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Vol. XVI

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1965
No. 57
Poll Reveals '65 Promises
By CHUCK CONYERS
The spectrum of New Year’s resolutions for 1965 range from the depths of cynicism to complete abstin-ance. a campus poll taken yesterday reveals.
“I’ll give up smoking,” said Bill Sarno, sophomore, history.
.	.	| “But you don’t smoke any-
M 'W rC way!” exclaimed a friend, w ■	w	* “I know. I’m doing pretty
New Teor S“eu arenti?
Drama students Candace P ^ ^ , |ljAnr Laughlin and Tom Basham|
|\£SOILITIOn5 began a resolution competi-
tion.
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Professor to View Human Motives
“I will not be funny on Easter,” began Basham.
The magic number is 360 “I n°t meet mY foreign for those of you who have|language requirements.” already broken your New “I resolve not to shoplift Year's resolutions.	from the University Book-!
This, in case you're notjstre until they get better familiar with the Roman stock.” calendar system, is the num-| No Names Mentioned ber of days until Jan. 1—the “I won't laugh at health time for more resolutions. centers doctors.”
But if you take the advice! ‘‘And I won't report Health;
of USC psychologist Chaytor Mason, you’ll forget the resolutions all together.
A sort of “psychological
Center doctors.” added Miss Laughlin.
Almost all other students; refused to give their names.
Scrooge,” he doesn’t believe but when assured that theiri in them.	resolutions would remainj
W hy They’re Broken anonymous, they tore at their I “Most of the resolutions pet peeves, people make at each New; “Let’s resolve to get better; Year are both made and food in this university.” said! broken because they are try- one.
ing to live by someone else’si “I resolve to be a better standards and not by their;Christian.” own,” he contends.	j “I resolve to be a better I
In other words, if you keep heathen.” telling yourself that begin- “I will win more souls for ning Jan. 1 you’re going tojChrist.”
quit smoking, quit drinking “I resolve to be off campus or quit staying out late so;by June and never come many nights, it’s because back.”
WET NEW YEAR—The holiday season greeted many home going Trojans such as Tony Young with the above scene.
SOGGY CHRISTMAS
Daily Trojan photo by Tony Young Oregon and Washington bound students found floods and evacuation in the process when they arrived for vacation.
Tour Group To Present Paton Play
The Bishop's Company theatrical touring group will present the dramatization of Alan Paton’s “Cry, the Beloved Country” tonight at 8 at the Wesley Foundation. 817 W. 34th St.
Founded in 1952, the Bishop’s Company is an interfaith and inter-racial organization. It wras named in honor of Bishop Gerald H. Kennedy of the Methodist Church.
“Cry, the Beloved Country” is the tragic story of a white man and black man locked in the grip of human emotions.
Old Zulu, the Hero
The story's hero is the old and humble Zulu from the South African hills, Steve Kamalo, portrayed by Tom Mill.
He sets out for Johannes-
dr. david c. McClelland
. . . Psychology Lecturer
El Rod-IFC Controversy Reaches Lull
Foundation To Sponsor Five Talks
Dr. David C. McClelland, professor of Psychology at Harvard University, will begin a five-lecture series tonight at 7:30 in Hancock Au-; ditorium with a discussion on j “Measuring the Achievement : Motive and its Behavorial Correlates.”
Dr. McClelland's visit is under the auspices of the 1965 Haynes Foundation Lecture Series. His last four talks will be given in Hancock at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 7, 11, 13 and 14.
Dr. McClelland is chairman of the department of social relations and of the Center for Research in P< rson-ality at harvard.
you’ve been hearing this from your doctor, minister, wife, or best friend.
This, of course, is assum-
Stop Drinking Resolution
Others became more phi-
El Rod Editor Evacuates Friends in Oregon Flood
By STEVE HARVEY
El Rodeo editor Tony
By STAN METZLER	Phi Beta Kappa
The Interfraternity Council! He is also a member of the burg in search of his only: (IFC)-El Rodeo controversy Board of Trustees of Wes-
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losophical about resolutions. Young will plan his Christmas One person saw no use	with a bit more
'thought in the future.
He spent part of his last
saw no use in
ing that you have any friends ;them. saying, “I made one at left.	11:30 last New Year’s Eve to
May Be Resentful stop drinking, but I couldn’t one in Oregon and Washing-“During the period that hold it. I was still going ton where it rained and you keep the resolutions—jstrong an hour later.”	j snowed very hard. It also
howeYer short it may be—1 “The resolution a 1 w a y s flooded.
you’ll be resentful of your ad- stays the same,” he said. “To Except from a nautical visers. as well as irritable and get as much done as you pos- point of view, making this hard to live with.	siblv can.	t,rip was not the best idea
“Finally your individuality “The resolutions you don’t Tony’s had. will exert itself; you’ll kick make include a continued!
Portland, where he had hoped | room in the car, which shows to visit friends—and headed ;what a problem compact cars for Seattle.	!have become. It’s getting so
There he had the choice of you can’t even take your pet taking another plane to Port- burro for a ride anymore, land or going by bus. He, The burro was placed on decided to leave the driving . the front lawn and the water to the guy behind the wheel, never went beyond the door-This was a wise choice. step.
“The plane couldn’t land
ing as before standards.”
If you want to make a resolution and keep it. all you need is a good reason for it. Mason argues.
in Portland,” Tony recounted. It did finally reach the ground—in Denver, which, as most pilots will tell you, is in a different state.
When he reached Portland
“But it got up to the burro’s shoulders,” Tony said. “He survived but I think he caught a cold.”
Garage Houses Burro
When the family returned
a continued | “I just wanted to visit over the^traces and go on liv-(commitment to the things you Oregon and Williamette Uni-i
by your own believe in, and the realization Versity because they have Tony had to help a friend’s it took them an hour to move that if you start the new year good law schools up there,” sister evacuate her home the burro out of the rain into in good health you 11 be muchjhe mournfully recalled yes- since nearby Johnson Creek jthe garage, better off.	Iterday.	was on the verge of overflow-
I sense in students a| But the trip didn't turn j ing.
“Hallmarks of a firm resolution are unseen and heard: no ritual.
un-
greater awareness of Some of|out so weu the problems that exist off:
The family safely retreated
“We had to move it with the car,” Tony said. “It almost dented the bumper.”
, He first suspected some-!from their home but couldn’t) campus. They realize thesejthing was wrong when the [evacuate their pet burro. j urros, i*e some peop e, no an-problems have to be met by; lan“ „ rorcej t0 b s| xhey didn t have enough;apparently don t have enough
nounccment and no special themselves both now and ------ ■■	~ I sense to come m out of the!
rain.
son, who he finds imprisoned'has for the murder of a white man who had devoted his life to justice for the black race.
The story reaches its climax in the scenes between Kamalo and the father of the murdered man. Here the plot is overshadowed by the experience of the human spirit.
The Bishop's players have traveled over a million miles to give more than 5,500 performances since they were founded by Mrs. Phyllis Beardsley Bokar, company producer.
Actor Comments Each of the players re-
apparently attained a
leyan University and President of the Eastern Psycho-
temporary lull as both El Rodeo Editor Tony Young logical Association, and the IFC seem to be wait-j A member of Phi Beta ing for the other to make a^ Kappa and Sigma Xi, he received his BA from Wesleyan
move.
Fred Davis, IFC president, has sent out letters to all individual fraternity presidents to determine what, if any action they should take.
December Controversy
Young said that any action by the fraternities would not harm the El Rodeo financially-
“We have a signed contract with them saying that if activity pictures are not sub-
ceives a maximum salary of mitted by Jan. 8 we are under $30 per month besides room no obligation to put them in
and board. One of the actors, telling why he stayed with company, referred to Paton’s play.
“The church aspect didn’t attract me to begin with,” he explained, but now, when we perform “Cry” in a church that has staved off integration, we feel we are being useful.
“And later, when we hear the barriers are down at that church . . . well, there's no other job like it.”
and must refund only half the money,” he said.
University in 1938, his MA from the University of Missouri in 1939 and his PhD from Yale University in 1941.
Dr. McClelland will discuss five aspects of "The Need to Achieve: The Case Study of a Human Motive.”
‘Need To Achieve’ Lecture topics will include “The Achievement Motive in Society.” Jan. 7. and “The Need to Achieve and Social Change,” Jan. 11.
He will discuss “Explorations in Developing the
The controversy began in;Achievement Motive.”	Jan. early December when the 13, and "Policy Implications
IFC asked the El Rodeo to of Knowledge About	the
cither bill the dormitories for: Achievement Motive,”	Jan. picture displays or separately
them from the fraternities in-1 m, T , n i i i	i
The John Randolph	and
Dora Havnes Foundation was
to another section.
It initiated a probe at that time to investigate why the
Greeks are charged $130 for yearbook space while the dormitories are exempt from cost.
time to begin.
Funeral Services Held For Speech Professor
Iowa, where she was born March 31. 1888, Dr. Hall was a graduate of the University of Missouri and Cornell University. She did graduate work at Columbia University while teaching at Hunter College.
She is survived by two j cousins, Mrs. Charles B.j Phillips of Lynwood and Miss Edith Tondro of Monrovia, i
Funeral services were held for Dr. Alta B. Hall. 76. USC speech professor, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, on Saturday. Dec. 26.
A speech professor at USC from 1929 until she retired in 1953, Dr. Hall was a nationally-known parliamentarian.
She organized the American Association of University Women in Long Beach and served as president cf the University Women's Club in Long Beach. She was coorganizer of the League of _
Women Voters in both Long	Cir^nQ
Beach and Glendale, and she	I Civi3,
founded the P.E.O. chapter at /-»I I f* I .
Ithaca N Y	(j U D bhOtS
Co-Author of Book
Dr. Hall was also a for-| mer president of the Cornell Women's Club of Southern California, and of the National Business and Professional
Deadline Set
Tony also visited Oregon | City where he witnesses a setback in flood control progress. A department store there had been carefully con-!structed to withstand floods.
Store Not Waterproof “The basement and all the ; doors were water tight,” Tony !observed.
This idea had one small drawback, however. The building almost floated away, j It was almost like a ship. The buoyancy could have lifted it ioff the ground.
To save the building, store officials were forced to flood jit entirely.
Needless to say, this had jthe effect of dulling, con-jsiderably, the store’s Christ-! mas sales.
USC Religion Council fo Initiate Conference
The Student Council on Religion will sponsor a religious conference on February 6 and 7 for students interested in the retreat's topic, “The Significance of Religion in Society.”
“The conference will provide an unusual and unique opportunity for those interested in the significance of religion to discuss their own feelings and hear the opinions of others from different faiths,” explained Les Leibovitch, council president.
The conference will be held at the Pacific Palisades
initiated in 1949 to bring a scholar of national distinction to a Southern California campus to discuss contemporary social problems.
Annual Lectures Its annual lectures are open without charge to the college and university communities of the area and their related professional associations.
Dr. McClelland has authored many research articles and books on motivation and The Rev. Don Hartsock,personality. These include Campus chaplain at UCLA, u p Aehievin0'’ ^oeietv ’’ will deliver the Keynote Ad-jpi^TSSf .and The dress on Feb. 6. It will be ^00ts 0f Consciousness." not followed by refreshments and vet reieased
fellowship.	^ fellow of the American
On Sunday morning the Psychological Association, he
the council will provide S31 per person for the first 40 applicants.
delegates will attend various area churches, and three discussions will be held in the afternoon.
Students interested in attending the retreat should contact Dr. John Cantelon
Presbyterian Conference in 212 SU or any denomina-Grounds. The cost is $7, but tional campus pastor.
has been its representative on the National Research Council.
He has served as Deputy Director of the Behavorial Sciences Division of the Ford Foundation and Chairman of the Fulbright Advisory Panel on Psychology’.
RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
A11 February graduates' and service club groups mustj have their pictures taken in the next three weeks for the El Rodeo.
,I7 , , , T . , Annual photos are taken at Womens Club of Los Ange-|the Garfield studiog 934 w
Jefferson Blvd. The studios
les.
Co-author of a textbook on parliamentary law and of an American phonetic reader, Dr. Hall served as parliamentarian
are open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Fraternity men should sign up within the next week, and
of many national and state june graduates should make conventions of women s or- appointments now for Febru-ganizations.	ary and March. All fraternity
She was also a member of activity pictures are due this
To Aid Or Not to Aid?.
the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Modern
Friday.
Service groups eligible are!
Language Association of Alpha Lamba Delta. Ama-' America and of national and zons, Chimes, Knights, Phi western speech associations. Eta Sigma, Phrateres. Spurs A native of Webster City,(and Squires.	I
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Daily Trojan Photo by Ed Stapleton
CHRISTMAS REMAINS—Last reminders of the holidays is thrown in Tommy's arms. The tree recalls for students the past vacation and finals coming up.
The difference between “aiding” and “establishing”
] religious institutions will be (discussed Friday at the Faculty Noon Discussion in the Faculty Center.
Dr. Wendell E. Cannon, professor of education, will present the case on “Federal Aid to Parochial Schools” in the concluding discussion of the series on “Religion and Contemporary Life.”
“It is generally recognized that the costs of the kind of free public education currently needed cannot be paid for out of present tax sources,” Dr. Cannon said.
“It is also generally accepted that the mobility of our population and the intelligent conservation of our human resources demand equal education opportunity for youth in rich and poor states.
“But citizens and congressmen who support private schools refuse to support federal aid unless pupils of these schools benefit.
“Thus the church-state issue is brought out again, and general federal aid is delayed
once more.”
last month which underlines the lack of separation between aid and establishment in the public mind.
“Should a federal grant be made to an institution which offers prayer at commencement, which accepts tuition money with an “In God We Trust” engraving or which has professors who admit they attend church?” he asked.
In the last meeting Dr. Paul Hadley, professor of in
It was asked whether our government supports nations because they are democratic and good for the people, or because they favor the West over the East.
The question of support for socialistically inclined gov. ernments drew a comparison of government-built dams in North America to state-supported steel mills in South America.
It was shown that in many countries improvements achieved individually in our environment would never be
ternational relations, led a Dr. Cannon will refer to a discussion on “United States obtained without government specific Maryland case re-Support of Revolutionary help, just as our big dams ported by Associated Press Movements.”	iwouldn't be built privately.
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