University of Southern California
VOL. LIX	L0S ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1967
NO. 20
IT'S THE VICTORY VOLKS FOR TROJAN FOLKS And it's on its way to South Bend or bust, which it just might do if the Irish lose.
Notre Dame game to be telecast live on KABC-TV
No major letdowns
for ASSC yet-Foley
By STAN METZLER City Editor
ASSC President Marty Foley summed up his first month in office yesterday as one "without any major let-downs.”
He placed the credit on the Executive Council, and leaned back in his Student Union Office chair to summarize the activities undertaken by the ASSC so far this semester.
Although the month has been most loudly marked by the controversies over selection of pompon girls and the location of Troy Week activities, it seems likely that the ASSC's most significant impressions will be left by the numerous committees and boards only now beginning to surface.
to complement the university curriculum from the outside; while the departmental representation program, when enacted, will enable selected students to push for their preferences in the academic structure from within.
Other goals undertaken by Lutz’ office include the expansion and updating of the Faculty Evaluation Booklet, the initiation of a student literary-humor magazine and the planning of a number of student-facuity conferences to study the senior colloquia arrangement.
Wilky’s activities have been highlighted by the Allocations Board for the Student Programming Fee, a nine-man committee currently meeting with representatives of the graduate and professional schools to
establish guidelines for collection of the fees for next semester.
The AdHoc Committee on Student Government Reorganization is working on expanding the horizons of the ASSC, the Community Involvement Committee will attempt to coordinate the many student projects working with community service and the Entertainment Committee will begin the year with the Lou Rawls Concert on Oct. 26.
Related to both vice-presidencies is the Presidential Standing Committee for Action on Student Right, chaired by Rick Flam. The committee, which wrote the new Student Literature Code, will move during the semester into a number of other policy clarifications related to student rights.
TROJANS CHEER NO. 1-RANKED TEAM IN NATION Team encouraged to beat Irish fullbacks, hunchbacks.
The Trojans left the football field yesterday afternoon to the wild cheers of more than 1.000 students.
They’ll return tomorrow night at International Airport, but tomorrow morning they play at South Bend, and the game will be telecast live at 11 a.m. over Channel 7 (KABC).
“The telecast is by popular request—make iU’t a demand,’’ a KABC official sc
“We got a j ~ u t 90-million calls in here this past week and when I relayed them to our program directors you might say it influenced their decision.’’
The game will not be telecast as part of the NCAA Game-of-the-Week series. The Stanford-Washington State game is the series’ regional offering this w'eek, and the KABC station, covering most of Southern California, will switch directly to that contest after the Notre Dame match.
KABC officials were not sure wiiether the game would be in color, but estimated the total cost to the station would be $100,000.
The video coverage is the direct result of a week's work by Jess Hill, director of athletics, and other members of the administration.
Since the NCAA regulations do not allow the regional telecast of a local team during the time other local NCAA teams are playing at home, three games had to be rescheduled “at least one half-hour after the Notre Dame telecast.”
“We’ve launched a forward-moving campaign aimed at the integration of a philosophical base of student life with activities designed to meet specific student needs," Foley explained.
The ASSC structure places most activities under the aegis of one of two vice-presidents: Bob Lutz, vice-president of university affairs, and Norm Wilky, vice-president of student activities.
The most outstanding accomplishments under Lutz’ office have been the Experimental College and student departmental representatives.
The college, which begins registration today, has been designed
DRAFT FORM DEADLINE TODAY
Today is the deadline for male students to return their 109 (undergraduate) or 103 (graduate) Selective Service forms to the Registrar’s Office.
William Hall, registrar, said the deadline was imposed because of the new draft law, which states that student status must be reported to the draft board within 30 days of the start of the semester.
Each student applying for a deferment must 'also fill out a request for a student deferment 104 form at his local board or the Southern California Selective Service Headquarters. 1206 S. Maple Ave.
‘ANTI-DRAFT WEEK'
Resistance leader to speak in Bovard
He is a long-haired moralist, an intellectual, a new leftist, and a former Stanford student body president. He is David Harris, and he will speak this afternoon in Bovard. room 300. at 2 p.m.
Harris will be the third speaker in The Seminar in Radical Education speakers program, sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society.
Harris broke tradition at Stanford by being elected student body president as a radical member of the so-called new left. He ran on an antiwar. anti-draft, pro-civil reform and pro-civil rights platform.
Last spring he again created a stir when he resigned his office, saying he had done what he had wanted to do, and wanted to move on to other things.
One of the “other things" proved to be the formation, with a number of other Bay Area residents, of The Resistance, an organization dedicated to resisting, obstructing and eventually dismantling the selective service system.
Today, Harris will talk on "institutionalized involuntary servitude, the draft, which is contrary to the-Fourteenth Amendment.”
The Resistance, along with SDS and the Student Mobilization Committee. has organized National Anti-Draft Week. Oct. 16-21.
The Seminar in Radical Education presents Harris as the preliminary speaker in a scheduled series of antidraft speakers. The program will be
DAVID HARRIS
Will speak against draft today
held Monday through Thursday at noon in 133 Founders Hall, and will coincide with “National Anti-Draft W'eek.”
Monday's dissenter will be Lew McCammon. an SDS member, who will discuss the history of the draft. On Friday, helium-filled peace balloons will be launched by SDS near Tommy Trojan.
The regular SDS meeting is today at noon in 104 Ecumenical Center.
Integration on Row topic of radio show
USC Notebook will begin its sixth season on KFI this Sunday with a discussion of “Segregation and Integration in Fraternities and Sororities."
A weekly series, USC Notebook is produced and moderated by Stu Frankel, telecommunications junior, and Wally Smith, telecommunications graduate.
Panelists for the first show, at 640 kilocycles, include Bill Dicke, English senior, Kappa Sigma: Alanna Liebhardt. English, Kappa Alpha Theta; Dedy Patterson, history senior. Delta Gamma; and Robert Relle, business administration junior. Kappa Alpha.
USC Notebook is an interview and conversation program featuring Trojan students, faculty and administrators.
“We try to relate the university to the general public," Frankel said.
“The mass media has a very strong responsibility to lead and develop public opinion, but a public-»ervice program doesn't have to be dull.
“We want to reach a large portion of Los Angeles residents and relate the many aspects of USC to them in a way that educates and interests ax many of them as possible.”
IT’S OLD HAT TO S. F. STATE
Experimental colleges: not a new idea
By BOB PERLBERG
The Experimental College, soon to be initiated at USC by the ASSC Academic Affairs Committee, is not really a new concept in higher education.
The idea had its origin in a 1963 study conducted by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which resulted in “The Experimental College.” an article published in the “New Dimensions in Higher Education" series.
The thesis presented in the pamphlet is that “experimentation in higher education is piecemeal — inadequate in scope, design, and pace. wrhereas problems in higher education are massive, multifaceted, and interdependent, and hence can be resolved only with imagination and great effort.”
The imagination and effort that HEW recommended was to be channeled into an “experimental college” to be developed independently from already established colleges and universities. .
“Experimental college is one way, and perhaps the most practical way, in which colleges and universities can do what they must, and all that they must, if they are to have an appreciable effect on the patterns of higher education,” the study explained.
USC’s Experimental College will be conducted on quite a different basis from the one suggested by HEW, or even from the Experimental College operating at San Francisco State College.
USC's experiment will allow students and teachers to gather informally to discuss sub-
jects of mutual interest. No grades or credits will be given for the classes, nor will professors receive any compensation for their efforts.
HEW had suggested that the entire curriculum of an institution be revised, not just supplemented. Comprehensive examinations at prescribed intervals would replace the traditional means of grading students, and more independent study wrould be developed “to encourage in students a lively appreciation of, and some competence in inquiry.
Registration for Experimental College will run Oct. 13-27, with booths set up in front of Tommy Trojan, in the YWCA and the ASSC office. Registration ivill be open daily from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
San Francisco State was one of the first institutions to develop an Experimental College. One of the founders of that Experimental College, Cynthia Nixon, said the purpose of the innovation was “to influence the college itself so that there wouldn’t be any necessity for an experimental college . . .’’ She was hoping for a change in the S.F. State curriculum— this is not the purpose of the USC Experimental College.
Bob Lutz, ASSC vice-president of university affairs, has indicated that the project was not designed as a protest, but rather as a means “to complement the curriculum. The curriculum of any educational institution m u s t be limited, and cannot encompass all student in->
terests. so the Experimental College marks an extension of our curriculum.''
At S.F. State, as many as 40 faculty members donated their services to the new project, teaching small groups of students on subjects which either the educator or the students had suggested. Students also acted as teachers, and even people totally detached from the college community were able to attend and instruct Experimental College courses. Courses were often unstructured and usually informal.
By its second year of operation, the S.F. State project had secured formal support from the administration and faculty. Professors who taught in the program with departmental sanction could offer specific courses for which credits were given. In the past academic year the Experimental College was offering approximately 70 courses each semester, with almost 1,200 students participating .and operating with a budget of $23,000.
USC's Experimental College has no intention of offering any unit credits for courses taken in the program at the present time, nor will the budget approach the amount allotted to S.F. State.
Subject matter at the S.F. State Experimental College ranged from what can be termed respectably offbeat (Job and Faust: The Kennedy Assassination), to the subject-less (Transcendental Deep Meditation. Seminar in Non-Verbal Activity), to plain fun and games (Zen Basketball).
USC’s Experimental College has already had a couple of offbeat topics suggested: Radical Education, to be taught by David Lang, SDS president, and the History of Rock 'n Roll,
to be instructed by John Wardlow, AMS president.
Experimental Colleges are not without their problems, however. Lutz feels that student participation will be the key to the nc'A program.
“We can get the professors, but in the final analysis it will be student participation which will make or break the Experimental College,” he said.
S.F. State had a different problem, one which is not expected to plague the USC program: hippies.
S.F. State's Experimental College was successful in encouraging the administration to revise the curriculum to make it more relevant to the college student, especially the 1 o w e r classmen. The most important victory the S.F. State project won was to be able to demonstrate that students can be instrumenal in effecting changes in matters over which they have no official sanction.
The S.F. State project was successful in one sense, and yet it failed in another. Mrs. Nixon acknowledges this defeat: Too much tried too soon. The program of study lacked intellectual discipline. The hippies took it over. Though they aren’t anti - intellectual, they’re anti-academic.”
USC's Experimental College should be able to avoid direct contact with the hippie element, but it will still need structure and discipline if it is to be successful.
Lutz and his committee have spent many hours drawing plans for the Experimental College. but it is too early to determine whether the project can be successful here.