FRIDAY NIGHT CAME STARTS TROY GRID SLATE
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Troy Days-Orientation Events Begin
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ol. XLVI
Los Anqeleis, Calif., Monday, Sept. 13, 1954
No. 1
Welcome Starts At Assemblies
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by David C. Henley
New students will be welcomed to SC today and tomorrow in assemblies which will touch off the university’s annual “Troy Days,” a week of scheduled events designated for the purpose of orientating incoming freshmen, transfer and graduate students with the procedures of the university and familiarizing them [	*	""""
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LONG LINES await those who wait too long to purchase their activity books. Last year as the deadline approached, a line extended for four blocks and double parked cars created a traffic jam. This year activity books can be purchased in the
(DT liioto by Pat Brink)
basement of the Commons Tuesday through Friday, from 9 to 4:30 p.m. Ticket manager John Morley urged students to take advantage of the four days in order to save time and tempers.
Walker Issues Urgent Call for
and Members Independents
Coffee Hour Set Saturday
Student Activity Book Sales Begin Tuesday; Deadline Slated Friday
A call for musicians to fill the epleted ranks of the Trojan Band issued by Tommy Walker,
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and director, in an effort to sign p enough men for the first ame of the season is as important as the Rose Bowl game,” ommy said, ‘‘and a good band is >s essential in winning the first ;ame as it is the last.”
‘Band members need not be usic majors to participate, and I :ant to urge any and all students ’ho can play an instrument to elp out. If you can play an in-trument please register at the and Building, 902 West 37th lace today after 1 p.m. or to-orrow at 8:30 a.m.
As an added inducement, Tom-jy said that lor the first time in Jie history of the band, it will be *nt out of the State to pl&y at a (ame. The band will journey to ortland for the televised game igainst Oregon, Oct. 16, and it Till also attend the game against tanford, Nov. 6.
As a final inducement, the band 7-ill play for President Eisenhower the Hollywood Bowl on Sept.
3 during an evening perform-Ince.
There is also a need for Lan-rs, the band’s marching unit,
I hich will be limited to 18 mem-
~rs this fall. Musicians are not Bernard L. Hyink. dean of stu-ry to qualify as a Lancer, ’dents: and Arnold Eddy, exccu-said. because they will not car- , tive director of the General Al-instruments.	i	umni Association.
“We would like all potential “Coffee, pink lemonade, and do-and members to register by > nuts will be served free,” Miss buetday at the latest because we ; Karpman said, will need the rest of the week to j rehearse our numbers and formations in time for Friday’s game,”
"ommy said.	______
New students will be given a chance to get acquainted with student and administration leaders at the “Independent Icebreaker” Saturday at the YWCA.
The Icebreaker, first of a series of “coffee hour” meetings, is sponsored by the Independent Men's and Women’s councils. It will begin at 1 p.m.
“The entire student body is invited to the Icebreaker,” Independent Women’s Representative Maxine Karpman announced. She added that the meeting is es-especially designed to let new students get acquainted with .each other and university leaders.
“We have invited presidents of many organizations which new students might be interested in joining,” Miss Karpman said. The presidents will give new students a picture of their organizations.
Administration member s who have been invited include President Fred D. Fagg, Jr.; Edwarda White, counselor of women; Harry Nelson, student activities adviser;
Deadline for obtaining activity books' to get full use from them will be 4:30 p.m. Friday, according to John Morley, university ticket manager. In addition to all home athletic events the $13 activity book will entitle the holder admittance to university drama productions and the 1955 El Rodeo, the SC yearbook, he said.
Students may purchase the book Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the basement of the Commons.
“A paid fee bill of one unit or more is all that is necessary for a student to be eligible for the activity book,” Morley said.
Tickets will be issued in place of activity books for the first two
Phillips Assumes Government Post
Elton Q. Phillips, SC business manager, has been appointed to the Arcadia city council for two years to fill a vacancy which existed in that municipal group. Phillips lives at 1320 S. 2nd Ave. in Arcadia.
games and the books will be | ready in time for the tilt with Texas Christian, Oct. 8.
“Spouse books”, also axe available for married students whose husbands or wives are not registered at SC. These books may be obtained after the registered student makes his purchase. Holders of spouse books must also have their identification picture taken, a system used for the first time last year. The registered member of a family must also purchase an activity book.
Morley urged students to purchase their book as early as possible and not wait until 4:30 p.m. Friday.
“The last minute rush a year ago proved an inconvenience both to ticket sellers and students,4’ Morley said, “and there is no reason for a repeat performance.”
Students planning to purchase an activity book are reminded that they must have their fee bill at the time of purchase. If a student has lost his fee bill he will not be able to purchase or later claim his activity book unless he obtains a duplicate bill at the auditor’s office, which is located in building 20 at 36th Place.
STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES TROJANS
Official
Notice
Med School Professors Given Grants
Full-time um'ergraduatf day •truieats are expected to enroll Y day classes only. Such students inav enroll in University
College and Civic Center classes v—..	—---------------- --------
In the following cases and with Heart Association. .Another grant the approval of their academic of $8200 was made to the SC
medical school.
Lewis T. Bullock. M.D.. chairman of the Heart Association’s re-
Grants of $24,964 to professors of the University of Southern California of Medicine working at the Los Angeles County General Hospital were announced tb-dav by the Los Angeles County
advisers (1) where the class Is offered only in University College or Civic Center and is not available in the day program; (*») w#iere a conflict has arisen In thr» rtudent’s - rograni. mak Ing attendance ir the day ’lass Impossible; (8) where the student must work part tinu* ?nd his employment conflicts with enrollment in a day class; (4) Where for other reasons it is deemed educationally desirable f°r the student to enroll in f* nlversity College or Civic Cen-■r clases.
Howard X. Patmore, _______ University
search committee and an associate clinical professor of medicine at SC, said requests have continued each year to be about three times as great as the fund made available to the research program.
Investigations will be made during the coming year by SC professors into diseases of the heart and blood vessels. Many aspects of heart and circulatory diseases each year account for more than half the deaths due Registrar1 to causes in Los Angeles — County and the nation.
In congratulating new students for your high school or junior college “tour de force” in entering SC, both praise and responsibility are yours. You have proved ability beyond the more than half of all SC’s applicants who could not meet the admissions requirements . You have chosen a university where the subjects are independent of state control and investigating committee pressure, because SC is not a tax-supported school.
You have selected a university which provides massive facilities with its 3600 academic courses, but with a personal atmosphere where there is one faculty member for every eleven students. You have joined a scholastic mold that has shaped two out of three judges, dentists. and school administrators in Los Angeles county alone. Yet you have surrounded yourselves with 408 student organ-, izations of special interests to provide a social maturity with balanced intellectualism. For what you have done to come here, heartiest congratulations and a warm welcome!
At the same time, there is a genuine responsibility for you to meet while enjoying SC’s myriad of opportunity. It is not a responsibility easily met by merely paying tuition, for tuition accounts for only half of operating costs, and accounts for none of the dedication of SC’s modestly salaried faculty. The university exists only to
serve society by quaiifying its leadership academically, and to stimulate ambition and versi-tality to move that society forward.
For you ever to treat SC as a social playground, to become preoccupied with activities instead of academics, or consider your degree here merely a ticket to a higher income bracket, will be a sorry misunderstanding and ignora-nce of your university. SC has been here for 75 years, the oldest private university in the west, with its very existence on “raison d'etre” pivoted on producing the educated man.
In spite of claims of “it’s not what you know, but whom you know that counts,”a recent survey confirmed SC’s , emphasis on scholarship; the vast majority of professional people with high salaries and high prestige were found. also to have graduated from college with, high grades. Success and social fulfillment are just as much the adjuncts of education today as in any age, and it is education above all for which yon have come to the University of Southern California.
Once again, my heartiest congratulations. Anyone of you who cannot find his way about, isn’t sure about his courses, or just wants a friend to talk to, is very welcome to visit me in 215 Student Union building.
Yours for a Greater SC!
Bill Van Alstyne
ASSC President
Pre-Enrollment Estimates Say Fewer Women
Only slight changes ai^ expect- I ed in registration this year w’ith f more freshmen and foreign stu- ! dents than last year and less veterans and women.
Dr. Herman J. Sheffield, director of admissions and registrations, estimated a total enrollment for day and night classes of more than 16,000 and for day classes alone, more than 10,500.
* New students, he said, would account for 1300 to 1500 of this figure. Veterans of WW II and Korea would account for another 5000. Foreign students from 60 countries would account for 600 of the expected enrollment, Sheffield said.
Slow’ Rise New registration has been increasing slowly since June 1952 from the growing influx of high school students. Registration figures, however, will not increase noticeably until the late 1950’s he added.
WW II veteran enrollment dropped by 500 and Korean veteran enrollment picked up 315. The decrease in Veteran enrollment is attributed to the Korean bill by veterans’ cfficials who s^y the bill favors public and not private schools with no pay-' ment of tuition.
Only Two for Five The ratio of five men to two women on the campus will be very pronounced this year, Sheffield predicted. Enrollment of women increased last year but fell in proportion to the number of men enrolling this fall.
Registrar Howard Patmore disclosed an increase of 700 mail registrations this summer over last year. Patmore said the figure might mean a larger enrollment or more students finding it easier to register by mail.
Registration materials will be distributed at orientation meetings today and tomorrow and catalogues can be obtained at the information office.
Registration Limits Tbe deadline for registration is 12 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 18, Patmore said. Students who do not register until the first w’eek of classes are fined $5 and others who wait until the'second week are assessed $10. No registrations will be accepted after the second week, he said.
Registration for new or returning students will be conducted alphabetically according to last name:
M-N, 8:30	a.m., Wednesday,
Sept. 15.
O-R, 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 15.
S, 1 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 15. T-Z, 8:30 a.m., Thursday, Sept.
16.
A-B, 10:30	a.m., Thursday
Sept. 16.
C-G, 1 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 16. H-L, 8:30 a.m., Friday, Sept. 17. Anj^ student who has not registered *at his assigned time may enroll at 10:30 a.m., Friday, Sept.
17, or fiom 8:30 a.m. co 12 noon Saturday, Sept. 18.
JERRY NACE
. plans program
Students Find Living Spaces Hard to Find
The trend toward on-campus living by SC students has resulted in a series of minor headaches for the members of the housing bureau located on the second floor of the Student Union.
According to Mrs. Pat Arnold, I\ead of the bureau, the dormitories have been booked up for the fall semester since last April.
“We will make a few adjustments and then I believe we can accommodate the majority of those applying for dormitory quarters,” Mrs. Arnold said.
“The only real shortage that exists, ’ she said, “is in housing lor married couples and those with . families. In the vicinity of the campus these accommodations are a little scarce.”
Rules regarding women students are that undergraduate women under 21 are expected to live in a university residence hall, in a sorority house, or with parents or guardians. Freshman women students not living with parents, guardians, or close relatives are expected to live in a university xesidence hall. Women students who are not freshmen but who are under 21 must submit their parents’ permission to live off campus.
There are no restrictions placed on undergraduate men students who attend SC.
“We try to place each student who comes to us as an individual and not as a statistic,” Mrs. Arnold said, “and any student who has a housing problem is welcome to talk it over with us.”
SC Christian Group Slates First Meeting
Official
Notice
(1)	Waiver examinations, for JOlmw— Fundamental Skills, men-women, and 102-Elemen-tary Swimming, will be held as follows: lOlmw-Wednesday, September 22, 1954 102-Thurs-day, September 23, 1954 from 8 to 5 p.m., the practical at 3 o’clock, and the written at 4 o’clock. Please see Mr. Robert Downey, Room 107, Physical ing up for these waivers.
(2)	Re-opening of classes in the Physical Education Department. where possible, will be on Thursday, September 23, at 3:30 p.m. and Friday, September 24^ 9-4:30 p.m., in Room 106, Physical Education Bldg.
J. Wynn Fredericks
Trojan Christian Fellowship will hold its first rfieeting of the year Monday noon in Bowne Hall and each Monday and Thursday thereafter in a room later to be determined, according to Jerry Andes, president of TCF.
“In the beginning of each new' year there are many students who are looking for a Christian group which appeals to them,” Andes said. “Our group, affiliated with inter-varsity Christian Fellowship, extends a welcome to all new students at SC and invites each one to attend its first meting of the year,” Andes added.
“TFC meets each Monday at noon for regular meetings and each Thursday at noon for Bible study. Well known speakers are scheduled for the Monday meetings who w'ill try to minister to the needs of the student in his daily life,” he said.
“Although the main purpose of TFC is to present each one mature before Christ Jesus it does have a definite schedule of social events and fellowship times together,’ Andes concluded.
TCF will hold a tea for all new students to acquaint them with some of the older members and with the purpose and plans of the group lor the coming year. The tea will be in the home of Dr, Robert Mannes, 2700 Severance Street, 3 to 4:30 p.m.. Sunday.
Doheny Library Open Every Day
Mrs. Hazel Rea, acting librarian, announced yester day that the Doheny Library will be open every day this week from 8 a.m. tq p.m.
“When school starts Sept. 20, the library will be open every weekday from 8 a.m. Jo 10 p.m., Saturdays, from 8 to 5; and Sundays, from 1 to 6,’* she added.
The Doheny Library is located on University Avenue, between 36th Street and and 35th Place.
W’ith the campus.
Starting off today's activities will be a “Get Acquainted” assembly in Bovard Auditorium. Jerry Nace, orientation chairman, announced that ASSC President Bill Van Alstyne will be master of ceremonies. Dr. Fred D. Fagg, President of the University, will address the newcomers and then introduce Dean of Students Bernard L. Hyink, who in turn will introduce his staff.
God and Country
University Chaplain Clinton A. Neyman will give a short talk, and will be followed by Head Football Coach Jess Hill.
Hill plans to give the new students the low-dow’n on this fall’s Trojan prospects.
Dr. H. J. Sheffield, director of admissions, will enlighten the new students on the hazards and procedures of admission to the university. He will be echoed by Howard W. Patmore, registrar.
Tommy Walker, director of the Trojan Band will introduce his group and will play a few Trojan songs. In keeping with this theme, SCs >»ell leaders, led by Don Ward, will lead cheers and songs.
Hand Out Handbooks
Following this program, student handbooks and registration materials will be, distributed. At the termination of the assembly, campus tours will be organized. The Knights and Squires w’ill lead the new men students while the Spurs and Amazons will conduct the new women students about the university.
At the end of the tours, a complimentary lunch will be served in the Commons cafeteria, and after the meal <ls completed, the students will be given academic guidance by the various advisers. Assemblies Listed Architecture students will assemble in Harris Hall 105; Ccjn-merce students. Founders Hall 129; Engineering students, Engineering Bldg. 100: Letters. Arts and Sciences, Founders Hall 229; Music Students, Music Bldg. 9; Education students. Founders Hall 226; International Relations students, Founders Hall 208: Pharmacy students. Pharmacy Bldg., 306; Public Administration, Founders Hall 210.
This same program, including the assembly and advisement meetings, will be conducted Tuesday.
A Through Z
Registration for all students is scheduled throughout the week according to alphabetical arrangement. Registration will begin Wednesday. Sept. 15. and will end Saturdav, Sept. 18. Registration instructions will be distributed during Troy Day assemblies and at the door of th® Phvsieal Education Building, Hoover St. entrance.
The Ice-Breaker.” a coffee hour sponsored bv the Independent Men's and Women’s Councils will be given at 1 n.m. Wednesday, Sent. 28, at the YWCA.
During the first week of school, there will be many activities designed to keep the new students jumping” Nace said.
AMS and AWS Too All freshmen and transfer women have been invited by the Associated Women Students to attend their Dessert and Fashion Show to be presented at Town and Gown at 6 p.m., Wednesdiv. Sept. 22. The Associated Men Students (AMS) will hold a meeting for all new men on Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. at the YMCA. This will be followed at 8 p.m. with a Mixer Dance in the YWCA for all new students.
Dinner and V/sits The Student Council on Religion will sponsor a Progressive Dinner and Visitation on Thursday, Sept. 23. a*Vid the next day a noon rally will be hold in Bovard Auditorium. That night. Sff will play the University (of Pittsburgh in the Coliseum.
The “Trojan? House Partv” will be in progress Sept. 25 through 26. and on Wednesday, Sept. 29. the YWCA will hold its annual Frosh Luncheon.
Troy's President Welcomes New Students Here
It is always a pleasure to welcome a new class to the University of Southern California. Yours will be an Important part of SC as we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the University in 1954-55. Important days are ahead of you and your University. Although you may find SC larger than some of the other schools you have attended in the past, you will soon discover that SC’s students and faculty aw a friendly group interested in helping everyone who needs assistance along the educational highway. SC practices free enterprise, and your goal here Is what you make it.
Fred D. Fagg, Jr.
President
J-School Staff Gains Four Top Local Experts
Four top local experts in newspaper and public relations work have been added to the saff of the School of Journalism for the coming semester.
The visiting lecturers will teach clases in their specialized fields of publicity work, news photography, copyreading, women's pages.
Arthur La Vove, public relations representative for Pan-American World Airways, will teach publicity work.
La ’Vove has been in public relations work in Los Angeles for nearly 20 years handling both Pan American and United Air Li%s. He began his career on newspapers in the East.
Top Photo Instructor Robert Jakobsen. former photo columnist for the Los Angeles ( Times, will teach press photography.
Jakobsen was a Times photographer for more than 18 years. He resigned from the Times last year to become an advertising agency account executive.
The classes in publicity work and press photography are open to non-majors in journalism as well as journalists.
Society and Copyreading Classes in copyreading, to he taught by Glenn R. Parson, assistant news editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, and women's pages, to be taught by Mary Ann Callan, women’s editor of the Los Angeles Times, are open only to upper division journalism majors.
Parson was for 11 years a copy editor and reporter on the New York Daily News, the paper witji the largest circulation in the United States. Prior to that he was a reporter on the Chicago Times and city editor of several North Dakota papers. He recently returned from five years service with the Army and State Departments as an information executive in Germany.
Returns to Teach Miss Callan, a School of Journalism graduate of 1944 ,was formerly an instructor in the school. She resigned in 1948 to become a reporter on The Times. She has been editor of the women’s section of the paper, the largest such section in the West, for the past two years.
SC Professors Exhibit Art Work
Prof. Francis de Erdely and Jules Heller, associate professor, both of the department of fine arts, have exhibitions of their work in the College Prints of 1954 — a show at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles which will end Sept. 30.
StudentHandbook Follows Theme Of A Key to SC
A Key to SC—the 88-page 1954 Student Handbook—will be distributed to students at today’s assembly, and may be picked up at the Information office, University avenue and 35th place, throughout the week.
The ham! book, edited by Gary Kreutz, contains most of the information there is to know about SC.
The handbook is an official university publication, given out free of cost.
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