University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1969, VOL. LX, NO. 77
Student wins 1st British scholarship
Roland “Happy” Trope has become the first USC student to win the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, which will provide for two years study at Brasenose College of Oxford University.
Trope, a political science honor student on an independent study program is one of 24 undergraduates in the United States to receive the award this year from the British government.
The Marshall Scholarship program was established in 1953 as an expression of British gratitude for the European Recovery Program instituted by Gen. George C. Marshall in 1947. Under the 1947 program, more than $13 billion of economic assistance was provided by the United States for post-World War II recovery.
The scholarship includes tuition, living and travel expenses.
Trope will begin at Brasenose in October under the British system of independent study, including conferences with an assigned tutor, readings in his major subjects, attendance at lectures, and dialogues with other students.
He will be required to take only two examinations, one oral, the other written, during the spring of his final year. Upon passing these tests, he will earn an English B.A., which is equivalent to an advanced degree in the United States, and is convertible to an American master’s degree.
Trope said he credits several outstanding professors who have taught and motivated him at USC, including Dr.. Joseph L. Nyomarkay, associate professor of political science, Dr. John E. Cantelon, director of the School of Religion, Dr. Dallas Willard, assistant professor of philosophy, and Dr. Richard O. Stone, professor of geology.
Trope said he has been prepared well for graduate study under the British system by several programs he has pursued at USC. Among these are his senior year of independent study in political philosophy, ethics and religion, and the Urban Semester, an innovative program of education in urban life which gives students extensive autonomy. He also served as a teaching assistant with the Urban Semester Summer Session.
Trope is the first undergraduate student in USC’s history to teach his own class offered under the formal auspices of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Trope helped conceive, design, and conduct “Community Encounter,” a four-unit class which, said Trope, “is designed to help eliminate the false dichotomy that prevails between life and learning.”
Trope, 21, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Trope, 365 Norcroft Avenue, Los Angeles.
BITCH-IN WILL OFFER CHANCE TO AIR GRIPES
The first annual bitch-in will be held tomorrow at noon in the new Open Forum area at University Avenue and Childs Way.
The purpose is to list grievances that various student leaders have and to ask others who feel as they do to come forward and speak out.
Speakers will include Bill Mauk, ASSC president, who will talk on in loco parentis; Jeff Elliot, graduate representative, on student government and ROTC, and Matt Pasternak, head of the Committee Against Institutionalized Racism, who will speak on discrimination in the Hoover Project.
The Daily Trojan will be discussed by Terry Poplawski, cochairman of the Students for a Democratic Society. Lowell Ponte, a graduate student, will address students on university government.
ROLAND TROPE
Festival of Arts to continue with poetry, films
The Festival of Arts continues today as students and faculty participate in poetry readings at noon in Alumni Park. If the rain continues, it will be in the Student Activities Center.
“The noon reading is open to anyone in the university community who writes poetry,” said Dr. Dean Flowar, chairman of the Festival of Arts. “There will be no censorship and student participation is encouraged.” It will be a one-hour presentation with several faculty members participating.
This afternoon student films will be shown in Founders Hall 133, at 1:15. The program will be similar to that of last Friday with additional student works. The topics in the last showing dealt with surrealistic conceptions of time, race problems and human situations.
Tonight at 8:30 the Living Theater will present “Frankenstein” in Bovard Auditorium.
Free tickets for this and the other plays will be handed out the day of the performance in the Student Activities Center.
Tomorrow at noon, the festival continues with the USC String Quartet performing in Hancock Auditorium.
W.S. Merwin, a poet, will read from his works at 1:15 tomorrow in Founders Hall 129.
Merwin is a graduate of Princeton where he majored in romance languages. After his graduation he spent several years as a tutor in France, Spain and Portugal, before going to England where his early reputation as a poet began.
Also on tomorrow’s agenda is David Lourie, a film maker, who will give a presentation in the Student Activities Center at 3. Lourie is a graduate student at UCLA who lives in Malibu.
Tomorrow night the Living Theatre will again present “Frankenstein,” in Bovard Auditorium at 8:30.
Ethnic plan, returned to committee
The ethnic studies proposal has been returned to the committee that approved it.
The measure, which would set up an interdisciplinary degree program starting next fall, was sent yesterday by Dr. Milton Kloetzel, vice-president of academic affairs, to a subcommittee of the Curriculum Committee.
The ethnic studies proposal calls for an interdisciplinary program leading to a B.A. degree.
Students would be allowed to specialize in either Afro-American studies or Mexican-American studies. Expansion of the programs to include Asian-American and American Indian studies is also suggested.
Kloetzel said he approved the program in principle but needed to have more details. “The idea, I’ll certainly approve,” he said. “We need to know a little more about what they’re asking.”
He said he thought the subcommittee had originally approved the program in principle because it did not list all the details of the program.
“It’s a very brief statement and that’s the trouble,” he said.
“I’m returning the statement now and saying, ‘Fine, I see that you have approved this in principle, now tell me exactly what it means.’”
He said the committee should describe how many new faculty members will be required, what courses will be offered, when and by whom.
Dr. Paul Hadley, dean of the University College and summer session and chairman of the Curriculum Committee, said in an interview that Kioetzel’s action was very encouraging.
“I am quite aware that a number of things have to be fleshed out before the program can go into action,” he said. “I think this was a rather positive action.”
He said he thought that referring the matter back to the subcommittee would not create any problem in the hiring of a director for the program.
After the subcommittee, chaired by Dr. Walter Fisher, associate professor of speech, and the Curriculum Committee iron out details, the proposal must still be approved by Kloetzel and Dr. Topping.
The program would be structured similarly to the Latin American Studies program and would’ include courses in history, culture and current problems.
Courses v/ould be drawn from the departments of anthropology, fine arts, English, history, music, political science, psychology, public administration, religion, sociology and speech.
Students seek three party meeting
By LINDA BIBER
Sunday, in what was probably the quietest student power conference ever held on a university campus, a group of about 20 students attempted to lay the groundwork for a student movement at USC.
The student leaders met with a few faculty members and administration officials and came up with a number of ideas on how to get more students concerned, active and vocal in campus issues.
Shortly before the conference drew to a close, Terry Poplawski, cochairman of Students for a Democratic Society, asked that the ASSC draft a proposal calling for a meeting of representatives from the administration, faculty and student body for the purpose of restructuring the university’s decision-making process.
Such a restructuring, Poplawski said, would give students a meaningful part in university decision-making and would place the responsibility for such decisions on the entire academic community rather than just the administration.
The majority of those at the conference agreed that if such a restructuring were to take place, the ASSC, as the official representative of the students, would be invested with new power.
Once elected, the council would not necessarily have to represent the views of the majority of students in making each decision.
“If Bill Mauk did have to make decisions,” said Poplawski, “then maybe the students would finally take an interest in student government.”
The conference also dealt
with the problem of getting other students involved—getting them talking and acting, or even getting them worried.
For example Donald Pine, a KUSC announcer, suggested trying more incidents like the Alumni Park draft card turn-in, if such measures are needed to make students think about critical issues.
“Get them thinking,” said Pine. “Even if they’re only defending their own values, get them thinking.”
Bill Mauk, ASSC president, said too many students on campus feel that it is their responsibility to protect the university and its name, rather than to think and act for themselves.
Those at the conference agreed that exposing students to different ideas through such methods as the constant use of
an Open Forum Area and bringing more speakers to the campus might help to change student attitudes on a number of topics.
Mauk told the group that a podium and microphone system will be set up in the Open Forum Area Wednesday noon. Anyone who wishes to express his gripes or views will have the chance to do so.
A1 Rudisill, of the Lutheran Chaplain on campus, said the biggest stumbling block the group will run across in trying to motivate students and activate the campus is that there is usually no follow-up to the talk.
Mauk agreed. “I’ve met with hundreds of little groups like this,” he said.
“You can’t just talk. You have to start by doing something.”
CLAY TRAIL TO BEGIN
The trial of three men accused of killing Brian Clay, USC freshman, will begin at 9 this morning.
A motion will be introduced to have the case dismissed for lack of evidence.
Charged with the murder are George E. Williams, Douglas Turnbeau, and George Jordan. Each has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The proceedings will be held in Dept. 104 at the Los Angeles County Courthouse and presided over by Judge George Martin Dell.