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LAST GOODBYES are said by SC mascot George Tirebiter III,* right, to his predecessor, George II, berore the latter was hustled off by ex-Knight president Jim Cooke to a rest farm. George II suffered a mild nervous breakdown.
ITS A DOG'S LIFE
Plight of George II Proves Controversial
by Al Morch
George Tirebiter n is taking the rest-farm cure for a nervous breakdown. George III has taken up the leash cast from his predecessor’s faltering paws to become the new Trojan mascot. This has put a question into many students’
minds.
IFC Names 5-Man Team
To Probe Meacham Ouster
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Vol. XLIV «CE>7- Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, Mar. 13, 1953 No. 94
Von KleinSmid Portrait Bust Given to SC
A bronze portrait hust of Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid was presented to the university yesterday in recognition of the Chancellor's 32 years of service to the community.
General Walter P. Story presented the work on behalf of a group of friends who sponsored the bust, done by the late Salvatore Cartiano Scarpitta, noted sculptor.
A graduate of the Royal Italian academy, Scarpitta came to this country in 1910 and exhibited in leading art centers throughout the world. Prior to World War II he was commissioned to do a statue of Mussolini for the New7 Forum in Rome, a project he gave up in favor of joining the Allies. His exploits in aiding U.S. soldiers during World War II were recounted recently on “This Is Your Life,” a local television program.
Prior to his death m 1948. Scarpitta did bronze portraits of many leading Southern Californians in addition to architectural sculpturing on the Los Angeles general hospital and stock exchange building.
Ceremonies in the Chancellor's suite were attended by Mrs. Scarpitta. her son Salvatore, a prominent Italian painter, and her daughter Carmen.
Miss Scarpitta is an SC student majoring in international relations. and a member of the Alpha Mu Gamma, honorary music fraternity.
Psychology Heads To Speak on TV
‘‘Social Perceptions" will be discussed by Dr. Constance Lovell, associate professor of psychology, •nd Dr. Milton Metfessel. professor of psychology, on the “Halls of Science" television program Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
The show, which will deal with research on how people Judge each other by appearances, is on KNBH. channel 4.
Veteran's
Notice
Saturday will be the last day for Veterans attending school under Public Law S46 to:
1.	Pay excess charges for the Spring semester.
2.	Purchase books and supplies at the Bookstore with a credit card.
S. Apply for refund for a cash purchase of books and supplies. C. S. Jameson Asst. Registrar for Veterans Affairs
“Are we being unfair to our canine mascots?” was asked of several students on campus.
Estelle Maguire, business-law major, says, “We are not. It isn’t everyone who gets to sit on the bench writh the football players— it’s an honor.”
New Environment "George II doesn’t work too hard,” said Harriet Zlatohlavek, treatment media instructor in occupational therapy. “He needs a change that’s all. Maybe mingling with other animals, or supply of recapped tires will help. It could be the tire-chasing that’s worn him down. Regardless the farm will help.”
Psychology Says No “A dog’s state in life does not fit him psychologically for the strain of being an SC mascot,” said Dr. George H. Watson, as-sistant professor of philosophy. “Almost any dog under this stress would give way.
“Of course some would argue that the intensity of his experiences w'ould make a short life more interesting than a long normal one, but that is a moot point. Morally, George II as a mascot is wrong,” he said.
Like von KleinSmid “No. that’s merely the obligation of performing his job,” said Larry Kelly, education major. “The greater the responsibilities —say like those of Chancellor von KleinSmid or President Fagg —the more pressures. It’s bound to happen sooner or later.”
Clinton A. Neyman, university chaplain, said. “I saw George III the other day and he looked healthy to me.”
“George II? That’s different. He always looked too indiscriminant to represent a growing institution. Probably worry over the outcome of some of the football games did it. You don’t think so? Well take a look at some of our own people.”
Bad Home Life “While I'm on the subject I’d like to say that I don’t care for the house-to-house treatment that George III is getting. All this handling isn’t good for a dog. A dog should have a home.” he said.
“I know a dog that lived 16 years as a mascot, and he never had a breakdown,” said Danny O'Donnell, history major. “I guess it depends on the dog.”
“With all our facilities can’t the department of clinical psychology of the School of Medicine do something for ailing George II?” he said.
More Please
Hank Alcouloumre. journalism major, said. “I don’t think so. After all we put up the Trojan column for them. Maybe the nervous breakdowns are due to not enough Trojan columns.”
“I think we are barking up the wrong tree.” said Nick Tihson, LAS. ‘The question should be ‘Are our dogs being unfair to us?’ They get everything for free and it costs us $19 a unit.’ ’
“Take George III for instance. He gets the best seats at football games, is petted by pretty sorority women, and his cuisine is prepared by the most discriminating fraternity chefs.” he said.
“In addition his picture is in the paper every day and everyone knows him. What more could one ask?”
“Breakdown—schmakedown. For two ‘scents’ I'd pin a tail on myself and go ‘arf! arf!” he said.
SC Site for First AF Flight Course
A new U. S. Air Force flight safety training program will be inaugurated Monday at SC, the first university in the nation selected to conduct the formal training. SC was chosen for the flight program because of Its past achieve-ments in aviation, medicine, and psychology. Carl Hancey,
dean of University College, is administrative director; Dr. Louis Kaplan is coordinator; and Capt. Smith W. Ames is liaison officer.
Planned to achieve maximum accident prevention through the scientific approach of investigation and engineering techniques, the program was created by the Directorate of Flight Safety. The directorate is responsible for the supervision of the overall Air Force flight safety.
Use Centrifuge SC’s centrifuge, a laboratory to simulate gravity forces encountered ddring high speed flying, will be used for study of the effects of acceleration. The pilot is seated in a cockpit which is whirled to produce the G-forces.
Twenty selected student officers, who hold the rank of captain or higher, will receive instruction on aviation psychology and physiology, causes and effects of aerodynamic forces in accidents, and inspection methods.
The group is the forerunner of 360 flying safety officers who will be trained at SC in aircraft accident prevention during the next three years. Each course is for a six-week period and offers training at professional levels in the flight safety career field.
List Instructors Among faculty who will give instruction from their own special training manuals are Dr. Neil Warren, aviation psychologist; Cecil E. Davies and Hugh H. Hurt, aeronautical engineers; Dr. Carl K. Brown, resident physician, Los Angeles County Hospital; Dr. Laurence E. Morehouse and Dr. Paul H. Evans, aviation psychologists; Dr. Milton Dickens, head of the SC department of speech; and Dr. Kaplan, educational instructor.
Willis S. Duniway, Department of Development, will lecture to the students on public relations and news preparation, and Howard M. Palmer, managing editor of the Alumni Review will give instruction on graphic presentations.
En Garde!!
DT to Publish Battle Columns
Following a pattern set down in previous elections, the Daily Trojan will run battle columns containing aims and platforms of candidates for ASSC offices.
All candidates in the elections Wednesday and Thursday of next week may submit battle columns. The columns must be no more than 150 words in length, typewritten and doublespaced. Deadline for battle columns, which will appear in Tuesday’s DT, is 3 p.m. Monday.
Columns must be signed by the candidate and brought to the DT city room, 432 Student Union. No columns which fail to meet the preceding requirements will be accepted.
Forensics Prepare for Final Meet
The Trojan Debate team’s last tournament of the season got underway at Pepperdine college yesterday. Competition will end tomorrow afternoon against Pepperdine, San Diego State, ’Stanford, and Los Angeles City college.
“We’ve got the best chance of the year for a victory,” said Coach Dr. Alan Nichols, who has trained more winning squads and over a longer period than has any other mentor in the West.
"The squad has had some bad luck this year,” Coach Nichols continued, “but this is our last major contest and the debators— seniors especially — are really pointing for it.”
SC will be represented by 16 debators ,two of whom are seniors, Betty Wilcoxon and Willis Henderson, who echoed their coach’s words and added:
“This is the last tournament we'll be in—and that’s the one you always work hardest for.” They are entered in debate, discussion, extemporaneeous speaking and impromptu.
Other debators, discussing the question, “Resolved, that the Congress of the United States should pass a fair employment practices law’,” are Jean Holliger, Darrell Essex, James Smith, and Bo Jansen in the upper division.
Assisting them in the lower division are Sally Rochlin, Bette Dobkin, Anne Odin, Marguerite Cooper, Murry Bring. Ron Wein-traub, Jack Warner, Richard Merritt, Kirk Dickens, and Robert Wallach.
Soviet Reforms In Far East Dr. Chen Topic
Communism has stopped inflation in China, controlled prices economically, raised the prestige of China, and has introduced many reforms, but it has failed.
That is part of what Dr. T. H. Chen, head of the department of Asiatic studies will tell the World Affairs institute at 8 tonight at the Lobero theater in Santa Barbara.
Dr. Chen will give the opening address at the institute, which is sponsored by the American Friends service committee. His topic will be, “What Is Going on in Asia Today.”
High Taxes “Even though inflation has been controlled, the people have to pay so much in taxes that it nullifies their economic gains,” Chen said.
"China’s prestige has been raised among nations, but she has had to pay by taking part in the Korean war and bAig a puppet of Russia,” he said.
Family Reforms “The communists have given land to the poor peasant, and have instituted family reforms, and have advanced the position of women,” said Dr. Chen.
“Many of their reforms, however, have been overshadowed by political motives,” he countered. “For example, their economic gains and land giving has been influenced, by political personal gains.
Communist Efficiency
“The communists are truly efficient, but they are efficient in the bad things they do more than the good things so that makes it much more worse for the Chinese,” he said.
Dr. Chen believes that China can eventually be won over to the free world when they see the greater hope that the free world has to offer.
Other experts on Asian policy will be at the World Affairs institute. They include professors from the University of Chicago, University of Arizona, and Santa Barbara college.
DEAN HYINK
. . lends support
Annual Purim Carnival
SC’s Hillel Foundation annual Purim carnival will be held Sunday in Hillel patio, 1029 West 36th street.
Fraternities participating are Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Beta Epsilon; sororities are Alpha Epsilon Phi and Phi Sigma Sigma. Debbie Mikells will do silhouette portraits.
The coronation of Queen Esther will highlight the carnival. Sandy Turbow and Lennie Gerstle, Alpha Epsilon Phi; Trudy Carter, Phi Sigma Sigma: and Jaye Chason, East L.A. Junior college, are contenders.
The queen wilL receive an oil portrait painted by the Israeli painter Davie Hammer, in her costume, which will be displayed at Hillel lounge. She will also re-
ceive gifts from various merchants in the area.
MC of the carnival will be Marvin Miller; Alfred Prizzmetal, star of the radio series “Meet Millie,” will be on board also.
Prizes for the different booths will be for the most beautiful, most original, and most successful. Booths will be on the Hillel parking lot and will receive prizes from local merchants, free dinners, theatre tickets, lamps, gas, and dance tickets. Dancing will be included and admission is 25 cents.
Judges of the queen contest and the booths are Ken Shanks, interfraternity coordinator, Chaplin Clinton A. Neyman, Prof. of physiology, Chester Hyman, and Mrs. Plotkin, district chairman for B’nai B’rith Women.
First Educational TV Workshop At SC to Aid Community Leaders
by Roy Page Programming for educational television broadcasting in Los Angeles took a solid step up the ladder toward actual existence at a community conference yesterday in Hancock auditorium.
Plans for a workshop to assist community organizations in the use of educational television were revealed by Mrs. Lois McCarthy, executive director of the Council of National Organizations.
SC will be the site of the first workshop which will run from April 22 to May 1, and will train community leaders in a learn-by-doing technique.
UHF channel 28 at SC, which
is the first Los Angeles educational television station, is scheduled to begin broadcasting about May 1.
“I am convinced that there is enough experience in the community leaders to put on good and interesting educational programs in Los Angeles,” said Mrs. McCarthy.
“Not individual organizations, but organizations working together will be able to put on good programs,” she said.
She believed that if the community was interested enough that there would be little trouble in getting enough financial backing for considerable educational TV broadcasting.
More than one hundred repre-
sentatives were at the meeting yesterday. Some of the groups they represented included the Los Angeles City schools. League of Women Voters, Los Angeles CIO council, Boy Scouts, National As-socittion for Mental Health, and the Junior League.
The workshop will take into account the nature of the community, the past use of mass media, the responsibility of television programming, and past experience with television.
Educational TV is an about-face commercial television, according to Mrs. McCarthy, and the problems of the workshop is to make the representatives of the organizations to realize the potentialities of the new medium.
Measles Spot Ten in Minor Local Outbreak
Ten cases of German measles have been reported to the University Health center in the last three weeks, it was revealed by Director Paul A. Greeley yesterday.
“The disease is a mild-type of measles,” Dr. Greeley said. "It lasts from three to four days.”
Six members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity house tiave recently contracted the disease, according to the City Health center.
Symptoms to look for in German measles are an upper respiratory infection accompanied by a body-wracking type of cough; swelling of the glands in the neck behind the ears; and a fever of 102 or 103.
"These symtoms occur about 24 to 48 hours before a rash breaks out in the skin,” Dr. Greeley stated.
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Men will be men, boys will be boys, and Kappa Sigma members will be . . .
Their status was forever cleared up yesterday when a member told a Daily Trojaft reporter that seven fraternity brothers were suffering with tuberculosis, there were two cases of leprosy, one case of spinal meningitis, and one case of pleurisy at the house.
The ludicrous answer was made in reply' to a question about the number of cases of measles at the Kappa Sigma house.
MINERVA
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SC to Cet High Honors
SC will be given two Freedoms foundation awards at a ceremony at the Hollywood Athletic club Monday.
The football band, the only college band in the nation receiving a Freedoms Foundation award, will be given a gold medal for its "This is My Country” salute presented at the Homecoming game last fall.
The School of Commerce will be awarded a gold medal and $100 for its Institute of Business Economics which was judged the second best college program in the nation promoting the American way of life.
The Institute, which was conducted last summer for 32 executives of the Santa Fe railway, taught fundamentals of the free enterprise system.
Registrars
Notice
Instructors are reminded that unsatisfactory notices covering the first five weeks of the semester are due in the Registrar’s office, Monday.
D. W. Evans, Assistant Registrar
Minerva Incident Raises Question Of Responsibility
The forced resignation of IFC president Bill Meacham, as an indirect result of the Phi Kappa Tatl-Minerva incident, was thoroughly discussed at yesterday’s IFC meeting by fraternity members and Dean of Students Bernard L. Hyink— but nothing \yas settled. The lengthy debate resulted only ia the naming of a five-man committee to investigate and report on the matter.
But before the committee was named, the problem was tossed back and forth for over an hour at the session which overflowed the dining room of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house.
The problem debated was this:
Bill Meacham, also president of Phi Kappa Tau, was placed on disciplinary probation by the student activities committee last week as a result of his part in the theft of a 300-pound statue from a Los An~eles apartment house. Fraternity presidents expressed fear that this action by the committee means that they are directly responsible for the actions of any of their members.
Jeopardizes Prexies George Cfcttesman, Zeta Beta Tau president and past IFC president, said:
“This action puts house' presidents in jeopardy as a result of any actions by the members.”
Hyink countered, "If any other member of the fraternity had acted similarly we would have felt him responsible for the return of the statue.”
Hyir.k explained that Meacham had been punished because of his directive to pledges to return the statue to its owner. According to Hyink, the directive was such that the statue was not returned directly and was consequently stolen again.
Acted on Directive He emphasized several times that the committee had acted because of the directive and not because Meacham is president of the house.
Gottesman again rose and said,
“If this probation was placed on Bill as a member and not as president, I think we have aired this enough.”
The discussion wore on.
Meacham III Roy Foremem, Acacia, pointed out that Meacham was ill at the time of the Minerva incident, and since it seemed to him that Meacham did all that was possible, he wondered if the case should not go before the Men’s judicial council.
Meacham, however, indicated that he did not want the case .to be heard again.
Meacham repeated his directive, which was the center of much of Jhe debate:
"Wrap Her Up”
"I told the pledges to wash Minerva off since she was covered with mud, wrap her up in a blanket so she wouldn’t get chipped, and take her back to the apartment house. I said to return her as close to her original position as was feasible.”
As a result, the pledges dumped Minerva on the front lawn of the house, and by the time they notified the owner by telephone (approximately 15 minutes later),
Minerva was gone once again.
Calls Halt Jim Biby, president pro-tem, finally called a halt to the discussion and appointed the five-man committee to investigate further. The committee will consist of Biby, Foreman, George Gonzales, Tau Kappa Epsilon and AMS president; Joe Greenway,
Kappa Sigma and IFC secretary; and Dick Mulfinger, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. •
Ken Shanks, IFC coordinator, annpunced the scholarship averages with two houses yet to be recorded. The top house was Alpha Rho Chi, and the all-Row grade point average was announced as 1.235.
Bill Rosensiveig, Trojan Chest chairman, reminded the representatives that the chest committee was hoping for a dollar per man donation from the houses.
"Last year only seven houses contributed 100 per cent, and the drive netted less than $5000.’’ He pointed out that the success of the drive depended in large part, on the support of the Row.
VIPs View NROTC Unit On Parade
To the staccato beat of the smoothly functioning drum and bugle corps, the entire NROTG unit passed in review yesterday for several distinguished guests.
Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, chancellor of the university; Albert S. Raubenheimer, educational vice-president; Tracey E. Strevey, dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences; and Arthur B. Gallion, dean of the School of Architecture, were honored guests at the review held for the Los Angelinas and Footlighters womens’ clubs.
“We decided to hold a parade for the ladies since they have shown an interest in the unit and its members,” said Comdr. Ralph H. Benson Jr., associate professor of naval science.
Sponsors of service projects in the community, th§ women's clubs have some members whose sons are in the unit.
A tea held in conjunction with the presentation of a bust of Dr. von KleinSmid followed the review. Senior midshipmen and other guests were welcomed by the chancellor and Capt. and Mrs. R. M. McKinnon, commanding officer, NROTC unit.	x
Forming on the Dental field, the batallion moved down to the track field. After smartly entering the grounds, the blue-uniformed gorup marched around the oval then faced the reviewing stand. Three companies of midshipmen, followed the drum and bugle corps, paraded before the honor platform and saluted the guests.
Lillian Steuber To Give Concert
Lillian Steuber, associate professor of music, and Sascha Jacobsen, lecturer in music, will present a sonata concert open to the public in Hancock auditorium Sunday night at 8:30.
The program will include "Sonata in B-Flat Major,” by Mozart; “Sonata,” by Debussy; and “Sonata in E-Flat Major,” by Strauss.
Miss Steuber is one of America's foremost wome npianists. Jacobsen, a violinist, was the organizer of the Musical Art quartet, a group which has appeared throughout this country and Europe, and is now a member of the Bovard String quartet. He has also appeared as soloist with the New York, Philadelphia, ^nd other Philharmonic orchestras.