University of Southern California
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1967
NO. 15
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LOU RAWLS The jazz singer will appear in Bovard Oct. 26
Campus entertainment depends on gate at Lou Rawls concert
“The future of big-name entertainment on campus will be on the line when Lou Rawls appears in concert twice at Bovard Auditorium on Oct. 26." Jeff Smulyan. chairman of the ASSC Entertainment Committee. told the Daily Trojan yesterday.
Tickets for the concerts will go on sale Monday at several locations: in front of the Student Union from 10 am. to 2 p.m.; at the checkout counter in 32nd St. Market: in the Ticket Office. 209 Student Union: and and at the Student Activities Office in the YWCA.
Tickets will be sold on a reserved-seat basis. Seats on the ground floor nf Bovard will be $2.50. those in the first balcony will be $2 and those in
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q Little Su/jinnp DeBall needs help.
She's out in the big world now-frying to function as junior class representative, and all ‘•he wants Is a Junior Class Council.
T»nt not many junior classmen seem to want Little Suzanne.
Slu* is perservering, however, and has bravely announced, with only the slightest quiver in her chin, that applications can still he picked up and returned to the YWCA.
“All human juniors are encouraged to apply,” she said meekly.
Problems with pompon-girl plan delay approval from Topping
the second balcony will be $1.25 if purchased in advance-
If bought at the door, tickets will be $3. $2.25 and $1.50 respectively.
The Entertainment Committee is also making blocks of seats available fo any living or service group that wants to sit together. Smulyan said.
Committee members will visit fraternities and sororities Monday night and dormitory floors Tuesday night to distribute ticket-order blanks. Members of the groups will be able to decide how many of them want to sit together and purchase their tickets accordingly at a future date-
“The earlier they get their order blanks and money in. the better the locations they can get,” Smulyan pointed out.
Rawls, popular blues singer, will appear in two concerts on Oct. 26, one at 7 p.m. and the second at 9:45 p.m-The Dean of Women's office will grant University Specials to women attending the second performance.
Lou Rawls is the first entertainer invited to campus by the new ASSC committee, which hopes to bring several other hig-name performers to campus later this year. Smulyan said.
“However, the quality of entertainment events has been very low in the past, either because of a lack of adequate publicity, poor choice of dates or mediocre entertainment,” he added.
Smulyan hopes that by presenting a performer who is a big draw, the student body will respond in a more positive manner than it has in the
past
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The latest Trojan tempest seems to be more the result of confusion than genuine controversy.
The pompon girl issue, brought to light by ASSC president Marty Foley in the Sept. 24 ASSC Executive Council meeting, was to have been brought to an end with President Topping's signature of approval Thursday.
Pompon Song Girl Chairman John Hagestad explained yesterday, however. that the date was set as a personal goal of the committee and was not met because of a few details that needed “ironing out.”
Dean of Students Paul Bloland said part of the trouble arose because the committee had made no provision in their proposal for “a home” for the pompon girls.
Not only did they lack a sponsor, he said, but they also lacked some-one to serve in a similar capacity to yell leader coach Lindley Bothwell.
Both Hagestad and Wilky said Dean Bloland has also hesitated to recommend the plan to Dr. Topping because of AWS President, Karen Mazepink. who has expressed consid-
Campus TV tapes Breakup
KUSC Television will tape its first show at 1:30 this afternoon in Studio B at the Allan Hancock Foundation before an audience open to all students.
The comedy game show. ‘ Breakup,” pits two stiff-lipped student teams against each other. The lead-off team tells jokes, makes faces, sings, dances, or does slapstick. If the other team so much as smiles, it loses points.
The show will be broadcast over closed-circuit television next Tuesday or Wednesday near Tommy Trojan.
“Breakup” producer Bob Wynne, graduate student in telecommunications, said KUSC - TV is airing the show primarily to generate interest in the student-run station.
The station provides a continuing series of documentaries, student-fac-ulty discussions, plays, comedies and sports program.
“If we produce some really good shows and distribute them to the local stations, credentials at KUSC will mean something. You go out to get a job in telecommunications, say you did such-and-such at KUSC-TV, and you’re automatically at an advantage.”
Students can fill out applications in the Telecommunications Office, 244 Hancock Foundation, any time.
erable opposition to the whole ideaWhy must we begin to copy our rivals on behalf of AWS Executive Board now?”
I. R. GRAD SPEAKS AT I-HOUSE
U.S. foreign policy settled daily
By CARLA SWEENEY
“Foreign-policy making is day-to-day maneuvering. It rarely goes ahead six months,” Martin Omansky. a graduate student in international relations, said at an I-House seminar on “The Formulation of American Foreign Policy” Wednesday night.
“We all know the results of foreign policy but not why or in what manner it is formulated." he said.
“Harry Truman said. ‘I am the President; I make foreign policy.’ But today foreign policy may be influenced by many persons and organizations."
Among the policy-makers he referred to are:
•	Congress—Through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
•	The press — “Many press correspondents are present or former diplomats, and television editorials and opinions reach a large and in-
formed audience. Their effect can't' be minimized."
•	Private research — “Countless corporations, such as the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, are commissioned by the President or Congress to make independent surveys. They’ll probably be ignored, being considered too academic.”
•	Presidential advisors appointed by the President — “Their influence depends on who the President is and to whom he listens.”
•	The Establishment—The Eastern business and professional men who write in national magazines and professional journals. “If they were of one mind, they'd be a very successful influence on the President.”
•	Attentive public — “It has a particular point of view. People write
< letters to their congressmen. They’re only 10 per cent of the American people.”
•	Non-Establishment dissenters—
'These people have no power; their only strength is in their numbers.”
•	The electorate—“Over a period of years they may influence a trend.”
•	Interest groups — “Almost everybody has a lobbyist in Washington.” Most significant are the veteran groups and the defense establishment, whose profits and survival depend on space exploration, and defence spending.
Omansky also listed “at least 26 government agencies" that deal in one way or another with foreign policy.
“Who or what influences policy depends on the issue in question, he said.
“Often groups will adjust their decisions to suit each other and come out with a wishy-washy policy. I call this partisan-mutual-adjustment.
“In the end, the President makes the final decisions and ultimately accepts the responsibility for them.”
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and Panhellenic.
Dean Bloland said he has planned a meeting with Miss Mazepink to discuss her objections to the plan. “We shouldn't have the men legislating for the women students on campus,” he said. “It's not desirable. Or vice-versa.”
In a letter to Dr. Topping on behalf of AWS Executive Board and Panhellenic. Miss Mazepink said. “With the fine athletic tradition we have here at USC. it seems sad to me that we must now resort to dancing girls to create spirit for our teams.”
Miss Mazepink added that game attendance should be the result of respect for the teams, and that the school should not have to resort to “high school tactics to lure students to athletic events. USC has been distinctive in their style of support.
She said she will seek a referendum if Dr. Topping okays the proposal.
Meanwhile. Yell King Rusty Jordan said he will poll the student body on the issue during Saturday night's card stunts. He will seek a consensus by asking for those in favor to hold up one color card while those opposed will exhibit a different card.
Miss Mazepink disagreed with Jordan's idea, saying a football game was no place to get a student vote. “I would like to see the students have a chance to vote in a serious election.” she said.
Hagestad. on the other hand, said he thought the poll was a good idea.
“I see no reason why we shouldn't do it. If there's a tremendous response in favor of the plan, then perhaps it will show Karen Mazepink and Dean Shaeffer how the majority feels. If there's a large response the
other way. it will give the commit, tee a better idea of where we stand.”
Another problem has cropped up regarding the proposed membership of the selection committee. Norm Wilky. vice-president of student activities. said originally they had hoped to have Dean of Women Joan Shaeffer. Assistant Dean of Women Stephanie Adams, and Dean Bloland on the selection committee.
"Since they have indicated they will not be able to participate, we'll have to find some other responsible adults to replace them." Wilky said.
As it stands now. the committee's proposal calls for applications to be available to university women Oct. D to 13. Girls applying will be required to have a 2.25 cumulative grade average. Freshmen will be required to have a 2.75 grade average.
The selections will be based on the girl's knowledge of yells and songs, talent, personality. looks, and poise. Hagestad said, and the girls will be used only at baksetball games.
SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
Drama experiment successful
Students in the Drama Department's Great Plays and Contemporary Theater classes have been guinea pigs to a rather successful experiment for the past three semesters.
Sights and sounds, the lab session for Drama 225 and 226, was started last fall by Wayne Pelzin and Richard Falk, drama instructor.
“We got tired of lugging tape recorders and record players to our classes, so we thought we'd combine them to listen to play selections,” Polzin explained.
The instructors began to invite other drama classes to the sessions and expand the scope of the program to include films from the Cinema Department.
“The whole object of the program is to add to the reading of the
play,” Polzin, who now heads Sights and Sounds, said. "It's a practical lesson in appreciation of the living thing that a play is. It's a lab in the full sense of the word.”
Under the instructor's direction, the lab session has grown to the point that the 12 sessions for this semester will include four feature-length films of plays, several visiting professional lecturers and a behind-the-scenes look at a play in the making.
In one of the initial sessions, the film version of Sohpocles' “Electra” was presented to the students. Polzin says he also plans to show film versions of “Henry V," starring British actor Sir Laurence Olivier. Strindberg's “Miss Julie" and Sartre's “No Exit.”
Joy Carmichal, a professional artist working toward her Ph.D. in
cinema, will lecture on new directions in cinema for one session. PoLzin said.
Five periods will be devoted to the mechanics of production. They will cover designing, styles of acting and direction. The students will also visit a rehearsal of a Mainstage Production to get the feel of a play as it is put together.
The semester will be concluded with three special sessions. The first will deal with mime and pantomime, the second with musical comedy.
The third will be a happening. "We're still a little hazy on the details of this last one,” he said.
"Our success was modest at first, Polzin said, "but we ve con* tined to grow with the general objective to bring the students the visual and audial aspects that can't be obtained by reading a play."
Calendar merry-go-round-Troy Week date clash with Biltmore
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH Contributing Editor
The ASSC is not the only group to run into calendar conflicts.
The Biltmore Hotel has the same problems. Unfortunately for the Troy Week Committee, however, its problem is on Nov. 11.
The ASSC calendar dispute was settled earlier this week by the so-called Great Compromise, in which the Drama Department held sway in Bovard Auditorium while Troy Week had to reschedule Trolios a night earlier and move the bonfire-rally-street dance to Fagg Park.
With that problem out of the way, the committee faced another when it learned that the Biltmore Hotel had scheduled a convention in the Biltmore Ballroom for the same night as the Trojan Trip, the Troy Week Dance.
As in the ASSC calendar conflict, the problem was a lack of coordination.
ly an open night when the Troy Week
Saturday, Nov. 11, was supposed-Committee contracted for the Biltmore Ballroom last May.
A couple of weeks ago the hotel realized that the California State Employees Association, which convenes at the Biltmore every two years, had been schduled to use the ballroom on that night. Unfortunately, the item had not been entered on the hotel’s main booking calendar, but on another one.
When the mistake was realized, the hotel contacted Troy Week Chairman Bill Mauk to find out if the dance could be reset for Friday night, Nov. 10.
Mauk checked with the Merry-Go-Rounds and the Sunshine Co., who had been contracted to play on the 11th, but they were booked for the 10th.
The management then offered the committee use of the Biltmore Bowl instead ot the ballroom. The bowl, however, has only about 2.200 square feet as compared to the 5.800 square feet in the ballroom.
Clive Grafton, special events director, and Paul Moore, student activities director, went to the Biltmore yesterday to try to straighten things out.
As a result of their conversation with hotel management, a Biltmore sales representative flew to Sacramento yesterday to speak to the planners of the California State Em-
ployees Association to ?ee whether they could have their Saturday night function in another part of the hotel.
“I’m quite optimistic that our original agreement will be honored,” Grafton told the Daily Trojan yesterday. “The hotel management felt very bad about the whole situation and I'm sure things will work out in our favor."
A spokesman for the hotel will contact Grafton Monday to let him know how the sales representative made out in Sacramento.
Applications for ASSC liaison groups available at YWCA
ASSC Student Liaison Committees for the Library, Health Center and University Bookstore are now accepting applications through the office of Bob Lutz, vice-president of academic affairs, in 321 Student Union or the YWCA.
The Health Service Committee and the Library Service Committee were created last year by Julie Sheehan, Lutz' predecessor. The University Bookstore Committee is being established this year at the suggestion of Mortar Board.
“The purpose of these committees is not to establish a real power relationship, but to form distinct lines of communication between students and student services,” Lutz said.
Lynda Benn. head of College Library, said the committees will provide a formalized way for students to ex-
press complaints or to make constructive suggestions.
The twelve-man membership board of the Library Service Committee (consisting of six students and six librarians) plan to meet bi-monthly to discuss ideas and to study those suggestions students have either made to their Library Service representatives or placed in the suggestion box in the library-
Dr. Paul Greeley, director of the Student Medical Center, calls the committees “a very fine idea.” He said representatives on the Health Service Committee are “interested in medical affairs such as pre-med or pre-dental students.”
“While Bob Lutz and I have not yet gotten in touch with one another,
I have talked with Dr. Topping, and we have many ideas concerning this committee," Robert Hiatt, director of the bookstore, said*