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Parkinson's Law: Triviality Overcomes All
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
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A Man in Agony:
His Team Lost to California
Vol. XVII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1965
No. 31
RFK Here Friday; ijJSC Officials Confident
Historian to Speak
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York will speak at a special university convocation Friday at 11 a.m, in Bovard Auditorium.
Prior to the convocation,
Kennedy will take part in a short ceremony at 10:30 a.m. on the steps of Doheny Library, the site of the President Kennedy Memorial Plaque.
Kennedy was U.S. Attor- ‘Anna Christie,” the final ney General under his bro- film in the ASSC Cultural Af-ther, the late John F. Kennedy.
'Christie' To Screen Tonight
Dr. Herbert Aptheker, a Marxist - Leninist historian and the unofficial historian of the American Communist Paitv, has been tentatively scheduled to appear on campus Nov. 17.
His speech, sponsored by the ASSC Speakers Committee, will focus on “The Negro Revolt — Its History. Its Meaning, and Its Future.”
Also participating in the
Despite Hoover Changes
science, has also been invited to participate in the panel discussion and subsequent ] question-answer dialogue.
program will be Dr. Charles; fairs Committee s American Hadwen. assistant professor
His visit is part of the Drama Series, will be shown of sociology, and Dr. Joseph Great Issues Forum program tonight at 7 in Hancock Au- Boskin. assistant professor of and was arranged by Jesse ditorium. Admission is 50 history-
Unruh. California State As- cen|_s .	£>r. Fred Krinsky, asso-
sembly speaker.	crrren aHanta ciate professor of political
Unruh. a USC alumnus.	rum is a screen adapta-
contacted the university when ?n . * Puhtzer Pfize-he learned of Kennedy’s pend- ^innin§ drama by Eugene
ing visit to Los Angeles 0ISei11- and stars Greta ASSC President John Sul- Garbo and Charles Bickford,
livan. a member of the Great T^ot revolves around	The invitation to Aptheker
Issues Forum Committee, ^he situations encountered by	marks the second time in the
pointed out that students who a coal barSe captain, a pro-	past year American Corn-
had planned to leave early stitute and a steamship	munist Party officials were
for Saturday's Cal game may stoker.	asked to speak on campus. |
The AMS Speakers Committee invited Dorothy Healey and Ben Dobbs, party tJ1 a t spokesmen, last spring.
But the AMS had just approved a new constitution and elected a new president, and newly-elected Bob Harmon nixed the speech on the basis of the constitution, which did not provide for a speakers policy.
“Aptheker will only incidentally test the meaningfulness. the sincerity, of the speakers policy created by the Student Activities Com-and tentatively ap-! by Pres. Topping,”:
now want to alter the plans The next ASSC film series so they can attend the con- will present silent horror vocation. films. Joyce Brackenbury, co-The Forum committee will chairman, announced that meet today to decide whether two Lon Chaney films will be classes will be dismissed Fri- featured, one of which is day.__"Phantom of the Opera.”
Human Relations Conference Set
Council Demands 10-Acre Cut Back
By MARY MILLER
Confidence that the proposed modification of the Hoover Redevelopment Project will not hinder passage of the controversial measure was expressed by university officials Friday.
“With the changes that Councilman Billy Mills has asked to be made in the plan.
and therefore with his support of it. it would seem that the Hoover Project will no doubt be approved by the City Council.” Leonard Wines, executive director, university planning, commented.
The $50-million-project was sent back to community planners Thursday after undergoing eight years of renewal studies and surveys, i The City Council called for
Applications are now available for the annual Camp Hess Kramer Conference on Human Relations for college students Nov. 19-21 at the Malibu retreat.
Dr. Howard Thurman, minister, author and disciple of Gandhi, will deliver the keynote address, and workshops and discussion will be conducted throughout the weekend.
Applications can be obtained from Sue Hubler, president of the USC Human Relations Committee, in the Ecumenical Center, 835 W. 34th St., Ext. 6110.
The retreat will cost S50, but several full scholarships ■will be given to Trojan students.
The conference theme, “That Men Know So Little of Men,’’ is taken from W.E.B. DuBois “The Souls of Black Folk”:
“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor — all men know something of poverty:
IBM COMPUTER—Alan Rowe, director of the IBM computer center in Bridge Hall, shows how the computer works.
ON IBM COMPUTERS
The machine helps the students solve problems and create hypothetical situ-may face in real
ations that he
life.
not that men are wicked — who is good?
Not that men are ignorant —
what is truth?	;mittee
Nay, but that men know so proved
little of men.”
The conference is b e i n g planned as a meeting ground sa where students from	The
Greg Hill, chairman of the; ASSC Speakers Committee,
Students Work Problems, Play Management Games
umver-
By KAREN PETERSEN
Have you ever thought Student Senate over- that graduating from USC's ities and colleges in the whelmingly approved the in-:School of Business was the Southland can come together. vitation.	!easiest way to get a diploma?
“We will explore human APtheker. a journalist for Then you haven't been relation problems, feelings the Daily Workcr in New downstairs to the computer with regard to their own York’ received his doctorate center in Bridge Hall and
at Columbia University. He seen masses of business stu-wrrote his dissertation on Ne- dents buried in complex equa-gro slave revolt before the tions, accumulating informa-Civil War.	tion to feed the IBM brains
“I don’t think anyone can or observed a beginner check-c on test the intellectual ing his tape as it races (Continued on Page 2) .through the mechanism.
regard to their own identity and that of others, their values, and their future roles in the community,” Miss Hubler said.
Dr. Thurman will deliver his address Friday night, November 19.
Saturday, Nov. 20. will be devoted to small unstructured workshops, in the hopes of developing a more communicative educational experience.
The USC delegation will return to the campus Saturday afternoon for the Homecoming football game with UCLA, and will return to the conference in the early evening.
Six ZBT's
Suspended
For Hazing
By STAN METZLER Co-Night Editor
Six members of Zeta Beta a series of revisions w'hich Tau fraternity have been 3tis-i could trim 10 acres from the pended from the university proposed 177 - acre project, until next semester, the Daily Acting on a motion by Mills. Trojan learned Friday from the council ordered the west informed sources, boundary of the project on The action, taken by Men s Vermont Avenue to be shrunk Judicial, followed closely the and proposed land uses alter- decision of the IFC Judicial ed.	to suspend the fraternity for
Under the new plan, an 11- the semester, acre neighborhood shopping Dean of Men Tom H u I!
. center west of Vermont Ave. again declined to comment on and south of Jefferson Blvd. the action, refusing to con-wili be eliminated in favor of firm or deny the report, housing for families of mod-	To Appeal
erate means or less.	A former ZBT officer said
The area along Vermont his fraternity has accepted Avenue between Exposition the IFC Judicial's ruling, but Boulevard and 36th Street, plans to appeal the decision originally marked for a low against individual members income housing project, will to the Student Conduct Corn-become a commercial center, mittee. a student-faeulty judi-The entire western bounda- cial board, ry on Vermont, which extend- He declined to state th0 ed 400 feet west on the ori- basis of their appeal, ginal plan, will be cut back The six fraternity members
suspended by Men's Judicial members of were the fraternity president.
COLLECTION OF LETTERS
Professors Edit Political Book
Dr. Fred Krinsky and Dr. Gerald Rigby, associate professors of political science, will analyze the dynamics of the American political process in a book to be put on the market next fall.
Krinsky and Rigby signed a contract last week
with the Dickenson Publishing Co. for a book tenatively
Each room, filled with a the quantitative methods variety of blinking machines, class, a required course for is air-cooled to just the right all juniors. With this ap-temperature, and heavy lino- paratus students get a first-leum platforms cover the hand feeling for phrasing the 200 feet floors to support the mam- problems and to see how fast “j COmmend moth-sized computers.	the data is run through the	Council for their pledge father, pledge master.
Supervising the operation machine.	statesmanship in supporting assistant pledge master, sec-
is Dr. Alan Rowe, who came j “It is also with this ma- modification of the plan retary and another active, to USC this year as a quanti- chine that the students play which in many w'ays is an im-	Police Report
tative business analyst after | ‘management games.’ ” Dr. provement of land use. even The secretary was respon-being director of industrial Rowe smiled. “They think up though a reduction of land.” sible for hanging dead fish
dynamics for Hughes Air- a craft.
“There are three basic purposes for the computer center here,” Dr. Rowe said.
“Actually there is very little a computer can do that man can’t do,” Dr. Rowe
hypothetical businessman, Carl Franklin, vice president around the pledges’ necks and pose a problem for him, feed of financial affairs, said. spraying them with a fire ex-the computer pertinent data The original plan set up tinguisher. while the other about it, and eventually the housing areas on either side active fired the starter's pis-machine will make the best of a commercial center, he toi that allegedly caused one decision for the man.	said. The modification would pledge to report the incident
But Dr. Rowe is quick to integrate housing into one to the police, say that man is vital to these ar^f *
Meanwhile, the ZBT's were
added "but the machine does machines. -It won't do man s ,The r,fvised Proposal would forced to vacate their two. it faster with fewer mis- thinking, nor will it operate P|ace thf comment] center story 28th street house by takes.”	without man’s guidance, but across
The LGP-30 Console, for together they can be a signifi-example, is a small, older cant force for our changing computer used by students in world,” he concluded.
Charles Lamb s Works Published by Librarian
MINIATURE BOOK—Wallace Nethery, philosophy brarian, holds small book containing letters of Charles Lamb, which he set by hand on his own press at home.
A minature book Lamb. Bibliophile,” nas been printed on a small hand-operated press by Wallace Nethery, philosophy librarian.
entitled “Commentaries and Sources on American Democratic Government.”
“ ‘Commentaries’ will not be a high school civics book or a study of facts,” Dr. Rigby said. “We hope to put out ;an analysis of the and dynamics of “Charles cratic process.”
Student Teachers Aid Kids'Halloween Show
By NICK SPANOS Assistant Feature Editor
Superman was there. Sev-
was
concepts eral angels and quite a few our demo- skeletons were there also.
It was a hot, smoggy
the line for the tacos and snowcones.
“These are our most popular items, and this is the first year we’ve had them,” Mrs. Shirley Park, chairman of the
Rigby said the book w i 11 Friday afternoon but the Ways and Means Committee, consist of a series of articles 32nd Street Elementary on the most important as-School held its Halloween pects of U.S. government. Festival anyway. And, by the Rigby and Krinsky also!looks of all the costumes and
The book measures 1% by edited “Theory and Practice happy children, it was a great enjoy. There wras also a fish 2% inches and is Vi of an of A m e r i c a n Democracy.” success.	bowl stand, a fishing pond
said.
The apple-bob booth was just one of the many game booths for the children to
inch thick. It contains 24
The School of Education booth and, of course, a bean
pages of excerpts from letters	PI	[provides student-teachers for bag throw.
Lamb wrote to feliow au-|^®*es TOi Ll l\OQ Istroot Srhnni as The festi
clrsriiT wmLTwrs- Photographs Set
worth and Robert Southey about books.
Nethery specializes in the collection of early American editions of Lamb’s works and has printed several essays about Lamb. Nethery is the author of “Charles Lamb in
America to 1848.”
Nethery is a graduate of Union College, Lincoln, Neb., and USC. He has been librarian of the Hoose Library of Philosophy since 1957.
Nethery’s latest publication is set in six-point Bulmer type, a fare characteristic of early 19 th century typography.
The tiny books wrere bound in red leather by Bela Blau of Los Angeles and printed on paper furnished by Saul Marks, master printer.
All February graduates must immediately contact Garfield Photography Studio to make appointments for El Rodeo photographs.
The deadline for dormitory group photographs lias been set as Dec. 1.
Contracts for page space, and payment thereof, are to bo signed by the autho-r i z e d representative of each group and delivered to Mrs. Geni Darnell in 303 Student Union.
Additional contracts, if needed, may be picked up in either the office of Student Publications, 803 Student Union, or in the office of the Dean of Men, 225 Student Union, and the office of lhe Dean of Women, 223 Student Union.
j the 32nd Street School as part of a special teaching pro- the gram.
“Our purpose was to let the children get the Halloween enthusiasm out of their system here in school and not in the neighborhood where it could be dangerous,”
Mrs. Isabel Holt, principal of the school, commented.
There were booths selling miniature plants and small cacti. There W’as a stand selling cacarones, which are decorated eggshells minus the egg yolk and egg white made by the children in several of the classes.
Mrs. Shirley Dixon’s kindergarten class made all of the decorated hats for the school ■ children to wear at the festival. These were on sale at still another booth.
Food abounded as the children continually returned to
festival was held for children to have fun at and to help raise some funds for the school's PTA, Mrs. Holt Stated.
“I also want to thank all the teachers and parents who helped make the festival an enjoyable time for the students and a success for the PTA,” she added.
Helen of Troy Judging to Begin
The first day of preliminary judging for Helen of Troy contestants begins today at 3 p.m.
All women whose last names begin with the letters A through L should report to 229 Founders Hall and between M and Z to 335 Founders Hall at 3 p.m.
the street from the Saturday morning. However, married student housing, they will possibly be allowed w'hich illustrates “a better to meet there on Monday eve-land use.” Dr. Franklin said, nings for leadership meet-!University officials said Fri- ings.
day the modification will not The former officer said the indefinitely postpone a vote fraternity's head trustee, on the measure. Rather, the who is also national ZBT revised plans should be com- vice-president, relieved the
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Dennis Osgood: Trustee Scholar
A gymnast from Park Ridge. III., is one of the 10 Trustee Scholars enrolled in the freshmen class this I semester.
Majoring in languages, Dennis Osgood hopes eventually to either teach foreign languages or possibly enter the Foreign Service. He speaks German and plan3 to minor in French and Russian.
Osgood, graduated from Maine Township High School South, was captain of the gymnastics team in his senior year. He also maintained a 4.0 grade point average.
Active in his church youth group, the gymnast was an officer and president of the Park Ridge chapter of the Methodist Youth Fellowship. He is also a Life Scout.
His school activities include two years on the class council and one year on the student council.
The 18-year-old freshman has spent much time on i variety of parttime jobs. He has worked as a delivery boy for a drug store and a stock boy in a warehouse.
The first Trustee Scholars were named in 1963, and 10 are chosen annually to enter the freshmen class.
This honor is given to those high school students ^ who display achievement and promise in their studies and activities, while demonstrating qualities of char- I acter, leadership and evidence of talent in one or more fields.
The Trustee Scholar designation is an honorary one. but if financial aid is needed, each of the students may receive up to $2,500 annually. This amount covers | tuition, books, living expenses and school supplies.
USC is prepared to spend $100,000 a year to maintain as many as 40 Trustee Scholars on its campus by the fall of 1966. President Topping has revealed.
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