Grafton Initiates Financial Plan
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1967
NO. 80
A new program to eliminate the need for students to beg funds to finance the Model United Nations, Christmas Project, and other stu-dent-run programs, is underway in the Special Events Office.
Clive Grafton, who replaces Bob Jani today as director of Special Events, said that this is the most important project his office has planned for the semester.
Jani was feted yesterday by the Special Events staff, who took their director of 8 years to lunch. They returned to a farewell party at the Special Events Office, which was decorated in “Tribute to the Jani Years.”
STUDY CONDUCTED
Graiton said a sLudy is being conducted to determine what USC students want and need, and what they aie willing to pay for. The student heads of school programs must f end too much time raising funds, h? said, and a student assessment to help cover the cost of Troy Camp, professional entertainment, and many other programs, would be practical.
He said the study indicates that students are willing to bear the costs, which might run to $100,000. Most state colleges and universities spend much more than this. Graiton said.
REORGANIZATION
The other topic oi concern to the new director is reorganization of the office. “We fairly well know what we re planning for." he said-
‘The evaluation of the university's programs in the special events area is going to be the most difficult. We want to build on student foundations and create a good atmosphere within the university. I'm hoping that there will be a closer link with the associated students.-’
The office is in a constant state of re-evaluation. Grafton said, since its main job is to serve the students.
Grafton former director of student activities, received his appoint-
ment to special events when Jani announced his resignation to devote full time to his public relations firm.
Since the two offices work very closely, Grafton said no new student activities head will be appointed. He has added Carl Emerich to the two staffs as his assistant. Emerich has been a graduate student here, and is a former IFC president.
“I think its going to be very interesting. It's an area where you can play a crucial role in the life of the university,” said Grafton about his new post.
He said he is also working on establishing a student leadership library to provide a resource area for student leaders. Sharing ideas with olher schools would be beneficial for all, he said.
Grafton said although his job officially starts today, he has been reviewing his duties with Jani for almost two weeks. He has also been talking to his staff, which will remain in the office in the Student Union. Grafton will remain in his YWCA office.
SAME OFFICE
Student activities will remain under the direction of the special events office, Grafton said. He is especially anxious to see through a number of projects he started earlier this year. Songfest, the Great Issues Forum, and high school relations are some of the programs which will be handled through both offices.
“There are a tremendous number of needs," said Grafton about projects under his guidance. The prime problem is to discover what areas of student life need changing, and how to bring about these changes.
“It's really a great time in this university's history,” he said. “I am really training for the future, and eventually I would enjoy being a dean of students.” Grafton said he is definitely planning to continue working with students.
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1967-68 Yell
Leader Post
Four familiar faces and three new ones will be in front of the USC cheering section next year.
Returning as members of the 1957-68 yell squad will be Jeff Herten, 1966-67 yell king, Jim Brown, Roland Foss and Pat Larkin. Joining these old-timers will be Dean Bower, Rusty Jordan and Dan Scott.
Waiting in the wings in case one or more of the star performers is out of commission are Bill Caldwell, Greg Post and Frank Reina, the reserve yell squad.
, Lindley Bothwell, USC's first yell king (in the mid-1920’s) and now yell instructor for the squad, will meet with the new yell leaders for practice sessions today and Friday at 3 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
Announcement of the 1967-68 yell squad was made by Clive Grafton. who takes over the post of director of special events today after a year and a half as student activities advisor.
The squad was selected following tryouts and personal interviews by a committee composed of Grafton, Bothwell, ASSC President Taylor Hackford and Yell Leader Clyde Doheney, representing this year's yell squad.
The squad itself will select its own yell king before the first football game next September.
The selection committee felt this way would be better than the customary method of a student body election (which was abandoned last semester).
Herten and Scott are members of Kappa Alpha; Brown is a PiKA; Larkin a Sigma Chi; Bower an SAE; Jordan a Fiji; Caldwell a Kappa Sig; Post a Lambda Chi; and Foss and Reina are independents.
GOOD-BYE TO JANI — Clive Grafton, who will begin his duties as director of special events today, presents
Bob Jani, out-going director, with the Meriteriou* Service Award at a farewell party for Jani yesterday
ASSC Student Court Awaits Official Sanction
B> JACK REES CHAPPELL Co-News Editor
The debates ragirg on campus concerning USC's proposed membership in the National Students Association seem somewhat like old “Perils of Pauline" flicks. The only sure thing about them is that they will be continued.
During an Tnterfraternitv Council debate yesterday on the question of USC membership in NSA, Taylor Hackford, ASSC president, said that he is less concerned with the political ends of NSA than with the effect the student organization will have on USC student government.
EFFECT ON USC
During an Interfraternitv Council debate on the question of USC membership in NSA, Hackford said that he is less concerned with the political ends of NSA than with the effect the student organization will have on USC.
“USC ic isolated as far as student government goes. This will bring us clospr to the rest of the colleges in the United States." he said.
“We W'ant student government to become the real voice of the students. There are things that student government can do that no one else can do.”
Hackford saw NSA as a means of 1'icreasing student government activities on the camnns, citing the faculty evaluation handbook and Scaffold ps ^xpmnles of NSA ideas adopted to USC. ‘
EXPECTED ON BALLOT
Hackford said that he did not oppose the referendum move by campus activist organization, and that the referendum system was consistent with democratic processes. He said that he expects to see the question on the April ballot.
Carl Richards, senior class president, who presented the con side of the debate asked the IFC members If the $200 annual membership fee to NSA couldn’t be better spent on the campus. Besides the membership fee. Richards said that regional costs and delegate expenses would increase the cost of joining the association.
USC's initial fee for joining NSA would, howrever, be $13 plus regional costs and delegate's expenses. After
for NSA
Debated Book Traces
Development
Of German
the first year of membership, the fee would be $200.
Richards pointed out that should USC join NSA the money for membership would come from the tuition paid by students. He questioned whether the majority of USC students would want this money being spent for support of an organization wiiich espoused withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, legalized abortion, and legalized marijuana.
FORCE INTEGRATION
Richards charged that fraternity nationals were concerned about NSA and that the student organization had tried to force integration in fraternities.
No IFC action was taken concerning IFC's part in the NSA question pending a debate between IFC advisor Pat Ryan and a representative of NSA. This debate will be at the next IFC meeting, March 16 at the Lambda Chi Alpha house.
“A History of the German Language,” a 320-page book designed for the English - speaking student of German has been written by Dr. John T. Waterman, chairman of the linguistics program and professor of German. The book is being published by the University of Washington Press.
No comparable work is available in English nor are there any such thorough histories of the German language currently in print in the United States.
Dr. Waterman has been a faculty member since 1948. He is a former chairman of the Department of German and is a graduate of Washington University at St. Louis and UCLA. He did graduate work at Yale.
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH City Editor
The ASSC Student Body Court is in the process of receiving the university's official sanction and will be fully approved when the court holds its first meeting Sunday night.
The Student Activities Committee recommended that the university approve the court in a letter to Dean of Students Paul A. Bloland. The court will not be completely sanctioned, however, until Dean Bloland makes a written statement to that effect.
However. Bloland said he “looks wih favor” upon the Student Activities Committee’s recommendation and has already given his verbal approval to Dan Montrenes, chief justice of the court.
Montrenes emphasized that once the court goes into operation, it will be strictly an appellate body: that is. it cannot originate its own legislation.
“Students must come to us with grievances,” he said. “We cannot and will not' go to them.”
The court’s jurisdiction falls into six areas:
(1)	The court can adjudicate in cases of grievances against the ASSC Executive Council, ASSC committees and ASSC representatives. .
(2)	The court can determine the culpability (blame) in cases of grievances against ASSC officials for misfeasance (an illegal act), malfeasance (misconduct in office) or nonfeasance (failure to act).
The court can thus, on the request of the Executive Council, adjudicate on the shortcomings of an elected official in carrying out the duties of his office.
(3)	The court can, upon request, determine the constitutionality of any act of the ASSC Executive Council or its committees.
(4)	The court can render advisory opinions and effect decisions or arbitrate on intramural disputes involving student organizations.
For example had the court been in existence last year, it could have made a ruling on the dispute over the legitimacy of the two Trojan Young Republican factions.
(5)	The court can render advisory opinions on grievances submitted by ASSC members and involving parties outside the ASSC structure (i.e., faculty and administration).
This provision would have enabled the court to make an advisory recommendation to the administration in last semester’s controversy over the hanging of a fraternity banner on campus.
(6)	The court is entrusted with the powers defined in Articles 7 and 8 of the ASSC Constitution.
These include the power to recommend the removal of an elected official in a special election or by a vote of the Executive Council and
ruling on the constitutionality of student petitions (such as TYR’s NSA petition).
The court will also serve the function of the defunct Election Board of Appeals.
Grievance forms for court hearings are available in the Student Activities Office in the YWCA. When a form has been filled out, it will be fonvarded to the court.
One of the first items on the court’s agenda concerns a ruling on the eligibility of part-time students to vote in ASSC elections.
The seven court justices are Montrenes, chief justice. Glen Cass, Melodie McLennan. Roland “Happy” Trope, John Wardwol, Mike Muench and Jeff Robinson. Neil Bardack and Tom Kristovich are alternate justices.
They were selected in November by a committee consisting of Bloland: Clive Grafton, then director of student activities; and ASSC President Taylor Hackford.
Former Dean Will Head New Philosophy Program
EDUCATING THE UNEDUCABLE
Johnny Can Be Taught
Johnny S., age 4, exists; but he does not live.
He doesn’t speak, play with other children, or respond to affection.
His behavior is limited to the constantly repeated rituals of spinning the wheels of a toy truck, of running round and round, of crashing into wralls and furniture.
He suffers from autism, one of the most severe forms of psychosis known, and perhaps the greatest conceivable impediment to learning.
For many years, children such as Johnny have been carelessly labeled as retarded.
They have been considered un-educable, and few have tried to teach them anything.
Not so with Dr. Laurence Peter, professor of education, whi has rejected the term retardation to concentrate instead on the training of teachers for just such handicapped and disturbed children.
His prescriptive teaching, developed after years of research, is a pre-
scription for the education of the autistic child.
And the proof of Dr. Peter’s success lives in the number of children he has personally helped,
“Teaching the autistic child is to me the biggest possible challenge,” he explained recently.
“These youngsters are not retarded in the traditional sense; they have intelligence, but suffer from a severe communications defect.
“Unlike normal kids, who learn even if the teaching process has gaps in it, the autistic child learns only as the result of being taught painstakingly and through combined stimulus and reinforcements every step of the way, leaving nothing to chance.”
The first stimulus may be a block or wooden peg, Dr. Peter explained. The child is taught to respond to it by, for example, placing the peg in
a hole. This response to the stimulus
is then reinforced by giving the child some candy as a reward.
The process is repeated, always using both the stimulus and the reinforcement, until the child eventually understands such perceptual demands as “give the block to me.”
When the child learns to give the block to the teacher, the behavior is reinforced by an affectionate pat on the head, or by verbal congratulations.
The separate use of stimulus and reinforcement is not original, but Dr. Peter’s integration of stimulus with reinforcement, and its repeated use, is.
Dr. Peter, a former professor at the University of British Columbia, is especially concerned that children suffering from handicaps not be automatically referred to such diagnostic and treatment resources as hospitals, child guidance clinics and social agencies.
He considers them “roads away from education.”
And he sees prescriptive teaching as a road back.
Dr. Geddes MacGregor, former dean of the Graduate School of Religion, will head a new School of Philosophy program on religion as a distinguished professor of philosophy.
A combined undergraduate and graduate School of Religion was formed last month with Dr. John Cantelon, chaplain, as its director.
Dr. MacGregor will establish a fourth-option of study for both levels of students in the School of Philosophy, which will lead to a Ph.D. in the philosophical study of religion.
Current options are studies of logic, the history of philosophy and metaphysics.
Dr. MacGregor will teach three classes beginning in September.
Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion and Problems in the Philosophy of Religion will be open to seniors. There will also be a graduate seminar on important philosophical personalities.
Dr. MacGregor holds Oxfords highest degree, the doctor of divinity; a French docteur-es-lettres. summa cum laude, from the Sorbonne: a Ph.D. from Oxford: and a bachelor of laws from Edinburg University.
He is the author of 14 books, including “The Hemlock and the Cross.” which was awarded the Gold Medal of the San Francisco Commonwealth Club in 1963. and “Introduction to Religious Philosophy,” which he will use as a text in one of his classes.
He plans to publish “The Sense of Absence” and a book on the Bible later this year.
Dr. MacGregor taught at the Edinburg Department of Logic and Metaphysics before coming to the United States in 1949 as the first holder of the Rufus Jones Chair of Philosophy and Religion at Bryn Mawr College.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London.
DR GEDDES MacGREGOR
Heads Philisophy Program
'’EARNEST' TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE
Tickets for Oscar Wilde’s play. The Importance of Being Earnest, go nn sale today at Bovard box office.
The production, staged by William C. White, will run March 8 through March 17 at Stop Gap Theatre.
“The division of drama is recognized at home and abroad as one of the most vitally creative and exciting acting groups present on any campus in the country. USC students should be anxious to support this department in every way possible,” said Bob Shipp, promo> tional assistant for the show.
Tickets are $1.50 for weekday performances and $2 for weekends. Students with activity books receive a $1 discount.