University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1967
NO. 30
Rawls show: A nightmare for entertainment chairman
RETURNING TO THEIR OLD ALMA MATER
USC alumni register for Homecoming during picnic
HOSPITAL STAFF TO TEACH
Med school affiliates with Good Samaritan
An affiliation between the School of Medicine and the Hospital of the Good Samaritan was announced today by President Topping and Chester Rude, president of the hospital's board of directors.
The agreement formalizes a longstanding cooperative arrangement between the two institutions. Under its terms, members of the hospital's fulltime mea'ical staff will also be regular full-time members of the school's medical faculty and will assist the
STUDENT COURT POSTS FILLED
Duane Zobrist. Robert Lee, Happy Trope and John Lovegrecn have been selected to fill vacancies in the ASSC Student Court. Troupe is serving his second two-year term. They join Chief Justice (ilen Cass, Melody McLennan and Tom Kristovich.
The members' were chosen by a selection board consisting of Paul A. Bloland, dean of students; Paul Moore, director of student activities: and Martin Foley, ASSC president.
The Student Court has jurisdiction in all grievances against the f’tudent government including all its committees, commissions and authorized representatives: has the right to determine the constitutionality of all acts of the Executive Council: and may determine guilt in cases of malfeasance of office in the ASSC.
hospital in organizing and implementing educational programs for its staff.
Dr. Roger Egeberg, medical school dean, said the teaching programs will include interns and residents and ultimately will extend to medical students who will be assigned to Good Samaritan for part of their clinical work.
“One of the primary areas in which we can be of service to the hospital is in helping it to acquire additional teaching and research personnel for its professional staff,’’ he said.
“The school will benefit by having access to the hospital's excellent facilities for teaching and patient care.”
The new agreement adds to USC's identification with other community hospitals and clinics. The medical school's affiliations already include Los Angeles County General Hospital, Children s Hospital, Barlow Sani-torium, Orthopaedic Hospital, Rancho Los Amigos, Estelle Doheny Eye Foundation, Suicide Prevention Center, Good Hope Medical Foundation and Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic.
“All of the school’s cooperative arrangements with other institutions exist in keeping with our conviction that a medical school’s purposes extend to service to its community, in addition to the preparation of physicians for the practice of medicine and the continuing education of those in practice,” Dean Egeberg said.
By HAL LANCASTER Editor
Jeff Smulyan had a bad dream Thursday night, and he summed it all up Friday:
“We’ve got to have some help.”
Smulyan is the chairman of the ASSC Entertainment Committee, and he was in charge of the Lou Rawls Concert, which he termed a bad dream.
The dream, he said, consisted of a microphone that wouldn’t work, a poor procedure for selling tickets, a lousy bookkeeping setup, and too many empty seats.
Rawls, admittedly, was great, but his microphone put on a terrible performance during the first show.
“The ticket-selling procedure was straight out of the 1800s,” he continued. “I think, for an amateur group, we did a fair job. But we are amateurs.”
The empty seats at the two shows will cost the ASSC from $500 to $800, but Smulyan wasn’t particularly upset about that.
“We felt that we would lose about $1,000 when we started.” he said. “In a long-term situation it was a success. We set a foundation for entertainment on campus.”
Smulyan and his 15-man committee sold 2,000 to 2,500 tickets, he estimated, out of a total of 3,400 available seats.
“We had to fight 25 years of apathy,” he said. “Nobody had ever sold out Bovard Auditorium for a concert.
“We feel like we've got ’em started. By our next show, we hope to be ready.”
That next show is tentatively scheduled for early December, and Smulyan hopes to get a rock group, perhaps The Doors, for the show.
By that time, he hopes to have ended all his problems, not the least of which is bookkeeping and ticket-selling.
“The Ticket Office wouldn’t have anything to do with us.” he said. “And they've got a lot of people more experienced at this than we are. They said they were just a football ticket office. The secretary to Paul Moore, student activities director, had to do our accounting, and that’s ridiculous.
“We’ve got to have some help. We’re all full-time students and this is a full-time job.”
He also feels the community at-large must be invited to these shows: "People ask me why we can’t put on shows like UCLA. That Su-premes concert they”re having over there now is not student-run; KRLA is running the whole show — promotions, getting the performers, selling tickets. And they're selling tickets in the community.
“The administration is of the general feeling that we aren't in the business of putting on public shows. They finally let us sell tickets outside this time, but it was late, then.
“Nothing can ever go over on this campus without selling to the outside community.”
An experiment with selling blocks of tickets flopped, and this also hurt the cash box.
“We didn’t get one block order from the dorms. There were about five fraternities that helped us and the rest killed us,” he said.
“Everything we did was experimental; we had no idea what would work.”
The next problem for Smulyan will be getting a date in December, an old bugaboo. The Drama Department has a large chunk of the desirable dates in December locked up.
“They can schedule in June for
the next year,” Smulyan said. “We have to schedule as we go along, because we don't know if we’ll have enough money.
“With the student programming fee. this should be different. With a bigger budget, the student bedy president can also draw up a schedule in June. The Entertainment Committee should get first crack at Bovard. It's bad acoustically, but it's all we've got.”
Smulyan now has to go before the Executive Council to see if he can get some more money for another dream, whether good or bad.
“I don’t even know if I can stay on as chairman,” he said. “It's really a hassle.”
Distinguished law grad returns to join faculty
By SUE SALZMAN
“Probably the most exciting things in the country are going on here. It’s almost like a happening every day.”
Lewis Merrifield was speaking about the USC Law Center. And he should know.
The 27-year-old alumnus, who graduated first in his class at the Law Center in 1966, spent the past year serving as clerk to Associate Justice William Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court. Merrifield has returned to USC. this time as a member of the faculty.
“I consider teaching to be a continuation of my law career,” he explained. “It gives me the time and the opportunity for more creative work. I suspect that it will be quite satisfying to provoke student interest and curiosity about new thoughts.”
Merrifield has had an experience that will aid him in reaching this goal. He was one of two Supreme Court clerks from USC. This is due to
Italian Dante
Dept, honors in publication
The Italian Department has concluded the Twentieth Century Dante Celebration with the publication of “A Dante Profile,” a book on the Italian poet Dante Alighieri.
The book, edited by Dr. Franca Schettino, chairman of the department, consists of three lectures and a research study on Dante. The lectures were originally presented on
EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE
39 classes to begin soon
The Experimental College will start soon with 39 classes, but one of those will not be “How to Pick Up a Girl.”
Dr. Paul (Wolf) Morantz, the knowledgeable professor and all-around lecher of the course was highly disappointed. “We were going to have a jolly ol’ time,” he cackled fiendishly.
Only two people signed up for the class, which was not enough for the college's organizers. “But my roommate wants to take the course; he says he needs it. Will that be enough?” Wolf asked.
It wasn’t however, so. as registration for the college ended Friday, the Wolf was seen strolling dejectedly towards Griffith Park to start his nighttime vigil.
No more classes will be added to the college, but students who have not signed up yet can still attend any of the current classes. Meeting times will be announced.
The courses, and/or professors and number of students are:
Love: Dr. Leo Buscaglia, assistant professor of education; 25 students.
Tibetan Book of the Dead; Steve Suplin: 18 students.
Contemporary art; 12 students.
Humanitarian Greek philosophies;
13	students.
Hypnotism; 20 students.
Psychic phenomena; 23 students.
History of mysticism; 23 students.
Contemporary literature; 11 students.
Linguistics; Dr. Rudolph Zrimc, assistant professor of Slavic studies; eight students.
Changing values in American society; Dr. Nichol Sanford, assistant professor of business; ten students.
U.S. involvement in Latin America; ten students.
Old and New Testaments; Dr. Robert Mannes, associate professor of dents. _
Herman Melville; Mary Griffin; three students.
Women in contemporary society;
14	students.
Billiards; Ken Kates; eight students.
Contemporary political analysis; 43 students.
New morality; Dr. J. Wesley Robb, professor of religion; 55 students.
Nudism; possibility of soeial acceptance; Donald Greene, student; six students.
Bartending; 26 students.
Intellectual freedom; Dr. Martha Boaz, dean of library sicence; six students.
Oceanography; nine students.
Future of the welfare class; Dr. Fred Krinsky, associate professor of political science; 40 students.
Russian; seven students.
Other classes are Vietnam, Australia and hippies.
Yiddish; Dr. Henry Slucki, visiting assistant professor of psychology; five students.
History of science fiction and Mystery Novels; 13 students.
Critical analysis of reading; two students.
Polish; nine students.
Mass communications; eight students.
Rock and roll; John Wardlow; 84 students.
Herman Hesse; nine students.
Buddhism; 19 students.
Radical education; David Lang, Students for Democratic Society president; 20 students.
Violence and values in American society; Mark Savit; five students.
Ethical considerations of behavior control; Dr. Henry Slucki, visiting assistant professor of psychology; 14 students.
Negro history; seven students.
Generation gap; Richard Oksas. student; seven students.
campus during the celebration week of the Seventh Centennial of Dante’s Birth. March 22 through 25, 1961.
The book also contains a series of excerpts in Italian from poems and writings dedicated to Dante at various times by different Italian authors, and bibliographical notes by Dr. Schettino.
“A Dante Profile” has been dedicated to the memory of Dr. D. H. Austin, noted Dantist who held the Chair of Italian here from 1920-1960.
Members of the steering committee for the publication of the book included Dr. David H. Malone, professor of English and comparative literature; Dr. Schettino; and Dr. J. Wesley Robb, associate dean of humanities.
Contributions to the book include: “The ‘Vita Nuova’ and Commentary,” by Dr. Norma L. Goodrich, USC; “Folklore in the Divine Comedy,” by Dr. Charles Speroni, UCLA; “The Dante of T. S. Eliot,” by Dr. John J. Bullaro, USC; “Dante Profile in Italian Literature: Critical Reflections and Notes Toward the Twentieth Century Reappraisal,” by Dr. Schettino. The foreward is by Dr. Robb.
The 700 copies of “A Dante Profile” have been presented to faculty members, Doheny Library, the Board of Trustees, selected alumni and friends of USC, campus and public libraries throughout the nation and to specialists in other university communities nationally and abroad.
Copies have also been sent to literary magazines, to the Italian Embassy and local Italian Consulate, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in New York and other organizations fostering cultural exchanges between Italy and the USA.
the high competition and the requirements of the one-year job.
Merrifield obviously possesses the qualities which he considers essential in a law career: “The capacity to get a lot of work done in a short amount of time, versatility in a wide range of areas, and an open mind.”
He exercised these qualities constantly in Washington by performing duties ranging from drafting opinions in the cases to writing lectures.
“My year in Washington was a tremendous experience,” he said. “It gave me insights into the work of the Supreme Court, as well as other courts, and into the development of bodies of law.
“I met such interesting people — many of them officials, including President Johnson. Justice Douglas himself was an incredible person, with a very powerful mind, and a tremendous range of interests. We got along very well.”
Merrifield wants to help students prepare for law careers as well as his schooling prepared him. The eager professor attended Yale University from 1957 to 1959, majoring in philosophy. He then transferred to UCLA, where he graduated in 1962 with a B.A. in economy.
Yet he chose to teach at USC because, “there is more freedom: less stuffiness. I found that I could talk to people here about things I couldn’t discuss anywhere else. This
PROF TESTIFIES
school is rapidly becoming a pacesetter.
“Right now, the Law Center ranks among the top in the country. In many respects, such as creativity and materials being prepared, it is number one.”
After conversing with this easygoing young lawyer, it is hard to believe that this is only his first semester as an assistant professor at the Law Center.
His property course, which is required for law students, deals with the allocation of interests in land, corporate security and other forms of wealth. His constitutional law seminar covers the briefing and arguing of hypothetical constitutional law cases which he has devised.
As for the future, he is absorbed with his teaching plans. One of his goals is “to devise a new functional approach to teaching corporation.” Right now. the new professor is concerned with “the problem of securing our Law Center’s position as one of the best in the nation.” By the enthusiasm he generates, it is safe to predict that Lewis Merrifield rtill contribute much to the achievement of this goal.
In the spring, he will teach a required course in corporations, which will deal with the corporation as a representative institution of our society today.
While at USC, Merrifield earned the doctor of jurisprudence degree, served as associate editor of the USC Law Review, and w’as elected to the Order of the Coif for scholarship
Law killings unjust'
“There are a hundred executions by police on the street for every one in the gas chamber,” Martin Levine, associate professor of law, said.
He had just returned from Sacramento, where he testified last week before a legislative committee looking into California law on police shootings.
The law now allows policemen to shoot and kill felony suspects when necessary to make an arrest.
“While most felonies are major crimes, some, like bookmaking, are relatively harmless,” Levine said.
“T h e Assembly Criminal Procedure committee was considering a proposal to adopt the American Law Institute’s suggested rule not to allow deadly force by an arresting of-
ficer unless the crime involved deadly force, or unless the suspect is reasonably believed to be a dangerous person likely to kill unless captured at once. In any case, deadly force is never to be used unless necessary to make the arrest,” he said.
At the invitation of the committee, Levine testified advocating bringing standards closer to the regulations adopted by police departments for their own training of police.
“These generally prohibit a policeman from shooting to make an arrest unless in self-defense, or unless the crime is a serious one (like murder or rape) where the officer is sure he has the right suspect, who will escape unless gunfire is used,” Levine said.
Petitions ready for frosh representative candidates
Petitions for prospective candidates for freshman class representative are available now through Nov.
3	in the ASSC office, 321 Student Union.
All candidates, or their written proxies, must meet Nov. 7 in the Student Union Lounge. Campaign materials will be approved Nov. 8. A $5 filing fee and a $25 security deposit must be paid then. The campaign period begins at 7 a.m., Nov. 13.
Voting will be Nov. 21 in Alumni Park and the resu'ts will be posted Nov. 22. H'^-offs, if needed, will be held Nov. 28.
The new representative will join the ASSC council, which includes representatives of other classes, living groups, foreign students and elected ASSC officers.
The ASSC constitution also calls for four representatives chosen from what is now a nonexistent Graduate Student Association.
An amendment has been proposed
to waive the requirement.
“The executive ASSC council
wants graduate represent aMves and will do all possible to gee 'our i/ them sitting and v- tinr	us,”
Marty Foley, ASSC president,