Read It In The Trojan
Subject chosen for Bowen Cup debate.
Students to ballot on honor system Tuesday. Newspaper day given one month postponement. Rah Rah Wampus reviewed.
Rumors of discrimination in prize awards is denied.
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The Spirit of Troy
“If this vote does not go through there will probably be some fine stories in some of our better downtown dailies to the effect that S. C. students do not want to have an honor system.”
—The Old Trojan.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, December 8, 1926
NUMBER 57
FILMS ARE CUP TOPIC
Bowen Cup Semi-Finals To Be Held on Jan. 5; Finals On Jan. 12.
•‘The relation of the motion picture industry to American society” is to be the general subject for debate in the annual Bowen Cup Contest, it was announced by Bill Henley, today.
Contestants in the Bowen Cup competition are asked to prepare themselves by reading widely upon the various phases and effects of the motion picture industry in America. After thoroughly investigating the field of the subject, the competitors for the six silver trophies will report to Hoose 206, on January 5, at 1 p. m., for assigned subjects. At 3:30 p. m., the candidates will report back to Hoose 205 for the semifinal of tbe contest. It is reported by the debate manager that the finals of the Bowen Cup Contest will be staged on January 12.
The Bowen debating competition is open to those students who have never previously won a silver cup. Freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors are all eligible to compete. Past contests have always called forth a great deal of speaking talent. It was for this purpose that the Judge William Bowen debate foundation was instituted at Southern California.
Those to win Bowen Cups last year were, J. Elwood Harman, Frank Colston, Stanley Hopper, Eleanor Veale, William Berger, and Charles Wright. Those who were unsuccessful in the contest last year are eligible to again compete, states Alan Nichols.
CO-EDS TO WORK DURING HOLIDAYS
Appointment Secretary Places Many S. C. Women In Downtown Stores; Many To Work As Models.
According to Gladys Greene, assistant appointment secretary for th« University, the coeds of the campus do not intend to remain idle during the Christmas holidays.
Miss Greene has received innumerable requests from S. C. women, for j employment during the vacation, and she has already placed a great many j in the different department stores of our city. The majority of the business houses seem to prefer to employ college women because of their culture, intellect, and ability to meet people in a pleasing manner.
Some of the co-eds have received positions as models for a sketching class at Polytechnic High School. The models will pose in sports clothes, and in selecting the girls for this work the choice rested upon beauty ol figure.
Rumor of Discrimination By Dean Crawford Denied
Deans Waugh and Weatherhead Deny Reports That Dean of Women Played Part In Awarding Prize For Best Sorority Float.
Contrary to all rumors which prevailed on the campus yesterday to thc effect that Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford had acted as an arbitrary judge in awarding prizes for the best sorority float in the Homecoming parade and had discriminated against one sorority because the women were dressed in pajamas, both Dean \\ augh and the president of the house in question denied that the Dean of
Women had anything to do with the decision of the judges. ___1--.--1 In commenting upon the awarding
NEWSPAPER DAY	—
PUT OFF UNTIL NEXT FEBRUARY
Annual Event Postponed For Month Beyond Original Date;
Many Editors To Attend.
That newspaper day is to be postponed until February because of a full program at present was the announcement made yesterday by Harold Silbert, chairman of the committee on newspaper day. Because of the coming vacation and examinations, newspaper day has been postponed from the middle of January until the middle of February. The definite date will be announced later.
Newspaper day is held annually for the purpose of bringing high school journalists to this campus. Business managers and editors of high school publications are brought here from all over Southern California.
Many well known magazine and newspaper publishers and editors are expected to be present to speak *o Washington Professor Will Attend Banquet Of Sociology Department Monday.
Dr. R. D. McKenzie, professor of sociology at Washington, will be the High school” editors of honored guest at a banquet to be
tered by campus sororities, Dean Waugh stated that there was no controversy whatever between him and Dean Weatherhead regarding who should get ihe prize, and that Dean Crawford had no part in their final decisions, otherwise than refreshing the judges’ minds regarding which house one of the floats belonged to.
He further stated that the float causing the rumors to be circulated had not been taken seriously by the judges in the final vote.
The president of the sorority also emphatically denied that members of her house had taken any part in starting the said rumors. As far as the girls themselves knew, nothing had been done or said by the dean of women to incur the wrath of their sorority.
SOCIOLOGISTS GIVE DINNER FOR PROF. M’KENZIE
the assembly. Also newspaper men of this University will deliver talks.
Mark Kelly, Braven Duyer, and other famous sport writers are to speak to the sport editors of high school newspapers, year books will also be given special lectures by the men connected with this work at the University of Southern California.
Utyp (®li» QJrnjattB (Column
Berkeley’s building activities for 1926 will involve an expenditure of over $7,500,000, according to an announcement made yesterday by Building Inspector Stanley P. Koch. Koch bases his estimate on the building i costs of the past eleven months.
SOCIETIES UNITE IN HOLIDAY PARTY
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Prominent Campus Organizations Will Hold Joint Christmas Party In The Y Hut Tonight.
With all the proper atmosphere making a successful Christmas party, a dinner is being given tonight by the Y. W. C. A., Y. M. C. A., the Cosmopolitan Club, and the School of Religion at the Y. M. C. A. at 6 o’clock.
The dinner is an annual affair given by the Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A., and everybody is expected to bring a toy.
The Y. M. is to be decorated in a manner to create the sufficient Christmas spirit. Santa Claus is to be present and Christmas games of all sorts are to be played.
Two skits will be presented, “Two Christmaf Boxes,” given by the Y. W. C. A., and “Siat Lux,” given by the Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Price of the Biblical Literature Department will tell Christmas stories.
given by the Sociology department Monday, according to Dr. Emory Bogardus, acting Dean of the Graduate School.
At present Dr. McKenzie is leading a round table discussion at the Council of International Relations at Riverside. He has a national reputation in the study of urban communities.
Dr. McKenzie does not come here as a stranger as Dr. Bogardus has known him for several years, and has worked with him in several conferences. Dr. McKenzie will be the guest of the Southern California campus for one week. At the special dinner to be tendered him, Dr. McKenzie will speak on the Sociology of Boundaries.
FULL HOUSE PREDICTED FOR SENIOR PRODUCTION
That the presentation of the Senior play, “In the Next Room," on Tuesday evening. December 14, in Bovard auditorium, will be an innovation in the wav of melodrama, is the announcement of John Atwill. manager of student productions .
"There will be none of the usual shivver-producing methods employed.” stated Atwill.
“An effort is being made to give the audience something entirely new in the mystery line, as there will be no
great amount of popularity in both New York and London, being presented at New York’s Little Theatre under the supervision of Winthrop Ames, foremost American critic.
All seats for the plav will be re-
Frosh Women Discard Arm Bands For Year
Ended are the problems of the freshmen women in regard to wearing the tradiiional arm bands, according to the report from Amazon court which met recently. No longer will the frosh be subjected to the trials of wearing the class distinction this semester.
Proving that the surveillance would not be slackened at the last of the term, the Amazons held court for four offenders. One girl was required to read to the organization a paper on ‘ Traditions,” while two who had been caught sitting on the senior bench will wear green bands of exaggerated size for the entire week... Another disobedient frosh will present her reasons for disobedience to the court in the form of a theme at the next meeting Friday noon.
Whitman Wants To Debate S. California
Although the Whitman debate
darkened stage, mysterious gunshots	served, and will go on sale today in
or other cut and-dried features.”	the Students Store at fifty and seventy-
A cast of eleven, headed by Marcus	five cents.
Beeks and Amanda Chambers, will	Tickets at the attractive prices of
portray the different characters. The	75c and 50c went on sale this morn-
play is under the direction of Ray	ing in the ticket office of the Students
McDonald, university play director.	Store... With each member of the
A specially constructed set, designed	senior class taking two of the paste-;
and executed by the Los Angeles	boards and with the outside demand
Scenic Company, will be used in the	already pressing on the office, Man-1
presentation. This, according to At-	ager Atwill predicts a complete sell-
will. will aid materially in creating	out and advises every student expect-
e atmosphere of suspense that is so	ing to take in the performance to pur- j
?sirable in a play of this kind.	chase his tickets today or tomorrow if ‘In the Next Room” has enjoyed a the best seats are to be obtained.
squad has a triangular and a dual debate scheduled for hiis year Coach Be^m believes that it will be possible to get two more debates for the Var* sity and one for the Frosh team ii financial conditions will permit it. The two that are certain are the debates with the University of Washing- ' tin and Washington State College and the one next term with Willamette. Plans are now under way for a debate with the University of Oregon, and if it is at all possible the Whitman team will try to bring the University of Southern California to Walla Walla when they come through on their tour of the Northwest.
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It seems that a rumor is about the most despicable thing that we can imagine. Yesterday the word was brought to us that the dean of women had been called in to cast the deciding vote in the judging of some of thc Homecoming floats. Not only that, but we were told that she had based her decision against one of the houses on the fact that she did not like the girls’ costumes because they were not “proper.” We took the trouble to inquire into the story. We did not get to see the dean herself, who had left her office for the day, but we did find that she made no such statement to the judges. Her only part in the judging was to refresh the memories of th? judges as to the house entering a particular float. We do not know whether she later said what she was rumored to have said or not, but we do know that we could not find anyone yesterday who had heard her say it and we do know that the president of the house denied that the girls concerned wanted to make any objections whatsoever. It doesn’t cost much to put out talk, but it certainly costs enough sometimes to take it up.
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There is just one hang-over question from the Notre Dame game that we cannot seem to get rid of. After seeing the game Saturday, we cannot see Art Boeringer as the All-American center. We do not claim to be a grid critic, but it didn't take a grid critic to tell who was playing in his position in the Notre Dame game. Boeringer may be a wonderful player and he might have gone good if Jeff had given him half a chance, but our idea of an All-American player is one who makes his own chances to play.
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A couple of weeks ago we dropped in on Dr. Knopf during his Sunday sermon just in time to hear him taking issue with Charlie Wright's “Outside the Walls” column. The other day we were chatting with the pastor when he told us of a survey that has been completed that shows what the young people of today think and why, or something to that effect. He tells thht he is going to speak on that survey Sunday morning. Well, say what you like about us, but be fair, Doctor, be fair.
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Well, things are coming to a head fast now on this honor system and the new constitution. It is only next Tuesday that we vote. Both the constitution and the honor system were approved yesterday afternoon. Beginning tomorrow and continuing every day until and including Tuesday morning, the Trojan will carry sections of the constitution so that every voting student may be informed on the subject. We shall also see that the substance of the honor system is explained. * * *
The constitution will go through, we think, without any trouble at all. It has been needed too long. As we said before, it has imperfections, but none sufficient to damn the whole document; none which cannot be easily amended in the executive committee if the need arises. The honor system is going to require more study. One of the big objections to it was the fact that it allowed students to recommend expulsion from the University. At least, the President of the University called that as one of the prime objections, but that has been removed. As it will be voted upon Tuesday, the honor system means that whenever one student (Continued on Page Four)
EX. COMMITTEE TALKS
Concensus Of Opinion Accepts New Plan Involving Discussion By Welfare Committee.
That the action of the Welfare Committee must be added to student recommendation for fixing honor system penalties in the proposed honor system, before the president will approve it, was the statement made by Gladys Lee, to the Executive Committee, at a meeting held yesterday noon.
The concensus of opinion seemed to be that though the new plan, involving a decision of the Welfare Committee might not be all that is desired, it is the best that could be done at this time.
In the discussion that followed Paul Cunningham said, “I had opposed it, but now I see a good bit of value there and with these changes I think it ought to go through”.
“Boots” Oudermuelen voiced this popular idea: “What constitutes an honor system? The faculty is out of it and students have control. If the decision to come from the student recommendation was to be made by the faculty, it would not be entirely a student function.”
The other side of this issue was explained by Sam Gates, who said that for the students to assume entire and absolute control would be violating the contrract made by the student and university when enrollment took place. He added that he believed president von KieinSmid thought the thing rather cumbersome as it is now.
Junior President Asks Support Of Class At Prom
The following message was issued today by Morley Drury to S. C. Juniors in regard to the Junior Prom:
“I want to urge every member of the Junior class to support the Prom. It is the one big function sponsored by the class as a whole during their four years in college, and I feel it to be the duty of each Junior to put it over in the best possible style.
"All plans have been completed, and all that is now needed is the support of the class.”
MORLEY DRURY, Junior Class President.
FIGURES SHOW COST OF TROJAN LESS THAN BRUIN
S. C. Daily Is Published On Much Smaller Subsidy Than U. C. L. A. Paper.
OAKMONTCLUB TO BE SCENE OF FRESHMAN DANCE
Vacation To Be Begun By First Frosh Off-Campus Affair Of Year.
Freshmen of the University will celebrate the beginning of Christmas vacation with a dance at the Oakmont Country Club on the 15th of this month.
This is the first big off-campus affair for the frosh, and the class officers have been working hard to fully complete plans for the function. Many of the members of the class will make their social campus debut at the club dance.
Although plans are not completed as yet, the first available information regarding the price and entertainment will be given through the columns of the Trojan. Those in charge are attempting to stage something unusual with which they hope to eclipse the affairs of previous classes.
That the Southern California Trojan is published at a lower cost to the students than the Southern Branch Bruin, formerly known as the Grizzy, can be inferred from the figures which have been compiled this year as a result of investigations in both universities.
A student subsidy fund of $12,000 was allowed at the Branch for its registration which totalled 5,500 students as compared with the Southern California fund of $3,300 for its enrollment of approximately 9,000 students for the fall semester.
These figures show that students of Southern California pay thirty-five cents a year for the Trojan, while those of the University of California, Southern Branch, pay over two dollars yearly for their publication, The Bruin.
INSTITUTE IS IN FOURTH SESSION
Notices
All notice* munt be brought to tbe Trojan office at 716 Went JrCfermio St. or phoned to HUmbolt 4322. Notice* munt be limited to 35 worilt.
The Touchstone Drama Shop will meet in Touchstone Theatre today at 12:15. All members must be present.
ALPHA CHI ALPHA
Alpha Chi Alpha, national honorary journalism sorority, held a luncheon at the Cottage Tea Room Monday noon.
The regular meeting of the Stray Greek will be held at the Cottage Tea Room today at 12:15.
Institute on International Relations Meeting At Riverside Enters Fourth Day of Session.
Entering today into its fourth meeting, the first session of the Institute of International Relations taking place at Mission Inn, Riverside, is proving to be a great attraction on the coast.
Since 1921, there has been held at Williamstown, Mass., an Institute of Politics, but very few from Western states have found it possible to attend. It is for this reason that their has been established on the Pacific coast a similar institute. It is the plan of the committee in charge to make this an annual meeUng.
Memberships to the conference can be obtained by the payment of a ten dollar fee. A special fee for Southern California students has been set at five dollars which entitles the member to attendance at all of the lectures and sessions.
PREXY 0.K/S HONOR PLAN
Ballots Will Be Cast By Student Body On New System Next Tuesday.
Final action on the Honor System will be taken by the Southern California student body at a separate balot Tuesday, December 14. Official approval of the system has been given by the executive committee of the student body and President von KieinSmid.
The honor system, as now developed, consists of a Trojan honor commission composed of one justice, a senior; one clerk, a junior; and six jurymen, equally chosen as to serx. The personnel of this commission will be chosen from any college on the campus, according to the plan.
Cases of dishonor, a factor which must necessarily be provided for, are to be brought before the FJonor Commission through form notices. These notices, which will be found in designated places, will contain data as to the name, the offender, the offense, the time, and the place, the proviso states.
The action of the Honor Commission will be in the form of a severe reprimand on first offense. On second offense, recommendations will be made to the Faculty Welfare Commission that a penalty be given, which will consist of either failure in the course, failure in the course plus additional units required for graduation, failure in all courses for the semester, recommendation of suspension with possible probation when permitted to return to school, or recommendation of expulsion.
“An honor system as an institution must be put over in principle by the student body as a whole,” is the statement of ‘‘Boots’’ Oudermeulen, executive committee representative. “Various methods must be tried,” Oudermeulen continued, “in order to instill an honor spirit which will be traditional. Campus leaders will nec-essariy be expected to portray the true honor spirit.”
“The present plan was adopted after consideration of several other plans and it remains to be seen whether this system will be adopted by the student body,” he stated.
Completion of the new sewage disposal system at the University Farm at Davis is expected within a few weeks, work being well under way on the new plant. The main pipe line from the campus to the reduction plant has been laid already, and concrete is being poured in the tank forms.
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MATHEMATICS CLUB VOTES IN MEMBERS
Plans Laid For Social Events Of Coming Year. Steak Fry For Thursday.
Judging upon their proficiency and interest in mathematics, the Mathematics Club unanimously elected fourteen students at their regular meeting Thursday, November 18 in Stowell hall 252.
After the election the program for both social and business meetings for the remainder of the semester was outlined. Katherine f>aker was appointed chairman of the social committee and Percy Niersbach of the program committee.
it was also announced that the club wil! enjoy a steak fry immediately after school tomorrow afternoon at Griffith Park, North Vermont. All those desiring to attend the party have been asked to register in the Mathematics office.
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QUILL CLUB
An important meeting of Quill Club for the purpose of electing new members will be held tonight at eight o’clock in the English office.
FROSH MANAGERS NOTICE
All freshmen managers report to Bovard field this afternoon (Wednesday) at 3:30. Important meeting.
Freshman Club will meet Thursday noon at the Y. W. C. A. lodge.
All members of the freshman finance committee, executive committee, and class officers meet in Bovard auditorium at noon to discuss plans for the dance.
A meeting of the women debators will be held this afternoon in Hoose 206 at 4:15.
LATEST WAMP CALLED YEARS BEST EDITION
By MURIEL HEEB
"Collegiate, Rah, Rah, Rah!”
So says the latest edition of Ivory 99 44-100 percent, popularly known as the Wampus Kitty, and Milton Booth, animal trainer, who allowed the cat to escape yesterday, claims that its offerings
are not all soft soap.
Concerning bobby skirts, necking, studies, profs, knickers, college humor, shebas, sheiks, and “ye kollege kam-pus,” the feline waxed facetious. To enhance the whole conglomerated ef-
pages of the Wampus. The excellent spirit shown in criticism of the editorial policy of the Trojan was especially noteworthy.
The art work was exceptionally good, and "The Cat in the Library”
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feet, Bryant Hale contrived a weird j and “Cat in the Theater” proved to idea in the cover designs, and Elvalee j be interesting as well as informative Powell contributed an article clever departments.
enough to uphold her reputation .	On the whole, the Rah, Rah edition
Members of the staff of the Daily of the. kitty was by far the best that
Trojan appreciated the fact that the paper was given such notoriety in the
has made its debut on the campus in some time. More power to it!