McCarthy wins Choice 68 here
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LIX	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1968	72	NO. 59
SATURDAY-SONGFESTIVE NIGHT
Kennedy flops in balloting at USC
Ali-student cast to participate at Bowl
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Months of writing, rewriting, choreographing and costuming will be climaxed tomorrow night in the Hollywood Bowl as Troy pays tribute to its amateur musical talent with the 15th annual Songfest.
USC's version of the Original Amateur Hour will begin at 8 p.m. when host Rod Dedeaux, the Trcjan baseball coach, welcomes the anticipated capacity audience of alumni and students to Songfest ’68.
The musical troupes will be competing for Tommy, the sweepstakes award, which will ba given to the production receiving the most points among the three top winners in each division.
Alfred Newman, composer of “Conquest,” will be the guest conductor Newman has been the recipient ot numerous music awards, including nine Academy Awards. His scoring of “Camelot’' brought him his most recent Oscar.
Newman, who left 20th Century Fox in 1961 to work as a free-lance artist, has scored the movie versions of such Broadway hits as “The King and I,” “South Pacific" and “Carouse!.”
Under the direction of Doug Yarrow and Karen Mazepink, more than 800 students will participate in Songfest 68, which continues to rank as the largest musical production staged entirely by students at any college or university in the nation.
The 15 numbers to be presented tomorrow night have been narrowed from a field of 33. he productions fall into four categories: choral, small group division, novelty division and production divison.
A grand fnaie featuring all the groups and songsters singing the Songs of Troy will wrap up the show. Traveler II will make his first Songfest appearance at that time.
Judges will include John Scott Trotter, who has served as music director fer the Kraft Music Hall and the Charlie Brown television specials; Douglas Morrow, an Academy Award winner; Johnny Mercer, composer of “One for My Baby”; Herman Clebanoff of the Clebanoff Strings and Orchestra; Ken Darby, arranger for "Porgy and Bess”: and alumnus Tommy Walker, a former Trojan drum major.
Daily Trojan photographer Ed Stapleton captures the night beauty of the new Student Activities Center
52-MILLION COMPLEX COMPLETED
Activities Center
will open today
After 15 months of digging, hoping, planning and building, the Student Activities Center will officially open with the dedication ceremonies today at 11 a.m.
President Topping, Dean of Students Paul Bloland and ASSC President Bill Mauk. will conduct the ceremony at the center on University Avenue. Open house will follow immediately.
The purpose of the $2-million complex is to provide a central location for student activities coordination. The architectural firm for the project, which also designed the remodeling of the Student Union and
the Commons, was Ladd and Kelsey, of Pasadena.
The first floor of the center will house the ticket office and information booth for student activities. Also on the first floor are the offices of the assistant director of student activities, three lounges with a gold color scheme, music listening rooms (which will be ready this summer), study desks and an exhibit area.
The second floor, which is completely carpeted, will provide meeting rooms. Three of them can be converted into one large room with seating capacity up to 400. This can be
used for speeches, small concerts and receptions. A small kitchenette adjoins. All the upstairs rooms are equipped to serve as areas for art exhibits. Currently, Ellen Jump’s art exhibit for her master's degree is on display.
The basement will be exclusively used for recreational facilities. There are billiard tables, ping-pong tables and tables for card-playing. Student identification cards will be required to check out equipment, but all facilities will be free the first day.
“We hope to make the information desk for all student activities,”
Paul Moore, director of student activities, said. He added that the meeting rooms are available to all campus groups. Reservations may be made in tlie student activities administrative office on the first floor.
Student positions are open for immediate and summer work. Moore said receptionist, student secretary, recreation room supervisor and night manager positions may be applied for now.
An entity of structure, landscape and interior is the design wish of Ladd and Kelsey, Progressive Architecture, an architecture journal, said’. (Continued on page 4)
Dr. Topping appoints Mike Parfit
By JEFF MATHER
Sen. Eugene McCarthy won Choice ’68 at USC with 30 percent of the 1,960 voters.
Runners-up were former Vice-President Richard Nixon with 345 votes a n d 20 percent, New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller with 300 votes and 17 percent and Sen. Robert Kennedy with 280 votes and 16 percent.
Across the nation, McCarthy won a total of 285,598 student votes, or 28 percent of the 1,072.830 votes cast. Finishing behind him were Kennedy with 213,576 votes or 21 percent, Nixon with 196,870 or 19 percent, and Rockefeller with 115,783, or 11 percent.
Of the total votes cast for McCarthy, 56 percent will be of legal age by the time of election. Kennedy supporters numbered 51 percent of eligible USC voters Rockefeller had 48 percent and Nixon had 46 percent.
Significant in the results were the 120 independents who voted for McCarthy on the first ballot, substantially more than any other candidate received.
Equally interesting was the number of Democrats who voted for Rockefeller on the second ballot. He received 109 votes as compared to Kennedy’s 125 and McCarthy’s 98, int
addition to winning the Republican second ballot, 158 to 131 over Nixon. On the third ballot. Rockefeller gathered more votes than Kennedy and McCarthy from the Democrats, but lost to New York Mayor John Lindsay by six votes on the Republican side.
In comparing USC voters to those in the Far West region, which included California, Hawaii and Nevada, conflicts can be seen. McCarthy won in both places, but Kennedy finished a strong second in the area, followed by Nixon and Rockefeller.
McCarthy won in seven of the 10 regional divisions in the mock election. Nixon took first place honors in the remaining three regions, the South, the mountain region and the Southeast.
Kennedy was second in six of the regions, finishing third in the remaining four. Rockefeller was fourth in almost every region, except where President Johnson took fourth in the Southwest.
An analysis of t h e second and third choice votes showed that of the voters in the nation who chose Kennedy for President, 48 percent picked McCarthy on the second ballot and 19 percent on the third. Of those choosing McCarthy, 37 percent voted for Kennedy on the second ballot and 19 percent on the third.
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fall semester Daily Trojan editor
Mike Parfit, a junior in journalism, has been appointed editor of the Daily Trojan for the fall semester. Dr. Topping announced yesterday.
Parfit. a transfer student from Santa Barbara City College, previously served as co-night editor and city editor. In his sophomore year he was
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the editor of Santa Barbara City College’s weekly paper, The Channels.
“I am not planning any radical changes,” Par-fit said. “There will still be a society page. But I hope to continue the development of the Daily Trojan into a responsible paper reflecting the entire university.”
One way in which he hopes to accomplish this is by increasing the paper’s contact with Trojan alumni. He also hopes to establish a telephone ‘action line’ which readers could use to publicize gripes or have questions about the university answered.
Other members of the staff for the fall semester will be:
City editor: Bill Dicke, who has served as
assistant city editor, assistant editorial director, feature editor and night editor.
Editorial director: Andy Miller, who has served as assistant city editor and SoCal editor.
Night editor: Mark Vasche, a junior college
transfer who has served as assistant city editor.
SoCal editor: Eric Cohen, who has served as assistant feature editor, assistant editorial director and editorial director.
Society editor: Donna DeDiemar, who has served as assistant city editor.
Sports editor: Fred Swegles, who is currently serving in the position and has served as assistant sports editor.
The position of head photographer is open.
“We are hoping to get a lot of volunteers for the position,” Parfit said. “The salary is immense.”
The assistants to the editors of the Daily Trojan will be named after the paper resumes publication in the fall, he added.
“I want to make it clear that we are not running a closed operation up here,” he said. “Anyone who can use a typewriter and can express .himself accurately is welcome. Anyone who can do neither, but is capable of thinking accurately will also be of some use.”
Mike Parfit, fall editor of the Daily Troian I	I