Sagehens and Trojan Trackmen To Clash At Coliseum Saturday
Southern
California
Trojan
Students Will Discuss Examination System At Morning Assembly
lume XVI
Los Angeles, California, Friday, March 13, 1925
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ELLOW DOG WILL BE skull and dagger will
UNMUZZLED ON APRIL 13
jma Sigma Razz Edition Will Bare Truth On Campus Mercilessly
Unbiased scandal ,in its truest pos-ble form, will appear in profusion xt Friday on the Southern California mpus when the Yellow Dog. annual gma Signia razz sheet is put on sale, ie entire staff of the Yellow Dog, hich is comiposed of the pledges of gma Sigma, junior men’s honorary aternity, has been working hard to ake the Yellow Doy a success, and is spared no efforts to print the Uth in a manner that, it is said, will irt those affected by its sting. The sllow Dog is similar to the annual rojan razz sheet, only, it is declared r those in charge, deals only with the uth.
Every prominent figure on the cara-is, as well as every fraternity, soror-y, and other social organization, will » razzed to the limit. The staff photo-■apher has been snooping around a eat deal during the past few weeks, id is said to have garnered somt' rominent Southern Californians in kme poses which not even hush loney can keep out of print.
ACULTY IS HIT
furthermore, declare those in charge e faculty and administrative officers ! un^ersity will be “hit” just as as uie students, and the truth ut several matters of dire import-jce to the students will be let out in e coming issue of the Yellow Dog. iothing has been overlooked to make e Yellow Dog of 1925 the publica-in that it has been in the past, from e looks of scandalous material ready r its columns, it will far exceed any-ing of its kind ever attempted on the S. C. campus.
It is impossible to learn any of the tails of the coming Yellow Dog, ex-;pt that it will be crammed full of vandal. “Nothing But the Truth,” is lie aim of the staff, and several scath-jg stories which deal only with facts nd not fancy have been prepared.
The Yellow Dog is to be sold by the igma Sigma pledges, who, as is re-uired of them as pledge duty, will ?ddle the papers about the campus, ccording to those in charge, these ledges will be required to dress in Tierd costumes, and will spend the ntire day in the distribution of the rellow Dog. The . price has been set it 15c, and the amount and class of scandal that is being offered for this rice is said to be in demand by sev-ral national news services and news-apers at prices ranging from $5 to $500 per story. However, it is all to be copywrighted, and will appear nowhere else but in the Yellow Dog.
It is said that a limited number, will be published.
PLEDGE AT TEN TODAY
Every maji who has received a bid to Skull and Dagger, all-University Honor Fraternity, should be on the stage at ten o’clock today to receive his pledge ribbons and instructions as pledge duties, is the announcement of Arnold Eddy, secretary-treasurer of the organization.
The names of those who are to be initiated will bt posted on Uie blackboard in front of the Administration Building at nine o’clock.
Skull and" Dagger is the Honor Society of the entire university, and includes Law. Dental, Liberal Arts, and all the other colleges. The purpose of the fraternity is to encourage broader and higher standards among the men of the University of Southern California. To be selected as a member of Skull and Dagger is regarded as the highest honor obtainable by any university student.
Ned Lewis, president of the organization. stated yesterday that no one will be admitted into Skull and Dagger who does not go through with the entire program of initiation.
“SILVER BOX” WILL ALPHO RHO CHI WINS CLASS PRESIDENTS BE BEST OF ALL FIRST PLACE IN PLAN ACI!LE PR0GRAM
BOOK CONTEST
FIVE TROJANS WILL VISIT ALHAiBRA
Dorothy Crowley Will Be Editor -in-Chief For Daily Saturday
Five members of the Trojan staif will arise with the chickens tomorrow morning and point their self-starters in the direction of Alhambra, home of the Post-Advocate. And whilt the regular staff takes a holiday, the scribes from^ U. S. C. will try their hands at editing, writing, and publishing the paper.
Prof^gsor Mate Goodnow, head of the journalism department is in chargt* ol the expedition, which is the third of five field trips planned for the Trojan journalists. The Post-Advocate is a daily paper. Business starts foi; its staff at 7:00 A. M. and continues as long as the news holds out. In the course of the day the substitute reporters will visit the City Hall ,drop in
PRODUCTIONS
Parts Will Be Taken Entirely by Members Of Dramatic Fraternity
Members of the National Players will present John Galsworthy s “.Silver Box” March 2G in Bovard auditorium. The presentation will be the last dramatic production of the year and is expected to surpass all previous dramatic efforts. The cast will be made up entirely of members of Pi Epsilon Delta, the Southern California chapter of the National Collegiate Players.who have gained membership in the national honorary dramatic fraternity due to their past excellent performances.
The leads are to be portrayed by Helenta Ldeberg, Mont MacMillan. Harry Hall, Solly Seamons, Helen Humiston and Vesta Owens. All have taken leads in former plays and several are now doing professional work.
The production of “The Silver Box” in New York with Ethel Barrymore was considered one of the city's greatest dramatic successes and according to Ellsworth Ross .production manager, the play .without doubt, will be one of the best college productions ever attempted.
Galsworthy, in ‘‘The Silver Box,” has written the injustice of the court system. His realizatoin of the injustice of the courts moved him to write the daring drama that is true to life and is nationally known for its great strength of plot.
Prices for admission will not be raised for this costly production and tickets will be sold at 50 and 75 cents. Due to the number of outside reservations that have been made, Ellsworth Ross slated yesterday that only a limited number of tickets will be sold.
Sam Gates Wins Tuxedo; jar.rie Moore Takes Women's Prize
Falling far below the expectations of the committee in chargt, El Rodeo’s sales contest has been checked up and has resulted in the capturing of first place among the fraternities for turning in a one-hundred per cent subscription list by Alpha Rho Chi, while Sam Gates takes first place in the men’s individual contest, and Jan-nie Moore finished ahead in tht women’s race.
Only 650 year books were sold on the Liberal Arts campus, it is declared by Burdett Ives, head of the contest. He states that this is a poor showing, and that in order to be really successful El Rodeo should have topped the 3000 mark. He says that in Syracuse University 2200 copies of their year book were sold to a student body numbering 3200. The University of California and Washington have responsive sales to their annuals this season, he remarked. According to Myrl Ott, manager of El Rodeo and co-worker in the sales contest with Mr. Ives, the results of the sales reflects on the spirit of students at Southern California, in Liberal Arts. The professional colleges responded nearly one hundred per cent in the drive.
GETS NEW TUXEDO Sam Gates wins the tuxedo that goes with first place. He turned in 92 subscriptions. Seventy-three subscribers won second place for Randal Duell. Jimmy Robertson came in third with a total of 30 sales.
In the women’s branch of the sales drive. Jannie Moore won. Geraldine Lester is runner-up, while Marjorie Rice secured enough sales to insure | third place for her.
Alpha Rho Chi. Architectural fra-I ternity, in taking first honors in the organization contest, wil! receive a | large silver cup, presented by Meyers
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Secre- j second house to turn in a comnlete items from the public at large. On the j	i
desk end. the editors will >write heads, j
read proof, and make up the sheet, j
Any odd jobs which come up will be j “Russian Night” was held at the Y. left to' the ingenuity ol the editor-in-1 m q \ Hut under the auspices of chief.	the ”Y” council on Wednesday eve-
ning. According to those present, it was a huge success. The principle
The Presidents Association held their first meetiug of the new semester last Wednesday. Ronald Snavely, Bill Stewart, and Ray Hatfield were ushered in the organization by Don Cameron, the president. Plans were laid and discussed for a more active program on the part of the Association for this semester.
The Presidents AssociaUon is composed of all the present Liberal Arts class presidents, and all th<> ex-class presidents who are still in school. It enables the presidents to get together, and to co-operate in the work of the classes. The old presidents give suggestions to facilitate the work of the active presidents. The next meeting will be held March 18th.
JUNIOR HONORARY HOLDS INITIATION
EXAM QUESTION WILL BE DISCUSSED AT ASSEMBLY
Skull and Dagger Will Hold Annual Pledging At This Time
Student discussion from the floor on the examination question, the presentation of the essay contest for colleges, a violin solo by an accomplished artist and the annual pledging of Skull and Dagger will be the high points in today’s assembly and will h61d student attention for the entire hour according to Don Cameron who is in charge of the popular assemblies.
Promptly at ten o’clock the Alma Mater will be sung and doors will be closed and barred, so it is suggested that students and faculty do not linger until the last minute.
Mr. Arthur Gould, first assistant superintendent of the L. A. City schools
--| will open the program by presenting
Spooks and Spokes Pledges Sell i the essay contest, conducted by the
HELD AT COUNCIL
tary Is Principal Speaker At “Y” Council
Dorothy Crowley is to be in command as editor-in-chief, with Marguerite Matson as assistant desk editor, Helen Scheuer writing society^ and Chet Mackie and Terrel DeLapp as reporters. Al Wesson, a former writer on the Trojan, is a member of the regular staff.
Two similar trips are scheduled, one to Pomona and one to Whittier. Teet Carle is another former Trojan who is learning his trade by working on the Pomona newspaper.
OUT HERN CALIFORNIA SYSTEM
OF EXAMINATIONS TOLD TODAY
Printed below is the Southern California Examination System hich was read and accepted by the A. S. U. S. C. Executive Com-"ttee. At the assembly hour today discussion from the floor wil e in order. All students are asked to bring the Trojan to assembly his morning.
Preamble
We, the students of the University of Southern California, be-ieving that a student who is dishonorable in his scholastic work inures his fellow classmates and his Alma Mater, and that such dis-onorable conduct, being harmful to the whole student body, and o the good name of the University of Southern California,^ and be-ieving that this is a student problem, do hereby create this exam-nation system. This system is not an honor plan. We realize full veil that HONOR cannot be enforced, hut we, the students of the University of Southern California, pledge ourselves to uphold the ollowing system and to do all in our power to insure its success and o make it operate upon our campus.
Method
We believe that public opinion is the greatest force for good in >ur University. We, therefore, propose that, at the beginning of ^ach examination, the professor in charge shall write upon the blackboard or post sheets of paper whereon shall be written the words ‘‘I have taken this examination according to the understood rules of this class, and HAVE NEITHER GIVEN NOR RECEIVED AID.” After having handed in his paper, each student, before leaving the room, shall publicly sign his name to this statement.
Student Responsibility Each member of the Student Body is requested to take upon himself the responsibility of upholding and making this system a success. He shall do this in any manner which he believes to be for the greatest good of his Alma Mater. He is urged to report to a member of the Executive Committee of the Associated Students any individual violating this system. Anv student thus reported as not living up to this system by either a faculty member or a student shall be summoned before the Executive Committee which shall hear the evidence presented and the statement of the accused and shall then recommend to the Dean of the School involved suitable action to be taken in the case.
speaker of the evening was Mrs. N. J. Givago, Russian Secretary International Institute Y. W. C. A. Mrs. Givago had charge of the program and was able to portray the true Russian atmosphere.
Mrs. Givago has spent much of her life in Russia, Germany, and France. Her address was filled with emotion. She related the life of the peasants in Russia before the Revolution, and how they suffered at the hands of the wealthy class, because they demanded a decent understanding with the Czar.
The guest of honor was Miss Isabelle Newton, ex-secretary of the International Institute. Many Deans and faculty members were present.
Dinner was served at 5:30 and the program followed. Three members of the Imperial Conservatory of Music of Petrograd before the war were on the program. Tho sponsors of the program are looking forward to another evening of wonderful entertainment.
The musical program was as follows:
a.	Piano Solo—Selected.
Mrs. Z. D. Moysseeff
b.	Baritone Solo—Russian Folk Songs
Mr. Innok*enty Sooliog Miss Slavin, accompanist
c.	Soprano Solo—Selected
Mrs. Marian Beloblodsky Mrs. Z. D. Moysseef, accompanist
d.	A Ukranian Dance
Miss Lolita Fernandez
e.	Reading
Mr. Carr
list of subscribers.
Effort will be made by Don Cameron to provide for a one hundred per cent sale of El Rodeo next year. Mr. Cameron declares that either the tuition could be raised to include a book, or that the student’s tickets will include a subscription to El Rodeo. It is probable that the latter plan will be carried out.
Mr. Ives states that several downtown stores contributed the prizes for the contest and in this manner instilled interest in the sales drive. He wants to extend the thanks of El Rodeo to Desmond’s; Bullock’s; Parma-lee-Dohrmau Company; and to Meyers Jewelry Company.
Candy; Are Dressed In Fancy Costumes
Bedecked in Halloween colors after the style of the gay maidens of Paul-ais, the pledges of Spooks and Spokes, Junior Women's Honorary organization, sold sweets to anyone with a dime on the campus yesterday to raise money to contribute to the A. W. S. for the building of a fireplace in the new womens’ building.
The goal set was thirty-five dollars and at noon the amount was practically raised. Last night formal initiation for the members was held and was followed by a banquet at the Elite at 'which Mrs. Allison Gaw, wife of Dr. Allison Gaw, head of the English department was a guest of honor.
The initiates present were Dorothy Davis, Mabel Cunningham, Kendra Hamilton, Clare Kaufer, Ethel Oliver, Marjorie Rice Evalyn Ross and Genevieve Mulligan.
The active members present included Madge Irwin ,Mrs. vonKIeinSmid, Gertrude Street, Marguerite Matson, Margaret McGrath, Helen Green. Martha Smith and Mary Taylor.
NOTICE
Le Circle Francais will meet at noon today in front of Old College for El Rodeo pictures. The officers request that all members be present in order to make a good group picture.
FRAT PIN LOST
An Alpha Sigma Delta Fraternity was lost on the campus Tuesday. Finder please return it to Ralph Holly in the Trojan office.
NEUROPATHOLOGIST TO GIVE ADDRESS
Dr. Shepard I. Franz Will Lecture On Nervous Diseases Tuesday
One of the feature attractions of the year for anyone interested in Philosophy, Psychology, or Biology, will take place next Tuesday afternoon. March 17, when Dr. Shepard I. Franz, natoinally known neuropathologist, will deliver an acaress at tne Southern California institution. The meeting has been arranged under the auspices of the Biology Honor Society and will take place at 4:15 in room 250 Old College.
It is expected that the new picture of marine life produced by the University of Southern California Zoology department under the direction of Paul Greely will be shown at this time.
Dr. Franz will talk upon some phase of Neuropathology. He has won for himself considerable recognition for his work in the treatment of various forms of paralysis. He has been very successful in the cure of numerous cases.
Professor Fossler, who heard a previous speech of Dr. Franz, said that the address was extremely interesting and that Dr. Franz spoke very enthusiastically on his subject.
All members of the Biology Honor Society and Biology student are requested to be present. Any member of the student body or faculty of U. S. C. is cordially invited to attend.
Students In Dramatics Give Recital Monday
On Monday, March 1G, at 2:15, the School of Speech will give a Recital in the Touchstone Theater. Miss Johnson and Mr. Franklin Murrell, students in Dramatics, will read a one-act play- and a poem by Amy Ixiwell.
The Recitals in the Touchstone are weekly events. They are given by the students of the School of Speech and are a practical application of class work. The public is invited.
Yale will open an eighteen-hole golf course this spring. It will be located on the Greist estate tract of 900 acres and will be one of the most pictur-
Phi Beta Kappa alumni, to the students. Mr. Gould is presenting this contest to all colleges in Southern California.
Next com^s the much discussed question of examinations, and Ned Lewis will open the question to the student body, as a whole, for discussion from the floor. Mr. Lewis urges all students who have any ideas or anything to say on this question to be prepared to air them at this time. This will be the final consideration of the question according to the President of the Associated Students; that is, before the question goes to the faculty.
MJSS DORAK PLAYS
Next students will have the privilege of hearing a very accomplished violin artist when Miss Helen Dvorak, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts of Chicago, will play. Miss Dvorak, according to Miss Flock who was instrumental in securing her for today’s assembly, is a descendant of the old master, Antonin Dvorak, nineteenth century composer, and although she is comparatively young for the position, has managed a prominent concert company for the past two years. Miss Dvorak is a Southern California visitor, and according to Miss Flock she is looking forward to her S. C. appearance with much pleasure.
The last thing on the program will be Skull and Dagger, all-University Men’s organization, pledging. Twenty one men will be presented and pledged at this time. Ned Lewis, President of the Associated Students and also President of the organization will present the men to the students.
“Today’s assembly will prove to be one of the most interesting sessions of the year,” said Don Cameron, head of the assembly committee, in a statement this morning.
esque courses in America. Eventually it will consist of thirty-six holes.
STUDENTS ASKED TO CONSIDER
S. C. “EXAMINATION SYSTEM"
Many students have asked if the University of Southern California is to adopt some system of stressing honor among students in the classroom, why the much-discussed honor system in use in many American universities is not adopted on this campus. The reason is obvious. Practically in none of the universities where the honor system is in effect Aas it been a success. Theoretically the plan wherein one student reports a fellow-elassmate whom he has caught cheating is a good one. In this way the deportment of the classroom rests with the students and not with the instructor. It is a good plan we repeat, hut it doesn t work. Onlv the exceptional student will report cheating in the classroom, no matter what his individual opinion on the matter of dishonesty might be. For some reason or other there is a student horror of tattling remaining from the grade school days. For that reason, and wisely, the committee appointed to draw up a system for this institution made no attempt to follow old familiar “honor system.”
The “Southern California Examination System” is a far step from the old honor system. One student is not compelled to report another. Each man is placed upon his own responsibility not tocheat. The psychology of the local plan is right where the emphasis is wrongly placed in the other. The plan of having each student sign his name publicly to a paper that he has neither given nor received help during the examination is fair in every way. No student who has taken the examination without giving or receiving help should object to signing this paper before the rest of his classmates. Moreover, the system should cut down cheating to a minimum due to the fact that few students will cheat and then give their word of honor that they did not. Perhaps the strength of the argument lies in the fact that even few cheaters are deliberate liars.
'Fhe time is ripe for the adoption of some sort of preventative for cheating at Southern California. In the verv simplicity of its program we believe that the “Southern California'Examination Svs-tem” found the remedy. Perhaps in some forms the system may be at fault but we believe that it should be given a fair trial bv students here. It evolves no comolicated scheme or long process of adjustment. Either it will work at once or it will not .work at all The least each individual on the campus can do is to jrive it wrinns thought before assembly today.—J. M. B.