University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL. XIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1968
NO. 7
EDITORIAL
Faculty Able To Handle Alcohol
The recent protests against the issuance of a liquor license to the Faculty Center are both unreasonable and insulting.
Mrs. Ruby Newell protests that the granting of such a license will doom us to wasted lives as inmates of mental institutions or penitentiaries. She further states that the issuance of a liquor license to the Faculty Center will cause our moral decline under “professors under the influence of alcohol.”
Mrs. Newell owes an apology to both the members of the faculty and to the students of this university for her unwar ranted insulting accusations.
The USC faculty is an intelligent, responsible body of men and women. They are quite capable of limiting the amount of alcohol they consume without any help from Mrs. Newell or any other individual who purports to know what’s best for this university.
Dr. Topping and the Board of Trustees have given their approval to the liquor license application filed with the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department. If the proposal meets with their approval there should be no question as to moral consequences.
Mrs. Newell, Kenneth Hahn and the others who object so strongly to this liquor license application can rest assured that those who run this university are very much concerned with the moral fiber of the community and would make no recommendation which would destroy it.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn objects to granting of a liquor license to the Faculty Center on the grounds that the Methodist Church which founded this university would not find it desirable.
As Hahn himself pointed out, USC is a nonsectarian university and it is neither run by, or for the benefit of, the Methodist Church. It is of no concern to USC whether or not the Methodist Church approves of serving liquor to faculty members and it should be of no concern to the Methodist Church if this university choses to do so.
USC would not be the first California university to serve liquor in their Faculty Center. Stanford University serves liquor in their Faculty Center and that school is still turning out well-educated men and women of high moral character.
The filing of these formal protests has resulted in an indefinite delay in the issuance of a liquor license to the Faculty Center. Hopefully, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department will make every attempt to schedule a hearing as soon as possible, and after this hearing is held, will act favorably on the application filed by the Faculty Center.
—By CAROL FRIEDMAN
Protests Halt Hearing For Liquor License
By CAROL FRIEDMAN
“The granting of this license will jeopardize the safety, morals, health and welfare of the people.”
This is the opinion expressed by Mrs. Ruby R. Newell of South Pasadena, in a written protest against the issuance of a liquor license to the USC Faculty Center.
Mrs. Newell’s protest, filed with the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department, is only one of four formal objections raised since the Faculty Center filed for a liquor license on April 2.
Among the group protesting issuance of a liquor license is Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, an alumnus of USC.
Mrs. Newell’s written protest, representative of the objections
raised, continues, “Professors under the influence of liquor may endanger lives and morals of students.
“This may result in many students to become inmates of mental institutions or penitentiaries instead of becoming useful citizens.
“Rape, murders, suicides and venereal diseases will likely increase and criminal situations may result. If this license is granted many other colleges and universities may make similar demands and thus multiply dangerous problems.”
Mrs. Newell’s protest, along with those of Paul B. Wilcox of Long Beach and Iva Ernsberger of Los Angeles, have forced the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department to delay issuance of a
Car Thefts Lead Police Crime List
By KARIN SALISBURY
Car thefts seem to be the major problem of the Campus Police this summer. Cars are being stolen from parking lots and streets bordering USC. So far, Victor E. Sargent, head of the Campus Police, said that there have been four cars reported stolen since the beginning of this summer session.
When asked how to prevent such car thefts, Sargent reported that it is impossible to pre-
vent them. “If somebody wants to steal your car, they simply stick a tube up the vent or jump the ignition. It doesn’t make any difference if the doors are locked. If they want your car bad enough, they’ll get it.”
Other thefts which keep the Campus Police busy are bicycle thefts and the burglarizing of USC buildings for office equipment.
Only 25 percent of all stolen bicycles are found.
liquor license to the Faculty Center until a hearing can be held.
As yet no date has been set for a hearing and it may be some time before the issue can be resolved.
Supervisor Hahn’s protest is ineligible for consideration, according to a department spokesman, since his written protest was received after the 30-day deadline.
In his statement to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department, Hahn wrote that issuance of a liquor license to the Faculty Center would be in violation of a law which savs liquor may not be served within 1,000 feet of a university.
The department spokesman pointed out, however, that under Section 172 of the Penal Code, liquor may be served on a campus if it is for faculty members only.
Hahn’s only other objection to the liquor license application is that although USC is a nonsectarian university, it was founded by the Methodist Church and that the church would not find granting of this license desirable.
When a date is set for a hearing on this matter those voicing objections will be notified so that they may testify before a hearing officer.
The hearing officer v/ill make his recommendations to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Department and the department’s director will decide whether or not the Faculty Center will be granted a liquor license.
Performing Arts Gets $250,000 Donation
The Annenberg School of Communications in Philadelphia extended a helping hand today to USC, its sister institution, with a $250,000 commitment to support the communications area in the new $3.5 million Center for the Performing Arts which will be built.
President Walter Annenberg wrote President Topping and Mr. Justin Dart, Chairman of the USC Board of Trustees, to inform them of the grant.
Founded in 1959, the Annenberg School conducts graduate instruction and research in the arts and sciences, contributing to the understanding and improvement of communications between men. It has studios, laboratories, and other facilities at the University of Pennsylvania for studies and research in television, radio, film, writing, graphic communications, and in general communications processes and effects.
“This most generous gift will give national impetus to the concepts of communication and the arts which Mr. Annenberg holds dear,” President Topping said. “The confidence Mr. Annenberg has shown in USC and the Performing Arts is a great asset, and will help materially in funding this new building which will house the University’s educational plant for Cinema, Music, and Drama."
Associate Dean Bernard Kantor of the School
of Performing Arts and Chairman of the Division of Cinema called the Annenberg grant a keystone in the School’s campaign for funds.
“This new Center will be one of the most intelligently exciting, best equipped and most inviting centers of its kind and of great benefit to both the students and the surrounding Los Angeles community,” Dr. Kantor said. “Because of the Center’s proximity to the motion picture industry and The Music Center, its faculty and students will have an excellent opportunity to coordinate research, performance, and study — all in one dynamic urban laboratory.
“It will bring together the creative disciplines in one Center which will provide opportunities for interdisciplinary study and programming. In this setting, the Center will become a focus for creativity in the western United States. To give direction to the widespread awakening of interests in the arts throughout the West is a great challenge to the teacher and benefactor of the arts alike.”
Dr. Kantor said that the School of Music and the Divisions of Cinema and Drama already are renowned for their outstanding presentations and that this excellence will continue in the new School of Performing Arts.
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Photo by Karsh, Ottawa
WALTER ANNENBERG Donated $250,000 to the Performing Arts Center.