University of Southern California
DAILY i> TROJAN
VOL. LVIII	LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1966	NO. 18
STUDY OF AN ASSC PRESIDENT A steady round cf conference and telephone calls fill Taylor Hackford's time
ASSC president
sets semester goals
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH Editorial Director
When Tavlor Hackford was running foj ASSC president last spring, he based his campaign on the promi.se to introduce "a movement of many voices’’ a I thf University of Southern California.
Fixe months later. Hackford and the ASSC Executive Council are laying the groundwork for making effective the distinction between student voices being heard and student voices being heeded.
“We are striving for excellence in education through excellence in students." Hackford explained. “With thi<= relationship of goal to means, students can no longer be left out of the policy process of the university.” NOT INDEPENDENT “Student government has not filled its primary function- to convey student opinions at all levels of the university " he said. “Student government in the past has aced as an pdjunct of administrative programs and was noi carrying on independent activities for and by the students.’’ Hackford hopes to set the students on an independent footing this year “so we can express student needs and opinions which cannot be expressed elsewhere at the university.’’ he said.
“We must, as students, take the initiative and make sure that what we are trying to accomplish is done in a responsible manner.’’
Hackford attributes the failure of students to make any progress in convincing the administration of their desires in the past to their inability to offer concrete suggestions backed up by something more than beliefs.
“This year we in student govern ment want to choose a few important projects and present them to the faculty and administration with such care and foresight that they cannot be denied.” he said.
ENLIST SUPPORT “Only by showing the ASSC to be responsible can we enlist the support and respect of the administration. faculty and, especially, the students themselves.”
He feels the Executive Council has a mammoth responsibility this year of interpreting the new constitution and defining the roles of the new' positions it includes (e.g., the ASSC vice president for university affairs, the class representative, and the ASSC Student Court),
"The members of the council have already met three times and are becoming increasingly aw'are of the importance of their roles in the success of student government. The things we define this year will serve as the guidelines for student government in the future.
“We have set ourselves a large undertaking,” Hackford said, “but it is the only way that student government at USC can be truly legitimate.
Professor named new music institute head
Ellis B. Kohs, chairman of the Theory Department of the School of Music, has been appointed regional director of the Western Institute for Music in Contemporary Education. It is a program designed to strengthen music teaching in schools and colleges.
Other schools participating are California State College at Hayward. California State College at San
Diego. California State College at San Jose and Arizona State University.
Four other regional institutes, located in the Pacific Northwest. Midwest. South and East, have been established by S330.000 in grants from the Contemporary Music Project of the Music Educators National Conference. The project funds were made available through a $1.38-million six-year grant in 1963 from the Ford Foundation.
Kohs, a member of the USC music faculty since 1950, studied composition at the Julliard School of Music and at Harvard University. He has an M.A. in music from the University of Chicago.
A noted composer, he is a former ehairman of the Los Angeles chapter of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Prof. Kohs has also authored two textbooks in music: “Musical Form" and “Music Theory".
He will be host of 16 half-hour TV programs on music education to be produced by Jim Mathes. USC’s director of broadcast information, for KCET, channel 28. and later to be shown on stations in cities cooperating in the project.
Kohs spent the past summer in residence at the Mac Dowell Colony. Petersborough. N.H.. where he started work on a new opera based on Franz Kafka s novel “Amarika. ”
Starting this fall the institute will undertake two-year pilot instructional programs. These will be aimed at relating all musical studies — composition. educaton. history’, performance and theory — and at providing stu-deal with music as it is created today.
TYR factions meet to solve party differences
Daily Trojan rated excellent in competition
The Daily Trojan has received a score A (excellent) for the 1965-66 year in the annual critical service sponsored by the National School Yearbook Association.
The score of excellent was earned by 10 to 15 percent of those submit-t i n g publications to the National Newspaper Service, which grades over 1.100 newspapers each year from all over the United States and Canada.
Winners of A or A plus scores will receive a gold-bordered certificate with a special merit designation.
Grades range from C (poor to average) to A plus (highly superior).
The judges of this year’s grading noted a greater professionalism and a greater sense of imagination in college publications.
“More emphasis is being placed on curricular coverage and more space is given to serious aspects of campus life,” Director N. S. Patterson said. “At the same time informality in pictures and copy designed to report interestingly on all aspects of student life are making today’s papers far better than they were ten years ago.”
Judges for the NSYA are professionals in teaching-advisership in college journalism or in newspaper journalism. The service was organized in 1950 as a yearbook service but has expanded to include newspapers.
By (,RE(i KIESELMANN Managing Editor
Warring factions within the Trojan Young Republicans will have their first head on clash tomorrow' w'hen they meet to resolve differences.
The two factions, the conservatives led by Linda Dulgarian, and the liberals headed by Duane Zobrist, have divided the campus group since early last March.
Since April 16. TYR has been in a state of abeyance due to the unresolved split, and Dr. Edward Barker, its faculty adviser, has been officially in charge of the group and labeled as its temporary trustee.
Dr. Barker said that both factions are interested in organizing for the coming year as one party, and Dean of Students Paul Bloland has recog-
DKA shows
'Gulliver's Travels'
“Gulliver’s Travels.” a feature length animated color film will be showTn at 8 tonight in 133 Founders Hall.
The film will be presented by Delta Kappa Alpha, national honorary cinema fraternity, as part of its international animation series, wThich began with “Animal Farm” two weeks ago and will continue biweekly through Dec. 7 with features from France, Japan. Russia ind Czechoslovakia.
‘Gulliver’s Travels” is based on Jonathan Swift's classic romantic satire on the eighteenth century society of England.
This adaptation was produced in 1939 by Max Fleischer, the creator of the cartoon character, Popeye.
“Gerald McBoing Boing,” John Hublev’s now famous version of the charming and poignant Dr. Seuss tale, produced by U.P.A. in 1950, will be the accompanying short.
On Friday, the film “Warlock” will be presented in 133 Founders Hall at 7 and 9:30 p.m., in DKA’s weekly motion picture series. The stars in this western are Henry Fonda. Richard Widmark and Anthony Quinn.
Admission for both films is 50 cents.
CLUB SHOWS SPORTS FILM
Films of the USC • Washington football game, including the valiant four - yardline defensive stand, will highlight today's meeting of the Quarterback Club at noon in 133 Founders Hall.
Heroes of the game and one of the team coaches are expected to be on hand. They are also expected to discuss Saturday’s game with Stanford, for which the Indians have been pointing since they lost to the Trojans last year, 14-0.
nized a TYR group. Leadership of the party is, however, up in the air.
Dr. Barker is particularly anxious for party unity since TYR is supposed to help sponsor the upcoming political week on campus in wrhich major speakers will reportedly attend.
Last March, a majority of TYR members voted to sever relations with its parent organization, the California Young Republicans. Then-president Jim Stauffer led the revolt which garnered the votes of 25 out of 31 persons in attendance.
At the time of the wralkout. one of the party's influentials. Zobrist, summarized the reasons for withdrawing from CYR.
•	The county organizations were pressuring TYR. CYR stands on major issues, which were held contrary
to Republican ideals, had caused a decline in TYR membership.
•	CYR was threatened with loss of its charter from the national organization.
•	Independence would facilitate better use of funds-
•	TYR’s needs and those of CYR were different.
Stauffer and Zobrist at first wanted their walk-out group to be called Trojan Young Republicans since they were in the clear majority. However, the county republicans representing the interests of the state Young Republicans. said they would continue to recognize the minority Trojan Republicans. They were six in strength, and were led by Linda Dulgarian, the daughter of a powerful member of the county Young Republicans.
Stauffer et al decided to call their
organization the USC Republicans but they were never accepted either by the Republican Central Committee or the university.
“To my understanding, the USC Republicans have not submitted an application for university recognition. They have no university sanction and in the eyes of USC, they do not exist.” Clive Grafton, director of student activities said then.
The situation came to a boiling point late in March when a TYR speaker was forced to wfatch a clasn between Stauffer and his officers and Miss Dulgarians alternate delegation which claimed they were the real TYR officers. Grafton, disturbed over the embarrassment to the university, called a meeting of the two factions which accomplished little.
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Pamela Smith, newly chosen queen of Magic Week, receives her first magic lesson from John Zweer, magician
Magicians crown queen to reign over Magic Week festivities
USC co-ed Pamela Smith has been chosen by the Society of American Magicians to reign as queen of Magic Week. Oct. 25-31.
Miss Smith, a senior from Newport Beach, was selected by the national group from codes enrolled in USC drama courses.
“We were looking for a beautiful young woman to represent us,” said John Zweer, national president. “I think we have found one.”
“I’m very pleased and honored,” said Miss Smith. “I’m looking forward to finding out what magic is all about.”
When posing for the DT picture,
she expressed amazement at the secrets of magic. “It's frightening even though I know my hand won’t be cut off.”
SEANCE SCHEDULED
Queen Pamela’s court includes Mary Turner and Linda Hauf, both drama students at USC.
The queen will be crowned Oct. 25 and will appear at several functions, including the highlight of the week—a seance trying to contact the spirit of the great Houdini, a past president of the society.
Throughout the year. Miss Smith will serve as the official hostess for
the magic meetings, being welcomed into the innersanctums of magic and the secrets of its tricks.
MAGIC NIGHT
The purpose behind Miss Smith being selected as queen is the cele-b r a t i o n of National Magic Week, which ends on Halloween night, or Magic Night as the organization calls it. The national group is the oldest one of its kind in the world.
Each year the magicians select a coed from the USC Drama Department as their queen to honor the founding of the local Los Angeles chapter in 1931 on the USC campus.
Juvenile delinquency in Los Angeles: A problem for the Youth Studies Center
By MARY MILLER Feature Editor
A self-centered boy, impulsive and disobedient, is highly suspicious and brutal. He bullies his friends and follows undesirable associates. In sociological terms, he is a juvenile delinquent.
This boy can be helped because his behavior is rooted in a problem qualified guidance counselors can solve. The Youth Studies Center at USC is dedicated to the proposition that the problems of youth can be better understood througli research and training.
FORD FOUNDATION GRANT
Established in 1958 through a Ford Foundation Grant, the center is staffed by a team of sociologists, social workers, psychologists, public administrators and experts in computer technology.
They work with police, courts, correctional institutions and other a-
gencies dealing with juvenile delinquency or underprivileged youth.
The center attempts to discover creative means by which to cope with the increasing problems of youth.
In one of these programs, information on juvenile offenders is fed into a computer to reveal patterns of delinquency.
PROBATION TECHNIQUES
The center is particularly interested in the techniques of probation officers. In order to develop better methods of group guidance, the center supervises the activities of probation offices in three California counties.
Other types of action-research are carried out by social scientists who focus on youth problems as related to the family environment.
Parents are interviewed to determine how their values and prejudices have affected the attitudes and behavior of their children.
The center is particularly interested in the concept that juvenile delinquency is often the result of values that have been transmitted from one generation to another.
One such study was conducted on deviant and non-deviant adolescent boys in suburban Los Angeles schools to determine the factors that cause or prevent criminal behavior.
COMMUNITY CATALYST The center also acts as a catalyst in communities in order to provide more effective plans for meeting the demands of youth.
A study of adolescent girU who follow teenage gangs is one example of a study to discover what is lacking in community activity.
By observing the personality characteristics of these girls, the center was able to determine why they followed the gang and what particular influence they had on gang activities.
Operating out of the Research Annex on Grand Avenue, the Youth Studies Center has conducted numerous studies on the psychology of gangs, particularly the membership, structure, motivation and influence of these groups.
Local gangs were used in the research. Social workers interviewed gang members to determine their personality characteristics and to discover why they joined a gang, what influence the gang has on their 'ives and why they fail to take advantage of Los Angeles County probation programs.
A recent project was concerned with four large gangs in the south central area of Los Angeles. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Los Angeles County Probation Department’s group guidance program for youth and found it le^ than satisfactory.