University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LVni
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1967
NO 76
TYD Aids Vick, Hits Reagan
TYD's second meeting of the year was cast ir a pro-Vick. anti-Reagan tone yesterday as political maneuvering preceded a talk on therapeutic afcor'ion (see story below).
A resolution protesting the dis-piiFsil of George \ ick. philosophy in-stir-or. was parsed unanimously.
Two students snake in favor of p re-olrticn on the issue which flared into the campus spotlight after T\ R V-'Tnn circulating a petition urging View’s r^tpirrrent last week.
President Shelley Linderman. backed by a sVet nainted “USC Votes No’ on UC Tuition." then ac-cus~d r'av. Pep^an of originally an-t"rron"ni"g student marchers two v-r'-Vnds fto by savins; he cpuld not t?I1’ to them.
Reagan also said he doubted if
marchers were ladies and gentlemen. Linderman claimed, and this was th® reason they shouted the governor down.
Linderman also referred to a sign denouncing Reagan's proposed budget cut. If the slash goes through, it indicated, “26.000 students would be kicked out. scholarship reduced, higher property taxes instituted and students' futures sacrificed.'’
Discussing TYD’s semester program. Linderman reaffirmed the organization's neutral stand on the university's affiliation with the National Students Association.
If the move is placed on the student ballot. Linderman said. TYD will take a stand either for or against affiliation. At present it merely supports TYR's petition to put the issue to a student vote.
If it is on the ballot, he noted, TYD will host a panel discussion to study the problem. Other topics of discussion for future meetings were announced as Black Power. LSD and the legalization of marijuana.
EARNEST AT STOP GAP - Rehearsals for Thornton Wilder's "The Importance of Being Earnest," are well under way at Stop Gap Theatre. Preparing for the
March 8 opening (left to right) are Allison Price, Director William C. White, Nancy Crawford, bob Shipp and Marcey Lafferty. Play will run from Mar. 8 to Mar. 17.
US Foreign Policy Conference For Educators to be at USC
By MELINDA TONKS
USC will host the U.S. Department of State Foreign Policy Conference for Educators this weekend, Dr. Paul E. Hadley, conference director, announced yesterday.
The program will feature a series of speeches and panel discussions to be presented to over 500 faculty members and administrators from high
schools, colleges and universities the Southern California area.
Christian Ethic Called Illogical on Abortion
By KATHY GALLOWAY
“The Christian ethic is not logical." James Biltchik of the California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion said yesterday at a meeting of the Trojan Young Democrats.
“I think it's a question we all have to give a lot of thought to,” Biltchik said. “Therapeutic abortion 5s a moral issue because we've found it a lot easier to put these problems under the rug.”
“Wj then try to alleviate our consciences by welfare payments to unwed mothers rather than getting down to the basis of the problem,” he said.
“I don’t think that the Catholic church is entirely to blame for the opposition.” said Biltchik. “It runs a lot deeper in our society.”
Biltchik said the present California laws refuse a legal abortion to 12-year-old victims of rape who become pregnant. He also said that one third of maternal deaths are due to illegally induced abortions, and that married women with previous children are more ant to seek an abortion than unmarried women.
One out of five pregnancies ends in abortion, either natural (miscarriage) or induced, he said
The California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion is not a political action group, but provides lay sneakers to nromote public discussion of liberalizing the state's abortion laws.
There are pressure groups of many kinds acainst passing more liberal laws. The present bill for liberalization would not provide abortions at will, but is actually very conservative.
“This bill does not go as far as my personal beliefs," said Biltchik. The latest bill provides for legal abortion in case of rape, incest, grave physical or mental defects in the child, or grave danger to the physical or mental health of the mother.
The California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion echoes the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code in suggesting abortions be permitted (1) to preserve the life, or physical or mental health of the woman. (2) if there is danger that the child would be born with grave physical or mental defects, or (3) in cases of rape or incest.
The Committee feels that the present law. dating from the late 1800's and allowi|g abortion only when the
mother's life is endangered, needs to be re-examined and updated. Biltchik mentioned that at the present time, several San Francisco physicians are in danger of losing their licenses to practice for having performed therapeutic abortions on women who had contracted German measles. This disease often produces malformations of the unborn child.
Biltchik, who is currently a public relations manager for the American Cancer Society, attended California State College at Los Angeles and received a M.S. degree in journalism from UCLA. His speech was sponsored by the Trojan Young Democrats.
The first session on Friday will begin at 9 a.m. in Bovard Auditorium with a series of three State Department speakers.
The first speaker will be Walter J. Stoessel. Jr., deputy assistant,.. University), retary of state for European Affairs! America wi His talk will cover “Europe in Transition—Challenge and Opportunity.”
“Some Recipes for Revolution in Latin America” will be the topic of Gregory B. Wolfe, director of the Office of Research and Analysis for American Republics in Guatemala.
John K. Emmerson, diplomat-in-residence at Stanford University and recent deputy chief of the mission in Tokyo, will talk on “What Are U.S.
Interests and Responsibilities in Asia?”
At the noon luncheon in Town and Gown Foyer, Joseph J. Sisco, assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, will speak on “The U.N.: An Arena for Peaceful Engagements.”
The afternoon session will include a speech by Philander P. Claxton,
in Ake Sandler (CSCLA), John Mason Brown (CSC Fullerton) and Michael Armacost (Pomona College) will be participating on the Europe panel.
The panel of Asia will include Winberg Chai (University of Redlands) and James Leonard (Loyola The final panel on Latin will include Norman Martin (USC), Donald Dozer (UCSB), Donald Bray (UCR) and Edward Gonzalez (UCLA).
Cantelon
Religion
By STAN METZLER Assistant to the Editor
Dr. John Cantelon, university chaplain, has been named director of the restructured School of Religion.
He will continue to serve as chaplain, but an associate chaplainship will be created to alleviate many of these duties.
Under Dr. Cantelon's leadership, the school will seek a strengthening of its undergraduate program and a focus of its graduate study on social ethics and urban studies.
Undergraduate and graduate courses in religion were unified last semester, and a single School of Religion was placed under the Division of Humanities of the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences.
Also included in the school’s faculty will be Dr. J. Wesley Robb, associate dean of LAS, interim director of the School of Philosophy, and specialist in values and religious philosophy and Dr. Gerald Larue, associate professor of religion, and specialist in Old Testament and Biblical archeology.
Dr. John Orr, chairman of the Humanities Department at Texas A&M University, will join the staff this summer to teach social ethics.
Dr. Cantelon said another professor, possibly from the Far East, will be added to teach the history of religion.
The associate chaplain, who will be an ordained clergyman and a Ph.D. rather than a trainee, will also teach :n the school.
Three professors now teaching graduate courses in religion — Dr. Eldon Epp, associate professor and Dr. Ernest Koenker, associate professor—will transfer to other departments.
This change is because of the
DR. JOHN CANTELON
Heads School of Religion
new emphasis. Dr. Cantelon
school’s said.
He noted that only Harvard and Chicago universities have begun studies in the relation between urban affairs and religion.
With the Institute of Urban Ecology at USC. he said, the School of Religion has an opportunity to become a true pioneer in this field.
Dr. Cantelon. an ordained Presbyterian minister, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oregon's Reed College.
He received a Ph.D. from Oxford University.
He served several pastorates in Portland and Eugene, Ore., before accepting a position on the staff of the University of Pennsylvania Christian Association in 1953.
In 1957 he became associate secretary in the Division of High Education of the Presbyterian church.
_ Although he considers himself a follower of Paul Tillich in religious philosophy. Dr. Cantelon stressed that the school will not promote any philosophical viewpoint.
Vick Named to Advisory Board Of Phalanx, Philosophical Journal
special assistant to the secretary of state for population matters, on “The Silent Battle: Food vs. Population.” Panel discussions concerning the morning's speeches will also be held Friday afternoon. Bernard Brody (UCLA), Howard Swearer (UCLA),
George Vick, philosophy instructor, has been named to the Editorial Advisory Board of Phalanx, a new quarterly academic journal.
Vick was selected at a Phalanx organizational meeting held in Los Angeles. Attending the meeting were representatives of college and university organizations affiliated with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute of Philadelphia, Pa.
“Phalanx will be a non-profit, non-partisan, educational publication written and published by college students and professors in the Southern
A LOOK AT THE FUTURE
Himstreet Sees Time Problem
By SUSAN HAYTON
“Time—and what to do with it— will present our major obstacle to a full and satisfying existence,” Dr. William C. Himstreet, associate dean of the School of Business, said yesterday.
He prophesied at a meeting of Alpha Kappa Psi, honorary business fraternity, that 1999 would be a year of world peace and of prosperity in
business
Not only have detection devices made a third world war less of a reality, but associations of nations have created an atmosphere of sereni-
DR. W.U1AM HIMSTREET
1999: A year of prosperity
ty andi creeping capitalism has neutralized the power of dictatorships and of the Soviet Union, Dr. Himstreet said.
“The government has, for the past 25 years, stuck to affairs of government—social and political—and let private enterprise create our prosperity, as it has done since 1776,” he said.
The attitude of government has quardrupled our gross national product. Despite the 40-hour work week, our GNP is nearly $2.5 billion, he added.
Alpha Kappa Psi and its rushees, meeting at Julie’s restaurant, heard themselves described by Dr. Himstreet as “55-year-olds.”
He told them that while starting salaries have never been greater and opportunities have never been richer, their descendants in the year 1999 will receive $15,000 for a management training job and will soon be drawing $52,000.
The student of the future will commute to campus in a minicopter. He will begin his college at a community or junior college or a technical institution, one of which every large community will have.
Compulsory education will be extended to age 20, Dr. Himstreet said, because of a more advanced professional and technological field and a labor market unreceptive to untrained workers.
“Our larger colleges and state universities are incorporating as independent cities, and the University of California is seeking statehood,” he said.
Leisure time, in 1999, will be the greatest dilemma of mankind.
Technology will consign housework and other mundane duties to history. Existence in such a world will require greater preparation and make the goals of education clear and vital.
Dr. Himstreet listed four goals of education.
Primarily, the citizen of the future must be economically competent, and have “the ability to take one’s place in our industrial society with competence and confidence.”
Second, he must be civically responsible He must have “the attitude which encourages one to assume willingly his obligations to his community, state, nation and, most of all, to his fellow man.”
Third, he must be socially able, “receptive to the content of the arts, philosophy and other humanities, and of the social sciences.”
Finally, he must be psychologically adaptive, “earmarked by the self-confidence and personal ability to take change in stride.”
“Be thankful,” Dr. Himstreet concluded, “for the opportunity you have had to receive a fine education; be grateful for the opportunity of tomorrow.”
California area,” Ronald Black, a member of the board, explained.
“It will be financed by subscriptions, advertising, and donations from interested persons in the community.”
A statement by the journal’s editorial board reads: “The major obstacle to the attainment of true freedom in any society is an education that is deficient in quality and scope.”
"Our goal is to reach the whole man, not to focus on one area of knowledge to the exclusion of others, for the search for truth should be the essence of education.”
The conference members also stated belief that the continuation of the republic is based on the nurturing and development of the individual as a moral being who understands the relationship of liberty to moral law.
Phalanx will emphasize this principle along with excellence, and its major attention will be toward the heritage of Western Civilization.
In order to accomplish its goals, fields such as sociology, economics, political theory, philosophy, literature, history and related disciplines will be covered.
Vick’s contribution to Phalanx will be to screen articles and provide a continuing source of editorial advice and assistance along with fellow members of the board.
His qualifications for the position include a B.A. from Yale with awards and honors, an M.A. from USC, a Certificate of Studies from L’Ecole de Theologie de St. Maxi-min-Var, a degree of Lectorate of Sacred Theology after four years study at the College-of St. Albert the Great, and completion of all doctoral work except for his dissertation in philosophy from USC.
Other members of the board are: Dr. Roger A. Freeman of the Hoover Institution, Stanford; Dr. Harry V. Jaffa,' Claremont; N. Eric Bro-din, western director of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute; and Dr. George C. Roche HI of the Foundation for Economic Education; and various others.
"Phalanx will speak for the Southern California Collegiate Studies Conference through such
men as George Vick and it will speak to the desire to secure liberty through reason in the light of human experience,” the board said.
Vick's membership to the board has come at the same time a controversy has developed over attempts to dismiss him from the faculty.
The dismissal was apparently prompted by issues involving Vick's Ph.D. and the university's desire to avoid in-breeding.
Students are circulating petitions and such men as Dr. William Werk-meister, former director of the School of Philosophy, are recommending his retention.
Engineers
Continue
Activities
“Criteria for Attending Electrical Engineering Graduate School'’ will be the topic of a discussion hosted by Eta Kappa Nu, National Electrical Engineering Honorary Society, today at 2:15 p.m. in the Engineering lounge of Olin Hall.
Dr. William Pratt will moderate the discussion.
Requirements and problems of entering graduate school in the Department of Electrical Engineering will be the main point of interest. Fields of study including electromagnetics. information on theory and coding, solid-state electronics, and computers will also be discussed.
This talk is one of the many activities which is held in conjunction with Engineering Week.
Other activities include a trip to the Douglas Aircraft plant in Long Beach tomorrow and a piano concert on Friday. Also on Friday there will be a wind tunnel experiment in 206 Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Building, a holygram experiment ia 304 Olin Hall, and a mechanical engineering experiment in 309 Engineering Building.
Finally a car rally will be held following a 3:30 p.m. meeting in 102 Olin Hall.
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