University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1967
NO. 84
USC REPRESENTED -Among the USC graduates in the California legislature are Assemblyman Walter Karabian, left, Jesse Unruh, Assembly speaker,
Yvonne Braithwaite, and Alan Sieroty. Karabian took his third degree here in 1965 Unruh graduated in 1948; Sieroty and Mrs. Braithwaite in 1956.
FORMER ASSC PRESIDENT
Alumnus Serving in Assembly
By AUDREY RAMSAY Assistant to the Editor
Where does the office*of ASSC president take an individual seven years after graduation?
Walter Karabian, ASSC president in 1960. is now a freshman assemblyman in the California Legislature.
He feels his background in eampus politics helped him acquire an ability to work with others and was "the best foundation for my present work."
He noted in a recent interview that the number of I'SC graduates in the state capital is growing. “USC is beginning to play a larger role in the deterpnination of the state's future.” he said. “There are many technical specialists and administrative advisers from the university here.”
As an assemblyman. Karabian has pledged to oppose all tuition programs, including Reagan's tuition proposal unless no other means of meeting a state financial crisis are possible, a situation he feels does not exist.
He believes money spent in California on tuition is "the greatest investment any state can make.”
Karabian cautioned that the local junior colleges, which face overcrowding because of the defeat of school ■>ond issues in November, will be jammed with those uresent!y attending state colleges and universities, should Reagan s tuition proposal be passed.
“The good average student who is capable of college but has no chance at a scholastic scholaiship would be the hardest hit,” the young Democrat said.
“This is the very area where we need more opportunity for advancement—not less.”
He feels tuition charges could “destroy the finest education system in the world.” It would also hamper the opportunities of lower income area youth for getting an education. Karabian said.
The assemblyman received his bachelor of arts de gsee from USC in 1960, his law degree in 1963 and an M.S. in public administration in 1965.
While an undergraduate, in addition to being ASSC president, he was Theta Chi president and a member of Knights and Blue Key.
Karabian was appointed by Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh. another USC alumnus, to four standing committees. Only one other assemblyman was named to four; all others are on three, he said.
He was chosen vice-chairman of the Conservation and Wildlife Committee. “Freshmen are rarely made vice-chairmen,” he said modestly.
Other committees on which he will serve are Transportation and Commerce, Criminal Procedure and State Personnel.
Karabian represents the 45th district, which eludes Alhambra and Monterey Park.
USC Selected to Host IFC Regional Convention
By JACK REES CHAPPELL Co-News Editor
The University of Southern California has been selected to host the 21st annual Western Regional Interfraternity Council convention next spring.
Tom Ternquist, USC Interfraternity Council president, was selected as executive vice-president and chairman of the convention.
Terry Maas, a Lamba Chi Alpha at UCLA, was elected president of the Western association. The presidency. however, is more a figurehead post than a working position. The executive vice-presidency and conference chairmanshin—both positions now held hv Ternquist—are the real forces in the association.
These actions came at the Western regional convention held last weekend in Fresno. Fresno State College was the host school.
The convention was attended by six USC representatives: PiKA Tern-auist: Fiii Tom Kristovitch, IFC first vice-nrr’ident; Delta Chi Tim Huntley. IFC second vice-president; SAE Norm Wilky; Fiji Sig Murphy; and Beta Tim Smallwood. Pat Ryan, fraternity affairs advisor, also attended as advisor to the USC delegation.
“The USC delegation, under the chairmanship of Ternquist, in order to strengthen the position of Southern California as the central organ of the Western Regional, gave its support to Maas of UCLA. We assumed the role of conference host under Ternquist's direction. The conference represents 90 per cent of the regional’s responsibility,” Huntley said.
“By hosting this conference USC has a chance to show off its fraternity system.” Ternquist said. “We've done a lot of good things here and it will give ns a chance to show the other schools. The convention should bring a lot of respect to USC among the other schools. It will be a kind of showcase for us.”
“The Western Regional is composed cf representatives of all the member fraternity schools in the West. Its purpose is to teach the IFC officers of these schools about the areas of concern for IFC.” Ryan said.
To accomplish this the Western Regional holds workshops and discussions on establishing better rushes: helping the weaker fraternities; explaining effective organization structures; and analyzing various
IFC services, such as Greek Week, conferences and publications.
“The conference is primarily to teach IFC officers what IFC should do. It is a formal presentation of ideas,” Ryan said.
In many cases USC seemed to take the lead in the discussions, Huntley said.
“The USC system is the strongest among the systems. We played a teaching role, but this doesn't mean that wfe didn't learn,” he said.
“The conference re-enforced many of the things that we have been doing. It's good to know that what you've been doing is correct,” Ryan added.
Row Should Be Wet, Greeks Say-Hic, Hie!
USC Men Begin to As LBJ Aims Draft
Feel Chilly at Age 19
By STAN METZLER Assistant to the Editor
As every “eligible young man” probably knows by now, President Johnson has proposed a new list of standards governing his induction into the military society.
His program as released at a San Antonio news conference yesterday would make 19 “that magic age,” institute a limited lottery selection and eliminate most graduate and possibly all undergraduate deferments.
USC officials declined to comment on the proposal's effect on the university at this time, commenting that
its full meaning cannot be determined until the President and Congress decide on student deferments.
The new system, set to go into total operation by Jan. 1, 1969. would begin with a physical, mental and moral examination of all men at age 18.
Those who pass the preliminary examinations would be placed in a lottery at age 19. Except in cases of dire emergency, they would know at that age whether or not they will be called.
They would remain technically eligible for the draft until age 26. but
Seminars To Discuss Theology, Viet War
Vietnam, theology and the Bible will be discussed, studied and interpreted at three ecumenical seminars scheduled to meet during the spring semester.
Sponsored by the Ecumencial Mission. the three study groups are open to students without charge.
Rev. Marlynn May, Presbyterian minister, is leading a seminar on “War and Peace” at 11 a.m. Friday in 103 Ecumenical Center.
“Man has become so alienated from his fellow man that a dangerous undercurrent of thought exists that views w^ar as the only means of settling disagreements,” Mr. May said.
“While this was possible for the Middle Age feudal system, in the 20th century, with our potential to blow ourselves out of existence, we must reevaluate our thinking and actions.”
Beginning with an analysis of the Vietnam w-ar, this seminar will move
into such war-related issues as the Marxist-Christian debate, the morality-military dilemma and the “My country-right-or-wrong” question.
Dr. Bruce Miller. Baptist minister, will instruct a seminar on “How to Read and Study the Bible” every Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in 204 Ecumenical Center.
Giving special emphasis to the Gospel of Mark and Paul’s epistle to the Romans, Dr. Miller will approach the study by an examination of the central Biblical themes before moving into their foundational concepts.
The third seminar, “Religion in America." is a theology roundtable for graduate students led by Rev. Ralph Jeffs, Episcopalian minister.
Meeting Tuesdays at noon in 203 Ecumenical Center, the group will use Daedalus, an academic journal, as a basis for discussing the relation of religion to contemporary culture.
the ever-increasing number of 18-year-olds would make their chances of induction after the first year increasingly dim.
Although the President did eliminate graduate deferments except for dental and medical students (he also eliminated deferments for fathers and men in essential occupations), he has not yet made a decision on undergraduates, pending further study and public debate.
The problem of undergraduate deferments, he said, is “an issue so deeply important, with so many compelling factors on both sides, that it cannot be decided until its every aspect has been thoroughly explored.”
Spokemen for the administration explained that students now pursuing a graduate degree would be allowed to complete their work for that degree. but not subsequently for a more advanced degree.
It also seemed likely that if undergraduate deferments are granted, students would be cramped with the
18-year-olds for a year following their graduation.
Assistant Dean of Men John Mc-Kinistry, referring to the drafting of USC students, noted that although there continues to be a large pool of 1-A students at the university, less than 50 men have actually been drafted out of their studies.
In most cases, he indicated, the boards tend to leave a serious student alone, regardless of his classification.
The only men the draft has taken have been those carrying less than full loads or who have dropped out of school for a number of years, he explained.
By FRED SWEGLES
Should the Board of Trustees allow consumption of alcohol on the Row?
Yes, agreed each of 26 fraternity and sorority social chairmen yesterday at the first of three Greek Week workshop discussions at the Ecumenical Center.
The discussion, which centered on the feasibility of drinking on the Row, did not resolve the issue but did offer' many constructive viewpoints to the movement for a “wet” Row.
Among viewpoints covered in the discussion moderated by Kappa Sigma Marty Foley, were: Would a “wet” Row help houses financially?; would it help Row relations?; would it be abused?; and w'ould it break down social barriers between houses on the Row?
Foley opened the workshop by
Ingersoll Receives Merit A ward
Dr. Alfred C. Ingersoll, dean of the School of Engineering, was awarded one of five merit awards during Engineering Week, Feb. 20-26.
The citation was made “in recognition of his development of engineering education at the graduate level at USC for fulltime students and engineers in industry, and his valued contributions nationally and locally through technical and educational organizations.”
Two other USC men. Dean Emeritus Robert E. Vivian and Arthur L. Kohl of North American Aviation, Inc.. were given similar awards.
The awards were presented by the Consulting Engineers Association of California, the Los Angeles Council of Engineering Societies and the Los Angeles Technical Societies Council.
Dean Ingersoll is chairman of the Committee on Ethical Practices of the Southern Region of the California Society of Professional Engineers and serves nationally on the Committee on Education and the Scholarship Foundation Committee of the National Society of Professional Engineers.
He is also president of the USC chapter of Sigma Xi and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Association of University Professors.
discussing the background of Row drinking restrictions and narrowing it down to whether USC has a duty to watch over its students’ drinking habit3. He then opened the discussion of why drinking should or shoud not be allowed on the Row.
Most social chairmen present agreed that drinking is done and is accepted anyway, so USC should condone it.
Economically, some felt, drinking in one's own house would relieve the necessities, hazards and responsibilities of outside parties, both at homes and rented buildings.
Parties in the various houses, some of which already have “wet’’ annexes off the Row. would also free house members and attract potential rushees who would prefer to live in apartments, where they could drink.
Drinking privileges and an open Row would help Row relations by allowing" house members and rushees to meet more people and make house membership more selective.
Representatives agreed that after the initial thrill of the drinking privilege, a “wet” Row would come to be taken for granted and would not be abused.
Some concern was expressed that open party competition between houses on a "w’et” Row would put a strain on smaller houses' treasuries.
Social chairmen said no. however, to the idea that potential rushees would come to open parties but not pledge. Elsew-here. open parties have attracted pledges, they said.
The odds for gaining a “wet” Row are anybody’s guess, said Foley, although drinking would open up the Row socially. USC is behind most private institutions in allowing house drinking, he said.
The responses of house social chairmen at yesterday's discussion will help the Interfratemity Council probe the issue and compile a booklet on “wet” Row possiblities which will be presented sometime in April.
'EARNEST' OPENS TOMORROW AT 8
Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” will open tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in Stop Gap Theatre and will run nightly through March 17.
It touches up complex situations, double identities, idleness and marriage.
Tickets are on sale in the Bovard Box Office from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Weekday performances are SI.50 and weekend tickets are $2. Students with activity books receive a dollar price reduction.
Shell and Oar (Not a Gullible Group) Has Many Suckers — Candy, That Is
TO ERR IS HUMAN: THE DT BLEW IT
The picture on page one of yesterday’s Daily Trojan was of Mark Pocino, Theta Xi president. John Haines, president of Tau Delta Phi, was not pictured because the Daily Trojan was unable to get his photograph.
The pictures were both supposed to be taken on Saturday. Since no one from the news department was at the print shop on Monday morning to rectify the caption, the mistake occured.
As long as we’re explaining things, yesterday was not Feb. 27, as the folio (dateline) on page one said.
The Shell and Oar sucker sale will resume next Monday in front of the Student Union between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
It was scheduled to run through this Friday, but the sucker supply dwindled and won’t be replenished until next week.
The suckers, See’s carmels and chocolates, are priced at 10 cents each. “Our goal is 403 suckers a day,” Arleta Warren, of Shell and Oar, said.
Proceeds from the sale will be put into a match fund for a $500 Crew scholarship in the fall.
The sale was being held in conjunction with Crew Week which will terminate this Saturday with the Crew Day races at Los Angeles Harbor at 1 p.m. The boat house is in Wilmington between the Matson dock and the Catalina Terminal.
A SUCKER FOR SUCKERS-lt looks as though an unsuspecting passer-by has been talked into buying a sucker from a memoer of Shell and Oar, Crew auxiliary. Proceeds from sucker sale will gc toward Crew scholarship.