BOB BRAUN
One of five Men of Troy
MAN OF TROY
Bob Braun
By STAN METZLER Assistant to the Editor
Bob Braun refuses to classify himself as a radical, and rightly so.
“I recognize that changes need to be made in the institution.” he explained, “but I also realize that they can be better implemented by staying ing within that institution.”
Braun. ASSC vice-president of student activities, climaxed his own political involvement this year by pushing through the Student Programming Fee.
‘‘It's going to change the entire concept of student participation on this campus.” he anticipates.
"For the first time, we'll have enough money for a real speakers program.”
USC, he explained is a fairly homogenous campus, with students representing largely the same socioeconomic background.
“Consequently.” he noted, “our views tend to be somewhat standardized. and we often don’t benefit from ? broader variety of opinion.
“A student should be constantly questioning those precepts on which his society is based, because that's the only way in which we can fundamentally change and improve the system.
“The increase in funds for the
Student Activities Center will help bring about a place for students to really interact with each other on campus.”
Despite his numerous activities— Student Senate, Knights. Squires. Blackstonians. Blue Key, Christmas Project—and 3.3 grade point in economics. Braun professes to not being entirely satisfied with his four years at USC.
“I don't think anyone's ever completely satisfied.” he said.
“I see areas in which I know I could have done better and regret I didn't—academically I didn’t achieve up to my potential.”
‘But I've really enjoyed the rapport between students and faculty here. This is probably one of the few major universities in the nation where we really have an opportunity to know our professors. This makes the opportunities for education tremendous.”
Braun will attend Berkeley’s Boalt Law School next year, wrhere he'll get a chance to "broaden my experience, to question some of the concepts I now take for granted.”
But he doesn’t plan to get involved in student activities at Berkeley.
“I propose to be a good law student,’ ’he observed, “that's a fulltime job.”
Convocation to Honor Top Students, Faculty
The annual Academic Honors Convocation recognizing outstanding students and faculty members, •will be held next Tuesday. May 9. in Bovard Auditorium at 10 a.m.
All regularly scheduled 10 a.m. classes will be cancelled to encourage student attendance.
Undergraduates selected for academic awards and scholarships; recipients of university, donor, and general alumni scholarships: members of national and local honor societies: and honor list students will be presented at the Convocation.
Six faculty members will also receive SI .000 awards for ‘‘excellence In teaching" by the University Associates.
They are Dr. Joseph Boskin, asso-daete professor of history: Dr. James Calderwood. professor of business economics and international trade: Dr. Ingolf Dahl, professor of music: Dr. Morris Mautner. professor of management; Dr. Lucien Neustadt. professor of electrical engineering: and Dr. Leonard Ratner, professor of law.
Three other special awards will be given at the convocation:
The Emma Bovard Award, presented by the Faculty Wives Club to the graduating woman who has attained the highest scholastic average during her four years at USC.
The University Trustees Award, presented by the Board of Trustees
TYR ELECTIONS
The Trojan Young, Republicans «ill hold a general election May
10	under the direction of the Student Activities Cominitee.
The election, superv ised by Student Activities Director Glive Grafton. will be open to the 164 members approved as elegihle by the committee.
Songfest to Open Amid Concern About Behavior
It's Songfest minus one—at last.
The fourteenth annual production of Songfest, the largest musicale in the United States, will be held tomorrow evening at 8 at the Hollywood Bowl.
And unless student behavior is better than it was last year, according to Songfest Chairman Bob Tefft, the second-largest collegiate musicale in the United States may be able to stop trying harder.
Judges will include Rudy Vallee, Robert and Richard Sherman. Lionel Newman, John Scott Trotter, Ken Darby, Doug Morrow and Johnny Mercer.
The numbers they will be judging are as follows:
“The Dating Game,” performed by Alpha Delta Pi and Phi Delta Theta in the Novelty Division, directed by Karen O’Neil and Moe Lerner and concerned with the battle of the sexes.
"The Popocatepetl Is Not in Canada,” performed by Alpha Gamma Delta and Sigma Phi Epsilon in the
Small Group Division, directed by Bill Farrington and concerned with the growing panic before a final exam.
“Contrasts in Life Through Contemporary Folk Music,” performed by Kappa Alpha Order in the Choral Division, directed by Randy Roberts and concerned with exactly what the title implies.
“Protest, Who Needs It?,” performed by Alpha Gamma Delta and Sigma Phi Epsilon in the Novelty Division, directed by Steve Amdahl and concerned with American protest movements.
“Ooh-La-La,” performed by Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Sigma in the Production Division, directed by Barbara Birkenhead and Bill Caldwell and concerned with a confrontation between a bevy of footloose dancing girls and local gendarmes.
“Songs That Never Made It,” performed by Alpha Phi in the Small Group Division, directed by Kathy Howard and concerned with a medley of stunning flops.
“Life — It’s a Sensation,” per-
formed by Delta Delta Delta and Phi Gamma Delta in the Production Division, directed by Kathy Schrillo and Mike McDermott and concerned with the emotional content and impact of an entire lifetime.
“A Saulte to Admiral Byrd,” performed by Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Kappa Tau in the Production Division, directed by Cliff Fenneman and concerned with a tribute to America's undisputed king of the ice flows.
“Here. There and Everywhere,” performed by the Sports Car Culb in the Small Group Division, directed by Greg Heet and concerned with “now” music.
“November 18, 1967,” performed by Alpha Phi and Pi Kappa Alpha in the Production Division, directed by Kathy Galvin and Tracy Vining and concerned with a prediction on next year’s USC-UCLA football game.
“Vicious Circles,” performed by Alpha Chi Omega and Lambda Chi Alpha in the Novelty Division, directed by Nancy Williams and John Par-
ker and concerned with a Dr. Seucs story about Gazorks.
“Sedalia City, Federation of Juke, Skiffle and Hamlat Musicians,” performed by Sigma Phi Epsilon in the Small Group Division, directed by Tom Harmon and concerned with jug band music.
“We’re Making Tradition," performed by Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Tau Delta in the Novelty Division, directed by Laurel Taylor and George Pabst and concerned with youth rebellion.
At the end of the first act the Songfest Committee will make a special presentation to Traveler I, who will be brought in from a Saturday morning parade in Las Vegas. He will reappear during the finale.
At the end of the second act the cast will assemble on stage and sing the songs of Troy under the direction of Sonny Burke, this year's guest conductor.
The coveted Tommy Awards, symbol of excellence and enterprise in entertainment will be presented, to bring Songfest, 1967, to an end.
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VOL. LVUI	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, MAY 5,		1967	NO. 118
Tom USC
Hull Dean of Men to post for Position at
Leave UCSD
to the senior man who has maintained the highest accumulative scholastic average throughout his undergraduate career.
The Order of the Laurel, presented to the graduating woman who has contributed the most to all aspects of University life.
By BILL DICKE Assistant Editorial Director
Tom Hull, dean of men, will become the second USC staff member leaving to accept a post at the University of California at San Diego, he said in a Daily Trojan interview yesterday.	— -
Hull is assuming the post of dean at R.avelle College July 1. Dr. Paul Saltman, professor of biochemistry, has accepted the post of provost.
Hull said the job was still undefined, but would deal with student personnel. “It’ll be kind of up to me to develop a program,” he said.
“This was just too good an opportunity to pass up. It will be quite an exciting campus. Ravelle College is the first of 12 they're going to build.” “I just can’t be critical of USC from my perspective in terms of my job.’ ’he said. “Being realistic, USC has been extra good to me.”
Dean Hull said he had been given a great deal of freedom to work with projects he was interested in.
“As a staff, all of us have been working on things which are quite interesting, which are now taking shape.
There are some interesting things happening here as far as I'm professionally concerned.”
He said the Tutorial Project and such programs as CHANCE and FASTEN are examples.
“I have a great deal of interest in what the fraternities are going to do
after their Direction '67 Conference and the concrete steps they have taken this year.
“I would like to see if they can carry over year af t e r year this change toward a modern fraternity system.”
Hull said the Faculty-Student Committee is new approach to matters of student discipline.
“I think this is the best way to deal with questions rising out of student discipline,” he said.
“The involvement of five to seven people brings a whole different perspective to the decision-making process.”
Speaking of movements for more student rights, he said, “I suppose
Critics
Lawyer Hits Of Warren Report
By JACK CHAPPELL Co-News Editor
“I find that in the discussion of the Warren Commission report, there is a wave of ignorance being spread by the writers of certain critical books.” Joseph Ball, senior legal council to the Warren Commission, said yesterday.
“These writers have perhaps no other reason but to make a dollar for the publication of these books,” he said.
Ball spoke in Hancock Auditorium on the “Warren Commission Controversy” as part of the Great Issues Forum speakers program.
Writers Mark Lane and Brian Ep-
Pierre To be
Salinger,
Featured
Clete Roberts at Conference
Pierre Salinger, Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Russell Kirk, Clete Roberts and Ron Funk will be featured on a “Managed News vs. the Truth” press conference during Theta Sigma Phi’s Writers Conference on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. in Bovard.
The morning session, including the press conference and authors panel, will be free to all students showing an I.D. card.
Salinger, curently vice-president of international affairs for Continental Airlines, will discuss his role as White House press secretary with Miss Roosevelt, a nationally syndicated columnist; Kirk, joumalist-critic; Roberts, of CBS; and Funk, managing editor of the Santa Monica Outlook.
An author's panel will follow at 11:30 a.m. Participating authors are Shirley Thomas, author of 10 volumes about men in space; Don Dwiggins. who wrote a book about the late stunt flyer Paul Mantz; Mildred Knopf, cookbook author; and Kirk, who has WTitten numerous political volumes.
In the afternoon, there ■will be four panels covering various aspects of writing.
A Woman's Page and Feature Page Panel will include Virginia Everett, of the Hollywood Citizen-News, Anne Sonne of the L.A. Times, and Octavia Young of the South Bay Daily Breeze. Betty Preston, woman's
editor of the Glendale News-Press, will be moderator.
The Public Relations Panel will feature Jean Meredith, director of Press Relations at CBS; Peg Hereford, PR director for L.A. International Airport; Gail Gifford, PR director for Universal Studios; and Don Belding, of Foote, Cone and Belding advertising agency.
Paul West, author of movie scripts like “Father Knows Best” and “The Donna Reed Show,” will appear on a TV and Movie Panel with Charles Faber, drama critic for the Hollywood
Citizens-News; Harriet Hinsdale, story editor and author of “Confederate Grey”; and Army Archerd, columnist for Hollywood Variety and Aleene MacMinn, TV executive and critic of the Los Angeies Times.
The Magazine panel will feature Eleanor Phillips, West Coast editor of Vogue; Stan Gordon, West Coast editor for Look; Marjorie Lenz, West Coast editor for Mademoiselle; and Jack Tobin, West Coast editor of Sports Illustrated.
Tickets for the entire day, including lunch, cost $5.
stein drew heavy criticism from Ball for their “fraud and deceit.”
“I have no reason to suspect the integrity of the seven eminent men on the commission,” Ball said.
“When people like Lane and Epstein and others call these good hardworking men frauds and deceivers. I’m angered and tend to call them the real frauds and liars,”
Ball said to believe there was a conspiracy to defraud the American people about the assassinaion, you must believe that the seven prominent commission members, the President of the United Sttaes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the two doctors. the Secret Service and the attorney general of the United States, the dead President’s brother, were all involved in the scheme.
Lane’s book about the Commission findings, “Rush to Judgement,” also came under heavy criticism by Ball.
“Mr. Lane never quoted the entire statements of witnesses. He used only the statements, many of which were taken out of context, which supported his preconceived ideas.”
Approximately 25.000 people were interviewed by the FBI. Ball said. The committee of which Ball was a member interviewed about 500 people, and maintained that there was no support to the charges that witnesses were denied a hearing before the commission's researching departments.
“When Mr. Lane consciously takes out of context quotes between myself and witnesses.” he said. “I am left with the impression that Mr. Lane is not a very honest man.”
Bill Mauk Named Outstanding Squire
Bill Mauk was named winner of the first annual Paul Saba Memorial Award for the Outstanding Squire at yesterday’s Squires meeting.
One of the criteria for the award was attendance at Squires meetings. Ironically, yesterday’s meeting was the first Mauk missed all year. (He later explained he had been at a Troy Week meeting.)
The award was named in memory of Paul Saba, Squires president in
the fall of 1965, who supervised the writing of a Squires constitution that broke that organization’s ties as an auxiliary of Knights.
Saba, last year’s winner of the Outstanding Squire Award, drowned last June, and the award was renamed in his memory.
Mauk, a sophomore in international relations, is vice-president of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. He was chairman of the Christmas Project last year and will head the Troy Week Committee in the fall. He will also be a member of Knights.
Mauk was one of five nominees for the award. Others nominated were Bill Caldwell, John Johnson, Tom Kristovich and Pat Lawless. Squires voted by secret ballot for the winner.
BILL MAUK
Winner of the Squires Award
there’li always be a question of student rales.
“I don’t see the question of student rights as solveable per se. It will come up every year, every semester, every week.'
“When it is raised, it is dealt with in the manner the university usually follows — discussion with everybody presenting his own viewpoint."
Hull also said he thinks USC students are brighter and more interested than they wrere when he first came here.
As evidence of change he cited students participation on university committees, student participation in disciplinary cases, the change in the ASSC and the new funding of the ASSC.
The faculty and administration are also somewhat more responsive, he said.
Antisocial Frog Jumps To Conclusion
By MELINDA TONKS
EB is a frog who has a very special propensity. He just doesn't like, to stay around other frogs, at least that's the impression he gave yesterday.
At 2:30 p.m. on Portland near 28th, Circle K's First Annual Frog Jumping Contest was held.
The frogs were placed in the center of a 20-foot diameter circle. At a designated time, a box that covered the dozen frogs was lifted.
EB, the nonconformist, took off.
He got real close to the outside and then decided to take a rest. During this interlude. XYZ's entry decided to leave the pack (or what ever a grouD of frogs is called.)
EB saw him coming up on the outside. and with one big leap, he won the contest. He set the first record time of ten seconds; his nearest and only competitor finished in 15 seconds.
While this was going on, the Fiji. Lambda Chi, Circle K (the infamous Rude Ralph—t u r n e d out to b’ a sleeper). TIP, Delta Chi. Kappa Kappa Gamma. SAE. Phi Delta Theta, TEP and Beta entries sat cjtlr.-.ly, oblivious to what was going on.
Then, when the contest was over, they all took off. Somebody had a good dinner last night.
EB's sponsors, the Kappa Sigs, will receive a trophy for his efforts. His entry fee will also be paid for the Frog Jumping Contest in Angel's Camp later this month.
The 34th Annual Inter-Fraternity and Sorority Relays, scheduled for the same time and vicinity, were cancelled due to lack of support.
The Phi Delta Theta sponsored Volks-Tote was won by the southern gentleman of the Kappa Alpha Order in a time of 29 seconds.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon finished second, under the direction of Volks-Tote coach Jeff Finley, in a time of 32 seconds.
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