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sixty-first annual comment will be held in the ir theatre on Sunday, \ at 2:30 p.m. Dr. Wm. LaPorte, professor of 1 education, announced Names of those to redegree or certificate at *1 convocation appear on tentative list of candi-If anyone should find it sible to be present in person, notify the president’s of-ediately to explain the cir-nces.
candidates, except those in liform of the armed services, ipected to provide themselves ivance with appropriate cap, and hood. Arrangements for may be made in advance at ookstore, room 215, after Mon-Oct. 11, up to and including day and Sunday, Oct. 16 and t is recommended that wom-ear white dresses and dark and that men wear dark and dark shoes, nmencement announcements be purchased by candidates at University Bocfistore. Reseat tickets will also be bie at the store for the par-and friends of the candidates, jse of limited seating capacity, reserved tickets only will be bie to each candidate, ters with complete informa-have been mailed to candi-If this communication is eceived by the candidate to it is addressed, Wm. Ralph te requests some member of 'Taduates family to notify the ^rsity immediately if the can-cannot be in attendance at nvocation.
Icy' to have ee-day run
ing the place of a Friday entertainment, “Dulcy,” a ly by George Kaufman and Connelly, will open a three-un Thursday of this week in d auditorium.
ing the three-day presenta-the comedy-play is open to student possessing a student identifiaction card, the benefit of trainees, the in will rise at 7:30 p.m. on sday and Friday to allow the ;emen to be in their barracks p.m. Saturday, the play will at 8:30 p.m. ilcy” will be presented by the ma Workshop and is under the ?ral supervision of William C. ille, professor of drama.
ar Board sets al conclave
e last meeting of the War d will take place Wednesday, p.m., 230 Student Union, ac-ng to Patty Wiese, chairman e board. She asks the mem-Bob Meyer, Carroll Brinker-Dorothy Smith, Helen Tay-iharles Aylesbury, Mickey Hee-nd Marnie Hahn to be pres-
ue Key petitions
. can be obtained at the cash’s window in the Student Un-i, according to Bob Stevens, present.
Men who will have completed 60 jilts by the end of this semester {id maintained a 1.0 grade averse are eligible. Petitions must be led in at the cashier’s window
5	p.m. today.
Interviews will be held Wednes-ay at 7 p.m., Stevens announced.
raduate School ffice notice
Oct 8 is the final date for master theses of candidates who are to graduate Oct 17. There will k* no extension of this date. They are to be turned in to the Gr*<iuate School, 160 Administration by 5 p.m
DR. ROCKWELL D. HUNT, ^an of the Graduate School.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
Vol. XXXV
hum phonci ri. mts Los Angeles, Monday, Oct. 4, 1943
No. 40
Mobile bloodbank makes final visit
Allies end Jap grip, engulf bases
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Monday, Oct. 4 —(U.P)—The Allied campaign which engulfed the Japanese bases r f Lae, Salamaua and Finschhafen has snapped the enemy’s 18-month grip on British New Guinea, it was revealed today, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s spokesman said it marks the pattern for the next half year's warfare in the southwest Pacific “if they give us the means to do it.”
“A simultaneous air and ground movement of 200 miles from Port Moresby up the Markham valley through the center of inland New Guinea gives us control of the entire Huon peninsula,” said the communique.
This drive, the communique said, has “outflanked and contained” all enemy centers between Finschhafen, captured Japanese base on the east coast of the Huon peninsula, and Madang, more than 170 miles northwest.
Finschhafen is only 70 miles by water from New Britain island, which the Japanese overran at the same time they first thrust into New Guinea early in 1942. Its capture insures “our complete control of the Huon gulf,” said the communique.
The speed of the combined drive through the interior and along the coast apparently caught the Japanese by surprise, and Allied losses were “extraordinarily light,” the communique sai<*. Finschhafen was captured Saturday by Australian ninth division troops, veterans of El Alamein in Egypt, and Australians have spearheaded the Markham valley drive.
Marines, civilians donate 350 pints
Marine trainees and allotted quotas from E. von KleinSmid, Henderson, Newkirk, and Owens halls plus 100 civilians will donate a pint of blood when the Red Cross mobile unit makes its second visit to the campus today.
Last Thursday 371 naval trainees gave blood donations and
Bill Ryan, NROTC. in charge of
Debate open to trainees
Permission has been received by the debate team from navy and marine authorities for men to make limited trips to debate with various southland teams, said Bob Meyer, president of the SC squad. This move assures SC of a full team this year.
An organizational meeting will be held in room 402 Student Union at 4:30 p.m. today, Meyer announced, and all men and women interested should-attend. A debate manager is needed, rnd anyone interested should see Meyer.
Three tournaments are scheduled for the near future. The first one will be over the Thanksgiving recess, and Fresno State college will be the contesting school. For home and other debates in the SC area the squad is planning to send a full team, said Dr. Allen Nichols, coach of the debate squad.
Schools with which SC will compete at home are Redlands, Occidental, UCLA, Pepperdine, San Diego State, Fresno State, California, and Stanford. There is a possibility that SC may travel north to debate with the teams representing the College of the Pacific, San Jose State, and the University of San Francisco.
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trainee registration, expects about 350 persons to appear at E. von KleinSmid hall between 12 and 4 p.m. this afternoon. Betty May Rinehart, chairman of the drive, emphasized the importance of keeping appointments exactly on
Trainees who donated blood Thursday will not be excused from today’s physical fitness classes, despite the announcement ln Friday’s Trojan stating this. Comdr. R. E. Kerr stated that those who give blood today will be excused from today, Tuesday, and Wednesday physical fitness classes.
time. A complete time schedule appears on the last page of this issue.
All trainees giving blood this afternoon will be permitted to eat their full meal at chow hall except for butter, milk, and ice cream. Civilians are cautioned not to eat any fatty foods four hours prior to donating, but they may partake of liquid Juices and crackers.
Ryan expressed his thanks to those in charge of the registration of the various trainee halls. Fred Benson and Howard Callanan, Newkirk; Howard Magor and Ned Reilly, Henderson; John Kimball and Bob Mueller, Owens; Jerry Fox and Ed Diener, E. von KleinSmid; Sgt. Clarence Miller, Reynolds; and Corporal Lucky Ried of Williams.
Honesty committee presents policy for attaining future honor system
(Editor’s note: ’The following material, prepared by the Honesty Committee through the ASSC senate, is presented by the Trojan with the hope that it will help to clarify the policy which the committee, both student and faculty, has taken in the establishment of the proctoring system on the SC campus.)
This is to clear up some misimpressions regarding the honesty committee and the proctors who represent you and it in the class room. Various rumors have been running the campus concerning the work of this committee; rumors which can best be dispelled by a simple statement of the facts.
1.- Proctors are stool pigeons who hide in the class room during exams in order to catch unsuspecting students.
This is utterly false! Whenever a proctor is in the room he will inform the class of his precense and what he is trying to do.
fc. Proctors are trying to send trainees to bootcamp.
This is the most treacherous untruth of all. No proctor wants to catch anyone cheating. He is in the room simply to. protect the majority of the class who want an honest examination. He is trying to make cheating impossible so that he won’t have to accuse anyone.
3.	The Honesty Committee favors student proctoring.
It has determined that for the moment proctoring is the only way to provide fair exams. Further it was found that since no proctors can be hired from the graduate class or elsewhere they will have to come from the undergraduates. Proctoring nevertheless remains merely a stop gap method until a successful honor system can be established.
4.	The Honesty Committee consists of faculty stooges.
This again is far from the truth. The committee represents you, the student body. It was created by a legislative act of your duly elected ASSC Senate.
At the outset of this semester Capt. Reed M. Fawell warned the trainees that absolute honesty
would have to prevail during examinations if the program was to remain at SC. He placed the trainees upon their honor to cooperate in this matter. He further warned that if any trainee violate that honor would find himself in boot camp.
This is what happened. In a few classes where there was more opportunity a few people began to cheat. These few so raised the grade average that even honest students had to be dishonest or cut their own throats. A vicious circle had begun.
The honesty committee was organized to represent the student’s interest to the faculty. But it realized that in order to do that the student’s sincerity would have to be demonstrated.
To do this students would have to make an effort to stop cheating. Obviously the honor system would not work. It had already been destroyed. So it was determined that proctors would hav.i to be used.
It is hoped that an honor system can eventually be established. The committee has now begun its efforts in the student’s behalf with considerable success.
Cooperation will abolish the proctoring: system. Cooperation will establish the honor system.
The university motto is Palman qui ferat meruit, let he who bears the palm merit it. We chose it; let’s use it.
Language exams set for Ph. Ds
Graduate School Ph.D. language tests for this term will be given in the Graduate office, 160 Administration building, before Oct. 11, according to Dr. R. D. Hunt, director.
The examination schedule is as follows:
Wed., Oct. 13—French exam.— Br. 206—1:30 p.m., Dr. Belle conducting.
Thurs., Oct. 14—Spanish exam. —Br. 215—2 p.m., Dr. Heras conducting.
Fri., Oct. 15—German exam. — Br. 106—2 p.m., Dr. Mohme conducting.
Hut ends term with $27,000
Victory Hut totals for last week as registered by the Gamma Phi Beta sorority were over $27,365.58, the grand total of this summer’s entire bond campaign. This week the Kappa Alpha Thetas will hold down the hut, while the Kappa Deltas, the Phi Mus, the Pi Beta Phis, and the ZTAs will start the new term, according to Carroll Brinkerhoff, chairman.
NROTC ring dance set for weekend
Adopting an old tradition, new on the Trojan campus, NROTC seniors and juniors graduating before May, 1944, will receive rings at l formal dance scheduled for next Saturday at the Oakmont Country club, Glendale. Rudolph Friml Jr. and his orchestra will furnish the music.
Patterned after the ring dance held each year at Annapolis, the affair is limited to officers and men of the NROTC unit, and admittance will be by bid only.
Dates of the juniors and seniors will we£” the rings suspended on white ribbons during the first part of the evening, according to Don Ferguson, chairman of the affair. When the traditional ring ceremony begins, women will remove the rings from the ribbons and dip them into three vases of water from the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean. Each date will then place the ring on the finger of her escort and bestow a kiss. The couples will then step through a nine foot replica of the ring in flowers.
Committees for the dance include :
Bids, Chairman Bob Stevens, Jim Morrison, Carl Crandall, Ed Diener, and Bill Pearlman; decorations, Chairman Ralph Gates, Don Mayer, Carl Sharpe, Henry Rose, and Walter Hoffman; orchestra, Chairman Ken Morse, Bill Ryan, and Norman Dahl; refreshments, Chairman Irwin Cohen, Harry Mas-ser, and Jack Hildreth.
Nazi armies flee Taman
LONDON, Oct. 3—(EE)—Germany announced today that the riddled remnants of her once-powerful Caucasus armies had abandoned Taman, less than five miles from the tip of1 the Taman peninsula, and military observers believed they probably were fleeing across the narrow Kerchenski strait, paving the way for a full-scale Soviet assault on the Crimea.
A Soviet communique, which made no mention of the peninsular fighting in the Kuban bridgehead, reported new advances on the Mogilev and Gomel sectors in White Russia, but at a retarded pace because of terrain made boggy by heavy autumn rains.
A German war bulletin, broadcast by Berlin, said the city of Taman was evacuated yesterday, “unnoticed by the enemy after the destruction of war-important installations.” Abandonment of the city left an estimated 10,000 German and Rumanain troops with an evacuation across the narrow Kerchenski strait as their only means of escape.
Knight petition deadline nears
Petitions for membership in Trojan Knights, men’s honorary service organization, may be obtained from the cashier in the book store by men who are interested. Deadline for filing petitions has been set ahead to Tuesday.
There will be openings for 14 members Nov. 1. The examinations on University history and traditions will be given Tuesday, Oct.
5,	at 5 p.m. Interviewing will take place at 7 that night in 206 Administration.
Requirements for membership include the completion of 60 units of college woik by Nov. 1; maintenance of a 1.0 grade average for the previous term; and enrollment at SC for at least two terms.
Tri-church body holds assembly
The National Conference of Christians and Jews will present an all-university assembly tomorrow at 0:45 a.m. in Bovard auditorium.
A discussion, under the direction of Dr. Willsie Martin, minister of the Wilshire Methodist church, Dr. Max Nuss-baum, rabbi of the Temple oi Israel of Hollywood, and Father T. J. McCarthy, editor of The Tidings, official paper for the archdiocese of Los Angeles, will be held.
President Rufus B. von KleinSmid, who will preside over the panel, will introduce Rabbi Henry Rabin of the Hillel foundation who will say the invocation. Father T. Connolly, campus chaplain, will say the benediction at the close of the assembly.
Dr. Max Krone, assistant director of the School of Music, will lead the singing of the National antftem.
The NCCJ is an inter-religious affiliation to promote understanding between faiths. According to J. Randolph Sasnett, executive secretary of religious activities mt SC, the conference is conducting a vigorous nation-wide program to break down racial and religious prepudice among millions of men in uniform.
Tank columns outflank Nazis
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 3—(U.E)—Fifth army tank columns have.raced 35 miles northeast of Naples and captured the junction of Benevento on the historic Appian high road to Rome, threatening to outflank stoutly resisting German forces farther west, it was announced today.
On the opposite end of the Allied line the Eighth army won the entire Gargano promontory, spur of the Italian boot, by reaching the mouth of the Fortore river, 34 miles northeast of Foggia. It reported destruction of Nazi 88-millimeter guns and tanks, indicating the enemy was making a serious stand in that sector. In the center, American troops, entered Frigento, 20 miles southeast of Benevento.
(A Cairo communique reported that the Germans launched a sea and air-borne attack today against the new RAF base on Kos island in the Dodecanese group and that “necessary counter-measures” were taken. In London it was believed the British garrison, ’probably no more than an RAF regiment, still held the island although the attacks were continuing.)
On Corsica French and patriot troops and American, Rangers closed in on the escape port of Bastia and forestalled further Nazi aerial evacuation by bringing the Borgo air field within gun range.
Smashing forward without pause following the capture of Naples, the Fifth army covered 20 miles in the last 24 hours alone to reach Benevento. Although at this point the Allies were no closer to Rome than at Naples, they had reached the Calore river, a tributary of the Volturne, along which the Germans were expected to make a strong stand.
President's office notice
An all-university assembly is announced for Tuesday at 9:45 to present an inter-religious conference with representatives of the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant faiths. All other academio matters are set aside for th# hour.
The schedule of classes:
8:00- 8:45 8:50- 9:35
9:45-10:40 assembly 10:45-11:30 11:35-12:20
R. B. von KleinSmift