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Los Angeles, Calif., Monday, May 16, 1949
Night Phone RI. 5472
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OTTER MAY GALL
shley New ditor of DT
SC in Opera
Bundy, Sellers Appointed to Fill Asst. Editors Posts for 1949-50
Lnnable Francis Rowland A^hlev. Sigma Delta Chi profes-il journalism fraternity president. Blue Key member, former desk editor, was appointed to succeed Gerald F. ler as DT editor at the annual DT banquet held at the ]a supper club last Friday night.
taking the decision that Ash-*-
to succeed him, departing	•	•
Preregistration Conflicts With Finals Schedule
Maher said he was well of tlie fact that it was no [task to choose a successor be-there were several other cap-|journalism students who rated in ability.
Iiley announced he would abol-|he positions of managing edi-ind news editor and appoint assistant editors instead. To hesc posts he named journalism brs Reid Bundy and Murion Irs. Named as Women's Editor lUrsula Baumann.
FLYNN EMCEED Jlanous highlight of the banal which law student and entertainer Joe Flynn was se. came when Al Hix. Jack s. Ken Downs, and Ben Wein-presented a humorous parody lhe current radio program "The |Story."
ripient of the outstanding fuate award came as a surprise one. It was Editor Jerry Mah-Iflaher, along with Charles Den-; Benson Srere, Andrew Andei-and Alexander Hicks also re-the “top 10 yer cent” schol-awa’ds.
DIEDERICH HONORED
rvey Diederich, DT political »r. received the Sigma Delta award for the best reporting on the paper the past year.
®ys for yeoman work done on DT this year were given to d Hearn. Grelun Landon. ick Denton, Diana Griffln. Jack mi, John Bethel. Andy Anderson, iHix, and Jerry Maher.
(TRO Will Air :andal, Gossip
I'The worst SC scandal in years be exposed on’ “Here s News You.” KTRO s answer to Roses izzes at 8 tonight.
If you think preregistration for Summer Session comes during finals. you're absolutely correct.
‘•But." said Registrar Howard W. Patmore Friday, “it's only because it has teen considered best to hold it indoors, and that is the only time we can get the room.”
Preregistration will be held May ; 25 through June 1. Students may pick up registration materials be- ! ginning May 23 at Door G, Owens i annex.
Students attending the postses- 1 sion only, must register July 29-30. !
The first 6000 registration forms I will have a date in the upper left hand corner. For the first three days 'students will register according to this date. Beginning May j 28. undated cards will be honored.
The above schedule applies only ' to students entering limited sec- | tions l“R” cards).
The schedule of classes may be picked up at the information office beginning today.
Students who desire classes marked “H” in the schedule, must i have cards stamped by the department concerned beginning Wednesday. except education (May 23> and i engineering (May 25>. Drama students who need “H" card classes should see the department about ■ taking competitive tests.
Those who do not register at this time may go so at the regular registration period. June 17-18.
Veterans are reminded that unless they register before June 1 | a notice of termination will be j sent to the Veterans admimstra- : tion.
PRINCIPALS of "Ariadne on Naxos/' Strauss opera to be shown in Bovard are music students Lucine Amara and Theodor Uppman.
Strauss Opera Makes Initial Bow Tonight
Richard Strauss’s unusual opera-within-an-opera, “Ariadne on Naxos,” begins a four-day run tonight at 8:30 in Bovard auditorium.
Tonight’s premiere performance marks the first presentation of a complete opera at SC and is the West Coast debut
of the little-known Strauss produc-*-—-
tion.
Lucine Amara. soprano, sings the heroine role of Ariadne tonight and in Friday's performance, while Theodor Uppman. baritone, takes a dual role of the music teacher and Harlekin in the all-student cast.
Amara and Uppman won Atwater Kent awards last year, and he has sung the role of Pelleas in Debussy's opera, “Pelleas et Melisande,” Maggie Teyte.
The story of ‘'Ariadne” unfolds in the prelude which is set in the apartment of a wealthy Viennese nobleman. Act 1 portrays a short opera-within-an-opera presented by the nobleman for the entertainment of his guests.
so that all opera class members may experience stage performances with an orchestra. Singers will play different roles in the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday presentations.
Patricia Brinton sings the roJe of Ariadne on Wednesday and does the part of the composer tonight and Friday.
Holders of activity cards will be admitted to first-balcony seats at all performanes. Reserved tickets are on sale in the ticket office, second floor of the Student Union at $2.40; $180; and $1.20. General admission tickets are 60 cents.
General Clark To Talk Here On Alumni Day
Gen. Mark W. Clark, commanding general of the Sixth army, will be the luncheon speaker on Alumni day. Saturday, it was announced Friday.
General Clark, who took a secret trip by plane and submarine to North Africa in 1942 to plan the Allied invasion, will speak on “Unification of the Armed Services” in# the men's gymnasium at 12:30 p.m.
FAGG WILL WELCOME
President Fred D. Fagg Jr. will welcome alumni at the luncheon. James Mussatti, chairman of the day, will preside, and Ron Stever, president of the general alumni association, will give the annual report.
Alumni day will commence at 10 a.m. with registration in Hancock auditorium. Schools and colleges will hold separate meetings for their graduates during the morning and afternoon.
‘Are Corporation Profits Too High?” will be the subject of a panel discussion led by Dean Reid L. McClung for School of Commerce graduates. Panel participants are Wilbur Stewart '27, Edward Mills ’27. Joe Micciche '28, and three faculty members, associate professors Robert F. Craig, Walter Meigs, and Kenneth L. Trefftzs.
ROTC TO PARADE
The Naval Reserve Officers Training corps will hold its final dress parade of the year and present awards to midshipmen on Bovard field at 11 a.m. School of Education graduataes will hear Dr. D. Welty Lefever speak on curriculum changes at 2:30 p.m.
School of Law alumni will meet in the law auditorium for a panel discussion on “Estate Planning.”
An exhibit will be presented by the School of Architecture. The School of Engineering will hold open house starting at 9:30 a.m.
NEW ELECTION
Referendum Names Still Being Checked
by Don Moyer
ASSC Senators probably will be called into special session in the Senate chambers at 3
this afternoon to approve a new election commission and set the date for the second ASSC
election this semester.
Barbara Potter, ASSC vice-president, said Saturday the session will be called as quickly
as signatures on referendum petitions have been validated.
* PETITIONS CHECKED *-—-
Miss Potter's biparty commission, checking petition signatures, checked 1380 valid signatures by noon Saturday, when the registrar's an-_	| __	|	nex, where the work is being done,
I £11*1 I II1if closed. Ten per cent of the student LCUCfl L/UUUlJ body total. 1640, is needed ior a
recall vote.
★ ★ ★ Petition Raises Doubts
Spurs Plan Party
mmediate Publication f Wampus Demanded
Four thousand irate literary aficionados signed petitions idav demanding immediate publication of Wampus.
The staff of the alleged humor magazine, unavailable comment after they leveled fairly angry charges of fraud 'alleged “judges” in the “funniest ever” national magazine
* contest, came out of alleged hiding Friday night and announced that, because of alleged public opinion, the Wamp will go on sale tomorrow.
“Yes,’ threatened Blunarr Mac-Madden, noted physical culturist and meniDer of Tri-Deltoia and the Sub-losa TNE (Throttle Newspaper Editors). when an alert DT reporter asked if he would submit a “lew flexv jokes to the forthcoming Wampus Vacation issue.
“You should live so long,” philosophized staffman G. B. Shaw to another DT reporter, only slightly alert, who asked him a similar question.
Wampus man Enry Loose was threatened Friday when Mary-Mar-garet McBride came to his office to protest the handling of her home-wrecking article by Wampus writer Vern Lawson.
“Try to get a job,” sneered Mary-Margaret during a long discussion.
“Try to make some money,” she cackled a few moments later. As she left the Wampus office she said, rfUNARR MacMadden "Some day it will be you and I — • • • ilexy jokes	alone.”
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A unique set arrangement is dis- j _ . played in the production in which rOT L3W SeniOTS | the fixtures for the prelude and ! Act 1 both rest on a large revolv-i ing disk. One-half of the circular | disk is the apartment, while the ' other represents the opera-within-: the opera scene.
Wolfgang Martin conducts the 37-; piece university symphony orchestra, i A former assistant conductor at the Metropolitan. Martin has done I Strauss's “Der Rosenkavalier’’ with ! Lothar Wallenstein in Amsterdam.
He has coached and played Mie piano in "Ariadne” conducted by Strauss in Berlin.
Professor Carl Ebert, producer oi the opera, has trained three casts
Registrar's
Notice
Advisers cards are available for the fall semester in Owens annex. Students who expect to register for the fall semester, 1949, are advised to arrange their programs and get their adviser's approval before this semester is over. Advisers should be contacted during their office hours.
May 17 is the last day that students can drop courses with a mark of “W” provided that work in the course is of passing quality at the time it is dropped. Students who wish to drop courses should secure change of program cards at the registrar’s office.
Howard W. Patmore Registrar
Ijaw seniors and their professors will be entertained by Spurs at an informal get-together this morning at 11:30 on the lawn behind the Schooi of Law.
This is the last of a series of parties given by Spurs and planned by Nance Davies for the freshman, junior, and senior law classes. Law seniors rnay bring their lunches and will be served cokes by Miss Davies, Jackie McColl, and Beverly Walker.
The series is part of Spurs’ semester project for furthering student-faculty relations.
BowenFinalists Appear Today
Finalists will climax the Bowen cup speech contest today at 4 p.m. with extemporaneous talks of six minutes or more
The contestants, Dave Cooney, Dale Drum. Dave Hunter. Evelyn Izen, Tom Lucier. and Ed Steg-man, will speak in 209 Speech B.
Drawing their topics at 3:30, the participants are given 45 minutes to prepare talks.
Since subtopics are controversial in nature, each participant is required to take a definite stand. The original topic discussed by 16 contestants in the preliminary rounds was “The United States in World Affairs.”
The three winners will get identical trophies, which have been supplied by the Bowen foundation.
Validity of the referendum was questioned Friday when a group of interested students took the petitions into legal circles. Bill Bretz, Bill Stevens, Pamell Curry, Grafton Tanquary, Jack Shaffer and Walt Brown asked Professor ot L»aw Holbrook the legality of the action.
“The question is whether the referendum question and the re-election will be run on one ballot, Tanquary said. “There seems little doubt that the Senate will honor the petitions, but they must decide whether they'll have a student election on the referendum this week and the presidential reelection in the fall, or only have one balloting,” Tanquary added.
SENATE TO DECIDE
If the senate decides to have both
The additional 260 signatures will be verified early this morning according to reports from members of the committee.
In the absence of ASSC President. John Davis, at a convention in Sun Valley, Miss Potter will call the special session and make her recommendations for the new elections commissioner and the elections commission.
BIPARTISAN COMMISSION “I will try and split the election commission evenly,” she said, indicating that Unity party and Row will be equally represented on the new commission.
Grafton Tanquary. AMS presi-aent. was named as the person most likely to be selected by the vice-piesident as elections commissioner. "He is objective in his outlook and. I believe, trusted by both sides,
Ineligible Vote Cast in Election Report Okay
the propositions on one ballot, atu- j Miss Potter said.
dents will have to answer two questions. One, “I vote for a new student body presidential election.” Two, “If number one is passed 1 vote for Bob Padgett or Ed Vierheilig as AS5C president.”
If the senate delays the presidential election, students will have to wait until the fall semester to reelect a presidential candidate, providing the referendum election is approved.
The Senate will decide th?se questions at their meeting Monday afternoon.
Shaffer said Professor Holbrook pointed out that the ASSC constitution >as full of loopholes and could be subject to several different interpretations.
IT COULD HAPPEN
If the senators decide their vote isn't necessary for the verification of
A move developed Friday to find legal loopholes in the ASSC constitution and in the referendum petition. Such delaying tactics were called "foolishness” by the sincere ASSC vice-president.
“I believe there should be another election.” Miss Potter said.
ELECTION THIS WEEK “I will recommend to the senate that the election be held without delay. I hope it will be held this week,” she said.
To further side-step time waste. Miss Potter said she favored placing the recall issue and names of presidential candioates on the same ballot. thereby necessitating only one additional election.
WON’T COUNT BALLOTS To prevent election returns from leaking to ihe student body before the end of the voting period, which has been decried by many persons,
the election, then there can be no Miss Potter said she will recom-
review of their action, making the petitions invalid, and letting the election stand.
All that would remain then is to set a date for the new elections. This seems the most likely thing to happen.
Since Vierheilig hasn't taken office yet, it's not possible to petition for his recall.
mend that the ballots not be counted until the end of the voting period.
Arrangements have already been made to keep the marked ballots in
the vault of a local bank, she said. The move will be made to prevent stuffing of the ballot box as happened before on campus in 1943 elections.
by Harvey Edwards
Review of the senators approving the Election Commissioners’ report at last week's fiery Senate meeting revealed yesterday that an inelgible vote was cast.
Dave Moscowitz cast a proxy vote for tardy Senator Jack Silverstein, L^S councU president, but it'5 rather vague who gave Moscowitz permission to do so. Moscowitz isn t on the LAS council, nor is he in the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, which he was supposedly representing. He’s a Commerce senior.
WHO’S CONFUSED
In an interview Moscowitz stated that Joe Dunwoody. member of the confused Election Commission and LAS council secretary, told him to take Silverstein’s proxy vote.
The confusion began when Silverstein. expecting to be late to the meeting, asked Dunwoody to vote by proxy for him.
‘T did not authorize anyone but Dunwoody to vote for me,” Silverstein said. “It's necessary to Write a letter to the ASSC secretary notifying her of a proxy representative.” he added. “I wrote naming Joe Dunwoody as my proxy.”
IT’S NOT CRICKET
Dunwoody, according to Moscowitz, did not fee! it was right to vote for the approval of the election commissioners’ report since he was a member of the commission, so he gave Silverstein’s vote to Moscowitz.
The revelation started when Silverstein walked into the Senate meeting as the voting was about to begin. When it came his tum to vote he abstained. Cal Schmidt challenged the vote, and ASSC president Johnny Davis told Silverstein to confer with his proxy.
Again he abstained, and Silverstein states that he told the Senate they could take Moscowitz's vote, but that his declaration was still abstention. Moscowitz voted approval .saying, “It doesn't make any difference.”
It's Easy for Students
Daggermen Denounce Decency As Coattails Flap in Breeze
SkullDaggery!
That was the charge leveled Friday against a prominent men’s honorary organization by angry students and street sweepers
The incident occurred at noon Friday when a hay wagon full of hairy legs and striped shorts pulled up in front of Bovard and dumped its load of Skull and Dagger initiates.
On the route up University avenue the neophytes scattered hay with light-hearted abandon, littering the streets and filling a few open convertibles.
At Bovard the initiates, daringly dressed in top hats, frock coats, loud shorts, and garters, loped around the avenue for a
while. A band composed of several harmonicas, a bass drum, and a trumpet repeatedly struck up “Fight On” with enthusiasm, but the tune died a miserable death before it got a good start.
Then the initiates, coat tails flapping around their knobby knees, invaded the crew rally in Bovard.
Armed with water pistols they fired at will and everyone else in the audience as they paraded down the aisles. After leading the group in school yells they scatted-ed to other parts of the campus.
The horses pulling the hay wagon made no comment as they watched the proceedings with raised eyebrows.
Contest Swamps Phones
Who is it?
SC switchboard operators were swamped all day Friday as nun-, dreds of persons called in seeKing j information about a top SC otn-1 cial.
The callers, hot on the trail ol $15,000 worth oi refrigerators, washing machines, and other mercnan-dise, were concerned with the identity of a picture in the Examiner's "Who Am I?” contest.
The clues offered by the paper under the photo of a certain silver-haired SC personality were:
“As the former president of the Univarsity of Southern California he won national and international honors as an educator.
“He was presidet of USC irom 1921 untU 1947 and is now chancellor. During his presidency he was instrumental in rating USC as one of the outstanding universities oi this country.”
ISSiE
Work was disrupted as named telephone operators transferred tne calls to the information office, the news bureau, the department of development, the chancellor's office, and the president's office.
The secretaries of the various offices were puzzled over the sudaon deluge of queries, but they answered all questions.
The most common questions were “Who is the chancellor?” and “Who was president until 1947 '» The callers usually couldn't understand the name and it had to be spelled out, they reported.
DR. R. B.
VON KLEINSMID
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LA City Planner To Speak Today
plans to improve Los Angeles’ transportation system will be discussed by Chief City Planner Milton Braivogel today at 10 a.m. in K 102.