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L.A. Museum s Van Gogh Exhibit Praised
Party Politics — Yes or No For SC Campus?
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1958
Faculty Balk At Evaluation
Center To Get i For Buildings
-	Project To Include
Hpfls Two New Facilities
Kids in College Under Music School Project
Topping Tells Growth Story To Rotarians
Mudd, a member of the SC board of trustees and long-time benefactor of the university. Additional funds will come from a government grant.
MILLION FOR MEDICINE-Pictured is the
proposed new SC medical center to be constructed near the Los Angeles County General Hospital with funds donated to hte university by Dr. Seeley Wintersmith
Senate Running Smoothly Though Circus-Like--Lichty
Voice of America in Asia To Air Dr. Chen Remarks
rather from the individuals who spend a lot of time thinking about some motion, planning it and feeling strongly about it.
Lack of Planning “If I were planning a bill, it would be my duty to plan it thoroughly,” he said. “I woulJ have to plan all the arguments for and against it.”
Reality returned, however, when he said that he had not felt strongly enough about anything on campus this year to propose new legislation.
He admitted that most of the legislation must come from the Senators-at-large and that lack of planning by the people who propose the legislation for the most part, the Senators-at-large) was the main fault in this year's presented legislation.
Xot Dogmatic Of the nine senators-at-large, Stan Arkin, Mike Loshin and Lichty have not prosed any major legislation.
Lichty applauded Scott Fitz-Randolph as a president who ‘has done an excellent job.
“He has suggested many ideas ¿Continued oa Page 2)
An interview wiih Dr. Theo- 1 dorr Chen, head of the Asiatic studies department, has been re-	'{\	• • "
corded by tho SC telecommuni-	••• viH
cation's department for broad- , cast by the Voice of America	jMRP
to the Orient.
Dr. Chen and his department j	'
were selected by the United States Information Agency as ! representative examples of what 1	*
the U. S. is doing to promote l better understanding with the Far East.
Interest Rise
Interviewed by Murray Lange. '■	f|
producer of “Our Times” and j ,
“Women of Troy,” Dr. Chen told j of ihe rising interest American i •-vk college students are exhibiting & ' in Far Eastern affairs. However. || this was not always so. Dr. Chen j said that American students wen» originally afraid to try Oriental languages because of a **psy< -i {«logical 1 *a rrier."
“American students, in gen- stray away from the romance ^ral. did not go in for Oriental ! languages.
languages. Students were limit- j Today the limitation has been cH in practicing the languages, overcome and the psychological and they were also reluctant to ’ barrier that existed hai been
broken down,” Dr. Chen said.
SC was one of the first schools, Dr. Chen said, that pioneered in Oriental languages and cultures.
“SC was the first university in Southern California to establish a department for Asiatic studies. The department was begun before the Second World War.
School Founded “Now at SC we offer language and culture courses taught in English. Our languages are centered around Chinese and Japanese. though during the war we did teach Korean and Malayan. too.” he said.
Dr. Chen recently returned from the island of Formosa where he was instrumental in founding the first university there. The school is sponsored by many interdenominational Protestant interests, and, Dr. Chen said, “is dedicated to democracy and the Christian spirit.” “The school is devoted to general educational principles; how-e\er, unlike American universi-(Continued on Page 2) t
LARRY LICHTY
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Lichty maintained that the main work of the Senate is done “behind the scenes.”
“Good legislation," he began, “and good ideas do not come from group« and meaun«5, but
DR THEODORE CHEN
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