Sophomore Executive Committee
An important meeting of the Sophomore Executive committee will be held in the Trojan office, rooms 223-225 Student Union, at chapel hour today. Dick Haldeman, sophomore president, wishes all members of the committee to be punctual, because of the limited time allowed for the meeting. Plans for the spring sport dance will be discussed, and the social program for the semester will be arranged.
Southern
California
Junior Executive Committee
Junior class executive committee will meet Friday noon, according to Bob Behlow, junior class president. The place of meeting will be announced later. The purpose of the meeting will be to consider plans for the junior-senior dinner dance. Committees for the affair will be appointed at this time by Muriel Heeb, vice-president of the class and social chairman.
VOL. XIX.
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, April 12, 1928
NUMBER 111
NEW M0TIFS.C. SQUAD TO FEATURE TO DEBATE
BIG DANCE
Negative Team To Meet Southwestern University Tonight in Bovard.
Southern California’s
Spring Decorations Planned team composed of j. Elwood For Annual Hop in Stu dent Union.
Fraternity atmosphere as well as the spring motif will be carried out in the decoration of the social hall of the Student Union Friday night when the Inter-fraternity council will give its annual dance, which this year will be a formal.
The hall will be a profusion of blossoms, and the programs will also carry out this theme. Added to the decorations will be the new furniture and tapestries in the hall and a new piano.
One of the biggest features of the dance, however, is the favors. This is the first inter-fraternity dance to give out favors, and these promise to be the most coveted gifts given at a university dance. They are not only a popular spring fad, but they .are something ‘that every girl will wrant to wrear with her new spring clothes.
This will be the first inter-fraternity dance to be held in the Union, also the first formal hop to be given there. The fraternities are all backing the affair to the limit, and the majority of the tickets have already been sold. Only 12, and not 15 tickets, as originally stated, will be allotted to each Greek letter house. Th^se can be obtaired from the fraternity representatives at $2.50 each. Preference is being given to upper-division students.
The committee In charge of the dance has announced that corsages are taboo. Eddie Oudermuelen, who is in charge of the dance says, that the music will be furnished by Hal Grayson’s ten-piece orchestra.
The other members of the committee are Howard Edgerton and Bill Ruyman, and the patrons and patronesses include: President and Mrs. R. B. von KieinSmid, Dean and Mrs. Waugh, Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford, Dean and Mrs. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Burby, Mr. and Mrs. Carus, and Mr. and Mrs. Marley.
Harmon and Milton Dickens is slated to meet the affirmative team from Southwestern University tonight in Bovard auditorium at 8:00 o’clock. The subject of the debate will be on the foreign investment question.
The Trojan negative team has so far this season won every judges’ decision, defeating the Universities of Arizona, Washington and Pomona. All these universities are members of the Pacific Coast conference. Southwestern is recognized as one of the strongest opponents on the negative team’s schedule for this season.
The debate tonight will be of special interest, due to *he fact that Southwestern holds the only decision this season over either of the Trojan debate teams. Captain Stanley Hopper and William Henley, who are at present on an extended debating tour of the western states, lost a 2 to 1 decision at Southwestern recently. Tonight’s contest will be a return engagement. Since the negative team’s last debate against La Verne, Monday night, Coach Nichols has been pointing his men to tonight’s affair.
Southwestern is given a slight edge in tonight’s debate in view of their earlier victory over Capt. Hopper and Henley. This is perhaps counteracted by the fact that Harmon and Dickens unanimously defeated the University of Arizona, which team took a decision over Southwestern on the following night. However, “dope” on debating is uncertain and t’je decision in this debate may easily swing to either team.
The report from Southwestern is that a large number of students will accompany their team to Troy tonight. Word from the local debate office is that a large crowd is expect ed to be present in Bovard to hear Harmon and Dickens defend the Trojan views on the foreign investment question.
LAW SCHOOL DEAN TO RETURN EAST FOR ENDOWMENT DRIVE
Dean Justin Miller Will Represent University in New York; Also To Attend Crime Commission Meeting in Washington and Bar Association in Cleveland.
Attendance at the Southern California Alumni banquet in New York, April 24, will be one of several occasions again calling Dean Justin Miller of tht Law School to the east, from which he has just
^•returned.
The banquet is one of many being
May Number To Be Final
Humor Will Be Main Feature of May Wampus; Jessica Heber To Be Editor.
Representing the best humor from all college comics in America, the May number of the Wampus will appear as an exchange number. This issue will be exclusively humor, and will contain no short stories, sketches nor articles of any kind. It will be similar to College Humor in that it will reproduce the best jokes selected from 150 college magazines.
Jessica Heber, humor editor of the Wamp, will have charge of the May issue. She has been working for the past month in selecting jokes from other comics to be run in the Wamp. Ray Zeman, exchange editor, has secured a number of cuts which will be run through the courtesy of eastern magazines.
The cover for the May issue has been drawn by John Post. To say that is is strikingly different from previous Wamp covers is putting the matter mildly, inasmuch as it may create a furor because of its uniqueness.
Following the May number will be the final June issue of the Wamp, which is to be the largest in the history of the local magazfte. It will run about 60 or 70 pages, according to Paul Slater, business manager, and is expected to “wind up the year with a bang.”
CO-ED DEBATERS
TO CLASH WITH POMONA COLLEGE
Catherine Bailey and Miriam
Olden To Represent S. C. in Debate Tonight.
Debating Pomona college this evening at 8 o’clock in Touchstone theatre, the affirmative team of the Women’s Debate squad will uphold S. C. on the question: Resolved. That the American investors and their investments should be protected only by the government of the country in which their investment is made.
Catherine Bailey, the first speaker is a freshman in the university who shows great promise as a debater.
Miriam Olden, a third year varsity debater of wide experience is the other member of the affirmative team. Miss Olden, who is a member of Delta Sigma Rho from the University of Michigan, is oife of the best women debaters in school.
Pomona college, upholding the negative side of the question, is to be represented by Elizabeth Fairchilde and Frances Vance.
The decision of the debate is to be reached by three judges. All mem-tbers of the debate squad are required to be present.
ADDRESS GIVEN BY DASH ON MOVIES
DRAMA SHOP GIVES PROGRAM IN MAY
C. C. Dash, general manager of the Hertner Electric Co., Cleveland, Ohio, addressed the junior and senior engineers yesterday morning, on “Engineering Problems of the Motion Picture Industry.”
In his talk, Dash gave a complete comparison of the use of carbon arcs and incandescent lamps in motion picture projection, and dealt with the many technical problems involved in getting good light on the screen.
He also showed an interesting film dealing with the manufacture of motor generator sets used to furnish electricity for projection machines.
Dash is here for the convention of motion picture engineers now taking place in Hollywood, according to P. S. Beigler, head of the department of Engineering. He is a former pupil of both Professor Eyre and Professor Beigler, having graduated from Purdue University in 1911.
The April program which was to have been presented by. Touchstone Drama Shop on the 19th has been cancelled, according to Elizabeth Raede, president. This was necessary because of the fact that a senior recital presenting two students in the School of Speech was scheduled for the same evening, and there will be no further programs offered by the drama shop until the final program of the year which will be given May 17.
Three original one-act plays will be produced by members of Zeta Phi Eta, national dramatics sororiiy, on that date. These plays have been written and will be given by members of the organization. They are “Hyacinths” by Tacie Mae Hanna; “Honeymoon House” by Elizabeth Raede; and “Pierot in a Garden” by Virginia Roediger.
held on that date in connection with the university’s Endowment Fund drive and Dean Miller will be one of the main speakers at the New York function.
Dean Miller expects to attend a meeting of the Crime Commission the following day and will travel to Washington, D. C. on April 26 to the annual meeting of the American Law lnsti-tute. On his way home the dean is lo speak in Cleveland, Oohio, before a joint meeting of the Bar association of that city and the Women’s City club, his subject to be. “The Public Defender.”
On his recent trip to the capital Di. Miller spoke on the law involved in the “Fence Bill” at its hearing before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. The bill, which is also known as the “National Stolen Property Bill,” was written by a special committee of the National Crime Commision, of which Dean Miller was a representative, and introduced by Congressman La Guardia of New York. At the hearing before the judiaciary committee, to which the measure was referred, such men as the president of the American Federation of Labor, representatives of tne American Bankers’ Association and the Jewelers’ Association were present.
General J. Weston Allen, formerly attorney-general of Massachusetts, and Dean Miller were the jurists who addressed the committee on the law involved in the bili, its effect and powers. They had conferences with Vice-president Dawes and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hooyer in relation to the measure.
From Washington, Dean Miller went to New York to a conference of the officers of the National Crime Commission. He also attended a meeting of the committee on the Survey of Research in Crime and Criminal, Law. From there Dr. Miller returns to Southern California, only to make plans for his eastern trip for the middle of this month.
BAND PLANS APPEARANCE
Tooters Glee Clubs Will Give Annual Concert in Chapel Tomorrow.
During the chapel period and the 10:25 class hour tomorrow the Trojan band and men’s and women’s glee clubs under the direction of Harold Roberts and J. lArthur Lewis will present their annual concert to the university.
The men’s glee club and band have just returned from their annual spring tour of the state and will offer some of the numbers which proved popular with the thousands who attended the concerts.
More than a hundred musicians, all members of the musical organizations directed by Harold Roberts, will take part in the program tomorrow. The mens’ glee club numbers 30 men, while the women’s organization has over 40 members. Both glee clubs gave a concert in Ventura during Easter vacation.
J. Arthur 'Lewis has announced that several negro spiritual numbers and a solo by Berwyn Riske will be included in the part of the program furnished by the men’s glee club. One of the best numbers of the group given by the men, a melody of college airs wThich includes “On Wisconsin,” “Win for Notre Dame,” “Come Join the Band,” “California Must Win,” “Fight for* Harvard’s Fame,” and “Fight On for Old S. C.” will be given.
Stillman Wells, student director of the Trojan band, will give a cornet solo and the Trojan bass quartet will give feature numbers of the ban*. Roberts has worked up several numbers which feature solo work for flutes, french horns, trumpets and trombones and a clever number of a dog trying to cross University avenue with co-eds attempting to reach their sorority houses for the opening gong.
All 10:25 classes will be dismissed tomorrow morning and the thirteen schools of the university invited to attend, according to a statement yesterday by President von KieinSmid.
SIGMA PHI DELTA LEADS FRATERNITY SCHOLARSHIP
Alpha Epsilon Phi Tops All Sororities; Gamma Epsilon Leads Social Greek Groups; Few Women Maintain “B” Average For Semester.
By LEON SCHULMAN
With Sigma Phi Delta leading the fraternities and Alpha Epsilon Phi the sororities, scholarship standings are out for last semester. In the list of fraternities, the leading social fraternity is
---♦Gamma Epsilon.
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Engineers lo Choose Heads
Elections For Officers of Engineering College To Be Held Today in Patio.
Elections for the College of Engineering will be held today in the patio of the Student Union building.The polls will open at 10 and will close at 3 o’clock.
The candidates for the various offices are Ralph Flynn, John Volz and Richard Belleveau for president; Leslie Marks for secretary; and James Gosline for treasurer.
Only those who are in good standing, who have paid their dues and who present their Associated Students identification card will be permitted to vote. No electioneering within 50 feet of the poles will be allowed.
Elections are being held earlier than usual this year so as to enable the newly elected officers to meet wTith the present cabinet to revise the constitution.
HONORARY PUNS ELIGIBILITY RULES
PROFESSIONAL
INTER-FRATERNITY
The Professional Inter-fraternity council will have its regular monthly meeting in the Sigma Phi Delta house tonight at 7:00 p.m. The house is located at 11G5 West 37th Place.
Engineers Will Make Inspection Trip Soon
An inspection trip under the auspices of the Chemical Engineering department of this university will be conducted for the students of that college Friday afternoon. They will visit the Southern Glass Works and the Los Angeles Soap Co.
All other students who are interested in this type of activity are at liberty to attend. The engineers will leave Bridge hall at 1:30 o’clock that afternoon.
Japanese Students
Will Organize Club
Japanese students will give a dinner in the Student Union, April 14, at 8 o’clock for the purpose of organizing a club. Corsul Nizusaiva, Warren Bovard and Professor Willet will give addresses.
The idea of fellowship which' resulted from the International banquet will be carried out in the program. Dance numbers and folk songs representing the various countries will be given by the Japanese students .
There are a few Japaneses students on this campus who have graduated from the universities in Japan and who are now registered in this university. This dinner will afford an opportunity for those students to become acquainted with the undergraduate students on this campus. Many of the leading universities and colleges have organizations of this type.
University Reception To Be Staged By Music College
The College of Music announces an all-university informal reception Friday night, April 20, in the social hall in the Student Union. Betty Donnelly, president of the student body is in charge of the affair.
The affair will be one of the first to be held in the social hall of the Union after the new furniture arrives.
Music played and written by students, as well as many of the standards will be the entertainment of the evening. The talent of the college is to be put on display for the entertainment of the guests and the advancement of the music idea in the university.
Miss Donnelly cordially invites every student in the university to attend the “evening of music.”
INTER-FRATERNITY MEN CONVENE IN SECRET MEETING
Greek Letter Council Has Meeting To Formulate Plans For Postponed Dance.
At the weekly meeting of the interfraternity council held at the Sigma Chi fraternity house last Tuesday evening, a great deal of secrecy shrowded the business that was transacted. The bare facts were withheld from publication in the press.
Again the matter of a more successful inter-fraternity council was brought up for debate. It was openly admitted on the floor that the council was not functioning properly and was not meeUng the purposes for which it was established.
To culminate the arguments on the floor, a committee was appointed by President Ray Foote to confer with Dean Waugh on the matter of continuing the council in its present condition. The group wTas instructed, with orders to see that a better un derstanding is had with the administration in order that the fraternities could co-operate more efficiently with the faculty.
The committee on the inter-fraternity dance to be held Friday evening gave a very favorable report. A good attendance is expected for the houses are in back of the affair .according to Eddie Oudermuelen.
Members of the Trojan Knights and Squires met yesterday at a luncheon in the Student Union building for the discussion of new members in the upper class organization. Men, to be eligible for membership, must be at least a first semester junior, among other things. An active interest in campus affairs is another much-stres-ed point, Eddie Oudermuelen, president of the Knights, said in his talk.
Further plans for the Knight bench which is being installed on the lawn in front of the Administration building w'ere discussed. It is planned to surround the bench with shrubbery, and garden stones.
Voting on new members for both Knights and Squires will take place in about three weeks Oudermuelen said. Prospective Knights must be at least second semester sophomores at the date of application, while second semester frosh are eligible to be Squires. Application blanks will be issued a week before the elections are made.
COMITIA REVIVED
BY OLD MEMBERS
Comitia held its first meeting Tuesday night under the new re-organization plan. Because the society had almost died out, several old members and some new charter members took it upon themselves to reorganize that society under the title of Comitia.
New officers were elected with the result that Mr. Frisby, president of Phi Delta Gamma, became president of Comitia; Kenneth Paden, vice-president; Russel Hager, censor; and Theodore Hewitt, secretary-treasurer. The new cabinet and members furnishes a new and active force which promises to put Comitia back on the map. A constitution has not yet been adopted, but it is possible that the old constitution will remain in force.
Tuesday’s meeting proved to be very interesting and a program is being planned to make future meetings more inteersting. Visitors are welcome at any time. The next meeting will be held in Aeneas Hall on Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 and will be in the main, a business meeting.
Tau Epsilon Phi leads the list of national social fraternities with a rat.ing for last semester of 1.273. Gamma Epsilon made a startlinc rise from about the medium to top glace among social fraternities. Otherwise, the ckief leaders among the fraternities are not greatly changed.
Alpha Epsilon Phi leads the sororities with a rating of 1.65, an exceptionally high rating. Dean Crawford states that she approves the effort put forth by this group, but that she will not commend any sorority having a rating of less than two.
The fraternity ratings, not counting the records of Music or Dental students, are as follows:
Sigma Phi Delta____________________1.371
Gamma Epsilon ____________________1.327
Kappa Psi .....................1.313
Delta Sigma Pi____________________________1.279
Tau Epsilon Phi_____________________1.273
Alpha. Kappa Psi _________________________1.267
Theta Sigma Nu ___________________1.124
Pi Kappa Epsilon ____________________1.112
Phi Beta Delta _______________________1.087
Sigma Chi _________________________1.087
Phi Alpha Mu_____________________1.079
Rho Pi Phi______________________1.071
Sigma Alpha Epsilon_________1.067
Alpha Sigma Delta_________________1.066
Theta Psi ...........................................1.060
Phi Kappa Tau________________________1.049
Phi Mu Alpha--------------------1.035
Phi Nu Delta ______________________________1.031
Kappa Alpha_______________________1.018
Kappa Sigma_______________.984
Pi Kappa Alpha___________________.949
Zeta Beta Tau________________________ .949
Delta Phi Delta ___________________.948
Phi Delta Chi ____________________________929
Tau Delta Phi _______________________.920
Delta Sigma Phi____________________.906
Phi Kappa Psi ________________________ .82S
Sigma Tau _____________________________ .779
Alpha Rho Chi __________________________ .834
Alpha Nu Delta _______________________ .704
Delta Chi-----------------------.$54
Only 13 per cent, or 61 sorority women on the campus maintained a B average. Inez Kernan of Alpha Gamma Delta had the rating of 2.81,
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Scientist Will Speak On Atomic Theory This Morning
Dr. Linus Pauling, of the California Institute of Technology, and graduate from several schools in Germany, will speak Wednesday April 18, at 1:15 p.m., in the Science building on the topic, “Structure of the Atom.”
Dr. Pauling will speak in room 306 of the Science hall. After receiving his doctor’s degree in Gemrany, Dr. Pauling has carried on much research in the scientific field and is considered in the field as an authority on chrystalline A meeting of the Daffy club will structure in chemistry. He re-be held in Trojan office during Chape^J. cently talked before the American
daffy club
hour today. All members are required to be present. Discussion of a skating party and a formal dance for May and the adoption of a constitution are scheduled.
Chemical society.
The lecture is being sponsored by the Alchemist society in the chemistry department.
Ad Club Petitions
Alpha Delta Sigma
S. C. Ad club is now petitioning Alpha Delta Sigma, men’s national advertising fraternity. There are 3 degrees toward which members of the club may work, and those who have attained the third degree will be eligible for charter Inembership in Alpha Delta Sigma.
The work of the men in the Ad club covers publicity and advertising in all the downtown fields.
Prof. M. N. Goodnow is to be the main speaker at the 6 o’clock dinner meeting of the Ad club in the Student Union building on Wednesday, April 18. ‘‘Publicity in Relation to Advertising” is Professor Goodnow’s subject. The remainder of the program will consist of music by the harmony singers, Bill Frfrd and Carl Rohn.
Jean Maschio To Open Dancing Classes Today
Miss Jean Maschio, director of the chorus in the recent Extravaganza, and specialty artist in the same production. has announced the opening of a dancing class, which she will conduct in the women’s gym starting today. Classes will be held biweekly at 4 o’clock. Miss Maschio is offering instruction in every known kind and variety of the terpischorean art, and has opened her class to anyone enrolled in the university.
JUNIOR WOMEN INITIATE IN NEW UNION BUILDING
Seven Co-eds Initiated Into
Spooks and Spokes Yesterday; High Membership Qualities.
Spooks and Spokes, junior women’s honorary organization at tbe Univers ity of Southern California held initiation Tuesday evening, April 10, in the new Student Union building, with Miss Vivian Murphy, president of the group officiating.
The junior women who were considered the most outstanding in their respective fields of activity and who were honored because of sincerity, leadership, and service Io their alma mater were: Misses Alice Colwell, recently elected president of the W. S. G. A.; Phyllis Crowley, Percy Fraser, Rosita Hopps, Jessica Heber, Gwendolyn Patton and Bernice Palmer, and the two most outstanding sophomore women, according to the vote of the members were Misses Erie Shepard and Lorraine Young, who were also pledged at the formal campus ceremony in Bovard auditorium on March 23. Mrs. Pearl Aiken Smith, faculty member in the School of Speech was the honorary pledge.
Formal initiation was followed by a banquet in the Union with Miss Vivian Murphy acting as toastmis-tress and introducing Mrs. R. B. von KieinSmid who welcomed the new initiates. Miss Rosita Hopps responded. Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford and Mrs. Pearl Aiken Smith spoke of the place of the honor organization and its meaning.
Decorations were in the spring motif, with black and orange flowers predominating.