WAMPUS PICTURE
Member of the Wampus staff are requested by Bryant Hale, editor, to be present in the patio of the Student Union Wednesday morning at 10:00 o’clock for the El Rodeo picture. It is hoped that all concerned will take due notice so that a complete photograph can be made. The editor asks that all staff members will be prompte for only fiteen minutes are allowed.
Southern
California
Trojan
FRATERNITY COUNCIL
The regular March meeting of the inter-fraternity council is to be held tonight at the Sigma Chi house, West 36th street, according to an announcement by Ray Foote, president of the organization. The meeting is called for 7:30. All fraternities in the council are urged to send their representatives to the meeting. Plans for the annual formal dance, which is to be held Saturday night, will be competed at that time.
VOL. XIX.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, March 13, 1928
NUMBER 97
ALEXANDER GETS WIRE FOR WORK
Student Wins Plaudits Of College Humor For His Drawings.
DRAWS FOR WAMPUS
High School Students Make Comments On Magazine On Prep Day.
“Congratulations! You have von a place in the College Humor artiste contest.” This is the wire which reached the Wampus office yesterday. It referred to the winning of a place in a nation-wide contest held hy College Humor by Bob Alexander, of the Wamp art staff. Alexander’s drawing was submitted among 10,-000 others in the contest and to place is deemed a signal honor. The contest was judged by leading eastern professional artists.
Alexander will have several drawings in the coming Wamp, which will appear on the campus next Tuesday.
Bryant Hale threw a scare into Tommy Wamp yesterday when he came out with the declaration that Will Rogers had promised to write an article for the March issue of the Wamp. Just what the article will consist of is unknown, hut the mere fact that the rope-twisting com edian will jot off some copy for the Wamp is expected to double the sales for the coming number. Paul Slater, the Wamp’s hither and thither manager, was prancing enthusiastically down the halls in the Student Union building when he heard the announcement. Just what the article is will be hinted in future Tro jans,. however.
The popularity of the Wamp extends not only to the territory covered by Will Rogers, however, for Slater announces that the Fox Film Corporation has asked for a number of Wamps to use In forthcoming motion pictures depicting college comics. The Wamp will be featured in the picture.
On hundred dollars’ worth of the P^st two Wamp numbers were distributed among newspaper delegit.es who attended S. C. Friday at the Sixth Annual Newspaper Day. The delegates’ comments were many and varied and may be used to incite some humor in future Wamp issues
WORK TO BEGIN MONDAY ON NEW SCIENCE HALL
Scofield Engineering Construction Company Has Eeen Given The Contract For The Building Which Will Be Ready For Occupancy By September 1.
BY RAY ZEMAN
Steam shovels will begin hissing Monday on Southern California s latest unit in its $5,000,000 building program, the Science Hall. Wyman Ludlow, campus engineer, announces that the contract for the new structure has been let to the Scofield Engineering Construction Co. The Science Hall will cost $300,000 exclusive of furnish-ings, and will be completed September 1, in time for occupancy by
'■*fall classes.
Bids for the wrecking and removal
Fraternities To Hold Hop
Annual Formal Dance To Climax Leap Week This Saturday.
The annual inter-fraternity formal dance will be held Saturday evening, March 17, in the social hall of the new Student Union.
“If the night conflicts with any of the ‘Leap Week’ dates, it may be arranged for the girls to purchase ;.he tickets for this affair. Rather an appropriate climax to ‘Le ap Week,’ eh, wot?” says Howard Edgerton, who, with Pat O’Maley, is taking charge of the dance, which is sponsored by the social interfraternity council. Fifteen tickets are allotted to each fraternity, and members can obtain the same by applying to their own fraternity representative.
This will Ibe the first formal dance in the new Union, and is the big annual event of the fraternity year, according to Pat OMaley. The ballroom will be decorated so as to give the fraternity atmosphere as well as that of St. Patrick’s day. Those in charge say that the programs and favors are the most unique that have ever been seen at a university affair.
Patrons and patronesses for the inter-fraternity dance will be President and Mrs. von KieinSmid, Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford, Dean and Mrs. Karl T. Waugh, Dean and Mrs. Justin Miller, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Burby, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton D. Carus, and Mr. and Mr6. Eugene Harley.
ENGINEERS PLAN “BRAWL” IN BARN
Combining two functions under one roof, the engineering departments will hold their annual Saint Patrick’s day dance and scientific exhl-biUon in the “red barn,” Friday, March 16.
The Saint Patrick’s day dance, a tradition among engineers, will serve this year to celebrate the doom of the "red bam,” the former home of the engineering classes, which will be razed next week. Since the destruction of the building will begin Monday, the entire university is invited to assist at the last rites.
Preceding the dance the five departments of engineering, and the phyeicis department, will present an exhibition of engineering and scientific marVels. The operation of the automatic telephane will be explained in simple terms, and demonstrated toy an actual hook-up.
of the Engineering Barn are being received now, and the old red building wil be torn down during the latter part of this week. A part of it will be left standing for the dance which will be held Friday evening to celebrate its passing.
BARN FALLS
The new Science Hall will be situated on the site of the present “Barn”, at University Ave. and Thirty-sixth Place. It will adjoin the present Pharmacy building. Ludlow states that the northern portion will be an exact duplicate of the Pharmacy building, while between the two will be a four story connecting unit forming the central entrance. The entrance will not be of terra cota, but will be of cast stone and will be similar to the law building facing it
The exterior of the oomplete one-block structure will be faced with brick and cast stone and will suggest an adaptation of medieval Italian architecture of the Romanesque period.
Two courts, similar to the patio in the Student Union, will feature the new building. These will be in the right and left wings of the stucture, and will be surrounded by the class rooms, much as the student Union (Continued on Page Four)
Sigma Sigma to Elect Pledges Today At Important Meet
Pledges of Sigma Sigma, national junior men’s honorary fraternity, wil be selected today by members of the local chapter in the office of William Henley, student body president. Discussion of prospective pledges has been the business of three, previous meetings, Henley said, and election of new members will take place today, regardless of the number of members present.
Formal pledging of the new members will take place In Bovard auditorium, probably Friday morning. The “Yellow Dog”, annual razz edition of the Trojan, published by the pledges of the organization, will appear next week.
W.S.G.A. PLANS BIG BENEFIT TEA
Affair Scheduled for March 15th; Style Show Will Be Featured.
STRAW VOTE TO BE HELD
Presidential Poll Will Be Conducted Next Week In Union.
CUONIAN SOCIETY TO MEET TONIGHT
This evening Clionian Literary Society will hold its regular weekly business meeting at 7 o’clock in the Y. W. C. A. rooms. A program will follow the business meeting.
The main features of the program will be the hearing of the first of the throe week series of tryout speeches which will be given by those who have been extended the invitation to become prospective members of the organization. A piano Solo will be given by Helen Peterson and & group of reading3 by' Lois Eby.
ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL PLANS NEW BUILDING
Twenty-five Prominent Architects To Discuss Probable Addition to Campus.
Plans for a new School of Architecture building will be submitted to twenty-five prominent architects of Los Angeles at a dinner given Thursday 'by Dean Weatherhead, of hte School of Architecture. The affair is scheduled for 6:30 and will be held in the exhibition room of the architects’ cottage.
Architects will be given an opportunity to see the work done by students in the university and will also advise with faculty members in regard to future development of the school.
The new building for the artists will be constructed on the lot next to the men’s gpmnasium and will face on Exposition Boulevard. The floor plan will be much like the present school, but the new building will be larger and will contain three stories, lt will be one of the most unique buildings on the campus, according to Dean Weatherhead. There' will be special features in the the library, drafting rooms and the studios. The library will be easily accessible from the various drafting rooms and the studios. Each drafting room will be one hundred and ninety-five feet long and will be very high with tall windows which permit the entrance of the north light, so essential to the students. The arrangement will be such that all the drafting rooms can Ibe thrown together to form one large room.
Patronesses for the style show tea sponsored by the Women’s Self-Government Association, to be given in the social hall of the Student Union on March 15th, have been announced, according to Gwen Patton, vice-president of the W. S. G. A.
Those who have been secured to act as sponsors include Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford, Mrs. R. B. von KieinSmid, Mrs. Karl T. Waugh, Mrs. Mary Bowen Huff, Mrs. Warren Bovard, and Mrs. E. L. Doheney, Jr.
The latest importations in feminine attire will Ibe shown at the tea, under the direction of the J. J. Haggarty Company. Frank Sherrard will act as master of ceremonies. Music will be furnished by Harold Grayson’s orchestra. As an added attraction, Floreine, a fifteen-year-old toe dances on the Orpheum circuit, will perform at the tea.
Women wishing to earn activity points may do so by acting on any of the following committees: decorations, refreshments, candy sale, and serving. They are asked to turn in their names at the W. S. G. A. desk in the Women’s Organizations office.
Bids are still available at the Student Store, and may be secured for seventy-five cents. Women are urged to invite friends to attend the preview.
In conjunction with a number of the leading universities in the country, the Trojan will conduct a campus presidential poll next week. The survey is being conducted by the Independent, a Boston newspaper, and national returns will be fur-nished the various college publications participating in the poll.
Senator Curtis, Vice-president Dawes, Governor Lowden, Senator Willis, and Secretary Hoover will be the Republican candidates con-idered, while Senator Donahey, Senator Reed, of Missouri, Ritchie Smith and Senator Walsh will make up the Democratic ticket.
The poll will start March 18, and will be finished March 26. A ballot box will be set up in the Student Store, and ballots will be run daily in the Trojan to permit conventional balloting.
The poll is open to faculty members as well as students of the University, according to the information from the Independent. No names or opinions will be asked, merely tbe marking of the straw-vote ballot.
Short biographies of the various candidates included in the ballot will be published next week to enable the voters to select their choices. This biographical material, and other information, is being furnished the college publications by The Independent.
At the finish of the balloting, a complete table wil) be printed, showing both the national and local results. The Independent hopes to obtain a representative opinion of the collegiate choice of President.
S.C. - U.C.L.A. BASKETBALL SERIES NETS LARGE SUM
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Local and Sectional Gate Receipt Records Shattered As Crowds Turn Out to Witness Three Great Court Battles.
“Novelties” Ducats Sell
Awakened public interest in basketball resulted in the shattering of all local and sectional records for gate receipts in the first athletic competition between Southern California and the University of California at Los AngelesJL
The S. C.-U. C. L. A. basketball series, held in the Olympic auditorium, drew a total attendance of 17,752. Of these 4,189 were S. C. students, and 5,814 U. C. L. A. undergradutes. The remainder of the tickets sold, 7,649, were bought by the general public, who, until this season, had displayed little interest in the court game. The rivival may be credited largely to the home-town element, because the two large universities in Los Angeles were meeting for the first time in any major sport.
The attendance in the flrst game totaled 5,387, in the second 5,481, and in the third, 6,884. The third and deciding game brought box office receipts of $3,766.50, $1000 more than was taken in during the second struggle.
The receipts for the three game series were $9,569.50, a huge sum when when it is considered that $1.00 was the top price.
U. C. L. A. students were more Interested in the series than those from S. C. according to the gures, which showed that the Bruins sents 1,700 more rooters to the auditorium than did Southern California.
The figures represent a tremendous advance over any previous basketball series held In the south, and they in-dioate the hold which basketball has taken upon the sport fans of this section. In the past, attendance has been made up almost wholly of college students, with a sprinkling of outsiders present.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
There will be a regular meeting of the Executive Committee tomorrow evening at 7:30 in Aeneas Hall.
EXTRAVAGANZA USHERS
Twenty-five men are needed to usher at the annual Extravaganza, Nautical Novelties, March 22, 23 and 24. Men who wish to work may sign up with Matt Barr in room 229 Student Union building, after 2 o’clock, or with Stanley Z. Ewins, at room 220.
MEN'S DORM DESTROYED
Oregon State College, March 12— Poling hall, former war baracks, has been abandoned by students living there. It will be torn down and a new dormitory costing between $350,000 and $400,000, erected on the Bite. This has been the. only men’s dormitory on the campus.
DEAN ANNOUNCES SUMMER CLASSES
Offering 25 teacher-training courses which grant college credit in conformity with the California State Board of Education requirements which must be met before September, the 1928 Spring Quarter of University college, the downtown branch of the University of Southern California at 122 E. 7th street, Los Angeles, will open on March 26, continuing until June 16.
The spring schedulte also includes 12 history courses, 18 courses in English literature and language, 8 home economics courses, io sociology courses, 40 courses in economics and commerce, 9 courses in psyhology, 12 courses in foreign languages, and a number in art, music, science, physical education, engineering, and a new evening course in “Supervision of High School Publications.”
Adult students from 120 cities in southern California attended the Winter Quarter of University college just completed. Special features of the middle-city Trojen school are its convenient location to transportation (7th and Los Angeles Sts.), and the fact that each group meets once a week in convenient hours (late afternoon, evening or Saturday morning). The quarter system of 12 weeks, (fall, winter, spring and summer) instead of the semester system ls used. Each class grants full university credit.
TAKE FOURTEEN INTO FRATERNITY
Sociology Honorary Initiate New Members At Semi-Annual Banquet.
Alpha Kappa Delta, honorary sociology fraternity, initiated fourteen new members at their semi-annual dinner Friday evening at the Windsor Tea Room, with Miss Frances Lucas, chairman of the group, presiding.
The charge was delivered to the ■ew members by Dr. Clarence M. Case, and the academic address given :by Dr. Emory S. Bogardus. The speech was on "World Leadership, and presented four types of contributions by great leaders. They are indirect contributions by such men as Edison, Ford, and Lindbergh; direct official contributions within national limits by such men as Briand, Chamberlain, and Hughes; direct and official world organization contributions as that of Woodrow W7ilson; and direct unofficial world organization contributions as that of John R. Mott and Sharwood Eddy.
The seniors who were initiated are Valeria Popper, Irene May, Freida Hohr, Annie Kartozian, and Isaibel Kartozian; the graduates, James G. Hurst, Samuel H. Jamison, Julia Pickett, Forrest Wilkinson, Jennie Sessions, and Helen Walker; and the two alumni, John W. Robinson and Mrs. Mary Chaffee Riggins.
Blocks Are Open To Sororities And Fraternities For Extravaganza.
Sororities and fraternities may still receive blocks of seats for “Nautical Novelties of 1928,” the Extravaganza which will be presented Thursday. Friday and Saturday evenings of next week in Bovard Auditorium.
Few organizations signed up for good seats during the hours yesterday when the office of the production manager was open for that purpose. If reservations are not made today, states Sanley Z. Ewens, production manager, there will be no further chance for holding the organizations to set aside block seats.
The general ticket sale opens tomorrow in the Students’ Store at the cashier’s window*. Since it will be a matter of flrst come first served, according to Ewens, it will ibehoove those desiring good seats to be at the window when it opens, at 9:00 o’clock.
The features and specialties which will enliven the “Novelties” are of such a varied nature that they would not shame a professional mlusicsff comedy. There is a possibility that specialty numbers will include tap dancing, toe dancing, probably a few team dances and perhaps a quartette of steppers.
In addition to this there will be included within the program musical numbers which will vie in popularity with the dancing. Solos and group numbers in which saxophones, guitars, banjoes and ukuleles will be high lights of the production.
“Novelties" is written by Antoinette Larsen and is under the direction of Ray MacDonald, N. C. P., university play director.
DEBATERS WILL MEET AT ILC.L.A.
Henley and Hopper To Argue on Foreign Investment Question.
DEBATE AT 8 O’CLOCK
Third Debate May Be Added To This Week’s Schedule.
ANCIENT CAR DEMONSTRATED
Oregon State College, March 12— The first motor car on the Oregon State campus appeared in 1908. It was cranked from the side and was described as a “side winder.” It had a two cylinder motor, planetary clutch four dry cels for a magneto and chain drive wheels.
The entrance door was in the rear. There was neither windshield or dashboard instruments on it.
DAFFY CLUB
An important meeting of the Daffy club is scheduled for 10 o'clock today in Room 229 of the Student Union building. Discussion of the Popularity Contest and discussion of new initiates is on the program.
JUDGES TO TALK AT MASONIC CLUB SMOKER MARCH 22
Drill Team Will Confer Third Degree To New Initiates At Meeting.
An informal smoker and general get-together of the Masonic club will be held Thursday evening, March 22, at the home of Dr. Guy Van Bus-kirk, 3403 W. 22nd St.
The Masonic club consists of all students, faculty and alumni who hold hold the Master Mason’s degree. Meetings are held every Tuesday noon in Aeneas hall, where luncheon is served. At this smoker the speakers of the evening will be Judge Ira Thompson and Judge Leon Yankridge, and a combination of semi~classical and popular music* Another current feature of the Masonic Club is the organization and practice of the drill team which will confer the third degree to ne*w Initiates at various lodges throughout the city and neighboring country. This team Is under the direction of T>r. MdAlderry, professor in Dental College, and Frank Brae, one of the members of the organization. Both of these men have spent many hours of their time drilling this team over the routine of their work. Their work is about to be rewarded, as they are practically assured of getting the Valley Forge Lodge chapter room in which to hold their drills whenever they are not visiting.
Any Mason now in school who is not already acquainted with the work of the club is invited to attend the meeting today and become a member, the only requirement being to identify himself as a Mason ln good standing.
With two debates already scheduled for this week and a possible chance for a third, Southern California’s debate teams are working hard to add three more victories to their ever-growing list. Of the three debates, the first is tonight with the University of California at Los Angeles. The Trojans will send William Henley and Captain Stanley Hopper to represent them ln tonight’s meet on the Foreign Investment question. Teh debate is to be at the Branch and is to start at 8 o’ck>«k.
The next debate is with the College of Puget Sount in Touchstone Theatre, Old College, on this coming Thursday night, March 15, at 8:00 o’clock. The Trojan negaUve team will uphold the negative side of the Nicaragua question. Caaeb Alan Nichols has already chosen Robert A. Moffitt and ClifT Weimer as the Trojan debaters for Thursday’s debate. Both men have several debates to their credit and are promr inent in forensics.
The finals for the Fourth National Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest has been set as April 20 and it is necessary that all who are entering the contest work hard and keep Chis date in mind. Any undergraduate student on this campus is eligible to enter the contest and compete for the prizes. The prizes will be seven in number and will b paid in cash at the grand final meeting in Los Angeles on June 21, 1928. The total of the prizes reaches $5,000. Students who wish to enter should get in touch at once with Charles Wright, debate manager, who can he found in the debate office on the second floor of the Student Union.
Coach Alan Nichols has also Selected William Henley to represent Southern California ln the Pacific Extemporaneous contest of the Pacific Forensic League at its convention here on March 19, 26 and 21. In the past four years Southern California has won two first and two second places. The rules for the contest are the same this year as in former years except that the topic for this contest will not be announced till one hoar before the contest is scheduled to start.
JUNIOR HONORARY WILL CHOOSE TEN
Spooks and Spokes, junior girls honorary organization, will hold a special meeting sometime during the coming week to consider new members. Ten new members will be chosen representing the junior classes of every college on the campus.
The women selected for membership in Spooks and Spoks will be chosen for their scholastic standing as well as for their other activities. The new members will be announced by tbe organization in the near future.
DR. HILL RECEIVES NEW APPOINTMENT
Da. H. W. Hill, of the English department, has been appointed University Editor by President von Klein Smid. This appointment includes the editing of University catalogues and bulletins. The new office will be in Room 204 of the Student Union.
“A bulletin is a contract," said Dr. Hill, "Consequently any course offered in it should be given. My task is to see that any course not to be offered is struck from the catalogue. In addition, if a study is to be offered in two years or a year, that information must also appear.”
Miss Mary Sheerin will assist Dr. Hill in his work.