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New Greeks: Looking for Minorities a 1 WWINIM IplltP; PART IV MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1963 3t 5 I 8 i yvr VV VkV 7 1 1 kSf 'f'lir-. I E. T. Peckham, Valley State it's on what grounds that we discriminate that's Mrs. Betty Chilton, Cal Jewish girls are now most acceptable and wanted in the 'Christian' houses." Barbara Manheimer, UCLA "I see no validity in the complaint that we have no right to choose our members." Mrs.

John M. Stark, Cal "Jewish houses are not discriminatory. One of them pledged a Gallagher." Carlton Blanton, Cal State L.A. "Most of the Negroes are more interested in joining the Black Student Union." Times photos by Judd Gunderson JANE MUSKIE Pledge's Race or Color Not Barrier It Once Was Mainelander in the Southland BY URSULA VILS Times Staff Writer tfJJfflfffffl 4 I i AJ 'III After her first campaign trip as the wife of the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Mrs. Edmund S.

Muskie lodged a complaint: "I didn't see anybody I was out there to see." Jane Muskie, an attractive brunet with dark eyes and a tinge of New England in her speech (her husband is senator from Maine), paused briefly in the Century Plaza's Presidential Suite and explained her reasons for the complaint. "I found I was meeting lots of wives of officials," she said, "and many people from newspapers, radio and television. But I just wasn't meeting the people I thought I was going to meet. "I don't know a great deal about ethnic groups in this country, and I felt I wanted to be learning something about them. So we've made a real point of my being able to do this." Sampled Feelings She smiled briefly, then added: "I may never have this opportunity again." Although her husband is of Polish extraction, Mrs.

Muskie is not and "I've not had the chance to meet many my husband's family is only one of about three Polish families in Maine." On meeting women of varying ethnic backgrounds, however, she has sampled their feelings about some of the problems facing the nation. "Among all groups." she said, "I have found typical Americans who like what they have and don't want to lose it and who don't quite know how to achieve their goals. "They're concerned about ending the Please Turn to Page 19, Col. 1 ing to Lee Alpert, a graduate adviser, was this: "We wanted to say that we are one of the few houses that is nondiscriminatory. We judge people by their worth, not by their color or race or creed we have Negro, Jewish, Catholic, Baptist members right now." Last year, two Negro girls rushed at UCLA and both pledged, according to Dean of Women Nola Stark.

"Both pledged predominantly Jewish houses," said a UCLA sorority girl who asked to remain anonymous. "One was a delightful Negro girl, and our chapter" a prominent "white, Christian" sorority "really wanted to carry her. Alums Said 'No' "But we had to drop her. Our alums said no for 'economic reasons.1 That's the excuse they always use." Existence of the generation gap between collegiate and alumnae sorority members is readily admitted by most administrators and actives (initiated members still in school) and denied by the alumnae. When the University of California and the state colleges notified fraternities and sororities that they must sign certificates of nondiscrimination, Dean Stark said, "we had protests from the alumnae never the college girls." At UC Berkeley, two sororities both predominantly Jewish havt withdrawn in the past three years.

"The reasons," said Mrs. Betty Chilton, assistant dean of students, Please Turn to Page 21, Col. 1 Once upon a time, a pretty, vivacious coed went off to a major California university. A friend in a sorority introduced her to other members of the chapter. They liked Miss Coed; she liked them.

But they never invited her to join the sorority. They found out that one of her grandfathers was Jewish. That was in the mid 30s. Social sororities operated under a strict recommendation system that effectively screened out "objectionable prospective" members girls from "financially unreliable" families, Jewish girls, sometimes Catholics. No one dreamed a Negro or an oriental or a foreign student would ever go through rushing.

In the 60s, Negroes, orientals and foreign students- have rushed, many campuses and pledged so-called "white Anglo-Saxon Protestant" sorority houses. Jews Sought This year's Kappa Alpha Theta president at UCLA, JoAnn Kashiki, is a Japanese-American. One USC fraternity was delighted to pledge what they thought was a Jewish boy and disappointed to find out he wasn't Jewish. At UC Berkeley, a Negro girl rushed and was pledged by Alpha Gamma Delta, a well-established national "white" sorority. At USC, Tau Epsilon Phi, formerly a predominantly Jewish fraternity, took a half-page ad in the Daily Trojan proclaiming that it is nondiscriminatory.

The purpose, accord- JACK SMITH Mini Under Philology Microscope The miniskirt may have reached and fallen from its highest point in popularity, that is; not in inches above the kneecap. If I read the fashion notes right, something called the "pants suit," heaven forbid, is coming into favor. "Suddenly," writes Eugenia Shep-pard, "it is the darling of every chic girl." Women were tired of the mini, she says, but "dead set against dropping skirts to midi or maxi length." I will be sorry to see the miniskirt go. It has enriched our lives. I speak as an amateur philologist, of course, not as a leg man.

I like a flash of shapely thigh as well as the next chap; but such pleasures are ephemeral. Like petals they fall and blow away. What has been forever increased by the miniskirt is that marvelous torrent of wisdom and joy, the English language. Hems may rise and fall, but words endure. The impact of the miniskirt on the morals and psyche of western civilization has been explored by evexy thinking male.

But perhaps the first to explore its impact on the language is F. Stuart Crawford, assistant editor of Merriam-Webster Dictionaries. Writing in KNOW, the house organ of Encyclopaedia Britannica, he notes that the number of "mini" words has increased phenomenally in recent years, and that all but a few have been inspired by "miniskirt." Crawford's team of lexicographers ha3 found no miniskirt in print before April 15, 1966. But they believe it originated a year earlier, in England, for they did find a "mini-dress" in that distant era. In all these new miniwords, by the way, hyphens are where you find them.

Merriam-Webster lays down no rules. Thus, "miniskirt" but "mini-dress." Probably the first mini word of the type, in which "mini" stands for "miniature," was the word "mini-cam," meaning a miniature camera. This popped up in 1935. But minicam set off no great rush. The coinages came slowly.

In 1939 came minipiano; then minijet, a model jet airplane, followed by minicycle, minicar, minicorder, mi-niradio, minicab and minibus. Mini-burger (the V2-oz. hamburger) appeared in 1957, and minimagazine in 1964. In 1965 the mini-tide began to swell, especially in England. But in America the only contributions were mini-weather, meaning local weather, and miniphoria, coined by a sardonic newspaperman to describe "the odd euphoria that comes over people hunched in miniature machines." Crawford notes that miniphoria's coiner found it "very satisfying," when catching up with a Volkswagen at a red light, to lean out and roar at the driver, "You stupid miniphoriac!" But in 1965 minis began to pop up in the women's fashion world like spring flowers.

Mini-bag, mini-sarong, mini-print. "And in 1967," Crawford reports, "the dam burst." Words, like pop heroes and pop widgets, proliferate through advertising. The miniskirt, worn abroad by millions of emancipated females, was its own best ad, the most effective eyecatcher since the sandwich board and the neon light. Minis multiplied, many coined by mini-minds. Inevitably, the reaction set in.

Prudes cried for long skirts; philologists groped for an antonym to mini. These forces of darkness joined hands. The result of this stultifying alliance, as we now see, is "maxiskirt." Crawford, the dispassionate scholar, merely notes that mini stands for miniature, not minimum; so maxl, which stands for maximum, is not mini's proper antonym. I go further than that. I say maxiskirt is a bad word and a worse style.

Down maxi-skirts! Up minis! I speak only as a lover of words, of course. MRS. EDMUND S. MUSKIE women are concerned about the war, law and order." Times photo A Fashion Assist for the Working Girl Marriage Seen Best If Neither Tries to Run It For years only Heaven helped the working girl. Now, the Broadway is stepping in with a helping hand for career women: a comprehensive program of advice on health, beauty, fashion and philosophy about "The Challenge of Being a Woman." Women employees of leading companies and members of professional groups will gather at 7 p.m.

Tuesday in the Wilshire Ebell Theater for the program, which will include: Tips on hair styling from Mr. Everett, the Broadway's styling director. A demonstration of walking and exercise by a top model. A "first things first" clinic on foundation wear, to be introduced by Joan Alforno of Glamour magazine. A talk on "The Challenge of Being a Woman" by Dr.

Georgette McGregor, speech consultant to business and a UCLA Extension lecturer in effective speech. Smart and Smashing The fashion segment of the event will feature clothes for every facet of the working woman's life, ranging from smart attire for the office to smashing styles for after 5. Special emphasis will be on how to choose proper accessories and how to mix and match separate? with flair and practicality. For the office, there's a straight-out -of the -30s pinstripe dirndl skirt, worn with a gold shirt and cinched around the waist with a colorful scarf. The Broadway's style staff considers scarves "a significant fashion investment scarves -have never been so important.

You can wear them around your waist, your neck, your hair." In a softer mood an occasion that Please Turn to Page 14, CoL 1 BY MABJIE DRISCOLL Times Staff Writer IRVINE If you say you "love" someone, you may mean an entirely different thing than I do when I say I "love" someone. No wonder there's confusion in the land. Calling the Lovin' Spoonfuls' record "Best Friends" a "profound bit of philosophy," psychologist C. Ray Fowler detailed several kinds of love in the second "Education for Remarriage" lecture presented by UC Irvine extension. "The ideal marriage is a comfortable, give and take relationship between two mature people," he said.

"It is friendship in the purest sense. "Yet when a man and woman develop an emotional attachment for each other, their friendship usually is weakened. One becomes dominant, the other dominated." Love Seen as Dependence Fowier said "love" as defined in our society is really a "strong feeling of emotional dependence" and should be understood as such. "Marriage should be considered a sustaining, enduring relationship," he said. "If you take 'love' as we usually define it, love and marriage don't really go together.

Advocating teen-age dating as an important factor in emotional growth, Fowler said adolescents need to experience a wide range of different personalities before they choose their life partner. "Parents should encourage their youngsters to have many friends of the opposite sex," he said, 'instead, they impress them with the adult Please Tarn to Page 8, Col. 1 i A i i i 4 A i "ZC jf TODAY IN PART IV PEAK ABBV Page 5 DR. ALVAREZ Page 13 ART NEWS Page 6 ASTROLOGY Page 26 BRIDGE Page 18 CHKISTT FOX Page 8 JOYCE HABER Page 33 KIRSCH OX ROOKS Page 17 CECIL SMITH Page 32 ON THE GO Sizzle red coat punctuated with gold coat dress with a flair of side pleats is accessorized buttons has dashing, derring-do look. Red jersey with odded scarf ond chatelaine on pocket flap.

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