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Student Union Plans Accepted. Law Freshmen To Stage Dance Friday. Commerce Rally Today. W. S. G. A. Elections Today. 200 Extra Tickets For Extravaganza To Be Put On Sale.
Southern
California
Trojan
The Spirit of Troy
“Some of the older folks want to deny the younger people the right to think for themselves at all. Others want to believe that the older heads are befogged if they frown on anything at all youth wants to do.” The Old Trojan s Column.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, March 24, 1927
UNION PLANS ARE MADE TUESDAY
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Ex-Coj?hmittee Meeting Accepts Student Union Suggestions.
MAfr INCREASE FUNDS
Rebate Profits May Go For Union Building Purposes.
Unanimous acceptance of the student union plans and a proposal for turning back" profits into the students’ fund instead of paying rebate checks, were the matters before the special executive committee meeting, held in Hoose 305 Tuesday evening.
Plans for the student union building were presented by “Mike” Ei-wood and Gwynn Wilson. The plans were unanimously accepted with the reservation that the student union comrfiittee take notice of suggestions made to them, and that they be in-* corporated in the plans when expedi-] ent. Discussion on the students’ union lounge showed a division on the matter of location. Some favored It being on the first floor; others on the third. The matter was left to the committee.
It was suggested that potential1 profits of the Students’ Store be paidj back to increase available funds for the union. On a vote by the committee it was decided to place the matter before the student body for their decision at the next all-Uni-versity assembly.
W.S.G.A. Polls Open This Morning For Close Election
Officers of W. S. G. A. for the coming year will be chosen today. The booth in the north arcade of the Administration building will be open from 9 to 3, and every University woman is expected to vote.
Names appearing on the bali'ot are: president. Betty Farmer and Ruth Carr; secretary, Gern Kuhry, Helen Sauber, and Marguerite Green; sophomore representative, Martha Murdock, Evelyn Martin, and Marion Edwards; junior representative, Zada Taylor and Frances Holmes; and senior representative, Dorothy Goodrich and Winifred Finch. Officers unanimously elected are: vice-president, Gwendolyn Patton; treasurer, Mabel Russel; and social chairman, Alice Colwell.
WILL HAVE ROOTING SECTION AT CAL-TROJAN MEET
NEAR EAST BAZAAR TO BE HELD TODAY
W. S. G. A. Carries on Philanthropic Work With Bazaar on Third Floor Today.
As a part of the philharmonic work which the W. S. G. A. plans every year, a bazaar is being held today from 10 a. m. until 5 p.-m. in the corridor of the third floor of the administration building, in cooperation with the Near East Relief.
Needlework, pottery, linen, rugs, and bags will be displayed during the sale. The Near East Industries sponsor the bazaars for the purpose of sending all sales proceeds back to the refugee women and children in the Near East, and no profit is realized upon these sales. W. S. G. A., in giving their services, is co-operating with the Near East Industries in this non-profit plan. No compen-saton is received by anyone who serves the Near East Industries.
Two hundred letters have been sent by committees working under Gwendolyn Patten to interested and representative groups. Faculty wives, faculty women, co-eds' campus groups received letters, and women's city clubs were included in those sent.
Band to Present Stunts During
Meet; Special Section Reserved For Students.
Southern California will have a rooting section Saturday afternoon at the California-Trojan track and field meet. Burdette Henney has asked that all members of the Trojan student body sit in the reserved section on the south side of the Coliseum, which will be located behind the band.
The band, a hundred strong, under the direction of Hal Roberts, will play during the meet and give those on hand some special stunts along novel lines. Saturday will be the first time in recent years that the band has played at a track meet, and the first time in its history that it has played for an athletic contesl, other than football, in the Coliseum.
The meet is scheduled to get under way at 2:30. No rooting caps are needed and both men and women will sit in the same section. The idea is to instill some of the same spirit which was exhibited last fall during the football season. Various yells and songs will be given by the rooting section, which will be led by “Red” Henney and his assistants.
PLEDGES ELECTED IN MEETING OF DIRE SECRECY
Names of Skull and Dagger Pledges To Be Divulged Later.
INITIATION SOON
News To Be Made Public in Startling Manner.
The election of Skull and Dagger pledges took place yesterday afternoon in the office of the student body president, but who the pledges are. and when, where, and how they are to be introduced to the campus remains a deep, dark secret.
All attempts to learn the names of the men fortunate enough to be elected to the all-University men’s honor society were in vain, as were attempts to discover plans as to the time, place, and manner of their introduction to the campus. When interviewed, Leland “Dee” Tallman, president of Skull and Dagger, r«* fused to make any authoritative statement.
“I imagine,” he said, “that at an early hour on some not distant day the great news will be made public in a startling and altogether unusual manner. Until that time, nothing can induce any member of Skull and Dagger to divulge the secret."
A joint program with the Trojan band and glee clubs is to be given in Bovard auditorium on the evening of May 4, the tickets to be sold by ♦ht newly elected pledges. According to Leland Tallman, this program will substitute in part for the traditional Skull and Dagger trial.
To be eligible for pledgeship, it is necessary for a man to have brought honor to his Alma Mater by a record of outstanding achievement. Election to Skull and Dagger is the highest campus honor that a man at S. C. can receive. At present there are eight active members of Skull and Dagger on the campus: Le/ad Tallman, Lee Conti, Henry Segretti, Hal Williamson, Jeff Cravath, Sam Gates, Ed Murray, and Ray Brennan.
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FACULTY TABOOS AF TERNOON HOPS
RIFLE SQUAD
The first official match will be held this afternoon at 4 o’clock with lxjyola. Every member report to the range at this time.
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Because of a definite statement from the office of ibe administration relusing permission for afternoon social affairs, the freshman aternoon dance is not to be held. The reason given by Dr. von KieinSmid for refusal was that there are too many social affairs in campus life.
The dance was to have been a get-acquainted affair for freshmen and was to have been held yesterday. It was then postponed until Friday al-ternoon and, according to latest re ports, is definitely called off.
This ruling will not in any way affect plans for the freshmen eve-ninng dance to be held in April. Class executives have been working for some time to make it a complete success.
LAW FRESHMEN TO STAGE DANCE
Oakmont Country Club Will Be Scene of Annual Function Friday Night; All Students Are Eligible To Attend; Gala Affair Promised.
"BLUES” SINGER TO BE FEATURED IN RALLY TODAY
Commerce Students Will Convene in Touchstone at 8:55 This Morning.
Popular blues songs sung by Pat Lynn, and specialty stunts by Ray Hatfield and his orchestra, will be the featured numbers on the commerce rally this morning at 8:55 in Touchstone Theatre, Old College 119.
Pat Lynn, besides being a favorite singer over KFI and KNX, was fea
Pine Trees are Poor Censors.
People Shocked Because They Don’t 'Think.
Student Union Lounge Location is Problem.
Trust Those Who Have Studied the Thing.
We do not know whether the pine trees on the posters in front of ' the Administration building v ~°e put there “by order” or by seme wag in sarcasm. At any rate they certainly succeeded in calling attention to the thing that was to have been prevented. An open-minded person will concede that those who think the young ^people of today are pretty free are not without some arguments, especially if he has visited the library, or if he really knows what goes on at some of the parties. Rut painting pine trees over the legs of girls on posters doesn’t seem to be the most effective corrective.
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It is not meant that all the hul-%
laballoo that is raised about the younger generation going to hell is justified. A lot of it, most of it, comes from “old timers” who strained at the leash when they were young but have forgotten their younger days. Many of them are shocked at things which they hold to be wrong, not because they even think them wrong, but just because their parents had been told by their parents that they were not “being done.’' It reminds us of what Dr. Millikan said about fundamentalists and atheists.
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Dr. Millikan puts the fundamentalist and atheist in pretty much the same class. Each denies the value of a force which he does not understand. Just so a lot of the reformers and their “companions in extremes,” the friends who want to whitewash
tured recently by Gene Morgan and his Boulevard Orchestra. He will ac- everything, overlook some things company himself on his ukulele in The first want to deny the young-popular blues selections.	_ er folks the right to think for
A new commerce pep song, writt-n thcmselves at all. The others by Walter M. Rudolph, known for
his compositions of a similar nature for past Commerce rallies, will be sung as an opening of the assembly.
“Commerce spirit will be very much in evidence,’’ said Don Edwin, president of Commerce student body, yesterday.
The three Law School classes will frolic together Friday night at the Oakmont Country Club, where the annual freshman dance of that school Is to be held. The commitfee in charge has also announced that tickets will be sold to students outside of law .and that they may be obtained at the Law building.
Miss Cecilia Zobelein. vice-president of the class, states that every effort has been made by the social committee to make the attair a success, and to bring it up to the standard set by past law dances. A leading campus orchestra has been secured, and good punch is promised, together with all the other things making up a dance.
It has become a tradition In th,»
Law School for each class to give a dance every year. The seniors gave such a function earlier this year, and the juniors will give one later. Generally only students of Law are admitted, but it was decided this year by the freshmen to make anyone in the University eligible to attend.
This year, the affair is in the nature of a “celebration" for the end of another quarter’s final examinations, since finals for the second quarter have just been completed, and a new quarter has just commenced.
Officers of the class are: Art Freston, president; Cecilia Zobelein, vice-president; and Paul Fritz, secre-tary-treasurer.
STAFF IS GIVEN TIME EXTENSION TO SUBMIT COPY
In order to give the Wampus staff one day more time to prepare copy tor the “Lowbrow’’ number, the deadline, originally set for today, has been set ahead one day, and material may be submitted tomorrow, accoiv- to an announcement issued by Wampus office late yesterday afternoon.
The statement also announced that work on the "Lowbrow” number is progressing satisfactorily. The cover has already been made, and is one of the most striking of the year.
(often from purely selfish reasons) want to believe that older
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heads arc befogged if they frown on anything at all youth wants to do. Both are guided pretty much by what they want to believe and choose rather to act in a certain way and then justify themselves than to think before acting. At least, that’s the way it seems to an observer.
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The Executive Committee got into quite a discussion the other night on whether or not it should pass the student union plans without insisting on having the lounge on the main floor. On the face of it this appears to best suit the aims of a student union. But it is pretty hard to get everything on the ground floor of a building of the size allowed us. The ar-
Numerous cartoons have been turned	, , . ,	,
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more. More jokes and short skits j pretty good, with the expedienc} are also needed, although a great on the side of having the lounge
array of written been submitted.
copy has already
on the third floor.
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Gean Maschio and Antoinette Larsen, two of the dancers who will appear in the annual Southern California Extravaganza production, “The Rumpus of 1927,” tomorrow night and Saturday night in Bovard Auditorium. The show is under the direction of Grant La Mont and is being managed by Ray Pinker.
TO DEBATE UNFIELD 200 EXTRA TICKETS COLLEGE UPON FOR “RUMPUS” THE ORIENT GO ON SALE
Virgil Pinkley, Charles Wright Will Represent S. C. in Touchstone Theatre Tonight.
An attempt will be made to solve the Chinese puzzle when the debate teams of Linfield College and Southern California clash tonight in Touchstone Theatre. Roy Malcom. head of the Political Science department, will preside at this debate upon the question of the withdrawal of foreign control from China.
The visiting team from Oregon will uphold the negative of the proposition, while the Trojan debaters will argue the affirmative. Linfield College, while not one of the largest institutions upon the Coast, has the reputation of turning out crack forensic teams .and Robert Dow and Keith Bollem, their representatives tonight, are reported to be among their best. Four speakers and the coach are on the trip and have been touring Southern California this week.
Virgil Pinkley and Charles Wright are the S. C. speakers who have been chosen to uphold the affirmative tonight. Both are sophomores and in their second year on the squad. Pinkley, who will open, is a former student body president of San Bernardino High School, where he made an enviable debate record. Last year he debated bgainst U. C. L A. and has appeared against Occidental this year. Wright, the second speaker, went to Polytechnic High, where he was student body president and noted as a speaker. He won a Bowen Cup last year as well as debating against Redlands University. So far this year he ha3 spoken against Occidental College and Willamette University.
The judges for tonight’s contest are Knutson, an attorney at law; Root, debate coach at Jefferson, and Horton, coach of forensics at Franklin High.
Fraternities and Sororities That Have Not Called For Reserved Seats Lose Out.
Notices
All aotlcei mut be brought to the Trojan office at 718 Weal Jefferson St. or phoned to HUmholt 4m notices nittnl be limited to 35 word*.
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SQUIRES
Squires will meet this morning in the student body office at 9 o’clock to discuss plans for meeting teams in the future.
Approximately 200 tickets for thP “Rumpus,” which have not been called for by fraternities and sororities, will be on sale this morning in the Students’ Store, according to Ray Pinker, manager of student productions of the University of Southern California. The show will be presented on the evenings of March 25 and 26.
Antoinette Larsen and Jean Maschio. students of the University of Southern California, and pupils of Sally Rand, dancer and motion picture star, have been secured by Grant La Mont, director of th*> "famous annual show,” to present an aesthetic dance.
Gene Johnston, who has written the music for the “Rumpus,” wfll present some of his well known numbers which have never been heard before by the theater-goers of Los Angeles. “Stairway of Love,” by Johnston. Is the theme number of the show, and will be sung by Jo Campbell and Roy Winborn. The song will be sold to the public dur-ing the performances,
Johnston and La Mont have written the lyrics and music for the entire show. Earl Baldwin of the well known Music Box Review is responsible for the book, which depicts real college lift, according to Pinker. Hal Chasnoff, of the School of Mu sic, has arranged the music, and with Johnston is directing the fifteen piece orchestra which will be used at both performances.
The beautiful costumes which have been secured by Miss Ruth Burns, assistant director, through the courtesy of Fanchon and Marco, will make the public think that they are viewing a musical comedy on Broadway, because of the professional touch, according to Pinker.
NUMBER 108
cheer^HTs
WILL HOLD MEETING
Burdette Henney Calls Second Annual Trojan Yell Convention.
DATE SET FOR APRIL
All High and Junior High Schools Are Invited To Attend.
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY
Psychology as it pertains to the “Tooting section of any school will be the theme of the Second Annual Trojan Yell Convention which will be held April 7, under the direction of Burdette Henney.
Last year during the latter part of March, the first yell convention for prep cheer leaders was held on the Trojan campus. The convention was attended by seventy-six yell kings, representing various high schools throughout the southern part of the state. The meeting was held in connection with the California track meet, and gave the delegates who attended a chance to study college crowds and the effect of organized sections as they have been developed at Southern California.
ONE REPRESENTATIVE Burdette Henney is at work at the present time working out the pro-gram and the important items which accompany a convention of the nature of the coming one. Invitations are being sent out to every high school and junior high school in Southern California to attend the parley. Last year each school was asked to send two delegates, but this year the number has been reduced to one, in order that more schools can be taken care of.
Henney believes that the plan whicfi S. C. is carrying out in having a convention devoted strictly to prop cheer leaders is the first to be sponsored by any university or college in the country. The Administration is working with Henney In an efTort to make this year's meeting more colorful and Instructive than the one held last year.
CROWD PSYCHOLOGY Acording to Burdette Henney, who has for two years been head yell king of Troy, and who has led Southern California into national note through her yell section, the second parley will deal with the psychology of the crowd. Henney has made a study of yell leading and the effect of various stunts on crowds which dates back to the days when he was enrolled in Lincoln High School.
He believes that a yell king who has fair ability in leading, but understands the complex of the group he is leading, will have far more success than a clever leader who knows little of the psychology of the crowd.
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HOSSACK SPEAKS TO REAL ESTATE CLASS
Members of the evening lecture class in Real Estate Finance at Metropolitan College heard a talk by Harry L. Hossack of the Security Housing Corporation at the second meeting of the Spring Quarter last night.
This series of weekly lectures is in charge of Emory E. Olson, three-tor of Coordination at the University of Southern California, and organization for the group was completed at this meeting, to which visitors were
MATHEMATICS CLUB
The Mathematics Club will hold a meeting this afternoon in room 252 at 3:15. The topic to be discussed is “The Criteria for Divisibility by Prime Numbers Under Two Hundred,” by William Krebs.
SPEECH RECITAL WILL BE GIVEN
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Eugenia McQuatters and Kathleen Campbell To Present Program in President’s Suite Tonight; Deans of the Twelve Colleges of the Universities To Be Guests.
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Eugenia McQuatters and Kathleen Campbell, S. C. co-eds, will present the first senior recital of the year under the direction of the School of Speech in the president’s suite, tonight at 8 o’clock.
Among the guests of honor at the program of InterpreUve readings will be President and Mrs. R. B. von KieinSmid and the deans of the twelve schools and colleges of the University. Ushers at the recital include Julia Miller, Eloise Parke, Vir-
ginia Judd, Betty von KieinSmid. and Eleanor Veale.
Miss Campbell will read "Th» White Headed Boy,’ ’an Irish drama in three acts by Lennox Robinson. Miss McQuatters will present interpretive selections from Eunice Tiet-jena, Austin Dobson, Alice Meynell, and Edna Ferber. Miss Campbell is the pupil of Miss Elizabeth Yoder and Miss McQuatters has studied under the direction of Mrs. Pearl Aiken Smith of the School of Speech.