University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. Lvm
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, APRIL 17,1967
NO. 106
Poet Allen Ginsberg Presents Concepts
By BILL DICKE
Assistant Editorial Director
The use of marijuana as an educational tool was called for Friday by Allen Ginsberg, the poet who has been reading his work here.
In an interview, he said, “Marijuana could be a useful educational tool for education of our own forgotten human senses, including our Feelings with a capital F."
“Numerous institutional scientific reports such as the British East India Hemp Commission (1890s), the Panama Canal Zone Military Investigative Commission (1920s). New York Mayor La Guardia Report (1940s). the White House Conference on Narcotics (early 60s). New York County Medical Society (1965) as well as technical medical documents such as the doctor's handbook called Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics all wind up saying that marijuana is safe — except that it's against the law.
"The 1937 Marijuana Tax Act however, mistakenly illegalized pot on the basis of a lot of misinformed propaganda that ‘this evil weed' led to crimes of violence ‘including rape and murder’ or led the user ‘direct to the madhouse.’
STUDENT POSITIONS OPEN
Applications for the chairmanships of the Orientation and Troy Week committees are available this week in the Student Activity Office In the YWCA.
Applicants will be interviewed next week by a personnel commission composed of Taylor Hackford. ASSC president; Bob Braun, vice-president of student affairs; Clyde Doheney, former Troy Week chairman; Gordon Biescar, former Orientation Week chairman; and two senior members of the ASSC Judicial.
Applicants must have a 2.5 grade point average. Experience is preferred, Hackford said.
WOMAN OF TROY
“Those quotes are from 1930 handouts of the Treasury Departments Narcotics Bureau in their campaign for prohibition.
“On the contrary, marjuana use is recreational not habitual and is a pleasant recreation like movies which turns the mind and senses on tc contemporary activity, aesthetic perception and (because of the foregoing) practical political intuitions and discrimination.
“Discrimination like in watching television as a political figure playing his role graciously and magnanimously or as to the candidates’ face mirroring negative feelings, harsh anxious judgments, insecurity and heavy character armoring.
“In other words, is the candidate projecting a friendly poem (image) or a hostile one? Try this test on the voice tone, the emotional vibrations of your favorite public figures — Johnson. Reagan or J. Edgar Hoover — and see if you can find a public figure who is aesthetically pleasing, i.e., whose affect is sympathetic. friendly, frank, unarmored tender.
“We need human beings to represent us, not hardhearted paranoids.
“All this in relations to marijuana as a catalyst to psycho-political perceptions.’’
Ginsberg appeared in public twice
Friday at Hancock Auditorium The first time he discussed censorship and read his poetry to a packed
house.
He said in the interview he thought USC students were “a little dumb in a specific sense — a little inexperienced with modes of feeling tolerance and humor that other college communities take for granted.”
“In private bull sessions everybody everywhere tells each other their secrets, confesses shames and fears, talks about sex. dope, war and anything goes in that private circle.
“That's average.
“Maybe around here even in private they aren't as open with each other as they are at Antioch, Reed or Berkeley — or even Harvard.
“What is happening in our generations is the private has become public.
“Our common secret life is recognized as fit subject for public discourse.
“People are free to articulate publicly their real personal concerns. The students here expect me to do that, but they aren't ready themselves and they're not sure how to react when I do it.
“The nice thing is that everybody was expectant and full of good will-sympathetic.”
HIPPIE POET—Allen Ginsberg, poet and critic, spoke Friday in Allen Hancock Auditorium about censorship. He intermittently read his poems and chanted mantras
while the tribe gathered around him on the stage and stood in the aisles. He did a repeat performance that evening before another overflow crowd in Hancock.
Pal Joey' Will Feature Famous Broadway Songs
By RONALD Y. WARDEN
When “Pal Joey” opens Thursday at Stop Gap Theatre, students will have a chance to hear some of the most famous songs ever originated on Broadway.
Songs from the Richard Rodgers-
Week-long Search hr Campus' Ugliest Man Commences Today
A first—a beauty contest to determine the ugliest man on campus-wili be held today through Friday.
Phrateres, a sccial-service honorary, is sponsoring the Ugly Man Contest to raise money for the Student Government Loan Fund and for Troy Camp.
Voting will take place all week in front of the Student Union from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Each of the eight can-
didates’ portraits will be displayed with a container for penny votes below it.
There’s no limit on the number of votes an individual can cast for his favorite ugly man. The candidate with the most money in his container on Friday will be declared the winner and will assume the title of the ugliest man on campus.
Photographic effects and make-up
Patricia Foley Vick-Students More Intellectually Aware Nowr
(This is the fourth in a series of seven articles on the 1967 Women of Troy. — The Editor)
By MARY MILLER Feature Editor Patricia Foley Vick, one of the seven Women of Troy, has seen the
student body become more intellectually aware during her four vears at USC.
“I can see a definite upward trend, especially in Freshman Forum. The students seem more vitally concerned with what is going on in the
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One of seven Women of Trey
world and on campus this year than ever before.
“Now that the students are noticing the world, we might hopefully have an intellectual community here,” she said.
Mrs. Vick, the wife of philosophy instructor George Vick, is president of Motar Board; a Phi Beta Kappa since her junior year; a member of Phi Kappa Phi, all-university honorary; Phi Alpha Theta, a history honorary and Delta Delta Delta.
As president of Mortar Board, senior women's honorary, she considers the development of Freshman Forum one of the most significant things her group has done this year.
“We have expanded the group to 95 freshmen who meet in three discussion groups every week to discuss topics they’re interested in.
“Freshman Forum, to me, is like Mortar Board—a sounding place for ideas. It brings together students from every background and they can't help but have diversified opinion," she said.
Mrs. Vick will attend UCLA graduate school in the fall on a $3,000 Phi Kappa Phi fellowship. She will be working toward an eventual Ph.D. in European history and hopes someday to teach college.
As a student member of the Great Issues Forum for two years, she values the work that committee has done in bringing controversial speakers in every field to campus.
“The program filled a gap. Now speakers who are giving shape to the life and history of the world can be invited to speak here. Hearing them speak and talking with them has been one of the most valuable things I've done at USC.
Though she is sometimes frustrated by the channels and bureaucracy at the university, she feels there has been more growth than decline over the past four years.
may be used to turn the typical good-looking USC male into an ugly monster to help raise money for this worthy cause.
Trophies will be awarded to the winning man and also to the sponsoring group. Groups sponsoring candidates are Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Phi, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Chi, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Gamma Delta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Lambda Chi Alpha and Trojan Knights. Campus organizations have been reluctant to give the names of their nominees for ugly men, however.
Debbi Rhodes, chairman of the Ugly Man Contest, said any campus organization was eligible to nominate any members of the university community. Faculty members could have been nominated.
“We hope all students on campus will help us make the ugly man contest a successful event which can become an annual money-raising event,” Miss Rhodes said.
Phrateres helps with card stunts, DKA ushering, Cheshire Cat and in the Los Angeles community-at-other campus activities. It also helps large.
Last year Pharateres sponsored an “Our Man Troy” contest to raise money for service projects. As a result of successful ugly man contests held on other campuses, the group decided to initiate the tradition at USC this year.
Lorenz Hart musical include “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “I Could Write a Book,” “In Our Little Den.” “Chicago,” “Take Him" and “Do It the Hard Way.”
The show continues its run April 21, 22. 27, 28, 29, 30 and May 1 through May 5.
Tickets for the musical are on sale today at the Bovard box office. Prices are $2 for weekdays and S2.50 for weekends. Students can get a 25 cents discount.
“The show is flavored with strip tease nonsense,” Bill White, head of the Drama Department, said.
“There is also much theatrical history behind it. The musical made Gene Kelly a star and Van Johnson was one of the chorus boys in the original Broadway production.
“But much more Important is the fact that it was the first ever to break away from the sentimental musical convention which dominated Broadway until the forties.
“Pal Joey is a heel and a liar who charms himself in and out with women.” said White. “He refers to all women as ‘mouse.’
“When he finally meets a wealthy society matron, he cons her into putting up money for a glittering nightclub of which he, of course, is the star attraction.”
The musical is being designed and directed by Prof. John Blankenship.
Choreography is by Joan Tews-bury McGuire and the music director is Ralph Grierson.
The lead. Joey, will be played by both Rob Shipp and Dell Shilling for different performances.
Also featured are Sherri Presnell. Alison Price, Glenellen Cooper. Chris Van Ness. Michael Pataki. Trish Soodick. Claudia Trope. Carol Brown and Diana Palmer.
Featured in smaller roles are Nancy Pugh. Louie Piday, Margaret Cook. Michael Prichard Steve Bellon and Tony Clark.
TYDs Form Investigation
Drug
Group
A special committee of 11 students has been appointed by Trojan Young Democrats to investigate the possibility of a drug problem at USC. Shelly Linderman, TYD president, announced yesterday.
Heading the committee will be Dr. Donald A. Reed, a second-year law student.
Reed is an author, a former college history instructor, vice-president of TYD, vice-president of Beta Phi Mu, honorary literary fraternity, and is listed in “Who's Who In The West 1967-68.”
Linda Dulgarian, president of Trojan Young Republicans, will serve as secretary for the committee.
Members include four law students: Larry Stein, vice-chairman;
H. Thomas Fehn; Jay C. Horton: and John Medford, president of the USC chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Other members of the committee are Mike McHon, Fred Seligson, Fte-gine Podrizki, Ronald Jemigan and Elliot Klein.
“My committee will consult with various campus individuals and organizations concerning the possibility of a drug problem at USC,” Reed said.
“We trust we will be able to issue some type of report to Linder-man by the end of May on this serious issue.
“We don’t want any names; we are not out to get anyone. Our committee will be primararily a factfinding organization.”
Masekela, African Musician, To Perform In Bovard Friday
By CATHI SCHINDLER
The emancipation of Hugh Masekela. an African trumpet player, will take place Friday at 7:30 p.m. when he appears with his band in a special student performance at Bovard Auditorium.
Masekela, also a singer, is a native South African who has been playing the trumpet since he was 13. He is a self-taught natural and began performing at nightclubs and in the streets of Johannesburg before he ever studied music.
Masekela later studied in London and New York and has been appearing in night spots in the Los Angeles area with an occasional stop at a teen post.
“Anyone who has heard the haunting sound of Masekela’s trumpet can usually pick it out thereafter,” Harry Wells, student manager of the I-House, said. “But to see Masekela perform is truly an experience. He is versatile as well as talented and puts on a fantastic show.”
Tickets will go on sale today at 11 a.m. in front of the Student Union and at the door Friday night. Student tickets are $1.50; regular tickets are $2.50.
Sponsored by the International Students House,
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Masekela agreed to this special performance. Th*> profits will go to the Foreign Students Office and to thr USC faculty-sponsored Negro Scholarship fund.
Wells, a loyal fan. guarantees that all who go to see Masekela will see one of the best musical shows of their time. After attending a good number of Masekela’s performances. Wells said. "Halfway through the show you’ll be so fascinated with the sounds that you won’t be able to believe j'our ears.
“This guy really grows on you. The more you see him, the more you have to see him.”
Masekela's repertoire ranges from African songs to jazz to interesting interpretations of songs like "California Dreamer” and “Along Comes Marv.”
“If this special performance is supported Fnday night by the students, it will pave the way for future on-campus entertainers ” ASSC President Taylor Hackford said. “If students want more entertainment, they have to support it.”
Masekela was rated the most outstanding young musician of 1966 and has been performing at the Whisky A-Go-Go.