University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2D, 1967
NO. 3
SITUATION NORMAL?
50 left out in the cold
in men s dormitory crisis
TIM FOUTZ HAS TROUBLE GETTING COMFORTABLE TO STUDY IN BED.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to get comfortable with the floor as your mattress.
Daily Trojan Photo by Ed Sfapltlon
6-9 basketballer among named Trustee Scholars
10 frosh for 1967
Ten freshman students, including five from out of state, a 6-foot. 9-inch basketball player, and a second-generation Trojan, have been named Trustee Scholars this fall.
They are the only ones of the 3.600 new students to be so honored.
This is the fifth year USC has appointed Trustee Scholars, who are chosen on the basis of their excellence in scholarly achievement and promise, together with demonstrated abilities of leadership, character, and evidence of unusual talent in one or more specific fields.
RENE GAIL AIU, a native of Honolulu, Hawaii, comes from Star
of the Sea High School, where she maintained a straight-A average while serving as captain of her schools debate squad and district representative for the National Honor Society. Miss Aiu has been admitted to the College of Letters. Arts and Sciences as a speech major.
GLORIA ILENE BROUGH of Anaheim. Calif., enters with high academic averages earned at Magnolia High School, H-here she participated in student government and was a member in the California Scholarship Federation, the American Field Service and the German Club. Miss
Bachelor s not enough for engineers in 1980?
The professional engineer of the 1980 s will need so much more education than he has today that a student who stops with only a bachelor's degree will be regarded as a dropout, Dr. Alfred C. Ingersoll, dean of the School of Engineering, said.
"Rapid advances of science and technology in our own generation, the increasing complexity of life on this planet and the growing demand
Team members sought for College Bowl
A preliminary screening examination for students interested in representing USC on the television program “College Bowl" will be held September 30 at 8:30 a.m. in the Administration Building.
Dr. Robert Jones, director of the testing bureau, will supervise the campus examination procedures. He requested that interested students request a seat in the screening examination by sending a postcard to the testing bureau.
College Bowl is an academic quiz game in which two universities represented by four team members each compete for scholarship grants to be awarded to their school.
Participants are flown to New York City for live broadcasts.
All team members must be undergraduates and under 25 years of age at the time of broadcast. The initial screening examinations will survey a broad range of cultural and educational interests.
Professor James H. McBath, chairman of the Department of Speech, is faculty adviser for the Trojan College Bowl.
Questions are drawn from the entire liberal arts curriculum. The scholarship grants are $1,500 to the winning school and $500 to the runner-up school. A maximum of five victories is the limit of a school’s participation.
If a team achieves five consecutive wins it earns the title of "retired nndcfeated champions” and an additional $1,500 scholarship grant.
by the public for technical leadership in solving man's problems will cry out for this better-educated individual.” he continued.
He pointed out that man will need more education because of the growing interactions of moral, social, economic and political forces on the decisions he will be called upon to make.
"Eggheads will be old hat, and the trend for super-eggheads has already begun,” he said.
"In ever-increasing numbers the high school students of today—especially those planning on careers in science and engineering—have their eye on graduate school the day they enter college as undergraduates.
“Galloping enrollments in graduate engineering across the nation attest to the response of these young people to the social and economic forces which bear on the matter, as well as the technological requirements,” he said.
"Even today, industry finds that it must hire engineers with advanced degrees because the better-motivated and more competent person is the man who seeks the graduate degree.”
A vice-president of the American Society for Engineering Education, Dean Ingersoll defends the proposals contained in the society's "Goals of Engineering Education” interim report, now being hotly debated in both academic and professional circles.
The study suggests a minimum of five years of work leading to the masters's degree as the “consensus” level for entry into professional engineering practice.
To charges that this would force all students into the graduate mold, irrespective of motivation or scholastic competence, Dean Ingersoll says that only those properly motivated and scholastically competent would be accepted in the first place.
To those who say such a program would ‘downgrade’ those who already hold the bachelor's degree, Dean Ingersoll said, “If they are performing as professional engineers, they need fear no downgrading.
‘‘Where would we be today if we had worried about the high school graduates of yesterday — many of them practicing engineering at the ‘professional level’ — when it became ciear that a collcge education was a minimum requirement?”
Brough has been admitted to the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and hopes to gain a bachelor of science degree.
An honor student from Fletcher High School, Jacksonville, Fla., IVAN C. BROWNING has been admitted to the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Although he has not yet chosen his major, his main interests are in pre-law and journalism. Browning, who stands 6-feet, 9 inches, served as senior class president and as a delegate to Boy’ State. He will be on th* freshman basketball team this semester.
TERRY DONAHUE from Long Beach, California's Millikan High School has been admitted with a straight-A average. He is enrolled in the School of Engineering.
JOHN EDWARD HEFFNER of Covina. Calif., enters with an A-ave-rage and a past history of membership on his school’s varsity track and varsity basketball teams. He has been president of the associated student body, president of his junior class, and a member of the Service Club, and the California Student Federation.
A member of a Trojan family whose father, sister and aunt attended USC. ROBERT LOUIS KAUFMAN comes from Palos Verdes, Calif. He has already done work at Wilmington's Harbor College. He is a member of the California Scholarship Federation and the National Foren-sics League and has attained the rank of Eagle Scout through his activities in both the Boy Scout and Explorer Scout programs.
BRIAN LESLIE KOTZIN. a native of Wilmette, 111., enters the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences from the New Trier High School in Winnetka where he was on the honor roll for six semesters. He is interested in science and plans to seek a bachelor of science degree in either (Continued on Page 2)
By MELINDA TONKS and ANDY MILLER
Tim Foutz came to school this year expecting a room and a bed ready for his return.
But instead he has been spending his first week in a sleeping bag on the floor of a friend’s dormitory room.
Foutz is one of about 50 men students affected by a housing shortage, which Mrs. Phyllis Fetter, housing supervisor, promised will be cleared up by next week.
The shortage, which exists only in men's dorms, developed when 100 extra men applied for housing.
"This problem has occurred for the past two or three years, but there is little to worry about since these students are able to find housing eventually.” she said.
However, the shortage has left Tim and several other students staying in friend's rooms, local hotels or at home.
Mrs. Fetter estimates that 10 men are staying in the Coliseum Hotel until they are placed. Although the university does not pay their bill, it does pro-rate the student's housing contract. Counting extra food bills, this would probably not reimburse the student entirely.
Foutz decided two weeks before school to live in the dorms instead of a fraternity house. The housing office put him on a waiting list and told him that possibly by Friday he would be given a room.
MIDNIGHT SKULKER
"So I sneaked my sleeping bag in past Mrs. Eby (Town and Gown head resident) and my books and clothes,” Tim said.
But Tim had no other alternative, since he preferred his sleeping bag to a hotel room bill.
If a student is denied housing because of lack of space in a dorm, he is placed on a waiting list according to his priority number, which is determined by the date of receipt of his housing application.
Mrs. Fetter said all freshmen were given first priority to rooms. As a result. Foutz, a sophomore, was left stranded.
According to housing regulations, freshmen men are required to live either in the dorms, at home or in a fraternity. For this reason, freshmen receive priority.
Every year more students apply than there is space for. but space is opened up by three means. This year the problem is worse.
MAY CANCEL
“A student may cancel his application if he finds another place to stay. This opens a space for another student.
"If a student who has filed a contract does not move into his room by the first day or so of classes, he is termed a ‘no-show’ and his room goes to a student on the waiting list.” Mrs. Fetter said .
The third method involves releasing the student from his contract in the event he plans to reside in a fraternity house or an apartment.
Each year, however, the housing
office anticipates these cancellations and adds extra names to each dorm roster.
If a student has been a resident of the dorms the previous year, he is given a two-week to one-month period in the spring to verify housing reservations for the coming year. He is then assigned to a room before new applicants.
If a student is not placed in the dorm he requested, he will be placed on a waiting list for the dorm he wanted. This case usually occurs with late applicants, who usually apply after Aug. 1 for the fall semester.
“But once an applicant is assigned late, there is little chance of being flexible in getting him the room or dorm he wanted." Mrs. Fetter said.
Mrs. Fetter noted that for the last two years there has been a shortage at the beginning of the year. Last year, however, by semester break there were 110 extra spaces.
The housing shortage has also af-
fected apartment housing in the same manner. Seventy-five percent of the apartment houses are full.
“We were full a month earlier than normal and have had an extra 10 or 20 percent applicants,” Bob Taylor, manager of Portland Estates, said.
“I’ve never seen such an extra demand. It's because there are a lot more married students, who commuted last year living in apartments."
Jay Berger, manager of four apartment houses around the campus, said that his apartments have been filled since the middle of May. and he has had several hundred extra applicants.
But with enrollment increases expected. and no new dorms in the immediate future, next year there may be several Tim Foutz’ sleeping on the floors — with no apartments available.
'Oklahoma' to start DKA season Friday
Thirteen once-popular box-office attractions will be presented this semester by Delta Kappa Alpha, national cinema honorary.
Screenings are scheduled for Friday evenings at 7 p.m. and again at 9:30 p.m. in 133 Founders Hall. Seventy-five cents admission will be charged.
#	"Oklahoma..” starring Gordon. MacRae and Shirley Jones, will make its USC debut on Sept. 22.
9	Lee Marvin's Academy Award winning performance will mark the showing of "Cat Ballou” on Sept. 29.
•	Jack Lemmon. Fred MacMur-ray and Shirley MacLaine, stars of “The Apartment,’’ can be seen on Oct. 6.
•	“The Pink Panther,” featuring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Capucine and Claudia Cardinale, will screen on Oct. 13.
•	October 20's performance features Bobby Morse and Jonathan Winters in “The Loved One.”
#	Vincent Price double-header, “The Raven” and “Comedy of Terror.” will be presented on Oct. 27.
#	“Darling.” which won an Academy Award for Julie Christie and also features Dirk Bogarde, will be presented on Nov. 3.
0	“The Carpetbaggers,” starring Carroll Baker, George Peppard and Alan Ladd, will be shown on Nov. 10.
#	December l’s showing will be "The Collector,” starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar.
•	"Topkapi," with Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov and Robert Wagner, will be shown on Nov. 17.
% The last movie to be shown before the Christmas break will be "The Wrong Box,'' with Michael Caine on Dec. 8.
#	The final screening for the semester will be “Irma la Douce,” starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, on Jan. 5.
USC's DKA chapter was founded in 1937 in order to further the art of the eineroa^and to promote better relationships between members and the theatrical and documentary film industry.
Three basic arts of the cinema are represented: dramatic, kinematic and aesthetic.
Honorary DKA members include Joe E. Brown, Lucille Ball, Blake Edwards, James Wong Howe, Gene Kelly, Stanley Kramer, Jack Lemmon, Arthur Knight, Gregory Peck. Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson, King Vidor, Jack Warner, Robert Wise, Fred Zin-nemann and C- B. DeMille.
REGISTRAR YIELDS DOZEN FLUB STUBS
In a remarkable performance to date, the Registrar’s Office has been forced to part with only
12	Flub Stubs.
That’s the total Mark Frazin, assistant registrar, reported yesterday afternoon.
However, there is still drop-and-add to go. and the figures could soar for that.
Flub Stubs are given to people who have been treated discourteously by registrar officials or who have b*»en the victims of registration errors.
CONFLICT CONTINUES
John Wardlow stands his ground
JOHN WARDLOW
AMS President
By STAN METZLER Editorial Director
Maybe it was the title: maybe it was the distribution; maybe it was just that school hadn't even started yet.
Whatever it was. AMS President John Wardlow’s statement on the USC student’s second-class status within the univerity has once again sparked the flames of student-admin-istration dissension.
Usually smoldering, but occassion-ally flaring over isolated incidents, the bureaucratic bonfire was ignited this time under circumstances that have left most of the university still wondering why.
Though campus officials from President Topping to ASSC President Marty Foley have expressed their irritation and consternation over the statement’s distribution, an objective appraisal of the situation fails to turn up any concrete reason fonthe clashing of the minds.
Wardlow, meanwhile, has stood firmly behind his original statement (identical to the one distributed by SDS except for the final line of the text.)
That line was changed by SDS President David Lang — who printed up 1,500 copies of the statement, added the title and placed Wardlow’s office below his signature — to read. “Do we deserve no more than this?”
In the original text, w'hich he had intended to send in as a letter to the Daily Trojan, Wardlow had said, “Perhaps we deserv** no more."
“I’m not backing down at all from what I originally wrote down," Ward-low said yesterday.
“My point then and now is that until students themselves demand their right, they don’t deserve them.”
Students are not considered academic or administrative equals with the faculty and administration, he said, "and they will not achieve that
equal basis, nor probably deserve it, until they demand it.”
Lang’s addition of the “Nigger” title and of Wardlow's office beneath his signature probably added most significantly to the heated reactions of officials.
And the subject itself, the students’ second-class status, is one most university officials recognize, but few like to talk about. Especially, as Dean of Students Paul A. Bloland commented last week, when it hits them “without warning.”
Neverthless, the statement was distributed late last week under circumstances very similar to the circulation of hundreds of other bills and pamphlets during the past school year, none of which caused similar reactions.
In a few days it may be possible to sift through the ashes and come up with an answer.
But until then, everyone concerned is waiting for things to cool, and just wondering, “why?”