University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Teachers ' Live It Up ' Between Classes Who says teachers aren ' t human? SC ' s faculty members will readily demonstrate that they are, anytime. Our University prides itself on its congenial staff of teachers who advance the idea that you don ' t have to be a teenager to be young at heart. Besides socializing among themselves, the profs can be seen most anytime discussing Plato or Llolibrigida with students in the cafeteria or matching the heartiest undergrad in a game of handball in the PE Building. VARSITY CAGERS? No, just LAS Dean Tracy Strevey and History Prof Russell Caldwell keeping in condition. EACH WEDNESDAY, faculty members meet in the faculty din- ingroom to enjoy lunch together as a group, listen to a speaker either from the University staff or from another school, and make plans for future faculty events. Below: A friendly game of canasta or bridge is being played by four profs in the Men ' s Faculty Club. It ' s a good place to relax between classes and discuss problems of the day as is demonstrated by Fred Coonrcdt and Rene Belle.

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« m I lONE MALONE inspects the kitchen where thousands of meals are prepared daily Thousands Consume Campus Meals Daily Preparing food for 10,000 hungry Tro- jans every day is quite a chore, but that ' s the number of students who regularly consume any- thing from roast beef to hot dogs every day in the six eating places on campus. A staff of 200 begin worrying about this problem at 7 a.m. with the first batch of hotcokes and eggs and continue til 8 that same night when a steak dinner with all the trimmings is made for a Presi- dential Banquet or the Football Training Table. EATING ARTERIES on campus include the and the Terrace (lower left), featuring din- Commons Cafeteria (upper right), the SCel- ingroom service during the warm months, lar (lower right), a combination fountain- Other eating facilities include the Trojan grill; the Union Cafeteria (lower center), Grill, Coffee Bar, and banquet rooms.

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RUSSELL CALDWELL, history professor and staunch supporter of the Trojan football team, is known to hove on occasional joke during his lecture course in American history. ROBERT CRAIG, master of business law, lawyer in his own right, and President of the California Central Republican Committee, is a favorite of all Commerce students. Below, Richard Condon, freshman English instructor, is open to debate on nearly any subject brought up by eager students. w HERMAN HARVEY, well-known throughout the West for his Psychology on TV series seen on the Columbia Broadcasting System, is an expert on Child Psychology, and is shown here addressing one of his many classes on that subject. Colorful Professors Sfrive To IVIake Lectures Lively Studying can be fun and lectures can be en- tertaining if both teacher and student make up their minds that they will be a good transmitter and a good receiver. It ' s a known fact, too, that the more enter- taining a subject can be presented, no matter how dry the content may be, the more the student will learn. At SC, our profs encourage a little frivolity along with the business at hand. The classroom serves as an ex- change of ideas between teacher and student and the result is that both parties gain from it. Since classes vary in their purpose, however, it is not always possible for the instructor to be informal. A General Studies lecture, for example, is a cut-and- dried afFair where the instructor delivers a message and the students take notes with no chance to ask questions until they proceed to their discussion groups after the lecture. On the other hand, a freshman English class is styled so that students can participate almost as much as the teacher with many general subjects making up the agenda.