University of Southern California
DAILY • TRO J A
VOL. LX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1968
NO. 5
Medical
curriculum
shortened
The School of Medicine will introduce a new curriculum next fall which will shorten medical training by a full year, Dean Roger C. Egeberg said yesterday.
“The faculty has been working on it and they voted to introduce the new curriculum,” he said.
“By carefully going over the curriculum, you can cut down on some courses and give fourth-year students a chance to elect up to 80 per cent of their courses.”
The dean said the demand for medical services makes the shortening necessary. “Doctors are a real bottleneck,” he said.
He said he feels these changes have been coming and that they are not that startling.
A better working relationship with undergraduate instructors should be maintained by medical schools, to make medical training more effective, he said.
Dean Egeberg said that some residencies should be shortened from their usual four or five years. “One wonders whether these are really to help the patient,” he said.
The aim of school will be to shorten the curriculum by highlighting the teaching, he said.
OFFICIALS SILENT OVER CLEAVER
Westwood (CNS) — The Educational Policy Committee of the University of California Board of Regents refused to make any recommendations on the controversial appointment of Eld ridge Cleaver, leader of the Black Panthers.
The committee announced after a two-hour executive session yesterday that it would refer the matter to the full Board without recommendation.
Regents are expected to take the matter up when they reconvene this afternoon at 1:45 p.m. at MacGowan Hall on the UCLA campus.
SEN. JOHN G. TOWER
Sen. Tower will speak
John G. Tower, the Republican senator from Texas, will speak on “The Presidential Campaign—1968” Monday at 1:15 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
Sen. Tower defeated 70 other candidates for the Senate seat vacated by Lyndon Johnson in 1961. At 35, he was the youngest senator in the 87th Congress.
He was also the first Republication to be elected to the Senate from Texas since Reconstruction and the only Republican senator elected by popular vote from a former Confederate State. In his
1966	re-election, Tower won by a margin of 57 per cent and nearly 200,000 votes.
He served in the Navy during World War II and received a master’s degree in political science from Southern Methodist University. He was a member of the faculty of Midwestern University, Wichita Falls, Texas from 1951 to 1960.
Sen. Tower has served on two Senate committees, Banking and Currency and Labor and Public Welfare. Also, he was the first senator ever to be named to the Republication Policy Committee during his first term.
He wrote “A Program for Conservatives” and has been a featured speaker of the American Conservative Bureau.
At the Republican national convention in August, Tower was a favorite son candidate for presdient. He has since endorsed Richard Nixon.
Song girls await committee OK to perform during football games
By JOHN FURTAK
Will USC’s tradition-shattering song girls, organized for the first time last winter to help boost attendance at varsity basketball games, make it onto the Coliseum turf for the 1968 Trojan football season?
Maybe.
With Coach John McKay’s defending national championship football team due to open its home schedule just two weeks from tomorrow night against Miami, the fate of the song girls—Penny Ward, Susan Wright, Charlene Gonzales, Linda Hauf, Celeste Fremon, Suzanne Knolle and Claudia Pawlan—is still undecided.
A meeting this week between the song girls and an ad hoc committee including Paul Bloland, dean of students, Dr. Clive Grafton, director of student activities, Ronald Broadwell, director of the Trojan
marching band, and Lyndley Bothwell, yell leader adviser, didn’t seem to clear up matters any.
When asked in an interview whether or not the song girls would be performing at USC football games in 1968, Dean Bloland said, “I don’t think they will perform at all the games, if they perform at any.
“It all depends on when they can get their routines established,” he said. “There is no objection to the song girls performing at football games, provided they are good enough and can do a first-class, high-quality job.”
The song girls, who have been practicing together throughout the summer, feel they are ready.
The song girls interpret Dean Bloland’s remarks and the committee’s decision to be a refusal to allow them to perform at
football games, and many of them now appear ready to hang up their pompons.
“The administration always seemed to circle around the question of song girls performing at football games, and we never got a yes or no answer,” Miss Ward, head songleader, said yesterday. “But the negative feelings were apparent.”
Dean Bloland said that the decision on when the song girls are “good enough” to perform at the football games would be made by Bothwell and Broadwell.
Dean Bloland and Marty Fol£y, former ASSC president, signed a proposal Nov. 14, 1967, allowing song girls to perform at basketball games only.
However, the new ASSC government recently requested that the song girls be permitted to perform at football games.
Ten freshmen named Trustee Scholars
Ten incoming freshmen from a class of 1500 have been named Trustee Scholars, one of the highest honors bestowed upon students at USC.
Chosen for their scholastic achievement and leadership in high school, the scholars are awarded up to $3200 according to their needs.
Two students from out of state to be named wery Vernon Gauntt of Itasea, 111. and Steve Brewer of Chicago.
Gauntt, who attended Lake Park High School, earned recognition on his school honor roll for six semesters and participated in student government. He also played four years of varsity golf. Vernon is a business major.
Steven Brewer maintained the highest scholastic average in his class at Sterling School, Craftsbury Commons, Vermont, for four years. He is a recent winner of a Gillette Achievement Scholarship in the
National Achievement Program for Outstanding Negro Students.
A straight-A average at Buena High School helped Claudia Starcevic of Ventura earn recognition as a Trustee Scholar. She was a member of the California Scholarship Federation for four semesters and won a scholastic achievement award in Junior Miss competition.
The only other female Trustee Scholar is Debra Landgraf of Lynwood. She was also a straight-A student in high school. Debra was a member of CSF and a National Merit finalist and was elected to Girls’ State.
Tim Taylor of John Muir High School in Altadena gained an impressive list of accomplishments including a National Merit Scholarship.
William Gregory of Bakersfield, who is a pre-med
major, excelled in the performing arts and was a member of CSF in high school.
Gordon Hill, who attended Millikan rtigh School in Long Beach, is an engineering major at USC. Gordon earned a Letter of Commendation from the National Merit Scholarship program and played football.
Lyle Morris was president *>f the student body at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles and a straight-A student. He also received an Optimist Club Achievement Award.
Richard Epstein earned all A’s at North High School in Torrance. He is a member of CSF, a recipient of the
1967	Harvard Yearbook Award, and was a semifinalist in American Field Service.
Student body president at Morningside High, David Penso was finalist for the National Youth Conference on the Atom. He played varsity basketball and golf.