University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1966
NO 7
Brown, Reagan to
campaign at USC in pre-election talks
PORTRAIT OF A CAMPUS:
The campus sights include a sculptured ship and a petrified log.
Student found dead possibility of suicide
on campus; investigated
Kv (HICK ZAREMBA
Assistant City Editor
Gene Michael Petrillo, a USC student. was found dead early yesterday morning on a bench between the Administration Building and Founders Hall, an apparent suicide.
Petrillo, 19. was a sophomore busi-
ness major living in an apartment at 2821 S. Hoover St. His parents reside in Cleveland. Ohio.
His body was discovered by a campus policeman at approximately 1:20 a.m. Tuesday. The exact time of death has not been determined.
A .22 calibre six-shot revolver was
Applications for Fellowships now
Danforth
available
Applications for Danforth Graduate Fellowships are no-.v being taken by Dr. Neil Warren, dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, in *200 Bovard.
The preliminary interviews, which will begin next week, will determine which students will go before the board that will select the USC candidates. Those students endorsed by the five-man board headed by Dean Warren become eligible ior regional and national selection.
The fellowship is open to men and women seniors or recent graduates of any race, creed or citizenship who are seriously considering a career in college teaching and plan to work for their Ph.D.
The fellowship, which is among the most prestigious awards, was established in 1951 to provide personal encouragement and financial support for individuals who have a sincere and human interest in the field of college teaching. The fellowship is renewable for four years which need not be consecutive.
The Danforth Foundation is interested in students who have a wide range of academic interests which will serve as a sound foundation for graduate study. They must show evidence of flexible ability, intellectual power and curiosity.
Applicants must have three letters of recommendation and the endorsement of the head of their department.
It is also required that the applicants have taken the Graduate Record Examination in Verbal and Quantitative Abilities on or before Oct. 29.
Vocational Placement Bureau chief named
Clarion Modell has been appointed acting director of the Vocational Placement Bureau. She has held this position since the retirement of Mrs. Florence Watts on July 1.
Miss Modell. who has served at the bureau in various capacities for the past 15 years, feels that it has something to offer all students. She encourages students to make use of the facilities, which include a library of vocational information.
Miss Modell received both her B.S. and MS. degrees in Education from USC. She has always had an interest in helping students to realize their goals. 4
Memberships for Troy Camp staff solicited
Applications for the Troy Camp Committee will be available Monday at the YWCA, 85 W. 36th Place. They will be due October 6.
New Troy Camp Cochairmen Der-ald Sidler and Patti Reynolds said the major emphasis of the committee this semester will be fund - raising and publicity.
Fund-raising activities will include a mOvie benefit similar to last year’s special screening of “Dr. Zhivago,” solicitations from campus living and service groups, a special collection at one of the football games and the sale of football press books.
The publicity committee will be concerned with campus and city pub licity.
Sidler said secretaries are also needed.
Troy Camp is a student-run retreat held each summer in the San Jacinto Mountains near Idyllwild for approximately 120 underprivileged children from the area surrounding USC.
Students of the university serve as volunteer counselors for these youngsters “to give them a greater understanding of life and to help them better the principles by which they can live,'* Sidler said.
“We try to enrich the lives of these children, who are lacking in economic security, family and social attention and recreation facilities by attempting to develop characteristics in them which will help make them more happy, useful citizens of o u r society.”
found near the body, with one shot missing. There was a single bullet wound in Petrillo’s right temple. The bullet apparently lodged in the brain.
For several hours yesterday, Petrillo was listed as a John Doe by the County Coroner's Office. No identification was found on the body.
Late yesterday afternoon, a cousin of Petrillo. who lives in Altadena made positive identification of the body.
The actual circumstances sur rounding the case, as to homicide or suicide, were still under investigation. However, suicide was deemed by the coroner to be the most probable answer. pending autopsy and possible inquest.
No explanation was available yesterday as to a possible suicide motive. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Petrillo's is the second suicide in less than a year on the USC campus.
On Nov. 10. 1965, William Blevins, a pre-med student, shot and killed himself in his apartment in the married students’ complex.
In that case, Blevins' wife told investigators that her husband had suffered a leg wound while serving as a captain in the Army reserves. He was apparently despondent over the fear he might lose his leg.
Former US ambassador will speak
Edwin O. Reischauer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan for the past five years and now a professor at Harvard, will address dinner guests Saturday at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in connection with the dedication of the von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs.
The former ambassador will discuss “New Horizons In Our Relations With Asia.” It will be one of his first public pronouncements since leaving the embassy in Tokyo this summer tc return to Harvard.
Dr. Norman Topping will preside over the dinner at 7:30 in the Grand Trianon Room, and will introduce Dr. Reischauer. Reservations for the dinner may be made by calling 716-2170.
SPECIAL PROFESSOR
As one of seven specially designated universilv professors at Harvard. Reischauer is free to teach in any part of the university without regard to faculty and departmental lines and to work “on the frontiers of knowledge.”
Dr. Reischauer, 55. was born in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. H° was educated at Oberlin College. Harvard and the University of Paris. He also studied abroad on a Harvard-Yenching Institute fellowship in France. Japan and China.
He taught far eastern studies at Harvard from 1938 to 1961. except during World War II. He also was director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute from 1956 to 1961.
SECRETARIAT CHAIRMAN
Reischauer was formerly chairman of the Japan-Korea Secretariat and special assistant to the director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs of the U.S. State Department, and served as a member of the Cultural Science Mission to Japan.
Formal dedication of the new S3-mil lion von KleinSmid Center will be conducted by Dr. Topping at the building site on Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Two days of seminars and discussions by visiting scholars, marking USC's 44th annual Institute of World Affairs, will be open free to the public on Friday and Saturday.
'This was a man
This bust of Rufus B. von KleinSmid has been installed at the base of the tower of von KleinSmid Center. It was sculpted in 1957 by Merrill Gage, professor emeritus of fine arts.
The following inscription on the marble base is part of a eulogy delivered by President Norman Topping at von KleinSmid's funeral in 1964.
This was a man.
This was a man of action and achievement.
This was a man of vision and creativity,
A man of serenity and strength.
A man of determination and patience.
This was a man of sensitivity and courage,
A man of humor and humility,
A noble man with a common touch,
A self-disciplined man with understanding for all.
This was a man who was counselor to thousands throughout the world.
This was a man committed to truth and good and beauty.
Rufus Bernard von KleinSmid was a man — and a leader of men.
However vivid his memory and however enduring his words
There is one thing we all know,
We have lost a friend.
DORM CROUP SEEKS INDIVIDUALISM
When
Only
is a
WHA
dorm a knows
By BILL DICKE
and SANDRA SHANE
Question: What has the initials WHA and is made up of Emily Dickinson, Maria Mitchell and Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Answer: the Women’s Halls Association.
This organization of all student residents in the four women's dorms is divided into houses, each named after a famous American woman. (Maria Mitchell was a famous astronomer).
In its .second year of operation, “WHA concerns itself with a threefold program dealing in the many facets of resident hall living,” President Nancy Perryman said.
It encourages individual development, establishes a channel for exchange of ideas among students, the dean’s staff and the campus at large. It also furnishes a program which meets the interests of the women students, she said.
‘Several innovations have been made by WHA this year,” Miss Perryman said.
The dorm program is now based on the ‘house plan” in which each hall or floor acts as a separate unit but is connected with the leadership body of WHA through house officers.
Through this program the girls in each house have the opportunity to govern and plan activities for themselves.
Elections for house officers are being held this week. Each house will have a president, secretary, treasurer, social chairman, cultural and scholarship chairman and housing representative.
Another innovation is a newsletter instituted to serve as a communication channel between WHA, the administration and the women students.
Louise Hashimoto will be editor of the publication, the Daisy Ledger.
WHA plans to open an office in Harris Hall where students can buy stamps and get change. This office will also be used for meetings.
“Major rule changes have also
'house ? for sure
taken place this year,” said Miss Perryman.
“For the first time there are no resident assistants, except in freshman dorms.”
“Sophomores, juniors and seniors have midnight lockout on week nights unless their GPA falls below a 2.0. Freshmen still have 10:15 p.m. lockout.”
Up coming WHA activities include a dance, a ski film and several “fireside chats” on literary or culturaL topics.
A theater party. Spring formal and Christmas open house are planned for later in the year. Most of these activities will be open to all students.
Past activities include a welcome party for freshmen, a tea and a banana split party. WHA also co-sponsored Friday’s concert by The Association.
‘WHA is interested in giving students more self government through responsibility, while providing a cultural atmosphere,” Miss Perryman said.
Great Issues Forum will host visits
By STAN METZLER News Editor
A California election prn^ram featuring consecutive campus appearances by Gov. Brown. Ronald Reagan. Lt. Gov. Glenn Anderson and Robert Finch, has been scheduled for late October.
The program, first of five major Great Issues Forum presentation* this year, will also be sponsored by the Department of Political Science.
Also tentatively planned are » post-election speech by William Buckley and a week-long examination of United States foreign policy in February.
A March probe into man's destruction of his environment and a detailed look at “The New I^aw" in May will conclude the year.
TENTATIVE PLANS
“Except for the election program all of these are still tentative plans, and they may change as the year progresses," Dr. Richard O. Stone, chairman of the forum committee. said.
Dr. Stone explained that his over riding concern is that the committee not turn into a clearinghouse speakers panel of drawing-cards, buf rather continue to provide the student body with controversial talks on issues of major significance.
"We need to see people of real stature on this campus.” he said. "The students want to hear speakers of merit.”
The October program or. statewide political races, he explained, will have not only the four part> standard-bearers, but also candidates running for lesser state offices and assembly posts.
BEFORE ELECTIONS
"One of the main advantages of this program is that we will be getting them in the week of Oct. 2t, right before the elections, when the invectives should be getting pretty hot,” he s<iid.
"And of course, we'll have Buck ley right after. No matter who wins, he'll have some really sarcastic remarks.”
The Buckley appearance, he said, is in direct response to the students, who have repeatedly told members of the Great Issues Committee of their wish to hear the New York conservative.
NOT ON VIETNAM
The foreign policy presentation, set for the 3tart of the second semester. will not be a drawn-out, teach-in type debate of Vietnam, but rather a detailed analysis of U.S. relations throughout the world.
Similarly, the environmental program will focus equally on such subjects as smog, urban sprawl, water. swage and wildlands: while the law presentation will deal with aspects of new court rulings.
Each of these last three p r o-grams. covering a week's time, will be highlighted by one big-draw speaker. Local authorities and university professors will also be featured.
Dr. Stone explained that the committee. now in its second year of operation, is still experimenting as to the best wav of serving the university community.
Quarterback Club will meet today
The Quarterback Club, sponsored by the Trojan Knights and AMS. kicks off its second season today at noon in 133 Founders Hall.
In the initial meeting. Assistant Coach Craig Firtig will show films of Saturday’s game against Wisconsin and will discuss it as well as talk with fullback Mike Hull and defensive tackle Denis Moore about the upcom ing battle with the Beavers of Oregon State in Portland.
The Quarterback Club was founded in 1965 by the Knights in order to give students a more perceptive firsthand account of each game.