Dr. John Elliot, professor of economics. has spent much of the last year preparing a 20-page document «n a new semester plan for USC.
Dr. Elliot spearheaded the accumulation of reports and data for an Interim report from the University Senate Committee on Academic Planning. and he pushed to present the report as a recommendation for endorsement at the Senate's monthly meeting in the Faculty Senate yesterday.
And it was Dr. Elliot who moved yesterday to postpone a vote on the proposal until May or next October.
Dr. Elliot moved for the “indefinite postponement” after a series of oomments from faculty of various schools and departments revealed a widespread lack of knowledge about the new' plan, and an unwillingness to commit themselves until they were sure of its effects.
The New Semester Plan, a proposal for change in the academic calendar. wrould in effect create two semesters of approximately the same length as present, but in a reordered time structure.
The fall classes would begin Sept.
5	and finals would end Dec. 21. The Christmas break and spring registration period would last until Jan. 6, with spring finals ending April 26.
An optional four-week May session, plus the regular Summer Session courses, would continue until Labor Day.
The New Semester Plan would, in effect, reduce the actual academic semester by half a week. But by eliminating the lame-duck semester break and shortening the Easter break to a three-day vacation, it would lessen by four weeks the period from the start of fall classes to the end of spring finals.
The committee report endorsed the plan as:
“1. Concrete and suitable for the needs of USC.
“2. Modest, so as to maximize ready acceptance by faculty, students and administration and minimize adjustment problems, and
“3. Reversible, so as to facilitate return to the present system with minimum difficulty if desired.”
The report, presented by chairman
A new semester plan for USC?
By STAN METZLER Editor
John Malone, said this proposal is an “improved and innovative academic calendar for USC, designed to enhance the quality of the learning process and our academic programs, and create opportunities for fuller and more effective utilization of the human, physical and financial resources of the university.
The report also listed a number of “important academic values and benefits.
“First, by eliminating the lame-duck session after Christmas, it would help create two essentially similar semesters, each with intellectual unity and cohesion.
“Second, it would create opportunities for varied and flexible academic programs between May and September.
“It would also have important economic advantages.”
Neither the effective length of the academic semester nor the amount of student and faculty work during a week would be changed, it noted, as all classes, laboratories and committees could function as at present.
“Mid-year articulation overlap with junior colleges on the semester
system would be minimal and with colleges and universities on the quarter system would be eliminated,” it noted.
Labeling the plan “the best alternative for USC among the various academic calendars,” the committee report urged its adoption.
In recommending an endorsement of the plan to the administration, Dr. Malone noted “the plan’s own desirability and our understanding of faculty preferences.”
But the number of faculty who then spoke out either for a postponement of the vote or a rejection of the plan showed that the faculty were by no means united in their approval of the plan, and in effect obligated Dr. Elliot’s motion to table.
All faculty members expressed their favor of eliminating the lame-duck January period, but many were skeptical of the rewards from the special May session.
Dr. Dorothy Nelson, interim dean of the School of Law, said the law faculty had found that ending courses before Christmas, but allowing a three - week study period before finals, produced the most desirable aca-
demic results. She urged that similar study breaks be incorporated into the new plan.
Other faculty members questioned the possible loss of students entering from junior colleges or Los Angeles high schools in the spring semester.
President Topping said 800 new students were admitted this February. Their attendance would have apparently been lost, at least for a semester, if the spring semester had begun in January.
He also questioned the advisability of holding a May session when students from other institutions would still be in school and unavailable for enrollment here.
In moving for a postponement. Dr. Elliot noted that the committee is currently compiling a poll of student and faculty reactions to the plan, but added that 24 departments, including a number in LAS and the Schools of Business and Engineering, have approved it.
“I want to emphasize that in this period the Senate members should prepare to vote on this report,” the chairman said. “It should not be postponed again.”
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By ROGER SMITH
The ASSC primary elections were begun for the second time yesterday, and ASSC President Marty Foley said that this time “everything is going extremely well.”
One of the three ASSC presidential candidates disagreed.
Gary Rafferty charged that the elections were “appalling” and claimed that more poll workers and more polling places were needed.
Presidential candidate Bill Mauk said that he had no complaints. Ralph Lippman, the third candidate, could not be reached for comment.
Foley said that an additional polling place will be open today near the School of Architecture. The addition was not made as a result of Rafferty's
complaints. Foley said.
"This addition was part of our earlier plan,” Foley said. “I just wanted to be sure that w>e could maintain tight control over the polling places and run things properly. Now that we have demonstrated that ability, the other poll can be opened.”
The new polling place and the polls on the Row and in the park between the dorms will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The polls in front of Bovard Auditorium will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Today is the last day of primary voting. Final elections will be held April 23 and 24.
Nine hundred and sixteen students voted yesterday, with 41 voting at a station between the dorms and 72 on the Row. The remainder voted in front of Bovard.
Vietnam: Dow Co. to voice opinion tonight
A Dow Chemical Co. public relations manager will be among a panel of four that will discuss the Vietnam war tonight at 8 m Hancock Auditorium. The program is being sponsored by the Forum for Student Awareness.
Jack Jones, the Dow- representative, who wall talk on “Industry’s Duties and' Responsibilities to Its Country in Wartime.” said, “I am not talking on the comparative morality of this or that weapon.”
However, other members of the panel do plan to discuss morality.
Rev. Harlan Weitzel, an Episcopalian minister active with draft re-sisters and Friends of the Resistance, a clergical group sympathetic to draft resisters, will talk on “The Moral Implications of the War as it Now Stands.”
Dr. Leonard Linde, a pediatrician at UCLA and assistant cochairman of the Southern California branch of the Committee of Responsibility, will talk on “Vietnamese Children Burned by Napalm in Vietnam.” He will also make a humanitarian appeal.
Lt. Gen. L. C. Craigie, who retired in 1955 from the Air Force, will talk on “Conditions in Southeast Asia.”
Lt. Gen. Craigie was commander
STUDENT OPENINGS ON COMMITTEES
Applications for student members on university committees are now available at the YWCA. The applications must be returned by next Monday.
Some of the commiteees include, the Great Issues Forum, foreign students, student activities, student aid, academic affairs, libraries, admissions, alumni affairs, and planning. The number of students on each committee, which also contains faculty and administration member?., varies from one to four.
of the Allied Air Forces in Southern Europe in 1954, chief of staff of the Far East Air Forces in 1950-51, and wfas a commander of the 63rd and 87th Fighter Wings in the 12th Air Force and Allied air commander in Corsica in 1944.
His military decorations include a Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, a Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, a Distinguished Flying Cross and foreign decorations from France, Italy and the Republic of Korea.
The Forum for Student Awareness considers itself a reaction to student apathy and intellectual stagnation on campus.
This semester the group has sponsored Quincy Troupe, who showed the film “Angry Voices of Watts,” and Father Blaise Bontane, who spoke on “The Making of a Guerilla.”
Foley attributed the light turnout to the invalidation of the first primary and also cold afternoon weather.
“I hope we get some more voters tomorrow,” he said.
The first primary was ruled invalid by the ASSC Executive Council because of misprinted ballots and poorly managed polls. The Executive Committee decided to run the elections personally, and subsequently dismissed Ray Cochard, elections commissioner.
Foley said that the manpower problem was solved by using Executive Council members and members of Kappa Sigma fraternity to run the polls.
“If it hadn't been for the Kappa Sigs, we would have been in real trouble,’' Foley said. Foley, a member of Kappa Sigma, requested the fraternity to help at the polls.
In addition to complaining about the elections, Rafferty charged the ASSC Council with being “cliquish and inward looking.”
“This election is pitiful,” he said. “It typifies the ASSC approach to problems the entire year.”
Rafferty also said that Mauk's letter challenging him to a debate “was one of the most incoherent letters I have ever received.”
“He (Mauk) basically says that he is interested in taking the issues to the voters,” Rafferty said. “I believe that my campaign has done just that.
“I’ve gone door-to-door in the dorms and taken my platform to the students. I will be doing more of the same over the next two days. There is no time for me to attend a debate.”
Tom Metzler, Rafferty’s campaign manager, said that a campaign timetable had been set up for Rafferty before Easter vacation, and there was no room for a debate.
Mauk said that he was “not surprised at Rafferty's response.”
“I also have a timetable,” he said. “But I’m still willing to take time out to give the voters an opportunity to examine the issues.”
Mauk said that Lippman is willing to do the same thing.
“One-half hour is not the end of the world,” Mauk commented.
Rafferty said that in the letter Mauk sent him, no time or place for a debate was mentioned.
"This means no advance planning or publicity if a debate were held under these conditions.” Rafferty said. ‘‘The last discussion of the issues we had without adequate publicity drew 32 people. I don’t think that is taking the issues to the students.”
Other offices and candidates on the primary ballot are:
Vice-President of University Affairs—Dan Brandt, Suzanne DeBall, Jane Lindenthal.
Vice-President of Student Activities—Matt Pasternak and Bob Rollo (write-in).
Senior Class President—Jeff Smulyan.
Senior Class Representative—Ken Walters.
Junior Class Representative—Joe LaTorre, Ron McDuffie (write-in) and Steve Turner.
Sophomore Class Representative—Jay Cohen, Tom Levyn and Peter Salvatori.
AWS President—Penny Scott and Karol Wahlberg.
AWS Vice-President—Donna DeDiemar and Janice Tait.
AMS President—Doug Gallup and Fred Minnes.
AMS Vice-President—Tom Kirby and Andy Miller.
The ballot also carries four procedural amendments to the ASSC constitution for student approvaL
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World Affairs Institute
Edward P. Morgan, noted news commentator, will speak on America's credibility gap tomorrow in the Great Issues Forum in Bovard Auditorium at 10 a.m.
Morgan's discussion is part of the Institute of World Affairs program on the Communication of American Foreign Policy. The program starts today and rims through Saturday.
Morgan is a former correspondent and commentator with the American Broadcasting Company and' is known for his coverage of political events.
The Institute of World Affairs program, organized in 1926 by the university, is designed to analyze and increase understanding of the various problems dealing with the world and international relations.
This year’s program is being held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles and will run for three days.
Designed around the communication of American foreign policy, guest lecturers and guests include some of the outstanding policy authorities in the United States.
DR. CALDWELL LOOKS TOWARD NOV.
War to hurt Democrats' chances
By MARGIE BESTER
Dr. Russell Caldwell, professor of history, speculated at the Hillel lunch yesterday that if the war in Vietnam continues and there are summer riots, the Democrats will lose the presidential election and control of both houses.
“The majority of the population is sick of the war,” he said. “The polls show that the number of people supporting the war is dwindling. The Democrats are gcring to pay for this war because the people associate the Democratic Party with the war.”
Dr. Caldwell doesn’t see Bobby Kennedy as a shoo-in candidate. “Bobby will have to scare up a storm of interest to win the nomination because he doesn’t have the delegates.” he explained.
Even if Kennedy does win the nomination, Dr. Caldwell expressed doubt that he would win anti-Kennedy,” he said. “I doubt if he could
win the election with that kind of opposition.” will last for the next three years,” he said.
He also sees McCarthy as too mild to win. “McCarthy isn’t ruthless enough to be President,” he said. “In politics a man must be tough.” As examples he cited Presidents Washington and Lincoln: “Washington was ruthless in many things, and Lincoln was very ruthless politically.”
He also said that McCarthy lacks the strength to pick up delegates by any means.
Concerning Humphrey’s chances, he speculated that “although President Johnson won’t openly support any candidate, I think he’ll probably send the word down through the grapevine that he waiits Hubert.”
However, no matter who the Democratic candidate may be, Dr. Caldwell finds slim hope Humphrey can win.
“The only way a Democrat can be fairly confident of winning is if the Vietnam war ends before the election. 2 predict that the war
He speculated that Nixon has the best chance to get the Republican nomination. “However, Nixon has a losing image,” he continued. “He’s detested in California. I don’t think he’s a shoo-in; Rockefeller has a good chance of beating him.”
If Kennedy wins the Democratic nomination. Dr. Caldwell feels that Rockefeller will win the Republican nomination. “If Bobby wins the nomination, it would be fatal for the Republicans to put up Nixon,” he said. “Anyone else but Nixon can beat the Democratic candidate.”
He expressed surprise at the withdj^jval of Johnson from the campaign. “I would never have guessed that Johnson would withdraw,” he said. “I see him as a political animal who would stay in politics until he gets his fill. However, .Johnson could still get the nomination. If he does, any Republican candidate can beat him.”
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Including in the list are Adm. Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, commander in chief of Pacific Forces; Robert Gibson, foreign news editor of the Los Angeles Times; James R. Shep-ley. publisher of Time magazine; and Adm. George W. Anderson, retired, former chief of Naval Operations and U.S. ambassador to Portugal.
The Institute of World Affairs was established by the late president and chancellor of the university. Dr. Rufus B. Von KleinSmid.
Topics on the program will range from the American citizen's understanding of foreign policy to how our foreign policy is interpreted in Southeast Asia.
The program had been open to the public in the past but was changed to invitation only three years ago to promote a more conducive atmosphere for academic analysis and understanding of the world’s problems.
Other guest speakers will be Rep. Mendel Rivers of South Carolina, chairman of the Armed Forces Committee of the House of Representatives and Robert J. Mc-Closkey, deputy assistant secretary of state.
The discussion by Morgan in the Great Issues Forum Friday in Bovard Auditorium will be the only part of the program open to the public.
Morgan is currently serving as the senior correspondent and commentator for the new Public Broadcast Laboratory television series projected for this fall.
TICKETS ON SALE FOR YARBROUGH
Tickets for Wednesday evening's Glenn Yarbrough concert are on sale in front of Tommy Trojan where a sound system blares forth the folksongs of the singer.
Tickets are priced at $3 for main floor seats, $2 for first balcony and SI.50 for general admission in the second balcony.
The 8 p.m. concert, which will also feature the Fred Ramirez Trio and guitarists Maffitt and Davies, is being sponsored by the ASSC Entertainment Committee.