Committee approves pass-fail P.E
By MARY LARIMER
The university’s Curriculum Committee passed four resolutions yesterday which promises to have far-reaching effects on student program planning.
The resolutions are:
1.	That all P.E. classes be made pass-fail with the exception of departmental majors.
2.	That students be free to choose any four P.E. classes to fulfill the General Education requirement.
3.	That upper classmen be permitted to take one course each year as a free elective on a pass-fail basis.
4.	That Senior Colloquia be offered at any year level as part of the general education
offerings of a department, not to exceed 20 students.
The committee will now send the measures to Dr. Milton C. Kloetzel* vice-president of Research and Graduate Affairs. If Dr. Kloetzel approves, they will go into effect in September, 1969.
The P.E. resolutions were proposed by a student committee headed by Tom Levyn, sophomore representative, and a faculty General Education Committee.
In discussion, the Curriculum Committee stipulated the following:
1.	The pass-fail P.E. system applies to P.E. classes 101-159. These classes will receive no academic credit.
2.	The pass-fail system does not apply to departmental
majors and credit will be given for P.E. 160-166.
3.	P.E. 101 and 110 will no longer be required subjects for the P.E. requirement.
4.	Students will be required to take four P.E. classes without waiver to meet the General Education requirement.
5.	A minimum pass grade will be equivalent to a “C” grade.
6.	There may be no repetition in a P.E. class to complete the four P.E. units required.
7.	The pass-fail elective is for L.A.S. students only and cannot be changed to a letter grade at a date later than the time of registration.
8.	Colloquia will not be required for graduation but that departments may include them if desired.
Levyn said that in the spring 1968 elections 83 per cent of the 800 students voted not to grade P.E. classes.
Dr. Tillman Hall, chairman of the P.E. Department, was not present at the meeting. But he had drafted a paper placing the department’s position solidly against the pass-fail system.
“P.E. is 4/132 of a student’s grade upon graduation.” Dr. Richard H. Perry, associate professor of physical education, said. “We can’t see why the committee is singling out the department for the pass-fail system.”
The General Education Committee described the
program as a “flexible framework which we hope will extend to other L.A.S. departments, besides P.E.”
The student committee included Levyn, Bob Ennis, graduate representative, Karol Wahlberg, AWS president, and Tim McDuffie, freshman representative.
The committee expressed their approval of the Curriculum Committee’s ruling.
“The approval of the pass-fail P.E. proposal is a significant advance toward better general education at USC,” they said.
“This program is the product of a great deal of research and we are glad to see its fruition. It places USC in the forefront of progressive American universities.”
University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1969, VOL. LX, NO. 61
Manager signs O.J.
O.J. Simpson has taken the first step in relinquishing his amateur athletic standing. He has employed a manager.
The 21-year-old senior from San Francisco yesterday signed a “total management” contract with Chuck Barnes and Sports Headliners, Inc., of Indianapolis. Although the Heisman Trophy-w inning halfback did not give up his amateur standing by signing, he will lose that standing the first time he accepts money for any sports-associated service.
“I’ve known Chuck Barnes ever since I came to USC,” said Simpson,” and I’ve been greatly impressed with him and his organization.”
Barnes has managed such athletes as Johnny Unitas, A.J.
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Library ready for finals rush
Once again, the library anticipates the usual finals rush upon its facilities.
To compensate for the hordes of students expected to start studying this week, the library has said that only those students with USC ID cards will be allowed to enter College Library between 6 p.m. and midnight.
Checking for ID began Monday and will continue each evening until the end of the exam period.
Students will be requested to present their ID’s to the checker stationed at the entrance of College Library each time they enter. A library spokesman explained, “A student checker sees hundreds of students pass by in a single evening and cannot possibly remember each of them.”
Religious Center plans area project
O.J. SIMPSON (left), shown with coach John McKay, has signed a "total management" contract with Chuck Barnes of Sports Headliners, Inc. It is expected that Simpson will let Barnes handle negotiations with football teams vying for his services.
Photo by Fred Swegles
The problem of the university and its surrounding community sometimes seems staggering.
But staggering problems are often solved by making that first small effort.
The University Religious Center is making that first effort in a program called Urban Plunge. It is designed to expose USC students to the community during three seperate weekend sessions.
“We want to help students become aware of what’s happening in the area surrounding the community,” said Norman Wright, Religious Center staff member.
The program calls for students to be housed in the University Methodist Church over one of three weekends, for
$5. The dates are Jan. 24 to 26, Feb. 28 to March 2, and March 31 to April 2.
The groups, which Wright estimates will be 25 students each, will spend the weekend experiencing the community.
“These experiences will include time spent out in the community, including such simple things as eating in one of the many small restaurants in the area,” Wright said. “There will be a session dealing with urban renewal, dialogue sessions with area residents, a visit to a teen post, and a church service as well as other activities.”
Registration for Urban Plunge will be conducted at the Religious Center, 835 W. 34th St., 746-6116.
POSITIONS NOW OPEN
The Elections Commission has begun work on the spring elections by announcing that positions on the commission are still open. Applications are available in the Student Activities Center.
The first meeting will be held at the beginning of next semester.
Composer’s work premieres
Fourteen years ago, a major musicalcomposition, written by a USC composer, was premiered by the USC Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir. “The Ballad of William Sycamore” by Halsey Stevens has since became a large success and has been performed by several orchestras.
2 Nigerians on panel for "Of Black America” tonight
“Of Black America,” the Experimental College film and discussion series, will continue tonight at 7:30 in Student Activities Center 205.
Tonight’s film is CBS’ “Black World.” Two ' Nigerian PhD. candidates will be on the panel.
Films for next week are: Monday, “Body and Soul,” and panel of a black athlete, Jai Rich of KBCA-FM and Larry McCormick of KGFJ; Tuesday, “The Black Soldier,” and Wednesday, “Portraits in Black and White.”
Sunday night in Bovard at 8:30, the USC Orchestra and Concert Choir, conducted by Ingolf Dahl, who also conducted the orchestra 14 years ago, will premiere another musical work by a USC composer.
Robert Linn, a teacher of composition at the university, finished “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” around the beginning of the year. It will be performed for the first time Sunday.
“There is no piece of this kind in existence by a young American composer,” said Dahl in a recent interview.
“It is a humorous and modern work, and it is interestingly arranged for speech and percussion. It also employs extremely colorful orchestration.”
“The Pied Piper” is based on a poem by Robert Browning. The major solo is by tenor Hayden Blanchard. The narrator is William Vennard.
“If our performance of this piece is good, there will be more and more performances by other orchestras. I have a felling that this will happen to Linn’s piece,” Dahl said.
Also included in the evening’s program are “Vaises Nobles et Sentimentales” by Ravel, “Das Nugenlicht—Cantata” by Webern, and “Cantata for the New Year; No. 41” by Bach.
“The Webern composition is, for all practical purposes, unperformable,” Dahl said. “It is an extremely difficult piece with every noted loaded with significance.”