University of Southern California
"IS THIS THE ROAD TO TROY CAMP?"
Jim Garner talks with pro driver Bob Bondurant in "Grand Prix"
'Grand Prix' tickets on sale, seniors first
By NICK SPANOS Entertainment Editor
Tickets are now on sale for “Grand Prix.'’ the third (and last) benefit screening for Troy Camp scheduled for this semester. But they will be offered only to seniors today through Wednesday.
The tickets cost $1.50 and are on sale at the Student Activities Office in the YWCA. There is no limit on the amount of tickets any senior may buy during the initial three days of ticket sales.
“Grand Prix" will be screened at the Pacific's Cinerama Dome Theater, at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street, on Jan. 14, at 9:30 a.m.
Help wanted— Apply to rose float committee
The Rose Parade float student decoration committee is urging students to participate in the construction of the float starting Dec. 27.
The float will be built at the Float Pavilion at the corner of Mentone and Pepper Avenues in Pasadena.
Scheduled work shifts are: Dec. 27 — 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1 to 6 p.m.; Dec. 28 — same hours; Dec. 29 — 6 to 11 p.m.; Dec. 30 — 8 a.m to 1 p.m., 1 to 6 p.m. and 6 to 11 p.m.; Dec. 31 — same hours; Jan. 1 — 8 a.m. until done.
Students should sign up to work in 230 Student Union, the Office of Special Events said.
“The first three days of ticket sales have been set aside for seniors only since the screening is a Senior Class function for Troy Camp,” Phil Kazanjian. Senior Class president, explained. “And since we have the entire theater for the presentation that day, why not let seniors have first go at getting the tickets they need or want?”
The remaining tickets for the benefit will go on sale to the entire student body, faculty and employees on Thursday and after the Christmas holidays. Kazanjian explained.
Seniors can also purchase them after the initial three days, but will have to contend with the rest of the school in buying them, he added.
The tickets are on a first-come first-served basis. Tickets normally sell for $3.75, and are sold on a re-served-seat basis.
“Grand Prix,” a three-hour excursion into the lives and loves of four auto racing drivers, stars James Garner. Yves Montand. Eva Marie Saint, Toshiro Mifune. Brian Bedford, Jessica Walters. Antonio Sabato, and Francoise Hardy.
John Frankenheimer. whose previous film credits include “The Train.” “Birdman of Alcatraz,” “Seven Days in May” and “Seconds,” directed the movie.
The music score was composed and conducted by Maurice Jarre. Academy Award winner for “Doctor Zhivago” and “Lawrence of Arabia.” Jarre's most recent works include “The Professionals,” “The Collector” and “Is Paris Burning?” ford, ASSC president, and Greg Kieselmann. managing editor of the Daily Trojan.
Questions of student liberty at issue in Hancock debate
Among the issues to be raised by a panel discussion tomorrow at 3 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium are:
•	Student activities — freedom or restraint?
•	Is it true that the university administration has defined the “university image” but the students have not?
•	Is it true that the students are intimidated by unwritten codes in inviting controversial speakers to the campus, even though the administra-
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. MONDAY, DECEMBER 12,1966
-SO*1
NO. 56
The early registrant gets the class-easily, hopefully
By VICKIE HYMAN
“There are always problems in getting classes, but preregistration makes it easier.”
So said Assistant Registrar Mark Frazin. Early registration for the spring semester will begin today to make things easier.
The process is easy, hopefully.
Preregistration packets may be picked up at the old public library, 34th Street and Hoover Boulevard,
\ .........
Registration packets may be picked up in the following, immutable order, according to the first letter of one’s surname:
I-M, 9:30 a.m to noon, today; N-R, 1 to 4:30 p.m., today; S-Z, 9:30 a.m. to noon, tomorrow; A-D,
1 to 4:30 p.m., tomorrow; E-H. 9:30 a.m. to noon, Wednesday.
(see schedule). To obtain the packet, a student identification card or some other proof of enrollment must be presented.
Academic advisement is the next step. An adviser’s signature is re-q u i r e d on the student’s proposed
schedule. Underclassmen should consult a counselor in their respective schools. All other students should speak to advisers in their specific departments.
To make things even easier for the student, the class schedules that were supposed to be ready today and were rescheduled for release on Wednesday will now be ready today.
“R” cards are also available in the library building and may be obtained according to schedule. All registration materials must be filled out before “R” cards will be given.
“R” cards may also be obtained through the mail. Classes will be assigned in order of receipt, as time permite.
“The student who waits in line to get his “R” cards has a better chance of getting his classes,” said Frazin.
“H” cards will be available by Dec. 14 at the individual departments.
Frazin said “Early spring registration is very effectve. Over two-thirds of the students take advantage of it. It cuts down the amount and confusion of students having to wait in line during regular registration.”
A new registration processing card, included in the packet for the first time, will also help the early registration’s effectiveness, Frazin said. It will enable the Registrar’s Office to keep track of materials as they are processed.
Care in filling out, signing and returning all necessary materials as instructed will eliminate most common mistakes and avoid registration confusion, Frazin said.
See, it’s easy, hopefully.
Campus committees: student voice grows
Hackford cites value
of NSA-USC tie-up
tion has officially released its previous requirements on its speaker policy? Or are the students just not interested ?
The discussion was arranged by Thomas Fehn and Larry Stickney of the Student Bar Association.
Participants in the discussion will be Dean of Students Paul A. Bloland, Associate Professor Robert L. Coon (French Department), Taylor Hackford. ASSC president, and Greg Kie-selmann, Daily Trojan managing editor.
The interest of respected institutions in the National Student Association is evidence of the organization’s prestige, ASSC President Taylor Hackford said yesterday.
In a release to the Daily Trojan, he said that $817,000 of NSA's annual budget of $825,000 came from grants from such respected private sources as the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New World Foundation, the Danforth Foundation and the Marshall Field Foundation.
He said, “My purpose is not to reply to the unfounded and inaccurate opinions expressed in recent letters to the editor concerning the United States National Student Association.”
“Instead, it is designed to clarify and delineate what USNSA is and how our university would benefit by affiliation with this organization.
“The USNSA is a confederation of some 300 college and university student governments; its purpose is to foster inter-campus cooperation nationally and to represent the United States in the international student world.
“This goal of inter-campus cooperation would seem to us to be the most valuable asset that this national organization can offer.
“In spite of the provincial attitudes of certain students on this campus, there has been a national student awakening the last few years in which students are demanding to participate not only in the university, but in society as well.
“Hopefully, participation in this organization would foster dialogue
TAYLOR HACKFORD ASSC President
between our campus and campuses that have already awakened.
“Although we might feel that this would be the most valuable asset that this organization could offer, there may be some people who are solely interested in the many services that USNSA offers to student governments and individual students.”
Hackford listed NSA’s services as follows:
>
•	a student government information service which answers thousands of requests yearly.
•	a publications list of over 50 books on student government.
•	consultations available with staff members, each a specialist in some area of student government.
(Continued on Page 2)
By NANCY FERLITO
“On student - faculty committees, the student himself has the status and vote of a university decisionmaker,” Dean of Students Paul Bloland said recently.
Bloland pointed out that until last year, students, although represented on the student-faculty committees, did not have an equal opportunity to vote.
“Student participation and recommendations in these 10 committees affect all university programs, policies and activities,” Bloland sad.
Under Julie Sheehan, ASSC vice-president for university affairs, the student portion of the committees involves 26 upperclassmen. They participate in such university organizations as the Great Issues Forum, alumni affairs and university financial planning.
The office of ASSC vice-president university affairs was created last year and serves as a liaison between the student body, represented by AWS, AMS and the members of the student-faculty committees.
STUDENT FEEDBACK
“As a council, we discuss what each group is planning and then try to coordinate projects, keeping the student-faculty committee representatives aware of what the student body is thinking and talking about in relation to the committees’ activities,” Miss Sheehan said.
The Building and Grounds Committee have, for example, effectively carried out a plan of safety on campus this year. Adequate street lighting and a well-publicized, regularly scheduled tram are the types of results which have come about with both the committee's and student feedback, she said.
Student representation on the Great Issue Forum, which brings noted speakers to the campus, illustrates another student-faculty endeavor where there is evidence of successful results.
CRITICAL ISSUES
“The students involved with Great Issues Forum are a broad sampling of the student body,” said Trish Foley, a student member of the group. “They come into contact with the students and the critical issues about which the student is excited.”
“In working with the faculty, one sees how concerned and interested they are in trying to increase intellectual discussion on campus,” Miss Foley said.
Dean Bloland commented that the
students never line up against the faculty in discussing an issue. The break down is on lines of the issue, not who you are. Full participation by all members is expected. If a student does not contribute his opinion, he is asked for it.
Students who are chosen to participate on these committees are nominated by either the faculty and staff, other students or they nominate themselves.
“The representatives are strictly upperclassmen, but we try to maintain a balance between the c’.isses and men and women students, Bloland said.
Often students who do a good job in previous activity service are nominated by their committee chairman. They are then screened by the activities staff, which is made up of men's and women’s deans and the student activities director.
Dean s office affirms power of MHA court
The new Men’s Hall Judicial will have complete responsibility for the dispensation of discipline cases. Assistant Dean of Men John McKinstry said yesterday.
“We are completely willing to go along with their decisions.” McKinstry said. “The only administrative check will be appellate power.”
“The principle that the Men's Hall Association is responsible for the determination and publication of rules and policies pertaining to the men’s residence halls is established in the MHA constitution, said MHA President Steve Kemp.
The MHA Judicial Council has been formed to do just that.
New justices are: Dan Bowles, Town and Gown: Ross Kluz and Jim Wright, Marks Tower: Robert Lee, Shelly Linderman and Ken Steen, Trojan Hall; and, Chris Smith, Stonier Hall.
Alternate justices are Bill Course, Marks Tower, and Fred Minnes, Stonier Hall.
They were chosen by McKinstry. Kemp and a panel of five head residents.
Next year, the council will be self perpetuating and the administration will no longer have the job of choosing justices, McKinstry said.
BIOGRAPHY OF A FAILURE-PARTI
Art teacher resents Ph.D. misnomer
(This is the first in a three-part series on Delmore Scott and the ways in which he reflects the university system—The Editor.)
By CHUCK ZAREMBA Assistant City Editor “Judging by contemporary standards in our society, that’s all I can consider myself—a failure.”—Delmore Scott, lecturer in fine arts
Delmore Scott has been teaching art at USC for 131 •> years In that length of time, most teachers become full professors. Scott, however, is only a lecturer.
He teaches two two-unit night classes. It doesn’t seem like much, but is really quite a lot considering that almost everyone who has ever heard of him thinks he is no longer teaching here at all.
Furthermore, the money that Scott makes for teaching at USC after 13% years of experience is just enough to pay for his annual reading budget, he says.
On the basis of these facts and many more like them, Scott’s suggested title for this series—^“The Biography of a Failure”—couldn’t be more appropriate.
There is one thing that doesn’t fit this pattern,
however. Most people who know him say that Scott knows as much about art history and contemporary art as anybody. Persons who have taken his classes will agree.
In any event, could anyone who has seen 7,000 movies, read 2,000 novels and photographed over 10,000 works of art, as Scott has, not have a fair knowledge of his subject?	,
Taking these qualifications into consideration, it becomes necessary to qualify Scott’s suggested title. He is a failure because the entire modern-day higher educational system in America considers him so. However, that system is also a failure, he says. It wouldn’t put people in Scott’s unenviable position if it weren’t.
‘HUNG AROUND’
Last year, one of Scott’s students told him, “The only thing USC has against you is that you’ve hung
around.”
There can be no doubt that he has hung around. He came to USC as a student over 20 years ago and has never even thought of leaving since. But the stu-
dents who analyzed his situation seem to have oversimplified it.
Scott explains it this way: “A university is one of the few self-perpetuating organizations in the modern world. Most of the power is vested in people who automatically want to protect their own positions.
We should be making use of all the inventiveness and imagination that we can possibly bring to bear on the subject, and yet, by the very nature of the university, the power in any department is automatically given to the people who have been there the longest, are the oldest and have the least awareness of what is going on right now.”
DICHONDRA BLOT Because Scott, as a victim of this setup, condemns it, he is, by his own description, “a blot in the middle of their nice dichondra lawn.”
USC has demonstrated to him many times what a blot he is to the traditional system.
There seems to be one thing about Scott that is most dissatisfying to the existing regime. He does not have a Ph.D. after his name. (He holds a master of
fine arts degree.) Moreover, he demonstrates no intention of pursuing the higher one.
As a matter of fact, he sort of grimaces when someone calls him Dr. Scott.
“I’ve been told ever since I began teaching that ‘you’ll never get anywhere until you get your doctorate.’ I happen to think that in some ways that’s an outmoded opinion today,” Scott says.
“I strongly resent the constant reference to the highest scholastic achievement as a ‘union card.’
“Also, it could b detrimental to me, rather than beneficial, because the years of concentrated specialized study that I would have to put into getting it at this point in my life would interrupt my own life-long research project,” Scott says.
Although he claims this project is a personal goal and not specifically designed to make him a better teacher, Scott is definitely g good teacher as a result of It.
There is no way to photograph art exhibitions fo-years, to collect two rooms full of magazines and books
(Contiunued on Page 3)
*