'Toad'play opens tonight
Stop Gap Theatre will be infested by rats, toads, weasels, mice, badgers and even moles tonight through Saturday.
The animals will be scrambling across the stage as part of “Toad of Toad Hall,” a sophisticated play for children that is being staged for the benefit of both USC .students and children of the Tutorial Project.
Drama Division students will be portraying the animals — and a few human characters as well.
“Toad” will be presented at 8 tonight through Saturday for students and anyone else who is interested.
Two special performances will also be put on Saturday for this and last year's Tutorial Project children.
The production is directed by Steve Lerian. drama student, and is staged and acted by members of the Drama Division s experimental theater class. The same class staged three one-act plays two weeks ago.
The Drama Division is cooperating with the Community Action Coordinating Council to present the entertainment for the Tutorial Project children. “Toad” is also a children's theatre project.
The play is an adaptation of the famous children's book. “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame. and was written for the stage by A.A. Milne, creator of “Winnie the Pooh.”
It centers on its hero, Toad of Toad Hall, a swaggering.
irritating braggart. Does Toad learn his lesson by the play's end? Not a chance.
Richard Nathan stars as Toad, with Danny Turner, Jeff Sosnick and Bill Paschong also featured.
Reese Larson designed the scenery, costumes and makeup.
Tickets are available at the door or by calling 746-SHOW for reservations. Prices are $1 for adults, 50c for children.
“Toad" is one of many plays the Drama Division is staging this semester. Two more will be put on before Christmas vacation — the mainstage production “A Flea in Her Ear” in Bovard Auditorium and “Tobacco Road” in Stop Gap.
University of Southern California
DAILY ® TROJAN
VOL. LXIV NO. 47
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1971
Student ticket policy set
Student tickets for most of USC's basketball games will be issued under a different policy this year, said Robert Mannes, dean of student life.
Tickets for the first three home basketball games (against USF. Loyola, and Utah i will be available as in the past, on the Monday before the game in the Student Ticket
Office. A new system will be installed from then on. however.
Beginning Dec. 13, students will be able to receive all home tickets for the entire season (except the UCLA game) at the same time, provided they follow the new system.
Students who attend the USC-Loyola and USC-Utah games will have first priority in re-
Council GPA's withheld
Information on the grade averages of members of the ASSC Executive Council was obtained yesterday by Paul Moore, director of student activities, but not released to the Student Court. Moore felt he lacked the authority to do so.
The court subsequently recommended that the council establish a mechanism to enfore the 2.5 GPA rule of the ASSC Constitution.
Bob Glushon. freshman representative and plaintiff in the case, said that he and other members of the council will draw up a resolution to that effect and present it at the council meeting next Tuesday.
Steve Knowles, court chief justice, expressed his concern that some members of the council may delay in enforcing this provision of the constitution in order to protect themselves.
Joel Rosenzweig, ASSC vice-president for programs, refused to allow his GPA to be released. Moore then declined to release any of the information, saying that it was considered confidential and its release required the written consent of the student involved or authority from the administration ----
ceiving tickets for the rest of the season. Those who attend these games are asked to take their student ID and present it with his ticket stub for validation at the Sports Arena.
Then, on Dec. 13. the Ticket Office will issue tickets for all remaining home games, except UCLA, to those who present their two stubs from the Loyola and Utah games, their ID. and their activity books.
On Dec. 14. students who have only one of the two validated ticket stubs, along with their ID and activity books, will then be given tickets to the remaining home games, depending on how many are available by that time.
Then, on Dec. 15. tickets will be available to all students who present only their ID and activity book.
“When the big games come around, the student rooter who really supports the team can t get a seat (under the old system)," said Brian Heimerl, assistant student activities director. Heimerl helped Mannes develop the new system.
THE OLD AND THE NEW-Will Hertzberg, Daily Trojan photographer, contrasts the harsh contour of aging University Avenue streetlamps with the smooth symmetry of the modern Von KleinSmid Center tower. A red filter was used to enhance the contrast.
ASSC convention will soon hold open hearings
The eight committees of the ASSC constitutional convention will hold open hearings soon so that the general student body will have a chance to express opinions on constitution-related topics.
At the convention's second session Tuesday, delegates voted to require each committee to hold at least two open hearings before committee work is completed.
The three committees that are expected to be the most important are those on the executive and legislative branches, judicial branch, and revenue. Each of those committees has seven members.
Dan Smith is the chairman of the committee on the executive and legislative branches: Marshall Oldman, chairman of the judicial committee; Gary Wayland. chairman of the revenue committee.
All committee chairmen were approved by the full convention Tuesday. •	*■
Chairmen of the other live committees are Bill Crowe, removal, recall and initiative committee; Dean Davison, amendments and convention: Katya Gritsky. ratification and enabling: Gregg Kendall, elections and eligibility: Shelley Nolan, preamble, purpose. name and membership.
Political murders examined
By RICH SIMON
Eight years after the John F. Kennedy assassination and following a two-year investigation by the Warren Commission, many facts of the fatal presidential shooting remain a mystery.
In a new experimental college class, “Political Assassinations of the Decade,” Terry Fraze, a student at Santa Monica City College and USC, discusses the different theories of the John and Robert Kennedy, Malcom X and Martin Luther King assassinations.
Fraze devoted the first four sessions to studying President Kennedy's assassination. He examined the Warren Commission in depth and showed several films taken by observers of the shooting, including the Zapruder, Hughes and Nix films.
“The American public has never seen the whole Zapruder film," said Fraze. After purchasing the film from its owner. Life Magazine removed various frames from the film and stored them away in their classified files. Fraze claims that he has a copy of the entire Zapruder film, uncut and unedited. “Life Magazine is holding back the truth from the public." said Fraze. He said one of his purposes in teaching the class is to persuade Life to give up the Zapruder film for public domain.
Fraze also discusses the one-assassin theory of the Warren Commission and examines several curiosities, unanswered by the government's investigation.
One of the curiosities of the JFK assassination is the umbrella man." A man dressed in a conservative dark suit, in his thirties or early forties, stood as a marker of where the assassination was to occur. In photos taken
immediately after the assassination, he is seen with the umbrella closed, casually watching the scramble of spectators. He is last seen walking up the street.
The mystery that Fraze discusses is that he holds the only open umbrella on the motorcade's route “It had stopped raining three hours before and by noon the skies were cloudless and a gusty wind would have made holding an umbrella somewhat of a problem," said Fraze. This man. who was one of the closest spectators of the shooting, was never identified.
Fraze examines several faults of the Warren Commission. One is the one bullet-super bullet theory, in which the Warren Commission said a single bullet entered Kennedy's back, exited his neck, entered former Gov. John Connallv's back, and exited through Connally's leg and' hand. Fraze analyzes the trajectory, angle, and timing of the three shots, which the Warren Commission claims Oswald fired, and he disproves the one assassin theory.
“The officials thought the super bullet went through Kennedy's throat, but Dallas doctors claim Kennedy had a tracheotomy." Fraze said “The public won t know the truth about this, either, since the autopsy report is locked up until 2039." he said.
Fraze expects to tie the assassinations of Martin Luther King. Malcolm X and the Kennedy brothers together. He will also discuss the recent political assassination of Jordan Prime Minister Wasfi Tel.
‘The goal of the class is to present the truth to concerned students," said Fraze. “Political Assassinations of the Decade” is taught Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Founders Hall.