University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL. LXIII NO. 9
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1971
Nigerian music, dance topic of public lecture
Photo by Brvca Bolinger
USC COMMUNITY
The local 32nd Street Elementary School, located on the corner of Jefferson Blvd. and Hoover Blvd., has seen its last school days. The school was torn down recently because of last semester's earthquake damage. The school was located in the midst of the Hoover Redevelopment Program.
By LINDA SANDERSON Villa Park High School
Summer Journalism Workshop
A public lecture entitled “Music and Dance in Nigeria" will be given this Thursday, in the Von KleinSmid Center at 2 p.m.
The lecture will be presented by Mrs. Margit C. Smith, teacher of the advanced summer workshop in Orff-Schulwerk at USC.
The structure of ethnic music will be discussed and played on percussion instruments. The according movement will be demonstrated by Mrs. Smith.
Mrs. Smith took private classes in Orff-Schulwerk in Lagos, Nigeria in 1968 through 1969.
“Music and dance in Nigeria is an essential, vigorous expression of life by the entire community.” explains Mrs. Smith.
“This preintellectual music, which, to a large extent, is created out of a particular sociological, contextual background for mystical communi-
Congress of Strings scheduled for second free concert of summer
The second Congress of Strings orchestra summer concert will be conducted by Henry Mazer Thursday in Bovard Auditorium at 8 p.m. It will be free to the public.
Mazer, associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, began his career as a pianist and turned to conducting when he became an apprentice under Fritz Reiner with the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1941. After World War II, he conducted the Wheeling. W.Va., Symphony.
In 1959 he became conductor of the Florida Symphony Orchestra in Orlando, a post he held until 1966 when he returned as associate conductor to the Pittsburgh Symphony under the direction of William Steinberg. Mazer held this post until 1970 when he became associate conduc-
tor of the Chicago Symphony under the direction of Georg Solti.
For his program. Mazer has chosen two standard and well loved works for string orchestra—Tchaikovsky's “Serenade’’ and the “Tallis Fantasia'’ by Ralph Vaughn-Williams—and a work by contemporary composer Norman Dello Joio, “Meditation on Ecclesiastes.”
The USC Congress of Strings is made up of 60 young string players who attend an eight-week concentrated study including private instruction, coaching in chamber music, and performing in the orchestra. The Congress is sponsored by the American Federation of Musicians, with additional support from the Rockefeller Foundation and USC.
cation has not progressed to a high state of complexity, being limited in part by the fact that it is not written, ” she said.
Mrs. Smith is a graduate in piano of the Hochschule fur Musik Moiarteum at Salzburg, Austria. She is also a graduate of the Orff Institute, Salzburg, in Elemental Music and Movement Education.
She has taught workshops in Orff-Schulwerk at UCLA, University of Maine and UC Riverside. During the year 1970-71, she taught at the International School of Sacred Heart, Seoul, Korea.
Mrs. Smith also was a teacher in the Bellflower Title III Project, “Participation and Creativity in Music Education.”
Honor society initiates prof
By SUE COLVIN Eagle Rock High School Summer Journalism Workshop
Professor Halsey Stevens, chairman of the composition department of the USC School of Music, received an honorary membership in the USC chapter of Phi Beta Kappa national scholastic honor society. The initiation was held at the Rodger Young Auditorium on May 21.
Stevens is an eminent composer of national reputation, having published more than 80 compositions for orchestra, chorus, keyboard and chamber music and 13 recorded works. He has also been guest conductor for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
His work as a composer and teacher has been recognized by various prestigious organizations and institutes. He recently received his second Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award for composition. He first received this award in 1964-65 and spent ten months composing music in Rome along with two months of touring Europe.
Professor Stevens is a graduate of Syracuse University and also studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at Dakota Wesleyan University, Bradley University and Redlands University before joining the USC music faculty in 1946.
HALSEY STEVENS
Press must examine responsibility
By CATHY MEYER Daily Trojan Editor-Elect Editor's Note: Miss Meyer will be the editor of the fall semester Daily Trojan. This column was written in Las Vegas, where she is currently working at a newspaper internship.
The press is jubilantly announcing that the Supreme Court decision in the New York Times’ Pentagon Papers case is a landmark for freedom of the press in the United States.
But, while the press is busy patting itself on the back for its integrity and courage, it should examine the recent history of press responsibility — or lack of it.
The question of freedom of the press in relation to prior restraint is as traditional as the ruling handed down in the Times case. The Supreme Court reflected a predictable conservative-liberal split, the three conservative justices outvoted by the six more liberal judges. The general consensus in the justices' remarks seemed to be that if American lives (or America's reputation?) had been seriously threatened, the government would have the right to restrain the printing of the documents. What the government failed to do was to prove that in this instance, prior restraint of
the information contained in the Pentagon Papers was necessary. But the implication remains that legally sanctioned future restraint will be dependent upon the circumstances.
But assuming that the decision was indeed a “landmark.” where does that leave the press?
One of the great ironies of the case was that the furor raged around the New York Times, the leader of the Ag-new-criticized Eastern press establishment, a newspaper very enthralled with itself, relishing its power, devoted to its ancient and unreadable page layouts and typography. At its core, the Times, while still an excellent newspaper, represents the traditional and established press.
So it is ironic that the Times should become the bulwark, the courageous leader of the American press by printing the Pentagon Papers. The establishment press is neither bold nor courageous — it is careful, calculated and cautious, prompting the question: why was it politically expedient for the Times to print the Pentagon Papers?
The real press hero is not the Times, with its hidden motives. Press freedom in the future, not dependent upon circumstance but on responsible investigative, nonpolitical and nonprofit-
motive reporting, rests with the examples set by the nonestablishment press.
Two outstanding examples of the responsibility that freedom of the press really implies are Judy King and Seymour Hersch.
Judy King is a journalism student at Sacramento State who recently uncovered the information that Ronald Reagan was paying no taxes. Miss King broke the story on her Sunday evening campus radio show, and soon the story was picked up by the Sacramento Bee (editorially opposed to Reagan since before his initial election) and the New York Times.
But the establishment press was not acting courageously in the Reagan incident, either. Steve Roberts, the New York Times Los Angeles correspondent, said that the news was generally known around the state capital but that the story was politically too hot for any paper to initially break. State Legislator George Moscone also jumped on the bandwagon
—	after the story had been broken. Miss King, removed from the establishment press with their establishment politics, proved to be the truly responsible journalist in the whole affair. But, as often happens, she got the blame (agents are constantly harassing her to reveal her sources, one of her friends told me), but
the Bee, Times and Moscone got the credit.
Another example of responsible reporting won the Pulitzer Prize for Seymour Hersch, who broke the My Lai massacre story. The irony behind his article, however, was that when he presented it to the establishment papers and wire services, they told him it was too hot politically to touch. He finally unloaded it on a small, liberal newswire service, and not until a smalltown newspaper printed it, did the establishment jump on the bandwagon.
Instead of lauding itself for its courage, the establishment press should ser-isouly ask itself if it had had a copy of the Pentagon Papers in 1964 or 1965 or even '68 — would it have taken the political consequences of printing them at that time?
Then again, no one really knows what information the press had then — and has even now — that it hasn't revealed. A parting thought along with a plea for more press responsibility — a Los Angeles Times editor told me that the Times had the information that Murphy was on Technicolor's payroll for several years before they chose a politically expedient time to tell the public.
Is this responsibility? Press freedom should be earned or it is valueless.