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VOL. Lll
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1960
NO. 57
Oíd Songleader Issue Travel sems May Be Resurrected WlU Be Held
By BXRBARA ADAMS
The controversial question of the formation of a proup of songieaders at ISC has asain boon pushed to the front of the political scene this year by Mike Robinson, communications senator.
Robinson, who feels he is represent ing the feciings of “a vast majority of students." is promoting the circulation of a petition with a goal of 3.C00 signatures. The petition will accompany a legislative bill concerning the r t^blishm^nt cf songieaders at Wednesday's Senate meeting.
With the petiticn. Robinson
Up
Safety Drive Will Pick More Force
A campus safety campaign featuring displays, posters and ‘‘live'' demonstrations will open with full steam today.
Co-sponsored by the Daily Tiojan and the Greater University Committee, the campaign is designed to remind students that careful driving is a vital factor in holiday preparations.
Dwight Chapin, chairman of the Committee's safety program, reported that this year's theme, “It Could Be You,’’ was selected because of the large amount of student indifference to careless highway driving.
Deaths Expected
“Few of us realize that we could be one of the 100 persons expected to die in Los Angeles Christmas traffic." Chapin said. “Maybe we should have made our slogan, 'It Could Easily Be You.”
The safety committee has brought a display prepared by the Highw ay Patrol to campus. A display of accident photographs gathered by the committee also will go up today.
Results of a week-long survey conducted by Doc O'Connor and the Student Survey Commitee will be published in tomorrow's Daily Trojan.
Survey S|w>n**ors
The survey, which questioned freshmen through graduate students on general knowledge of traffic safety, was co-sponsored by the Daily Trojan and the Greater University Council.
Chapin said that the Los Angeles Safety Council's annual “death float’’ will appear on campus Wednesday.
The Daily Trojan’s official safety campaign began last week with a series of interviews by Assistant City Editor Hal Drake. Stressing the high incidence of alcohol, speed and carelessness in traffic accidents, the Daily Trcjan campaign will continue through Friday.
In his articles. Drake interviewed five men who are connected with the traffic problem.
hopes to offer proof to the administration of the students' concern in the matter.
University students indicated in the ^ast two vears that they favored having pom-pon girls ta increase spirit at lootbail and basketball games, and the measure was supported by the AS-SC Senate both times.
The administration disapproved the bill, referring to precedent established over many vears. Speaking for the Board of Trustees, Dean of Students Robert J. Downey again remains firm in the decision. He stresses the administrative policy exactly I as it was presented last year.
Constant Attitude
“The university has had a poli-j cy cf lorg standing with regard to songieaders. The attitude of | the university toward this policy has been constant,” Dr. Downey said.
“The total administration does not feel that songieaders contribute to the dignity of the university nor do they lend themselves to better singing on the onrt rf thn rooting sections at our athletic contests. It is the r-.enre cf the administration, always. to have our students, especially our young ladies, presented in the best possible light.’’ he repeated.
ASSC Director of Public Relations Larry Bishop believes that USCs most “able and energetic student leaders" have worked on the songleader issue in the past, and that if approval of the bill were possible, it would have been accomplished previously.
Sincere Intentions
“I'm sure Robinson’s intentions aie sincere, but the
The first of several student travel orientation programs to acquaint students with foreign travel opportunities will be held at 3 today in the International Student Lounge, sr.
Betty Garman of the National Student Association will explain the opportunities available under the Educational Travel program of the national association.
Discussion with student leaders concerning the program will be included in the program.
Information on various travel programs is being compiled by the ASSC International Student Committee. The committee has recently been formed by the ASSC as a student service to handle the distribution of news regarding foreign student travel.
institute Told World Needs Peace Launch
The nations of the free world must become aggressive, take the initiative and launch an offensive of freedom against the permanent war of terror and subversion, it was declared last night at the opening session of USC’s 37th annual Institute of World Affairs at the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena.
The speaker was Prince Hubertus zu Loewenstein, former member of the German Bundestag who defended his homeland’s only ! Weimar Republic against the
thing that could result from dredging up the issue now would be a lot of ill will and unfavorable publicity for the university.” Bishop said.
“Yell King Jerry Sherman and Senate President Fro Tem Hugh Helm launched a thorough investigation m this area at the beginning of the school year and are convinced that the question is dead and buried." he added.
Robinson, in initiating this Year’s campaign for USC songieaders, strongly opposes the argument which claims they "detract from a football game.’’ He prints cut that the girls only ne^form during time-outs when the teams are not in action.
Troy ‘Stands Alone’
The fact that most other top schools in USC's athletic conference h?ve song leaders is significant to Robinson, who claims that since USC stands alone on the matter “Troy has received much unsavory criticism from our cross-town rivals."
He also quotes the Dec. 1 edition of the UCLA Daily Bruin w hich read. “Song-leaders add a lot of spirit to the games. They are peppy, smiling, and almost plvvavs in step. This spirit makes the students sing louder and chcer harder.”
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Nazis and Communists until fled in 1933.
Berlin Suburbs
“Quemoy and Matsu are the suburbs of Berlin,’’ he said. "And the frontiers of free Berlin are the frontiers of London, New York and Los Angeles."
The nations of the free world, regardless of nationality or location, must become conscious of the oneness of their problem and the oneness of the danger, the German historian said.
“A far greater exchange of students, teachers, research workers and significant information is just as necessary as a coordinated and well planned aid program for the economically weaker countries," he declar-I ed.
Soviet ‘Help’
“We must prevent the Soviets from entrenching themselves in those countries under the guise of 'help’ and from finally tak-¡ ing them over and destroying ! their liberties.
“We must realize that the Soviets, while waging at the present time the struggle against the free world mainly in the psychological and economic theater of war. are keeping the power of the Red Army in the ¡ background.’’
Italian Salute To Help Mark Birthday Fete
USC will salute Italy’s contributions to Western wwld culture on the occasion of the Italian Unification Centennial in April, 1961, with programs in art, music, drama and other areas.
President Norman Topping Saturday announced plans for a 21-day program of opera, fine arts displays, drama and cinema presentations, arts and crafts showings and cultural, sociological and business seminars.
April 8-28 has been set as the time for the Italian cultural commemoration, titled “Italian Perspectives.”
Faculty Committee
Dr. Walter Ducloux, head of the opera and conducting departments of the School of Music, was appointed by Dr. Topping to head a large faculty committee to plan the Italian program in cooperation with students and administrators. Italians and Italian organizations both here and in Italy will help with the planning.
Among the highlights of the cultured commemoration, most features of which will be on the USC campus, will be the presentation of the opera “Simon Boccanegra,” Verdi's “patriotic document” dealing with Italian unification. Dr. Ducloux himself will direct the opera, which will be presented the opening day of the centennial.
Da Vinci Collection
Dr. Elmer Belt, Los Angeles, has agreed to present an important showing of his Da Vinci material, one of the world’s finest collections of writings, drawings, sketches and notebooks containing the works of Italy’s immortal artist, architect and engineer.
USC will also gather notable works of art from private collections in the Los Angeles area as well as from local and national galleries for the art exhibition.
One or more Italian dramas will be presented during the 21-day period, perhaps
Music Readings to Fill Holiday Convocation
Season To Be Sung With Poetry, Prayer
Women Claim Man s World With Fervor
MASCOT MOTHER — Tau Epsilon Phi recently gained the honor of being the only fraternity on the Row to have a house mother—but not of the usual variety. Mrs. (we hope) Dawg Dog, the well-known TEP mascot, recently gave birth to two furry little puppy - pledges while 15 frantic TEP "midwives" were shouting, "Hot water, and make it fast."
Doily Trojan Photo by Chris Aladdy
DAWC - CONE IT
Santa s Delivery' Beats Yule Rush
By KAREN GUSTAFSON
Dawg, the TEP’s famous mascot who is noted for barking at professors, swimming in the li-including ; brary fountain and stealing the
an evening of Italian one-act show’ from John McKay, climax- larly plays.	!	ed her activities thus far at USC she's
The cinema department is ar- by recently delivering two pup-ranging for the showing of a j pies
selection of the best postwar Italian films.
Musical Programs In addition, the university’s orchestra and choral groups will be presented in several programs of Italian music besides the operatic presentation of “Simon Boccanegra.”
Arrangements are being made for contributions to the Italian Perspectives program by still other USC study areas including business, international relations, architecture and engineering.
Although still in the planning stage, an Italian trade show seems assured as a feature of the comprehensive program.
The white-haired mop of a dog has proven to be more nonchalant about the blessed event than anyone else.
She calmly had her pups while 15 of her Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity “papas” raucously celebrated. They even passed out cigars the next day.
“Dawg doesn't even know what's happening,” reported member Mike Cohen. “She doesn’t even care if anybody handles her pups.”
Up until two Sundays ago the TEPs were undecided whether or not she was pregnant.
“One reason probably was that she only had two puppies, and a normal litter is six,” Cohen ex-
Students Will Honor Bill of Rights
On Dec. 15, 1791, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, designated as the Bill of Rights, were adopted.
This week USC and other universities throughout the nation are observing Bill of Rights Week in honor of 169 years of democracy sparked by these amendments.
Dann Moss, Greater University Committee chairman, has suggested that all Trojans, in order to fully appreciate their American citizenship, read one | of the copies of the Bill Rights that were distributed
Sigma Chi. was chosen by the Greater University Committee to reign over the week as Miss Liberty Bell.
Senate Tribute Wednesday night the ASSC Senate will pay its respect to the Bill of Rights during Chap-I lain Molly Lloyd Wilson's invocation.
USC’s committee will distribute news of the week to all of the city’s metropolitan newspapers in an attempt to make more people aware of what the of j Bill of Rights does for them, by | Savings bonds ranging from
Shlaes’ Student Organiza- $25-5100 are currently being of-
BILL OF RIGHTS — Jce Crail, California chairman cf the Bill cf Rights Committee, right, discusses plans the student body
cf USC has to observe Bill of Rights Week with President Norman Topping and Bill Steigerwalt, USC student body president.
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tions Committee to all ASSC groups, dormitories, fraternities, and sororities last Thursday.
Valuable Rights
“As long as Americans understand, appreciate and maintain this segment and all the other sections of the Constitution, our valuable rights as citizens can never be taken away,” Moss said.
“Not a bill, but a guarantee of liberty,” is the slogan for USC's week. Colorful posters containing copies of the document along with checks made payable to “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are located at strategic spots on the campus.
fered for the student prize-vvin-ning essay on “My Personal Responsibility for Freedom Under the Bill of Rights.”
Essays of 1.500 words or less should be turned in to Theta Xi, 728 W. 28th St., or 402 SU before Friday. All essays must have the applicant’s name and home address on the reverse side.
Winner Selection
Winners will be selected on the basis of understanding of subject and expression of ideas.
The university itself will be competing for an over-all Bill of Rights Week excellence award. Five hundred dollars wiM be presented to the junior col-
Alpha Delta Pi's Jackie Ma- lege, college or univeristy whose louf, last year’s Sweetheart of i	(Continued	on	Fag**	2)
plained.
Dawg has become a popular fixture around USC since TEP Marv Stone found her last year. She attends classes more regu-than most students. And been kicked out of more classes for talking back to the prc/jssor than any student.
Disrupts Classes Once she disrupted all the classes on the first floor of the Annex after she had been kicked out of class for the same offense—barking.
Steve Mannis used to be her classroom guardian and insured her education. He claims he “gave up this year because she's getting smarter than I am.” Dawg stole the show from football Coach John McKay at the victory bell rally after the UCLA game. During the entire time McKay was ringing out the game score on the bell, Dawg barked at the bell as if it were a monster about to attack her.
She's afraid of other monsters, too, like cats.
“The first time she ever knew j fear was when the Acacia kitty j turned on her,’’ said A1 Waxman. “The cat chased her for three or four weeks until Dawg finally chased it up a tree,” he explain-! ed.
Now any TEP can send Dawg on a wild search with, “Hey,
' Dawg, there's a kitty!” The mysterious word “fairthrop” has much the same effect on her. Nobody knows why.
Athletic Pooch “Dawg’s the type that will chase anything that will run away from her and run away from anything that will chase her,’’ Waxman noted.
A very athletic pooch, Dawg excels at surfing at the beach, diving in pcols and swimming in the fountain in front of Doheny Library.
She's improving in hedge-hurdling in front of Owens Hall, too. and she's becoming efficient at hole-digging under any available tree.
But she doesn't play tennis yet, Mannis reported, trouble with the grip.”
“She’s very understanding and likes to listen to problems. I can talk to her better than people,” he said.
“She's especially good at exchanges for guys who are too shy to ask girls to dance.”
Stone found Dawg stuck in a hole last year near the engineering buildings. He took her back to the house and washed her, fed her and tried to get her warm.
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The 23rd annual Christmas Convocation will be presented tonight at 7:30 in Bovard Auditorium featuring the traditional Christmas readings of Dr. Frank C. Baxter, USC English professor and well known television personality.
The convocation will open with a prelude of selected Christmas carols including “O Come All Ye Faithful,” “The First Noel” and "Hark The Herald Angels Sing.”
Dr. Irene Robertson, head of the organ department, will play the pipe organ, while Charlotte Crosby will assist with carillon chimes.
Symphony Orchestra
Following the carols, the University Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans L. Beer, lecturer in opera, will perform Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestra Suite No. 3.
The Rev. John A. Cantelon, university chaplain, will then deliver a Christmas message. The University Concert Choir will follow’ Johann Pachelbel’s “Magnificat" in C Major with Jacque Norman conducting.
Dr. Baxter will continue the program with selected readings from the pen of Ogden Nash and Robert Benchley.
Annual Feature
Dr. Baxter’s readings have been an annual part of campus i Christmas activities for the past J 22 years. Originally, the pro-! gram began as an afternoon i classroom activity but became so popular that it branched out to an evening program in Auditorium.
In the past the readings have been held for the benefit of the I Veterans’ Fund for the sons and 1 daughters of USC alumni who I served in World War II.
In addition to being a USC I professor, Dr. Baxter has done extensive work in the television i world. He has made several series including one on Shakespeare which won him an Emmy.
Newest Emmv
He also won an Emmv this
It may be a man's world, but more and more women are claiming it For example, the opportunity for women engineers has never been greater than it is now, reports a female pioneer in auto* motive engineerinng.
“A woman fri the profession of engineering is no freak nor less feminine because she has a mathematical and scientific mind,” Virginia Sink, a project engineer at Chrysler Corporation's Engineering Division, declared here recently.
Not ‘Odd*
“A girl doesn’t have to be ‘odd’ to go into engineering,” concurred E. Kent Springer, professor of mechanical engineering, who has seen a number of women graduate from USCs School of Engineering.
“Women are usually much sharper than men because they Bovard know they have lots of compe-j tition and. consequently work harder,” he said.
This semester 10 women are e -oiled in the school in contrast to 534 men.
Many Afraid Springer thinks that many women don’t go in for engineering s a career because they are afraid of it “They think it’s too hard, while others simply don't know what it's like,” he noted.
“The idea that engineering is almost exclusively a man’s profession is a strong deterrent to
fall for being the outstanding TV young women who might other-
male personality.
Christmas selections from around the world will be presented by the University Chamber Singers following the readings. Directed by Dr. Charles C. Hirt. they will sing carols from Sweden. England, early America. Spain. France and Puerto Rico.
Miss Crosby, a senior music major, will then play “Silent Night” on the carillon chimes, following which the chaplain will give the Christmas proclamation.
Troy Campers Wait for Mail
Waiting anxiously for the remaining Troy Camp pledges, the Troy Camp committee is delayed I only by the mail process. On Friday. $775 of the anticipated S3.500 had been sent in.
The drive for donations to ' send 100 children to Camp Buck-horn this summer will continue throughout this week and possibly through the first week of January.
“We would appreciate the campus organizations discussing their Troy Camp pledges at their earliest meetings,” said Chuck Sutton, head of the finance committee. He added that over 100 letters of appeal had been sent to USC professional groups and other organizations.
Sutton pointed out that several houses on the Row were holding Christmas parties and She has givin? the admission proceeds to Troy Camp.
“We would like to see the Christmas spirit inspire each living group to sponsor at least one child and possibly two or three. About $30 will send a single child to Troy Camp," Sutton said.
Discussing the $3.500 goal. Sutton said. “That is just a number. What we are really concerned with is the success of Trop Camp and the happiness of no less than 100 children this summer.”
wise take up engineering careers.’’ Miss Sink said.
But Mrs. Joan Sehaefer, assistant dean o' students, women, explained that women are “just recently coming into their own professionally in most fields. Only recently did they get the vote and recognition in college.”
More Working
This is because women haven't spent the time to prepare for careers until now, she said. Also, women are working more now than they have in the past.
A woman has two problems if she chooses engineering for her career. Springer pointed out.
“The first is that she is 'im-ited to the fields she can go into. For exam. le. she couldn't be sent out with a construction crew and go shinnying up steel beams to inspect rivet holes.
“Secondly, there is a ceiling on how high she can rise. lien don't like to be told what to do by women.”
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Europe Hops May Be Cut To Half Fare
Students and faculty members may be able to fly to Europe and back this summer for al-I most half the normal fare if a j sufficient number of people in-! dicate an interest in a special j charter flight.
Dr. Russell L. Caldwell, chair-i man of the Faculty Welfare j Committee of the Faculty I Senate, reports that the univer-! sity has access to a BOAC charter flight from New York to j London.
The flight, on a regularly scheduled BOAC 312 plane,
1 would leave New York on June , 11 and would return from Paris for New York on Aug. 16.
Round-trip passage would be ' $260. which includes hot meals and a 44' pound baggage allow-ance. The normal fare for siuh a flight is considerably more |than $500.