University of Southern California
VOL. LIX	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1967	NO. 11
HOME FROM THE WARS — Troy's No. 1 battler, O. J. Simpson, was rr.cbbed by fans on return from East Lansing Saturday night. Nearly 200 fans greeted the triumphant Trojans in a short rally at International Airport.
Cinema's Kantor slightly improved after coronary
Dr. Bernard Kantor. chairman of the Cinema Department, remains in the intensive care unit at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after suffering a heart attack last Sunday evening.
His condition is listed as slightly improved.
Until his return. Drs. Irwin Blacker and Melvin Sloan will take over Dr. Kantor's classes.
Dr. Blacker said Dr. Kantor's condition is improving rapidly. “I could
not have said that before, but I can say so now.’ he added.
Dr. Kantor, 44. has been at USC since 1957 and has been chairman of the department since 1964. He is the advisor to DKA, professional cinema fraternity.
Among Dr. Kantor's achievements are numerous articles and scripts. He is also responsible for the development of a technique for photographing people in the dark.
Total freedom proposed by new student liturature plan
By STAN METZLER City Editor
The administration will retain the power, the ASSC will take the responsibility and the individual student and student organization will be given ‘total' freedom.
These appear to be the deliniations for the new proposed university policy on distribution of student literature as outlined by Rick Flam, chairman of the ASSC Committee for Action on Student Rights, at the Executive Council last night.
The tentative policy removes all pre-censorship of student literature on the campus and places after-the-fact jurisdiction in the hands of the student courts.
It is thus not only a radical departure from present university policy. which subjects all student literature distribution to the stamp and approval of the Student Activities Office, but also a marked change from the policy of pre-censorship by the ASSC proposed a week ago.
The committee, formed by ASSC President Marty Foley last week, will submit a formal policy draft for council approval next Sunday night.
The committee's original plan, presented last Sunday, had called for a five-man Student Literature Committee to approve all student literature for distribution, allowing disapproval only on grounds of libel, obscenity, inciting to violence or improper titling.
That general policy received the council's endorsement, but AMS Pressident John Wardlow argued that all student literature should be allowed to circuate freely on campus and claimed that pre-censorship was wrong, whether exercised by the ASSC or the administration.
The committee took the council's suggestions on the proposal back for a reworking this past week and. after additional meetings with President Topping and Dean of Students Paul Bloland. developed the present plan of after-the-fact jurisdiction under ASSC control.
As it now stands, any student or student organization would be free to pass out any piece of literature anywhere on campus except inside buildings.
No prior permission, approval or stamn would be required from the ASSC or the administration.
Durinsr distribution, a complaint could be issued by another student or student organization on one of the four charges originally listed as grounds for disapproval.
The Student Literature Committee — consisting of five students, one
faculty and one administrator, each with a vote — would meet on such a complaint withing two days.
If they upheld the complaint the offending student or organization could appeal to the Student Court, who would consider the matter themselves or refer it immediately to Men's or Women's Judicial.
Additionally, the Dean of Students Office would be empowered to issue an injunction against the distribution or posting of any material he considered to be in clear violation of one of the four charges.
Such an injunction would be in
effect only until the Student Literature Committee met, again within two days. The committee could either uphold or overrule the dean, once again subject to Student Court appeal.
Flam noted that while the present policy clearly places the responsibility with the ASSC, the final residual power by its nature is retained by the university.
“Our committee spent a long time discussing the concept of student power.” he said, “but we came to the general agreement that the final, residual power does rest with Dr. Topping on all issues.
“In various areas he has delegated some of his powers, and what we want is to define where those powers have been or can be delegated and specity the relationship between students and the administration.”
The issue of freedom in the distribution of student literature, then, is not one of student power but of student responsibility.
An ASSC Student Literature Committee means nothing except that it receives power from the Dean of Students.
And the current proposal is not a loss of administration power, but a delegation of that power to the ASSC.
METHODIST PROJECT
Seminar on drugs set
An in-depth investigation of the appeal, dangers and advantages of drugs to modern youth will be conducted by Rev. Dave Lehmberg, Methodist camous minister, in a noncredit seminar sponsored by the Ecumenical Mission.
The mission will sponsor three such seminars, open to all students, this semester. The seminars will begin tomorrow.
“We will be dealing with narcot-
ics, abusive drugs and especially with the LSD question,” Rev. Lehmberg said.
“I feel this particular seminar has a great deal in common with the other discussion groups. LSD is a competitive force in comparison to mystical Christian teaching.
Rev. Lehmberg’s seminar, listed under Contemporary Social Issues, will meet from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Center. 835 W. 34th St.
NorthropTechnology Institute names professor as president
Dr. Homer Grant, chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering. has been named president of the Northrop Institute of Technology. Dr. Vohrab Kaprielian. chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering, has been named acting head in Dr. Grant’s place.
The appointment, effective yesterday, was announced by John Northrop, chairman of the board of the Inglewood Engineering College. Dr. Grant succeeds Dr. Richard Potter, who resigned to return to teaching and research.
Dr. Grant, who joined the faculty in 1948, has served as chairman of the department since 1954.
Concurrently he was acting head of the Department of General Engineering, 1954-55: acting head of the Department of Electrical Engineering.
1959-62; acting dean of the School of
Engineering. 1959-60: and associate dean of the School of Engineering.
1960-62.
He was recently named chairman of the Master Plan Evaluation Committee of the Los Angeles Citizens Advisory Committee on Public Transportation. and was a member of the California Advisory Committee for Private Schools and Colleges.
He has been a consultant for numerous private corporations and holds memberships in many professional engineering societies and educational societies.
Northrop Institute, which claims the largest undergraduate engineering enrollment of any privately-supported engineering college in the West, was founded 25 years ago.
Its 1.900 total students come from all 50 states and 50 foreign countries.
Rev. Chuck Doak. Presbyterian campus minister, will lead an examination of the major teachings in contemporary religions against the background of such writers as Paul Tillich, Eric Bonhoeffcr and Reinhold Niebuhr.
His seminar will meet tomorrow at 4 p.m. in the center.
D‘r. Bruce Miller. Baptist campus minister, will hold a study of New Testament teachings beginning tomorrow evening at 7.
"The course will include investigations into today's English verson of the New Testament.” Dr. Miller said, “with selected teachings of Jesus and Paul emphasized.”
The Ecumenical Seminars will last from six to eight weeks each semester. They will be conducted on a weekly basis with limited reading requirements.
Phi Kappa Phi Meets at Noon
Faculty and student members of Phi Kappa Phi. national all-university honor society, will meet for lunch today at noon in the Faculty Center.
Graduate students initiated in another chapter are also welcome.
Dr. John Russell, associate dean of natural sciences and mathe— matiees and chapter president, will give a short talk on the International Meeting of Astronomers, which he attended last August.
Madame Ehlers: a life occasionally gone askew
By SUSAN HAYTON
Madame Alice Ehlers, who last April passed her 80th birthday, received on the occasion a rather charming piece of jewelry — and she credits it to Bach.
Madame Ehlers, professor emeritus of the School of Music, was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
“It was a nice surprise,” the world-famous harpsichordist said in an interview Friday.
The award was bestowed upon her last August by Werner Oppel, German consul general, at a banquet honoring Madame Ehlers at his residence.
The award, given in the name of the German Republic's president, recognized “her accomplishments in teaching and her brilliant interpretations of the music of her countryman, Johann Sebastian Bach.
WORLD TRAVELS
“With-Bach I have made my way through the world,” she said.
But Madame Ehlers' way through the world has occasionally gone askew.
As a Viennese residing in Berlin, she had concert tours and private students throughout Europe, which necessitated quite a bit of traveling.
She travels nowhere without her own harpsichord. Since a harpsichord — which sounds like an ethereal, slightly tinkly piano — resembles in size an enlarged, elongated baby grand, it has to travel by freight car.
On one occasion, when Madame Ehler was scheduled to perform for the Queen of Italy, the freight car carrying her instrument was somehow rerouted.
She spent a sleepless night and rushed to the station early the next morning to claim her instrument. which had been hastily forwarded to her.
The car doors were flung open, but an overpowering odor forced Madame Ehler to flee. Atop the harpsichord’s wooden crate were hundreds of baby pigs.
“If I had been told this, I would not have believed it. My face — ah, it must have been a sight!” she recalled.
”1 thought I would look at this famous California,” she recalled. Besides, she had a daughter, a grandson and many European friends in Los Angeles.
Madame Ehlers thus became the first person to play the harpsichord in California, where previously the only harpsichords were museum pieces.
Among those who heard her play were “some persons from the picture colony” who fell in love with her instrument.
The distinguished harpsichordist became something of a Hollywood starlet. She played her instrument in a scene in “Wuthering Heights,” which starred Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon.
Olivier, who was in love with Miss Oberon, also fell in love with the harpsichord and later, in New York, took Madame Ehlers with him to the post office each evening to look for a possible letter from Misa Oberon.
TROJANS IN AUDIENCE
Some persons from the University of Southern California also heard her play. Among them was the dean of the School of Music, Dr. Max Krone.
Madame Ehlers had instructed only privately, and knew the strictness of European schools, so her delight was mixed with apprehension when the dean asked whether she would like to teach at USC.
She accepted saying that she hadn't particularly wanted to return to Europe anyhow, as America was more exciting. Besides, as she reasons now, she just missed a war.
In 1938 Madame Alice Ehlers, brilliant harpsichordist, Bach devotee, friend of Albert Schweitzer and onetime actress, became instructor of music at USC. USC became the first western university to possess a harpsichord.
Madame Ehlers prefers not to comment upon the USC students role as a patron of the arts, but she loves the musie students and finds them willing, intelligent and brilliant.
Upon her 80th birthday, the School of Music did a special performance of Bach’s “Magnificat.”
And the Federal Republic of Germany gave her a lovely new piece of jewelry.
“But the smell went away immediately; and, after all, they had kept my instrument warm, which was very good. It was cold out.”
Madame Ehlers’ virtuosity on the harpsichord brought her the friendship of another of her famous countrymen. Attending a lecture by Dr. Albert Schweitzer, whom she greatly admired, she was moved by his dedication to the Africans of Lambarene and appalled by the accounts of their witch doctors.
At the conclusion of his lecture, Dr. Schweitzer announced he was going to a modest restaurant.
“He knew Germany had just lost a war; he knew we had no money,” Madame Ehlers explained. “I followed the crowd and sat in a corner from which I could see him.
“I was much too shy to introduce myself. But
then his secretary approached me and asked ‘Are you Alice Ehlers? Dr. Schweitzer would like to meet you.’ ”
The doctor pulled from his pocket a number of newspaper clippings about her concerts, and later showed her a memo in his notebook which reminded him to meet her.
Thereafter they met every few years when he visited Germany, and an inscribed photograph of the great humanitarian hangs on the wall of her Clark House studio.
A representative of the Schirmer Music Co. met Madame Ehlers in Germany in the 1930s, and he brought her to perform in Washington, D.C. She liked America.
FAMOUS HARPSICHORDIST AAADAME EHLERS AND A STUDENT The world-renowned musician has taught at USC for 30 years.