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★ Path from Prejudice
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Maturitv manifests itself in manv different forms—physically, academically and socially. But one type of maturity which we tend to ignore or subordinate is our personal treatment pie of different races and reli-This year at SC, we believe, rets an honest step in the right on: that step is the incorpora-f the ideals of brotherhood on tical, concrete basis.
Take a look around the campus, irrentlv there are more Negroes on p football team than in any recent rear: thp present Homecoming chairman is Chinese: the Senior class president and yell king are Jewish: and SC ranks second in the nation in total foreign student enrollment.
These examples are healthy signs. But a lone way still remains to go before prejudice and discrimination are eliminated on campus and in the community — not only in the structures and constitutions of groups, but especially in the minds of men.
Wh°n Willie Chong was first mentioned as a possible candidate for Homecoming chairman, we were approached on the sly by a student who said “We can't let Chong get Homecoming chairman: he's Chinese and what would the alumni think?” We know of several other occasions when this thinking was reiterated.
Well, if there are any SC alumni who disqualify Chong on this basis, we'd like to submit our disassociation with them. It's hard to believe that this type of bigoted attitude could
survive amons graduates of a university the caliber of SC.
Somewhere along 'the line SC picked up a reputation of being discriminating in some s e c t o r s . Our cross-town neighbor. UCLA, was looked upon as the prime example of universal brotherhood
But times are changing—we hope —and for the better. In any institution. esneciallv one aimed at higher academics, an important aspect of education is derived from clear and honest associations with people not onlv of different environments, but of different religions and cultures as well. SC, as a large private university, must recognize and protect the right of the student to receive these mutual benefits from others. And those who have assumed leadership, whe-. ther among students, in the administration or in the faculty, should set the example.
Often the only difference between many of us and the South is that the South is more honest in its approach. We sit and criticize the actions below the Mason-Dixon line; then turn around and discriminate almost as badly as anyone ever did in Little Rock.
Changing constitutions and structures of organizations are merely necessary evolutionary steps in the process of attaining maturity of tolerance. This goal cannot be reached, however-, until a sincere change takes place in the minds and souls of each of us.
★ Bi-Weekly Boiling Pot
The ASSC Senate will soon embark on a new program which, it hopes, will renew campus interest in Issues facing not only the university, but the entire nation and world. This program will be in the form of a special bi-weekly forum where views and opinions can be hashed out, some type of conclusion reached and possible action taken.
At first glance this forum looks fairly similar to the usual Senate meeting. But there is an important difference. At these meetings—which will be held on weeks alternating with the resular Senate meeting, members
—	members of the administration and faculty proficient in the specific field under discussion will be invited to add first-hand knowledge. Students will be able to take the floor and offer their side of the picture. Parliamentary procedure, for the most part, will be waived to allow a free flow of information from all parties involved.
This is something new and refreshing; but also something that can easily wither and pass away with other ideals which failed to be effectively implemented. Why? For the first time, members of the student body, faculty and administration are being asked to actively participate in a continuing program of the ASSC Senate — and on their participation hangs the possibility of life or death.
Student and faculty opinions will be sought on such issues as the advantages of accepting federal aid; possible weaknesses in SC’s curriculum and counseling; and the moral
and international implications involved in ceasing nuclear testing. Therefore, they must deem this apparently honest attempt by the Senate important enough to give up some time.
The student who is mainly interested in getting a classroom educa-tin at SC must also recognize his need and responsibility to take an active voice in such a program. Any education resulting entirely from the class work is incomplete unless supplemented with fringe a c a d e m ic quests.
"This forum has the potential to create on the SC campus an instrument of learning and action which could raise the university’s standards and reputation not only on campus, but throughout the academic world. Here is a tool thrugh which issues and Questions can come alive — not only for the student leaders, but for the regular student who either can’t find anything stimulating in SC extra-curricular activities, or hasn’t discovered within himself the realization that a university is more than football and parties.
We wish the Senate luck in its endeavor. But a 11 the senators must shoulder the original responsibility of planning programs and presenting discussions which will be worthwhile enough to consistently draw students and representatives of the faculty and administration Or else, in the terms of the inevitable wicked circle, the incentive will be lacking for people to give up their time even if the good intentions are there. And without these people the program will fail.
Sound and Fury
‘The Row'
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the corner of 281 h everance -gaze at ; with the weird-ters on the doors.
•re? Man; You re on Fraternity Row the happiest place on earth, .next to Disneyland.
Take off >our hat in respect! You're gazing at royalty. The privileged, the plush— the socially acceptable — the Chamber of Commerce of tomorrow!
These are indeed idealists— dedicated to the proposition that all men are created unequal. Concerned enough about
the welfare of the school to run it by stuffing Ballot boxes.
The citizens of the Row are unquestionably bastions of democracy!
Seasoned veterans of six months of intensive brainwa>h-ing with pins costinc $100 to prove that thev passed basic training.
The House! A combination of home, church and national monument. The President! A combination of father, minister, first sergeant and cup on the corner.
Tlv Golden Rule—do unto others for the sake of the powers that be.
Belween >ou and me — as >r\e unacceptable to another—
don't dig this gung-ho tazz.
Nonorgs unite! Let’s form jut own fraternity Leaders— © one man. no one. Initiation ee!—- a mind!
Motto—tolerance.
Pledging, coat-of-arms. Greek et ters!
Junk it!
Come on you R.MO.C.'s-;et off your high horses and
think for a change! Quit with the snobbish attitude and open v our shirt collars and REBEL! You've got plenty of time to be fat conformists and conservatives when you're big successful business men!
You can be unshackled by convention when you're young though!
So be human for a change! Get with the trend! 'Die time is running out on your ilk. Might as well adjust yourselves to the ways of the ordinary slobs that you despise so much. I've got a feeling that these next few years you're gonna be hearin* a lot from them!
Ron Marren
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Letter From Zech
Editor:
Well, here we are on ihe last lap with our 227 American guides and soon the Brussels Exposition vvill be all over but the shouting. Mrs. Zech and I never realized how trav-el-minded Trojans were until this past summer where we have served as Directors of the American Guide Services the past seven and one-half months at the American Pavilion.
Re seeing you at the Stanford and UCLA games.
!>r. Albert Zech, Former Dean of Men Mr*. Albert Zech, Former Foreign Student Adviser
DAILY TROJAN Wednesday, October 15r 1958 ^
SELECTING SONGLEADERS.JIREBITER
THE LITERARY LAB
By JOE SALTZMAN
Leon Uri s’s ambitious historical novel, “Exodus” (Doubleday $4.50) violently explodes with a steady barrage of multi - colored scenes and dynamic characters which give the reader an impressive picture of a people’s search to establish a homeland.
Through the use of historical and choronological flashbacks, Uris utilizes a lengthy-set of Jewish, Arabic, Cypriot, American and English characters to tell of the creation of the Jewish state of Israel.
Uris, author of the much talked-about ‘ Battle Cry,” has taken his main characters, disguised them with different names and has proceeded to give the reader an exact duplicate of some major character in the recorded facts of history.
HIS SCENES ARE over-powerful; he creates a feeling of sincere antipathy for the Germans, the English and the Arab nations, all who do their best to stop the heroic-portrayed Jews from founding their homeland.
Divided into five books and numbering well over 6'00 pages, this lengthy volume begins in Cyprus, where English forces are holding Jewish refugees in a form of concentration camp, detaining their voyage to the overcrowded “Holy Land.”
It is the ship Exodus (hence the title) which proposes to smuggle 302 Jewish “camp-children” from Cyprus to the Israeli territory.
DURING THIS 200-page
episode, Uris takes advantage of the flexibility of his leading character to show, through flashbacks, the background leading up to this moment.
It is this technique throughout the book—us-ing the fictitious histories of major characters to show the history of the Israeli state—which gives the author his complete command over the story.
For example, Ari Ben Canaan, a native-born Israeli whose single aim in life is to establish free and peaceful Jewish state, is presented as the “hero” of the book. By showing his early life and his ances-trial background, the reader learns of Jewish history from 1884 in Russia to the present time.
THROUGH THE histories of Dov Landau, a hate-filled product of the German concentration camp, and Karen Clements, a German Jewish refugee, we receive a vivid account of the German genocidal activities throughout Hitler’s reign.
It is here where Uris excels, for his telling of the insane plot to exterminate the Jewish religion is one in which the reader, emotionally involved throughout, is led to feel complete sympathy for the Jewish people and a complete hatred for the entire European front.
VARIOUS OTHER characters express different viewpoints of the campaigns. Kitty Fremont, the American Christian nurse, indicates skepticism and a bitter dislike for Jewish
people but during the course of the book she becomes an emphatic sympathizer for the “cause.”
Several English officers in the book indicate the wide range of British opinion concerning the Israeli activities.
The portrayals range from a complete hatred of the Jews to a kind understanding of their problem. We see the trying emotions involved when Britain orders the officers to stop the ship Exodus, to evacuate the Israeli borders and to stop Jewish uprisings.
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are sprinkled throughout the volu me; historical events, dates and characters are found on every page and the persecution and ridicule of the Jewish race is stressed.
I read the book in one sitting and then enthusiastically read it again for here is a book which employs all of the imaginary senses: from the horrifying visualization of the German concentration camps to the sight of starving children aboard the Exodus, to the beautiful plains of Israeli soil.
It is a story of a dream which was turned into reality—not by a religious miracle but by realistic freedom-fighters.
“It is good to die for one’s country; it is good to have a country to die for,” say the dying Jewish patriots of Israel.
And it is this spirit which Uris so admirably captures in his story of Israel.
MARLIN-NOT BRANDO OR McKEEVER
"I CAME WITH THE IDEA OF GETTING AN EDUCATION TOO. BUT I GAVE THAT UP"
Copyrighted by Motive Mauazme
Even if “The Old Man and the Sea” weren’t so good, it would still be a unique movie for the simple reason that the Ernest Hemingway original is not only transferred to the screen scene-for-scene, but practically word-for-word.
These tired old eyes have had two real viewing pleasures thus far this year; “Gigi” and now “The Old Man ...” Warner Brothers’ studio and pro-d u c e r Leland Hayward Vave finally solved the mystery of how to film Hemingway effectively. And the answer, which will probably become the standard method in the future, appears to lie in doing an exact probing recreation.
Two factors stand out in “The Old Man and the
—	the lead perform-by Spencer Tracy the photography of James Wong Howe.
Tracy has completely dissected and analyzed his
Sea”
ance
and
role of the Old Man who has gone without catching a fish for 84 days before latching onto a giant marlin. His performance should easily add another Oscar to his mantle. In contrast to his on-screen portrayal. Tracy adopts a fuller, younger voice and also does the narration.
The photogaphy of the picture leaves the realm of mere reproduction and enters the field of impressionistic painting. Ma«ty of the scenes sweep across the screen like the works of Renoir and Winslow Homer. These two factors —photography and Tracy’s acting — take the movie out of the category of a mechanical reproduction and place it on the level of a great picture.
Unfortunately, there are several faults in the film, but all in all they are very minor. Young Felipe Pa-zos, who plays the Boy, shows little expression or feeling in his heart. Small
technical imperfections can also be noted in the titanic fight scene between the Old Man and the Fish, but the segment still comes off 10 notches above anything else put on the screen recently.
Added triuphs go to the director, John Sturges, who manages to maintain a fast pace to a story that was intentionally slow.
Before seeing the movie, we had read the short book twice. And with each reading or viewing, we received, in typical Hemingway fashion, a deeper per-onal understanding of the questions and strife involved in the story.
But these are almost entirely individual interpretations and up to each particular viewer.
To quote Hemingway, the movie and most of the reviews: “Man was not made for defeat. You can destroy Man, but you cannot defeat him.”
—Jim Bylin
Bylines
by jim bylin. daily trojan editor
OF POLITICS AND CLOSET SKELETONS—Within the past week the two candidates for governor of California-each surrounded with his own merry band of campaign workers, hangers-on and candidates look-ins for endorsements—swept on campus, made their pitch—then swiftly packed up their literature and silently stole away.
Rut, as usually happens when human beings are involved, the little dramas and items behind the scenes are more interesting than the speeches from
the podiums.
For instance, last Monday Attorney-General Pat Brown once again pointed his “rifle” at Proposition 18, the so-called “Right to Work” law ,and gave it his 100 per cent disapproval.
But did you know that the chairman of the executive committee of “Brown for Governor," Jim Sheppard. is also the chairman of the committee for “Yes on Proposition 18?” Brown, hesitating a fraction of second before confirming this, also admitted that one of his big campaigners in northern California is a leader of “Yes on Proposition lfi,” a move to tax nonprofit schools and another target in the Brown campaign.
On the other *ide of the political fence. Brown's opponent. Sen. William Knowland, was reported in his shirt sleeves hopping around the UCLA campus the same day he spoke here, running up to lounging students with hand extended saying. “Howdy. I'm Sen. Bill!” . . . Reports from Westwood say ihe usual answer was, “Who?”
Locally, a battle is being raged for the state assembly from the 65th district, which includes SC. between two SC graduates, Arthur K. Snyder (Rep.) and incumbent Jesse Unruh (Dem).
Snyder — who will be remembered /or modestly bursting into applause when Knowland endorsed him
—has printed a letter in his campaign literature supposedly from the treasurer of the Trojan Democrat Club giving him a complete endorsement . . . But the opposition says that they found out this fellow was a plant, kicked him out of the club and that the letter was written on TDC stationery six months after his ouster.
Illustrating the extremes of this particular election. a student Democrat leader on campus admitted helping take an entire edition of a throw-away newspaper off the stands because it contained an article they didn't like . . . Incidentally, when Unruh was on campus 10 years ago he was on the opposite student political fence from Joe Holt and Pat Hillings . . . And today he’s still in the same position.
Our impressions from both the Knowland and Brown speeches are that neither is a dynamic leader, that Brown is currently confidently riding in the driver’s seat, and that Knowland is getting desperate with his attacks on Brown.
Actually, we feel that the most interesting race is between Clair Engle and Goody Knight for the Senate seat . . . Goody is probably the strongest Republican candidate running, while Engle is looked upon as the second strongest Democrat choice behind Brown . . . Both are good old fashion stem-winders . . . Wonder why neither of them appeared on campus?
At least the students had the opportunity to hear two of the candidates in person . . . And maybe they’ll make up their own minds in this election instead of voting the way their parents did and their grandpar-nets before them did.
SCatterings
hy joe jares, daily trojan managing editor ■ —■ ■
WHO WILL BE QUEEN?—Theoretically the most beautiful woman on campus, Helen of Troy will be crowned tonight after Trolios . . . Those smiling faces you see on the Row belongs to DGs. who claim three of the five finalists: Ella Lou Sharp. Melinda Montgomery and Diane Roberts . . . Tri-Delts have Denise Halet; Gamma Phi has Rosemary Fankhanel . . . Put your money on one of the three DGs . . . Past three queens: Theta Lynn Husted, Tri-Delt Cynthia Dixon and Pi Phi Jerra Lynn Tyler . . . DGs are due.
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AROUND THE PIANO AT CARL’S: Studying apparently still isn’t the thing on Monday nights . . . Sigma Chi Bill Brodie, Phi Psis Jerry Herbst and Barry Freeman, Kappa Laurie Harwood. KAs Mike Donohew and Rick Poggi, DG Patty Turner, Kappa Sig Daan Angeloff and Phi Sigs Denny Kouri and Ellis- Reiter among the many enjoying drinks and the sound of their own singing . . . Sigma Chi Sandy Quinn and Kappa Barbara Myers off by themselves at a table.
DIS AND DATA: Alpha Phis are trying to hush up their new policy of exchanges only with what they consider to b^ the top houses . . . Sig Ep, TKE and Acacia supposedly have already been shot down . . . Hope this won’t last; those girls should have some exchanges this year . . . School of Journalism alumnus Art Buchwald, columnist for the L.A. Times and a host of other papers across the country, has a new book, “Something for the Boys,” on sale in the bookstore ■* * •* *
STOP, THIEF!—Somebody around SC, not a student I hope, is majoring in theft ... It seems that everything has to be nailed down these days . . . $60 was stolen from a third floor room in College Hall (next to EVK) . . . Gary Liotta, here on a golf scholarship, left his S300 set of golf clubs on the floor in the rear of his car ... He returned five minutes .later: no clubs . . . Bike thefts are way up, according to police reports . . . One fraternity lost its dining room table.
Things got so bad last year that the IFC hired a detective agency to police 28th St. . . . But this proved completely ineffective.
TALES OF TROY: Sig Ep Frank Gieberman stays on as editor of El Rodeo even though he doesn’t have the grades . . . There’s nobody else to do the job. and the university has to have a yearbook . . . Campus Crusade for Christ Is trying to pick up steam on campus.
How come the North Carolina football players had dates with the Bruin Belles when they were here???
. . . Weren’t SC girls good enough, for them? . . . The Negro members of the Bruin BeUes were asked not to go, which caused a big stink in the Daily Bruin.
Alpha Chi and SAE pretty tight these days (three pinnings lately).
•JARES’ JOTS: Wonder what’s going to happen when SC officially leaves the PCC and athletes will start coming in on the “full ride:” books, tuition, room and board . . . Will the room and board part be restricted to dorms? . . . And if so, will athletes ever pledge fraternities?? ... I see snide comments in the Daily Bruin on SC entrance requirements . . . They better look again . . . Old TNE man Wes Gregory visited the DT offices the other day; says he hears Delta Sig Gary Dubin is the big boss now.