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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1961
NO. 1
Troy to Show Spirit
Rally to Preview Year s Activities
Park Permits For Students To Be Sold
Permits for students to use university parking lots will go on sale tomorrow in the Bursar’s Office, Owens Hall, for $15 a semest er.
Business Manager Elton D. Phillips said that the parking fees, which are being collected this year for the first time, may be paid on a yearly, semesterly or daily basis.
“Students may buy permits for $15 a semester or for $36 for a full 12 months,” Phillips explained. “We have also built several Parcoa lots that students may use on a daily basis for 25 cents.
“We are trying to provide these alternate systems so that both students and faculty will be able to choose a rate that will be the most convenient and economical for their individual needs,'’ he condnued.
The business manager pointed out that students who will have daily classes oi who have split morning and evening classes will save money by using the permit system, while students who have classes only part of the week will find the Parcoa
system more economical.
A total of 213 spaces in \he student permit lot will be avail-a b 1 e at. the beginning of the semester, Phillips said. Faculty permit lots will hold 740 cars and Farcoa lots will have 906 spaces for students and faculty.
Faculty lots that use special keys will hold an additional 406 tirs, and parking lots on the Medical School campus will accommodate more than 400 cars, (Continued on Page 6)
DR. NORMAN TOPPING
. . . President's welcome
HUGH HELM
. . . ASSC head
Dr. Topping, Helm Greet Students
Our faculty and staff join me in welcoming you to the University of Southern California.
You are entering the university as it begins to fulfill its Master Plan for enterprise and excellence in education. We hope to continue to provide the leaders who will uphold the traditional symbols of civilized human status: government with wisdom, the perpetual maintenance of free institutions, research for a better life and life in peace with all men.
Our ijoal in this new era is to pursue excellence with vigor and without compromise. While the peace toward excellence is swift and while the demands of excellence are exacting, the rewards of excellence are great.
The opportunities are many. And all of us are happy to help you make the most of them.
Xorman Topping
Throughout this week you will be introduced to a few of the many facilities and outlets of the University of Southern California. Those of us in the ASSC urge you to attend as many of the activities planned as possible, so that when the time comes to decide on your USC career you will have a background of the areas available to you.
Four days, of course, provide hardly enough time for even the briefest exposure to the opportunities for development available to you here. We are all anxious for you to find the area that will develop your greatest potentials, since the quality of the university depends on the quality of the student it roduces.
Best wishes for an interesting week and a fulfilling four years. Your college career begins with
this orientation program. What
it will be from here is up to you.
Hugh Helm
Grade Point Rise Continues For Campus Living Groups
(See Table on Page 6 )
Scholarship averages for campus living groups for the spring, 1961, semester continued the upward trend begun in spring. 1960, figures released by the dean of students office revealed yesterday.
The all-men’s, all-women’s and all-students’ averages soared above last fall’s totals, and even surpassed the all-time high set last spring, despite a drop in the men’s dormitories' average.
The men's dorms were out-scored by fraternities for the first time in the current totals, falling behind the fraternities’ 2.4878 with a 2.4846. Sigma Al-
pha Mu fraternity led the way with a record-setting 2.9375 average.
The all-students’ average reached 2.59, or a B minus average, for a new high, and the all-men’s average hit 2.5539.
A new high was also set by the sororities at 2.7018. Although the women’s dormitories’ average had not yet been calculated, the all-women's average revealed a new high in that area of 2.7090.
Kappa Delta led the sororities with a 2.8806 average, followed by Delta Delta Delta with 2.8766 and Kappa Kappa Gamma with 2.S618.
Following the fraternity-lead-ing Sammies were Psi Upsilon with 2.7528 and Tau Epsilon Phi with 2.7283.
Touton Hall led the men’s dorms with a 2.5474 average, followed by Stonier Hall with 2 5204 and Trojan Hall with 2.4871.
The scholarship report included all pledges and actives carrying 12 units or more who were in fraternities or sororities for a period of 12 weeks or longer, and all actives regardless o£. whether they lived in the chapter house or participated in fraternal activities.
USC’s heritage and undergraduate spirit will be introduced to new Trojans at a special assembly, which will be held at 10:30 a.m in Bovard Auditorium.
To be hosted by Hugh Helm, ASSC president, and other top administrative and student leaders, the assembly will
provide freshmen with their first---
taste of Troy’s extracurricular
activities.
Full View
The rally is designe-i to give a clear overall picture of events at Troy, with emphasis on ath- ' letics, Songfest and Homecom- j
ing.
Sportscaster Chick Hearn will j appear at the rally to introduce USC’s athletes. John McKay, head football coach, Jess Hill, director of athletics, and Tom Kelly, Hearn’s assistant, will also appear at the introduction ceremonies.
Give.* Plans
During the assembly, Mary Memory, Helen of Troy for las? year's Homecoming, will greet new Trojans. She will announce plans for “SCircus.” the Homecoming theme for this year.
Sue Hartford, ASSC vice president, will join Helm to welcome officially incoming students. Helm will discuss student activities and government for th? coming year.
Musiqal interest will be provided by USC’s Pep Band. They will play Troy spirit songs end tunes, such as “Fight On,"
“Conquest” and “Carry On.”
Music Men
The USC Steel Band will provide further musical entertainment. The band made its first appearances last year at Trojan basketball games.
Yell king Rich Miailovich >s scheduled to explain Trojan spirit. He will also lead the audience in several songs and yells at the assembly.
Lending spirit to the occasion will be the other rive yell leaders — Bob Bach, Dick Hare,
Steve Harris, Bart Leddel and Ned Shankman.
Pro Guests
“The Travelers Three,” guest professional entertainers, will perform at the rally. They are currently playing at the Abstract on Sunset Blvd.
The rally assembly is a part of Troy Days, which began Sunday with an address by President Norman Topping, at the New Students Convocation.
A President’s Tea was held on the lawn between Bovard Auditorium and Founders Hall following the concovation.
Tommy Trojan is the designated spot from where the various service organizations will conduct tours of the university for new students.
Freshmen To Register By New Plan
Freshmen and new students to the university began enrolling for classes yesterday under an experimental plan instituted this year by the Registrar’s Office.
The experimental plan separates new students from returning students in order to ease the confusion of first-time enrollment, Registrar David W. Evans explained.
‘The plan is in the experimental stage because we don’t know what the results will be at this time,” Evans said. “The success
of the plan will depend entirely on how many new studenrs will take advantage of it.”
Freshman and transfer students will continue registering until tomorrow morning. Evans said. Registration for all students will not begin until Thursday, at which time new students who have failed to take advantage of the early se up also will be able to register.
Registration materials were distributed to new students yesterday at the close of the introductory convocation in Bovard Auditorium, and will be available
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Ducloux Gets Italy Medal
The Republic of Italy’s Bronze Medal for Cultural Relations has been awarded to Dr. Walter Ducloux, head of the opera and conducting departments of the School of Music, for his chairmanship of the Italian Unification Centennial observance on the USC campus last April.
In an accompanying citation Dr. Mario Xe(3eschi, Italian consul general in Los Angeles, said his government had honored Dr. Ducloux “for highly distinguished service in organizing and promoting the various successful events held at USC in recognition of the centennial year of Italian unification."