University's Skyline Grows
If you had been born in 1862 and entered USC in 1880, the year of its founding, you would have found yourself on a campus with one building costing $5,060 to construct.
Widney Hall still stands, but it is now surrounded by a 72-acre campus with buildings costing in the millions of dollars to errect.
But this is only the beginning.
$28.4 Million Program
The Master Plan includes a 23 - building construction program estimated at $28.4 million. Fifteen of these 23 buildings have been completed and coastru ction will have been
started on seven more in the next five months.
“The President’s Report: University on the Move,” outlines the construction completed on the campus in the last three years.
Six More Begun In addition to the 15 buildings completed since the announcement of the Master Plan, the university has begun construction on six more facilities. They include the Mrs. Willis H. Booth Memorial Hall, the Graduate School of Busi-
ness Administration, the religious center, the Stauffer Hall of Science, the science-1 e c t u r e building and the von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs.
The Waite Phillips Hall of Education is funded but not yet under construction. This building will serve the School of Education.
The New Olin Grant The Olin Foundation, which funded the construction of the
new Olin Hall of Engineering, recently announced a new $2.7 million grant for the Construction of an engineering and materials science center. This is the Olin Foundation’s second gift to USC in less than four! years and their only two gifts ' on the West Coast.
A $1 million gift from Mr. and Mrs. H. Leslie Hoffman will help finance a research building on USC’s School of Medicine campus.
New Medical Library Construction will begin in November on a $1.2 million medical library on the same campus.
These three buildings will be completed within the next two vears.	>
“These buildings are enabl. ing the University to fulfill plans for strengthening its educational program. The combination of new facilities with * streamlined course of study i3 attracting and holding to USC greater numbers of the nation’s finest undergraduate students and. especially, more of the w o r 1 d’s outstanding teachers and research expert s.” the President's Report says.
“All these facilities, and still others for student housing, must be constructed in order that all the benefits of the Master Plan may become tangible and functional reality for the students and faculty of the university.’’
University of Southern California
SUMMER d TROJAN
VOL. V
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA. MONDAY, JULY 12, 1965
NO. 6
IR Student Interning in State Dept
John Nalbandian. a graduate in International Relations at USC. is one of 20 students working this summer as in- | terns in the U.S. State Depart ment in Washington.
Selection of Nalbandian was announced by Dr. Rodger ' Swearingen, acting director of USC's School of International Relations, after State Department action on nominations | from colleges and universities j all over the country. The proc- | ess of selection was made partially on the basis of essays submitted by nominees.
Learn About Functions Although a part of the two-month internship period for the students will be given to briefings on State Department operations and meeting career officers, the interns will actually work as Civil Service employees to give them an even better understanding of departmental functions and a foreign service career, such as Nalbandian plans
John received his bachelor's degree from USC June 10. He will return in September to begin work on his master’s degree with a fellowship in International Relations.
Phi Beta Kappa Elected to Phi Beta Kappa at USC this year, Nalbandian is president of the USC chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon, the professional international relations fraternity.
Last summer, Nalmandian was one of the USC students who spent two months studying at Cambridge University, England.
COMI ON USC STAGE—Paul Comi, USC graduate and motion picture-television actor, will direct the O'Neill play, “Ah, Wilderness,'' in the Eugene O'Neill Festival July 23.
Actor Will Direct Ah, Wilderness
Asia Expert Eyes Mao s Role in War
Mao Tse-tung, leader of Communist China, probably was in southwestern China recently directing the strategy of the Vietnamese war in person, a L SC professor believes.
Mao is still in full control of Red China and is not seriously ill. according to Dr. Theodore II. E. Chen, chairman of the department of Asian Studies. Dr. Chen has just re- j turned from a research and observation trip to Japan, j Korea. Taiwan (Formosa) and Hong Kong.
Health Questioned Speculation about Mao's health was stimulated recently by the fact that he had been absent from a number of public occasions in Peking. Dr. Chen said. Some reports even suggested that Mao’s death was imminent and that Communist China would soon be confronted with the problem of a successor.
USC graduate and television star Paul Comi is directing the Eugene O'Neill play ‘'Ah, Wilderness" which will open -in Stop Gap Theater July 23.
Comi has appeared in over 300 television shows, including “Rawhide," “The Virginian,” “Profiles of Courage,” “Alfred Hitchock," “The Fugitive” and “Playhouse 90."
Appeared in Movie*
He has also appeared in 14 motion pictures, including “Pork Chop Hill” with Gary Cooper and “Dark at the Top of the Stairs."
He recent ly worked with Rock Hudson on the motion picture “Blindfold,” filmed in New York and Florida.
The actor is currently at- j tending USC on a Beaumont ; Fellowship. He hopes to use1 the fellowship for work on his masters degree.
1958 Graduate
Comi graduated from USC, i in 1958. He was a Phi Beta i Kappa and graduated Sumna j Cum Laude.
The Drama Department will present four of O’Neill’s plays in the Eugene O'Neill Festival. Besides “Ah. Wilderness.” they will stage “The Long Voyage Home,” “Emperor Jones," and “Long Day's Journey Into Night.”
Comi will appear in "The Long Voyage Home.”
According to information he was able to gather. Dr. Chen thinks that Mao was actually directing the war in Vietnam from southwestern China when he was away from the capital city of Peking.
Vietnam's Importance
“Vietnam is as important to Communist China as Korea was,” Dr. Chen said. "Although it is unlikely that the Chinese Communists want a direct war with the United States, they would not hesitate to send ‘volunteers' into Vietnam as they did in Korea.
“At the same time it is certain they will not relax their pressures in Vietnam. They will even increase their support of North Vietnam in order to keep up a long-drawn-out conflict.
“An indirect war of this nature serves the purpose of the Chinese Communists much better than a direct war which (Continued on Page 2>
DR. THEODORE CHEN
. . . Expert on Asia
Text Exhibit Will Open In Hancock
The California Bookman's Association will hold its annual textbook display in Hancock Auditorium today through Wednesday.
The exhibit will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and tomorrow. It will close at noon Wednesday.
All major elementary and secondary publishers will have textbooks on exhibit. The displays will be of special interest to educators and students.