USC to initiate Experimental College
By ERIC COHEN Assistant Editorial Director
An Experimental College is to be initiated at USC, Bob Lutz, ASSC vice-president of university affairs, announced yesterday.
The Experimental College will consist of a group of classes meeting to study a variety of topics. It will have no formal affiliation with the university.
The Experimental College concept will offer any student the opportunity to initiate any course which he wishes to take, Lutz explained. "The curriculum of any educational institution must be limited, and can not encompass all stuaent interests, so the Experimental College marks an extension of our curriculum.
The college was not designed as a protest against USC, Lutz said, but was intended "to compliment the curriculum.”’
The Experimental College will be administrated as a sub-committee under the ASSC Academic Affairs Committee, which Lutz chairs. The sub-committee co-chairmen will be Fred Fenster and Mark Lindsey.
Courses can be initiated in several ways. A student may suggest a course he wishes to take, a professor
may offer a course he wishes to teach, or a student may offer to teach a class.
During registration, students will be able to enroll in those courses professors or students have already offered to teach, or will be able to indicate the subject matter in which they would like to take a course.
Dr. A. K. Basu, assistant professor of political science, already has offered to teach a class in Contemporary Political Analysis; David Lang, SDS president, will teach a course in Radical Education; John Wardlow, AMS president, will expound on The History of Rock ’n Roll; and Dr, Joseph Nyomarkay, associate professor of political science, will teach a course on a subject to be determined by him and his students. Dr. J. Wesley Robb, professor of religion, has also expressed some interest, if his schedule permits, in teaching a class in Contemporary Morality.
Registration for the Experimental College wiH run October 23-27, with booths set up in front of Tommy Trojan, in the YWCA and the ASSC office. Registration will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Professors teaching in the Experimental College will be donating their time, and the classes will be given without grades or credit.
“It really will be education for education’s sake,” said Lutz.
The function of the Experimental College sub-committee will be to coordinate and match up student requests for classes with offers by professors and students to teach classes.
When a teacher has been secured who is willing to offer a given course in the Experimental College, the sub-committee will determine the minimum and maximum class size, based on the recommendation of the teacher. The sub-committee will assess the need for a classroom, and, if the need exists, secure one.
“But the classes can meet just as easily across the street at Julie's,” Lutz said, to emphasize the unstructured character the Experimental College hopes to maintain.
The sub-committee will make available, at registration if possible, a short course description of those classes already slated. It will also determine any mis-
cellaneous requirements a teacher may have for his students, when the course is initiated by a professor. After enrollment it will determine the first meeting time, upon agreement of teacher and pupils.
When a group of students expresses an interest in a given subject, it will be the sub-committee's responsibility to attempt to secure a teacher willing to offer the class. However, students will be encouraged to try to find teachers on their own.
Lone students requesting a subject hopefully will be lined up with other students of similar bent and a willing professor. Such an individual will also be encouraged to find a teacher and other interested students on his own, as the sub-committee wants tc act as an intermediary only when it is needed.
“The Experimental College will be a free marketplace of ideas, thought and discussion,” Lutz said.
He warned, however, that wherever Experimental Colleges have been attemped and have failed, “the problem has been the lack of participation of students.
“We can get the professors,” he said, “but in the final analysis it will be student participation which will make or break the Experimental College.”
	University of Southern California DAILY ® TROJA	N	
VOL. LIX	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1967		NO. 19
ROBERT ELEGANT SPEAKS BEFORE FACULTY MEMBERS The Pulitzer prize winning newsman spoke on China in two appearances
27 students named to university committees
The University Senate has approv-H the appointment of 27 students to university rommittees. Rob Lutz, ASSC vice-president for university affairs, announced yesterday.
The students will serve on ten faculty-adminisl ration-student committees administered under the Senate.
The rommilee members are: Committee on Admissions: Cathy Buck, Chris Wing and Joanne Armstrong;
Great Issues Forum: Duane Zob-rist (returning).^Riv-Ellen Prell, Chris Burrill and Rick Flam:
Planning: Randolph Harrison (returning) and Elizabeth Carr;
Convocations and Special Events: Antoinette Mellett, Doug Yarrow. Juanita Ching and Jim Smoot:
Libraries: Linda Dearing (returning) and James Marshall:
Student Activities: Dan Montrenes (returning), Marty Foley and Marilyn Sutton;
RAWLS TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE
Tickets for the Lon RawU concerts are on sale in front of the Student Union.
Seals for the Oct. 26 concerts at 7 and 9:45 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium. are priced at $2-50 for the main floor, $2 for the first balcony and $1.25 for the second balcony.
Tickets are also being sold at the Student Activities Office in the YWCA and at the 32nd Street Market.
Rawls is the first entertainer invited to campus by the new ASSC Entertainment Committee.
Sophomore Class Council members who wish to sell tickets should sign up at the YWCA.
Foreign Students: Lucille Hine (returning). Barbara Merine (returning) and Tugrul Aladag:
Alumni Affairs: Al Levine and Carol Hangeland;
Student Aid: Fred Aguirre and Lega Sugg;
Building and Grounds: Gordon Riescar (returning) and Patricia Reynolds.
The students applied for acceptance on the committee through Lutz’ office, and the University Senate acted upon the ASSC's recommendations in making the appointments.
Student committee members may be either of junior, senior or graduate standing, and those wiio will be at the university the following year are free to apply for a returning membership
POSITIONS RELATED
A number of the appointments reflect not only the student's personal interest and academic qualifications, but also their positions of related capacities in the ASSC.
Dan Montrenes and Foley, for example, both of whom serve on the Student Activities Committee, have a special relationship as former chief justice of the Student Court and current ASSC president.
Aladag. likewise, represents the I-House on the Foreign Students Committee while Al Levine, senior class president, was automatically appointed to the Alumni Committee.
The acceptance of the first official student members on the university committees as university policy two years ago was one of the first steps in the present realignment of student - faculty-administration relations within the campus.
The representation, which began with a lesser number of committees, was first put under ASSC cooperation last year when Julie Sheehan w’as elected as the school's first vice-president of university affairs.
Pulitzer winner assesses China-U.S. confrontation
By ANDY MILLER Assistant City Editor
Robert Elegant's view’ of the Vietnam war is affected by a very, very big country somewhat to the north.
That is how a superior described Communist China to him when he started reporting on that country ten years ago. and China is now a very, very big country in more ways than one.
For that reason. Elegant, Hong Kong bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times and prize-winning journalist. favors continuation of the war in Vietnam.
“Intervention in Vietnam has prevented a U.S.-China nuclear confrontation,’’ Elegant told a crowd of 400 at the year's second Great Issues Forum speech in Hancock Auditorium.
“Vietnam has demonstrated that it isn't going to be that easy for the Chinese to defeat the West.
“Now the Communist Chinese say ‘We cannot fight America. America is not a Paper Tiger; they have nuclear capabilities beyond ours.’ ”
Elegant’s speech centered around his interpretation of China’s history since 1949, when Mao Tse-tung gained control.
“Maos purposes were two-fold— to elevate China in world opinion, and to seek utopia," he said.
“And nobody can deny the vast changes that have taken place there.
“For years China had no equal. Then she found herself not at the center of the world, but like a semicolony. Mao w’anted to alter this condition by creating a new kind of human being, and modernizing China.”
From 1949 to 1955 the Communists began to make vast economic strides. The people were happy, and
the government was not corrupt, Elegant said.
But Mao felt the need for changes, and in 1958 he instituted the Great Leap Forward, which was designed to economically overtake Great Britain in five years, and the United States in 15 years.
Elegant said that Mao also feared the Communist Chinese were slowly developing a petty bourgeois system.
“His aim w’as to create a totally new order of mankind. He created the Great Peoples Commune, where a new kind of man would come out,” Elegant said.
But the Great Leap Forward w’as a flop.
“It didn't quite work out,” he said. “There was no economic interstructure on which to build a great economic system. And there was infighting concerning collectivization,” he said.
However, the period between 1960 and 1965 was one of remarkable economic progress.
“In 1965—the same as in 1955— China was doing well. Too wrell. Mao again had the fear of creating a petty bourgeois.”
Again Mao came up with a program, this time the Purge. wrhich was to accomplish the same two purposes that the Great Leap Forward didn’t.
“The first purpose of the Purge was a People's War—internal gueril-
Elegant in hard-line stand: 'China won't enter war'
Red China will not become directly involved in the Vietnam war unless American troops invade or bomb its land. Robert Elegant told a packed Faculty Center Association yesterday.
But although he advocated a hardline approach in the war, not ruling out the possibility of an invasion of North Vietnam, he also called for a closer reproachment with the Chinese.
Elegant w^as careful to maintain his own position against an invasion of the north, however.
“It would be disastrous militarily and very bad politically to invade the north because it would prove the Communists’ charges that we are the aggressors,” he pointed out.
In calling for closer ties with the Chinese, Elegant foresaw a “more realistic and reasonable” government of the mainland in the near future.
The change will be quite similar to that in the Soviet Union, he predicted. and thus by the time China possesses the capability of delivering their nuclear weapons to the United States “the chances of their using those weapons will probably have been enormously reduced.”
Elegant said the Chinese are staying out of Vietnam for a number of reasons, including the chaos within their own nation and their wish to prove that wars are best won, as Mao says, not by mass invasions but by guerilla action.
NYOMARKAY ADDRESSES SEMINAR
New Left lacks ideology
Members of the New Left are “idealists without ideology," a political science professor said at a Pi Sigma Alpha seminar yesterday.
Dr. Joseph Nyomarkay. associate professor of political science, said the New Left members are the only true democrats in the United States.
“To be a democrat you have to get out of the system," he explained. The system, he said, consists of the two major political parties, neither of which represents the people.
Since the New Left is based on participatory democracy and political parties are more of a “package deal.” he said, “individuals must either accept or leave the system.”
Dr. Nyomarkay expressed fears that the radicals outside the system may have the effect of consolidating the various elements within it, even to the point of a liberal-conservative coalition.
If this consolidation should occur he saw little room for dissent, a situation which he thinks could lead to a second McCarthy Era.
The seminar, which also included participation by Dr. A. K. Basu, assistant professor of political science, and David Lang. SDS president, included a lengthy discussion of whether the New Left is ultimately futile because it neither has nor wants a political organization or leadership.
Dr. Nyomarkay said the New Left differs from the older leftist groups, such as they Marxist Com-
munist Party and the Socialist Party, in that it has no central ideology.
New Left members, ranging from Communists to hippies, may have widely-varying beliefs. But the individual’s ideology really isn't important, he said, as long as it can be expressed in a form cf participatory democracy.
Several members of the audience questioned the value of the New Left on the basis of its having “accomplished no tangible changes" in the American system.
However. Lang defended the New Left. Most of its members are young, but they possess a very mature morality, he said, and will thus change the American system in a not-so-tangible way.
“The New Left is made up of young people who have grown up in a society of contradictoiy values,” he said.
“They are disgusted with the nation’s policies and actions and are disinterested in the materialistic values of the present society.”
Dr. Nyomarkay attributed the recent increase in the ranks of the New Left to the war in Vietnam, and wondered what would happen to it when the war has been settled.
He wondered if the New Left would collapse like the French Left after the Algerian War, or if it would be able to stand upon its new morality an<i values.
la war and subversion abroad. What's happening in Vietnam would prove that the People's War is working,” Elegant said.
In August, 1966. Mao called upon the Red Guard to create an entirely new order and civilization, and to terrorize the anti-Maoists.
“But a funny thing happened on the way to utopia. The anti-Maoists stood up and recounted because they realized the struggle w-as for China and their own lives.
“The Maoists suddenly recognized that their enemies were a great number of people in the countryside. The Maoists saw that if they were to win they must get these people.
“Disorder became a general phenomenon. Mao called on the military to get power and keep order. But they didn't, because they were afraid to get involved politically.”
Two things have come out of the Red Guard’s cultural revolution, he said—a repudiation of Maoism, and a crystallization of his opposition.
N.D. RALLY SET TODAY
Rusty Jordan, head jell leader, will lead a rally for the Notre Dame game at 5:15 this afternoon between the P.E. Building and Bovard Field.
The rally will greet the team on its return from the final practice before leaving for South Bend.
“If there was ever a game that these guys needed the spirit for, this is it,” Jordan said yesterday.
Jordan will also hold a rally at 6:45 Friday morning, in front of the P.E. Building.
“If we beat Notre Dame*—well, we’re just playing for the national championship.
“If everyone sits back and we lose, maybe what the team needed was the spirit of the rally. I’d like to see 10,000 people there.”
Jordan also commented on the Notre Dame fans, who have become rather famous.
The seating arrangement in the South Bend stadium makes it difficult for the visiting team’s fans to cheer in unison, he noted, since “there are two priests between every four USC fans.”
The Notre Dame cheering section is split into two parts at diagonal ends of the field.
“When one section yells itself out, the other one takes over and the uobe never stops,” he said.
“Several people have asked me
if I’ve ever been back to Notre Dame. When I say “No,” they say, “You won’t believe it.”
Rusty will be among five yell leaders making the trip to South Bend. Others will be Rollie Foss, Bill Caldwell. Pat Larkin, and Danny Scott.	j.
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