Week Cast Must Meet
In Bovard at 6:45
Southern
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Trojan
Greek Cast Must Meet
In Bovard at 6:45
ume XVI
Los Angeles, California, Friday, May 15, 1925
Number 106
'ampus Takes Part In Greek Festival Today
DRMAL POLITICAL CAMPAIGN
OPENS WITH TODAYS ASSEMBLY
\ty Candidates Will be Nominated in Alphabetical Order And Allowed Limited Time to Talk
Commerce Will	Executive Candidates
Nominate Today Allowed More Space
SENIOR SHOW HAS
Election Returns Will Be An nounced at That Time Also
BY BETH BAKER
Political puns are silent this morning in a final lull before the storm of campaigning w hich will start in full bast following the zero hour of assembly at 10 o'clock when nominations for the various offices of the Associated Student Body take place.
Campaign managers sat in conference till a late hour last night grooming their candidates for the climax of the second act in the annual campus drama of poliUca called Seeking Office.
Candidates for the Executive committee are not to be permitted the time o accept their nominations on theO-stage of Bovard auditorium. Bill Teet-»1, business manager of the Trojan, nnounc«-d this morning, adding a final :wist to the state of affairs preceeding he critical hour of actual nomina-ions. Owing to this fact they may :ave ten inches of space for their po-itical advertisement, instead of the or-"ginal six. This will give room lor 3ne picture.
To morrow is the last day to make eservaUons for space, according to feetzel. All cuts must be in by Mon-iay morning at 10 o’clock.
Since the end of the first act of the eat political drama, the date when eUtions were due, there have been no urpriiies, however, the fact that there s no leeway for dark horses to enter je race has not lessened the interest Jr activity of campaign plans.
Election da\, May 21, will mark the nal act of the big fight which comes fith spring each year to rock the ampus, the drama which turns out oth oome'dy and tragedy and contains ^1 possible elements of suspense.
That today’s success or failure will e one of the big deciding factors in ie individual races of candidates is rumor owing to the fact that it fill be the last mass meeting preceed-jg elections.
PRACTICE SPEECHES Nominators are to be seen this iorning about the campus conning aeir speeches which will introduce Jieir candidates. Queening is in the iscard generally. Lawyers and dealers have been in
Nominations for officers in the College of Commerce will be made before an assembly of Commerce and pre-Commerce students this morning at 10 o’clock in the Touchstone theater. Old College. The candidate for all offices except president will be introduced to the student body and will make short acceptance speeches. Red Haynes has already been unanimously elected as president.
After the business meeting the three candidates for student body president, Don Cameron, Bob Green and Burke Long, will appear in order to give Commerce a chance to get acquainted with them.
Pre-Commerce students are especially asked to be present.
Since candidates for th** executive committee are not to be permitted the time to accept their nominations on the stage of Bovard auditorium. Bill Teetzel, business manager of the Trojans, announces that they may have ten inches of space for their political advertisement instead of six. This will give room for one picture.
Tomorrow is the last day tc make reservations for spac<. All cuts must be in by .Monday 10 a. m.
HAMILTON SPEAKS HERE
Clayton Hamilton, critic and author of numerous books, will appear in assembly Wednesday, May 27. He will speak on contemporary drama and also the revival of “The Rivals,” which is to play in I>os Angeles with Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske in the oast.
VARlED PROCRAM SYSTEM^ POSTURE KATHLEEN CAMPBELL
EXPERIMENT
Among the features of the Senior I Road Show, May 21, will be the an- I j}r nouncement of returns from the student body elections which take place on the same date, according to Donald Watson, chairman of the election committee. Tickets for the show are going fast since they were placed on sale at the book store yesterday at the regular prices of 50 and 75 cents.
No l'raternity-sorority blocks have been reserved and students wishing tickets must buy early or miss meeting Donny and the Teacher’s Pet” and the “Kiss Me” doll
The "Little Red i?choolh?>use'’ which stands on the hill is one of the features guaranteed to captivate the audience, and the ancient question of whether the shadow of the hickory j stick will keep Annie and Joe from writing “I luv you" on the slate with the dangling sponge, will be answered by a Grant La Mont beauty chorus in a manner that is said to be entirly original.
Four acts which have had professional bookings with prominent vaude-j ville circuits are on- the program, rcat demand as Solly D. Seamafis and the Road Show
Goetz Explains System of Grading Silhouttes at S. C.
TO SPEAK AT PALO ALTO
ELABORATE PROGRAM BEGINS WITH CHARIOT RACE AT NOON
Grecian Pageant, Campusgram, Carnival and Trojan Feast Are to Be Special Features of Traditional Day
BY CATHARINE POTTER
More excitement than a three-ring circus with something doing every minute is what the cc*nmittee in charge of this year’s May Day, which is being sponsored by Mrs. Rufus B. von Klein Smid, has promised for today. From the minute that the Trojan, edited completely by women, appears on the campus at seven-thirty until the last tired clown from the circus drags wearily homeward in the wee sma’ hours of the morning, Trojans will realize that this May Day is the most extensive and the most elaborately planned of a long traditional line of May Days.
-O Early in the morning, but not too
TIE IS PREDICTED [ early, the Sigma Tau fraternity will
FOR CHARIOTEERS
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•Cameron, Long, and Green Will Urge Their Charging Steeds Around Course
The system of grading posture silhouettes in the Physical Training has gone through a series of steps in experimentation. At first A, B, C, and D were used in the grading. Because of the difficulty encountered in classifying the postures made into those specific groups, it was soon found that j held in th a less formal method of grading would ) May 22. have to be resorted to. Plus and i minus added to the A, B, C, and D,
S. C. Representative Leaves on Wednesday for Oratorical Contest Finals
Kathleen Campbell will leave Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 20, for Palo Alto, where she will represent the University of Southern California in the Pacific Coast finals in the National Intercollegiate contest to be Stanford Auditorium on
Commitee recommend the production as one of the most varied and fastest moving of the year.
The acts selected for the Road Show bill are:
1.	Like Arrowhead Syncopators— 15 minutes of jazz
2.	Williamson and Wernett—“What That nominators and nominees will I ^bev £an’t Tell You ”
aaterial for nominators and it is ex? ected that nominators will vie with her when the first actual shots of he political battle are. fired.
All candidates must be on the stage |i Bovard auditorium at 10 o'clock this ornlng where they will sit during the seeches.
ave to follow certain time limits, is iie announcement of Ned Lewis. The ominator for student body president rill be given two minutes. Presi->ntial candidates will be given four inutes to accept the nomination. Candidates for vice president and scretaryship will be nominated in ree minutes and be allowed to repond in two minutes. Aspirants for (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)
AMPUS BACHELORS DANCE DASHINGLY
•‘Brawl," says Mark Busby, promi-ent Bachelor, and would say no more, herefore the nature of the Bachelor’s nee which was held last night at the ?ke house remains somewhat ambig-us, although from Mr. Busby’s con:-?nt it seems justifiable to expect e worst. The affair was in honor of e twenty-two virginal initiates who ere received into the Noble Order Pig-Headed Males on Wednesday ght, after the Senior Snap.
The season has been profitable for e Bachelors. They have successfully fended their corporation against Lho slauerhts of determined fems for sev-al months without the loss of an en-gement. The end of the year is proaching. Only a month of school left. But the retiring Bachelors 1 that if they refrain from giving y more brawls, if they give up dat-if they stuff cotton plugs in their 8 to shut out the voice of Sr-ring, above all, if they leave the dirty k of self-defense to the pure young s w’ho have just taken up the holy k, they may be able to wind up ir careers as Bachelors with not much honor.
The purpose of the contest is to increase interest in, and respect for marking added io the contusion, so ii j tjjP Constitution of the United States, was finally decided to merely group j Seven cash prizes> totaling *5,000, are them into divisions ol Good, Fair and j	awarded the winners at the close
Poor. This system ot marking has | 0f grand finals, which wjj'j be held proved satisfactory, and is the one | in I>os Angeles on June 5th. in the now used.
“With only three classes one is seldom in doubt as to which class a sil- j houtte belongs in,’’ was Dr. Goetz' statement. ‘ If one was a B plus, she
3.	Hall, Rosalind Williamson and j Cook, with Murrell at the piano— "Dances DeLuxe.”
4.	Woodford and Rathert, with sax and banjo—“Fascinating Rhythm.”
5.	"Syncopation in Our Little Red Scliocl House,” featuring the Co-ed j Beauty Chorus, directed by Grant La | Mont and written by Don Gillum.
6.	“Dumb." original skit by Nevin Packard.
7.	Coy & Behrendt (Late of the Orpheum Circuit), assisted by Mu Phi Kpsilon Trio.
S. “Girl’s Quartette—“A Song Cycle.-’
could not see why her statistics were not as good as some of the A’s and in fact ,the more grades we arbitrarily made, the more blurred became the outline of each group.”
The result of the work in posture tracing and simplified grading has been an almost violent interest in the matter taken by the students. > “Applications to enter corrective classes have been overwhelming.’’ according to Dr. Goetz, “and, in fact, classes have at times given over the whole hour to a Posture Lesson.’ ” she said.
following amounts.
First—$2,000.
Second—$1,000.
Third—$500.
Fourth—$450.
Fifth—$400.
Sixth—-$350.
Seventh—$300.
The National Oratorical Co being sponsored by the Bette! ica Federation. Any underg student from any college or un was permitted to enter the contest, the requisites for eligibility being that the orations be original, and rot requiring more than ten minute livery. The subject was to be phase of the Constitution.
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Caveman Stuff Applesauce Says Prof. and Girls Agree
By Dorothy Herriman
WOMEN’S EDITION HAS
Do girls like caveman stuff and why? For years flappers have struggled along under this pet illusion that the only way a woman could be woed and won is by the caveman method, when along comes a college professor who completely shatters this theory and claims that “caveman stuff’ is applesauce and that the flappers prefer ihe gentle type of lover, the kind who
iff rCMIWlWr 0T A FF	ssion to hold the hand and
ALL rLffllNlNIl MArr thinks that a “line” is something on
; which to hang out the weekly wash.
Professor George L. Collie of Beliot College, is responsible for the destruction of this pet illusion and backs up his reasons with the following statement: “The idea that the caveman courted his mate with a club and dragged her to his lair by her hair is scientifically inexact. The truth is that the caveman of sixty thousand years ago wooed his sweetie by stringing beads for her.”
Perhaps this professor is correct in his statement and the so-called caveman stuff never existed even unto the present generation for if the sheik of today had to depend upon the flappers’ hair to drag them to his lair said flappers would never get that far. Then too, perhaps the present vogue for wearing beads is merely a revival of the ancient custom and is the reason why so many flappers are adorned with them. We know of instances where the man has presented his swetie with beads but whether he strung them himself is unknown.
Today’s staff consists of the following:
Managing Editor...J)orothy Crowley
Editorials ........Mamie Louise Leung
Exchanges and World News..........
....................................Harriett Pearson
Desk Work.................Sarah Johnston
Sports
Editors..............................Helen Scheuer
Marjorie Hull
Features
Dorothy Herriman Beth Baker Consuelo Tachet Kay Potter Maud Miller Rita Padway
Reporters
Dorothy Davis Dorothy Baker Clare Winger Polly Black Eunice Riley Martha Wiggett
Society
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It is also believed that tered illusion will afford t much relief as they need participate in wrestling i learn the jiu jitsu in order themselves from the sheil lieve that caveman stuff : way to win a girl.
The girls themselves proached on the subject and were not seized with a sudden fit of bashfulness heartily agreed with the professor. Gentleness, they claim, wine them over a lot quicker than the rough stuff. Of course the girls wish it to be understood that the man must not be too gentle—then he would become a bore. As they did not go into detail the sheiks cannot be enlightened as to just how gentle or how eave-manish they must be. Some of the girls .-mid that they liked to be ordered around but not yanked around.
History, on the contrary, upholds the caveman theory. For instance when Romeo climed up the side of the house after Juliet she stuck her head out of the balcony to meet him half way but if he had gone up to the front door like a gentleman she would probably have slammed the door in his face. The movies also have been responsible for this theory and the picture houses are flooded with flappers gazing open mouthed and with fluttering hearts as they watch Valentino and Novarro go through their usual sentimental antics. However, as it has
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Knocking over their fellow competitors in one last rush, the three presidential candidates — Don Cameron, Burke Long and Bob Green—clubbed their way to victory in the popularity contest which came to a close Wednesday. Theirs is now the right to wear flow'ers in their hair and abbreviated nightshirts in public, and to use loud and violent cuss-words before the cheering grandstands, ^or they are The Charioteers.
By particularly foul means and dirty politics (according to a symposium of George Orme, Freeman Hall, Bur-j dette Ives and Marquis Busby), the three winning candidates all secured exactly 1313 vtes. Hence instead of one chariot there will be three. In-! stead of one noble charger there will be three. And instead of one noble , victor there will probably be three, for the news has been broadcasted that the losing gent is expected to enter-; tain the other two combatants—or con-i testants—or competitors—at dinner.
! Charioteering is said to be almost as j good for the appetite as walking to ! school or eating dill pickles, j There is considerable disappointment in certain feminine quarters.
I One sorority has nobly stuffed the ballot box every day for the blond genius who runs the Trojan, and is now mak-i ing cattish remarks about bribery and : corruption. A certain damsel re-! marked that she was quite sure a certain young man connected with the business administration of the Wampus had withdrawn from the race and torn up all the perfectly good votes she sent in for him, because the management refused to let him wear a bathrobe.
The exhibition of manly skill takes place at 12:30 today, and is expected to turn out the most Grecian of all Grecian features on au all-Greek program. Tickets are selling at $2.50 and admit the purchaser to this peerless performance, as well as all other features of the program.
GRADUATES TO PICNIC TOMORROW AT TOPANGO
Topango Canyon will be the scene of a gay affair tomorrow when the Education students and the Graduate students gather for their annual picnic. Tickets for the picnic are selling rapidly and the commitee asks that all those intending to go be sure to buy a ticket by this afternoon. The price is seventy-five cents, including transportation and a beefsteak dinner.
Pasteboards entitling one to attend can be secured at the Book Store, Dean Hunt’s office, Dean Roger’s office. or from a committee composed of T. M. Riley, Hal Williamson, Florence Loo and N. B. Trenham.
It has been arranged for the picnickers to meet in front Of Bovard Auditorium at one o’clock and go to the Canyon in a body.
A baseball game between the faculty and the students and a play which is shrouded in mystery will be the high lights of the program.
establish a booth in front of the Administration Building where “Campus-grams may be sent to anyone, anywhere on the campus for a dime. The campusgram, through an innovation ou the campus will prove to be a welcomed feature of the May Day, believe the Sigma Taus, who have dedicated the Campusgram to “those bashful persons on the campus who are unable to talk when in the presence of chose with whom they would converse.”
The Campusgram is a simple thing. In fact it is just like a telegraph blank. One walks up to the booth, donates a dime to the clerk, takes a sheet from the pad of Campusgrams and writes his message. The clerk takes the message, gives it to a uniformed delivery boy, and drops the dime in the box destined to increase the Women's building fund, and the delivery boy delivers the message, no matter where the person to whom it is destined may be at that time. Buddy King, of Arrowhead orchestra fame, is managing the novel stunt. His helpers. w’ho are to don delivery boy uniforms are Duane Greenwood, Bill Mc-Kittrick. Miles T^amport and Bob Boecktelheimer.
RACE AT 12:30
At twelve-thirty the famed chariot race will take place on Bovard Field. The charioteers who have been chosen by means of a campus popularity contest are by some strange coincident of fate the same three men who will race neck and neck for the honor of wielding the gavel in the Associated Student Body meetings of next year. Much betting has been carried on about the contestants, and hundreds of students have declared it will be worth the price of the May Day ticket just to see Bob Green, Don Cameron and Burke Long in the most correct Roman togas and sandals drive their prancing steeds around the arena.
The Trojan Feast will be spread at G: 30 P. M. in the President’s parlors, and a group of Grecian ballets, tableaux and plays will be presented in Bovard Auditorium at 7:30. Among these nlays are several Grecian dances for which special costumes and iight-(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)
AMAZONS INITIATE THIRTEEN MEMBERS
The University of California claims to have the only woman sports writer in the country.
Thirteen girls were initiated into the Amazons May 7 in the Women’s Building. Initiation was followed by a formal dinner at the Garden of Allah, at which Marjorie Rice, president, welcomed the new members. Evelyn Ross also proposed a toast to which Kathleen Campbell responded on behalf of the initiates. A springtime note was carried out in the table appointments with bouquets on the table and place cards in yellow.
The Amazons is an organization of women corresponding to the Trojan Knights, composed of the female class officers and a representative from each sorority. Its purpose is to enforce traditions among the Freshmen women.
Those initiated were: Kathleen Campbell and Eloise Parks, Pi Beta Phi; Gladys Lee, Alpha Chi Omega; Jannie Lee Moore, Zeta Tau Alpha; Dorothy Davis and Pauline Cleney, Kappa Alpha Theat; Clare Kaufer. Delta Delta Delta; Eloine Truitt, Phi Mu; Constance Bethke, Iota Sigma Theta; Rosalind Williamson, Kappa Delta; Helen Campbell, Theta Omicron; Katherine Potter. Alpha Gamma Delta; and Beth Baker, Delta Pi.