University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LDC
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1967
NO. 32
Kappa Alpha suspended by IFC
Council receives finance report, passes judgment
By STAN METZLER Cit.V Editor
The ASSC Executive Council officially approved sponsorship of a Watts Teach-in early next semester and a student humor and literary magazine to appear sometime this year, in yesterday’s meeting.
The council also voted funds for two members to attend the Associated Student Government Convention in San Francisco over Thanksgiving va-action and placed a request for funds from the still-unorganized USC Stage
Band under consideration pending a subcommittee report.
Mark Meador, ASSC treasurer, set the council at ease as the meeting began by reporting that as of Friday the ASSC’s budget still retained $7,243.71 of its initial $9,875.
The expenditures to date included $150 allocated under travel to send five council representatives North for meetings and appointments during the Cal Weekend: $208.79 under wages, and $2,272.50 under the catchall category of material and supplies.
ORGANIZED BY STUDENTS
Small Issues Forum to offer varied topics
A Small Issues Forum has been organized "to complement the Great Issues Forum and bring speakers to USC <>n any and all subjects that students would be interested in hearing.” Dr. Joseph Boskin. advisor for the organization, announced yesterday.
A series of monthly discussion forums on subjects ranging from religion to urban renewal are being organized by the student-run group. The first is tentatively set for early December.
The presentations will be on a smaller scale than those of the Great Issues Forum and will be suggested and organized by students.
The forms will consist of a panel, including students and guest authorities on the subject being discussed, and will allow students in the audience the opportunity to exchange viewpoints with the panel.
“What were trying to do is to bring speakers to the campus on subjects the students feel are vital," Boskin said. "We want a forum in which we can create a direct dialogue between students and guest speakers.”
The forum being organized now for presentation next month will tentatively involve the subject of demonstrations.
The executive committee of the forum, under President Harry Wells, a senior, is arranging for speakers representing views of the police and the clergy. A student to serve on
POETRY CONTEST DEADLINE TODAY
Today i<* the last day to enter Ihe Daily Trojan poetry contest.
Entries must be in the Daily Trojan city room by midnight. However, Co-Feature Editor Hill Dicke noted, “They usually lock the place lip about 8 p.m.
“Anybody who comes in with one after that can rush down to th<* print shop and yell ‘Stop Ihe presses’ or some other ridiculous thine.”
the panel will also be selected by the committee.
"I have the radical notion that the university exists to discuss the intellectual topics students want to hear about,” Dr. Boskin said.
"I didn’t think such discussion was being done here, and the executive committee agreed with me. The only way to do anything about this was to get together a student-run Small Issues Forum.”
Dr. Boskin. associate professor of history, emphasized that the forum will be the only nonpolitical organization besides the Great Issues Forum on campus that will bring speakers to the campus on controversial subjects.
Wells’ executive committee consists of Chris Burrill. president of Mortar Board, and Kathy Braun, a graduate student.
It has been discussing potential subjects for future forums, including religion, athletics and urban renewal in the community around USC. but seeks student ideas. Boskin said.
"Our main purpose is to discuss issues the students want to discuss and bring all points of view." he said.
"We don’t care which attitude the people go away with, but we just want to see both sides presented.”
Meador’s report did not include the estimated $500 to $800 less on Lou Rawls Concert or most of the estimated $2,100 unreturncd expendi-turs for Trey Week.
Most of these funds would come from the $5.57750 remaining in the material and supply category, leaving the council definitely solvent at this time and despite some fear of overextension, in no immediate danger of prematurely exnausting its funds.
The council voted unanimously to sponsor the Watts Teach-in. at an estimated cost of $500, after Bob Lutz, vice-president of university affairs, urged the sponsorship because of the campus’ location and the teach-in’s potential of national coverage.
Although plans are still very general, it appears the teach-in, tentatively titled "Perspective on the Ghetto: A Case Study of Watts,” will concentrate on the opinions of local authorities from the Negro community, the city and USC.
Possible areas of specialization within the one or two-day teach-in would include sociological, educational, political, cultural and educational impacts within Watts.
In approving the student magazine which will take the name and most of the staff from last semester's Nepenthe, the council delayed any allocation of funds until it is further studied by a council subcommittee.
Attendance at the ASG Convention. Nov. 22 to 26, was approved after ASSC President Marty Foley explained that the national organization, formed in protest to the National Student Association's concept of the student as a political being, will concentrate on strictly campus-oriented problems.
He said Lutz and Norm Wilky, vice-president of student activities, will attend the convention because of their involvement in all facets of student government.
The council also approved the appointment of Vickie Rue, former sophomore president, as ASSC parliamentarian.
Research ship probes gulf for ocean animals
USC’s research vessel. Velero IV, leaves San Pedro today to conduct an experiment which has not been attempted since 1889.
During four weeks in November and December, USC scientists aboard the 110-foot tuna-clipper class vessel will examine the benthic (bottom) animals found in six basins of the Gulf of California.
The marine biologists will be probing the distribution of fish, crustaceans and polychaete worms.
Over $1 million raised in alumni fund drive
A record $1,251,348 was donated to USC by alumni, parents and friends during the annual fund drive this year.
Headed by Mrs. Grant Cooper, a Los Angeles attorney who is president of the Genera! Alumni Association and a member of the Board of Trustees, the fund committee recruited gifts from more than 16.000 individuals.
Appointed as chairman of the fund drive by President Norman Topping, Mrs. Cooper succeeded John MacFaden. Los Angtles public relations executive, who guided last year’s crusade.
Last year the fund drive passed the one-million mark for the first lime, with $1,078,355 contributed.
Dr. Topping said, in commending the efforts of the 1967-68 fund com-
mittee, “When so many alumni and parents and other good friends support the work of learning in such a concrete way, every teacher and student is inspired.
“Moreover. USC has moved even higher in the select company of private universities which receive more than one million dollars in annual giving.
“It is very important to have this distinction. Most of the foundations and corporations from which USC seeks major grants always ask ‘How well is the university supported by its own family?”
The ten top ranking universities in annual giving are Yale, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, Missouri, and USC.
Dr. Basil Nafpaktitis, assistant professor of biology, and Robert La-venberg, curator of ichthyology (fishes) at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, will use mid-water trawling equipment to take samples of fish and crustaceans.
Also part of the marine biological studies to be conducted is tyie use of a 900-pound grab, or excavating shovel. Kristian Fauchald, scientific cruise leader working on hs Ph.D. at USC, will direct the use of the grab as he seeks samples of polychaete worms.
Simultaneous to these studies, scientists will be photographing the basins with USC's new $11,000 Ed-gerton undersea camera.
The camera, whch operates automatically as it hovers 10 to 15 feet above the ocean floor, will help them determine if there are dominant organisms. observe the structure of the ocean floor, and search for bottom currents.
A third program, directed by Keith Barger, technical assistant in the Department of Geology, will take cores from the ocean floor for fora-minifera and sediment studies. Fossil remains in the sediment will be used to determine and correlate sediment layers in geologic time.
Seventy-seven years ago, the scientific ship Albatross conducted a similar experiment, but was restricted by its equipment. The Velero’s captain, Fred C. Ziesenhenne of Los Angeles, the USC scientific party, and the 11-man crew will be working around the clock to avoid the repetition of history.
Hazing charge spurs stiff judicial decision
By JACK CHAPPELL Editorial Director
Kappa Alpha Order has been suspended indefinitely by the Interfraternity Council Judicial for violation of the California State hazing statutes and university hazing regulations.
Kappa Alpha was informed of the judicial's stiff ruling, which removes them as a fraternity from the USC campus, last night at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house.
ROBERT WOOD Mew trustee
Trustees add TV president
Robert D. Wood, president of the CBS Television Stations Division of Columbia Broadcasting Systems. Inc., has been elected to the Board of Trustees of USC.
In an announcement made by Justin Dart, chairman of the board, he cited Wood’s graduation from LTSC's School of Business Administration in 1949 and his active participation in alumni and other affairs of his alma mater since that time.
Wood has served as a member of USC’s Public Relations Council, director of the General Alumni Association and honorary past president of the Troijan Club.
After graduating with a degree in advertising, Wood joined CBS as a member of the staff of KNX Radio in Hollywood. He later became sales service manager.
From 1951 to 1952, he was an account executive with KTTV, then the CBS-TV affiliate in Los Angeles.
He then moved to KNXT. the CBS-owned television station in Los Angeles, as an account executive and later served in a similar capacity with CBS Television Stations National Sales in New York from 1954 to 1955.
In 1955, Wood was named general sales manager of KNXT. and then went on to become general manager in 1960.
Most recently he has served as the executive vice president of the CBS Television Stations Division and last month assumed the position of president of the division.
Wood has also served as director of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association and is a past president of the California Broadcasters Association.
He now lives in Greenwich, Conn., with his wife, the former Nancy Harwell, also a graduate of USC, and their two children.
Suspension by the judicial means that the fraternity must vacate its house and the fraternity is no longer recognized as an existing organization by the university.
The IFC Judicial also stated that “none of the current undergraduate members and pledges of Kappa Alpha Order are ever allowed to participate in any future Kappa Alpha activity while they are undergraduates at the University of Southern California.” In advising the fraternity of its status, the judicial said. “It is
(The full text of the IFC Judicial's decision appears on Page J.)
not our intention to eliminate Kappa Alpha ideals a.nd precepts frcm the University of Southern California. Rather, it is to eliminate an attitude borne by the present undergraduate members of Kappa Alpha that has no place in the fraternity system.”
This final action by the judicial came after two other hazing incidents against the fraternity — one in 1965 and another in 1966 — had kept the fraternity on probation for two years.
The hazing this year involved keeping the pledges up all night for two consecutive nights without sleep and playing "degrading games" with other pledges during “Help Week.
“We want to correct Kappa Alpha. If that, in turn, helps the other houses, all right," Mike Silverstein, judicial chief justice, said in an interview.
Silverstein said hazing activity goes on in the fraternity houses because the people involved are tolerant of the situation.
“The judicial is not tolerant of such behavior,” he said.
The hazing incident was brought to the attention of the IFC by a noise complaint made by apartment dwellers behind the KA house. The complaint was forwarded through the university to the judicial. In its inquiry into the complaint, the judicial uncovered the violations of university hazing regulations.
On Sept. 25, Kappa Alpha was informed that the fraternity was officially charged with hazing during the “Help Week" period. The judicial requested that the chapter explain the situation. Kappa Alpha maintained that they were not guilty of any of the charges.
In another meeting that night, the KA alumni were asked to look into the situation and report to the judicial. The alumni reported to the judicial that the chapter had been hazing during the Help Week period and presented a program of correction.
The judicial, in their ruling, said that the recent hazing incident indicates that the past actions of the
alumni were not sufficient to correct the house.
The suspension allows the national fraternity to reestablish a chapter on this campus, although none of the present active members will be allowed to join.
It is anticipated that the fratern* ity will appeal the judicial’a decision to the Student Behavior Committee. The Student Behaviof Committee is a student, faculty and administration group which serves as an appellate body.
“The Beta Sigma chapter oi Kappa Alpha Order haa received the IFC Judicial's decision and is currently studying the decision to determine what additional steps will be appropriate. We are shocked that a body representing the interests of the fraternity gystem at USC has made such a decision,” Bruce Mc-Ewan, president of Kappa Alpha, said following the announcement.
Coronation will begin Troy Week
Tickets for "A Crowning Affair," the dance that will kick off Troy Week, will go on sale today at $2.50 per person in front of the Student Union, Founders Hall and the YWCA.
Highlighting the coat-and-tie dance in the ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel on Nov. 11 will be the crowning of Helen of Troy.
Two pop musical groups, the Sunshine Co. and the Merry-Go-Round, and a light show will provide entertainment at the dance which will start at 8:30 p.m. and end at 1 a.m.
The Sunshine Co. has turned out two hit records in “Back On The Street Again” and “Happy,” while the Merry-Go-Round has had two hit? with "Very Lovely Woman” and “Live.”
Tickets for the dance will also be sold in all the living groups on campus and in the dormitory dining rooms. Troy Week chairman Bill Mauk said.
Formal Troy Week activities will continue on Thursday, Nov. 16, with the judging of house decorations on the Row and on campus.
On Friday, the Canned Heat will perform at a bonfire-rally-street dance in front of Tommy Trojan from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Troy Wegk festivities will conclude on Saturday with the UCLA game, including pregame entertainment and the traditional half-time show.
IMPACT NOT EVIDENT
Vietnam elections called step forward by communism expert
By MARK VASCHE
The exact impact of the South Vietnamese elections on the Viet Cong will not be evident for some time, Cmdr. Hammond Rolph, a research assistant at the Research Institute on Communist Strategy and Propaganda, said yesterday.
Cmdr. Rolph spoke at the second in a series of “Briefings on the Communist World.” held yesterday in the Von KleinSmid Center Lounge.
Speaking before approximately 50 people, he said the elections were meaningful in several ways.
First, the large voter turnout in spite of heavy Viet Cong pressure indicates the people want to participate in the democratic process. '
Cmdr. Rolph said that any such expanding of interest in national affairs is “a great step forward, especially for a peasant population such as is found in Vietnam.”
Secondly, he feels the elections provided a great amount of legitimacy for the government of South Vietnam.
“The election cannot help but produce a certain rapport between the government and the people,” he said.
Cmdr. Rolph, who retired from the Navy in 1964 after 21 years of service, said that while the Vietnam elections perhaps leave something to be desired, they are a step in the right direction.
He pointed out that only about 23 percent of all Southeast Asian countries offer any type of choice in elections.
“This places the country in a select group of nations which offers its people any form of democratic election process,” he said.
He said the major reason for the elections was to counteract the Communist opposition, j.
"The whole election was designed primarily as an answer to the Communist challenge,” he said
"Only a real rejuvenation of the body politic can meet this challenge.” He cited another possible effect of the elections to be a more realistic assessment of the Viet Cong support and strength.
Cmdr. Rolph also said the election could give some Vietnamese leaders a chance to join the non-Communist movement.
He specifically aimed his comment at leaders of the National Liberation Front, an organization which serves as a Viet Cong political front.
Cmdr. Rolph also predicted the trend of the single Vietnamese leader is over. Ho Chi Minh’s day as the only real leader is in the closing stages, he said.
“The latest elections have thrust new competition forward,” he said.
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