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By THE EDITOR
THE smoke of battle has far from cleared away over the “senior cap and gown" case, judging from the result of the senior class meeting yesterday noon; when it was decided by the class that they would not reconsider their previous motion to “wear caps and gowns in the El Rodeo photographs.”
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This reverts the final decision back lo the executive committee, who have this power, as was stated in yesterday’s Lookout
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We appreciate the position of the chairman of that committee, who informed us that they did not wish to be dictorial in such a matter. But the question is that the Editor of the El Rodeo has made certain definite plans, which according to him have been accepted, and according to several members of the executive committee had never been heard of heretofore. To alter these plans will mean an added expenditure which would have to be met by the funds of the Associated Students.
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In protection to the Associated Students we recommend that the executive committee follow the plans of Editor Murray, for the following reasons:
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It will prevent the dictation to the committee by any class, group, or organization.
It will insure that the executive committee is able to exercise its powers.
Because it was understood by Murray that his plans were ratified by the executive committee.
That if it is true that the change will cost $500, the Associated Students should not be burdened with this expenditure.
That the General Manager of Student Publications recommends that the plan of the editor be followed.
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WITH all due respects to the seniors, we realize the position you have been placed in. Many of you want to appear in caps an* gowns, but as has been persented by those in charge of the annual, it is for the best interest of the book that the custom has been done away with. Added to this fact are the arguments that the custom is dying out in other universities and of the added cost; you will find sufficient reasons why the editor has decided to do away with them. And we hope that the executive committee makes a like decision today.
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Trjie, the seniors should hare been informed of this matter prior to this time. Work on the publication has taken shape and it would mean a great deal of work to alter the present plans. Had the seniors been consulted in the matter earlier in the year, everything would have been arranged without the present verbal combats.
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WHILE this little squabble is going on, an interesting side light to the situation was brought up at the senior class meeting yesterday at noon. It seems that after the class had argued about for almost an hour someone questioned the legality of the meeting. The 22 members present could hardly have gone on record as being the senior class, which incidentally brought up the question of a quorum and class constitution.
It seems thaf each year a tentative constitution is given the various classes, which they are to accept or reject as they deem necessary.
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Wouldn't it be a good idea if the executive committee make it compulsory that each class adopt some sort of a constitution, thus eliminating the arguments that arise at class meetings over the rules of ordert
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ANOTHER very interesting incident is occurring on the campus while the “cap and gown” main event is in progress. Over at the Law School the embryo lawyers are very much opposed to the attitude of the Trojan Knights in regard to smoking on the campus. It is said that they will not co-operate in the matter of upholding this tradition.
The matter is now in the hands of the president of their school and the executive committee. We trust that the lawyers will cooperate with the ideals of the institution.
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Howei'er, we do contend that it becomes tiresome to have to uwtch one's self when lighting a cigarette. Other campuses have a more lenient rule in regard to smoking. A modification of the present rules may aid in settling the matter for the
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California
EX-COMMITTEE MEETS!
There will be a very important special executive committee meeting today at 12 o’clock sharp at the Associated Students office, 2nd floor of the Journalism building. Every voting member should be Dres-
ent. The Duroose is to definitely settle the style of senior pictures in this year’s El Rodeo.
VOL. XVII
Los Angeles, California, Friday, December 4, 1925
Number 55
OVER EL RODEO
SENIOR PLAY ALL SET FOR SECOND PRESENTATION
Galaxy of Professionals Attend Premier Presentation of Local Product and Deem it Great
Trojan Knights and Lawyers Have Smoking Argument
TROJAN TOOTERS’ PLAY
Every Cast Member Makes Good In First Attempt From Start to Finish is Critics’ Opinions
An audience that filled Bovard auditorium to capacity last night, ! and which buzzed with the talk of ! many moving-picture and theat- ! rical stars, greeted the premier showing of “The Broken Bach- ; elor,” the first annual senior farce of the University of Southern California. Numerous well-known professional people of Los Angeles attended the performance and practically every sorority and fraternity on the Southern-California campus was well represented. The play is to be repeated again tonight, and according to Ellsw'orth Ross, a limited number of good seats are still obtainable at the Students Book Store.
When the Trojan went to press last night, the audience in Bovard Auditorium had seen the first three acts and was anxiously waiting for the last fit of convulsions. Ellsworth Ross, as Jim Robbins scored a great success, and was ably supported by Miss Pauline Klene, who played the part of Marie. Miss Elizabeth Horne as Claire Miss Dorothy Davis as the flirtatious Mrs. Murray and Miss Harriet Pearson as the mysterious French woman all appeared at their best and gave excellent characterisations.
DIRECTION CAPABLE The direction was in charge of Sal-lie Taft Teschke, a graduate of the School of Speech. Mrs. Tesehke’e careful direction is an important factor in the success of the play. ‘‘The Broken Bachelor” was written by Teet Carle and Ellsworth Ross and has many amusing situations. Carle, who wrote the Campus Frolics of 1923, has injected much of his fine wit into “The Broken Bachelor,” and Ross’ unusual situations are present. Ray Mac Donald was in charge of the stage and his sets were of the finest seen on the Bovard stage.
STARS ATTEND Celebrities from Hollywood and Los Angeles flocked to Bovard Auditorium last night to see the world’s premiere showing of “The Broken Bachelor” and among them were Harry Carr, Rupert Hughes, E. F. Erianger, Wm. De Mille, Cecil De Mille, Jack Warner, Frank Eagan, Lillian Albertson, Mack Sennett, Dave Warner, Edward Smith Jack White, Thomas Wilkes, John Ford, Michal Coopei, Estelle Taylor and Harold Lloyd. The well-known professionals were enthusiastic over the new play.
“To smoke! ! !—or not to smoke?” Such is the question of the hour that agitates the deliberative calm of the new School of Law buildmg. Shall the crafty connoisseurs of Blackstone continue to roll out clouds of blue vapor from the steps of their edifice of learning when the downtrodden Liberal* Arts boys must trot across the avenue to the proverbial vacant lot or corn-silk days? “No!” shouted the Trojan Knights. “Yes!” boomed the law studes.
This question was presented to the executive coramittef> last Tuesday evening and they voted to leave the solution up to the Trojan Knights. Ray Elmquist, Ravelle Harrison, Clarence Hunt and Harry Hunt are the Trojan Knights in the School of Law. It is rumored they intend to start the campaign to banish cigarette smoking to the side street by calling a meeting of the student body and having Chet Dolley present the problem to the lawyers. Both sides have their arguments. Anyway, the lawyers still smoke on the front steps of their school ,and the Trojan Knights are working to bring aout a change of heart.
DANCERS WILL BE IN SPOT AT RALLY TODAY
Student Body to Vote On World Court; Local Players Will Put On Skit; Music and Yells.
DEMOLAYS PETITION FOR S. C. CHARTER
Final action on the petition to or ganize a campus club of all Trojans who have been De Molays was postponed for two weeks by the executive committee Tuesday evening. The petition has been referred to the committee on organizations of which Bart Hutchins is chairman.
Formal organization was completed on December 1st, when Carl Plate was elected president, Jim La Frankie vice president ,Elwood Harmon, secretary and Craig Smith, tpeasi"*°r. Al Swanholm is one of the two masons who have agreed to act as advisors of the De Molay club..
Charter members of the club predict that the De Molay cluD will become one of the largest societies on the campus if granted permission to secure a charter as there are over two hundred former De Molays in school at the present time.
A vote on the world court and a skit written and directed by Eddie Blaine and Robert Raede will be featured at the rally in Bovard Auditorium today.
The skit, “I Did It,” concerns itself with the adventures of Jack Robinson a chap who finds himself in the position of having five “blind” dates at the same time. Complications develop when he attempts to extricate himself from the situation.
Miss “Gogo” Belanger and Manual Ruiz have been engaged to do a Charleston dance. Both have made reputations for themselves as being very clever in the terpsichorean art and this particular number is expected to bring down the house. Miss Belanger will also sing “My Southern California Dream Light,” a very clever musical number written by Don Park er.
Among the other features will be a talk by Cliff Hughes, president of the Trojan Club.
Music for the morning is to be furnished by Nate Wilson of Law School who will present several original piano numbers and songs. The Mu Phi Epsilon Trio of the College of Music will give several numbers.
TAKE POLL TODAY ON WORLD COURT
Under the auspices of the Y.M.-Y. W.C.A. cabinets, ten minutes of the rally period today will p« <s:iven over to a student poll on (Tie TTorld Court question. A short talk by Ned Lewis last year’s student body president will precede the voting.
The purpose of the poll is to ascertain student opinion on the World Court question. At a conference to be held to determine the opinion of college and university students all over the country. Delegates from all the large universities and colleges will be present. Those that are unable to send delegates will send results of student body polling.
Student opinion on the S.C. campus as indicated by the vote this morning, will be forwarded to this convention to aid in determining the popular student opinion. The results of this intercollegiate conference as a whole will be sent to the President and Congress.
HE IS ONLY SIX FEET FIVE AND FULL O’ FIGHT
Co-Eds Will Usher At Football Games After This
When strong men fail, the Amazons come to the rescue.
That is why, since the Trojan Knights have found some difficulty in managing the women’s rooting section at Varsity football games in the coliseum, the Amazons will be on duty at the Oregon Aggies game Saturday.
“Yo-hoo Suzie, Yo-hoo! I wanna sit down in that row with my sorority sisters. Pleeze. Oh, you’re so wonderful, and I think your sweaters are so gr—and!" What mere man, no less a Trojan Knight, can resist such a co-ed plea, it is asked.
So the Amazons will manage the ropes in the women's section, according t6 the announcement of Evelyn Ross, president. That they will turn a cold shoulder to all pleas and excuses, and usher their sister coeds in a strictly impersonal way is the expectation to the president who has chosen from among the ranks of the tradition guarders six members to be on duty at the football game tomorrow.
PLACE RESPONSIBILITY AT DOOR OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE YESTERDAY
Both Sides Open Fire On Point Of Caps and Gowns to Be Used In Senior Picture This Year.
FEW SENIORS PRESENT
Lewis Dickerson, right tackle on the Oregon Aggie varsity, is probably the tallest man that romps around in a football uniform, being 6 feet 5 inches in height. Dickerson is a marvel of a tackier, and has been mentioned on practically every all-coast selection this season.
If the Trojan offense can gain any yardage through thi? 203 pound farmer, it will be acomplishing something that every other eleven has failed to do.
Dickerson is in the starting lineup and carries number 24 on his jersey. The other tackle that is starting in tomorrow’s game is Big Jim Dixon, who also tops the scale over 200 lbs. These two men make the Oregon Aggies’ line one of the strongest that the Southern California varsity have run up against this season.
SPANISH PROGRAM ENJOYED BY CLUB
The meeting of La Tertulia, held last Wednesday evening at the Alpha Gamma Delta house, was one of the most succesful of the year, according to Gretchen Koehler, vice-president. The program was composed of Spanish games, a piano solo, a Spanish recitation, and a lecture by Professor Niese of the Spanish faculty, who is the vice-consul of Argentine.
Visiting Professor
Speaker at Club
Dr. H. Wildon Carr, visiting professor of Philosophy from the University of London, will talk to the Education Club this morning at 10 in room 206 or the Administration building. He will speak informally of his impressions of the United States and of education in particular. There will also b< election of officers for the year.
COMMERCE TO ATTEND RALLY OF OWN PLAN
Trojan Tooters Will Entertain With New Tunes; Scholarship Cups To Be Explained
Today at ten in Touchstone Theater, the College of Commerce holds its first big Commerce Pep Rally of the year, featuring a pep talk by Elmer Dr. F^gan, dance music by Wes Woodford’s Trojan Tooters, piano duets by Don Parker and Calvin Hendricks, a comedy skit directed by H. Dean Campbell, humorous stories by the new members of the Commerce faculty, and novelty songs by Ray Cowley, accompanying himself on his “Spanish piano.”
Of particular interest will be the presentation of two scholarship cups by Dean Wallace M. Cunningham on behalf of Gamma Epsilon Pi, national Commerce professional fraternity. The Gamma Epsilon Pi cup is to be presented to the Junior girl in Commerce who has maintained the highest scholarship throughout her Freshman and Sophomore years. Both cups are annual awards made by the organizations, the latter being presented to the present Sophomore man in Commerce who made the highest scholastic record during his first two years.	’’
All Commerce students are expected to attend this Rally, and regular Friday assembly credit will be given to those who are present.
Publisher Will Speak At Quill Club Dinner
‘•What the Publisher Wants” is the subject which Harry A. Smith, western representative of the Burt Publishing Company wil\ discuss at a supper meeting of Quill club, December 10. The place of the supper will be decided at a regular meeting to be held at Joy Greenberg’s home, 492 1-2 South Catalina, on Tuesday evening December 8, at which manuscripts will be read.
Engineers Leave For
Inspection of Dam
Amid great confusion, some forty engineers of Southern California stepped on the accelerators Wednesday and departed in a clowd of smoke for the high Sierras, where tney will spend the week end inspecting the construction work of the Big Creek District.
Snow is reported as falling above Fresno, and it is feared that the slip-stick experts will be unable to visit the multiple arched dam, which is the feature of the trip.
Changing Of Decisions Said to Be Cause of Furor Now Going On Among Upperclassmen
Refusing to reconsider former action taken, the Senior Class yesterday voted down a motion to the effect that a reconsideration be given the question of whether seniors should wear caps and gowns in their section of El Rodeo. In a former meeting the class of 26 voted to have caps and gowns.
The meeting held Thursday was poorly attended, about 20 Seniors appearing. Much discussion was indulged in by the people attending, andi .cfter pros and cons were given, Sam Gates moved for a reconsideration of the question. This motion is necessary, according to Roberts' Rules of Order, in order to e~en present a motion contradicting a former action.
This motion for reconsideration was defeated, about 12 to 8. This places the issue again in the hands of the Executive Committee according to Ron Stever, president of <he Senior Class.
Ronald Stever opened the meeting by a general review of the question. Kenneth Stonier, manager of publica-toins, made a talk on the question also, stressing the fact mat the EJditor of the El Rodeo had presented the issue to the executive committee before and that it had been unofficially ratified.
Bart Hutchins, last years Editor of the Ed Rodeo, talked next on several points in connection with the annual, costs, etc.
Ed Murray, representing the El Rodeo directly .answering some charges which had been brought up, and explaining why the change was necessary. Burke Long then spoke for caps and gowns, defending this side of the question.
Don Cameron, president of the student body, then spoke for the Executive Committee, explaining why the issue was sent back to the Senior Class. He said, “The Executive Committee could have used their power and could have blocked the Senior Class, but the committee did not feel that it was the right thing to do, so it sent back to the Senior class.”
Dorothy Davis moved that the question be referred bac* to the Executive Committee. This motion was declared out of order. Gates then moved a reconsideration and the motion was lost.
The action, as taken by the seniors, places the responsibility in the hands of the Executive Committee again. According to Cameron, a speeial meeting will be called where the question will be threshed out to a final decision.
A no substitution game was played between the football elevens of Michi gan and Illinois.
Gwynn Wilson Arrives From Big Ten Meeting
Gwynn Wilson, general manager of the associated studenrs, will arrive on t’ o campus today after a journey east, where he attended the Big Ten foot-bal conference meeting. Wilson went east two weeks ago in order to line j up some mid-western teams for next grid year.
Y. M. AND Y. W, HOLD MANY ACTIVITIES
Y.M.C.A. will conduct a deputation to Riverside this week end, representatives speaking at the last meeting of “Win—my Chum” week at the M. E. church on Friday evening, conducting a hike on Saturday for the young people of the community to the Glen ranch, holding a church social on Saturday evening, and taking charge of the Church services on Sunday.
Stanley McKee, William Henley and Pari Welch are scheduled to make this trip and take charge.of arrangements, although other members of the, Y.M. may join in th<* deputation.
George C. Jordan, chairman of the Y.M.C.A. Conference Committee spoke yesterday afternoon at an Asilomar Pep meeting at the Southern Branch of the University of California. Jordan is well known in Y.M. circles, and has spoken at various meetings throughout the Southland.