University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 13,1967
NO. 39
Mimi Orr...
THE CORONATION
Mimi Orr received a kiss and a crown Saturday night, as Noelle Green Kantzer. 1966 Helen of Troy, transferred her position of Grecian royalty to her Delta Gamma sorority sister at “A Crowning Affair.”
The five finalists had followed Noelle to the stage through a tunnel formed by Trojans in the crowded ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel, as Bill Mauk' chairman of the Troy Week Committee, read their names and the activities in which they had participated.
The royal five stood glistening in the spotlight as Marty Foley, ASSC president, was introduced to reveal Helen's identity.
\Wien Foley announced the decision. Mimi gasped and her smile suddenly became a hundred times more vivid. Brian Heimerl. chairman of the Guest Relations Staff, presented her with a bouquet of long-stemmed ied roses, while Noelle placed the royal robe around her and set the crown atop her head.
The princesses were presented with long-stemmed yellow roses.
Bright lights were beaming and flashbulbs suddenly started going
off.
Helen and her court were escorted to the dance floor to lead the next dance, but they were delayed ten minutes while the Merry-Go-Round set up their equipment and tuned up.
The band sang. “You're A Very Lovely Woman," while Mimi danced with Heimerl. Penny Ward with Deraid Sidler. president of Knights: Linda Garcia with Mat Pasternak, chairman of the Troy Week Dance Committee; and Diane Brock with Bob Lutz, vice president of ASSC.
Miss Orr looked beautiful in an orange crepe modified A-line gown, with matching accessories.
Penny Ward, of Pi Beta Phi sorority, wore a white double layered formal with rhinestones imbedded in chiffon over satin. The dress, with halter shoulders, featured a jeweled turtleneck.	^
Linda Garcia, a Kappa Kappa Gamma, also wore white. Her dress bore a front and back V-neckline and a waistline bow gracing a bell shaped skirt.
Diane Brock. Pi Phi. looked lovely in her chartreuse organza gown with a jeweled bodice.
Libby Holman, a Delta Gamma, was darling in a white brocade formal with a scoop neckline in front and back.
The five finalists went to a suite upstairs after the dance, where they were photographed and interviewed. Mimi was presented with a large engraved silver serving tray, and the princesses received engraved silver bowls.
Miss Orr will reign over the rest of Troy Week and will be presented at the UCLA game Saturday. She appeared on Trojan Huddle yesterday, and a screen test has been arranged for her by Universal
Studies.
Continuing Troy Week. Trojan Knights and Squires will begin more than 100 hours of vigilance today at noon following a rally at which Tommy Trojan will be uncovered.
The ceremony marks two firsts. It is the first time in recent years that the Trojan Shrine has been uncovered during the week prior to the UCLA game, and it is the first time Tommy Trojan has addressed the student body.
After 38 years of silence. Tommy’s short speech is expected to express his opinions of Trojan spirit.
After the rally. Knights and Squires plans to begin guarding the statue on an around-the-clock basis that will last until the bonfire-rally Friday night.
A plastic cover will be placed over the statue at night to protect against paint bombs.
Knights will be stationed around the base of the statue, in Bovard Tower, and in the lounge of the Student Union. Lights will be left on in Bovard Field to repel sneak attacks, and students must carry I.D. cards especially when passing Tommy Trojan at night.
WEEK-LONG ELECTION
TYD to poll students on war, Presidency
An indication of campus feelings on the war in Vietnam will be given this week in a poll conducted by the Trojan Young Democrats.
The eight-question poll will also offer a chance for students and faculty to state their preferences for President of the United States in the 1968 election.
Copies of the poll will be available in front of four campus gathering spots:
•	Founders Hall, from noon to 1 p.m. today and Wednesday, and from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday;
•	Student Union, from noon to 1 p.m. today and Wednesday;
•	University Bookstore, in Vivian Hall, from noon to 1 p.m. today and Wednesday;
•	Curries, at the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and University Avenue, from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday.
“We're hoping for a good response,” Steve Beidner, TYD president, said, “so that we can obtain a fair representation of USC sentiment on these issues.”
The poll's results, which will be
BUSINESS GROUP HOSTS LUNCHEON
AIESEC, the International Association of Students in Business and Economics, invites students to attend a luncheon today at noon at the Los Angeles City Chamber of Commerce.
The luncheon will provide the opportunity to meet some of Southern California’s top business executives and become aquainted with AIESEC and its traineeship program.
Each traineeship allows USC students the opportunity to work abroad in management, business and economics. In exchange, students from foreign countries are allowed to participate in similar programs in the United States.
MIMI ORR Will reign as 1967-68 Helen of Troy.
EXPERIMENTAL CLASSES MEET
announced in Thursday’s Daily Trojan, will indicate that sentiment from the following questions:
1.	Do you agree with the way the administration is conducting the war in Vietnam?
2.	Do you believe that the presence of the United States military in Vietnam is a mistake?
3.	Do you believe the United States should escalate the war?
4.	Do you believe the United States should withdraw from Vietnam ?
5.	Should the United States continue to bomb North Vietnam?
6.	If you were voting in an election today, would you consider a candidate's stand on Vietnam important?
(Each of the preceding questions may be answered yes, no or undecided.),
7.	What, in your opinion, will be the major issue in the upcoming presidential election?
(The choices for this question will include the Vietnam war, civil rights, poverty, education, taxes, inflation, riots and other.)
8.	Regardless of political party, which of the following would you like to see as President of the United States in 1968?
(The list of avowed, non, semi and hopeful candidates includes President Johnson, Sen. Robert Kennedy, Gov. Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Gen. James Gavin, Gov. George Romney, Sen. Wayne Morse, Sen. Mark Hatfield, Martin Luther King, Sen. J. William Fullbright, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, Gov. George Wallace, Sen. Eugene McCarthy, Barry Gold-water, Sen. Charles Percy and Mayor John Lindsey.)
Beidner noted that the TYD poll follows the recent Proposition P on the San Francisco ballot that resulted in a two-to-one majority in support of the war, and plans for similar ballot-polls in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and Santa Monica in upcoming elections.
Some classes will begin as others continue this week in the Experimental College as the school continues to take its next steps to full operation.
Dr. J. Wesley Robb will begin teaching a class on the new morality this afternoon at 4:15 in 219 Founders Hall.
Tomorrow, Mark Savit will begin a class on violence and values in American society. The class will be held in the Norman Rose Bookshop on Hoover Street.
Radical education, taught by David Lang, will continue today at 3:15 in 213 Von KleinSmid Center.
Dr. Robert Mannes will continue his survey of Old and New
Testaments at 6 p.m. in 201 Von KleinSmid Center tonight.
History of mysticism, taught by Daniel Steffens, will continue tomorrow at 4 p.m. in 151 Von KleinSmid Center.
Steve Supplin will continue his class on Tibetan Book of the Dead at 4 p.m. in 150 Von KleinSmid Center tomorrow.
The history of science fiction will meet again tomorrow at 7 p-m-in 105 Von KleinSmid Center. The class is taught by Stanford Burns.
Dr. Fred Krinsky, political science chairman, will continue tomorrow with his class on the future of the welfare state at 1:15 p.m. in 161 Von KleinSmid Center.
Ray Sparling elected to Board of Trustees
Ray Sparling, president-elect of the General Alumni Association, has been elected to a three-year term on the Board of Trustees. The announcement was made yesterday by Justin Dart, board chairman.
Sparling, who was graduated from the School of Engineering in 1933, will be one of three alumni trustees on the board.
He will join Mrs. Phyllis Cooper, Los Angeles attorney and current president of the association, and Winston Fuller of San Marino, immediate past president.
Sparling was chairman of Alumni Day on the USC campus last April 15. He is a past president of the Engineering Alumni Association and the Trojan Club.
He is also a member of USC Associates, Archimedes Circle, Cardinal and Gold, the President’s Circle, and of Kappa Alpha Fraternity.
He serves as president of the San Gabriel Country Club, director of the Bank of Pasadena and of Congress Underwriters Insurance Co. He is an associate director of the Eastside Boys Club and of the San Gabriel Valley Boys’ Club.
A mechanical engineer, Sparling is president of the Sparling Division of the Hersey-Sparling Meter Co.,
manufacturers of water measuring equipment, with plants in El Monte, Dedham, Mass., and Burgess Hill, Sussex, England. The company ha3 branch offices throughout the United States and representatives in most foreign countries.
Born in Los Angeles, Sparling played football under the late coach Howard Jones from 1930-32, which included two Rose Bowl and two national champion teams.
He was elected to the Silver Anniversary All - American Football Team by Sports Illustrated in 1957.
Sparling and his wife. Hazel, also a USC graduate, have lived in San Gabriel since 1935. They have four children. Joan, Marilyn and Ray are all USC graduates married to USC alumni. Steven is a junior in engineering at USC.
The Board of Trustees is a self-perpetuating body atop the university’s administrative structure. It elects one-third of its members each year for a three-year term of office.
The board contains nine stand committees that correlate to administrative, faculty and student committees, and is connected to the university directly through President Topping.
...Helen of Troy
THE QUEEN
She is truly a regal Helen.
From the moment she realized she had been select&d. and der:-through a confused picture-taking session in a room crowded with photographers, well-wishers, parents, campus VIP's, and cigar smoke. Mimi Orr was an elegant, dignified, and poised woman representing Trojan style at its best.
The scene in the suite where she was photographed after her coronation was a mixture of smiles and tears and occasional nervous chatter.
Brian Heimerl. chairman of the Guest Relations Committee, entered the room, threw Helen's robe around his shoulders, and quipped, “Welcome to the suite, sweet!”
Martin Foley, president of ASSC, queried, “Why wasn't I Helen of Troy?”
Mrs. Orr smiled proudly and held back a few tears of joy as she kissed her daughter for a picture.
Though excited. Mimi did not cry upon notification that she had won. Her smile had simply become brighter, and she graciously accepted the crown. “I’m not a crier,” she said.
It seemed that hundreds of pictures of Helen and her court were being taken, and the princesses seemed to have an endless supply and assortment of smiles.
While she was being photographed Mimi admitted she felt uncomfortable in front of the camera. “I'm in a daze,” she said.
Mimi said she was looking forward to her reign as Helen of Troy. “I don't really have anything definite planned — I didn't know I would win. I’m not sure, but I think I will get to have coffee with Dr. Topping,” she said. She also added that she might visit Trojan alumni clubs.
“I’m really surprised I was selected. It w'as surprising they’d pick someone with short hair,” she joked.
Miss Orr said she feels academics are more important than social life at a university. She has maintained a cumulative 3.0 grade point.
“I’m hoping not to get behind because of all the activities that are part of being 1968 Helen of Troy,” she said.
“Being Helen is more of an individual honor than it is for the house,” she said. She was referring to the fact that Delta Gamma has had two Helens of Troy in the last two years.
Libby Holman, a princess on the court, is also a Delta Gamma.
Mimi was talking between having pictures taken, and surprisingly enough she seemed quite calm amidst the confusion.
“Before the dance. I went to Charlie Brown's down at the Marina for dinner with my date,” she said. “I don't think I was nervous, but I had lobster, and it went down in clumps,” she added.
Mimi is undecided about future plans. “I don’t really know w’hat I'd like to do later on — maybe write children's books,” she said. She is a junior English major.
The room had gotten more congested as more well wishers had entered the room, and the princesses and their dates were chatting nearby.
Mimi’s date was Gary Brooks, Diane Brock was with Dana Woud-enberg. Libby Holman was with Bob Henry; Linda Garcia was with Pete Lubasich; and Penny Ward was with Brian Mock.
Mimi would not volunteer a prediction about the upcoming UCLA game, but she added that to be a Trojan means you have to be a football fan.
This is not the first time Mimi has been honored with royalty. She is now reigning as the Kappa Sigma Sweetheart..
She is also a member of the guest relations staff and has worked on the Tutorial Project.
SERVICE DEPARTMENT
Prof lists reasons for geography's decline
By JOHN FURTAK
“We function as a service department for the university.” That is the way the faculty describes it.
“It is a supplementary field of study, and its courses are designed to meet the needs of other schools and departments. It may not be offered as a major.” That is the way the student bulletin describes it.
It is the Department of Geography. It lost its degree-granting status about four years ago.
“It would be easy to blame a lot of people in the university hierarchy for the decline of the geography department,” Roderick McKenzie, acting chairman of the department, said in an interview.
“But that’s the easy way out. Geography brought the decline on itself. It simply did not keep up in its field with the rest of the universities.”
McKenzie, who became chairman of the department when Dr. John W. Reith died of cancer this past summer, and Paul Zierer are the only full-time members of the Geography Department.
Courses in geography are currently offered as electives, to meet a requirement of other departments and to meet a university requirement for obtaining a degree.
“Enrollment in geography classes is increasing and there seems to be a rebirth of interest in the field,” Zierer said.
Six classes — senior colloquia, physical, economical, historical, social and California geography—are being taught this semester, and two more will be added in the spring.
Business, education, history and social science majors make up the majority of the approximately 1,000 students who will take geography courses this year.
“The question is one of how well USC wants to compete with one of the better geography departments in the country, which happens to be across town,” McKenzie said.
“The UCLA Geography Department can be competed with, as evidenced by the good job the state colleges are doing.
“However, to build a comparable department at USC would take more than the university could afford right now.”
USC could hire the personnel needed to staff such a department, he said, because it is quite competitive in the area of salaries, but the major expense would come in providing the necessary facilities—earth-science equipment, office space and classrooms.
“There is an alternative though. We could build a small (four-man) department like the one at John Hopkins University, which does not have a lot of undergraduate or graduate students, but stresses quality of education rather than quantity,” McKenzie said.
“Geography at USC is presently in its weakest stage.” “It will take several years to build a good, strong department,” he said.
DEC FRAMES TO BE DELIVERED
Wooden frames are now available to dorm and service groups that have entered the Troy Week house decorations contest.
The “A” frames will be delivered to any dorm or service group upon request. Requests and further information can be obtained at the YWCA Student Activities Office.
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