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Cold Cup Speakers Consider World Problems in Finals
iree students walked off with eight-inch gold cups as a lit of yesterday’s Bowen speech contest finals held at 4 i. in 203 Speech B.
IWinners were Evelyn Izen, Dale Drum, and Dave Hunter.
I Title of Miss Izen’ talk was “Should the US Senate Ratify
* the Atlantic Pact?"
“Since World War II even tne most optimistic students of political science are disillusioned by the actions of the United Nations. Russia hasn’t relinquished her Marxism ideas. The United States has formulated the Truman doctrine which helped defeat Communist guerrillas in Turkey and other countries,” she j said.	I
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Vierheilig Faces Recall; Expenses Upped to $500
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Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, May 17, 1949 No. 141
]umor Mag \enewed Rag [romises Wag
Opera Ariadne on Naxos' Opens 3-Day Bovard Run
Dan Bacott. recently appointed L editor of Wampus, alleged cam-» humor magazine, will take over rejuvenated rag when the leaves brown
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“Another method of retaliation is the Atlantic Pact, which provides for member nations to come to the j aid of any other member nation i amp enjoyed a protracted rest should it be attacked. This means during the current semester,	the United States will become
to a drastic slash in the budget j an arsenal. T*10 ^orld is alieady di- j ch restricted the publication to ; Vlded into two armed camPs- No one y two issues. Bagott expects tc ^as taken steps to disarm.
I able to return to publishing an i "The Atlantic Pact simply makes' Le a month in the fall.	j a reality of a situation which has
Bagott is a genuine native of already existed. But if the world is Angeles, having lived here already on the road to war, then | roughout his 22 years except for ; the pact is a good thing.’’ Miss Izen j K^-vear stretch in the Navy as | sald-
radioman. He attended Marshall	THE MEANING
fh school and is now a junior , Drum analyzed the meaning cf j the SC journalism department, the lifting of the Berlin blockade j He served his Wampus appren- to the United States, eship under such notorious edi- -it seemed to the United States j •s as Andy Anderson, Al Hix. that we finally brought defeat to! q Ben WTeinberg.	the Russians when the blockade j
"•I promise to raise to a new high was defeated, but they had a well-1 e low hunior of Wampus.” Bagott planned scheme. They lost face in ' Glared when an alert DT reporter Europe, btu what difference does i scovered him torn in half in a one demeat mean to them when I al trash can. He had two holes j they're thinking of world rule?
LOSE TRACK
“Every sector of the world is im-1 portant to the United States. We J shouldn’t lose track- of - one sector at the expense of another.” he said.
Title of Hunter's speech was “The i UN: What Is the Measure of Its Success or Failure to the US?"
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Contestants drew their topics and were given 45 minutes to prepare their si:;-minute speeches. The nx Tinalists were required to take a definite stand. The cups were provided by the Bowen foundation.
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WOLFGANG MARTIN, conductor of the University Symphony orchestra for the opera "Ariadne on Maxos," runs over lhe score for SC students Mona Harlan and Bayla Seltezer. singing in the production that opened last night.
Parson Chosen JC President
Harry L. Fearson Jr. was elected [resident of the University College tudent body last week.
Others elected to University Co!-ge posts include Ernest Elmer [Jr.. first vice-president: Edwaro P. Morrison, second vice-presi-»nt; Howard Thompson, secretary; inri Allred G. Norris, treasurer.
Pearson, business major, was UC prond vice-president this semester.
His five-plank platform included consideration of night school stu-ients on an equal footing with laay school students, a voting seat Il or University College in the ■Greater University Senate, election lof UC officers by popular vote, re-[wnting the UC constitution, and [promotion of greater interest in the university among night school students.
Stop Gap to Present Varied Show Tonight
* Last night in Bovard auditorium the West Coast had its first view of Richard Strauss’s unique o p e r a-within-an-op-era, “Ariadne on Naxos.”
The Bovard performance was also the first English lan-g u a g e presentation of the opera in the United States, the first complete opera ever produced at Troy, and tne ! first local production directed by Prof. Carl Ebert, head of SC's new department of opera. “Ariadne” will 1 repeat tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 8:30.
THREE CASTS The first of three separate casts sang last night. The casts will al-I temate in presenting the show for the remainder of the week. Certain I individuals are included in all of the groups, playing a different role | in each.
Wolfgang Martin, who has performed under author Strauss in ■ the Berlin version of “Ariadne,” presided over the university sym-; phony orchestra at the SC premiere. Batonman Martin has conducted at the “Met” in New York. His orchestral experience also includes operatic productions in Europe.
ACTIVITY CARDS Student activity cards will admit holders to seats in the first balcony at all performances. Reserved
seat tickets can be obtained at the ticket office, second floor of the Student Union, for $1.20, $1.80, and $2.40. General admission price is 60 cents.
The ASSC Senate yesterday afternoon interpreted the referendum petitions to mean “recall” and set Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for a special recall election of Ed Vierheilig, president-elect.
The deciding vote was cast by Johnny Davis, ASSC president, when he threw a 15-14 vote into a tie, thus upholding his own recommendation to accept the 4000 signatures as
a “recall” request.
A recall requires a two-thirds ma-1 jority to unseat an officer while a referendum requires only a simple! majority.
Both candidates were given ade-1 quate opportunity to woo the vot- j ! ers. when the Senate voted to ex-; tend the campaign expense limitation from S45 to $500.
Missing 403 Still Mystery
jEngrs to Hold Senior Breakfast
The Senior breakfast for graduating engineers will be held in Town and Gown, June 9. 8:30 a.m.. Robert E. Vivian, dean of the School of Engineering, said yesterday.
Fatherly advice will be given the ager racket because he believed it I grads by Prof. Kenneth Reynolds, would be good experience. Experi-'head of the general engineering de- ence for what, he doesn't know, as partment.	I his future plans are rather vague.
DT Hucksters Get New Mgr.*
Gathering up the slack reins in the busy DT business office when Bcb WTilmsen graduates this spring will be Mike Lynch who served as assistant to Business Manager Wilmsen this year.
Lynch, who came to SC via Alhambra high and Muir college in Pasadena, inherits the chore of selling the advertising that keeps the student newspaper from folding financially.
At Muir and Alhambra. Lynch starred as a high jumper and was a member of the SC track team until the press of business interfered.
Lynch got into the business man-
New Prexy Replaces gg-For One Day
dent of the University, and then he was taken to the Sen-Califomia sat on the | ate meeting.
DT copydesk.	i Politicos in action were not new
SC is just like high school.” he to President Conway. aid	He was president of the Bll, All,
’ u was Mark Conway speaking j and B12 classes at Marshall high ark was assuming all of President | sch°o1- In fact- yesterday he was a ed D Fagg Jr.'s duties as a part candidate in the Marshall primary
f Bov s week activities.	j election f°r the student ^ Pres'
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Earlier yesterday, he and Albert conway appeared unperturbed as S. Raubenheimer, educational wee- handled routine. matters with president, had conferred on plans i apiomjj president Fagg. for the proposed new infirmary. j ..Hey „ he said suddenly ..You
He had lunched with Robert E. know what I did? I shook hands Vivian, dean of the School of En- with Mej patton.” gineering. and with Prof. Sydney He tossed dignity aside momen-
Campus theatergoers will witness a varied combination of entertainment when the Stop Gap theater opens tonight with a program of one-act piays.
A large slice of religious intolerance added to love for our fellow-man and topped off with the relief from a nagging wife will be the bill of fare when the curtain goes up on ‘ Pray for Me.” an original by senior drama student. Rory Guy; Noel Coward's “Filmed Oak"; and “The Hungeres,” by William Saroyan.
"Pray for Me,” in its premiere performance tonight, deals with religious intolerance in an Ozark community. A man is ostracized by the people because of .his strange views on religion. ’
W.hen he dies his soul is prayed into hell in an effort to rid the communty of his evil influence. After hs death, his wife and daughter are burdened with the ridicule and intimidation from the town's people.
“This original.” said Dick Lauf, director of "Pray for Me.” “is extremely well written and technically correct.”
Lauf, who directed “Leper Bell,” a Touchstone theater original, and who has appeared in a number of major productions at SC. has a background which includes 25 performances with the Goodman theater in Chicago which is affiliated with the Actors Art institute.
“The author has succeeded in writing a play that required a line change consisting of only two words. Further changes were unnecessary. The motivation of the action is so well planned that the actors are never left in static positions long enough to create audience unrest,” Lauf added.
Humorous relief has been placed throughout the action so that it does not interfere with the serious
plot but keeps it from becoming too heavy.
The premiere performance will be given tonig,ht. Wednesday, and Thursday in Stop Gap theater at 8:30.
Religion Dean To Be Feted
Race Report Action Put Off
The Council of Religion mdet-ltely postponed action on its “race and descent” report yesterday.
The report, containing the official stand of the administration on the issue, was given to Dr. Hugh C. Willett last Friday for his approval. Dr. Willett was unable to return the report to the council in time for Yesterday's meeting.
After its final approval, the report will be given to the ASSC senate for any student legislation deemed necessary by that body.
Dean Earl Cranston of the School of Religion will be honored at a reception Thursday night in the University Methodist church at 8j
The program will include a greeting message by Dr. Albert S. Rau-benhein-.er, educational vice-president, and Bishop James C. Baker,
Methodist church. Dr. Cranston will j give an address on “The Future of Theological Education.” *
Dr. E. C. Famham, executive sec- j Qp JfOn Curtin retary of the Church Federation oc Los Angeles, will pronounce the invocation, and Rabbi Edgar Magnm of the Wilshire temple will give the benediction.
Mmisters and church leaders throughout the Southland nave been invited to the program. The reception will follow in the School of Religion building.
Huntley to Talk
Chet Huntley, news analyst for the Columbia Broadcasting system, will speak on world problems of today at the Thursday night forum, sponsored by University College and the School of Philosophy, in Bowne hall at 7.
Mr Huntley's lecture will be “Behind the Iron Curtain.”
Tickets will be available at the door for 75 cents.
Faculty Election Polls Open at 9 Today
uncan.
He had talked with Totten J. nderson. associate professor of po-tical science, whose wife is a er at Mark's high school. John all.
“This is quite an experience,”
tarily.
“I met all the guysk’ he enthused. T saw BUI Sharman. Don Doll,
Ron Frazier,
John Montgomery.
Coach Jess Hill . .
Conway stopped, got up off the copydesk. and gathered up his dig-esident-for-a-dav Conway said. nity.
Knights squired Conway around “This is quite an experience.” he campus yesterday afternoon, I said.
Veterans'
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AU Public Law 16 veterans who have not been interviewed by VA training officers must report at once to 834 North 36th street. This is necessary whether you plan to attend Summer Session or not. Be sure you present interview form completely filled out. Philip A. Libby,
Coordinator, Veterans’ Affairs.
Polls will open at 9 this morning for faculty members of three SC schools and a college to elect 2b representatives to the University Senate.
Ballets may be cast between 9 ajn. and 4 p.m. today and tomorrow in the offices of the deans of the Schools of Commerce, Engineering, and Medicine, and the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
Only full-time faculty members with a position of instructor or higher are eligible to vote. Senators will be elected for two years.
Senate candidates from LAS are Arthur W. Adamson. Charlotte An-oerson, W7illiam H. Anderson. M. D. Appleman, Francis J. Bowman, Ronald W. Brown, William H. Davenport, K. C. Emery, MerrUl Gage, Willard Geer, Charles Graves, J. Eugene Harley, Paul R. Helsel, G. R. Johnstone.
D. B. Klein, Harvey J. Locke,
Ivan A. Lopatin, Constance D. Lovell, W. K Martin, Bruce R. McElderry, Dorothy McMahon, John L. Mohr, John W. Reith, John A. Russell, Lenore C. Smith, Lionel Stevenson.
William D. Templeman, Stanley R. Townsend, Richard Van Alstyne, Gerhard Weissler, Arthur H. Weston, Paul A. White, and Albert L. Whiteman.
Candidates from tlie School of Commerce are Earl C. Bolton, Clayton D. Carus, Lawrence R. Guud, Paul Prasow. and Kenneth L. Trefftzs.
Engineering candidates are Russell Brinker, James Cady, James Hauser, Rodney Lewis, H. P. Nielsen, and K. C. Reynolds.
School of Medicine candidates are Robert Barden, Chester Hyrrian, John P. Meehan, John W. Mehl, Margaret G. Morehouse, and Paul R. Saunders.
The mystery of the missing ballots was no nearer a solution Friday after a special Senate investigating committee hauled the ballots out of the vault and checked them.
Seeking to throw some light on the wayward 403 votes, the bipartisan committee arranged the ballots in numerical order. It was discovered that there were approximately 300 ballots missing in a block. The ballots found to be AWOL were in the 5700, 5800, and 5900 group.
Committee members were at a loss to interpret the significance of the discovery or to explain how the discrepancy occurred.
Chairman Bob Flower said, “It proves that these ballots were definitely not cast.”
Other committee members were Bill McGurty, Vernon Blake. Larry Bub, and Fred Stager.
Unitymen Flay Recall Decision
Incensed Unity party officials went into a huddle after yesterday’s Senate meeting to discuss the legal anagram that changed the word “referendum’’ in their petitions to “recall.”
Tlie obvious implications of the Senate action were to put the party at an admitted disadvantage in the new presidential election Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
“It looks tough,” was tlie way Omar Kureishi, steermg committee chairman, put it.
The recall will saddle Bob Padgett with a two-thirds handicap in the rerunning of the presidential race, as opposed to a simple majority if a referendum had been voted in.
SENATE BLASTED Unity men blasted the Senate decision as "undemocratic” and “opposed to the will of the student body.”
Kureishi said. “I cannot see how a. petition signed by 4100 students demanding a referendum can be arbitrarily twisted. I think it im* portant for the students to know that the people who ostensibly represent them have on three occasions flouted any principle that even vaguely resembles democracy.” In a more optimistic tone he said. “Even though we have no one we can fine for not voting we will still make a fight out of it.”
In drawing up the battle lines.
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Vierheilig Back With Ideas
Big Ed Vierheilig came back to the campus yesterday bubbling with
The voter will designate on his j ideas garnered at the Pacific States ballot whether he wishes to recaU presidents association and a wee bit Vierheilig and also whether he puzzled over the bubbling SC polit-wants Vierheilig or Padgett for the' jcai cauldron.
ASSC Presidency..	Vierheilig and Johnny Davis were
Tlie Senate s action in callmg ioi enthusiastic over the results of the a recall election instead of a ret-.	yaiiey conference, but the
erendum was not in accord with1 stevens.authored petitions that de-the wishes of the student body, said ;manded a new election left the
Chet Carter, senator-at-large.
president and president-elect non-
“They have clearly indicated that piuss€C} they believed there was something	BRO VD PLAN
crooked in the election. They have
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Grad Recital Given Tonight
asked for a referendum and it is „	.. .
. college presidents at the discussion-unjust to invoke constitutional! ,	____,___
technicalities and loopholes in order
to make this a recall election,” he I
said.
TANQUARY OBJECTS
“Its impossible to recall the man. He’s not in office,’’ said Gralton Tanquary, member of the senate special election committee and AMS president.
The special senate session, called because of student dissatisfaction with the recent election, was attended by scores of spectators who broke mto applause from time to time as the student leaders made their points in the hotly-argued meeting.
“If we continue to resort to such stultifying practices as seen here today it will reflect on the prestige of the whole university,’’ said Bob
Padgett, Unity party nominee.
Sharp criticism was leveled by Row representatives that holding another election tnis semester was tantamount to electing Padgett because of unfavorable write-ups in DT on Row Candidate Vierheilig.
“I have been treated unfairly,” said Vierheilig. attacking Unity party charges and DT articles. He said charges of fraud reflected upon him personally.
Rowmen, among them Bob Flower, member of the senate's special
lecture sessions, Vierheilig announced that he has completed his | broad plan of freshman indoctrination.
“The minute that they are notified that they are accepted by the university, they will be a part of this plan,” Vierheilig said.
Freshmen will attend compulsory meetings, will attend advisement conferences sponsored by the respective schools of this university, and talk with faculty representatives regarding their class programs.
“We also would have a big brother program,'’ Vierheilig continued. “A continuous program like this would help make freshmen feel at home and get adjusted to SC life.” VIGOROUS
San Jose's policy of giving a freshman indoctrination course worth Vz unit received vigorous
Vierheilig backing.
“They go one hour a week.” he said. “It’s a very good idea.’
Meanwhile Vierheilig is awaiting information from Stanford and UCLA.
“They register by mail,’ he said. “There's the way to beat long registration lines.”
Orientation and elimination of long registration lines were planks
election committee, declared that ^ Vierheilig s platform during the the DT was biased and had “coeic- recent elections, ed” people into signing the peti-'
tions.
DT ATTACKED
One diatribe after another at- J tacked the DT. Finally, a commit- j tee was selected by Davis, composed of Grafton Tanquary, BUI Gray, in- j dependent representative, and Lai ry [
Bub, senator-at-large, in order to
Bretz Explains Recall Motive
After the lengthy Senate meeting, suggest "impartial'’ treatment.	at which Bill Bretz. ASSC Senate
The vote to accept petitions for a Parhamentarian recommended the “recall” vote was-as follows:	Senate interpret the petitions to
Yes — Wayne Chiappe, George[read “recall’ instead of “referen-Moore, Cedric Gerson < proxy), Jim dum as the 4000 petition signe*"} Bennett, Ben Keeler, Dave Saund- requested, he was interviewed by
ers, Harry Cook. BUI Dineen, George Burke. Larry Bub, Pat McGnll,
DT reporters Harvey Edwards and Harvey Diedrich. A special DT re-
Ted King (proxy), Jim Hopkins cording of the questions and an-
(proxy), Fred Harper.
No—Barbara Potter. Jeanne Gard. Grafton Tanquary. Anne Rose, Jack Silverstein. Don Gill. Leonard Dud-off. Connie Hug. Gene Fruhling, Bill Gray, Bcb Padgett, Bill Hart (proxy), Chester Carter, Don Robertson, and Betty Anne Smith.
The Senate will convene this af-
A program of original composi- j tions by William Lavender and j Conrad Wedberg will be presented | at a master’s recital tonight at 8 preparations for the elections.
in Hancock auditorium.
Lavender’s works include two piano pieces, a song for string quartet. and quintet for woodwinds.
Two songs and excerpts from the score composed by Wedberg for last semester’s drama department production, “King Oedipus,” will be presented. Other Wedberg selections to be offered are a piano quartet score and an instrumental trio.
Both composers are graduate students of Dr. Ernest Kanitz, professor of music at SC and composer.
swers reveals Bretz’ position.
Q.—Bretz, did you base your decision for recall on this letter from Prof. (James G.> Holbrook?
A.—Basically, ves. The first thin5 that Professor Holbrook said was that the petition was invalid. And then he said, if you want to he
liberal about this thing and trv
ternoon. at 3. in order to approve: anrl
give some type of interpretation that would be acceptable, you have the following choices. And he specifically stated that he thought that recall was the thing to do.
Q.—You would have attempted (Contmaea on Page 4)
General Studies
. . . 51 makeup exam scheduled for this evening at 7 will be given in 100 Annex, not Adm. 305.
Referendum or Bust New Unity Petition
Official
Notice
Students who expect to take directed teaching in either semester of the 1949-50 school year, but who have not yet filed a formal application, must go to the directed teaching office, 353 Administration. Those who have not done so by Friday cannot be assured of assignments even though they may be qualified in other respects.
O. R. Hull
Dean, School of Education
Angry Unity party officials and sympathetic ASSC senators disillusioned with the Senate’s legal hop-scotch. decided late last night to re-petition the Senate to reverse [ the “recall” election to a referendum election.
Once again petitions will be circulated to review a Senate action. Dissatisfied ana feeling that the action of the Senate did not meet with the defires of the student body, the Unity party will attempt to obtain 1640 valid signatures be-iore the Senate meeting at 3 p.m„ today.
The new petition would invalidate the decision of the Senate to hold a recall election. Johnny Davis, ASSC president, interpreted the petitions as being ot a recall na-
ture and presented the matter as a “decision of the chair” to the senators. AMS president Grafton Tanquary appealed t othe decision of the chair, forcing Davis to put the matter before the Senate.
Then in a very tight contest Davis voted, throwing the question into a tie and consequent approval of his decision.
“The students who signed the petition made known their desire for a re-election of student body president,” Omar Kureishi said.
Tables will be set up in front of the Student Union, where Unity men will start to get signatures for the new protest petition. They will attempt to complete the petitioning before noon, in order to present them at the Senate’s afternoon meeting.
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