University of Southern California
VOL. LIX	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1967	NO. 2
APPOINTED FOR FALL SEMESTER
Wardlow's letter ignites
SDS-Administration Feud
NEW DAILY TROJAN EDITOR HAL LANCASTER Expects a semester of radical change
Lancaster named Trojan editor
Hal Lancasler has been appointed editor of the Daily Trojan for the fall, 1967 semester, President Topping announced today.
Lancaster replaces Audrey Ramsay Karraker, who was married this summer and resigned her position.
In a statement to university officials, Dr. Topping said:
“We regret very much that for personal reasons Audrey Ramsay has decided to resign from her appointment as editor of the Daily Trojan.
“Upon the unanimous recommendation of the School of Journalism Student/Faculty Council, we are pleased to announce Hal Lancaster a* editor of the Daily Trojan for the fall semester, 1967.
“I am sure that under Hal’s leadership the Daily Trojan will continue its quality and its reporting of university events. I know that all join me in congratulating Hal and wishing him the very best success.”
“The very best success is what I’m hoping for,” Lancaster said. “The very best luck is what I’ll need.
“We’re stalling on short notice, w'ith a short staff and no exact idaas on what we want to do, but we’ll muddle through until we do know.” “The question for the time being is survival.”
Lancaster announced the following staff:
Jack Rees Chappell, former editor of the Orange Coast College Barnacle—city editor.
Stan Metzler, former DT news editor—editorial director.
Ann Salisbury, former assistant feature and assistant city editor— co-news editor.
Lynne Hill, former assistant city editor and assistant news editor, and Bill Dicke, former assistant city editor and assistant editorial director—co-feature editors.
Paul Morantz and Lance Spiegel, returning as co-sports editors.
Elliot Zwiebach, former news editor, editorial director and city editor—contributing editor.
Named assistants were Andy Miller (city), Melinda Tonks (editorial) and Vicki Hyman (feature).
The business staff consists of Leslie Scott, a transfer from Santa Barbara City College as business manager and Gayle Coplin as classified advertising manager.
Yet to be named are a co-news editor and an inv estigative reporter.
“All staff positions are temporary,” Lancaster said. “Due to the odd situation, no final decision can be made until I’ve seen my appointees work for awhile.”
Lancaster said there would be radical changes in the Daily Trojan this year, which he would announce tomorrow on the paper’s first editorial page of the regular semester.
“I hope some will be happy with the changes, but I expect most won’t,” he said.
TRAVELER II MAKES DEBUT AT WASHINGTON STATE GAME USC mascot terrified during initial appearance at Coliseum.
USC VS. TENNESSEE
Traveler M s debut: sowing wild oats
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH Contributing Editor
UCLA had its problems with a Tennessee passer Saturday night, but LTSC had almost as much trouble with a Tennessee Walker the night before when Traveler II made his official debut as the Trojan horse.
And he almost didn't make it. or so it seemed when the strains of “Conquest" had faded during half-time and the horse had not appeared.
Traveler's trouble: he was petrified.
“It was the first time he had been away from the training stable and the first time he had faced the lights and the crowd at the Coliseum.” Janet Smith. Traveler's trainer, explained.
“The horse gave Richard Saukko a lot of trouble when he tried to
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mount him in his Tommy Trojan costume," she added, “and once he got in front of the crowd, he was so scared he wouldn't pay a bit of attention to anything.”
Mrs. Smith was finally able to get the horse's attention with a stick, and Traveler finally reared as the crowd roared.
“Traveler II is a very good horse, and he's very willing.” Mrs. Smith said. “The only way he'll overcome his fears is to keep performing in front of crowds.”
“Traveler II is a purebred Tennessee Walker whose real name is Little Society Gent. Mrs. Saukko still calls the horse “Gent" because “there is only one Traveler.” she said. He is basically a show horse and has had to unlearn all the things he had learned previously.”
Mrs. Smith has been training Traveler for onlv 30 days. The Sauk-kos. who own Traveler I and take care of Traveler II with university funds, fired the origin? 1 trainer because he was unable to teach the horse to rear.
“He was training him for four months before we found out he was not the trainer he said he was," Mrs. Saukko said. “Then we found Mrs. Smith.”
Mrs. Smith was able to teach Traveler II to rear in only ten days.
Saukko is having the horse trained one trick at a time. He will concentrate on rearing for awhile longer before learning to bow, salute, and count as the original Traveler used to do.
Traveler I retired at last year's Notre Dame game after seven years as the Trojan horse. He returned to march in the Rose Parade and made a special return visit at Songfest when it was evident Traveler II had not been sufficiently trained.
By STAN METZLER Editorial Director
As AMS president, John Wardlow is in a unique situation.
And the situation has just exploded over a three-paragraph personal opinion that Wardlow wrote as a letter to the Daily Trojan, but wound up as 500 photostat copies d'stributed around campus, without authorization, by SDS President David Lang.
The sheet, titled “The USC Student as a Nigger.” was passed out by Lang and other members of Students for a Democratic Society at the Activities Fair last Thursday and Friday in Alumni Park.
Wardlow first saw the revised, and final, text late Wednesday afternoon. ASSC President Marty Foley saw it Thursday, and President Topping saw it Friday.
Friday afternoon Dr. Topping. Dean of Students Paul Bloland and Dean of Men Daniel Nowak met with Wardlow. W’ho proclaimed his innocence over a number of changes he said Lang had made when he offered to print up the copies for distribution.
“This is the way it came out,” he recalled Dr. Topping commenting. Dean Bloland. he said, called the sheet “a slap in the face with no warning."
Over the weekend Foley began to consider asking the Executive Council to bring Wardlow before the ASSC Student Court next month on a charge of malfeasance, or misconduct in office.
Malfeasance is one of three grievances against ASSC officials in which the court, on request of the council, can determine blame.
In such a move, however, Foley would defend Wardlow on the grounds
that the explosive situation was fanned. not by him. but by Lang.
Yesterday Wardlow explained his side of the controversy.
“It all began about 3 a.m. one morning last week," he said, “when
I wrote out this letter.”
The original text, an untitled personal opinion, comments on what Wardlow sees as the USC student's servile, second-class status within the university.
Topping tells frosh Master Plan Details
“When law seems to weaken and governments falter—when established order seems no longer venerable but merely helpless—when tomorrow is obscured by thunderheads of enmity — and when all of civilization struggles in a violent sea of conflict —there still advances a great vessel of sanity and of hope, even in the midst of the storm.
“This is the university, searching with the light of reason for the best new shore, the best future for man," President Norman Topping said Sunday afternoon in an address to new students at the ninth annual President's Convocation held in Alumni Park.
Approximately 1,300 students and parents attended the convocation, at which Dr. Milton C. Kloetzel, vice-president for research and graduate studies, presented the 340 honors-at-entranee students.
In his speech. Dr. Topping outlined the six-year-old Master Plan for Enterprise and Excellence in Education. Waite Phillips Hall of Education, a social science building and the student activities center were named as three new facilities which are part of the Master Plan.
Other facilities to be completed in
the next few years are the Seaver Science Center and buildings for the Schools of Law and Dentistry.
“The Master Plan, however, is far more than new buildings. Their sole purpose is to maintain an atmosphere so that creativity will flourish,” Dr. Topping continued. The unique four-course program established five years ago to enable students to study a certain area in depth in the School of Letters. Arts and Sciences, is a development of the Master Plan, he said.
Quality scholarship involves not only enlighted and dedicated professors but also eager students. Dr. Topping said the individual student was the most important element in the Master Plan.
“The university is convinced that higher education in general has become too fragmented and superficial. Therefore, the university's emphasis is on the reality and depth of courses offered," Dr. Topping said.
Rather than having a little knowledge of a lot of things, an in-depth knowledge of a certain area is preferred.
In addition to academics, Dr. Topping said extracurricular activities were important in fulfilling the total education of students.
At IFC s Directior Greeks Lauded
By BOIt INGRAM
“Fraternities have made fantastic progress toward reaching the goals established last year." Pat Ryan, interfraternity adviser, said Wednesday at Direction ’68. a conference designed to discuss and re-evaluate the goals of the Greek community.
“We now know the problems fraternities face — it’s only a question of how fast they will be solved.”
Approximately 95 delegates attended the all-day conference in Von KleinSmid Center and Bridge Hall. Workshops covered problems facing both the individual chapters and the system itself.
Morning sessions dealt with evaluation of the Interfraternity Council, the coordinating body of the Greek community.
Workshops were also conducted on rushing and general IFC information, such as scholarship, pledging, publications, organization and budget. Other afternoon groups discussed chapter problems relating to government, social programs, financing,
alumni relations and drug use.
Tom Kristovich, chairman of Direction ’69. said many new objectives are necessary after re-evaluation of last year's goals.
“We should consider a new type of rush, possibly utilizing IBM data cards. Fraternities should receive the grades of rushees. IFC should establish minimum requirements for chapter scholarship. An honorary for a 3.0 or better could be established." Kristovich said.
Rev. Alvin Rudisill, national president of Phi Sigma Kappa, outlined five challenges facing fraternities in the keynote address. Among these were unity; IFC leadership in curriculum and student government: scholarship in both attitude and atmosphere; community service; and a drive to overcome apathy.
“Greeks have a role to play in building the university — they must become innovators,” Rev. Rudisill said.
Goals established in last year's Direction ’67 included building fraternity responsibility, aiding college
“The administration dictates whom we may hear, what we may see, where we shall live and what we shall consume.” it reads in part.
“They call me John. I am to call them sir. All we lack is a cotton patch."
Wardlow said he offered Lang the letter for his opinion early in the week, and Lang offered to take care of printing up 500 copies for campus distribution. Wardlow agreed.
When Lang handed him a copy of the sheet Wednesday afternoon, Wardlow said, he noticed 3 changes and pointed them out to Lang.
“It’s out of your hands now.” he quoted Lang as saying.
From that point on, Wardiow claims innocence.
Lang, he says, added the title (nearly identical to one appearing in a recent Los Angeles Free Press article), typed Wardlow's office after his signature and changed the final sentence.
Wardlow had closed with, “We are oblivious to our shame. Perhaps we deserve no more.” Lang reportedly changed the last line to. “Do we deserve no more than this?"
Lang, allegedly, also had passed out the sheets without first getting them approved for campus distribution. a normally procedural act that gives the administration control over literature issued by university organizations.
“The original text was a personal opinion of John Wardlow. student,” Wardlow explained.
“It was not intended as. and is not, a statement of policy by AMS or an official statement from the AMS president.’’
MIKE SILVERSTEIN (SECOND FROM LEFT), CHIEF JUSTICE OF IFC JUDICIAL The chief justice makes a point at IFC's Direction '68 workshop.
and community, building interfraternity cooperation, inspiring intelligent leadership, promoting chapter excellence, and building a stronger fraternity system.
Kristovich said some of the programs established since last year include a pledge convocation and council, workshops on chapter operation,
expansion and improvement of Greek Week and development of chapter judicial systems.
A Direction ’69 might be held next year, but with a different format. “Plans are still very much up in the air. but Direction ’69, if we have one. might center on goals for the next ten years.” Ryan said.