Rodgers and Hart musical under fire
Monday the Drama Department opens a one-week run of the Rogers and Hart comedy “The Boys From Syracuse ” in Bovard Auditorium, but critics have already brought the production under fire.
The criticism, in the form of anonmyous telephone calls to the Drama Department, reportedly has attacked the play as immoral and indecent.
Bill Storm, production manager, expressed shock at the criticism.
“I spoke to one of the callers,” he said. “She was a charming alumna from Glendale, and after a few minutes I realized she was talking about another work, ‘The Boys In The Band.’ Obviously our ‘Boys’ does not have the kind of indecency found in that play.”
Storm admitted, however, that some of the criticism might be justified. His play does deal openly with the areas of sexual freedom, adultery, and what might be called the seamy side of life. Some have called it a carefully constructed and aimed work of social satire, and not merely an updating of Shakespare’s “Comedy of Errors.”
“We’ve tried to make this production true to the spirit of the play,” Storm said. “Since that means acting with a minimum of clothing and a maximum of free expression, we feel no shame in following our own tastes. Despite criticisms and threats, for example, we’ve decided to keep the Egyptian belly dancer in the play as she was conceived.”
Storm claims to have gotten nearly 20 calls and letters condemning the production on moral grounds, but he, the cast, and John Blankenchip, professor of drama and the play’s director, show no dismay.
“We still think the time is ripe for ‘Boys’ at Troy,” Storm said with determination.
The play opens Monday night with Marvin Kirschmann, Gary Fisher, Heidi McKee and Michele Dedeaux in the principal roles.
EL RODEO COMPLETED
The 1969 El Rod is completed despite the theft of pictures, Mike Williams, editor of the yearbook, said.
Early in April a theft of over 150 pictures set the completion date back nearly three weeks.
The El Rod will be made available to students on or about June 1 at the Student Activities Center. Student activity books must be presented to receive an El Rod.
A limited number of extra books will be available to students without activity books at about $7.50 per copy.
Hospital clean— official
“This hospital is cleaner than some and as clean as any in this city or county,” said James Reuter, chief of general service at USC-County General Hospital.
His response was prompted in answer to a report filed with the County Board of Supervisors by Mrs. Eleanor M. Glenn, general manager of Hospital Workers Union Local 434, which said that garbage and refuse was strewn throughout the hospital.
Reuter explained that approximately 40 tons of trash are removed each day which is equivalent to the amount of trash from a community of 12,000 residents. It takes eight hours of work for two trucks to handle the trash, he said.
“Mrs. Glenn doesn’t know the story, Reuter said. “She visits the hospital infrequently. We have no garbage here, it is all put down disposals and into the sewer.
All the refuse is put into plastic bags and down a chute where it is in containers. These containers are emptied at least twice a day at which time they are steam-cleaned.”
Mrs. Glenn pointed out in a telephone interview that the plastic bags referred to often break open spreading contaminated materials.
“This is not a new situation,” Mrs. Glenn said, “We have received no cooperation at all.
“Each time wei have tried to clear this conditioh up, we were put off from one supervisor to the other. We finally sent a wire to William Barr, director, department of hospitals, noting
the dangerous condition. He has not answered our plea to date,” she said.
Reuter explained that the dock area referred to by Mrs. Glenn has been used for 30 years. “It was our intention to shut it down upon the receipt of a new truck. We received the truck approximately 60 days ago, half that time it has been in for repairs,” he said.
“We have had our troubles trying to cope with this situation,” Reuter siad. “However, we have not fallen
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Interaction goal of BSU festival
The Black Students Union (BSU) will be sponsoring a Black Awareness Festival beginning Monday and continuing through May 10.
The BSU has been working on the project for some time along with members of Students for a Democratic Society, the United Mexican-American Students and the Kennedy Action Corps.
Larry Burton, a BSU member and prime mover behind the organization of the festival, said that its major goal is to, “bring about an atmosphere for positive community and university interaction; interaction through constructive programs speaking to the needs of the community and the responses of the university.
“We don’t look at it as one sided where the university has all the responsibility for responding. The community should also have inputs into the university.
“By having a festival we can show the contributions of the black man to the country—to help break down the false images people hold about each other.”
The festival will consist of a series of events which will include lectures and discussions on the contributions of black people to the
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Seniors named to Orders of Palm, Laurel
Five senior men and nine senior women have been named as USC’s most outstanding graduating students. The five men have been named to the Order of the Palm, the women to the Order of the Laurel.
The Dean of Students Office made the announcement yesterday.
“The university wishes to pay tribute to the interest and participation these students have shown during their careers at USC,” Joan Schaefer, dean of women, said yesterday. “A lot of the creative ideas these students have developed have enriched the lives of all students on this campus, and we wish to recognize this creativity.”
The men named are:
Glenn Rowan Cass, a mechanical engineering major, who served as Chief justice of the ASSC Student Court in the school year 1966-67;
John Hampton Johnson, a political science major, who has been president of Knights;
William Lloyd Mauk, also a political science major, who has served as ASSC president this year;
James Winston Smith, an architecture major, who has served one year as chief justice of the ASSC Student Court, and
Roland Leslie Trope, another political science major who is currently chief justice of the ASSC Student Court.
The women named to the Order of the Laurel are:
Parcicia Reed Armstrong, ,;a dual-major in history and religion, who has served as president of the Ecumenical Center;
Liz Carr, a history major, who has served as president of Panhellenic;
Carol Christofk, a pre-med psychology major, who is an outstanding member of Mortar Board;
Judy Lee, an English major, who was the director of the Tutorial Project last year.
Maryann Lees, another English major, who has served as a cochairman of Troy Camp.
Nan Maples, a telecommunications major, who has been president of Women’s Hall Association;
Riv-Ellen Prell, a speech and political science major, who has served as vice-president of Mortar Board;
Mollie Raddatz, a pre-med psychology major, an outstanding member of the Foreign Students Association and the Orientation Committee, and
Margaret Hallock Simeral, an economics major and treasurer of Mortar Board.
behind. The Anti-Pollution Control Board forced us to stop burning in October, 1968.
“We could not build the proper chutes at the incinerator (the central trash receiving area) until the truck arrived,” he said. “The chute must be tailored to the equipment.
“Sanitary conditions are maintained,” Reuter continued. “The Communicable Disease Center of the U.S. Public Health Service in addition to local health authorities conduct periodic tests.”
Reuter said that on the last RODAC test which determines by microscopic sample if any contamination is present, none was detected.
“The trash rooms are scoured at least twice each day with a broad-spectrum disinfectant,” he said. “The entire area is scrubbed at night by an automatic scrubbing machine and continually mopped all day.”
Mrs. Glenn agreed that some progress had been made. She said they have moved the trash pickup to the morgue area.
Reuter expressed hope that perhaps the hospital would receive a trash disposal system similar to that being constructed, in the new Martin Luther King; County Hospital. That system is to handle trash from the point of origin to the collection center by pneumatic tubes.
Students help govern universities
By JACQUELYN WRIGHT
Insufficient student involvement in campus administration is a major grievance among students, according to a poll of college newspaper editors recently taken by the Associated Collegiate Press.
However, at USC students are voting members on 14 of the 20 university committees. Other campuses are also witnessing student participation on administrative committees.
Lack of student involvement in governing the campus has been cited as an underlying cause of last year’s disruption at Columbia University. As a result, a vote will be taken this semester on whether to approve the formation of a 100-member university senate with 20 student members.
The trend toward student involvement in campus decision-making has been increasing. In Kentucky, a state law has been enacted giving students membership on the boards of trustees of six state-supported schools, including the University of Kentucky.
Stanford University recently added students as voting members of the academic committees.
Students at MacMurray College in Illinois were dismissed from classes for three days to hold campus-wide discussions on the governing of the college.
The University of Redlands faculty recently voted to have students as members of curriculum, personnel, foreign programs and honor committees. Committees of students, faculty, and administrators have been organized at Bucknell University and the University of Pennsylvania to investigate and suggest changes in student participation in campus administration.
Students have been admitted as members of the major policy making committee at New York University, Maryville College in Tennessee, and Upper Iowa College.
Besides student participation on university committees at USC, several departments include students on policy-making committees.
The USC Curriculum Committee which recommends
and tentatively approves new courses, has four student members.
The Admissions Committee, which sets up the guidelines for the director of admissions, has three student members. Both the Planning and Student Aid Committees have two voting student members.
Other committees with student members are Stude Activities, Great Issues, Library, Buildings and Grounds, Religious Interests, Foreign Students, Academic Affairs, Scholarship Standards, Alumni Affairs, and Student Behavior.	i
Applications for student membership on these committees are available in the YWCA. They must be returned to the YWCA by May 2.
The Academic Selections Panel made up of the dean of students, ASSC president and vice-president of academic affairs, a representative from the Faculty Senate, and one student from the Academic Affairs Council will select the students to serve on the committees.