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EX-COMMITTEE MEETING
Another special meeting of the executive com mittee is to be called at 12:15 today in the Student Body President’s office.
Business regarding the coming student body elections is to be transacted. The meeting is to be a short one.
T1 OMORROW will be our annual day off, for it will be the day that the annual women's edition of the Daily Trojan appears On the campus. The young ladies have been working on the Trojan staff for the past year, but have been unable to offer the campus their own work. Tomorrow will give them their chance. Marjorie Hull, junior and news editor on the Daily Trojan, will take over the editorial chair for the day and we wish her “all the luck.
Assisting Miss Hull are Betty Baker, junior and news editor, who will act as managing editor for the day. Rita Padway, another junior and one of the feature writers of the Trojan, will take the editorship of the sports page and will be assisted by Mynette Ritch, a sophomore. Myra Waterman will handle the editorial chatter for the day. The above mentioned department heads will be assisted by the women members of the Trojan staff.
We appreciate thc vacation they *rc giving us and can only thank \ them sincerely for their kind offer , to rclxei'e us for a day.
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PERHAPS the biggest single event that the entire student body of I the University of Southern California will be interested in is the political nominations to be made Friday morning. It Is not the fact that the nominations are to be made that makes the event an outstanding one but it is the fact that the entire student body of the University of Southern California, including Dental students, Pharmacy, Engineers, Lawyers and every ether professional school and
VOL. XVII.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, April 28, 1926
Number 133
COLLEGES TO COMBINE FOR HUGE RALLY
Liberal Arts will be gathered under one roof for the first all-university meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Southern California.
Sam Gates of the rally committee deserves the heartiest congratulation* of the student body in having been able to promote such a needed gathering. It will be the first time in the history of the school as it stands in its present stage with all its professional schools, that the entire student bodies have been able to meet at one time. The Shrine Auditorium which has been selected as the place for the general student body meting is ideal and should be filled to overflowing when the Trojans gather.
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The meeting will also mean that the candidates for various student body offices will be presented to the students at one gathering and will save them considerable time and embarrassment in not hairing to appear at indmdual rallies for the various professional schools.
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STUDENTS have been continually protesting the loss of books, clothing, automobiles, etc., to the adminis-ration, yet they will not do their part to aid in the curbing of this crime wave. Gwynn Wilson, graduate manger and the writer took a jaunt round the campus early this morning nd found it to be a “Thiers Para-,l*e." Articles left in automobiles uld have easily been taken amount-to hundreds of dollars. In fact automobiles were left at the mercy thives. with keys left in them.
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Now if the student body would aid in the curbing of this series of robberies each individual student must co-operate with the administration. If you don’t want your car to be among those missing, kindly take the keys out of it and don’t throw your valuable and treasured possessions open to anyone with “li-ght fingers.”
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Professors arc just as careless as students in this respect. A profcs-or's car was found iL'ith a set of urgical instruments left in the back eat. Brief cases and slide rules are dentiful.
DECLARE NINE STUDENTS OUT OF RUNNING
Vetoing of New Amendment Makes Popular Students Ineligible.
COMMITTEE MEETS
Will Re-open Nominations For Offices Left Vacant By Ruling.
Nine prominent campus personages were officially declared out of the coming elections following a week of disputes. The vetoing of a bill passed by the executive committee declared the nine men and women out.
A# a result, the student executive committee will have to hold a special session today at noon to re-open nominations for student body offices.
The people made ineligible are Mike Elwood, Eddie Blaine, Ralph Kolly, Beth Baker, Martha Wiggett, Bill Stewart, Eloise Parke and Burdette Henney. Ora Mae Smith, a candidate for secretary, was declared out on account of being an underclassman.
Ralph Holly, El Rodeo editor candidate, is expected to be declared eligible today. His grade wras recently held up over the Wampus incident last February.
Friday of last week the committee had passed an amendment making the above mentioned eligible. It was referred back and the committee upheld the amendment by a 13 to 6 vote after they had passed it by a 17 to S vote. The amendment was then officially thrown out. *
As the constitution now stands, a student must pass 75 per cent of his studies with a “C” grade, thus a person making a “B" average may be ineligible.
•RCHTTECTSHOLD BIG MARDI GRAS FRIDAY EVENING
Al Wesson’s Orchestra Furnishes Music For Annual Affair To Be Held at Women’s Club.
With Al Wesson’s orchestra furnish ing the music, the annual Mardi Gras of the School of Architecture is to be held tomorrow evening at the Hollywood Women’s Club. Those who attend the affair will wear masks and costumes.
Students of the Denishawn tJchool of Dancing are to provide the special entertainment for the dance. They are to put on an interpretative dancing act.
Al Wesson, whose six-piece orches tra is furnishing the music, is an alumnus of this university. While attend ing classes here he wrote the Alma Mater, and was also famous for his journalistic work, having been editor of the Wampus.
For the first time in history, the Mardi Gras is to be a mask and costume affair. Heretofore, costumes but no masks have been worn. This is the only university costume dance of the year.
Scene from “Poor Old Jim,” head-line act on the Senior Road Show bill for Friday evening. This one-act play, written by William De Mille, is one
of the most popular of the modern shorter plays. Farcial in character, it was a favorite on the campus when presented by the same cast two seasons ago.
VAUDEVILLE REPRESENTATIVES TO ATTENED SENIOR ROAD SHOW
Managers of Local Theaters Will See Student Talent Present Show Friday Night; Acts Are Considered To Be of Profesional Calibre.
Political Science
Group To Gather
“Colonial Possessions” is to be the topic taken up for discussion at the third meeting if the Political Science discussion group tomorrow afternoon j at 4:15 o’clock at the Y. M. C. A. According to Willard Brown, assistant ! in the Department of Political Science, who has been leading the group, a , very interesting open forum has been planned. Students in the department I are welcome to attend, and particularly those enrolled in the 1-b class, j whose written assignments are regu-j larly taken up for discussion.
A supper meeting for Thursday, April 29, is announced by the Student Volunteers to be held at the Y. M. C. A. hut. The affair will be an echo meeting of the Whittier conference.
Professional try-out touches will be added to the annual Senior Road Show performance Friday evening by the presence of several representatives of vaudeville booking companies, according to an announcement by the management. Since the Road Show is the annual culmination of student talent, it has been the custom for several years for professional companies to “scout” the production, ln the past, several contracts have been given students for both summer and winter tours as a result of these visits by theatrical men. -—4 This year managers became interested in student productions early in the season when eleven representatives of local theaters, national circuits, and moving picture studios saw the performance of “The Broken Bachelor.” Many of these men will see the Road Show Friday evening and every effort is being made on the part of the performers and the directors to make the entire show of professional calibre. This will be done, however, solely through the efforts of students as no professional talent is used in this show.
The act which will probably attract the most attention from the “scouts” is the presentation of “Poor Old Jim,” William De Mille’s ^popular one-act farce. Genevieve Mulligan, Ellsw’orth Ross, and Selvyn Levinson, the cast for this playlet, have been active in campus entertainment for the past four years and are to be graduated this spring. Miss Mulligan is planning to teach dramatics w’hile both Ross and Levinson will probably become connected wTith professional work. This performance is repeated by popular request. It marks the farewell appearance of this cast on Southern California’s dramatic stage.
Attention will also be focused upon the appearance of “Gogo” Belanger, Wes Woodford, and Eddie Blaine in their “Seventy-Seven Years Ago.”
Five other acts will make up the program. For the closing number, Grant La Mont has arranged a finale which has been entitled “Comedy Carnival Afterpiece.” La Mont uses fifty actors in this presentation and will bring forth all those who have starred in the other acts earlier in the program. This is scheduled to be the “surprise” event of the evening.
Reservations for seats were taken off yesterday afternoon. This will open up a number of good seats which had not been called. for before the final date.
BIG AFFAIR IS FAREWELL TO SENIORS
Junior-Senior Dinner Dance To Honor Seniors at Hotel Maryland on May 21st.
As an introduction to a heavy graduation program, the Junior-Senior dinner dance is to be held in the main ballroom of the Hotel Maryland in Pasadena on Friday evening. May 21.
The committee of Juniors in charge of arrangements is already working toward the perfection of details in order to make this the greatest social function on this year’s social calendar. It is intended to make everything in connection with the affair ad here to the farewell idea as this is actually in the nature of a formal farewell to the departing Seniors.
Tickets, when they go on sale, will be available to either Juniors or Seniors, it being necessary that only one member of the couple be either a Junior or a Senior.
Eloise Parks, vice-president of the Junior class, heads the committee in charge. Those working under her are: ‘‘Boots” Oudermeulen, Junior president; Art Syvertson, Bill Stewart, Mabel Smith, Gladys Lee, Don Parker, Dorothy Baker, Pauline Klene. Al Behrendt, Eleanor Veale.
FIELD WORKERS’ CONFERENCE The regular conference for field workers in Religious Education scheduled to meet at noon today has been postponed until May 19.
ENTIRE TROJAN STUDENT BODY TO ASSEMBLE FRIDAY AT SHRINE AUDITORIUM FOR NOMINATIONS
All S. C. Schools and Colleges Are Expected To Attend Nomination Exercises Friday Morning; Nomination Speeches Limited To Four Minutes.
Assembling for the first time in history under one roof at one time, the complete student body of the university will meet at ten o’clock Friday in the Shrine Auditorium to nominate officers for the next year. The Auditorium has a seating capacity of 6500. The professional schools will be excused from their classes from ten to eleven in order that their students may attend the nomination exercises, while President R. B. von KieinSmid will open the
ceremonies with a short address.
Political Advertising Must Be Filed With Trojan By Friday
Friday, April 30, has been set as the deadline for all advertising copy which aspiring candidates for student offices may submit to the Daily Trojan in connection with the election of May 6th.
In order to equalize matters and to prevent anyone taking what might be construed as an unfair advantage, the amount of space is restricted for each entry.
Candidates for the office of student body president, vice-president, secretary and editor of the Trojan may each purchase sixteen inches of space, being limited to two columns, eight inches deep.
Aspirants for the editorship of El Rodeo may have twelve inches; two columns, six inches deep. The executive committee candidates are allowed two columns, five inches deep or a total of ten inches.
“Advertising must be paid for in advance,” according to Bill Teetzel. advertising manager of the Trojan.
Every candidate is asked to see Teetzel either Wednesday or Thursday of this week in order to make necessary arrangements.
PI DELT RAZZ TO COME OUT AFTER POLITICAL ISSUE
To Disclose All Dirt About Politicians Day Before “Trojan" Political Edition.
According to Sam Gates, chairman •+of the rally committee, assembly checks will be passed out and ali students and members if the faculty are expected to attend. The principal function of the affair will be to nom> inate officers for 1926-27 and to give every student the opportunity of viewing the prospective candidates.
Under the arrangements already made, the nominator for the president of the student body will be allowed four minutes for his speech and the nominee will be granted the same pe-riod for' exceptance. All other stu dent body officers, except the execu tive committee, will be allowed three minutes for nomination speches and three minutes for acceptance The nominees for the executive committee will simply be introduced. Those officers receiving three minutes are: Vice president, secretary, editor of the El Rodeo, editor of the Trojan and yell king.
Don Cameron, president of the stu dent body, will act as chairman foe the occasion and all arrangements are in charge of the rally committee. The opening address by the university president will begin promptly at 10 o’clock, making it necessary for all the students to leave for the auditorium immediately after their nine o’clock classes.
The Shrine Auditorium, one of the finest in California, is easily accessible to the university and, according to Sam Gates, it may be had in the future for similar affairs thus making it possible for the complete student body to
Late announcements from the staff of the famous Pi Delta Epsilon razz sheet indicate that that publication will make its appearance on the campus Wednesday, May 5, at 7:30 a. m. Coming the day before election, the sheet will disclose the dirt concerning the nominees.
Ralph Holly, president of the organization behind the sheet, promised that the whole truth and nothing but the truth will be printed this year. According to Holly, “Truth is better than fiction.” He also stated that all campus politicians will be treated in a manner befitting their station.
A meeting of the members of the organization has been called for the near future at which time a decision will be made as to the two members who will represent the Southern California chapter at the national convention in San Francisco next September.
Pi Delta Epsilon is the national journalistic fraternity on the campus and each year prints its own individual razz sheet. According to Freeman Hall, editor, anyone wishing to put some scandal in the coming issue, or any student desiring to have publicity for their campaign should see hhn at once.
The paper is edited by the pledges of the organization and campus notables are the object of its ire.
assemble at one time.
Spanish Club Meets
To Discuss Fiesta
All new members are requested to attend a Spanish Club meeting to be held today in room 253 at 12:30 o’clock. Plans for a future fiesta will be discussed as well as a proposition ^ of reorganization. Those delinquent in dues are asked to be present at this meeting.
AMAZONS PLEDGED FOR COMING YEAR
Candidates Will Be Initiated May 11; Will Uphold University Traditions Next Year.
Formal pledging for seventeen women was held at the Women’s Residence Hall, Monday afternoon, by the Trojan Amazons. The initiation date for the candidates was set for May eleventh and will be followed by a banquet in honor of the new members. Evelyn Ross, president of the organization, was in charge of the pledge ceremonies, assisted by Pauline Klene, vice-president.
The women wearing black and white Amazon ribbons are Catherine Colwell. Katherine Curtis, Martha Wiggett, Mabel Smith, Betty von KleinSmid. Eugenia McQuarters, Eleanor Veale, Betty Farmer, Betty Hentzel. Ruth Carr, Mabel Cunningham, Vivian Murphy. Eleanor Mix, Mildred Martz, Marion Robertson and Dorothy Bishop. Margaret Burke, who is the S. C delegate at the national Y. W. C.. A. conference, will be pledged upon her return fo the campus the last of this week.
Following their Initiation, the new members will begin active work in the interests of the Amazons, such as assisting the freshmen women, up-holding traditions, and sponsoring social functions. The recently pledged girls were chosen by the Amazons because of their active co-operation and interest in various campus activities.
Glendale Trojan Club Has Banquet Thursday
With addresses by Dr. Frank C. Touton, educational secretary, and Willis Hunter, director of intercollegiate athletics, as the main features, the Glendale Trojan Club will meet at a banquet at the Hotel GlendaLe.
‘Thursday at 6:30 p. m.