Judicial Court; Barbara Epstein, Daily Trojan editor; and Maryalice Herrick, ASSC student body secretary.
All eight “Helens” will appear on a two-page color spread in the 1962 yearbook.
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DAILY
Southern Calrformia
TROJAN
VOL. Lll
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1961
NO. 56
JFK Assigns Dean to Post
Music Dean Raymond Kendall has been appointed by President Kennedy to serve on the Advisory Committee on the Arts at the Natural Cultural Center in Washington, D.C.
Dean Kendall will serve with leaders in the American art world such as Marian Anderson, Leonard Bernstein and Robert Montgomery.
The National Cultural Center was authorized by Congress in 1958 to be a bureau of the Smithsonian Institute. The advisory committee will make recommendations on cultural activities for the center.
Lariat Foik Dancers To Appear in Bovard
IR Professor Writes Book On Red Aims
The 100 questions most frequently asked by high school students are answered in a new bock written by Dr. Rodger Swearingen, Soviet-Asian
Studies Center director.
“The World of Communism,” based on personal background of the author, will be published later this month by Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.
Some of the questions answered by Dr. Swearingen in* dude a definition of communism, the beginning of communism in America, feelings of the “man on the street” in Russia about America and the reasons for studying communism.
Wins Praise
Dr. Robert E. Jenkins, Pasadena superintendent of schools, describes the textbook as a “breakthrough.” He said that plans are now being developed to use the book in 12th grade government classes.
Describing the book, County Superintendent of Schools Dr. C. C. Trillingham said, 'The sound scholarship of Dr. Swearingen and the first-hand contacts he has had in recent years with life in Europe and Asia, inside and outside the Iren urtain, qualify him well for the preparation of this guide for American youth.”
“When the stakes are the survival of our way of life, we would do well to find out something about rules of the
game,” Dr. Swearingen writes in the preface of his new book.
Know More
“It would also be helpful to know as much as possible about the number and strength-es and weaknesses of tbe player on the opposing team,” he notes.
Tiie Westchester Lariats
dance trcup will put on its
577th performance Wednesday night at 8 in Bovard Auditorium.
Tickets fcr the show arc available at SI for adults and 50 cents for children at the URA office, 112 PE.
One of the features of the program will be an Irish hornpipe routine starring Denny Nolan, a senior majoring in physical education at USC.
There will be an international flavor with dances from Bavaria, Austria, Sweden, England, Italy, Russia, Portugal and France.
The Lariats, a non-profit group, was organized in • 1952 by Dr. Tillman Hall, professor
| of physical education, who is
| also director.
Since their inception, the ; Lariats have appeared through-1 oat the United States and Canada, including several national I television performances.
They have annually present-1 ed programs during the sum-| mer months in the New England states.
The U.S. Armed Forces have j asked the Lariats to entertain | overseas service men next Au-jgust, Dr. Hall reported.
There are more than 120 'young men and women in the | group, ranging in age from 10 ! to 25 years The dancers know more than 200 songs and dance : routines that represent almost every country in the world, Dr. ,Hall reported.
TEPs Offer Cash Prizes For Courtesy
By DOX MOLONY
Mystery ^walkers and Hollywood hi-jinks will highlight the third annual Tau Epsilon Phi “Give a Trojan a Ride” week, scheduled to start today.
Cash prizes awarded daily, and a grand prize of a night on the town, hayrides and music will enliven the week, Richard Antonoff, committee chairman for the TEPs, reported.
“We hope to make this the most successful ‘Give a Trojan a Ride’ Week the university has ever had,” he said.
The main purpose of the program, Antonoff said, is to encourage students driving between the Row and campus to give walking students a ride.
Cash Awards
“This way you help fellow students by sharing rides and at the same time meet new people and make new friends,” he continued.
Mystery walkers will award cash prizes to drivers offering them rides during the week. Antonoff said the mystery walkers will be cn University Ave. between Jefferson Blvd. and the Row at different times during the day, not just at noon.
“The mystery walktrs definitely will not be TEPs,” he noted. “This wray people who know TEPs won’t try to give them rides to win the prizes.” Grand Prize
A grand prize of a night on the town courtesy of the TEPs will be awarded Friday to a driver chosen from those offering rides throughout the week. The night on the town includes dinner for two, tickets to a play and dancing.
Tbe TEPs plan to start the “Give a Trojan a Ride” week program with posters and banners on the campus and streets leading to the residential areas.
Hay Ride
On Tuesday they will offer a “hay ride with music” as a means of getting frcm the
Row to the campus. j\ truck,
complete with hay, piano and
musicians, will make the trip back and forth between the campus and Row.
On Thursday a San Francisco trolly car, complete with rubber tires and uniformed driver, will make the trip from the Row to campus “something different.” The trolley car will be donated by an airline company.
Friday the winner of the grand prize will be announced and the TEPs will treat him or her to the night on the town.
TYR Will Take Stand
In Conservative Row
Right-Wing Critics Prompt Conference
CRUEL YULE
Daily Trojan Photo
FALLEN FIR — USC's first Christmas tree was taken a way in ashes Friday after campus police put out an early morning blaze discovered by a night watchman. Two empty gasoline cans were found in nearby bushes.
“We had better learn all we can about the system, formation and specific plays employed by the coach on the ‘other side,’ lest we be taken by surprise, overwhelmed and defeated.”
Dr. Swearingen is not new to writing on the subject of communism. His previous works include “Red Flag in Japan,” “International Communism in Action — 1919-1951” and a recently published book of Soviet cartoon humor.
The text may be widely used throughout the state, as the California State Department of Education has recently recommended that courses in communism be started in all California high schools by September 1962.
Epitaph'to Open For Six-Day Run
Convocation To Be Held
Tne university’s 2nd annual Christmas Convocation will be presented in Bovard Auditorium tomorrow' at 8 p. m.
Chaplain John E. Cantelon will deliver a Christmas Message on the symbols of Christmas at the assembly, wiiich will also utilize the University Choir and Chamber Orchestra, with Dr. Irene P.obertson !at the organ.
| The University Chamber Singers, conducted by Dr. Charles C. Hirt, will tell the story of Christmas in a collection of “Carols from Many Lands and Times.”
sister Ruth (Jane-Mintz).
A remarkable aspect'of the	Harris said. "If the
play, like all of Osborne's:tord decides a?amst ">od«ate
works, is that, while deadly
sericus in its analysis of society, it simultaneously bristles with vivid humor, drama lecturer Bill White said.
“Epitaph for George Dillon,”
John Osborne and Anthony Creighton's vehement attack on modem values, will open a six-day run in Stop Gap Theater tomorrow night.
The play, directed by Dr.
Bernard F. Dukore, is an exploration, both grim and comic, of the relationship between man and modem society.
It will be performed Tuesday through Sunday at 8:30 p.m. in Stop Gap Theater. Tickets can be obtained for $1.50 and $2 at the drama department office, 3709 S. Hoover St. Telephone reservations may be made by calling RI 8-2311, Ext.
402. Students with a'ctivity books will be admitted to the naivete about sex.” play for 50 cents.	j The play follows on the
“Epitaph’s” action revolves heels of such widely praised 3 around the title character. Stop Gap productions as “Oedi- i George Dillon, (Richard Doet- pus Rex,” “Waiting for Godot,”
This was emphasized by Po-; a go Perotti, who described her role as Josie, the 20-year-old daughter who yields to Dillon’s advances, as “a very showy, lively part. Josie is all over the place.”
Though Josie is 20, Miss
The Trojan Young Republicans will hold a special board meeting this week tc determine their policy on possible future pressures from right-wing members of the county Young Republican organization.
TYR President Harvey Harris, who, with other
leaders of the club, has been
Noon Reader Will Explore Miller Novel
Selections from "The Colossus of Maroussi” by Henry Miller, the author of “The Tropic of Cancer” which is currently banned in Los Angeles, will be read at the English Noon Reading today at 12:30 in 133 FH.
Alexander H. Chomey, assistant professor of English, will read excerpts from the work by the controversial author.
“Readers who mistakenly regard Miller as a lustful satyr or befouled degenerate will either be disappointed or stunned by “The Colossus of Maroussi,” commented Chomey.
Materialistic
Miller left America in 1930 after becoming disgusted with American culture. He felt it was materialistic and confused happiness with assembly-line goods, Chorney said.
In 1940 he went to Greece and learned to enjoy life more fully and discovered all men were brothers — even Americans, Chorney noted.
“The Colossus of Maroussi” represents a turning point in Miller’s life, he added. It does not contain the ferment of rebellion as many of his past books do.
No Heroes
The majority of Miller’s books are intensely biographical. In a letter to a friend he
once wrote, “I don’t use heroes nor do I write novels. I am the hero and the book is myself.”
''The Colossus of Maroussi” is a tribute to the people of Greece, and rt reveals the character and spirit of the Greek tradition,” Chomey said.
The book is also a chronicle of Miller’s adventure in Greece during the eight months before the Nazis over-ran the country.
of
under attack by county officers, said he will ask the board members to decide whom they will support in the controversy. The meeting will probably be held tomorrow.
Pressure from the central organization has been expected to rise with the recent victory of an ultraconservative slate at last week’s Young Republican convention. The slate w'as opposed by TYR.
Indications Rise
Indications Qf such pressures were heightened late last week
when Counselor of Men’s Organizations Frank Joyce reported that “ranking members” of the organization had been in touch with him. He said the members were concerned over
alleged “inactivity” and “un-
cooperativeness” of the USC
group.
Several of the complainants were also concerned that TYR was becoming “too liberal, Joyce said.
Harris categorically denied the charges last week by point ing to his club's large member ship and long reputation for conservatism. He described his
organization's policy as “moderate conservative” and hit at ultraconservatives for trying to capitalize on growing coUege conservatism.
More Pressure
Harris said he expects pressure from the right wing to continue now that it has captured control the county organization.
“I am holding this board
meeting to determine the position of the club regarding this
conservatism, I will allow the
members themselves to determine my future position with the club.
“I have had their support for full year and a half and I trust it will continue,” he added. But this decision is not mine; its theirs.”
Can’t Agree The TYR president said USC's delegates opposed the right wing slate because it
Perotti continued, “she seems | considered several of the can-much younger - especially tc didates unqualified and dis-- coliege audience — because a(Treed with the extreme po-
of, among other things, her
kott), a would-be actor and playwright struggling against the dehumanizing forces of his middle-class environment.
Set in modern-day England, the scene is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Elliot (Scott Little Nelson and Bai’bara Foster), where Dillon had come to live —and to leave an indelible im-
“Archy and Mehitabel,” “Finnegan’s Wake,” “Rashomon” and ‘Suddenly, Last Summer.” William Bigger praised the quality of Stop Qap Theater in a recent issue of the American Theater Magazine. He presen ta-
Law Student Wins Prize
Alan Well, a third-year law student, won first prize Friday in an impromptu debate spon-be ready” for any increased at-sored by the Greater Universi-tacks by ultraconservative crit-; t y Committee t o conclude
Peace Week activities.
“We know' in our hearts we’re Flora Diaz, a philosophy ma-right. We’re not going to let an jor, and Ned Taylor, political built with!science major, tied for second
sition they advocated.
“We consider ourselves to be cornerstone for conservatism,” Harris said. “But we couldn’t feel this extreme position was worthy of our support.”
Harris said TYR is “going to
said that “it is the
tion of scripts like the ones organization we've
mentioned above that have our own sweat go down the place in the contest.
print on the lives of the El-! brought audiences and critics to drain because a few* extremists J \V ell s topic,^ A Nuclear ar liots, their daughters (Pogo!Stop Gap to see plays that are couldn't dupe us and take ad- Is Inevitable, was drawnfrom Perotti and Karen Maxwell) j unavailable anywhere else in vantage of our voting strength a hatful of topics developed by land Mrs. Elliot’s frustrated:Los Angeles.”	{	.as they *ioped to do,” he said, jthe Peace Weejc Committee..