Saltman to Leave USC
By BILL DICKE Assistant Editorial Director
Dr. Paul Saltman. professor of biochemistry.
the Mort Sahl of his department
An outspoken critic of this university.
A man who calls himself a gadfly
All of these, he is also a man who is leiving UPC to bring about an "educational happening” elsewhere.
He has accepted the post of provost at Ravelle College, a division of the University of California at San Diego.
“I'll be responsible for interaction between the faculty and the students.” he said in an interview yesterday. He is due to report for work on Sept. 1.
"It's just the world's most fascinating iob opportunity.” he explained.
“I want to see that there is a very interpersonal reaction. I want to gee that there is an educational happening.”
In the past. Dr. Saltman hasn’t let his opinions go unnoticed.
“I've gotten everybody very goosey.” he said, draping his leg over his chair and looking out from under his dark-rim glasses
“I've been the campus clown, the village idiot, the kins's fool. I’ve been able to express the voice of dissidence. the voice of change. I’ve been 8 gadfly, but one deeply in love with this university.
“I wish that I could have contributed to forming a sense of participation. There has to be a dynamic meeting between the faculty, students and ad* ministration, sort of a three-way relationship.
“This has to come from all three sides We mouth a lot of slogans, but there is not really an intergroup commitment. We have to have a willingness to Weed for one another.
‘ It's never really come into this cntica’ kind of endeavor.”
How dopp Dr Saltman view USC from his cubbyhole on the third floor ef the Hancock Foundation? Has the university changed in the 14 years he ha* been here?
“The buildings — very nice.” he said. "And I think the student body Is somewhat better.”
“Unfortunately. I think there are only a few areas in the faculty where creativity can be found.
“There are a few gaps between the top of the administration and the bottom of the chain of command.
On the other hand, looking toward the future. Dr. Saltman is optimistic.
“I see a great future for this place.” he sa;d.
“The private institution, especially the urban university, will play an Increasingly important role in the. future.
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Of USC he said. “I just wish they would hurry up and make their
move.”
“Dr. Topping should find himself a powerful scholar and leader for the office of vice-president for academic affairs,” Dr. Saltman said, giving the first step for improvement at USC.
“That vice-president has to do a complete analysis of this university— goals. ^"•»ns. departments and schools.”
There has to be leadership once goals have been formed. Then there has to h« support.
"There has to be tremendous support from Los Angeles and the whole nation.” he continued.
“We are tremendously short of funds.” '
Professor Saltman doesn’t think too much of USC students.
“Thev’re apathetic.” he said. “For the most part I don't think they’re reallv <Wd up to learn.”
"We comoound this sometimes when they first encounter the faculty— they’re +nrned off right away.”
The students don’t use him. he complained. “The bulk of students don't really give a goddamn. They're part of the system. Maybe its true all over
"There are lots of other fine profs, but the major thrust has to come from the student.”
Dr. Saltman. the player of many roles, said he wouldn't have assumed any of them if he didn’t have to.
He has tried to play his role in creating a creative environment of learning, he said.
“If we had it here I would devote myself fully to teaching and research. Every prof worth a damn would do the same thing.”
Dr. Saltman is going to UC San Diego. His role: Build a school where a prof worth a damn can devote himself to teaching and research.
DR. PAUL SALTMAN
Moving to UCSD next year.
Resolution Passed to Keep Vick
A resolution strongly urging the university to grant a contract extension to George Vick, philosophy instructor. was adopted at a Trojan Young Republican meeting yesterday.
The petition wa* circulated in light of Vick's high qualifications and broad acceptance by both students and faculty. Linda Dulgarian. TYR president, said.
Two members of the TYR Board of Directors. Ron Jernigan. TYR fund-raising chairman, and Don Mc-Felea. resolutions and legislation chairman, spoke in favor of the resolution.
A formal resolution was not passed on NSA. But the membership concurred with the opinion that the loss of 80of the association’s budget, because of NSA relinquishing its financial ties with the CIA. will burden NSA wHh financial difficulties.
Ths problem will make it imperative for the member-colleges and universities to bear more of the financial strain, the resolution said.
TYR cited the USC withdrawal from the NSA in 1957 because of excessive financial strain as another important reason why this affiliation should not be renewed.
In a speerh preceding the meeting, Dr. Manuel H. Guerra. Spanish professor snd candidate for Office 3 of the Los Angeles Public Schools Board of Education, said he is running as s moderate-conservative against “ultra conservative incumbent'* Charles Reed Smoot.
Dr. Guerra said the Republican Party must not take an inflexible traditionalistic position because such a stand would make it possible for the New Left to come in and exploit the people.
He said the Republican Party represents the people and not a minority. or minorities, as the oppostion has always done.
Dr. Guerra agreed with the new tense of economy in education, noting that proposed building of a $3^ million Administration Building for the Board of Education should be postponed.
NBC EXPERIMENT IN TEIEVISION-USC students Janice Gudde (dancer). James Brewer, Glenellen Cooper and Allan Merian are shown in a scene from a one-hour
program to be telecast Sunday at 4 p.m. Included in the program are interpretations of poems from Ferlinghetti's book, "Coney Island of the Mind."
CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND'
Students to Act on TV
B.\ LINDA YU
Coney Island's world of glitter and fantasy promotes infinite ideas in the individual npnd. The School of Performing Arts will present some of these ideas in an hour-long color telecast for “NBC Experiment in Television.”
The program will be shown Sunday at 4 p.m. on channel 4.
Students cast in “Coney Island
Two Alumni Set Precedent In Japanese Cabinet Posts
USC alumni in Japan met recently In Tokyo to congratulate two of their members. Takeo Miki and Susumu Nikaido, members of Premier Soto's cabinet, Dr. Topping announced yesterday.
Miki is the Japanese foreign minister and Nikaido is the state minister •nd director general of the Science and Technology Agency.
“So far as the Japanese alumni of American universities are concerned, there has been no precedent in which two alumni of the same university have become cabinet ministers simultaneously,” Dr, Gunji Hosono, presi-
dent of USC alumni association of Japan and a professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, wrote Dr. Topping.
U. Alexis Johnson, U.S. ambassador to Japan, highranlting staff members of the American Embassy and their families attended the gathering.
Last September Miki spoke on “The Light and the Shadow of the Pacific Era” at the dedication of the Von KleinSmid Center and received an honorary doctor of laws.
His speech centered on the Pacific-Asia region's progress and problems during the post-World War II years.
of the Mind” include Jim Brewer, Margaret Cook, Glenellen Cooper, Alan Duncan. Janice Gudde and J. Doyle Gray, Jr.
Also acting in the production will be Nancy Hickey, William Hunt, Marcy Lafferty. Bob Moloney. James Penrod, Allison Price and Delton Shilling.
Musicians are Ralph Grierson, piano: John Poole, drums; Glen Cooper. bass; and Alan Merian, guitar.
The play, adapted by Steve Kent, is based on poems interpreted from the writings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti. a San Francisco poet. Kent's intent is that the poems should be seen and heard through music, dance and choral speaking.
Collaborating with Kent on the original music score were Charles Blaker, USC music student, and Carol Brown, who assisted with choreography.
Al Scarlett will oversee the lighting for the production while the video tape editor will be Steve Orland.
“Coney Island of the Mind” was first presented at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland last summer under the direction of John E. Blankenchip, USC drama professor.
The event marked the first time an American college had ever participated in the three-week festival.
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to Speak
The USC theater group was one of 33 participating groups. The festival. in its 20th year, sponsored by the Festival Fringe Society of Scotland, attracted 90,000 visitors.
NBC became interested in the work because of. the high acclaim it received in New York newspaper reviews. Consequently, NBC adapted it for this television production.
By NANCY PERRYMAN
Throughout the decades, the question of government censorship of news has been an issue of paramount interest to Americans.
In light of this traditional concern and inaccordance with the recent “clandestine activities" of the CIA with NSA, the members of the SDS have proclaimed this Credibility Gap Week.
Spurred to vigilance by a concern over the American freedom, Chris Moore vice-president, indicated that the U.S. government has often adopted the policy of lying to the people when expedient for the implementation of policy goals.
“The clandestine activities of the CIA have only recently been exposed. Ramparts, the magazine that exposed the CIA student involvement, reports that the CIA has been using students as junior G-men to report on foreign student leaders,” she said.
“It is important to realize that the CIA activities were known to top administrators and to the congressional committee on the CIA. These activities are government policy, not just CIA policy." she continued.
In accordance with the week-long Credibility Gap program, SDS will present Art Kunkin, editor and publisher of the Los Angeles Free Press newspaper, at noon today , in Founders' Hall 133.
Kunkin, to be introduced by Dave Lang, SDS president, will speak on the “Credibility Gap In America.” His presentation will include a discussion of the underground press versus the mass media.
The Free Press, a weekly newspaper of three years standing, has a circulation of approximately 33,000.
The newspaper, founded with a financial reserve of $15 by Kunkin. was the result of a brain-storming session by a group of local people who were seeking a media in which to voice the ideals of the liberal, Bohemian intellectual community, Becky Joyner, Kunkin’s secretary, said.
Before editing and publishing the Free Press, Kunkin owned his own
print shop and published several books on communications.
In addition to today's speech, SDS plans to carry out the Credibility Gap Week activities by conducting a student poll on governmental credibility.
“The list of falsehoods and fantasies goes on and on — the number of airc’aft downed in Vietnam, the Bays of Pigs fiasco and the bombing raids in Vietnam today,” Miss Moore said.
“To eliminate the people's power over th« government by misinforming them is to eliminate the basis of democracy,” she said.
USC
Will
Dean Leave
For Pakistan
Dr. Henry J. Reining. Hean of th* School of Public Administration, will leave tomorrow on an annual inspection trip to Pakistan.
He will view th<» training institution USC established there under contract with the Agency for International Development.
This is the seventh and final year of the contract. Wesley E. Bjur. director of the International Public Administration Center, said.
The agency decided in 1960 that Pakistan deserved and needed training in public administration. Bjur noted.
They called on USC. and the School of Public Administration sent over a survey team to assess needs.
A contract was written and the university sent 15 teachers to instruct and select promising young people to attend USC
Only two instructors are currently at the institute.
USC had a similar institute in Brazil from 1957 to 1964.
Foreign Educators Conference Commences Friday in Bovard
Registration for the USC Department of State Foreign Policy Conference for Educators this weekend will begin at 8 a.m. Friday in Bovard Auditorium, revised conference plans have revealed.
The first of a series of three State Department speakers will start at 9 a.m. The speakers include Walter J. Stoessel Jr., Gregory B. Wolfe, and John K. Emmerson.
Joseph J. Sisco, assistant secretary of state for international organisation affairs, will address the noon luncheon, speaking on “The U.N.: An Arena for Peaceful Engagements.”
The afternoon session will include a speech by Philander P. Claxton,
special assistant to the secretary of state for population matters, on “The Silent Battle: Food vs. Population.”
A question-and-answer period directed at the audience will follow after each session.
Students have been invited to attend and take part in the conference.
The meetings will continue Saturday morning with a speech by Ambassador George V. Allen, director of the Foreign Service Institute, on “Myths and Realities in Making Foreign. Policy.”
After the speech his remarks will be discussed by a panel consisting of Fred Warner Neil, Claremont Gradu-
ate School; Robert Abernathy. KN-BC; and Arthur C. Turner. UC Riverside.
Otto Schaler, assistant to the assistant secretary. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, will speak on “New Initiatives of the Government in International Affairs Education.”
The final session of the conference will be a luncheon in Town and Gown Foyer and a panel discussion on “Teaching About Vietnam.”
Panel members will include Bryan Stevens. San Marino High School; Irving Hall, Claremont High School; and Jeremy Mohr, USC graduate student in international relations.