Dean Charles Mayo gestures and pauses during interview
New dean brings youthful view to Graduate School
University of Southern California
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1968
NO. 5
By BILL DICKE Night Editor
When Dr. Charles Mayo moved into the office of the Dean of the Graduate School, one of the first things he did was take down the old paintings.
Off the walls came the dark 19th century works and up went splashy modern paintings.
This tells something about the man who was appointed to the post yesterday by President Topping.
For one thing. Dr Mayo, 36, will be the youngest dean of the Graduate School in its 48-year history.
Dr. Topping said, “I agree that it is time to break with the tradition that a graduate school dean be an older faculty man. We are delighted that Dr. Mayo has accepted the challenging post.”
For another thing. Dr. Mayo is not afraid to speak out, he said in an interview.
“If I talk out of turn, the president can take my job away from me.
“I want to keep my ears, eyes and other senses moving. I want to be responsive to the students and faculty.”
Dean Mayo said he wants to strive for higher levels of quality. USC is now the 24th largest producer of Ph.D.'s in the country, he said.
“I am not at all concerned with becoming a larger producer.” he said. “I am interested in the quality of the product this institution can turn out.”
USC is deficient in the social sciences. Dean Mayo declared. “We have made strides in the past decade, but the pace has not been as great as in the natural sciences.
“The natural sciences may have helped the social sciences, but they may also have had a discouraging effect.
“There is a certain limit on the excellence of the natural sciences caused by the lack of quality of the social sciences.
“I don’t want to knock the natural sciences. I want to keep the natural sciences going the way they have been and work on improving the social sciences.”
Dr. Mayo said he couldn't set a priority on either the natural or social sciences.
“If I set a priority on the social sciences, the natural sciences would probably have a giant hemorrhage all over the place and they probably
should," he said.
“We are a university and the core of a university is the liberal arts.”
It is evident USC's academic reputation is largely local. Dean Mayo said, but USC's goal is to become nationally recognized.
He listed several things USC's Graduate School must have to gain this recognition:
#	A full-time student body of high talent. (“USC has always had a high percentage of part-time graduate students,” he said.)
•	An academic atmosphere that is promotive of free discussion.
#	A greatly improved library. ("The library is deficient in all too many areas,” he said.)
•	A greater computer capability.
ft An ability to show the distinctivcness of what it has to offer.
USC must capitalize on its urban environment, Dean Mayo believes. “We shouldn't play cow college or Ivy League college." he said.
“We should play L.A.. urban, Watts-located university.
“I want us to really get immersed in the urban area. There is so much going on in L.A. This is how we must attract students.
“We have to stop living with this inferiority complex and take an optimistic attitude. Let's give USC a chance to see if what has happened in the last 10 years can continue.”
As for his own role in this process. Dr. Mayo mentions by comparison a friend by the name of Paul Saltman. Dr. Saltman was professor of biochemistry here before he left for Ravelle College at the University of California.
Dr. Mayo said. “He was probably more of a hippie than these people who dress like hippies. And I’m kind of like him."
Dean Mayo won’t be sitting back quietly watching the Graduate School go by.
keeper, Blood Brooks asserts
TYDs meet in a sea of empty seats.
TYD walkout staged over support of LBJ
Man IS director
By LIN FARLEY
“Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Richard Brooks, who directed the film "In Cold Blood.” asked that question of an overflowing student audience Thursday night.
“I say You're D-A-M-N-E-D RIGHT!” ne then answered.
“That’s what I believe and that's what I tried to say there (pointing to the screen) without making this speech.”
Brooks, who rarely comments on “In Cold Blood.” spoke after a screening of it to Prof. Arthur Knight’s theatrical film class. The 133-minute movie explores the 1959 murder of four members of a Kansas family by two male psychopaths.
Brooks explained his widely-publicized documenation of the actual
New draft but dismal
The new draft law, which went into effect last fall, has clarified and improved the deferment chances for undergraduate students, John Mc-Kinstry, assistant dean of men. explained in an interview yesterday.
He warned, however, that the chances for graduate student deferments will be dismal after this year.
The new law has done away with the grade-point averages and tests as determinates of deferment. The
School to get
Dr. Robert Dockson, dean of the School of Business Administration, will receive the Asa V. Call Achievement Award at the gala Trojan Tribute on Feb. 17 in the Music Center.
A few tickets, ranging from S3-S25, are still available at the Alumni House, 634 Childs Way.
Awards for “outstanding service” will be given to Frank Gifford, former USC All-American football player and now a sports commentator for CBS. and Stephen Bilheimer, civic leader and chairman of the board of Silverwoods.
Awards of Merit for “worthy achievement, which has reflected credit upon the university and each of ln*r alumni.” will go to Dr. Helen Eastman Martin, professor of medicine. and to Reginald McKenzie, president of Aero-Jet General Corp.
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crime down to finding actors who closely resembled the real people because, “It was my hope that an audience would be not only the victim but the killer and the executioner.”
Despite the rating of “In Cold Blood" as the best movie of 1967 by more than a score of national newspapers and magazines, it has also been criticized for prejudicing the audience in favor of the killers.
To this accusation Brooks replied. “If some of these people never saw an execution before and it affected them adversely, maybe it is about time they saw one.
“I wrote the screenplay from Truman Capote’s book and Capote of all the reporters on the case followed it from beginning to end — 1959 to 1965.
first thing a student must do to obtain an exemption is to register at his local board within five days after his eighteenth birthday.
All new male undergraduate students should obtain form 109 at the Registrar’s Office within two weeks. Graduate students must fill out form 103 by the same date.
Both must also fill out form 104 at any draft board office or write a letter to their local boards request-
Call Award
The tribute, presented by the General Alumni Association and the Board of Trustees, will include a short program of student and alumni talent, followed by dancing at a champagne reception in the foyer of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Ralph Edwards, television personality, will serve as master of ceremonies. The awards will be presented by Mrs. Grant Cooper, alumni president, and Justin Dart, chairman of the board.
Highlights of the program will include the Drama Department’s award-winning presentations of “Eyewitness: the Report of the Assassination,” and “Bull on the Roof,” Ihe USC Wind Orchestra and USC Chamber Singers and several alumni artists.
do the film was the fact the men said what they said and because the story stood by itself.”
Brooks said he first read Capote’s yet unpublished manuscript before Perry Smith and Dick Hickock were even hanged, and decidcd to do it immediately.
He also explained he encountered two major problems with Columbia, the backer, over purely technical production: the film would utilize no known stars, and he would shoot it in black and white.
“I felt that the use of stars would destroy the effect I wanted to create —that of a total stranger knocking on your door at 2 a.m. As to the black-and-white against color, I just threatened to quit.”
The class saw the film before Brooks spoke to them and he was
ing a II-S classification as a full-time student. Those who completed these forms last semester don’t need to do so again until next fall.
Dean McKinstry said undergraduate students should keep their deferments as long as they are making satisfactory progress towards a degree.
This means that second year students should have taken enough units to qualify as a sophomore, that third year students should be juniors, and fourth year students should be seniors.
Dean McKinstry explained though, that even freshmen could be reclassified as I-A if they fail to carry enough units.
He said that the university will not 'report a student as failing to have a sufficient academic load unless he is carrying less than 12 units, but pointed out that students should be carrying at least 15 units in order to avoid becoming “third semester freshmen.”
Students who have had one year of graduate work previous to this academic year will continue to be deferred as full-time graduate students for the remainder of this year if they have completed forms 103 and 104.
Next year there will be no deferments for graduate students under the present law except in the fields of medicine, dentistry, veterinary science, osteopathy and optometry. He dots not believe that the chances for change of this rule are very good. )
welcomed with prolonged applause. He accepted it as mostly applause for the film, and took the opportunity to dig up a pipe from his baggy corduroy trousers.
“I don’t know how to make a successful picture,” he declaimed, “but I do have something to say and I am not afraid to fail.
“This is what should be in your minds. Is it worthwhile? All I really want in a script is structure and that it means something.”
Brooks exhorted the students to hurry and join him in the making of films. Acknowledging the impossibility of obtaining union membership, he asked them to write their newspapers, make phone calls and “even picket if need be.”
The 56-year-old Brooks began his own career in 1947 when he wrote the screenplay for the film “Crossfire” from his own novel, “The Brick Fox Hole.” He was soon directing films for many of the major studios. His credits include “Blackboard Jungle,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Elmer Gantry,” “Sweet Bird of Youth” and “The Professionals.”
Questioned on his move from author to director, he ran a quick hand through his shaggy, grey hair, and responded, “Direction is just another form of writing.
“The camera can only be where the story point is. I worked with some good directors—like John Huston— and the time came when I just had to go to it and direct.”
An example of Brook’s kind of directing appears in a scene at the close of “In Cold Blood,” which finds the condemned Perry Smith staring out the window of his cell in the Kansas State Penitentiary. It is raining and the water plays across Perry’s face in a shadow dance resembling tears.
“I didn’t want Perry to break,” Brooks said. “I wanted the elements to weep for him.”
$10 PENALTY NEARS FOR DROP-AND-ADD
Students desiring to drop or add courses from their schedules have until tomorrow noon to do so without penalty.
After tomorrow, a late registration fee of $10 will be charged.
Jack Dietz, registration specialist, said that more than 2,800 students have completed the drop-and-add process, with another 1,000 expected before tomorrow’s deadline.
The drop-and-add process is located In the men’s gym and will be open today until 7:30 p.m. and from 8:30 p.m. until noon tomorrow.
By CARLA SWEENEY
Daniel Brandt and Steve Beidner. treasurer and former president of the Trojan Young Democrats, staged a walkout yesterday at the noon meeting of the organization when it defeated a motion to pledge support for Sen. Eugene McCarthy's campaign for the presidency.
The vote was not official because the 11 members present barely constituted a quorum.
A second vote is being waivered by President Joel Rosenzweig, an avowed supporter of the Johnson administration, until an indefinite time when more of the club's 43 members are present.
The constitution of the California Federation of Young Democrats specifically prohibits chapters endorsing candidates, but allows support to be given.
The constitution also prohibits unit voting.
However, a vote was taken to instruct Rosenzweig, Phil Muller and Carla Sweeney, the club's delegates to the State Central Committee meeting this weekend in Sacramento, in the philosophy of the TYD regarding the war in Vietnam.
After considering whether to support the Administration’s Vietnam poliey or call for immediate withdrawal, the members voted 6-4 for
the latter, with one abstention.
Brandt, the leader of yesterday’s walkout, is a junior in sociology and is active in the Students for a Democratic Society and Resistance, an antidraft organization. He has turned in his draft card bccause he is opposed to the Selective Service System.
In explaining his walk-out, Brandt said. "The idea that Johnson is actively seeking a negotiated settlement to the war is preposterous.
“Recent statements from Hanoi that negotiations will begin if bombing is unconditionally stopped point this out.
"Until the TYD adopts a more reasonable position I plan to confine my campus activities to the radical left."
In answer to these charges, Rosenzweig said. “With regard to the statements of both the walkers-out, I feel it is incumbent upon me to express the official governing policy of the Trojan Young Democrats at this time.
“We are at war in Vietnam and now we must find an honorable means to aid the Vietnamese people and end the U.S. commitment.
“This cannot be done with the election of McCarthy. The only way it can be facilitated ip for ardent and concerned members of the community to come together and find a workable solution.”
“One of the reasons I decided to
laws help undergrads, prospect for graduates
Dean Dockson of Business