University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1967
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Newsman will speak on Red Dragon today
By STAN METZLER City Editor
They are a breed called “China watchers."
Journalists, researchers, interpreters -• aiming their concentration on a nearly impenetrable target.
They sit in Hong Kong, and from that tiny Western freedom glean what information they can of the vast Communist nebula.
Most of them, like Robert Elegant, are there out of a fascination for the unknown causes and unsuspected results that push out toward the south, to the east and to the west.
And their fascination is contagious.
Elegant. Ivos Angeles Times bureau chief in Hong Kong is one of the breed's most seasoned and respected watchers.
He was the first Western journalist to predict the Red China purges, the first to report China's internal leadership conflict and the first to point out the original cooling in Sino-Soviet relations.
Elegant will speak at 2:15 p.m. today in Hancock Auditorium on “The Red Dragon: Can It Be Tamed?”
His speech, sponsored by the Great Issues Forum, will be followed by a question-and-answer period.
He will also appear at the noon Faculty Center Association luncheon to answer questions from association members.
JUDICIAL COUNCIL FORMS READY
Applications for the Men's Halls Association Judicial Council are now available from residents, resident assistants, and John McKinstry. assistant dean of men.
The MHA Judicial Council consists of seven regular members and two alternates. The council offers students residing in men's residence halls a locally based judicial function.
Applications should be turned in or mailed to Dr. McKinstry's office. 224 Student Union, by Friday.
Elegant assumed his present Hong Kong post with the Times in 1965 after nearly 20 years of extensive educational and journalistic preparation.
He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. spent a year at the Aimy Language School in Monterey as a student and teacher of Japanese and then attended Yale's Institute of Far Eastern Languages and Literature for an intensive Chinese language course.
He later received two degrees from Columbia University, an M.A. in Chinese and Japanese languages, history and literature and an M.S. in journalism.
Elegant won a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship in 1951. which he used as a war correspondent in Korea until the end of the war.
He spent two years on a Ford Foundation Fellowship studying overseas Chinese before joining Newsweek in 1956 as Southeast Asian correspondent.
His outstanding scoops include his reports on the outbreak of the Sino-Soviet quarrel in 1960 and on the complete withdrawal of Soviet experts from China in 1960.
In 1962 he was assigned to Germany as Newsweek’s bureau chief for Central Europe, including Communist East Europe.
From this vantage point he was able to contrast events in Europe and Asia before joining the Times and the Times-Washington Post Service.
Elegant has contributed to such leading periodicals as The National Observer. The Reporter, The New Leader. Business Week and Look.
He is the author of three books, “China's Red Masters: Political Biographies of the Chinese Communist Leaders.” ‘‘The Dragon's Seed: Peking and the Overseas Chinese," and “The Center of the World: Communism and the Mind of China."
He won the Overseas Press Award for Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs in 1966 and has been cited by Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism society, for distinguished foreign correspondence in the newspaper field.
ROBERT ELEGANT, L.A. TIMES HONG KONG BUREAU CHIEF Newsman will speak to Great Issues Forum.
PROFESSOR'S DESCRIPTION
No end to Red China political crises seen
Political upheaval in Communist China will continue for a long time. Party leader Mao Tse-tung is battling what he calls revisionist and bourgeois ideas.
His political control, once considered absolute, now is shaky. But his hold on the hearts and minds of the Chinese people is even more questionable.
These are a few of the ideas contained in the latest book by Dr. Theodore Chen, chairman of the Department of Asian Studies and director of the East Asian Studies Center.
His book, "The Chinese Communist Regime: Documents and Commentary," is the seventh major pub-
ASSC VEEP SEEKS PURPOSE
Lutz sets academic goal
The office is one year old, but its purpose has still to be defined.
More appropriately, it is seeking its own definition.
And for much of the year Bob Lutz. ASSC vice-president of university affairs, will be primarily concerned with fitting his office into the university environment.
At tile center of his purpose is the Academic Affairs Committee, a group still being formed and still outlining its tasks for the coming year.
“As the student population here becomes increasingly aware of its role in the educational process, student government will find itself more involved in the business and purpose of the university — education." Lutz wrote to ihe committee members late last spring.
“Students have demonstrated that they can exercise a creative and responsible role in this area, and as student government extends its influence and effectiveness, it will contribute greatly to improving USC's educational environment.”
In Lutz's opinion, the role of the vice-president of university affairs, and of the Academic Affairs Committee, should not necessarily be specifically defined.
“Right now we're still just feeling our way,” he said recently.
Many of the specific activities, of course, are set. They have been thought about at USC for a number of years, and now they are being concretely planned.
The activities include the Guide to Courses and Professors at USC, the
Short plays to open at Stop Cap Theatre
faculty-evaluation booklet published last year under Lutz’ cochairmanship and now operating under the auspices of his office.
They include the future production of several teach-ins on such possible topics as the draft and the role of education.
They include the establishment of a campus literary and humor magazine, the sponsorship of student-fac-ulty conferences and an analysis of the present university grading system.
Although undefined. Lutz’ office and the Academic Affairs Committee have a clear goal—direct student participation and action in the educational process.
They are open to student suggestions and to student membership.
“We can serve several vital functions for the student body,” Lutz said.
‘‘We can be a liaison between students and university policies; we can facilitate student participation in university decision-making; we can be a responsible agent for change and improvement.”
lication by the USC specialist on contemporary China.
It was published earlier this month by Praegar Company of New York, and Pall Mall of London.
Dr. Chen’s analysis of Chinese communism is presented under divisions of the Communist government structure, the Communist party organization, the direction of economic change and the nature of social revolution.
The book includes 44 basic laws and regulations spelling out the organization and major policies of the Communist regime.
The crises confronting the Chinese Communists have political, ideological, cultural and psychological ramifications, Dr. Chen said.
Politically, there is a struggle for power within the hierarchy to determine who will exercise power in the regime.
Ideologically, a heated controversy continues between the Maoist “purists” and the more realistic “revisionists-” The latter are bureaucrats and technocrats who feel that Communist dogmas have to be modified in the light of actual conditions in China.
Culturally, the Communists are still locked in a continuing war against intellectuals and scholars who refuse to discard their ideas and traditions for the Communist ideology.
Psychologically, they find that the masses are no longer as enthusiastic about the policies of the regime. There is also a decline of morale, because the people are not getting improvements in material living, Dr. Chen believes.
Dr. Chen concludes that these problems cannot be easily solved.
No matter who wins the power struggle, he said, the other areas of concern will continue to endanger the stability of the regime.
Dr. Kendall of performing arts resigns as dean
By ANDY MILLER Assistant City Editor
Dr. Raymond Kendall has resigned as dean of the School of Performing Arts.
Dr. Kendall's resignation was announced by President Norman Topping at the annual faculty breakfast recently.
After leaving USC Monday, he will serve in an executive capacity with the Performing Arts Council of the Music Center.
It was originally announced in a.n Los Angeles Times article June 21, that Dr. Kendall was granted a two-year leave of absence effective Oct. 15 to accept the new assignment on an interim basis.
An official in the School of Performing Arts said that the announcement came at “the wrong time,” while Dr. Kendall was in Europe.
“It put him in an awkward position,” the official said.
Dr. Kendall then reportedly revised his thinking, and resigned as dean, not wanting to leave the school without a dean for two years.
He is continuing as part-time director of the Project for Training of Music Critics however, which he started four years ago under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
His executive position at the Music Center will possibly include a small educational program similar to a live-in music school.
A three-man administrative committee is currently replacing Dr. Kendall. John Crown, chairman of the Piano Department, is chairman of the committee. Other members are Charles Hirt, chairman of the Church Music Department; and Halsey Stevens, chairman of the Composition Department.
A dean is expected to be appointed from outside the university by July 1.
Dr. Kendall has served as dean of the School of Performing Arts and
5,000 EXPECTED
DR. RAYMOND KENDALL Dean resigns
professor of music history. Literature and criticism since 1948. The School of Music became a part of the School of Performing Arts in 1963
He was music editor of the Los Angeles Mirror from 1948 to 1962, and until two years ago contributed a regular music column to the Los Angeles Times.
He is presently a member of the board of directors of the Southern California Symphony - Hollywood Bowl Association, Los Angeles Music Guild. Young Musicians’ Foundation, and the Performing Arts Council.
He is chairman of the music advisory panel of the cultural presentations program sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
He was graduated from Occidental College in 1932 with a B.A. degree. Stanford University in 1937 with an M.A. and Cornell University in 1940 with a Ph.D. degree.
He received an honorary doctorate from Occidental in 1947. and did graduate study at the University of Basel. Switzerland in 1938-39.
S.F. rally to spark big weekend at Cal
A full rooters section, a cocktail party and a rally in Union Square will greet an estimated 5.000 students and alumni at this year's Cal weekend festivities for the Troy-Califomia football game Nov. 4 at Berkeley.
At least 3,000 students, as estimated by Clive Grafton, director of special events, are expected to travel to the traditional San Francisco rally and game.
“There is really no way of telling how many will go up to the game.' Grafton said, “but the rooting section is always filled at the Cal game. There were close to 3.000 at the game two years ago when I was there."
The USC Ticket Office reports that more than 550 students have already bought tickets to the Cal game, and some 2,500 tickets will be available at $5 each until Oct. 21. Most tickets are sold just before the deadline, an office spokesman said.
Two ardent Trojan rooters won't attend the rally or game, however. Traveller II and his rider, Richard'
A mysterious matchseller, man's abuse of nature, a woman entangled in a rope, and a surprise original play make up next week's set of productions by the Experimental Theatre Workshop class.
The workshop, directed by John Blankenchip, drama professor, will present four short plays running Monday through Saturday, as one of three sets it plans to do this semester.
The plays will begin at 8:30 p.m. in Stop Gap Theatre. Tickets may be obtained at the Bovard Box Office for ?1 for week nights and $1.50 for Friday and Saturday nights.
The first play, “A Slight Ache,” by Harold Pinter, concerns a husband and wife and the strange things that happen when they come in contact with a mysterious man known as the matchseller. John Adams will star as the husband. The wife will be played by Pam Humphreys, with Jim Shan-•tan as the matchseller.
Man’s abuse of nature and natural resources will be analyzed in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Aria Da Capo.” The play, actually two plays—one a farce and one a tragedy— depicts the endless nightmare of history by utilizing a sophisticated farce of the 20th century and a prehistoric pastoral tradegy.
“Not Enough Rope” by Elaine May will be the third production of the evening. A young woman, played by Karen Smith, borrows some rope from a new neighbor for a very peculiar purpose. She soon gets herself hopelessly caught up in the resulting situation, only to find her neighbor reluctant to become involved.
The role of the neighbor will be handled by Mike Moore, with Judi Kennedy appearing as an old lady.
The fourth play, “So What,” is an original short play written and produced by Steven Craig. Starring will be Richard Greene, Nancy Pugh, and Andrew Caddes.
Seminars to feature New Left , Latin American political issues
“The New Left” and “Students and Revolution in Latin America” will be the subjects of two seminars to be presented in 226 Founders Hall today.
The 3 p.m. seminar on the “New Left” will feature Dr. A. K. Basu, assistant professor of political science, and Dr. Joseph Nyomarkay, associate professor of political science.
The seminar, the first of a series, is sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha, political science honorary.
“Through these programs, we hope to contribute to the enlightenment of all students in the university,” Bill Prezant, Pi Sigma Alpha president, said.
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Dr. Basu, who received his Ph.D. from Oklahoma University in 1966, is interested in behavioral research techniques, political theory, and methodology'. His forthcoming book is titled “Variations of Models in Modern Political Analysis.”
Comparative politics in Europe and totalitarian systems are the chief interests of Dr. Nyomarkay, who received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1963. He is the author of "Charisma and Factionalism in the Nazi Party.”
The seminar on Latin America, sponsored by students for a Democratic Society at noon, will feature
a talk by John Sack, junior in philosophy.
Sack spent the summer travelling extensively through Latin America with other students from the Los Angeles and San Diego areas.
The group spoke with university students in Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru about political, social and religious issurs in their own countries and in South America as a whole.
“South America is a continent that has too long been neglected by the American people. There are many things Americans should become a-ware of for their own sake,” Sack said.
Saukko, will not go to Berkeley this year due to security problems in getting the horse to and from the Cal stadium.
In past years. Traveller and Saukko have always attended Stanford games at Palo Alto, but never games at Cal.
The traditional pre-game rally, cosponsored this year by AMS and the university, will be held Nov. 3. the night before the game, at San Francisco's Union Square.
The Trojan Marching Band, under the direction of Ronald Broadwell, will march at 9 p.m. from the Hilton Hotel to the Union Square rally, which will also feature yell leaders and one of the USC coaches.
The rally, which will be moa'eled after last year’s pre-Stanford game rally at Palo Alto, shows promise of draving more students than last year and being the most successful rally yet.
"In the past, we have had some problems with students getting out of hand, but nothing really serious,” Grafton said.
“In fact, at Berkeley two years ago, the students literally policed themselves.”
As in the past, many students are now making travel arrangements through University Travel on Jefferson Blvd.
The agency has received reservations from some houses on the Row and expects to handle plane and hotel reservations for 600-800 students.
Many houses and campus organizations attend the game as groups and make plane and hotel reservations as groups, the agency reported. Since many students fail to make reservations until the last minute, the agency has set an Oct. 25 deadline on hotel reservations.
Besides the game and rally, alumni will be offered a cocktail party at the Hilton Hotel the night before the game. The University Alumni Association, sponsors of the party, will also sponsor bus trips from the hotel to the game.