University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1969, VOL. LX, NO. 68
Nearly 650 friends and employees of the cinema industry honored Steve McQueen, Greer Garson and producer Ross Hunter at the annual Delta Kappa Alpha cinema fraternity awards banquet Sunday night. McQueen, left, was presented his award by Dr. Norman Topping, president of the university.	Photo by Mark s. Vasche
Chicago students reject sit-in,favor amnesty
CHICAGO (UPI)—A student opinion poll at the embattled University of Chicago indicates a jamority believe protesters should not have started their sit-in at the school’s A dministration Building, but should be granted amnesty for their acts.
The results of the poll were published in The Maroon, the student newspaper, as housing eviction notices were served to six of the rebels and a special Disciplinary Committee heard from five students accused of participating in the 12-day sit-in.
Unlike meetings of the Disciplinary Committee Friday and Saturday, when the student dissidents disrupted sessions, yesterday’s hearing was quiet.
Steve Rothrug, spokesman for a half-dozen demonstrators who listened to the proceedings, said they did not attempt to break up the hearing because: “There weren’t enough of us today.”
Rothkrug distributed a pamphlet calling the Disciplinary Committee illegitimate and demanding amnesty for students who have participated in the sit-in.
Some 300 to 400 students began the sit-in Jan. 30 to enforce demands that a woman sociology professor, Mrs. Marlene Dixon, be retired. They also asked that students be given equal voice, with the
enrollment of more Negroes and poor persons.
The number of students actively engaged in the sit-in appeared to dwindle last week.
The poll was conducted by two graduate students, William Ouchi and Mrs. Ellen Fried, who said they checked every 13th name in the student directory and interviewed a total of 679 students.
They said 58.2 per cent of the students questioned said they believed the dissidents should not have started the sit-in and 33.3 per cent believed they should have started it. In an almost identical ratio, 58.3 per cent favored amnesty for the sitters-in while 33.2 per cent opposed amnesty.
Plays to be held in spite of controversy
By TIM TAYLOR Assistant city editor
The Living Theater, probably the foremost experimental repertory group in America, will appear here this month in spite of a short-lived controversy which erupted last week.
The ASSC Festival of Arts Committee is sponsoring the group, which will perform a series of four plays beginning Monday, Feb. 24.
Although the decision to bring the Living Theater to USC was made in October and the contract signed before Christmas, no one seemed to be too concerned until advertisements for the program began appearing two weeks ago.
In particular, the ad which appeared in the Los Angeles Free Press last week was sufficient to cause a few questioning phone calls to university administrators.
The Festival Committee and even the theater group thought that the advertisement was a misrepresentation, and it was hastily changed. Even so, administrators, quietly began to try to find out more about the group.
What controversy there was came to and end yesterday afternoon when President Norman
Topping announced that the Living Theater group would very definitely appear on schedule.
Included in the program are two completely original plays, “Mysteries and Smaller Pieces” and “Paradise Now,” and adaptations of two older plays “Frankenstein” and “Antigone.”
“Paradise Now” is the play which has drawn the most controversy of the four. Its announced goal is to end hunger, fear, persecution, death at the hands of men, lovelessness, and humiliation. The play involves, in fact, demands, audience participation, and was designed to “reach out to the people in the audience, involving them in new ways both politically and dramatically, psychologically, and imaginatively, physically and intellectually.”
“Traditional critical standards simply don’t work with the Living Theater,” the Newsweek reviewer said. “In one sense they are beyond criticism—exasperating, boring, outrageous and high-handed as they can be, their authenticity of spirit is beyond question as is their desire to settle for nothing but real change in the human beings who are the ultimate substance of both art and life.”
Archaeologist Leakey to speak in Bovard tomorrow
Louis S.B. Leakey, noted anthropologist and archaeologist, will speak tomorrow at 1:15 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
Leakey has spent most of his life searching the African Continent for fossil evidence of early man. He has maintained that man originated in Africa, not in Asia, as many authorities believe.
Leakey was born in Kabete, Kenya in a community of the Kikuyu, Kenya’s largest tribe. His parents were missionaries sent by the British Church Missionary Society and he learned to speak the local dialects before he could understand English.
After receiving his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, Leakey concentrated his efforts in Africa. He found the Kanam jaw, a find that has since been disputed, a prehistoric flint factory, and innumerable bones of extinct animal species, but nothing that could be authentically associated with early man.
But in 1948, on the island of Rusinga in Lake Victoria in Kenya, he made one of his most important finds: the skull of an ape-like creature, known as Proconsul Africanus, that lived from 25 to 40 million years ago. The creature is considered, by authorities today, to be a common ancestor of both mankind and the apes and the root stock of all the higher primates.
Leakey is also known for his findings at the Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania, where he has uncovered more than 100 different forms of extinct animal life.
Leakey has challenged the generally accepted concept of orderly evolution by theorizing that “man as a mammal must have evolved. . .with frequently contemporary species in the earlier stages of his evolution just as there were many contemporary species of pig side by side at Olduvai.”
Leakey once stalked a gazelle, killed it with his hands, and skinned it with a prehistoric
stone tool just to see what early man could do with the artifacts available to him.
Leakey is the author of Adam’s Ancestors and Stone-Age Africa, among others, and holds honorary degrees from Oxford University and the University of California.
LOUIS LEAKEY
Poll indicates student norms
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permanent faculty in the hiring and firing of faculty members.
While most of the university’s students refused to join the sit-in and attended classes, the rebel group expanded its demands to exclude amnesty from punishment and a number of other points, including
A survey taken last fall by the ASSC Research Commission shows the average USC student to be white, upper-middle class, and relatively unconcerned about campus issues.
The idea behind the survey is to gain a better understanding of the USC community, according to Jeff White, chairman of the commission.
“We are trying to find out what are the values, norms, and behavorial characteristics of the student body.”
“We are not so concerned with large numbers, in other words, numerical majorities. Rather, we are concerned with the totality of the student body.”
Two more surveys, plus a further analysis of the present one, are planned for this semester. One survey will consider the entertainment desires of students, and the other will enlarge upon the attitudes expressed in this one.
The brainchild of Bill Mauk, ASSC president, the survey polled 629 students in randomly selected classes.
Although this is the first time such a survey has been taken at SC, White believes it to be fairly accurate.
“We have no way of knowing just how accurate it is,” White said, “but our figures are fairly consistent with those supplied by the Registrar’s Office.”
The survey basically is in two sections. One explores student
demo-graphic backgrounds, and the other expresses students’ attitudes on various issues.
The class breakdown of those polled is: Freshman, 11 percent; sophomore, nine per cent; junior, 12 per cent; senior, 10 per cent with the rest doing graduate and professional work.
The racial composition of those polled is 85 per cent Caucasian, two per cent Negro, nine per cent Oriental, and four per cent Spanish—American.
Students were asked to check the annual income of either their parents or themselves, whichever was greater. Of this, 33 per cent said the income is $10,000 and $20,000, and 30 per cent between $20,000 and $100,000. Sixteen per cent replied between $3,000 and $10,000, while four per cent replied over $100,000 and two per cent less than $3,000.
Only three per cent of the students’ replied that their parents had completed less than eight grades. Twenty-one per cent of the parents have at least a high school diploma, and 25 per cent spent some time in college but did not graduate. Twenty-four per cent have B.A. degrees, nine per cent have their M.A.’s, three per cent their doctorate, and 11 per cent have a professional degree.
There was a question concerning students’ religious preferences, but according to White, the results were such that no valid conclaim could be made.	Continued on Page 4