SENIORS FAVOR CONTINUATION OF PASS-FAII GRADING
By STAN METZLER City Editor
USC seniors favor the continuation of the pass-fail senior colloquia in their present form, a student •urvey has shown, but there is no overwhelming consensus on their real value or nature.
Although a questionnaire distributed in late May last year did indicate a basic support of all facets of the experimental program, most questions also garnered a sizeable number of responses for suggested alternatives.
The survey was conducted by the Warren Commission, a group of students and faculty in L.A.S. who have met for the past semester in an effort to jointly stimulate discussion and propose solutions for a number of academic problems.
The commission, which works under the aegis of L.A.S. Dean Neil Warren, is a direct outgrowth otf a Conference on Teaching held on campus last spring by the Danforth Foundaion’s Project Fasten.
The colloquia survey was designed to indicate student opinion on four general questions:
•	The pass-fail method of grading;
•	The nature of the colloquia;
•	The value of colloquia;
•	An over all evaluation.
Responses on questions in each of these areas
were received from 184 seniors who had taken colloquia in two different L.A.S. divisions, from 40 seniors who had taken only a social science colloquium, from 38 seniors who had taken only a humanities colloquium and from 41 seniors who had taken only a natural science colloquium.
Approximately 60 percent of the seniors interviewed felt they “did about the same amount of work I would have done* for another course”; but more than 30 percent admitted they did less, while less than 10 percent said they were “challenged to more.”
Almost 70 percent of those questioned said they favored the pass-fail system because they “felt free from the pressure of a grade,” and the remainder were evenly split between those who felt their grade point was adversely affected and those who had no opinion.
Seniors who had taken only a humanities colloquium affected these figures by voting 95 percent in favor of a lack of pressure.
About 45 percent of the students believed the present grading system “most enhanced its academic value,” though nearly 35 percent thought it would be better to let the individual student “decide for himself before the first mid-term whether he should be graded pass-fail or conventionally.”
The remaining 20 percent were split between those who thought the instructor should be able to choose between the two methods at the beginning of the class and those who thought the courses should be graded conventionally.
The first question on the nature of the colloquia asked whether the respondents thought they should be kept as a requirement for seniors, or taught on any or all of the other class levels.
About 40 percent thought they should be kept for seniors only. Nearly 20 percent thought they should also be taught to juniors, and about 10 percent opted for sophomores, freshmen, or all students. The remainder had no opinion.
Approximately 65 percent agreed they should be “continued with an interdisciplinary emphasis.” about 20 percent thought they should be taught without this emphasis and the rest had no opinion.
The question on whether the seniors had found the colloquia “of real value and a broadening experience.” “of little value” or “of no value” found nearly 80 percent choosing “real value.” About 15 percent marked “little value” and the rest choose “no value.”
These results were more favorable among those who had taken a humanities colloquium and less fav-
orable among those who had taken a social science colloquium.
Regarding an over-all evaluation of the individual student’s “experience within the colloquia program,” about 50 percent of the seniors recommended “their continuation with some modification,” more than 30 percent favored “their continuation as now structured," and less than 20 percent sought “their discontinuation.”
The senior colloquia program, now in its third year of experimental operation at USC, will be reviewed by the Curriculum Committee of the University Senate this semester.
That group will then make a recommendation to the General Education Committee as to whether the program should be continued as it now stands, restricted, expanded or otherwise modified.
The Warreen Commission heard the colloquia re port as its first meeting of the semester Tuesday evening at the Faculty Center.
The group has also discussed and researched such problems as the university’s recruitment program, the installation of student representatives on departmental faculty committees and the general relationship between students and professors at the university.
University of Southern California
Croup to study DAILY • TROJAN role of student
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1967
NO. 14
Rexall Drugs head elected chairman of Board of Trustees
Justin Dart, president of Rexall Drugs and Chemical Company, was elected chairman of the Board of Trustees at its annual meeting yesterday.
Dart, a trustee since 1961, has been vice-chairman of the board the past year and chairman of the board's Academic Affairs Committee. He is also chairman of the board at Rexall.
He succeeds Frank King, chairman of the board of United California Bank, who was chairman of the trustees the past three years.
J. Robert Flour, president of the Flour Corporation. Ltd., an engineer-ing-construction firm, was elected vice-chairman, succeeding Dart. He has been a trustee since 1952.
Officers reelected by the board were Dr. Seeley G. Mudd. vice-chairman: Harold Quinton, board chairman, Southern California Edison Co., treasurer; and Gwynn Wilson, Palm Desert rancher ana’ land developer, secretary.
Dart joined United Drug Company, now Rexall, in 1941 as a vice-president and director. He was elected president in 194*2.
He graduated from Northwestern
University in 1929, joined the Walgreen Company in Chicago and ten years later became general manager and a director of the firm.
He has been president of Associated In-Group Doners; director of the American Heart Association; trustee of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships : member of the special studies project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, member of the executive board of Boy Scouts; director of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council; and a member of USC Associates.
At Northwestern University Dart held 20 student offices, including the preidency of his senior class, and was an All-Big Ten guard.
The 30-member Board of Trustees governs the university. It is a self-perpetuating body, electing one-third of its members each year for a three-year term of office.
There are nine standing committees of the board, which correspond with the administrative structure of the university: executive, academic affairs, finance and budget, planning, development, student and alumni affairs. buildings and grounds, board personnel and honorary degrees.
JUSTIN DART, NEW BOARD CF TRUSTEES CHAIRMAN Rexall Drugs and Chemical Corporation president assumes new duties.
PROFESSOR EXAMINES MIDDLE CLASS
'Society hung up on Victorian values'
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH Contributing Editor
Middle-class American society is suffering from moral schizophrenia—-a desire to change, but an unwillingness to give up its inherent values.
This is the opinion of Nichol E. Sanford, assistant professor of quantitative analysis, as expressed in a talk on “The Great Sell-Out by the American Middle Class" at the Hillel Foundation yesterday.
Sanford believes the American middle class—“that vast area that includes everyone from a beer-drinking construction worker to an executive" -— would like to get more in tune with the values of the hippies.
“But we are faced with a bewildered middle class.’' he said.
“It is hung up on the values of Victorian society with a reinforcing view of life and a set of anxieties
that render them totally incapable of adjusting to the new value structure, and unwilling to make the economic sacrifices necessary to embrace the new set of values.”
Sanford believes society goes through cycles of what he calls mat-ric and patric values. Patric values— those that are associated with the father image of society, include inhibition. restrictive attitudes toward sex. patriotism, submission to authority, fear of homosexuality, stress on competition and fear of pleasure, he said.
Matric values—those associated with the mother image—include creativity. permissiveness toward erotic expression, compassion, optimism, minimization of sex differences, pleasure and self-indulgence, and strong emotions, he explained.
Sanford feels Western culture is presently in the matric cycle.
KA, Phi Delt frat cases extended until Tuesday
The cases of two fraternities, Kappa Alpha Order and Phi Delta Theta, have been extended until Tuesday by the Interfraternity Council Judicial.
Kappa Alpha was called before th* judicial because of several complaints of excessive noise during the sorority rush and Help Week period.
There are additional charges pending against Kappa Alpha; however, no statement of these charges may be made until the Tuesday judi-
cial meeting and an investigation by the fraternity’s alumni.
The Daily Trojan will be unable to release any information on the Phi Delt case until a formal statement on the charges is made by the IFC Judicial.
This is the second series of cases considered this year. Last week the judicial, headed by Chief Justice Mike Silverstein, found Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternities innocent of illegal rushing charges.
“We are in the throes of a gigantic moral change from patric to matric values,” Sanford said. “It is not easy for an adult who gives constant lip service to the patric values which made America great, a member of the so-called Establishment, to cast aside a lifetime of whispering about sex and accepting war as a patriotic national solution to internal quarrels, to throw in the patric towel and concede that these impudent kids may have a point.”
Sanford bases much of his feelings on a series of discussions he had recently with hippies in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
“Many of them—about 95 per cent-—have an excessive preoccupation with being hippies rather than with being hip,” Sanford said .
“Being truly hip means a spiritual oneness with the indwelling God, with your fellow man and with the whole of the universe. It is seeing God in your fellow man and an emotional awareness that when one hurts his fellow man, he hurts himself.”
The “glass hippies,” Sanford continued, are simply rebelling against the narrow complacency of middle American society. “They all seem to share a dislike for all forms of authority, and a disillusionment with the hyprocrisy of the Establishment,” he said, “but not true spirituality.”
Matric and patric values run in cycles, he said. The Dark Ages, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment were, like the present technological
era, matric periods. The Middle Ages, the Reformation, and the Victorian Era were patric periods.
He expects society to swing back to patricy values between 1980 and 1985, “either because of an outside aggressor or internal anarchy,” he said. This crisis will prompt people to question the desirability of the contemplative existence now in vogue, in favor of a more active one.
By FRED SWEGLES
A Student Life Committee to examine life at USC and suggest improvements in the academic environment will be appointed by the Student Activities Committee next week.
“The committee will examine the role of the student and the total
l-House to feature open cafe
The International Student House will sponsor a sidewalk cafe every Thursday and Friday this month. This week's cafe, open from 8 to 11 p.m., will feature Pakistani food.
The cafe is held at the I-House. 801 W. 28th St., and plans to serve Arab, Turkish, and Japanese food later this month.
Tonight's menu will include some of the traditional Pakistani snacks: pikoras (flour and spinach fried in oil); gajjer halwa (a confection made of carrots); and finri (a dish of milk, rice and sugar).
Pakistani students will do all of the cooking.
Tables will be set up on the I-House lawn, with checked tablecloths, torches and candles for atmosphere. Volunteer hostesses will wait on the tables. Dinner will be accompanied by Pakistani popular music in the Urder language and Panjabi dialect.
Any profits will go towards renovating the I-House. which was repainted during the summer.
“The purpose of the I-House is to bring together people from different corners of the world so they can discuss their mutual problems and work for better international understanding and good will,” Farukh Bashir. I-House president, said.
“We also try to provide activities to give relief from tiresome school-work.”
Events planned include dinners prepared by national clubs, camping trips and a series of seminars.
“A common misunderstanding among students is that the I-House is meant to only serve the foreign students,” Bashir said.
“It is for all students, including Americans. They are welcome anytime. We provide refreshments, games, and informal discussions every evening.”
learning process, and make goals and recommendations for improvement,” Dr. Ed Barker, chairman of the Student Activities Committee, told the Daily Trojan yesterday.
“The university has an obligation to establish a better environment in which to expose the student, and one in which he can accept responsibility,” he said.
Members of the Student Activities Committee held an informal discussion of student life at their meeting yesterday to bring out the concepts that the proposed Student Life Committee will examine. No concrete plans were submitted.
Dr. Barker will appoint the new committee next week. It will consist equally of students, faculty and administration.
ASSC President Marty Foley expressed his concepts to the committee on what the Student Life Committee should do — basically “to provide a legal and philosophical basis for the student at USC.
“It's not as simple as just telling you what you can and can’t do as a student,” Foley said.
“The Student Life Committee, or the Student Activities Committee for that matter, should give direction to student life to drive it toward educational ends.”
He explained that the student, the faculty and the administration are three groups which, despite having separate responsibilities, are dependent upon each other to function.
Foley suggested that the three groups should establish better communication between each other and join forces in an attempt to improve USC’s academic environment, define the rights and responsibilities of the student .and “give the student direction in his educational endeavor.”
EL ROD COUPON EXCHANGE ENDS
Today and tomorrow arp the last days to exchange activity book coupons for 1967 El Rodeos. Dale Hilton, director of student publica-t'ons, has announced.
The annuals, which have been redeemable for activity book coupons for the past month, will continue on cash sale until the supply is gone.
Hilton said no refunds will be given students who fail to exchange the books by Friday.
Third-party spokesman disdains 68 nominees as war candidates
By ANDY MILLER Assistant City Editor
John Haag, Los Angeles coordinator of the Peace and Freedom Party, is convinced that both 1968 Presidential nominees will be war candidates.
His solution to what he considers a grave problem is to offer a third party and an anti-war candidate.
Haag, founder of the party that arose following the 1966 California gubernatorial election, spoke before 50 students at yesterday’s Seminar in Radical Education series sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society.
The party, which was still unofficially organized in 1962, ran candidates in Democratic primaries as opposition to the status quo. The candidates did better than expected, some-
times receiving 40 percent of the votes cast.
“It was an indicative vote, in that a large potential constituency are prepared to vote against the war and take a new look,” Haag said.
But all the candidates did lose, and Haag admitted that prospects don’t look too much beter for 1968.
The Peace and Freedom Party needs 66,000 registered California voters by Dec. 31, 1967, to be able to place a candidate on the California primary ballot.
“Even though we won’t be able to elect people to office in 1968, we can build a powerful organization in the future,” Haag said.
“If we are going to have a new political party different from those that exist, this party should be based on the principle of the participants making the decision. One man —. one vote.”
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For that reason, the Registration Committee or anyone else currently connected with the party will not develop the platform: the hopefully 66,000 registered members will create it.
“An analysis of the 1968 prospects shows that both of the Presidential candidates will be war candidates," Haag said
“There is the likelihood in favor of Johnson being candidate for the Democrats, and the Republican Party will also have a war candidate because the conservative elements are still in control of the party.
“The Republican candidate will be no better or worse than Johnson. We feel it is necessary to form a new political party to give the voter a choice of voting against the war,” Haag said.