Fall DT Rated All American
Last semester's Daily Trojan has received an All-American rat in?;, the highest possible designation. from the Associated College Press.
The rating was given in recognition for excellent work in practically every aspect of the paper. On a scoring scale based on com-rsrisons with other university dailies in the United States, the Daily Trojan received 3.720 points. 20 above the All-American line.
The last s?mester for which the Daily Troian received such recognition was the spring of 1965. under the editorship of Gregg Peterson. Steve Harris was editor last &cm?ster.
Areas in which the Daily Troian received highest possible ratings were: Treatment of News Stories Creativeness. Content of News Stories. Style. Leads. Feature Stories. Copyreading. Editorials and Editorial Features. Sports Coverage and Writing. Headlines, and Photography.
In the fall and spring semesters of last year, the paper missed All-American by less than one per cent o" the total points, largely because of mediocre ratings in photogra-phy.
Last semester, however, this nrea. under the charge of Ed Stapleton. photography editor, merited an "excellent" rating.
Singled out for praise by the judges were a series on the Negro and USC by Greg Kieselmann. this semester's editor, a series on rape by Hal Lancaster, a Nov. 21 news story about Bishop James Pike by Stan Metzler. and the sports columns of Lance Speigal.
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LVin
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1967
Taped Phone Call Offers Proof of Plot
Jim Garrison. New Orleans district attorney, does have evidence of a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy, a leading critic of the Warren Report said yesterday in a taped interview sponsored by the Trojan Young Democrats.
The interview, a phone conversation between Mark Lane and Mort Sahl. another Warren Commission critic, was played as the beginning of “A W’eek of Inquiry into the Death of a President," a TYD-sponsored program.
Shelly Linderman. TYD president, said it will be followed by programs today and tomorrow in an effort to stimulate student interest in a new investigation of Kennedy’s death.
Lane claims to know all the evidence which Garrison will use in the attempt to prosecute Clay Shaw, a prominent New Orleans citizen indicted for conspiracy to kill the president.
Lane said Garrison has complete evidence of the New Orleans-based conspiracy. He also said the plot in-
Nickell: Songfest Announcer, 67
By ELLIOTT ZWIEBACH City Editor
When Dr. Thomas P. Nickell, Jr., vice-president for university planning, clears his throat and steps to the microphone to introduce the first Songfest number on May 6. the audience should not expect to hear jokes and snappy patter.
Dr. Nickell intends to be just an
Four Endorse Reed For Law President
Dr. Donald A. Reed, second year law student, has been endorsed as a candidate for Student Bar Association president by the presidents of four prominent campus organizations.
The election will take place Wednesday and Thursday at the Law
School.
Other candidates are Larry O. Heson and Dwayne Zobrist, both second-year law students.
Shelley Linderman, ntesident of the Trojan Young Democrats and senior representative-elect, called Dr. Peed “a law student who is genuinely concerned with the many campus problems and has the drive and intellect to assist us in solving them.”
John Medford, president of the T\?C American Civil Liberties Union Chapter; Linda Dulgarian, president of the Trojan Young Republicans: and Charles Hurd, president of the Blackstonian Prr>-I,aw Society, also endorsed Dr. Reed.
Dr. Reed s platform calls for the establishment of an extensive speakers program in the Law School to discuss such topics as capital punishment. the draft and legal aspects of freezing the dead.
DR. DONALD REED
Receives campus endorsements
He also urges the establishment of a Thomas More Club at the Law School to probe the moral and etnica' aspects of the Law.
Dr. Reed, who has degrees from Loyola University and USC. c&lls himself a protest candidate who is appealing to the dissatisfaction a-mong many Law School students.
announcer as compared to a master of ceremonies.
“My job will be to get the groups on and off. I'll be a sort of catalytic agent.” he said.
Dr. Nickell has been affiliated with the university in various capacities since graduating with a B.S. in advertising in 1948.
BACKGROUND He worked for a public relations firm immediately after graduation, but returned to USC in 1952 to supervise the Alumni Fund at the request of the then vice-president for university planning.
In 1956 he was named director of development. He assumed the vicepresidency in 1960.
Dr. Nickell has been attending Songfest faithfully with his wife and five children. When asked to comment on his opinion of Songfest, he replied:
“My first impression of Songfest, being unprepared, was that I almost froze to death.”
The cold is the only drawback to holding the annual musicale in the Hollywood Bowl. Dr. Nickell said. “However, the atmosphere of the Bowl would be impossible to duplicate in an indoor setting,” he added.
COMPLIMENTED Dr. Nickell said he was surprised that the Songfest Committee had asked him to serve as host, since his duties as university planning vice-president are mainly in the areas of fund-raising among various outside groups.
“I was surprised because I am usually outside the mainstream of student activities,” he said, “but I was complimented by the invitation and accepted immediately.”
His only apprehension as host will be his concern with continuity.
“I like to plan ahead, since that's a part of my job as vice-president. I want to be prepared to be sure that the show will go well and that I do a responsible job.”
volved no foreign powers, but leading political figures In this country will be exposed as members of the conspiracy.
Garrison will present his evidence at Clay’s trial, which is scheduled for later this year. He is reported to have said he knows who actually killed the president, as well as the conspirators involved.
Sahl and Lane said there is a doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald actu-allv fired the shots which killed Kennedy, and that Jack Ruby. Oswald’s assassin, may have been a member of the plot.
It was noted that in earlier court proceedings the Warren Report was not allowed as evidence for the defense of Shaw, which casts a doubt on the validity of the report.
This decision means the report will not be used in further cases involving the alleged assassination plot, and that the renort is unreliable, the commentators alleged.
Todav's inquiry will be a presentation of slides of the Dallas scene where many of the Warren Report’s conclusions are discounted.
David Lifton, a UCLA graduate student who has written articles for Ramparts and Esquire magazines on the assassination, will show his slides in 133 Founders Hall at noon.
He will attempt to nrove that at least three assassins fired at Kennedy, and that Oswald was not the murderer. He will also explain possible motives of the plot.
Steve Burton, whose Committee for Inquiry advocates a new investigation of the assassination, will talk on Friday.
He will discuss the effects of assassination evidence which has not been released to the American public. Burton will appear in 204 Founders Hall at noon Friday.
MAN ON A TRUMPET — An African trumpet player and jazz singer, Hugh Masekela, will perform Friday night at Bovard Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the event sponsored by the I-House, are now on sale in front of the Student Union and at the door Friday night.
TICKETS ON SALE FOR TRUMPET SHOW
Hugh Masekela an African trumpet player with a haunting sound, will perform Friday night at 7:30 in Bovard Auditorium.
Proceeds from his special student performance, which is sponsored by the International Student House, will go to th« Foreign StUdentyOffice and to the faculty-sponsored Negro Scholarship Fund.
Masekela, one of the most outstanding young musicians of 1966. has an almost unlimited repertoire, which includes jazz, African songs, and in-
Hippies' Revolt Of Wider Social
Whether they’re loving-in at Elysian Park or grooving to the sounds of the Grateful Dead in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, the Hippies are merely dramatizing a widespread revolt among today’s youth, a School of Social Work professor believes.
Dr. John Milner, contends that the rebellion involves all of today’s young people to some extent and signals basic social changes.
“This general reaction against the Establishment cannot be dismissed as it might have been by previous generations as an adolescent fling or
CONTROVERSY FOR PUBLICITY
Club Existence Is Privilege—Montrenes
By STAN METZLER Assistant to the Editor
“My immediate reaction to the ACLU-TYD criticism of the Board of Inquiry's decision regarding TYR is that tnese organizations should quit trying to get their names in the paper." Dan Montrenes, board chairman. told the Daily Trojan yesterday.
Shelly Linderman, Trojan Young Democrats president, and John Medford. American Civil Liberties Union Campus president, had attacked the board for what they called interference with free political expression and violation of an organization's inherent internal rights.
"The recognition and existence of campus clubs and organizations is a privilege—at best a relative right, and it is not to be confused with absolute rights,” Montrenes. who also serves as a member of the Student Activities Committee and chief justice ol the Student Court, explained.
“Perhaps TYD and the ACLU need to be reminded that they also received recognition by the Student Activities Committee, and in addition come under the jurisdiction of that committee.”
Commenting on the four recom-
mendations made by the board to that committee, and specifically criticized by TYD and ACLU, Montrenes said the board has no blanket jurisdiction over campus organizations—“except as they relate to a proper election.”
The board considered the TYR case two weeks ago in response to a complaint filed by Stu Benjamin, AMS president, charging TYR with violating the Election Code in its campaign to stop USC’s affiliation with NSA.
After hearing his complaint and the TYR defense, the board ruled that Benjamin's complaint was invalid, since referendum campaigns were inadequately covered in the code.
It ordered the code expanded to include such campaigns, as was done at the next ASSC Council meeting.
The board further ruled the NSA election invalid because of TYR's guilt in various illegal and improper distributions, donations and advertisements.
It ordered that a new election be held, and the council set the date for April 26
A fourth recommendation, directed towards the Student Activities. Committee, asked that the committee review TYR for competancy, that TYR keep its recognition, that the TYR board be replaced and that TYR’s continued recognition be reconsidered after the new NSA campaign.
These recommendations were based on “discrepancies arising in the election,” which had, the board found, “occurred partially as a result of internal conflict within the Trojan Young Republican organization.”
The decision said TYR had "little control over its campaign efforts,” with opposing club factions attempting “to blame each other for TYR's improper acts.”
“This board may take appropriate action against a campus organization, including referral to the Student Activities Committee or the Dean of Students for disciplinary action,” Montrenes told the Daily Trojan.
“The TYR case was an example.
In considering alternative actions, the Board of Inquiry felt it was lenient in its final decision.
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The board has not trapped the ‘rat,’ but it has attempted to eliminate the situation that breeds that ‘rat.’ ”
The Student Activities Committee voted Monday to establish a Watchdog Committee, chaired by Dean of Men Tom Hull, to watch over TYR’s campaign procedures to the degree of making sure they complied with university regulations and the TYR constitution.
It was because of the failure of TYR to comply with these rules that the original election was invalidated.
The Watchdog Committee will also set a time for new TYR elec-tionss as called for in the TYR constitution, but will not dictate internal policies or referee infighting between the club’s factions.
“Perhaps the greatest thing to come out of the TYR conflict,” Montrenes told the Daily Trojan, “was the ability of the ASSC governmental system to sustain itself, and to be the decision maker.
“Campus organizations have a place in this system. The leaders of TYD and ACLU, the opportunists that they are, should join up.”
the ‘sowing of wild oats,’ ” Milner said.
“Youngsters are disappointed in seeing their parents work as hard as they do to accumulate money and then seeing them unhappy with the results.
“When these kids see that wealth and material gains do not bring parents tranquility or solve their insecurities, it causes the youngsters not to want to repeat the self-deception of the elders.”
Milner says today's young generation is basically more honest than any in the past.
“They expose themselves almost flagrantly as they really are. They avoid pretensions and give mutual acceptance on the basis of what the other person really is,” he explained.
Among the social changes Milner forecasts are a wider and more democratic acceptance of others regardless of class lines or economic status, a waning of “double standard” morality, increased open-mindedness on racial matters, freer attitudes toward sex, increased understanding among religious groups, a less materialistic
terpretations on popular soncs from such groups as the Mamas and P i pas.
Tickets will be sold from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. every day this week in front of the Student Union, and at the door Friday night.
Student tickets are SI.50: general admission tickets are S2.50.
“This performance will give students the chance to prove thit they want entertainment on campus.” Tav-lor Hackford. ASSC president said.
“If students want more entertainment. they have to support it.” he said.
Is Part Change
attitude and, in general, more openness and honesty.
Milner expects that as these changes are developing there will be strong reactionary movements and periods of extreme conservatism characterized by rigidity and prejudice.
“How strong these will be is unclear,” he said.
STUDENT GUIDE ON SALE TODAY
Over 3,500 copies of the Student Guide to Courses and Professors, as prepared by the Committee Organizing a Responsible Course Handbook, will be available today.
The handbook is priced at $1 and will be sold in front of Founders Hall and the Student Union.
The handbook, which consists of 280 pages, describes over 100 courses and professors in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
A description of professors' backgrounds, outlines of their courses and the results of a student poll of the courses will be included in the book.
Freezing and Revival Of Humans Talk Set
Human hibernation, suspended animation, freezing and revival of people are all glimpses of what the future may have in store.
William Prehoda, a participant in the first experimental freezing of a human under controlled conditions, will explain the hows and whys of the field of cryobiology, — the science of inducing suspended animation in a dying man through freezing, and then reviving him from 10 to 1000 years later — today at noon.
His speech, in 102 VKC, is sponsored by the Trojan Young Democrats.
Prehoda, director of the Bedford
Foundation, has been asso<: vith the nation’s space program sine*' ifs inception and has participated in NASA-supported research programs aimed at inducing a state of artificial hibernation in humans.
He is also engaged in reduced metabolism research at lower temperatures with the objective of freezing animals in a state of suspended animation for indefinite periods.
“Although the concept of life ex-tention is not as yet political, we feel students should be informed of the controversy surrounding this field and the possible benefits." Shelly Linderman, TYD president, said.