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depicting the fashions worn on the avenue in the 73 years.
Horse-drawn carriages and modern automobiles will contrast the modes of transportation that have been used. Bands dressed in old and new uniforms will play hit tunes of the decades from 1880 to 1953.
Colored Post Homecoming Queen Dawne Boiler, will assist Warren Clenden-ing, ASSC president, and President Fred D. Fagg Jr., in placing
Mayor Norris Poulson and city rfficials have been invited to attend the formal ceremonies closing University Avenue tomorrow it 11.20 a.m. at the intersection bf w. 36th.
The main street of SC since !880 will be closed to traffic between W. 34th Street and Exposition Boulevard. "University Ave-rne was known as Wesley Ave-iue until it was changed in 1911.
Three presidents have paraded lown this thoroughfare begin-liny about 1898 when William McKinley came through on his ,ay to Agricultural Park, known low as Exposition Park.
Taft Spoke William Howard Taft delivered i speech at an outdoor gathering j in campus in 1910. In 1935,
Yanklin D. Roosevelt was giv-an honorary degree of Doctor of Law’s from SC at a ceremony on the steps of the admin-st ration building.
Barney Oldfield rode down the j [venue in 1907 to reach the Ag-5cultural Park race track where i set a world’s record of 60 ;
[iles per hour in an automobile. I No Shooting 5C students were forbidden to ; toot rabbits from the rear of .
Jie horse-drawn street car plat-j jrms when the cars ran down I University Avenue in the early! lays.
SC coeds will help relieve the j aid days by staging a style show |
C Medical lenefit Dance o Be Given
The annual benefit dance given ^or faculty and alumni of the SC j school of Medicine will be held j this Friday evening in the Em- j Dassy Room of the Hotel Ambas- j tador.
Invitations are now being sent ;
|to both alumni and faculty. Spon- ’ soring groups of the dance are j le Medical Faculty Wives Club, ■ hledical Faculty Club, and the ^Iedical Alumni Association. All j jroceeds will go into the general j >C alumni fund.
Mrs. Leonard Rospff of West | is Angeles is in charge of plans i tor the dance. Her committee is I .	,
composed of members of the three	adventm-e	stories
sponsoring organizations.
Repi'esenting the Medical Fac-ilty Wives Club are Mrs. J. How-ird Payne and Mrs. Fremont E.
)avis, decorations; Mrs. Robert jwick, tickets; Mrs. Freder-Moore, posters and bulletins, on the committee are Dr.
Blatherwick, president of Medical Alumni Association,
Dr. J. Howard Payne. Medi-Alumni Fund chairman.
Tickets are available at the SC oCHoe, 351S University Ave-ibers of the Med-Club.
a cardinal and gold post at the Student Union intersection.
Student committee members working on the closure include chairman A1 Mour, Jodi Casalic-chio, Johanna Piet, Bob Gerst, Brad Nurenburg, and Bob Pearl.
All cross streets will be barricaded at the points where they intersect the avenue. These streets are W. 35th Street, W. 35th Place, W. 36th Street, W. 36th Place ,and W. 37th Street. The metal posts closing the avenue can be removed to permit access by emergency vehicles.
FILL THE LIBRARY' BOOK DRIVE OPENS
Sophomore Council’s “fill the library” book drive, which starts this morning and continues until Friday noon, has set as its goal the stocking of the East Los Angeles Variety Boys’ Club library. Books should be dropped in collection boxes located around the campus.
Donated books will be picked up each day by Sophomore Council members from sorority and fra-
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Vol. XLV
Los Angeles, Calif., Monday, Dec. 7, 1953
No. 53
Fete Set For Bill Of Rights
Dec. 9 to 15 has been proclaimed “Bill of Rights Week” across the nation and in recognition of this several university functions will take place during the week. Emphasis has been placed on the first amendment regarding freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
ASSC President Warren Clen-dening has announced the appointment of Joan Dupuis and Ron Pacini to the special Senate Committee on the Bill of Rights and Senator John Garr was designated chairman.
Miss Dupuis said that an essay contest will be held in cooperation with the English department. The essay should be one of emphasizing the value of the first amendment.
“I would like to see some foreign students participating in this contest,” she said, “because they could show a contrast between our amendment and their constitutions and doctrines.”
A prize will be awarded to the winner in addition to having the winning essay submitted to the downtown committee for publication. Handbooks with suggestions and past themes will be available this week in 215 SU. The desired length is about 500 words. Essays should be submitted to Clendening’s office, 215 SU, by Friday.
ternity houses. Books will then be taken to Alpha Delta Pi or Pi Beta Phi sorority where they will be processed, alphabetized and packed by the council.
Volumes will be delivered to the club before Christmas. "Presentation of the books to the Variety Boys’ Club will be not only the Sophomore Council’s Christmas but the whole student body's present to these children,” said Betty Metzger, Sophomore class vice-president and book drive coordinating chairman.
“The boys will really appreciate any new books we donate to them. Right now, there are only about 200 library books for more than 3000 boys in the club. Many of the boys have exhausted the supply of reading material and it is up to us to see that they get something new to read,” Miss Metzger added.
The idea for the “fill the library” drive came after the Sophomore Council visited the club and found its library under-stocked. Aiding the boys’ group is the council’s charity project this year.
Bob Wallach, Sophomore Class president, said that books should be in fairly good condition and of a type which will interest boys between the ages of 5 and 16. Ac-
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particularly suitable.
Members of the book drive committee assisting Miss Metzger are Marty Christensen, Paul Mat-toon, Bonnie Tacker, Le Roy Bor-ker. Marcel Aiari, and Gil De Real.
Fraternity Will Sponsor Film
Delta Kappa Alpha, national honorary cinema fraternity, will sponsor a reduced price showing of “Julius Caesar” at the Four-Star Theatre Saturday at 10 a.m.
Louis Calhern, who plays Cae-sir in the MGM production, and UCLA Professor P. M. Pasinetti, who acted as techsical advisor, will discuss the film before the screening.
Tickets at the special rate of 75 cents can be obtained from the cinema department. They should be bought in advance, according to Roy Rogaway, DKA public relations chairman.
Rogaway emphasized that this is an unusual chance for students
and faculty members to see the film at a reduced price.
Featuring an all-star cast, the film is considered by many critics the finest Shakespeare to come out of Hollywood. It is one of the few productions sponsored by the Theatre Guild, who only endorse films which they consider are highest quality of entertainment. They previously sponsored “Come Back Little Sheba” and “Hamlet.”
The special showing is being co-sponsored by the SC and UCLA chapters of Delta Kappa Alpha with the purpose of bringing only top caliber films before the public. They are considering a series of such secial screenings.
FIRST DONATION—Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid hands his check to Living War Drive chairman John Birmingham to kick off the campaign. The annual drive is held to increase a memorial scholarship fund which is used to send the son or daughter of a dead soldier through school.—DT photo by Eddie Seits.
Ford Foundation Fund Offers 250 Fellowships
Two hundred fifty fellowships are being offered for the 1954-55 academic year by the Ford Foundation’s Fund for the Advancement of Education, summer session Dean John D. Cooke announced Friday.
Awarded to promising college teachers in the United States the past three school years, the fellowships provide recipients with travel and study expenses, and salary compensations.
Aim of the fellowship program is to strengthen college teaching in the U. S. by giving able instructors opportunities for unrestricted study and observation. Fellowships are available in the social, natural science, and the humanity fields, .but not in technical or professional subjects.
Candidates for the Ford fellowships must be regular instructors, between the ages of 35 and 40, who have been nominated by their universities. A university the size of SC is limited to four fellowship nominees.
An SC instructor, Professor Ernst Snapper of the department of mathematics, currently is
HADLEY SAYS:
World Affairs Group Will View Leadership Problems
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be turned in or at 8:15 Mon-lesday.
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Notice
University Avenue is now completely closed to vehicular traffic. The ordinance closing University Avenue provided for turn-around space on the dead ended side streets, such space to be painted red for a distance of forty feet from University Avenue. This area must be kept clear at all times to permit turning around. The University of Southern California and the Lot Angeles Police Department urge everyone to keep this area clear. The Los Angeles Police Department will enforce this red area strictly and will cite anyone found encroaching thereon.
Members of the Institute of World Affairs, a conference of study and discussion groups meeting at Riverside's Mission Inn Dec. 13-16, will examine the dilemmas of American world leadership, Paul E. Hadley, executive secretary of the conference, said yesterday.
Hadley said that the institute’s discussions will aid the public in forming intelligent opinions about the problems.
“The responsibility of world leadership was thrust upon America at the end of World War II,” he said. “In making our foreign policy we face the problem of providing for our own advancement and of being concerned with the needs of foreign nations at the same time.
“This theme will underlie all addresses and round table discussions.”
Many women’s clubs, civic groups, church organizations, and universities are sending delegates to the four-day conclave, Hadley said. The delegates will report to their respective groups what they learned at the meetings, and public thought will be stimulated.
The work of the institute will
also be publicized by newspapers, radio, and television.
The three topics dealing with our foreign policy are “Military Leadership in a World of National Aspirations,” Monday, Dec. 14; “Economic Leadership and the Development of the Free World,” Tuesday, Dec. 15; and “Political Leadership and the Growth of International Institutions,” Wednesday, Dec. 16.
Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid, who will preside over the conference, said that the forums will have free exchange of ideas but that no positions will be taken.
“We will not write resolutions or make final decisions. We will just present the facts,” Dr. von KleinSmid said.
Sunday’s introductory session will consider America’s dilemma of material leadership and conflicting spiritual values. Discussion will cover the role of organized religion at home and abroad.
Educators and church leaders will answer the questions, What are American spiritual values? and What is the church doing in the cause of peace?
Institute members will assemble at 9 a.m. Monday to hear
three military leadership speeches on the realities of American military leadership* on the question of making a policy of liberation or of containment, and American power in relation to national sensitivities.
From 10 a.m. to noon and from 2 to 4 p.m. five round table discussions will be held concerning the role of force in our relations with other countries.
Can regional defense pacts provide security? Can .psychological weapons win the war for free institutions? What are the pros and cons about NATO? What is the nature of western influence in East Asia? What alternative policies could America take in the Middle East?
These questions and others relating to security will be discussed by SC faculty members Donald C. Cutter, assistant professor of Asiatic studies and Totten J. turer in public administration; Theodore H. E. Chen, professor of Asiatic studies and Totton J. Anderson, associate professor of political science.
Educational Vice President Albert S. Raubenheimer is general chairman of the talks on the military (¿Utistion.
studying on a 1953-54 Ford fellowship grant.
A 16-man Committee on Faculty Fellowships selects award winners after applications have been submitted by the universities and colleges. This year’s awards will be announced about Apr. 8.
Information and application forms for the fellowships are available at Dean Cooke’s office, 102 Ad. Deadline for completed applications is Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1954.
Radio Station Will Broadcast Varied Topics
One of the feature programs to be broadcast over radio station KUSC this week will be “The Concert Hour,” which can be heard daily at 4 p.m. This program will be devoted to serious music.
Football player Verne Sampson will be commentator of the program “Check the Scoreboard,” which will deal with sports news from 5:45 to 6 p.m. daily.
At 8:30 p.m. the “Hancock Hour” will be presented. Narrator will be A1 Beebe. This program, according to a spokesman, is “an hour and a half of the world’s finest music performed by distinguished musicians.
Steve Biner and Don Daves each plan to present a program which will be announced later.
Wednesday at 8:15 p.m. Bob Matheison will present “The World of Troy,” featuring an interview with SC foreign students. This week Bob plans to interview a German student.
New York-Bound Drivers Needed In Yule Car Pool
Drivers going to New York are needed, says Shelly Jones, chairman of the Alpha Phi Omega Christmas car pool.
So far several cars have been filled going to Des Moines, Minneapolis, and up the West Coast to Portland and Seattle.
Eighty-one people have signed up to date. There are 28 drivers and 53 riders. One hundred people are expected to sign up, Jones said.
Chancellor Gives Initial Donation To Trovet Fund
by Mark Thoreson
Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid Friday made the first donation to the SC Trovets’ Living War Memorial Scholarship fund drive, and congratulated Chairman John Birmingham on the worthy and practical purpose of the tribute. The award is made in honor of heroes who died in combat in World War II and the Korean
conflict.
The drive starts this morning and will run through tomorrow afternoon, with volunteer collectors planning to cover all classrooms in the various buildings during the two days.
More than 100 Trojans have signed up with the Trovets, either independently or as members of organizations, to explain the facts of the campaign in classes.
Tribute
This is the sixth annual LWM Fund drive. “It was conceived in 1948 as a practical tribute to our combat dead, and was considered an infinitely more appropriate memorial than the erection of a statue or a bronze plaque,” Birmingham said.
The scholarships are awarded to qualified sons and daughters of men who died during World War II. Each scholarship pays $304 tuition per semester for four years. The funds collected are invested and only the interest is used for tuition purposes, thereby making the scholarship perpetual.
“As with all University scholarships, the Faculty Scholarship Committee will consider all applicants and will make its choices from this group,” Birmingham said.
Increase Principle
The first recipient of this scholarship is now attending classes in the university.
Birmingham said that the specific purpose of this year’s drive is to increase the principle of the fund, and thus make available a greater number of scholarships.
“To assure continued success of the scholarship we hope that a goal of not less than $1 per person will be reached,” he add-
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Two Trophies
Publicity Chairman A1 Dieda announced that the LWM will award two permanent trophies to the sorority and fraternity that “show the most unselfish spirit in cooperating in the drive.”
“In order to be fair to all houses, the amount contributed will be divided by the membership of the house on a per capita basis,” he said.
The houses will be asked to donate either as a collective body, through assessments or house funds, of by crediting individual donations +~ sororities and fraternities.
Plaques
The trophies will be mahogany plaques, similar to the shield on the SC crest, and will contain the SC crest, the words “Living War Memorial Scholarship Fund” and the name of the sorority or fraternity.
“We believe that the plaque may add an incentive to dig a little deeper for such a worthy fund,” Dieda said.
Others working on the LWM Drive are Ed Wilkinson, collections chairman; Laura Mispagel, secretarial committee, and members of Alpha Beta Psi, finance committee.
Atom Talk Today
Dr. Elizabeth Beranger, research associate of the California Institute of Technology, will speak on “Scattering of High Energy Electrons from Heavy Nuclei” today at 4:15 in 158 Science Building.
WM Campaign
Begins Today In Classrooms
Living War Memorial Drive collections begin in 9 a.m„ 1:15* and 7 p.m. classes today—the 12th anniversary of Pearl Harbor—and will continue tomorrow.
Collection workers are to report to room 215 SU promptly at their assigned hour. All collection material will be distributed at this time, Collections Chairman Ed Wilkinson said. Contribution containers will also be placed in campus business places.
Campus organizations taking part in this year’s collections are ASSC Senate, Knights, Amazons, Spurs, Squires, Phrater-es, Alpha Phi Omega, YWCA, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Tau, Acacia, Alpha Gamma Delta, Delta Delta Delta, Gamma Phi Beta, and Alpha Kho Chi.
Spanish Authors To Be Discussed At Club Meeting
The “Idea q£ Man” in the works of two contemporary Spanish authors will be discussed by Angel del Rio, professor of Spanish at Columbia University, at an open meeting of La Tertulia Thursday afternoon at 3 in 335 FH.
Professor del Rio, a visiting professor at UCLA, is a contributing editor of “Books Abroad.” He is well known in the field of Hispanic studies for his two volume “History of Spanish Literature’* and his fundamental work on Federico Garcia Lorca. He has also written numerous articles, critical editions, and college texts.
The authors he will discuss, Miguel de Unamuno and Jose Ortega y Gasset, are two of the greatest figures of 20th century Spain. Unamuno, who died in 1936, is known in the U.S. as the author of “The Tragic Sentiment of Life” and is internationally famous for his essays, novels and poetry. Ortega y Gasset is regarded as one of the world’s leading philosophers and has achieve-ed fame for his controversial “The Revolt of the Masses.”
Teleforum Views Allied Air Defense
Last night’s Teleforum, moder-erated by Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid, discussed preparations and achievements for air defense of the allied forces.
Dr. von KleinSmid’s guest speakers were Sir John Shelton, chief of the British Air Force; Gen. Ira C. Eaker, retired chief of the U. S. Air Force; and Brig. Gen. Donald R. Hutchinson, commander of the 27th air division.
Purpose of the program was to celebrate 50 years of air force defense.
The TV show is a weekly presentation, which is viewed her« from 10:15 to llil5 p.m.
Spring Class Signups Begin After Christmas
Pre-registration for next semester’s classes will start Tuesday, Jan. 5, and end Saturday, Jan. 9, the registrar’s office announced
Friday.
Pre-registration makes it tfasier fear returning students to get cards stamped for restricted classes and to go through the whole registration procedure with a minimum of difficulty before the semester ends.
All students who intend to pre-register are urged to see their advisers before Christmas vacation to work out their programs and have their advisers’ cards signed. The car^s can be picked up starting today at Door B of Owens Annex.
The spring schedule of classes will be ready Jan. 4, the first day after Christmas recess, at the information office.
Hours for pre-registration will be 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 9 ajn. to 12:15 p.m. otn Saturday lire iinal day.