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LOS ANGELES, CALIF., THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1955
NO. 119
S REVELATIONS
int Gerst Campaign be Benefited
y BVA, Blankinship
NG OUTCOME
>SG Adopts rty Platforn 1st Proposals
Mature Students Govern-partv adopted their first Ir platform at a meeting yes-
>y.
:lud?d in the platform was roposal to allow off-campus stores to advertise in the a plan that was vetoed by (administration this semester. |SG also suggested lowering ?t prices for non-activity holders at athletic and cul-Ll events and wants to allow campus dates to the SC root-I sections.
Platform Given complete platform in- i
|—A house for international
»nts.
-More integration of foreign ^American students in cam-^ctivities.
senate seat for a gradu- J |:udents’ representative. Emission of dates from off to rooting sections.
^•er the admission rates -activity’ book holders at and cultural events, iprovement and streamlin-|of the course evaluation pro-|ire.
More Promise*
-Daily Trojan advertising for ^ampus book stores. -Establishment of a corneal ticket bureau on or near
JUS.
-Publishing of a student di-jry book.
-Extended library hours for lal Doheny libraries such as |d Affairs.
-More emphasis and recog-^n to cultural activities, for-and fine arts.
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House Set ed School
Medical Research Building, of a long-range plan on the; kiical School’s new campus in, p area of the County Hospital, 111 be inspected by parents and lends of medical students to-eht from 7 to 9.
First open house to be held by , p School of Medicine, the event; one of a series by SCs schools p colleges in connection with | celebration of the Diamond of the university.
in research facilities j ^building, located at 2025 j fAvenue. to be explained by experts will be the smogj |*rs where the effects of! on experimental animals j rstudied, the experimental X-laboratories, the electron mi-;ope. and the cardiovascular j
By The Watchbird
Senator-at-large Bob Gerst officially tossed his hat in the political ring today with two bright feathers adorning it.
Just after announcing his candidacy for AMS president, Gerst was publicly endorsed by ASSC president Bill Van Alstyne and the present AMS prexy, Jerry Blankinship.
Gerst has not previously announced his candidacy because be had to remove an IW from his scholastic record. After much hesitation and doubt, Gerst decided to run for the AMS position in preference to the senior class presidency, for which he had also been thought a possible candidate.
“Most of my activities at SC have been directed toward AMS,” he said “and I feel that it is an area where the most can be done for the more than 8000 male students.”
Gerst is running without any political party support, independent of both TRG and MSG. His opponent, Ron Weintraub is supported by TRG. The endorsements of both Van Alstyne and Blankinship should help him in his campaign, though.
“Strictly on his qualifications, his very specific platform, and his personal guarantee to me that he will live up to his promises, I sincerely endorse Bob Gerst as the better man for AMS president,” said Van Alstyne yesterday in a prepared statement.
The ASSC president went on to say that “this had been a very difficult choice to make, since I have been on the opposite side of many issues with both candidates. A difference of opinion, however, is often the best way to determine a man’s real ability to examine his sincerity.” After making endorsements for two days. Van Alstyne expressed the wish that no one would misunderstand his intentions in these recommendations. “I have wofked with these people as ASSC president; and/or have observed their work in my administrative capacities at SC.”
He went on to say that “in case of several offices, I have had no opportunit to know any of the candidates thoroughly enough to render a qualified judgement, and therefore, none are endorsed.”
Jerry Baker, head of the “Independents for McMahon” committee, yesterday said he hoped that MSG’s attack on his group is not an attempt to encourage independents to vote for a candidate just because he is an independent.
He said this attitude, “adopted by some SC graduates (such as Bo Jansen who is helping finance Murray Bring’s campaign! is the most harmful thing in SC politics. It pits one group against another and can split the campus in two.”
Baker emphasized qualification rather than affiliation as the prime requisite in voting for a candidate.
Seyom Brown, who delivered the MSG attack, tried to head a party last year based on the idea that independents should vote for independents and it lasted only two weeks, Baker said.
Unhappy Coed Pours Malt on Writer's Head.
Mark Thoreson, DT columnist, yesterday enjoyed a new
type of shampoo—a chocolate malt shampoo.
While seated In the Grill sipping peacefully on a coke, Thoreson was viciously attacked by one of his many “admirers” who poured the contents of a paper cup over his head, shouting, “Take that for your column.”
So surprised was Thoreson after the incident that he jumped up from his seat accidentally spilling coke all over his assailant's back as she ran out of the Grill.
Offical
Notice
Students who expect to complete requirements for the bachelor’s degree in June should check the list that is posted in the corridor outside the registrar’s office in Owens Hall. Those who have not filled out diploma application cards should do so at once.
Howard W. Patmore Registrar
_87Class School of Engineering AJumDay Tells Building Project
3 Story Alumni Wing To Be First Addition
$750 Offered As Prizes in Med Contest
Seven hundred and fifty dollars in prizes are being offered in the
tenth annual Schering Award competition for medical students, Robert W. Burlew, M.D., chairman of the award committee, announced yesterday.
The aim of the competition is to encourage medical writing and exploration of current research literature.
The three subjects on which American and Canadian students are invited to submit papers this year are: “Current Concepts in the Management of Osteoporosis”; “Prevention and Treatment of Blood Transfusion Reactions”; and “Recent Trends in the Clinical Use of Adrenocortical Steroids.” Both a $500 first prize and a second prize of $250 will be given for each subject.
Deadline for entry forms stating choice of title is July 1. Manuscripts must be submitted by October 1. Students may compete individually or in teams.
Information and instructions for the award competition are available from the Schering Award Committee, 600 Orange Street, Bloomfield, N. J.
Thousands Slated To Revisit Camps For May Funfest
Trojans who attended classes over a half-century ago will be among graduates returning to campus to celebrate the annual Alumni Day on May 7. „
Among the several thousand expected to attend are the three living members of the class of ’87 who include Judge Jesse W Curtis, Mrs. Bertha Lindley Coffin, and Fanny Tarr, according to Dr. H. G. McNeil, president of the Half-Century Club.
Room and Board They attended SC when the catalogue featured “room and board $5 per week, including wood as well as oil for study lamps” and “a telephone service that connects with all parts of the city.”
The highlight event of SC’s Diamond Jubilee Anniversary year will be presided over by Mildred Younger, general alumni chairman. She has announced a program for all members of Trojan families, including a nursery school for tots.
Carnival Booth*
Twenty-eight fraternities and
sororities will provide carnival booths for youngsters on the campus lawn starting at 9 a.m. Campus tours on the Troyville Trolley and visits to the television station are morning features.
A barbecue luncheon and the alumni-faculty baseball classic as well as the varsity football game between the Reds and Whites are afternoon features, according to Kennedy Ellsworth, president of the General Alumni Association.
Trustees Slate Meeting About Dormitory Loan
The Board of Trustees will meet with lawyers representing SC and the U. S. government this afternoon to decide whether to accept a $660,000 federal loan.
The group will discuss the clauses of the loan contract in deciding whether SC should take the money to buy and rehabilitate four buildings for additonal student housing facilities.
The government Housing and Home Finance Administration approved SC’s application for the loan last Saturday and is sending a lawyer down from San Francisco to answer the Board’s questions concerning the contract.
SC requested the government loan in order to buy Aeneas and Willard Halls, Winifred -Apart ments. and Evans’ Court. Aeneas and Willard will be renovated to provide quarters for 270 men. The other two will be used to house 52 married couples. ^
SC has also requested a $2,150,-000 loan to build two new student residences, a dormitory for 225 coeds and another for 200 men. The government has not acted on this request yet.
Audio Visual Methods Topic at Faculty Lunch
By Maggie Christensen
Audio visual aids to regular textbooks will eventually become a standard part of most high school and college classes, according to Al Rosenberg, general manager of McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, who spoke at the Faculty Club luncheon yesterday.
“The idea of a publishing company putting out films and records seems far fetched at first," said Rosenberg, “but putting films, books, and records together in a package deal has gone over well in almost every area.”
War Use*
The military forces were using audio visual material all through World War II to graphically illustrate how to make and use new weapons and machines. In 1945 McGraw-Hill began to investigate the field, and since then have produced more than 50 films in conjunction with their textbooks.
The majority of these films have been in the fields of the physical sciences, psychology, and teacher education. Most of them have been high school series, but 26 were produced on the college leevl, according to Rosenberg.
Three Alternative* "Teachers have three alternatives as far as audio visual usage is concerned,” he continued. “They can look over the stock that their school already has. They can make their own films, illustrating something the way they want it done, with the aid of their cinema departments. And if they are authors, writing textbooks on the side, they can increase the Understandability of their work and their salaries by adding audio visual aids to the text.”
Rosenberg said that the best method of teaching a difficult problem, such as many of the physics problems, is to use an animated cartoon-type film, simplifying and showing in picture form something that is hard to understand in words.
Variety Show Scheduled by 1C Committee
An evening filled with world pageantry is coming soon to SC.
A legend of the Philippine rice fields told in song and music, the grace and lyric beauty of a Hawaiian night brought to life, the wild, fluid gyrations of a frenzied African tribal dance, and classical dances from Indonesia, festival dances from Iran, plaintive, haunting rhythm* from India.	'
All of these elements form only a minute portion of a program embodying native music from a wide variety of lands and cultures —the International Diamond Jubilee Show. The program will be sponsored by the Intercultural Club Saturday Apr. 30 in Bovard Auditorium.
“What we are trying to do is present a picture of the world for everyone to see and compare,” said Alfonso Altiveros, Intercultural Club vice-president who is in charge of the program.
Groups from different colleges in the area are cooperating with SC in promoting the program, according to Altiveros.
Both SC students and the public are invited.
JOSEPH DAVIDSON
. . SC graduate
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Two Scholarships Offered To Upper Division Women
Two full tuition scholarships are being offered to outstanding upper-division women for the 1955-56 academic year, Mrs. Edwarda White, counselor of women announced Friday.
The Town and Gown Junior Auxiliary scholarship goes to a junior woman to be used in her senior year. The Trojan Auxiliary scholarship goes to a
junior or senior woman. .
The selection will be made on the basis of leadership, scholarship, and need. Applications may be obtained in the counselor of women’s office. The deadline is May 1.
Winners will be announced at the Recognition Assembly in Hancock Auditorium on May 16.
Both scholarships were established in 1952. Recipients of the Town and Gown scholarship have been Dorothy Fucci, Anne Wilson, and Pat Crawford. Joyce Keppler, Mary Lynn Coates, and Charlotte Mueller received Trojan scholarships.
Dormitories Plan Hawaiian Holiday'
Lots of wela-ka-hau will be in j store for those hauoli malihinis who hula and have kau-kau in Monday night’s open hale of EVK-University Hall.
Loosely translated, this means that the women of the two dorms plan to offer a fun-filled “Hawaiian Holiday” open house Monday, 7:30 to 11 p.m.
Dancing to the music of Tommy Moore, entertainment by the dorm-dweHers, and refreshments will be available to make for an evening of fun and social mixing in the atmosphere of traditional Hawaiian hospitality.
Plans to raise $1 million for buildings to double the present facilities of the School of Engineering were announced yesterday as the first project of the Century Plan.
A $250,000 alumni wing will be the first part of the development to be built and will be a three story addition to
the present engineering building on West 36th Place.
Charles T. Schweitzer, School of Engineering '38. was selected to serve as chairman of the fund raising campaign at an alumni meeting Wednesday night. The alumni have pledged $250,000 to the fund. The remaining $750,000 is expected to come from corporations.
Eventually, other structures for enginering education and research will bring the total to $2,500,000. Variety of Events Oother events this week-end wiU highlight Engineering week. Two prominent SC engineering graduates will visit the campus Friday and Saturday. They ar* Trevor Gardner, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force in charge of research and development, and Dr. Joseph G. Davidson, chairman of the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co., New York.
Eleven technical lectures will be given in Founders Hall at 9 a.m. Saturday for all engineers in this area. Gardner will speak later at a luncheon.
Schweitzer, current president of the SC Engineering Alumni Assn.. is staff engineer with the Southern California Gas Co. He joined that firm upon his gradu* ation from SC, and has held various supervisory and staff positions with the company until he received his present administrative assignment there. He is a registered professional engineer in California.
Engineering Library The alumni wing will front 80 feet on West 36th Place and be 60 feet deep. The first floor will be devoted to undergraduate and graduate study rooms, two seminar rooms, and an engineering library with a capacity of 30.000 volumes.
On the second floor will be the office of Dean Robert E. Vivian and his assistants, four conference rooms and an alumni room.
The third floor will have three large and three small classrooms which can be combined in various ways through movable partitions.
The basement will have four meeting rooms for students, and private rooms for three engineering societies, seven professional societies, and eight honor societies. The editor of the SC Engineer, engineering students magazine. will have his office in the basement.
TREVOR GARDNER
. . . Air Force man
Dr. Harvey Wins Fourth TV Award
The California Federation of Women's Clubs presented its second annual television award Saturday to Dr. Herman Harvey, assistant professor of psychology, for outstanding achievement in the field of educational television.
A scroll was given Dr. Harvey on his program, “The Psychology of Child Behavior,” at 10 a.m. on KNXT, Channel 2. The award is for the fall semester course through University College on “The Psychology of Human Behavior.”
This is the fourth awaro given the SC psychology professor for his television programs.
FWC Forms Set
Applications for Freshman Women’s Council are available in the AWS office. 216 SU. They must be returned to the office by Apr. 26. Applicants are asked to sign up form interviews upon returning applications.
Official
Notice
Instructors are reminded that unsatisfactory notices covering the first ten weeks of the semester are due in the Registrar’s office on Monday, Apr. 25, 1955.
D. W. Evans, Assistant registrar.
REAL' REASONS BEHIND TROY POLITICS TOLD
By The Watchbird
(Editor’s Note: This is the ninth in a series of ar-ilcle* analyzing the campus political situation. Today the Watchbird discusses the motivation behind political kartir* at SC.)
I Cor. ’.rational lawyers are quick to make a distinction me' : ’ne good" reasons behind a Supreme Court deci-t. a.’.d the "real” reasons. This is necessary because the Ih court often deals with questions having political impli-
|ODt.
I Wherever there are political issues, there are two sets l-eavjn*—the" good” reasons and the “real” reasons—for ■Mona.
I At SC M etoewbere, everyone is familiar with the “good” l*on for having political parties and student officers. That Isoii t* eervtee to the student body and the university.
I But what are the "rear reasons behind the existence Itudent political parties and election hungry politicos who I willing to spend hundreds of dollars and untold hours Wet elected to office?
■ Political parties at SC differ widely In theory from those Jhe national level. The American Democratic and Repub-■n parties, while accused of favoring kpeclal interests,
must of necessity serve the interests of the country at large or perish at the polls.
The campus political party is a party of and for special interests such as the “Big houses, the “small” houses, or the independents. Because of this parties at SC are^ not bound to serve the interests of the university at large* but only the special interests that created them.
The most important difference between national parties and student parties is that the national groups crystallize around specific political principles while student parties do not.
For example the Democratic party, which had its beginning as Jefferson’s Democratic Republican Party, was originally created to defend the strict construction of the Constitution.
SC political parties are created solely to elect people to office. Principles and issues are ignored until after the party is established.
Rushing purposes influence the formation of. Row parties. Houses without big wheels to trot out bi-annually find themselves at a decided disadvantage in the race to gain new members.' Thus houses to be sure of a sufficient supply of BMOC’s combine simply to win campus political offices.
Nominations and elections for office axe based strictly
on the “log rolling” principle of “you help our man and we’ll help yours.”
Thus top elective positions and patronage appointments are often parcelled out on a quota basis.
Independent parties are formed as a reaction to Row domination of student government. Not possessing cohesive organization of independent groups, such parties exist by utilizing the idea of political personalism.
Only when an outstanding independent personality is available to run for high office do these parties suddenly come alive.
In the 1954 ASSC elections, there was no legitimate independent party and the independents put up only token resistance at the polls because they lacked a dynamic personality for & top office.
The campus party’s most vulnerable point is Its lack of an honest program of political action. The parties have invariably campaigned on politically neutral planks such as the establishment of a student check cashing service or the creation of more parking spaces on campus.
In the absence of real issues and differences of program between the competing parties, elections have usually degenerated into nothing more than popularity contests or fra- ! ternity battles.	I
Another defect has been that the program of action was dreamed up after the candidates had already been unofficially selected. The parties have found it easier to fashion a program to a candidate’s personality than to match a candidate to a fearless program.
On face value then, political parties as such are of little direct service to the university. Yet they do contribute to the community’s betterment.
The parties are laboratories in which the future leaders of the community are brought face to face with many practical political problems.
The parties provide a valuable opportunity for students to become acquainted with the hard facts of political life. Campus party leaders and workers will generally prove to be capable and efficient politicians and private citizens after graduation. Much of the student’s political naivete will have been dispelled on the campus level by party operation.
However illegal and clandestine organizations like TNE, while teaching practical politics to their members, often do irreparable harm by creating in the individual a skepticism of and cynicism toward democracy.
(Tomorrow the Watchbird analyzes the motivation of individual candidates.)