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University of Southern California
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Vol. LV
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1963
NO. 1
What Do You Want?
By DAN SMITH
Daily Trojan Editor
A university is expectation.
It is the expectation before the tenth game of a so-far-perfect season, before a fraternity dance, before a tough exam, before a life of independence and responsibility.
But for the student just beginning his college career, it is just the expectation for his next four years.
And what should he be able to expect from his university?
The answer lies in the primary purpose of the university: to provide students with a higher education that will enable them to cope with the world after leaving the university.
This implies that the university has an obligation to the student, an obligation the university
can never be allowed to forget or to throw aside for secondary purposes and obligations.
That obligation is to provide a stimulating intellectual environment that will goad the student to meeting the challenges that will be his in college and in the years after.
When the university accepted the student for admission, it also accepted this obligation.
What the student has the most right to expect from the university, then, is for it to meet this obligation.
First and above all. it must provide a curriculum and first-rate faculty who will expose students to both the philosophic and practical aspects of the course-of-study he chooses for himself and who will be able to show him how they must be combined to develop the intellectual and technical tools he will need for the life he is building.
Then it must spice this classroom training by providing extra programs staffed by guests from outside the university and who represent the real world we will face when we leave the university.
It also must provide extra curricular projects where the student can put into practice what he is learning and test new ideas and try out his dreams. This is the reason for student government, student publications, drama productions and other special student-run programs.
Finally, the university must provide for out-of-class intermingling of student and faculty, student and administrator and student and student so that ideas and experiences may be exchanged and the student can practice doing the one thing that will take most of his time for the rest of his life—dealing with people.
These things that the university must do to meet its obligations also are the things that the student must be able to expect from the univer-
siy.
When the university does not live up to these expectations that the student may have, the educational package the student takes with him wnen he leaves the university four years later is lopsided because some of his college life was deficient while others were stressed too much.
But when these expectations are met with that fine balance between academic and extracurricular. classrooms and social, homework and entertainment, then the university is fullfilling its obligation.
It is then that the university is more than
expectations.
MASTER OF THE PLAN
Curricula Change Carries Master Plan to Academics
(Editor's Note: This article is designed to introduce the new student to an expanding era in I SC history, particularly the part involving the new LAS curriculum plan.
Next week the Daily Trojan will explore the many facets of university growth and expansion in a special edition.)
By SI E BERN ARD Managing Editor
Tangible evidence of the success of the Master Plan is everywhere today on the USC campus.
What began as an ambitious dream a little over two years ago is becoming a reality as fast as bulldozers and builders can clear away old buildings and replace them with modern glass and concrete structures. The $2.2 million Olin Hall of Engineering, the $2 million Ahmanson Center for Biological Research.ten new residential units totaling $9 million and other buildings are quickly nearing completion.
Nor are the effects of USC's Master Plan evident only in the campus rapidly changing landscape. Entrance requirements have grown stiffer each year, resulting in successively outstanding freshmen classes.
Of the 1,200 freshmen entering last September, 17 per cent were admitted with Honors at Entrance with a grade-point average of 3.7") or better in basic high school subjects. Al-
most 70 per cent of the students brought at least a B average.
The faculty, too, has in-icreased in size and scope, Dr. Tracy E. Strevey, vice president for academic affairs, estimates that the size of the faculty has increased by approximately 75 in the last two years. In this number are many prominent scholars and authorities in their fields.
With these tangible material changes—better facilities. a higher grade of ;student, increased faculty —s t r o n g 1 y evident, one would be justified in assuming that the level of education USC provides had improved proportionately.
But here at the v e r y heart of the university, the academic program had lagged far behind. The unit system had been in effect since USC started—with a first graduating class of three students — in 1880 and the general education program was established in 1936.
Both were designed to meet different eras and different concepts of education. and both were sadly out of step with the twentieth century’s educational ’deals.
Students found themselves m e r e 1 y skimming the surface of a multitude of ;subjects, with little time or I opportunity to specialize or conceptualize their knowledge. Little original thinking and research was required of them; it was of-jten said a student could
graduate without ever having written a term paper, j
The Board of Trustees took this into account last December when they ap-| proved broad and far-reach-j jing changes in USC’s academic program.
The College of Letters. Arts and Sciences is presently the major focus of the change, w h i c h President Norman Topping and Dr. Strevey hope will eventually encompass the entire university.
The core of the new plan is the four-course system, already in effect at Pomona College and several other western universities. Students will take only four iclasses a semester, and will .be eligible for graduation upon completion of 32—or four years’ worth—of these classes.
To conform with this program, each university department must gradually revise its curriculum, eliminating some classes, combining others and instituting some totally new ones, until all are of the new
■ four-course scope.
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Committees are now at work in most departments, planning their new curriculum with three ideas in mind—to make the changeover complete by fall of '64. to make the transition as easy as possible for students caught in the middle of their education and to provide for present and future USC students a framework that will enable them (Continued on Page B-10)
Union Tax Referendum Revives Again
Administration Okays Reopening Of Tax-Fee Bill
President Norman Topping and ASSC President Ken Del Conte breathed new life into the seeming-lv dying Student Union addition referendum during the summer.
The referendum. which calls for a $1.5 million fee to be paid by students over a 30-year period, was revived when Del Conte received administration approval for a revote by mail for returning students and in registration lines for new students.
The proposed Student Union fee apparently has a charmed life. It has been lingering on for about two years. The proposal first arose in 1961 when the then ASSC President Hugh Helm appointed a Student Union Planning Commission, but was stopped when Dr. Topping declared that some indication of general student opinion was necessary before such a plan could be put into effect.
Students voted on a $2.50-per-semester fee last spring, but the total vote was 972 votes short of the 3.500-vote minimum required to pass the referendum.
A total of 2.528 votes were cast in the spring voting, with 2.147 students in favor of the fee and 381 against.
The present voting, however. may have a better chance for success.
Dr. Topping has indicated that if a sizable majority of votes cast—no matter what the total—are in favor of a $2.50 semester fee for an addition to the student union to be used exclusively for student purposes, he will recommend to the Board of Trustees that they approve the fee.
“I think it is unrealistic to set a high figure as we did last year.” Dr. Topping said.
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First Dance To Be Held
New students wrill get acquainted tomorrow night at a dance in Town and Gown Foyer from 7:30 to 11:30.
The new students, getting their firet glance at USC social life, will be provided with entertainment and refreshments at the dance. Campus clothes will be in order.
Enrollment Nears Incoming Trojans
Registrar Awaits Wednesday Rush
DR. NORMAN TOPPING
. . . explains growth
Presidents
Freshmen,
Topping Outlines Universitv Growth
It is indeed a great pleasure to welcome you to the University of Southern California. Our faculty and staff join me in wishing you well.
You enter the university at an exciting moment in its 83-year history. Our Master Plan for enterprise and excellence in education is almost 30 months old. Many of our goals are becoming realities and creating unlimited opportunities for every student.
New buildings are rising and more will follow. These will provide the physical environment essential for meaningful study, for creative expression and for not-! able achievement.
Furthermore, distinguished new professors are joining our outstanding faculty. They will demand of you over the next few years and will in-^'ontinued on Page A8)
KEN DEL CONTE
. . . urges participation
Welcome
Transfers
Del Conte Asks For Student Aid
The university is rebounding off a great year where we won five national championships including football, baseball. track, swimming and tennis. And like these athletic teams, we the students must maintain our position this year as the No. 1 university in the nation.
When I was campaigning last year I'made some promises. I am going to try to keep these promises, for I strongly feel that an important asset in life is to try to do your best in anything you do—that is all anyone can ask of you. But I can t do it alone. The groundwork is set for all these promises and more.
You just have to join in and help me.
Participate in our student government.
Ken Del Conte ASSC President
Trojans Will Total 19,000
In Fall Term
New and returning students may register for fall classes Wednesday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to noon, the Reg-istrar’s Office has announced. Assistant Registrar .Mark Frazin said new students should have received
their permits to register in | the mail with their fee bills.	W	W
He advised those who have not received permits to contact the Registrar's Office.
Registration permits for returning students will be available on the first floor lobby of the Physical Education Building.
Frazin suggested that new students obtain their health More (han 19000 stlldent3 clearance from the Health wju be enro|led m un|v„. Center before Wednesday to d	the ,aU semf5teri
speed up their registration. Mark	aMj5t!lnt regls_
He added that students ^rar predicted last week, should also have their advis- The tj tB, enrollme„t ers card signed before reg-	deludes Um-
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registration in *»	.
b	sents a slight increase over
last year's total of 18,-i77.
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tion during 210 PE.
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ping. Last year's Freshman Class totaled 1.200. More than 1.350 transfer and junior college students were ac-^ m‘ cepted from the 2.200 applications received bj' the office.
More than 600 new foreign students will helo boost en-
schedule: E-M. 8:30 Wednesday; N-R. 1 Wednesday; S-Z, 8:30 Thursday; and A-D, 1 Thursday.
There will be unrestricted registration Friday and Sat-
U'Cards for classes desig- rollment figures. New foreign nated by an “H” will be avail- students, combined with the able from advisers in 210 PE 900 pre-registered foreign or from the various depart- students, represent one of the ments	five largest college enroli-
Cards not designated “H" ments in the nation or “R" will be unrestricted USC foreign students come and will be issued without from 86 lands. China head3 regard to the alphabetical the list of countires with 56 schedule.	students. It is closely follow-
To change programs stu- ed by Japan. India, the Phii-dents must secure “drop” and ippines and Saudi Arabia, “add" cards in the registra- Graduate student registra-(Continued on Page A10) tion is expected to remain constant, according to the ad-
Convocations, Meetings To Fill Weeks Calendar
missions office.
The largest enrollment in the history of USC was in 1949. The combined fall and spring semester total was 27.493. counting each student j
A barrage of Troy Week activities designed to acquaint students with their new university began yesterday when President Norman Topping extended an official welcome, and will take on a more frenzied pace today beginning with this morning's Introduction to Your University Convocation at 9 in Bovard Auditorium.
Orientation week will be climaxed Wednesday through Friday with registration in the Physical Rducation Building for new and returning students who did not pre-en-roll.
i Dean of Students William
H. McGrath will introduce his staff and other important university administrators to new Trojans this morning, while Dr. Tracy E. Strevey. v c e president of academic affairs, is expected to point out essential aspects of successful university life. Registration materials will oe distributed during the program.
Also on today's agenda are a series of deans’ meetings for new students During the meetings students rnay discuss their possible field of study and ask questions concerning curriculum and programing. The meetings will begin at 10:30 and probably
will continue throughout the day.
A special garden luncheon between Bovard Auditorium and Founders Hall at noon and a University Realities Assembly at 1:30 in Bovard will round out the day.
Representatives of the university faculty will be featured during fireside chats sponsored by the Associated Men and Women Students tonight at 7 at Elisabeth /on KleinSmid, Town and Down and Marks Halls.
New students will get their first look at Trojan spirit tomorrow during USC s (Continued on Page Aft) ,
All Students To Get IDs I
Photo identification card3 will be required of all students taking classes on campus this tall, the Registrars ' Office announced recently.
A Si fee will cover the prii-e of the original photograph, each replacement or loss of the card.
A new university ruling requires all students to purchase photo identification cards.