roians Cast ASSC Votes Today
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Beth Beatty Plays Top Feminine Role
i'orty-eight SC players enter the arena tonight with the kard opening of Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw’s lire “Androcles and the Lion.” Directed by William C. dele, the play will be given a five-night showing.
>n^ring the spotlight with a stage full of Roman swords,
•* tridents, nets and whips, are actors Joe Flynn, Beth Beatty, Phlip Nasta. Jim McCloskey, and Al Gruener.
A Shavian rewrite of the legend about the heroic Roman slave whose working theory of passive resistance and kindness to animals leads to his escape from death in the arena, “Androcles” portrays the era when Christianity was a subversive movement.
Underlying the broad satiric comedy is a serious theme which exposes the sophistry of tne ruling class when dictating to the common people just what their beliefs must be. and tells the attitude of the Christians toward their martyrdom.
MAKES SC DEBIT
Miss Beatty makes her first appearance in SC theater as the pris-
mng Orators teak Tonight Final Tour
nbryo orators will talk their through the last round of the ^nd annual interclass oratory lest tonight, with emphasis on everyday public speaking."
>rding to tournament chairman.
Charges Redding, lecturer in ch.
liter winning in four rounds Inst 800 competitors, tonights 10
fists will tangle verbally in the ; °ner^ Lavima. after a two-year >1 of Law auditorium at 8.
Ihe competition, which is given |encouragp beginners in public iking, will bring together two Isions of five students each. Stu-Its will offer six-mmute speeches jthe prize of medals and cash.
SRYDAY SPEAKING WANTED in which she maintains a 2.5 aver-
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period of apprenticeship in the dra ma department. Her early work was done at the Pasadena Playhouse where she played the title role in Ibsen’s ‘ Hedda Gabler.” The actress at present divides her time between drama, class work,
mphasis will be on good, every-public speaking and not upon people commonly regard as ^hflown oratory,’ * said Mr. Red “We feel that the contest les Its greatest purpose in engaging large numbers of people Inake a public speech to get ex-lence for later life, ldges for the finals will be ^posed of six faculty members SC and other nearby schools. ►MMITTEE PICKS WINNERS jrding to Chairman Redding, oers will be chosen on a basis (cumulative scores acquired lghout the contest rather than the basis of the final round he.
eakers in division A are Frank Jitsman, Paul C. Justice, Taylor lorton, Benjamin W. Tarwater, Mrs. Gloria Renfro, jntestants in division B are in B. Bell, Kean St. Charles, W. Gray, and Douglas H.
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,WS Cabinet etitions Due
Petitions for positions on AWS inet and associate cabinet are ke at 2 p.m. today in the AWS fice. 228 Student Union, Presi-nt Lois Alberts announced. Positions open on AWS cabinet [e social chairman, assembly I airman, and activity coordinator. The associate cabinet has open-tgs for poster chairman, scrapbook lairman. maintenance chairman, id seven activity recorders.
The requirement for all positions la 1.3 accumulative grade point ■erage and at least a 1.3 grade >int average for the semester pre-iding the application.
Interviews for the positions be-n this afternoon at 3:15 and will mtinue at 2 pm. tomorrow.
Registrar's
Noticc
Saturday. May is the last l*ate on which cancellations or jlrnp«. will be accepted for the t-urrent semester.
age, and the registrar’s office where she is employed as an assistant. She is scheduled to play a central role in the forthcoming experimental theater staging of Tennessee William's “Lord Byron's Love Letters.”
Flynn plays his first local starring role as the little Greek tailor who deserts his wife for a lion. A pre-law major, Flynn before entering SC had a fling at Broadway where he acted a lead role in the John Golden production of Mo-liere's “A Physician in Spite of Himself." %
NASTA PLAYS LION Nasta. who plays the lion, was first seen on campus in last year’s Apolliad when he snagged one of the two curtain calls in the entire show with his dance “Loneliness Bcund.” Flynn got the other.
McCloskey and Gruener are remembered by campus playgoers for
SPLASHING ABOUT the Town House pool are 13 of the 21 nominees for Dream Girl of Theta Chi. Pictured above, left to right, are Virginia Eiden, Dona Nasby, Maryjane Woodrow, Carol Mitchell, Nataline Frajiacomo, Betty Stoll, Barbara Crane, Lois Erickson, I^elen Broadwell, Meredith Suverkrup, Maurine Geiss, Marilyn McGlinn, and Barbara Wisner.
Theta Chis Select Dream Girl/ To Announce Winner at Dance
After eyeing 21 lovelies contesting for the title of Dream Girl of Theta Chi at a swim and luncheon at the Town House Saturday, members of the fraternity have selected the girl who most closely approximates the ideal of their dream song.
Results of the balloting for the Dream Girl and her two attendants are being kept secret, and the winner’s identity will not be revealed until the annual Dream Girl formal
----* Saturday night at the Bel Air hotel. *•
The Dream Girl will be awarded a jeweled Theta Chi sweetheart pin and a loving cup. Her two attendants will receive loving cups. All 21 contestants were presented with a bracelet bearing the fraternity crest Saturday
Seniors Revive Hatchet Ritual
BETH BEATTY . . . femme fatale
their work in last semester's production of “State of the Union," in which they appeared in the roles which Spencer Tracy and Adolphe Menjou are currently acting on the downtown screens. They will be seen as the aristocrats Metellus and Lantulus.
Other players listed for tonight’s performance are Paul Kennedy. Bob Downing. Nan Mason, Bruce Savan, and Art Dou, among others.
Admission to the show, which closes Tuesday night, is by activity Dook or 50 cents.
j rah a Peach for Zuma Beach ★ ★ ★ ★ Row Backs Oarsmen
The Row will head en masse to lama beach in Malibu, tomorrow, or an all day beach party.
The purpose of the expedition. ;hich will leave the school at noon, i to defray expenses for the SC fcrew team on its trip to Stanford.
At present the team members are paying for their room, board, and baggage price on the shells. This Will continue until the university recognizes the team as an official athletic activity.
Each fraternity and sorority house on the Row has donated $10 to finance the crew trip. The beach party is to start a student crew fund.
A rr> van of CaTS Will Start fl'QUl
school, with placards on the sides urging Trojans to support the crew team with donations, and will wind up at the beach.
An added attraction of the affair will be the finals of the all-U girls volleyball tournament sponsored by SAE fraternity, to be played off at Zuma.	»
Maps will be posted in fraternity and sorority houses today showing the way to the beach.
Crew association recently elected as permanent officers. Harry Dalby, president; Pat Dailey, vice-presi-dent; Hap Wyman, secretary ; Victor Hozduk, treasurer; and Boyd Case, public relation*.
Senior week, starting Monday, will feature the revival of “Pass the Peace Pipe and Bury the Hatchet” ceremony between the graduating class and its traditional enemy, the junior class.
A stainless steel, chrome-plated hatchet, with space for numerals of subsequent graduating classes, will be presented by Cliff Lyddon, president of the senior class, to Joe Flynn, junior class prexy, In front of Bovard auditorium, noon, Wednesday.
Following this ceremony the senior class will dedicate a bronze plaque. 8 inches square, bearing the numeral. ’48. The plaque will be set in the concrete walk in front of the Administration building.
OUTSTANDING MEN
Tuesday, the AMS recognition assembly will convene on the steps of University library to select five outstanding men students of 1947 and 1948 who have offered “distinguished contributions to campus life.”
The AWS recognition assembly is scheduled for Wednesday. All women's organizations, both service and honorary, will announce their new members following “tapping” ceremonies on that date.
Friday is Ditch day for graduating students. President Fred D. Fagg Jr. has excused all seniors from Friday afternoon classes. A motor cavalcade led by Cliff Lyddon, will leave at 1 p.m. for Zuma Beach, north of Malibu.
BIDS ON SALE
Senior week will be climaxed by the senior prom Friday evening at the Bel-Air club. “Moonlight and Roses” is the theme of the dance, which will feature music of Dick Dildine and his orchestra. Sale of bids is restricted to seniors who graduate this June or next February. Bids for the formal dance are now on sale at the ticket office, priced at $3. and are soon to be offered for sale at fraternity houses.
TO VISIT DISC JOCKEYS
Nominees will appear on radio broadcasts of various southland disc jockeys, including Al Jarvia, Peter Potter, and Bill Leyden.
The Dream Girl and her attendants will journey to Chino, where they will present a check to Casa Colina Convalescent home for crippled children on behalf of the SC chapter of Theta Chi.
All 21 of the sorority and dormitory nominees for Dream Girl appeared together for the first time at the swimming party, and all will attend the dance.
NOMINEES LISTED
Nominees for this year's Dream Girl contest are Marilyn Baird, EVK; Helen Broadwell, Alpha Phi; Pat Cameron. Pi Beta Phi; Barbara Crane, Phi Mu; Virginia Eiden, Kappa Kappa Gamma: Lois Erickson, Willard: Natalie Frajiacomo, Chi Omega.
Maurine Geiss, Phi Sigma Sigma; Pat McCormick, Alpha Omicron Pi; Marion McGlinn, Kappa Delta; Beverly Miller, Zeta Tau Alpha; Carol Mitchell, Alpha Delta Pi; Dona Nasby, Delta Gamma; Betty Propeck. Alpha Gamma Delta; Lorraine Silverglate, Alpha Epsilon Phi: Pat Sommerfield, Delta Delta Delta.	>
Betty Stoll, Gamma Phi Beta;^ Meredith Suvikrup, Alpha Chi Omega; Gladys Topolski, Delta | Zeta; Barbara Wisner. Harris; and Maryjane Woodrow, Kappa Alpha Theta.
Veteran's
Notice
AU public law 16 veterans who are securing teaching credentials directly from the state department this semester must report immediately to their training officer on the second floor of the veteran’s administration building, 834 West 36 Street.
Summer School Material Ready
Registration materials for Summer Session preregistration may be obtained this morning at 9 at Door F, Owens hall annex, Howard W. Patmore, registrar, announced yesterday. Door F will remain open until 12 Saturday.
Students now attending SC who plan to attend the Summer Session are urged to register during the preregistration week, May 17 to May 22.
All phases of registration, including the obtaining of section cards, verification of programs, and payment of fees, will be handled in the preregistration ’ period. Registration will take place at the rear of Owens hall.
WISH TO ENROLL
Placement cards must be presented by students who wish to enroll in chemistry 2al, 7a 1, or mathematics 3, and 7 classes. These cards may be obtained at the testing bureau, 114 Old College.
Music students and other students who wish to include music courses on their programs must have class admission cards stamped at the College of Music office before entering station 3 or 4.
Fine arts students, or those wishing to include fine arts courses 63ab, 66ab, 80ab, 91ab, 29ab, 137ab, 128ab, 164ab, 181ab, 191ab, 236ab, 264ab, 285ab, or 295ab, must have cards stamped at the Fine Arts office Harris 126.
COMPLETE FORMS
Veterans training under one of the federal .or state bills who plan to attend Summer school must complete registration by May 22,
To secure full subsistence, undergraduate veterans must take at least five units in the six-week session, June 21 to July 21. and at least three units in the postsession, Aug. 2 to Aug. 28.
Graduate students who seek degrees under the jurisdiction of the Graduate School should have their Summer Session programs approved at the office of the Graduate School before entering station 3 or 4
Jones Tells Polling System; Candidates Appear at Rally
by Richard Calkins
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Preceded by a brass band attired in garb ranging from bathing suits to explorer's costumes, Trojans gathered last night in the university tennis courts to hear political aspirants expound their political views.
The roof of the cinema building and the large bam opposite the tennis courts were bedecked with placards, banners, and large pictures of candidates.
First speakers were those running for ASSC president. Joe Flynn, Unity party candidate, pledged to support the planks of his party, to bring “color and dignity to the office of president” and gave his solemn promise that “If elected, my picture will never appear in a Desmonds’ advertisement.”
NEED MANY FACTS The next speaker, Milt Dobkin, said “people seem to have forgotten that not one single activity, but a complete well-rounded program, go to make a student’s life in university something he will remember and cherish in later years.” He stressed the fact that he does not represent a single group but will try to make all appointments on the basis of merit alone.
Johnny Davis, supported by IFC for president, promised ‘‘Fair representative government rather than petty, machine politics.” He denied that he is a member of any campus political group or will be forced to bow to any group if he is elected QUESTIONS ASKED The next 15 minutes were given over to questions directed at all three politicos. In response to the question as to his stand on NSA. Davis answered that as long as the administration was against it, he followed in line.
Flynn outlined the work his junior class council had done. Dobkin explained that he thought that his position of not being obliged to answer to any one specific group enhanced his administrative qualifications.
Davis in answer to the question “What work have you as head of the Greater University committee (Continued on Page 6)
PAUL WILDMAN . . . emcees rally
Official Alters Vote Procedure
Voting procedure for the student elections was slightly altered as the result of a conference between Grafton Tanquary, senator-at-large, and Jerry Jones, elections commissioner, which followed the final regular meeting of the ASSC senate yesterday afternoon.
Serial numbers on the students’ registration slips will be checked with the number on duplicate registration slips when students get voting material upon entering the voting area. As a further check against fraudulent voting, the student must put his signature on the duplicate slip.
Jones pointed out that it will be necessary that students have tne white registration slip so that these numbers can be checked. Anyone who has lost this slip can vote only on the final day of elections when machinery will be set up to take care of these people.
A proposal was passed by the senate to send a six-man committee to discuss with Dr. Fagg the implication in the letter from the faculty committee studying the proposed affiliation with NSA that the ASSC senate was not representative of the student body.
Scribe Explains P.R. Vote Plan
by Marion Sellers
When Trojans step into the voting booths today they will face the formidable task of making nine choices for senator-at-large. If the multitude of choices seem unnecessary, an evplanation of the voting system may be in order.
SC uses the single transferable ballot type of proportional representation. It is properly called the Hare system, or simply PR. Advocates of the plan maintain that it combines the benefits of both representative and preferential voting.
It is preferential in that the student’s order of preference carries weight: his third, fourth, or any subsequent choice may elect a candidate. It is proportional because all groups or parties may succeed in proportion to their voting strength.
For example, if Party A has 600 of 900 voters, Party B has 200, and Party C has 100, they will elect six. two, and one candidates respectively. Under the old majority-plurality system Party A could elect all nine.
RECEIVE BALLOT
The voter will receive a ballot on which the names of all candidates for the office are listed. Nine blank spaces follow each name. The voter should indicate his first, second, and all following choices by stamping the first choice square after the candidate he prefers, second square after his second choice, and on through the nine choices.
It is important that the voter indicate all his choices. Otherwise, he may reprive himself of a selection if his first few choices do not win. If he marks more than one choice for a single candidate his ballot will be disqualified.
In counting, all ballots are distributed according to their first choices. Then winners’ excess ballots (those over their needed quota) ar3 drawn at random and redistributed to the second-choice candidates named on the drawn ballots. Those now having a quota are declared elected.
THIRD CHOICES COUNTED
Excess ballots are again redistributed according to their third choices. When this process is exhausted. if redistribution fails to bring any candidate up to the quota, the man with the lowest total is declared defeated. His ballots are then given to the remaining candidates according to the sixth, seventh, or whatever choice may be currently effective.
* Voting in the ASSC elections starts this morning at 9 in front of Bovard auditorium.
Announcing the opening of the polls, Elections Commissioner Jerry Jones yesterday described the procedure that will be used throughout the four-day period of voting.
“A system has been designed to take care of all student voters with ease that will insure honesty of the elections,” Jones said.
‘The entire area in front of Bovard will be roped off and students wishing to vote will enter from the east. No political campaigners will be allowed in the area.”
Supervising the entire election will be Dean of Men Neil D. Warren, Dr. Albert F. Zech, and student senate representatives Sylvia Lovell and Edward Vierheilig.
TO CHECK LISTS Jones said that on the student’s left as he enters the voting area will be a large board on which will be placed the lists of registrants. The registration assistant will check the student’s white registration slip and his yellow student identification card against that list.
All discrepancies in the number of units the student will have completed by the end of this semester will be corrected at that time.
A table in the middle of the voting area will hold the ballots. The student voter will then go to one of 20 booths to vote.
VOTE FIVE TIMES Jones reminded graduate students that they may vote ln the ASSC main election, AMS, independent, veterans, and for senator-at-large, but not for class or college candidates.
Freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior voters cannot vote for candidates running for other class offices than their own. For example, freshmen cannot vote for senior class presidential candidates.
MAY INSPECT A copy of the AMS constitution will be on display in the voting areaj men students may inspect it and vote for its adoption or disapproval.
“To make certain that there is no trickery,” Jones said, “three representatives of ASSC presidential aspirants will circulate in the area to make certain no one but Elections assistants and registered voters are there.”
JONES WARNS Ballots that are not properly marked will be thrown away, Jones warned. “Voters should be careful and not tear off the perforated tab of the ballot, since it will make the vote invalid.” PR rating ballot is being used only for the senator-at-large election.
“Votes will be counted each evening, but results will not be announced until the final day because it may influence those who have not yet voted.” Jones added.
Faculty to Scan Student Politics
In keeping wltft the assurance of a more effective student government at SC, the appointment of a faculty committee to study conditions and practices soon has been announced by President Fred D. Fagg Jr.
With Prof. Sydney Duncan as chairman, the group includes Dr. Frank C. Baxter. Dr. Wilbert L. Hindman, Prof. Robert Kingsley, and Dr. Sterling McMurrin. Their recommendations will be studied in view of becoming effective with the fall term.
To Partition or Not to Partition
Palestinians to Debate Plan
Two natives of Palestine, a Jewish student and an Arabian student, will take opposite sides today in the all-U forum at 10 a.m. in Bowne hall on the partitioning of the Holy-Land.
Haim Barmack, assisted by John Kerr, graduate students in political science, will speak in favor of partitioning as proposed by the United Nations. They feel that partitioning of Palestine should be effected because of the failure of the British to establish a national homeland for the Jewish people and because of the uanimous vote of the UN general assembly.
Opposed to partitioning is Mah-mond Awad, SC student from Palestine. By quoting the Atlantic Charter and snowing the contrast in conditions in the Holy Land before and after the partition vote was taken, he will attempt to show why partitioning should not be carried out.
Dr. Colin R. Lovell, assistant professor of history, will trace the historical development of the Palestine problem. “From a point of view of historical facts, the Arabs have several points supporting their claims,” he said.
The moderator of the forum is Russel L. Caldwell, lecturer in history and general studies. During the current semester he has conducted a seminar, that has discussed the Palestine problem.
“Palestine is one of the. danger zones which threaten world peace and may be influential in the success or failure of the UN,” he said.
Following a five minute speech by each of the participants, a discussion between them is scheduled. Questions from the audience directed to individual speakers followed by a brief summary from each side will close the forum.