DR: PAUL SALTMAN — CAMPUS CRITIC
•THE ASSOCIATION'
'CHERISHED' GROUP TOPS WEEKEND ENTERTAINMENT
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VOL. XVin	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1966	NO. 4
I can only watch out for myself'
By JOE TETHEROW Contributing Editor
“I don't defend men, I defend principles and ideas.”
Dr. Paul Saltman. professor of biochemistry, was reflecting on the Herbert Aptheker affair.
Dr. Saltman was one of President Topping's strongest supporters of the Board of Trustees in last year’s controversy when the Great Issues Forum brought Aptheker. the historian of the American Communist Party, to the campus.
“The Board of Trustees is fearful of the Communist menace.” he said. The university should be a market for ideas.
He told the trustees that since they elected a president and gave him authority to run the institution, they should let him do it.
“And this is what they did.”
As far as bringing more controversial speakers to the campus, he says. “Every day. let's have 'em."
Unlike most USC scientists, who function rather silently in their test-tube cluttered Hancock laboratories. Dr. Saltman emerges boldly on campus as an outspoken critic of the collegiate scene.
“I've never seen anything so Mickey Mouse as the student politics at this school and the kids who run them.” he says.
He points out that during his 13 vears at USC he has only seen a
couple of administrations that have held sludent interests as their basic aims.
He calls the Row a block of atavism, implying that it is very primitive in its social structure.
“They are not involved in a search for the role of a sorority and fraternity in modern society,” he said. “They are living in the age of F. Scott Fitzgerald.”
Dr. Saltman, who is often called
the Mort Sahl of the Biochemistry Department, is not a cranky scientist favoring the abolition of good times nor does he let his research activities interfere with his social life.
Although his television broke down a year ago because his kids were watching “too much crap,” — and is still broken, he gets his share of activity. “I love to drink. I’ve been known to dance and I have a mad love affair with my wife.”
Although the Biochemistry Department uses graduate students to lead discussion groups Dr. Saltman said. “I do not believe that you use
a graduate student to give the major lectures of the course.
“You do not abdicate your responsibilities to graduate students. I don’t believe in it, I really don't.
“I decry mediocrity, I decry abdication of responsibility, but I can only watch out for myself.”
Dr. Saltman said that as far as he is concerned, the communication between faculty and students is very disappointing.
“My door is always open and nobody walks in. I’m annoyed as hell for all the times I offered the hospitality of my office and nobody has used it. To me it’s a sign of apathy.” Dr. Saltman. who says his major role in life is to convince people how good it is to be a biochemist, feels that there is a large degree of freedom within the university if one wants to accept the responsibility of freedom.
“There is not enough intellectual leadership at this institution,” he said. As a solution he offers. “Everybody get off their ass.”
He said that whether an instructor's strongest motive is teaching or research for publication “is a highly personal type of thing.
“There are many devoted instructors.” he said. “It also has to be recognized that the professor's market value is based on his research. This is the number one marketable item that I have.
“If you don't publish you’re liable to be picking daisies with the coeds at some liberal arts college.”
He said that in the professor market “you put production up front,
how you talk second and what kind of a guy you are is last.
“I was probably the best right-hand hook artist in America in 1949, but I didn’t get All-America because I didn’t move too well to the left.”
“You don’t get ahead by pushing another guy. In the sciences we collaborate. My feeling is everybody gets a piece of the action.”
He pointed out that at other uni-
versities there are competitive groups within the faculty that won't talk to each other.
“It's terrible.” he said, “terrible, my Gcd"
He explained that certain organizations like the Atomic Energy Commission and the Public Health Service issue grants to biochemistry departments that are conducting worthwhile research projects.
“There's a lot of money in this racket,” he said. “Whoever gets the scoop gets the grants. If I don't get money every two or three years, we pack up all the test tubes and silently float away. I have a rat bill that runs
S5.000	a year. I gotta play in the majors, my work has to be good.”
Dr. Saltman doesn’t believe that he has a professor image to uphold. His actions seem to be freewheeling and he functions independently from stereotypes.
“I'm doing the university a favor being here, it's not doing me one." he said.
He doesn't smoke a pipe and hp doesn't wear a herringbone jacket. He usually wears brown Hush Puppy loafers, continental slacks and a golf shirt
“I don't have to have the kind of security that comes from people calling me Professor Saltman. My strength has to come when I look at myself in the mirror in the morning and say. ‘How were ya the day before baby’?”
University of Southern California
MIKE MAYOCK
independent . . .
Engineers get new chairman
Dr. Melvin Gerstein has been named professor and chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Alfred C. Ingersoll. dean of the School of Engineering, has announced.
Assuming his duties with the beginning of the fall semester. Dr. Gerstein has full responsibility for both the educational and research programs of his department.
Formerly president of Dynamic Science. Inc.. of Monrovia. Dr. Gerstein is a specialist in the field of combustion.
He combines interests in chemistry. physics and engineering in attacking the problems of burning — not only in the combustion chambers of rocket and jet engines — but in other applications, such as burning buildings.
CHICAGO DEGREES
Dr. Gerstein received B.S. tnd Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. After holding post-doctorate appointments in the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin in the fields of chemistry and metallurgy', Dr Gerstein spent 13 years with the NAAC-NASA Lev,-is Research Center in Cleveland.
There he held the positions of aeronautical research scientist; chief, Chemistry Branch and deputy chief, Fuels and Combustion Division. During this time he was also a lecturer in chemistry and chemical engineering at Fenn College in Cleveland.
Moving to the West in 1959, Dr. Gerstein became chief of the Physical Science Division of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and senior lecturer in jet propulsion at the California Institute of Technology. Since I960 Dr. Gerstein has been president of Dynamic Science, Inc.
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Tamimi, Mayock gain seats on council
For the first time in USC history, independents will be officially represented on the ASSC Executive Council.
ASSC president Taylor Hackford has appointed seniors Mike Mayock and Sargon Tamimi to the council to represent all independents.
Mayock. transfer from the University of California at Berkeley, was a candidate for student body president last semester on the newly formed Trojan Independent Party ticket.
Tamimi, who is also a transfer student from Berkeley, is an apartment resident and past president of the Men’s Hall Association.
Applications for the position were made available to the student body in the spring of last semester. A selection committee of Hackford {ind ASSC vice-president Bob Braun and Julie Sheehan reviewed the applications and then interview the anplicants.
TOPPING APPROVES
With the approval of Paul Bloland. dean of students and Dr. Norman Topping, Mayock and Tamimi were appointed.
The addition of the two representatives is a result of the new ASSC constitution adopted last semester.
The Trojan Independent Party (TIP) was formed last year for non-Greeks. The pnme movers behind the party were Mayock, Martin Sul-meyer. former pre-idcnt of the Troian Democratic Club, and Jim McGowan.
Alumni suspend IFC also charges
PiKAs;
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SARGON TAMIMI ... representatives
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH Editorial Director
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity has been temporarily suspended by its alumni board and has been forbidden from pledging or hosting any rush functions for an indefinite period.
The fraternity is also facing charges before the Interfraternity Judical Council for an illegal rush function.
The Daily Trojan was not able to determine whether the two incidents
Administration increases night safety precautions
Prompted primarily by several rapist attacks on coeds last semester, the administration has stepped up its night-time safety precautions for students.
Two motorbicycles have been added to the Campus Pclice vehicles for faster patrol. The purchase of bicyles is also being considered because they handle easier and are quieter than the motorbicycles, Elton D. Phillips, business manager, said.
But the head of the Campus Police. Victor Sargent, declined to comment on his department’s role in protecting students at night.
The shuttle bus service introduced last year has been reinstated in the form of an open tram that travels from Tommy Trojan down Hoover Boulevard to 27th Street, circles around down 28th Street and back University Avenue.
The tram completes its route on
campus by passing the women’s and men's dorm complexes to Exposition, returning to the center of campus via Hoover and 36th streets.
The tram service is free this year, Phillips said. It runs from 5:30 to 12:30 p.m.
The escort service which the Interfraternity Council voted last May to provide for sorority girls is still available, but not used as much now as it was last spring, Pat Ryan, IFC adviser, said.
At the request of the university the city plans to install improved street lighting on the Row and in the surrounding area by the end of 1966.
This area is bounded by Hoover and Flower streets and Adams and Jefferson boulevards.
The city police have also given superb cooperation to USC by patrolling the neighborhood around the campus, Phillips said.
It's Elva Miller at halftime
Mrs. Elva Miller, middle-aged singer of rock and roll hits, will perform during half time at Saturday’s Wisconsin game, the first in a series of professional performers to appear at halftime shows. The term perform is obviously used loosely.
The Trojan marching band and traditional card stunts will also be part of the program, along with a pre-game exhibition by the Boy Scouts which will feature 200 American and foreign flags, and the presentation of a plaque to honor the dedication of the von KleinSmid Center.
Mrs. Miller, the 58 year-old Claremont. Calif, housewife whose first album. “Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits,” sold out on the first day of release, will sing “Downtown,” and “Lover’s Concerto.” She is accompanied by a
KAPOW* BIFF! BAM, SOCKO!
New card stunts tomorow night will feature Batman action
are related, but IFC adviser Pat Ryan said PiKA’s double trouble is probably just coincidental.
Dev Leahy, PiKa’s alumni adviser, refused to comment on why the alumni suspended the 40 active members of the fraternity.
Malcolm Reinhardt. PiKA secretary, said the suspension resulted from “incidents during orientation week which the alumni didn’t approve of.” He did not care to elaborate.
ENTIRE HOUSE OUT
Ryan said the alumni suspended the entire house and will hold personal interviews with each fraternity member to decide which ones will be reinstated.
Reinhardt said he did not think the fraternity will have to disband its pledge class, although all further rush functions have been cancelled.
PiKA’s will go on extended rush when their suspension is lifted, he said.
The alumni suspension also forbids the fraternity from holding any
activities which advertise the fraternity name. For example, they are not allowed to display or use their fir° engine, an integral part of PiKA tradition.
“Our alumni said we can live, eat and study in the house, ind that's all,” Reinhardt said.
ILLEGAL FUNCTION
In what may be a related occurence. IFC Judicial has brought charges against the fraternity for holding an illegal rush function during orientation last week.
IFC heard part of the <a3e Wednesday evening and expects to hear the rest next week.
Ironically, the chief .justice of IFC Judicial. Dick Burt, is a member of PiKA and therefore had to remove himself from the formal hearing.
Although he was allowed to remain during the entire session of testimony, he had to leave during the discussion which followed.
Geoff Harding was appointed temporary chief justice to hear the case.
Bam, Pow! Card stunts will mark 45th year
group known as The Young Folk.
The Trojan band will pay tribute to the United Nations and the Boy
Scouts.
Card stunts mil start with a Bat-
man theme, including a Zap! and Crunch! Stunts will also salute the 45th year of card stunts at USC, the Boy Scouts, and KCET, educational television station.
Forty-five years ago the University of Southern California introduced card stunts onto the American athletic scene.
Tomorrow evening at the Coliseum, the University of Southern California will attempt to revolutionize its own invention during an eight-minute card stunt presentation.
Among the 22 stunts will be a Batman salute with Pows, Zams. Pops and Crunches moving quicklv around the card section, accompanied by flashing stars and other comicbook features.
Students who have spent many pleasant halftimes frantically searching through eight double-colored cards for the appropriate color will find the card packet reduced by four, leaving only four cards to frantically search through.
BLACK IN BACK
The stuuta will appear frum a black background, and many students will find that they must hold the same black card for the entire halftime show.
The card stunt section extends from the 50-yard line eastward to the 15-yard line and from the eighth to approximately the 50th row of the Coliseum.
Members of Knights, senior and junior men's service honor organization, will be checking for ticket books and identification cards, which
are also necessary for seating in the card section.
Biescar said a lot of time and effort has gone into making this year's card stunts more successful than ever before, because if they are as sloppy and mismanaged as they have been if the past, the administration has indicated it will end them.
“And it would be very ironic if the university that started card stunts would be one of the first to eliminate them." Biescar said.
WE BLEW IT-AND TWICE YET
Oops, we goofed—twice! In yesterday's story on campus building projects, it was indicated that a portion of tuition revenue is used for such projects. The Daily Trojan was informed bv Leonard Wines, executive director of university planning, that no part of the tuition is included in the construction budget.
An additional Trustee Scholar, Sara Cummins, was overlooked in a previous story’. Miss Cummons. from Ann Arbor, Michigan, will major in French at USC. She was a National Merit Finalist and editor of her school paper.
The Daily Trojan regrets th***** errors.