University of Southern California
SUMMER # TROJAN
Vol. XXVII	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA FRIDAY. JULY 7, 1967	NO. 5
'U.S.A. REVUE WANTS YOU'
Musical drama will play in Stop Gap
Same Culture: Less Space
The amount of space gets tighter each week, so the description of campus cultural events gets smaller, too. Major events through Monday, except those noted elsewhere in the paper, include:
“U.S.A.: A DRAMATIC REVUE" — A Paul Shyre and
John Dos Passos creation in Stop Gap Theatre tonight and Saturday at 8:30. $1.50 donation.
“THE CRETAN WOMEN”
—	Last presentation of the Festival Theater before leaving for Europe. Sunday (Continued on Page 4)
Scholars Meet Here For Comp Lit Study
The first annual Conference on Comparative Lite r a t u r e moves into its final day this morning as nearly 100 California scholars gather for a series of talks on “The Medieval Romance” and “German Drama of the Twentieth Century.”
Dr. Paul Hadley, dean of the Summer Session, will open today’s morning session at 10 a.m. in Hancock Auditorium. The morning panel on “Medieval Romance” will be chaired by Dr. Norma Goodrich, associate professor of French and comparative literature.
Featured on the panel, which is free and open to the public, will be Dr. William Cozart. Cal Tech, analyzing “Chaucer's ‘The Knight's Tale:’ A Philosophical Reappraisal of a Medieval Romance;” Dr. A. Robert Bell, Long Beach State, discussing “Folklore in ‘La Celestina.”
Dr. Joseph Duggan, UC Berkeley, talking on "Virgilian Inspiration in the ‘Roman d'Eneas’ and in the ‘Chanson de Roland;’” and Dean Robert Kinsman, UCLA, speaking on “Skelton Mocks the Muse: References to Romance in his Poetry.”
The afternoon session, on “German Drama in the Twentieth Century,” will be chaired by Dr. John Spalek, associate professor of German.
Guest speakers, each of whom will discuss some aspect of the works of German playwright Bertolt Brecht, are Dr. Carl Mueller. UCLA, speaking on “Brecht and the Marxist Concept of Self-Alienation.”
Dr. Oscar Mandel, Cal Tech. discussing “Brecht's Unheroes and Heroines;” Dr. Basil Bu-sacca, Occidental, describing
Dr. LaMar Empey, director of the Youth Studies Center, has been appointed chairman of the Department of Sociology in the latest of a series of administrative and structural changes in the social sciences.
He succeeds Dr. Clarence Schrag. who has returned to the University of Washington.
Dr. Empey directed the Youth Studies Center from 1964 through this spring, when it was linked with the School of Public Administration, one of three units of the new Von KleinSmid Center for Public and International Affairs.
Dr. Alexander McEachern was named’ director of Youth Studies while the dean and directors of the von KleinSmid
“Brecht and the Destruction of the Theatre;” and Dr. Henry Goodman, UCLA, talking on “Brecht and the Traditional Values.”
The conference, sponsored by the university, was initiated to delve into significant and related aspects of European fiction, drama, poetry and criticism from Medieval times to the present.
Center are yet to be announced.
At the Youth Studies Center Dr. Empey has also conducted his own research on the effects of community-based corrective measures for delinquent boys.
He has served as consultant to the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice and a member of the Special Youth Committee of the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Prior to joining the USC faculty in 1963, Dr. Empey was a visiting professor in the UC Berkeley School of Criminology and at Brigham Young University.
LaMar Empey to Chair Sociology Department
CRISIS IN PERSPECTIVE
Super Powers, Talks Key Mid East Solutions
By ANN SALISBURY
(This is the last of three articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict. For this story five professors were interviewed regarding solutions to the crisis.	—The Editor).
“Even if the small countries do fight, the real solutions to the crisis in the Middle East are effected by the super powers.’
This is the view of Dr. A. K. Basu, assistant professor of political science.
Dr. Basu believes that super powers would do very well as responsible nations to concentrate their foreign aid in economic terms of food or clothing.
“This aid should be channeled throuh the United Nations, he believes.
“For instance if Congress decided to allocate $20 billion to its foreign aid policy, instead of giving the donation directly to a country, the money should be given to the United Nations, and they would decide where the money is needed and what should be done with it.
“Raw physical and psychological motivation directed to annihilate others will not do any good. In an arms race where large percentages of the budget are being directed to buying arms rather than feeding the people, the nation’s development is hindered.”
“I doubt whether the super powers can bring peace, but they can contribute to peace by applying pressures to both sides.” Dr. Fred Krinsky, chairman of the Department of Political Science, said.
Dr. Krinsky doubted that any solution could work that did not include negotiations between the nations involved.
“A transitory step might be the appointment of a negotiation team from the United Nations to help bring this about, but such negotiations would have to involve equitable resolving of the refugee problem, access to the Gulf of Aquaba, Suez Canal rights and disposition of the conquered land.” he said.
“Israel is not interested in forcing such negotiations, she’s almost desperately anxious to bring about conditions wh^re Arabs will voluntarily recognize her. Forced negotiations (if imaginable) would be meaningless. Israel would prefer Arab states to recognize her on their own,” he said.
He stressed that Israel is trying to force the “recognition of the reality of her existence.”
“If the Arabs and Israelis are involved in continuing wars, the fact that the Arabs have 50 times as many inhabitants as Israel could conceivably bring about an ultimate Arab victory,” he said.
Dr. Otto Odde Schnepp, a chemistry professor who lived in Israel 15 years, believes that history has shown the Arab defense to get worse with time rather than better, and the Arabs will never be able to beat the Israelis because they do not have the expert technology that is required.
“Before there can be peace, the Arabs must recognize Israel as a state, and this can be done by Israel’s holding on to the land she gained until the Arabs do recognize her,” he said.
.“The Egyptians now say they won’t open the Suez Canal until Israel retreats. The threat is directed to Western European countries (England and France) who are suffering because they cannot use the canal.
“The Egyptians want to pressure those countries and the United States into pressuring Israel to give back the land. Egypt is losing revenue by closing the canal, however, and they are biting their nose to spite their face because of this.
“The Egyptians cannot profitably hold out. They have no other markets.”
Dr. E. Bryant Phillips, professor of economics, said that France is in a recession, but this is not yet directly the result of closing the canal.
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