Youth Program Features O.J., Films
VOL. XIX	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1968	_ _ NO. 6
University of Southern California
By ANN SALISBURY Editor
Simply by showing up on Cromwell Field, some of USC’s little neighborhood friends may have the chance to have 0. J. Simpson teach them how to play football.
This opportunity is part of a triple program of enrichment, the USC Neighborhood Summer Youth Program, being offered the community immediately surrounding USC.
The athletic program officially titled USC Sports Club, is designed for boys aged 12 to 15. It is under the direction of Jim Dennis, a student seeking his Ph.D. in Physical Education.
The Sports Club will be attended by almost every major-name athlete this summer, and in addition participants in the club will receive USC T-shirts.
Dennis has had previous experience directing two boys campus and two swimming clubs.
The Sports Club, which meets Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 4 p.m., began yesterday and will continue until August 22.
During the program. Dr. John Gerletti, professor of public administration, will do a study on its effectiveness. The program also has the
support of the Los Angeles City School’s Isaac McClelland, the assistant superintendant in the area (Area D).
Another aspect of the Neighborhood Youth Program is the film festival. The series will offer presentations of full-length feature films on Friday afternoons from 2 to 4 p.m. The film choice will be based on the interest generated and approximately 500 children will attend each production free of charge.
Some of the films which may be shown will be “The King and I,” “Grand Canyon,” “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” “The Great Imposter,” and perhaps some of the films in the Bell Telephone Hour series, such as “Our Mr. Sun.”
The films have been made available through the courtesy of the Motion Picture and Television Producers Association, which submitted a lengthy list of major films reduced to the 16-millimeter size.
The third part of the program is known as the Mini-College. This educational activity, which will also be carried over to the fall, began its current session July 2, and will continue for eight more weeks.
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Photo by Robert Parker
LENNOX MILLER SHOWS THE WAY
Jamaican speedster stresses track skills
Political Author To Talk
Dr. Harvey Wheeler, co-author of the bestselling novel, “Fail Safe,” will be on campus tomorrow to speak at a class in campaign communication.
Dr. Wheeler’s talk, titled “Revolution in Politics: The New Politics,” will be given at 1:15 in 156 Von KleinSmid Center and is open to the public.
Harvard Ph.D.
He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Indiana University, and his Ph.D. from Harvard. After serving in military government in the European Theatre during World War II, Dr. Wheeler taught political science at Harvard and John Hopkins University.
Along with the late Eugene Burdict, Dr. Wheeler penned “Fail Safe,” which led the national best seller lists for months. He has also written numerous monographs on political science and theory, which has appeared in academic and polemical journals.
Democratic Center
Dr. Wheeler is presently at the Center for Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara as a Fel-low-in-Residence. The Center is a haven for ultra-liberal Democrats.
Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia, was Wheeler’s last stop before coming to the Center in 1960.
The Symposium in Campaign Communication, to which Dr. Wheeler will speak, is taught by Dr. Gerald Rigby, Dr. James McBath, and Dr. Walt Fisher.
College Bowl Scholar Picked
Teens Take Talk Tournament
By FRANCES MUELLER
Thirty-six select high school students are taking advantage of an unusual opportunity on campus this summer. The Speech Department is conducting a forensics institute in which the students are enrolled.
The Western Forensic Institute first held sessions in 1957 and since that time has gained a high reputation.
The institute, which began on June 23, lasts four weeks. The first three weeks the students attend morning and afternoon classroom sessions and intensively study five basic speaking events that comprise a speech tournament. They also study the pro and con issues of next year’s debate resolution.
The final week of the institute is spent in a tournament where each student participates in every event. Normally a participant enters only two or three events in a tournament.
Debate is one of the events in a speech tournament. One topic is chosen for the entire year and students may do research in preparation for debating both sides of the issue. The topic to be resolved this year is, “That the United States should establish a system of compulsory service for all citizens.”
Another event is oral interpretation of literature. In this event students select a piece of literature and write a short introduction for it. They then read the piece aloud and are judged on how well they convey the meaning the author intended.
In the third event, original oratory, students prepare a ten-minute persuasive speech on a social problem. They choose their own topic.
The fourth event is extemporaneous speaking. Here students are given a choice of three topics on current events. They are then given 30 minutes in which to prepare a 5-7 minute speech.
SHIRLEY ANN SHOLES (CENTER) TOURS CAMPUS The College Bowl team shows her around.
Miss Shirley Ann Sholes, a 17-year-old Negro who has been an outstanding student at J. C. Fremont High School in Los Angeles, will enter USC in September as the first College Bowl Scholar.
This College Bowl Scholarship and others to follow on subsequent years have been made possible by the winnings of the student team in the General Electric College Bowl competition, which brought $19,500 in scholarship funds to the University. USC trustees added personal contributions totalling $24,500 to build the fund to $44,000.
Annual income from the fund will provide the scholarship awards. On the recommendation of members of the College Bowl team, the scholarships will be reserved for bright young people from minority groups, who could not otherwise attend USC.
Miss Sholes will enroll in the fall with the intention of earning her bachelor’s degree a J a teaching credential. She hopes to
become a language teacher in either Spanish or French.
In her official application for admission to USC, Miss Sholes stated: “I have long desired .o become a teacher, knowing the need for them is so great. I know that in this field I will find an opportunity to be of service to my race, my community and my country.”
Miss Sholes already has served as a teacher’s aide and is a member of the Future Teachers of America.
At her school she has been president of Student Control, a member of the Youth Activity Council and the editor of a literary magazine.
The GE College Bowl team, which retired victorious after five consecutive wins, is composed of Gary B. Cohen, Barclay Edmundson, Marcia Hastie and Richard Hilton, the team’s captain. Their coach was Dr. James McBath, chairman of USC’s Department of Speech.