Local Reserve units
put on
alert
Ed. confab to attract
teachers
The second in a series of school administration-super vision conferences today will attract hundreds of school teachers who are attending Summer Session classes at SC Sessions will open at 9:30 a.m in Hancock auditorium with George W. Wakefield, deputy county counsel, Los Angeles county, speaking on “Recent Legal Decisions and Their Implications for School Administration.”
Dr. Irving R. Melbo, professor of educational administration in the SC School of Education, will be chairman. Dr. Charles C. Carpenter, assistant superintendent, Los Angeles County schools, will lead the discussion.
At 10:45 a.m.. Dr. Frank M. Wright, Sacramento, associate state superintendent of public instruction, will speak on “The Improvement of School Budgeting in California.” Theron McCuen, superintendent of the Kern County Union high school district, Bakersfield, will be the discussion leader.
A noon luncheon in the new university Commons building will have as speaker Dr. Frank W. Hart, professor emeritus of education at the University of California. His topic will be, “Physical Plant Development—Its Problems, i'Jeeds and Opportunities.”
Dr. Ronald F. Campbell, professor of education at the University of Utah, will conduct the question period.
>Vhals
Going On
BRAIN WAVES and language behavior will be discussed in their relation to speech by Lee Travis, professor of speech, this afternoon at 3 15 in 133 Founders hall.
This lecture will be the third in a series sponsored lor the Summer Session by the department of speech.
MAHATMA GANDHI and his philosophy will fill the talk of George P. Conger, professor of philosophy from the University of Minnesota, Tuesday evening at 8 in Bowne hall.
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PROFESSOR of International Re- I lationships J. Anton Haas of Har- J vard university will lecture on the progress oi European recovery Tuesday at 3:15 p.m. in 133 Founders hall.
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Antivivisectionists and scientific researchers will glare at each other across the room at a meeting of the City Council this morning at 10 in room 140. City Hall.
The issue is the passing of an ordinance releasing unwanted pound I animals for research which the re-| Marchers claim has come to a neai lhait because of antivivisectionist [activity.
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IbaRITONE Jerold Shepherd will be laccom pained by Han.s Tampl in a llaculty recital Sunday evening at |8:30 in Hancock auditorium.
Admission will be by free ticket |whi( h tan be obtained by calling [university extension 541.
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Status of student reservists still unknown
Los Angeles’ 13th Marine Reserve Infantry battalion, which includes several SC students, received word yesterday that its shipping orders are in the mail, and that it will lea<ve 10 days after they are received.
A strong possibility that the Army’s 13th Armored division,
another reserve group with many* Trojaus in its ranks, may be sent up to Fort Lewis, Washington, was still in the air.
National Guardsmen also hurried to finish serial stories, as President Truman’s message to Congress began to sting the lethargic United States war machine into action.
DRAFT COLLEGE MEN?
How an estimated 2000 SC reservists of all branches would be affected by the order was still unknown when the Trojan went to press. None of the Marine and Navy officials who could be reached knew for sure whether students would be allowed to finish their training. They all thought no exceptions would be made, however.
SC is represented by both men and women in units of the National guard, the Naval reserve, the Air and Naval RCXTC, the Air Force reserve, the Army Enlisted reserve, and the Army Officers Reserve corps. In addition, most former Navy officers are now on a j reserve status.
BLACK CAT DIVISION The 13th Armored, the Black Cat division, was due to hold joint ma- j neuvers with the Marine corps at; Camp Pendleton this month. In-! stead they may be shipped up to | the Washington post, to indefi- i nitely take the place of the regu- j lar Second Infantry, which has been ordered to Asia.
The Armored unit only this Tuesday had been trying, through an article in the Summer Trojan, to drum up enlistments. SC students in the division include Capt. Floyd McCann, Charles Daley, Marty Grey, Henry Challenger, Louis Burton. and Robert Huston.
CONSTANT; FIGHTING TRIM
One of few such Army units, the Black Cat division is kept constantly in fighting trim, with its full quota of men and equipment, just like Marine and National Guard units. Mast other Army reserve outfits are merely maintained as skeleton units of officers and cadre.
At the same time, the Army announced that it has alerted regular Army combat and supporting units from each of the six continental Army areas for movement
in the near future to the Far East.
The Navy is calling Air Reserve units to active duty. It refused to
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. . . President Truman shown presenting his mobilization message to a joint session of Congress. He asked ior wide authority to put the United States on a war-time
economy.
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NO. 7
72
Friday, July 21, 1950
Band concert for Memorial goes over OK
Trovets, on behalf of the Living War Memorial Scholarship fund, sponsored Clarence Sawhill and the 85-piece Trojan concert band in its first concert of the season yesterday.
The concert was presented from the steps of Bovard auditorium over KUSC. It included eight selections by the band plus some of the songs from “South Pacific,” sung by Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold Shepherd.
The programs were made up by Norman Evans, who is chairman of the Trovet publicity committee, and Mr. Fries, the secretary of Trovets.
There was a good turnout and everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy the program.
Mr. Sawhill announced that there will be another concert next Thursday, July 27.
REGISTRATION ENDS SATURDAY
Fall semester preregistration ends tomorrow.
The process begins at Door B, ' Annex, where materials are gathered. From there to the Student Union cellar and Commons basement, and back to the bursar's office it winds.
All students, no matter what their initials, may register all day today and tomorrow until noon.
CLASS CHANGES OCCUPATIONAL THEAPY:
Drop 321 • 66251 1:15-3:05 TTli.
Drop 358a (6632) 8-10:50 TTli.
Add: 321a (2) Theory of Occupational Therapy for Certificate Students, 1:15 TTh; 6626 Reynolds TV.
Add: 321b (2) Theory of Occupational Therapy for Certificate Students. 2:15 TTh: 6627 Rood TV. SPEECH:
Change time of 565a <6772i to 12 Th, add hrs arr.
Universities can salvage it
Novel not dead yet, he sez
Universities will help keep the modern novel alive through the establishment of creative writing centers and the fact that more authors are teaching on college campuses.
That view was expressed Thursday by a successful young novelist who is teaching during the SC summer session.
The novel, which has been an art form for nearly 250 years, is far from dead, in the opinion of Frederic Morton, novelist and lecturer in English at New York university.
NUTS TO DEATH SENTENCE
“Despite the death sentences which have been pronounced on the novel,” Morton said, “good books continue to be published.
“I believe that the novel will even suivive television—that is.
if the country as a whole survives TV.
“Universities can counteract this frenzy for entertainment by making more persons aware of good literature through college classes in English.”
The presence of many novelists on university faculties “sets a precedent of some sort in American literature and a hopeful one.” Morton said
NOT CALCIFY?
“At a university a writer can make a living teaching and yet not calcify into a pedant. Robert Penn Warren, who JiaS unquestionably emerged as one of our major novelists, has been a professor of English for a number of years.”
Only 25 and a native of Vienna.
Morton lias been teaching at
NYU the past year, and formerly was at the University of Utah. He has been in this country only about 10 years.
His first novel, “Tlie Hound,” won an intercollegiate contest and was published when he was just 22. His latest novel, “The Darkness Below,” is on many .bestseller lists.
Novelists are really a type of displaced person, Morton observed.
COMPTOMETER AGE ‘Tn this comptometer age when everybody is interested only in the cash value of a thought and where each new idea is carefully appraised as to how it will look on television.” he said, “the writer finds himself the mast displaced us a return visit next year—all in of all persons.
Catalina trip promises tan, possibly man
Suh-tanning on tlie way over and return by starlight is the romantic picture painted of the coming Santa Catalina cruise by Alex Aloia, chairman of the University Recreation association.
And that isn’t all. Once at the beautiful Pacific island, there will be side trips to many interesting places including the famous Bird Farm and the beaches. In the evening there will be dancing, at the Casino ballroom -(free to all mak-ing the trip) to the music of an outstanding band.
Boats heading Catalina way wilt leave the Navy landing. Long Beach at noon, Saturday, July 29. The excursion will last till 11:30 when the boats turn back for home.
Limited reservations and ticket* are available at the URA office,
| 104 Physical Education building.
URA also offers dance in Student Union tonight
“Sweet rhythms” will enianau J from the Student Union’s third-j .story windows tonight at 9 where Mickey Anderson and his orchestra «o to work in the lounge for Summer Session dancers.
Vocalist Beveily Smith will accompany the band in this fourth j of a series of University Reorea-tion association dances.
Alex Aloia, chairman, urges al8 students whether in pairs or stag to participate in this informal social. The female contingent, he said, is especially in demand to balance the many men who attend these dances.
MEXICAN OPERA technique* will be the subject of a lecture today at 4:15 p.m., 133 Founders hall, by Fernando Wagner, head of the drama department at the University of Mexico.
Professor Wagner will use drawings and designs by important Mexican artists to illustrate his talk.