Hyde Park area considered
University of Southern California
DAILY # TROJAN
VOL. LVIII
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1966
NO. 27
Proposal for 3-hour final tests
rejected
By CINDY NALLEY
USC students will not have to face three-hour final examinations, according to a decision of the University committee on Academic Affairs. The decision was made following a thorough investigation of the issue.
The committee took the issue under consideration in response to a letter from the Senate Executive Committee chairman and a recommendation from the University Committee on Scholarship Standards. These recommendations were based on a poll of the faculty showing half of the respondents favoring a three-hour exam schedule.
Pros and cons of the issue centered around the educational value of the exam, said Dr. Leslie A. Chambers. chairman of the Academic Affairs Committee.
AMPLE OPPORTUNITY
“The issue was evident. Most of the committee members felt strongly that two-hour exams provided an smple opportunity to supply the depth of a student's knowledge." said Chambers.
The final exam coupled with other exams during the semester and personal contact with the student was deemed sufficient to give the teacher an indication of the student's ability.
As far as the committee is concerned. the issue of three-hour exams will not be brought up again unless requested by the vice-president of academic affairs. This is the second time that such a proposal has been discussed by the committee-
TICKET BOOK SALES END
Because of the heavy demand for USC-UCLA game tickets and the necessity of the Ticket Office to promptly reassign all season tickets (this is UCLA's home game), sale of student activity books will be stopped at 5 p.m. Monday, Elton D. Phillips, business manager, announced yesterday.
Students are again reminded that 1he exchange deadline for the UCLA game coupon in their activity books is Nov. 4.
ASSC study group working on proposal; faculty may endorse
By STAN METZLER News Editor
The Faculty Senate will consider today a proposal endorsing the establishment of a no-restrictions Hyde Park area on campus.
The proposal, currently under study by a special ASSC committee, would set aside a certain area where any student, or any nonstudent sponsored by a recognized student group, could speak, distribute
literature or solicit funds during day-
VKC tower
banner race open to frats
WOULD YOU BELIEVE "GHOSTS?"-No, not the ones
in the picture. That's the name of the drama by Henrik Ibsen which will be the first mainstage production of the 1966-67 theater season. Rehearsals are in progress
with (from left to right) Valerie Masset, Gar Campbell, Jill Alexander, Lance Larsen and Gene Carlson. The play opens Nov. 3 and runs through Nov. 12. Curtain time is 8:30 p.m. at Bovard Auditorium.
Bonfire and rally will highlight finale of Troy Week activities
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH Editorial Director
The bonfire will be blazing at the intersection of University Avenue and Childs Way. The band will strike up “Conquest.” And Traveler will come roaring down Childs Way.
Approximately 18 hours later, the USC Trojans will meet the UCLA Bruins on the Coliseum gridiron for the culmination of Troy Week, which will end at approximately 4 p.m., hopefully not with a whimper but with a bang.
The highlight of the week beginning Nov. 15 preceeds the probable Rose Bowl showdown and will be the first legitimate bonfire on campus in 15 years. Through the efforts of Troy Week Chairman Clyde Doheney. the fire will takfe place in the hub of campus activity, right in front of Tommy Trojan-
The police and fire departments felt that a controlled bonfire was preferable to the spontaneous,
Thomas W to discuss
Thomas W. Braden, president of the State Board of Education, will speak on “Does It Make Any Difference?" today at noon in front of the von KleinSmid Center.
Braden, who has been speaking
. Braden
election
THOMAS W. BRADEN "Does It Make Any Difference?"
this fall on behalf of the Democratic ticket, will discuss the significance of the Nov. 8 elections in California.
The speech^ sponsored by the Po-
litical Science Department, Pi Sigma Alpha and campus political clubs, is part of Election Analysis ‘66.
Braden, who was a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in the June primary, heads the Board of Education committees which are in charge of federal aid to education and licensing standards for California. He has been a member of the board since 1959 and its president since June of 1961.
He is also a member of committees dealing with school finance, basic economic education and Bill of Rights instruction.
Editor and publisher of the Blade-Tribune of Oceanside, Braden has also written for a number of national magazines, including Look, Saturday Evening Post and Salurday Review.
A native of Dubuque, Iowa, he holds a B.A. degree and an honorary M.A. from Dartmouth College. He taught English at Darthmouth and served as assistant to the presider* of the college.
From 1951 to 1954. he was assistant to Allen Dulles, director of the U.S. Intelligence Agency. He served as a parachutist with the U.S. Army’s Office of Strategic Services during World War II.
Dr. Totton J. Anderson, professor of political science and specialist on California politics, will also speak on “Parties, Politics and Issues of the 1966 Campaign” today at 2:30 p.m in 152 von KleinSmid Center in connection with the election lecture se-
“underground” types which have a habit of starting on the Row, Doheney said.
The fire will be kindled in a steel tank bottom, 20 feet in diameter and one inch thick. Three inches of sand will be on the bottom of the tank to prevent the heat from melting the tar of the street.
More than 125 cubic feet of burning material, probably either railroad ties or shopping pallettes, will be used for firewood.
The bonfire will be lit at about 7:30 p.m. on the evening of Nov. 18, following the presentation of house decoration awards by Helen of Troy.
HELEN CROWNED
Helen will be crowned the previous Saturday night, Nov. 12, at the President's Ball in the Grand Ballroom of the International Hotel. Tickets are on sale at the YWCA and in living groups for $5 a couple.
Following the presentation of the awards, the bonfire will be lit and the yell leaders will conduct a 45-minute rally.
Doheney said he hopes to have a couple of coaches present at the rally. He had hoped to invite 1962 quarterback Pete Beathard and 1964 Heisman Trophy winner Mike Garrett, both now of the Kansas City Chiefs, to appear at the rally, but they will tioth be in Boston for a football game that weekend
GARRETT MAY CALL
However, if the arrangements can be made, Doheney said Garrett may phone in a message to the rally, which will be heard over a special public address system setup.
The band will march down Childs Way and take part in the rally. Climaxing it will be Traveler’s appearance.
Following the rally and dousing
of the bonfire, a street dance will take place until approximately 10:30 p.m.
Yell leader Pat Larkin, who is in charge of the bonfire-rally, has arranged with McKeever’s and several other local campus hot-spots, to serve pitchers of beer at reduced prices.
All fraternities are being invited to participate in a contest to design the most spirited banner to inspire Trojans in their fight against UCLA.
The banner will be displayed on top of the Von KleinSmid Tower facing the Harbor Freeway on Nov. 14 and will remain there through the week preceding the USC-UCLA game on Nov. 19.
The banner can be no larger than 10 by 25 feet, but lettering must be large enough to be seen clearly from the freeway. It must be made of sturdy, untearable material, to withstand the wind and hold the guide-wires. The slogan must be spirited but in good taste.
Fraternities interested in participating may sign up at the Student Activities Office at the YWCA by Nov. 2.
Banners must be ready by Nov. 7, at noon, when they will be exhibited in front of the fraternity houses. They will be judged and the winner announced that afternoon.
The winning house will have its Greek letters put on the banner after the contest is judged. No letters should be exhibited in the original entries.
Pat Ryan, assistant dean of men, said, “This is an excellent campus activity and a good way for fraternities to show their interest in campus affairs.”
Board of Trustees adds woman member
Phyllis Norton Cooper has been elected the second woman member of the Board of Trustees.
Mrs. Cooper will attend her first board meeting on Dec. 7 as one of three alumni trustees. The others are General Alumni Association President Winston R. Fuller and Past President Charles S. Boren. Mrs. Cooper is presidentelect of the association.
Trustees are elected by the board as a whole, under the direction of Frank L. King, chairman.
Mrs. Cooper was graduated from the USC Law Center in 1938 and was the first woman in 65 years to be elected president of the Law Alumni Association in 1962.
She will be the first woman president of the General Alumni Association in 44; years.
As an undergraduate, Mrs. Cooper >tais vice president of the student body, a member of Delta Sigma Rho, a debate honorary, and was an Amazon. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar- Board, Alpha Chi Omega and earned her B.S. magna cum laude in 1935.
She was on the staff of the Law Review, and was president of Phi Delta Delta, professional law fraternity for women.
PHYLLIS NORTON COOPER New Board of Trustees member
DO THEY WANT TO KNOW US?'
Faculty questions alienation
By STAN METZLER News Editor
“The real question,” the faculty member said, “is whether the students actually want to know us.
“And if so, for advice, or for friendship; as faculty members, or as minds.”
The question, posed at the YWCA’s first faculty-student brew yesterday afternoon, hardly seemed at first glance to require an answer.
First glance, because that is all it took to look about the sparsely populated room, notice the invited professors, the YWCA organizers, the administration representatives.
A first glance, a brief first glance, to see that no students had come up on their own; to cause a faculty member to ask, “What makes us feel we’re so magnetic the students can’t stay away.”
The brew was attended by Dr. Ross Berkes, international relations; Dr. Robert Coon, French; Marlynn
May, Presbyterian campus pastor; Dean of Women Joan Schaeffer; and various YWCA representatives.
The announced topic for discussion was the problem of deisolation of the, students, but the main gist of talk soon turned to whether or no the really wanted to be deislated and put in closer touch with the faculty.
“We’re available at any time. All they have to do is walk up and see us,” one noted.
“Except for classes or committees. I’m in my office all day,” another said. “I’ll talk to any student anytime about anything he wants to talk about.”
Generally, the members agreed that there is a need for better faculty-student relationships, noted that they are all for it, and opined that, judging for frequent complaints, the students actually did want it.
“I don’t think I’m so forboding a figure,” one said. “But the student must decide that he’s going to get something from me that he can’t get from his roommate or classmate.”
light hours.
In effect, the proposal would ask the university to abdicate its responsibility for this area.
The study committee, cochaired by Stu Benjamin, AMS president, and John Wardlow, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for Better Parks at USC, will present its own revised proposal to the ASSC Executive Cabinet next Sunday.
The Faculty Senate Executive Committee, which will meet at 2:15 this afternoon, will be asked to give its endorsement by Dr. Robert Coon, associate professor of French, and a member of the committee.
ENDORSES POLICY
It was the committee’s endorsement of a proposal to allow on campus any speakers with an “academic, cultural or social contribution” that led to the Board of Trustees adopting the present speakers policy in April, 1965.
The ASSC study committee will meet also with Dean of Students Paul Bloland this afternoon to seek a precise definition of that policy.
Basically, the policy allows any such speaker, when sponsored by a student group, to appear—upon the approval of Dean Bloland or by appeal to the Student Activities Committee or Dr. Topping.
The new proposal, as it now stands, would change this administration approval to 24 hours notification, and would place all responsibility on the student groups sponsoring the outside speakers.
The current proposal, without changes, reads that an area on campus “shall be available, excluding the hours of darkness, for the following:
“1. Any speech or distribution of literature by any student registered at USC.
“2. Upon notification of time and activity, in writing, on a sheet in the Student Activities Office at least twenty-four hours in advance, any recognized student group may either bring in any nonstudent speaker, or solicit funds, or distribute literature and set up a table for same, or any combination of those activities.
POSTS SCHEDULE
“A schedule of these notifications shall be posted in the Student Activities Office.”
This proposal was presented last Sunday evening to the ASSC Executive Cabinet by the Ad Hoc Committee for Better Parks, a broadly-based group originally set up under the aegis of Students for a Democratic Society.
SDS. however, has not stepped completely out of the picture, and the future of the proposal is in the hands of the ASSC and, pending approval, the Faculty Senate.
Other members of the ASSC study group are: Bruce Jones, a senior in the School of Law and member of the Ad Hoc committee: Bob Braun. ASSC vice-president; Nancy Perryman. WHA president; Jane Cooker, Panhellenic Council president.
RECOMMENDS AREA
The group will recommend an area, probably the park between Bovard and Founders Hall, and make small grammatical changes in the proposals.
The Faculty Senate Executive Committee is chaired by Dr. John E. Elliot, associate professor of economics.
Hyde Park, the name of a popular intellectual gathering place in London, is also the name of a no restriction area at the University of Berkeley. UCLA has a similar area near its Student Activities Center.
The setting up of a Hyde Park area on campus has long been desired by isolated student groups, but this is the first concentrated university-wide student effort.
Because of this, the proposal s prime movers expect their action to succeed.
“We are trying to deal with the university administration in a responsible way,” Wardlow said.
At a meeting with Dean Bloland last week, however, members of the Ad Hoc Committee were given little hope for success in the near future.
At that time Bloland pointed out that the university was being asked to abdicate responsibility for t.hia area, opined that a Constitutional amendment would have no effect on the policy, and stated:
“This isn’t going to change tomorrow. Policy just isn’t changed like that.”	.