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Phi Psi Accepts Petition of Zeta Kappa Epsilon. Leland Tallman Returns from Conference. Pharmacy Alumnus Killed by Bandits. Four Hundred Attend Asilomar Conference. Trojan Glee Clubs Sing Carols. Second Semester Examination Schedule.
Southern
California
Trojan
The Spirit of Troy
“With the New Year comes the determination that Southern California men and women shall recognize their real problems and think them through HONESTLY.” THE OLD TROJAN
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, January 4, 1927
NUMBER 63
PHI PSI ACCEPTS PETITION OF ZETA KAPPA EPSILON AT BIG CONVENTION LAST WEEK
Chapter To Be Installed On S. C. Campus On February 19; Carnegie Tech Also Is Accepted; Fraternity Has One Of Shortest Petition Periods On Record.
By FRANCES HOWARD
At the Phi Kappa Psi convention, held in New York, December 13, January 1 and 2, the petition of Zeta Kappa Epsilon of S. C. was accepted. \ petition from Carnegie Tech was also voted in at the
PETITIONED THREE TIMES I LITERARY CLUBS
TO GIVE ALASKA TALK IN TRYOUTS
Six active districts and six gradate districts made the final decision. The S. C. local has petitioned Phi Psi three times, 192, '24, and ’26. This Is the shortest time that it has taken to accept a petition except in the case of Oklahoma.
The Zekes were organized in 1911 by Tommy Davis, former S. C. track coach and at present principal in a Southern California high school. The
Business Meeting Will Follow Phi Delta Gamma Extemporaneous Contest Tryouts.
Four Hundred Attend Meet at Asilomar
Universities of Pacific Coast and Hawaii Are Represented At Annual Y. M. C. A. Conference.
With four hundred men from the universities of the Pacific Southwest and Hawaii present, the annual student Y. M. C. A. conference was held at Asilomar during the last week of the Christmas vacation. Three open forum discussion groups and two ad-
Pampering of Athletes is Bad Practice
Washington Crew Mentor Objects To Unfair Lioni-zation of Athletic Heroes.
Greetings and best wishes for
dresses made up the program of each j^ew Year!
day, the entire afternoon being giv^n to recreation.
That the colleges today are pampering tht.?r athletes to a point that j is unfair to the men themselves is the belief of Coach “Rusty” Callow1 of the University of Washington championship crew, given in a special interview to the Trojan during the ( holidays.
LELAND TALLMAN REPRESENTS TROJANS AT SECOND ANNUAL MEET OF NATIONAL STUDENTS
University of Southern California Becomes An Integral Part of the National Students of America; Tallman Attends the Convention As Representative; Colleges With Student Government Are Eligible.
By CARROLL McCLOSKEY
The University of Southern California became an integral part of the National Student Federation of America at the second annual congress held at the LTniversity of Michigan, December 2 to 4, inclu-“We are pampering our athletes, jsive, and is now listed as a member of the Far Western Region under j Athletic prowess may help a man to I the Federation, according to Leland Tallman, who attended the con-And with those wishes goes the ?!!,* j°b J?“‘ **.*”1,“eT.er. “ ™ I vention as a representative of S. C.
hold it.
The Southern California delegation , desire on our pait t0 bend every.	,	.. .	..
played an important part in the con- effort to reaU make thjs nextita^ hlB l>la“ ™® JfilVIATFRIAI FROM
ference. Don Bailey. Harold Reed, j year an epochal one in the history I T f .'T”' . Why shou'd	riWlTl
Glen Turner, Morley Drury, and of Southern California. With a * *	gratuities heaped upon
George Jordan led discussion groups.' res^ful vacation in the back-' bim '*USt because he P13^5 football?”
Morley Drury was a member of the:ground and nothing but fCw|as*s Coach C“1'0W K , „ athletic committee.	• , ,erm	fma, ^ and co]_| «e was asked about the problem
The Alaskan situation will be the Th« P1*? which elven bere at latera, readi ahead to maf the | smng the men their s*eat shirts
—	i	p	DJirtv qtiH	t'P-	.	. i Ox 3.110^ ing tn61H to kG6D t hftTYl 3.3
fraternity wa* reorganizod after the central_ point of interest at the■ meetj	over radioK p I was repeated P™sPect’ we OUg?£ ail.t0 tear int° members of the Southern California Three Drawings By Julia Suski
war in 1919. At the present time, ^ of the literary societies.tonight | ^	^ ^ &g & ^ Qf -the program with the renewed basketball team
were permitted to do1 Are Used; One Dozen Articles there are thirtv actives and fourteen a'> ^	sublet to be discussed	__determination to make our pres-1 ** *■*- • —	- •• . . .1
WAMPUS USED IN “COLLEGE HUMOR”
pledges and sixty-five alumni, all of which are to be initiated.
Pledge pins, which are the Phi Psi shield will appear on the campus Boon. The Founder's Day will be celebrated on February 18 and the Installation banquet is to take place on February 19.
in the tryouts for the Phi Delta' the New Year’s Eve Program which enCe Qn the campus CQUnt
Gamma extemporaneous contest.
In addition to the tryouts, Clionian and At.hena will hold an election of officers for the coming semester. The vice-presidents, Thelma Rear of Clionian and Margaret Hilmar of Athena, will preside over their respective meetings in accordance with a tradi-
was entirely in charge of the South-(Continued on Page Four)
REClWlETfERT
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The outstanding feature of our vacation was the Asilomar conference to which we were sent as one of two official delegates from the University. There is an idea in some quarters of this campus that the Asilomar conference is a
after they had successfully resisted' Are Reprinted By Magazine, attempts to make them return their j National recognition is coming to shirts last year by the withholding Wampus through the pages of Col-of their awards.	J lege Humor, the February issue of
I ve ne\ er lost a sweat shirt,” re- ^ that magazine shows. An even dozen plied Rusty. “When the men turn, reprints, totaling twenty-four column
Prominent alumni who are to at- tion that they must do s0 at least	Representatives Left Christmas gathering to which flock all the
ton l the installation ceremonies are: once during the semester. Clionian	Morning For National Student .idealistic, over-religious college
Tommy Da\is, the foundtr, Georgf j have a short program consisting	Conference Held at Milwaukee. b0ys to hear series upon series of
Hirh^rhoni^ottn* /VndPrsnt nK^rf' °f a review by vloTence Nickle.	Many interesting letters have been “Sunday School’’ talks by a bunch
bic stir of ’20 nd ’24 and cantain1 and the reading 0f au ori^inal “W	received from Southern California of preachers. If we can blast that
pic star oi ana ana captain by Florence GalenUne.	- -
of the track team; Norman Anderson, Olympic star in ’21 and track
Those taking part in the final try-
students who attended the National idea and tell what we saw there Student Conference at Milwaukee,' we shall have fulfilled our func
captain in ’23; “Spec” Sinller, Olym- Talmage vroman Dorman, and Paul pic star in ’20 and track captain in: H A short buslness meeU
outs at the Arlsto meeting are Ed Dec 2g_jan j stating that enthusiasm tion as a delegate.
•21; aud Kennedy Ellsworth, alumni [ol]ow the tryoutB president and general manager of the
Geo. H. Eastman Co.
as well as serious thinking pervaded all the meetings. Florence Nickles,
Relying upon our previous at-
Harriet Fullen, Juanita Ellsworth, tempts to be constructive to give Comitia will devote the entire time | Jeffery smith, and Clara Miller, as the stamp of sincerity to these re
out at the beginning of the season I tell them that any man who thinks (Continued on Page Four)
DANCE TO HONOR VARSITY SENIORS
Senior Class Informal To Be Held At Tri-Delt House Wednesday Night; Special Entertainment Offered.
inches, from the local comic were used in the February number. %
Julia Suski agam takes high honors. Three of her excellent drawings are used. Leon Z. Wolpe has three reprints, and Elvalee Powell has the same number. Bryant Hale has one drawing as does “Mr. (or Miss) M,” the talented artist whose work appeared anonymously. So secretive is this artist that even an inquisitive editor has been unable to locate him.
KILLED BY BANDITS
Ivy Toms, ’23, Killed In His Drug Store On Xmas Eve; Police Wounded Also.
Ivy Toms, graduate of S. C., Phar-
NEWSPAPER DAY IS ON SCHEDULE SOON
Program of Prominent Speakers,
Dance and Press Club Dinner Arranged for Delegates.
Newspaper Day, an annual event held under the auspices of the University for the editors and managers o fthe newspapers and annuals of macy ’23, was shot down by two Southern California high schools, will bandits in his own drug store on probably be held this year during Huntington Blvd. on Christmas Eve. the middle of February, according to a policeman who was standing at Harold Silbert, general chairman. the back of the store was also shot.
Judging by the turnout of last year The bandits were boys who came to and the effort being expended to hold up the store but who werl? make the coming Newspaper Day an ' thought to have been frightened by event worthy of the hospitality and ’ the presence of the officer, reputation of the University in jour-1 Tomg died at the Angelu6 Hospital nalistic circles, this year s confer- on	26th, but the policeman was
ence promises to yield much in in- only wounded in the arm. Toms terest and enlightenment to the large ieaves a wife, Mrs. Ruth Toms, and number of delegates expected to at-' hig parents, Mr. and Mrs. George tend. The campus will be given over | xoms
that day to making the editors wel- TT	. ,
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come and giving them every oppor-	, , ,	, . ,
.... , , , . . . , ,	Chi fraternity and had many friends
tunity to gain friendships, inspiration ^ _ , , . J ^	.
.	....	. here. Toms had worked hard during
and tu~ill in their craft, through a^,	A	,
__ .. . . .. . . i the few years that he had been out
common discussion of their mutual . ,
v.	, . . . ..	.of the university, and had purchased
problems. The administration, and .	F
. . . .	,, • . and war. operating his own store.
Associated Students, are all planning
to co-operate with the journalistic j
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That the senior class will hold the first informal dance of the 1927 so-
the tryouts, live minutes being j 0ggcial chaperone left for the east marks, we must give the reaction | cial season in honor of the senior
early Christmas morning on a train that comes to almost any Asilo-1 varsity football men at the Tri-Delt
It house Wednesday evening from 7:30
to
allowed to each speaker.
j new ideas, is expected home Wednes-j day. The assembly consisted ot delegates from colleges and universities
bearing representatives from many mar delegates upon his return, colleges of California.	j is like coming in out of the crisp j to 10:30 was the announcement made
The same group, but filled with (mountain air of the Sierras into
the stuffy, compressed atmosphere of a noon-day street-car to return to the campus after that in every state in the Union. They experience. The Asilomar man, took up such matters as world peace,' who has sat at a table with a per-moral, social, political, and economic j sonal friend of Mahatma Ghandi s problems, also student campus prob- on his one hand and a government lems—all from the Christian stand- j student from Hungary on the point.	other, must return to the old fra-
Among the prominent lecturers who ternity house where the burning addressed the conference were Shub- j questions of the moment are bert Kennedy and Kirby Page. The , bridge and getting by the next National Student Conference i? held exam with the feeling that he is
DEBATESQUAD HAS POSITIONS ASSIGNED
MANY COLLEGES REPRESENTED
Colleges and universities having any form of student government, ranging from a student council to practical control, are eligible for membership. Representatives, numbering 259. were present from 206 institutions.
To unite colleges and universities is the. primary purpose of the federation. T e personal contacts made between stucent body presidents and representatives serve to enable them to get help with problems at their universities.
“The National Student Federation
exists to function at the next annual congress. From convention to convention it serves as a bureau to which member institutions may go for information, advice, or assistance with any scholastic difficulty,” Tallman said.
High lights of the work of the congress came under six main heads.
1. Student and faculty cooperation. Discussion under this topic indicated opinions of how far students shall control matters, and how far faculty shall control them. President Little, of University of Michigan, expressed him-(Continued on Page Four)
PHI BETA DELTA HAS CONFERENCE
b, Mab.1 SmiU., '1>u	' Evacuation, of Chin, by Foreign' c i Mombora From Star,.'
yesterday.	, Powers lo Be Proposition To
The girls will be the favored -uests ‘ Be Discussed By Debators.
of the evening, for men will be
ford, Berkeley, Denver, and Southern California Meet Here.
annually under the auspices of the Council of Christian Associations.
FIRST SEMESTER EXAM SCHEDULE
Metropolitan College Will Offer Advanced Real Estate Course
going to stop living and exist again.
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The Asilomar delegate must return from a place where a bobk is a friend and not an accessory like a locker, which MUST be bought
to get through the school year in
Advanced Real Estate Conveyanc- cor£fort He must leave the coming is the new course which opened
at the Metropolitan College on December tenth. This course of study covers advanced work which has not been hitherto offered at the uptown branch.
land contracts, procedure in closing transactions and other miscellaneous1 problems will be taken up. The in-.structor i<s George A. Schneider.
On December 8, the Certified Public Accountant Quiz Course opened and will continue through to the May examination.
Classes Reciting	Examination Hour	Classes Reciting	examination Hour	Examination Day
9 :25 M.T.W.Th.F. 9 :25 M.W.F.	S to 10 A.M.	9:25 T.Th.	1 to 3 P.M.	Sat. Jan. 15
10:25 M.T.W Th.F. 10:25 M.W.F.	8 to 10 A.M.	8 T.Th.	1 to 3 P.M.	Mon. Jan. 17
3:15 T.Th.	10:15 to 12:15			Mon. Jan. 17
11:25 M.T.W.Th.F. 11:25 M.W.F.	S to 10 A.M.	2:15 T.Th.	1 to 3 P.M.	Tues. Jan. 18
3:15 M W.F.	10:15 to 12:15			Tues. Jan. 18
2:15 M.T.W.Th.F. 2:15 M.W.F.	8 to 10 A.M.	11:25 T.Th.	1 to 3 P.M.	Wed. Jan. 19
1:15 M.T.W.Th.F. 1:15 M.W.F.	8 to 10 A.M.	10:25 T.Th.	1 to 3 P.M	Thurs. Jan. 20
5 M.T.W.Th.F. 8 M.W.F.	8 to 10 A.M.'	1:15 T.Th.	1 to 3 P.M.	Fri. Jan. 21
®xamina;tions for all Saturday and late afternoon classes will be held at the hour assigne-d for the last regular recitaUon.
M.; W.; F.; M.T.; M.W.; M.Th.; M.F.; M.T.W; M.W.Th.F,; or W.F, classes will be examined at the same time as M.W.F. classes.
T-Th-F.; or Th.F. classes will be examined at the same time as T.Th. classes.
No student unless in his last semester for graduation is allowed to anti-cipate any final examination except by special permission from the University Scholarship Committee.
Approved by the University Program Committee.
panionship and association of men like David Starr Jordan, Coach ’’Rusty” Callow of Washington, Dean Graham of Oberlin, and our own George Gleason of Los An-..	. , geles. No one wants college men
The matter of options, exchanges. | ^ ^	^ tak| p,af0
apart, but he does get tired of the everlasting “line” that must be endured in many of the campus gathering places, not always excluding the classroom. Especially does he feel this after breathing the purer air of intellectual freedom at Asilomar.
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With this background we come to our New Year’s resolution. It is not to be a better this or to stop doing that. Editorially, at least, it is this: we are determined to EVALUATE every act and activity on our own campus and see whether we do things because they are worth doing or because they have always been done and because “everybody does them.” To those who say that this reads well but means little, we ask only the time to prove that we are willing to go where this resolve leads us.	>
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We do not mean to change our constructive attitude toward campus activities. We do not mean to take an attitude of seeking to criticize the little flaws in the way our various officers and students take their parts in student (Continued on Page Four)
Cold Feet Situation Is Relieved By Present From Santy
“There IS a Santy Claus!”
Such was the cry of the Trojan staff members yesterday when they arrived back from their vacations to find that the genial old saint from the land of the northern lights and reindeer had indeed visited the Trojan domicile. There were the evidences, a new type writer and two electric heaters to keep the budding Brisbanes from getting cold feet in carrying out their editorial policies.
“It was a real Christmas,” said the staff, “and we’re going to start the new year right by passing it on to the campus in the form of i better paper than we have ever gotten out.”
Debate squad members have been charged fifty cents for tickets while j assjgne(j positions and sides on the the fairer sex may attend without j pr0p0Siti0n: “Resolved, that foreign monetary charges. The pasteboards I powers 3hould evacuate China, lega-may be obtained from Tom Brooker i tionSt consuls, and their families ex-or Boots Oudemeulen or they may be , cepted » it was annoUnced by Bill purchased at the door.	I Henley, debate manager.
First affirmative speakers on the
Mabel Smith is ehairman of the' committee, and guarantees excellent1 resolution are to be Stan Hopper, music and refreshments for the even-1 Edwin Jefferson, George Lawrence,
Arthur Freston, Virgil Pinkley. Sec ond affirmatives are J. Leo Harris,
ing. Special entertainment will be a feature of the affair.
The week of December 24 to 30 marked the Far Western Conference of Phi Beta Delta fraternity in Loa Angeles. The convention was composed of membei of chapters from the University of California in Los Angeles, Stanford University, University of California, Denver University, and the University of Southern California.
The convention was opened on De-
Arthur Syvertson, Adna Leonard, Bill j	24th by a meeting of all the
Henley, and Charles Wright.	j members at the chapter house on the
First negative speakers will be i s- c- campus'
Bur on Fitts Will Be	I First negative speakers will be s- c- campus. After the meeUng, a
Honor Guest At High Marion Garrison, Sam Emerson Gates, tour ot campus was made. Much School HOmeCOTTling * ^woo<* Harmon, and Meldrim Bur- favorable comment was elicited by
rill.
Second negative speakers are vls^ors wh° saw our campus for Homecoming for all graduates of j Frank Colston, Leo Adams, and Lorne j the first time-Manual Arts will be held tomorrow Matheson.
in the high school buildings. Buron Fitts, lieutenant-governor elect, will be the honor guest.
The day s program will start with an assembly in the auditorium at
11:15, which will be followed by a luncheon. At 2:30, the Baby Show will be conducted in the girl’s gym, to be followed by an informal dance lasting until five. At eight o’clock
in the evening there is to be an Alumni program in the auditorium, after which a semi-formal dance will be held in the gym.
Notices
All notice* miut be brought to the Trojan office at 716 We«t Jefferson St. or phoned to H Uni bolt 4522. Notices miut be limited to 35 vtrdi.
ENGINEERS ARE TO ATTEND BANQUET
The week’s program of affairs and entertainment was a very complete one. A Tea pansant at the chapter house, a Smoker at U. C. L A., a Banquet at the Victor Hugo, and a Formal Dance at the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, were the most important of the social activities.
The speakers at the banquet in-
FROSH TRACK MEN
There will be a meeting of all freshmen track men at the varsity training quarters Wednesday evening at 7:00 P. M.
BOWEN CUP TRYOUTS
Bowen Cup Contest tryouts will be in Hoose 305, Wednesday at 3 o’clock, it was announced by Bill Henley. The subject for debate will be on some phase of the motion picture industry.
All engineers have been invited to attend an ail-engineering dinner to be given under the auspices of Sigma | eluded Judge Rosencranz, Dr. Mangin, Phi Delta at one of the campus res- ani^	honorary members, Messrs.
taurants tomorrow evening. At which [ Louis B. Mayer, Marco Heilman, and restaurant the dinner will be held; ^r'*Qg Heilman, all well known in has not been made known as yet, but j clvic ,ire of Los Anseles. will be published in tomorrow Tro- \ The Patrons and patronesses at the jan.	| Forman Dance included Dr. and Mrs.
The name of the speaker for the | Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Dr.. Camp-evening has not been announced, but ( bell of California, and Mrs, and Mrs. the committee in charge of the affair Manco Heilman.
has promised that he will be well | In all there were about two hun-known and that his talk will center ( dred and fifty members who attended about some local problem of impot-' the convention, marking it as one of tance.	| the most successful of its kind.
TROJAN GLEE CLUBS SING CAROLS
Trojan Men and Women’s Glee Clubs, for the purpose of spreading Christmas chf.er to the thousands of shut-ins of this city, banded together to sing Christmas carols at the various hospitals and institutions.
SING AT HOSPITAL	| The evening was concluded by a
The singers were conveyed from one turkey dinner and a dance at the Bilt-
utes’ duraUon, and topics for the ex- able buses. The Children’s Hospital temporaneous arguments will be as- was the first place at which the carols signed by the committee, Wednesday were sung, after which stops were
at 1 P. M.
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made at Juvenile Hall, the County Hospital, The Plaza and the Midnight Mission.
organizations are enthusiastic in their approval of this first social event of tha clubs and Miss Edith Lingerfeit, manager of the Girls’ Glee Club, states that more affairs of this type will be planned in the near future.