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The Feb. 9 Daily Trojan article on Charles Mayo, new dean of the Graduate School, inadvertently neglected to mention that l)r. Mayo said the humanities are as under-supported. if not more so, as the social sciences on this campus.
“If this university is to achieve its stated goal of academic excellence,’’ Dr. Mayo said at that time, “it must not only increase its support of the natural sciences but also must give much greater attention to the needs of the social sciences and Ihe humanities.”
Dean Mayo replaced Dr. Milton Kloet/el, who was recently named vice-president of research and graduate affairs. _ __
Students to attend
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Five USC students will leave tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. for the Model United Nations (MUN) National Conference in New York, marking the first time a USC delegation has attended the annual student event.
The five are Jim Pugh, chairman, Frank McCullough, JoAnne Carroll, Dave O'Hara and Bren Jundanian. All are international relations majors and members of the Trojan MUN.
The MUN Conference (Feb. 15 to 18) is made up of delegations from invited schools which take part in mock sessions of the UN General Assembly. Security Council and the seven standing committees of the UN.
The USC delegation will represent Israel during the various meetings and will assume the official Israeli positions on various international questions.
USC was invited to attend the MUN conference this year because of "outstanding" work in the regional conferences and other MUN projects.
The ASSC and the university will provide funds for the group’s trip.
The conference will be held in the Statler Hilton Hotel in New York. The delegates will hear speeches from several top diplomats and take part in tours and other activities in the United Nations building.
In addition, the USC group will visit the Israeli Embassy for a briefing on Israeli foreign policies.
The administrative structure of the MUN is headed by Harvard. Yale and Georgetown universities, which founded the program in the early 1950s.
USC has participated in a number of regional conferences, but when it was invited to participate in the New York meeting, the MUN members originally feared they would not have enough funds to attend.
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VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1968
NO. 7
Johnson policy causes TYD split
Dean Ingersoll (left), Dr. Raprielian: engineering heath
Engineering units formed to ease teacher workload
The School of Engineering has been divided into two parallel administrative units to help ease teaching and research problems. President Norman Topping and Dr. Milton Kloetzel, vice-president for Research and Graduate Affairs, announced yesterday.
The division, which was effective Feb. 1, is designed primarily to break down and separate the administrative chores of teaching and research in engineering.
The teaching division, which is primarily concerned with undergraduate students, will be handled by Dean Alfred Ingersoll.
He will be responsible for undergraduate engineering education, contacts with high schools and junior colleges, relations with alumni, support groups, and professional engineering organizations.
Administration in the research field will be handled by Dr. Zohrab Kaprielian, chairman of the electrical sciences division.
Dr. Kaprielian will direct the Graduate Center for Engineering Sciences and will be responsible for the
GOP candidate backs Reagan s 1968 plans
Bill Orozco, Gov. Reagan’s South- and order, issues that minority groups em California representative and a have great interest in.
Republican candidate for Congress, said yesterday that Gov. Reagan is carrying out the pledges he made during his 1966 campaign in spite of Democratic opposition in the legislature.
Speaking before the Trojan Young Republicans, Orozco said the major issue during the campaign was economy in government and that the Reagan administration is working to achieve greater efficiency by bringing businessmen and business practices into government.
Orozco listed several ksy points of Reagan's 1968 program; taking the selection of judges out of politics, reorganizing the executive branch by reducing the seven super agencies to four, instituting the first general tax reform since 1933 and reorganizing the Welfare Department.
“We must do whatever is necessary to help those who cannot provide for themselves, but we must not consistently have welfare programs that keep people out of productive life,” Orozco said.
The Reagan administration will attempt to get as many people off the welfare roles as possible through training and retraining programs, he said.
In 1966 Orozco ran a close race against Rep. George Brown, losing by 3,000 out of 150,000 votes cast. Even though the election is nine months away, he has already announced that he will challenge Brown again.
Orozco's 29th Congressional District is located in the Los Angeles and Monterey Park areas and is heavily populated with Mexican-Americans and Negroes. Orozco said minority groups should join the Republican Party because there is more opportunity for them to participate.
He also said that the Republican Party historically has been against high taxes and inflation and for law
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Orozco believes the issues in the upcoming election will be the Vietnam war, law and order, and centralization of government.
graduate and post-doctoral engineering academic and research programs.
The division was made necessary “because of the spectacular growth in engineering since 1960. We just had too mtich work coming through one office,” Dean Ingersoll said.
He stressed. “Although some overlap will occur, we feel we will be able to increase the quality of the school's programs.”
One of the problems Dean Ingersoll hopes to solve is the wide gap between the number of new engineers and the demand for engineering graduates.
“Although more freshmen are enrolling in colleges and universities, the proportion qualified for engineering careers has declined steadily,” he said. “This fact troubles both engineering educators and industrialists.”
A possible solution is a local guidance council, which Dean Ingersoll plans to develop in the Los Angeles area. The council would coordinate the interests of industrial employers and engineering schools in attracting high school and junior college graduates into engineering.
Dr. Kaprielian plans to work and develop areas of research which can serve the community and nation at large. He also caid that he will work on maintaining the graduate engineering program’s international reputation.
Dr. Kaprielian has served as chairman of the Science Development Program in connection with a National Science Foundation gra.nt of S4.5 million to establish a center of excellence in science and engineering.
For the past five years, he has directed a broad program of basic Research in electronics sponsored by
the Joint Services Electronics Program.
He will continue as director of the Solid State Sciences Center, an interdisciplinary research unit which will be housed in the Frank R. Seaver Science Center, now under construction.
Both Dr. Kaprielian and Dean Ingersoll agreed that the coordinated division is different, but said that it will be a real advantage in both areas.
Finance was not a problem in the division, as no new personnel wrere added immediately. Dean Ingersoll said that provisions have been made for the addition of several office assistants in the future as the two programs expand.
Dr. Kaprielian is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Beirut. He joined the USC faculty in 1957.
Dean Ingersoll, who has three degrees from the University of Wisconsin, came to USC as dean in 1960.
SCAFFOLD TO END ON WEDNESDAY
SCaffold, the student book exchange, will stop selling books after Wednesday. Students wishing to purchase books must do so today or tomorrow' from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Students should pick up money for sold books or claim their unsold books on Thursday and Friday from noon to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon.
Fred Quinn, who heads the project, urges students to pick up all unsold books, since the wholesale price will be extremely low.
By CARLA SWEENEY
Following a weekend convention of the California. Federation of Young Democrats, when several resolutions opposing the Johnson administration were adopted, some of the members of Trojan Young Democrats have decided to break aw'ay from the official campus organization. TYD is informally supporting the administration’s policy.
Steve Beidner, treasurer and past president of TYD, is heading up the splinter group, which will meet for the first time at noon today in 100 von KleinSmid Center.
“TYD has decided to be an establishment club, supporting establishment candidates, no matter what their beliefs.’’ Beidner said.
“As a result it has alienated a significant segment of the Democrats on campus who are unalterably opposed to President Johnson and his war, which is killing Americans and Vietnamese, alike each day, and taking away from the vital needs of our own people in the United States.”
Befdner feels the newly-formed organization and others like it must have identities separate from TYD, supporting the candidacies of such men as Sen. Eugene McCarthy for president and State Sen. Anthony Beilenson of Beverly Hills for the U.S. Senate.
“From the voting last weekend at the CFYD convention, it is obvious that the majority sentiment of the Young Democrats is for McCarthy and what he stands for,” Beidner said.
At that convention, attended by 200 delegates, including four from TYD, the Young Democrats voted to encourage draft resisters, to reinforce their stand against the Vietnam war, to oppose governmental attempts to silence peace and freedom
movements, and to call on President Johnson to withdraw from the presidential race in the interest of party unity.
The CFYD voted “to stand by, support and encourage those who, because of their convictions, cannot participate in the Selective Service Act” and “offer moral support to these wrho have openly aided and abetted those who have refused conscription into the Armed Forces.”
Saying military actions in Vietnam “prove that the U.S. and the Saigon regime cannot win the war, cannot govern the country and cannot protect its suporters . . .” the CFYD condemned the Johnson administration for “premature and often erroneous reports of progress and eventual victory.”
It further urged the administration to negotiate with all parties involved. including the National Liberation Front “to determine the terms of American withdrawal from Vietnam.”
Other resolutions passed were a plea for an investigation by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the possible presence of a nuclear stockpile in Vietnam; a condemnation of the administration for not keeping track of its intelligence vessels and an urge for further restraint in the Pueblo incident.
Also passed were resolutions in support of the Herald-Examiner strike; a suggested nationwide 24-hour election holiday; opposition to the abolishment of Indian reservations; and stress the teaching of Indian heritage in American public schools.
In a straw poll, the convention voted 84 per cent support for Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s race for the presidency and 16 per cent for Johnson.
Foreign movies to be added to DKA films
In addition to the regular Friday night movies, Delta Kappa Alpha, national cinema honorary, will be sponsoring a series of foreign films to be screened on Wednesday evenings.
All films will be shown in 133 Founders Hall. Admission to the Friday movies is 75 cents with screenings at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night movies will cost $1. Two screenings will be at 7 and 9 p.m.
The Friday film series which began with “The Group,” last Friday, includes “The Manchurian Candidate.” this Friday: “Topkapi,” Feb. 23; “Seconds,” March 8.
“The Hill,” March 15; “Ara-
besque,” March 22; “Operation Crossbow,” March 29; “The Children’s Hour,” April 19; “King Rat,” April 26; “How to Steal a Million,” May 3, and “Help!” May 10.
“Sundays and Cybele,” will be this Wednesday's foreign film. Other films include “Purple Noon,” Feb. 21; “Muriel,” March 6; “The Lovers,” March 13; “That Man from Rio,” March 20.
Others include “Lola,” March 27; “Le Bonheur,” April 3: “The Sleeping Car Murders.” April 17; “Jules and Jim,” April 24; “Forbidden Games,” May 1, and “Viva Maria,” May 8.
STOP CAP PLAY REVIEW
People' laughably real, animated portrait
By LIN FARLEY
An animated portrait gallery of the national citizenry leaped laughably real Monday night in “Feiffer’s People” at the Stop Gap Theater.
The adaptation of characters and situations from the books of Jules Feiffer by Mike Moore and Karen Smith w’as delightfully accurate. And just as the real cartoons often do, it evoked several chuckles and head shakes.
Tickets are still available for the play, which will run through Saturday.
Sophomore John Ritter stole the show as Bernard Mergendeiler, who harbors the “inside” name of Spike, blows his breath in his palm to check it before kissing and in one skit moans:
“There’s nothing wrong with the sexual act—properly administered it can be beautiful.”
The first round of applause went to Gladys and George, Meredith Hencken and Tony Christensen, when George—the masochist—is crumbled by Gladys, who sadistically removes the rose in her teeth. (Prior threats to “hurt him” only added to the gleam in his eyes.)
Moore, a graduate student in drama. directed the 70 skits and also wrote music and lyrics for such num-
bers as the “Nuclear Waltz,” “The Television Chorus” and the “I’m Doing My Job Club.”
At one point the answering service operator (Karen Smith) falls in love with an alraedy love-burdened client and in a burst of love paroxy-isms serenades him to a quartet of kazoos.
Skip Kennon's piano introductions and arrangements wrere suitably light at times reminescent of the madcap ditties of the 20’s: and combined with Regan Walk on vibes and percussion the musical touches were a perfect compliment.
The first act started a little slow but most of the main characters were just being introduced and by the second act some of them could not walk on stage without snickers from the aud’^nce.
One of these wras Nancy Pugh, the Dancer, who—dressed in a black leotard and at all times dissembling— manased to appear believable until the riunch line every time.
Her dance to 1967 was a crawl on nil fours and her “Commemoration to the Sumner Solstice in its Declension" included odes to baby oil. the boardwalk, insect repellent and finally thp fisher folk.
John Adams was excellent as a recalcitrant drunk replete with board and a grotesque paunch.
The staging was simple and un-detracting with only two rectangular uplifts in the center and a table at both right and left. The backdrop provided an inane touch of absurdity in the shape of black blob-like cutouts in large wihte frames.
Leaving very little on the contemporary American scene untouched, the adaptation drew on six of Feiffer’s books: “Sick. Sick. Sick,” Boy-Girl. Boy-Girl.” “The Unexpurgated Memoirs of Bernard Mergendeiler,” “Feiffer’s Marriage Manual” and “Hold Me.”
Urban chicks, castrating remarks (Bernard can “spot em a mile away”) television shows of all stripes including an interview with an exponent of the radical middle—all paraded across the stage in a stream of loud guffaws down to more mild tickles.
One couple. John Adams and Gay-1a Kalp. are discussing their marriage whi1*? eyes are rivited on the tube.
John asks Gayla. “Where did it 70 wrong?” Gayla replies, “I don’t know. Do vou think it was before or after “I Love Lucy?” .They finally decide it mio'ht have been the introduction of "Gunsmoke.”
Only one complaint, and that concerns a too abrupt ending. Many of the players missed their deserved ap-nlause simply because the audience didn’t know it was over.