President Gives Full Approval To Motion for Political Speakers
Southern
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TROJAN
VOL. L
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1958
NO. 7
Chong Reveals 70 Students To Serve As Homecoming Committees Start Work
MEN,EVENTS
English Dept. To Start Readings
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bo presented by Harold Briggs, and the following Monda.' .T^mcs Durbin will read "Poems on the Spanish Civil War” by Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis.
Robert F. Scott's “Last Journey in the Antarctic” will be related by Alexander Chorney on Dec. 3 as the final reading of the semester.
New Medical Class Planned
Committee Heads Given Four Weeks To Event
Seventy students have been selected to serve on the 1958 Homecoming Committee, Chairman Willie Chong announced yesterday.
Leading the committee will be Chong, Kay Stelten-kamp, co-chairman: Julianne Bescos, executive secretary; and Joan Preston, budget con- j troller.
Twelve committee chairmanships were appointed by Chong.
They included Gene Kunzman,
Judging; Sam Uskovich, Troy-land; Vincent Stefano, Pre-Game; Bob DeSimone. Trolios;
Bob Hodges. Queen; Gerry Reeves, Publicity; Bob Chick,
Trophies; Betty Zumer, House Decorations, and Lucia Kapeto-nick, Dance.
Four Weeks Til Homcoming
These are the*people who must put together an entire Home- | coming in only four weeks, I Chong pointed out.
Named to serve on the Judg-!
Forum Group To Promote SC Speakers
SC's Forum Committee has plans “to bring to campus for j speaking engagements those people who have messages of high educational value to the students ! and facu.ty during the coming i said Nelson Gilman, com-
nut some-connected
Mils.
»rate ut it
More than 112 members of
the SC Medical School faculty
id will conduct a postgraduate
course Oct. 16-17. ici	•	•
Recent advances in medicine
ing Committee were Rod Thompson and Beverly Brown. Tro\- j niittee chsirman. land will be served by Bonnie |
Burke, Mary Bulich, Kathi Mor-¡ ris. Joyce Misetich, Warren Ny-! back, Mary Westover and Lou Janicich.
Serving on the Pre-Game committee under Vince Stefano will The committee will also at-
According to Gilman, the committee will also try to publicize such speeches, lectures and talks and to provide the facilities for these events.
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will form the basic theme of the be Paul Wrhite. Cliff Lightfoot. I tempt to aid any campus orgam-
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course which is open to practicing physicians and surgeons of the area.
Lectures at Hotel Statler and group discussions at LA County would not be taught in the Hospital will involve nearly ev-
•Elderry stated that the general intention of these readings is to enable the English faculty to pass on literary material to students which ordin-a
classroom.
Baxter Give« Reading
The first reading will be presented by Dr. Frank Baxter, who will relate T. E. Lawrence's “The Fall of Damascus.” The following week Dr. Eleazer Lecky will offer excerpts from ”Sea and Sardinia” by D. H. Lawrence.
Selections from I\al nerine
er department of the Medical School.
Dr. Phil R. Manning, director of the postgraduate division, commented that the course will be the most comprehensive ever offered by SC.
Ward rounds, limited to 15 physicians per group, will be
and Kathy Smith. On Trolios will be Dave Appels. Mark Mandala, Penne Benson, Robert Neill, Sue Hartford. John Montchalin and James Hopkins.
Beverly Taylor, Nenelle Rapport. and Laure Whitneck will be members of Chicks trophies
zation by co-sponsoring these events as well as co-ordinating them.
Gilman said his committee would help in the publicizing of departmental projects such as theatre, concerts and operas as
OPERATION SAVES LIFE OF BASKETBALL PLAYER
A three hour emergency operation saved the life of basketball letterman Mike Fryer at Santa Monica’s St .John’s Hospital Saturday night.
After complaining of not fee.’ing well, Frver, All City basketball player from Venice High, was taken to the Student Healfh Center Thursday evening.
Doctors suspected internal beeding and confirmed their diagnosis when a bleeding ulcer was discovered. They ordered Fryer moved to the Santa Monica hospital where the operation was performed.
Basketball Coach Forrest Twogood reports that Fryer is recovering slowly from the ordeal but will remain in the hospital for some time, perhaps losing a semester of school.
Fryer, a junior and a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, played center on last year’s varsity team and was a member of the 1957 freshman team.
Twogood expressed his regret that Fryer will be unable to return to the team this year. “I was counting on his presence as an outstanding ball player,” Twogood said, “but I am thankful they were able to sav« his life.”
Ex-Musical Director Dies Unexpectedly
they are produced. He said one committee. Queen committee will j of the committee’s main purposes I he Pete Fry, Jo Anne Nootbar,	is to inform the SC students of
, Bobbie Schmit and Marilyn Ber-	the cultural events in and around	Roberts	came	to	SC as a
j ryman. Marlene Coleman will	the Los Angeles area.	student in	1922	from Franklin
help Miss Zumer with house Information about the appli- j	High. Following	his	graduation
decorations.	¡cations and interviews, of the j jn 1926 he became Director of
On Publicity Committee	¡committee are available in 215 ¡Musical Organizations, a posi-
Harold W. (Hal) Roberts, 55, | Hoffman Electronics Co. as sales former SC music director, died ¡ manager of the service division, unexpected yesterday while con- Roberts is survived by a ducting a sales meeting in his daughter and son, Mrs. Sondra business office.	Stones	and	Harold	W.	Roberts
Jr.. and two grandchildren.
The Publicity committee will | SU. have Marianne Arrington as its ---------------
The
Da\s Be- conducted by Drs. Clarence J. secretary and the following
Berne, Telfer B. Reynolds, George C. Griffith, Helen E. Martin and Thomas H. Brem.
Anne Portei
fore” will l>e presented by Dr.
Aerol Arnold on October 20, while “The Great Fire of London” by Samuel Pepys will be read by Dr. Walter Crittenden the following week.
Huxley Read Janet Bolton will read from Aldous Huxley's "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” on Nov. 3. and Dr. Drew Pillette will offer tales of early days in California on Nov. 10.
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek , eers, the group’s New York of-Bridge” by H. L. Mencken will I fice reported yesterday.
Services Set For Baldwin
SC Graduate Receives Office
SC graduate Howard C. Pyle was elected president of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical. and Petroleum Engin-
members: Joelle Lewis, Jo Anne McDonough. Barbara Atkinson and Triad Brown.
On the Dance committee will be Emma Gee. Patty Geiger and Myra Ferguson. The ticket com-1 Funeral services for Clayton mittee will be Bill Stigerwalt, ^ Baldwin. 60, professor of ar-Judy Turner, Linda Slaughter, | chitecture at sc since i920, who
died in his sleep Wednesday night at his home, will be held
tion which he held until 1938.
During his stay is director, Roberts built up the Trojan Band from a handful of stu dents to a group of 200.
He was widely-known for his
Faculty-Student Plan Praised
President Norman Topping yesterday gave his “complete approval” to the faculty - student recommendation I that political campaigners be allowed to speak on SC's
! campus.
In a letter to Dr. Robert G. Gordon, acting dean of students, Dr. Topping said that he was returning the statement which was the result of the ad hoc committee’s recommendations concerning political activities on SC's campus, “with some slight modification in the interest of ths clarification of the university’s policy.”
Official Policy “This statement,” he continued, “which can now be taken as an official university position, should aid materially in the interpretation of our policy regarding political activities by students on this campus.”
Dr. Gordon said the policy now “affords our approved student groups an opportunity to present a varied program on contemporary political issues.”
“It also gives students a chance to study and make their own decisions and express their own view points in such issues,” he added.
All concerned called this procedure a healthy faculty-student response to a situation and praised the president for making possible a faculty-student consultant commit-! tee.
Clarifies SC Stand
Dr. Topping said that he thought the committee should be congratulated on its interest and on its recommendation which has been taken as the official university posi-
i tion.
The statement, as revealed by Dr. Topping’s office,
j said:
“The University of Southern California is politically non - partisan. Faculty, employees and students are not asked by the university to affirm or deny affiliation with any major political party. Nor is there either rule or inference against support of any such political party by members of the university community, so long as claim or color of representing the university is clearly avoided.
“In the interest of good citizenship and intelligent exercise of the citizen’s right of franchise, the university has approved and recognized the organization of students into clubs supporting the programs and candidates of major political parties.
Educational Objective “When approved student groups use university facilities in sponsoring off-campus representatives of such political parties, the university recognizes its responsibilitv to encourage, with equal opportunity, the presentation of views on contemporary issues. Such a policy we believe is in harmony with the educational objective of .unbiased inquiry.”
This new university policy attempts to clarify all the misinterpretations of SC approval of programs and candidates of political parties on campus.
Members of this committee included Dr. Colin R. Lovell and Dr. Russell L. Caldwell of the history department; Dr. Totton J. Anderson, Dr. Bernard C. Hvink and Dr. C. Rodee of the political science department; Dr. Vic Walker, professor of economics; Burt Pines and Bob Chick, student chairmen of the Trojan Young Republicans and Young He lived at °13ll N. Orange Democrats, respectively; Scott FitzRandolph, student body
president: Abe Somer, senior class president; Jim Bylin, Daily Trojan editor; Dudley Johnson, student activities adviser; Nelson Gilman, chairman of the ASSC Forum Committee ;and Dr. Goron, “ad hoc” chairman.
Dr., Hollywood.
Ghandi Panel To Be Held
Sandy Alstyn, Karen Goold, Jo | Ann Ross, Barbara Littlejohn
today at 1 p.m. at the Pierce Brothers Mortuary, 720 W.
University Chaplain Clinton
Linda Mills, Judy Ostergard,
Cheryl Thomas. Susan Port, Pen-nv Martin. Tim Clark, Diane |
Young, Sandy Small, Kathy | Washington Blvd.
Forster, Mary Hamilton, Su-zanne Michel, Jean Westerlund. i A- Neyman will officiate at the Amelial Hubbard, Judi Prise and j services.
Coyla Nelson.	Professor	Baldwin	was	a	wid*
The new members of the oom- j ower. He is survived by his mittee will be contacted by the daughter, Mrs. Sylvia Allan, various chairmen about tlte time . Interment will be at the In-and place of the first meeting. glewood Cemetery. ______________________
Mahatma Ghandi will be the subject of a panel discussion work in halftime productions at Thursday on Ghandi's birthday. SC football games during the rp^e jn(jjan students Association stewardship of Coach Howard wm ^ thg pubJic panel at
Jones.	i	^ p.m. in 133 FH.
In addition to his work with Panel members include Abra-SC's band, orchestra and glee ]iam Kaplan, professor of phi-club, Roberts organized and j ]osophy, UCLA; William H. directed the 1000 member band j Werkmeister, director of the SC which played during the 1932 | School of Philosophy, and M. S. Olympic games in Los Angeles. ; Bedi, graduate student in inter-His other activities in the mu- national relations, SC. sic field include the directorship , The panel will discuss Ghandi ; of Elks, American Legion, 160th jn connection with their par- | Infantry bands and his own ticular field of study and how Golden	State	Band.	,	hjs philosophy affects society,	j
For	the	past	six	years	j	stated Brahama Sharma, Indian	j
Roberts has	been connected with	*	Students Association president.	I
Discount Cards School Year Now on Sale Obsolete
One dollar discount cards which entitle students to one year of reduced admission prices at Fox Theaters are currently on sale in front of the Student Union and at the ticket office on the second floor.
Aside from the reduced prices which the card guarantees, there is also a stub good for one free admission to any Fox West Coast theatre, reports Sale Chairman Tom Harrison.
EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT
Mexican Students Flex To Make Government
Bargaining Bow in Bus
Power
War'
GOOD OLD DAYS—Trojan Young Republicans talk over old times with Bradford Trenham, COP Stale Senale candidate (SC‘26) and his son, Noble (‘X'S*)). Included in the diii.usi.iGn aic* Mike Lockaroff, Buit Pmes, TYR president, Karen AAcCdujheriy, Margie Dominici, TYR vice-president; Nancy Nix, secretary; Jack Karp, Bob Eostein, Gary Dobin, Chris Loflinq and Charles Kowal. The group also planned upcoming TYR events at SC.
(Ed. Note: This eye-witness story illustrates what actions students outside the United States take wiien they feel an important issue is at stake.)
By EDGAR VILLASENOR If the Los Angeles buses an-j nounced a raise in their fares, it I would probably be a matter of little or no concern to SC students. But last month when the Mexican government approved an increase of half a cent on the bus rates in Mexico City, the students of the University of. Mexico, touched off a period of violence which the City of the Palaces hasn't seen since 1928.
Heading toward tne university campus in order to contact some of the rioters, we were first Daily Trojan Photo by John B*ady | stopped in the vicinity of the
campus by federal troops, city and special riot police who were circling the University City.
After having been properly seized we were allowed to go on only to find a student barricade blocking the entrance to the campus. Students wearing the official University of Mexico yel-
l low and blue jacket shouted, I “No hay paso!”
Pass Issued
However, arier having invoked I student solidarity and gone through such formalities as assuring them we weren't carrying j any cameras with us we were let j in the forbidden gi'ounds and led ; to the rebels’ headquartres lo-I cated in the School of Law building.
A “safe conduct” was issued us to enter the campus at pny time to watch the deliberation j of the student leaders.
One striking feature about the latters was that they believed I wholeheartedly in their fight, and didn't welcome any of our questions that cast doubts as to the true motives for their move-i ment. Carlos Dagdug, president | of the Law Students Federation J and one of the few students who didn't look at us with the typical disapproval, emphatically de-| clared:
“We are fighting against the exploiters of the people.”
I In this case the “Exploiters”
were the Alianze de Camioneros de Mexico, the Mexican bus owners association. Accordingly,, the Alianza, on the face of a wage increase for their employees (40 cents per month), had asked the office of the Federal District for permission to increase the bus fares.
Complying with the request, that government office allowed a half-a-cent raise, with a later reservation that university students should not be included. Students already enjoy a discount in bus Tares.
Supported By School
“The university is with us,” said Dagdug, obviously referring to the president and faculty of the university, who had publicly taken sides with the rebellious students, an attitude which was highly criticized by the downtown newspapers.
In addition, that same day, the president had warned that he and the entire university faculty would resign if the police and troops entered the university grounds. He had previously can-
celled classes “until the situation went back to normal.” “Reactionary” Press Dagdug and most of the students branded the Mexican press “reactionary,” largely due to the latter's failure to support the students’ movements.
In fact, most reporters called the students’ attitudes "reckless and senseless.” A staff writer for “Excelsior”, one of the lead-in" metropolitan papers, while lauding the American student for his concern with intra-school issues rather than with those of an outside nature, ripped at the Latin American student, who “is more worried about outside politics than a nice class attendance record.”
Denies Student Charges Senor Rodrigo de Llano, editor and publisher of Excelsior, although having made his feelings toward the students movement clear, emphatically denied the students’ charge of partiality and slander in the paper's news columns.
However, the presentation of
the news of the revolt by this one and the rest of the newspapers gave the students obvious reasons to .center their attacks upon the press. Front page headlines often made it appear that the students were “a mob of kids who have taken upon themselves the self-given name of 'people’s defenders.’ ” Fears Monopoly Garcia de Leon, president of i the All-Student Federation, j staunchly supported the movement originally started by the Law Federation and later spread to the rest of the school. ' » He publicly demanded the rnu-nicipalization of the bus system ; as a counter-measure against the threat of the rise of monopolies in the transportation sys-j tem.
“It’s been done in the United
States.’* a student remarked. "Sure,” we admitted, and added, grinning: "But students didn’t have a thing to do with it.”
In the meanwhile, with the (Continued on page 2) i
The possibility that the American public expects too much of its schools was raised today in an interview with Dr. Myron S. Olson, professor of education.
The schools are expected to cope with “narcotics, juvenlie delinquency. alcoholism and death on the highway ii* addition to education.” he said. Public Overconfident Yet the average youngster is under school surveillance only 20 per cent ofthe time. “The American public tends to be overconfident about what the schools can do in this limited time,” Dr. Olson declared.
One solution offered by the SC educator was “a growing summer school program and the use of classrooms when they normally are idle.”
In years past, he explained, the schools followed the practice of summer vacations so that youngsters could work on the farm. Then came the revolution in farm machinery — but no change in “the same obsolete school year!”
More School Time While the SC professor doesn't advocate an end to the summer vacation, he d d stress that “more school time must be made available.”
Dr. Olson contended that “teachers do not make the school.”
Contrary to what many people think, he asserted, schools reflect public demands, legislatures, pressure groups, college demands, types of students, financing. time and teacher preparation.
Today's Weather
WEATHER Std Hed .................
SC will have clear weather most of the day except for some early morning low clouds and
coastal f<»g. Temperatures are expected to stay at S.i degrees and below. The low last night was 64 degrees.