‘NOVELTIES” TICKETS
Extravaganza tickets arc now on sale at the cashier’s window in the students store. The best seats are nearly gone, according to Mrs. Poetker, and anyone wishing to procure acceptable ones should purchase them today. Inquiries concerning the tickets indicate that there will be a complete sell-out for the three performances. Sororities which have reserved blocks are to call for them today at the office of Stanley Z. Ewens, manager.
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PRESS CLUB
Members of Press club who have not paid El Rodeo assessments to the secretary are asked to do so immediately. If the fee is not paid by the end of the week the page will be omitted from the annual.
Every other organization which has reserved a page in the book has paid up; Press club is the only one which has incurred a deficit. Herschel Bonham, manager, insists that the payment be made within this week.
VOL. XIX.
Los Angeles, California, Monday, March 19, 1928
NUMBER 101
FLOATING UNIVERSITY FEATURES “NOVELTIES”
Action of Extravaganza Takes Place On College Cruise; Vampire and Stowaway Vie For Student Body Prexy On World Tour.
BY W. I. K.
“The Foraye Floating U” is the name of the liner which, in “Novelties of ’28,” carrics the students on a round-the-world tour in pursuit of a liberal education. From the opening curtain until the finale, the snappy action of the Extravaganza follows the ship on its grand cruise.
The location of the story is unique and ultra modern, since, aa far as is known, no other musical comedy is laid on a floating U. Even one of the chorus numbers includes some South 6ea Island dancers when the college cruise is in that latitude.
Complication starts when Sue Morgan, taken by Charlyn Tedrick, boards the floating university at a New York dock as a stowaway. She has come to the big city from San Bernardino, Calif., to try her luck in crashing the Follies. She even attempts to have an interview with Flo Ziegfleld, as she later tells the students on the “Foraye U." She di not like Broadway and decided that 6he would return to California. She stowed away, therefore, on the first ship she conveniently found at a New York dock. She had no idea that she would come out on the deck of a floaUng university.
The Dean of Women, the part taken by Lena Walker, allws the little stowaway to remain on board the ship as a student in an attempt to acquire an (Continued oh Page Four)
ENGINEERS END RAZING OF BARN WITH FESTIVAL
Display Novelties Before the High School Students; Dance Is Climax.
HONOR SOCIETY TO PLEDGE MEN
Announcement was recently made, by the president, that pledges to the Skull and Mortar, honorary pharmacy fraternity, would be selected in the near future.
Skull and Mortar is one of the highest pharmacy honororaries. its work being similar to Sigma Sigma, for all-university. Election to Skull and Mortar is one of the highest honors which can he bestowed upon a pharmacy student.
The aim of the society is the promoting of university activities, both athletic and scholastic. Requirements for election are high scholarship standing and outstanding interest in activities on the campus. Only second year men are eligible.
The present members are: Glenn Mikesell, president; Frank Puthoff, Sam Levin, Carl Weiner, George Fiero, Louis Leppe, Burt Kuntzner, Morris Burke, and Clark Rood.
The faculty members are Dean Laird J. Stabler, Professor Aloah G. Hall. Professor Arthur R. Maas, Professor Harold R. Bowers, and Professor Frank Richardson.
An “It” detector and the rapid production of artificial jewels were features of interest in the second annual engineering show conducted Friday night in the laboratories of Old College. Students from fifty-three high schools in Southern California were guests of the School of Engineering at the unusual exhibition.	*
Each of the departments included in the School of Engineering offered displays and conducted experiments. In charge of Fred Betke, the electrical engineering department conducted high tension experiments, demonstrated a “'buclring broncho” motor, displayed a complete automatic telephone exchange, showed how to photograph voice waves, and displayed electrical household devices.
The artificial jewels were turned out by students of the chemical engineering department with John Volz in charge. The brilliants were produced with the use of an electrical furnace at a temperature of 2300 degrees. They were given out as souvenirs to the visitors.
A model bridge truss was the contribution of the civil engineering department. Richard Hathaway supervised this. Kenneth Faulner gave out information about a display from the department of petroleum engineering. Vincent Meyer supervised the operation and explanation of the “It” detector. Eugene Sayler, president of the engineering student body; Robertsone Doty, vice-president; Paul Sapp, secretary, had general supervision of the show.
As a climax to last night’s display the engineers danced in “the bam” for the last time before it is razed. It was a farewell gesture to the old structure which formerly served as a mess room for officers during the World War.
Foreign Men Given Hoase
Foreign Service Fraternity Establishes Club On the Campus.
An International House, where campus men of all nationalities may gather for discussion, study and recreation, will be opened by the University today at 812 West 37th street, it was learned last Friday from President R. B. von KieinSmid.
Members of the local chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon, national foreign service fraternity of which Dr. von KieinSmid was president in 1925, will act as hosts to the foreign and American students who gather at the International House.
Men of every nationality, race and creed are welcome to utilize the club-rooms of the House from eight o’clock in the morning until nine o’clock at night, according to Walter Peck, house manager. A register will be kept in which it is desired to have every new visitor to the House record his name, nationality and local address. Current publica tions on every phase of interna tional relations will be kept on the tables for those who wish to read, while all forms of athletic recrea tion may be indulged in at the uni-verstiy gymnasium which is located just iback of the International House.
This latest addition to the Trojan campus is directly in line with the University’s policy of constructive activity in the field of international relations as developed by Dr. von KieinSmid. The University of Southern California took an important part in the development of the annual Riverside Institute of International Relations, of which two sessions have already been held with Dr. von KieinSmid in the oflice of chancellor. Outstanding men from nearly all of the nations bordering on the Pacific attended the conferences of the Institute this year and last, being particularly interested ia the treatment of Pacific problems.
“Two motives prompted the establishment of the International House,” said Dr. von KieinSmid. when interviewed. “First, it was desired to provide the foreign students with some place on the cam-(Continued on Page Four)
University Students Do Practice Work In H. S.
Acting as a laboratory for student teachers and as a private school for students of high school age, the University high school reports a total registration bettering 150 for this semester. The school is offering practical training for some thirty-six student teachers who give courses of every nature, excepting those of a vocational type. The classes, which are usually composed of leBs than fifteen students, are presided over by student teachers, teaching one period a day. A permanent faculty is in supervision.
The registration this semester is the largest since the tuition was raised from $25 to $40 some years ago. Previous to that time the number of 6tudents was almost twice what it is at present.
According to officials of the school, the students are of a considerably higher type than u generally supposed. It is claimed that the stu dents are not of a type which find themselves in difficulties in public schools, but, rathe:*, students who are anxious to have the best pre> aration for entering the University, or those who for reasons of sickness, etc., have fallen so far behind their class that they have no deBire to continue schooling at their former institution.
SIX MEN PLEDGED TO HONOR GROUP
Six new members have been elected to membership in Pi Sigma Alpha, national honorary political science fraternity, according to Edwin Franke, president. The new initiates include Kenneth C. Miller, Albert Quon, Rodney Williams, Robert Behlow, Ellis Spackman, and Wesley La Fever.
Formal initiation is to be held on Thursday, March 22, in a banquet room of the Student Union. At this time Willian Henley will also be initiated. Henley was absent at the last initiation, attending a national student body president’s convention in the East.
Pi Sigma Alpha at present ha/ a total of twenty-two members. Ita membership is limited to 'political science students who have attained junior standing and maintain a B plus average. Other chapters are scattered throughout the country.
Franke announces that frequent meeting are to be held in the future, with a definite program of polit ical science activities completed. Many of themost prominent students on the campus comprise its membership.
CHAMPION HOOP MEN AT1ALLY
Last Time That University Will See Entire Team Together.
MUSSATTI TALKS
Bruner and Thomas Compliment Calland; Only Three Men Lost by Graduation.
Placing a finale on the Pacific Coast basketball season, a rally honoring Leo Calland, coach, and the Trojan basketball squad, Pacific Coast champions, was held Friday morning. James Mussatti, former history professor, gave another of his famous “pep talks.” telling what the Pacific Coast basketball championship means to S. C. All members of the squad were on the stage, and the Trojan war flag was unfurled for the occasion.
Mussatti emphasized the fact that, with the coming of Calland, S. C. is no longer known as a “one sport school”. In the past, although Trojans have been noteworthy in every sport, chief recognition has been given to the natoinally known football teams, ln the future, with a coast basketlball championship already tucked away, Trojans can en-
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Junior Honorary To Meet To Pick Future Members
Spooks and Spokes Will Hold a Luncheon Tuesday Noon.
COSTUME DANCE TICKETS GO FAST
Tickets for the School of Speech costume dance to be held a week from this Friday at the Lakeside Country Club are selling fast, according to Ethel Bickford, social chairman. The limit has been set at one hundred couples, so it will be necessary to get tickets at once ifi order to assure admittance. Nine o’clock is the hour chosen for the affair to begin.
There will be many distinguished guests of honor who will be asked to choose the best costumes. Prizes will be awarded to students who best represent characters of the stage or screen. Novel effects will be seen as anyone who has ever attended a School of Speech costume dance can testify. Many students appear so completely disguised that their own friends don’t know them.
Ray Hatfield’s orchestra has been secured for the evening, which insures excellent dance music. This orchestra has just returned from a world tour on the Dollar Steamship Line.
Give Charter To Honorary
Phi Sigma Grants Charter To Local Group Here for National Honorary.
That Phi Sigma, national biological honorary fraternity, has just granted a charter for a local chapter at the University of Southern California, is the news received on the Trojan campus from C. I. Reed, national secretary of Phi Sigma and faculty member of the College of Medicine of Baylor University, Dallas, Texas.
The petition of the Biology Honor Society at S. C., organized six years ago, has resulted in the establishment of Phi Sigma at the local university. Upper division students and graduate students who have earned a high average and high grade ot scholarship, and who have displayed ability for original research work are eligible to the science fraternity.
UNDERGRADUATES Members of the Trojan chapter include J. LeRoy Arnold, Gladys Austin, Harry Bauer, Gladys Chase, Eva Frankl, Dorothy Harvey, Lena Higgins, Andrew Hoefer, Gregor> Krantzthor, Marcia Lange, Elvira Lee, Margaret Lindsey, Marion Lindsey, Archie McLean, Eunice Mason, Erwin Miller, Chandler Nott, Hilda Notz. Florence Shelley, Hollis Sides, Charles Sycour, Dorothy Thomas, Ruth VanVleet, H. T. White, with the officers including" Laura Shaw, president; R. S. Denman, recording secretary; and Earl K. Fischer, corresponding secretary.
Faculty members at S. C. include Dr. Francis M. Baldwin, Dr. Bruce M. Harrison, Dr. Howard de Forest Professor Catherine Beers, Dr. George R. Johnstone, Professor Andrew C. Life, Dr. Irene McCulloch, Dr. Albert B. Ulrey, Dr. Eleanor Seymour, Professors Effie and Spaulding.
There are 22 chapters of Phi Sigma including those at the University of California, Wisconsin, Duke University, Miami University, Iowa, Michigan, and the University of Southern California.
W.S.G.A. ELECTION DATE CHANGED TO WEDNESDAY
Irregularities in System of Balloting Cause Voting to be Stopped; List of Candidates Not Changed, Since All Still Eligible.
Because of an irregularity in the method of voting, the Women’s Self Government election, which was held Friday, was stopped, and postponed until Wednesday, March 21, according to Betty Farmer,
^president of the organization.
The candidates names will remain the same on the special election, inasmuch as they are all eligible. The difficulty was in the method of voting. Voting was stopped by the president of the organization after it had been in order for about four hours. Tbe candidates to be voted on are as follows:
President, Alice Colwell and Gwendolyn Patton; vice-president, Frances Holmes and Erie Shepard; recording secretary, Isabel Loftus and Grace Wright; corresponding secretary, Jean McGovney; treasurer, Margaret French and Mildred Rodebush; social chairman, Mary Joyce, Helen Sauber and Zeta Taylor; clerk of the W. S. G. A. court, Laura Mattison and Betty Lou Miller; sophomore representative, Winifred Biegler and Lucille Huebner; junior representative, Dorothie Smith and Edwina Thomas; senior representative, Eleanor Clark and Lalla Roohk Selbie.
CHANGE OF DATE REQUESTED FOR U.C. LA. PROGRAM
Exchange Program With Local University Is Postponed For Week.
EXTRAVAGANZA USHERS
More men are needed to usher at the Extravaganxa. Those who are interested may sign up with Matt Barr in room 229, Student Union, or with Stanley Z. Ewens, room 220.
ITALIANS PRESENT ENDOWMENT TO CAL.
Italian residents of California, under the chairmanship of Louis Sea tena, will present a $250,000 endowment fund to the University of Cali fornia at Berkeley on March 23, as a part of the California Charter Day exercises. The money is to be used for the endowment of a chair of Italian culture, and is to be occupied by an outstanding exponent of Italian literature, philosophy, history or art each year.
California’s alumni are trekking back to Berkeley from all parts of the state to celebrate the founding of the University March 23, sixty years ago. A reunion banquet at the Hotel Oakland features plans for the celebration.
Charter Day is always homecoming day for California graduates.
Meeting for the consideration of prospective pledges, Spooks ami Spokes, junior women’s honorary or ganization, will hold a luncheon at the Cottage Tea Room, Tuesday noon, as announced by Vivian Murphy, acting president.
Leadership, service, character in varied lines of campus activities, and good scholarship with no failure, are the basis of selection. The outstanding juniors on the campus are to be considered, but especially will sophomore women who show prom-ice of being future leaders of the campus be voted upon.
Pledging will be made publicly al assembly, probably at the same time as the public pledging of the new Sigma Sigma pledges, inasmuch as they are brother and sister organ izations founded for the same purpose. This plan has not been defi nitely settled as yet. Following the presentation the new pledges, dressed in black costumes with orange aprons, Spooks and Spokes’ colors, will sell candy which they have made for the remainder of the day, this being a tradition of the sorority.
Initiation will be held about three after pledging, to be followed by a formal banquet. At this time the small black and orange pledge ribbons will be changed for the pin of the organization, a gold wheel with a tink gold bat in the center, the latter being symbolic of the “spook.”
The meeting will also serve to elect the new president of the organization for the remainder of the term.
MEN HEAR TALK ON “SPECTACLES”
An inspiring talk entitled “Spectacles,” by Mrs. Pearl Aiken Smith, of the faculty of the School of Speech, was the outstanding feature of the Y. M. C. A. meeting last Wednesday night. Mrs. Smith spoke on the “Spectacles” of understanding, of tolerances and of parents. Jeffery Smith gave a report on several pamphlets.
Plans were made for next Wednesday night, which is “Boys’ Night.” Jim Batchelor is in charge of boys’ work, with many leader** under him. The groups will be guests at the confab, which will be a supper meeting, preceded by a basketball game between a team made up of the boys and a team from the Y cabinet. A talk by Mr. Homer Gould, of the Metropolitan Y. M. C A. will feature the meeting, while the boys themselves will put on several numbers.
The Y. M. C. A. cabinet is entertaining the Y. W. C. A. caJbinet with a horseback riding party in the near future.
STREETER OFFERS ECONOMY COURSES
Suggest Suspension At O. 5. C. For Tradition Violation
Oregon State College, Corvallis, March 19—P.I.P.—Oregon State’s student council has recommended to the administration that a freshman be suspended from school until next term for consistantly violating campus traditions.
Three other freshmen also found guilty, placed on probation, must report to the student council every week. A fifth rookie was warned against wearing a tuxedo. It is a violation of the traditions for a freshman to wear a tuxedo.
For the convenience of the University of California at Los Angeles, the date of the intercollegiate exchange program to be given at that university has been moved a week ahead to Friday, March 23. The postponement was in a way welcomed by the cast for it will allow more time for perfection.
The directors, Bob Behlow and Morris Chain, have been working the cast every day to see that a good representation of the univer-sity’s talent is displayed by the production. Behlow, as chairman of the deputations committee, is well pleased with the support given the presentation in that it comes at the same time as the Extravaganza. Chain, famous for his rally skits, is is putting his best into the production even though his time is well taken up with Law exams at present
One of the big Deanlures, according to the directors, will be the act by Louis Silva, singing several of his most popular numbers. Silva has just come from the Pantages circuit to S. C. to complete his studies in music at the Colleme of Music. Silva made his flrst appearance at the skit presented at the Burbank Rotary Club meeting last week. According to those present and by the applause he was given, there is no doubt that he was well received.
The Extravaganza is lending six of its chorus girls to dance in fhe presentation. They are being directed by Jean Maschio in stei>8 originated especially for the exchange program. Harold Grayson and his band is preparing the many numbers that have been written exclusively for the production by the students of the university.
A course in the Economy of the Household is to be given in the six weeks’ summer session 'by Miss Nina Streeter of the Home Economics department. This course is open to all as there are no pre-requites necessary. It may be used as an elective by Liberal Arts students or it may be used to meet the State credentials requirement in Home Economics.
In this course Miss Streeter tries to make an application of the general economic principles to the management of a modern household. The division of income is emphasized hy making budgets and keeping accounts. An effort is made to take care of the necessities so that enough is kept for higher life
DAFFY CLUB
There will be an important meeting of all members of the Daffy Club at 10 o’clock today in the Trojan office. All members must be pres ent as the winner of the Popularity contest is to be decided at this time.
ORTHOPAEDISTS TO OPEN COURSES
Offering unusual opportunities for physical education students to study and observe practical work along the line of corrective gymnastics, two leading members of the staff of the Orthopaedic Hospital school are now conducting classes at Southern Cali fornia. The men, Dr. Charles L Lowman, chief of staff for the hospital school and one of the country^s outstanding orthopaedists, and Dr Harold D. Barnard, noted kinesiologist and anatomist, are teaching classes in the university physical education department on “Individual and Corrective Gymnastics” and “Kinesiology” respectively.
Through their connection with the hospital school, the doctors are able to show the students practical work at the Orthopaedic Hospital school clinic at 2422 Palm. The practical phases of the courses make them of unusual interest, and the joining of the university staff by Drs. Lowman and Barnard is considered further recognition of the vahiable, practical work of the physical education department under Prof. William LaPorte.
Dr. Lowman is recognized as an outstanding man in his field and the warm water pool treatment that he developed for infantile paralysis is now being copied by many leading orthopaedists. Through Dr. Lcrwman’s method of having victims of infantile paralysis exercise in warm water, muscles are re-educated much more quickly than hy old methods and cures are made more completely than in the past.
FROSH RESUME DEBATE WORK
Freshman debate activity will be resumed next month, according to Leo Adams, debate manager. Five Southern Conference college freshman teams are to be debated by the Trojan frosh, beginning on Aj»rtl 11th.
Jack Woodard and Ray Zeman are to comprise the affirmative squad, while Garrison Seely and Francis Brush will form the negative team. The question to be used in all the debates is, "Resolved, That the United States should create a department of national defense with a secretary in the President’s cabinet.”
Whittier, La Verne, Pomona, Red lands and U. C. L. A. athe colleges which will be debated. The U. C. L. A. affair will wind up the season on the 31st of ApriL It is expected to be the hardest on tbe schedule.
All debates will be “home and home” affairs, with one team debating at one college at the same time another is debating at tbe other college. A number of dual tllt» of this type have already been argued by the frosh with Southern California punior colleges. The junior college question used was, “Resolved, That a nation with an advanced civilization is justified in forcing its civilization upon an inferior nation.	;
National Park To Be Big Game Reservation
“Yellowstone National park, the greatest game reserve in the United States, will, in future generations, be a haven for all species of animals and birds, even after their kiad have become extinct elsewhere,” Mr.
H. J. Martindale, chief ranger of the park patrol, stated Thursday afternoon in his lecture before a group of S. C. students and faculty members.
According to Mr. Martindale, the entire region is closely patrolled by the rangers both winter and summer, in order to protect the hundreds of thousands of fur-bearing animals from trappers and to keep . down the number of predatory animals. In summer, the work of patrolling the park is done on horseback, but in the winter eacfc ranger is forced to cover about 1,500 miles on skiis.
At the present time, the park har-ibors 17,000 elk, 13,000 black tailed : deer, 650 black bears, 700 moose, grizzlies, and an innumerable number of the smaller furred animals such as foxes, martins, etc. During the summer months, there are over j 202 varities of birds in the reserve, though few are hardy enough to * spend the winter there.