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Vol. XLV
Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, February 19, 1954
No. 77
First Troy Leadership Conference Convenes Today in Student Union
KREUTZ, KRAUS
ROY SINKS ONE-Roy Irvin, Troy's high-scoring center, will iead his Trojan teammates in battle against the powerful California Bears this weekend at the Pan Pacific. Irvin, with an 11.2 average, is currently Troy's top scoring threat.
C-Cal Hoopmen quare-off in Pan
by Jack McCurdy
During this weekend’s series and next weekend’s final jets any one of three—SC, UCLA or Cal—could win the PCC outhern Division basketball championship. Tonight and to-lorrow night the Trojans’ role in this dramatic, deciding Jour-game run is played in the Pan Pacifific Auditorium with
the Cal Bears co-starring. .
arine Study >et to Open ymposiums
First in a series of geologic symposiums will be given Monday from 8 to 10 p.m. in Bowne lall. The series will take the jlace of the Wednesday leetings of last semester.
Senate Gives Approval On Two Positions
Senate approval of Gary Kreutz as this year’s Student Handbook editor and Ow’en Kraus as University Recreation Association chairman wras announced yesterday.
Senators voted unanimously to accept the Publications Board’s recommendation of Kreutz and ASSC President Warren Clenden-ing’s recommendation of Kraus at the Senate meeting Wednesday night.
As Handbook editor, Kreutz will work this semester and through the summer collecting information on registration, counseling, and campus activities to fill the 100-page booklet.
Kraus will head the URA Executive Board, which coordinates extra-curricular athletic events for men and women including square dances, social dances, ana all sports. The post w^as vacated last week w’hen former chairman Prentice Taylor wrent into the service.
Kraus, a junior commerce major, has been a Squire and has served on Greater U Committee, Freshman Council, Commerce Council, and in Phi Eta Sigma, scholastic fraternity, and Alpha Kappa Psi, commerce fraternity.
Kreutz, a junior majoring in journalism, is a journalism scholarship holder, news editor, assistant feature editor, and was publicity chairman for Homecoming Week last semester.
It is almost as unsettled as if the Trojans, Bruins,	and Bears
were heading into a	brand new
year tonight and the	season con-
sisted of just four games. UCLA and Cal are tied for first with 3-3 records and Troy lies one notch behind wijth a 4-4 mark. But that one game difference is of little consequence if the cards fall right in the next nine days. While UCLA is considered
likely for a series sweep at noon	Stanford this Friday and Satur-
I day evenings, the real mystery games are here in the SC-Cal Three	speakers	will cover	Mon-	struggles. Then next	weekend it
ay’s topic,	“Marine	Geology	and	will definitely all be	decided be-
>eeanography.” Don	Fissell	will	tween the Bruins and the Tro-
\iewr	a	paper written	by	Ph.	: Jans a* Westwood. No team will
,	.	i	clinch anything either tonight or
Luenen on submarine canyons,
knd Yvor Smitter will give a
lalk based on his investigations
If coastal warm spots. Robert E.
Stevenson will speak on recent
Evolutions on the shoreline of
le L.A basin.
Other subjects to be covered
tomorrow’ night.
Next Weekend
No matter who sweeps who I this weekend, it could all be re-j versed next weekend. That’s how
complicated and up in the air
! the entire championship situation i is suspended. It all looks different from each team’s viewpoint, ^his semester include paleontol-j but this is SC’s various routes: If
the Trojans drop two to the , ,	_	,	, Bears the Cardinal and Gold is
nd sentimentauon, and general out of „„^¡0,,.	^ ,hey
jeology.	could only play the role of “spoil-
Purpose o£ the talks, according ers’’ and possibly finish ahead of
chairman John Byrne, is to 1 the Bruins, unless they also
* i *	sweep Stanford,
in student geologists to give , F	,
-ientific sneeches before erad- 1 A split with 03 would mean jentific speeches belore grad	^ ^ either UCLA Qr Cal
late and upper division geology j if the Trojans whipped the Bru-
ijors. The talks are based on ins twice and Stanford split with
le thesis work of the speakers, j the Bears. A sweep from Cal
Sponsors of the series is Sigma a UCLA domination of Stan-
ford, which seems likely, would amma Epsilon, honoi at \ earth mean that the Trojans would
ience fraternity. Meetings will i have take both contests from
j the Bruins. These afe only a j few of the possible endings to the 1954 PCC Southern Division basketball tale. If Stanford comes to life against either UCLA or Cal, it might all be changed around.
McKeen to Play?
A special night class offering a But to the SC-Cal series. The *w of engineering fundament- j most influential factor is wheth-will m?et every Friday night j er the Bears’ center, Bob Mc-Mn 7 to 9:30 in room 104 Of Keen, will play and whether he e bacteriology building. 927 W. can play effectively. The big 20-¡7th Street.	j year-old junior, who stands £ ft.
The class will assist engineers j 7 in.. has not only been bed-rid-pneparing for the engineer-in- I den with a cold from Monday to raining examination. Information 1 Wednesday of this week but his be obtained by telephoning ! outlook on basketball has been [chmond 2311, Ext. 213 or 246. j	(Continued on Page 3)
Official
Notice
All 10:00 o’clock classes will be dismissed on Monday .February 22 for a convocation to be held in Bovard auditorium in connection with Religious Emphasis Week at which time Dr. Glen A. Olds, Chaplain of
the University of Denver will
be the speaker in connection
with the theme of the week: “The Fourth R.”
A. S. Raubenheimer Educational Vice-President
RAYBURN TO LEAD RELIGIOUS SERIES
Dr. Robert G. Rayburn, president of Highland College, Pasadena, will lead a series of Protestant seminars as a part of Religious Emphasis Week, it was announced yesterday by REW Chairman Steve’ Robertson.
Topics for the series which will meet in Bowne Hall at 12 noon Monday through Thursday are “The Textbook,” ‘‘The Subject Matter,” “Methods for the Fourth R,” and “Rewards for the Fourth R.”
Vivid experiences of his service as an army chaplain in Germany and Korea will be related by the young minister who earned his Doctor’s degree at Dallas Theological Seminary.
Catholic Seminars
Catholic seminars will be led by the Rev. Fr. G. V. Kennard,
S.J., professor of philosophy at Loyola University, Los Angeles.
Herschel Lymon, Rabbi of Temple Akiba in Culver City; Rabbi William Spiegelman of the Sha-harei Tefila Congregation, Los Angeles; and David Lieber, assist tant Rabbi of Sinai Congregation, will be speakers for the Jewish seminars.
The week’s events will begin with a convocation in Bovard Auditorium at 10 a.m. Monday.
Principal speaker will be Dr.
Glenn A. Olds, chaplain at the University of Denver.
Classes Dismissed
All 10 o’clock classes will be dismissed to give students an opportunity to hear Dr. Olds, who has a wide religious and educational background.
A panel discussion on “Why the Agnostic?” will be conducted by Bill Van Alstyne and Jim Smith and headed by Sara Donald, REW vice chairman.
Theme for the week will be “The Fourth R” which symbolizes the need for religion as an important part of university life along with academic and social activities.
Many Activities Scheduled
Scheduled activities include seminars, open houses by various campus religious groups, movies, programs sponsored by class councils, luncheons, dinners, classroom speakers, panels, and speakers for honorary and service campus organizations.
According to Robertson, “the student committee has done all that is possible for the success of REW by planning events that will appeal to all factions of the student body.”
NEW PARTY
DR. ROBERT G. RAYBURN
. . . Protestant seminars
Councilors Offered Rides
Latest plans to insure the success of the Senior-Junior Class Council party Sunday have been
the announcement that a car pool is being formed to take the councilors to the party.
Junior Class President Rodger Darbonne asks that all council members with cars meet at the Theta Xi fraternity house, 728 West 28th Street at 7 p.m. Those desiring rides should also gather there.
Site of the party is' the home of Kirk Dickens, junior councilor. His address is 3964 South Dublin Avenue, near Santa Barbara and 4th Avenue.
A fifty-cent tax is being assessed each member attending the party.
Councilors may pay their party tax to either Carole Goshaw or Lenore Monosson or else at the party.
Independents Set Up Plans To Reorganize
by Don Hanson
The first step in the organization of the Independent Students Party was taken yesterday afternoon with the appointment of a constitutional committee at an open meeting of independents.
Appointed to draft a constitution for the new group were Bette Dobkin and Murray Bring, Independent Men’s and Women’s Representatives; Marguerite Cooper, Merle Marlowe, and Sharlene Hersh. Seyom Brown is temporary chairman of the group.
The meeting demonstrated that the biggest obstacle the new party must overcome is the apathy of the independent students it is supposed to serve.
Few’ Attend
Less than two dozen students scattered themselves among the seats	in	219	FH	to	watch the
birth	of	the	political	baby. Half
of them were members of the committee of independents who last Thursday announced plans to form a new party to fill the void created by the Unity Party, which disbanded six weeks ago.
“IndependeVits don’t have any representation on the ASSC Senate,”	Brown	said,	in	stating the
purposes	of	the	new organiza-
tion.
This will be a party restricted to independents, to promote independent interests in campus government, and to seek the
election of independents to ASSC offices.
“It will also attempt to increase independents’ participation in student affairs,” he said.
A New Party
Murray Bring, a former leader in the Unity party, emphasized, “We’re not resurrecting Unity. This will be a new party, with a new approach.”
He said the new approach will be a constructive one, proposing positive legislation and solutions to problems, rather than the negative approach of constantly attacking Row-supported government, which was used by Unity.
One member of the audience was a fraternity man who stopped in to observe events, and (Continued on Page 4)
ONLY 167 HEAR ABOUT PLANS
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Freshmen Told of SC Expansion Program
open to all students and cof-|ee and donuts w ill be served.
lew Class Open or Engineers
by Ruth Ross
Thirty-sixth Street from Hoover Street to Hoover Boulevard will be ‘closed to traffic by commencement time in June, Robert D. Fisher, financial vice-president, yesterday told freshmen in an assembly at Bovard Auditorium.
Only 167 freshmen attended w’hat may prove to be one of the most interesting speeches of the year • concerning the university. There are over 1200 in the class.
Speaking on the “Know Your University” series for freshmen, Fisher, and John E. Fields, vice-president in charge of development, spoke on the financing and coordination of SC.
Fisher also minted that other streets in the area will be closed when he said, “the recent closing of University Avenue is only one of the first major steps of street-closing throughout the area.
New Buildings Planned
“The university has plans for new buildings and additional parking space to be provided within the next four years,” he said.
“Parking is better now, though, than it was for your immediate predecessors,” he said. “The university enrollment is now 11,000
students instead of 17,000 and parking facilities have been enlarged while the enrollment has dropped.
Fisher explained that these improvements take time and a great deal of money.
“Two years ago w^e bought the Phelps-Terkel building so that we
could close University Avenue,” he said. And then before the closing could be carried out, 46 public officials had to be contacted and their approval secured.
Forced to Sell “In the early days of the university, we owned most. of the land in the area and even some beyond Vermont Avenue, but we became very poor, and were forced to sell the property. Today we are paying fromf S60,000-$75,000 an acre to buy back the land to expand the campus.’1 Fisher said the expense of securing the land is high also because it has to be cleared of houses and apartment buildings. The cost of buying the large athletic field, clearing it, and putting in grass, was $330,000.
Touching upon the contributions of athletic events toward the school expenses, Fisher said;
“They contribute only one and one-half cents out of every dollar
that is handled by the university, by the time the government, the Coliseum rent, and our own expenses are paid out of the earnings.”
One Million per Month
“The budget figures show that it costs just about $1 million a month to run SC,” he said.
Fields said that budget figures show about 53 per cent of the money for running the school comes from tuition. “If everyone paid ‘full’ tuition, it would cost each person $1132 per year instead of the $60p it now costs, so each person here is on a partial scholarship.
“We only have $2 million in endowments,” Fields said, “so the remainder of operational expenses are met by current income gifts. In each year this support is growing.”
Last year more than 5000 alumni gave over $100,000. Corporations give hundreds of thousands of dollars, largely for research, and people not even connected with the school contribute, Fields said.
Not a Wealthy School
Fisher said this is a large school, but not wealthy. “We stand 13th in size throughout the
U.S., but only 156th in the size of endowments.”
Another problem, said the financial vice-president, is feeding the students. “The commons is operated at cost and we do not charge the commons unit taxes, rent, depreciation, etc. that a regular restaurant has to meet, so the school is not making money,” Fisher said.
The food is of the highest quality we can afford, he said. In choosing the kind of ice cream to be served, a team of people sampled various dishes of ice cream from a number of manufacturers and picked the one they liked. In choosing milk, a survey was made of the butter-fat content of various brands.
“I won’t guarantee we serve the best meat," he said. “If you go to Perino’s and put down $5 or $7 for a steak, I will guarantee you will get a better piece of meat then we serve here,” he quipped.
Wide Boundaries
Fields remarked that “we are pnly about half way through to the ideal situation we dream a-beut. We ultimately want the boundaries of the university to be Exposition, Figueroa, Jefferson, and McClintock.”
JOHN B. WENTZ
. value of leadership
WORLD NEWS
Senate, Campus Groups to Talk
by Dick Reid
The first on-campus Leadership Conference in Trojan history, aimed at coordinating inter-group activities and improving student government, will open the Student Union Lounge at 2:15 this afternoon.	%
Every interest group on campus will have an opportunity
to air its complaints and propose solutions for current student problems. ASSC President Warren Clendening said yesterday.
“We’ve sent invitations to every student organization in the University,” Clendening said, “and it’s up to the leaders of those organizations to respond. The students can make this conference really function if they want to." City Manager to Speak John B. Wentz, Beverly Hills City Manager, who received his master’s degree in public administration at SC, will launch the conference with a speech on “The Value of InteUigent Leadership and Administration.”
Dscussion groups composed of representatives of all organizations present will be formed following Wentz’s speech. Three main groups will be divided into the discussion sections. Representatives of fraternities and sororities will be assigned to one group, club leaders to another, and ASSC Senate members to a third.
Common Problems First
“We want these student leaders to put their heads together and discuss common problems first,” Independsnt Men’s Representative Murray Bring 6aid. “That’s
why people from similar interest groups are to be grouped together. They can examine the other
groups’ problems at later meetings.”
Clendening said he saw today’s conference as “an unprecedented opportunity for our^ student leaders to accomplish those things the students expect of them. They’ll be able to meet and become acquainted with other campus leaders,” he 6aid, “and they’ll have a chance to sit down and really analyze their' problems.”
Panty Raids and Scholarship
The fraternity and sorority discussion group, Clendening said, will have such possible discussion
alternatives as complete elimina»
tion of panty raids and the need
of raising Row scholarship.
Campus clubs, he said, could discuss means of expanding their activities and membership.
Senate representatives could investigate the possibility of mor® adequate representation in the Senate.
Bob Wallach, sophomore class president, said yesterday that “the old maxim that the more you talk, the less you fight holds true in the case of tire conference.
“You can't settle problems in
the Senate, because the whole at-'mosphere is conducive to debate and argument instead of cooperation and coordination. I’m sure thinks will be different in the conference,” he said.
The conference will be open to all students.
McCracken Death Stay Rule Pends
From the United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18 — The ninth U. S. Court of Appeals said today it would rule at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow on a possible stay of execution for Santa Ana sex murderer Henry Ford McCracken, who is scheduled to die 30 minutes later in the San Quentin f^s chamber.
The 37-year-old, guitar-strumming McCracken, condemned to die for the brutal rape murder of 10-year-old Patricia Jean Hull in Buena Park in 1951, lost his next-to-final appeal earlier today when Federal District Judge Michael J. Roche flatly turned down his plea.
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BERLIN, Feb. 18—The Big Four agreed today at the end of their otherwise fruitless Berlin meeting to hold a Korean and Indochinese peace conference with Red China and other
belligerents at Geneva starting April 26.
The agreement marked for communist China the chance to step onto the international diplomatic stage in a leading role for the first time since Chiang Kai Shek was driven from the mainland in 1949.
The U. S., Russian, British and French foreign ministers wound up their four-week debate here with a joint announcement of the Switzerland conference but acknowledged an East-West deadlock on Germany, Austria or European security.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 18—Court authorities took custody of the two young sons of executed atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg today after their foster parents were charged with neglecting and exploiting them.
Children’s Court Justice Jacob Panken said he placed Michael, 11, and Robert, 6, under “the jurisdiction and supervision of the court as the result of a petition filed by the Department of Welfare.
The petition charged that songwriter Abel Meeropol and his wife allowed the children to be “taken from place to place, home to home,” and that “the children were exploited for fund-raising activities.
Official
Notice
Students expecting to complete requirements for teaching, administration, or other credentials with the university recommendation or verification on June 12, 1954, should apply from Feb. 8 through Feb. 17.
Applications are available in room 357 Administration Building from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. The deadline for returning them is Friday, Feb. 19.
Applications will be processed in the order in which they are returned. Those not returned to the credential office by Feb. 19 will be too late for June credentials.