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Vol. LIV
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 ,1963
NO. 62
BE MY VALENTINE
Collegiate Cupids ASSC Issues Songleader Plea;
Abandon Cliches Resolution Will Go to Cabinet
By GREG HILL
Trojan lovers have been finding a new and in-triguingly different carrier for their .steaming emotions for Valentine’s Day — the Western Union.
The Spurs, apparently seeing the telegraoh as j both a source of revenue for their organization and of i enjoyment for other Troians, set up their own office j in front of the Student Union this week to convey the j students* Valentine thoughts to their loved (?) ones j Delivery of the Spur-O-Gram is being carried out per- j sonally by Spur members.
The result? A flood of amorous communication., ranging from the nefarious to the sublime. Iiiiagina-tive Trojans sent congratulations, warnings, compli- j ments, hate notes and criticism.
Some students even breathed forth with poetic ereations, such as this bit of verse:
With sheer delight,
*Tis tomorrow night,
That brings our hearts together;
Soft shades of red,
And cupid inbred.
Suspended in air like a feather.
The author may not have been using a pseudonym when he signed his name as “Daniel Depraved ”
Others took advantage of Valentine's Day and the Spurs’ version of Western Union to send comnliments.
For example, one coed sent this to her roommate:
“Happy Valentine's Day, Sweetie! to the girl with the Beauty Bod.”
A good many students sent messages of a different sort. One, who signed off as “The Exterminator,” utilized the telegram to send this warning to one of his girl friends: “Beware of Cookie, the Cockroach, he is in your room.” Perhaps he can’t stand competition.
Another decided to express a little ill will: “Happy Lincoln’s Birthday! Hang by your thumbs!”
And, on such a day of love as this, somebody had to couch his amour in the language of love: “Je t’aime, aujuord ‘hui, plus qu’hler, et mois que demain ” Signed ¡perfect balance, with each “Toujours, T’amour.”
Whatever the language or the feeling expressed, both the Spurs and their fellow Trojans apparently found the sending of passionate telegrams a profitable and enjoyable experience.
The only drawback seemed to be money. As one Spiir-O-Gram sender said, “On this day set aside fcr love, I would like to tell you how much you mean to me. You mean very much to me. I’d elaborate, but it would cost over a hundred dollars, even via Spur-O-Gram.
Students Tell Wish For More Speakers
Students want more speakers and guest activity books for dates, according to the recent AMS-AWS Improve Your School Week polls, AMS President Hal Stokes reported to the ASSC Senate last night.
Students also showed concern for urban and school
improvement and asked for in-
Pacific Atolls Grow Larger, Biologist Says
Pacific atolls have not always been as big as they now are because they are continually undergoing a growing process, Dr. E. Yale Dawson, professor of biology, said last night.
Speaking in the fifth address of the annual Hancock Lecture Series, Dr, Dawson said an atoll must be considered “a kind of dynamic, living organism, an association of living things, all dwelling together in
plant and animal contributing to the life and growth of the whole atoll and to the delicate j balance maintained between construction and destruction.”
Row Dance to Herald House Construction
The Playboys, a s i n g i ng group, will entertain on the Rowr tonight at 8 at a Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity - sponsored street dance in honor of the fraternity’s new house.
The dance is in celebration of the construction of a new' $125,000 fraternity house to be started in March.
past three months, and the “Beast” is expected soon.
In the past, the house has used its fire engine for activities ranging from water fights to taking orphan children to Disneyland on Christmas. The new7 engine w'ill be used in the same way.
Rader said the remodeled
ice for spring semester activi-
and
possible.
projects
“The new7 house is the prod-1 f-
r tire engine w:ill be put in serv uct of many years hard work
by the chapter, and now that|.j it is in sight, everyone is breathing easier,” Bill Rader,
PiKA president, said.	m
The new building will house kypri |tl 46 men in two-man rooms and ACV.U I I V CO Is being privately financed by tb« national office and the;
»hjrrmi association, Rader said. I “As a matter of fact,” Rader; rontinued, “the architect who designed the house is a graduate of the USC chapter.”
Rader explained that along with the arrival of the new-house, tho fraternity is looking forward to the arrival of a “new” fire engine — new. that Is, to the fraternity.
The old 1924 Seagraves engine formerly used by the fraternity has been undergoing remodeling treatments for the
Atoll Forms
Formation of an atoll from a reef begins as calcareous algae, known generally as nul-lipores, grow into the breaking
-----[surf. Dr. Dawson explained.
“As they do, the intensity of the surf becomes greatest j around the margin of the reef,” I he said. “Here the nullipores grow upward and form a rim that is slightly higher than sea level.
“This rim, which breaks the impact of the waves from all sides, provides a relative calm over the interior part of the reef, allowing for a lagoon,” he added.
Seaward Advance The seaward advance of this "ridge” leaves behind it a reef flat that stretches between the ridge and the central lagoon
To Gather
The ASSC Executive Cabinet will hold its first meeting of the new semester today at 2:15 in 321 SU. ASSC President Bart Leddel announced yesterday.
In addition to regular business, two new appointments to the ASSC president’s administration will be made. The cabinet will also discuss plans and coming events scheduled for the spring semester, Leddel said.
formed inside the ridge, the USC biologist explained.
As storms cast .boulders and debris on this reef margin, fresh water is confined and seeds, carried to the islet by wind and sea, sprout and bring island vegetation.
“The growth cycle continues as sea birds come and, in feeding and nesting, they convert the animal life of the sea into fertilizer for the land. The birds thrive, trees and shrubs grow and gradually humus forms on what was only barren sand and rock,” he said.
“In all of this islet growth, the calcareous algae play an important role, spreading their crusts over the rubble and the sand, cementing and binding the reef margin.
stallation of better safety facilities on Hoover Boulevard, Stokes said.
According to the survey, students want more outside speakers prominent in political and cultural areas, Stokes said.
Monthly Lectures
Further suggestions were made for the establishment of a monthly lecture series with USC and guest professors participating with general topics set at the beginning of the year, he explained.
Students also recommended guest passes allowing non-students to sit in the rooting section.
Participants in the week-long project said each student should be given the option of buying a guest activity book or “date book” at the beginning of the year, Stokes explained.
Students also felt that a board in the reading rooms of Doheny Library. to notify the students that their books are available would help improve the efficiency of the library, he said.
International Dorm
The suggestion for an international dorm w-ith a foreign student representative to the Senate was also popular among the student body, Stokes reported.
Students believed that such a dormitory would improve re lations between foreign and American students, he said
Coinciding with the recent bill considered by the ASSC Senate, students also suggested women songleaders at athletic events.
Daily Trojan
Many students attending only afternoon classes asked that the Daily Trojan distribute papers twice a day — once in the morning and again at noon, Stokes said. He explained that these students said they often fail to get a paper because there are never any left on the stands in the afternoon.
“More than 400 suggestions were received and one-third of these were made by the faculty,” Stokes said.
The results of the survey were divided into four areas— library and dormitories, urban and school, student government and activities and services, he said.
“The survey should be made, however, at the beginning of the school year so that the Senate would be more aware of the desires of students,” Stokes added.
Academic Program Gets Belated Okay
By BEBE SCHERB Senate Reporter
Strong support for Trojan songleaders was again voiced by the ASSC Senate last night at its first meeting of the semester.
In addition to passing a resolution in support of songleaders, the Senate approved an amended ASSC
Daily Trojan Photo
NEW LOOK — Trojanes (back row l-r) Sandi Dorsey, Cheryl Mangam, Sara Smith, Linda Choquette, and (seated) Marilou Pierson model their new red uniforms. Women of the AMS will debut in the outfits today.
Trojanes Will Strut With New Uniforms
AMS Trojanes will make a premiere appearance on campus in their new uniforms today. T r o j a n e President Sara Smith announced yesterday.
The uniforms consist of dark skirts and long - sleeved red blouses with the Trojane name on the pocket of the blouse. Trojanes will wear their uniforms each Thursday, which is their meeting day. They will meet today at 4 in 301a SU.
Future plans for the Trojanes include selling tickets for the AMS Playboy Party, ushering at the AMS Awards Assembly on May 6 and acting as hostesses for the special speaker program Other plans will be discussed at today's meeting.
Trojanes, sponsored by AMS, is an organization for freshmen women. Their purpose is to act under the auspices of AMS as hostesses at university functions, to help further the spirit among women and to uphold the traditions of Troy.
Charles A. Navia, academic counselor, is serving as sponsor for the group this semester.
“He will help us to achieve a nn re dynamic role in the uni-v e r s i t y, ” Miss Smith said. Other Trojane officers are Cheryl Hildenbrand, secretary; and Susie Fields, vice-president and treasurer.
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helping during the AMS-AWS Improve Your School Week and helping with the recent stuient orientation week.
Applications for membership for this semester will be available to interested fres’iman women Monday in ?36 SU, she said.
Committee Gives USC $250,000
Past activities of Trojanes include ushering at student-sponsored speaker programs,
Legislators Praise Troy
A resolution commending the | USC football team for its undefeated season was unani-j mously passed recently by the State Senate.
“All of us in California are proud of the wonderful job done by the Trojan team in becoming national champions and also winning the most thrilling Rose Bowl victory of all time,” Sen. Thomas M. Rees, D-Los Angeles, the author of the resolution, said.
“It’s an honor for me els the senator from Los Angeles County to introduce this congratulatory resolution,” he said.
The resolution concluded: “Members of the Senate do hereby extend their heartiest congratulations to the University of Southern California j football team, to John McKay, j the head coach cf the Trojans, and to each of the officers and officials of the University of Southern California who played some pert therein.’’
SONGS FROM THE SOUL
MUSICAL SPIRIT — Wemen of the Delta Choraliers sing traditional spirituals during the song-and-speech presentation of “God s Trombones'' last night in Bovard
Daily Trojan Photo
Auditorium. Hosted by Kappa Alpha Psi and Delta Sigma Theta, the program, written by James W. Johnson, was planned as a prelude to Negro History Week.
A $250,000 annual grant from the technical advisory committee of the joint service— Army, Navy and Air Force— for basic research in electronics was announced yesterday by Dr. Topping.
USC is one of eight universities in the nation psrticipat ing in the program Other schools are Harvard. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Illinois, Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley.
The grant will be used to develop interdisciplinary electronic research and augment an already active program of scientific study in the depart ment, announced Dr. Zohrab Kaprielian, chairman of the electrical engineering department.
The program will contribute to one phase of USCs Master Plan, which calls for the development. of a Solid State Sciences Institute to serve scientific and technological companies in the community.
In addition to the grant, made by the joint services, the electrical engineering depart-; ment recently received a for-; givable loan grant to graduate j students from the Ford Foundation.
Academic Emphasis Project bill and a bill call in" for the installation of fruit and fruit juice macliines in the Physical Education Building.
A bill requesting songleaders for sports events was passed by the student legislature two years ago. but failed to gain the approval of the adminis-, tration.
If the Executive Cabinet approves the resolution, it will be sent to the administration to see whether administrative attitudes have changed.
Academic Project
The Academic Emphasis Project — seeking to establish extracurricular academic activities outside of the classroom —was the cvnter of heited debate before gaining the Senate’s approval.
The bill suggests that the senators meet with heads of their field of study to discuss the possibility of setting up after-class meeting? that would enable students to continue class discussion aftrr with the professors.
Amendments Will Remodel ASSC Voting
Bv VIRGINIA BODIN Election* Reporter
Candidates who petition for student government offices this year will be affected by two new constitutional amendments passed in special balloting last month.
The amendments include a measure that changed the units required for voting in an ASSC election and a plan allowing the Senate to reapportion itself.
The vote on the apportionment amendment was 157 to 10 and vote on the unit change amendment was 153 to 14.
Former Requirement
Previously, the number of hours | units required to vote were 12. The new amendment reduced The meetings would also the	number	to	10.	giving	more
give the students an oppor- students voting eligibility, tunity to attend seminars in j	Students	having	10	or	more
which outstanding professors, teaching assistants or honor students would be invited to speak.	~	1 :
New Challenge International Relations Sen.
Ken Kloepfer said such a program would bring the field of study closer together and would present a challenge to the Senate ?»nd the administration.
"It would give the Senate a reason for existing,” he added.
Social Studies Sen. Dennis Barr questioned whether there were enough interested students to do extra reading to make the meetings beneficial and keep them from fc'X’oming “milking sessions” about coming exams.
n-Hi*h	The present apportionment
To make the senators re- iatK) js one senat0r for every sponsible for coordinating and^QO persons enrolled in the stimulating the program woulH! fie(r| of st(Jf1y turn the senators’ job into a;
“hellish job," Sen. Barr added, i The bill was amended to eli-j minate deadlines for initiation _	.	.	.	.
of the program because sena-¡Sfnf^l.arCnir^C tors felt they could not fore?
anyone intc action.	Q ^ „ A X L I ^ a _ _
A bill seeking recognition of; I w I M I niwl6w Tau Kappa Epsilon’s Delta
Sigma Chapter of Daughte-s! A scholarship fund for out-of Diana was introduced by standing athletes interested in Sen Barr	¡pursuing careers in medicine
Social Studies Sen. Lynn or dentistry has been founded Rehm said the organization had >	of	the	late	Dr.	Ron-
little or no value to the stu- aId T- Drummond, School of
Dentistry alumnus.
Dr. Drummond was killed n a i.ar accident on Dec. 15. He had teen elected president of the Ridgecrest Chamber of Commerce the day before his death.
Dr. Robert W. McNulty, dean of the School of Dentistry, described him as one of the most promising graduates.
Receiving his DDS degree from USC 'n 1960, Dr. Drummond was a football and track star at Van Nuys High School, Mademoiselle magazine has! a track star during his under-
units will be eligible to run for ASSC Senate, Executive Cabinet and class offices.
Tire same amendment includes a plan to facilitate and cut down on the expense of compiling lists of eligible voters before elections.
The Senate apportionment amendment intended to shift the duty of apportioning senators from the Elections Committee to the Senate itself.
On Enrollment The number of senators representing each field of study will now be determined annually on the basis of its previous full -time enrollment by the Senate Student Affairs Committee and submitted to the Senate for majority approval.
Medics Plan
dent body.
Sen. Kloepfer pointed out, however, that the legislature had approved such “little sister” groups in the past. Th~ bill was sent to the Senate Rules Committee to check its Constitutional jurisdiction.
Coed Wins Merit Prize
SDX Staff To Convene
Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalistic society, will have an elections meeting today at noon in 420 SU, Press Secretary Dan Smith said yesterday.
Smith explained that the group w-ill vote on replacements for officers who graduated last month. He said members also would discuss activi-j ties for the coming semester and special projects for indi-; vidual members.
selected Mrs. Stephanie Merton Russell, a student studying for her master’s degree in social work, as one of its 10 1963 ¡Merit Award winners.
! Mrs. Russell received her award for achievement in social work and studies in mental illness.
Her interest in mental illness started in college when she led a group of Harvard and Rad-cliffe students who organized and operated Wellmet, a home for schizophrenic patients.
Mrs. Russell graduated mag-na cum laude from Radcliffe in
graduate days at UCLA and a member of the U.S. Olympic discus team in 1956.
In his two years as a practicing dentist at Ridgecrest in Ke.-n County, Dr. F nimmond became a leader in the community. Beside his election to the Chamber of Commerce, he had served as vice president of the Rotary Quo.
Dr. Drummond was a Navy veteran of the Korean War. He was also i rrember of Psi Omega dental fraternity and the American Dental Association.
He is sarv'ved by his «widow .
1961. Before moving to Califor- Modena Merical Drummond, nia she did graduate work in 222 Sierra Vista. Ridgecrest, the fields of psychiatric socialand an 11-year-old son, Daniel work	j	Blake Drummond.