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VOL. Lll
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1961
NO. 16
Olin Foundation Gives University $2.2 Million Engineering Center
Audience Hails Building Program
ELECTION ISSUE
Inquiry Board to Investigate Illegal Campaigning Charge
The Board of Inqury will meet today at 3 to rule on a complaint i i 1 e d last week against ore of th? candidates in the freshman vice presidential contest.
The compla' ‘.t, filed with Elections Commissioner Salli Allison, charged that candidate Bobbe Hensley had conducted an unauthorized ampa gn car-
i.van in front oi the P.E. Build-on the first day of voting.
{ Results of the vice presiden-| tial primary, held Wednesday ; and Thursday, were withheld ) pending the decision of the | board.
"The caravan was definitely unauthorized, but the board will have to decide whether the ac-! tion is grounds for disqualifica-! tion,” Miss Allison said.
Campaign procedures restrict caravans to the Row and dormitory areas, dris Allison said.
Baxter Will Disclose Brooke s Rare Genius
The verse of Rupert Brooke will be read by Dr. Frank C. Baxter, professor emeritus, at. the opening of the English noon reading series for the semester today at 12:30 in 129 FH.
Dr. Baxter, who has presented t'.e first reading in the series each year, has a special affection for Brooke, one of the many English writers who died in World War I.
“The great writers of his own short day believed that his lips were touched with genius. I may be naive and very old-fashioned, but I think so still,” Dr. Baxter *aid of the 20th century Romantic.
“W i t h Brooke's death, there died a certain era of English poet ry," he continued. “He was a Romantic in his verse as he was
Air Offi cers To Interview
Interviewing of graduate students interested in Air Force commissions will be held today and tomorrow from 9 to 4 p.m. in the School of Business Administration.
The interv iews will be conducted by Sgt. Lawrence A. Smith of officer procurement. Candidates for Officers’ Training School will be considered from all fields of study, he said.
Applicants with Law School degrees will be considered for ranks from first lieutenant to major. Placement will depend on age, experience and education.
Candidates for the three-month officers’ training program may apply 210 days before graduation. Sgt. Smith said.
a romantic legendary figure during his short life.”
I cannot imagine any young man cr woman not being bowled over by him, for everywhere in his writing there is warmth and beauty and mo--' often than not he speaks fcr all the youth of the world, Dr. Baxter noted,
“Unlike the poets of our day, he spoke out clearly and in sensory terms. Critic, think he is tinged with a very youthful sophistication and pessimism that they like to say he would have outgrown,” he said.
“As for myself, I hope he always would have b-rn the same; for, old as I am, he still speaks to me in terms that stir and warm my heart,” Dr. Baxter said.
Brooke was ?’.so able to laugh. He made some rich fun of many things that were pompous and foolish in his own time. Dr. Baxter — who retired frcm teaching last semester — added.
The Georgian writer studied at Cambridge. Many of his poems concern th_* English countryside around the ancient university town. Brooke was bora in the English town of Grant-chester, about 14 miles from Cambridge.
Brooke died of a fever in the Mediterranean area at the age of 28, after taking part in the war as a naval lieutenant.
Dr. Baxter, one of the first educators t o appear o n television in the late 1930s, became a full - time television personality in 1953 when he began the “Shakespeare on TV” series.
Tne noon readings will be held every Monday at 12:30. Dr. Kennett Moritz, associate professor of English, will speak next week.
In addition, all caravans must be authorized by the Elections Committee.
Miss Hensley's campaign managers said th it no statement on the caravan would be issued until they conferreu with their ad-\ isers.
Mrs. William Chertok, administration adviser to the Elections Committee and a member of the Board of Inquiry, said that the regulations hold a candidate responsibl for infractions whether caused by the candidate or supporters.
Mrs. Chertock could not predict the outcome of today’s inquiry, but said she felt the board would have to take some action on the matter.
“We can’t allow this to set a precedent for the Spring elections,” she explained.
Well - Informed
The five other candidates in the contest said that they iiad
all been well - informed of the campaign restrictions, but were split as to whether Miss Hensley should be penalized for the infraction.
Most of the candidates said they did not feel Miss Hensley should be disqualif'ed, while oth-ers said that disqualification would make little difference in the _*ace.
Some said that the violation should be overlooked because freshmen are often confused by campaign procedure.
Runoff Announcement
Once a decision by the board is made, the runoff candidates for the office will be announced and campaigning will be allowed to start. The runoff election has been set for Wednesday in Alumni Park.
Also on the ballot will be the runoff candidates for rreshman president, Howard Miller and Brook Trout. The men were within one vote of a tie in the primary^, Miller gathering 168 votes and Trout 167. More than 500 students voted in the two-day election.
“We have been very pleased with the fine turnout for the election s,” ASSC President Hugh Helm said. “W’ith the exception of this one protest, everything has gone quite smoothly.”
Helm, a member of the Board of Inquiry, said that all candidates will have to be shown that “the election rules are to be followed, and followed precisely.”
OUTDOOR FORUM - More than 500 students, turned away from crowded Bovard Auditorium, listen to announcement of a
$2-million-p!us grant to USC from the Olin Foundation. The gift will be used for the first major building in the Master Plan.
Car, Bicycle Thefts Rise; Police Promote Registration
By DAX SMITH
A definite rise in car thefts, missing bicycles and thefts from autos has been noted in the USC area by both campus and University Division police since the school year started.
Officer Manuel Gutierrez of the University Division police station noted that six auto thefts and a large amount of thefts from cars in morning and night watches had been reported in the previous two-week period.
Officer Gutierrez attributed
the increase to the fact that there is a greater concentration of automobiles in the university vicinity during the school year than in summer months.
Books, sweaters and other articles left on car seats are the usual target of the thefts. Students should learn to put these articles where they won’t be seen, he noted.
He said that if students plan to leave their cars unlocked, they should lock anything that cculd be taken in their trunks.
The victimized cars are usually parked in the area between the row and the campus, Officer Gutierrez said.
Campus Police Chief Victor Sargent backed up these comments by reporting that nine bicycles have been reported missing since school started.
“These are only the ones that have been reported,” Chief Sargent said.
He added that the recovery problem is difficult because many bicycles are neither registered with the Los Angeles Police Department nor have a frame number.
“Without registration it is almost impossible to locate owners of bicycles that are found,”
Building Promises Space to Think
he explained. “If they should be claimed, they cannot be returned unless there is some other positive means of identifying them.”
Chief Sargent pointed out that it is illegal to ride a bike unless it is registered with the police.
He added that students could take an extra precaution by registering their vehicles with his office,
“We keep a cross-file of bicycles by names and frame numbers in order to locate the owner of a recovered bicycle more easily,” he explained.
Bicycles may be registered with the campus police by mail or by bringing to the office pertinent information, such as the owner’s name, address, phone number, a short description of the vehicle and its frame number, he said.
Bicycles can be registered with the University Division police station on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The cost is one dollar for a five-year license.
ON THE WAY — The new Clin Hall of Engineering, donated to the university last week, is scown in an architect's concept of
its completed form. The new building will house classrooms and labs fcr electrical, industrial and mechanical engineers.
Within two years, the pre-World War II engineering barrack settlement will be transformed into a five - story 55,-000-square-foot physical plant encompassing all the advantages of modem architecture.
The New Olin Hall of Engineering, a $2.2 million gift from the Olin Foundation, Inc. to use for a new engineering teaching and research building, will provide more room for thinking, more room for studying, more room for teaching and more room for planning.
Flexibility and functionalism will characterize the new high-rise structure, which has been designed to double the present physical capacity of the School of Engineering facilities and to provide both an academic and an administrative focal point for the entire school.
The building's two principal wings will accommodate classrooms, laboratory, seminar rooms, a student lounge and administrative offices.
A central utility and transportation core with elevators and stairways will join th-3 wings, and a 25.000-volume library and 153-seat auditorium
will be housed *n connecting one-story structures.
A lounge and auditorium, which may be used both for the School cf Engineering and all - university functions, will open into a central courtyard.
The first floor of the white concrete and brick building will feature a general activity area with a large lounge for students, faculty and administrators. It will also include a 10.000-square-foot library, a special events lecture hall, student activity rooms, classrooms, a seminar room and a solid-state electronics laboratory.
The Dean's Office, together with electrical engineering laboratories and more classrooms, will make up ‘he second floor, while the third floor will be devoted entirely to the electrical faculty, departmental offices and laboratories.
The new buildLig was hailed by Dr. Topping at an all-university convocation as “a cornerstone where dedicated faculty and studentes of quality will seek together to reaffirm that which is known while penetrating into those dark areas where man is still a stranger.”
Helen' Bids Co in Mail
Packets of applications have been sent out to all sorority houses, and women's dormitories for the annual Helen of Troy contest, Rcbin Angelica, co-chairman of the Homecoming Committee, announced.
Sorority houses, women’s dormitories or independent women may enter applicants. A group may enter as many candidates as desired.
Homecoming queen candidates must have been USC students for least a year prior to this semester, and must be taking 12 units or more with not less than 6 units in day classes.
Applicants must have a grade point average of 2.5 or higher and be a member of the junior or senior class, Miss Angelica said.
Applications fo r homecoming queen will be accepted only during the week of Oct. 9. Miss Angelica reported. Additional applications can be picke-i up in 232 SU, office of co-ordinator of special events, s.
By BARBARA EPSTEIN Daily Trojan Editor
Groundbreaking for a new 52,202,159.63 School of Engineering building donated to the university by the Olin Foundation, Inc., is expected to begin early next spring and to be completed in a year.
Announcement of the gift was made last Friday by Dr. Charles L. Horn, president of the Olin Foundation, and James O. Wynn, Olin Foundation vice president, at a formal all-university convocation in Bovard Auditorium. All 10 a.m. classes were canceled for the event.
When the gift was announced more than 2,000 students, faculty and guests in the standing-room-only auditorium gave Dr. Horn, Wynn and the foundation a standing ovation. At least 500 additional students who could not get into the auditorium, listened outside via loudspeakers.
The award will cover construction costs, scientific equipment and furnishings for a five-story, 55,000-square foot concrete and brick structure to be known as the Olin Hall of Engineering. It will double the facilities of the School of Engineering and replace temporary barrack structures now in use.
The building — housing electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering classrooms and laboratories, a library, the Engineering Center and an auditorium — will rise on the east side of McClintock Ave., between W. 36th Place and W. 37th St.
It represents the Olin Foundation’s first gift to an independent university west of the Rocky Mountains, and constitutes one of the largest single gifts ever made to USC.
Preliminary plans for erection of the Olin Hall of Engineering have already been completed, under the direction of Architect William Pereira. Contract-letting for the new building is expected to begin after the first of the year.
Present on stage in academic cap and gown during the convocation ceremony were Dean Alfred Ingersoll of the School of Engineering; Dean Emeritus Robert E. Vivian; H. Leslie Hoffman, national chairman of the Committee for the Master Plan and member of the Board of Trustees; and Leonard K. Firestone, chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Also seated on stage in cap and gown were university vice presidents, Dr. Robert Craig, University Senate president, dean, and other members of the Board of Trustees, including University Chancellor Rufus B. von KieinSmid.
Seated in cap and gown in the audience were the 110 faculty members of the School of Engineering.
Dr. Horn, in presenting the gift to USC, expressed confidence in the university's future growth and development.
“The Olin Foundation searches for those independent colleges and universities that need assistance,” Dr. Horn said. “In coming into a new area, we look for those educational institutions that have a future growth potential and whose programs are supported by an outstanding faculty.
“Among all the independent colleges and universities on the Pacific Coast, the University of Southern California was the one that struck as the best,” he said.
Dr. Horn said he hoped the Olin Foundation’s gift would stimulate additional support from the local community, and he called upon alumni also to support the university in its program for “excellence and enterprise in education.”
“If we can recognize excellence, looking across this continent from our Eastern headquarters, we feel that the people of Los Angeles will also recognize excellence in their midst, and certainly should support it.”
The gift was accepted by Dr. Topping “with profound thanks” on behalf of the Board of Trustees and the university.
“Less than five months ago, on May 17, the university Master Plan was announced,” Dr. Topping said. “The Master Plan enumerated the goals of the university and lists, among the needs for enterprise and excellence in education, more research equipment and facilities, more classrooms and laboratories and more libraries and books.
“Now with a movement forward which is at once startling and immensely gratifying, we are able to evision an architectural environment in which many of our needs are to be met,” he added.
Wynn, who also serves as legal counsel to the Olin Foundation, pointed out that the foundation was presenting the university with a grave responsibility.
“We of the Olin Foundation have carried the burden of responsible administration of a certain amount of wealth. This morning we begin the process of shifting part of this responsibility to you in hope that it will be well-administered to the lasting good of all mankind,” he said.
At a news conference early Friday and at the convocation Dr. Horn and Wynn pointed out that the Olin Foundation is primarily interested in the building and
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Richfield Gift Follows Convocation Donation
An unrestricted grant of $5,000 and a fellowship in the Graduate School of Engineering were awarded to the university recently by the Richfield Oil Corporation.
Announcement of the grant, offered to the university under a new program begun by Richfield last year, followed presentation of more than $2 million to the university by the Olin Foundation for construction of a new engineering building.
The new $110,000 Richfield Aid to Education program offers more than $63,000 in grants to private colleges and universities with no qualifications as to their use. The balance of the funds is contributed in the form of capital funds, research funds and indirect aid to education.
Other schools that have received fellowships from the new fund were California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, j the University of Washington and the University of Alaska.