Schumarry Chao
USC Coed Is Chinese New Year Queen
A USC coed has been chosen to reign over the Chinese New Year festival in Los Angeles Feb. 10 and 11.
She is Schumarry Chao, 20-year-old native of Mukden, China and pre-med student at USC.
Miss Chao was named Miss Chinatown of 1967 by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles, and will appear in the traditional Chinese New Year parade in Chinatown Friday night.
She and her parents left Mukden at the time of the Communist takeover and went to Hong Kong. When Schumarry was 10, her family moved to the United States.
Miss Chao, who has long been interested in science and mathematics, has found her greatest challenge in mastering the English language.
She majored in pre-med and psychology and will earn her bachelor's degree in June.
Miss Chao has maintained a near 3.5 grade point average while at USC and has broadened her experience with outside activities relating to her field.
She has been accepted by a number of medical schools including USC's School of Medicine but has not made a choice of which she will
attend.
University of Southern California
DAILY® TROJAN
VOL. LVin
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1967
NO. 67
Faculty Told LBJ Suffers Crisis of Communication
By STAN METZLER Assistant to the Editor
President Johnson deserves to suffer from his credibility crisis, a noted news analyst told the faculty yesterday, because “he can look a video camera in the eye and lie to that screen and to the millions of people watching him.”
Speaking at the semester’s first Faculty Luncheon, Cecil Brown, KCET director of news and public affairs, said in his speech, “A Look at American Policy,” that most public leaders suffer from a crisis of communication.
The President, he explained, is often not believed when he tells the truth because his listeners fail to take into account what he says by both word and deed.
Thus his comment last year that the United States would do “everything that is necessary” to win the war in Vietnam was taken at face value by many hawks, who now feel betrayed because he isn’t doing literally “everything.”
Taken in consideration with the
President’s other speeches and many actions, however, Brown noted that what he was and is saying is that he “plans to make the U.S. the policeman of the world; to stop aggression wherever it occurs.”
It is not important whether the President can or would stop all aggression, Brown noted, but that he has this intention, and has been trying to communicate it to the American people.
Gov. Reagan, Brown said, also suf-
fers from a crisis of communication, and is therefore as baffled as many observors at the hue and cry being raised over the measures he has taken in the last 39 days.
“During his campaign he made clear he would change the direction of the state, reform the university, bring about fiscal responsibility,” he explained.
“Nobody can say he is deceiving the voters. He is giving tne people what he said he would give them.”
Forty years of viewing the nation and world and of playing “instant historian” every night has not, Brown revealed, made him a cynical man.
“Rather, I consider the U.S. foreign policy since 1945 to be the most generous, altruistic, decent and honorable pursued by any nation in the whole history of mankind,” he said.
And if it doesn’t always seem that way, he implied, you can look for a crisis in communication.
TYR President Attacks TYD Policies on Tuition
By NANCY PERRYMAN
Politics is embedded in the mainstream of American thought and with politics comes controversy.
The political factions at USC have not been able to escape this intrinsic quality of political challenge.
The newly-formed Trojan Young Democrats have garnered the ardent and demonstrative opposition of the long-established TYR.
With the announcement that TYD will join in Saturday's march to Sacramento. TYR President Linda Dulgarian charged the behavior of the campus Democrats as “unacademic and downgrading.”
In a statement released yesterday,
Miss Dulgarian asserted that the Young Democrats have made no effort to investigate the need for the imposition of tuition at the University of California.
“The Young Democrats have made no effort to see whether or not university costs can be cut and needless expenditures eliminated without injffiring the efficiency and high academic rating of the University of California,” she said.
She further accused the organization of having acted like a lynch mob.
“TYD has blindly accused Governor Reagan of charges that they have not investigated and they insist on their unreasonable march even though Gov. Reagan has agreed
Ferrante & Teicher To Appear Tonight
The stage of Bovard Auditorium will be filled with "The Sights and Sounds of Ferrante and Teicher,” tonight beginning at 8 p.m.
Tickets will cost $2 for USC students and personnel and $3 for the general public.
The program will feature the virtuosity that has earned the duo the nation's highest renown.
The team made their claim to fame with a rendition of “Theme from the Apartment.” and reasserted that claim with a stirring arrangement of "Exodus.”
Since then they have recorded
“Tonight.” “Cleopatra.” “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” “Lara’s Theme from Doctor Zhivago,” “The Bible,” “Is Paris Burning” and many others.
Recent releases by the duo are “You Asked For It!” and “A Man and A Woman.”
The team has garnered ten gold records and has sold over 15 million records.
Appearances with Danny Kaye, Johnny Carson, Ed Sullivan, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Garry Moore and Steve Allen have made them familiar to the American public.
to sit down and calmly discuss the issues with the student body leaders from the nine UC campuses,” she continued.
TYR takes issue with the implementation of marches as an effective manner of persuasion since they hinge on the verge of civil disobedience, Miss Dulgarian said.
TYR has intimated they believe the proposed action of TYD is a poor reflection on the university.
“We hope the members of Trojan Young Democrats reconsider their protest march until they have thoroughly investigated the issue and have had an opportunity to talk with the governor.
“In this way, the Young Democrats can better uphold the high academic standards at USC,” Miss Dulgarian said.
TYR further reinforced its position by adopting a resolution at it’s meeting yesterday which is in complete support of the proposed tuition charges at the University of California.
The resolution cites economic policies and taxation as the principle evidence for their support.
“According to UCLA professors of economics Armen A. Alchiam, Jack Hirshleifer and Roland McKean, 72 per cent of the 18-year-olds from families with incomes over $14,000 are in college but only 12 per cent from families with less than $2,000 annual income are in college, making education taxes bear more heavily on the poor,” the statement reads.
The resolution also encourages allocation of a portion of the moneys received from tuition to scholarship funds to assist needy students.
JUNK DEALER'S PARADISE - ASSC President Taylor Hackford is visibly absent as members of Kappa Alpha Order prepare to demolish his old Chevy in KA's first
annual Destruction Derby. The smashing event is set for 1 p.m. tomorrow on the lawn in front of the KA house, located at 700 W. 28th St.
Hackford's Chevrolet Subject Of 1st KA Destruction Derby
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH City Editor
Goldfish - swallowing, telephone-booth-stuffing, Volks-totes and pancake eating contests are passe as far as the rrten'of Kappa Alpha Order are concerned. Destruction derbies are the coming thing.
The fraternity will therefore sponsor its first annual Destruction Derby tomorrow beginning at 1 p.m. on the front lawn of their house, located at 700 W. 28th St.
The car that will be the object of destruction is a green 1953 Chevrolet that once belonged to Taylor Hackford, ASSC president and a member of Kappa Alpha. It was thro ugh Hackford’s neglect that the car became available.
“Hackford had been driving it
DR. MANUEL GUERRA
Spanish Prof to Run for School Board
By ANN SALISBURY Assistant City Editor
Dr. Manuel H. Guerra, assistant professor of Spanish, has announced his candidacy for the Los Angeles Board of Education.
Dr. Guerra, who is running for office No. 3, presented his platform yesterday in an interview with the Daily Trojan.
He called for new ways of financing schools and assistance from federal and state sources.
Dr. Guerra said he believes the language problems of the L.A. public schools are basic, and he intends to explore reasons for the language barrier and support only the programs that are commensurate with the latest research of the Modern Language Association of America.
He emphasized a more effective English program for Spanish-speaking children, and greater use of Spanish in the counseling program.
Dr. Guerra charged that the present counseling program is the “Achil-
DR. MANUEL GUERRA Board of Education Candidate
les heel” of the L.A. public school system, and that it lacks imagination and resourcefulness.
“I believe the counseling program is badly in need of reappraisal and that it is not doing the job of effective guidance, testing and counseling, particularly with children of minority background,” he said.
Dr. Guerra accused one of his opponents, Dr. Julian Nava, a professor at Valley State College, of having support from the far and new left.
“A convention was held in East Los Angeles which was rigged by the far left, and instead of having an open forum and discussion of platforms concerning basic issues, they stacked the convention in favor of my opponent.
“My right of frej speech was abridged when I was denied the right to answer questions from the floor according to convention rules.
“I walked out with a number of delegates. The second candidate refused to attend,” Dr. Guerra said.
Dr. Guerra’s other opponents are incumbent Charles Reed Smoot, whom he considers ultra-conservative; an architect named Zimmerman; and Mrs. Julia Mount Aclu.
Dr. Guerra believes the tensions between the Latin American and Negro citizens of Los Angeles have been greatly exaggerated.
“There are some areas of friction among the minorities just like there are problems between the non-minority citizens and one from a minority background, but by and large there is less competitiveness between them, and violence only erupts in very limited situations,” he said.
Dr. Guerra is running as an independent, as the rest of the candidates are doing, but he charged that “the # appearance of partisan bias has already been evidenced by the denial of certain candidates to present a forum of their platform.” He added that he deplored the appearance of partisan bias in a non-partisan election.
around for some time early last summer,” Bob Padgett, former KA president, explained, “until one day it finally threw a rod and blew up.
“When he went into a service station. the man asked Hackford when he had last put oil into it. Hackford replied, ‘Was I supposed to put oil
in?’ ”
The car has been laying in the KA’s parking lot for several months now. “creating havoc,” according to Padgett.
Fatima Rep Talks Friday On Revelation
The special emissary of the Bishop of Fatima and international secretary of the Catholic Blue Army has been scheduled to deliver a lecture Friday at 12:15 p.m. in Bovard on “The Communist Manifesto vs. the Fatima Manifesto.”
Francis Schuckardt, former stu-‘ dent at the University of Washington, will speak on the revelations claimed to have been given by the Virgin Mary about the spread of Communism, annihilation of nations and a heavenly peace plan to three children at Fat;ma, Portugal, in 1917.
That event, verified by the church at ecclesiastical trial and witnessed by a vision before 50,000 persons a few days later, has achieved fame because of certain messages delivered by the Virgin in a sealed letter to the Pope.
The Vatican has admitted repeiv-ing the letter, but has refused to reveal the contents.
Schuckardt, who also claims to have been twice miraculously rescued from death, will explore the message of Fatima and other revelations on countering the spread of Communism and atheism.
His appearance, sponsored by the Newman Club, is open to all students 'and faculty members.
Hackford sold the car to the house for $25 for use in the derby.
In order to raise money to repay him, the KA’s will sell three whacks with a sledge hammer to all interested students for 25 cents, one quarter of a dollar, just two bits.
Any profits over and above the $25 will go into the KA general fund.
“This event will be held yearly,” Padgett said, “until we run out of cars or until the wreckage is piled too high on the front lawn.”
He urged everyone who has ever felt like taking a sledge hammer to his car or anyone else who has ever felt like taking a sledge hammer to anything (or anyone) to take three whacks, “but don’t tell Taylor Hackford about it.”
There is no contest involved in the derby, however, fortunately for nonmembers of Beta Theta Pi. a fraternity that has had experience with destructions in the past.
KUSC AUDITIONS SET TOMORROW
Auditions will be held tomorrow for acting parts in PAM Productions’ “Travers Murder Case,” a 12-week radio drama that will be presented over KUSC-FM.
PAM Productions is a student broadcast organization on campus that is headed by Paul Miller.
The serial, written by Thomas O’Grady, will begin production Feb. 17. The format of the program will be similar to a 1930 radio soap opera. Miller said.
CBS, original producer of t h * broadcast, loaned KUSC sour -tracks for study and sound effects.
The serial will be broadcast in April and will then be available for syndication on independent stations.
Miller indicated that roles o.re open for competent actors and actresses and those individuals interested in participating in the serial should contact him at 746-2166 or 747-3209 by 3 p.m. tomorrow.