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72 Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, May 4, 1949 No. 132
ftudent Apathy Kills Plane Designer
n ni	To Tell Trends
emor Prom Plans |,n Flight Fie,d
Response of Only 189 Pledges Called Disgusting by Saunders
Close Contest Seen in Election Race; McGurty Predicts Light Vote
BOB PADGETT . . . Unity man
"No senior prom will be held this year,” Dave Saunders, ior class president, said yesterday.
A total of 189 pledges, including some duplications, was ?ived from a senior class estimated at 5000. he said. Amounting to approximately 4 per cent of the class, the
* number was the normal turnout for any student body function this semester.’’ Saunders said.
‘ It is the mast disgusting display of apathy I have ever seen in my r*|^r|r ►Ar	four years at SC.” he added.
®	The School of Pharmacy turned
in the largest individual amount ol pledges. 10 per cent of the total.
• It is absolutely unpossible to go ahead with any plans,'’ Saunders said. “Seniors were given seven days to pledge their support.’'
Expressing gratitude to Gerald Maher and the Daily T/ojan stalf. Saunders said "We had excellent coverage in the Daily Trojan."
"Guthrie Miller, Dave Evans, Betty Jo Weber, and Beverly Bloom have also done their utmost to make the prom possible/’ he said.
nna Christie For ve-Day Run
icene C'Nril'v. play. ‘Anna stie." opened last night in Bo-auditonum.
jhedul^d for a five-day. umnter-(ed run. the drama department's duction will be the last major mentation of the year, said Jay •ris, play production manager, .epresentatives Irom drama ;ses of 30 local high schools at-jded dress- rehearsal Monday ht to see how university produc-is compared witih their own.
It gave them some idea as to at could be done with the great-facilities at the disposal of a versity,” Harris said.
*at Corrigan as Anna. Wally •hard as Chris, and Brad John-i ®s Matt Burke take the three jor parts in the play. Other vers include Nanrv Brannon as Ithy; Dick Lauf as Larry; Larry hman as Johnny ‘‘the priest"; |il D’.ifrane as Chris’ crewman;
Rosen and Mike Galloway as |ors: and Al Rudolph. Jeff Whit-and John Blaisdell as long-bremen.
jiams expiessrd the hope yester-that ‘ Anna Christie" might »ak the attendance record set by alion.” Students not having ivity books may obtain them at le SC ticket office.
The opportunity of hearing the history and future of aviation from a man who has spent 33 years in the aircraft industry will be afforded SC students today when John K. Northrup. president and founder of Northrup Aircraft Inc lectures in Hancock auditorium at 3:15 p.m.
Tlie designer and builder of the first all-wing airplane will accompany his lecture. ‘‘Aviation History: 1903-1960.” with slides of planes from the flimsy living machine of the Wright brothers, to the 100-ton flying wing of tomorrow.
Northrup's appearance on campus is sponsored by the College of Letters. Arts, and Sciences in its weekly series of outstanding lectures. He will be introduced by Dr. Milton C. Dickens, associate professor of speech and longtime friend of the speaker.
In 1916. Northrup first entered the aviation field and since then has made many notable contributions. ln World War II he built the world's first night fighter plane, the P-61 Black Widow.
The lecture is open to all' students and admission is free.
Y Book Drive Far Short of Last Year
YMCA’s second annual book drive is falling far short of last year’s total. Byram Bates, Y executive board member, said yesterday.
Last year’s enthusiasm, which resulted in a collection of 67.000 books, seems to be lacking, he said.
In spite of the three trophies to*-
be given to the organizations mak
ivil Service ob Talk Set
Government positions with the Jtate m the fields of zoology, bac-►riology. botany, and chemistry will discussed in the next LAS-spon-jred lecture of the professional lidvisement series at 3:15 tomorrow In tne art and lecture room of university library.
I Stewart Warner, recruitment representative for civil service positions linder the California State Personnel board, wili be guest speaker. His | Specialty with the board is in professional and scientific fields.
i mg the largest per capita contributions to the drive, mast groups have not yet reached their quota, Bates added.
Independent students have contributed most of the books so tar, said drive chairman Chack Krueger.
Furnishing books for the SC wing of the University of Philippmes library. the drive is dedicated to 211 Trojans who lost their lives in the Philippine campaign.
Donations may be placed in boxes at the entrance of Bridge hall. Student Union. Bovard auditorium, and in 405 Student Union.
All cloth-bound books, both action and non-fiction, are acceptable. Books not suitable for the library will be sent to secondary schools in the area.
Bowne Cup
. . . Speech contest #has been postponed uir.il after ASSC elections. Preliminary rounds v. ill begin May 10.
Law Journal Heads Named
Robert Weil, lecturer in journalism and freshman law student, and Roy Mann, freshman law student, j were appointed Monday as next I year's co-editors of the SC Law Brief at a board of publications meeting.
WTeil and Mann are now assistant editors of the publication. This year’s initial and only issue appeared last week. Plans ere being made to increase the size of the monthly to that of the Trojan Owl.
Contents of the newspaper will include Bar association activities, law faculty news, reviews from the SC Law Review, and legal articles.
The co-editors were also appointed nonvoting members of the publications board.
Business manager will be chosen at a board meeting Friday at 12:15 p.m. in the Seminar room. Law building.
Row Water fight Repercussions
Zech Demands Punishment
by Phil Adamsak
IFC has to punish its own offenders in last Thursday's watertight beef or else, according to a statement from Counselor of Men Albert \ Zech yesterday.
Responsibility for the hose and aucket-weilding men who dou&a |pera-bound John Koke, 456 South Cenmore avenue, as he and his wife fere taking a shortcut through the 3W rests squarely with the Inter-baternity council, said the admin-Itrator.
’“The fraternity group must clean own house.” he said, “or the acuity Student Activities commit-will take over.”
Whitey Fruhling. IFC head, ex-
Iressed sorrow that the story had een printed in the Daily Trojan, [ccording to Fruhling. the incident as purely a "family” affair and lould have been kept quiet.
"I'm glad the story got in the P pud Counselor Zech. ‘"The i
Senate to Pick NSA Watchers
The last regular meeting of the ASSC Senate will be highlighted by the designation of five observers to represent SC at the National Student's association convention this summer.
In line with the motion made by Bob P3dgett to send observers, three senators and two persons from the general student body will be chosen tonight.
The three senators will have expenses paid from ASSC funds, but the other two persons, designated official alternates, must pay their own way.
ASSC President John Davis said anyone interested in being one of the official delegates should see him informally in his office. He said that this was for the dual purpose of getting a list of names for the Senate to choose from and of getting the viewpoints of the applicants on NSA.
So far Senators George Burke, Milt Dobkin, Betty Ann Smith, Howard Kotler, and Track Manager Paul Bimmerman are the only persons who have expressed their wishes to be SC's delegates to the convention.
An election race that has the appearance of being one of SC's closest in many years be-1 gins at 9 this morning as the first voters step into the 16 booths in front of Bovard and i mark Xs.
Despite the elimination of of prcregistration for voting and election campaigns that virtually have forced students to take sides, Elections Commissioner Bill McGurty predicted a
flight turnout during the three-day* voting period.
Row and Unity party candidates joined hands on one issue, calling for a large turnout for the election, but fell far apart on the major campaign issue, student-administration policy.
HOLD STATUS QUO
Row candidates demand the preservation of the status quo; asking the administration that students be heard. Unity candidates called for reater student voice in determining
Voters Face Ballot Woes In Election
by John Eccleston
When polling booths open this morning, SC voters will cast their ballots in one of the most confusing of the annual ASSC elections.
Late yesterday, candidates were being declared ineligible, previously disqualified candidates were announcing that they were again eligible, and dark-horss office seekers were getting set for vigorous write-in campaigns.
Mixups caused frantic activity in both Row and Unity camps, and talk of postponed elections, rubber stamps for write-in candidates, and
Ed Balks;
Bob Talks
Oi Faults
What promised to be the irresistible meeting the immovable turned into a one-man show when Row Candidate Ed Vierheilig failed university policy so far as student l° bho" up for a debate with Unity
Write-In Method
The proper voting procedure for writing-in candidates was outlined yesterday by Bill McGurty. elections commissioner.
“Names must be written in full under the appropriate office heading, in ink, and X'd with the rubber stamp iii the voting booth,” he said.
Johnny Davis, ASSC president, explained that constitution provisions refer to Robert's mJes of order in cases not covered by ASSC articles, and cited previous election procedure as the precedent.
another heated Senate session to iron out election kinks was bandied about in political circles.
Indications were that Bill McGurty and his elections crew were going to be plagued by a host of write-in candidates as politicos in-(Continued on Page 4)
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affairs are concerned.
All candidates were given the chance to be heard at a “torchlight rally” on the tennis courts last night.
The two presidential candidates Ed Vierheilig, Row. and Bob Padgett, Unity, used sim’lar words in their two-minute speeches at the rally but in effect, said the opposite.
Both asked for student cooperation with the administration on policy matters, but Vierheilig said if elected he would ‘‘go to the ad-mnistration on student affairs," while Padgett said he would work for a student senate that voiced,
Candidate Bob Fadgett on KTRO last night.
Vierheilig was believed to be a:-tending a Blue Key meeting, and lrantic last-minute phone calls to the Row failed to find anyone to spe'i.k for him.
"Most of my evenings are free.” said Padcect roguishly. "As everybody is well aware, I don’t have to attend night meetings now.”
Padgett was obviously referring to his expulsion from the Knights several days ago.
Beginning his talk by calling for the deletion of the race and de-
ED VIERHEILIG . . . Row choice
its recommendations to the adminis- scent questions from the university tration.	application blanks. Padgett said
that merit, “not the accident of birth." should be used by the university to judge students.
REGISTRATION ISSLE
Speaking of registration lines that have reddened student tempers at the beginning of each semester. Vierheilig said "students should go! to the administration and ask them ‘can't we help you solve this?’.” j
STUDENT CONTROL
Not only should the student body control its own funds. Padgett said, but it should know how the funds
Padgett expressed his view of the j are used. position students should take or. “The last homecoming dance campus while talking about this made §2000,” he said. “I keep ask-race-descent proposal made recently jng ‘Where oid it go?’ and so far in the ASSC senate.	j’ve fiacj no answer.’’
“The Senate has the right to i vote for or vote down proposals such as this, and let the administration
know the student's feelings,” Padgett said.
"SPEAKERS QUIZZED
Following the speeches by the two major ASSC candidates, the pre-; dominately Row audience was allow-: ed to question the speakers.
Vierheilig was asked what he
Campus cafeterias and the bookstore came in for a little treatment when Padgett suggested that they should be run on a nonprofit, cooperative basis.
‘Harvard isn't exactly a communistic institution,” he said, “buj there a student can buy anything up to a living-roomfull of furniture at a discount. A certain textbook written by an SC professor,”
Fluorescent lighting was installed on a trial basis in University library's darkest comer yesterday in fulfillment of a promise made by the library committee to improve study conditions.
“We are trying various lighting methods in the main reference room of the library-to determine which would be best for use throughout
fraternities have to learn that they can't be protected forever.”
Dr. Zech has talked to Koke and promised that all damage to his ciothes or his car would be paid for. Koke insisted that the damage was not substantial, and that no money need change hands.
While driving past the intersection of 28th street and Severance avenue with his wife. Koke heard someone yell. “Here comes a good one—let 'em have it.” They were on their way to hear “Lucia di Lam-mermoor.”
Rumors that four of the houses mixed up in the fight have already been named, and fines meted, were denied by WTiitey Fruhling.
According to a Row source. Delta Chi. Kappa Sigma, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon were fined $1 per member. Sigma Chi was also involved, but not fined, the source said. Fruhling declared that the charges are completely false.
A stream of water hit Koke’s
! head and splattered along the side of his car. For a minute he lost control of the car. His wife missed getting soaked.
University station police, when Koke reported the incident, asked him if he could identify the guilty students.
"How can you identify somebody who's blasting you in the face with a hose at night?’’ he puzzled.
"The fraternities have got to realize that 28th street is not their private property,” ’ said Dr. Zech.
“They live on a public street. They have to respect their neighbors, and the people who drive on this street.”
If the IFC fluffs its responsibility. the responsibility won’t last long, threatened the counselor.
The fraternity council has prom-ised to investigate and to make a J report at its next meeting. Thursday night. A fine of SI per head on members of the guilty groups has I been proposed by the fraternities.
CAI Arranges For Atom Film
A whirlwind flight to New York by CAI Executive Secretary Al Gotlieb resulted in final arrange-nents for tbe publication of a book and the production of a film series on atomic energy.
Gotlieb left Thursday to confer with officers of the major research foundations on the progress they have made in atomic research and education and to inform them of the work CAI has done in that field for the past two years.
After conferences wTith Pendleton Herring, president of the Social Science Research council: Dr. Joseph Willets, director, division of social sciences, Rockefeller foundation; and officers of the Ford and Carnegie foundations, Gotlieb arranged- with Fictograph corporation for the production of the films and received bids from several publishers for the book rights.
the building,” said Elton Phillips, university business manager.
If fluorescent lighting proves more effective than other types it may be installed in all 21 lamps in the large main-floor study room. Lighting also has been considered for. the bookcases in the room.
“Fluorescent lighting would pay for itself in three or four years in the amount of electricity it saves,” sa’d Robert Guerin, university electrician.
A promise that the lighting in University library would be improved was made last month by Dr. Frank C. Baxter, chairman of the library committee.
“The university lighting problem has long been recognized by the administration,” Dr. Baxter said. “Its solution, however, has been difficult because of the necessity of preserving the spirit and beauty of the rooms ”
would do. if elected, about student I	be	for less
apathy and registration lines; me at stanford than „ can ,,, our own I theme of his answers was coopeia- kQQk^ore ” tion with the administration.
Asked about a rumor that past1	COW BOYS,
ASSC presidents took their orders Describing the from university official and wliat government as a his views were about such a situation, Vierheilig said the “students should not try to tell them how to do their job, they will turn against you.” Students should go up there and ask them, he said.
PADGETT TELLS STAND
Padgett came in line for more pointed questions such as his belief about fraternities.
Padgett said he was not opposed to fraternities, especially since he is president of one himself, Beta Sigma Tau.
“Fraternities and sororities, especially fraternities, are making a record not in line with present-day thinking. The fraternity system can and should offer much to all students. The system should not be restricted as it is at present,” Padgett said.
INDIANS
present student, “bunch of kids playing cowboy and Indians,” Padgett said that the student representatives should have the courage to acquaint the faculty with student problems and gripes.
"Faculty evaluation by students is low.” he said. "The students are not. in many cases, receiving full value for their $16 a unit. Students should be able to somehow grade the professors, thus raising the instruction level.”
Padgett wound up by urging the establishment of an International house.
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Blue
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. . . meeting, 3 p.m.. tomorrow. Tapping and election of officers. Place to be announced.
Good Neighbor Policy Talk Set for Bowne
Paul E. Hadley, professor of international relaticns. will attempt to show that the good neighobr policy is still very much alive in his lecture. "What Has Happened to the Good Neighbor Policy?-* tomorrow night at 7 in Bowne hall.
“The essentials of the good neighbor policy still continue.” he said. “The policy is a smooth and tactful implement of basic US strategy in Latin America of keeping European influence out.”
Professor JJadley said that he would try to point out the elements of the good neighbor policy as expressed by Sumner Well-. Cordell Hull, and President Rooseveit, and would discuss which of these elements had been retained and which had been dropped.
“At a conference at Bogota iast spring one individual said the good neighbor policy was dead. I shall try to prove differently,’’ he said.
Professor Hadley said that one of the problems is the sensitivity of the Latin Americans who do not like to be consideted “second fiddle.’’
“The thing that has really been damaged is the pride of the Latin Americans. They are very sensitive and feel that the United States is more interested in ‘Europe than in them.” he said.
Attempts are still being made, however, by the United States to extend the operation of the good neighbor policy, he said.
Hadley spent two years in South America witti the division of cultural cooperation of the Department of State, and during the war he served a year as head of the Cultural Institute program in Washington.
Chapel Service Set for Bowne
“Can You Pray?” wiil be the topic of an address by the Rev. Paul G. Satrang. assistant chaplain to Episcopal students, in the noon chapel program at 12:30 today in Bowne halt.
Soloist Lardner Moore will be accompanied by Ada Daum in the song, “Prayer, Soul’s Sincere Desire.”
Veterans'
Notice
Troy Camp to Close Counselor Search
All rehabs (PL 16 veterans) who are completing rehabilitation in June, must report to their training officers today, tomorrow’, or Friday of this week between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Failure to comply with the above request may result in loss of rehabilitation pay. Training officers are located at 834 West 36th street, second floor. No appointment is necessary.
Philip A. Libby,
Director of Veterans Afftirs
Interviewing of potential boy’s camp counselors will be completed today.
Otis Healy, president of the Troy camp cabinet, will be in the AMS office at 3:15 to take final applications.
Men students who have had any experience with boys are eligible for the counselor jobs. Their duties will include coaching, counseling, refereeing, and patching up the underprivileged East Side kids through two 10-day periods of mountain vacation.
The first session will be held from Aug. 15-25, with boys 9 to 11 years old. In the second section, Aug. 25-Sept. 1, the boys w'ill be in an 11 to 13 age group. Counselors may work either or both sessions.
Counselors wrill be given a chance to get acquainted in alternate weekly luncheon meetings throughout the balance of the semester, i The camp is set up on a com-I petitive basis, with each counselor ! being in charge of a cabin of seven toys.
“The experience gained Is vital to anyone planning to do future work with boys. You don’t have to be a physical education major to qualify. We do need help,” said Healy.
MEMBERS OF the Troy Camp cabinet sign the final contract for theri boy's camp lease. Left to right, bottom row, Tony Taylor, Dan Keeling, Otis Healy, Anne Cravath, Patti Schell. Top row, Don Killion, Jim Large, Mat Byrne, and Herb Dibbem. First boys arrive Aug. 15.