'Helen' Reveals Thoughtful Crusades
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
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Trojan Trackmen To Exhibit Power in Arizona
Vol. XVI

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1965
No. 87
Constitution Loses by 54 Votes
Songfest to Honor Dr. von KieinSmid
Songfest 1965, has beeni dedicated to the memory of Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid.
“This is the first presentation Dr. von KieinSmid will miss and we therefore feel it fitting to dedicate Songfest 1965. to his memory." Songfest Chairman Tom Woolley said in announcing the dedication yesterday.
Dr. von KieinSmid. one of Songfest’s earliest supporters. hosted the program in 1955.
Second Host Bob Jani, director of special events, formulated the idea of Songfest while he was a sophomore in telecommunications. He asked the chancellor to host the second pre-1 sentation in 1955.
Jani recalled the chancellor’s reaction to the invitation to host the musical.
“He was seated in his swivel chair, with his back to us. while he thought over the; invitation.”
After thinking for quite a
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SONGFEST MEMORIAL — Songfest 1965, has been dedicated to the late chancellor, Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid. He was the host of the second Songfest.
Consulting Professors Named for Business
a solo or shall I bring someone to accompany me?’’
Dr. von KleinSmid’s response set the tone for his (entire connection with Song-; fest.
Grandfather Image
“He was fascinated by the !entire production, and all the I students were very close to him. He was sort of a grandfather image to the participants,” Jani said
Senator Blasts Students, Row For Decision
Fifty-four votes defeated the proposed Southern California Association Constitution yesterday.
Of 672 students voting. 308 favored the reprised constitution and 362 opposed it. Election Commissioner Mary Ann Gumbinger reported.
Eight thousand full - time students were eligible to vote.
In a statement released after the election, ASSC Senator Brooke 'Gabrielson. chairman of the convention which drafted the new constitution, blasted the student body and the Row.
Moral Evident “There is a moral to be learned from all the disagree-	*
ment which surrounded the proposed constitution, Gabrielson said.
“The student body in general and the Greeks in particular want something to play with in the spring.
“Their plaything traditionally has been student govern-	___kl
ment	BROOKE GABRIELSON
„ .	... Convention Chairman
Counts Time
“Ironically, their toy will dis- ag well as the worR of the appear in the very near fu- constitutional convention, as ture, because the amount of examples of the intensive an-time left for student govern- alysis of student government, ment on this campus can be’ ‘-However, t h e students counted in months, even none Df vvhom have been ex-jdays,” he continued.	posed to what a truly effec-
i He also defended the con-'tive government can do for istitution. the result of five|them. voted against them-jweeks of intensive work selves,” he said, among convention delegates.	Herbert’s View
Representatives of Volun-,in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Recruits will use a, variety, “As a group representative Adam Herbert. AMS pres-teers in Service to America VISTA applicants must belof talents working as recrea- of the ASSC. we felt we had ^nt and a delegate to the
672 VOTERS—That's how many students turned out for the election which rejected the new constitution. Pictured
(from left) are Brad Karelius and Pat Salas with Bernard Franks and Mary Ann Gumbinger checking ballots.
while, he turned around and POVFRTY PROGRAM said, “Do you want me to sing r w v L-IX 1 1 I
Domestic Peace Corps To Visit Campus Today
Student's Active Cigar Explodes in His Hand
(VISTA), the domestic Peace over 18 years old and be will- tion leaders or tutors. They presented a constitution that Constitut i o n a 1 Convention. A major-general in the Crocker noted their leader- pants” Jani said. *	Corps, will be on campus to-ing to work with people in must also be able to work was in the best interest of all sn[j the next student body
U. S. Air Force and two dis-ship in the financial com-	really enjoyed himself to describe o n e of the underpriviledged areas such with mentally ill. elderly, and students.” he explained. president must assume a very
tinguished Los Angeles finan- munity and recognized their despite our early fears that major antipoverty programs as the California m i g r a n t non-English-speaking people.	Complete Study	significant role in drafting a
ciers were named consulting concern for the proper edu- the ^ob woui<j be too exhaust- now being conducted in this towns.	Typical assignments in- “At no time during the new constitution,
professors on the Graduate cation of young people in jng for a man jn ^is late 70s. country.	Overcome Poverty elude bringing the poor into past three years has a more “The time required to draft
School of Business Adminis- business.	j -‘At one point in the pro- Members of VISTA will! The volunteers in the war programs that help them, tu-comprehensive study been the document ran extremely
tration faculty last night.	Commerce Associates, a gram, a large basket of flow- visit classes, talk to students'on poverty will be sent to 28 toring or teaching the funda- made of the changes neces- close to the latest possible
Honored at the annual support group for the Schoolers fell over into his path to at noon in front of Tommy communities across the na-mentals of literacy, teaching sary in our governmental date to release election peti-black-tie dinner of the of Business Administration, the microphone.	Trojan and answer questions tion. They serve in much the homemaking and health prac-structure than during this tions," Herbert said,
school’s Commerce Associa- also presented S500 awards “The audience became very during a reception from 2 to 3ame way as Peace Corps tices.	past semester. ’	He believes the election re-
tes was Major Gen. Ben I. to two students.	iquiet because they wondered 4 p.m. at the YWCA.	volunteers, but in the United This project is one of the He c|ted the six months of suit might have been differ-
Funk, commander of the Grad Student Honored what the chancellor would do	Vassar Grad	States rather than abroad. major antipoverty forces es- discussion, debates, compro- ent if time had been allowed
Space Systems Division. The Associates’ Award to in such a situation.	George C. Koch, who re- Volunteers make their tablished by the Economic mises and decisions of Dr. for a series of panel discus-
USAF.	a graduate student went to “Dr. von KieinSmid stood cently returned from 27 homes for a year in communi- Opportunity Act of 1964. Its Topping s Ad Hoc Committee, sions.
Bankers Honored	Markham Ira Alpert. The un- there a few moments and fi- months service in the Peace ties in Arkansas. California, objectives are similar to those
Also honored were Lloyd dergraduate award was pres-jnally bent over to pick up the Corps in Liberia, will present,Connecticut, Kentucky, Mis- 0f the Peace Corps.
L. Austin, chairman of the ented to Craig William Arm-flowers,” Jani recalled.	the VISTA program to the souri. Nevada. Pennsylvania,!	|,;lj | Volunteers
board and chief executive strong.	! “When he set the basketistudents.	Tennessee or Virginia.	Volunteers receive pay for
officer of the Security First The Dean’s Award, also for back in its place, the flowers Also representing VISTA1 Their jobs range from pro- ^0Q(j rent me(JicaI care cov-National Bank, and Roy P. $500. was given to Dr. Morris were all disarranged.	iwill be Mrs. Dorothy L. Bar- fessionally directed training erag’e and j0b travel expenses
Crocker, chairman of the Mautner, associate professor “Turning to the audience, ker, field represeniative, and of the mentally retarded to pjus a monthly personal al-board of Lincoln Savings and of business and industrial Dr. von KieinSmid said. ‘You Judith Salisbury, Vassar gra- mobilizing whole communities ]owance Df 575 jn addition
Loan Association.	management, in recognition know, I think they look bet. duate who s e r v e d for two in local efforts to overcome they receive a S50 per month Bv NANCY PERRYMAN cause no one had had the on.
**' **•"*----lyeare with the Peace Corps I poverty	irtlpend. which will be paid. The activated tobacco of portunity to tamper with the
: at the end of the one - year James Farrier's cigar was cigars since he bought them.
11 term of service.	! just too active for his smooth-! .
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Tne workers have a four- smoking taste W ednesday. ;pIoded Famer called the po-
| week training period at sites! Farrier, a sophomore in the Hce who found the .22 caliber similar to those areas in’USC School of Medicine, wasglu_ and parts Gf the shat-which they eventually will the victim of an unexpected terpd cartridge in his room, serve. Part of the training,smoking hazard when a .22,
takes place on or near col-'caliber cartridge embedded in Police officers notified the lege campuses, and another his cigar exploded.-	FBI Wednesday evening im-
part is in field work to ac-j Uninjured, he said that he mediately following the inci-! quaint the volunteers with was quite surprised when the dent. The officers said the re-the physical environment of cigar in his hand exploded as maining stock of cigars at the poverty and the problems he was studying.	bookstore would be checked,
they will face there.	Purchased Tuesday	X-Ray Cigars
People who have lived and The box of five cigars was “We turned over the reworked in poverty join teach-1purchased Tuesday by Far- maining 10 boxes of cigars in ers, specialists, and advisors rier at the USC Medical Cam- stock yestreday. They are from the social sciences toex-;pus Bookstore. He was smok- planning to X-ray the cigars plain the history, current;ing the fourth one when it ex-for other similar defects." problems and needs, and me-!ploded.	said Lucy Parker, head of the
thods of working to the train-1 Farrier discounted the pos-jUSC Medical Campus News ees.	1 sibility of a practical joke be- Bureau.
Citations for Austin and of his excellence as a teacher, ter that way.’
CHINESE MISUNDERSTANDING
Massacre Mars
History
(Editor’s note: Material contained in this article can be found in Paul M. De Falla’s “Lantern in the Western Sky.” originally published by the Southern California Historical Society.)
By GREG O’BRIEN
Los Angeles, 1871, was a city with a population of 6,000 settlers that boasted no fewer than one violent death per day. For all its placid looking vineyards and orchards, it was far from a city of angels.
1871. however was destined to be a particularly sad year for Los Angeles citizens. It was the year of the Chinese Massacre.
The trouble can be traced to a number of sources. Eight years earlier, the California Legislature had passed a bill declaring. “Henceforth 110 Mongolian, Indian, Indian half-caste or Chinese can testify in any court of law in any criminal case (as well as any civil case) wherein a white man is involved, either in favor of, or against, said wl^jte man.”
Oriental Discrimination
In 1855, author Bayard Taylor wrote in his book, “ India, Japan, and China,” “It is my deliberate opinion that the Chinese are, morally, the most debased people in the United States.”
Popular opinion ran high against the Orientals because of such books as Taylor’s; because the Chinese were slow to drop their own customs and “assimilate;” and, perhaps worst of all. because they offered strong competition for many jobs at which they would accept less pay.
So, on Oct. 20, 1871, Los Angeles was primed for the events following pretty Ya Hit’s marriage to a Westerner.
Ya Hit was supposedly the property “body and soul” of the Nin Ying Co.
The Chinese organization claimed that she (Continued on Page 2)
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BLOOD KEEPS COMING
Facilities Will Expand To Accommodate Donors
.A total of 425 pints oflpanded to absorb the last blood has been donated to;day’s donations, the blood bank, only 15 pints i “There will be room for short of the final tally last everyone that comes. We an-year, Roger R o s e n d a h 1,j ticipate that today will be Knights president, announced the highest day,” he added
CHINESE QUARTERS—These buildings were inhabited by the Oriental element of Los Angeles' population in 1871.
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The street pictured above, the scene of many colorful episodes in Los Angeles history, is near the site of USC.
jp yesterday.
One hundred-fifty pints v were given yesterday with 30 ] additional students rejected for reasons of health. A group of 40 NROTC men were turned away due to lack of accomodations.
However, the NROTC men are planning to return tomorrow Rosendahl said. He promised the Methodist Church facilities will be ex-
The blood bank, sponsored by the Knights, will conclude its four-day visit today. The bloodmobile is stationed at the Methodist Church, 814 W. 34th St. Donations may be given from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.
“We have been very encourage by the results thus far and certainly hope that it will continue on this final “Today is the last chancei
for students to build up their lifetime blood bank insurance,” he continued.
Donars will have lifetime access to the blood, for themselves and their families, should the need arise.
Rosendahl cited one example where a USC student is already reaping the benefits of the bloodmobile.
The mother of one student recently became very ill and needed blood. Kappa Sigma fraternity donated 70 pints of blood in her name.
Trophies will be awarded for outstanding group donations Wednesday night.
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