Read It in The Trojan
Skull and Dagger Pledges.
Co-ed Interests Recognized.
Howard Jones To Address Students. Plan Commencement Week.
Trojan Debaters Win Again.
Ivy Day Plans Completed.
Southern
California
The Spirit of Troy
“The undergraduate women are rejoicing over
the recognition of S. C. by A. A. U. W.....We
are now working toward a perfect point system, but to attain the goal we must have the co-operation of every woman on the campus.”
Betty Farmer,
On Feature Page.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, April 7, 1927
NUMBER 118
PLANS FOR GRADUATION COMPLETED
Commencement Week Pro-i gram is Given Out By Committee.
Committee Considers
Important Business
At Special Session
Dental Students’ Refusal To Ratify A. S. U. S. C. Constitution Taken Up; Student President’s Convention Invitation Reported, Discussed by Executive Committee.
Dental College’s refusal to ratify ♦ student union cornerstone.
General plans for Commencement Week, which extends from Tuesday, May 24, to Saturday. June 4. are .completed, according • t.» the announcement made yesterday by Tom Booker, chairman
I of the committee working oa the plans. This includes plans for Ivy Day, and appointment of special committees.
Although some items have not been definitely decided, the matters of major importance have been completed. Following is the propram as determined to date: Anniversary Joint Program of the [Literary Societies, Tuesday, May 24. Senior Chapel in Bovard Auditor i-
Ium, Thursday, May 26, at which all seniors will attend in cap and gown fro mall the colleges.
Annual meeting of the honor society, Phi Kappa Phi, Saturday, May 28.
Baccalaureate services Sunday,
I May 29, at 4:00 P. M. at the Coliseum. The speaker has not as yet been chosen; President von KleinSmid will preside.
Commencement exercises of the College of Music at 8:00 P. M. May in Bovard Auditorium Graduate tea May 31, to be held in |he president’s parlors.
The annual banquet given for junior women by Trojan women, [Wednesday, June 1, under the direc-ion of Mary Bowen Huff.
PANSY BREAKFAST A Pansy Breakfast, at which Mrs. on KieinSmid will be the speaker,
It the Delta Delta Delta house, Tuea-ay, May 31.
Annual play, presented by tbe raduating seniors of the School cf |peech, Thursday, June 2, at S:0>* M., in Bovard Auditorium, iIvy Day, Friday, June 3. 3:00 P. M. js.nior-Junior Snap, in the n«-*-rma Chi lodge, Friday June 3. at 130.
[Breakfast of the Law Deans, 8:0ft M. .at the University Club. Friday, te 3.
Lcademic procession forms at Bo-rd Auditorium at 9:00 A. M. Commencement exercises, I>os An-es Coliseum. 9:30 A. M. Adna anard will be class orator.
Annual Alumni Class Reunions. >0 P. M., at which time the classes 1922, 1917, and 1912 will elect manent alumni presidents of the pective classes.
WEN TO MEET ■ERTON TEAM
Debate Squad Will Argue igainst Junior College Team fonight.
“bating on the subject. “Resolved: Kt a system Of compulsory voting ild be adopted in the United |ps, the Southern California worn-^forensic squad will hold a dual *st with Fullerton Junior College f tit.
f’tty Bradstreet and Josephine riguez will uphold the affirmative She question on the Fullerton plat-whih Mary Anderson and Caro-Fulghum will contend against lpulsory voting in Hoose 206 at 8 lock.
This is the second debate for the W\l team this year. After the frton contest, (kt University of tornia at Los Angeles is scheduled feet the Trojan team on April 21.
the new constitution of the Associated Students was the chief item of interest at the Ex-Committee meeting on Tuesday night. Other maiteis taken up were the election committee report, and consideration of a letter from George Guttormsen, president of the Pacific Student Presidents’ Association, approving South cm California as the convention lo cation of that organization next June.-
After considerable discussion ot the Dental proposals as made Li President Tallman by the representatives of that school, and as out lined by Tallman to the committee, a motion was passed backing him and the administration in whatever he shall think best to do in the matter. There will probably be further consideration of the matter later in the year.
Regarding the matter of the student body presidents’ convention, invitations have been sent to each o: the thirty-two colleges in the association, and some sixty delegates are expected to attend. If the convention is held at the time planned, the delegates will be able to see the Pacific Coast Inter-Collegiate track meet, tha Southern California graduation exercises, and possibly the laying of tho
The dates set by the election committee for the next general student body balloting are:
May 5—Petitions are due.
May 10—Elections of managers by Ex-Committee.
May 12—Student body nominations ia Shrine Auditorium.
May 13—Appearance of candidates at Law and Dental Schools.
May 17—Appearance of candidates at Junior Dental.
May 18—Student body election.
May 23—Inauguration of officers.
This calendar allows the registrar's office a week to determine the eligibility of the candidates.
It was also decided to adopt the old S. C. sticker of the round design but with a new Trojan head. The objection to the old head was that the model’s nose was not as it should be.
Mike Elwood appeared to report upon the Student Union, and said: “We expect to have ail the brickwork done September 1.” He also asked that more authority be given the Student Union Committee. Th-* request was granted, which eanbled them to make any changes in the original plans as are deemed necessary.
YELL LEADERS EXPECTED TO MEET HERE
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Prep School Cheer Kings Will Attend Annual Convention Meetings Today.
Extensive plans have been made for Southern California’s second annual yell convention to be held here today. According to Burdette Henney, yell king. 114 yell leaders from Southern California high schools are expected to be present.
This is tffe second convention that the University has sponsored. The idea of annual yell conventions was inaugurated last year. At this time 76 representatives from the various high schools were present. This year invitations have been issued to 114 yell leaders of Southern California.
The convention is a one day affair, starting at nine o’clock this morning. The day will be taken up by speeches by the president of the Trojan Knights, Red Dales, acting chairman of the rally committee, Sam Gates, and the editor of the Daily Trojan, George Jordan. Jordan will speak on the co-operation of the paper and the yell leader in bringing about the proper spirit in the university. Red Dales will speak on the discipline of the rooting section, and Sam Gates on the planning of the rallies.
In addition to the speeches five reels of motion pictures are to be shown of the bleacher stunts. The pictures to be shown are those of the Notre Dame, Stanford, and Iowa football games.
Luncheon will be served at 12:15 at the Women’s Residence Hall, at which Harold Stonier. Morton Kaer, and Jeff Cravath will speak.
ALPHA KAPPA PSI TO PRESENT CUP DURING PROGRAM
:hool of speech
'O GIVE RADIO PLAY
featuring the weekly program pre-lted by this University over radio hi, the School of Speech will give pe Camberlv Triangle," written by |nes, tonight from 8:00 to 8:30 lock.
Ln invitation has been extended to Ue who wish to try out for the lio plays to meet at noon either |nday or Tuesday after vacation the School of Speech office.
Trojan Advertisers Save You Money.
David Bryant Wins Cup By Having Highest Freshman Standing in College of Commerce.
The awarding of the Alpha Kap Psi scholarship cup to David Bryan;, sophomore in the College of Commerce, will be made at tomorrow's assembly, President R. B. von KleinSmid making the presentation speech.
This cup, which is a permanent trophy, is awarded each year to the freshman in Commerce having th? highest srholastic standing. The winner this year had an average of 2.62.
Bryant is associate editor of E) Rodeo, commerce representative of the Trojan, president of Squires, president of the sophomore class first semester, and one of the three students winning the President's cup this year for Los Angeles High School.
Alpha Kappa Psi is a national professional commerce fraternity. Alpha Zeta chapter on the S. C. campus has such prominent alumni as Haro!! J. Stonier, vice-president of the University, Henry Bruce, assistant comptroller, Dean Fiske, manager of the Student Store, Harry Silke* Hal Williamson, and Yale Martz.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, April 5.—Garbed in the German uniform and full field equipment from heavy marching boots to steel helmets, three hundred men of the local R. O. T. C. spent a week of their Spring vacation in a score of battle scenes against regular United States troops at Camp Lewis. Th * occasion was the filming of the hip war picture, "The Patent Leather Kid,” starring Richard Barthelmess.
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iTROJAN DEBATERS WIN FIFTH
CONSECUTIVE CONTEST IN NORTH*
Winning by a unanimous decision, the S. C. debate team defeated the University of Oregon Tuesday evening, according to a telegram received from Coach Alan Nichols yesterday.
In this debate the team, composed of Arthur Syvertson and William Henley, changed for a day the subject and debated on light wines and beer. The subject debated in the other contests was: “Resolved: That
Mussolini is a benefactor to Italy.”
The Trojan debate squad has won all but one of their debates this season. They lost, one to Willamette, but defeated them in a return contest on this northern trip. The next forensic will be with Oregon State at Corvallis, and from there the team will go to Utah to me?t three Utah colleges.
Greetings To Prep Yell Leaders.
Student Union Downtrodden.
Committee
Give Co-eds Their Due Today. Hopper Has a Real Job.
Skull and Dagger Pledges Congratulated.
Today we greet the delegates to the yell convention. If they do nothing else the time they spend here will be well put in if they return to their high schools with a higher ideal of sportsmanship. And Burdette Henney is the boy who can give them that... These fellows may not have much opportunity to be on the campus today, but we want them to know that the best we have is theirs.
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Yes, the student union committee is having a terrible time. One faction on the campus wants the dining room to be the largest main floor room. Another is all for having the bookstore the principal thing. Still a third insists that it will not be a student union if the lobby is not the most prominent feature of the downstairs floor. And therefore the Executive Committee did the wise thing when it declined to try and take sides and turned the matter over to the special committee and the administration to work out in the best way possible, taking all the needs into consideration. The Executive Committee is to have its final “OK”, anyway.
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The Trojan today is offering a page devoted to showing what the women are doing on the Southern California campus. Logically, this page should have come out in the co-ed edition of the Trojan, which is to come out a little later. But the feature editor had planned this for today. Maybe it will be a little more fitting for the regular staff to give the girls their due than to make them hand it to themselves. In any event, they are doing a good many worthwhile things on the campus which we feel they should get credit for.
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We congratulate Stanley Hopper upon having had a man’s sized job wished off on him. The presidency of the “Y” is not appreciated as it should be. We do not rccall any editorial mention having been previously made of the job. Stan will not likely be pledged to Skull and Dagger and he will not receive a varsity sweater for his work. But if he has met the responsibilities that will devolve upon him he will come out a bigger man a year from June than he will be in September. Don Bailey has shown what the job should really mean. In the memory of the writer there has never been a “Y” president here who has not left his office a bigger one than he found it.
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Committees For Ivy Day Are Selected
Henry Oudermeulen To Be Master of Ceremonies For Traditional Event.,
Announcement of the Ivy Day Program, under the direction of the chairman of the program, was made yesterday by Tom Brooker, chairman
of the Commencement Week plans. The program, with committee chairmen listed, follows:
Master of ceremonies is Henry J. Oudermeulen, president of the senior class, Liberal Arts.
Ivy Processional—Seniors and juniors.
Traditions:
Mystery Bag—Mary Jean Rogers.
Baseball Bat—Jeff Cravath.
Peace Pipe Ceremony—Edward Oudermeulen, junior class president, and Henry J. Oudermeulen, president senior class.
Burying the Hatchet—Charles Wright, president of the sophomore class, and Samuel Newman.
Presentatioon of Class Gift—Donald Bailey.
Presentation of Awards—Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford.
Response by the University—President von KieinSmid.
Ivy Day address.
Unveiling of class numerals on Old College.
Planting Ivy and Class Tree—Leland D. Tallman, president of th? associated student body.
Representatives from Colleges of Liberal Arts, Law, Dentistry, Commerce, Speech, Music, and Engineering.
Alma Mater, ensemble.
Y. W. WILL STAGE HOWLING CARNIVAL
Side Shows Will Be Offered By Sororities At Annual Hippodrome of Y. W. Today.
Amid a sea of streamers and balloons of cardinal and gold, Ye Howling Hippodrome and Carnival of the Y. W. C. A. will hold forth this afternoon and evening at the Y. W. lodge from 4:30 to 8:00 P. M.
Side shows will be presented by the different sororities, both social and professional, at 4:30, and will continue throughout the afternoon. Clowns, under their expert trainer Betty Brad street, will feature the afternoon’s performance with many novel and exciting stunts.
Competitive skits will be the main feature of the evening where sororities will vie for first honors. Among the drawing cards will be the show of freaks and puppets planned by the Alpha Chi Omegas, the Y. W. skit dealing with the Asilomar Conference, tin-tvpes, a typical vaudeville show of ’98, and others.
While the skits are in progress, the floor will be cleared for dancing which will be held later in the evening. The 25-cent admission ticket includes the entertainment as well as the supper.
Notices
Ad uoltem mn*t be brought to the rrojnn office »t 71* Welt J«-fter*on !%t. or phoned to HUraMH 4522- Hotter* roust be limited to 35 word*.
HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB
The El Rodeo picture for the History and Political Science Club will be taken Friday noon at 12:30 on the steps of the Old College.
TROJAN DINNER POSTPONED
The Trojan staff dinner will be held after vacation instead of tonight. The postponement is because of a conflict with the Pi Delta Epsilon meeting.
NEWMAN CLUB
The Newman Club will hold a meeting at Loyola College Thursday at 8 P. M. Hike to Robert’s Camp Sunday. All Catholic students *n-vited.
SEVENTEEN MEN CHOSEN BY SKULL AND DAGGER AS LEADERS OF CAMPUS
Pledges Will Be Introduced in Assembly Tomorrow; James Mussatti is Only Faculty Member Honored; Mock Trial To Be Dispensed With.
Skull and Dagger’s announcement of its pledges yesterday morning was unique and startling, judging by the comments heard on the campus, and aroused interest in the immediate plans for pledging, initiation, and in plans for the rest of the year, which have
been decided upon.
There will be a meeting of Torch and Tassel today at 9 A. M. in the Student Body President’s office.
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HOWARD JONES WILL TALK AT ALL-U RALLY
Pledging of Skull and Dagger; Awarding of Scholarship Cups on Program.
Pledging of Skull and Dagger, awarding of scholarship cups by President von KieinSmid, discussion of University business, the presentation of the Deputations Skit by the first cast, and the presence of Coach Howard Jones will be the features of the All-University rally to be held at 10:25 tomorrow morning in Bo-var dAuditorium.
Dave Bryant will receive the Alpha Kappa Psi scholarship cup for having the highest scholarship standing in his freshman year as a student in the College of Commerce.
Bernice Palmer, feature editor of the Trojan; Dave Bryant, last semester sophomore class president, Phi Kappa Tau and Alpha Kappa Psi: and Jessica Heber, reporter on the Trojan and prominent Wampus contributor, will be presented with th^ President’s Scholarship Cup. This cup is annually presented to the high school three of whose alumni have the highest scholarship rating in their freshman year at Southern California.
President Tallman will present to the students items of Universi’.y business upon which he wishes to obtain a consensus of student opinion. Dates for the All-University elections will be discussed under the student body president's direction.
The Deputations Skit, presented by members of the first cast, will furnish the entertaining feature of the program. This comes as answer to a request recently submitted to the Executive Committee for an appearance of the skit before the assembled S. C. students.
Howard Jones, football coach, will speak a few words on spring football practice.
FINISH REGISTRATION FOR LAW SCHOOL
Spring registration has been com-' pleted at Law School and classes are once more in full swing. The registration is of about the same number as last year, although many of those enrolled in the fall semester have dropped out.
There are now ninety-four candidates for graduation at the coming Commencement. Three candidates are working for Master of Law degrees, and one for a Doctor of Science of Law. E. M. Shattuck is the only candidate for this, the highest degree offered at this or most of the other Law Schools throughout the country.
eighteen honored
The men who were honored by being pledged by the society are:
"Red’ ’Badgro: for athletic activity; basketball, baseball, football, captain-elec tof next year’s basketball team.
Al Behrendt: for activity in athletics, senior class president, and member of the U. S. C. Gfee Club.
P. Ferguson: This year’s football
manager.	___
Burdette Henney: for Veil King. Morton Kaer: All-American half back, and for activity in athletic*.
Grant La Mont: for successful presentation of dramatic productions
for three years.	__
“Boots” Oudermeulen: president of senior class, member of A. S. U. 9. C. Executive Committee, president of
junior class last year.	_____
Grant Flint: for basketball manager, freshman baseball manager.
Leo Guichard: Captain of baseball team.
Wayne Harrison: Manager of the Daily Trojan.
Les Heilman: One and two miler in track, and manager of El Rodeo.
Ed House: Captain of 1927 varsity track team.
Ernest Roll: President of College of Law student body.
Art Syvertson: Captain of the debate team, chairman of the rally committee.
Ed Spence: Athletic activity manager.
Verden Thomas: President of Dental student body.	____
Bill Henley, manager of debate and prominent in forensics.
Ralph Holly, editor of the El Rodeo.	:
James Mussatti: For his outstanding academic abilities, interest, and co-operation in student activities, and for his personality.
PLEDGING TOMORROW Pledging of these men will take place in the 10:25 assembly Friday morning, the All-University rally, with “Dee” Tallman presiding. The trial, which was dispensed with last year, will not be staged, but an entertainment of the combined Southern California glee clubs and the band appearing in concert will take its place. This will be held in the latter part of April at The Playhouse, when the men will appear in connection with the program planned. Formal initiation will be held May 7, in the afternoon.
The Westport Beach Club will be the scene of the formal dance ol Skull and Dagger, which will b^ held later in the semester. Marvelous favors and the presence of the elite of the social circles of the campus will make the affair one of the most successful events of the University social year, according to Dee Tallman, president of the organization.
When asked concerning the trophy case wherein the skull and dagger were displayed, Mr. Tallman said. "This trophy case will be put on display in the trophy room of the
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j****************************************************** ; STANLEY HOPPER ELECTED TO	J
i SUCCEED BAILEY AS “Y” PREXY *
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*	The following are the results of the annual “Y ’ elections, ★
*	held yesterday and announced at the dinner last night:
*	President ................................................Stanley Hopper 51 *
*	Crawford Peek 33
*	Vice-President......................................Don Newcomer, 47
*	Paul Cunningham 36 £ Secretary....................................................Huestis Snow 44 J
*	Morris Stephans 37	J
J	Treasurer..............................................Vroman Dorman 49	J
£	Paul Sapp 28	£
t	Several other names were written in for various offices but	J
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