SOUTHERN
DAILY
CALIFORNIA
ROJAN
Volume LXXII, Number 14	Los	Angeles,	California	Thursday,	October	\	1977
Three Men Give Land for Site of University
An Episcopalian, Catholic and Jew
‘A Place to Expand Our Talents’
First-Year Enrollment Hits 53
Overcrowding Seen
Enrollment figures reached record numbers Monday, Oct. 6, when school opened and an astonishing 53 students attended classes. The figure is up 53 from last year's class.
The university’s president, Marion Bovard, said if the trend continues, improvements will have to be made to better accommodate students.
Commuter students were in an uproar over the poor road conditions leading to campus and what F.E. Lacey, a science major, termed “an insufficient number of hitching posts.” Students also were dissatisfied with the poor watering conditions for their horses. The humid October heat has resulted in many overheated horses. Students who ride horses to class have found the huge number of books they carry to be quite a burden on their horses.
Minnie C. Miltimore, a philosophy student, hopes that in the future a security system will be established to prevent horse thefts.
The unexpected large enrollment has caused other problems for students in buying books and food services. A limited number of books are available and shipments from the East Coast may take up to a month, dependingon the efficiency of Wells Fargo. The perennial best-seller The Adventures of Toni Sawyer is sold out at the book store.
The general overcrowding has caused problems for students unaccustomed to the impersonal one-to-four relationship with professors at a university.
Bovard did not see an alleviation of the crowded conditions for next year since students will not have acquired enough units for graduation. The admission of new freshmen will only add to the student population.
Already the University of Southern California has a noble history — the land upon which we now so ardently study was offered to our founding group, the Methodist Episcopal Conference. by three men of different faiths: Mr. Ozro W. Childs, an Episcopalian; Mr. John G. Downey, a Catholic; and Mr. Isaias
SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY
Students may not leave town without his knowledge and consent, President Marion M. Bovard said yesterday.
The university has been having problems of late with students who have left the school-grounds without authorization.
Also, Bovard added, students are not permitted to wear firearms to class.
Bovard has received complaints from the streetcar conductors that students are shooting rabbits from the cars. He asked commuting students to please refrain from this practice.
In another announcement, Bovard said attendance at morning prayers in the college chapel is mandatory, unless the student is excused by the faculty. Attendance is also required at Sunday services in the University Methodist Church. If students have excuses from parents they may attend services elsewhere.
Heilman, a Jew.
Ozro W. Childs came to California during the gold rush. He settled in Southern California and spent much time cultivating business and cultural interests in Los Angeles. Childs was co-founder of the Los Angeles Nursery and Fruit Garden and helped established Central Park and the Los Angeles Opera House.
His former residence is the lovely one-block home on 11th and Main Streets. It is a home much admired by the community. An abundance of unusual trees and plants surround the house. y
John G. Downey came to America from Ireland, seeking his fortune in the gold rush. Shortly after he settled in Los Angeles, he purchased the Rancho Santa Gertrudis, located 20 miles southeast of the city.
Downey became governor of California in 1860, and after his two-year term resumed several banking operations.
Isaias W. Heilman, an emigrant from Bavaria, came to Los Angeles in 1859. He founded the distinguished Farmers and Merchants Bank in 1871, of which Mr. Downey once served as president.
These three men jointly owned several acres of land, which they called the West Los Angeles plot, near the comer of Exposition and Vermont Boulevards. They had tried farming the land and using some ofitforcattlegrazing. Both functions, however, did not seem suitable for the acreage.
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Students associate during class break.
Vociferous group of students
Bovard Lists His Rules
No Leaving Grounds Without Permission No Shooting from Streetcars
and faculty mingle at picnic.
Picnic Features Ride on Bus
Bovard said tuition will remain between $12and $15 forthe spring semester. The incidental fee will also stay between $2 and $6.
Bovard stated that additional courses in elocution and foreign language will be required for students in the College of Liberal Arts. Students majoring in the Classical and Philosophical courses must also take extra math, physics and chemistry classes. Students majoring in the Scientific course must take additional English and history classes.
These changes will go into effect next fall.
“The university is striving to offer students a diversified academic program,” Bovard said. “These changes will help in achieving our goal.
“We are securing the academic future of the university by improving our courses of study.”
AN EYE ON CAMPUS
Horse Troubles Plague Student
A new term is hardly underway, but already a discipline problem has arisen. Well, actually the delinquent student claims that discipline is only one-fourth the problem.
Joshua McCabe, a student in the music department, freely admits he has missed several classes and a couple of piano lessons. He says, however, that this is only Part One ofthe problem.
University regulations state that the dean may censure a student for“habitual or willful neglect of duty.” Notice of such censure is communicated by the dean orally to the student concerned, and in writing to his parents or guardian, unless he is above the age of 25 years.
Hence Parts Two and Three of this involved drama. It seems that McCabe’s parents have settled somewhere around Lake Tahoe, but McCabe doesn’t know how to get in touch with them.
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47 Pupils Attend
First-Annual Affair
A ride on a new-style omnibus highlighted the first annual faculty-student picnic, held Saturday at the 28th Street field.
“The picnic was more successful than we ever dreamed,” said Minnie C. Miltimore, chairman ofthe social committee.
Miltimore said 47 of the university’s 53 students attended, as well as the entire faculty. “Several students were needed for chores at home and could not attend,” she added.
Marion Bovard, university president, made a speech at the picnic urging all the students to become actively involved in university social functions.
“A university should be more than a place for young Christian men and women to grow academically. It should provide the opportunity for them to develop social skills,” Bovard said.
Following Bovard’s speech, Miltimore announced that the faculty-student picnic would be only the beginning of what she termed “an active social calendar this semester.”
Miltimore said the next activity will be a dance.
“We are not sure when or where it will be,” she said. “It all depends when we will be able to get a proper number of chaperones and find a suitable location.”
Following the speeches and a buffet-style lunch, the omnibus arrived. All the students and faculty then took a ride around the campus and the surrounding neighborhood singing such songs as We are SC.
“The ride and the picnic were great fun ” said F.E. Lacey, a science student. “When I first started here, I thought it would just be the place I attended classes. But now I can see USC is going to be a really spirited school.”
The facultychaperones forthe picnic said they had no discipline problems.
“I did have to pour out some whisky that two students tried to sneak in,” Bovard said, “but overall I’d say the students behaved properly.”
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