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Vol. XVI	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1964	No. 44
Reflection, Less Talk Says Poet
“Poets today have too much of a tendency to lecture and teach in universities rather than contemplate in the fields.” Stephen Spender, British literary critic, said Friday before a capacity Hancock audience.
“I also think that beatniks are just professors who lecture with their pants down,” he said.
The British poet said that the main consideration should be if a current “school" is entirely new, or just a development of a previous trend.
Spender also said that while such phases of art as painting and architecture rely on new media to bring new trends, literature uses the same words year after year.
Words Become Art
“If the words are used only for the purpose of producing a poem or novel then they cease to be literature and become art,” he said.
Spender gave the well-known writer e. e. cummings an example of this art.
Referring to cumming’s typographical experiments, he said that “what they mean j is that it’s something that should be looked at.”
But when cummings reads poetry he doesn’t read the mixed - up punctuation or brackets, and it then becomes literature.
Spender also proposed that literature today might actually be called less modern than literature of an earlier generation.
“Even later Eliot is less modern than the earlier Eliot,” he said.
Advancing a description of “modern,” Spender said that it must be determined whether or not there is a break with the past.
Refers to Contemporaries
“There has been a ‘modern’ for every age,” he reminded the audience.
He also referred to contemporaries — like George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and C. P. Snow — as self-appointed elites, prophets, and superiors.
“They think of themselves as above society, looking down and commenting on its decadence.”
Moderns like James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound often are “trying to create a medium whereby they can get back to past traditions,” he said.
In a question period following the lecture, Spender discussed playwrights such as Edward Albee and Samuel Becket, referring to their “old-fashioned look” as an example of the modem outlook.
ARTIST'S CONCEPTION — Construction of the new University Religious Center, illustrated in this sketch, will begin today with the groundbreaking ceremonies
at 3 this afternoon. Site for the center is on West 34th Street just west of the University Methodist Church. It will be occupied by five campus church groups.
Ground Will Be Broken For Religious Center Site
By STAN METZLER
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the University Religous Center (URC) will be held at 3 this afternoon west of the University Methodist Church at 817 W. 34th St.
Leaders of the five church groups who occupy the center will join President Norman Topping and members of the USC Board of Trustees in marking the start of construction.
“The Religious Center will be unique in the West,” Dr. Topping said, “because it is specifically intended to develop coordinated and cooperative programs toward mutual objectives.”
Los Angeles representatives of the cooperating denominations will also take part in the groundbreaking.
They include Dr. Carroll L. Shuster, Presbyterian; Dr. Richard W. Cain, Methodist: Rt. Rev. Robert Rusack, Episcopal; Dr. Arnold S. Boal, Baptist and Rev. Luther Olmon, Lutheran.
“I believe the center’s main advantage is that the building will not contain religions but will be a center from which religious concepts can radiate,” explained Dr. John Cantelon, university chaplain.
Dr. Bruce Miller, Baptist chaplain, noted that “URC gives us a central location on campus . . . with the attractiveness that will draw students readily.”
Ecumenical Approach to Life
Rev. David Lehmberg, director of the Wesley Foundation, was especially pleased because “the center will offer an increased ecumenical approach to campus life.”
“Central location, opportunity for increased demonstration and more identification with the university are the main advantages,” said Rev. Charles Doak. Presbyterian pastor.
Campus pastors agree that the central location, financial advantages, increased cooperation and improved facilities will make their move to the center profitable.
“Joint publicity will be improved and common space will foster better personal knowledge of both students and chaplains,” Dr. Miller said.
All of the ministers are looking forward to an expanded program.
According to Dr. Cantelon an ecumenical ministry is being planned for the center.
“Our program will include a series of lay training conferences in ethical problems.
“At these conferences for physicians, community planners, business leaders and other groups, participants can join in informal discussion of ethical problems.”
Rev. Doaks looks forward to utilizing the center for “studying, lecturing and demonstrating relevant Christian concern and involvement in contemporary culture.”
Other areas for which the center will be used include seminars, dinners, counseling and fellowship functions.
As to URC’s foreseen impact, Dr. Cantelon expressed hope that it will help students see that “religion is life, and life is religion.”
“I believe that it will demonstrate and symbolize religious dimensions of education and life as a whole,” Rev. Lehmar said.
Symbolize Religious Importance Rev. Doaks believes that “it will symbolize the importance of religous dimensions in university life as a center for relevant theological renewal.”
“We will know this only when it happens,” Dr. Miller said.
“But we are optimistic that it will make religious questions more central in the thinking of the campus,” he said.
President Topping said the center will provide improved service to students, faculty and the community.
“USC, which is non-sectarian, firmly believes and stresses in its academic program that without knowledge of religion no man is fully educated.” The Religious Center is being built by Killings-worth. Brady and Associates of Long Beach.
Anthony D. Lazzaro, associate business manager and director of campus development, is coordinating the project for USC.
The center will contain a suite for each group, a chapel seating 50 persons, a lecture-meeting room, a foyer-lounge-reception area, kitchen, recreation room and offices for the chaplain.
Stan Freberg To Talk Today
Spokesmen To Review UCB Riots
Four students facing dis- j ciplinary action from the University of California at Berkeley for defiance of a ban on recruitment of off-! campus political activity will! discuss “Free Speech on the University Campus” today at noon in 229 FH.
Sponsored by the Trojan Democratic Club (TDC), the four students are members of the Free Speech Movement (FSM).
Freedom of Speech
The group maintains that freedom of speech on the Cal campus is guaranteed to all because Berkeley is a city within a city and as an agency of the State of California the university is barred from infringing upon freedom of soeech.
STAN FREBERG
. . . Advertising Genius
Consul Says
Britishers
Overspend
Humorist To Discuss Business
Stan Freberg, “the craftiest artist of the sales pitch personified,” will discuss “The Business of Comedy” j today at noon in Hancock : Auditorium.
Freberg's visit is being i sponsored by the Society for | Advancement of Management I (SAM), who will present the i satirist with the SAM Comedy Award for his manage-, ment of humor in advertising.
“SAM has selected Mr. Freberg as this year's recipient for several reasons, principally for his support for the business firm in trouble,” SAM President Morris Upper explained.
“His unorthodox but amusing messages of satire have brought support to the underdog, as attested to by his motto: “Ars Gratia Pecuniae’ — Art for the Sake of
The British are spending Much of the controversy. much more abroad than they grew out of the large num-lCan afford said British Con-ber of UCB students who par-1 sul-General Peter G. F. Dal- M „ Upper added, hcipated in sit-ms at San ton in an address last Friday suident Politician Francisco hotels. Bank of night.	j Freberg
got his start at
Dalton was guest speaker j satirical productions at Al-at the dinner-meeting of Del- hambra High School, when ta Phi Epsilon (DPE), pro- he w'as elected student body fessional international rela- officer in charge of assem-tions fraternity. The meeting,1 blies. He won by promising was held at Raffle's Resta-jto “turn the principal's of-urant.	fice into an automatic car
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“We owe the world and are)foot picture window in the
America, and various automobile dealers last year.
The four students speaking are Mario Savio, Martin Roy-sher, Brian Shannon and Steve Weisman.
Savio is one of the original students suspended by the university for his defiance of the ban on recruitment tables
c ce not earning enough to make girls’ gym.”
on e a campus or o ^ t^is deficit,” Dalton said; Because the school h&! a
campus ac ivi ies. e is a an audience of about 50. low entertainment budget,
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dents’ Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). SNCC is one of the groups
ber of the world community.” To t h e faculty members. DPE members and members
the scripts, did the sound effects and performed all the parts.
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Ro>s er, a sop omore in that to alleviate this problem, j television program, for which history at Cal, was formerly Qreat Brjtain must inerease he ^ Daws B„t,er „ater
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.general is usually based oni “Who puts eight great both graduate students and ^road principles.” the Con- tomatoes in that little bitty have been active in the FSM.,guj_Qeneraj	jje stated can?”, Freberg's first radio
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associated with the Students for a Democratic Society at Cal.
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in their visit at USC because
with the United States.
CBS-radio show in 1957, in-
the college campus.
GERMAN PROGRAM
Dr. White Feels World Needs More Men for All Seasons'
of TDC s continuing interest, Daitcm said that these terviewing such “personali-in the issue of free speech on principles are greatly based!ties” as Albert T. Wong,
on the fact that “by and “writer of the timeless mes-large we tell the truth. This!sages found inside Chinese is something that people are;fortune cookies.” not used to. They think thatj Freberg soon established w-e mean something else and j his own production company then complain that we dou-jcalled Freberg Ltd. (But Not ble-crossed them.”	I Very).”
The preparation of “men for all seasons” should be a growing concern for the world’s universities, Dr. Mul-vey White told an audience in Weisbaden, Germany, Friday night.
In Germany to welcome USC’s graduate program in aerospace management to Europe, Dr. White, vice president, student and alumni affairs, spoke to an audience of 141 armed services officers and civilians in training for a Master of Aerospace Management degree.
Representatives of the Federal German Republic, the city of Wiesbaden, and several German universities were also present.
Exploding Knowledge “In this age of exploding new knowledge it is easy for a man to become a specialist
in law, in solid state physics, in medicine or some other discipline and yet knowr very little else,” Dr. White said.
University educators and administrators should encourage students to extend themselves by venturing out of curiousity and not com-plusion into the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities, he suggested.
“We must prepare students to lead full and meaningful personal lives and to serve, with competence and integrity, one’s fellow's, the greater community and the world,” he said.
“Today,” he maintained, “the true student must be prepared as a ‘man for all seasons.’ ”
Discussing the changing needs for college-trained men and women, Dr. White reflec-
ted on his own years at USC where “no one spoke of impending opportunities for service in the area of aerospace management. That field was open only to the readers of the pulp science-fiction magazines.”
“Yet, suddenly, here we are, accepting every remarkable new field of endeavor as if nothing were impossible” he said. “In fact, the evidence against the existence of the impossible seems to be mounting every day.”
Dr. White noted the mounting importance of the aerospace field, placing it with television and wonder drugs in the “contemporary consciousness.”
Thomas P. Nickell, Jr., vice president of university planning, also attended the dinner.
Revised Statutes Seen on Abortion
TROY CAMP—Dr. Norman Topping, university president, presents his Troy Camp donation to Bebe Scherb. coun-
selor, as part of the annual fund drive now being concluded. The campus drive will continue through November 26*
California will be the first state to revise its statutes on abortion, Dr. Alan Gutt-macher predicted at the USC Medical Forum last week.
Dr. Guttmachen. president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Dr. Robert Sack, assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at USC, spoke on “Abortion: The Facts” before 500 medical students at L.A. County General Hospital last Tuesday.
Both men stressed that they were presenting a personal view and not advocating an open-door policy on abortion.
Medical Opinion Mobilized Dr. Guttmacher said that he thought California will be the first state to revise statutes because medical opinion on abortion is “more mobilized” here than in other states.
California's present law, dating back to 1872. states that the only reason for which a physician may perform an abortion is if pregnancy threatens the woman's life.
All states have similar laws, none allowing for abortion except to protect the mother’s life. Both doctors called for broadening of these law's to include not only the life factor, but also factors for the mother’s health and eugenic and environmental elements effecting the child.
Revisions Proposed
Dr. Guttmacher proposed several revision points which would permit abortion consideration where there is a threat to the mother’s health.
These include cases where there are probable defects in the child due to heredity or maternal illness during preg-(Continued <^n Page 2)