Trojan Tirebiter To Bark Again
THE LATE lamented Gecrge Tirebiter First ceme to SC in 1941. He gained love and respect when he attacked and bit Oskie, the Cal bear. He died in 1950.
George Tirebiter, tradition, legislative issue and rtion-grel, will re-enter student politics when the Trojan Spirit Commission begins to look over the “Tirebiter petitions” which are due today in the ASSC office.
The hunt to find a new Tirebiter — modeled after George I, II and (unofficially III)—will end Nov. 12 when the commission, headed by Dan Cassidy, will do the final judging.
“The commission,” Cassidy said, ‘•will judge all the entries and will judge primarily on the appropriateness of the dog to fit the situation and the ability of the sponsor to meet the required standards.”
Traditional Mascot
An official contract was draw n up by the newly-formed Spirit Commission for a renewal of the Tirebiter tradition in accordance with student sentiment at last year’s spring election.
The sponsor must demonstrate full protection to the dog at all times especially when taking him to and from the games.
If George is accepted, he will make his first appearance at SC’s initial basketball game on Dec. 5 in the Pan Pacific Auditorium.
Following in the tradition of Tirebiter Inc. George IV (officially ITI) will bring back the mascot tradition which started in 1941.
Tirebiter Parade
His “ancestor,” George Tirebiter I, arrived on the SC campus in 1941, running from car to car chewing up SC automobile tires, hence the name.
A fixture on the campus for six years, George disappeared and became a national celebrity when he was found
' following a much publicized “dog-hunt” by Los Angeles newspapers and radio stations.
A “George Tirebiter Day” was proclaimed, a parade down University Ave. held» for him, and his paw prints were immortalized in cement next to the footprints of SC All-American football players.
George had finally arrived.
He officially became SC’s mascot in 1947.
Tackled UC Bear
During a three year reign, George gathered in national publicity when he bit Oskie, University of California’s bear mascot, for a picture of this “courageous” event was sent over the wire services.
Then in 1950, George was run over by a car and sent to El Centra Ranch where he died in September of that year.
After all the newspapers mourned his death, the students rallied to the cause and with a student contest, officially installed the alledged son of Tirebiter I, George II.
Decision Coming
However, he was notT the old Tirebiter and consequently, in 1951, departed for parts unknown.
Stan Arkin, in 1957, tried to brin°; back the tradition and brought to the SC campus, Tirebiter III, who was unofficially accepted.
This unofficial mascot, now living with an SC professor, prompted legislative action which was affirmatively voted upon by the student body.
SC will have a new Tirebiter.
Only the Trojan Spirit Commission decision is needed now.
TIREBITER SECOND, successor to Tirebiter First, found the responsibilities unbearable and quietly abdicated in 1951. He disappeared suddenly, leaving no heirs. He is believed to be living on the Riviera.
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1958
NO. 36
SC Groups Launch New Charities Drive
For the first time in the history of the university, SC students are going out on an independent charity drive.
In the past, SC students have been known for their charitable contributions to various university welfare groups, including Troy Camp, which is entirely supported
*---	j	from student contributions.,
Canon Cites j Misquotation
(Editors Note: Canon Bryan
But this year, Trojans and Trojanes are donating something more ihan merely money, they are donating time and effort to the Community Chest drive.
Bell Ringers The effort, sponsored by Pan-
Green of the C hurch of England hellenic. Interfraternity Council, concluded his mission at SC last Associated Men and Women Stott eek as the annual Religious dents, will be started Wednes-Emphasis came to a close. The ¿ay night as students go out in clergyman wrote the following	residential	areas	surround-
lo clarify a statement attributed ¡ng Troy and ring doorbells for lo him by this paper last week.)	cause.
Sir.	Approximately	150	students
1 wish to express appreciation froni the SC student organiza--tf ihe good and fair reporting tjons will canvas the areas sur-r»f my lectures in the Daily Tro- rounding the campus foj- dona-ian—no easy lask as each time tjons to this organization.
I spoke fast and for 50 minutes. "SC .student leaders and fac-There is however one serious ulty feel very honored to have misleading slip in your report I been asked to participate in the must ask you to allow me to drive as it will give students an ~oirect. You report thus: Canon opportunity to contact residents Green yesterday condoned ‘Mhe 0f the nearby communities to occasional slip in sexual • relation establish better relationships and provided it is not a preconceived good will with ‘our neighbors’,” intention.” 1 never said the said Scott FitzRandolph, sludent words attributed to me in body president, quotes.	Alumni	Also
What I did say — and made , FitzRandolph further urged clear that I said — was firstly all SC alumni to contribute gen-that sexual intercourse should erously to the Community Chest wait till after marriage: and I drive this week, and expressed gave four sound non-religious hope that their contributions to reasons why.	the drive will be as generous as
Secondly, I did outlined di- m the past SC projects. bdramatically the various stages Participating students will be d1 preliminary love making—sug- orientated as to their duties in a posted a cerain point where a special meeting tomorrow night glop should be put in accordance at 7 p.m. in the Student Lounge, with the depth and degree of "The Community Chest sin-personal relationship. It was in cerelv appreciates the effort this preliminary connection that that the SC student body is put-I said that should there be an ing into this drive* and wishes occasional mpremediatated slip to express its gratitude to Scott beyond the proper point,	it	need	FitzRandolph and	everyone who
not cause ? sen-e of guilt	pro-	is connected with	helping out in
tided that En attmept was made this great project.” said Mrs. lo remedy i weak will	Mannis, who is	the official
Bn an Green	chairman for Ihe	SC region.’
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Early Tales Of California To Be Told
The eye-witness accounts of life in California at the time of the gold rush and the American occupation will be read by Dr. Drew Pallette at today's noon reading at 12:30 in 129 FH.
Dr. Pallette will read ex'cerpts | from Richard Henry Dana Jr.’s i "Two Years Before the Mast,” which is the story of Dana’s sea voyage to California in 1835.
Dana was a student at Harvard University but was forced to abandon his studies because of his failing eye sight. He became a crew member on a ship and sailed around the Horn, reaching California in 1836.
Bull Against Bear
This account of Californian life is seen through the eyes of an educated Bostonian.
In contrast to this, Dr. Pla-lette will read from “A Dangerous Journey” by J. Ross Browne.
Browne, a relatively unknown literary figure, was commissioned by the federal government in 1849 to establish a chain of post offices southward from San Francisco.
After establishing one post office in San Jose, he turned to writing- magazine accouts of his experiences in central California. One of the excerpts Dr. Pallette will read is a description of a fight between a bull and a bear.
.Native Californian
These particular selections j have been chosen by Dr. Pallette I because he feels that they give a j “vivid account of life in early I California and are more colorful J than the usual romatic type j story.” ‘	!
Pallette is a professor of English at the university and specializes in American literature.
Formosan Visitor Compares
U.S. Schools With Chiang s
BEATS THE SMOG—This dejected scientist finally figured out the only sure way to inhibit the gaseous fumes which have been filling the Los Angeles basin.
Federal Gifts Aid SC in Research
Gigantic Beer Bust Slated In Senior Week Program
“Wanting to keep senior activities on a strictly academic and intellectual level.' said Class of "59 Piesident Abe Soiner. “we naturally planned as our first activity a gigantic beer bust, to be held this Friday night amid the luxurious decor of the Hotel d? Hoss."
Tickets for tiie event, christened the "Clas^ of ’59 Casual.” go on sale today in front of the Sludent Union at the infinitesimal price of SI per person. The price induces all you can consume and all the hay you can haul off in ' our shoos and down ihe back of your neck.
No Senior Day
The Casual takes the place of the traditional Senior Day. m which seniors, and anybody else who had the price of admission, sat out in the broiling sun for hours to down warm milk and moldy san.1 ,\ iches.
Besides 3o kev.s-oi ihe light refreshment, the Casual will feature 30 pounds of pretzels, 30 pounds of fotato chips and the
shirts (in deference to our other guests, preferably clean) and go-aheads. We want the atmosphere to bo casual, even though the Hotel de Hoss is one of Los Angeles’ decorative showplaces.” The Hotel is located on Slauson Ave. near Sepulveda, right across the street from the Fox j Hills Country Club.
Slight Disadvantage "The Hotel has only one dis-[ advantage for an event of this ! sort.” says Somer. “There’s only ; one john.”
Somer stressed that only sen-I iors and their dates will be al-| lowed to come. Stags will he j tolerated. There will be a limit I of 600 people.
Tickets will be on sale in , front of the Student Union all week.
Next semester, Somer plans another innovation in senior ac-noisy. music of Chuck Signor and livities, a Senior Week, in which his group lasting from N:3u the Class of ’59 v. ill sponsor p.m. to 1 a.m.	such things as a Varsity Show
“Appropriate dress.’’ Somer and an all-university awards said, “will be Bermudas, sweat- I program.
ABE SOMER
. . touts casual
(Editor’-s Note: This is the first in a series of articles by Daily Trojan reporter Nita Biiss on the federal government contracts which supply millions of dollars lor research to SC annually.)
By NITA BISS More than 54 million annually in government grants and contracts is responsible for the vast research program conducted by SC scientists.
Contracts from the Department of Defense and grants from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the National Science Foundation give scientists the necessary funds to carry on their highly technical research.
Faculty members learn of gov-ernment-sponsored research programs through technical and scientific literature and seek grants and contracts under the | jurisdiction of the university.
Funds for Research Once the contract has been procured, the university administers the government funds and makes its facilities available for the project. The research is done by the individual faculty member who is known as the principal investigator.
In the case of government contracts, offered by the Department of Defense, the cost of the project, is derived on a cost reimbursable basis, with the university billing the government for ail expenses.
Overhead is taken into con-; sideration. and a so-called “service charge” is made for the use of personnel engaged in the project, not ordinarily employed by the university.
This service charge is basod on a percentage of the total a m ou n t of expenditures. The university and the principal investigator do not make any
money on the contract.
When special equipment must j be purchased by the university, ! it is returned to the government I when the project is completed. The government often sells the equipment to the university, but ; it is never received as part of the contract.
Grants on Period Basis
In the case of grants, which are furnished by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, specific amounts of money are allocated to individual faculty members for work on specified research programs.
The grants are awarded on a period basis, and if there is any money left over from one period, it is carried on to the next. Any equipment which the university buys with grant funds may be retained.
Most- government research programs <jre conducted through colleges and universities rather than private industry, because the personnel resources are so much greater.
The academic staffs of educational institutions present a high caliber of personnel, and in this manner, the government is able to carry on its research not only more efficiently, but more economically.
The research programs which are currently in progress at the university are of a highly technical. specific and varied nature. Research is being done by one zoology professor on the habits of the Arctic ground squirrel. A physiologist is studying man’s physiological response to cold stress.
Another zoology professor is doing research on the Alaskan ljing crab, and work is being done on the wind tunnel by engineers and on the linear accelerator by nuclear physicists.
AKK MORE
Tears Make Masks New SC Fashion
SC students, armed with gas masks and air lungs, will be the only ones who can escape smog irritation this week as the Air Pollution Control District reports that the smog will probably continue in the Los Angeles basin.
Eyes were watering all over campus last week as the ozone reading in the air around Los Angeles reached the point—calling for a first stage smog alert Friday.
Dr. Phillip R. Merrifield of SC, however, maintains that the eye irritation felt during a smog invasion is due to the fact that the human eye can discriminate between different irritants.
Dr. Merrifield, assistant director of Aptitude and Research at SC, pointed out that because the human senses can discriminate between certain irritations, through psychological means some form of damage could possibly occur from the smog.
The Los Angeles Health Department was called in last week to investigate the death of a 73-year-old man, Nathan Louis Gordon. w:ho died of a heart ailment which doctors maintained was prompted by the Los ^Angeles smog.
Nationalist Educator Speaks at Founders
Educational opportunities open to Chinese students on Formosa were outlined by Kao Hsin, member of the Formosa Ministry of -Education, in a talk Friday in Founders Hall.	,	government.”
Parities and differences in Chi- Formosa faces a serious short-nese and American educational j age Qf teachers and classrooms svstems. The Formosan diplomat j because of an increase in popu-ends a three month tour of the lation, 92 percent of schooi-age U.S. on Nov- 15.	children are enrolled in elemen-
Broad \ iew	(Continued on Page 2)
The purpose of his tour is to i-—---------------
IR Professor Heads Panel
Dr. Norman Fertig, assistant
observe and study the American i education system at all levels ! and to gain a broad view of American life and institutions.
Hsin is particularly interested in 1 the teaching of physical sciences in this country. #
A close parallel in the basic : professor of”'intern^tional reTa-s true lure of Chinese and Amer- tions. is attending a conference ican educational organization ¿n San Francisco on the direc-was indicated by Hsin who said {¡on antj improvement of in-that Chinese schools aie sepa- struction and on child welfare, ¡atcd into elementarv. middle The SC professor was called or high school and college and by California’s superintendent of uni\ersity levels.	public instruction to attend the
No Tuition	annual conference this week
‘ On the elementary level.” , He will lead a panel in the dis-said Hsin, students pay no tui- cussion of “New Frontiers in tion and books and supplies are International Education ” supplied by the government.”	in a joint project between the
When Formosa came under the School of Education and the rule of Nationalist China after School of International Rela-World War II, children between tions. Dr. Fertig serves as co-thc ages of 6 through 12 were ordinator of the workshop in inrequired to attend school, he temational relations. The work-said-	shop is for secondary school
“Approximately 98 percent of teachers, our elementary schools	are	pub-	He has worked on improving
lie. Textbooks are prepared un- j material for high school teach-der the supervision of the gov- ing methods in international re-ernment and expenses incurred lations. said Dr. Paul Hadley, are paid by the provincial gov- associate professor of interna-ernment rather than the central i tional relations.
Lockley Urges Non-Politic Economic Control Agency
One-way use of a. two-way economy control system by the U.S. government is leading the way to inflation. Dr. Lawrence C. Lockley, Commerce School dean, says in his November Monthly Economic Letter.
The method of manipulating the flow of money into the economy by controlled government spending and through the Federal Reserve Banks is called compensatory fiscal policy.
“Under the Employment Act of 1946, the Federal Government is charged with maintaining full employment at high wage levels,” Dr. Lockley said. “This proposition both (Republicans and Democrats) have accepted. When times grow dull, money is made easier.”
Political Pressures “The government can reverse these methods to mop up money and make it tighter, and decrease any unhealthy tendency toward a too-rapid rate of ex-
DR. LAWRENCE C. LOCKLEY
. . . edits newsletter
Dr. Lockley noted two other
possible economic policies: free
pansion. This set of devices we prices in open markets, "a de-have not used very much lie- vice we have rarely tried.” and cause they are politically very the “price system” which was a unpopular,” he said.	I	policy of the conservatives.
Disadvantages he pointed out
in the price-fixing svstem are that it works slowly, though inexorably. and that “it works by rewarding competitive success and destroying competitive failure.” and so become "politically unattractive.”
“We are trying to keep the wolf from every door—even the most flimsy doors!’’ Dr. Lockley commented.
The system in use, controls the money supply, and Dr. Lockley has no general objection to it, except that “we have used compensatory fiscal policy al-j most exclusively as a stimu-j lant.”
Socialism Feared
Tins continues to throw money into the economy, and “if additional money is thrown into the economy more rapidly than goods and services flow into the market, the obvious result is inflation. And indeed, we have been watching our dollar grow less anil less valuable during the last twenty years.”
“Many businessmen whose ad-(Continued on Page 'J)