New LAS Building
PAT SOMMERFIELD . ■ . Tri Delt pretty
LYLA TILSTON . Dee Gee sweetie
MARTY MARTIN . . . nonorg doll
quires Unvei! Queen t Palladium Tonight
Bids Begin Apr. 14
Vol XL -©»■ 72 Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, Apr. 1, 1949 No. Ill
The Squire Sweetheart will reign tonight at the Palladium All-U dance.
Benny Goodman will present a trophy to the winner from among five lovely finalists, ur attendants will receive minor trophies and albums of Goodman’s latest Capitol re- B dings.
The five finalists are Lyla Tilston, Delta Gamma; Pat Sommerfield, Tri Delt; Marty
LMartin. nonerg; Ellaeene Kennedy,* nonorg; and Pat Johnson, Delta j Gamma.
Goodman has promised an hour-long show which will include exhi- i bition dance numbers, vocals, and a musical history of the Goodman ! band. The show will be broadcast j nationwide.
SEXTET TO PLAY Some of the entertainers will be , comedian Billy Styles, saxophonist ;
Wartell Grey, vocalists Buddy Greco and Terry Swope, and the Sextette. Goodman will play many of his old jazz and blues numbers.
Mary Hatcher, Paramount starlet, will present a trophy to the winner of the Trojan Chest slogan contest during the evening.
LATE MUSIC Reservations will be held until 11 ana music will continue until 1.
Bids are on sale in 209 Student Union, at the booth in front of Bovard. or at the Palladium box office for $3. The night spot will be closed to the public.
Goodman plans to play request numbers, including the Alma Mater and other Trojan songs.
“We have one of the most outstanding bands in the nation signed ior this dance, and I believe this will be one of the most successful all-U dances in recent years," said Whitey Fruhling, ASSC publicity chairman.
ELLAGENE KENNEDY . . . nonorg cutie
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lew Squires, nights Sought
PAT JOHNSON . . Dee Gee peach
(Procedure for selection of new sjan Squires and Knights was jlained yesterday by Knight psident Wells DeLoach. iThe men's service organizations accept petitions for member-lp al! next week. They will be bailable in the Knight-Squire of-ce. 232 Stuaent Union, Monday.
All petitioners will be given fritten examinations Apr. 12. to test neir knowledge of SC tradition kid history, campus organizations [nd their leaders, campus buildings, chool officials, and the coaching Lalf. EeLoa/rh suggested that can-lidates would be wise to brush up in SC songs and yells.
Applicants who make passing frades in the test will be interviewed by Knight officials during e foil awing two weeks.
Final selection of new members Vill be made at a later Knight eeting.
Names of new members will be mnounced at the AMS recognition assembly May 10.
A grade point average of 1.0 or tter is required to apply for mem-ership in either organization, ight applicants must have 60 more units of college credit.
Ql to Go Inside Atom'
Dental Policy Told in Talk
“We have no policy of discrimination,” said Dr. Robert L Rutherford cf the School of Dentistry in his lccture yesterday on “Careers in Dentistry.” Ho referred to the charge of discrimination in the School of Dentistry made Tuesday at a meeting in Mudd hall.
He said he thought this policy ‘ based on information already re
A short movie titled “Inside the Atom” and a lecture by Dr. J. A. Campbell will highlight today’s meeting of the Council on Atomic Implications at 1:15, 209 Bridge.
The movie was made at Chalk river, center of Canadian atomic research, and tells what the atom is, how it can be handled, and its potential uses.
Topic of Dr. Campbell’s lecture will be. ‘How Big Is the Bomb?” A physicist at Oberlin college, Oberlin, Ohio, Dr. Campbell estimated that the bomb contains 20 to 30 pounds of fissionable material concentrated in a lump about the alze of an indoor baseball.
The estimate, made in a recent issue of Science Newsletter, was
Trovets to Go
On Record in
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Padgett Issue
YMCA
. . softball team members and those interested in joining the team will meet today at 3 p.m. in 405 Student Unicn. Those who can’t attend may sign up for the team any time today in the Y office.
leased to the public, and did not reveal any atomic secrets.
Dr. Campbell judged also that 10,000 bombs could be made from the known deposits of fissionable materials.
Sen. Bob Padgett’s “race and descent” resolution will soon be denounced or endorsed by Trovets. The Trovet board of directors voted
unanimously‘to put Trovets on record, after a poll of the membership, as either opposing or favoring the issue.
At a two-hour session, during which opinions flew thick and fast, Frank O’Sullivan, Trovet president, stated:
“Opinions of Trovet members acting as individuals have obviously been interpreted as constituting the official stand of the organization. We have gone out of our way to avoid involving Trovets in controversial matters.”
Mentioning the resignation of Fadgett from the board several weeks ago and a policy banning political discussion from the Trovet office, O'Sullivan continued, “1 feel that we are now in the position where we must either take a stand or have one attributed to us.”
To a demand from Bob Betts, chairman of the TroVet Housing committee, of “How are we supposed to take sides on a political question when we have both Row and nonorg members?”
“I fail to see how, unless politics are dragged in to cloud issues and assuage consciences, the resolution can be construed as anything but a moral question,” answered Jim Roberts, president of CAI.
Betts said that he was satisfied with the answer.
A motion that the board vote its stand on the resolution was made. It was then withdrawn in favor of a motion that ballots be sent to every member for their approval or disapproval. The latter motion was unanimously approved. Information regarding the outcome of the balloting will be released by a Trovet Ballot committee next week.
Secretarial
. . . club banquet tickets must be purchased today. The banquet will be held at 6:30 Thursday night at Raffles restaurant. Tickets are on sale in 107 TOM. Price, $2.75.
Open House Guests Will See Movie Made
Grouches Stay in Bed!
by Reid Bundy
Unless; one possesses a remarkable *nse of humor, this is the one day f the year when he should have tood in bed.
Carnage will reign today. If it asn't starud yet, it can be expected P-D-Q, stretching its nefarious ingers across campus like the iammy digits of a fog until no one emains untouched.
This is the aay set aside to hon-those citizens who think sneez-ng powder and exploding cigars re the funniest things the mind f mar. has yet conceived.
Wallets that mysteriously jump for the bashes when reached for will be the order of the day among the coke set.
expressed the feeling of the admissions board.
“We needn’t worry about racial problems,” sa?d Dr. Rutherford.
"We take students on the basis of their qualifications, prerequisites, and in.elligence.”
If an applicant for the school feels he isn’t getting the pi oper consideration, he should check with the school in case they have lost .his file. “We like to have students come around.” Dr. Rutherford said.
Dr. Rutherford also spoke on the | entrance problem lacing a dental . Imitating MGM’s documentary film style, the cinema de-student. Space, facilities, and teach- partment will take pictures of guests at the department’s ers are scarce and every dental open house at 8:30 tonight,
school is crowded. “We expect no Simulating actual production conditions, a camera crew let-up before 1954," he said.	directed by Norton Sokolow will shoot several hundred feet
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picture-making demonstration.
To acquaint students with the workings of the department, the Institute of the Arts will sponsor the annual open house.
Motion pictures - in - the - making will be shown. The camera crew will shoot most of the evening’s pictures on the main sound stage. Original student work will be displayed on the stage.
Members of Delta Kappa Alpha, national professional cinema honorary fraternity, will conduct tours i of the cutting and editing rooms.
Professor of Cinema Slavko Vor-j kapich. Bill Blume, Malvin Wald, J and members of the department will welcome guests. They will hold an informal talk session in the newly decorated DKA room.
One of the classrooms will be used for a display of some of the motion picture cameras used.
Guests will see an entire picture being made. “All the steps from shooting to cutting and editing will be shown and explained,” said Sokolow.
Campus Fools Reign Today
Among the boutonniered dandies, carnations will be loaded. Hardware stores will be plagued with requests for striped paint. It’ll all be most hilarious.
On this day, tykes are sent from garage to garage searching for a left-handed monkey wrer-h. What fun!
Don’t get the idea that this thing is new; something exclusively 20th-century. It's really quite an ancient custom.
Nearly 400 years ago, a comic named Abn-Hctet was sent on a wild ibis chasc by +he Pharoah, who also was something of a character. Whether the comic got the ibis, history declines to say, but the ’Book of the Dead” tells of his departure.
In India, where the Hindus cele-; brated the feast of Huli which end-! ed Mar. 31, many trusting citizens were sent on fruitless, foolish er-j rands.
“Hunting the gowk,” is the way the Scots put it. Literal translation is “hunting the gowk.” When you understand that a gowk is a cuckoo, and that a cuckoo means the same whether spelled c-u-c-k-o-o or g-o-w-k, the translation is sim-j Pie.
The Chinese have a way of saying it, and it can be said in Sanskrit. Unfortunately, the DT print-shop has a very limited supply of Chinese and Sanskrit characters, so we can t oblige.
However, April Fool
KAPPAS	sponsor todays VVeiccms Wceltend pa--y.
Front row, (1 to r) Mary Lou Harris, Yitbos, Delta Sig star boarder, end Eevcrly Brock. Back rcw, (1 to r) Pat Bracket, lanet Sheley, LAS President Jack S'lvcrslein, Lois Stone, and Barbara Bates.
Whesls to Boost Chest Drive Start
The Trojan Chest drive will be officially initiated during today’s Welcome weekend program at 3.
The program will start at the open house, 2831 University avenue, when Co-Chairman Howard Kotler and Cal Schmit
open the ceremonies.	*—---
Sponsored by the Kappa Kappa
Gamma sorority, open house activities will include the introduction of contestants for Mr. and Miss Trojanality by John Davis, ASSC president, and Bill Hickman, contest chairman.
COSTS A DIME
The Trojanality contest, LAS council’s contribution to the charity drive, starts Monday. It will be a week-long event with candidates chosen by dime ballots. There is no limit to the number of votes a student may cast—for a dime a vote.
Professional entertainment will be provided by trombonist Kid Ory, one of the New Orleans organizers of the original Dixieland band; the Dick Kane trio; and singer Maxine Richards.
The program will be recorded for broadcast over KTRO at a later date.
Photographers will take pictures of the contes .ants. Their pictures will be mounted on make-believe clocks in front of the Administration building Monday. The leading aspirant will, be indicated by the hands of the clock each day.
SECOND LOOK
Students will get a second chance to look over contestants during a convertible parade on University avenue Monday at noon.
Today is the deadline for students wishing to enter the Trojan-ality contest. An 8 by 10 portrait must be turned in at the counselor of men's office before noon of each contest.
Finals Weight Increase OK'd
Finalitis probably will not be any more severe this semester because of the new ruling that final examinations will count from 25 to 50 per cent of the course grade.
The new ruling, approved by the Committee of Student Scholarship Standards, will not cause any real change in the weight of final exams. It merely revises the old ruling to comply with common practice, the office of the registrar said yesterday.
Departments and instructors are responsible lor determining the percentage value of finals. Weight of finals will be determined by the nature of the course, nature of the examination, length of the examination, and other special conditions.
In the past, 40 per cent was the maximum amount allowred for finals. Twenty-five and 30 per cent have been the most common weights.
Soprano's Recital To Offer Variety
“Offering to Eros,” Chasins, will be leatured tonight at the graduate voice recital of Maryellen Dumbolton, soprano, at 8:30, Hancock auditorium.
Included cn the program are works by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. An aria, “Depuis le Jour” from “Louise,” Charpentier, will be sung.
Tascille King will accompany the soprano.
Talk Contest Steps Given
The first round of the Interclass Speech contest ends today. Four survivors from each of 22 sections of public speaking la and lb will meet next Wednesday or Thursday in the second round of the contest.
Contestants who survive the sec-and round eliminations will con-pete in a third round durin? the week of Apr. 18 and a semi-final round during the week of May 2.
Finalists get a last chance May 11 or 12 in Harris hall before faculty members, who will judge the speeches.
Winners in both la and lb divisions will receive $15. Names of those in first and second place will be *n graved on permanent plaques.
Project to Take Seven Months
Bidding for contracts to construct the new LAS building will begin Apr. 14.
Robert D. Fisher, financial vice-president, will open the bidding. Construction on the building will start as soon as the bid has beerf awarded.
To be erected on the site of Old*	"" ■ ■ ■ -
College, the building is expected to take at least seven months to com-
plete. The combination classroom and office building will house the letters and social sciences division of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
Many of these offices are now in Bridge hall. When they are moved to the new building, the offices of the School of Commerce will be moved to Bridge.
FLOOR FOR RESEARCH
A feature of the LAS building will be the separation of classrooms and oLices which are usually found side-by-side in university buildings. Faculty offices and conference rooms will be on the fourth floor, the third floor being reserved for research laboratories.
The first two floors will include 26 classrooms and 6 seminar rooms. Each classroom will seat 25 to 100 students. An elevator will serve all floors but will be used primarily for the top lloors. The new building will also be used by University Coilege for night classes.
THREE LECTURE HALLS
Large lecture halls seating 180 perso-is each will be located on thc lirst three floors at the north end of the building.
Two assembly halls, each accommodating 360 person.,, will be located in a two-story wing. Taey will .have stages, motion picture projection xaciii*ies, disappearing curtains and blackboards. Many classrooms will be equipped for audio-visual instruction.
All classrooms will be provided .vith fire-partitions, and acoustic eilings will be used throughout -he building. The rooms will also have rccessed fluorescent lighting. Corridors and classrooms will have asphalt tile floors while the foyers will be tiled.
WrLL RESEMBLE HANCOCK "
The structure will be cf reinforced concrete and brick, exterior of concrete, and will resemble Hancock hall. Although somewhat more contemporary in nature, the style of the building will be in harmony with other campus buildings.
University architect C. Raimond Johnson, drew the plans.
Row Primary Losers Must Back Victors
by Harvey Diederich
Row politicians moved in on the EPC constitution yesterday and made several changes designed to unify support for candidates in the ASSC general elections.
After obligingly g.anting vote* to representatives cf non-member houses, the committee approved an amendment requiring losers in the primary to swear they would not run in the general election.
The same motion had been defeated in a previous meeting, but committeemen gave it overwhelming support yesterday. The vote was 24-2, with three abstentions.
Each candidate in the primary will have to submit an affidavit prior to the election. He will agree to support the winners and to withhold his name from any other ballot in the general election.
The constitution wa^ also amended to guarantee that representatives on the committee will go along with the winners of the preliminary. They must affirm willingness to support primary winners or face suspension from the group.
Neither representatives nor losers can commit their houses to back winning candidates, however. The committee defeated a proposal which would have required committeemen to represent the views of their houses.
Defeated candidates and repre* sentatives will be required to give “active” support to primary winners. This is generally conceded to mean that they .wiil have to campaign for the victors.
Chuck Jones, president of the EPC. announced at the outset that all representing organizations recognized by the IFC would have a vote at the meeting. Don Evans, Lambda Chi Alpha, suggested that (Continued on Page 4)
THREE OF THE 10 remaining PiKA "Dream Girl" candidates group about the trophy offered to the winner. Left to rig.:: are lanet Melbourne. Delta Gamma; Harriet Sleele, Tri Delt; Bill Winn president of the PiKA fraternity; and Lindy Blanc, Alpha Gamma Delta.
Pi KAs to Se!ecl Five
Five beau.L'ul coeds will be selected tonight from the remaining 10 contestants seeking the title “Dr: am Girl of Pi Kappa Alpha.”
They will be chosen at a dinner party by members of the fraternity.
Of the 60 coeds who were entered, only 10 remain. They are Virginia Ba .s, Alpha Delta Pi; Lindy Blanc, Alpha Gamma Delta; Gloria Hammond, Kappa Alpha Theta; Dora Jackson, Alpha Delta Pi; Marilyn Lindberg, Delta Delta Delta; Marian McMasters, Delta Gamma; Janet Melbourne, Delta Gamma; Harriet Steele, Delta Delta Delta; Mary Valle, Delta Gamma;
and Jezn Wos.erman, Alpha Epsilon Phi.
This marks the 36 Lh annual search for PiKA dream girl, the second cldes^ contest of this sort in the United States.
The five girls selected tonight will be judjed by a panel of impartial experts at the Dream Girl Dali, Apr. 9, m the Hotel Miramar’s Palm rocm. The finalists will be judged for all-around beauty by Perc Westmore, Paramount studio'* makeup chief; Ivan Kahn, head of the talent department at 20th Century Fox studios; and Varga, i$m* ous Esquire magazine artut