University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1967
NO. 73
TYD for TYR's Petition: 2,000 Signatures Needed
THE OLD AND THE NEW—Dave Todd (right), outgoing IFC president, hands down the gavel to newly elected Tom Ternquist (left) who will be taking over.
IFC Elects President;
Urges Greek Promotion
By JACK CHAPPELL Co-Xews Editor
Tom Ternquist was elected Inter-Fraternity Council president yesterday in the IFC spring elections.
Ternquist. a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and former first vice-president of IFC. was elected by a majority vote of the 25 voting fraternities present.
Ternquist ran against Theta Xi Chuck Zaremba. SAMmie Mike Silver-stein. an announced candidate for the presidency, declined the nomination at the meeting.
Voting figures for IFC officers were not released.
Ternquist advocated a greater role ?nd responsibility for IFC and urged that IFC do more to strengthen and prnmote the Greek system.
The new first vice-president is Fiji Tom Kristovich. who defeated Phi Tau Derry 1 de Fabre for the posL
Delta Chi Tim Huntley was elected without opposition to the second vice-president position.
In the most hotly-contested IFC race. Chi Phi Steve Moore defeated five other candidates for IFC secretary.
Moo**e. a freshman, won the position in a run-off election between Fiji Sig Murphy. Kappa Sig Tom Zanatti and himself.
SAE Richard Rifenbark and TKE Mike Yagjian also ran for secretary.
Elected as IFC treasurer was Doug Shurtleff. a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
The new officers will be installed during Greek Week March 5 through 12.
A question of IFC support concerning USC's decision to join NSA was raised by Yagjian.
Ternquist said the NSA question would appear on the next IFC agenda.
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH City Editor The Trojan Democratic Club has come out in support of the Trojan Young Republican petition to bring NSA membership to a student referendum in a move regarded as a surprise by many ASSC observers.
In a statement to the Daily Trojan yesterday, TYD President Shelley Linderman said:
“As a political club, we are particularly concerned that the will of the student body is reflected in the decisions of the student government.
“In this instance the TYD Executive Council feels that public opinion can best be articulated through a referendum.
“However, in contrast to the TYRs, our action does not imply support or condemnation of USC’s membership in NSA.”
TYR has previously condemned NSA as a politically- and liberal-oriented group, although they are now claiming complete nonpartisanship in circulating their petition.
Although TYR had not been informed by 3:30 p.m. yesterday of the number of signatures they would need to bring the matter to a referendum, the Daily Trojan learned they would need between 1,800 and 2,000 signatures (ten per cent of the entire student body).
’ The ruling on the number of signatures came from the newly-formed Student Body Court.
The ruling is actually only an unofficial opinion, however, since the court has not yet been officially sanctioned by the university’s Student Activities Committee, which will meet on Monday.
Dan Montrenes, chief justice of the court, said the court was asked to give its opinion when the TYR's
TYR’g asked Student Activities Director Clive Grafton for a ruling.
The constitution makes no distinction between fulltime (8 units or more) and parttime (less than 8 units) students as far as ASSC membership is concerned, although the distinction is made for voter and candidacy eligibility.
“The court’s ruling, in effect, is to read the constitution as it is until someone makes a change,” Montrenes said.
The constitution can be changed
by a vote of the student body or by the addition bylaws by the ASSC Executive Council.
“The council can establish bylaws,” Montrenes explained, “but the bylaws cannot be applied retroactively.”
ASSC President Taylor Hackford said the Executive Council will attempt to define the role of the part-time student in the present situation at its meeting Sunday night.
If TYR were required to obtain the signatures of ten per cent of the
eligible voters, they would need only about 1,200 names.
The court was divided on this issue. One of the justices, John Ward-low, called the ASSC Constitution, which was passed last March, “an irresponsible document."
“To go by the letter of that thing is undemocratic,” he said. “This ruling makes a petition relatively impossible.
“The student court has just written the first notes of the requiem for student government.”
Recent Student Budget Study May Bring New Programming
USCs Nonactivism Caused Traditional Passiveness-Boskin
Activism at USC is often overshadowed by passiveness because the very nature of an urban university hinders the growth of cohesive student movements. Dr. Joseph Boskin. associate professor of history, told a Freshman Forum audience Wednesday night.
In comparison with other campuses. like Berkeley, where the university is the town, it is easier to draw the student body together. “In Los Angeles, you have to take a car to protest," he said.
Another reason USC is not activist-oriented is because the personality of the school has traditionally been a passive one, he said.
“Only once that I know of. did USC actually have an activist atmosphere and that was between 1947 and 1950 when the GI's were here and they rebelled against what was being taught.
“The way USC is structured, there are never any questions. Whenever I call for questions in my class. I am greeted by smiling faces or people trying to hide. Raising questions is just not part of USC’s tradition,” he said.
Boskin was speaking on the “History of Student Protest Movements.” He said the wave of activism in the 1960 s ;s nothing new or spontaneous, but part of a history of activism on college campuses.
The difference between current movements and past ones is that students before 1900 protested things immediately related to college, like curriculum.
One of the major forces behind the protests at Berkeley in 1964 was the outrage over the impersonality of the university.
The original movements at Berkeley were misunderstood, Boskin said. The students were protesting a mass
system that was replacing them with IBM cards.
“Students realized they were becoming cyphers and they rebelled against this depersonalization.
“Students are one of the biggest minority groups in American history. They are denied many privileges, and entrapped in a system that offers them few responsibilities. I think the student has certain rights and should have something to say about the university he goes to.” Boskin said.
A recently completed study of student budgets at other universities and junior colleges may herald the beginning of dynamic and meaningful programming at USC.
Conducted by Bob Braun. ASSC vice-president of student affairs, the study included every major private urban university in the United States and most of the state’s junior colleges.	*
Letters were sent to the deans of students asking for a list of activities which his school spent money on for student programming and facilities not included in the funds allocated to the student government budget.
Letters were also sent to the student body presidents asking how much their student government budget was, how they got their money and how it was allocated.
Questionnaires were sent to the director of housing at each school to find out how much other groups (e.g., dormitories) spend on alluniversity programs, such as dances.
The second part of the study involved an on-campus sampling of 750 students to determine the degree of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with current USC programming and the changes students would like to see.
Dr. Joseph Rue. director of the computer center of the Graduate School of Business Administration, told Braun that 750 students would provide an adequate sampling.
Braun and members of a special budget committee will correlate the attitudes gleaned from the campus survey with various environmental factors also asked for in the question-
SDS Literature Is Supplemented With Dish of Sandalwood Incense
By AXX SALISBURY Assistant City Editor
Apparently Students for a Democratic Society are going Bohemian— they have supplemented their usual supply of liberal literature with a little dish of sandalwood incense.
At a display set up in front of the Student Union yesterday, SDS Vice-President Chris Moore said the main purpose of the incense was to attract attention to the display, but that was not its only significance.
Fumes from the incense were drifting as far as the door to the Student Union, and although several people sniffed the air curiously as
they came out, no one stopped at the booth.
“In the Far East people burn incense for special occasions, or when there is some kind of celebration going on,” Miss Moore said. “It is a special event for us to have a booth up.”
“Incense is used a lot in religious ceremonies,” she continued. At this point a bystander asked her whether or not SDS had religious ceremonies, but she did not reply.
“It has a ritualistic significance also, and it’s pleasant for people passing by,” she said.
Everyone did not agree, however.
“It reminds me of the wombat
cage at the new Los Angeles zoo,” a passerby said.
Another person said he thought it smelled kind of out of place. “You don’t usually smell things like that around here,” he said.
Frank Kroger was sitting behind a desk displaying what he called “KPFK propaganda” near the SDS table. He would only say that he was all for public incense, and it was very nice.
Miss Moore called the fragrance “cheap sandalwood,” and was using the container as a paperweight to hold down copies of “An Appeal the American Conscience,”
NO HUMANS ON MENU
Dracula Society to Hold Dinner
B.v STEVE HARVEY Contributing Editor
It will be strictly BYOB (Bring four Own Blood) when the Count Dracula Society holds its fifth annual awards dinner at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel Saturday night at 7:30 p.m.
Humans will not be on the menu.
Two hundred people are expected to attend the dinner, which will feature such guests as science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, newspaper columnist Russell Kirk, “Psycho’* author Robert Bloch and USC’s Dr. Donald Reed, who founded the society five years ago.
RASPUTIN COMIXG
In addition. Dr. Fu Manehu, Rasputin and Mad Monk and Dracula (Prince of Darkness J will also be on
hand, if by proxy only, in the person of British actor Christopher Lee.
Lee. who has portrayed all these nasty gentlemen in the movies, will be presented the society’s Mrs. Ann Radcliffe Cinema Award “for his outstanding motion picture career over the decade.”
These other Radcliffe Awards will also be given in honor of the lady who never bit anybody’s neck but wrote some scary novels in the 18th century;
•	literature: August Derleth, for hit efforts in publishing H. P. Love-craft, a 20th Century writer similar to Edgar Allen Poe.
•	Television: Producers of the “Star Trek" special.
•	Special Award: Karl Freund, a
Hollywood cinematographer for a lifetime of work in such epics as “Dracula” and “The Mummy.”
•	Television: KHJ-TV (Channel 9) for screening many of the movies featuring the Count and his friends.
Dr. Reed, chairman of the dinner, and the society’s national president, is a second-year law student who saw the need for “serious study of horror films and Gothic literature.” HOXORED BORIS And in the society’s five years such spooky people as Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Alfred Hitchcock and Lon Chaney, Jr. have been cited.
Several USC students are active in the society, including Gary Schal-man, Don Glut, Les Mayers and Shelley Linderman, not to mention James Monohan, who also takes an interest
aire (such as access to a car, distance away from campus).
“From all this information we hope to evolve a composite study of what 3tudents want to see here on campus,” Braun said.
His committee will determine the cost of such programming, based on the costs at other schools for similar programs encompassed in the other part of the study.
They will then make a formal proposal to the university for additional ASSC funds.
The ASSC budget for the 1966-67 academic year is $5,400. $1,400 of which went to pay a debt incurred by last year’s ASSC Travel Committee.
Bra an said USC’s budget was the lowest of any other school who replied to the survey; the closest budget to the ASSC amount was at Ventura Junior College, which gets $69,000 annually.
Th3 average sum for a major uni-
versity is well over $100,000. Braivn said, and Stanford, which affords the closest comparison to USC, gets $110,000.
“This is the first time we are quantifying what students as a whole want rather than what a handful of student government people want,” Braun s>aid.
“Student governments at other universities are dynamic forces because they can respond to student needs with concrete programs — we can’t.”
Braun hopes that students will be able to have more of a say in the allocation of future budgets and programming. particularly with regard to the pew Student Activities Center
“Transforming the potential of the Activities Center into reality is going to require funds and advance planning,” he said.
“Students should take the lead in providing these requisities."
Circle K to Hold Membership Drive
By MELINDA TONKS
The membership drive for Circle K International will begin this Wednesday at a meeting in 103 Founders Hall at 5 p.m.
Freshmen, sophomores and juniors are especially encouraged to join since many of the club's 29 members are seniors. However, membership is open to any men who are presently enrolled as students, either undergraduate or graduate.
Prerequisites for membership include attendance at two Wednedsay meetings, two informal meetings, one interview and participation in one project.
The membership drive will end March 8. The Initiation and Recognition Banquet will then be held on March 12.
Since USC's Circle K chapter was chartered on Nov. 27, 1966, the club has been active in USC and community affairs as a service organization.
Recent projects have included conducting tours of the campus for the high school organization. Future Teachers of America, on Dec. 10, 1966.
Circle K men sold ‘‘Beat Purdue” buttons for the January 2 Rose Bowl
game and donated $125 for the Trav-erler Fund.
The current project in which Circle K is participating is for the County Health Department. Saturday, Feb. 25. they will go door-to-door in the Menlo Elementary School area (south of the campus) to inform the people of a clinic for free child immunization shots.
From April 7 to 9. the District Convention for California. Nevada and Hawaii (Cal-Nev-Ha) Circle K members will be held in Long Beach. Approximately 400 men will attend from the three district states.
John Fowle, last semester's president, is currently lieutenant-governor in Circle K District Cal-Nev-Ha 3-A division.
Newly - elected officers include Bruce Baird, president: Charles Harrison. vice-president; John McCue, secretary, and John Plummer, treasurer. The four directors are Jon Strauss. LarrjT Metzler. Everett Miller and Mike Mayock.
Circle K's adviser is Dr. Alan Johnson, director of the Foreign Student Office.
They are sponsored by the University Park Kiwanis Club.
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CHANCE Founder Will Speak Today
in necks as the manager of the campus barber shop.
It is hoped that the dinner does not last until midnight, although the full moon phase has passed.
DISCUSS GHOSTS
Kirk, who writes ghost stories as a hobby, will be the chief speaker. His topic is “Ghosts: Friendly and Malign.”
Bradbury will present the television award to “Star Trek's” producer Gene Roddenberry.
The awards are scrolls which are voted by the Count Dracula Society’s Board of Governors.
The Society now has members in 30 states. Humans interested in joining are invited to phone 752 - 5811. Vampires will undergo a thorough screening, however.
The founder of Project CHANCE and former director of the YWCA, Velma Tinkler, will speak to students involved in the project today at noon in the YWCA.
Project CHANCE, which stands for Child and Community Enrichment, is a YWCA community service project.
Project CHANCE endeavors to broaden the horizons of first, second and third grade children attending 37th St. School.
Pat Reed, general chairman of the project, said CHANCE tries to help the children get to know someone outside their normal scope of experience.	•
The majority of tht children from the neighborhood around USC never have the opportunity to regard anyone in authority as a friend, Miss Reed said.
VELMA TINKLER
Project Chance founder