YMCA STAG SET FOR SC MEN TONIGHT
Ring prom to feature tradition
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Annapolis’ famous traditional Ring ceremony will be [ Vol. XXXVI duplicated at SC during the annual NROTC Ring dance to be held next Saturday. According to Harris Frank chairman of the dance, the \ /
Ring ceremony will be exact- j of experiences
y like the one executed at I he naval officer’s school.
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ceremony signifies that the cadet a* ’‘arrived” and is about to be-me a first classman, stated Frank, t means that the second classmen ave successfully completed all of *heir courses and are to be pro-oted to the higher class.
"At 8C, we have not always been able to have the dance, especially for second classmen who are about to become seniors, because we have been operating under a wartime schedule of three terms a year.” stated Frank. There about 10 graduating seniors nd 18 juniors who will go hrongh the ceremony, according Frank.
Fighting Top, NRO social organ-tion, will sponsor the formal ance to be held from 9 to 12 mid-ight at the Westside Tennis club.
Meyers’ 11-piece band will mish the music for the evening. The ring ceremony begins at e club, when the seniors and igh juniors use red, white, and 'tie ribbons to tie their class ngs around their dates’ necks, e women also receive red roses,
hich are worn during the eve-Ing.
Lter in the evening, the couples e up according to the men's cedence in the unit, and the men return the students’ rings ter they have dipped them in the ters of "the Mediterranean, the -ntic, and the Pacific.”
\Zamperini tells Knights promise Troy Sugiyama kills
first postwar prom liSylb
odee to talk
efore WAO
Fascism, Its intentions and meth-of perpetuating itself, will be iiscussed by Dr. Carlton C. Rodee, soci&te professor of political seine*, at a meeting of the We Are >e club, tomorrow noon in t\ie Y ouse.	*
According to Dr. Rodee. his in-irmation should aid students in >gnizing fascism both in the nited States and other countries, d in recognizing the means we ve of combating it.
•The wave of fascism hasn’t wan-yat. nor is it likely to as nations oonvert to peacetime life,” said Rodee. “A knowledge of its mponent elements is the first step wards breaking its innuence."
raduate can notice
Thesis dates for candidates for asters’ degrees, October, 1945, ve been announced by Dean R. Hunt, Graduate School.
Sept. 15. Saturday, is the final y for the candidate to secure liminary approval of his thesis faculty committee and present roval to the dean of the Grad-te School—signed by each mem-of the thesis committee.
Sept. 24, Monday, is the final y for the candidate to present is thesis (in final form) to the mmittee.
Oct. 12, Friday, is the final day present the thesis—fully ap-ived and ready for binding—to he dean of the Graduate School. Blanks may be obtained In the graduate office, 160 Administra-n.
R. D. Hunt, Dean Graduate SchooL
aboard life raft
OKINAWA, Sept. 12.—<U.R>—Lt. Louis Zamperini, one of America’s greatest collegiate track stars, said today he ambushed sea birds and trapped rain water to stay alive 47 days on a life raft after his Liberator bomber crashed near Palmyra island in the Pacific in May, 1943.
Listed as missing and unofficially given up as dead, Zamperini drifted to the Marshall islands where he was taken prisoner by the Japanese and transferred to Niigita prison camp on the Western coast of Honshu. .
There he was liberated by U. S. occupation forces and brought here pending his return to his home at Torrance, Calif.
Holder of the National Collegiate mile record, Zamperini abandoned his track career at the University of Southern California to serve as an army air force bombardier in the mid-Pacific.
Frosh royalty named at rally
JERRY HOYTT . big night ahead.
Highlighting the frosh assembly, Jeanne Wiesseman, Manzanita, and Gil Ferguson, Sig Ep, were announced as the freshman king and queen at the frosh meeting yesterday noon in Touchstone theater. First official duties for the royal pair were to reign over yesterday’s gathering.
Miss Wiesseman, a graduate of Whittier high, was associate editor of her school paper and a member of various honor societies. At the present time she is serving as secretary of the New Trojane club. Ferguson. a member of the V-12 unit at SC, hails from Beaumont high in St. Louis, Mo.
Bill Stevenson, assistant yell king, led those freshmen attending in various campus yells and
songs. He also introduced the
frosh king and queen.
The next big event on the frosh agenda is the SC-UCLA freshmen picnic to be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, in Griffith park. A king and queen have been elected by the UCLA freshmen and the winner of the softball game to be played between tht two schools will have their king and queen reign at the picnic.
Bi',1. Martin, chairman of the frosh planning committee for the picnic, reminds all SC freshmen who are interested in playing softball at the picnic, that today is the last chance that they will have to sign up to play. Other members of the planning committee are Bob Kuykendall, Junella Ball, and Dody Yale.
The picnic, which will be held at the merry-go-round picnic grounds, is being held in order to foster unity and good spirit between the two institutions.
All freshmen are urged to come out to the picnic Saturday and get acquainted with members of the UCLA frosh class as well as their 1 own. according to Trudie O Brien, president.
Daiicing from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. to the music of Will Osborne’s orchestra will be the highlight of the big dance Saturday night, Sept. 22 following the gridiron tussle between SC-UCLA in the coliseum Friday night.
The Mardi Gras theme will be carried out during the
entire evening in decorations and entertainment. Jerry Hoytt, director of the affair, stated that prizes will be given away before the night has ended.
This will be the first big university dance of the term, honoring the members of the Trojan varsity football team, and will be held at the Deauville Beach club which has been reserved exclusively for the Trojans and their dates.
This is the second day bids have been on sale in the Student Union Bookstore and through the various fraternity and sorority representatives. Since the bids are limited to 400, Hoytt urges all students to purchase theirs early so they can be on hand for one of the most unique dances of the year.
The dance will be part of the big celebration which will begin Friday noon with a huge rally, featuring the SC band, rooters, and Terry Nelson, yell leader. Bill Witmeyer, chairman of the rally, asks all Trojans to turn out for the rally and show the neighboring country side a real example of SC spirit.
The Trojan Knights. SC junior-senior service organization, will be the official hosts of the evoning. Bill Camm, president of the Knights, said, “This event is for all Trojans so if you know any student not on campus this term, please let them know about the big affair.'’ “This is SC’s first postwar prom,” Hoytt said, “and the bids will go fast to both civilians and trainees so everyone is urged to get his bid while the Ink is still
fresh on the paper.”
Trojans who attend the Mardi Gras weekend will have a good chance to show how they feel towards SC by giving out with some of the famous Trojan yells at the rally and football game. "Everyone is urged to come and yell until their throat gets sore for the famous varsity football team that led SC to the Rose Bowl last year,” stated Hoytt.
If you have anything planned for that weekend, Camm urges you to bring your party to the big game and dance, after all you may win one of the prizes.
Music school to add profs
Beginning with the winter term, the School of Music will add several new members to their faculty, and indications are that the enrollment ■will be .the largest in the history of the school.
The new faculty members are Irene Robertson, F.A.G.O., organ; Lillian Steuber, piano; Franz Hoffman, voice; Doris Moon, Solyeig Preus, Alvin Learned, theory; and Mynatt Breidenthal, wind instruments.
The preparatory department has e’so been reorganized and starting with the fall, students in this department will take classes in eurythmics and music theory r^ong with their instrumental or vocal instruction.
Because of the increased enrollment, it has been necessary to limit enrollments in th£ conservatory and preparatory departments as well as in the college department. Applications of new students should be made immediately.
TOKYO, Sept. 12. — (U.E) — Field Marshal Gen. Sugiyama, supreme military adviser to Emperor Hirohito, killed himself today while American occupation authorities were arresting Adm. Shigetaro Shimada, former navy minister who planned the Pearl Harbor attack.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur simultaneously ordered the immediate dissolution of the terroristic black dragon society,' for 40 years the notorious instrument of Japanese imperialism.
Sugiyama, 65, who had held nearly every high army post and was war minister in a post Pearl Harbor cabinet, and his wife shot themselves in their home not quite 24 hours after former Premier Gen. Hideki To jo. Pearl Harbor premier, made his botched suicide attempt.
Sugiyama was a member of the board of field marshals which plotted Pearl Harbor. He retired from the government along with the rest of the Koiso cabinet in April, 1945. MacArthur ordered the arrest of seven leaders of the black dragon or kokurvo-kai society. Koki Hirota, premier of Japan from March, 1936 to February, 1937, was one. Also named were Rychei Uchida; Col. Kingoro Hashimoto, nationalist leader of the prewar “young officer’s” clique which demanded war with the United States and who ordered the 1937 attack on the American gunboat Pa nay; Tovasaburo Kikuchi, vice-minister of education in the Tojo cabinet; Oketora Ogata, propaganda minister in, the present cabinet of Prince Higashi-Kuni and a member of the house of peers; Seigo Nakano, leading fascist political theorist who once was reported a suicide; and Prof. Genchi Kato.
Shimada. 61, was arrested by a party of Americans headed by Maj. Paul Kraus, counter-intelligence officer who arrested Tojo.
Program for group to be told
"Participation of all men students is hoped for this evening when the Y presents its first social event, a men’s stag,” stated Hal Le Sieur, president.
The stag will be held from 6:45 until 8 p.m. in the patio of Harris hall. This is located between the architecture building and Mudd hall. Posters will be placed in conspicuous spots to guide thos® attending to the patio.
Opening the program will be & songfest led by Burl Smith. Old favorites and Trojan fight songs will be included.
Following this, the officers of the Y will be introduced and the purpose and program of the Y will be described and discussed. The group is under the following officers for summer term: Hal Le Sieur,
the
president; Don Gibbs, vice-president; Hal Craig, secretary, and Jimmy Patton, treasurer.
Head varsity coach Jeff Cravath will be Introduced and then the men students will adjourn to Harris hall auditorium where three sound films will be shown. An outstanding sports reel will b« shown; following this will be featured a full length color comedy.
“Men of Tomorrow,” a film depicting the founding and the spread to 68 countries of the I MCA, will be the final picture. It shows the part that the Y plays in the development of a full community and campus life.
“We have heard time and again the complaint of a lack of spirit at SC and a lack of interest in student government, yet the great majority of students sit back and let tha other fellow do all he participating.
‘‘A student must first become interested In an activity of his choice before he can experience the real Trojan spirit We sincerely invite all men students and members of the faculty to participate in the fellowship of our stag tonight with the idea in mind that nothing more can be gained from an organization than an individual is willing to pot into it,” (Continued on Page Four)
Squires
. . . will meet today at 12:30 p.m. in Student Union 418. All members are requested ,to be present, according to Roy Batchelor, president.
Senate representation considered at forum
Suggesting three ways in which greater student participation in student body activities could be achieved, Maurice Gould, captain of debate, and Don Blank, junior class president, spoke to the Trovet open forum series yesterday noon
in Bovard auditorium.
ASSC continues contemplation on reorganization of student body
O.T. plans dinner
Olvera street will be the scene of a dinner to be given tonight under the sponsorship of the Occupational Therapy club. O. T. majors are invited to meet at the wishing well at 5:30 p.m., according to Jacquelyn Rust, social chairman
In the third session of the ASSC senate devoted to the consideration of the new senate composition, the report of the investigation committee was presented last night, and Aijita Norcop, member of the group, told of the changes which had been made since the document was originally presented for senate approval one week ago.
The committee reconsidered in favor of allowing the freshman president a voting seat on the new senate. The position of president of non-organized students was changed to read “representative of independents” in order to maintain the principle of non-segregation for which the senate is championing. Mortar Board, because of its importance in freshman orientation and other contributions to campus
life, was admitted to a non-voting seat.
The question of the schools of Law and Medicine having seats on the reorganized senate was thrown open to the legislators, and a large moth which flew in through one of the fourth-floor windows was finally captured by Larry Harlow, president of the College of Architecture and Fine Arts, after a lengthy battle.
The discussion on the changes in the reorganization opened with Helen Taylor asking why YWCA was not included, at least in th? non-voting members. President Armbruster stated that the committee felt that YWCA would be adequately represented through AWS. but a brief and heated discussion resulted in YWCA being
Resulting from the proposition placed before the senate last week by a special committee designated by ASSC President Bill Armbruster to find a way in which a more functional senate could be achieved, the forum was presented with the hope that more students would exagreed upon for a non-voting seat, press their interest and ideas on tht The question of WAA and ath- I topic of “Greater Participation in letic council seats was then Student Activities.”
brought ilp in line with the procedure of placing as many functions as possible under the AWS and the proposed AMS. Phil Burton viewed the subject from the angle that if AWS and AMS were to be represented, then WAA and athletic council would come under those offices, but it was pointed out that both groups have important all-year duties toward the student body and these were part of the criteria set up for holding a senate seat.
Miss Taylor then expressed the thought that under any set up there was going to be duplicate representation of some type.
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Introduced by Trovet President Frank Soares, Milt Buck served
as moderator for the discussion which brought out several opinions from the audience. Speaking first was Blank:
“Many students have no knowledge of student activities, Blank explained. “University education is training for scholarship as weli as for citizenship, and many of the students are not participating in the latter.”
Blank stated that the present system of representation was inadequate and that he believed that there were three possible solutions. Gould then spoke of (Continued on Page Three)