University of Southern California
PREREGISTRATION Pho#° by Steve Lan,z
Smiling students wait patiently for the old Law Building to be opened after lunch yesterday.
10,000 to be preregistered
By JERI BANKS and RICH SIMON
With less than three weeks of classes remaining, students are once again standing in lines.
The Registrar's Office estimates that approximately 10.000 students will participate in early registration. Yesterday was the first day students could obtain class cards.
Shortly after midnight Wednesday, students began assembling at the old Law Building in order to be at the front of the lines and insure the acquisition of “R" cards.
A few students camped outside the old Law Building in sleeping bags, undisturbed by the noise of the gathering crowd.
Several students sat with flashlights and books catching up on their semester's homework.
Some were talking and joking with each other. The phrase which recurred most in their conversation was, “There must be a better way.”
By 4 a.m. about 15 students had gathered and were beginning a countdown to 9 a.m., when the registration was to begin.
Refreshments consisting of licorice, animal crackers and beer, were served at about 5 a.m. to a group of 25 students by a sophomore pre-med major.
Several guards and maintenance men entered the Law Building periodically, while every half hour campus security patrolled the area apologizing for their lack of authority to allow students to enter the building.
At 6 a.m. the old Law Building was opened and a rush comparable to that of rooters entering the gate at the Coliseum took place.
People entered the building to endure the final three hours of waiting. These students, now warm and comfortable, enjoyed entertainment provided by a radio as they gleefully watched a crowd gathering outside the building.
At 7 a.m. students were still making last minute changes on their schedules, while swearing that if anyone cut in front of them, they would kill them.
Registration personnel began entering the building and were heartily welcomed by the anxious students.
By 8:30 a.m. the line stretched a distance down University Avenue with students lined up four abreast.
The doors finally opened at 9 a.m. and registration formally began.
The Biology Department is one of the few departments that restricted “H " class cards to just those students with last names beginning A-H. whose names came up yesterday.
The Speech Communication Department at 9 a.m. had a line from its Founders Hall fourth floor office extending down to the other end of the hall to the English office.
Meanwhile, hundreds of students whose names did not come up yesterday persuaded their friends, with A-H last names, to pick up “R” cards for them.
Two Daily Trojan editors were denied entrance at the old Law Building when they tried to acquire “R” cards. Their names begin with M and S.
“I think registration stinks.” said Roger Smith, former Daily Trojan editor.
The Registrar's Office stationed two faculty members at the entrance of the old Law Building in order to insure proper registration procedures. They stood at the entrance all day yesterday checking names and student identifications.
Students will continue to stand in lines as registration continues through next week.
“For all we've gone through, we shouldn't only get an R card, we should get an A in the class as well." said one student.
VOL. LXII NO. 123
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1971
HANGS SELF
Student suicide
By DAVE HOWE
A sophomore in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, was found hanging by the neck in his Trojan Hall dormitory room yesterday afternoon, the victim of an apparent suicide.
Gary Frieden. of Los Angeles, was discovered in the closet, suspended from the clothes rod by a dressing-gown sash. He was found by his roommate, Tom Lewis, a freshman in L.A.S.
Class enrollment today
Students with last names beginning with the letters H-0 may pick up their “R” class cards for fall preregistration today in the old Law School.
Students with last names beginning with the letters A-G were to pick up their class cards yesterday, but students may pick up their cards anytime after their letter has been called.
The cards will be handed out according to the following schedule: H-K, 9 a.m. to noon today; L-O, 1 to 4 p.m. today; P-S, 9 a.m. to noon Monday; T-Z, 1 to 4 p.m. Monday.
“H” class cards will be available as soon as the cdividual departments receive them.
Registration for the six-week summer session which lasts from June 28 to Aug. 7 will be on June 25 and 26; registration for the seven-week session from June 21 to Aug. 7 will be on June 17, 18, 19 and 21; for the twelve-week session from June 14 to Sept. 4, registration will be on June 11, 12 and 14; for the general post session from Aug. 9 to Sep. 4, registration will be held on Aug. 6 and 7.
Sgt. R.L. Ticer. of the Los Angeles Police Department, said that the 20-year-old student's death was due to strangulation. No note was found.
After informing Norm Spiro, men’s complex manager, Lewis left the campus. When he returned, he preferred not to comment.
However, other residents of the floor described Frieden as a loner and a person who is easily upset. “He was a very sensitive person,” one floor member commented. “He played the guitar and wrote his own songs and lyrics.”
Several other residents on the floor said that Frieden seldom participated in activities and was away from the hall most of the time.
Loren Smets, Frieden’s resident advisor, said, “He rarely came out of his room during the first of the semester. But. we finally got him interested in playing bridge.”
Ira Chaffin. Trojan Hall head resident, commented that it has not been policy to keep close watch on dormitory residents with problems. “I don’t know what good it would do if we informed everyone of a certain person’s problem.” he said.
However, Chaffin noted that no one in the housing office had any prior knowledge of any reason for Frieden's action.
Frieden, a transfer student from San Fernando Valley State College, arrived on this campus in the spring semester and moved into the dormitory in March.
Orson Welles discusses cinema with students
ByD. FRANK CULBERTSON
Orson Welles visited the campus Wednesday night to hold a dialogue with students about cinema past, present and future. The noted actor, author and filmmaker spoke with an SRO crowd and answered questions concerning his opinions and his life.
In response to one cinema student who explained that he neglected other courses because he found his cinema classes so absorbing. Welles said, “I disapprove of that very strongly. I think the total amount of information that can be given about movies is so small and the total importance of learning about the world and its culture is so great for any film maker that to get all absorbed in making films during an education period is a mistake.”
ORSON WELLES
“I don’t believe that a movie should be socially unconscious, and I do believe that it can be enormously effective as propaganda. But I know there are dedicated film makers and students of film making who truly and rightfully, if that is their opinion, believe in it as fundamentally vehicular, that is, as a means of saying something, rather than for itself.”
Welles feels that in today’s society film as an art form is enormously overrated. He said that man has not yet proven that movies should be classed with such forms as literature, paintings and so forth. “We may still really belong with puppets,” he said.
In a general statement to students of all majors, Welles said. “Consider seriously whether you should go back to work next year at this university or try to work on your own. You should examine everyday whether you aren’t just having fun or whether you are truly and constructively preparing yourself for a career that you have chosen.” Welles stressed that he didn’t mean the students should not be involved in academic endeavors, but that they should examine the situation around them.
Welles felt that extended education in the mechanics of cinema is unnecessary.
“The entire body of cinematic knowledge is so small that it can be taught to any intelligent adult in a cramming course in no time at all.” he said.
“The technique of movies is absolute nonsense. Learn the lenses, learn how to read a light meter and that’s it.
There’s nothing else to it. The point of your school is you're learning what to do with this machine which you’ve learned to work.”
The director said he didn't think this was a sign of his arrogance: he termed it humility. “If you get to be my age and your only excuse is to be what's called a master of the cinema, and if you’re willing to admit that the whole thing can be learned in a few days, it isn’t very arrogant.
Welles closed by saying that film definitely has a social responsibility. “A film maker doesn't have the responsibility, to deliver necessarily political or moral ideas, he said, “but he does have the responsibility not to deliver evil ones, not to feed in any way or to encourage those poisons from which we are dying.”
Student rep form available
Applications for ASSC independent representative are now available in the Student Activities Center.
The two independent representatives are voting members of the ASSC Executive Council. To be eligible, students must be registered fulltime and have no less than a 2.5 grade-point average.
Appointments are made by the Student Court Selection Committee.
Applications may be of any class standing.