University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1966
NO. 11
Learning and service'—Topping
U.S. press rapped by journalist
American news media today are serving the purposes of the nation's political establishment, the editor of the Atlantic magazine told sudents Friday.
Robert J. Manning, speaking at the student convocation for the von KleinSmid Center, charged that people outside the press, rather than newsmen, are the ones responsible for recent stirrings which question basic U.S. policy. He gave credit to demonstrating students and dissenting congressmen for forcing the public s attention to vital controversies.
Commenting cn rocent speculation that Washington officials are attempting to manage the news. Manning said a good journalist's loyalty need not be directed at the same objectives as his government.
“A press not free to disclose information at the expense of its own country can never be totally free.”
MAKE PREDICTION
On the other hand, he added, many correspondents are more concerned with predicting events rather than reporting what is actually happening at the present.
As an example, he cited a series of articles which appeared on the Geneva disarmament talks. The stories, he said delineated not only the American delesation's initial proposals, but also disclosed a set of secondary portions. to be brought forward only if the Soviets rejected the first U.S. offer.
These articles, which were published before the actual talks began, put American representatives at a distinct disadvantage. Manning said.
TOO MUCH INFORMATION
Manning also said Americans may be suffering from a case of too much information, a condition which threat, pns to make it impossible for the average citizen to accurately comprehend the deluge of facts he receives from the nation's news media.
He compared the workings of news agencies to a “huge, unselecUve computer which gives equal play to eveiy fact.” He said that today's flow of information has become increasingly unmanageable to the point where the United States press often places a higher value on speed rather than quality.
Auditions for Trolios to end Wednesday
The last audition for Trolios will be held in the student lounge on third floor of the Student Union Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
Auditions and work on the show are open to all students.
This is the student satirical revue's third year. The show is under the direction of Bob IVIoloney, star of the past two shows, and under the production of Scott Miller, a graduate student.
A HOME FOR SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS TO 'WORK FOR WORLD UNDERSTANDING'
Dr. Norman Topping dedicates Von KleinSmid Center beneath soaring hopes of greatness in education
SAE LEADS PLEDGING
Fraternities pledge 514 men for largest class in Row history
Fraternities pledged 514 men this fall, the largest Row pledge class in USC history.
Statistics released by Interfraternity Council showed an increase of 70 men over last fall's figures.
Walter J. Unger, IFC rush chairman, said an expanded rush program stimulated the jump.
For the second straight year. Sigma Alpha Epsilon led the race for new members with 40 men pledged.
Economics professor will speak on 'Logic of Love'
Although many will argue the feasibility of his lecture. Dr. Kenneth E. Boulding. professor of economics at the University of Michigan, will give the first of five free public lectures on “The Logic of Love” tonight at 7:30 in Hancock Auditorium.
The succeeding lectures are scheduled for Oct. 5. 6. 10 and 12.
Dr. Boulding's lectures will be on “Threats, Exchange and Love as the Genes of Society;” “Status. Legitimacy. Community and Love as Dimensions of the Integrative System;” “Interactions Between the Integrative and Other Systems;” “The Institutions of the Integrative System;” and “The Dynamics of Love in the Embrace of Society.”
The John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation, which is sponsoring the series, has long been interested in education and research in the social sciences. In 1949 the foundation started an annual lecture series to bring a scholar of national distinction to the campus of one of the colleges or universities in Southern California to discuss contemporary social problems.
USC has had Haynes Foundation
DR. KENNETH E. BCULDING To discuss love
lectures in 1957. 1959. 1962, and 1965.
Dr Boulding is director of the Center for Research on Conflict Resolution at the University of Michigan. He was born in England and educated at Oxford. From 1932 to 1934 he was a Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Chicago.
Chancellor honored at VKC dedication
By STAN METZLER News Editor
The future of a great university was pledged yesterday afternoon as Dr. Norman Topping dedicated the von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs to the pursuit of “learning and service to mankind.” In a resplendent ceremony permeated with the memory of Chancellor Rufus B. Von KleinSmid, Dr. Topping challenged all who use the center to bear the responsibility its name imposes.
“It has been built with profound
Tau Kappa Epsilon, which landed only nine pledges in 1965. placed second with 35. SAE’s winning total last fall was 35.
Unger gave the following reasons for this year's success:
#	For the first time, the IFC provided each fraternity with a list of all entering male students in addition to those students who signed up for rush during the summer months.
#	Another first was an IFC-spon-sored rush convocation during orientation week under the chairmanship of John Guth, SAE president.
#	This year the IFC published an expanded rush publication titled “Brotherhood” which was mailed to the home of each entering male student in California.
#	Dean of Students Paul Bloland permitted rushees to attend dinner with fraternity men during orientation week.
#	DIRECTION '67, the IFC conference on goals and objectives was held during orientation week.
Other rush figures are:
Kappa Sigma (33), Sigma Chi (30), Beta Theta Pi (30), Delta Tau Delta (29), Phi Kappa Psi (27),
Tau Epsilon Phi (26), Sigma Alpha Mu (25), Sigma Phi Epsilon (24). Zeta Beta Tau (24), Kappa Alpha Order (23),
Lambda Chi Alpha (21), Phi Delta Theta (21), Phi Sigma Kappa (16), Chi Phi (15), Phi Gamma Delta (15),
Phi Kappa Tau (15), Delta Chi (14), Pi Kappa Alpha (14), Alpha Tau Omega (12), Alpha Epsilon Pi (8),
Delta Sigma Phi (7), Alpha Rho Chi (6), Theta Chi (4).
respect for Dr. Von’s courage as an educational pioneer, for his brilliance as a major university’s chief executive, and for his vision as a statesman for higher learning.” he said.
“Those who use the center, all vho teach and study here, must be 1 edicated to scholarship of the ’lighest quality in international and
The week of Sept. 26 to Oct. 2 has been proclaimed “von KleinSmid Center Week.” by the County Board of Supervisors in recognition of the opening of the von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs at USC.
public affairs.”
The colorful official dedication, attended by numerous donors, members of the university community and guests of the weekend academic events, was climaxed by the awarding of honorary degrees to Mrs. Blanche E. Seaver, trustee, and the Hon. Takeo Miki, Japanese trade minister.
Mrs. Seaver. w ho also serves as head of the Seaver Institute and who was with her husband one of four major donors to the center, was conferred with the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Dr. Seeley Mudd, vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Citing her involvement w’ith humanitarian efforts ranging from Chicago’s famed Hull House to the Los Angeles Orphan Guild, he praised her as “a distinguished composer, patron of the arts and energetic supporter of higher education.
AMITY SOCIETY
Frank King, board chairman, presented the degree of Doctor of Laws to Minister Miki, a former graduate of USC, founder of the U.S.-Japan Society for Amity and now Minister of International Trade and Industry.
“This degree is in recognition of his dedication to the highest ideals of his own nation and his unceasing efforts to foster international good will,” King said.
Throughout his speech. Dr. Topping referred to the Chancellor’s profound interest in the study of international and public affairs and looked to the future heights of academic attainment that could be reached under the soaring columns of the $3-million center.
“Rufus von KleinSmid sought to create leaders through superior teaching and research,” he said. “He succeeded again and again.
“Two of his greatest individual accomplishments here were the founding of the School of Interna-
tional Relations and the School of Public Administration.
“Together with the Department of Political Science, these schools in this new facility create an excellent place in which scholars from all over the world may work for world understanding.”
His remarks were followed by brief dedicatory speeches from Dr. Ross Berkes, director of the School of I.R., Dr. Fred Krinsky, chairman of the Department of Political Science, and Dr. Henry Reining, dean of the School of Public Administration. all of whom pledged their disciplines to follow the cause begun by Dr. von KleinSmid in 1021.
Taylor Hackford. ASSC president. then read a resolution presented by Kenneth Hahn from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors and telegrams of congratulations from Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and Senator Tom Kuchel.
“Upon the completion and dedication of this building our responsibility just begins.” Hackford then said. “We must repay you who helped build it by putting it to its maximum use.
“We recognize our responsibility, and pledge ourselves to it.”
The Daily Trojan will print a full report and analysis of the weekend’s von KleinSmid Center dedication activities in a special supplement tomorrow.
Ceremony guests see honorary degrees given
Honorary degrees were presented to Takeo Miki and Mrs. Dorothy Seaver yesterday as part of ceremonies dedicating the von KleinSmid Center for International and Public Affairs.
Miki, a USC graduate, is currently the Minister of International Trade and Industry for Japan.
He spoke at the 44th World Affairs Institute Friday night at Town and Gown Foyer on “The Light and Shadow of the Pacific Era.”
The institute was held in conjunction with the dedication of the von KleinSmid Center.
Mrs. Seaver is a member of the Board of Trustees.
The presentation of degrees climaxed the ceremonies on the steps of the center built in honor of Rufus B. von KleinSmid, a former president and chancellor of the university.
TOTAL DESTRUCTION OR CONTINUING PROGRESS?
Speakers at odds concerning the future of man
Civilization as we know it will, if present foreign policy is continued, be destroyed in a few years. Hans Morgenthau, University of Chicago scholar, warned at a dinner Thursday night.
“If the current rate of nuclear proliferation continues.” he said,“the last 35 years will look like the Golden Age of Peace in comparison to that terror."
He spoke at an alumni dinner in Town and Gown that opened the von KleinSmid dedication weekend.
Outlining the many probabilities of nuclear holocaust posible with 15 or 20 nations having warheads, Morgenthau reemphasized his thesis that our foreign policy must be updated to meet the challenges of the present.
This present policy, he said, is based on and has successfully solved i
the problems of 1947, of 1950. even of 1955. But because of its success, and because of the startlingly different conditions now existing around the world, it is no longer either adequate or safe.
It is the changed condition of nuclear capabilities that he found at once the most terrifying, the most complex and the most insurmountable.
Elaborating on the conditions such proliferation would bring about. Morgenthau cited a 1964 British White Paper on Defense, which stated the only reason for England’s developing a nuclear capability would be for use in unleashing the United States’ awesome power upon a common enemy.
As another possibility, Morgenthau considered the situation when New
York would be hit by a single bomb.
The United States might immediately launch an attack at the Soviet Union; it might simply ignore the attack; or it might bomb every country with an atom bomb “so that the culprit might not escape unpunished.”
Any of these choices appears inconceivable, but what other choices would be left in a time of such terror, a time with at least a few warheads controlled by “knaves and fools?”
The United States’ foreign policy, he therefore concluded, must find its purpose and shape itself accordingly.
If not—if it continues, as is, with a different Europe, a different Communist world, a different Asia and a different nuclear arsenal arrayed agi: ’st it—the possibilities of today's civilization surviving are very slim.
By STAN METZLER News Editor
In o world of change, a world with new countries, new weapons, new ideas and new possibilities constantly emerging, the future ot man it at least an always-debatabl« topic.
On one hand there is the exploding doom of increasing terror and dismal forecasts. On the other is the hope of increasing attainment and optimistic prophesies.
In these reports, the views of two outtiand-ing scholars, both competent in their own fields and in the totality of humanity, are given as they were recently given to select USC audiences.
“We have nothing whatever to fear from these manifold disasters insofar as they imply the idea of premature accident or failure. However possible they may be in theory, we have higher reasons for being sure that they will not happen.”
Thus stated Teilhard de Chardin, scientist-theologian. in his book “The Phenomena of Man.”
This view, this belief in the irre-placeability of man, is indeed a comforting one, Dr. Gibson Reeves, professor of astronomy, admitted at a faculty luncheon Friday.
“The idea is both intriguing and fascinating to consider,” he said, “but it would be both dangerous and misleading to take seriously.”
Dr. Reeves and his colleague, Dr. John Russell, led a Committee on Religious Interests discussion on the
astronomical implications of de Chnr-din's book.
As if to affirm Dr. Reeves first suggestion, a faculty member immediately suggested that those present vote the pleasing notion true.
That, the astronomy professor explained, is the precise danger of such an idea — “I would rather ride with an atheist who drives his car defen sively, than with a theist who believes God is looking out for him.”
De Chardin's belief in the uniqueness, and therefore the inevitable continuance. of man, is based in part upon his belief in man as having “climbed a step higher than the animals.” That step is the step of reflection. Having taken it, man finds himself waking up to horizons and becoming susceptible to fears that his forefathers never knew,” he writes.