ORIENTATION ISSUE
The University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
72
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1965
Lectures
Football
Highlight Week
Gridiron Opener Ends Festivities
PRESIDENT GREETS STUDENTS—President and Mrs. Norman Topping greet parents cf one of the new students during the first
day of Orientation Week Sunday. Dr. Topping urged freshmen students to carry on the tradition of service to the community.
AT SUNDAY'S CONVOCATION
Dr. Topping Asks Freshmen To Carry on USC Tradition
New students who will start classes at USC Monday were called upon Sunday by President Norman Topping to carry on the tradition of community service for which USC has been noted in its 85-year history.
Speaking at a convocation in Alumni Memorial Park in front of Doheny Library, Dr. Topping told the students and their parents that “it is within your power to make yourself count as more than students while at USC — you can make yourselves felt as concerned human beings.”
People Need Help
“Nearby, just outside the boundaries of this campus,” he said, “there are many persons and groups who need the skills and talents of educated young men and women.
“As hundreds of our students have learned in past
years, there are opportunities to serve as tutors in remedial reading and arithmetic for school-age children and for adults who lack essential communication skills.
“Pre-school children can be helped so that when they enter kindergarten thev will be ready for school and will not fall immediately and hopelessly behind.”
Plays in Streets
Dr. Topping reminded his audience how USC drama students staged impromptu performances on neighborhood streets and sidewalks throughout Los Angeles with their Street Theater in recent months, exposing many audiences to plays for the first time.
“Whatever your interests and talents, perhaps you too will want to help bring drama, music, art and other adven-
tures of the mind to people who have had little chance for such enrichment,” he '’•aid.
President and Mrs. Topping met students and parents at a tea on the campus following the convocation.
Registration Plan
Orientation meetings will be held Monday and Tuesday, followed by registration for classes Wednesday through Friday.
USC expects to have 6800 undergraduates, 9200 graduate students and 3000 students in evening classes during the year.
More than 400 students who were admitted with honors-at-entrance because of their high school grades were introduced by Dr. Tracy E. Strevey. vice president for academic affairs.
These students all had a 3.7-5 or better grade average in high school.
By STU ZANVILLE
Discovering university life, USC style, will be the pleasan: task of an estimated 2,800 new students during Orientation Week continuing through Saturday.
The new Trojans will be shown all aspects of university life, ranging from academic to social.
The Orientation Week committee has arranged many lectures and meetings for the incoming students.
The prevailing theme of the week’s activities will be discovering the various things USC has to offer students.
Dean Speaks
On today's agenda, students will have the opportunity to hear the dean of their respective schools. Any questions regarding curriculum, programming or field of study will be answered at these meetings.
Earlier today new women who will not be living on campus were treated to a continental breakfast by the Spurs.
Durbin to Speak
At 1:30 p.m. new students will have the chance to hear a lecturer from the English Department. James Durbin.
Durbin will expound on two works of Edward Albee.
Chats Set
Sponsored by the Women's Hall Association and the Associated Men Students, fireside chats will be held in each residence hall. Mrs. Jean Shaef-fer, dean of women, and Tom Hull, dean of men, will be guest speakers.
Registration for the fall semester will begin tomorrow. Students should consult the schedule on page two to see when they should register.
New students will discover that college essential, the lecture, tomorrow. Faculty members will give sample lectures and preview classroom procedures.
A pep rally featuring the Trojan Band and yell leaders Thursday will reveal what lies
ahead during the upcoming football season.
Friday night the Troy eleven will open its 1965 season against Minnesota at the Coliseum. Only students with student activity books and paid fee bill receipts will be admitted to the rooting section.
The Orientation Week activities will conclude Saturday with a dance at the International Student House on 28th Street.
Drop and Add
Classes begin Monday.
Students will be allowed to drop or add classes beginning Monday.
The registrar's office will announce where the drop and add forms can be obtained. No changes in programs will be made without these forms.
Orientation Week Chairman Gordon Biescer and his staff spent a great deal of the summer working in committees and meetings planning the various items on the week's schedule.
Biescer will have over 60 students working as guides and counselors, to aid th? incoming students during the week.
Also on Biescer’s staff are Dick Starrett, Vice-Chairman, and committee members Candy Kane and Julie Sheehan.
Council Hearings Reconvene Today
Los Angeles Cit.v Council hearings on the Hoover Redevelopment project will reconvene again this morning.
The hearing wiil open at 10:30 a.m.
Proponents and opponents to the project will have a chance to summarize their arguments before the council votes to approve or reject the plan.
If the project passes, USC will acquire an additional 57 acres, extending its boundaries to Vermont Avenue and along Jefferson Boulevard.
Hearings held this summer were dismissed late in August.