University of Southern California
DAILY @ TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1967

NO. 51
Kappa Alpha punishment eased
Limited suspension,
$3,000 fine ordered
CAN NEEDS BE MET?
Discussion at Idyllwild
By STAN METZLER City Editor
The most important aspect of the Idyllwild P^aculty-Student Conference last weekend wasn't even listed on
the agenda.
It was the last event on the schedule of the 90 Trojans who had spent three days at the university's maintain retreat—the trip home.
Because everything that happened at Idyllwild didn't count for anything if it stopped up there.
“It's not enough just to state goals,” Dr. Robert Tac?, a Project FASTEN consultant from UCLA, said at the conference's conclusion.
“You have to consider next, what are the consequences?”
The conference, the seventh in the last four years sponsored by Dr. Sims Carter and Project FASTEN under a rrrant from the Danforth Foundation, was devoted to the general topic of student needs, faculty needs, and student-faculty responses.
The tor.e of the conference was set late Friday night, in the camp's main conference hall, by Dr. Stephen Abrahamson, professor of educational research, when he said. "The primary educational goal of the university is student learning. Students come here to learn, the faculty are to help them leann.”
Dr. Abrahamson divided the possible areas of learning three ways:
The cognitive area, which begins with facts and growi; into understanding and application:
Q The psycho-motor area, which begins with skills a.nd grows into total performance;
Q The affective area, which begins with attitudes and grows into values and insights.
In each area, he said, the university’s concern should be not with surface knowledge but with the deeper learning that later evolves.
“The concern of this conference is with faculty needs and student responses, and student needs and faculty responses,” he noted.
“How do these needs affect the man who has them?
“How do they affect the university family?
“What if they are met? What if they are frustrated? What if they are ignored?
“This is our area for concern this weekend.”
On Saturday the students and faculty began to understand their task. The morning, devoted to an exami-
nation of student needs, began with a panel discussion by four students.
Bob Gaskins, speaking on the students’ intellectual needs, commented that the university is not a democracy of the intellect, but a caste system operating under the assumption that every student is inferior.
The disadvantage of this system, he said, is that the student comes to believe he is inferior, naturally dull, and exerts only the minimum attention to his classes while pushing for prestige in purely student activities.
Calling for the faculty to take tlie initiative in overturning the caste system by refusing to pay off student deferences and working on improving their teaching. Gaskins foresaw the eventual possibility that “both students and faculty might respond by meeting the higher expectations.”
In the afternoon session, which began with a panel of four faculty members speaking on faculty needs, Dr. Arnold Dunn, assistant professor of biology, saw the university as a community of scholars, including both faculty and students.
He said students should demand their intellectual rights, and that the faculty has the incumbent responsibility to “excite our students, so they feel as we feel.”
In each session the panel members outlined four primary areas of need — intellectual, values, identity and freedom.
After the presentations they discussed, as a body and in smaller groups, at lunch and at dinner. And they thought, walking to their dorms and sitting in the hall.
They talked and they thought that night as Dr. Joseph Katz, associate director of Stanford's Institute for the Study of Human Problems, called for a “Rethinking of Faculty-Student Relations.”
Sunday morning they heard the individual group reports, made their closing comments and went to lunch.
Then they left, in individual cars each holding two, three or four members of the university, to return to the city campus.
They left with minds filled with observations and interpretations, with notebooks marked by hurried jots and bodies tired from a lack of rest.
They left San Jacinto Mountain for Los Angeles, Idyllwild for USC, carrying with them not a piece of the mountain but only themselves.
“Who takes the initiative for change?” another speaker asked. “Whoever has the dissatisfaction."
Prof says earthquake protection is possible
Buildings in Los Angeles can now be protected from severe earthquake damage, a USC scientist said.
Dr. Sami F. Masri. assistant professor of civil engineering, has been doing research on impact dampers.
“Impact dampers essentially are containers with ball bearings or other particles,” Masri said.
These dampers are devices which are supposed to reduce vibrations of any body to which the damper is attached.
“By putting these impact dampers in a small container, the amount of vibration from an earthquake would be reduced,” the scientist explained.
“If impact dampers of the proper design were to be built into the walls
of a skyscraper at its upper levels, and if an earthquake hit the structure, the tremor would make the ball bearings move from end to end of the containers, which would vibrate along with the building.
“As the ball bearing collided with the container s ends, the impact could reduce the motion of the entire building.
“Essentially, the particle is moving in the opposite direction from that of the building and the container. It’s very much like the reduction of motion that takes place when a car collides with another head-on,” Masri said.
This entire concept is illustrated by a mechanical model in Masri’s laboratory.
BOWL TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY
Applications for reserved Rose Bowl tickets for students without activity books will not go on sale until Wednesday.
The 500 tickets available will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis in the Student Union ticket office.
Students will be required to leave the application and the S7 at the Ticket Office. The tickets will be mailed at a later date after a cheek of activity book purchase records has been made.
Rooter tickets for the Los Angeles Basketball Classic in mid-December are also on sale now at $1 per game.
DR. SAMI F. MASRI DEMONSTRATES IMPACT DAMPER The vibrating bar may help bring earthquake protection to L.A.
Moot court team takes first place
The statement that the USC Law Center’s Moot Court Team is the best in the area is no longer a moot point.
The USC team of Mrs. Berneice Anglea and George Aydelott proved this point by winning every honor in the regional round of the National Moot Court Competition.
This month they will compete in the national round in New York City.
The team won the award from the Junior Barristers of Los Angeles County for having the best prepared brief of the five universities which competed in the regional contest.
The American College of Trial Lawyers named Mrs. Anglea as the contestant having given the best oral argument of any of the finalists.
The moot court is an inter-law school mock appellate court. The competition is sponsored by the Young Lawyers Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Competing student teams research the legal aspects of a fictitious case which is drawn up by the committee, prepare their arguments ana’ write their briefs.
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STEVE BEIDNER TYD president
TYD may support
McCarthy
By JOHN FURTAK
The formation of a California Young Citizens fcr McCarthy group to assist the Minnesota senator's campaign fcr the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 was announced yesterday at the Los Angeles Press Club.
Steve Beidner, president of the Trojan Young Democrats, participated in the press conference along with Howard Berman, president of the California Federation of Young Democrats, and Mark Lester, state chairman of the California Young Citizens for McCarthy.
The TYD's will meet Friday at noon in 100 Von KleinSmid Center to vote on whether the local club will affiliate with the statewide group.
“Those people seeking a change have achieved a great victory in the candidacy of such a distinguished and liberal senator as Eugene McCarthy,” Beidner said.
“The fact that such a man has decided to challenge the incumbent President from his own party indicates that this country desires a change.”
Sen. McCarthy announced Thursday that he would campaign against President Johnson for the Democratic nomination in 1968 on a platform opposing current United States policies in Vietnam.
Sen. McCarthy will enter primaries in Wisconsin (April 2), Massachusetts (April 30). Nebraska (May 14), Oregon (May 28) and California (June 4). The California primary shapes up as the most crucial, since the winner takes 160 delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
Those participating in yesterday’s press conference voiced the opinion that Sen. McCarthy, not President Johnson, would win the California primary and the Democratic nomination.
They cited polls taken by the Young Democrats at USC and San Fernando Valley College, as well as professional polls, that show the President cannot win because of his foreign and domestic policies.
In the USC poll, taken before the announcement of Sen. McCarthy’s candidacy. President Johnson placed fourth with 43 votes behind Robert (Continued on Page Two)
By HAL LANCASTER Editor
The Kappa Alpha Order still is.
The suspension imposed on the fraternity by the Interfraternitv Council Judicial was lightened Friday by t h e Student Behavior Committee to a limited suspension and a S3,000 fine.
The decision was announced yesterday. It will not become official until Dec. 11. to give either the fraternity, the IFC or the university an opportunity to appeal the decision to President Topping.
“This decision, in effect, makes them a fraternity without a social function,” Dean of Men Daniel Novak said.
He said the action was much less harsh than the IFC Judicial’s ruling.
And that upset Judicial Chief Justice Mike Silverstein. “I am greatly displeased with the decision,” he said.
The Judicial’s ruling had suspended the house indefinitely and barred all current undergraduate members and pledges from fraternity activity during the remainder of their college careers. This, in effect, banished the current KA house from the Row, although the national could recolon-ize immediately.
The charge was hazing. Specifically, the house admitted to allowing its pledge class only 51 to 61 ■> hours sleep in two nights of Help Week last spring.
The Student Behavior Committee based its decision on a series of recommendations from the fraternity, its alumni and national chapter in making its decision, which placed the house on limited suspension until June 30, 1968. The house can come up before IFC Judicial before that time for review.
“This decision has endorsed the alumni plan presented to the Judicial.” Dean Nowak said.
The alumni program includes punitive measures:
•	Complete suspension of unidentified members of the fraternity:
•	No pledges are to be considered for initiation until September, 1968;
•	The house cannot participate in spring, 1968 rushing;
•	The house is to be placed on indefinite social probation;
•	The top two officers of the fraternity are to be replaced;
•	Melvin Bresee, a new alumni advisor, is to be appointed;
And constructive measures:
•	Help Week is to be eliminated;
•	A live-in advisor is to be obtained for the chapter;
•	An alumni advisory committee is to be formed to provide adult guidance to each undergraduate member;
•	The house judicial is to be strengthened;
•	The pledge class and activcs are to be offered to the university one day per month to perform any constructive community project that the university designates:
•	The national organization shall sponsor four men to be sent to the National Officers’ Training School instead of one;
•	The present pledge program will be reviewed and improved wherever necessary.
It was agreed that this program should continue for five years.
The committee's decision means that the KAs cannot engage in any activity as a fraternity, hold no rush, initiate no pledge class during the suspension. All current seniors are suspended from active membership for the rest of their undergraduate careers.
Debaters victorious in two tournaments
Bert Rush, junior in political science, was named top speaker last weekend at the Air Force National Invitational Debate Tournament held at the Air Force Academy.
The USC debate team of Rush and Ron Gordon took third place at the tournament, which included 36 universities from across the nation.
Three USC teams also tied for first place last weekend in the senior division of the Pacific Southwestern Collegiate Forensic Association’s Fall Championship Tournament on the USC campus.
The teams were Chet Actis and Bill Anderson, Ed Hurst and Steve Moore, and Rod’ Jones and Ralph Lippman. Approximately 45 teams were entered in the senior division.
In overall seoring, USC placed first and was awarded the sweepstakes trophy.
In the 40-team junior division, the USC team of Rene Aiu and Gay Moss took third place.
R.od Jones wen the outstanding
achievement award in senior men’s extemporaneous speaking.
Twenty-seven universities and colleges participated’ in the tournament, made :p mostly of California schools.
DT EDITOR FORMS DUE TOMORROW
Applications for editor of the Daily Trojan for the spring semester must be turned in to the School of Journalism Office. 423 Student Union, by 11:30 a.m. tomorrow.
The applications will be available in the same office through today.
Candidates for editor must In; seniors or second-semester juniors with a full academic load and be in good standing at the university.
The School of Journalism Council will meet next Monday to consider the candidates, and will recommend its choice to President Topping, who appoints the editor.
Rose Parade float is designed, plans to be submitted for approval
By FRED SWEGLES Assistant Sports Editor
“Adventures of Troy” or “An Adventuresome SCent,” USC's float entry in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena Jan. 1, has been designed and will be presented to the Rose Parade committee Thursday, Clive Grafton, director of special events, said yesterday.
The float, which actually represents the entire AAWU in the parade, will follow the theme of the 1968 parade, “The Wonderful World of Adventure.”
It will depict a 17-foot Trojan engaged in a tug-of-war with an Indian Hoosier (which Webster defines as “an awkward, unskilled person”) and Will feature Helen of Troy Mimi Orr and her four princesses.
The float was designed by Alpha Rho Chi, architectural fraternity, un-
der the direction of Gordon Getchel, a fifth-year student in architecture.
It will be constructed by Coleman Enterprises, an established float-building firm whose president, Dr. Sam Coleman, is a USC graduate and member of the Trojan Club.
“USC students will be able to volunteer to work on the float by talking to members of Alpha Rho Chi,” Grafton said.
“Work schedules and deadlines will be announced shortly, and final drawings will be submitted to the Tournament of Roses committee Thursday.”
Grafton said figures of the mascots of the represented AAWU schools “will be appropriately placed on the float, but we’re not sure exactly how.”
The front of the float will include the words "University of Southern
California" while both sides of the float will read “AAWU.”
“Helen and her court will be dressed in white turtleneck sweaters, with Helen in a cardinal skirt and the four princesses in gold skirts to give the float a collegiate look," Grafton said.
The builders of the float, after making recommendations and some modifications in the float designs, said the float can be built for the $6,000 alloted for it on the AAWU budget, he said.
Money for the float is provided by the AAWU budget to cover Rose Bowl expenses and not from university funds.
“We’re delighted that this year's float will be designed by student* of the university,” Grafton said. “1 don’t know how long it’s been since we’ve designed our own float. This may be the first time.”
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