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SC Professor Polls Students
The public thinks college stu- j favoring it only if the boys were dents are intelligent, ambitious, j college material. Fortune’s survey
well-informed, and well-mannered, according to the recent Fortune magazine survey conducted by Pollster Elmo Roper.
The survey was made to “show the climate in which higher education in America must subsist,” Fortune announced. It included questions or federal aid to colleges, general attitude toward college education, what should be taught, and academic freedom.
Information for the survey was obtained from a representative cross-section of the general public, ,the magazine said.
In order to compare the views of SC students with the Fortune findings. Dr. Carl Q, Christol, visiting associate professor of political science, last week polled students in his public opinion and propaganda cnlass on the same questions.
showed 3 per cent in favor of this reservation.
Questions on what should be taught were phrased to allow any one of four opinions: (1) Have classes; (2) Discuss only when students ask; (3) Have no discussion at all; and (4) no opinion.
Proposed college subjects were racial and religious prejudice, sex education, how to be a good parent, religious beliefs, and communism.
A plurality of the Fortune group favored having classes on the sub-
teaching.” Four methods of handling it were presented:
Allow the professors to give only the arguments in favor of capitalism to students—public, 2 percent; students, 0.
Require any professor who discusses the subject to give arguments for both sides, but let him express his own opinion only if it is favorable to capitalism—public, 6 percent; students, 6 percent.
Require any professor to give arguments for both sides, then let him express his own opinion what-
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jects of racial and religious pre- . judice, religious beliefs, and com- e'er lt is’ but try to have profes-
munism. A majority expressed approval of classes on sex and parenthood.	•
A large majority of the students wanted classes on all subjects. Widest divergence of opinion According to the Fortune poll j was shown in the percentage of
:he country is ready for federal aid io colleges. A plan to send qualified high-school students to college was favored by 56 per cent of !iose questioned. In Dr. Christol’s survey 69 per cent of the students avored it.
The magazine's poll showed 62 per cent in favor of sending high-school graduate sons to college. Dr. Jhristol’s class voted 68 per cent In favor, with another 22 per cent
people favoring no discussion at all of racial and religious prejudice, religious beliefs, and communism. No one in Dr. Christol's class took this view,, while approximately 25 per cent of the general public favored it.
While questioning about academic freedom, Fortune assumed that “the controversy between capitalism and socialism could not very well be avoided in college
sors with differing opinions on the faculty—public, 27 percent; students 70 per cent.
Require any professor to give arguments for both sides, but do not allow him to express any opinion of his own—public, 37 percent; students, 22 percent.
In the magazine survey, 20 percent expressed no opinion on this question, and 8 percent said they failed to understand the words “capitalism,” “socialism,” or both. All students said they understood and all expressed opinions.
Dr. Christol did not ask his students if they were intelligent, ambitious, well-informed, and well-mannered.
Rhine Lead Chopsticks
Learns for Role
SC Population otals 22,413
Fall Students
ADPi, Chi
Win Taxi
Omega
Awards
A total of 22.413 students ar^ registered in all divisions of the university this semester, a decrease of 148 from last spring.
The registrar's office announced the first official figures for the fall term Friday.
Men outnumber women students,
18,308 to 4105, a slightly larger ratio than the 4.27-1 of last spring.
There are 15.837 day students and 6576 students enrolled only in evening and special division classes. Figures for special divisions were broken down into four categories :
School of Aeronautics at Santa Maria. 20; special education service, 109; Civic Center, 978; and University college, 5460.
In addition to student enrolled in Civic Center or University college classes only, there are 4786 students registeied in day divisions Who are also taking at least one :1ass in Civic Center or University ollege.
Full-time students number 14.-83, and part-time students total 230. A full-time student, for statistics purposes only, is one registered for 10 units or more.
LAS, with 3928, has the largest ;nrollment of the divisions. The School of Commerce is second with 117.
Final figures on veteran enroll-lent ha\-e not yet been complet-
d for release, said Peter J. Peter- j°f women; Russell L. Caldwell,
associate professor of general studies: Tema S. Clare, associate professor of botany; and Robert B. Pettengill, director of the teaching institute of economics, judged the colorful entries from the reviewing stand in front of Bovard.
Audrey Lorton was chairman of the ADPi entry and Ravia Willis headed the working party for the Chi Omega group.
The 19 entries in the contest included Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha .uttee, stressed that only those Gamma Delta. Alpha Omicron Pi, ith a sincere interest in bettering Alpha Pi. Chi Omega. Delta Delta conditions in and operation of the Delta. Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi student union need apply.	Beta. Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa
by COLIN McKINLAY
While student spectators cheered, Taxi day awards were presented Friday afternoon to Alpha Delta Pi for the most original entry and to Chi Omega for the closest adherence to the theme.
ADPi’s big red rocket ship took the judge’s eyes as the
procession moved around the park-*-----
ing strip in front of the administration building. Inside the space ship were ten students peering out of the port-holes in the sides. The “thing from the sky” was mounted on the back of a truckbed and was shaped like a king-sized skyrocket.
INDIAN HOTFOOT i Chi Omega's entry was a big Indian moccasin mounted on a car carriage. It was colorfully decorated with crepe paper and a number of Trojan “squaws” in brief Indian suits rode in it. A “hotfoot for the Indian” was the theme of the float.
Kappa Kappa Gamma's fire engine entry collected the most receipts for carrying passengers to win the rotating trophy. This is the second year in succession that the group has won this award.
BRASS RAIL Seventeen other entries ranged from a horse drawn lion's den to a brass rail dance hall.
At the football game Saturday the two winning entries were presented to the huge homecoming crowd.	*
JUDGE TAXIS Helen Hall Moreland, counselor
,K>n, assistant registrar.
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th Aspen Calls or SU Reformers
Petitions for membership in the tudent Union committee as mem--rs-at-large are available today at he information office on the second loor of the Student Union.
Beth Aspen, chairman of the com-
Trolio Record On Air Tonight
The entire two hour star-studded show that took place Friday evening in Bovard auditorium will be rebroadcast over KTRU, the campus AM station, at 8:15 tonight.
As an extra feature, KTRU will present a recorded interview of the entire cast of stars. The interview was conducted by Bob Heath, KTRU special events man. after a dinner for the stars at the Phi Kappa Psi house Friday evening.
Heard on the interview and on the program will be a galaxy of stars including, Emcees Frank Faylen and William Demarest, comedians Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, songstress Peggy Lee, vocalist Herb Jeffries and pianist-composer Walter Gross, dancers Dan Dailey and Tommy McDonald, stars Marie Wilson. Esther Williams, Ordie Wright, Bill Bendix, and Eddie Bracken. Tommy Harmon will be heard interviewing coaches Jeff Cravath of the Trojans and Marchie Schwartz of Stanford.
by JOANNE GEE
Taking piano lessons from his 15-year-old niece wa^ a necessity for Rory Guy who plays the lead role in “Watch on the Rhine” opening tomorrow night at 8:30 in Bovard auditorium.
Guy takes the part of Kurt in the Lillian Heilman
drama. Kurt plays the piano well*-
in the drama and Guy found it necessary to learn a few simple tunes. “Five years of violin didn’t help me in this situation, so I got my niece to teach me,” he said.
Guy will take his first long serious part in the forthcoming production. What he likes about the part is that it is the story of an idealist struggling against heavy odds.
KURT COMPLEX
“The role of Kurt is a complex characterization and a challenge to aspiring actors,” he said. ‘‘Kurt’s basic qualities are outstanding throughout the drama. He has an operative nature and attacks* his problems with fervor and humor.
His greatest problem in the play is dividing his love between his family and his work as an anti-Fascist.”
Guy, who is acting president of the National Collegiate Players, has tried his hand at playwriting. He wrote ‘‘Pray for Me,” which was presented last semester in the experimental theater. He has also been working as stage manager' for the Circle theater, a small theater group in Los Angeles.
EXPERIENCED Taking the part of Kurt's wife,
Sara, will be Barbara . Murphy.
Miss Murphy has done work in the CBS workshop, the Hackett players, and the San Francisco little theater group.
Best known for her work in “Mrs.
Moonlight” and her outstanding characterization of the captain's wife in “lie,” she will play the role of a woman with mixed emotions.
As Sara, she is happy about coming home to America, but is worried about Kurt and their future together. She is afraid that the domination of Kurt's mother will interfere in his plans to aid the democratic German underground.
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Checks Out by 10th/ Douglas
Trovet President Hal Carter received a letter from Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas. D., Friday, saying that “the financial department of the Veterans administration has promised that 25,000 subsistence checks will go out on Nov. 10, others following daily until all have cleared, and that future checks will be on time.’’
Mrs. Douglas’ letter was the first reply to letters Carter sent congressmen recently, requesting aid in speeding up deliver^of overdue GI checks. He wrote the letters afer many students had appealed to the Trovet organization for financial assistance to tide them over until the checks arrived.
Carter said he wrote trfe congressmen, telling them of the desperate plight of many veterans on campus. Some married veterans, especially, he had said, may be forced to withdraw from school if they don’t receive their checks soon.
Indians Bury Hatchet In Trojans, 34-13
by ERNIE BEYER
So what’s new in basketball practice?
The Trojans, who get time off from competition this week, will be able to relax for the first time since late in September. It will give them a chance to forget all about football—even more, if such is possible, than they forgot
Saturday in the Coliseum as they -—-
made a good Stanford team look^ tremendous by bowing before the |
Indians 34-13.
Heralded as a sophomor§ whiz team, Stanford also flashed a few veterans before the eyes of the be- j wildered and annihilated Trojans, j It was a near-veteran wall that
Stars Shine
pushed the Trojan line around the field at will and the SCers were also given fleeting glances of letterman backs Bill DeYoung, Bob White, and Emery Mitchell as they romped toward touchdowns.
OPPORTUNISTS
RORY GUY Piano Lessons
Bagdad'
Film Set For Tonight
“Thief of Bagdad” has been tentatively scheduled as a substitute picture to be shown tonight by the Film Classics series in Hancock auditorium at 8 p.m.
Due to confusion in booking in New York the “Four Horsemen,” starring Rudolph Valentino, will not be obtainable.
“Thief of Bagdad,” starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr., has been selected as a possible substitute for “Four Horsemen” because both pictures were made in the same era. Both are silent films.
The art direction on “Thief of Bagdad” was done by Williaili Menzies who teaches an art direction class at SC.
Packed House Views Rally
by ALAN R. SALISBURY
Thunderous applause rocked Bovard auditorium for more than three hours Friday night as a galaxy of stage, screen, radio, and sports world stars sparked SC’s big The sophomores, however, did not j homecoming rally, disappoint. Halfback Harry Huga- A packed house of homecoming-sian ran for 59 of Stanford's 310 happy Trojans roared at the antics total and while quarterback Gary Kerkorian's record of 5 completions in 13 attempts may not look too impressive, let it be said that they 1 top names in came at opportune moments.	' world.
Both teams dickered around with 1 Other highlights of the evening their offenses in the first quarter 1 were the piano performances of ac-and neither got rolling enough to tress Diana Lynn and composer
call it a threat. And when the gun j Walter Gross- the music of °ren shot ending the first period with ; Hill’s Dixieland band and Chuck
of Martin and Lewis, Marie Wilson, William Demarest, Frank Faylen, Buddy Baer, and a host of other the entertainment
SC in possesion on its own 31, it is a safe bet to assume that none of the 70.041 cutomers—largest local collegiate attendance of the | year—had an inkling that the pig (Continued on Page 3)
Interviews are scheduled ler Wednesday and Friday afternoons between 1:30 and 4 p Tnion 224.
Kappa Gamma. Kappa Delta. Pi Beta Phi. Phi Mu, Phi Sigma Sig-m.. Student ma. Troeds, Zeta Tau Alpha, and Harris hall.
Officials Quiz Rowmen n Fire Fracas Today
Investigation of bonfires which i -Such bonfires are in violation ared Friday morning “along the (of an ordinance, and, as such, are ngth and breadth of 28th street ’ j a violation of the law. The police day brought a call for Row rep- department will not tolerate any esentatives to meet with fire de-! violation of the law. artment and pol.ee brass in thc “Any time there is a violation -nate chambers at 4 today.	there may be an arrest.”
Penalties will be discussed at a No one was arrested Friday pccially-called meeting of the LFC morning, however, nd Panhellenic, according to Dr. j The fire department's arson lbert Zech, counselor of men. squad said that it is a penitentiary The bonfires brought out three oflense to bum personal projjerty "vlice radio cars, fire equipment | —and is also in violation of laws nd University pol.ee shortly after covering burning out of hours, lidnight Friday when shredded j burning in a public street and omecoming decorations were cieating a fire hazard, uming in four different sections \ Richard Berg, fraternity coordin-28th street.	ator, conferred with Lt. Freestone
Dr. Zech, policc and fire officials and fire department officials Fri-ve already promised that such day as the investigation began, ents will not be tolerated.	“The bonfires were burning in
‘ Bonfires are specifically prolnb- folir different places when I got
there,” Berg said. "Police cars and
by university rules.'' Dr. Zech id Friday. “The adm.mstration is nducting an investigation to de--mime who is responsible for the
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Lt. Paul Freestone of the Uni-.■rsity Division described the po-department's stand:
Speaker to Show Films With Talk
Two movies, one developed to aid sex education in public schools, the other showing an experimental neurosis induced in subjects by hypnotism, will be shown by Dr. Lester F. Beck during his lecture Friday night at 8 in Hancock auditorium. s
Both films were produced under the direction of Dr. Beck, an asso ciate professor of psychology at the University of Oregon.
The sex film was recently recently reviewed by Life magazine. The other film pictures the responses of neurotic subjects to projective tests and the psychological changes that come with effective psychotherapy.
All students are invited to attend.
fire equipment were already there. Some of the residents of the area
apparently became concerned over the fires.”
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Work for Youths Discussed Today
An explanation of what interested students and church groups can <1o to help youths find work in this area will be given by Henry Talbert at 3:15 today in the chaplains office. 3713 South Hoover street.
Talbert, superviser of the group work division of the Church Federation welfare bureau, received his M.A. at SC and is now field instructor for the sociology department here.
Many opportunities for students to work with youth groups arc available through the bureau.
The mrel ing. sponsored by the Council of Religion, is open to all students.
Ch en to Probe China Founding
The contributions of Sun Yat Sen, and other founders, to Chinese nationalism will be the topic discussed by Dr. Shou-Yi Ch’en at the Philosophy forum tomorrow at 4:15 p. m.. Bowne hall.
Doctor Ch en professor of Chinese culture at Pomona college, formerly taught at the University of Peking and the University of Hawaii.
A native of China, the doctor is known as an authority on Chinese nationalism.
Another lecture in the philosophy series will be Nov. 15. Samuel H. Leger, professor of sociology, Pepperdine college, who has spent 25 years as a missionary and educa-toor in China will speak on “Some Interpretations of Christianity.”
Fund-Raising Formed by
Group
Alumni
Formation of an alumni fund organization to obtain finances to maintain the university has been announced by the General Alumni association.
Headed by Frank P. Doherty, n, prominent Los Angeles attorney, the organization plans to have every alumnus place SC in his budget as he does the Red Cross, Community Chest, and other philanthropic societies.
SC does not receive millions of dollars from state, taxes, but must derive its income primarily from tuition fees and gifts from alumni and friends.
The alumni fund program will be a detailed synchronization between a direct-mail campaign to all alumni, and a personalized contact by class representatives to each member of his class, an alumni spokesman said.
This last function, key to the whole program, will be carried on by prominent and active alumni of each class from all the schools of the university.
Tom Winner, ’40, director of the alumni fund office, said he expects more than 1000 alumni to take part in the campaign. “The hope of any alumni fund is to grow each year by increasing the number of contributions from its
alumni so that in its maturity it will find its place in the well-regulated family life of the university and the alumni body,” said Winner.
“Great as is the financial value of the fund to the university,” continued Winner, “still greater is its intangible quality to create unity, goodwill, and understanding among the alumni.”
Winner said he believed the fund would strengthen and fortify the university and help maintain its position as a leading institution of higher education and assure future progress through its activities.
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DT Thanks Papers For Cooperation
The Daily Trojan staff wishes to thank the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Mirror, the Los Angeles Daily News, and the Los Angeles Herald-Express for helping to make our homecoming week issue a pictorial success.
Full cooperation of these papers in making pictures available to the Daily Trojan at no cost has aided us to bring scenes of the week’s events to the campus readers.
Junior Council
. . . meets today at 3:30	in tne senate chambers. Student, Union.
This meeting counts for	attendance.
Discussion Croup To Study Christ
A discussion group in psychological interpretation of the teaching of Christ is offered to SC students by a well-known teacher of religion. Endorsed by Clinton A. Neyman, chaplain of the university, the group will be directed by Beatrice Shipley.
All students interested may contact Chaplain Neyman, Ext. 537.
Greater-U Plans One-Way Traffic For 36th Street
One-way traffic on 36th street was suggested Friday by Frank O’Sullivan, chairman of the Greater University committee, as an answer to the congestion outside the Student Union building.
Both ths administration and the committee feel that a traffic signal, brought forward recently as an answer, would fail to solve the problem and also would be unsightly.
The committee’s plans, which will need the approval of the administration and city officials, at present call for one-way traffic, east to west, on 36th sfrreet from Hoover street to Hoover boulevard.
It is possible that there will be changes as the plan is not final. The committee will meet today or tomorrow in order to work out complete details.
O'Sullivan stated that the plan would require traffic signs at the corners, and, if accepted, ne will request members of the Squires, Knights, and Alpha Phi Omega to patrol the comer until the new regulation is observed by drivers.
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Cabot's orchestra, the dancing of Dan Dailey and Tommy McDonald, the appearance of Jeff Cravath with Tom Harmon, and th* antics of the all-student Trolios of '49.
SCRAMBLE FOR SEATS
The opening of the auditorium doors was followed by a scramble for seils, and by the tim; the show got under way every available seat had been taken. Several hundred Trojans sat in the aisles or stood in the rear of the auditorium, and at least that many more did not get in.
A bevy of Spurs circulated among the audience selling bubble gum and toy balloons as Qren Hill’s barefoot dixielanders opened the show. From then on an almost never-ending parade of top talent kept the audience in a continual state of laughter and cheers.
CHEERLEADERS. TOO A little publicized singing group of four boys and a girl who called themselves the Cheerleaders became a highlight among highlights when they almost stopped the show midway through the evening with several solid numbers.
At the final curtain the appreciative audience rewarded the efforts of the performers and the rally committee with a last tremendous burst of applause.
Buck Buckberg, rally chairman; his assistants, Tony Taylor and Phil De Briere; and the entire homecoming committee were praised highly for their work as the audience filed from the auditorium.
Talk on Atoms This Afternoon
The forces binding together the nuclear particles of the atom, the common denominator of all matter, will be discussed at 4:30 this afternoon in 159 Science building by Dr. Edward Gerjouy, associate professor of physics. The title of his lecture is "Recent Results in Scattering Theory.”
Investigation of nuclear forces is basic problem in atomic energy research, according to Dr. Gerjuoy, who studied under Dr. Robert Op-penheimer, one of the world's leading authorities on atomic energy.
Color, Music, Dancing Conclude Homecoming
Bands Highlight Grid Contest
—Courtesy LA Mirror
HEMLOCK-HEADED Charlie McCarthy made the most oi Homecoming week by planting a pine-scented kiss on Queen Virginia Tongue. Chaperones (six of 'em!) are Lyla Tilston, Donna Freedman, Shirley Wilmore, Pat Judson, Barbara Bates, and envious Edgar Eergen.
by BEN WEINBERG
Homecoming week wound up Saturday in a riot of everything but people. There was color, music, and dancing.
It was red, hot, and white over on the south side of the Coliseum early in the afternoon. Thousands of thin, tweedy men wearing horn-rim glasses accompanied by tall, striking women with a Bay area taste in clothes filed in.
On most counts, they weren’t very different from the people a-cross the turf. They ate peanuts and hotdogs, drank cokes, and smoked cigarettes. However, they did make what at the time sounded like mad predictions.
During halftimc the color picked up a little. The bands extended | courtesies and each of them play- 1 ed ‘'There'll be a Hot Time in the Old Town. Tonight" (they couldn't lose), one of the tubas in Stanford’s band fell apart after a high note, and the public address announcer claimed that the Trojan band was going to play “I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married.’’
But the announcer really couldn't be blamed too much. There was an awful lot going on at once.
On one side the card stunt section portrayed an % Indian doing something to a Trojan, on the other side the card stunt section portrayed a Trojan doing something to an Indian, and up in row 59 two Indians were doing something to each other.
This was not portrayed by the card stunt sections.
While this was going on the bands were very busy. It seems to be a tradition that college bands must not be just bands. They're ballot boxes or surreys with fringe on top or alarm clocks or something. But it all came off very well.
There was a parade of floats too. but it got lost in the shuffle. The announcer got the first one or two identified before half time activities halted and the floats drove off with barely a hand from anyone (on the south side, anyway).
Sympathy should probably be •rtended to the fellow on the URA
float who jumped up and down on his trampoline m taat Coliseum heat with not a word as to what he had to do with Homecoming, Stanford, the URA, or even good sense.
It was colorful at the dance at Casino Gardens Saturday evening.
Several hundred Trojans and the few night shift beachcombers who could sneak in perspired quietly to "Music in the Mourning Manner” amidst streamers of black crepe dyed cardinal and gold for the occasion.
Some attempts at gayety were made. Men were seen buying drinks for other men’s wives, squeals of delight were heard when the balloons came cascading down, and many humorous comments were made about the dancers being "forced'' to buy refreshments because none of the drinking fountains were working.
Dull sidelight of an otherwise colorful weekend was some sort of an athletic contest played Saturday afternoon. It rami* off badly and probably will be eliminated from Homecoming festivities next year.