University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1967
NO. 12
New dean
maps out changes
By PIXIE HACK
Lee Chesney Jr., new associate dean of the Department of Fine Arts, is an administrator with one goal — lie wants sparks to fly.
The new dean said he has not had much opportunity to study the USC student in deoth. but he already has ideas, especially about filling the student with enthusiasm.
Alrerdy Chesnev said he is b°ginning to feel an everpresent sense of complacency, which, he feels people accept but never bother to do anything about. He wants to do som^thins about it and has already outlined the basic steps toward his goal.
One of Chesney’s first programs will be to assess his faculty and department to determine what the primary problems are and what the objectives should be.
He plans to tour classrooms to determine what the special and equipmental needs are.
This touring will also give him personal contact with the students so he can find what his department can offer that other schools cannot.
Chesney's storehouse of new ideas includes a plan to import visiting artists, as well as sending students out to examine artists' studies. He plans to introduce films as teaching aids. He also pointed out that new stimulus may be provided by two new fine arts faculty members, Richard Royce and Conner Everts.
Rovce, who just returned from Paris, will be teaching (Continued on Page 2)
LEE CHESNEY JR. PLANS? CHANGES New dean wants sparks to fly.
Dorms polled tomorrow on visitation question
By ANDY MILLER Assistant City Editor
One thousand male dorm residents will receive a questionnaire on visitation rights in residence halls tomorrow.
The answers they give will provide the groundwork for a proposal, which, if approved, will allow women to visit men s dormitory rooms for the first time on a regular basis in the university's history. (There was. however, a nine-hour “open house experiment" in men's dorms last year.)
“USC is behind other major universities in implementing a visitation program in the residence hails," said Fred Minnes. president of the Men's Halls Association. “I feel that the men residents are responsible enough to deserve the privilege.’’
“Instead of forming a committee and getting only a few opinions, we are sending the questionnaire to get truly representative preferences.”
FOUR PARTS
The four-part questionnaire will be distributed and collected by resident assistants.
The first part offers the male resident a preference of five weekend visitation time periods. The times range from one evening and two afternoons per week to two afternoons each week.
The second part asks if the resident desires that women guests sign in and out. The third concerns “open-door” or “closed-door" policy while the fourth asks if the resident would prefer no visitation program at all.
“This questionnaire should prove conclusively that the residents are very much in favor of establishing visitation on a weekly basis,” Minnes •aid.
The MHA and the Womens Halls Association are working together to obtain a visitation program this year. The WHA is planning to distribute a similar questionnaire to women residents later this year.
Before the formal written proposal is given to the administration, an evaluation of last year's open-house experiment will be handed in. he said.
Last year on three Sunday afternoons from 2 to 5 p.m.. women guests were allowed to enter men’s residence hall rooms.
“Open house on Sundays is not to be interpreted as a permanent policy in the residence halls. The open house experiment will operate purely on a trial basis to help determine whether such a policy is feasible for future implementation.” last year's letter informing men of the open house said.
“The general consensus of last year's program was that it was a very inadequate trial, because there were too few hours at times when people could take advantage of it,” Minnes said.
“It was interpreted by some as token appeasement rather than a real test of the responsibility of the men residents.”
The evaluation of last	semester’s program will be handed in tomorrow,
and the proposal will be	completed next week, Minnes said.
The proposal will include a clause in which hours may be deleted from the hours allotted.
If weekly visiting hours on Friday evening. Saturday and Sunday afternoons were allotted, men or women residents could then vote by house group to exclude any of the hours.
Troy Week events caught in traffic jam
By STAN METZLER City Editor
The problem Nov. 15 is that the Troy Week Committee has planned the annual Trolios student satire, and the Drama Department has scheduled a major student production — both at 8:30 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
The problem Nov. 17 is that the Drama Department has again reserved Bovard Auditorium at 8:30 p.m. for its production: and the Troy Week Committee has planned a rally-bonfire-street dance with the “Canned Heat” from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. in front of Tommy Trojan.
The problem, as Director of Special Events Clive Grafton explained it yesterday, “is an awkward one.”
To the ASSC, it is also one that should have never developed.
“I think this is asinine,” Foley told an irate Executive Council Sunday night when Bill Mauk. Troy Week chairman, first informed them of the scheduling conflict.
“WTe scheduled a closed week for Troy Week at the end of last year.” Mauk told the council.
“After the Drama Department returned this summer from Edinburgh. Grafton asked me if we were going to have Trolios. and if not, to give up Bovard for Drama.
“It seems someone had gone ahead and given it to them, and they assume at this point that they still have it.
“They’re not willing to let go.”
One council member called the whole mess a “Grafton-Student Activities blunder," and the rest of the discussion centered on a general question of Grafton's competence.
The belligerents will meet today at the YWCA. at a meeting called by Foley, to attempt to work out some solution to the conflict.
Attending the meeting will be Foley. Grafton, Mauk, Paul Moore, director of student activities, and Bill White, Drama Department lecturer and resident stage manager.
“If Grafton can't reschedule the drama production,” a council member humorously suggested, “perhaps he can do something about a different date for the UCLA game."
Marty Foley put it most succinctly — “We'd better damn well have some decisions.”
Most parties agree that there are four sides to the issue — the ASSC's and Troy Week's, the Drama Department's, the student’s and Grafton's.
The ASSC’s is clear — they are being pushed back during the most
enthusiastic week on campus. Trolios is by now a sacred tradition, most council members reasoned, and the bonfire - rally promises to highlight the tense spirit on the eve of the Big Game. Of all issues, they feel, this one must be settled in their favor.
The Drama Department’s position is less clear but just as understandable — they were allowed to schedule for Bovard, plans have already gotten underway.
Many times in the recent past (including the Lou Rawls Concert and a future Great Issues Forum presentation) they have been asked to move and have complied. W’hy must they change their programs?
To the students, tne problem stems ridiculous. Especially on Friday night, when not only the bonfire-rallv and drama production are scheduled, but also a DKA showing of "Topkapi’ in
Founders Hall at 7:30 and 9 p.m.. and the annual USC vs. Oxford debate in Hancock Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Three events must suffer, and 12 hours before the UCLA game, few are likely to opt for drama, debate or DKA.
For Grafton, the problem is coordination.
“You know, you have an awful lot of people wanting to use Bovard,” he said, “and we really do not have a master calendar here at the university.”
His explanations include indecision by the ASSC, overcrowding of university facilities, the need for courtesy to all parties involved and the lack of any overall university calendar.
Whatever the long-range view, however, the immediate problem is now only six weeks away. And that calls foi some damn fast decisions.
New, iater curfew said going smoothly
The extended 7 a.m. curfew in the women’s dorm complex is working successfully, Reba Roebuck, assistant dean of women, said in an interview yesterday.
"The new program was started mainly as a cultural movement, and so far it has proved effective,” she said yesterday.
“By this I mean that there is no mad flood at the EVK-Harris Hall entrance at seven in the morning. Most of the girls return to the dorms by 3:30 a.m."
Extended lockout, instituted late last semester, is available to all women dorm residents age 21 and over with a 2.0 or better grade point average. and to those juniors and seniors with parental permission and the same quality of grades.
Participants may sign out of their dorms on any night, and may return
at any time before seven the next morning.
"This program was a student idea.” Miss Roebuck explained. “It began when upperclass women saw the need for a later curfew hour.
"For example, a thorough discussion of a play at the Music Center over a cup of coffee could hardly be. accomplished under the old 2 a.m. lockout rule."
Miss Roebuck said the majority of eligible girls have signed up for the program, despite the S5 fee collected to supplement the salary of the armed guard who lets the women in.
"As with all new ideas, extended lockout is bound to come up with some snags,” she said. “But it is something we hope our new freshmen and sophomores will look forward to a'”ring the coming years.”
College Bowl makeup tests to be given here Oct. 10
CLIVE GRAFTON Director of Special Events
Makeup examinations for College Bowl candidates will be given Oct. 10. at 1:15 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium, Dr. James H. McBath, chairman of speech, said yesterday.
Any interested full-time undergraduate student under 25-years-old should sign up at the testing bureau in 252 Bovard.
“The top 30 to 35 students will be announced, hopefully, Oct. 16," McBath said.
“The second screening stage will involve faculty interviews and further game-situation quizzes. We are planning to announce the third breakdown of eight or 12 students by Nov. 1.”
McBath and his assistant, Frank Bussone, doctoral candidate in speech, are forming a faculty advisory board with representative subject matter experts in the various fields of the liberal arts curriculum.
“The board will assist in preparing questions for practice contests
and will supervise tutorial sessions with the semi-finalists.” McBath said.
The final four will fly to New York for the live TV appearance sometime between December and February.
DT QUESTIONS OFFICIALS
Most favor free literature policy
By FRED SWEULES
ASSC and administration officials are generally in favor of the proposed new university policy of free, uncen-sored distribution of student literature, a Daily Trojan poll has indicated.
Optimism for the proposed policy was expressed yesterday by Dean of Students Paul Bloland, ASSC President Marty Foley, Rick Flam, chairman of the ASSC Committee for Action on Student Rights and Norm Wilky, ASSC vice-president of Student Activities.
The proposed student Literature policy would remove all pre-censorship of student literature on campus and give after-the-fact jurisdiction to student courts.
“I haven't seen anything specific on the proposal, but I think the original plan submitted was a bold ana' original concept of student authority and responsibility in an area heretofore handled by the administration.” Dean Bloland said.
“It is clear that we have had some problems with the quality of material distributed on campus in past years, but I'm hopeful that, as has so often been the case, the good sense of 99 per cent of the student body will prevail.”
Commenting on the suggestion that the dean’s office could issue injunctions against the distribution of questionable material,' Dean Bloland said he “would hope it wouldn’t be
needed, but it should be there as a safeguard.”
Although no specific proposal has yet been submitted, Foley called the measure "one of the major steps in responsible student partcipation in policy making.”
“With this proposal, we are trying to bridge the gap from an antiquated stance of the university acting as a buffer between the student and society to a position where the student is not only given freedom of society but responsibilities of the society.”
He said the ASSC is attempting “to provide the philosophical basis for student life as well as a program basis for current student needs.”
Flam, who had originally thought the first proposal (of a stua'ent censorship committee) had been “the best one attainable.” said the new proposal meets more student needs and “eliminates bureaucracy and administration.”
He said the current proposal will face minor changes before being submitted but will not change in theory.
Wilky expressed optimism over the administration’s receptivity to the proposal.
“The Executive Council gave an implicit charge to Rick’s committee to come up with a concr ete, well-planned proposal,” he said, “and when that is submitted, I’m sure the Executive Council will vote unanimously for it.”
KUSC-FM fights FCC
red tape
Still struggling to find the switch amid the jungle of the Federal Communications Commission's red tape, KUSC-FM will remain silent for at least another week.
“The problem is that we have increased our broadcasting power about five times, and therefore we need a different license to operate the new equipment Alan Klaus, program director. said.
“With luck we may be on the air again within a week or two.”
Besides continuing many of the programb broadcast last year, the stu-dent-operatec1 radio station will air several new presentations.
Topping the list are three productions of Wayne State University: “Writing with Writers.” a discussion of techniques and styles of composition: “This I Like,” a critique of literature; and “Foreign Policy Review.” which examines America’s role in the world today.
An expanded music program will include “Hatlo and Dick, Contemporary Music with a Light Touch” on Fridays at 8 p.m., and a lengthening of classical music time to two hours along with the usual Friday opera production at 4:30 p.m.
Bob Perlbarg, director of sports, plans a new format which will include “Trojan Sports,” a half-hour program offering an analysis of the national collegiate athletic scene with emphasis on the Pacific-8 Conference.