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It's not
the bastille,
it's USC
THEY STORM THE REGISTRAR
FOR DRAFT FORMS
University of Southern California
DAILY • TROJAN
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1966
NO. 1
Fraternities set vast changes;
Hell-Help Week tradition to go
By STW HERUS
Stmt  Editor
■1 broad-based inter fraternity
I held late last week will soon
■ lit the rn^t sweeping chang-
I en in the USC Greek system.
Among the many innovations expected from "Direction '67," the IFC-
sronsored conference, is the abolition
of the present Hell Help Week.
Mm called  for  at the day - long
• icere a strengthening of the
IFC internal structure, n new look
for Greek Week and a cooperative
food-buying program.
More than 100 USC fraternity men.
equally representing every house on
the Row, called for the change after
Dick Burt, conference chairman, assailed the system as having "failed
in its responsibility to itself and to
tb      nation   in   building   worthwhile
men."
Working together with Pat Ryan,
new assistant dean of men for fraternity affairs. Burt led the group
rs they first isolated fraternity
problem? and then made specific recommendations for their solutions.
REPRESENT IFC
Although the decisions reached do
not technically constitute IFC policy.
Vickie Rue resigns class post
Vickie    Rue.    elected    sophomore
representative last May, has resigned
her post to enter the Convent of the
ma of Jesus and Mary near
ASSC President Taylor Hackford
I Miss Rue's formal letter of
resignation  today.   She  entered  the
convent August 30.
An election to choose a new sophomore representative will be held with
the freshman and yell king elections
next month.
Explaining her decision to become
a mm. Miss Rue said. "After my
election was over and I had time to
think. I realized that even the joy
of winning the office and the challenges it would involve did not provide the purpose and dedication that
I needed.
"After much thought, prayer and
consultation, the purpose, dedication
and fulfillment that are the life of
66 Presents
a sister is the life that I believe God
wants for me."
In a Daily Trojan interview on
August 26, Miss Rue commented on
the reaction of many people that for
a girl with her energy to enter a
convent is a waste. She said hers
will be a very active life, not very different from life at USC.
She hopes to earn a teaching degree and teach in South America or
Africa, where the Sisters of the Holy
Names have missions.
Glitters of sorority color
By SUSAN LEEPEB
Ass't. Society Editor
Hundreds of white-gowned and
excited pledges met their parents and
friends last night at the USC sororities' Presents of 1966.
28th St. was crowed with people
*s the girls were officially presented
as members of their houses. Proud
parents came to see their daughters
shown by the actives of the Row's 12
sororities.
The most frequent visitors to the
houses were the fraternity members
who came to see who their new neighbors will be.
The Kappas pledges were presented in their new house opened only two
weeks ago for Rush. They held white
carnations in blue net hearts.
The new AD Pis held long stemmed red roses with their names in
glitter on the blue sashes.
Alphas Chi Omegas stood under
golden lyres and held red carnations
as they received their guests.
The Alpha Gams presented their
pledges on the house's inside patio.
They held long stemmed roses with
roses with their names on the red
ribbons.
The Tri Delts held yellow roses
and ferns, ribboned in blue and silver.
New Pi Phis were presented under
glittered arrows with their names, and
they held red roses. The house was
decorated with bright paper flowers.
DGs stood under the symbols of
their pins as they greeted the receiving lines. The girls held long stemmed red roses framed with baby
breath fern.
The  Theta  pledges  held  only  a
sinele yellow  rose each,  and  stood
under their names, which were glittered on the outline of the Theta pin.
FLOWERS, FLOWERS
The Gamma Phi Betas held small
pink and white carnation nosegays.
Their names were on the pink ribbons
that hung from the flowers.
The AEPhis held two roses—one
that their house save them, and one
that the TEPs had given each of
them
Alpha Phi pledges stood under
their traditional ivy leaves. They
held nosegays of red rotes and white
carnations.
The Chi Omegas presented their
pledge class in a room backed with
the flowers the girls were sent. They
held lone-stemmed red roses.
All of the houses held their Presents indoors, because of the mavbe-
eould - rain weather of the past few
One of the pledges said, "I didn't
think of the sororities as a real necessity until now. now I think you are
missing something without it; I need
it now.
"Everyone is like a real sister.
When yon see the tears and the
harminess,   vou   know   you   belong
All of the siils were happy, excited, and a little bit nervous.
the men who attended the conference
are the same men who are in IFC,
and who represent the desires of their
houses.
Thus, somf of the actions, Ryan
explained, will be accomplished by
direct IFC action, while others will
change as the problems present
themselves.
A proposal to present a President's
Trophy to those fraternities matching overall high standards, for instance, will probably be voted upon
at the next IFC meeting.
Changes for Greek Week, however, (possibly including the elimination of the Greek Queen and chariot
races in favor of achievement recognition and cooperative workshops)
will come about gradually as planning for the spring event occurs.
Among the other actions anticipated at the conference is a change
in the pledging system towards a
more organized rush, followed by a
pledge convocation and special Pledge
IFC.
LARGE HELP SMALL
Internal relations stand to be
strengthened by a program through
which larger and more financially
successful chapters would aid smaller houses in recruiting and managing-.
The more-than-lOO specific proposals called for will be compiled into
an official report by Walt Unger,
a member of Theta ChL This report
will be distributed early in October
throughout the Row.
Burt and Ryan will then visit the
different houses to answer questions
from members. Finally, a Presidents'
Council, separate from IFC, will be
set up to follow the report's guideline?.
"If we accomplish the ideas wa
have proposed here, it could mean
we will have one of the strongest
fraternity systems in the United
States," Rvan predicted.
DISCUSSION AREAS
The seven major discussion areas
from which these ideas flowed were:
"Rtish and the Orientation Week
Conflict." "Greek Communications,"
"flreek Week—Sho.ld We Have One."
"Programs for Encouraging Excellence," "IFC and Chapter Finances."
"Pledging," "General Aid of Weak
Chanters," and "Scholarshio"
These areas were determined after the group spent the morning brainstorming to come up with the major
problems.
"I have been impressed." Dean of
Men Tom Hull said. "These guys
seemed more serious about what
they've been discussing and more interested in what Is happening than
any group I've seen in the past."
USC PROFESSOR
EMERITUS DIES
Dr. Lawrence Melville Riddle,
8?. professor emeritus and head
of FKC's French Department for
"JO tears, died Sunday In Riverside.
Coming to USC as an assistant professor in 1913, he soon
rose to the rank of professor and
continued as a fulltinie member
of the faculty until his retirement
in August, 1950.
Dr. Riddle was responsible
for the development of USC's
graduate program In French.
He was an Officer d' Academic, an Officer de L'lnstructione
Publkjue de France, and a Chevalier de ia Legion dHonneur.
Private funeral services will
be held today at 2 p.m. at the
Atchison and Graham Mortuary
in Riverside.
THEY STORM THE BOOKSTORE FOR BOCKS
.. . AND END UP STORMING EACH OTHER
Efficiency will eliminate
drop and add frustrations
There are 4,000 program changes
to be made and 400 cars to find park,
ing spaces for, but university officials, with all the aplomb of a man
on death row, says "Don't worry,
everything's under control."
The registrar has promised that
all will be taken care of with as little
frustration as possible during drop
and add. These procedures will begin at 1 p.m. today and run through
7:30 p.m. Friday, in the men's gym.
And Anthony Lazzaro, associate
business manager, has promised that
the clamor for parking spaces will
New J.C.,
high school
committee
established
The new ASSC School Relations
Committee, aimed at providing a
realistic insight into college expectations and opportunities for high
school seniors and junior college students, will have its first meeting
lay at 3 p.m. in 133 Founders Hall.
The committee combines the functions of the junior class council,
eliminated under the new ASSC constitution, and of the High School Relations Committee, with the added
dimension of junior college presentations.
Committee Chairman Derald Sidler
said membership L? open to all seniors,
juniors and sophomores.
EXPLAIN*  ACTIVTriES
Members of the School Relations
Committee will present programs at
various schools to explain the academic expectations, cultural and athletic activities and social aspects of
USC.
However, Sidler said that the programs are not only to give advice
on what to expect at USC but what
to expect at any college.
In addition to the high school and
college programs, the committee will
sponsor a High School Student Body
Presidents' Day on Oct. 22. preceding
the USC-Clesnson football game.
slow to something less than the Indianapolis 500 within two or three
days.
That's what they say, an;.-
matter how hard it is to bej
Lazzaro said t h a t the :
spaces was due to the unusual.
number of students on campus the
first few days of school. This made it
necessary to discontinue the issuance
of parking permits temporarily. When
the situation eases, however, more
parking permits will be k*
Lazzaro estimated that this should
be possible by Thursday or Friday.
He did not say of what mont1*.
Mark Frazin. assistant registrar,
estimated that the average time for
penetrating the drop - and - add lines
should be no more than one hour.
That estimate does not take into consideration the first-dp?
this afternoon, however.
ADVISORS SIGN'
All sudents must bring a "change
of program name card" and a paid
original fee bill to the drop-and-add-
lines. Students without the card may
apply for one at the Registrars Office, University Ave. and 34rh St.
There will be a two-day delay before
they can be obtained.
Undergraduates desiring class
changes must pick up "request for
change of program" cards and have
them signed by an a.! %
time change i n v o 1 v »
course hi :
nature is required.
NEW TROJAN'
MAKES DEBUT
A new Daily Trojan, featuring:
» 6-coituiiD front paur und ma
absence of column rule* throughout the paper, makes its debut today under the direction of Editor
Steve Harris.
"This change has been made to
insure tncrea^J re-.»dahilin. to
brins a greater artistic display of
stories and picture* and to rive a
better placement of news values."'
Harris explained.
The Daily Trojan In the first
major U.S. collegiate paper to
adopt this style of layout, used
professionally by such successful
newspapers as the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Christian Science Monitor.