Response to 'talk’ poor so far
j Support from faculty members seemed spotty yesterday to the “half hour to talk” requested Monday by the Daily Trojan. Although two classes did spend some time discussing the issue of the university and the community yesterday, an informal poll of faculty members conducted by the Daily Trojan showed that most were not aware of the paper’s request and some didn’t like it.
On Monday, the Daily Trojan had asked that for the last three days of this week every professor give a half hour of class time per class to discussion of the university and the community.
“I think the talks would be inappropriate in a chemistry class,” Prof. Arthur Adamson, a professor of chemestry, said when telephoned by a reporter. “We don’t talk about music or other things either.” He added that he felt the talks could possibly be relevant to the university but “not as a concerted effort. I think the Daily Trojan is out of line.”
Several other professors said that they thought the “half hour to talk” was a good idea and that they would probably do something about it in their classes, but most of those called did not know what it was.
“This is a disappointing reaction,” Mike Parfit, editor of
the Daily Trojan said. “I guess we’ll have to leave it to the students to inform their instructors.”
The two classes that did spend time talking about the issue, which the Daily Trojan has called a “crisis,” were an economics class taught by Prof. Michael DePrano and Political Science 435, taught by Dr. Fred Krinsky, chairman of the Political Science department. Notes from both of the classes were taken to the Daily Trojan offices.
In Dr. Krinsky’s class, the secretary reported that at the start of the discussion four students walked out, two saying that they didn’t want to talk
about the issue and two others saying they felt it was useless to discuss it because the university wasn’t going to do anything anyway.
Some of the suggestions that came out of that class were: There should be on-campus tutoring for minority students; there should be a college preparatory course for minority students; USC should become community oriented; there should be some consumer education classes for the community; and that the university should invest more money in the community.
In the economics class, discussion ranged from cirticism of the university to criticism of
the critics to the inequities in society. One suggestion made was to “maximize the self-interest so more people would go out into the community and do things.” Another student said that nothing will ever come out of individuals going out and doing things.
One member of the class attacked the criticism of the university, saying that it “says we are failing but it doesn’t say how we are failing.”
Talking about education, one student said: “Education has to deal with reality. It should be integrated with the community.”
University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1969, VOL. LX, NO. 113
Men’s dorms get liberal visitation
Last Friday saw the beginning of the most liberal visitation program for the men’s dorms ever permitted here.
From now on men may have female visitors in their rooms from 1 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday and from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.
As of now, men are not allowed to visit women’s rooms in the Women’s Complex.
By the new rules, male hosts must sign their names in a register in the lobby at some time before a visit by a female guest.
The host must sign out when the visit is ended.
The new rules, which were approved by Dean Paul Bloland on April 21, also state that the guest must be escorted by the host to and from his room; that the name, room, and phone number of a house officer on duty must be posted in the lobby; and that hosts must keep their room doors open when guests are inside.
Mike Bacon, MHA president, has pointed out, however, that the rules do not define the meaning of the word “open.”
The rules also say that the following infractions of rules may result in the suspension or cancellation of visitation by the Dean of Students:
•	Having women in the “non lobby” areas of the dorm prior to or after the visitation hours.
•	“Rude or unseemly” activity on the part of the guest or host (host here is defined as the individual escort and/or all the dorm residents.)
•	Displaying room decorations “in poor taste” (referring especially to nude foldouts, etc.,) “defacing walls or halls,” etc.
•	Failure to comply with dorm regulations.
Each house elects a visitation chairman to oversee the program, and a majority of the residents may vote at any time to exclude any or all of the visitation hours for their dorm.
The new proposal was worked out for six months by Bacon, Jerry Edmund, former MHA president, and Mark Gasser, the secretary-treasurer.
They began with an 18-page report which included comments from head residents and resident advisors, the philosophy of visitation, and the statistics of the old visitation program.
These previous rules allowed visitation with stipulations similar to those of the present rules—from 7 p.m. to midnight on Friday, and from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
'SEMESTER’ FORMS DUE
Special meetings for those applying for the fall Urban Semester course will be held May 6, 7, and 8 in the Student Activities Center from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Applications for the course, which are available in Phillips Hall 304, are due May 12.
There are no prerequisites for application as far as grades, majors, or class status but only 40 students, including some who do not attend USC, will be accepted for the fall program.
The 16-unit course will run from Sept. 15 to Jan. 24. Tuition is $900.
Run-off for MHA office held today
The third run-off election for Men’s Halls Association president will be held today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the main desks of the men’s complex, Stonier, Touton, and Town and Gown dormitories.
Chris Hynes, who led in last week’s second run-off, is running against write-in candidate Dan Lunham. Nader Oskoui, a third candidate, was defeated last week.
Anonymous letter blasts university
Copies of an anonymous letter addressed to No. 123456, USC student, blasting the university, were circulated throughout the campus yesterday.
The letters were printed on what appeared to be official paper from the Office of the Dean of Students.
The list of accusations read: “A USC student hung himself about
10	days ago. Black athletes cannot compete if they are members of the BSU. ‘Concerned’ fathers have proposed a barbed-wire fence around the Row. The Student Health Center breached professional ethics by releasing personal case information. The university has lost at least two students because of alienation in the last two weeks.”
Dean Bloland said that the stationery in question, earning the letterhead of his department, had been printed four yerrs ago, and that apparently some was still floating around.
The first statement apparently refers to the off-campus death on April 17 of an ex-USC fine arts student by what appeared to be suicide. He had been registered in the university for the fall semester, but did not officially return in the spring. He was occasionally seen on campus this term, sitting in on fine arts classes.
In response to the accusation concerning black athletes, Jess Hill, the athletic director said, “I doubt very seriously that the coaches even know if any black athletes belong to the BSU.”
He said that no problems concerning the situation had ever arisen in the past, and the possibility had never been mentioned in a meeting of the coaches. Hill said that he and the coaches were concerned only with the ability and efforts of the men as athletes.
Dean Bloland said that a group of parents had approached the university administration with a plan to fence in the Row, but added that the proposal had been rejected as a bad idea.
Dr. Greeley, director of the Student Health Center, refused to answer the accusations concerning his department befcause of the unofficial and anonymous nature of the communication.
Official Health Center policy requires the written consent of both the doctor in charge and the individual concerned before any records are released or revealed.
SENSITIVITY WORKSHOP TO BE HELD BY CACC
The Community Action Coordinating Council's Summer Orientation Program, a sensitivity session workshop scheduled to begin May 3, will acquaint interested students with community interaction.
CACC is the planning and coordinating center for students involved in community projects. Dan Smith, executive director, says the council consists of 400 students working in more than a dozen projects which affect 1,000 residents in the University Park area.
Saturday's program at the Student Activities Center will be geared toward CACC summer projects—the Summer Sports Leagues and Troy Camp. The summer league is a little league for neighborhood youngsters.
Troy Camp takes 300 underprivileged elementary school students to a summer camp near Idyllwild. Seventy USC students serve as counselors.
Ernie Preacely will direct the sensitivity training session on Saturday. The film "0 dem Wadermelons" will be shown at the program which will begin at 10 a.m. and conclude at 5 p.m.
Universal, cinema department will offer joint summer courses
Universal Studios and the Division of Cinema are offering three summer courses in film making: one for high school seniors, college freshmen and sophomores; one for graduate students not majoring in cinema and another for high school teachers.
Those interested in these programs should ask at the Cinema Office or call 746-2235 or 746-2237. The deadline for enrollment is May 30.
The undergraduate course is a noncredit course for high school and lower division students with a high academic average.
Most of the work in this course will be done at the Universal lot, with evening classes on campus. All those enrolled in the program, which runs from June 23 to August 1, will be required to live at USC. Tuition, room and board is $1,000.
The class sight-unit for graduate non-cinema students and high school teachers will be held two days a week at the studios. The rest of the week classes will meet on campus.
Tuition for both of these programs is $486. This does not cover housing or meals.
The high school and lower division students will be introduced to sound stage procedures. Then they will participate with studio executives in seminars covering script writing, story analysis, camera and sound techniques, acting, casting, musical scoring and laboratory procedures.
The graduate programs will be devoted to motion picture history and criticism, and an eight millimeter production workshoD.