University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1967
NO. 4
Flub-o-meter
To the surprise of all, the flub-o-meter tally for today shows only 12 Flub Stubs distributed, the same number as yesterday.
However, a Daily Trojan repor-ter-photographer team may have discovered a reason why the total is at such an unexpected low.
“When we asked to take a picture of a Flub Stub.” the reporter reported, “they couldn't find any. “We finally got one. but it was
after five o'clock, and station seven (the coffee and donuts staiion) was
closed.
“I almost asked for another Flub Stub for being inconvenienced.”
Jim Witzel (above) is the proud owner of one of the dirty dozen.
Two-and-a-half more days of drop-and-add are left. If the Registrar's Office plays it fair-and-square, the flub-o-meter may yet soar.
FROM SPOOF TO PROF:
Actor Jerry Lewis joins cinema graduate dept.
By BOB INGR AM
Corrtedian Jerry Lewis has been named a professor of cinema at USC, Dr. Bernard Kantor, chairman of the Department of Cinema, announced yesterday.
Lewis held his first weekly session last Monday night from 7 to 11 p.m. with a select group of 17 cinema graduate students.
The course. Cinema 501A. focuses on directing and producing, which Lewis himself has done for many pictures.
“If you had asked me to teach acting.” he told Dr. Kantor, “I wouldn't have done it."
Kantor replied. “Acting isn't our business in cinema. We write, produce.
30 men still homeless in dorm crisis
Only 30 men students are still left stranded because of a housing shortage, and the list is being reduced daily. Mrs. Phyllis Fetter, housing supervisor, has reported.
The shortage developed when 100 extra men applied for housing, but the list is being reduced daily by cancellations.
“Mrs. Eby (head resident of Towti and Gown) was certainly glad Tim Foutz used the wrord ‘sneaked,’ when he stayed in his friend's room in a sleeping bag." Mrs. Fetter said.
Although stringent regulations do not apply to three men staying in a dormitory room, the Housing Office does want to be notified in case of emergency, and usually frowns on overcrowding rooms.
Foutz is still not placed in a dormitory room. But sleeping quarters are only half of his problem. Since he has not been placed in a dorm, he and students in the same situation also cannot eat in the dormitory cafeteria.
Mrs. Fetter said she plans to have all the men placed by next week, and expects several vacancies by the middle of the semester.
She also said that the problem has been gradually worsening for the last two or three years, but is not yet at the “crisis” stage.
In the middle of the semester when all students are placed, Mrs. Fetter plans to take a poll to determine if a housing problem does exist.
Only when there still is a waiting list at the time of a mid-semester study, will consideration be given to building new dormitories.
Rules on distribution hinder free speech—SDS president
and direct. Acting is for the Drama Division.”
Lewis has given occasional lectures in the Department of Cinema during the past four years, but has never taught full-semester classes.
Last spring. Dr. Kantor, who is also a personal friend of Lewis, asked him if he would teach the course. Lewis enthusiastically accepted.
“I get a kind of intellectual recharging, as teaching is very stimulating,” said Lewis.
Lewis’ USC appointment as a full professor on an adjunct or part-time basis readily got the approval of a faculty committee — Dr. Raymond Kendal, the dean of the School of Performing Arts, and Dr. Milton Kloetzel. then interim USC Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Lewis presented the general outline of a new- technique for the cinema
course to Dr. Kantor.
This technique utilizes more technical equipment. He uses video tape machines and televison monitors to get an objective view of a specific scene, and how it can be improved.
Lewis does not conduct a production course, but he keeps a TV camera on the set for demonstration uses.
“Lewis is really very serious. The public image of Lewis is a clown and comedian. He is like a dichotomy. Despite the stereotype image, Lewis believes his real self is a serious producer,” Dr. Kantor said.
Besides acting, Lewis has produced and directed several of his own films.
“The Big Mouth," released this summer, is one of Lewis' own productions — he wrote, produced, directed and starred in it.
Richard Schickel of Life Magazine commented on Lewis’ '66 film. “Three on a Couch":
“As both director and star, he demonstrates admirable economy, a sense of precisely where the laughs are and a fine feel for comic rhythm —when to relax the pace, and when to pour it on,” he said.
Last summer, Lewis went to England to film “Don’t Raise the Bridge. Lower the River" for Columbia Pictures.
“The ability to have Jerry Lewis with us for a full academic year, sharing his talent with even 15 of our students, is one of those things academic people usually are able only to dream about,” Dr. Kantor declared. “To have this dream of ours come true is like h a v i n g a ‘hit’ on your hands.”
Dr. Kantor and the selected cinema students are enthralled with Lewis. “He is an extremely gifted character, he knows his craft, and he i« absolutely brilliant,” Baatoj! said,
By STAN METZLER Editorial Director
“The controversy being generated around John Wardlow has yet to focus on the most significant issue involved, wiiich is the right of free speech,” SDS President David Lang told the Daily Trojan yesterday.
His statement came minutes after Dean of Student Paul Bloland officially notified him of a “violation of the university’s established procedures on the distribution of literature.” (see insert)
The violation was the distribution by Lang and other SDS members of a statement by AMS President John Wardlow^, entitled by Lang “The USC Student as a Nigger.”
“The distribution.” Bloland noted, “w'as made without proper authorization and without utilizing a table.”
But the statement, in which Lang had slightly altered Wardlow’s wording and form, was distributed in accordance with SDS policy.
Adopted during the summer, the SDS policy says the organization will no longer seek to have its literature approved for distribution.
After his meeting with Dean Bloland, Lang said he w’ould bring up that policy for review at the organization's regular meeting tomorrow noon in the Ecumenical Center.
Bloland said that when SDS was officially organized in 1965, he had written them that “recognition assumes acceptance by the members and advisers of university policies and regulations governing student organizations and of responsibility for the conduct of members in all group-sponsored activities and functions.”
“I am therefore asking that SDS comply with the appropriate procedures and regulations in the future conduct of its activities,” he said.
Lang said SDS is seeking literature rules “that will benefit everybody. They will generally enhance and
facilitate student communication on the USC campus.
“The rules on literature distribution were made by the administration,” he said.
“These rules, as they presently exist, are anti-Democratic and detrimental to the best interest of USC, in that they curtail the spread of ideas in a drastic fashion. Students must make these rules.”
Dean Bloland agreed with Lang that the guidelines for distribution of literature are procedural, and suggested Lang, the ASSC, or any other group wanting to change them work through the proper procedural channels by requesting a review of the rules.
The rules for campus distribution of literature are outlined on page 21 of the Student Handbook:
“Only recognized student organizations may distribute material related to their program. For the purpose of distributing published materials or other information, tableland chairs are available upon request at the Student Activities — YWCA Building. Material is distributed only from organizational tables. Space is available in the Student Union area for organizations. AU material must carry the name of the student organization. One copy of materials should be left with the Student Activities Office and one set will be stamped by that office for the organization’s use at the table.”'
DAVID LANG HOLDS CONTROVERSIAL JOHN WARDLOW LETTER SDS President says freedom of speech being hindered.
Topping keynotes Watts medical center
“They can be changed without an act by the state legislature,” he said, “but w^e should remember that they are a composite of ideas from the Student Activities Committee, ASSC and individual departments that have been developed through the years.”
Any change, he said would have to be preceded by a review of present policies and the establishment of ways in which the changes, if desired, could be enacted.
The meeting with Lang was a first step toward such a review, he said.
Computerized dummy wins citation for progressiveness
Sim One, a computer-programmed mannikin developed by the USC School of Medicine to aid students in the administration of anesthesia has been honored as "one of the most significant new technical products of the year.”
The mannikin was honored at the fifth annual awards banquet of the Industrial Research Inc. Tuesday night in New York City.
With the aid of a $272,130 grant from the Cooperative Research Project of the U.S. Office of Education, the electronically driven machine was built by USC medical researchers working with engineers of Aerojet-
General Corporation’s Von Karman Center and the Sierra Engineering Co.
Dr. J. S. Denson, who directed the mannikin project with Dr. Stephen Abrahamson, explained, “We use Sim One in the training of our resident anesthesiologists in endotracheal intubation, a procedure which involves passing a semi-rigid tube into the windpipe to administer the anesthesia gases directly to the lungs.”
Sim One simulates human skin texture, mouth organs, heart and pulse beats, blood pressure, breathing, response to drug stimuli, and eye movements.
“Everywhere in the United States it is the serious and traditional obligation of the urban university to be deeply involved in the life of its community,” President Norman Topping told an audience of Watts’ residents at the dedication of the new South-Central multi-purpose Health Service Center Saturday.
Noting that the health of the nation largely depends upon the health and strength of its urban communities. Topping said, “I would hope that the Health Services Center here in Watts will not remain unique. It can and should be a splendid example for other urban areas throughout the nation.”
Built by the School of Medicine with federal funds from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the medical center will be staffed by 33 fulltime physicians. 12 full-time dentists, and 165 support personnel. The center will be able to handle 500 patients on a 24-hour schedule. Dr. Roger O. Ege-berg, dean of the Medical School, directed the medical center program.
Besides Dr. Topping, Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, spoke at the ceremony.
The $2.4-million complex, which is located on East 103rd Street in the heart of the 1965 riot area, is the only medical care facility located in the Watts-Willowbrook area. Coun-
ty General, the nearest hospital, is 11 miles aw'ay.
Staffed mostly by Watts physicians and dentists, the center will provide 24-hour dental, pharmaceutical, and general medical care to South-Central Los Angeles’ 30,000 residents.
Profs' book describes Viet Cong tactics
A new analysis ol Viet Cong terrorist tactics and Communist strategy in Southeast Asia is presented in a new book co-authored by two USC professors.
“Communism in Vietnam: A Documentary Study of Theory, Strategy and Operational Practice,” was written by Dr. Rodger Swearingen and Cmdr. Hammond M. Rolph.
The book presents an analysis of the strategies, policies, and techniques of the Communist protagonist parties currently struggling in Hanoi, China, and the Soviet Union.
Dr. Swearingen is director of the Research Institute of Communist Strategy and Propaganda in the School of International Relations. Cmdr. Rolph is a research associate and head of the Southeast Asia Project at the institute. Both authors have visited Southeast Asia four times in the last three years.
STRAIGHT FROM THE PENTAGON
Capt. Brown: the new ROTC head
CAPT. BROWN Assumes Command of Naval ROTC
By ROGER SMITH
To some, the Navy may mean big ships with bigger guns, romantic stories and quotes from John Paul Jones.
To Capt. Garrison Browm, USN, the Navy is a way of life.
Capt. Brown, 46, now in his 30th year with the U.S. Navy, assumed command of the USC Naval ROTC Monday. Just off a three year tour of duty with the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, his vocabulary is still splattered with Pentagon jargon.
“As director of the communications plans and policies division, I was chiefly involved with the formulation and promulgation of Naval communications plans for mid-range (5-10 years) and long range (10-20 years) periods. We had to analyze the Navy’s
capabilities and needs and then do some crystal ball gazing,” he said.
Capt. Brown was also acting deputy director of naval communications, where he represented the Navy on several items that called for interservice discussion, including the formation of a super agency.
“The Joint Chiefs of Staff had a joint action item that called for the solidification of all armed forces communications into a sort of super agency called the Defense Communications Agency. The agency was formed in 1960 after the three services agreed on it.’'
Capt. Brown also worked on the Washington end of the construction of a large communications facility at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam, one of 32 such stations around the world. He eludes other questions on the Vietnam conflict however, with careful military diplomacy.
“Our department worked in Viet-
nam only in the communications area. We helped to revamp ships transfering from the Atlantic area to the U.S. 7th Fleet. Communications requirements in Vietnam are much higher than elsewhere.
“As far as actual policy goes, my personal opinion is that the National Commander Authorities are formulating the directives. The National Command Authorities is a term that Pentagon employees use to denote the President and his advisers, which could certainly include the secretaries of defense and state.”
When asked if he thought the military should have more of a say in running the war, Capt. Browm leaned back for a moment, then said, “our objectives in Vietnam are not completely military. Someone who appreciates the entire picture is needed to run things properly — certainly this is the role of the President.”
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