Read It in The Trojan
Professors Tell Reaction To Honor System Failure.
Seniors Hold First Dance Tonight.
Pi Delta Epsilon Announces Pledges and Razz Edition.
Drama Shop Meeting Will Discuss New Plans.
Southern
California
Trojan
The Spirit of Troy
“With student backing the counterfeiting of the King’s English might become passe; legitimate words might again come into their proper right; and college students might be given credit for sponsoring a really constructive movement.”
—V. M. (Editorial)
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, January 5, 1927
NUMBER 64
RAZZ EDITION OUT FEB. 10
Pledges of Pi Delta Epsilon To Issue Special Edition of Trojan.
New Pledges Elected
Latest Campus Scandal To Be Unearthed By Ambitious Reporters.
With the election of pledges to Pi Delta Epsilon, national honorary journalism fraternity, comes the announcement of the date of the annual appearance of the Razz edition of the Trojan on February 10th.
The pledges recently elected are Freeman Hall, Ed Murray, Scott Creager, Sam Friedman, Les Heilman, Milton Booth, Wayne Harrison, Harold Silhert, John Parsons, and Biil Jeffery.
The annual much-looked-forward-to Razz edition of the Trojan is edited entirely by the pledges. The campus celebrities need watch their step and not transgress from the straight and narrow path lest some prying member of the Razz staff find it out If an usually sober student partakes of too much, the reporters are sure to find out about it and it is guaranteed that his act or acts will be given due notoriety.
Nor will the charming co-eds be left out of the razzing. The most covered up and hushed over events of the Women’s Dorm and the sorority houses will glean their share of the space of the yellow journal.
Pledges to Pi Delta Epsilon are elected by the members and comes after at least two years of newspaper experience and the intention to follow the journalism profession.
Due to the absence of Terrel De Lapp from the University, Carrol Houlgate has been elected to fill the office of vice-president of Pi Delta
Epsilon.
STATE BOARD EXAM DISRUPTS CLASSES
Classes In Hoose 206 and Science 306 Moved Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Due to the fact that Hoose 206 and Science 306 will be used by the Pharmacy State Board examinations on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week, classes regularly scheduled for these rooms will be moved to rooms as follows:
Classes to be transferred from Hoose 206 for these three days to Bovard Auditorium:
Phychology 1—9:25, *0:25 and 11:25, Wednesday and Friday.
Phyisical Education 9 m—9:^5 and 11:25, Thursday.
Orientation 1—10:25, Thursday. Sociology 1—1:15, Wednesday and Friday.
Philosophy 2—1:15, Thursday.
Those to be moved from Science 306 are:
Sociology 114—11:25, Thursday to Engineering 15.
Spanish 2a—1:15, Wednesday and Friday to Science 105.
Spanish la — 2:15, Wednesday. Thursday, and Friday to Bovard Auditorium.
Dance Will Honor Senior Women ~ At Tri-Delt House
Women will reign supreme at the first senior informal dance of the year, according to Mabel Smith, chairman of the committee in charge. Miss Smith, who has arranged the entire affair, has also arranged the part wherein men will pay fifty cents admission and women will be admitted by appearing.
The dance will take place at the Tri-Delt domicile tomorrow night 2nd is called for 7:30 P. M.
Fine entertainment and refreshments are guaranteed by the com*
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ON TWO TOPICS FOR S. C. DEBATES
Varsity Season Opens With
Twenty Men In Line-up.
Southern California’s varsity debaters are working on two problems which will be subjects of debates to be held during the bedating season which opens in the near future. The first question is: Resolved, That Mussolini is a benefactor to Italy. On this question a varsity debating team will meet Stanford on a date which has not been definitely decided.
The second problem is: Resol'ftJd, That foreign powers should immediately relinquish their control in China, legations and consulates excepted. This is to be the subject of debates between schools in the Pacific Coast Conference, of which Southern California is a member.
The first debate will be held some time in February, Manager William Henley announced, but the schedule of contests is not completed at yet
Twenty men are on the varsity team, and with many of last year’s freshman team as well as veterans of last year’s varsity encounters among this number, the prospects for the year are very good, according to Henley.
AH speeches on either of the two questions are to be handed to Coach Nichols by Friday in order that he may revise and return them by Monday.
TALLMAN SAYS S.C. IS LEADER
Student Body Prexy Compares University With Eastern Colleges In Interview.
Happy Over Passing Of Constitution
Trojans Lead In Student Self-Government and Expression Of Opinion, Says Tallman.
Sue Cables Recovering From Recent Accident; Removed To Her Home
Susan Cables, head writer for the Trojan, is now able to get about on crutches, having recovered from injuries received in an accident during the Thanksgiving recess, to the extent of being able to get up and down stairs, according to members of the Trojan staff who have visited her recently.
Sue was taken to the Roosevelt Hospital in Pasadena after the accident occurred in which she received a fractured skull and a broken leg. T^ater she was removed to her home, 178 W. Villa Street, Pasadena, where she is now.
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REPORTER RETURNS TO TROJAN STAFF
After a long absence, due to illness and a lengthy convalescence, Elora Sornsen is returning to her place oil the Trojan staff as School of Speech reporter.
Back from the University of Michigan where he represented the University of Southern California at the second annual congress of the National Student Federation, December 2 to 4, Leland Tallman, student body president, was full of ideas for the further development of student self-government on this campus, when interviewed yesterday by a reporter for the Trojan.
“I am exceedingly happy that the student body saw fit to pass the Constitution in the election during my absence in the east,” said Tallman. “We are ahead of eastern and mid-western universities and colleges in the movement to give student opinion an effective place in university government Their battle now is to obtain the amount of self-government that we already have. While we are in advance of the eastern universities in this matter, we are, nevertheless, behind Stanford and California, particularly in the development of an honor system.
“The delegates from the Pacific Coast colleges and universities, as they traveled through the middle west noted the lack on eastern campuses of the ‘hail, fellow, well met’ spirit of cordial fellowship that prevails on the campuses of Pacific Coast universities. It certainly made me feel good *o know that I was a delegate from the University of Southern California. On every occasion when the name of the University of Southern California was mentioned at the conference, it was known and respected by the delegates there, and recognized as on a par with those of the largest universities of the east and middle-weBt.”
MANY TROJANS EMPLOYED IN
STORES DURING XMAS SEASON
Christmas holidays furnished a fine opportunity for ambitious students to make a little extra money. According to the Southern California employment office, several hundred Trojans were placed in various positions throughout the city in answer to calls from business concerns of Los Angeles.
SLIDES PICTURE TOLSTOY GENIUS
Professor Morkovin Will Illustrate Lecture On Famous Russian Novelist, Tolstoy.
Illustrated by lantern slides brought from Europe by Boris Vladimir Mor-kovis, formerly lecturer in Russian Literature at Charles University, Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, a lecture on Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian author, will be given this evening at 7 P. M. at Metropolitan College. Room 1350, Transportation building, Seventh and Los Angeles Streets, which will be open to the public.
Professor Morkovin will trace the emotional evolution of the genius Tolstoy from a worldly individual to an author of spiritual classics, covering his personal and domestic life as well as contacts with his contemporaries.
Although Professor Morkovin is now affiliated with the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California as campus lecturer, this is the first public lecture which he has given at Metropolitan College, to which all those interested are cordially invited.
One hundred were placed in the post-office, one hundred at the Broadway Department Store, about twenty-five at the Ville de Paris, fifteen at Coulter’B, and fifteen at the Fifth
The fine quality of Southern California students has permeated to considerable extent throughout all business districts in and around Los Angeles, and because of this, Miss
Street Store, besides the numerous | Weir of the employment office has
other positions secured.
Several of the department stores sent letters in appreciation of the work of the students, and stated their intention of using them in *ie future. A note from the Broadway \ hich had requested five tall, nice-looking fellows to act as ushers, stated that they did not know that Southern California had so many good-looking fellows.
requested that all seniors expecting to graduate this year should list their
names with her in order that they may be placed satisfactorily.
Positions have been offered Southern California graduates from practically every line of business, particularly from the oil companies which have requested the names and grades of a considerable number of students
Project Carried
Out At College
Attempts to find a market for some 500,000 pounds of slamon eggs as bait for fishermen, form one of the interesting projects being carried on in the laboratories of the college of fisheries.
If a market could be found for these eggs, it would mean the uUllziing of a heretofore waste product, as the eggs used for this purpose are taken from the fish which are caught before the eggs are soft enough to mature. It has been estimated that over 760,000,-
000	pounds of salmon are caught-each year.
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Following up the interview of yesterday’s “Trojan” in which Coach Callow of Washington, spoke of the pampering of athletes, we come to a very real problem of this campus. This question of the paying of football men with units for undone work and with scholarships and soft jobs is in the minds of many people. It should ' be answered.
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As far as Southern California is concerned, we do not know of any instances of men getting through the University on such jobs as required only the winding of an eight-day clock, etc. If that is true in any case, we do not know of it. We believe that Southern California is on the square as athletics are played on the Pacific Coast today. Certainly a school that proposes to play a man four years with the excuse that he was not registered in some school that he transferred from, as we are told one member of this Conference is doing, has no remarks to make about Trojan sportsmanship. But as a matter of recognition of service to the campus we present this contrast:
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The football man begins in mid September, sometime after classes have started. He plays a game that any man who has the ability to play enjoys more than he enjoys eating. He is applauded by all of the student body and from fifteen to one hundred thousand alumni and townspeople every Saturday for eight or ten weeks and then his time is his own. In the meantime, try and sell him a ticket to any campus function! He is given enough complimentary tickets to the football games to take all the relatives he ever had to th-* game. If he sells them he maite.‘> enough money to double the tuition which he did not pay at the first of the semester. Not that he always does have atrocious manners, but he can be a boob as^far as brains and culture are concerned and get into some kind of a fraternit\. Sometimes Ife can do so and make the “better” houses. If he honestly works his way through school he at least has a job waiting for him during each of his undergraduate years. When he graduates he takes his place among the favored alumni who are welcomed back whether anyone else returns for Homecoming or not.
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Then the Trojan reporter. The paper is out for the first day of classes, which means that somebody put some sweat into it before school started. He pegs away at it five days a week, long after every other activity, athletic, dramatic, forensic, or what have you. is closed and forgotten, until the last day of the the second semester. If he writes well enough or has the good fortune to draw a certain type of a
story on the assignment sheet he may get a “by-line.” If he makes a fraternity it is because he can dance well and play bridge in addition to his journalistic ability.
When the play productions manager or the student tx>dy vice-presi* (Continued on Page Four)
COUNCIL MEETS ON WEDNESDAY
Establishment o f Pacific Coast Inter-Fraternity Council To Be Main Business.
Similar To National Council
Council a Highly Commendable Enterprise According To Paul Fritz, President.
Discussion of the advisability of establishing a Pacific Coast Inter-Fraternity Council this year is to be the main business of the fneeting of the University Inter-Fraternity Council, which is to be held at the Pi Kappa Alpha house, 2644 Portland Street, Wednesday, January 12 at 7:30 P. M.
According to Paul Fritz, president of the University organization, the Pacific Coast Council will in many respects be similar to the National Inter-Fraternity Council, which is attended by two delegates from each campus in the country at the annual meeting in New York City. The Pacific Coast Council will also call for two delegates from each campus, but only from the campuses on the Pacific Coast.	t
This council, in the opinion of Fritz and other prominent fraters, will be a highly commendable enterprise. It eliminates much time, space, and money, giving the representatives from the Pacific Coast less trouble to attend conferences.
At the meeting will also be decided the definite nature of the Inter-Fra* ternity dance this year, which has been tentatively set for April 1. More information of the possibilities of the fraternities buying their own houses will also be given.
Regarding the rushing rules for the next semester, the regulations of the present semester will be adopted. However, those that are not well understood will be made more explicit at this meeting.
HONOR SYSTEM FAILURE BRINGS EXAM STRICTNESS
Instructors Now Justified In Patrolling Classes During Examinations, Says S. C. Professor.
NEW RULING MADE REGARDING SEATING
Professors Air Views On Honor System And Significance Of Its Rejection At Southern California.
By KARMI WYCKOFF
That the failure of the honor system to pass the recent election should give the professor justification for patrolling his classes the best he can during examinations is the belief of Professor Mount, according to members of his class.
~	-♦ On Monday morning, the students
DRAMA SHOP HOLDS “ *“ “ ““ “ ‘ MEETING THIS NOON TO DISCUSS PLANS
/ P —1 J “ I Presentation Of New By-Laws and Plans For Dance To Be Discussed.
Discussion of the plays for the next program, and presentation of the bylaws of the organization will feature the meeting of the Touchstone Drama Shop to be held this noon in
notice had been sent out from the registrar’s office asking that students be separated during the taking of examinations in the future and that he thought that the recent honor system vote justified such an action.
Theron Clark, University registrar replied, in answer to a “Daily Trojan” query on the subject, that the ruling had no connection with the recent vote but that the system to be inaugurated in th,~ semester’s examinations has been under discussion since last spring and was first brought before the official consideration of the scholarship committee
Touchstone Theater.
The presentation of the by-laws August and again in November will include the discussion of the
PROGRAM FEATURES TALKS BY STUDENTS
Y. M. C. A. Council To Be Held Tonight; Asilomar To Be Topic of Discussion.
Short talks by those who attended | the student conference at Asilomar will feature the program at the regular Y. M. C. A. Council dinner to be held this evening at the Y Hut The fourteen men -who made the trip north have agreed to be present, and much interest has been manifest in their reports of the trip.
Dinner will be served promptly at 5:30 P. M., the program being concluded by seven o’clock. Advance reservation is not necessary.
Those who attended the conference at Asilomar and who will speak at the dinner are Don Bailey, Frederico
A.	Coz, Morley Drury, Tom deGraf-fenried, Stanley Jacobson, George C. Jordan, Donald S. Newcomer, George Peterson, Harold Reed, Henry Rohr, Bryce Schurr, Benjamin F. Taylor, Glen E. Turner, and Robert G. Webster.
new officers for the positions of treasurer .recording secretary, and corresponding secretary. These positions are open through vacancies and the revision of the by-laws.
The dance to be given February 11, and other social meetings in prospect will also be discussed.
Three plays, “The Dreamy Kid,” ’•Sham,” and “Mansions,” are under consideration now, and two others, one of which will be an original student manuscript, will be rehearsed. The best three of these plays will make up the next program.
“All students who wish to direct plays must hand in their prompt books to Lib Alexander, head of the directing committee,” stated Marcus Beeks, president.
“The directors will choose their own casts, and will have full supervision of their respective plays.”
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Notices
All notle«< mait be broighl to the Trojan office at 716 Wnt Jeff*r«oa St. or phoned to HVatboH 4523. Notice* moat be limited to SS words.
STRAY GREEKS
Stray Greek meeting Wednesday noon at the Cottage lea Room. Very important! All members urged to attend.
FROSH MANAGERS
All frosh managers meet in Ray Brockman’s office on Bovard Field at 3:15 this afternoon (Wednesday). Very important that all those freshmen who worked during football season be present.
ALL-U TENNIS
All matches in the first and second rounds of the All-U Tennis Tournament MUST be played off by the end of this week, otherwise forfeits will be granted.
TOM WOODS, Tennis Manager.
Manuscripts Are Due For Coming Apolliad By End of This Month
That any number of manuscripts may be turned in by each student to the Apolliad movement was the announcement made yesterday by Miss Tacie May Hanna. Manuscripts are due January 25.
“We especially urge that students from all the various colleges of the university turn in material,” stated Miss Hanna, “as we want to make this an all-university movement.” Although not much material has been turned in yet, the Apolliad committee expects many types of mar terial to be in their hands by the final date for manuscripts.
of last year.
In the following symposium of opinions several faculty members expressed their opinions and reactions to the result of the honor system vote.
Professor L«ynn Clark said that in his opinion “The students showed good judgment by voting down the honor system, as it has failed to work elsewhere. I think that it showed moral upstanding rather than that they are not to be trusted; for if they had favored the honor system that would only give those who wish to cheat a better chance to do so.”
Bruce Baxter, when asked if the voting down of the honor system (Continued on fage Four)
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TEN COMPETE FOR BOWEN CUP PLACE
Contestants Will Speak Extemporaneously On Some Phase of Motion Picture Industry.
The annual Bowen cup contest tryouts will be held this afternoon at 3 o’clock in Hoose 305. The tails will be on some phase of the motion picture industry. Not until 1 o’clock will the contestants know on which particular phase of the gigantic industry they will speak. This allows each one only two hours in which to organize and become familiar with the speech he will deliver, making each speech of a somewhat extemporaneous nature.
Speeches will be limited to five minutes' duraUon.
The Bowen cup affair is, with the Ames cup contest, one of the features of the oratorial year in the University. Ten speakers have signified their intentions of entering the contest this afternoon.
ASILOMAR DELEGATES ENDORSE
Y. M. C. A. STUDENT CONFERENCE
After attending the Y. M. C. A. student conference held during the (_ hristmas vacation at Asilomar. the Southern California delegation has returned to the campus with striking endorsements of the
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assembly.
Morley Drury, captain of hext year’s football team, In giving his reactioo to the conference said, “After attending Asilomar for a week, I sincerely urge all who possibly can .to attend next year.”
Don Bailey, president of the Southern California Y, and the new chairman of the Field Council of the Y. M. C. A. in the Pacific Southwest, said, “After two conferences at Asilomar, the main value seems to die to be the powerful stimulus in awaking a new realization and purpose in life. Not only the spiritual, but also the mental, moral, and social phases of life are challenged and uplifted.”
“And still California yields rich gold to those who mine at Asilomar,” was the manner in which Benjamin
F.	Taylor characterized the conference.
Harold Reed said of the Asilomar conference: “It requires one to realize his opportunity and possibilities
in relation to the increased responsibilities which come to college students.”	|
“The Asilomar conference looked to me like the beginning of a national student movement, which will be abTP to co-operate with similar movements in other parts of the world, and in this relation help bring about world brotherhood thru the mutual understanding of all nations, races and creeds,” said Tom de Graffenried.
Frederico A. Coz, in commenting en the gathering, said: “No conference which I have attended has been more vital and inspirational than that held at Asilimar; the spirit which prevailed made the conference a success.”
“The Asilomar conference was a prism ?7hich reflected a thousand surprising lights and for me there shone with a peculiar gleam the light of my awakening to my responsibilities in life,” said Donald S. Newcomer of the assembly.