By Peter Fletcher
Stall Writer
“Students at USC have a lot to laugh about. I met your President Hubbard this morning and laughed the entire time,” Pat Pa’^sen. the comedian and former presidential candidate, said.
According to Paulsen, “humor is the glue that holds society together." And as he promised, he gave a full-house in Bovard Auditorium “a little sniff' Monday.
His speech featured his interpretation of the history of humor. He managed to combine the history of civilization and the history of comedy.
The highlights of Paulsen's interpretation included the great Greek Scholar Comedicus’ comment, “I am not a crook.”
Paulsen, not wanting to forget the Bicentennial, said the golden age of humor began in 1776. It continued with President Abraham Lincoln's famous quote “A government of the people, by the people and in spite of the people.” Paulsen said.
On women's liberation he said. “No one should be discriminated against just because ofthe shape of their skin. And some of my best friends are women but I
wouldn't want my sister to marry one.”
He showed two films including one of an appearance he made on The Mere Griffin Show. The show was never televised because he appeared in black face and told ethnic jokes.
Most of the jokes w ere unsuitable for television, Paulsen admitted with a straight face to the hysterical audience.
He had several comments about politics, his former field of endeavor. Of H.R. Haldeman. who is currently writing his memoirs, Paulsen said. “It’s funny that he is writing a book aboutsomethingthat he couldn't remember when the prosecutor questioned him.
“During the New Hampshire primary, w hen there was a lot of mudslinging, George Wallace never got dirty because he had a sheet on,” Paulsen said.
Paulsen said Teddy Kennedy might join the presidential race but. "he’ll have to drive across that bridge when he gets to it.
“The real reason I wanted to be president was because I thought I would look nice on a dime,” he said.
Paulsen was on the Republican presidential primary ballot in New Hampshire in 1972. He received 1276 votes.
He said he got into trouble over issues. He was against gun control. “Everyone should carry a gun because when you’re walk-mgdown a street you never know when you might run into a moose,” he said. He was also against foreign aid because the United States didn’t need it.
He thought the sabotage of the UCLA pep rally before the USC-UCLA football game was ’’good but not quite up there with the signing ofthe Declaration of Independence.”
No classes on Monday
Monday has been declared a university holiday in observance of George Washington’s birthday.
The information was inadvertently omitted from the Schedule of Classes.
All offices will be closed.
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University of Southern California
Volume LXVIII, Number 71	Los Angeles, California	Tuesday, February 10, 1976
PAT PAULSEN FOR PROFESSOR?—Pat Paulsen, comedian and former presidential aspirant, spoke to a full house in Bovard Auditorium on Monday. He rendered an interpretation of the history of humor, somehow combining the histories of civilization and comedy at the same time. DT photo by Mike Ito.
Comedian’s history lesson full of laughs
Med students optimistic despite doctor slowdown
The immediate effects of the doctor slowdown in Southern California may not be predictable for a number of months. The long-range effects also are not yet predictable, but one place to look is the future ofthe medical profession—the medical student.
Two students interviewed at the School of Medicine said that they are confident of their future. They are just two isolated cases, but whether the slowdown has affected the number of applications won’t be known for a few months.
No immediate concern
Whether the settlement is for the better or the worse for doctors, Barney Finstein, a third-year medical student, said that the outcome is not an immediate concern for medical students.
He said the slowdown caused by the high medical malpractice insurance costs, which doctors in Southern California are forced to pay to remain in private practice, will be settled one way or another in the near future.
Finstein, who will graduate soon, said that he and other medical students find themselves in support of the doctors’ slowdown.
“In the past, medical students have been displeased with many ofthe attitudes which organized medicine has presented to the public,” he said.
Hero image untrue
He added that the past image of the doctor as a great hero was not true and that because of the slowdown the doctors have won themselves a less popular image, which the students support.
Ken Moore, a third-year medical student, said that he has not been disillusioned by the rising malpractice insurance costs, and that he intends to go ahead with his plans to set up practice in Southern California.
Rather than dissuading many students from going into medicine, Moore said that the high insurance costs and the doctor slowdown instead may
make some students think twice about setting up practice in Southern California.
Costs vary He said that costs are lower in the Mid-west, although they may rise there within the next five years.
Moore said that he is not happy with the idea of paying almost $100 a day for insurance—he
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Activities agency to plan new programs
Students with innovative ideas for programming on campus are being offered a chance to have free run of money from the programming fee to put those ideas to the test.
Membership in the New Activities and Services Agency (NASA), the second stage in the reformation of the programming allocation committee, gives those students the right to the newly allocated money.
The Student Senate is receiving applications until Friday from prospective agency members said Glenn Sonnenberg, chairman ofthe selection committee.
Prospective members should be creative and have ideas for new activities and programs, he said.
Applications for the agency are available in Student Union 301,306 and 309.
The Student Senate, as a whole, feels there is a lack of university-wide programs and services and NASA is expected to fill that need, Sonnenberg said.
"There has never been an organization like this before,” he said. “The agency will have the right to spend money as they see fit.”
NASA will receive 10% ofthe Programming Fee and approximately $7500 per semester from the Campus Allocation Board in the future. However, this semester, the agency will receive $10,000 because of its late start.
The agency’s purpose will be to come up with programs that have never been tried before because other campus groups were not willing to finance them, Sonnenberg said.
"Hopefully they’ll come up with some winners and other groups will be willing to take over responsibility for them.”
When campus programming was restructured last fall, the Campus Allocation Board was delayed in forming NASA because representation problems on the board needed to be corrected.
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Schoenberg Institute receives $100,000
A $100,000 gift to be used for furnishing and equipping the Arnold Schoenberg Institute was presented to the university by a West Berlin representative Monday.
Heinz Fanselau, director of the Foreign Relations, Press and Information Office in West Berlin, presented the gift to Zohrab A. Kaprielian, executive vice-president, at the site of the institute.
“This gift is an eloquent expression ofthe many important ties between Germany and the United States,” Kaprielian said. “It recognizes that the
great composer, Arnold Schoenberg, spent much of his creative life in two cities, Berlin and Los Angeles.
“Coming to us in this Bicentennial year, the gift also celebrates the significant contributions made to the growth of our country by German-American
citizens.”
The institute is being built for the study and performance of Schoenberg’s compositions. His archives were donated to the university by his children following his death.