TRUSTEES OFFER SITE FOR TROJAN STUDENT
Tlcc:d It in The Trojan
Secure Site for Union.
Will Distribute Constitution. Ex-Com. Opposes Proctorial System. Plan Freshman Day.
Marshall Resigns.
Witzell’s Studio Returns.
Southern
California
Trojan
The Spirit of Troy
“This campus will never see an honor that is worth a tinker’s damn until somebody is willing to pay the price of a little criticism and maybe ostracization icj it.”
—The Old Trojan.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Friday, January 7, 1927
NUMBER 66
STUDENT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OPPOSES PROCTORIAL SYSTEM BUT FEARS IT IS INEVITABLE
Failure of Proposed Honor System Is Laid to General Lack of Interest and Premature Voting.
Because the proposed honor system has failed to find support in the student body, a stern proctorial system is inevitable, according to the final decision of the student body executive committee, reached at a meeting held in Stowcll Hall yesterday noon.
The honor system is a vita?! prob-
lem, which will remain before the students until there is a system of student control devised, and if this is refused, faculty control with a stern proctorial system is the only answer to the question, the committee agreed. They believed that the previous failure of the honor system was probably caused by the fundamental objection raised by the student against reporting cheating classmates.
An honor spirit must work in cooperation with an honor system to gain results, was the unanimous opinion of the committe. The fact that there was a great lack of interest and understanding of the question, combined with premature voting, caused the failure of the system, it was agreed. That a stern proctorial system would promote dishonesty rather than check it was another opinion.
"You can’t write a good exam if you feel that you are under suspecion,” said Mary Ella Brooks.
“I hate to see a student treated like a criminal and patrolled by guards, as if in jail. A proctorial system creates
an undercurrent ot antagonism, and the students are inclined to sympathize with the fellow who outwits the proctor,” said Leland Tallman.
Glen Mikesell, Pharmacy representative, added: “If the Liberal Arts students were studying for a life work and had to know their subjets later, there would be no need for such a pystem. Students in professional schools are, however, under a very strict proctorial system.”
Jeffery Smith insisted that anyone caught cheating should be failed in the course, and perhaps expel led from
the university.
"There must first be a spirit of per-onal responsibility accepted by the students before an honor system can be pnt into practice,” 6tated George C. Jordan.	*
WITZEL’S STUDIO TO RETURN HERE FOR THREE DAYS
Another Chance For Sittings For El Rodeo To Be Given: January 12 Date of Return.
Witzel’s Campus Studio will be opened in the El Rodeo office Wednesday, January 12, according to an announcement coming from the editorial office of the publication. The studio will remain open for three days only.
“In checking over the upper class registration I find that about 100 seniors and 200 juniors have failed to have their pictures taken,” said Ralph Holly, editor. “We are giving these delinquents an opportunity to have their sittings during these three days. Friday, January 14, is the final day for sittings.”
Group pictures of social and professional houses are being completed this week, according to Les Heilman,
manager. Other campus organizations will be taken in the next mo:ath. They will be notified in advance as to time and place.
FRATERNITIES PLAN BIG CONFERENCE
Clarity of Laws and Professional Fraternities To Be Discussed By Council Thursday.
A Pacific Coast conference of Inter-fraternity Councils is one of the questions to be put under discussion at the next meeting of the Southern California council Thursday evening. The local group will debate the plan of sponsoring such a conference to be held on the Trojan campus sometime next semester. Such a conference would be a big step toward solving the problems which are confronting Pacific Coast schools concerning fraternity life, in the opinion of officers of the Trojan council.
The advisability of sponsoring a council of professional fraternities on the S. C. campus will also be discussed at the next meeting. Much agitation is said to have passed between pro-f°ssional houses on the campus In regard to their lack o' voice In fraternity doings.
Clarity of kwg set by the inter-fra-ternitv council is one of the objectives toward which Paul Fritz will strive at the next meeting. Plans for next semesters work will also be explained and accomplishments of the past year reviewed.
VISITOR ENDORSES COMMERCE COURSE
National President of Sigma Beta Chi Fraternity Praises S. C.
Business Classes.
Constitution Will be Given To Students
Refusal of Funds Prevents Publication of Document In Handbook.
That printed copies of the new student body constitution should be placed within easy access of all students, and that there should be a program to welcome Freshmen in February similar to that of September, were the decisions reached by the Executive Committee at a meeting held yesterday noon.
Because money had been refused to allow the committee to publish the Constitution in the Student Handbook the committee is now considering a plan for giving mimeographed copies to all organizations, to be kept in an accessible place.
“Our greatest handicap now is the fact that we do not have the administration of our own funds. Although we have an associated student fund, we are entirely responsible for its distribution to those higher up,” stated Leland Tallman, president of the student body.
Concerning the Freshman program for the second semester, it was decided that as thorough a course of training should be given to the incoming students as that given at the
beginning of the first semester. One day is to be set aside for the pea-green children during which there will be a luncheon, assembly, and a W. S.
G.	A. reception.
PRESS CLUB WILL TAKE IN MEMBERS
Journalists To Hold Dinner Meeting And Program January 13 At Chateau Cafe.
That Southern California’s College of Commerce has the best developed course in transportation and traffic management of any commercial school in the country is the statement made by George A. Denfell, president of Sigma Beta Chi, national traffic and transportation fraternity. Mr. Denfell is on a three months tour of the collegiate and professional chapters of the fraternity and It was in this interest that he made his recent visit to the local chapter.
Sigma Beta Chi is a professional fraternity in the true sense of the word, for besides having collegiate
chapters .there are professional chapters that serve as a connecting link between the college student and the business world.
While here, Mr. Denfell made the statement that Cral W. Hill, head of Southern California’s transportation department, has been appointed chairman of the national educational committee of Sigma Beta Chi, thus bringing the publication of the national magazine of the fraternity to Los Angeles.
Columbia University.— Willard V. King, graduate of Columbia, now a New York banker, has provided in his will to leave one-tenth of his property to his alma mater. He invites others to join him in forming a Columbia Legion composed of men who provide thus in their wills.
Members of the Southern California Press Club will hold a banquet and an important meeting January 13 at Emil’s Chatteau. This affair will bring the first Press Club event of
1927. After the meal and entertainment are finished it will be turned into a regular business meeting. One of the principal matters before the club at the present time is the voting upon new members, and this will taSe place during the regular meeting.
The names of those eligible for membership will be brought up for voting by the committee which hfts been chosen to investigate and report upon the various candidates. This committee is composed of Marjorie Hull, Howard Edgerton, and Catherine Colwell. The requirements for admittance to the Press Club include at. least one semester of outstanding work upon the Daily Trojan, and a profound and lasting interest in journalism. Because of the character, and size of the club at the present time, a thorough investigation will be made of the candidates before they are mentioned to the members as eligible for admittance.
Social Service Group Of Campus Y. W. Meets With Southern Branch
Os Rune of Quill Club Will Initiate Pledges At Dinner Wednesday
Os Rune chapter of Quill club will initiate nine pledges Wednesday, January 12, following dinner at 6:30 at the Mona Lisa cafe, 2534 West Seventh street Members .who desire to make reservation for the affair may do so by placing their names in Box 167 at the University.
Those to be taken into membership are Mvnette Ritch, Bernice Palmer, Muriel Heeb, Maynard Taylor, Antoinette Carson, Howard Bull, Homer Cane, Louise Van de Verg and Francis Hall.
Each pledge will read an original manuscript at the iniUation.
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Outlining a program for the coming year, and discussing accomplishments in social service work in past years by college women were phases of a meeting between the social service department of the Southern Branch of the University of California and Southern California Thursday afternoon in the Y.W.C.A. lodge of th? Southern Branch.
Miss Charlotte Caoell, from the Southern Branch and Miss Dorothy Goodrich, local chairman, led the discussion groups. Guests of honor were the social service leaders of Southern California, who gave brief outlines of the work of their committees and Dorothy Smith, Ethel Bickford, Elizabeth Griffith, Velma Bolton and Dorothy Treat. Three hundred stockings were filled with candy for the benefit of poor children in the goodwill industries at Christmas time.
1 he time has come for a showdown. We are going to see now who wants an honor spirit and how badly they want it. There is such a thing as wanting something but not wanting it badly enough to pay the price for it. An honor system is an accessory to an honor spirit. We are not greatly concerned whether there is an honor system or not or which one. But we do believe an honor spirit is tremendously worth while.
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Dean Fiske has expressed his disgust that such a tiling should even be an issue. Yes, Dean, we sympathize with your position and there are a lot of others in the same class. That very position was taken by Elmer Fagan in the executive committee before ever the honor system was voted upon and we backed him in it. But nevertheless, it is an issue. There are enough students who do not see what it means tc the University and to everyone in the University to have a nationwide reputation for integrity to make it a problem.
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What it means, first, to have an honor spirit is association with classmates who are stamped with the first mark of character. Second, it means that to bear the name of Trojan out into the world is to carry something more than an image of a giant in a cardinal shirt and canvas pants. Third, it means a fairer grading for all of us. And last, it means the be-gining of real understanding between the faculty and the undergraduate body, a thing which is necessary to the best kind of education.
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We said yesterday that there would never be an honor spirit until there were men and women enough who would think the thing worth making a personal fight for. Now, to be specific. The executive committee is trying to put over the honor spirit. Fine! Does the executive committee want it badly enough to go on record, as indiyiduals, as being willing to make some kind of a protest every time they see a case of cheating? To our mind, this campus will never see an honor spirit that is worth a tinker’s damn until somebody is willing to pav the price of a little criticism and maybe ostracization for it. As yet we have never seen such a protest made, either from ourselves or anv other student.
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The executive committee, we feel, must take one horn of this dilemma ; either admit that the individual members haven’t the “guts” to make such a protest or else they honestly do not believe it worth the effort. If the former (Outlined en Page Four)
Campus Plans Welcome For New Students
Program Submitted By Prof. Mussatti Calls For Luncheon Assembly and Reception.
Freshmen enrolling at the University of Southern California for the new semester will be welcomed to the campus with a special program planned for Freshman Day, in their honor, Monday, January 24, if plans submit ted to President R B. von KleinSmid by Prof. James A. Mussatti are approved.
Tentative plans call for a Freshman Day, similar to Freshman Week held in September, with a special program in honor of the new students. The regular freshman English test will be given from nine to twelve in Bovard Auditorium. After that the plans call for a lunch for the freshmen, sponsored by the Trojan Knights and the Amazons. It is hoped also that President von KleinSmid will give the address of welcome, and that talks will be given by Dr. Bruce Baxter, Dean Karl T. Waugh, Prof. H. C. Willett, and Leland Tollman.
The final event on the program, according to the tentative plans, would tie a reception for the freshmen given in the President's parlors by the Women’s Self Government Association.
BOARD MAKES DECISION TO GIVE STUDENT BOOK STORE CORNER FOR PROPOSED CAMPUS BUILDING
Possibilities For Achieving Goal Now in Hands of Student Body, Says Bovard; Football, Student Store Profits Proposed As Means To Aid Project Finance.
That the site on which the present Associated Students book store now stands will be donated by the University to the A.S.U.S.C. for a student union site, was the decision reached yesterday afternoon by the Board of Trustees of the University, according to Warren Bovard, comptroller.
DOCTOR GALVEZ TO GIVE LECTURE AT OLD COLLEGE
Noted Chilean Professor To Deliver Address; Is An Alumnus Of Southern California.
MARSHALL RESIGNS TO GO TO CHICAGO
University Accountant Will Leave For Eastern City to Finish C. P. A. Training.
After serving the University faithfully for more than four years, Paul N. Marshall, Associated Students’ accountant is resigning to go to Chicago, where he will engage in accounting.	'
Mr. Marshall says his ambition has always been to become a Certified
Public Accountant Now that he ha& found an opportunity to realize his ambition, he is leaving Southern California and his many friends here, to engage in accounting work in Chicago. He is well under way in his accounting training, and needs to work only a little more to attain his goal of a certified public accountant.
Mr. Marshall, as head of the accounting department of the Associated Students, has made all reports and handled all financial statements. Re cently his work was thrown into the lime light, on account of the great sell-out of football tickets in the Stanford and Notre Dame games.
Mr. Marshall is a member of the Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity at Southern California.
Notices
All Dfltlcni rnnut be bronght to the Trojan office at 716 West Jefferson St. or phoned to HUmbolt 4522. Notices must be limited to 35 words.
Today at 1:15 P. M. in the Touchstone Theater of Old College, Dr. Jose M. Galvez, a professor in the University of Chile, will lecture on the subject, “Politics and Schools Around the World.” Dr. Galvez is an alumnus of Southern California, having received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from this institution.
Dr. Galvez was formerly an exchange professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Ex-President Barrows of California has said, “Prof. Galvez’s services as an exchange professor in this institution have been of distinct advantage to the University Community as wel1 as to the students who have been privileged to study under him.”
Dr. Galvez has also occupied the
position of visiting professor at the University of Berlin. At present he is the professor of English and German Philology at the University of Chile. Dr. Galvez travels under a special diplomatic passport from the Chilean government. During the last four years he has traveled extensively, studying educational institutions everywhere. He speaks four languages, including English, Spanish, French and German. Dr. Galvez recently spent eight months studying conditions in Russia.
As the representative of Chile at the
Congress for Popular Education at Paris In 1908, the work of Dr. Galvez was particularly noteworthy. He presided over the Language Section of the Chilean Congress for Secondary
Education in Santiago in 1912, and attended the Washington Pan-American Scientific Congress in 1915-16. Among the many important positions which Dr. Galvez has occupied is that of first vice-president of the National Educational Association of Chile.
Dr. Galvez will again address students at 11:25 A. M. Tuesday at a place to be announced later. There is no admission charge, as the university has arranged for the appearance of Dr. Galvez.
STUDENTS MUST ACT
The matter of a student union is now in the hands of the students themselves, according to Mr. Bovard, the board having referred the proposition back to the committee on campus extension and building, which is in charge of buying the land for the University, etc. This committee is composed of Charles E. Seaman, chairman; Dr. R. B. von KleinSmid, J. W. Oakley, W. F. Cronemiller, William Bowen, and W. B. Bovard.
The student store corner offers a lot 130 feet by 130 feet square. According to Mr. Bovard, the trustees will be glad to help the students it-tain their goal in any way possittV* but have reserved the right to themselves to pass on the plan for the new structure.
“Of course, the new building must be in keeping with the style of architecture and type of buildings of the rest of the campus,” said Mr. Bovard. “But it is practically up to tha students now. The last proposition offered by the students failed to pass the board of trustees because it was not accepted by enough of the tudern body to make it sound business. But if another plan can be suggested and put to a successful vote of the students, a union is a possibility.”
It has been suggested that the profits from the students store and the football season be applied to the debt.
“Given a $50,000 property, and some $60,000 cash,” said Bovard, "and if the students cannot do something here they are not as smart as I give them
credit for being.”
The plan which failed was to increase the tuition and so force every student matriculating to contribute to ward the union debt.
CLIONIAN
All members of Clionian are to meet at 9:00 A. M. in front of the Y. W. C. A. building Monday morning for the El Rodeo picture.
NOTICE PARNASSIANS
The Pernassians, the new dramatic club of the Y. W. C. A., will meet Friday at 12:30 at the Y. W. hou3e. All members must be there.
GATEMEN
All university students who have been working regularly at the football games this year are asked to report for work at the Coliseum Saturday for the Fire-Police championship football game. Arnold Eddy, assistant general manager, announces that additional workers may also be needed.
PRESS CLUB Press Clubbers will have their El
Rodeo picture taken Tuesday noon, January 11, on the front steps of the Old College. Everyone please attend. (Continued on rage Three)
WAMPUS APPEARS ON JINKS FRIDAY
Bad Luck Day Will Not Hinder Debut of Unconventional Number.
Tommy Wamp not only fears no bogies but proceeds to prove It by appearing on the compus January the thirteenth.
“The only bad luck this year is for the blue,” said Milton Booth the editor, yesterday, "for the Unconventional Number is one that we can be proud of.”
The January Wampus will have a cover that will make even the sensational Raw cover on the December number tke a back seat, declare those who saw the proofs that arrived from the engravers yesterday. Julia Suski Is the creator of the Unconventional cover.
Others who assisted with the art work of the coming edition are Gertrude Zipser, Mabel Van Den Apper, Bob Alexander, Bob Croeby, Marvin Connell, and John Coulthard.
TROJAN TRYOUTS WILL BEGIN SOON
Underclass Men Are Urged To Try Out For Spring Semester On Trojan Staff.
Tryouts for positions on the staff of the Dally Trojan will be held at the beginning of the spring term, according to an announcement issued by Marjorie Hull, assistant editor.
Underclass men are particularly urged to try out since under the new consdtuUon which goes Into effect next year, an editor must be a senior with at least two years’ experience on the Trojan in order to hold office. At present there are very few freshmen and sophomore men working on the Trojan.
The system of staff tryouts was inaugurated last year by Lee Conti, former editor of the Trcjan, and in the past, has been very successful. Last year, over fifty enterprising students tried out for staff positions, and it is expected that this term the number will be equally as large.
“There is a good chance of promotion for anyone who is interested in journalism, and who is willing to work hard,” stated Miss Hull.
University of Flordia.— The |60,000 organ in the University of Flordia is now the second largest organ in the United States. It is installed in the university auditorium.
University of Minnesota—l^aziness is the cause of old age according to Mrs. Margaret Blair, who has been an instructor at the university for 25 years.
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