University of Southern California
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TROJAN
VOL LXIV NO. 44
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1971
Dianne Chatman doesn’t fit the traditional version of Helen of Troy: she’s shy, soft-spoken, entered the contest at the last minute on impulse—and she's black.
“It’s like a step forward for black students,” she said. She has no illusions about her role of Helen as a public relations agent for the university, nor does she feel sexually exploited.
“I won’t feel sexually exploited if I have the opportunity to speak and help raise funds at luncheons for the university,” she said.
Ms. Chatman, the second black Helen of Troy, won the contest on the basis of personality, poise, intelligence and appearance before a packed Bovard Auditorium last Thursady. As one of the five finalists, she was asked the question prepared earlier by the judges: “As an American, which freedom are you most proud of?”
“You can’t ask a black person a question like that,” she said. “It was hard. But I answered by saying that it was the freedom of choice as exemplified by the right to vote that I was most proud of.”
Ms. Chatman didn’t know about the contest until her boyfriend suggested she run. “I didn’t know what the contest was about until I read about it in the Daily Trojan last Wednesday,” she said. “I didn’t want to jump into anything blindfolded.”
Registrar says R cards will be placed in packets
Students won t have to wait in line for R cards for this spring's preregistration.
Since the Registrar's Office has no place to distribute the cards, the R cards will be put in the registration packets by the registrar. H cards must be picked up by the student from the department offices and included in the packet.
Flames scorch Trojan shrine
Tommy Trojan's protective covering was ignited Saturday night.
Campus Security officers do not know who. how or even when the protective covering caught fire. They do know it has been burned because of the scattered ashes about the blackened base of the statue.
Tommy seemed as if he had arisen from one of the sacked cities of Troy.
There were no security officers in the area when the covering was burned.
There will be no alphabetical sequence, so the R cards will be placed in the packets as soon as they are returned to the registrar.
If the requested R cards are not available, the Registrar's Office will attempt to rearrange a student's schedule.
Students who wish to receive their registration material by mail must pick up a mail-in request envelope from the Registrar's Office and return it by Nov. 30.
The registration material will be mailed to students about Dec. 13 or 14.
Students who don't wish to have their registration materials mailed to them can pick up their materials in person at the Registrar's Office between Dec. 15 and Jan. 7.
H cards will be available after Dec. 15 at the individual department offices.
Students will have until Jan. 8 to return the completed packet, with H cards, to the Registrar's Office.
Card stunt commercial generates controversy
By JERRY TROWBRIDGE
Most of the students who participated in last Saturday's half-time card stunts at the USC-UCLA football game did not realize that they were advertising a commerical product.
The word “Kodak" was spelled out in the red-and-vellow letters that appear on the side of their film boxes.
Because the Kodak stunt was inserted, the statement, “Why do people go to UCLA?—because Westwood sucks them in." appeared on four flips instead of the planned five.
As words were squeezed, the words “Westwood" and "sucks" came up alone on one flip.
Although the Kodak ad was not broadcast at that time, it was videotaped for later use on a Kodak-sponsored network sports show.
Why was the USC cheering section used to spell film? The Knights, directors of the stunts, say they were forced to do it.
They were first contacted early last week and asked to include “Kodak" in the stunts. They said it could be arranged, but not for free. The American Broadcasting Company reportedly agreed to donate money in exchange for the favor.
When ABC officials called back on Thursday, they said they could not pay the money. The Kodak stunt was to be removed.
Sources indicate that Jess Hill, athletics director, was contacted by ABC on Thursday and told that since ABC was airing four USC games in two years, the network felt USC could do ABC a favor by running the Kodak stunt. The ABC-USC contact comes up for renewal next year.
Although Hill would not comment on the matter, he said ABC contacted him and he referred the matter to Art Bartner. director of the marching band.
Bartner relayed Hill's information to the Knights. Bob Barton, Knights president, decided to include the Kodak stunt in the computer program Thursday night, though he had not yet decided on its use.
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Barton declined Monday to comment on possible pressure, but said that some administrative decisions would have to be made soon.
Daniel Nowak, acting vice-president for student affairs, said that this was not the first instance of commerical mention. He said money was being donated to the university in return for the stunt. He declined to give the amount, but other sources have placed it at $500.
In the past, USC has done other commercial card stunts. One was a “Hello. Morrie" trick, which was done for the owner of the 32nd Street Market.
Another was a Henry Mancini card series, which was to appear in a game in which Mancini arranged the numbers for the USC band. Mancini was to use the film in his network TV show. It didn't appear because of rain.
The Kodak sequence took a full minute, and when the Westwood sequence was shortened, the words “Westwood" and “sucks" appeared alone on one card.
Bartner approved the complete message, but on the copy he approved. “Westwood” and “sucks" were not to appear on the same card.
The directors of the card stunts had the assurance of ABC that the Westwood stunt would not appear on TV—ABC was to be in a three-minute commerical.
Things were off schedule in the ABC booth, and when the Westwood card came on camera the immediate reaction was to take it off the air. The Knights charge that ABC's action took the statement out of context.
Barton said that they did not intent to defame Westwood, but when the additional words “them in" did not appear, the viewer assumed that USC's action was obscene.
“ABC knew full well what was going to be on those cards." said Brian Heimerl, assistant director of student activities. He reported he spent 45 minutes with the ABC director in a briefing on the USC activities. He also had been assured that when the Westwood stunt came up. ABC would run its commercial.
Class evaluation to start
In response to a three-year clamor for a course evaluation guide, the ASSC is sponsoring an extensive questionnaire on general education and departmental requirements to be distributed beginning Monday.
Approximately 400 classes will be polled during a two-week period beginning Nov. 29 and ending Dec. 10. Fred La-bankoff. chairman of the ASSC s evaluation committee, said the committee plans to canvass general requirement courses and lower division courses required for certain majors, citing as an example the Physics 151 series students are required to take before going on into upper division courses.
Labankoff said the results of the evaluation will be published next spring, hopefully before next fall s preregistration. The evaluation will be printed on newspaper, roughly in the form of the Daily Trojan's SoCal magazine. Bound copies will be available for counseling and at deans' offices. Labankoff said.
The evaluation committee needs students to volunteer to help distribute and monitor the questionnaires for the ASSC.
“This evaluation is taking a tremendous amount of time for all the members involved in the committee, but we need more volunteers." Student groups to date who have offered their
services ?re Alpha Phi Omega, MECHA, BSU, Knights, Squires. Angel Flight, and the YWCA.
Students interested in distributing polls mav call 746-7988, 795-3941. or SU 312A.
The questionnaires will contain approximately 40 questions and will take about 15 minutes to complete. The answer sheet will be in IBM form, and final results will be tabulated on a computer. This will afford graphic tabulations as well, Sabankoff said, with answers ranging from "agree strongly" to “do not agree."
“It won't be just the regular evaluation showing statistics," Labankoff said, with answers to be graphically shown: by looking at it. you'll be able to tell what the strong and weak points of the class are." The evaluation will also include two open-ended questions asking what the student liked and disliked about the class.
The final published format will include an introduction to the course and the professor, a statistical analysis showing percentages and graphs, reiteration of the facts disclosed by the analysis, and students' personal comments supporting the majority opinion cited in the statistical analysis.
The committee is operating on a budget of $2,000 plus $500 donated computer time. The
previous course evaluation, conducted in spring of 1969 and published the following fall, was budgeted for $13,900. But Labankoff hopes to be able to cut costs by lowering publication expenses and using free computer time to tabulate the results.
The committee cited as the evaluation's goals:
•	to assist students in choosing general requirements, departmental requirements and elective courses:
•	to help the faculty and their departments keep in tune with the students and upgrade their curriculum if necessary;
•	to give both the departments and administration a clearer picture of the courses from a student's point of view.
“This guide can't be any more effective than the professor's willingness to participate," said Lee Blackman. ASSC vice-president for academic affairs.
DT to break for holidays
Because of the Thanksgiving recess this Thursday and Friday, the Daily Trojan will not publish Wednesday or Monday.
Publication will resume Tuesday, Nov. 30.