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Vol. XLVI
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., TUESDAY, NOV. 23, 1954
No. 48
Beat Irish' Rally Hits SC Today
Prepare Sendoff For N.D.-Bound Trojan Gridders
AND A' ROCKIN'—These Red Cross nurses are waiting ents who failed to keep their appointments during blood drive. This year it is hoped that they will be pping throughout the two-day campaign.
bod Drive Meeting lated for Tonight
A mass meeting will be held ;onight at the Kappa Kappa -amma house to make final plans for this year’s blood drive.
At the meeting will be drive co-chairman Chickie Mueller and Jerry McMahon, Red Cross president Sheila Smith, and a representative from each of the campus living groups. The meeting will be addressed by Mr. E. M. Schottland. administrative director of the Los Angeles Red Cross Regional Blood Center.
There is a greater need for whole blapd during the Christmas holidays than at any other peacetime period, according to Miss Mueller. Because of a greater number of accidents and a de-I crease in donations during the holidays, the usual 15,000 pint-jper-month quota is not enough. If enough donations are not made, the extra blood must be purchased from another source for hospital and emergency use.
Whole Blood Whole blood may be used for 21 days alter it is taken, so that blood given at SC on Dec. 7 and 8 will be good until the end of the month. After that it will be separated into red cells and plasma by centrifugal whirling. The I plasma obtained will be usable | for two years, and if dried and powdered, can be used for a five-jyear period.
Blood plasma is useful in cases | of shock, and can alone save a life if there has not been much loss of blood. In shock the circulating blood is forced into the body tissues. If it is not drawn back into the blood stream, death results. Through a process of osmosis, plasma transfusions bring the blood back from the tissues and start it circulating in the veins and arteries again. If much blood has been lost, a whole blood transfusion must follow as soon as possible.
Only Two Days “Good organization is going; to be very important in this campaign,” said Miss Mueller.
“Usually there are two drives very year, lasting three or four Jays each, and sometimes a vhole week. But we only have wo days this time, and there wili
not be a spring blood drive. That means that everything must be planned #md must go according to plan.”
Signups will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at a booth in front of the Student Union from Nov. 29 through Dec. 3.
Sign Up Early “Students are urged to sign up early so that they can schedule their donations at a convenient time, and they must show up at the appointed time. Whenever someone misses an appointment it costs the Red Cross money,” Miss Mueller continued.
Release slips for minors will be distributed at the meeting tonight for the representatives to give to their groups. Every minor must present a slip signed by a parent and a witness when he comes to donate. Slips will also be available at the signup booth.
International Students Get Holiday Bids
Many invitations for foreign students to spend Thanksgiving in the homes of local residents have been received in the Foreign Students Office, according to Mrs. Albert Zech, foreign students adviser.
“However,” Mrs. Zech said, "though over 50 invitations have been received very few students have accepted as yet.”
If there are any foreign students who have not made plans for the holiday they should contact Mrs. Zech or Jim McAree in the Foreign Students Office, 322 SU. Transportation will be provided by the host.
“This is a good chance for students to learn more about American living.’ 'said McAree. “Each year faculty members have invited foreign students into their homes to share in the fun and turkey.”	,
Students are urged to invite a friend as most of the people have extended invitations to two or more students.
Opera Test Run Set Here
Bovard Showing of ‘Valley of Despair’ Arouses Interest
The world of music will be watching the performance of the musical drama, “Valley of Despair” by Eugene D’Albert, Dec. 10 and 11 in Bovard Auditorium, according to Walter Ducloux, head of the SC opera department.
“Because this opera has not been performed often, the musical world is anxious to know how the Southern California audience will receive it,” Ducloux said.
If “Valley of Despair” is well received here, there will be many performances of it around the country, he added.
Merry Wives
The opera department’s production, last March, of the “Merry Wives of Windsor” was followed b<- repeated performances throughout the nation.
“Since we announced this opera, copies of the musical score, that have been sitting in libraries for years, have been checked out,” Ducloux said, “In New Orleans the copies are gone from the public library. My students and other interested people have checked all the copies out of Los Angeles libraries.”
Because the opera* is in English and the story is very good, we feel that even people who are not usually interested in opera will like “Valley of Despair,” he said.
Successful Opera
The opera, also called Tiefland. is one of the most successful operatic works ever writterf but it has few performances in the United States because of the difficulty involved in finding a good cast, Ducloux said.
“We are very fortunate to have very good student talent at SC for this performance,” and he added that “every person in the cast is a student. There is no outside talent.”
Stage Director
Stage director for the production is Hans Busch, stage director at the Metropolitan and artistic director of the opera department at the University of Indiana.
There will be 150 people involved in the performance, 60 in the orchestra, directed by Ducloux, and 50 in the chorus.
★ Need for Spirit—Now!
Today many seniors still vividly remember screaming for SC against Stanford at their freshman Homecoming game, Nov. 10, 1951. And, what a game! Two undefeated powerhouses were struggling for the Rose Bowl bid. It was SC’s first Bowl chance in four years and Homecoming Week spirit was gigantic. Bovard was overflowing for the Friday rally and by game time the mental buildup of the entire season had reached its high tension peak.
Both teams were up for the game and never lost spirit throughout the see-saw thriller, but the Indians scored 20 points in the last quarter to take the Bowl bid, 27-20. Trojan rooters drooped out of the Coliseum . . . their Rose Bowl bubble burst and their spirit collapsed.
The only sound for days was the grumble of the Monday morning quarterbacks.
From the general feeling on campus you would never know the UCLA and Notre Dame traditional rivalries were yet to come. The collapse was complete. Down inside the students—and many of the players too . . . the season was over.
Many who dragged back to the Coliseum after Thanksgiving left early to grumble some more after a humiliating 21-7 loss to UCLA. A spirited crew of youngsters from Notre Dame sloshed to a 19-12 win over the once-powerful Trojans
in a rain-soaked Coliseum windup.........a
tragic ending for what promised to be one of SC’s greatest seasons.
Yet the stage is set again today. A buildup of spirit comparable rf not greater than that of 1951 was punctured Saturday. The student body spirit displayed during the week and at the game and the team’s fighting spirit throughout the contest were nothing short of fabulous.
But there was also a big letdown . . . the kind we didn’t recover from in 1951.
This time our team can’t afford to let down a bit . . . not in the face of two of the nation’s top four teams. And now, when the team really needs the support, we students can’t afford to let down either.
A great team is one that can take defeat in a crucial contest and snap back to victory. A great spirited student body is one that can stick with its team through defeat and support a comeback.
This is the time when you can tell the rooters with that real loyalty known as Trojan Spirit from those who just ride along on the coattails of a winner to build their egos with reflected glory.
Those with the Trojan Spirit will be at the Rally today singing and screaming up a comeback victory over Notre Dame. The fair-weather, gutless, false-ego builders will be off in a corner grumbling.
If we are to conquer any feeling of depression and boost our team off to South Bend with a high-spirited determination to win, this noon’s rally must be the best attended, and the loudest, of the year.
If you’re a Trojan, we’ll see you there.
By Andy Dimas
A huge “Beat the Irish” rally will unfold today at noon in Bovard Auditorium as the result of an intensive two-day “talk-it-up” campaign on campus.
Campus leaders, heads of organizations, and administrators have joined forces to give the team a mass sendoff to
Notre Dame.
Many SC personalities will be on hand to generate spirit including Coach Jess Hill, Co-captains Lindon Crow and Ed Fouch, ASSC President Bill Van Alstyne, The Kappa Quartet, Yell King Don Ward, and Tommy Walker’s Trojan Band.
“Great Idea”
Coach Hill said he thought the rally was “a great idea.” and commended the student body for its “very commendable actions” in Saturday’s game.
Hill said the student body reached its highest point in four
ARMY OR COLLEGE
Deadline Tonight For Draft Quiz
Midnight tonight is the dead-j line for applications for the Dec. 9 Selective Service College Quali-I fication Test, and applications postmarked after that time will not be considered, Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service announced.
Male students will be deferred from selective service if they pass the test and maintain a satisfactory grade point average. Information at Draft Boards Application blanks and information bulletins, with sample
oviet Delegate Vishinsky Dies
From United Press
UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. — ndrei Y. Vishinsky. Soviet Rus-ian chief delegate to the United Tations and veteran hatchet man f the Kremlin, died yesterday of eart attack.
The 70-year-old venom-tongued ishinsk\ died at Soviet Head-uarters on fashionable Park venue at 9:30 A.M.. EST. while working on a speech he was to eliver at the U.N.
An attache found Vishinsky lumped across his desk, a vie- j im of sudden heart paralysis, hortly befor^ he was to have i
left for the U.N. General Assembly to hear an address by French Premier Pierre Mendes-France.
UNITED NATIONS, X. Y.— French Premier Pierre Mendes~ France yesterday proposed a conference of the Big Three Western powers and the Soviet Union next May to seek an end to East-West tensions.
Mendes-France also expressed the hope that the London and Paris agreements on defense and unity would serve as a “pilot project” for the limitation of armaments in every nation.
Daily Bruin. Staff Visits DT, Wishes SC Luck
Twenty staff members of the Daily Bruin, cross-town tabloid, were courageous enough to show up at the DT office yesterday.
Ostensibly they came to see the DT in operation, but one newspaper woman-to-be said, “We want to help SC build up spirit for the Notre Dame game.”
UCLA was enjoying an unofficial holiday celebrating the national championship that should be forthcoming as a result of a football game Saturday.
Official
Notice
IR Delegates Discuss Issues At Conference
“The Role of Communist China in Asia” was discussed last Friday at the annual Southwest Regional Conference of International Relations Club. Roger Swearingen, assistant professor of international relations, led the discussion.
Other topics on the program i were “Problems of Unifying Eu- \ rope,” with Dean Hanson, gradu- j ate student in IR; and “Rising Importance of the Middle East,” with Dr. Amwar Aleem, of the Allan Hancock Foundation.
The 75 conference members also attended discussion groups on “The Role of India in Asia,” with Mohinder Bedi, teaching assistant; “The Effectiveness of the United Nations,” with Ross Berkes, professor of IR: and “The Problems of Modern Colonialism,” with Norman Fertig, instructor in IR.
questions, may be obtained from the nearest draft board. Students do not have to write to their own .local draft board for qualification.
To be eligible to apply for the college qualification test a student must intend to request deferment as a student, be satisfactorily pursuing a full-time course, and must not previously have taken the test.
The next test for this school year will be April 21, 1955. Students whose academic year will end in January are urged to take the Dec. 9 test.
Must Have 70 Score
For deferment as an undergraduate student, a man must have a score of 70 or above on the test or be in the upper half of the freshman class men. upper two thirds of the sophomore class men, or upper three fourths of the junior class men.
The Dec. 9 test will be the fourteenth administration of the exam since the program was in augurated in May, 1951. To date, some 600.000 college students have taken the test and more than 60 per cent received a score of 70 or better.
Charades, Short Play Wili Be On KUSC-TV
Wednesday’s program on KUSC-TV will feature “Actions Speak Louder” at 3:15, a game of charades featuring the telecommunications’ acting class.
“Drama from the Printed Pf*?e” will present, for the first time, a skit “Still Life” by Noel Coward. This will be presented by the National Collegiate Players, honorary dramatic fraternity.
“Music in the Afternoon” will feature soprano Meg Seno, accompanied by Arlan Stone. Miss Seno will sing Musetta’s Waltz from “La Boheme” and three folk songs.
Mark Thoreson brings together editors and writers of the Daily Trojan staff for a current rundown of campus new's, on “DT on TV.”
Wednesday’s schedule: 3:15 — Actions Speak Louder; 3:30 — Drama From the Printed Page; 3:45—Music in the Afternoon.
All fraternities and sororities are requested to serve late lunches today to enable maximum attendance at today’s "talk-it-up” rally.
years last week. “It s up to everyone to see that the spirit of Troy remains at its peak for the Notre Dame game,” he said.
“Most Important”
When contacted before yesterday’s practice Co-captain Crow repeated that “it is most important for the team to know the students are behind them. Today’s rally is the best way to prove it.” A surprise performance by James Finn, associate professor of education, will be included in the program. Finn will perform with Tommy Walker and the Trojan band to demonstrate administration approval of the “talk-it-up” campaign.
Kappas to Sing
The Kappa Quartet, made up of
Robbie Cc.rroll, Nancy Bucard, Dice Carey, and Jo Mathews, will entertain with its rendition of the current song hit, “Mister Sandman.” The quartet will also sing “Hi-Ho.”
The “talk-it-up” rally idea evolved early Sunday morning after the Trojan defeat at the hands of UCLA and has mushroomed into a huge all-university campaign. Several persons were contacted by phone Sunday concerning the rally. Among them w?as Coach Hill who was one of
the first to pledge his support to the campaign.
“WiU Test Loyalty”
Student Body President Bill Van Alstyne added his support by saying “a rally of this sort will test the loyalty of the students.”
“Anyone can support a winning team, but only a great student body can rally behind one which has lost a crucial game and faces another Saturday,” he said.
“The ‘talk-it-up’ is one of the greatest things I’ve seen this year,” Rally Chairman Leroy Barker said yesterday. “Everyone’s climbing on the bandwagon to show the team that we’re really with them when they face the Irish.”
Arrangements are being made to have Lindley Bothwell, former jell king and hit of last Friday’s rally, appear with a few Trojan yells.
Miniature Bell Goes to UCLA After Victory
Winning one Victory Bell last Saturday after the game wasn’t enough for UCLA, for they also received the miniature Westminister Victory Bell trophy-
The trophy was formally presented to the Westminister Club of UCLA at a party held after the game Saturday at the Westminister Student Center.
The smaller trophy will be taken over each year by the Westminister Club on the winning side of the SC-UCLA game just as the real bell is taken over by the winning school.
The model brass locomotive hell and its sterling silver frame will be retained by SC until another coat of varnish and the engraved brass plate is on the base.
The base was designed and built by Paul Johnson, Whittier, Calif.
The University and all University offices will be closed Nov. 25, 26, 27, and 28 for the period, of the Thanksgiving recess.
The Christmas recess for all University students will be from Dec. 20 to Jan. 1, inclusive.
All University Offices will be closed from Thursday noon through Sunday, Dec. 20 to Jan. 2 inclusive.
J. E. Fields R. D. Fisher A. S. Raubenheimer
Notre Dame Plans Activities for SC
A letter welcoming the students and football team to the University of Notre Dame was received yesterday by Willis Hunter, director of athletics, on behalf of the Blue Circle Welcoming Committee.
Harry Edelstein, welcoming chairman, wrote that a big weekend has been planned with a pep rally, tours of the campus, and a victory dance Saturday night.
“I am happy to be at your service, and assure you my full cooperation,” Edelstein wrrote.
SC Educator Dies After Long
ness
Dr. John Godfrey Hill, professor emeritus of Biblical literature at SC, died last Saturday after a long period of ill health.
Dr. Hill came to SC in 1907 and retired in 1935. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Human Letters from SC and was author of numerous books on Christianity. His daughter. Mrs. Gladys Adams, of New' York, whs an SC graduate in 1921.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Wee Kirk of the Heather, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, at 12:30 this afternoon.
Band
Notice
Band members who do not have noon classes are requested to perform at today’s football rally. Members should pick up their instruments at the hand bungalow 10 minutes before noon.
Tommy Walker Band Director
Lack of Project
Interest Cancels Middle East Plans
The ASSC Senate’s withdrawal of recognition from Project Middle East due to lack of student interest was yesterday termed a necessary action by Marguerite Cooper, head of the project.
The project intended to promote better understanding between America and the Middle East by sending a group of college students to the Middle East. The project also planned a reciprocal scholarship program and the support of a student infirmary or hostel in that area.
“We had the means of getting the necessary money, we had the transportation, we had everything but student interest,” Miss Cooper said.
John Houk. last year’s faculty adviser, suggested that the narrow margin by which the group failed to meet their 530,000 goal last June caused a letdown in enthusiasm.
Lack of Interest
Joe Cerrell, head of the committee that recommended withdrawal of recognition by the Senate, said the action was taken because Project Middle East was failing to do anything for the betterment of the university, there was not sufficient organization for such an important project, and a lack of student interest, shovvij by the drop in membership from last year's 34 to the present six.
The committee voted unanimously to recommend withdrawal
JOE CERRELL
. . . wants withdrawal
of recognition after a two-hour meeting. The project director was the only member of Project Middle East that accepted an invitation to appear.
Bob Croutch, former member of Project Middle East, said he became inactive because he doubted "what they were doing would be actually beneficial.” He also mentioned personality conflicts within the group.
Croutch was sent to New York by the project to contact corporations and philanthropic institu-
tions in an effort to raise the necessary $30,000. He took over the task from former project director Joel Fisher, who was removed from office after paying his own way to New York.
Crouch had his plane fare to New York and bus fare ba<3< paid by the project. He also received a $75 expense account and wound up the three week affair with a loaf of rye bread and 25 cents a day for food.
Cerrell’s committee reported that the group collected $26,000, mostly in the form of pledges. They had $1026 in cash after paying expenses, including a phone bill of $127, typewriter rental o? $13, and a charge of $36 for two mailings.
Committee Recommends The committee recommended that Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid’s $100 donation be returned. The remaining $26 would be used to pay any additional debts the project might have incurred.
Cerrell emphasized that the group’s finances were in order.
Miss Cooper thought that a similar project would be successful if “the members want to do something about the world instead of just wanting a free trip around the world.”
She termed the project “ a million dollar idea,” and said a successful attempt would raise SC’s prestige tremendously. •’