ampus Wins Recognition Fight
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., THURSDAY, DEC. 1, 1955
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Gotta be Crazy/ >ies Max Shulman
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humorist Tells Difficulties Facing Would-be Writers
By Jean Freudenthal
; Shulman, nationally known humor writer, had one ng to say about his profession yesterday.
Ljrj, med Shulman, “sure beats working.” iking on "So You Want to Be a Writer, You Fool ffore a capacity audience, Shulman told the woes of
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Discussion ot Current Woes
tiled that he once sug-, New York magazine perhaps a change in ■f buying manuscripts ■ i
More than 1200 prospective teachers will meet Saturday in 'J’re so smart,' the editor I Bovard Auditorium to discuss the ^“then why ain't you | drastic shortage of teachers 1 throughout the nation, editors." said Shulman, I The SC School of Education and P> superior to magazine ' Phi Delta Kappa, national men'* honorary education fraternity, is sponsoring the Second Annual Future Teachers Conference, to be held from 9 a m. to 1 p.m.
Acute Situation The shortage of teachers is par-In this racket ticularly acute in California. SIpIpss writer is confront- There are more than 2 million withla "vocabulary unknown children in state schools now. but in five years the number will be increased to 3 million.
On the other hand, teachers are leaving the profession, which contributes more to the shortage. According to statistics published in HHr I "rechannelling of the , the Monthly Bulletin of the School rativi -troan	of Education, 300,000 teachers in
l thinks plavwritine is the United State, have quit e writer’s Waterloo. [ teaching in the past four years, to be thoroughly insane "To staff its schools, Califoi-write la play he sa‘d. "Even ™a. alone must find 6a.000 new
because they have lev. Actually th" book |quaM' as retarded as the lbos« ”
he villi'!' is made a party to ^ftndniii ' Il he tries to get published In this racket pless writer is confront-"vocabulary unknown [outside the book pub-_irld."
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with ^ if h criticisms as "pass-(•ing germain.” "sections reorientating to the
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A HAPPY OUEEN—That'* Rosalind Blauco, 10-year-old polio victim who will reign at 1955
Acacia formal. Betty McGinnis, Dave Kaylor/ and Barry Steed congratulate her.
Young Polio Victim To Reign at Acacia
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: buys a play and it the trials of getting a sctor. luodiuvi choreographer, hestra, a ini'i theater for re-nl	the chances
only S in 10 that the play will Mftl Hroadway critics, leaaont : that "95 per cent of (Wblif ig business is do tv in s and that agents can drink ler 'thin editors,” Shulman lised the "men behind the ties’1 wh" et In per cent of the iter’i i -eipts.
teachers in the next five years.” the bulletin said. "Yet smaller and smaller numbers of California’s young people are entering the teaching profession.”
Olson Speaks The SC conference wiU start at 9 a.m. with Dr. Myron Olson, assistant professor of education, giving the keynote address on "Why Be a Teacher?" .
‘The great advantage with teaching is that you are working i with personalities, rather than . will return to his home work;ng with things," Dr. Olson cut shortly, but he will sa
to work with George | p(jne, digcussions at Saturday'.
™ 1 conference will be conducted hy more than 100 Southern California school superintendents, teachers, and principals.
Dr. Olson pointed out that there are not only requests for m i ja/ine Skv U Mah | teacher* in local elementary and Hb'- w;!e at college, ami secondary schools, but also nee the "bonan- ror many private military tu on for out-of-state college positions, and for placement in foreign schools.
Many Vacancies
According to Edith Weir, direr-tor of the SC Bureau of Teacher Placement, during 1954-55 the bureau received calls for 10,705 positions and had only 1680 appli-cants registered.
Mrs. Weir said the best bets for future positions in teaching un lhe basis of unfilled requests are for girls’ physical education teachers and college instructors in physical science and mathematics. There is also a great need for teacher* of the hard of hearing, sight saving, and the palsied.___
Rosalind Blauco will be a radiant, smiling queen Saturday night even though her small body is encased in a cast.
A 10-year-old polio victim, she has been chosen to reign over the 1955 Acacia Black and Gold Formal.
She is a fifth grade student at Washington Boulevard School and a frequent patient at the Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital. It was from the Hospital that Acacians learned of Rosalind. After an inter-
view, the fraternity selected her over five other girls.
The crowning of Queen Rosalind will be the highlight of the fraternity formal. As Acacia Queen, she will reign over the dinner-dance at the Beverly-Hil-ton Hotel.
The Queen will receive a complete wardrobe, a formal, and toys from the fraternity. The gifts
and brothers at 1745 West 59th Place. Her younger brother, David, is now recovering from a similar attack of polio,
Barry Steed, committee chairman, will escort the queen and her mother to the dinner-dance and throughout the evening.
The selection of a queen from the Orthopedic Hospital has been an Acacia tradition for the past
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•ty ■he Snulmans have four sees U, 10, 7, and 5. Mitolef the weekly humor col-th*1 appe.ii* crv Monday in Shulman is now work-® 11 la unf a hook. When •lO' nd where he gets his ■ n pin d "I just chase pnd the room until I cor-
Freshmen and sophomores from the College of letters, Arte, and Sciences are requested to to make appointments for pre-registration counseling by the I.AS advisement office, 22 Administration, as determined by their last Initial in accordance with the following schedule:
Nov. 28 to Dec. 9—I-Q.
Dec. 12 to Dec. 28—R-Z.
Paul A. Hadley,
Director.
I.AS Advisement Office.
have been donated by local mer- J six years. The SC chapter origin-chants, Acacia, and the Acacia ated the,idea, and more than thir-Mothers Club.	ty Acacia houses throughout the
Rosalind lives with her mother | nation have adopted the plan.
Sigma Tau Music Fraternity Hosts Chapters at Luncheon
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Teachers Told, We Are Not Against Arabs
"Americans are not anti-Arab; they just don’t know that the Arabs exist," said Mrs. Swed Al Umari irv a talk before the Faculty Club yesterday.
Mrs. Al Umari, head of the Iraq Red Crescent Organization, discuiteed the little known factors which have presented problems to Iraqian development — illiteracy, poor health facilities, and limited finances,
Wonder* Done
"Considering the obstacle* we have had to meet and our inheritance of ruins and poverty, we have done winders In the thirty years of Iraq's existence," Mrs. Umari continued.
In response to a question about the political and religious conditions in the Middle East, Mr*. Al Umari said that all people are in one class and that Jhcre are no religious differentiations.
"Since they voluntarily left the country, the Jews have no more opportunity in public life or politics in Iraq. Christians hold many high political offices because we do not think in terms of religion."
His Excellency Muntn* Al Umari, director-general of the Department of Interior of Iraq, said that the major problem is the shortage of technologists.
"We don’t need people in political science or social science . . . we need technologists,' declared Al Umari.
The main obstacle to Increased progress is illiteracy. In 1921, when Iraq received Its independence, there were 88 schools, and 97 per cent of the population was illiterate. Today every village has its schools, “with the total numbering in the thousands.” Young Nation
"Built on the ancient site of the Mesopotamian cradle of civilization, Iraq is still a very young nation. After 30 years of existence, Iraq is now a member of the block of seven Arab nations/' said Mrs. Al Umari.
Magazine Gets Senate Clean Bill'
By Jim Karayn
After two ASSC Senate meetings and countless hours of spirited debate, the ASSC Senate has recognized the Wampu' magazine as a student publication.
By a vote of 23 to 3 the Senate last night gave studen sanction to the campus humor magazine. In a prior Senate meeting the proposal was voted
SC’s Sigma Tau chapter of Sig-i ma Alpha Iota, national professional women’* musio fraternity, j will be host this Saturday fo vis-> it ing active and alumriae chapters i at a public concert and luncheon.
The free concert will he at 3 J p.m. in Hancock Auditorium and I each college chapter in attend-| ance will present one selection on the program. SC’s program con-I tribution will be the Third Move-| ment of the Concerto in A Minor for Two Violins and Piano by I Vivaldi-Natchez. Performers will
be Martha Noschese and Eileen Rask, violins, and Martha Smith, piano.
Visiting college chapters will be from UCLA, L.A. State, Mt. St. Marys, Immaculate Heart, Occidental, Redlands, University of Arizona, San Diego State, and Stanford.
Sigma Tau’s officers for this year are Mary Lou Hill, president; Eve Dickens, vice president; Eleanor Brown and Maurren Keating, secretaries; and Eileen Rask, treasurer.
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down, hut the resolution was resubmitted by Hoard of Publication* Chairman Dave Gershenson last night. I.ast Senate meetings decision to not ..-'ndorse the magazine was thrown out, because the editor of the publication, Arnold Diener. was not given a chance to speak in the magazine's behalf.
Heated debate flourished from the start when Gershenson labeled AMU President Boh Oerst's vehement attacks on Wampus as "a grudge against Dioner.”
Diener's Attack* Gershenson said Gerst's remarks stemmed from the AMS president’s close association with Yell King Rill Hillinck, who Diener has criticized on nunvrous occasions in his Daily Trojan column.
"Mr. Gerst is not opposing Wampus because it is a bad magazine, but because of the editor Arnold Diener,” Gershenson charged.
Gerst, in reply to Gershonson's remarks, which he labeled "as remarks not befitting a senator," proposed an amendment to the resolution of the publication board's chairman.
<)er»i'* Amendment Gerst’s amendment was defeated by Senate members, 24 to 6. The amendment contained five clauses as to the advisors, editor selection, finances, circulation, and publication board approval.
To fortify his attack, Gerst read passages from Emanuel Kant on the meaning of humor, which Kant said was “stjrained expectations which later turn out to be nothing.”
“I agree that there Is a need for a humor magazine,” Gerst went on to say, “but we don't have enough interest of the people who have the ability to put out a good humor magazine.” Gershenson replied to Gerst's charge by saying that "the only way to clean up the Wampus is to put it under university control."
Wampu*, now being an official publication of the ASSC, will have
an advisor from the School of Journalism. Gershenson pointed out that E. H. Erlandson, instructor in journalism, would act as an advisor and not a censor. The advisor will lie responsible, though, to the Administration for the content and distribution of the magazine.
According to Diener. Wampus will remain a self-supporting publication. All losses are to be borne by the staff of Wampus, and all profits credited to the magazine'* account.
The sanction will permit an office on campus, a telephone, a mailing address, and privileges granted other SC publications.
With the sanction. Wampus will be able to be sold on campus. If the magazine had not received Senate recognition, it would have been boycotted from campus entirely.
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Other Senate action centered around the defeat of a recommen-dation of School of International Relations President Margi>?rite Cooper to hold a campus self audit at SC.
After Miss Cooper had outlined her program to look into fiv# area* concerning the university where questionable equal opportunities are supposed to exist, Leroy Barker, commerce president: Robbie Carroll, panhellenic president, and Ron Weintraub, IFC president, led the opposition to the section concerning "restrictive clauses in student social organizations.”
The other sections concerned university admission*, scholarships, grants and loans, student teacher training, college employment policy, student employment placement, campus housing and boarding, classroom procedure and curricula, off campus accommodations and services, health facilities, physical education, inter collegiate athletics, and recreatic facilities.
Director Answers Registration Critics
Dr. Paul E. Hadley, director of the LAS Advisement Office, yesterday told LAS Council members that the lack of counselors during registration can be blamed to a large degree on the students.
Hadley was attempting to answer criticisms of registration procedures brought up by
Veteran student* attending school under Public l.aw ftftO, the Korean <1.1. Rill, must pick up their attendance check forma in the Office of Veteran Affair* between Monday, November 28 and Saturday, Dec-8. The rtliwtills <>f the Director of Deferred Tuition may he obtained any day during this period.
Klwyn E. Hrooka Assistant Registrar
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Milt Forrest. Instructor of French Phonosonology and director of Parlez-vous Rendezvous, has been wounded by the French
Forrest, along with two other SC students was visiting aboard the Jeanne d'Arc, a French training ship, when he crashed into a companionway ceiling, slightly injuring hi* forehead.
The Incident failed to cause any international complications lhough, as the SC group invited .lean Gravler and Noel Dumont members of the Jeanne dAics crew, to he guests of Pailez-vous Rendezvous on a Hollywood holiday this Saturday.
By IaiIs Comiskey
Tonight is final dress rehearsal j of "The Saint of Bleecker Street” before the musical drama previews in Bovard Auditorium at I 8:30 p.m. tomorrow. The show will have two additional perform-I ances on Sunday and Wednesday nights.
The show has attracted great j attention since its opening on Broadway a year ago because of its beautiful arias and unorthodox plot. It has won new laurels for its already celebrated composer-| librettist Gian-Carlo Menotti by capturing both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Award in 1954.
Telecast Too
And last spring "The Saint” won many more devotees after it was televised on the coast-to-coast NBC "Opera Theatre."
Tonight's rehearsal will be only a little less exciting than opening night for tbe cast and crew because the entire show is supposed to "come Off" ss lt will before the live audience. This will be the last chance to get slow lighting cues to coincide with the action, to get crescendos to sound just right in the last row of the balcony.
Cast for th# first night per-fowiancs wttl bs Soprano Jsanelts I muaclea.
Farra as Annina, Tenor Chris Lachona as Michele, Mezzo-soprano Elaine Cencel as Desideria, and Baritone John Noschese as Don Marco, the priest.
Character* Told Patricia Williams as Assunta, Virginia Uitar as Carmela, Marion Ole* as Maria Corona, James Gib-lions as Salvatore, and Suzanne Wolf as the Nun.
Plot of "The Saint’ centers around Annina, a girl living in the Italian-American section of New York City’s Lower East Side, and her agnostic brother Michele The girl is revered as a saint by her neighbors, but loved too well hy her brother, who kills his mistress, Desideria, for speaking against her. Hut even while Michele cherishes his sister, he scoffs at her piety and tries to prevent her from taking the veil.
Plot Continue*
The story resolve* with Annina becoming a nun before dy ing of a prolonged illness and Michele being arrested for murder.
Dramatic conflicts between some form of faith and reason have turned up in Menotti operatic pieces before because the composer himself admits skepticism of religion, >#t believe* wi
His belief in miracles is founded on the fact that as a child he was cured of a crippled leg shortly alter his nurse took him to visit a shrine of tiie Madonna.
More Works In Menotti's "The Medium,” conflict betwem the supernatural and fake medium existed. Another of his works, "Amahl and the Night Visitors,” openly depicts a lame boy's instant recovery.
In "The Saint of Bleecker Street” the composer turns for the first time from smallsqale musical drama to fullscale Italian-style opera.
Opera Department Head Walter Ducloux will conduct the 150-person Bovard cast and 60-piece orchestra. The singers will be members of the A Cappelia Choir and the Opera Chorus.
Background Stated A member of tiie music school faculty since 1953, Ducloux has been extremely active in music circles. He became nationally known to opera lovers as a regular member of the "Opera Quiz” feature of the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, now on KABt Saturdays at 11 a m He wiii make his first appear-
ance thi* year on the panel of expert* Dec. 17, and return on Dec. 24. An earlier guest spot was declined because of hi* work on "The Saint.” Stage directing the show is Menonoti's associate since 1951, Bill Butler.
Take a Bow
Costumes and setting* have been created by SC drama and music instructor John Blankenchip.
Other technical personnel working on the three-act musical are Chuck Drew, stage manager, Denis Warren, assistant *tage manager, Bill White, lighting chief, and Wesley Morgan, house manager.
The unorthodox drama ls the second Menotti work to be premiered in the West by the School of Music. In December, 1951 his “The Consul" scored such a hit in Bovard Auditorium that it played an additional week in Philhar-mouic Auditorium and then went on to repeat its success in San Francisco
Tickets for the three perform- j ances may lie obtained at the ticket office on second floor of the Student Union.
student leaders at the recent Idylwild conference.
Hadley told the group that it'* the student's fault, not his office’s, for the quick treatment many students get when receiving counseling.
He said LAS students seldom seek assistance from him and his staff during the middle of the semester as they should. Instead they flock in droves to his office a few days before the next semester is to begin.
Training Take* Time
Hadley said it takes months to train a person to be a good student counselor. It would be "wasteful" therefore to hire and train a large group of advisers just to handle the last minute student rush. He told the Council he and his staff have tried to improve the situation by setting up a pre-registration program. Student* whose last names begin with letters A to H should have appeared at bis office between Nov. 14 and 25.
I to Q are scheduled for Nov. 28 to Dec. 9. and R to Z fyom Dec. 12 to 23.
Another criticism directed toward Hadley concerned students’ inability to find out exactly how many unit* they had taken and the number of units and course* still required for graduation.
Se*W Checkoff Sheel*
Council member* asked him why the LAS Advisement Office could not inaugurate checkoff sheets Similar to those used by other departments of the univer-sity.
These sheet* could contain all the courses a student *till need* to qualify for his major and the subjects he can choose for elective credits.
Hadley looked unfavorably on the idea because “of the cost and complexity of the situation."
However, Kami Keagy, chairman of the personal affairs committee of the IJVS Council, told the Daily Trojan that the Council still has hopes of convincing Hadley to use the checkoff sheets.
Additional suggestions put to Dr. Hadley were:
(11 First-semester freshmen should b# cteaily informed that
SC has no major and minor system, but does permit students to take 12 or more units in a field aside from their majors to act as a non-major, or auxiliary major.
(2)	The students should be explicitly told what course* thev must take before they can o# admitted to the university.
The Council complained that many students take "useless” electives just to fill the required 15-unit minimum and then have to go to Summer School or spend an extra semester at SC because they find out they have to tak# a few more units of required subjects.
(3)	Counselors should be better informed as to the procedures students must go through to change their majors.
Hadley said his office Is doing the best it can. He emphasized to the Council that LAS students will get more personal and painstaking help if they come early in the semester to his office instead of waiting until the las naipute.
Table Tennis Champions Will V/e for Prizes
The Diamond Jubilee Table Tennis Championship* w ill begin tonight an expert* converge on the Physical Education Building to compete for two trophies.
The trophies are donated by the l»s Angrle* Exsjnlner. Th* affair, to begin at 8:80 p.m* 1* sponsored by the 8C Recreation Association and the Cnited .State* Table Tennis Association. Playoff* will be held here on Dec. 8.
The competition la being managed by Troy’s Milton Forrest aud l»»»ld Brundnuui, promotion director of Uw Examiner.
The Southern California Senior Intermural Recreation Association final playoffs will he held at Stale College on Dec. 18-