Gov. Brown lost race in March, prof. says
By BILL DICKE Assistant City Editor
Gov. Brown had already lost his race for re-election in March, a campus political prognosticator said yesterday.
Dr. Robert F. Craig, Department of Management, who has been pre dieting the results of elections for 30 years, said in May that Reagan would win, 3,271,307 to 3.012.775.
“That’s the maximum he (Brown) could attain no matter how much money he spent, how many Kenne-dys he brought in. or how many Kennedys' wives he brought in," Crai" said.
Craig secs no reason to change his rrv'diction. “Brown has not even caught himself, it seems to me.” he said, referring to the governor's slide in j'opularity.
Craig's theory is that the incumbent must be the choice of at least 44 par cent of the voters in the spring before the election. If the incumbent falls fellow 42 per cent he has no chance of winning. Craig says. If it is between 42 and 44, he is in serious trouble.
This spring Gov. Brown only had 41.74 per cent. Based on this, Craig predicted that Brown would lose.
Craig's theory has been successful. It has been wrong only once, he says—in a councilmanic election two years ago. And he says he suspects the poll he based his prediction on was not correct.
In the spring before the 1948 Presidential election. Harry Truman had the support of only 44 per cent of the voters which would put him in Craig's dancer area.
However, Truman won with only
48.68 per cent of the popular vote, a little less than the 50 per cent usually needed.
“I don’t think these rules of mine have failed to work wher they were based on correct polls,” Craig said.
Craig said that the electorate makes a mass judgment on the incumbent day by day.
“While some people take a dim view of the judgment of the electorate, they are pretty aware of what goes on.” he said.
“When you come into an election year, the average voter gets as wary of campaign promises as the deer do after the first shot is fired in the hunting season.”
Craig said that if an incumbenl comes into an election year with the support of more than 50 per cent of the voters “all he has to do is keep right on plugging."
“It doesn't matter what his opponent does."
This isn't likely to happen here Craig said, because Californians have onlv re-elected three governors since 1849.
“Basically, we re governor killers,” he said.
Where did Pat and Ronnie go?
RONALD REAGAN, CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR LAST YEAR AT USC Favored by two percent, neither he nor Gov. Brown will show this year
By GREG KIESELMANN Managing Editor
This election year may go down in USC history as the year of the vanishing politicians.
It all started last fall when the von KleinSmid dedication committee promised “a statesman of national importance” for the center's convocation.
For several months attempts were made to induce President Johnson to speak here and rumors were spread that the President was indeed in the bag.
Mr. Johnson did not come, nor did any other “statesman of national importance.”
Three weeks ago. the Great Issues Forum promised that Gov. Brown and Ronald Reagan would come here for what was billed as “Political Week.” Now it has been learned that these men are not coming.
William Lammers, a political science instructor on whose shoulders the Issues Forum dropped the Brown-Reagan problem just last week, said yesterday, “The situation is virtually a complete negative.”
Lammers attributed changes in
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campaign scheduling as the reason for the failure to bring Reagan and Brown here next week.
However, the two politicians were apparently never sure bets to come to USC, although the Issues Forum gave that impression.
Lammers said members of th? forum felt they had the connections to get Brown and Reagan, “but thes? connections proved to be rather tenuous.”
“It was a matter of one person saying ‘I know Ronnie, I know he will come.’ But when the time came for specific dates, it was a different story,” Lammers said.
In a last-ditch effort last week, the forum called upon the Political Science Department and Pi Sigma Alpha, a student political science honorary, to put together the program.
Dr. Totton Anderson, dean of the Political Science Department, attempted to use the contacts he had, and Mu Ivey White, vice-president for student and alumni affairs, also worked on it.
For USC, it was a matter of too little, too late. Lammers felt that planning for the program should have started last spring. Instead, it was begun only a month ago.
“Our disarray, however, is just reflective of the disarray in the campaign plans of Brown and Reagan,” he said.
The gubernatorial candidates will be replaced by two panels composed of faculty members and a series of programs not to be played up as “Political Week.”
“Let’s face it. You can't advertise this thing as a big affair and have faculty panels,” Lammers said.
S.F. rally redeems self; to continue next year
'HELEN' DEADLINE SET
The Union Square rally, tainted a bit last year, seems to have re-demed itself and will remain a USC tradition.
After being halted last year. Friday night's rally went smoothly, Stu Benjamin, AMS president, reported.
Thomas G. Hull, dean of men. and Paul A. Bloland. dean of students, seemed to agree.
Debate squad victorious in 1st competition
Dr. John C. DeBross’s debate squad started the season impressively last weekend: but then, that's nothing new.
The team, perennially one of the tops in the nation, won 15 excellent and superior medals while placing first out of 67 schools at the Pacific Southwest Collegiate Forensic Association Tournament at San Fernando Valley State College.
The debaters started off big. with the teams of Rick Flam and Cathy Salveson and Charles Higgins and Mike Davis both finishing undefeated. Only one other team in the senior division (60 teams) finished unbeaten.
In the junior division, the teams of Sue Tanzman and Delores Cordeil and Steven Moore and Ed Hurst were both undefeated.
“A personal talk with Dean Hull and a memo from Dean Bloland indicated they were extremely happy with the outcome.” said Benjamin. “Personally. I was pleased with the number of people attending, the spirit of the students and the wray we acted in genera!.”
He estimated that 400 to 500 students attended the San Francisco rally that preceded the Stanford game.
AMS and men’s service groups assumed the responsibility of organizing the rally after it had been cancelled due to the failure of last year's effort.
He attributed organization and re-snonsibility as the key factors in the planning of the rally. “If the student body presents a plan to the deans, as we did, there is no reason not to keep up the tradition. The main idea is to delegate responsibility and to show interest.” Benjamin said.
ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY
“I think this particular rally, although not a monumental thing in itself, is an example of what the student body can do if allowed and willing to accept responsibility," he said.
Due to the late reinstatement of the rally, the band didn't have time to make hotel reservations for Friday night.
“By our showing the rally to be a good deal, there should be jio hesitation to send the band next year," Benjamin said.
Applications for the 1966 Helen of Troy contest are now available to junior and senior women in the YMCA Office. Deadline for returning the application and the $2 fee is this Friday at 3 p.m.
The first series of interviews will be Oct. 25. All applicants should sign up for a judging time at the YWCA.
Dates of the second and third judgings will be Oct. 31 and Nov. 2. After the third elimination, the court of five will be announced. The queen will be selected on the evening of Nov. 7 at a banquet at the Beverly Hilton.
The queen and her court will preside over the President’s Ball at the International Hotel Nov. 12 and appear on Trojan Huddle the following day.
“This year we are attempting to give the queen and her court something more than the appreciation and honorable recognition they have received so often in the past,” Gary Rafferty, selection committee chairman, said.
“An array of gifts of memorable significance will be presented at the time of the announcement of the queen.”
AIESEC—more
than a notice
Election activities start; petitions ready Monday
The fuse sparking fall election fireworks will be ignited at 7 p.m., Monday, as campaign week opens. Both freshman and sophomore ASSC representatives will be chosen in the Nov. 2 election.
Petitions will be available until 1 p.m. Thursday at the Election Com mission Office in the YWCA, 857 W. 36th PI. Completed petitions must be returned by 3 p.m. Friday.
Only full time students may run for office, and they must observe the revised election code, Laury Scott, coelection commissioner, said.
Before beginning his campaign, each candidate must pay a $5 filing fee and a $25 deposit from which fines will be deducted. A $100 limit is set on campaign expenditures for each candidate.
Write-in candidates are subject to the same requirements as other candidates and must complete these qualifications within 24 hours after the election.
If a run-off is necessary, it will be held Wednesday, Nov. 9.
The polls will be open Nov. 2 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in front of Bovard Auditorium.
Fall elections are held annually to elect the freshman representative and any other ASSC executive offices that may be vacant. This year the office of sophomore representative was not filled and will be included in the fall election.
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH Editorial Director
An item at the bottom of yesterday's Campus Calendar read: “AIESEC—Will meet Wednesday at 4 p.m. in 100 VKC.” And that’s all.
The Daily Troian was unable to obtain the statistics on the number of students who wondered just what AIESEC is. but it was probably very close to the number of students who happened to read the item.
In explanation then: AIESEC is a worldwide organization that pio-motes international business opportunities for college students in 41 countries.
FRENCH NAME
Its proper name is the Association for the International Exchange of Students in Business and Economics. If those initials don't add up to AIESEC. that’s because the letters stand for the organization's French name, Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales.
AIESEC selects college students from member nations and gives them the chance to get practical on-the-job training in business firms in foreign countries. During this past summer, 3.500 students took part in the program.
Of the 500 American students par-
LIFE IN THE PEACE CORPS
South American adventure
A team of Peace Corps recruiters will be on campus all this week. Their ttand, in front of Tommy Trojan, will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
By MARY WYNHAUSEN STROTE
In the last year. Peace Corps volunteers have been arrested by Russians. attacked by crocodiles and visited at w'ork by Senator Bobby Kennedy.
It wasn't like that in the good old days.
When I joined the Peace Corps in 1963. ten days after my graduation from USC. Americans had not yet seen a single returned volunteer. The first group to go overseas in 1961 wras due to return that summer.
The Peace Corps was still an unknown, a young idea and an unequalled adventure.
PUERTO RICO
To me. as I faced it the day before I left for training in Puerto Rico, it was terrifying. Two years of my young life, I thought, two years without dates or hot showers. Or English.
It wasn't like that at all, of course.
The warmly personal human computers in Washington sent me deep into soulhenyCbile to practice com*
munity development, Puerto Aysen, my work site, is a towm of 5,000 that clings to the bank of a large river wiiere it joins the fjord-like canal regions of Chile’s southern provinces.
Two days after my arrival there I w'as enjoined to teach a cooking class, part of a mother’s club program that was sponsored by the local hospital. Sure. I thought, I'll teach them French toast.
That recipe wras always a success in the region, since eggs are often
Mary Wynhausen Strote is a Daily Trojan staff writer and a graduate student in journalism. She was in the Peace Corps for two years.
held, one hour early to start the fire in the wood burning stove. The ax and wood were ready, I had matches and two letters from home served to start the flame. Wisps of grey smoke filled the room, the fire dimmed and died. I tried harder. No go.
I had built the fire in the oven, available, everyone has bread and dried milk can be obtained from the hospital or church.
I arrived at the one-room school house, when the meeting was to be
Two members of the mothers’ club arrived in time to see me trying to move my charred kindling to its proper place in the stove.
It has been said often and it is true: Peace Corps volunteers learn more than they teach.
In the three years following the return of the first to volunteer, the Peace Corps has become more than an adventure. It has served volunteers as an effective marriage bureau. a draft dodge and a junior year abroad.
It has given many time to think about the future; their own, the host country’s and that of the United States. It has led many to question our foreign policy in a more knowledgeable manner. It has convinced some never to leave the United States again.
The Pcace Corps isn't so new now. Everyone knows someone who w'ent or who came home early. But it is still a young idea. It is still an adventure.
AWS sponsors meet
AWS will sponsor an informal meeting for women interested in gaining further information about the Peace Corps today at 3.30 p.m. in the YWCA.
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ticipating, five were from USC, serving in four foreign countries: Sepp Donahouer and Bill Mann. Germany; Helen DeVol. Finland: Bobbi Terwil-liger, Mexico; and Jeff Peterson. The Netherlands.
Peterson, founder and president of the USC chapter of AIESEC. explained the purpose of these overseas traineeships:
“They are designed to give the serious-minded student of business and economics practical training in the field of his interest.
PRACTICAL TRAINING
"They give him the chance to apply his theoretical knowledge and training to a practical business situation in a country other than his own. and to observe firsthand a foreign country’s economic system in action.”
AIESEC was founded in 1948 in Europe to foster a basis for international understanding and cooperation among future business leaders. An American branch of the organization was established in 1958.
Students are selected for AIESEC traineeships on the basis of their work for local chapters. To be eligible. they must have completed at least two years of college and at least a year of business or economics.
All traineeships are in management training positions.
Today's meeting is open to all interested students.
Cast, writers announced for Trolios satire
The cast and writers of this year's Trolios production, “Out to Lynch." have been announced.
Performers will be Mary Parker, Jane Proppe. Carole Schulholf. Karen Smith, Bob Johnston, Scott Miller. Nancy Hickey. Trish Soodik, Laurel Taylor.
Tom Arganese, Bill Bolstad. A1 Duncan. Bob Moloney. Mike Redman, Rob Shipp, Paul Walberg and Ron Warden.
Writers for the show will he Nancy Hickey, Alan Huhbs, Suzanne Hunsucker. Bob Moloney, Tom Pecl-rini. Laurie Lynch. Roxanne Burkin. Bob Radinsky and Peggy Smith.
The show will be directed by Bob Moloney and produced by Scott Miller. Amy Frank will design sets and lighting and Tom Pedrini will be musical director.
20 Vacancies in Army Reserve
W. H. Woodward, staff administrative assistant with Patton U. S. Army Reserve Center, has announced that there are now approximately 20 vacancies in the reserve program. Men with electonic aptitude or foreign language background are especially needed.