USC Plans
to Focus on the Arts'
By CHICK ZAREMBA Co-News Editor
"Focus on the Arts ‘67” is coming into focus, and the curtain is set to go up on this week-long, campus-wide festival Sunday. April 9.
Devoted to a total involvement with every facet of the arts, ‘‘Focus on the Arts" will feature programs of music, cinema, photography, drama, literature and painting all day. every day, through April 16.
The highlight of the week's activities will be a presentation by Stanley Vanderbeek. noted avant-garde experimental film-maker, of three of his films April 10.
Vanderbeek. who has received grants from both the Ford and R.ockefeller Foundations for his work, is currently working with drama, cinema and music students on campus for a month in preparation for this program.
The three films that will be shown will be the results of his endeavors during this time. The program is unique in that it involves the work of a nationally-known professional undertaken especially for "Focus on the Arts.”
Another feature of the week will be the presentation of a program of Yiddish folk humor and drama called "Raisins and Almonds.” The same program just opened this week in Beverly Hills.
There will also be an outdoor jazz and blues concert on Saturday afternoon, featuring Drifting Slim, the Southside Blues Band, the
Clare Fischer Trio, the Sonny Criss Quintet, the Anthony Ortega Quartet and Paul Walberg. This will be followed by an evening dance with the Canned Heat and the Unidentified Flying Objects performing.
The major cinematic presentation, after Vanderbeek's, will be a Negro film series on Wednesday afternoon. The highlight of this program will be the screening of "Guns of the Trees," narrated by noted “hippie” Allen Ginsberg. This will be followed by a panel discussion in 133 Founders Hall.
In addition, programs of student films are scheduled on Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons.
In the painting field, several exhibitions are scheduled throughout the week. The Kokashka exhibition begins its West Coast premiere showing April 5 in Fisher Gallery and will be open through "Focus on the Arts.” The Sister Corita Art Exhibition will run Sunday through Friday at the Newman Center.
The YWCA will present an exhibit of children's artistic endeavors from Project CHANCE during the week. In conjunction with this, the YWCA is sponsoring “Art in Action” where students may paint and mold their own creations.
Also, the Fine Arts Department’s annual sale of student projects,. “Pots, Prints, and Paints.” will be held in Harris Hall patio daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
In the realm of music, Richard Strauss’ opera, “Friedenstag" will
get its American premiere April 9 at 8:30 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium as a presentation of the USC Opera Theater.
In addition there will be a program of contemporary music Monday evening, a Renaissance music program Tuesday evening, a show featuring French piano music Wednesday evening, a presentation of Hinder-mith s “Ludus Tonalis” at noon Thursday, a wind orchestra concert Friday evening in Bovard and student concerts in the experimental and Baroque fields Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Special music features include the Mormon Choir of Southern California Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in Bovard. a program of Okinawa folk music and Japanese classical dance Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium and a symposium on contemporary music in the elementary and secondary schools Saturday.
In the field of literatures the English Department is sponsoring three lectures. Prof. James Mellard will discuss Joseph Heller, author of “Catch 22,” at 11 a.m. Monday in Founders Hall. Murray Krieger, literary critic, will speak at the same time Wednesday morning. Prof. Allan Casson will examine Vladimir Nabokov, author of “Lolita” and "Pale Fide,” Friday at 11 a.m. There will also be outdoor poetry readings at various times during the week.
Before final plans are complete, more programs will be added to the list of events for the week.
The result: no matter where anyone is on campus between April
9	and 16, he will never be out of focus with “Focus on the Arts.”
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
Beta Appeal Denied; Now on Suspension
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1967
NO. 92
NSA Head Fears CIA Subsidizing
“The Central Intelligence Agency apparently began its infiltration into the National Student Association without sinister motivation, but it had almost life and death control over the NSA." Sam Brown, chairman of NSA's National Supervisory Board, said yesterday.
In an ASSC sponsored speech held at noon, he said he felt there was great cause for being concerned about the relationship between the two organizations.
Brown, a graduate student in divinity at Harvard University, indicated the reason for his concern was that the first sign of totalitarian take-over is a government s infiltration into free volunteer societies.
‘ In 1964. Steve Robbins of UCLA was elected president of NSA. He was dissatisfied with the group's relationship with the CIA. The relationship had developed around 1952,'’ he said.
"I don’t know who approached w hom, or maybe the NSA innocently fell into it; in any case, the NSA indirectly received $10,000 from the CIA that first year.’’ he said.
Brown said he thought it was understandable why the money exchanged hands: NSA could use the CIA s money, and the CIA felt it might be advantageous to have relations with NSA because of their international affiliations.
“The relationship between NSA a.nd CIA grew closer. The NSA was probably the closest to the CIA of the agencies it subsidized.” Brown said.
"In the last three or four years, NSA cooperated with and sought funds directly from the CIA, not through fronts." he said.
Brown said the CIA should not be involved with NSA because it has no business in a student organization, and its actions are so secret that some students are no longer able to tell the difference between the truth and lies.
NSA DEBATED BY IFC — Dave Neset, grad advisor of Lambda Chi, dramatically expresses his opinion during the IFC sponsored debate between
Sam Brown, supporter of NSA. and Fulton Lewis After the debate, IFC voted by a 9-8 margin to oppose afflication, with the National Student Assn.
IFC Votes Opposition To NSA by Slim Margin
By JACK REES CHAPPELL Co-News Editor
Interfraternity Council by an eight to nine vote has expressed opposition to USC's affiliation with the National Student Association.
TKE Everet Miller moved that IFC oppose USC’s affiliation with NSA after a motion by SAE Norm Wilky stating IFC support for the USC-NSA affiliation failed by a 10 to six margin in yesterday’s IFC meeting.
Following the meeting. Taylor Hackford, ASSC president, said, "As the head of student government, I feel that NSA would be a great asset to student government here at USC. As a member of the fraternity system. I am concerned with the fact that IFC has chosen to act as a de-terant to progress at USC.”
The IFC action came after an hour debate between NSA representative, Sam Brown and Fulton Lewis IIT, news commenator.
Wendy Coffelt Files For Junior Position
Wendy Coffelt. sophomore in psychology, announced her candidacy for the office of junior representative.
Miss Coffelt. a transfer student from Glendale Junior College, has participated in the senior class council. Troy Camp and the Tutorial Project.
“I'm in favor of the student pro-
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gramming fee so the ASSC can have money to finance the activities they have planned. The student body will vote on it, and a control board will be established to decide how the allotment of money should go to the groups requesting such funds,” Miss Coffelt said.
Concerning the NSA controversy, she feels the arguments are so far inconclusive. She thinks USC should join and stay in for a year and then decide.
Miss Coffelt also believes students should be allowed to have liquor in the dormitories and on campus.
“I think the junior class as a whole should be more involved in student government.” Miss Coffelt said.
“The role the class representatives play in student government, which is currently undefined right now, should be defined,” Miss Coffelt said.
She wants to see the speakers on campus increased, along with increased quality of entertainment, including newly-released movies on campus.
“The concept of a union of students is vital to all students,” Brown said in the debate. “Student freedoms, educational reforms all fall into the area of concern of a student union. The NSA may become this union of students but it hasn’t yet.”
Brown said that the NSA supports all students’ freedoms, not excepting fraternities’. He cited two times when NSA supported fraternities in disagreements with school administrations.
“I can say unequivocally that rumors saying that NSA is against fraternities are false; they are just that rumors,” Brown said.
"No stand, on mandate instructing officers to force integration in fraternities has ever been issued.”
Brown said that while NSA policy is against discrimination anywhere, policy also states that an organization should not be forced to do anything against its will.
Political stands taken by the association represent a small percentage of the association’s actions. Even then, no campus is bound to stand by the political statement advanced by NSA. he said.
Concerning the USC image. Brown said that most people think NSA represents all the students whether it does or not. USC students are therefore involved, whether the school is a member of the association or not.
Any action to change the student association must come from within the organization itself and not by the abstinence of institutions from the group.
“NSA will continue to function with or without the, University of Southern California. USC should get itself into NSA and refor,m from within the group,” he concluded.
Lewis, who had spoken the day before at a TYR meeting, told the IFC that 20 million students in the United States were without representation.
“The NSA w^as never set up as a national student association, but as an association of student governments,” Lewis said.
He pointed out that the association by actual count actually represented one half of one percent of the American students.
According to Lewis the NSA by its own organization is an undemo-
cratic association in that it claims to represent all American students in international exchanges.
Lewis asserted that the organization concerned itself “very little” with student affairs and that 85 percent of its policies were of a political nature.
He called the NSA a transient organization, saying that the association boasted only 28 more schools today than when it was founded 20 years ago.
The limited suspension imposed upon the Beta Theta Pi fraternity by the Interfraternity Council Judicial has been upheld by the newly formed Committee on Student Behavior.
This decision was announced in yesterday's IFC meeting by judicial chairman Dick Burt.
The Beta's had appealed the IFC Judicial’s ruling which placed them on limited suspension to the Behavior Committee questioning whether the actions by fraternity members at a “destruction” party had violated a valid university rule, and whether the scope of jurisdiction of the IFC Judicial extended to this incident.
The committee found that university rules concerning vandalism did cover the Beta's conduct, and that the IFC judicial authority extended to cover this occurance. The committee supported the IFC action placing the house on limited suspension.
The Interfraternity Council Judicial's limted suspension involves in summary:
1)	The chapter is placed on limited probation. All organized activities are suspended.
2)	The fraternity's national organization is to take active steps to establish a solid program for the chapter, and to analye the potential contribution to that program of every present member
3)	All students who were not initiated as of Nov. 16. 1966. are to be disaffiliated, are free to pledge any other fraternity, are to be off fraternity premises, and are not to participate in its affairs.
Pat Ryan. IFC advisor summed up the suspension thusly. “in essence they can't do anything but live in the house.”
Because of the pledge-active destruction party the Beta Theta Phi fraternity took the following steps:
1)	The fraternity alumni have taken away the charter from the active chaper. All major decisions are now made by the alumni Board of Trustees, meeting monthly.
2)	A graduate resident has been engaged to live in the house as an agent of the Trustees. He supervises the pledge program.
3) An alumni advisor and a alumni financial advisor visit the house weekly to supervise its affairs.
4’* The house judicial has been strengthened.
5)	Steps have been taken to raise the chapter's scholastic performance.
6)	Rushing requirements have been raised to eliminate problem students; students found to be trouble makers have been asked to leave the fraternity.
Linderman To Run for Senior Rep
Shelley Linderman, candidate for the office of senior representative, is “convinced that student government need not be a facade sustained by the administration to pacify students and reassure the trustees.”
Linderman feels the ASSC must establish financial independence, provide meaningful programs meeting the needs of seniors and create respect in the community.'’ Linderman has entitled his program "constructive professionalism."
His suggestions include the adoption of the student activity fee so that entertainment and cultural programs can be provided without the administration's influence: the publication of a student directory or “hustler's handbook" listing the phone numbers of all students; establishment of a fulltime, student-financed advisor on draft regulations and military obligations; a legal-aid system for free legal advice for students: and development of a rent-controi program for local apartments.
If NSA membership is approved. Linderman suggests that the USC delegation "should demand that NSA be reformed so that students, elected on political issues, would represent their schools in the national convention and would vote on such political issues.
PROJECT ANNOUNCED
Hoover Area Seeks Change
By AUDREY RAMSEY Assistant to the Editor
The long-awaited federal approval of Part 1 of the Hoover Redevelopment Project was announced yesterday by Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty.
But additional delays may be in the offering for the $90, million urban renewal project before acquisition of land can begin.
The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development passed the plans for the program after four months of processing.
Now the Community Redevelopment Agency must ask the City Council to approve a Cooperative Agreement with the federal government, which could involve a long session of public hearings.
The agreement will include a revised financial feasibility schedule to release $15 million in federal grants for the administration of the project.
The net cost of renewal in the 166-acre area will be about $22.5 million, of which the federal government will pay two-thirds, and the city one-third.
When asked if he thought the stormy opposition to the project which lasted six and a half months in 1965 would resume, Joseph Guarino, executive director of the CRA, said, “There should be no more than they usually have at council hearings.”
When the. City Council approves of the Cooperative Agreement, Part 2 of the program will be submitted to HUD. Then that department will offer the formal contract to the city and land acquisition will begin.
“But this will not be sooner than July,” Guarino estimated. The CRA will begin buying land and clearing it as soon as it receives this go-ahead from HUD.
The university wrill purchase land from the CRA when large parcels, like city blocks, are prepared.
USC has been designated the sole developer of
57 acres adjoining the campus. The new boundaries will be Figueroa and Vermont Street and Exposition and Jefferson Boulevards, when the Master Plan is completed.
The federal approval yesterday climaxed four months of processing in Washington, 11 months of detailed preparation by the CRA. six and a half months of City Council hearings and 10 years of planning an 1 survey work.
HUD's approval of the Part 1 application included the redevelopment plan, land reuse, street patterns, the original financial feasibility plan and other smaller items.
The total 166-acre renewal area has an estimated population of 4,000. with 540 individual property parcels. The CRA estimates that absentee ownership amounts to 51 per cent.
The area is bounded by Flower Street on the east, 30th Street on the north, the USC campus to the south and a block beyond Vermont to the west.
Land owners in the area are required to sell their property to the CRA for a fair price, determined by two independent appraisals.
The CRA office does not anticipate many objec tions now that the project has been established, although Guarino noted that a few may try to hold out for higher prices, causing temporary delays.
When land is purchased under urban renewal, the CRA is required by federal law to help the private and commercial residents relocate in the community in places of comparable rental price and location.
The Hoover project is based in part on the Congressional concept of helping cities help urban universities whose locale has not kept pace with them and who now finds themselves in the more blighted part of town, Leonard Wines, executive director of university relations, explained.
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