University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL. LXIII NO. 12
University Senate sets up panel for distribution of football tickets
As a result of growing concern regarding the matter of faculty/ staff seating assignments at university athletic functions, a University Senate Committee on Faculty Tickets has been established by vote of the senate. Dr. G.A. Fleischer, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has been appointed chairman. Other members of the committee are Dr. John Niedercorn, department of economics, and Dr. A. Steven Frankel, department of psychology.
The general objectives of the committee are: (1) to insure the equitable distribution of athletic tickets to all qualified faculty and staff, and (2) to insure that only those faculty/staff who are eligible for athletic tickets in fact receive and use them.
The committee plans to establish seating priorities on August 10 for the fall football season. Those individuals who have not returned their ticket applications to the university ticket office by Aug.5, will not be included in these assignments, and will be placed at the “end of the line” behind the first-year class. Thus it is important tha* applications and payments be in by Aug. 5 so as to insure proper assignments.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
PERFORMING ARTS
FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1971
Play, concerts set
By PETER WONG City Editor
Six concerts will be presented on campus in the next two weeks by the School of Music, along with the final two performances of “See How They Run." the Summer Mainstage production by the Drama Division.
“See How They Run" will be presented today and tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium. Tickets are $2. Reservations may be made by calling 746-6063 or 746-2703.
Works by Samuel Adler, a visiting professor, and by mem-
Foreign teachers begin American studies
Forty-one teachers from six foreign countries are on campus for a five-week American Civilization and Language Institute. just begun under the sponsorship of USC s Center for International Education in the School of Education.
All are secondary teachers of American studies and English language in their own countries. but few previously have visited the United States, said Dr. John A. Carpenter, director of the USC Center.
The program is under the general guidance of the U.S. Office of Education but much of the program cost is met by Ministries of Education in France. Italy, and Belgium.
The visiting educators are from France, Belgium. Morocco. Algeria, the French West Indies and Italy. In addition.
12 American teachers are participating in the Institute to provide opportunity for the visitors to become acquainted with their American counterparts. Dr. Carpenter explained.
The Institute has three components: seminars on many aspects of American civilization with related field visits; class sessions in the methods of teaching English as a foreign language and linguistics: and a variety of social and cultural activities. including concerts at the Hollywood Bowl which are related to a seminar on American music. There will also be helicopter trips over the Los Angeles area, attendance at the tapings of television shows, a study tour of Los Angeles harbor. attendance at meetings of the City Council and School
Riles to talk on education
Wilson Riles, state superintendent of public instruction, will speak at two conferences on education here today and tomorrow.
He will discuss “Experimentation ’ today at the third session of the second annual Seminar for School Superintendents, at 12:30 p.m., in Town and Gown Foyer. The conference is open only to top-level school administrators and trustees.
Riles will also talk at a two-day conference on “New Directions in California Public Continuing Adult Education." which will begin at noon today in Trojan Hall.
Student dies in cycle accident
Vanessa Mary Giles, an Eng-ish major here, died July 3 in a motorcycle accident on Interstate 605 near Norwalk.
Miss Giles. 21, who would have been a senior here next fall, was graduated from Ramona Convent in Alhambra three years ago before she attended USC. She leaves her mother. Sheila Mary Giles, and a brother. Steven Reid Giles, both of San Gabriel.
Funeral services were held at the Resurrection Cemetery in South San Gabriel.
Professors from USC, UCLA, and California State College at Los Angeles will sponsor the two-day conference, which is for school personnel in adult continuing education at all levels.
This conference will also feature Irving R. Melbo. dean of the School of Education, and Paul Hadley, dean of University College and Summer Session, as guest speakers.
Those at the superintendents' seminar will also hear Dr. Alex Sheriffs, education advisor to Gov. Ronald Reagan, speak on “Communication Gaps." at 1:30 p.m. today.
In the first two sessions of the seminar, which were held July 9 and 16. school officials heard such men as Dr. Dan Dawson, chairman of the department of administration and supervision. School of Education: Robert Townsend, author of “Up the Organization": Dr. Bernard Donovan, consultant to the Office of Economic Opportunity.
The topic of the seminar is “Strategies for Leadership — Accountability."
At the final session of the seminar, to be held July 30. U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston (D -Calif.) is scheduled to be the guest speaker. However, his appearance has not yet been finally confirmed by the School of Education.
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Board and informal evening discussions on topics ranging from American artists to Women's Lib.
This is the third year USC has been involved in the program, starting in the summer of 1969 with 12 teachers from Italy. Last year the program included 33 teachers from Italy, France, the French West Indies. Belgium and Algeria.
The visitors will be staying in the dormitories at USC and also visiting other classes on campus and staying with American families on weekends.
Pursuing individual interests is also an objective. Dr. Carpenter reported, so that often the foreign educators and their volunteer American teacher counterparts will go in small groups or as individuals about the city to points of special interest.
The program encourages group and individual treatment in our society because few of the foreign educators have had any opportunity to participate in the social, or economic, life of the United States.
bers of the school s composition department faculty will be performed Saturday at 8 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium. The concert is free.
On the program are Piano Trio No. 3 and Lorca Songs, by Halsey Stevens, professor of composition: Capriccio for Woodwind Quartet and “Ode to a Nightingale" for tenor and piano, by Ramiro Cortes: “Ayre and Ground" for solo cello, by Robert Linn: Second Violin Sonata, by Adler.
Performers will be Michael Sells, tenor: Doyle Preheim, baritone: Harris Goldman and Cynthia Cole, violinists: Raymond Kelley and Jerome Kessler, cellists; Carolyn Brown and Cortes, pianists: and the USC Woodwind Quartet.
Adler, a professor at the Eastman School of Music will also conduct the USC Concert Choir on Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium. Admission is free.
The program will include works by Alessandro Scarlatti. Henry Purcell. J.S. Bach, Aaron Copland, and Adler.
Bach's Cantata 106. to be accompanied by a string ensemble. will feature the following soloists: Wha-Ja Whang, alto: James Wagner, tenor: Doyle Preheim, baritone. Genevieve McDowell will sing the mezzo-soprano role in Copland's “In the Beginning."
“An Evening of Opera Excerpts" will be presented free by the opera department on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
Under Hans Beer, the director. excerpts from the following operas will be performed: “Nora." by Bellini: “Aroldo," by Verdi; “Peter Grimes," by Britten: “Hansel and Gretel," by Humperdinck: “Anna Bole-na,” by Donizetti; “Jenufa," by Janacek; “Doctor Miracle,” a one-act opera by Bizet.
Four faculty members of the School of Music will appear in a chamber music concert on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium. The concert will benefit the school's scholarship fund.
Admission is $3.50: students, $1.
Eudice Shapiro, violinist: Edgar Lustgarten, cellist; and Lillian Steuber, pianist, will present Beethoven's Trio in E flat major and Brahm s Trio in B major. Mitchell Lurie, clarinetist. will join them for Hindemith's Quartet for Clarinet, Violin, Violincello and Piano.
The third Congress of Strings will perform Aug. 2 at 8 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium under the guidance of Miro J. Pansky, former music director of the Prague Opera. Pansky, who decided not to return to Czechoslavakia after the Soviet invasion of August 1968, has made several guest appearances while in this country.
The congress will also present a chamber music concert on Aug. 3 at 8 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium. The student musicians of the congress have worked in groups during the summer, and a few days before the concert, the groups will compete for places on the program.
Summer Trojan
The Summer Trojan will not be published next week. It will resume publication on Wednesday, Aug. 4 and will continue once a week each Wednesday for the remainder of the month.
Evers says past won t hurt him in race for Mississippi governor
Mayor Charles Evers’ disclosures in his autobiography that he formerly was involved in prostitution, racketeering and bootlegging will not hurt his chances of being elected governor of Mississippi, he said recently to the students at the university’s Great Issues Forum.
The explanation in his book that he had done wrong in the past and has long since renounced it has brought him a good response and respect for his openness and honesty, the Fayette, Miss, mayor said.
“It’s my goal to bring the races together; to make Mississippi a state of love and respect instead of a state of hate and distrust. I’ve been fighting racism among both blacks and whites since I’ve been a teenager.
“Mississippi has not had any governor who has been concerned with the welfare of all the people,” he declared.
USC prof says Nixon visit to Red China may solve two-China dilemma
President Nixon's upcoming visit to Peking may well expedite the admission of Red China to the United States and could lead to a solution of the two-China problem without sacrificing the Taiwan government, a USC Far Eastern affairs analyst said recently.
It might also help break the impasse in the U.S.-North Vietnamese Paris peace talks, according to Dr. Theodore H E. Chen, USC professor of Asian studies.
However, the planned visit is a “bold gamble." It holds the possibility of easing international tensions, but it also could create more problems. Dr. Chen said in an interview.
“I believe the President feels his planned talk with Premier Chou En-lai is the best way to show all parties that he is pursuing a flexible policy and really trying to work for peace.
“Perhaps the most crucial question to be taken up will be that of the two Chinas. Officially. the Red Chinese say they cannot tolerate
an independent Taiwan. But official statements are not always the final word. As the saying goes, ‘politics is the art of the impossible,’ and President Nixon is a skilled politician.
“Ultimate solution of the two-China problem will require lengthy, delicate negotiations and behind-the-scenes discussions," Dr. Chen said.
The USC observer said he expects the Soviets to be watching the negotiations “anxiously and perhaps a bit uneasily," but doesn't feel the President’s talks with Chou En-lai in themselves will lead to further tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
Neither does Dr. Chen expect the Washington-Peking negotiations to further alienate Russia from Red China. “Russia herself is trying to reach some sort of settlement with Red China. More than that, it is contrary to Russia's interests to have Red China driven farther away from the Communist bloc.” Chen said.