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University of Southern California
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Vol. LV
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1963
NO. 2
Sorority Pledges Bow to Row
Houses Improve Scholastic Mark
Tiie all-sorority grade average last semester jumped from the 2.6633 mark of the previous semester to 2.7205. the Panhellenic Office announced recently.
Six sororities—Delta Delta Delta. Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Gamma. Chi Omega and Kappa Alpha Theta—had averages above the all-sorority standard. The all-women’s average and the residence hall averages have not yet been released.
Delta Delta Delta moved up one place to lead the sororities with a 2.8790, while Alpha Chi Omega, last semester’s leader, dropped to third place.
Kappa Kappa Gamma, which was in first place during Spring, 1962, rose from fourth place to second. Gamma Phi Beta, which was in third place last semester slipped to eighth place. Pi Beta Phi dropped from its sixth place spot to tenth.
Miss Stephenie Adams, new Panhellenic adviser, was very happy with the averages. She said the top four houses. Delta Delta Delta. Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Chi Omega and Delta Gamma, all had extremely high averages for sororities.
The averages are based on the grades of all women in sororities who carry 12 or more units. A percentage basis is used to compare the houses so that the number of members is not a factor.
Miss Adams said although the averages of some houses were high, the all-sororitv average is still expected to remain below the all-women’s average when it is released. Last semester’s all-women’s average was 2.6854.
Songfest practices and other events took study time during the Spring semester, but the 778 women counted managed to raise the average by .0572.
The all-fraternity average of 2.5048 and the allmen’s average of 2.5512 fell short of the all-sorority average.
HOW-DE-DOO—Sorority pledges, dressed in formal finery and proudly showing off the flowers and colors of their new groups, smile happily and wearily as they
greet hundreds of callers welocming them to Row life. The annual "Presents" ceremonies climax the hectic rushing season for actives and their new sisters.
White Formals, Receiving Lines Climax Rushing
By BEBE SCHERB Society Editor
Gold glitter, long white formals and the fragrance of hundreds of bouquets of flowers brought elegance to the Row as 304 fall sorority pledges made their debuts at “Presents” last night.
Dressed in black, active members stepped aside to let their new sisters initiate another year of bustling social life on the Row.
The radiant new pledges stood for three hours in their white formals, making hurried introductions, shaking hands and scheduling a few dates.
Gaily decorated for the event, sororities quietly opened their doors at 7 p.m. to close friends and relatives for pictures and refreshments. Doors were flung open an hour later to welcome the hoard of fraternity men anxious to meet the Row’s newest members.
Pink carnations, the house flower, delicately embellished the “presents” line of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Gold crescents bearing the names of the 29 new pledges were suspended above their heads to introduce them to the guests.
Kappa Alpha Theta used their house colors of black and gold to decorate for the event. The 25 pledges lined the living room carrying yellow roses
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1.	SORORITIES Gain or loss in rank Delta Delta Delta +1		Spring Semester Average 2.8790	Previous Semester Average 2.7887
2	Kappa Kappa Gamma	+3	2.8336	2.6772
3.	Alpha Chi Omega ......	_2	2.8009	2.7973
4.	Delta Gamma..............	0	2.7928	2.6894
5.	Chi Omega ..................	1 0 —0	2.7524	2.6238
6.	Kappa Alpha Theta ....	+3	2.7239	2.6168
7.	Alpha Phi....................	0	2.6918	2.6253
8.	Gamma Phi Beta........	—5	2.6787	2.7857
9.	Alpha Delta Pi ..........	+1	2.6609	2.5916
10.	Pi Beta Phi..................	—4	2.6471	2.6384
11.	Alpha Gamma Delta..	+ 1	2.5827	2.5686
12.	Alpha Epsilon Phi........	-fl	2.5576	2.4622
13.	Kappa Delta................	_2	2.5074	2.5765
Balloting Indicates Approval Of Student Union Proposal
New Frosh Class Boasts Highest Entrance Grades
Trustees Tab Nine Exceptional Students
Students OK Tax 6.4 to 1
The student union tax referendum ballot, revived during the summer months, had gained an affirmative lead in a 3,075 to 478 vote after yesterday's late registration.
The vote, which is being tabulated on IBM cards as a
The Trustee Scholar, as de-Part of the regular registra-sotibed by Board Chairman tion process, ends with the
Nine students have been selected as “ideal” students by the Board of Trustees and one more will be selected later this week.
Mulvey White, vice president in charge of student and alumni affairs, said the names of the students, who are being selected in an intense	—.	.	...
,	l j •„ i t	student union and its addi-
search by the board, will not of interest and participation
be revealed until after the in school or community activ- tion are ready for use. The tenth student is selected. ities or particularly unusual reclamation project is not The Trustee Scholars pro- talent, gram, which will encompass Final selection of Trustee the selection of 40 exception- Scholars is being made on the ally gifted students by the basis of personal interviews fall of 1966. will help attract by three USC trustees. Pres-more students of their caliber ident Topping and Vice Pres-by supplying additional rec- ident White.
Since the qualifications for the Housing and Home Fi-a Trustee Scholar are so high, nance Agency upon passage the selection itself is highly |Q£ honorary. The university also
plans perpetual honors for its ^ hite also reaffirmed ad-Trustee Scholars in the form ministrative support of the tee Scholar may receive up to of a scholastic Hall of Fame,! student union tax.
$2,500 yearly to cover tui- where the names and pictures “This is something we just tion. living expenses, books of the students selected will mUSt have,” White said. “Al-
be on permanent record.
ognition and financial support. White said.
The Trustee Scholar designation will be honorary and, if necessary, financial. If financial aid is needed, a Trus-
Leonard K. Firestone, should ci0se of student enrollment.
have a high school grade
„ ,______+, „ If passed, the referendum
point average no lower thanj .
A-minus, a very high College will attach an additional Board Entrance Examination $2.50 to each semester's fee score, outstanding qualities of bill, but the attachment will personality and character, not begin untn the remodeled strong evidence for breadth
scheduled for completion until 1965.
Loan Applications
Mulvey White, vice-president for student and alumni affairs, yesterday said loan applications would be made to
This year’s freshman class, average of 1,084 on in step with USC's recent Board Examinations, drive for academic stature, Wedberg said the
the university with
College students, and better students attract more good students.”
Wedberg said the reason As a result of their higher entered the university with £or ^e increase probably academic performance. 88 per the highest accumulative stemmed from a greater num- cent of the incoming students grade average on record. Con- jjer applications and a re- had a 3.0 grade-point aver-rad Wedberg, Director of Ad- sujting increase in selectivity age or better in high school, missions, said yesterday. on the part of the univeraity. „We can ju3tjly ^ rpmain.
He explained that a partial The admissions director ing 12 per cent in that these processing of freshman scores added, however, that entrance particular students are
revealed a new high of 3.17 as the average high school grade-point average of entering freshmen.
The statistics, based on the 1,159 students processed so far, also revealed a record have
requirements remained the strongly motivated to suc-same as in previous years. ceed,” the director of admis-“The increase in applica- sions explained. “This atti-tions,” Wedberg continued, tude cannot be seen in the “may be due to our new aca- student’s actual statistics, but demic program. Also, we rather in the trend of his been admitting better record.
Proposed Oil Well Leaps First Hurdle
and supplies.
Singers Will Tour European Countries
USC chamber singers will cultural centers, conservator-tour seven European nations ies of music, colleges and uni-and Israel for nearly four versities. months beginning early in Dr. Hirt, chairman of the January under the auspices of department of choral organi-the U.S. State Department, zations, said his group wants President Topping announced to present the finest choral recently.	music from the 16th century
They will tour Germany, to the Present with a heavy The Netherlands. Belgium.	°n American music.
France. Switzerland, Austria	a^so want to 'nr^e
and Italy, in addition lo Is- some of the hest m,,sic from most raej	each country we will visit,’
The chamber singers, under very man and woman ac_ area and kitchen and expand-the direction of Dr. Charles cepted for the European tour ing the lniversity Bookstore. C. Hirt. were nominated for wj}j jje an undergraduate ir The addition would include the tour by a panel of experts graduate student at USC, Dr. a women's student lounge, representing the State De- pjirt continued.	rooms for meetings and music
partmen! s cultural prercnta- j_je sajd ]ie js selecting ma- recitals, six private dining tions pro :r: m.	ture, highly-trained vocalists rooms, a recreation area and
Sixteen Trojan singers and who can quickly establish a three-section student lounge an instrurq^ntalist will pre- rapport with their diverse au- enclosing approximately 7,000 gent concerts in important diences.	jsquare feet.
[though the project does not ientail the expense of an entirely new student union, the addition and remodeling will ;make a reasonable, attractive facility,” he pointed out.
Majority Needed
Unlike last semester’s voting process, the present procedure does not require a quota of votes. In this case, only a “sizeable majority” is needed.
CREW RECRUITS—Members of the USC crew show off shells at their post outside Bovard Auditorium, where they are recruiting new team members. Shell and Oar, women's auxiliary of the crew, is looking for coeds who will help as hostesses at the crew's races, keep up the boat house and continue crew's scrapbook.
Coeds Help Launch Optimistic Oarsmen
By RICK MARKS
If the old axiom “Behind every successful man there stands a woman” has any truth to it, USC’s crew team should have quite a year.
“Overall, this freshman class has to be representative of a higher intellectual level.” Wedberg said. “They are creating greater competition among themselves and they must succeed in this compe-The first hurdle in the con- will be required from the ten- tition.” struction of an exploratory tative February date until oil well on the USC campus drilling is actually started, was cleared last Monday at a Standard 0il has leased the hearing before the city plan- proposed drilling area from ning examiner.	fQr £our yearg “We are'
No opposition was voiced now crystalizing our geologi-as Standard Oil took its ini- cai work by drilling for oil,” J City and county road ex-tial step toward the creation Riedel explained.	perts are studying the pos-
of an oil drilling district at In addition to the univer- sibUity of buildinS a pedea-USC. The district requested sitv well, Standard 0il applied trian bridge over Exposition lies between Figueroa Street, and wag granted permissi(m Boulevard.
Jefferson Boulevard and ^ cjty pianning exam- The bridge, which was Hoover and 28th Streets. iner £or tWQ otjjer 0ji wells proposed by Supervisor Ken-Yeto Possible	which lie adjacent to the neth Hahn, would eliminate
The drilling application will campus.	'	traffic congestion caused by
now go to the Los Angeles Boundaries for the addi- events staged in Exposition Planning Commission. If it	Hictrirt* ar* Fieueroa Park. Hahn cited the recent
receives clearance there, it Jefferson McClintock Avenue Billy Graham Crusade in the will be submitted to the City &nd Exposition Boulevard and Coliseum as an example of
City Studies Bridge Plan
of:
Because standing behind this year s team, just as Council itself. Each step is 29th Street Jefferson, Hoov-1the large crowds which attend
expected to take three weeks. ~r McClintock and Vermont events in the park area.
Exposition Boulevard and 1 University Avenue, near Mudd Hall, would be the base of the new bridge. It would cross the six-lane boulevard and end at the entrance to the rose gardens.
The plans for the old union include converting the Trcjan Grill into part of a 6,000 square-foot underground restaurant, revamping student offices, renovating the Commons dining
they have done for several years, are the women
Shell and Oar, an auxiliaiv of the ciew.	Ultimate approval lies withjV’ ~
The group of 40 women work at the crew’s races Mayor Sam Yorty, who willl-6—-as hostesses. They keep up the boat house located at have ten days to either sign the Los Angeles harbor &nd mcUntciin the tesm s scr&p- or veto the Council s request, book.
Right now the coeds are helping the men in their annual recruiting drive for new crew members.
The organization has the unique distinction of remodeling j being the only female support group of any men’s athletic team on carapus.
tion of Shell and Oar is to try to accentuate crew inter est on the USC campus by helping create enthusiasm and, in turn, gain support for the team.
“Actually, we try to sell the team to the student body and at the same time help the team in every way we can,” she explained.
Shell and Oar is open to all women. The organization is looking for new members after a successful spring rush tea which boosted the roster to its present all-time high.
Last spring the USC crew team did not exactly scare any opponents out of the water, but this year prospects, with the help of Shell and Oar, look much bright^’.
Share in Profits
USC agreed to the formation of the district with the stipulation that only one well
Election Due For Frosh
Petitions for
freshmar
be located on the campus. If	c la s s’president, freshman Resident Topping said the
the well is successful, and con-	clasg vice president and AWS -J^tT
Current president Laurie Pallette said the func-editions are “quite favorable”	representative are now avail- e saieiy specia-
according to C. F. Schiesser,	able in 324 SU, Scott Bice,itors
a Standard Oil geologist, the	elections commissioner, an-
university will share in the	nounced yesterday,
profits.	Bice said petitions
attending university (events held in the park and enhance the beauty of the f 0 r general park area.
If, however, the well fails health, physical therapy and Hahn obtained the approv-to produce, USC will lose physical education vice presi- al of the Board of Supervisors nothing.	dent and physical science and for the proposal. He also
A. C. Riedel, title super- mathematics vice president asked the btate Highway visor of Standard Oil s South- are also available.	Commission to consider build*
ern Division, said the well will They may be picked up in? an overhead loop of tree-be rigged up around Feb. 1 of daily between 2 and 4 p.m. way for easy access to tho next year “if all goes as ex- A special election for these parking areas. The loop pected.”	offices will be held Oct. 9 would have entrances and ex*
Approximately two mdnths and 10.	'its to the Harbor Freeway.