DAILY
University of Southern California
TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1968
72
NO. 22
Communist Mrs. Healey blasts Vietnam war policy
Jancl Pourll poses with writer Lewis Rosenberg
Movieland spoof made by Cinema
Ry ROSALIE SILVER
The miniature factory' of USC's cinema soundstage wrapped up a student-created spoof of Hollywood’s big movie world in the early hours of this morning.
The first thing to strike the eye of an observer entering the soundstage during an earlier part of production this week would have been the spectacle of the capture of starlet Barbara LaRue by personality Gypsy Boots, suitably attired for playing himself in a helmet and leopard-skin toga.
The proportions of platinum-blonde Janet Powell as Miss LaRue, prototype Hollywood starlet, were engineered to catch anyone’s eye. particularly when encased in a tight blue blouse cut just below the breastbone.
The frivolity of the scene, however, was an overlay to two weeks of hard work, to produce, act and direct “Whatever Happened to Luigi Pasqual,” the story of an Italian immigrant who successfully fakes his way through movie-making.
The spoof is the work of cinema graduate students Jim Wagner, Lew Rosenberg and Bruce Eletto, who submitted it to adjunct professor Jerry Lewis as a part of his graduate course in production and direction. He approved it on Monday. By Wednesday the major parts had been chosen. By Friday the first sequence had been shot. Major filming started Monday at 6 a.m. and continued practically without a pause until this morning.
The production, designed to be a learning experience for the students, is viewed in different ways by the professional actors, who were not paid.
“It's a great escape from income taxes, and I like the girls,” said star John Nicholson, by his own account a balding Scottish accountant playing an Italian immigrant. Nicholson was recruited from James Best's workshop in North Hollywood to play the Italian tourist who is mistaken at the airport for a missing super director.
Mike Warren, graduate student, as Joseph E. Latrine, the stereotyped Hollywood producer, is. according to Charles Anderson, director, “a natural for the part, who can break into an act anytime.”
Janet Powell, a girl from Kansas City who claims her bag is really dancing, not acting, is in the production for the fun of it. She also hopes the film may help her if she ever goes into an acting career.
Brett Brady, who plays the part of a typical leading man in the movie within the film, was easy to find for the role as a former student in the department for two years.
Gypsy Boots, another star of the film, used to appear regularly on the Steve Allen show. Gypsy has a message for Trojans, in fact, he has several messages.
“If I had my life to live over again, I’d live it as a nature-boy Trojan. If all the hippes in America would drink herb teas instead of LSD. they would all feel stronger and better as I do at the age of 56.”
According to director Charles Anderson, the filming was probably the most ambitious ever undertaken at USC. The larger than usual budget of $2000 allowed for a larger crew and almost five times as much film. More elaborate shots and more professional techniques generally were possible.
This professional job also attracted a very professional job of reporting. The filming was covered by reporter John Hollowell and photographer Bill Eppridge of Life magazine, for an upcoming story on student filming in which USC will have a major place.
The end of all this activity, the finished movie, will be screened in Jerry Lewis' class Monday night.
RY RILL DICKE Night Editor
Unless the United States withdraws from Vietnam, not only this generation, but the next, will go to war, Mrs. Dorothy Healey, chairman of the Communist Party in Southern California, said last night.
Speaking at the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house, she said, “The Vietnamese are simply not going to stop fighting.”
The real reason the United States is in Vietnam is economic, Mrs. Healey said.
President Eisenhower admitted in 1963 the United States was pouring money into Vietnam to protect the ability to get certain things from the riches of South Vietnam, she said.
Key strategic materials is what the war is all about, she continued.
A smokescreen is being used by the government because young men aren't willing to go to war to be killed or wounded without some patriotic justification, she claimed.
Businessmen have never followed troops to war in greater numbers, be-
cause companies in Vietnam show a 20 to 30 percent profit with a big future after the war, she said.
Mrs. Healey said the ideological justification of the Administration’s Vietnam policy is the domino theory.
Two countries close to Russia — Turkey and Finland—have not turned communist she said in questioning the theory.
She continued, “When other countries became socialist, and I believe they will, it doesn’t necessarily mean the United States has lost.
“It is the same as the change from feudalism in the Middle Ages.”
Mrs. Healey said, “We simply have to withdraw. It is not really our job to tell the government how to do it. We simply must do it.”
Mrs. Healey looks more like a grandmother than anything else.
She admits that the first reaction she gets when speaking is one of shock.
“You asked me where my bombs were. ’ she said to a member of the audience. “I left them at home with my horns and tail.”
$6,300 in grants given to four history profs
Summer fellowship grants have been awarded to four assistant professors of history to enable them to complete research projects.
Dr. Lyle Dorsett was awarded a $1,500 fellowship by the National En-
FINANCIAL AID RENEWALS READY
All undergraduate and health professions students on financial aid through the Office of Student Aid must obtain renewal materials by tomorrow.
Students whose last names begin with the letters J through Q can pick up the material today, while students with names beginning with R through Z can obtain the forms tomorrow. Students with last names beginning with A through 1 picked up their forms yesterday.
AH students on university scholarships, state scholarships, Educational Opportunity grants, health profession grants, loans or any other type of aid administered by the office are required to fill out renewal forms.
The Office of Student Aid is located in 301 Student Union.
STUDENT BEHAVOIR COMMITTEE DECIDES
Exposure brings suspension
Ry ROGER SMITH
Two students have been suspended by the Committee on Student Behavior for involvement in an incident in which one of the students “lowered his pants and undershorts” in front of a female undergraduate.
Tlie incident, which took place just before midnight on September 13, 1967, began when the woman undergraduate drove up to her sorority house, the committee reported.
In a report issued this week, the committee stated that three men, whom the female undergraduate had never seen before, approached her car.
“The first student jumped on the hood of the car, lowered his pants and undershorts, and bent over placing his naked buttocks close to the windshield,” the report said.
“He stayed that way for several moments, moving his buttocks back and forth, and then got off the victim’s vehicle. During this time the second student tried to open her car door, b»t she had locked it. The boys shouted obscenities.”
The girl then got out of the car and started across the street. The boys reportedly followed
her. while shouting obscenities.
The second student whom the committee claims had admitted to being “extremely drunk,” grabbed her arm and spun her about.
The girl entered the sorority house and reported the incident to her housemother, who summoned police.
One of the three men involved was a recent USC graduate, and was thus subject to criminal proceedings. The other two students were brought before the Men’s Judicial Council last semester.
The Judicial suspended the two for the 1967-68 school year on the grounds of “violations of civil law" and “acts inimical to the welfare of others.” The case was appealed to the Committee on Student Behavior, which upheld the decision and extended the suspension to February of 1969. The two students attended classes last semester during the appeal.
The text of the decision stated that the recent actions of the two students “show a likelihood that they are a danger to the environment in which their fellow students must live and work.” The committee’s decision was unanimous.
The committee also saw fit to include a defense of its decision in the report because of a number
of points raised by the attorney for the students.
The committee first defended its right to rule on the case despite the fact that the students were not on university property and the incident took place before the beginning of the semester.
Two legal cases (Goldberg vs. Regents of University of California and Dixon vs. Alabama State Board of Education) were cited to support the committee's claim that the university is “to exercise that disciplinary authority which is justified by the educational role of the school.” prohibiting only that which “interferes with the university’s basic educational purpose.”
The committee also said that “attacks by students on other students are proper subjects for university action, no matter when or where they occur.”
The report mentioned that a witness who appeared before the committee to testify for the accused “was punished by her sorority on account of her testimony.”
Dean of Men Daniel Nowak, who helped issue the report through the Dean of Students Office, said yesterday that “the matter of the witness being punished had been investigated,” but would offer no further comment.
She said she was used to being greeted with abnormal reactions by an audience.
A college audience in Nevada trembled and most other audiences are surprised a Communist has the usual number of hands and a generally human form, she said.
Mrs. Healey said in a preface to her remarks, “It seems ironic to me that while I cannot speak to the student body of USC, I can speak to a fraternity. I was brought up to believe that fraternities were the de-
pository of all that is reactionary.”
“I would suggest the inability to hear first hand a dissenting communist view does not only a disservice to the Communist, but more importantly, to you. Unless you can hear all viewpoints, your beliefs will be based on prejudice.”
Concluding, she said, pounding on the table, “If I leave one idea with you, it is. damn it, think for yourself. What is true is not necessarily what you have been taught all your life to believe.”
Class councils declared illegal
dowment for Humanities. Dr. Howard S. Miller, Dr. Lawrence D. Walker and Dr. John E. Wills each received a $1,600 research fellowship by the Graduate School of History.
All four men are currently working on the projects which they will complete during the summer.
Dorsett is preparing a book which is a study of the American industrial city. “The book is a general interpretation of the history of industrialization,” he said. “It traces the rise of the industrial city from 1850 to the 20th century.
“The work will illustrate the impact of industrialization on American ideas and institutions,” he continued. “All the research for the book has been completed. The grant money will enable me to organize the material and write the book.”
Dorsett has been working cn his book for approximately one year. The book will be published by D. C. Heath and Co., and will not be used as a textbook.
Wills is currently revising his doctoral thesis for publication. “The thesis is a study of the relations of the Dutch East India Company with China in the late 17th century,” he explained. “I’m currently checking all the information for accuracy. The work will be published as a scholarly monograph and will not be used as a textbook.”
Ry NANCY FERLITO
Class councils, a sometimes ineffectual tradition in student government. have been declared illegal
in a Student Court decision based on interpretation of the revised ASSC constitution.
Class representatives expressed mixed reaction to the decision, recognizing the doldrums the councils often find themselves in. However, they were disappointed to see their own councils stamped “unconstitutional” this far into the year, after the councils were well organized, and enthusiastic plans had been formalized.
“The decision rules out any activity which the junior class per se can sponsor or organize,” Suzanne DeBall, junior class representative, explained.
“The councils met while the decision was pending. They were a very enthusiastic group who wanted to be involved in student government.
“Abolishing the council smothered any plans we had in sponsoring campus activities, or class functions.”
Pointing up the response of the nearly 200 people who would attend Ron Jacobson’s sophomore class council meetings, the representative said that the turnout this year must have been exceptional.
“Many of the students who wanted to work in student government weren’t familiar with the multitude
}f student committees which they could serve on.” he said.
“They felt a closer association with the class councils. I could solicit their opinions on issues which the ASSC was discussing, but wre couldn't organize any class activities.”
Jacobson still intends to work close with his class, but informally. In the future he plans to send out questionnaires to get the students’ opinion on campus issues, such as the dorm visitation proposal and their preference in obtaining campus speakers.
Mike Chuck, freshman representative. said that his council of nearly
25	was working on sponsoring a computer dance, organizing debates between professors and students and a project to compile more information to send out to incoming students.
‘.’•But the court decision affected our council^ programs just as it had affected the others, it smothered all our plans,” Chuck said. "Although the freshman council will continue to work on distributing more orientation material to new students, we will eventually have to take our proposals to the committee w'hich works on orientation. We’re proposing to have the orientation committee distribute not only the handbook, but SCampus and a map of the campus.”
Chuck will continue to meet informally with his illegitimate council “because our group is very hang-
loose.”
“If we wfant to do something we'll find a way to do it,” he said.
Overseas program in Japan to begin in fall
Three or four selected students will study at Waseda University in Tokyo next fall under a newly approved overseas study program.
The one-year program at Waseda was recently approved for the academic year 1968-69. It is hoped that this will develop into a regular USC program.
This is the second “junior-year abroad” program at USC. The first is at the University of Vienna in Austria.
Tuition and fees are estimated to be $1,000; living expenses, which includes housing, food, books, commuting and incidentals are $l,10o. Transportation to and from Japan in a chartered plane will be $50f and personal expenses are efimated at $500.
This is a total of $3,100. The estimated cost of an academic year in residence as USC is $3,622.
Instruction will be in English at Waseda’s new International Division A range of social science and humanities courses will be offered, including history, political science, economics, literature, religion, architecture, the performing arts and anthropology, all pertaining to Japan and East Asia.
A Japanese language course must be taken concurrently. Though not a requirement, it is suggested that students should have taken a Japanese language course at USC.
Credits will be transferred to USC for its equivalents without loss.
Waseda officials will be on campus Tuesday, March 12 for interviews with interested students. They will meet in the VKC lounge between 2:30 and 3:30.
The final application date is April 15. Applicants will be chosen and in-
formed of their acceptance by April 30.
More information and application forms may be obtained from the Office of the Dean of Students, from Dr. George O. Totten. Department of Political Science or from Dr. Lawrence Thompson. Asian Studies.
Black leader slated for Interchange
Tommy Jacquette, local black power leader, has been added to the Tuesday program of Interchange: The Black Community—USC.
Jacquette will speak on "The View from Our Side” at 3 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium.
The three-day Interchange pro-grim. a teach-in on the Negro problem. will begin Monday.
Three of the speeches have also been transferred to Bovard Auditorium from Town and Gown Foyer.
James Corman’s talk on “Violence in the Cities,” at 10 a.m. Monday; Floyd McKissick’s discussion, at 8 p.m. Tuesday; and the panel with Nathan Glazer and J. Horace Cayton on the “Role of a University,” at 10 a.m. Wednesday, will be held in the larger auditorium.
Interchange is sponsored by the ASSC under the office of Bob Lutz, vice-president of academic affairs. Lowell Ponte is serving as program coordinator.
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