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EL RODEO 1967—USC spirit will be the theme of this year's El Rod. Yearbook photoarcphers will be on the prowl photographing candid shots of spirited students Th:s year's El Rod wil! be increased 464 pages in length.
El Rodeo Photogs Look For Students
By 41 LIEANN SMITH
Smile! You're on candid camera!
Be on the lookout for Pete Miller, Steve Stacher. R. J. Hayes. Jeff Groves and Scott Daubin. They're on the lookout for you because they're the photographers for the El Rodeo. They are looking for spirit.
Ginny Walter, editor of the 1967 El Rodeo, said the theme of this year's yearbook is USC spirit—“not only football and party spirit, but the spirit of accomplishment and learning,
Jazz Band Scheduled For Bovard
By KAREN VAX DYKE
Stan Kenton and the Junior Neophonic Orchestra will be presented in concert in Bovard Auditorium Thursday, at 8:30 p.m.
Although the Junior Neophonic Orchestra is home - based at Cerritos College in Norwalk, it is comprised of college musicians aged 17 to 24 years, from schools all over Southern California. Jim McCormac, Bob Payne and Paul Walberg are USC's contribution to the orchestra.
Tickets for Thursday night’s performance sponsored by the ASSC are $1.50. The money will be used to help pay the Junior Neophonic's expenses for the National Jazz Festival in Miami Beach.
Kenton, who has been called the guiding force behind both the senior and junior neophonic organizations was born in Kansas and later moved to Southern California. He became a professional musician as soon as graduated from a Los Angeles high school. Playing piano with many bands and combos, he developed his own distinctive style.
The creation of the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra as the first permanent resident contemporary international jazz orchestra dedicated to contemporary music and musicians fulfilled one of his lifelong dreams.
The Junior Neophonic was created in May. 1966. so that young musicians in Southern California colleges might be exposed to the neophonic movement.
After a year of existence, the organization is exposing not only college musicians, but college students on all levels, to the neophonic movement.
This year the junior organization will compete in the National Intercollegiate Jazz Festival to be held in Miami Beach. Fla. The winning groups in the National Finals will receive perpetual trophies donated and presented by celebrities in the music field.
In addition, the U.S. State Department will send the winning groups at the national level to the Canadian Exposition ’67 as the official representatives next July.
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University of Southern California
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VOL. LVIII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY,
1967
NO. 83
Tau Delta Phi, Theta Xi
Recolonization Progressing
the overall spirit that is behind USC. what makes it go.”
The El Rodeo will try to get away from the Master Plan as much as possible this year. Miss Walter feels this idea has been overworked in the past three volumes. She and her staff will concentrate on the university of today, she said.
An effort is being made to combine the campus as a whole into one section. All organizations, sports, campus activities and Greek activities will fall under the heading “Campus Life.’’
Also in this section will be information on the schools of the university as a w’hole. Each school will be treated as an individual entity, yet its dependence upon and importance to the entire university will be shown, Miss Walter explained.
The remaining tw?o sections will deal with graduates and with campus living groups.
The staff this year includes Laurie Ruby, managing editor; Jim Willcock-son. photo editor: Jane Trotter, sorority editor: Bob Hicks, fraternity editor; Mike Williams and Ed Taylor, cosports editors; Kathy Bice, organizations editor: and Barb Vivian, editorial assistant.
There will be an increase over last year in the number of color photographs included. Miss Walter said, and section dividers will feature a special arty touch. The cover idea will remain a surprise until the date of delivery.
The delivery date for this year's El Rodeo has been tentatively set for sometime during finals. Anyone who will not be here may go to 303 Student Union and sign up to have his copy mailed. The fee will be $1.
Miss Walter asked anyone interested in taking photographs for the El Rodeo to apply at the El Rod office, 405 Student Union, any afternoon.
For the first time in the history of USC, two fraternities—Tau Delta Phi and Theta Xi—have recolonized. And both fraternities feel they are enduring
the effects of beginning anew' very well.
Tau Delta Phi, on campus since 1926, currently has 12 members and is growing from this core. Prior to recolonization, membership had dwindled considerably because of the lack of an adequate fraternity house and also because a number of actives had graduated.
Tau Delts have a new $250,000 fraternity house, located at 2710 Severance, the spot where their old house had proven too small for the fraternity’s once very large membership.
“Building a top fraternity ;sn’t an easy job.” John Haines, newly-elected president of'the Tau Delts, said.
“One of the most annoying obstacles is occasionally being overlooked by representatives of different campus and IFC activities, who seem to be surprised to find the Tau Delts most Willing and very able to participate in activities they weren’t expected to join.”
The Tau Delts are on extended rush and “I see no reason wrhy this core of guys, coupled with a new quarter of a million dollar house, terrific food, and a social program in full swing, cannot regain the prominent position it once had on campus.” Haines said.
Tau Delt officers are Haines, president; Joe Shreve, vice-president; Dennis Harding, secretary-treasurer; Paul Douthit and Chuck Googooian, social chairmen; Marty Becker, house manager; and Andy Caddes. scholarship chairman.
Theta Xi initiated 12 members on Jan. 15, at the UCLA chapter house, reactivated six and have added five since recolonization began.
Larry Bernard, cosocial chairman of Theta Xi said. “For about five years, Theta wras tops on the Row with 70 or 80 members. However, there was a big division in the fraternity recently and half the house w'alked out.
“The morale consequently began going downhill and no one put out for rush,” Bernard continued. Last June they had 40 members, but 18 graduated and six went in the service or dropped out of school.
At the beginning of this year there were only six actives living in the house. The alumni didn t want the fraternity to continue its dowmhill decline and decided to recolonize.
The new members are campus support oriented—they have two members on Songfest Committee, Phil Kazanjii,an is senior class president, Tim Prangley is a Squire and Chuck Zaremba is on the Daily Trojan staff.
Theta Xi took in four pledges during spring rush and plans on doubling that number in the next two weeks.
Officers include Mark Pocino, president; Daniel Brandt, vice-president; Ken Olson, treasurer - house manager; Ed Seal, senior steward; Ken Clark, junior steward: Chuck Zaremba, secretary; Jerry Larue, scholarship chairman.
Recolonization began in November when the alumni of both houses, in conjunction with the national fraternity and the university, had a meeting attended by all fraternities that wanted to recolonize.
After interviews, the national fraternities each selected a group of men to rebuild the houses. The university evaluated the two fraternities on the basis of set rules prior to any decision by the alumni.
Among the university rules for recolonization are that an entirely new chapter must be formed; older members have to be reactivated by the new members; IFC fees are waived during recolonization; and the houses receive rush lists early.
Wilde Play to Open At Stop Cap Theatre
MARK POCINO
Theta Xi President
Row Life to be Subject of Series
Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” will open Wednesday night at 8 p.m. in Stop Gap Theatre and will run nightly through March 17.
Tickets are on sale in the Bovard Box Office from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. They are $1.50 for weekdays and $2 for weekends. Students with activity books receive a $1 discount.
The play, written in only two wreeks, opened in London at the St. James Theatre in 1894.
William C. White, lecturer in drama, who is staging the play, said, “The most difficult task for the young company is capturing the style of the 1900’s when the manners and customs of the Edwardian period were quite different from today.
“We are trying to emulate Wilde’s feelings on his play, giving special attention to the sparkle of his rich language.”
Wilde once said his play was “nothing but style. Hugo and Shakes-
peare have divided all subjects between them. It is impossible to be original, even in sin. Hence, there are no real emotions — only unusual adjectives.”
The play centers around the difficulties and complications of situations involving double identities, idleness ' and marriage.
Tom Basham will play Algernon, the main character. He was seen last as Mr. Antrobus in last year’s production of “The Skin of Our Teeth.” Rob Shipp, a transfer student from Miami University, will portray Jack. Playing Chasuble will be Gene Carlson, a graduate student. Both Shipp and Carlson appeared in “The Show Off” recently.
On the distaff side, Marcy Laffer-ty will play Gwendolyne and Karen Smith will portray Cecily.
Others in the cast include Allison Price, Nancy Crawford, Stephen Lee, George Drum, James Shanahan and Daren Smith.
A series of three workshops to discuss the problems of fraternity and sorority life are scheduled this w'eek to kick off the intellectual portion of Greek Week.
“The purpose of these workshops is to gather together the social chairmen. the scholarship chairmen and the pledge trainers to discuss problems that concern fraternities and sororities,” Rick Rifenbark. chairman of the Greek Week workshop committee, said Friday.
The first workshop, to be held today from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in 108 Ecumencial Center, involves the social aspects of life on the Row. Leading the discussion will be Matty Foley (Kappa Sigma).
Topics to be discussed in this session include the feasibility and legal aspects of drinking on the Row and the problems that occur with rush parties and exchanges.
The second discussion will begin Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in 108 Ecumenical Center and will be led by Tom Kristovich (Phi Gamma Delta).
This workshop will encompass the scholarly aspects and image of the Row. The issue on the failure by some houses to turn in grade averages to the IFC will also be covered.
Another question to be answered in this discussion is how the fraternities and sororities can maintain a high pledge average.
The final workshop on Wednesday will be led by Bill McCaughey (Lambda Chi Alpha) and will begin at 3:30 p.m. for fraternities in 205A Ecumenical Center and 5 p.m. for sororities in 103 Ecumenical Center.
The discussion will cover hazing and other problems that concern pledge trainers.
“It is hoped that each and every house will be a participant in these discussions,” Rifenbark said.
Other activities for the week will include a speech by Chief of Police Thomas Reddin at 11 a.m. in Bovard Auditorium on Thursday, an awards
banquet that night, and the Grecian Ball Friday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel following the Greek relays on the Row in the afternoon.
Quick Voter
Registration A vailable
Election Cocom miss ion ers Susi Kopelove and Laury Scott and other members of the committee will be featured this week in front of the Student Union in the first annual presentation of “Voter Registration at USC.”
Registration takes only thirty seconds and will save each registered student at least twenty minutes of line-standing time on the election days. April 3 and 4.
This newr system will shorten the voting time because voter eligibility will have been determined in advance.
Three polling places are listed on the regstration card to enable each student to select a polling area that is convenient for him.
Each of the three locations — University Avenue and 28th Street, 37th Street Mall and Bovard Auditorium — will be provided with a list of registered students.
The purpose of having three polling places is to encourage more people to vote. Scott said.
Miss Kopelove said student response to registration has been favorable. As of Friday approximately 1,000 students had registered.
Any undergraduate student carrying at least 12 units or any graduate carrying at least eight units may register.
The Elections Commission will meet today at 4 p.m. in the YWCA.
INVESTIGATE FRAUD SCHEME
Police Ask Aid of Professor and Grad Students
By MELINDA TONKS
It's amazing to what ends people will go to make more money. And equally amazing are the number of otherwise sensible people who fall for these schemes.
A USC professor and two graduate students were called in to aid the Los Angeles Police Department in bringing such wrongdoers to justice recently.
It all began last November when the police received a complaint concerning an advertisement in the Nov. 16 edition of the Los Angeles Times.
The complaint claimed the ad, in the job opportunities section, guaranteed $800 a month; this assertion was false, he said—the ad was just a gimmick to get members for Paradise Industries’ “Econoway Marketing” plan.
Sgt. George Carr of the Frauds Division, Bunco Section, of the police department, W'ho was placed in charge
of the case, posed as a job-seeker and attended a recruitment meeting to find out whether the promise in the ad was valid.
• Paradise Industries’ “Econoway Marketing” plan was a discount operation. After full indoctrination into the “Econoway” fold, which included payment of $199 dues, a member was entitled to receive merchandise at discount prices for a period of 10 years and/or become a prospector to sell memberships to his friends.
If a prospector recruited two friends, he would receive a certain percentage of their membership dues. He was also entitled to receive a cash bonus when his recruits spent the required $20 a month on merchandise.
These prospectors then received .points for every person that subsequently joined. For his first recruits, he would receive four points; and so on down the line.
A certain number of points entitl-
ed the member to free merchandise. Fifty to 1,000 points were exchangeable for a dollar per point, or a vacation costing that amount. Two thousand points would mean a new Volkswagen. A member could also get a boat (10,000 points) or a deed to a $50,000 home (50,000 points).
. On Dec. 2, Sgt. Carr filed a complaint with the City Attorney. Warrants were issued on Dec. 6 and were served upon the president of the corporation and the general manager.
Sgt. Carr called Dr. Park Ewart, professor of quantitative analysis for the Graduate School of Business Administration. Dr. Ewart appointed graduate students, Harold Davidson and Alston Lungren, to prove that the “Econoway” scheme would be mathematically impossible to sustain.
The trial began on Feb. 14. The defendants were charged with one count of operating a lottery and one
count of fraudulent advertising (by boasting a “guaranteed” $800 a month).
Davidson, who is a doctoral candidate in finance, was called in to present his mathematical theories on the improbability of “Econoway’s” success.
Acting as an impartial witness for the prosecution, Davidson proved it was impossible for “Econoway”to succeed.
“If two people bought a membership. they could sell two more memberships apiece in a two-week period. At this rate, the population of the U.S. would be exhausted in one year and four weeks,” he explained.
At this rate, the population of the world (1960 census) would be more than exhausted in a period of one year and twelve weeks.
Davidson also proved that people at the end of tfie chain, who had just
purchased a membership, would not make any money. Those at the top of the organization (the owners and original prospectors) and on down would be making the money because of the end investment.
If “Econoway” were to expand at the rate that it required its members to bring in new recruits, it would be impossible to operate because of the eventual number of people involved, he said.
On Feb. 17 the jury found the defendants guilty of the two charges placed by Sgt. Carr. A petition for retrial to the Appellate Department of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County is scheduled for this month.
“This type of lottery is not restricted to California alone,” Sgt Carr said. “There have been similar cases across the nation. Since the expansion of “Econoway” has been prevented. we hoep to curb this type of activity in the Los Angeles area.”