ENDOWMENT PICTURES
Individual pictures of the members of the General Committee of the Campus Endowment Drive campaign are to ha^e individual pictures in the El Rodeo. These must be taken before the photographer leaves the campus, according to an announcement by Dave Bryant, editor of the year book... All members of the executive committee, chairmen of student committees, managers of activities, presidents of every social sorority and fraternity also must have individual photographs taken.
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SORORITY SALES RATING
Final rating of sororities in the Wampus selling contest will be decided today, according to Paul Slater, business manager of the humor book. All representatives of sororities taking part in the contest must report to Slater in the Wampus office in the new Student Union building between ten and twelve o’clock this morning. December sales results of Kappa Delta and Beta Sigma Omicron sororities must be reported immediately to complete the sales reports.
VOLUME XIX.
Los Angeles ,California, Thursday, January 12, 1928
NUMBER 63
TROJAN DEBATERS TO
STANFORD TONIGHT
GROUP OF PLAYS TO BE PUT ON
“Constant Loves” Featured on Drama Shop Program Tonight.
Touchstone theatre will be the scene of the fourth Drama Shop program presented this school year when the curtain rises tonight, at 8:15 on "The Constant Lover,” “Mists of the Morning,” and “The Very Naked Boy.” These plays will be well worth seeing, according to the (ftrectors, Ethel Bickford, Grace Gilson and Charlotte Sultan. The casts have been rehearsing sires before the holidays and are shaping up fine.
“The Constant Lover” with Fred Phleger playing the title role offers an interesting study of a man who is a constant lover although not always to the same member of the fair sex. The affair of the moment centers around Evalyn, who is portrayed by Elora Sorenson.
Pan-Hellenic Rushing Rules Announced; Minor Changes Made For Second Semester
I he Panhellenic Association of the University of Southern Cali-! fornia announces that the designated week for second semester I sorority rushing will begin February 20, the second Monday after , registration, which starts February 6.
Miss Josephine Campbell, president*---
of Panhellenic, announces that as is customary at second semester rushing there will be no formal date
CAMPAIGN RESTS ON STUDENTS
cards, and no formal Sunday tea, both j of which are in evidence during fall ! rushing.
The common pledging date shall be J Tuesday afternoon or evening, Febru-ary 28.
RULES STATED
Some of the more important rushing rules are listed below:
1.	Dates shall be from 4:00 to 5:45. and from 6:15 to 8.00, excepting Fri-1 day night, when the formal dinner date may last until 10:00 p.m.
2.	With the exception of the Friday night date each fraternity may have only one date a day with a girl.
PHI BETA ESSAY IS ANNOUNCED
Dean Miller Attends Five Conventions During Term;
Is Named <(Traveling Dean”
By RAY ZEMAN
Journeying to San Francisco, Chicago and New York, Dr. Justin Miller, dean of the S. C. Law School, has attended five con-Success of University En-iventions since his departure just before the holidays. Dean Miller dowment Fund Dependent has attended some ten conventions sincc the beginning of school in i on Student Co-operation, j September and has been aptly named the “traveling dean”. He
usually combines his activities, however, so that he attends several ”	* confabs on each trip.
PAYMENT EASY
Note May Be Given in Place P A/^IAI Library*'	uUtlULUuI
That the success of the University’s $10,000,000 endowment;
__i campaign depends, in a large j
Rules For Annual Essay measure, on the way in which the ! Contest Given Out By Dr. I students Put over their drive for
Louis Wann.
ation of Southern California has announced its sixth annual prize essay contest. The purpose of the contest ' 3. The fraternity must lea<re rushee js encourage deeper and more wide at the termination of each date. No sprea(j interest in scholarship, rushee shall be called for nor taken The rules are as follows:
“MiBts of the Morning' is a charm- hQme by any fraternlty gid during the L AU sophomore> junior and senior ing fantasy written by one of our own gpeclfled week of rushinK except the studentS, enrolled on March 31, 1928
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Friday night date.	as such, of any standard college or
4. There are to be no week-end nor university of Southern California are all night dates.	eligible.
5: Other dates shall ihe made on j 2. The length of the essay must not the campus, the day of or day before be iess thtn 2000 or more than 3000 the specified date, except for the tc+- words.
mal dinner.	3. Only one essay can be submitted
6. There is to be no telephoning nor by a contestant, other communication off campus. The: 4. No essay will be accepted that exception if this rule is Thursday has formerly ben published or award-
a new library, was indicated yesterday noon by Harry Silke, for-The Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Associ- mer student body president, in
addressing the campus drive organization in Aeneas Hall.
STUDENTS TAKE TOUR
students, Dorothy Marie Davis. The scene is laid in a railway station. A number of travelers, all in very different situations of life are collected there together as a result of a very heavy snow which has made it impossible for their train to go on. There is the society debutante played by Roberta Swafield; the “hard-boiled” girl who has had to make her own way portrayed by Norma Larsen; and the hysterical woman played by Clair Aderer. There are also two men characters played by William Kauffman and Boris Ulmer.
“The Very Naked Boy” offers the most amusing situation of all. While a man, Melvin Cytron and a maid, Carroll Greene are standing in a hall 1 talking of this and that as men and maids will, one becomes suddenly 1 aware that behind the curtain is a! Very Naked Boy. This part is taken by Paul Kiepe.
Plays for the February program have been announced. They will be “Bimbo the Pirate”, written by Booth Tarkingtorr, “Lilacs” written by
night of rush week, between eight and ten, wrhen a fraternity may call its rushees' to ask them to its formal
ed a prize.
5. The individual may choose his subject and manner of treatment, but
dinner; and Friday morning between ; should be guided by the following seven and ten, when the rushee may, extracts from the instructions given
“II the students do their part—if they subscribe or oversubscribe the $150,000 sum which they have undertaken to raise, the alumni and general
First on the most recent tour was a meeting of the code committee of the American Institute of Law in New York City on Dec. 7, , 9 and 10. This committee is drawing up a model state criminal code. Dr. Miller I is widely known for his study of I criminology. He was formerly secretary of the Minnesota State Crime | Commission and has conducted criminal surveys in other states before
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Visit Welfare Organization, Following the American Institute As Part of Class Work; of Law meeting, Dean Miller remain-
GREAT WAR TOPIC FOR TALKFEST
Henley, Garrison Perform on Local Squad; Band To Be Present.
Facing their first debate of the season, the Trojan debate squad will meet Stanford at 8:30 tonight in a dual contest on the question: Resolved, That the results of the World War have tended towards the peace of the world.
Inasmuch as the debate is the first opening of the season, the affair is to be staged on a large scale. Hal Grayson’s orchestra will provide musical entertainment, while the debate itself, handled from a humorous angle will be entertaining as well as informative.
Look Over Jails.
BY ISABEL LOFTUS
Under the supervision of Assistant Professor Frances Lucas, the sociology class in Introduction to Social
public of Southern California will not work has made several interesting fall down. But unless the students, 1 trips to local institutions of social who are in closest contact with the welfare.
University, evince sufficient interest j Being open to sophomores, this in its development to make their part course is a deciding factor for stu-of the expansion program a success, dents in chosing their particular phase oiher groups cannot be expected to of a 6«cial worker’s occupation. The feel particularly enthusiastic. The sociology courses taken in the junior
tion and data on criminology and to plan surveys. Dean Miller had previously attended a national convention of the National Crime Commission in Washington during Novem-
phone the or refusal.
fraternity her acceptance
to the judges:
Give preference to essays showing personal thinking over those derived from ideas of others. Give preference to adequate and attractive expression.
GRADUATES MEET
FOR LUNCHEON ( Bad English should disqualify a con
tesfcant.
The final luncheon of the semester for the Graduate School will be held today at Aeneas Hall. The election of officers for the second semester and several other matters of importance will be brought up at that time, Chester Mackie, an alumnus of this Don Bailey, presdient of the organiza-institution; and “Modesty” written tion^ias announced, by Hervieu. “Lilacs” will be under “The attendance and enthusiasm the direction of Dorothy Marie Davis shown by the members of the Gradu-who has announced tryouts to be held ate school which has grown until it this Friday from 1:30 to 3:00 in is now credited with an enrollment Touchstone theatre. Dates of other of 590 students, has been splendid.” tryouts will be announced later. Bailey said.
TO ERECT NEW BUILDING SPEECH PLANS QUARTERS
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BY RITA PADWAY
Both social and academic needs are provided for in the proposed new building for the School of Speech, to be erected with money raised in the endowment campaign starting Jan. 17, for $10,000,000. Half of the ground floor will be devoted to social dining rooms, so arranged that several small parties can be accommodated at one time, or a large party can have dinner by throwing open the
in experimental phonetics and related branches, and several sound-proof rooms for delicate research in the physics of sound as related to speech.
The second floor will also be divided into two parts, an experimental theatre on one side, and administrative offices, social room and study hall with library on the other. The experimental theatre will seat, about 350, and the stage, as now planned
6. In each institution the direction of the contestants is in the hands of the local faculty to whom the contestants should look for advice.
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GREEK MEN MAKE PLANS FOR DANCE AND TOURNAMENT
alumni and city-wide campaign, in which the remanider of the $10,000,000 wil be raised, both follow the student drive and await its successful conclusion to get under way, said Silke.
According tc Paul Elmquist, campaign chairman, the student drive “is the match which will set off the gun* i powder.”
Seventy-five dollars will be the average amount sought from each student to make possible the building of a new library. Each person may write his own note to cover a five year period if he so desires, and can make the pay-ments on it annually or sem-annu-ally. No interest will be charged, and. no down-payment need be made until next June. By this method, the greater part of the burden will not fall on the student until after graduation. As a matter of fact, seventy-five dollars, when spread over a five year per-iod, amounts to only $1.25 per month or $15 a year.
and senior years may follow directly on this selection. Of necessity for successful work, the class is small, averaging about twenty-five persons. There are about twelve observation trips taken during the semester.
THREE OBJECTS The object of the visits to social
ed in New York for a meeting of the I	/" n a®:mative, upheld by
statistical committee of the National | *r on ^^son and William Henley, Crime Commission. The purpose of i w 1 rema^n at home to present their this committee is to gather informa- argument in thft Bovard auditorium.
while Meldrim Burrill, ClifTard Weimer and Stanley Hopper, the 8. C. negative, will carry the colors of Troy into foreign territory at Stanford. Strong competition is expected at both ber. The meeting in New York was P^aces, the team appearing here con-a brief one, lasting during Dec. 11 and 12.
CHICAGO MEETING
Dr. Miller then returned to Southern California for the holidays, but his “traveling spirit” lured him to a meeting of the American ' Law School Association in Chicago on Dec. 29, 30 and 31. This convention
slating of George Bodle and Philip Cavalero, both of whom have strong individual points, and together make formidable opponents.
With the exception of a single unfavorable decision the previous year, the Trojan debaters have remained undefeated for three years and give promise of bettering their enviable was held in the Stevens Hotel and recordd this season. A veteran squad.
was attended by 250 delegates representing the 60 “Class A” law schools
institutions is three-fold. Book know- in the country. Four other Trojan ledge and theories are made practical professors accompanied Dean Miller by the supplementing of experience to this convention. Law school prob-as observed in the various institu- lems were discussed and addresses tions. The contacts made wiih the were given by leading law deans, workers in the field are quite bene- professors and prominent attorneys ficial to the university students as and judges from the entire nation, they make one realize the great im-1 Combining his confabs in Chicago, portance of the work the people in Dr. Miller also attended a commit-these places are doing, and because (tee meeting of the Social Science they instigate a desire in the students Research Council. This committee is j to return and, in their turn, help wifh conducting a research survey on
crime and criminal justice. Dr. Mil-
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Inter-Fratemity Council Holds Business Meeting Tuesday at Sigma Chi House.
plans for the dance and two tournaments occupied the attention of the meeting of the inter-fraternity council Tuesday night at the Sigma Chi house. Business of lesser importance had to do with eligibility for membership in the council and assessment of delinquent bills.
There will be an inter-fraternity dance sometime in March, and probably on the seventeenth. This date,
Elmquist pointed out that the students “are getting a lot by putting their money into the school.” The value of the diploma depends, to a large extent, on the standing the university by which it is issued. Buildings and equipment very largely determine the standing of the university. A group of beautiful buildings, located on a beautiful campus belonging to the University of Southern California, is certain to enhance the value of a diploma from this institution. If the students put over their campaign for $150,000 with which to partially build
ALL-U. ASSEMBLY SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY MORNING
I ler is chairman of the committee. The meeting was also held in the Ste-, vens Hotel, on Jan. 1 and 2.
Dean Miller then returned to Los ! Angeles to resume his duties. Again,
! however, he left, this time for a meeting of the California Crime I Commission in San Francisco on Jan.
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consisting of the same members of last year’s team, excepting the st> sence of Art Syvertson, under the strong coaching of Alan Nichols, debate coach, and backed by a wealth of underclass material is enough to arouse big expectations for a successful year.
The first speaker, Marion Garrison, is already well known for his ability as an argumentative speaker. The student body president, William Henley, is second affirmative and is also a Delta Sigma Rho, with four years of debate work to his credit.
RIFLE TEAM
The rifle team will hold the called meeting as announced this afternoon at the range on Bovard field. All men who have been out for practice or are interested should be there as a permanent organization will be affected.
Student Endowment Campaign Will Be Outlined By President von KieinSmid and Henley.
A special all-university assembly : will be held tomorrow morning from 10:00 to 10:40 in Bovard Auditorium. At this time the purpose of the campus endowment drive will be presented to the students of the entire university, and plans outlined for making it a success.
President R. B. von KieinSmid will be the principal speaker and will de-
LA PORTE, HUNTER BACK FROM N. C. A. A. MEETING
which tails on St. Patricks Day. was I a new „brarj, thcy mak(!	] scribe the plan Jor the *10 000,000
suggested by Pat O’Malley, chairman | the reaiization of a
Greater University camPa|sn to build a greater Un ve of the social committee. The com-! Qj gouthern California	'	Southern California. W illiam
mittee composed of Pat O’Malley and	Henley, president of the student body,
connecting doors. A well equipped will be large and well equipped, with Howard Edgerton have been directed Nearly 125 students attended the will also address the students in rekitchen will complete the dining ac- every possible facility for research to make arrangements for the dance luncheon of the campus endowment gard to the student drive, commodations.	and study in scenic and lighting ef-j and render a report at the next meet- organization in Aeneas Hall yesterday j The meeting will be presided over
Academically, although the propos-	fects. Additional stage space will be
ed building will be a noteworthy	provided in two recitation rooms on
achievement, the most unique feature	the third floor, each of which will
of the plans for the School of Speech	contain a simple stage for use in re-
is an endowment for a chair in speech	hearsals.
defects. So far as is known, no such	Recitation rooms and offices for the
endowed professional exists any-	faculty will occpuy the entire tHird
where, so this step will not only bring	floor. Each teacher will have a sep-
ing.
The inter-fraternity council definitely decided to have a bridge tournament and a horseshoe tournament, and Howard Failor was appointed to arrange the details and draw up the
noon. Out of the total number sched-	by Paul Elmquist, chairman of the
uled to be present, only eleven failed	student drive committee who will out-
to shaw up. Division three, under the	line the definite part of each student
management of Dave Bryant, had the	of the university will take in the
highest attendance record, only one	campaign and what is expected of
person benig absent. Division two,	each. He will also tell the import-
Malcom Chambers, manager, had two	ance of making this student drive a
Professor Wm. Ralph La Porte of the department of physical education and Willis O. Hunter, director of ath-eltics, have returned to Los Angeles after a meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic Association held in New York City.
Professor La Porte states that he attended one week of continuous meetings of various athletic and physical education associations, all of which report very interesting developments in their respective activities.
At a meeting of the officers of the Playground Association there was dis-
membership in the American Olympic Association.”
The report of Dr. Savage of the Carnegie Foundation to the Association was on the study of college athletics, which consisted of a thorough research study of college athletics. The Association council advised in this connection to make available to the presidents of the various colleges the condition of athletics in their colleges in order to overcome all the bad spots in college athletics.
Dr. McKenzie of Pennsylvania re-
schedules.
It was also passed that each house absences; division four, Catherine Col- success and the influence which this added credit and prestige to the Uni- arate office, and each recitation room ! that was delinquent in its bill should well, manager, had three absenctis; will have on the other plans of the versity, but will also make possible will have a platform and speaking be assessed ten percent, and that no and division one, Roscoe Blanchard,! university.
valuable contributions to the study desk. Several of these rooms are to fraternity should be eligible for mem- | manager, had five absences. Memhers | In addition to these speakers a and cure of stuttering and other be designated as literary society bership in the inter-fraternity coun- of the general committee, managers, program has been arranged by Shields speech afflictions.	rooms, each society fitting up its room cil, or take part in inter-fraternity majors and captains, were present at Maxwell, rally chairman. The num-
The proposed building for the as it desires .although the rooms will dances, tournaments, or other activi- the luncheon. Plans have been made bers on this part of the entertainment School of Speech may cost about $200.- be used for class work during the ties unless that fraternity was recog- for a “kick-off dinner” to be held Mon- have not been announced yet. but 000, and ^ill contain four floors, in- day.	nized by the administration board of <jay evening at 6:30 in the new Stu- Maxwell promises that they will be
The fourth floor will be devoted to control. After a short meeting of dent Union which will be attended by something unusual and fitting for the
cussed in connection with physical ported the following rulings in intereducation the possibility of the estab- collegiate boxing: lishment of American athletic tests. That it be included in the rules of REJOIN A. D. A.	boxing that the referee keep out of
1 hp chief action of the National, the ring, and that the crowds be con-Collegiate Athletic Association, states j trolled by the referee. This, he said. Professor La Porte, was one rejoining would insure a better collegiate box-the American Olympic Association.
The resolution adopted in this connec-
cluding the basement. Besides the
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about half an hour, the meeting was more than 500 students, including the opening of the great drive which wilt adjourned until next month.	j lieutenants.	: start next Tuesday.
tion is as follows:
“Being assured that the tryouts for the Olympic Games of 1928 will be conducted on the 1924 basis, in the interest of the amity and international sport, the association accepts the invitation of the President of the American Olympic Committee to resume
fng bout
There were also some interesting changes reported in connection with football which will be announced when Professor La Porte completes his report.
CHANGE RULES
The N.C.A.A. has established some fundamental standards for Junior and (Continued on Page Four)