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VOL. XLVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1957
NO. 104
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speakers in afternoon discussion clinics will be Melvin Dursiag. sports columnist of the T. A. Fxaminer and Mike Kiz-zah. CBS chairman, who will snr.tk to a clinic of student snorts editors and staff in 212 FH at 1:30 pm.
C ity Editor Presides Another clinic will lie held at the same time for students reporters and school columnists in 221 FH. where Daily Trojan Cit\ Editor Wes Gregory will preside as chairman.
At 1:4/> p.m. a special audiovisual clinic will be held for stu-
dent editors and journalism teachers in 229 FH. The guest speaker will be Dr. Robert O. Hall, of the cinema department.
Probably the most exciting moment for the visitors will come at 11 a.m. when awards will be presented to the high-school and junior college newspapers.
Last year, the Crombie Allen-CNPA award for the high school paper showing the most improvement went to the Beverly Hill's tabloid paper, Highlights.
Awards to Newspapers Other awards that will be presented are the Ruth Apperson Eaker Editorial Award, the Two-Year College Award presented by the Daily Trojan, and Best of the Year" award to student staff members of high school and two year college newspapers.
Winners of these awards last year were L.A. Valley Junior College for page one makeup and feature stories. Pasadena City College for the best editorial. Bakersfield College for sports story and Ventura College for news photos.
Campus Tours Also included on tomorrow’s program are guided campus tours, which will be conducted under the auspices of Theta Sigma Phi and Sigma Delta Chi. professional journalism sorority and fraternity.
The tours will take in Doheny Library, Hancock Hall and the Journalism Department. j The entire Newspaper Day i program will last approximately eight hours.
MELVIN DURSLAG
Mel Dursiag Joins Pane! Tomorrow
By ARNOLD COLE
Melvin Dursiag, daily sports columnist for the Los Angeles Examiner and a graduate of the SC School of Journalism, will be among the panelists participating in the 32nd Annual Newspaper Day Saturday in Founders Hall.
Dursiag, who was graduated from SC in 1943, has been with the Examiner since 1938 when he was attending Los Angeles j High School. He was editor of his high school newspaper, the Blue and White Daily.
Following his graduation from SC, Dursiag. joined the Army Air Corps. He was stationed at Santa Ana where he lectured on high flying.
Covered War Stories
But Dursiag wanted to write about the war so transferred to the first B-29 outfit to be ac-ti via ted. After training at Sali-na, Kan., he shipped overseas as full-fledged combat correspondent.
He spent 17 months in the China-Burma-India theater and seven months in Okinawa. On his tour of duty he also covered the Far East, the Philippines and Iwo Jima.
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Pie Throws j Smash Hit With Rowites
It was pledge class bidding for j pies against actives yesterday in j the second half of the Troy Chest ! pie throw held on the Chi Omega front lawn yesterday at noon.
It was all in the family for the Delta Tau Deltas as members of the pledge class topped active Dick Walker with a bid of $10 j for the fun of smearing another brother. Laird Willot, with a i gooey pie.
IFC Coordinator Larry Courtney brought in $23, the most J money for a single individual, as i fraternity members dug way ( down and tried to top each other | with pies.
Ten for Dennis
Row members came up with S10 worth of pies to toss at Dennis Fagerhult, and Mike Navarro paid $5 for two pies to toss at Nancy Porter.
Tau Epsilon Phi collected $4 • to smear Stan Miller with pip fillings and Alpha Epsilon Phi pledges gathered S3 to get even with Gail Burk.
Other contributors and their targets were Larry Sipes, who paid $2 to throw at Joan Sparling; members of Theta Xi paid j S4 to have Bob Korinke throw | a pie at Jack Trinca; Starla ! Coffee exchanged pie flings with I Lynne Morgan and $2.35 was collected for a chance to top Art ! Cole with a pie. The collection from the Row pie throw' yester- j day was $77,33.
The total collection from the afternoon's pie throwing contest came to $132.33. Class-room collections yesterday totaled $1675.35, with still another collection taking place tonight in 7 p.m. classes.
More Pies Another pie throwing contest is scheduled for Monday at the Chi Omega house, enabling row members to retaliate for past aggressions and personal peeves. There will be another thick sup-
Mr. Trojanality' Contest In Last Day of Balloting
Herman, Fagerhult Lead Race; Sipes Moves Up
Herman Nathan, SC’s favorite ice cream man, moved into the lead yesterday in the annual Troy Chest-sponsored “Mr. Trojanality” election-contest, according to Mike Navarro, chairman of the week-long event.
Moving up from second place on Wednesday. Nathan
gained a wide majority in yes- ---
DT Photo by- Jlan ia Batpmar
TROJANALITY TALLY—Trojanality chairman Mike Navarro shows candidate Herman Nathan his receipts from yesterday's "Mr. Trojanality" contest, being held in conjunction with Troy Chest week in front of the SU. Today is the last day to cast votes for the thirteen contestants.
New L.A. Transit System Approved
SKY TO SHOW BRIGHT COMET
ply of pies ready to be tossed at Assigned to writing bombing anxious fraternity and sorority communiques, Dursiag reported members and it is hoped that the first bombing of Kyushu by i university students will venture
down to the row and join in the toss.
'Arend-Roland1 is First In 47 Years For U.S.; Nears Hailey s Brightness In 1910
Blood Drive Lags Despite Row Efforts
the B-29s from bases in China.
During the early part of his assignment he flew to China every week from his home base 75 miles from Calcutta.
Received Rattle Stars He was decorated with five battle stars for “flying the SAN FRANCISCO—(UP)—A “new” comet, the first Of hump.” His graphic' feature any great brilliance since the appearance of Hailey’s Comet stories of unusual parachute In 1910. will be visible to the unaided eye throughout most jumps and other war time ae-of North America late in April. George W. Bunton, manager tivities appeared in Yank and of the Morrison Planetarium here, predicted today.	■ many other newspapers under
The new astronomical phenomenon is known as the hi>1 h%'linp-Arend-Roland Comet. It already is visible through high-
powered telescopes, but still is too near the sun to be seen cover the usc-Alabama Rose with the naked eye.	Bowl game. Gradually, he
“One astronomer.” said Bunton, “thinks it quite poss- switched to featuring writing, lble the Arend-Roland Comet will be brighter than Hailey’s Three years ago he became a Comet when it last appeared in May, 1910. However, the' columnist.
brightness of comets is unpredictable.”	I	bis spare time Dursiag	mobile
writes feature varns for the The, may oe no nea L,oss ,Ilouue Bunton said the new comet should make its appear- American Weeklv. Saturdav blood unit at SC next year.” ance in the northwest skies in the northern hemisphere,; Evening Post, Sports Illustrated White told the DT yesterday close to the horizon, on April 24 or 25 and should be seen an(j Esquire.	that there is a two-year waiting
for about 10 days thereafter.	Admits Writing ‘Grind’ list for the mobiles, and that
“Its tail will stretch across the ‘W’ of Cassiopeia.”! By Durslag’s own admission. SC is “very lucky” to get one Bunton said. “It will appear far to the northwest, with its "biting. for him, is hard. He | each year, tail sloping upward toward the north. It’s brightness wrhen	three
first seen should be somewhere near that of the bright 1S star ‘Sirius’.”
The comet will be visible to the unaided eye only after
SACRAMENTO —- (UP) — A I Wilson said the measure would complicated measure setting up create “a public agency” to pro-a new metropolitan transit au- vide “faster and safer means to thority to take over transporta- transport people. This will per-tion systems in the Los Angeles mit people to live where they area was passed 64-4 in the as- want to live and work where sembly today.	they choose to work.”
Assemblyman Charles Wilson Assemblyman William Marsh (D-Los Angeles), one of 26 au-j (R-North Hollywood) pointed thors of the measure, said the out that the autos on the road transit act would permit the carry an average of 1.4 persons newly-created authority to take each. The measure would take over present transportation sys- a great number of these autos
off the roads, he said.
terday’s balloting. Dennis Fagerhult, leader yesterday and Tuesday. dropped to second and Dick Walker, the first-day leader, dropped to ninth.
“Voting seems to be picking up each day,” said Navarro, “we made more yesterday than the other three days combined. Today, however, is definitely the last day and all students should get out and vote for ’ their favorite candidates right away.”
Voting will go on all day today in the booth in front of the Student Union building, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The booth will close precisely at 3 and the ballots will then be counted and the winner declared.
Judges Announced
Judges for the annual event are Navarro, George Baffa. and George Kezas. The winner will be announced on Monday, April 1. at which time a campus woman, chosen by a panel of six judges, will make the presentation of gifts.
In other balloting yesterday, Larry Sipes, Junior class president. moved up from sixth place to third; Bob Korinke, eighth yesterday moved to fourth; and Tony Ortega, fifth yesterday moved to twelfth.
Herman, however, held an overwhelming lead at the day's end, as students everywhere
days running, dropped off the pace but nevertheless received more votes than both previous days combined. In all, voting was up and sponsoring sororities, still “holding back,” were expected to come along today and fill the pot for their respective nominees.
Still in the running, in order of their place in the competition so far, are Herman Nathan, independent; Dennis Fagerhult, sponsored by Alpha Gamma Delta; Larry Sipes, sponsored hy Chi Omega: Bob Korinke. sponsored by Zeta Tau Alpha: and Chuck Collins, sponsored by Pi Beta Phi.
More Contestants
Also entered are Laird Willott, sponsored by Kamma Phi Beta: Danny Rogers, sponsored by Kappa Kappa Gamma; Walt Williams, sponsored by Alpha Omicron Pi: Dick Walker, sponsored by Delta Delta Delta: Jim Sterkel. sponsored by Kappa Alpha Theta: Tony Ortega, sponsored by Alpha Phi: Larry Knudsen. sponsored by Kappa Delta: and Jim Pugh, sponsored by Alpha Delta Pi. Only Herman is running without organized backing.
The eventual winner of the contest will receive clothing gifts from Silverwood’s. Tuxedo
seemed to jump on the ‘‘Her- Center and Phelps-Terkel:
Red Cross co-chairman Dave White todav called for an in-Upon his discharge, Dursiag creased number of sign-ups in returned to the Examiner to the annuai Blood Drive currently being held on campus.
“We’ve got a 700 pint quota to fill and only 300 persons have signed up so far,” he said. “Un-In his snsv* limp nurds,,! less we meet our quota there
tems and issue revenue bonds.
Assemblyman Charles Chapel fR-Inglewoodi, who voted against it called the plan a “reverse Robinhood stock swindle” that would take “money avvav from the poor and give it to the rich.
“This is a stock deal to get	.	_
rid of two old bus lines,” he his second program on the “His- ! pointed committee of men, head-
Readings Set For Disease
Dr. Stuart Hyde will present
man Bandwagon.” A self-ap-
This is it!
Today is positively the last day to vote for your favorite candidates in the annual “Mr. Trojanality” contest currently underway in the booth in front of the Student I nion Building.
Sororities who are sponsoring candidates are urged to “get out and vote” by elections commissioner George Kezas. The booth will close precisely at 3 p.m.
schaeffer cartridge pen set from Tam's. Dinner for Two at Julie’s j a rtf a record album of his choice from Donn's record shop.
In addition, the winner will receive two free lunches at I Don's Burger Inn. two free haircuts from Barney's barber shop, and a gift from the College Book Store, as well as an 8x10 inch picture of himself being presented the awards by a coed to be chosen by the Mr. Trojanality committee.
said. “If private industry can’t make them work, how can we politicians?”
Official
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hours on each of six weekly columns. Many more hours are spent collecting material.
Writing a column regularly
the sun has set—perhaps an hour or so afterward, accord- becomes a grind that “gets” Ing to Bunton. Then, if all turns OUt according to hopes many columnists, says Dursiag. of astronomers and with cloudless skies, all may see a For himself, he takes his job
sight not seen in the United States for more than 47 years, philosophically.
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a—	|	day,” he said. “I just try for a
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Terzian to Talk To High School
ASSC President Carl Terzian t is to be the featured speaker at I John Marshall High School's an- l nual Honors Day Assembly, it i was announced yesterday.
Speaking on the subject. “Teenage Terror or College Clown— j Fact or Fiction,” Terzian will paint first, a humorous picture j of what adults think of the “teenage terror” and public opinion about the so-called college clown. He will then “repaint” the picture in what he calls a “true lifebt.”
“I intend lo rely on my own ; experiences as a high school and college student liody officer,” he j said. “I believe I can point out i that our college clowns are really pretty competent people. This 1 is evidenced by what so many | of them have been doing by na- j tionally and internationally.”
Dr. Francis Christensen, professor of English, has just returned from Chicago, scene of a “Conference on College Composition and Communication" held last Wednesda> through Saturday.
Dr. Christensen is a member cf the executive committee of the Conference, a workshop that represents all universities of the United States. This conference is « permanent group within the National Council of Teachers of English.
People Work Hard
"People come to this Conference not to socialize but to work and to work hard. There are 1600 members of the Conference and 800 attended a high percentage of the total membership" Christensen stated.
conference included 10 discussions and 18 work-Ilenrv Ra?o, editor of y Magazine." was ihe only le" speaker He discussed “Poetry. Poets and Poetry Magazine” in the annual luncheon.
Panel discissions attended In
1 m panel shops “Poet “outs
gogical Uses of Linguistics.” “Improving the Professional status of the Composition-Comnau-nication Teacher.” “The Unprepared Student” and “Applying Structural Linguistics in the Class room.”
New Graduate Course
The next annual Conference w ill be held in Philadelphia and : the following in San Francisco.
This semester for the first time Christensen, Chairman of ■ English Communication al SC, and Mr. George Motherwell, instructor in English, are teaching a graduate course on the structure of modern English. “This is a course designed to acquaint future college and junior college teachers with modern scholarship and grammar,” Christensen said.
Christensen published an article in ihe Daily Trojan in 1955, ! “Win High Schools Give Inadequate English Preparation,” j which was \\ idelv acclaimed not only at SC but also by members : of the Los Angeles Public School j
—	included "The Peda-1 System.
Must Be Met
If, however, the quota of 700 —less than one-twentieth of the total student body at SC — is not met, the Red Cross may not return to SC next year.
“We’re in bad shape,” said White, “and the independent students on campus, who greatly outnumber the rowites, are letting us down.”
White indicated that the majority of sign-ups to contribute blood so far have been row people. A booth, located in tront of the Student Union building, will accommodate all persons wishing to contribute blood.
The blood donations will go on in the basement of the University Methodist church on 2:30 p.m. Students who wish to contribute to this life-giving April 2, 3 and 4, from 10 a.m. to cause are being urged by White and the Red Cross to sign up right away.
Official
Notice
Students are reminded of the humanitarian value of cooperating as individuals with the Red Cross in its annual drive to stock the hlood bank.
Those who can and will give their blood for this worthy cause are asked to sign up for their hlood donations this week. Visit the table at the Student Vnion entrance.
C. A. Neyman
Acting Dean of Students
All 10:00 o'clock classes will be dismissed on Friday, April 5 for a convocation to be held in Bovard Auditorium at which time the University is honoring all undergraduate students who have excelled in scholarship.
The speaker for the occasion will be I)r. Mortimer J. Adler. His subject will be “The Pursuit of Wisdom.”
A. S. Raubenheimer Educational Vice President
I tory of American Drama” on “Trojan Digest” this Sunday.
“This show will incompass literature from 1798 to 1831 and j will include excerpts from “The j Lion of the West,” a satire on j Davy Crockett,” explained Hyde.
Hyde widely known expert of | early American drama is an Assistant Professor in the depart-! ment of telecommunications.
The program narrated and ' written by Telecomm doctorate j candidate William Stedman will j I also feature several passages from Robert Bird's “The Gladiator” and William Dunlap's : "Andre.”
“Trojan Digest,” heard over j KNX every Sundav afternoon at
IR Quarterly Sales Start
ed by Knight Herb Hirsh, went through the grill campaigning for the popular ice-cream vendor and collecting money to sup- j port his candidacv.	^he April issue of World Af-
Members of sororities pledged fajrs Quarterly, published under to support a^ particular house-	auspices of the School of
International Relations, is on
backed candidate voted for Herman anyway. Faculty members and graduate students, who generally take little interest in the yearly event, also voted for Herman.
T.otsa Cash
Nevertheless, all candidates entered in the charity contest received more votes than during any previous day. Sipes, although losing out to Herman and Fagerhult in the total-votes-cast department, nevertheless netted
j3:30. is produced by the Colum- the greatest amount of contribu-I bia Broadcasting System in co- tions for the day, and was only operation with the SC depart- a few votes shy of second place, ment of telecommunications. i Fagerhult, the leader for two
Dave Gershenson, Terzian Clash At TNE Investigation Hearing
By CARRY FISHER
“I have never been a member of Theta Nu Epsilon nor have I ever bought a TNE pin,” declared ASSC President Curi-Terzian before the Senate Committee hearing on Tong activities. yesterday.
“In order to gain more than 1800 votes at the last election I could not have been backed by any political party,” he said.
TNE didn't
cried, “You mean help you?”
“I don’t know,” said Terzian. I had backing from all factions of the university. Many of my hardest campaign workers, for example were TRG men.”
“In fact,” he declared. “I am rather hurt by these slaps at. my integrity. I think we’ve had a good, clean, non-political year. This is evidenced by our passing of election bylaws at the last
Terzian disclosed that 'mem- '■ genate meeting. Can you ima-
bers of Trojans for Representative Government, the only legal
gine,” he asked, “ how we could ever pass these without an ab-
party then on campus, had ap- sence of poiiticai bias?"
proached him and offered backing for his candidacy.
“I declined,” he said, “because I didn't want to join a group I had never been a member of, just to gain their nomination.”
Terzian concluded his testimony by saying he had received many compliments both from students and the administration stating his had been the best administration for more than “two decades.” The onlv com-
Under constant questioning by plaints about politics we ha\e
Committee member Dave Gershenson, former TRG chairman, as to whether his reasons for refusing TRG backing were because they wouldn't guarantee him the nomination, Terzian replied, “No, I was determined I wanted to run, because I felt I was qualified, but I preferred
had at all,” Terzian stated, “were a few isolated cases as with this Freshman thing.”
“I simply made recommendations to them after they requested my help in filling council positions.”
Dave Gershenson. was the next witness to testify before the committee. “I feel that I am in a unique position to help this committee,” Gershenson declared. “because I am a former [ member of TNE and am still familiar with many of the members and the tactics they use to gain their ends”.
“I was a member throughout my sophomore year,” Gershenson disclosed, “However my conscience forced me to drop out. Such matters as the stuffing of 200 ballots in the Van Alstyne election, the pressuring of candidates and other unscrupulous activities made me realize that they were going too far.”
“TNE influence is heavy in council almost all the clubs and organi-| zations on campus,” he said.
At the first committee meet- “The only way I feel >ou can ing both Barbara Lewis, Fresh-1 get rid of this shameful organi-man vice-president, and Bill zation is too adopt a strong Stevens, Freshman president, j policy toward it. I hold the stated they had received “ex- houses primarily responsible, to run independent. I preferred treme pressure” from Terzian's When more houses realize the to feel that I had accomplish- office to place certain members harm they are doing to the uni-ed something on my own.” on the Freshman Council. Ter- versity, he said perhaps TNE At this °point, Gershenson zian flatly derfed this saving, | will be finished at SC.”
sale in the University Bookstore.
Four articles are featured in the new issue. They are: Ministerial Instability and the Lack of Internal Cohesion in French Parties.” by David S. McLellan, assistant professor of political science. University of California at Riverside; “Two German Wews of the United States: Hitler and his Diplomats,” by Joachim Remak. instructor in history. Stanford University; “Impact of the Oil Industry on the Middle East.” by Dwight J. Simpson, assistant professor of government. Williams College and “The Political Party and Foreign Policy-Making: A Note of Speculation.” by John C. Donovan, associate professor of government. Bates College, Lewiston. Maine.
Reviews of 25 books are also included in the Quarterly, according to Dr. Richard W. Van Alstyne. professor of history, managing editor.
Veterans
Notice
“P.L. 550 Korean veterans may now pick up their monthly attendance forms for the month of March in the Office of Veteran Affairs, basement of Commons. The forms completely signed by instructors, cannot be returned until Monday, April 1. They must oe retured on or before Friday, April 5. in order to avoid delay in payment. The signature of the Director of Deferred Tuition is required for those students \\bo«*»* accounts are on deferred tuition and ma\ lie secured after Wednesday, March 27.
Elwyn E. Brooks
Assistant Registrar”