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Su2i Biles, left, and Michele McKewn won on the 'The Dating Game'
Blind dates to international swing
By ANN SALISBURY
Assistant Feature Editor
Because Tommy Roe. a well known popular singer, said he would like to teach a girl wrestling. Michele McKewn. a junior, will be spending a weekend in Switzerland on a date.
And because Louis Nve is married. Suzi Billes, freshman, will spend a weekend in Acapulco with Fang, of Paul Revere and the Raiders.
Michele, an Alpha Chi Omega, won a date with Roe and a full-length fox coat by appearing on ABC television’s program, “The Dating Game.” She selected her date from three men behind a screen on the basis of answers to questions she asked them.
BLIND GIRL’S BLUFF
The only trick was that she couldn't see who she was talking to.
What she did not know’ was that the other two men behind the screen were Troy Winslow’. Trojan quarterback, and Randy Larsen, a graduate law student, w’hom she previously had dated.
Michele said she chose Roe when she asked him what sport be would most like to teach a woman. Wrestling w’as his reply. She also said he had a sexy southern accent which she liked.
Among Tommy Roe’s recordings are “Hurray for Hazel." “Sheila,” and “Sweet Pea.”
Suzi Biles, a Delta Gamma, won a trip to Acapulco on the program, but doing it proved to be a problem.
“I couldn’t figure out what wras
happening. The first person was a construction worker from New York wTho answrered everything in a really concrete way,” she said.
“I knew I didn’t want to go out with him, but when I asked the second one where he went wiien he w’anted to be alone, he 6aid the library. He seemed like a real intellectual professor, or something,” she said.
STEWED A WINNER “Tlie third one wras a French cook. He gave very romantic answers. I like romantic things, so I chose him.” she said.
“I was so scared that I didn’t even realize when the first two people w’alked out separately from behind the screen that they were the same person,” she said.
“They all seemed so old, I was really glad I didn’t get them for dates. One’s moustache was even falling off. but I didn't realize it.
I	just had to keep acting glad to see them.” she said.
“The third one wras my date and he seemed like he was old enough to be my father. I wondered if they had mixed me up with someone else, but then they told me it was just a Hallowreen trick.
PRIOR COMMITMENTS Since Louis Nye, the comedian who wras acting the part of all three characters, is married, Suzi will be spending her weekend in Acapulco with Fang.
“He’s kind of hippy or something, isn't he? I don’t know if I like that type,” Suzi said.
Suzi will be on television this Thursday at 8:30 p.m., and Michele’s show will be broadcast at the same time on Nov. 3.
Frosh, Soph Elections
Unity
word
By CLEM WORK
“Unity is a fine thing, but what are we going to do about it?” Mike Yagjian, one of the candidates for freshman representative, asked.
This w’as also the main concern of the other six freshman candidates, and the two candidates for the vacated sophomore representative post.
They all expressed the hope that the new constitution would aid in the effectiveness of student government.
“But there is a draw’back in this system of representatives in that it limits student participation,” sophomore candidate Bruce McEwen said.
The election is set for Nov. 2, and this is campaign week. Being campaign week, the candidates just love to make statements. So they did:
And the freshmen:
•	Bruce McEwen, candidate for sophomore representative, w’ants to set up sophomore council meetings twice a month before ASSC Executive Cabinet meetings. He also wants to spur interest in community programs as well as Troy Camp, Trolios and the President’s Ball.
•	J. J. Johnson, the other sophomore candi-
date, cited his experience as orientation counselor and work in the foreign students organization as examples of his willingness to make students more aware of the opportunities on campus.
•	Art Berkowitz, “I would like to see a student-faculty scholarship fund set up for needy freshmen . . . and, most important, the improvement of an effective liaison between students and student government, through a freshman committee.
•	Bruce Ashton complained of the lack of freshman political interest. “I was appalled. A lot of freshmen I’ve talked to didn’t even know there was an election. This has got to change.”
He also called for greater freshman representation to make them more awrare of the university.
•	Debbie Bray, the only woman running for freshman representative, wants a retirement fund for Traveler. She also wants an executive committee, made up of freshmen representing all of the “many little groups and organizations which are pulling every which wray.”
•	Kevin Lindsay thinks the present campaign should stress the capability of the representative.
not just his policy. “The quality of the representative shapes the quality of his policy . . . which must be shaped carefully,” he said.
•	Paul Linke, the official candidate of the Trojan Indenendent Party, issued the following statement: “Our freshman class . . . expects to be taken seriously. Some of the dorm and campus regulations are not in the best interests of the students. I think we’re readv for freedom.”
•	“Buffalo” Chip Reid called student government, as it stands now. “practicallv worthless.” He called for more student responsibility and more recognition of student responsibility.
As for his campaign, he said. “We've got the buffalo coat, we’re really rolling, and we think wre’re poing to win this thing.”
•	Mike Yagjian's prime goal is a freshman advisory council, composed of about 70 freshmen representatives from the Row. dorms and the independents.
“Anybody who is interested in the campus should be encouraged, and 70 representatives out of 1,500 is not an unwieldly number.” Yagjian promised to appoint his closest opponent to this council if elected.
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LVHI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1966
NO. 26
Potential decides student admission
By JON KOTLER
“We’re not admitting students by the decimal point — we wrant to be flexible,” Conrad Wedberg, director of admissions, said in an interview yesterday.
“We just try to answer the question. ‘Can the student succeed in college?’,” Wedberg added.
He said the new' freshman class numbered about 175 more than last year and that early admission wras granted to 250 freshmen, more than double the year before.
“This year’s freshman class is as good or better than any group of freshmen in past years. Their high school grades averaged better than 3.0 and their average College Entrance Examination Board score wras 110"),” Wedberg said.
HIGH ACADEMIC STANDING
In speaking of admissions tests, Wedberg said those students with good high school grades and poor test scores will ahvays be looked at more favorably by the Admission Office than their opposite number.
“Some people just can’t take tests and we would hate to base admission on a 31^-hour test. We feel it is better to look at a S^-year high school record,” Wedberg said.
“We look at tests as just one more dimension on which to base our decision.
Commenting on those students who apply with poor grades and high test scores. Wedberg said, “Those are the kind of students with lots of ability. but wTho are lazy and fail to use it”
Wedberg was asked about the University of California’s controversial “2% Rule,” under which 2% of any entering class doesn’t have to conform to admissions standards.
“I think the 2% Rule is really
bad. They don’t have to look at the students’ records and can admit anyone they choose. I would hate to take students in that manner,” Wedberg said.
“We will take borderline students that have less than a 3.0 high school
average if their most recent record shows a strong upward trend.”
Wedberg admitted that last year’s tuition raise hurt freshman admissions.
“We didn't get a full freshman class, but the situation is back to normal this year,” he commented.
'HELEN' HOPEFULS TO FACE PANELS
Preliminary interviews for Helen of Troy contestants will be conducted today from 1 to 9:30 p.m. and tomorrow between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Signups and interviews will b* held in the Student Activities Office at the YWCA. Woimn who have signed up should ask the secretary the room number of their interview panel.
“All girls who have entered the Helen of Troy Contest must complete this preliminary interview.” Gary Rafferty, Selection Committee chairman, said.
Movie playbill collection added to cinema library
CONRAD WEDBERG 'Situation back to normal'
A collection of more than 10,000 legitimate theater programs and playbills, donated by an independent theatrical agent, is now on display in the Special Collections Room of Doheny Library.
The collection, donated in 1963 by Milton Lewis, is a permanent part of the Cinema Department's library.
Lewis started his collection in the late 1940’s while working for Paramount Studios as a combination theatrical agent-talent scout.
His job entailed seeing as many
Election Analysis 66 will make comeback
Graduate study examines problems, needs of aged
Methuselah might not have surprised the early Hebrew’s by living for 969 years, but the American public is concerned about the quality of life for its 19 million people over 65.
So, the Graduate Study and Research on Adult Development and Aging, directed by Dr. James E. Birren, has been created.
The program’s goal is to produce researchers and teachers to deal with the needs and problems of the aging.
Dr. Birren, former director of the aging program of the National Institute of Mental Health, is also the director of the Roesmoor-Cortese Institute for the Study of Retirement and Aging.
This institute is funded under a U.S. Public Health Service grant totalling more than $650,000 and operates its graduate study and re^irch at USC.
Planning for the aging population at present is done on a fire brigade basis instead of by scientific methods. Dr. Birren told a Senate Subcommittee on Government Research, Oct. 24 at Oklahoma City.
He called on the government to establish rerional centers for research on aging.
"IU search manpower is needed. Regional institutes should serve as centers to train the variety of in-
vestigators committed to studying influences on the life span and the role of disease as well as physiological, psychological and social changes of aging,” he said.
At USC. eight men have begun this work with an objective of receiving an advanced degree in one of five academic disciplines — architecture, physical education, psychology, social work or sociology — with specialized applications of each to the aging.
MEN AND FIELDS
These men and their specific fields are E. Lyle Damon, physiology of exercise; Steven J. Evans, physiology of exercise among aging: Dwight W. Jeffrey, learning in the aged; Bruce W. Lemon, gerontology; Wiley P. Mangum. social emphasis on social gerontology; John E. Parnell, audi-ology; Jay Stanley Stutz, medical facilities for the aged: and John W’ood-ward, social anthropology.
As the program develops, the fields of biology, economics, education, medicine and public administration are expected to be added to the curriculum.
In addition to a strong national center for the study of aging within the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Birren called for establishment of re-
gional data banks organized at the regional research centers to facilitate lifespan research.
This would constitute a natural part of a health “preventicare” approach, he said.
By KAREN RAVN
Election Analysis '66 seems to have stumbled while leaving the starting gate.
Norbert Schlei, Democratic candidate for secretary of state, was to speak here yesterday, but his appearance wras cancelled because of last-minute conflicts.
Thus Schlei joined Gov. Eklmund
G.	Brown and Ronald Reagan on the list of campus visitors w*ho might have been.
A lot can change coming down the backstretch, however, with five political programs remaining on the agenda for Wednesday and Thursday.
“Does It Make a Difference?” Thomas Braden is scheduled to ask Wednesday at noon, and thus voice the challenge still presented to USC by Election Analysis ’66.
Speaking in front of the Von KleinSmid Center, the president of the State Board of Education will present an analysis of the current races for state offices.
Other events scheduled are: “Parties, Politics and Issues in the 1966 Campaign,” a panel led by Dr. Totton Anderson at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in 152 Von KleinSmid Center:
“To Ban or Not to Ban: Proposition 16,” a debate sponsored by Black-stonians. pre-law' society, in 129 Founders Hall at noon Thursday.
“Foreign Policy and the 1966 Election.” a panel discussion led by Dr. Joseph Nyomarkay at 1 p.m. Thursday in 107 Von KleinSmid Center ; and a speech by Ivy Baker Priest, former treasurer of U.S., at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Hancock Auditorium.
plays as possible in one week or even one evening. He didn’t go to see the plays themselves, but to see the performers.
He would stay just long enough to see all the performers, then he would leave and go on to another play.
If he found someone he felt was talented he would arrange for a screen test with Paramount.
After he left Paramount he continued as an independent theatrical agent. He still attended as many plays as he could and arranged for screen tests for the talent he found. William Holden is one of the actors he discovered.
PARAMOUNT DONATES
In 1963 Lewis arranged for Paramount to donate the playbills he had collected to USC.
Also incorporated in the Lewis collection are playbills from other sources, including the Drama and Cinema Departments.
The programs date from the early 1900s to the present and represent the theater in many major cities.
CLUB TO SEE GAME FILM
Highlights of last week's football game with Clemson will be shown tomorrow at noon during the weekly meeting of the Quarterback Club in 133 Founders Hall.
Freshman coach Craig Fertig. along wth quarterback Toby Page and fullback Dan Scott, will discuss Friday night’s clash at Miami.
The meeting is open to all USC students and faculty.
STORM THE DORM—A PANTY RAID?
Card stunt' snowballs into dorm assault
By ANDY MILLER
Some thought it was a panty raid, others felt it was just a good time, and some even thought it W’as the dorm residents revolting against campus rules.
What began last Sunday night as a modified card stunt using Marks Tower windows, and expanded to a “storm the dorm” mob, wras, according to the originator, “the best thing that has happened to this school.”
But then there are people who can see anything in anything. Following the riot, a statement came from the TIP political camp by John Medford and the TIP candidate for Freshman Class representative, Paul Linke.
“We don’t feel that the commo-
tion by the dorm men in front of the women’s dorms Sunday night can be dismissed as college pranks or irresponsible behavior by a few . . . The campus suffers from strangling apathy,” the statement read in part.
The prank was the idea of two freshmen students, who wish to remain anonymous. There might be another time, and they want to be here to enjoy it.
“Another guy and I thought w’e would pull a card stunt so we went over to the Tower. The general idea was that we wanted to spell something out, which has been tried before.”
The leaders then proceeded to knock on all the doors of the top
five floors of the dorm and informed the residents to either have their lights on or off at 10 p.m. for about five minutes of time.
Then the real action began. Everyone poured out of the building to see it. Shouting and cheering began, and along with that “spellouts.”
“We spelled out a pile of gross comments,” he said. By this time, with breaks in-between for a sit-in and the singing of “We Shall Overcome,” the ever-enlarging mob shift ed over to the women’s dorm.
“The girls shouted that we were chicken, while waving undergarments and blinking red lights. We shouted back that they were a bunch of old maids.” continued the coleader.
Meanwhile, a Los Angeles Police squad car. three fire trucks (two official and the PiKA model) and several campus policemen rushed to the scene.
Then Dean Tom Hull appeared. The crowd left after their one and a half hours of fun. He said Buch an incident had never happened within the span of his memory, and if it ever happened again, that night or any other night, arrests would be made.
The ringleaders, however, were more optimistic.
“The girls and guys want another one. Maybe later there’ll be another sign on Marks Toweis.” one said. “We hope bo,”