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The presentation of special and associate awards inc'uding the Order of the Laurel and the recognition of undergraduate scholarship winners will highlight the annual Academic Honors Convocation this morning at 10 a.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
All regularly scheduled 10 a.m. classes are cancelled to facilitate attendai.-*'
The program will begin with the National Anthem and invocation, by Dr. John Cantelon. university chanlain.
Selections by the University Chamber singers, will be followed by award presentations given by Dr. Mi'ton Kloetzel. vice-president of academic arfairs and dean of th? Graduate school.
Association Awards will be presented to six outstanding faculty memberc nominated by graduating students for Excellence in Teaching.
Three special awards. The Emma Bovard Award. The University Trustees Award and the Order of the Laurel, will also be given.
The Emma Bovard Award is presented by the Faculty Wives Club to the woman who attains the highest scholarship average in four years of undergraduate work, while the University Trustees Award goes to the senior man with the highest four year record.
The Order of the Laurel will be presented to the graduating woman who has contributed the most to all aspects of university life.
Undergraduate members of national and local honor societies will be recognized and the undergraduate honor lists for the Schools of Architecture and Fine Arts, Business. Education. Engineering, International Relations. Journalism Music. Pharmacy and L.A.S. will be announced.
A speech by Dr. Herman Harvey on “The Parable of Spoiled Meat” will follow the presentation of undergraduate university, donor and general alumni scholarships.
The Alma Mater, sung by the audience and the Chamber Singers, will close the program.
VOL. LVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1967
NO. 119
Vaughn, DuBay to Speak At Viet Teach-In Friday
By FRED SWEGLES
A Teach-In on the War in Vietnam. cosponsored by the Trojan Young Democrats and the Students for a Democratic Society, will present arguments for and against che war Friday from noon-11 p.m. on the third floor of the Student Union.
Robert Vaughn, outspoken critic of the war in Vietnam, and Father William DuBay, who was recently removed from his parish for his involvement in Civil Rights activities,
will head a list of guest speakers and debaters.
A special panel of USC foreign students will also give their countries’ official positions on the United States’ Vietnam policy.
While TYD and SDS are official cosponsors of the event, the Trojan Young Republicans will supply speakers in favor of America’s Vietnam policy.
“This teach-in will be unlike most of those held in the past on other
Plans for Troy Week, Orientation To Await Committee Completion
Trojans got an opumistic glimpse during Songfest Saturday night of what mav happen when USC meets UCLA at the Coliseum on Nov. 18, 1967.
In the Alpha Phi-Pi Kappa Alpha Songfest entry. USC beat the Bruins 9-6 and earned the right to go to the Rose Bowl.
Planning for Troy Week. 1967, which will climax with the Big Game, will begin as soon as a Troy Week Committee can be assembled.
Bill Mauk, 1967 Troy Week chairman, will be interviewing applicants this week and next to select approximately 50 students. Committee applications will be available through Friday in the Student Activities Office in the YWCA.
Troy Week will start with the President’s Ball on Saturday. Nov. 11. after tfteTUSC-Oregon t^late football game. Helen of Troy will be crowned at the ball.
On Monday, Nov. 13. a pep rally will be held.
The following evening a special variety show with top entertainment will be featured in Bovard Auditorium.
Trolios will return Wednesday evening, with one major change — it will be free this year.
Thursday may or may not see house decorations rising on the Row\ It may see a Troyland Carnival instead. but Mauk is still undecided on this point.
A combination bonfire, rally, street-dance and torch parade will end the pre-game festivities on Friday night.
To alleviate the boredom of standing in line waiting for the Coliseum gates to open Saturday morning, entertainment will be provided outside the gates.
Several committee posts have already been filled. Cal Chamberlain is in charge of entertainment. Matt Pasternak is making arrangements for the President's Ball and Gary Kief will be Helen of Troy chairman.
Positions still vacant are the cha'rmanships of the Coordination and Finance. Variety Show*. Publicity, House Decorations (or Troyland), Game Activities, Bonfire-Rally and Trolios Subcommittees.
EXCHANGING APPELATIONS—Bill Mauk, left, newly-selected Troy Week chairman, signs J. J. Johnson's application for Orientation Week chairman, while Johnson returns the favor. Johnson also got the nod for his post.
MAN OF TROY
Stu Benjamin
By STAX METZLER Assistant to the Editor
For Stu Benjamin, AMS president and third of this year's five Men of Troy, involvement is the key.
“My major accomplishment in the last couple of years has been helping to bring about a more active involvement by student government in the affairs and activities of the whole university,” he explained.
USC, he feels, now represents the students and provides the services and activities they need much more nearly than in the past.
Looking back on his career at the university. Benjamin, a 3.65 finance major in the School of Business, expressed a lack of total satisfaction.
“There are a lot of courses I wish I would have taken, more books I wish I would have read, classes I
STUART BENJAMIN
One of Five Men of Troy
should have put out more for,” he said.
“But all in all I'm fairly pleased with my four years. I’ve had the opportunity to participate quite fully in student affairs, and I’ve learned a lot practically and academically.
“I’ve had a lot of professors who I didn’t think deserved to be teaching on a university campus — especially when I'm paying $200 a class.
“But the other hand I’ve had some who were really great.”
Benjamin’s future will include, immediately, the Harvard University School of Law, where he plans to specialize in constitutional or criminal law before eventually entering legislative politics.
Benjamin's activities at USC have included membership in Blue Key, Skull and Dagger. Knights and Squires; service on the ASSC Speakers Committee; and counseling for the Orientation Committee.
He also served this year as co-chairman with John Wardlow, next year’s AMS president, of an ASSC ad hoc committee studying the university speakers’ policy.
“The committee investigated and discovered exactly what was the university’s policy on speakers, and presented to the ASSC Council a resolution stating our recommendations as to what should and shouldn’t be done with a speakers’ program,” he explained.
“What came out of it? Nothing.
“We found that the present program was fairly workable and recommended that students themselves take a more active part in bringing speakers on campus.
FALL SCHEDULES NOW AVAILABLE
Schedules of classes for the fall semester are now available in the Information Center, on the corner of Exposition Boulevard and Figueroa Street.
Preregistration will be held from May 23 to July 14. Registration packets will be available outside the Registrar’s Office at that time.
Students may take advantage of the opportunity to be in on the beginning of the beginning for next year’s Freshman Class by applying for membership on the 1967 Orientation Committee.
Applications are available at the Student Activities Office in the YWCA. Interviews are being conducted this week and next by John “JJ” Johnson, Orientation Committee chairman.
Students may apply for committee or for counseling positions. Approximately 100 counselors are needed for three-day service the week before school starts in September.
Several committee positions have already been filled. Fred Lovell has been appointed general vice-chirman. Mark Kaplan will be in charge of facilities. . .
Peter Chang will be in charge of day programs and Steve Cheney in charge of night programs.
Pat Kennedy is in charge of special activities, C h ri s t e Zemba in charge of personnel, Judy Latimer, publications and Joyce Harwood and Barbara Sherman will be committee secretaries.
A shortened Orientation Week will begin Tuesday evening, Sept. 12, with the Registrar's Program for new students. It will end Friday night with the USC-Washington State football game at the Coliseum.
In between will be an AMS and AWS assembly; an art, music and drama seminar: ample lectures; a Great Issues Forum; an IFC smoker; and a Trojan Heritage rally.
A group of freshmen will be assigned to each counselor, who will answer their questions and fill them in on the details of the coming events.
TYR'S TO HOLD FALL ELECTIONS
The Trojan Young Republicans will meet tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in 229 Founders Hall to elect new officers and members of the executive board.
The election, to be supervised by Clive Grafton, director of student activities, is being held in concordance with a recent decision of the Student Activities Committee and the TYR Constitution.
The official TYR membership list, approved by both factions within the club, contained 164 students, who have been notified of the election by mail.
campuses.” Shelley Linderman. TYD president, said, “because it will present both sides to the Vietnam issue. “We want to do two things:
“To provide a discussion on the important Vietnam issue for the student body.
“To provide a forum for discussion on the USC campus.”
The Student Activities Committee and Paul Bloland, dean of studenU, approved the Teach-In yesterday, concurring that it would “improve and enrich the study and life on the campus.”
Vaughn, who will speak at 9:30 p.m., will discuss the development of America’s commitment in Vietnam and the citizen’s responsibility in the present situation.
He has recently spoken at Harvard, UCLA and the Spring Mobilization demonstration in San Francisco.
Father DuBay, principal speaker of the afternoon, will talk on “The Role of the Church in Vietnam.” As a controversial priest who has organized the American Federation of Priests, he will describe an expanded role for the church in the Vietnam struggle.
Other speakers will include Gerald Hill, president of the California
Democratic Council; David Scott, a Negro educator; Masamori Kojima, an authority on Southeast Asia: Dr. McBirnie. a noted conservative radio commentator and writer; and Dr. Ziferstein. a clinical psychologist.
Scott, whose organization has advocated sending a peace delegation to the 1968 California Presider .ia! primary, will speak on “The Effect of the War on the 1968 Elections.”
Scott, a leader in the Negro community who ran as a peace candidate in the 1964 and 1966 Congressional elections, will discuss how the war has affected minority griups.
Kojima, who has made a series of radio broadcasts and lectures to other universities, will discuss “What is Vietnam” and “Who are the Vietnamese ?”
Dr. Ziferstein, a former faculty member of USC’3 School of Medicine, will explain how Americans are conditioned to support war.
A two-hour debate on “The Direction of Our Commitment: Negotiations, Withdrawal, Escalation,” will feature a peace candidate for Congress and a USC political science professor debating against a political science professor at Pepperdine College and a retired navy admiral.
Kappa Sigs, Pi Phis Can-Can and Do-Do
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH City Editor
It's a Kappa Sigma year.
First they won the ASSC presidency, then the Iron Man tropny. then the Frog-Jumping Contest.
And Saturday night, along with Pi Beta Phi sorority. Kappa Sigma finally won the Songfest Sweepstakes Award.
For Kappa Sig fans, the honor of being tops in Songfest has been too long in coming.
Two years ago they came in first in production division with “Concert in the Park” but lost the sweepstakes award to a Novelty entry, “Little Boxes.”
Last year they thought they had a sure winner with “The Showboat's Coming,” but came in second in their division to “Mechanization of Academia” and were thus again deprived of the top prize.
So it was do-or-die this year. And they did.
Their production of “Ooh-La-La,” directed by Barbara Birkenhead and Bill Caldwell, featured a chorus line of Pi Phis doing the can-can and a thin blue line of gendarmes trying to stop them.
When their name was announced as sweepstakes winners, pandemonium broke loose. In the midst of the commotion was Caldwell, holding the perpetual Sweepstakes Trophy above his head in a grand victory gesture.
Most observers agreed that Songfest. 1967, featured some of the best quality entries in years, especially in the Small Group Division.
Although it did not win any awards, the Sigma Phi Epsilon jug band entry, “The Sedalia City Federation of Juke, Skiffle and Hamfat Musicians,” was a real crowd pleaser.
But the judges were more pleased with “Songs That Never Made It.” performed by Alpha Phi under the direction of Kathy Howard, and awarded it first place in the small group division.
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English Prof To Present Grad Lecture
Dr. Francis Christensen, professor of English, will give the annual Creative Scholarship and Research Award Lecture for the Graduate School today at 2 p.m. in 129 Founders Hall.
Dr. Christensen, one of two winners of the $1000 award from the USC Associates last year, will speak on “Publish or Perish—Who Perishes?”
The lecture will be open without charge to students, faculty and the public.
Dr. Christensen, a graduate of the University of Utah, the University of California and Harvard University, joined the USC faculty in 1939.
Before coming to USC, he taught at the University of Utah, the University of Wisconsin and DePaul University.
His creative scholarship and application of new knowledge about language to rhetoric and composition has brought him national recognition as one of the country’s outstanding students of rhetoric and style.
His seminal studies in the rhetoric of the sentence and the paragraph have had a profound influence throughout the country on the teaching of language and composition and the revision of English courses.
It Takes Law Students to Make Troy Victorious Over Bruins
A hypothetical case over whether an atheist is entitled to conscientious objector exemption from the draft provided the basis by which two USC law students won the first annual California State Moot Court competition.
Alice Huber and Ray Fortner, third-year law students, represented USC in the competition. Representative selection was made through intraschool elimination in which the students were given a case—an appellate argument, upon which they wrote a brief and then defended their position.
The contest, open to all California
law schools, included participants from USC, UCLA, Stanford, and California Western University.
USC defeated UCLA in the final round to win the contest by two one-hundreths of a point, with Miss Huber rating the highest individual point score.
Judging the contest, on both trial briefings and oral arguments, were approximately 25 Superior Court judges, three justices from the Court of Appeals, and several Los Angeles attorneys.
In the Moot Court program, a project organized and administered by students, the petitioner was appeal-i
ing his conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court after failing to report for induction.
The case was based on the refusal of the District Court and the Court of Appeals to place the petitioner, an atheist, writhin the conscientious objector category.
This is a question which has never been answered by the Supreme Court.
The hypothetical problem also covered such areas as the legality of the Vietnam war and whether th« atheistic moral code constitutes “religion” within the meaning of the First Amendment and the Selective Service Act.