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WS sponsor oday's meet
Trojan Knights, junior men’s service honorary, will spon->r an orientation assembly today at 12:30 p.m. in 305 Idministration, and AWS will conduct a meeting at 12 p.m. fi 206 Administration, both intended to acquaint freshmen lnd new students with organizations and activities on impus, announced heads of the
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Speakers at the men’s meeting fill include Dr. Francis M. Bacon, )unselor of men; John Robinson, [resident of Knights; Norman Dalil, lresident of Squires, sophomore ;rvice organization; and Bob tigh, president of Blue Key, na-lonal service group.
Gus Shaver, assistant football ich and mentor of the freshman •am, will list opportunities in linor and major sports. Bob Tapp, business manager of El Rodeo, is to |peak on campus publications.
Jack Balzer will address the men >n inter-fraternity council.
Attendance is compulsory for til civilians and trainees who are Either freshmen or new students, jccording to Phil Kirst, chairman the assembly.
Miss Helen Hall Moreland, dean [of women, will welcome new stu-I dents at the AWS gathering, and Margaret Ann Hausmann, president of AWS, will explain the
I	system of evaluating activity | points.
Virginia Hage, president of Pan-lellenic; Jean Working, acting resident of ASSC; Pat Ebey, editor >f the Trojan; Lynn Norby, president of Amazons, women’s service lorary; Mary Blake, president of le residence council; Patty Wiese, ^ar Board chairman; Jackie Grinder. YWCA president; and Peggy Gardner, chairman of freshmen Mentation, wiil outline the activi-les of their respective organiaa-fons.
This afternoon, following tbe sting, campus leaders will hold Tfice hours to answer questions jerning activities.
Students interested in specific >ups are to have an opportunity sign up with the freshman ^omen’s council, which is spon->red fay Mortar Board. The coun-
II	will assist them in joining the trious organizations.
“Although attendance is not com-llsory, all women interested in irning about Trojan activities are
id to attend,” Miss Hausmann ited.
All students interested in the progress, policy, or technicalities of El Rodeo may attend the monthly staff meeting this evening in the Senate Chambers at 7:30, announced Tyler Macdonald, editor of the annual. A public report will be given to students, including details on finance, progress, photography, and engraving, and any questions concerning El Rodeo will be answered at this time.
“Since the student body has taken an active part in putting out the annual and has cooperated in having photographs made and submitting copy,” said MacDonald, “they are entitled to know the progress of the book.”
All section editors of El Rodeo will be present at the meeting to give reports on their sections and to answer questions. The editor wfll answer all queries concerning technicalities or policy.
“Meetings will be open once a month until the El Rodeo reaches the hands of purchasers,” said MacDonald, “in hopes that ideas will be gained and initiative for a new book may be implanted.”
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
ross has
$5000 quota
in fund drive
With a $5000 quota for the SC campus to meet in the ) nationwide Red Cross fund drive, wholehearted support from barracks, faculty, dormitories, sororitories, and students is needed so that Trojans can fulfill their share toward the $200,000,000 expected at the end of the March fund raising
campaign, stated Sallie Unmack,
rexy post
0	be filled
1	Nomination fo/- the office of present of the Student Council of Reion will be the major business a meeting Thursday afternoon 2:15 in the senate chamber.
I One of the features of this meet-
wili be a short address by a itheran bishop of Iceland who is this country at the invitation of ie United States government. He speaking to civic groups to give lem an idea of the position of ;rvicemen in Iceland training cen-;rs.
essions presents loon organ recital
“Cathedral Prelude and Fugue,” >y Bach is the first number in the >rgan recital to be presented to-lorrow at 12:30 p.m. in Bovard Luditonum by Archibald Sessions. |university organist.
Other compositions will include [“Adagio in A Minor.” by Bach, and “Bells of St. Anne de Beaupre,” by tussell.
Vol. XXXV
Los Angeles, Wednesday, Mar. 22, 1944
No. 97
Spring informal scheduled
Blue l^ey petitions offered to men
Men student* interested in extra-jcurricuiar activities may still file [petitions for membership in Blue Key, national men’s honorary, according to Bob Daigh, president. Petitions can be obtained from the cashier’s office in the bookstore and will be due at 12 pjm. Friday.
Terror reigns as Vesuvius erupts again
ON THE SLOPES OF MT. VESUVIUS. Mar. 21—(Ui?) — Vesuvius exploded anew with a terrific roar this afternoon, belching a pillar of flames, smoke and rocks more than 5000 feet after burying two villages under a wall of molten lava which crushed and seared all in its path, it was announced yesterday.
The lower part of the column of steam and smoke billowed up slate-grey, speckled with flame, and then turned laundry-white as it spread out above Pompeii and Naples, seven miles away.
All traffic throughout Naples ceased at 5 p.m. as the huge columns of smoke darkened the sky. Doughboys jumped from their jeeps and automobiles stopped in the middle of the streets while their passengers got out to watch the phenomenon which seemed, hour by hour, to be growing more dangerous.
In an eruption unmatched since it buried Pompeii under a scorching blanket of molten rock and ash in 79 A.D., a sizzling wall of lava rising 60 to 70 feet high spread over the towns of San Sebastiano and Massa Di Somma.
The lava has the force of a moving mountain as iA pours down upon the towns, farmlands and farmhouses in Its path, spilling out sputtering red-hot coals. The tremendous heat, estimated at more than 2000 degrees fahren-heit, sets fire to fences, trees and shrubs before the oozing has actually touched them, the announcement said.
One of the most terrifying spectacles was when the lava flow reached a well of water. In the blink of an eye, the water turned to steam and shot to the sky with a spine-tingling whoosh, causing onlookers to flee at topspeed, it was noted.
Allied military government officials said that more than 14,000 men, women and children, in addition to the 7500 persons already evacuated, are fleeing from the path of the burning rivulets of lava.
Get acquainted' bid of Commerce dance
With Art Whiting and his band playing for the alluniversity spring informal Saturday night at the Riviera Country club, the College of Commerce has invited everyone on campus to attend and get-acquainted, according to Joe Holt, president.
Most of the bids have been sold, stated Holt, but a limited number are still available to students in the cashier’s office, university Bookstore. They may also be obtained from representatives of barracks on campus.
The dance, a spring informal, will be the first all-U dance of the term. “Since navy restrictions have made Friday night dances impossible,” said Holt, “this will be a marvelous opportunity for trainees to become familiar with SC’s social life.”
Famous for its slow, sweet swing, Art Whiting’s new orchestra has just completed a successful run in the east, stated Holt.	*
All members of the College of Commerce faculty have been invited, according to the chairman, as well as officers in SC’s navy training unit.
The dance committee includes Jack Balzer, bids; Ralph Peters, publicity; Gerry Ellis, decorations; Buzz Forward, posters; Rosemary Roche, orchestra. Trainees selling bids to men in barracks are Jack Balzer, Henderson; Phil Kirst, Bob Tapp and George Callanan, E. von KleinSmid; Larry Bonzer, Reynolds; and Jack Sorenson, Newkirk.
Japanese surge toward Burma
NEW DELHI, Mar. 21—(U.E) — Japanese troops have driven in force to within less than 15 miles of the Indian border, Adm. Lord Louis Mountbattens headquarters announced today.
A southeast Asia command communique said strong enemy forces that surged across Burma’s upper Chindwin river last Wednesday in the Homalin area, 15 miles east of India’s Manipur state, had continued their “general westward movement.”
(The Berlin radio, in a Tokyo dispatch, asserted Tuesday night that Japanese forces had crossed the Indo-Burma frontier, northwest of Minthami, in the Chindwin river valley. The broadcast was heard by United Press in New York.)
British Imperial troops yesterday engaged one of the advancing enemy columns and fighting continues, it was announced, but details are not yet available.
Belle to interpret Men of Good WilT
Dr. Kene Belle will interpret the last volume in “The Men of Good Will” series by Jules Romaine in the first of this term’s book interpretations this afternoon at 2:30, in the art and lecture room of Doheny library.
The series is to be presented in collaboration with the
Student Council of Religion, the
Phrateres holds informal meeting
Phrateres will hold its first meeting of the term at 3:30 this afternoon, according to Pat Parke, president. The informal meeting will be held in the Y house.
“Besides discussing the business of the day,” Miss Parke said, “we will try to make today’s meeting more or less of a get-acquainted gathering.” Tea, punch and cookies will be served.
Car sharers meet called
Pat Muller, chairman of the share-the-ride plan, requests the following people to meet her today between 12:40 and 2 p.m. in 234 Student Union:
Campbell. Clement, Dellarowe, Dietrich, Fletcher, Harutunian, Johnson, Katz, Mank, Miller, Parker, Pipkin, Powers, Seidel, Ta-booda, Turner, Walch, Weiss, and White.
Drivers from Santa Monica, North Hollywood, Hollywood, North Long Beach. Montebello, and West Los Angeles are requested to see Miss Muller.
Persons wanting rides from San Marino, Alhambra. Pasadena, and Windsor Hills are asked to report.
Faculty Religious Interest committee, and the university library, and is scheduled to continue until May or June.
According to Dr. Belle, “The Men of Good Will” readily depicts “in the light of contemporary events, the social, political, and moral life of the French people from 1900 until 1939.”
Dr. Belle’s review will also include a brief resume of the author’s chief purpose in writing the story, that of “a dire search of men of ‘good will’.”
A total of eight books are to be interpreted throughout the entire course by faculty members who are particularly outstanding in academic fields.
The next lecture of this series will be presented by Dean Reid McClung on the subject, “The Growth of American Thought,” by Merle Curti, next Wednesday, March 29.
Iceland bishop to visit Troy, talk tomorrow
Rt. Rev. Sigurgeir Sigurdsson, bishop of the National church of Iceland, will be greeted by Dr. Rufus B. von KJeinSmid, president of the university, students, and faculty tomorrow at 3:30 p.m., at an informal reception in the Student Union lounge, sponsored in his honor by the council of religion, according to Mary Kirschner, acting president.
Bishop Sigurdsson is on his first tour of the United States, representing his government as well as the church. He will deliver an address. “Sons of America in Iceland,” in which he will discuss ;the conditions and morale of American servicemen in Iceland, and describe the strategic relationship of his government as a neutral country, Miss Kirschner declared.
The faculty religious interests committee will join the council of religion in this reception, as will Dean Francis M. Bacon, counselor of men, and Miss Helen Hall Moreland, dean of women.
All students and faculty are invited to this open reception. Servicemen who may be stationed m Iceland in the future are especially requested to attend this meeting, Miss Kirschner added.
Coach speaks at luncheon
Jeff Cravath, SC’s football coach, will tell of some of his experiences at the Men’s Faculty club meeting at 12 today in Student Union tearoom, announced Dean Robert E. Vivian, president of the club.
Cravath, an SC graduate, ’27, and former football mentor at the University of San Francisco, instructed as assistant to the late Howard Jones. He returned to SC after his San Francisco coaching and led the Trojans this year to a Rose Bowl championship.
Apolliad work being judged
Mrs. Tacie Hanna Rew, chairman of the Apolliad evaluating committee, announced that the committee has begun judging the manuscripts submitted for this annual event.
The committee for 1944 includes:
Music: Dr. Ernst Toch, Dr. Lu-cien Cailliet, Dr. Max Thomas Krone.
Dance: Prof. Lois Ellfeldt.
Drama: Prof. Cloyde Duval Dal-zell, Prof. William C. De Mille, Prof. Tacie Hanna Rew.
Poetry: Prof. Julia Norton Mc-Corkle, Dr. Garland Greever.
Essay: Dr. Florence R. Scott, Dr. Louis Wann.
Short Story: Prof. Lynn Clark. Dr. Lionel Stevenson.
chairman.
Classroom contributions for the Red Cross fund drive will be solicited today at the 10 a.m. hour in all buildings on the campus, announced Miss Unmack. “By contacting all classes today,” said Miss Unmack, “we are hoping to have all people who haven’t already pledged their $1 membership fee through organizations, contribute to the drive.”
Buttons and membership cards will be distributed this week to persons pledging a minimum of $1 toward the Red Cross. “While it costs only $1 to subscribe to a year’s membership.’* Miss Unmack stated, “anyone wishing to give more will be greatly helping SC to achieve its $5000 goal.'* In the 10 a.m. classroom campaign today, women headed by Mary Kirschner will distribute envelopes for contributions, and pamphlets telling of the work th# Red Cross does, both at home and abroad. Money will not be taken today, and the same representatives will visit classes at 10 a.m. Friday to collect the subscriptions to the American Red Cross for 1944.
As 1300 naval trainees on campus constitute a large part in making SC’s share in the Red Cross fund raising drive a success, Joe Holt is heading a servicemen’s committee that is striving for 100 per cent cooperation from the barracks. A plaque will be given to the hall pledging the largest amount to the drive. The Red Cross fund drive is a yearly natior U event, and everyone in the United States is asked to subscribe. Through the money gained from this drive, the American Red Cross carries on with its mercy work throughout the continental United States and abroad, according to Miss Unmack.
Mary Blake, sorority chairman of the Red Cross fund drive, requests that the following women meet with her today at 12:45 p.m. in the AWS lounge: Marilyn Faris, Jackie Rosen, Virginia Stranlund, Nancy Harris, Dorothy Reed, Margaret Cowin, Beverly Griffiths, Charlotte Reed, Marnie Hahn, Norma Nilson, Priscilla Brooks, Therese Kolar, Corinne O’Brien, and Barbara Hennon.
Soloists play for scholarships
Three scholarships of $100 each for the school year will be awarded by the Allan Hancock Foundation to the soloists giving the most outstanding performances with the Hancock ensemble in the fields of piano, voice, and orchestral instrument during its present series.
the second monthly program of the series by the Hancock ensemble will present Gladys Childress, pianist, and Romeya Miller, cellist, Friday at 8:30 p.m., in Hancock auditorium.
Miss Childress received her A.B. at Colorado college in 1942, and received her master’s degree at SC last year. Her debut as a concert artist was made last June in Los Angeles.
Miss Miller, a graduate of Pasadena Junior college, has been a member of the Pasadena Civic orchestra for two years.
Judges hearing the student soloists are Isabel Morse Jones, music critii': of the Los Angeles Times; Dr. Richard Lert, conductor of the Pasadena Civic Orchestra; and William C. Hartshorn, supervisor of music in the Los Angeies public schools.
Serving with these musicians in judging of the pianists will be Miss Lillian Steubeer, and the singers Mrs. Bertha Vaughn.