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I. XLV
Los Angeles, Calif., .Wednesday, March 10, 1954
No. 90
MARCH 19
The first annual freshman dance, “The Princess Ball,” has become a reality!
After many weeks of hard planning, the affair, sponsored by the Frosh Council, is definitely set for Mar. 19, according to Chuck Leimbach, freshman class president.
Blake Reynolds and his orchestra will provide the music for the gala occasion which starts at 9 p.m. and will last until 12 p.m., at the Los Angeles Breakfast Club, 3201 Los Feliz.
Crowning of “Princess”
Major attraction of the event will be the crowning of the “Freshman Princess” and her two attendants, who will reign over the dance and all other future activities and events of the freshman class, Regina Geselle, vice president of the freshman class said.
‘This contest will provide about as much, or more, excitement than the heated campaigns that took place during the fall freshman class, Regina Geselle, vice be more competition. Any freshman woman may enter the contest,” Harold Murdock, princess chairman said and added, “We expect at least 100 women or more to enter.”
Backward-foreward Affair
Dave Gershvvenson, chairman of the dance, said that “the affair will be a backward-forward deal, which means that the man may ask the woman, or the woman ask the man. The only restriction is that one person of the A 23-year-old Whittier piano student who has been c°uplejnust be a freshman, nd for 13 years makes his piano playing debut tonight in ncock Auditorium.
Robert L. Smith will present the recital for a dual purse. His performance will determine whether he will earn master’s degre in music and [--------------------------------------
BLIND PIANIST—Robert student, will present a degree in music.
L. Smith, 23-year-old Whittier piano recital this evening for his master's
lind Pianist Debut lated for Tonight
First Annual Princess Ball Set by Frosh
11 prove his abilities to his par-;s, his music teacher, and his fessors.
Ie is confident of doing well in performance tonight and said, f I don’t I’ll never haws anoth-
Loses Sight	Official	opening	of	the	Univer-
Smith lost his sight because of j sj|y Dispensary will take place at
tached retinas when he was 10 i
I 10 a.m. today. In conjunction with
Dispensary Opens Today
ars old.
He had taken five or six music —ons before he became blind d when he left the hospital he ntinued with his music lessons. His music teacher, John Leon-i*d, is also blind.
Smith, who won scholarships at hittier College, also won the ;hest honors in his graduating ass in 1952.
Smith learned braille and took 1 the academic courses in high hool. In Whittier he majored in usic but also took the required urses.
Guide Dog
He learned to get around, he id, w ith the aid of his guide dog :ni. now 13 yoars old, deaf and arly blind herself. Smith said, couldn't have done it without
this event the School of Pharmacy is holding open house until 6 p.m. in 102 Science Hall.
The modern training dispensing unit was made possible through the loyal support of the Pharmaceutical Industry and alumni.
Over $11,000 in stock has been |
donated to the dispensary by the | Ping Pong Balls?
Bob Sherman and Bill Kenmore, co-chairman of tickets, will have the $2 per couple ducats on sale in booths which will be located in front of the Student Union. Attire for the dance will be dressy sport, and refreshments will be sold.
Need. Freshmen Support Rosemary Arnold and her committee are busy tacking posters around the campus to remind every freshman of the event.
Cars for a “princess parade” are under the supervision of Kevin Tichanor. The prncess finalists will ride in this parade around the campus.
Freshmen are requested to support the dance wholeheartedly, because the profits of the affair will be used to help put on the forthcoming frosh-soph brawl.
Termed 'Fraud'
Onlookers
it Of Riots and Rallies
Judging from the cheap and sensationalized publicity we received yesterday in regard to the victory celebration on the Row, some of the downtown newspapers must really be hard up for news. It’s a repeat performance of the stories on last year’s panty raids in an effort to label ALL STUDENTS and THIS GENERATION as irresponsible rowdies. The implication would be the same if we would label all newspapers cheap, sensational rags.
However, our hands are not lily-white, nor do we wish to give the implication that we condone the action which took place on the Row Monday night.
Rally not riot, the handful of harebrained adolescents responsible for all the bad publicity should have vented their spleens at the game Monday night. Last week, a vehement recommendation was directed from the ASSC* Senate to the ticket office to issue a minimum of 1000 rooter tickets should the PCC series extend to a third nigiht. Although it was seriously doubted that even the original allotment of 500 tickets would be picked up, John Morley, ticket manager, compromised with the printing of 750 tickets. At Monday night’s game—the Rose Bowl of the basketball season—only 434 SC rooters showed up. Our rooting section was conspicuously void of supporters while the Oregon State rooters outnumbered ours two-to-one. If our team had to depend on
our rooting section alone, they wouldn’t stand a chance at ping-pong, much less championship basketball.
A celebration after Monday night’s victory was natural and perfectly justified. It was the University of Southern California showing a spontaneous burst of pride in a team that brought back the first PCC championship since 1940. But when half-a-dozen infantile knuckle-heads (not 2000 as the downtown mets claimed) went hell-bent .on .destruction), .the .wolves pounced on all of SC and claimed “SC, (not a handful of students) riots and destroy property over basketball victory.”
This is by no means any criticism or castigation of the Row or the SC student or our generation. It is directed against the handful that are ever-ready to instigate the type of trouble that some of the downtown papers gobble up and sensationalize. Had these few so-called Trojans been at the game backing up the team when their support was needed, we might have something good and decent said about our school in the papers. We might have made a good impression on the opposing rooters, on the television and radio listening audience, and on the general public. But they weren’t there. They were under tlv: magnifying glass of cheap sensationalists who amplified their antics to riotous proportions.
Anyone for Used
major pharmaceutical concerns, according to Paul Kalemkierian, pharmacist manager.
- Faculty and sen: will act as hosts at today’s open house, and are asking students and alumni to come and inspect the new pharmacy’s facilities. Refreshments consisting of punch
He attributes his success in his j end cookies, will be served, ars in school and in music to |	-
mother who “read thousands
hours to me," and his father
o “takes me everywhere
nt to go.”
iis teachers, among them Pro-sor John Crown of SC, have ped him far beyond the re-remento of duty, he said.
edical Professor ets Appointment
)r. Lawrence A. Williams, asso-te professor of medicine at SC J
prominent Pasadena physi- j n, has been elected a member j ,the Board of Trustees of the j liiornia Institute oi Technolo-
~)r. Williams is also on the sen-attending staff ol the Los An-1 es County General Hospital |
the Huntington Memorial j
spital. which he has served as I
-f of stafl.
native oi Toledo, Ohio, Dr. iliams attended the University Nevada and completed his ungraduate study at the Univer-of Chicago, which awarded | the BS and MS degrees. In
he received his M.D. from
h Medical CoUege. fter two years of internship resbytenan Hospital, Chica-and two years of graduate k at Cook County Hospital, ntered medical practice «go. He has been a physician in Pasadena
After many years of collecting cracked ping-pong balls, Milt Forrest has finally found a use students i for them.
He donated 450 of them (there were 500, but he kept the other 50 for sentimental reasons) to SC’s chemistry department for use in demonstrating the structure of molecules to laboratory students.
Squires Give Campaign for Trojan Chest
“Squires will top any other service organization on campus . in donating to Trojan Chest,”* reported Squires Vice President and Noble Knight Steve Robertson yesterday.
The Squires plan to meet this goal by selling “Fun on Budget Books,” and arrangements for the selling campaign will be made at the Squires dinner-meeting at the Acacia House 4:30 this afternoon.
Sales profits of the books, which have been reduced from $3.50 to $2,00, will go to Trojan Chest.
Also to be worked on is the Squires’ latest project called the “Squire-Spur Knothole Club.” According to Conrad Salum, Squire project chairman, “this project is being worked on in cooperation with the Spurs, the main purpose being to take underprivileged children to various baseball games in the near future.
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STARTING AT THE BOTTOM—These fellows wrapped between the sandwich boards didn't
just get a job at the employment bureau. It's
all part of pledging for Alpha Delta Sigma, national advertising fraternity. Prospective pledges can get in on the ADS meeting today.
Faculty Club to Hear Councilman Don Allen
“Los Angeles is the third largest city in the nation and now we’re paying the penalty.”
This statement will be the keynote of a speech by Los Angeles Councilman Don Allen before a noon luncheon of the Men’s Faculty Club in the main Commons dining room.
Allen will discuss “This is Your City,” the problems of Los Angeles.
He will tell the Men’s Faculty Club how “members of
the city council handled 60,000 items this year.
“We’re trying to hold tax rates down,” Councilman Allen said,
“but ; . .”
Allen served ten years in the California State Assembly before his election to the council of the 7th district in 1947.
He was awarded two certificates from the SC school of Public Administration. He is a disciple of John Pfiffner, professor of public administration, and describes himself as “one of Tohn Pfiffner’s trained seals, onlybuilt more along the lines of a walrus.”
ADS Plans Seven Week Pledge Period
Seven weeks of pledging, a stag party for pledges and actives, banquets at the Statler Hotel, and monthly seminars with professional members of their fraternity lies ahead of members and pledges of Alpha Deelta Sigma, national advrtising fraternity.
Advertising and public relations majors, and students interested in either field may attend the meeting for prospective pledges in 310 Bridge Hall at noon today. New pledges can qualify for a position in the field of advertising through membership in the fraternity and also participate in the social activities of the fraternity,.
Last Friday the first formal spring initiation of ADS was held. Ron Bland, Dick Miller, Phil Jacobs, and Jack Yoshimi were initiated. Phil Dexheimer, KBIG salesman, and Norm Mueller, of Mueller and Shecid Advertising Agency, were the two professional members at the initiation.
—DT Photo by Don I>e»for
Engineers Sell Mag
SC Engineer Magazine, heretofore avaUable only at the engineering office, is now being sold
in the University Book Store, Esther Manriquez, secretary of the publication, said.
COUNCILMAN ALLEN
. . little people's friend
Russia Theme Of Talk Today
“The Soviet Union:	Its
Strengths and Weaknesses” will be analyzed by Dr. Fritze Sternberg, author of political science books in 129 FH at 1:15 p.m. today.
Sternberg presents his analysis of the problem as the first of a series of lectures on “The Soviet Union: Abroad and at Home.”
The School of International Relations sponsors the series and has scheduled lectures by Sternberg for Mar. 17 and 24.
Authoritative Discussions
Sternberg wrote ‘The Coming
Crisis,” “How to Stop the Russians Without War,” “Living wit! Crisis,” and “Capitalism and Socialism on Trial.” Fifty thousand copies of these books were sold in 10 countries.
“The End of a Revolution,” his latest book, is reputed to be one of the more important authoritative discussions of the perversion
of the Soviet revolution.
He wrote several books on the
problems of Germany which have not yet been published in the United States.
Account of Rally Greatly Distorted
“It’s all a fraud .
“Sure, we had a fall’s football game . .
“But NOT a “riot reported . . .
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Council Head Talks to Papers
Dick DuPar, Interfratemity council president, will see executives of the Los Angeles newspapers today to see if a better relationship can be created between SC and the downtown papers.
DuPar, who had already planned the trip, was given added incentive after the downtown papers reported on the activities of the Row after Monday night's basketball game. _______
by Bob Eisner
rally—just like UCLA had after last * like the downtown newspapers have
Trojan Chest Fund Aided by Pushcart Race
Will it be “Miss Pushcart,” “Miss Daily Double,” or “Miss Win, Place, and Show?”
Today’s meeting of the junior class will decide' the name of the anonymous “Miss X” who will reign over the “Pushcart Race” Mar. 31, according to Rodger Dar-bonne, junior class president.
Designed to raise funds for the Trojan Chest, the race will feature six handicaps, representing contestants from the fraternities, sororities, mixed groups, athletes, senate leaders, school and service groups.-
Baby Carriages Legit Darbonne said the standing rule is that “anything that can be pushed, wheeled, or otherwise moved, including baby carriages and pushcarts can be entered.” “However,” Darbonne continued, “only one pusher and one ‘pushee’ can be allowed for each moveable item.”
The race will be run around the University Avenue track, which should be dry No “mudders” will be allowed. This is strictly for the younger colts, Darbonne said.
Bettors Welcome Scratch sheets bearing the name of the runners and the race they are entered in will be available. Tables representing the bettors’ windows will be set up so the students can place their ten cent donations on their favorites.
Winners will be awarded lollipops and the one who hits it across the board or parlays with 15 winners will cash in on a free ticket to the Varsity show.
Here is one race where the bettor and the track both win. because the bet is with the Trojan Chest, which has proven never to be a loser.
Professor Heads Chemistry Society
Anton B. Burg, professor of chemistry, has been named chairman of the American Chemical Society, Southern California Section, for 1954. He succeeds Thomas F. Doumani of the Union Oil Company.
Professor Burg carries a BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago. Prior to
joining Troy’s faculty in 1939 he
was a chemistry instructor at the
University of Chicago for eight
years.
The chemist was an offical investigator with the National Defense Research Commission from 1941 to 1945, with the War Department 1945-46, and has been with the Navy Department since 1946.
He was awarded the War-Navy Certificate of Appreciation.
“Much of it was a twisted report by reporters anxious to cook up some news . .
These were the words of Gloria Rodriguez, Alpha Chi Omega, who was reported to have been one of the SC coeds who was “dragged from her sorority house and thrown into gushing fire hydrants,” as stated in newspapers’ reports of SCs post-game “riot” Monday night.
According to the Counselor of Women’s office, there have been no complaints from sororities of any such happenings.
Termed by downtown newspapers as “worse than the panty raids” of last year, they claimed that 2000 students took part in the “riot.”
I n t e r-Fraternity Coordinator Robert G. Waldo said yesterday that “possibly 400 students took part in the post-game victory rally.” He said that IFC officers are interested in the reports and that a full investigation will be held. Waldo added that the reports were greatly exaggerated and sensationalized.
Spontaneous Rally
Following SC’s 48-45 victory over Oregon State College to win the PCC crown, Trojan students began a spontaneous rally along 28th Street. Leaving their television sets the Rowites poured out into the street and turned on several fire hydrants.
A few fires were lit in. the street, but most of them were put out within seconds. Most of the people in the rally were orderly and merely spectators.
Quiet for Police
Police were at the Row, but were not forced to take any action because of the orderliness of
The spontaneous rally on the Row showed the school spirit we should have had during and after the game.
We should be criticized If we didn’t have any spontaneous rallies like the one we had Monday night. I was there for a while and didn’t notice anything that resembled the reports of the newspapers.
I feel students should realize that the newspapers are often starved for stories.
Play it smart ... Neither cooperate nor hinder photographers in their work . . .
Remember they’re looking for “news” — whether they have to create it or not.
Warren Clendening ASSC President
the whole affair. At no time were the police “helpless” as was reported in several downtown newspapers.
Inaccurate Count
One downtown newspaper reported that 11 hydrants were turned on. Actually there were only three or four on. and there aren’t even 11 hydrants on the Row.
Some students were throwing water at each other and at cars passing by.
Photographers were reported to have been drenched and pushed around by fraternity men.
She explained how the false report originated concerning women being dragged from their sorority houses. “Quite a few of us were standing in a group across the
street from an open hydrant. Kid-
dingly, somebody said. “Let's
throw someone in.”
“Big Joke”
“I jumped into one of the fellow’s arms and he started carrying me toward the hydrant. He was wearing a suit and I told him that we would both get wet if he didn’t stop. He didn’t, however, and we both went right into the water.
“A photographer was standing there and took a picture of us. He had been trying to make the kids do something like that all along, but he had nothing to do with what happened.