University of Southern California
DAILY ®* TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8f 1968
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NO. 57
Classroom court dehates over accused speech instructor
INSTRUCTOR CHARGED WITH TRICKERY
Speech class holds trial
The classroom was warm and crowded. Students sat in small groups and talked among themselves. A teacher sat in a corner, observing. There was an air of suspense in the small rcom. Drama stalked the halls.
Somehow everybody knew something was going to happen. Of course there were several subtle indications of the impending action.
A four-foot-square striped1 box stood in one corner, smoking. There
was a Daily Trojan photographer sitting in the back row along with six people who didn’t belong. And things had been happening all semester to the students in Speech 320—things like being served pastries by silent butlers, having a mysterious birthday party and being joined by at a lecture huge rat. So the students waited, as usual unmoved.
Then it happened. A court bailiff stood at the door:
“Hear ye, hear ye, the court of
Songfest acts-Vice, the pill, a Spanish flea
Fifteen groups are now getting down to the nitty-gritty as they wait to perform on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl as participants in Songfest
’68.
The 14th edition of the nation s largest collegiate musicale will lead off with the Gamma Phis and Phi Delts production number of ‘‘This Life Can't Be Beat." The directors of these two groups are Cinda Keating and Mike McDermott.
“Opus 3," a composite of Kappa and Sig Ep talent, will be the next Songfest entry. This group is under the direction of Ken Foster.
Among the novelty groups entered arc the A Chi Os and the Pi K As with their number of “Yesterday Comes Tomorrow.” Mary Nason and
'Guys,Dolls to start run in Bovard
USC's Mainstage will begin its recreation of the atmosphere of the Broadway underworld in the 40s tonight with its production of “Guys and Dolls.’’ The musical, the last production of the semester, will run through Saturday in Bovard Auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
“Guys and Dolls,’’ an American classic based on the stories of Dam-yon Runyon, will be directed by Professor John Blankenchip. It tells tlie story of the romance of two couples, one a Salvation Army girl and a gambler, and the other a nightclub singer and the manager of a floating crap game.
In this particular show, two or three people were cast in major parts to give more students a chance to have the experience. Thus, there will be a somewhat different cast each night.
The musical, first produced in the 40s. is loosely based on the Runyon story, “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown.” The book is by Joe Swerling and Abe Burrows with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser.
The show's American flavor is expected to make a hit in Edinburgh this summer when it is presented as part of the program of the USC Festival Players’ dramatic activities.
Mainstage, the major performances presented by the Drama Department, puts on four shows a year with each of the faculty members directing one.
Tickets for the show may be obtained by calling 746-2703 or 746-6063 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. now through Friday. *
Tracy Bining are the directors for the two groups.
The Alpha Gams bring their version of “The Pill” to the Hollywood Bowl Saturday, as one of the entries in the small group division. They will be under the direction of Jayne Proppe.
Entry number five on the agenda for Saturday night is a rendition of “Vice is Nice,” a production number by the Pi Phis and the Sig Eps under the direction of Celeste Fremon and Fred O’Banion.
A group whose participants prefer to remain anonymous just call themselves the “Silverking Coalition Mine Company.” The Company is entered in the small group division under the direction of Paul Best.
“The Fault of the Spanish Flea” is a novelty number produced by the Alpha Gams and the Delta Chis. Their director is Jayne Proppe.
The Sig Eps will end the first half of Songfest '68 with “The Federation of Juke, Skiffle, and Hamfat Musicians.” Tom Casacky will direct the Musicians in their small group entry.
A satirical rendition about the draft entitled “Canned Heat” by the Delts will open the second half of the musicale. The novelty group is under the direction of Chip Thomas.
One Alpha Gam and two Fijis have joined voices to produce their small group entry entitled “Kathar-sis.” Tom Lambert will direct them.
Scott Bowen will direct the Sig Eps and their Golden Hearts (their little sister group) in the “Sounds of ‘68.” the only choral entry.
“What’s a Nice Girl Like You .. is a small group entry by the A lpha Phis under the direction of Kathy Howard.
Being group number 13 might just be a lucky position for the Kappas and the Betas as they enter Songfest with their production number of “Doin’ What Comes Naturally.” The two directors for the combined group are Jody Hall and Don Hromadka.
“The Song is Love,” sung by a group from the Cheshire Cat is entered in the small group division under the direction of Nancy Beagle.
The D Gs and the Kappa Sigs will close the student musicale with their production number of “Panic ’68.” under the direction of Nitta Hunter and Bill Caldwell.
Following the performances of the 15 groups will be a grand finale. All the groups and performers will be on stage to sing the Songs of Troy, and Traveler II will make an appearance.
This year for the first time there will be a fountain show. Another first will be the Songfest Neophonic Orchestra, composed entirely of USC students.
Mauk starts program for USC revolution
253 VKC is now in session. The Honorable A. B. Mississippi presiding. The court will please rise.” A judge clad in black, entered.
The instructor was on trial. The complaint against him was that he “has, have, is, and will maliciously enforce external influences of an unusual and unnatural nature on the class,” and that he “has frustrated said class by failing to provide due process of explanation.”
A list was given of the occurrences. The defendant pleaded not guilty. The judge assigned a man in a black hat, called Manitoba, as the prosecutor. Another blackhatted man, titled Saskatchewan, was named defense attorney. Both chewed on powerful cigars.
Periodically the striped box opened and a sign was held up, bearing such inscriptions as “Group Cohesiveness.”
The prosecution grilled two witnesses, Detroit and California. The defense had no questions. Instead, it took a drag on its cigar and called the defendant to the stand. The instructor neither admitted nor denied the charges.
Then, just as the judge was about to condemn the defendant, the defense came up with some private evidence which saved his client, but was not shown to the class. It was the name of the member of the class who masterminded the semester's unusual events. It was not known whether the court ’ intended to press charges against him, because the judge, bailiff. attorneys and box quickly left the room. The student was not available for comment.
FREE PAINTERS TO READ POEMS TODAY
The Free Paint Movement will host poetry reading today at noon in the free paint area.
Some selections include an oral interpretation by Ralph Lippman, a leader of the movement, of a Lenny Bruce poem. Several poems by Mary Dillon and John Sack will also be read.
Anyone who would like to read is welcome to come and do so, Lippman said.
During the readings a collection will be taken to raise money to buy paints.
“Even if you can’t come, try to come by so you can give some money so we can paint on Friday,” said Rocky Stegman, a member of the movement.
By STAN METZLER Editor
ASSC President Bill Mauk began his program for a revolution at USC yesterday with an appeal to the Executive Council to “work towards an atmosphere on campus that fosters change and creates a revolution of ideas.”
He also announced eight ASSC officers and commissioners.
“We have not yet defined the specific role of the ASSC and the Executive Council for next year,” he told the council. “But it is already clear that w^e must work as both administrators and legislators.
"Each of us sought our positions in quest of certain changes in this university that we recognized were needed. Now we must work out the method of change and the mechanisms of change.
“Personally, I would like to create a revolutionary change at the University of Southern California. It will be an academic revolution, a cultural revolution, an intellectual revolution and an attitudinal revolution.”
Mauk also urged council members to encourage the students in their constituencies to apply for the 29 ASSC positions and committee chairmenships that will be appointed at the end of the semester.
Applications for the posts will be available at the YWCA and the ASSC Office next Tuesday.
The eight appointments announced yesterday, all for positions under the president's direct control, are:
Sue Semple, ASSC secretary; Ken Kaiser, ASSC treasurer; Ralph Pinkert, publicity commissioner; Bob Rollo. public relations commissioner.
Mary Hallock, records commissioner; Jeff White, research commissioner; Pat Lawless, elections commissioner; and Jim Halferty, personnel commissioner.
Mauk also named AMS president Fred Minnes and Senior Representative Ken Walter to serve on the ASSC Budgetory Subcommittee. The committee will meet Friday to begin discussion on the estimated $60,000 budget for the ASSC next year.
In defining the four types of revolution he hopes to foster in the university, Mauk said the attitudinal change is probably the most important.
“It must mean a change in the administration and in the faculty of their awareness of student needs, of their understanding of the possibilities of student responsibilities and in their total outlook toward students at USC.” he explained.
“But our primary task is to create an atmosphere among the students that will foster this change.”
He outlined his academic revolution as a plan to change a university that is “too institutionalized, too departmentalized and too rigid” in the following three ways:
1.	By making academic planning as important to the university as physical planning.
2.	By enacting a more decentralized system of governance.
3.	By adopting academic excellence as a motto for education both inside and outside the classroom.
“Education can change a man as a whole.-' Mauk noted.
“If the university wants to develop a student's intellect, it must develop the rest of him as well."
ASSC STUDENT COURT APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE
Applications for ASSC Student Court are now available in the YWCA.
All students, including undergraduates, graduate students and members of professional schools, are eligible for the selections.
Interviews will be held either Monday or Tuesday afternoon, May 13 and 14.
Deadlines for application is Friday, .May 10.
The duties for Student Court members are as follows: The court shall effect decisions on all grievances against the Associated Student government, its committees, commissions and/or any official act of the Executive Council or its authorized representatives, and shall determine culpability in cases of grievances of misfeasance, or nonfeasance of any office of the association.
Skull and Dagger selects 35 for honorary society
The 35 new student members of Skull and Dagger, USC’s oldest men’s honorary, will parade on campus today in tails, black tie, canes and other assorted garb.
The men may feel conspicuous as they gather in front of Tommy Trojan at noon for the group picture, but they are part of a Trojan tradition now in its 55th year.
Also elected to the organization this year were 21 faculty and 26 alumni and friends of the university, all of whom will attend formal initiation ceremonies Saturday morning in Bovard Tower.
Student leaders named to the 56th class of the honorary society are:
Norm Barker, Gary Cohen, Clyde Doheney, Barclay Edmundson, Marty Foley, Pat Harrison, Richard Hilton, Paul Johnson, William Johnson, Bernard Kamins, Jim Kilbury, Bob Lutz, Earl McCullough. Mark Meador, Stan Metzler, Bob Padgett, Toby Page.
Bill Prezant, Fred Quinn, Tim Rossovich, Leonard Rymsza, Mikio Sakamoto, Gary Sawka, Mike Silverstein, O. J. Simpson, Stan Smith, Steve Sogge, Bob Steuber, Tom Ternquist, Paul Toffel, Norm Wilky, Dick Worthington, Doug Yarrow, Adrian Young and Dennis Yamashita.
Faculty and staff tapped for membership include Coach Ted Ackel, Dr. Lucien Bavetta, Dr. John Bester, Coach Derek Blackwell. Coach Richard Coury, Robert Doherty, Dr. James f ord, Basil Hendrickson, Dr. Gerald Hungerford, Coach Rod Hu-menuik, Dr. Alan Johnson.
Prof. Bernard Kantor, Coach Phil Krueger, Dr. T. E. Kruglak, Dr. James McBath, James Massey, Dean
Charles Mayo, Dr. Newton Metfes-sel, Dr. Alden Miller, Michael Preston and Robert Scheewe.
Alumni named are George Belot-ti, William Bird, Charles Bracht, Oapt. Allan Brands, David Bushnell, Joseph Cannell, Robert Chappell, Pascal Dilday, Ray Finkel, Philip Fogg, Robert Francis, Bruce Gelker.
Hilton Green, Ted Johnson, Herbert Klein, William Knoke, Ronald
Laraneta, Richard Leach. Ronald Miller, Roscoe Moss, Stanley Mus-grove, Robert Percy. Joe Raycraft, Travis Reed, Leonard Weil and Max Weil.
The three major Skull and Dagger activities are today’s informal initiation, the breakfast and formal initiation Saturday morning and a formal dinner dance at the Statler Hilton Hotel on June 1.
New course open in community problems
Fifteen students will be selected May 15, for a course in campus and community interaction next semester.
Applications, available at Dean Neil Warren’s office, 200 Administration, are due Friday, May 10, at 5 p.m.
The Community Encounter Program will enable students to study and experience problems that face Los Angeles and its suburbs.
“The program will be a semester long course,” Carole Christofk, student organizer, said, “but hopefully its effect will not end with the end of classes.
“The program is aimed at continued involvement of the students in community problems,” she continued.
The program is a four-unit 490 credit course designed for special research projects. Credit is given by academic departments. Seven departments are expected to participate.
Happy Trope, teaching assistant
for the program, emphasized that students may apply regardless of their major. However, the program is limited to undergraduates.
“We are looking for people who will be sincerely committed to the program,” Trope said.
The Community Encounter Program will have two parts.
Weekly seminars Tuesday afternoons, will explore the social, economic, political and cultural aspects of minority group areas. Speakers from government and the community, discussions and beneficial readings will supplement the course.
Students will also work in the community on projects planned for Thursday afternoons, but this is flexible. They will work in cooperation with the California Youth Authority, County Welfare Department, Economic Youth Opportunity Act Agency and the Los Angeles public schools.
NO READING THIS TIME
Reader's Theatre offers surprises
By DONNA DEDIEMAR Assistant city editor
Though it departed from the traditional Reader’s Theater style, the Speech Departmen’ts Reader’s Theater class astounded its audience yesterday with an hour and a half performance of “The Tragicall Queenes of Yorke and Lancastre.”
The production, based on the Chronicle Plays of William Shakespeare, tells about the War of the Roses. It differed from normal readers’ theater technique in that the characters were costumed and they did not read from manuscripts.
Adrienne Zahler, portraying Margaret, Queen to Henry VI, was best. A candidate for a doctorate in speech, she also arranged the plays.
Most members of the cast are speech and drama majors. However, because of the great
number of characters in the plays, speech professors and students not in the department also took part.
The performance was divided into six acts featuring Queens Isabell, Katherine, Margaret, Elizabeth and Anne. The phases of each one’s life are brought together by the narrators, who represent the crown, the sword, time and justice.
“Originally we wanted the characters to look like abstractions from an old chronical page,” said Dr. Janet Bolton, associate professor of speech and supervisor of the readers’ theater performance. “But we were unable to make the narrators look just right.”
“This wasn’t really readers’ theater technique,” she said. “True readers’ theater is the presentation of spoken literature. But we found that reading these selections just wasn’t enough, so
we decided to go to the limits.”
Costumes were borrowed from neighboring schools because not enough were available here.
The scenery* consisted of two boxes covered with orange and green paisley material.
The group began practicing at the beginning of March. They met for six hours per week preparing for the performance. Of the seven productions done by the readers’ theater group, this is the first time a play has been performed
“We’re begiiining to get engagements elsewhere,” Dr. Bolton said. “We’re going to San Bernardino soon, and we’ll even get paid.
“We’re taking this particular production to the Western Speech Association in Salt Lake City,” she said. One of the queens that the play centers around was, appropriately enough, a Mormon.