ORIENTATION ISSUE
University of Southern California
Vol. XVII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, I960
No. 62
University Welcomes New Trojans Today
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Program Orients Students
New students will learn about both the academic and social phases of university life during today’s orientation program.
Dr. Tracy Strevey, vice-president for academic affairs, will welcome new students at an assembly at 9:30 this morning in Hancock Aud. Dr. Paul Bloland, dean of students, and John Sullivan, student body president, will also speak.
Following this program, new students will be assigned to orientation groups by school. Student counselors will meet with these groups and pass out information on the school.
Program Explanations
Carl Wedberg. d i r e ct o r of admissions, will explain the requirements and programming students will follow toward earning a degree at an 11 a m. assembly in Hancock. Dr. Norman Fertig. associate dean of Letters, Arts and Sciences, will discuss the four course plan and the advisement program at USC. Mark Fxazen, assistant registrar, will explain the mechanics of registration to students preparing to register tomorrow.
Campus organizations open for new members in the spring will present displays depicting their activities in Alumni Park between 11:40 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. today.
Luncheon facilities in the Commons will be open at this time.
Orientation groups and their student counselors will meet with the faculty advisor for their school at 1:15 p.m. in Founders Hall. Advisors will be available for questions and discussion on their field of study.
Tours of both the campus and Doheny Library will be available between 2:15 and 2:45 this afternoon.
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Mrs. Seaver, only woman member of USCs board of trustees. She said she hoped to add an-other substantial sum next year.
The Seaver gift will bring another one-third to USC from the Ford Foundation, which gives the university $1 for every $3 it raises from other private sources before Dec. 31, 1967, under terms of a $7.5-million conditional matching grant.
"It is gratifying to me.” said Mrs. Seaver, "to be able now to help in the creation of a fine new science center at USC, where I am sure work of great benefit to all mankind by professors and students will be made possible.”
"I speak for everyone at
Initiation Begins Early Tomorrow
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH Night Editor
Incoming freshmen may hear the virtues of university life extolled today during orientation speeches, but their real initiation as college students will begin tomorrow when they go through registration.
Students mav register according to the following schedule: I-M 8:30 a.m.: N-R. 10:30
Daily Troj<an Photo by Jim Willcockson
GIFT TO USC—Mrs. Frank L. Seaver, only woman member of the board of trusees, presented President Norman Topping with a 1.2-million check at a press conference Thursday. The money will go toward a new science center.
$1.2-Mill ion Gift Aids USC Center
A gift from Mrs. Frank R. Seaver to USC made last week will make possible the construction of a science center on campus. The gift was made in memory of Mrs. Seaver’s husband, and the building will be named in his honor.
An initial $1,200,000 contribution was presented to President Norman Topping by
USC in voicing our gratitude for this magnificent gift and what it will mean to the university,” President Topping said.
Seaver Science Center will be a multi-story 106.000 square foot building containing the most modern reserach laboratories and classrooms for work in the solid state sciences, according to Dr. Milton C. Kloetzel, organic chemist and dean of the USC Graduate School.
The building will be designed by William L. Pereira and Associates, architects for the USC campus master plan. It will be completed in about two years and will be built on the southwest corner of W. 37th St. and Hoover St. opposite the Vivian Hall of Engineering and Materials Science, now under construction. .<■ -
am.: and S-Z. 1 p.m. tomorrow: and A-D. 8:30 a.m. and E-H, 10:30 a.m. on Friday.
The historically arduous procedure of registering will begin in the Student Union Cafeteria (Station 1), where students will have to present proof of admission before receiving their registration packets. A letter of admission or data processing information sheet will suffice.
Health Classification
Students who have not gotten their health class'fiication card signed must go to the Health Center. 849 W. 34th St., for medical clearance. Health certificates will be veriifed in 208 Physical Education (Station 2).
After filling out program cards in 210 Physical Education (Station 3). students may obtain class cards, including “H" or “R" cards, in 207 Physical Education (Station 4). These cards are required for admission into restricted classes.
At Station 5. religious preference cards will be collected.
Programs Verified
Verification of programs by computer will be handled in 200 Physical Education, (Station 6). Students should turn in their class cards in the order they are listed on the Request for Student Program Card.
Students must then wait in the designated area while their program is being processed, then go on to Station 7 and 8 for assessment of fees and identificatiori card photographs.
Students on scholarship or deferred tuition should go to Station 9: otherwise students should proceed to Station 10 in 202 Physical Education for payment, of fee*.
Diplomas Will Go To 1610
USC will hold its first midyear commencement exercises in many years tomorrow at 1:45 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium for about 1610 graduating students.
This will include those who completed their degree work last August or in January and who asked USC for a separate graduation ceremony rather than having to wait until next June to march in cap and gown.
>80 B.A.’s
USC estimated that 580 will receive bachelor's degrees: $60 master's degrees: 100 doctorates. and 70 professional degrees.
Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, UCLA chancellor, will speak on ‘‘Man and His Environment,” and will receive an honorary degree of doctor of laws in recognition of distinguished achievement and outstanding leadership in higher education.
He will be presented as a candidate to Dr. Norman Topping, USC President, by Frank L. King, chairman of the USC board of trustees.
Honorary Degree
An honorary degree of doctor of letters will be awarded to John E Pomfret. director of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, in. recognition of distingu i s h e d achievement in historical research and in preserving our (Coatiuued on Page 2),