Saturday highlight: Helen of Troy coronation
LESLIE BARNETT
SUE HIMSTREET
CYNTHIA WATSON
With the coronation of Helen of Troy facing them this Saturday night at the International Hotel, the five finalist—Leslie Barnett, Sue Himstreet. Penny Petersen. Cynthia Watson and Susan Wright—are anticipating the event with a certain amount of nervousness.
Leslie Barnett, also a junior in social science, said she wanted to be Helen of Troy because “it’s a great honor. I love my school and want to be more of a part of it. It’s a great opportunity to become more involved with USC and the people around me.” She belongs to Pi Beta Phi sorority and has been active in the Tutorial Project for the last two years. She is a Sigma Chi little sister and was selected as their 1968 Derby Day Sweetheart. She is on the Dean’s List for the spring semester.
Sue Himstreet. an accounting senior, said that she was running for Helen of Troy “so I can have the opportunity to let people know how great USC is.” She
PENNY PEDERSEN
belongs to Pi Beta Phi sorority and is serving as its pledge trainer. She also belongs to Beta Alpha Psi, the honorary accounting fraternity. Last year she won an award from the American Society of Women Accountants for being the outstanding junior woman in accounting. She was on the School of Business Council last year and has been on the Dean’s List for several semesters. She is a big sister of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
Penny Pedersen, a junior social science major said that she is running for Helen of Troy “because I’ve just done little things and I’d like the opportunity to do something big.” She belongs to Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and is a little sister to Sigma Chi Fraternity. Last year she belonged to Sword and Shield, was princess for Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
Cynthia Watson, a senior in sociology, candidly admitted that she is running for Helen of Troy because “I saw several applications in the Student Activities Center for several committees and I just picked up one for Helen of Troy.
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Although I didn’t think that I’d get this far. I’m really happy about it.” She is a member of the Entertainment Committee and was a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi sweetheart court. During the election, she was co-chairman of Students for Humphrey on campus.
Susan Wright, a senior in mathematics, said that she was running for Helen of Troy because “for a girl, running for Helen of Troy is the most you can do to represent your school and meet the people around you.” She is rush chairman of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, a song leader. Sigma Alpha Epsilon little sister, and secretary for the Greek Week Committee. She is on the Dean’s List for the spring semester.
It was mistakenly reported in the Daily Trojan yesterday that tickets for the coronation ball, “Paris’ Mistake”, would be $4.50 per person. Tickets are $2.50. They are on sale at the Bovard box office and at tables in front of Tommy Trojan.
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13,1968, VOL. LX, NO. 38
Parents must redefine goals, Dr. Robb says
By TIM TAYLOR
The elder generation must redefine its goals in order to keep up with today’s young people, Dr. J. Wesley Robb, professor of religion, told a group of parents and students last night.
“I am convinced we must be innovative, we must help our students to find worthy objects of commitment, we must help them find new and creative rhedia of self-expression, we must work with our students as colleagues, and we must take them seriously,” he said.
Dr. Robb’s lecture wras the first of four parent-student discussions entitled “The New Student: His Values, Politics, Loves, and Highs.” The series is a part of the Experimental College.
Dr. Robb’s topic was “Profile of the College Student—1968.” He
Ex-student chains self as protest
WESTWOOD (CNS)-A 21-year-old former UCLA student unchained himself from the campus administration building today after spending almost four hours there in a draft protest.
Arthur C. Zack. who refused induction into the armed services, told passersby he was standing in chains as a symbol of those “chained to the draft.”
He was reclassified 1-A after dropping out of school last spring.
Zack appeared at the north side of the brick building about 9:30 a.m. and departed about 1:30 p.m. He attached himself to a column using two padlocks with a large chain.
After releasing himself, Zack proceded to the office of special services in the administration building to turn in his draft card and induction papers.
During his stay outside the brick structure, he passed out leaflets to passersby, explaining his protest.
In the leaflet, which was an open letter to “Dear Brothers and Sisters.” Zack said. “I stand chained to this building as a symbol of my three years as a UCLA student, during which the office of special services chained me to the draft.”
(The office of special services is responsible for reporting the status of all male students, their grade standing and deferments received.)
Zack added that he expected to be arrested and stand trial for draft evasion, but “despite this I will not go”
He said he refused induction “Not out of desire to flout the law, rather. . . because I value law too much to see it used to destroy the very freedoms it was designed to protect.”
The Los Angeles resident noted he did not resist induction out of “some martyr complex, rather I refuse because my own life is so important that I cannot allow it to be used even passively to continue a system of conscription, war and death.”
Although a member of The Residence, an anti-draft organization. Zack said he was performing the act on his own and urged people to support Resistance Day in Meyerhoff Park on the UCLA campus Friday.
commented on the prevailing mood of college students, and how this mood manifests itself in student actions and opinions.
He said that the students tend to go along with the existentialist points of view, saying that existentialism “has caught the imagination of youth to a greater degree than we realize.”
One facet of the existential philosophy that Dr. Robb discussed was “the fundamental paradox of human existence.” Students accept this, he said, but parents sometimes have difficulty due to their traditional approach.
“Our very life stance,” he said, “is irrational at its core and thus we must ... not try to rationalize our way out of it by pious and irrelevant aspirations and hopes which the traditional approaches to these problems have repeatedly stressed.”
HOPE SHOW HEAD ON RADIO TOMORROW
Debbie Bray, campus publicity coordinator for the Bob ''USC'' Hope Show, Nov. 25 at the LA Sports Arena, is pretty excited these days. But tomorrow morning between 7 and 8 her enthusiasm will become airborne when she is Major Bruce Payne's guest on the KGIL Skywatch Plane.
Debbie, a junior, will be in telephone contact with Dick "Sweet Dick" Whittington during his morning show on KGIL 1260. Throughout the program Debbie and Whittington will discuss the upcoming show and the pre-show rally which "Sweet Dick" will emcee.
Appearing with Bob Hope will be Glen Campoell, Barbara McNair, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, Juliet Prowse, Les Brown and his band of Renown and the football squad. Proceeds from the show will go to the Scholarship Fund. Tickets are still available at $25, $7.50, $5, and $3 and may be purchased at Bovard Auditorium or the Sports Arena box office.
Student rights gets support of council
ADDITION TO DEAN’S LIST
Susan Rouse, freshman, accumulated a 4.0 grade average in the spring semester. Her name was inadvertdently omitted in the Dean's List of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences published in Monday's Daily Trojan.
Orchestra to give free avant garde concert at noon
The red “new music” of the college generation is here.
It will be performed today at noon in Bovard by the USC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ingoll Dahl.
Today’s free concert is the orchestra’s first music-at-noon performance. Featured in the 60-minute program is a 1964 composition, “Analogies from Rothko,” by USC graduate Harold Budd.
“This is real new music—music that goes into the latest explorations of the way-out sound world,” Dahl said in a recent interview. “It expresses itself to ‘now’ people.”
Budd’s composition is avant garde. It is the first avant garde music that the orchestra has performed, and it is the first chance for many students to hear what an avant garde composition sounds like.
Other pieces on the noon program are “Brandenburg Concerto No. 1” by Bach and “Leonore Overature No. 2” by Beethoven.
The Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities, and pass-fail physical education classes were unanimously endorsed by the ASSC Executive Council yesterday.
The statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities will be sent to President Topping and the Board of Trustees, asking for a written reaction within two weeks.
The pass-fail proposal recommends “that all physical education classes be placed on a pass-fail basis, with the following provisions:
“1. Physical education majors would be excluded from this program.
“2. A minimum pass grade would be equivalent to the minimum passing letter grade (C) now in effect at USC.
“3. This program would apply to physical education courses 101 through 170 inclusive, as per the 1968 USC general catalog of classes.
“4. Fail grades in physical education would not
be computed in a student’s academic class average.”
The pass-fail proposal, introduced by Tom Levyn, sophomore class representative, will be sent to the Curriculum Committee.
An ad hoc committee to outline council procedures was also passed unanimously. It will be led by Ron McDuffie, junior class representative.
The council put its support behind a Christmas project, 1100 Santa Clauses, that will provide Christmas gifts to needy children from elementary schools near the campus.
At the end of the meeting. Bill Mauk, ASSC president, informed the council that he felt students were confused into believing that any member of the council stood for the body.
He asked for the help of council members in clarifying that the council does act as a group, and not as individuals.
Mauk also encouraged individual members of the council to consider the issues that they ran on.
QUACKERY TALK SET FOR TODAY
Dr. Majorie Bauer, director of dermatology at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, will speak on "Cosmetic Quackery" today at 12:30 p.m. in the Faculty Center.
The assistant professor of. medicine will address faculty members only.
Joan Baez: "There is a better way
“The way the Administration is handling the Vietnam war, they think that if you do ‘A’ long enough you’ll get ‘B,’ and it just won’t work,” said Joan Baez, folksinger and war protester, in a press conference yesterday at the Forum.
Miss Baez will appear in a concert at the Forum Friday night.
As far as the outcome of the election goes, she said it made little difference who won—Nixon, Humphrey, Wallace or even McCarthy—that none of the candidates could alter the trend of the world. She considered the candidates to be like surfers; they can only ride waves, not push them.
Asked about what she thought of Black
Panthers, Miss Baez recalled an experience recently when a Black Panther spoke at a high school where she appeared. “He walked up the aisle as his two armed guards stood at the back door,” she said. “He frightened the students with his mafia-like show of power and he was obscene.
“I could sense that the kids felt responsible for the plight of the black man and were starting to buy this idea about black being beautiful. Everyone is oppressed and the people are just patronizing the Black Panthers by letting them carry their guns.
“There is a better way to Fight than that-those guns are just going to mean their destruction,” she said.
She said that she did not agree at all with the tactics of the Black Panthers and Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther information officer. Although she has never met Cleaver, she said that they would probably get along as long as they didn’t speak seriously.
“If there is to be a revolution, a real change, the first thing that must happen is for individuals to realize that they don’t have the right to take anyone’s life.” Miss Baez said.
“I’m not looking for a utopia; there will always be barroom brawls,” she continued. “But this one-to-one confrontation is a hell of a lot different than going around blowing people up.”
$4 million will further electrical engineering work
The Department of Electrical Engineering announced it had received more than $4 million in grants to help support a five-year program of research and graduate training.
The grants, which were given by the National Institutes of Health, were the largest in the history of the school.
Dr. Zomrab A. Kaprielian, director of the Graduate Center for Engineering Sciences, said the research and training will be connected with the application of mathematics, engineering, and computer techniques to the problems of medicine and biology.
One of the aspects of this broad research program will be in bio-medical engineering and under the direction of Dr. F.S. Grodins, professor of electrical engineering and physiology.
The program will be concerned with the experimental and theoretical analysis of biological control and communication.
Special laboratories and computer facilities will be equipped to study the body mechanisms controlling breath, blood pressure and kidney function, and their relation to information and signal processing by the brain.
Dr. Grodins will be joined by a group of scientists from the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Physiology and by specialists from several affiliated hospitals.
Direct sponsorship of the programs comes from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.
LAW PRESIDENT INTERVIEWED
Gov't, for, by people called fallacy
By FRANCES MUELLER
“The government of the people, by the people and for the people is a fallacy,’’Joseph Porter III, president of the first-year law class, said yesterday in an interview.
“Today American government is going more toward totalitarianism,” Porter said, tying this in with a reminder of how many people are against the war in Vietnam, and the fact that those in power still continue the war.
“People elect officials, but do these officials really help the people? I am interested in the political restructuring of government.” Porter added.
He said that he wants to make his work as a lawyer affect the black community.
“I want to be on top with the power and not on the bottom,” he said. He feels he can achieve this goal by being a lawyer.
A member of the National Urban Committee of the National Bar Association and the Black Student Union, Porter feels the BSU and other
politically involved youth organizations are helping to give minorities more influence.
“The Black Student Union is making problems so aware to those in power that they have to do things about them.” Porter said. The BSU is trying to get more students, including grad students and professional students, as members, he added.
“The Black Student Union is trying to unite college students to the community from which they came and have them serve the community,” said Porter.
The National Urban Committee of the National Bar Association is now setting up an educational program to get members of the community to use the small claims court. Porter’s membership in the BSU and on the National Urban Committee are his present means of furthering the black community’s goals.
“To strive, to seek, to try and not to yield—this is the way all the movements should go in order to make America do what it has promised in its Constitution,” commented Porter.
Porter ran for president “just because I wanted to represent my class. I want to do it vocally and actively and not passively.” He hopes to keep the interest of his class high.
Porter says that so far law school has been most enjoyable for him, everyone has been very congenial, and he is now able to enjoy law school more because for the first time in several years he does not have to work 40 hours a week to put himself through school. Working had previously stopped him from holding a school office. Porter, who is now on scholarship, recently graduated from California State College, Los Angeles.
Porter said that the professors at the Law Center are excellent. He said it is these young professors that comprise one of the ways in which USC gives a liberal law education.
The way law is taught at the law center tries to prepare lawyers to adaquately serve the needs of the people. Porter said.
There is more to a problem than what is in the
book; how it will affect people for years and years to come should be considered, said Porter. This is the attitude of which Justice Earl Warren is indicative, and this also represents the direction in which law education here is going, he concluded.
“Each professor has a different attitude on what is important and that diversity of thought gives the student many different ideas about how law should be applied,” he said.
“We still leam the black letter of the law, but instead of trying to fit the people’s actions into the law, we stretch the law to fit their needs.”
The Western Center on Law and Poverty is indicative of this new policy which law is try ing to follow. “Now as an established part of the law center, 20 lawyers handle cases and initiate actions which affect black and brown people in large numbers and for their ow n good.” They try to help the minority community on a large scale. Porter said.