8 profs honored for excellence
Eight USC professors will be honored by the USC Associates, a group of 300 men and women civic leaders dedicated to academic excellence at USC, May 14.
Nominated by graduating students, five faculty men and one woman will receive $1,000 each for their excellence in teaching.
Awards will be presented to Allan Casson, associate professor of English; George V. Chilingar, associate professor of petroleum engineering; Arnold Dunn, associate professor of biology; Nathaniel Hickerson, assistant professor of education; Barbara G. Myerhoff, assistant professor of anthropology, and Rodolph H. Redmond, professor of accounting.
Creative scholarship and research award winners, nominated by their departments will also recieve $1,000.
They are William W. Grings, professor of psychology, and William G. Spitzer, professor and chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Materials Science.
Casson, whose field is the literature of the Renaissance and the 19th century, joined the USC faculty in 1960 as an instructor in English.
Promoted to assistant professor in 1962 and to^ associate professor in 1966, Casson has been chairman of undergraduate studies in English since 1965.
Chilinger, who joined the USC faculty in 1950, has three degrees from the university, two in petroleum engineering and a doctorate in geology.
A native of Iran, Chilinger has conducted world-wide research on the prevention of landslides, studies of high-pressure compaction of sediments and has searched for oil for various foreign governments.
Dunn, whose fields are the mechanism of action of hormones and the development of radioisotopic techniques to study carbohydrate metabolism, was promoted to associate professor in 1966.
Hickerson, who is the author of “Education for Alienation,” and other articles which deal with social foundations and secondary education, has been at USC since 1966.
Associated with USC’s Youth Studies Center since 1960, Mrs. Myerhoff joined the campus faculty in 1966 as a research associate.
Receiving her Ph.D. in anthropology last year, she has studied juvenile gangs and the myths, traditions and religion of Indians in Mexico.
Redmond, who has been on the USC faculty since 1952, has done research on California property taxes, the taxation of foreign-based corporations in Switzerland and the effect of taxes on business decisions.
Former chairman of the Department of Psychology, Grings is best known for his many contributions in the area of classical conditioning.
He was the president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in 1967 and was a consulting editor for the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Spitzer, who has been at USC since 1963, has been involved with work on the electrical and optical properties of industrially important semiconductors.
Films highlight today’s Black Awareness Festival
The Black Awareness Festival program for today, entitled “Get Yourself Together USC,” is a special follow-up to the trilogy of black films presented by the Black Students Union.
The program, which will be held in Founders Hall 129 at 12:30 p.m., is to include a rerun of the film, “No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger.”
Also showing will be an underground collective film on various instances of police brutality across the nation and the epic film of the black militancy struggle, “Prelude to Revolution,” featuring Huey P. Newton, the imprisoned Black Panther minister of defense. Admission is $1. Students are advised to come early to secure a seat, as a large off-campus audience is anticipated.
“Third World Poetry” will be recited at 7 p.m. in Founaers Hall 129, with musical accompaniment, a light show and sound effects. Tunji Vidal of Nigeria, David Valijalo of Chile and Quincey Troupe of the United States will recite their works.
University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY. MAY 8,1969, VOL. LX, NO. 119
Dr. Robert Linnell named dean of LAS
A new dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (LAS) will take office Aug. 1, Dr. Norman Topping, announced yesterday.
Dr. Robert H. Linnell, 46, of Washington, D.C., has been chosen unanimously by a faculty-student committee to succeed Dr. Neil Warren, who was dean of LAS from 1960 until last year, when he went on sabbatical leave.
The committee spent the past year considering candidates from both USC faculty and the nation as a whole before selecting Linnell.
“The Letters, Arts and Sciences College, as the unifying spirit of the university, must be deeply committed to the future of man,” Linnell said. “It is quite clear that our search for u nderstanding, relevance and meaning must be intensified.
“I do not know the answers but by working and learning together—students, faculty, administrators, alumni and community—I am convinced beyond doubt that we can make progress.”
President Topping expressed his approval of the appointment.
“Dr. Linnell’s experience in educational institutions and at the National Science Foundation will make him an outstanding addition to the university staff,” he said.
TIJERINA TO SPEAK TODAY
"The New Mexican-American Community: La Raza" will be the subject of a speech by Reies Tijerina, president of the Federal Alliance of Land Grants, at
11	a.m. today in Hancock Auditorium.
Tijerina, whose speech is sponsored by the Great Issues Forum, has founded the alliance, a militant Spanish-American civil rights group. Its purpose is to protect Spanish-American rights guaranteed in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago, which ended the Mexican War of 1848.
Panel of journalists sees need for major changes in black press
By DIANA TURNER
All the panelists who headed the “Relevancy of the Black Press” discussion yesterday agree there is a need for change.
The six black journalists who composed the panel were asked to head the Founders Hall discussion as part of the Black Awareness Festival.
“The blacks have to depend on white help in order to print newspapers,” said Jim Cleaver of the Los Angeles Sentinel. “The black press was born out of the necessity for black communication. This need for a black media of communication was apparent, and out of this grew the black newspapers.”
Mrs. Louise Merriwether, of the Black Anti-Defamation League, agreed with the rest of the panel that today’s black press is lacking in many ways. “There is a continuing need for the black press to increase communication among the black people,” she said.
Leroy Robinson, of Soul Illustrated, also sees a need for drastic change in the black press. He said he feels that “if the black press is to be successful, a step-up in the news, editorials, etc., is necessary, rather than the present emphasis on social-life news.”
John Floyd, who replaced scheduled panelist Ron Finney of Newsweek, feels that there really isn’t a black press at all.
“The black press, or Negro press, has to restrain the actual news and opinions of its writers in order to survive,” he said.
Cleaver said, “The black press has a hard time getting money to support the factual newspapers they wish to print.”
“Black newspapers are tied down because their money lies in its advertisers,” Mrs. Merriwether said. “They have the authority and financial power to say what will and will not be printed.”
“People are in the newspaper business for one of two reasons—either to print the news the way it is, or to make money,” Cleaver said. “If a paper prints the news the way it is, they should be prepared to lose money for a while until the paper style is excepted and circulation increases. “The black press has always stressed social life and sensationalism instead of being relevant and reporting what they felt,” Mrs. Merriwether said. “Somehow the black press must be a force to change the present social stress to more factual news and black opinions.”
Linnell has been with the National Science Foundation for seven years. He was program director for physical chemistry for three years, and conducted planning studies on national needs in all science fields, with emphasis on graduate science education for two years.
Although trained as a chemist, Linnell has long been interested in the humanities and social sciences, and in school, community and social problems.
At the beginning of this year,
PANTY RAID HITS DORMS
About 100 men stormed EVK Harris Birnkrant dormitories last night, roamed the halls for a few minutes, then returned the dorms to the girls.
The Los Angeles police were not called to the scene.
The raid came at about 9:30 last night and after the initial assault and retreat, the campus police reported that it was "pretty quiet."
Isolated incidents of men trying to get into the dorms continued until about 10. At that time some of the girls armed themselves with water balloons and articles of clothing and beat off the invaders.
he established adult education courses on black history and culture in Montgomery County, Md.
“I am interested in educational needs relevant to social problems of the present, and those which may be predicted for the future,” he said.
“I am interested in the multidisciplinary approach and believe that planning will become an increasingly necessary and important human activity.
“The real challenge appears to be one of finding ways to increase human individuality and meaningful existence as we become a more computerized society.”
Linnell formerly did air pollution research for Scott Research Laboratories in Pennsylvania. He was also associate professor of chemistry at the University of Vermont, associate professor and chairman at the American University in Beirut, and vice-president and technical director of Tizon Chemical Corp.
Linnell attended the University of New Hampshire, where he earned his BJ3. and M.S. degrees, and taught at the University of Rochester, where he received his Ph.D.
He has a wife, Myrle Elizabeth, and four children.
Clay murder suspect faces bleak future
By MIKE PARFIT Editor
Just yards away from the historic room in which Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was tried and sentenced, another trial is beginning. It is the case of People vs. George Edward Williams, and it too is for murder.
Superior Court Department 104 is a moderately sized room with high ceilings and a whirring air conditioner. From the roof hang several loudspeakers that amplify the voice of the judge, George Martin Dell, and the voices of the witnesses.
To the left of the judge, behind a door with a small barred window, is the prisoners’ cell. During the day when the court is not in session, that cell holds one man: George Edward Williams, who used to be called “Jew” because he was tight with his money.
Jew was born in rural Mississippi 21 years ago. At the age of 13, he moved to Chicago where he made it through eighth grade. At 17, he joined the Navy and emerged at Long Beach with an honorable discharge when he was 20. He has lived in the Los Angeles area ever since.
He held various jobs: Driving a truck, working as a day laborer and as a salesman, and nobody took much notice of him. “He minded his own business,” said a girl at the cleaning establishment where he drove a delivery truck. “He was nice.”
He had a few friends, among them a man by the name of Douglas Lorenzo Turnbeau. When he lived on 27th Street, he used to hang around the area with them.
Then, on Dec. 9, something happened which destroyed Jew’s way of living and left him with a very tenuous future. On that night, somebody stabbed an 18-year-old USC freshman named Brian Clay, and Clay died.
Now George Williams is on trial. The prosecution believes he killed Clay. The defense, of course, says no. And in the middle is a tall, good-looking black man who comes out every day to sit passively in the courtroom and listen to lawyers bat his life back and forth across a room. And as he sits there as the days go by, you wonder about his thoughts and about his nature.
“You want me to tell you what kind of guy he is?” asked Willie Holloway, who used to be Jew’s landlord. “He’s a nut.”
It was when he was living at the apartment Holloway managed that Williams was arrested for disturbing the peace.
“When I first met him he was a nice kid/' Holloway said. “He was working and everything. Then he started messing around with these guys, trying to learn to be a singer. That’s when he flipped. I think they must have been slipping him those reds or something. Some people’s minds are too small for that kind of thing.
“He’d do all kinds of goofy things. When he threw a little two- or three-year-old kid in the pool, you knew he was crazy. Somebody
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