University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
VOL. LX	LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1968	NO. 4
Dr. Mayo appointed interim dean of LAS
Recreation program for area school children begins
Library in darkness due to power failure
All nine floors in Doheny Memorial Library were plunged into darkness Tuesday morning when an electrical transformer in the basement blew out. The stacks are expected to remain without power until this afternoon or tomorrow morning.
Glenn Hughes, stack supervisor, said the transformer increases or decreases electricity and steadies voltage.
It was hermetically sealed and the whole unit must be removed and replaced. There is no provision for auxiliary power while this is being done.
In addition to the lights, the book lift, elevator and ventialtion equipment are not functioning. There is no air conditioning in the stacks.
Students are asked to request only books that are urgently needed until the power is restored.
Only two male pages are available to get requested books by flashlight. According to labor laws, women must work in areas that are sufficiently lighted and ventilated.
Two employees were trapped in elevators when the power went out at 10:30 a.m. Rose Rossebo recited her rosary until she was rescued from between the second and third floors.
Tahany El-Sayed, a student from Egypt, trapped at the first level, waited from 15 to 20 minutes to be freed, Hughes said. Nobody in the main library’ had keys to the new locks at that level.
When she was out, Miss El-Sayed asked that flashlights and other safety measures be made available to employees in the future.
Jim Stevens, a graduate in education, was studying on the third level. The upper levels are without windows.
A voice on the loudspeaker said, “Don’t panic. Stay where you are, we’ll come and get you,” Stevens reported.
“I couldn’t have found my way out even if I’d had a flashlight,” he said.
Within 20 minutes, a library employee appeared with a flashlight and began leading people out by twos and threes.
Fall editor announces DT staff
Members of the staff of the Daily Trojan for the fall semester were announced yesterday by Mike Parfit, editor.
They are: Managing editor, Ann Salisbury; city editor. Bill Dicke; news editor, Mark Vasche; editorial director, Andy Miller; sports editor, Fred Swegles; society editor, Donna DeDiemar; feature editor, Pat Reid; and night editor Leslie Scott.
Working as an assistant on the city desk will be Roger Smith; on the editorial page, Lin Farley and Mel Horowitz; on the news desk. Melody Gillard, on the night desk Melinda Tonks, and in sports Bob Ingram and Vickie Garcia.
The post of chief photographer is still open, Parfit said. Applicants for the post must have afternoons free. Applications may be submitted in the Daily Trojan city room.
Parfit said that the paper is still looking for cartoonists. No one artist will be hired for the semester, he said, but the cartoonists will be paid for their work at a rate of $2 for every cartoon published.
“There are no prerequisites for working as a reporter on the Daily Trojan,” Parfit said. “We welcome anyone who wants to write. We can’t guarantee publication, but we can promise work.”
Anyone interested on working on the paper can volunteer in the Daily Trojan city room, Student Union 432.
Project Chance involves Negro, Mexican-American, and Oriental children from grades one, two, and three at the 36th Street Elementary School in planned recreational activities, arts and crafts, and field trips to such places as the beach and the Griffith Park Zoo.
The students also take the kids on tours of the campus and surrounding area. Last year they visited the L.A. County Museum, the fire station on Jefferson Blvd.,the computer center on campus, and watched the Trojan Band practice.
The children are encouraged to be creative while enjoying their craft projects. Last year they made ornaments for a Christmas tree, made their own Easter baskets and designed Mother’s Day cards.
Although the students try to be involved with all the kids who number between 50 and 100 on any given day, Miss Spencer pointed out that most of the project’s participants develop individual friendships with one child or a small group of children. Last year several students voluntarily took small groups to the football games on their own time, she said.
Interested students should attend Project Chance’s first meeting this Saturday, or contact project Chairman Louise Clausett, 746-7136, or the YWCA at 746-2307.
PROFESSOR SAYS
People’s loss of power breeds violence
By MICHAEL HARRIS
“The defeat of McCarthy convinced millions of Americans that if this is democracy, to hell with it,” said Dr. Fred Krinsky at a Hillelunch yesterday.
Dr. Krinsky, chairman of the political science department, stressed that frustration and a feeling of a lack of control of the political situation could only lead to further violence if the crisis is not solved.
Stressing the urgency of the situation, Krinsky related to his audience the perspective he obtained of America during the six months he spent in England and Europe recently.
“All over there is a constant sense of despair over American actions and events,” he said.“No one in Europe was really surprised by the assassination of Robert Kennedy.”
Krinsky added that the impression the Europeans have of America is that
MAYO CORRECTS DEGREE ERROR
Dr. Charles G. Mayo, dean of The Graduate School, has informed the Daily Trojan that Dr. Max Rafferty, Republican senatorial candidate, did not receive a Ph.D. degree from USC as previously reported. Instead, he received an Ed.D. degree from the School of Education.
of an extremely violent country where everyone has a gun.
“The feeling of the Europeans is not that of hostility, but one of deep concern as to what has happened to us,” he said.
According to Krinsky, the current crisis in democracy is of such importance that it is comparable to
two other analogs in American history—the periods of the 1860’s and the 1930’s.
“The 1860’s showed a clear division of the nation both politically and geographically.” he said. “It was a period based on settlement through “military action.”
“The period of the 1930’s was the
New Deal. It was more subtle and of more interest—a challenge to American uniqueness. Its problems were solved by answers coming from intraspective soul searching.”
The problem of solving the crisis lies in the power of modern governments, he added.
“In the 1920’s, men had the power to literally go out and change their government,” said Krinsky. “Now you cannot change the power structure if the government has control of the military.”
He also said that the problem of America lies in the same inability of people to control situations.
“Open warfare has already broken out in many of our cities and will probably continue. The future looks bleak, the future looks distressed. It can only be saved by the emergence of some segment in American society which can give hope and something to live for.”
TROLIOS WILL HOLD AUDITIONS
Auditions for Trolios will be held tonight from 7:30 to 10:30, in Widney Hall 4.
Anyone who can sing, dance, act or is interested in the production aspects of the show may try out for this satirical review, the producers said.
One-act plays to begin at Stop Gap Theatre tonight
Two one-act plays by Bertolt Brecht will be performed at the Stop Gap Theatre tonight, Friday and Saturday.
The plays, “The Jewish Wife” and “The Exception and the Rule,” are free of charge and are being presented by the division of drama at 8 p.m. No reservations are necessary.
Brecht, a rebel in his time, became a subject of controversy in the German theatre of the 1920’s as he attempted, by his Epic Theatre method, to break away from the traditional theatre of “illusion” of the western world.
The new era in drama had barely begun when Brecht’s plays were suppressed by the emerging Nazi regime. He left Germany and settled in the United States where he continued to write, direct, and produce his plays. The more liberal atmosphere of America allowed Brecht to employ a technique he called “alienation.” This dramatic form implemented the use of interruptions, comments, asides, lectures, songs and poems intended to break the audience’s identification with the performance and encourage an attitude of detached observation and evaluation.
Both “The Jewish Wife” and “The Exception and the Rule” feature contemporary themes expressed in powerful poetry and lyrics, through which Brecht seeks to educate and enlighten his audience.
Alan Woods, a graduate student in drama, directs casts headed by Keith Henning and Vicki Rue in “The Jewish Wife,” with narration by Wynn Pearce and Camille Rezutke, and Gunder Rinset, Richard Dehart, Dianne Jackson, Karen DeNisco, Paul Harper, and Rick DeNisco in “The Exception and the Rule.”
By ANN SALISBURY Managing editor
Dr. Charles G. Mayo has been appointed interim dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, temporarily replacing Dean Neil Warren.
Dean Mayo will be in effect holding two deanships for one year, as he is also dean of The Graduate School. However, he will hold the interim deanship only until a new dean is found for the college.
“A committee has been formed to search for a new dean,” he said. “And I, as a member of the search committee, want to make sure that Dean Warren’s successor is a strong spokesman for the needs of the college.”
To facilitate the assumption of new responsibilites, Dean Mayo had added several staff members to each school.
John Grande will be an administrative assistant to the dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Dr. William W. May, assistant professor of religion, will be associate dean of the The Graduate School and Nelson Horn will be executive assistant to Dean Mayo as well as head of the fellowship division of The Graduate School.
“I am very much concerned with coordinating relations between The Graduate School and the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,” Dean Mayo said. “I always have worked closely with
the college, and I feel The Graduate School can be made strong only if the college is strong.
“I would like the college to be recognized as the academic core of the university, that it have the resources to offer solid programs in all of its areas of study and that it have a student body which demands high quality programs which are modem and innovative in approach.
“The college will not drift during my year,” he said. “I am anxious to be aggressive in cranking up the machinery to what it should be.”
Dean Mayo said he didn’t think there was any antagonism between the graduate education and the undergraduate.
- “I want the whole University of Southern California to define its purposes in a way that it can become known as an institution that sets very high academic standards and which provides an environment for maximum exchange of ideas,” he said.
“I want to encourage students to sound off on things which concern them. USC needs to encourage students to sow a few intellectual wild oats.
“I want this to be heard: that I want to hear from students and faculty in both The Graduate School, and the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.”
Typically crowded—but the automotive excess has over flowed the lined, organized lots, and now cars are left on the grass, under the trees and anywhere else four wheels will fit. For explanation of parking problem page 2.
Photo by Nancy Gummess.
Child and Community Enrichment is the title and the dream behind Project Chance, a recreational program sponsored by the YWCA. Chance will hold its organizational meeting Saturday at the YWCA on the corner of Hoover St. and 32nd St.
Susan Spencer, junior in social science and publicity chairman for the project, says that although regular participation is encouraged, those who can only come occasionally are also welcome.
“We’re especially looking for guys and people with cars,” she added. Meetings are held from about 8 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturdays throughout the semester.
Miss Spencer said the general goals of the program are to “deal with attitudes—their attitudes towards us, our attitudes towards them. The most rewarding thing is to see them develop attitudes of love and respect for each other.”
She admitted to being a little skeptical as to the success of the project at first, but said, “I saw a definite difference between September and December in the children’s attitudes. They lost some feelings of jealousy and gained more group loyalty. You could tell they were developing their personal interests.”
KIDS WITH A CHANCE—Elementary age children participate in picture at left, Pat Reed (left) and Cathy Grady lead a drawing session activities sponsored by Project Chance, a student YWCA program. In Another project worker (right) helps in a tree-climb.