University of Southern California
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1968
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LX NO. 12
Frosh girls stage 'create-in’
It was a day of creativity with paints yesterday at Birnkrant, girl's dormitory. Freshmen Kathy Kiddie, Barbara Hoose and Barbara Bell (I. to r.) took part in Troed's "create-inan exercise in "throwing paint around and doing whatever one wants to do.” Troeds is a club designed to acquaint freshman women with the campus.
Attendance problems plague ASSC Council
Students needed for Troy Camp Committee
Students “interested in helping the children in their community gain a new outlook and also in stopping prejudice" may now apply for membership to the Troy Camp Committee, Gary Sandor, committee co-chairman, announced yesterday.
Each year the committee sponsors a week-long camp. Camp Buckhorn at Idyllwild. at the end of August for 150 children in the area. The children who attend are selected by their teachers in 10 local grammar schools. They are chosen on the basis of good conduct, excellence in school w ork and need.
Applications for positions on the Troy Camp Committee are available today in the YWCA. They must be returned by Tuesday at 5 p.m.
The jobs which are available to new members of the Troy Camp Committee include work in the solicitation and fund raising campaign which begins now and ends after the Cal game Nov. 9. Various areas of fund raising will include professional fund raising, fund raising at the games and Greek solicitations.
Counselors for next summer’s camp will be chosen next spring from committee members. The 25 returning members of the committee will select the new committee.
Organizing the Troy Camp
Committee and leading it in the selection of new members are Gary' Sandor and Cathie Meyer, also a committee co-chairman. The new chairmen have both served on the committee for the past two years.
Troy Camp “creates a feeling between counselor and children which neither one has ever experienced before. It can best be described as love,” Meyer said.
This year the goal of the Troy Camp Committee has been expanded. Instead of hosting only 150 children they hope that next year’s camp will be able to include 300 children. Instead of a one-week long camp next year the camp is planned for two weeks and will be divided into two sessions.
This will also mean that the goal of the fund raising campaign is also greater than it was in previous years. In 1966 only $5,500 was raised, while last year the amount rose to just under S10.000. This year, in order to accomodate the larger number of children, the committee hopes to raise $14,000.
It will cost the committee $32.50 to send each child to camp for a week. This cost does not include publicity, busing, medical care, or craft materials. It covers only room and board.
Richard Morisee, auditor for 21 years, dies at 54
Richard D. Morisse. 54, USC auditor for 21 years, died Friday night in Arcadia Methodist Hospital. Morisse had suffered from diabetes for most of his life.
Mr. Morisse graduated from St. Louis University and worked for Lybrand, Ross Bros., and Montgomery, a CPA firm in Los Angeles, before joining the business office staf in 1947.
He is survived by his wife. Harriet: a daughter, Mrs. Marian Van Vleet, and a son. Ralph, both of Temple City ; his mother, Mrs. Alice O’Hern. Los Angeles; and a sister. Mrs. Marjorie Finken, Redondo Beach.
Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. today in the Church of the Recessional, Forest Lawn-Memorial Park, Glendale. The Rev. Dr. John E. Cantelon, USC Chaplain, will officiate. The family has asked that friends send contributions to the USC School of Medicine.
SEN. EDWARD MUSKIE TO SPEAK HERE FRIDAY
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, will speak at a voters' convocation at Bovard Auditorium Friday at noon.
The purpose of the convocation is to aid first-time voters in the upcoming Presidential election. President Topping has invited both Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon to speak at convocations.
However, it appears doubtful that Nixon will be able to attend a convocation, and no word has been received yet from Vice-President Humphrey.
Wisconsin group has nude 'Peter Pan’ despite ban
Madison, Wis. (UPI)—The University of Wisconsin topless, bottomless version of “Peter Pan”—featuring nude coeds—got two more performances last night despite the obscenity brand put on it by the district attorney.
Earlier in the day, Dane County Dist. Atty. James C. Boll ruled that the parody of the classic children’s tale was obscene and could not be shown again under threat of arrest. Boll and Police Chief Wilbur Emery were present at a screening of the play Monday. There were no arrests last night.
Violation of the state’s obscenity law provides a $5,000 fine, five years in jail or both.
The play originally featured six nude coeds portraying
“innocence.”
Last night’s version, however, had only two coeds in the altogether, who were on stage for about 10 minutes.
Stuart A. Gordon, a drama senior from Chicago and producer of the play, said the Union Circle Theater was locked to the players. The play went on, he said, because “the cast has decided.”
William Dawson, Union Theater Program Director, locked the Student Union Theater and turned off the power. However, the group went to the Commerce Building on the campus and staged it in a basement auditorium.
The Wisconsin Film Society had booked the auditorium, but yielded to the players.
About 500 viewed the first performance and Gordon put on another show because of an overflow crowd of about 400.
“We feel the District Attorney’s decision is unjust,” Gordon said. “No one has the right to censor a work of art except the audience. It was the best audience we ever had.”
“In my opinion, today’s community standards do not permit girls to dance nude before an audience,” Boll said. “To permit such conduct at the university would open the door to nude dancers throughout the community.”
Madison ordinances do not permit nude dancing.
By ANDY MILLER Editorial director
For the third consecutive week, the ASSC Executive Council adjourned for lack of a quorum before it finished the meeting’s agenda.
And the ensuing discussion surrounding the persistant problem of attendance provided the most fireworks in an otherwise routine council meeting.
The 19-member body had only 12 representatives present at the peak of its attendance cycle. But as the meeting progressed, the council dwindled to only nine members.
As the final two members left, bringing the meeting to a close, Bill Mauk and Fred Minnes engaged in a heated discussion concerning the lack of attendance.
Minnes felt that it was Mauk’s responsibility to make sure that sufficient council members be present to carry out the student’s business.
“I am nobody’s mother,” Mauk replied, adding that he felt each council member’s responsibility was to his constituenty, and not to the chair.
Part of the problem the council faces is that two independent representatives, two graduate representatives, and the freshman representative have not yet assumed their seats on the body. Even so, these unfilled positions are being figured into the quorum requirements.
A motion allowing written proxies a vote if an officer has to leave the meeting was voted down by the council.
Earlier in the meeting, the council voted 8-0 with three abstentions to recommend to Paul Bloland, dean of students, that song girls be allowed to perform at football games.
An expected confrontation over the anti-discrimatory motion introduced last week by Bob Ennis, graduate representative, failed to materialize as Ennis was one of those absent.
Another item bypassed because of the premature adjournment was a proposed free speech area in the Student Activities plaza.
Recommended by the ASSC Social and Recreational Commission, the proposal would allow students to speak in the plaza, and would
Mars to head public administration
require that non-campus personnel use the area only in accordance with the University Speakers Policy.
In other action, the council allocated $212 for a four-lecture series sponsored by the Experimental College, and also allocated $300 for the purchase of a printing machine.
Buckley tops journalism alumni awards
Conservative columnist William F. Buckley, news commentator Frank McGee, and Los Angeles Times sports columnist Jim Murray have won Distinguished Achievement Awards from the USC Journalism Alumni Association, it was announced Monday.
They will be honored for their achievements in the field at the Ninth Annual Awards Dinner, scheduled to be held Nov. 14 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Dr. John Harrington, association president, said the awards are designed to single out outstanding achievement in the areas of newspaper work, periodicals, and broadcasting.
Buckley, editor of The National Review, is being honored in the magazine category.
Previous recipients of the awards, which are sponsored by the alumni association in conjunction with the USC School of Journalism, include Art Buchwald, Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley., Drew Pearson, Otis Chandler, and the late Henry R. Luce.
Over 500 persons are expected to attend the annual dinner, scheduled for 8 p.m. in the hotel’s grand ballroom.
Tickets are $12.50 each, and reservations may be made by contacting Vernon MacPherson, Lockheed-California news bureau manager, at 847-6815.
Dr. David Mars has been named director of the School of Public Administration, Dr. Milton Kloetzel. vice president of research and graduate affairs, announced yesterday.
The selection of Dr. Mars was the result of a search conducted by a committee of faculty, student and adlumni representatives.
Dr. Mars has been a professor of the School of Public Administration since 1961. Before coming to USC. he taught at Rutgers University and the University of Conneticut.
He is a graduate of Rutgers, where he received his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in political science.
From 1963 to 1965, Dr. Mars served on the faculty of a USC program in public administration
training in Brazil. Last year he was in charge of the USC-National Institute of Public Affairs (NIPA) program for federal officials.
His practical experience in the field of public administration includes service with the Mercer County (New Jersey) Industrial Commission, the Urban Renewal Administration, Small Business Administration and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Study Commission.
USC’s School of Public Administration is the largest in the nation in terms of degrees awarded each year and the total number of students enrolled.
Joni Mitchell will appear in Bovard Friday night
by ROSALIND SILVER
Joni Mitchell, Canada's answer to Joan Baez, will exhibit her style of comment on life through balladry Friday at 8 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium in the first ASSC-sponsored concert of the school year.
The concert will be the first major appearance for the 24-year old blonde from Saskatchewan since her return from a recent European tour.
Miss Mitchell made her Los Angeles debut at the Troubador in June, her first big exposure outside of the Canadian folksinging circuit, in addition to an album she recorded at the same time for Reprise.
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Ticket order blanks for Friday night's concert may be obtained at the Student Activities Center or at Bovard for $3, $2 or $1.50. Previously-obtained order blanks may be redeemed for tickets at the YWCA or at Bovard Friday night.