VOL. LVm
University of Southern California
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8,1966
NO. 54
Knights will have time r half-time card stunts
ANOTHER OPINION ON 'POLITICAL ACTION FOR PEACE'
Michael Hannon, ex-policeman, discusses topic with student after noon speech
Hannon on peace: 'Generals want war'
Ry STAN METZLER New* Editor
"Nobody really supports the war except those who directly benefit from it—such as generals who have iobe because of Vietnam." Michael Hannon, suspended policeman turned lawyer, told a USC audience yesterday noon.
Speaking at the SDS-sponsored speech on “Political Action for Peace.” Hannon said the management of such defense-contributing industries as Douglas and General Motors. and citizens owing their job to the war effort, also generally support the conflict.
Contrary to results shown in recent Gallup Polls. Hannon said, the majority of citizens are really against the war.
Only 13 American citizens, he claimed, gave voluntary contributions to the Treasury Department for the war effort during the last fiscal year.
The gifts totaled $399.64. he said, “and I think this is a better test than the polls.”
RUSSIA GUILTY JOE
Hannon admitted that the United States is not totally respon.siblp for the fighting, blaming the power-mructurp of Russia for having equal desires to perpetuate the war.
Finances, he hinted, have a large part in the government s continuation of the conflict, since the nation needed an economic boost after the end of World War n.
“So we found a new conflict, and ever since we got the Cold War going in 1948 we have solved this problem”
Commenting on the Sunset Strip uprisings. Hannon said they were good in that “for the first timp well-to-do middle-class While kids are getting a Ta*te of police activity. Thpy can eee the police put the screw to people.*
“For a couple of nights.” he asserted. "they see what life is like 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. 52 weeks a year on Central Avenue. Avalon and San Pedro "
Searching for a hidden cause behind the supposed harrassment of the Fifth Estate Coffee House. Hannon said that to the police “the real sin is that you often see racially mixed couples there.
“And this really bugs the police.”
Card stunts will be held at the Rose Bowl Jan. 2, the Trojan Knights decided yesterday by a narrow margin of votes, after a suggestion by some members not to sponsor them.
The proposal to plan stunts for the game carried by a vote of 29-22. There were two abstentions.
Opponents argued that the extra work involved would cause some of the organization members to miss the Rose Bowl Parade, held before the game in downtown Pasadena.
TOOK RESPONSIBILITY
The Knights took over the stunts when the Special Events Office decided not to sponsor them during the past season.
Responsibility for the stunts was assumed by the group only for regular season games, and therefore the vote was necessary to decide if they would take on the extra work for the postseason game.
A great deal of the work would
fall on the Knights' Card Stunt Committee. The committee was completely in favor of having the stunts, Ed Healy, a member of the group said.
Bill Morgan, chairman of the committee, said that it was a little early to say for sure, but that “approximately 15 to 20 stunts could be performed during the time allowed.”
The stunts will have to be performed during the 10-minute portion of half time allotted to the Trojans.
The other 10-minutes will be taken by Purdue's activities.
Mike McDermott, Trojan Marching Band manager, said the band will include 144 playing members and 24 extras for the parade and game. This would make it the largest marching band in the school’s history.
Purdue will have 340 marching bandsmen, and 80-voice choir, 40 flag carriers and some twirlers.
“They are the largest band in the
Midwest, although they’re not the best.” he said.
In another Rose Bowl development. Mrs. Sylvia Unen of the Special Events Office said yesterday that if the present increase in spirit continues, the rally which has been postponed twice in the last two weeks will be held next week.
The proposed rally would feature Coach John McKay, his staff and the team and would be emceed by television personalities.
MIXED VIEWS ON DRAMA TRIO
Sum and Substance: prof explores ethics
By CINDY NALLEY	“If I had to make a statement in
What is real and meaningful to	a P1^’ 1 would include innocence ver-
you ? What is t h e final substance,	sus experience,
creed and belief? What is important?	film segment.
Odets said in the
The writer, Aldous Huxley, the sculptor, Lipchitz, and the playwright, Clifford Odets, answered these questions in film clips shown by Dr. Herman Harvey, associate professor of psychology', at the Faculty Association luncheon yesterday.
Harvey took the clips from a half-hour CBS series called "Sum and Substance.” in which he interviewed people concerned with commitments and values and gathered a potpourri of comments on ethics.
“In one way or another, all the men saw a non-verbal dimension of experience as being ultimate,” Harvey said.
Odets said the ultimate rests in the fulfillment of each individual as a human being, and discovering what in the American character develops the inherent possibilities of each man and woman and what holds them hark from personal attainment of these possibilities.
“Today man leaves the convictions of innocence as quickly as he can and picks up those techniques of selling the self. Innocence goes and experience perhaps shrivels our soul.
The indispensible reality to Huxley was intelligence and knowledge plus charity. “The two go hand in hand. To me, the intelligence factor is completely conclusive.
“I insist that we’re multiple amphibians and we must make the best of the conflicting worlds through a general awareness on the nonconcept-
ual level.”
To Lipchitz, effort was the key word in man's ultimate search for reality. To become real, a man must use all his potentialities, he said.
“They say that every	man is a
poet," Lipchitz explained.	“I would
like to find an open door	to release this poetry for man.”
'THE LOVERS'
The first of three experimental plays being performed at Stop Gap Theatre this week is entitled “The Lovers” by Harold Pinter. Margaret Jean Cook and Michael Prichard gave good performances, although spotty in the early stages. The audience seemed thoroughly confused by the action on stage and registered this through a variety of moans and comments. As the play progressed, however, the idea that the lovers, who were in reality man and wife became more evident. Once this registered with the viewers, Pinter's theme that the shallowness inpe oples' lives drives them to unbelievable fantasy came across clearly. It was the most enjoyable play of the three.
'NO WHY'
If for no other reason than William Hunt's portrayal of the father in John Whiting's “No Why." the play was an entertaining one. A simple set of a chair and hanging cord with a light bulb on the end created the attic scene for the viewer. Excellent performances were given by all members of the cast in the play which depicted the degeneration of a family and the hypocrisy which engulfed its members. One detracting element of the performance was the ending which left the audience unsatisfied for two reasons. One. it was amateurish in its execution (a. child is seen hanging from the rafters of the attic and the harness supporting him is visible) and two. it is unrealistic (as this toddler drags a heavy crate over and gets a rope from nowhere to hang himself.)
'THE LUNCH HOUR'
The final performance of the evening. “The Lunch Hour’’ by John Mortimer, wa* greatly dampened by its length and comparison with the preceeding plays. An outstanding performance of the girl by Heidi Cran® was obscured by the restlessness of the audience.
The story seemed to break a cardinal rule of writing, in that it whetted the viewer’s appetite, but didn’t ever satisfy it. The audience found itself as frustrated as the male pursuer's attempts at physical contact with the girl. “The Lunch Hour" was probably based on the flimsiest foundation of the three experimental.
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THE NEGRO AND THE UNIVERSITY
Mojo mythology—stereotype on campus
This i* the fourth in a five-part series on USC’s relationship with the Negro community and with its own Negro students — The Editor
Br GREG KIESELMANN Managing Editor
“There is a peaceful coexistence between Negroes and Whites here at USC. Both sides want to avoid contact which could turn into conflict.”
“Whites at USC are. with few exceptions, stereotyped. noncommittal people. They look at anything from the standpoint of ‘what's in it for me?’ For many, the concept of personal satisfaction has fallen by the wayside.”
Both of those statements were made by USC students. the first by Brenda Hudspeth, a junior in journalism. the second by Joel Harmon, a graduate student in chemistry. Both are Negroes.
They generally agree that relations between White and Negro students, and even between cliques of Negroes. are strained.
NO REAL RACIAL CONFLICT
Miss Hudspeth believes that no real conflict yet exists between the two races on campus. “You avoid uncomfortable associations with people who may have race prejudices.
“To someone who is prejudiced you are invisible. A person can be looking right at you. but he really doesn't see you.”
Neither Harmon nor Miss Hudspeth, however, has ever witnessed any outright act of discrimination, al-
though they are affected by the stereotypes White students have set up for the Negro.
Harmon said the male Negro at USC is regarded as the typical athlete. “Even in gym class, the Negroes are chosen first because of their supposedly superior athletic ability, and this is ridiculous in my case.”
Miss Hudspeth said she feels strong pressure to do well in her classes because she knows she has been prejudged on the basis of race. “You tend to shy away from discussion in class because you’re afraid you are going to be shown to be an ‘ignorant Negro*.”
ASK ABOUT MAGICAL POWERS
She said she is still amazed at the number of White students who ask her if Negroes have magical powers, or if it is true that the men are highly sexed. “One person even asked me if I had a mojo,” she said. The thought struck her as so funny she was unable to hide her laughter.
Both are in agreement that the social life of USC’s Negroes is limited, and they lay most of the blame on the fraternity system here.
Harmon said there is a miniscule number of Negroes in the universtiy’s Greek complex, but that “Whites only” was not necessarily the accepted practice in fraternity systems in other parts of the nation.
“At Illinois College, where I did my undergraduate work, I was in Sigma Pi, which is a white fraternity. And I wasn’t unusual. There were quite a few Negroes in the White fraternities back there.”
Cal State L.A and Los Angeles City College because, these schools have a more intensified Negro social life. Miss Hudspeth said.
“L.A. State is especially strong on Negro fraternities. Everybody belongs to one there, which is just the opposite of the situation here.”
DIVISION IN NEGRO COMMUNITY
Some of Harmon's and Miss Hudspeth’s most in-tresting observations concerned not White/Black relations, but the divisions which underlie the superficially united Negro community.
“The Negro at USC is entirely different from what I am accustomed to," Harmon said. “Since there are relatively few here, you would think they’d have a common bond, but this isn’t so. If you smile at or nod your head to a fellow Negro around here, you invariably don't get a response.”
He feels that once a Negro makes it to USC he wants to disassociate himself from his background and from other Negro students who might remind him of the old ghetto.
Miss Hudspeth concurred and used herself as an example. “My purpose in coming to USC was to get away from the ghetto area,” she said.
“I wanted something completely opposed to my background. I seldom go home now, and I have little to do with my old high school friends. We just don’t have anything in common anymore.”
Many Negroes at USC associate with students at USC Negroes seem to have divided themselves into
cliques based on socio-economic factors, both agreed
“There are a lot of Negroes here who are members of the Black bourgeoisie. They stick together and are not active in civil rights. Then there are others of different economic backgrounds who might go in for Black Power," Miss Hudspeth said.
Harmon said he felt the Negro student's mild involvement in civil rights activities can be attributed to some degree to parental pressure. Upper class Negro parents, he said, don’t want their children involved in something which might tend to pull them down.
The university’s Negroes should become more belligerent in the area of civil rights. Miss Hudspeth said.
“We should stand up for the rights cause. We have to assimilate more into the university and try to be more influential."
FAVORS MORE INVOLVEMENT
She also favors more involvement on the part of USC in the Negro's problems. The university has an ethical responsibility to go into the community and help its residents, she believes.
“The university should stimulate this interest in its students and faculty because these people don't have it; they have no true understanding of the Negro's plight.”
In the final analysis, USC is an island set down in a Negro conclave. Miss Hudspeth agreed. “The question is whether you can remain an island unto yourself ”
(Tomorrow—The university’s point nf view)