TROJANS PREPARE FOR PITT: ROUT WSC 39-0
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Vol. XLVI
Los Angeles, Calif., Monday, Sept. 20, 1954
No. 2
Newest TV Course
Features Psychology AMS Roundup
Mixer Dance Wiii Follow
Dr. Herman Harvey, assistant professsor of psychology, has been selected as SC’s newest instructor via the medium of televi sion. He will teach “Psychology and Human Behavior” on KNXT. Channel 2, CBS-Telev ision, each Saturday from 11:15 a.m. until noon, starting Saturday.
The class, which will be offered by t he extension division of University College
either for one unit of credit or I------------------------------------
SC Suspends Operation of Station KTHE
SC’s educational television station, KTHE, is off the air. It suspended operations at 8:30 p.m. Sept. 10.
President Fred D. Fagg Jr. said that the suspension meant that the University does not itself intend to undertake the financing f a TV station, but will aid any :ommunity non-profit group that ay be organized to operate an educational television channel for Los Angeles.
The action was taken by the ard of trustees’ executive com-ittee following a study by University officials of both shorthand long-range support of KTHE.
“The University,” President Fagg said, “does not plan to assume further initiative in the organization of a separate corporation to take over the television channel. However, SC will stand ready, even though the station perations have been suspended, to assist in the development of educational television for the Los ngeles area.”
The facilities of the SC sta-on will continue to be used by le University in the teaching d research program of its De-rtment of Telecommunications.
for audit, will run for 15 weeks.
Coffee Sessions Too Students may take the class in the KNXT studios at 1313 North Vine Street, in 231 Hancock Hall or at home. The studio class will be limited to 35 students, and the campus class to 50.
Dr. Harvey will hold a half-hour coffee session with the studio class after each TV program to answer questions arising from his lectures.
Although Dr. Harvey has been on KNXT for only three half-hour introductory programs so far, more than 100 viewers have already registered and paid their fees for credit or audit. The class is expectod to grow rapidly after this Saturday. Public inquiries have been heavy.
Each credit and audit registrant will receive an outline guide to the course, prepared specially by Dr. Harvey.
Follows Shakespeare Dr. Harvey’s class will be the first psychology course ever given on TV in this area. The credit course follows two semesters of “Shakespeare on TV” which were taught by Dr. Frank C. Baxter, professor of English.
Dr. Harvey has both his bachelor’s and doctor’s degrees from SC. He teaches introductory courses on the campus as part of the General Studies program, and conducts graduate seminars in theoretical and experimental aspects of stress. He is also a clinical psychologist and a research scientist.
Baxter Return To TV Slated Wednesday
Dr. Frank C. Baxter, professor of English, returns to the nation’s television screens Wednesday at 10 p.m. on KNXT, Channel 2. He will again be on 95 stations of the CBS Television network coast-to-coast.
His “Now and Then” half-hour program about the world's great literature will be seen in other cities throughout the nation at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Sundays in order to hit the vast New York audience at “Class A” time.
The program will be seen in all four corners of the country. Virtually every state is covered.
Dr. Baxter will be on the CBS nationwide network for 26 weeks. His first network appearance with “Now and Then” was on Aug. 1.
TV critics throughout the country wrote “rave” reviews about the program, and hundreds of cards and letters were received from viewers.
Professional entertainment will serve as a drawing card for the semi-annual Associated Men Student’s Roundup. Wednesday evening from 7 to 8 in the YWCA patio, AMS President Jerry Blankinship has announced.
Nature of the entertainment for the affair to which all male students are invited has not yet been disclosed.
Following the men’s get-together will be a mixer-dance with the AWS from 8 to 11 p.m. at the YWCA. Featured at the dance will be the Keith Williams’ band. Yell King Don Ward will act as master of ceremonies.
Faculty and student leaders will be present to explain their various responsibilities.
“The purpose is to give more orientation to the incoming students,” Blankinship explained. “It’s sort of a follow-through on Troy Day.”
Speaking will be Dr. Albert Zech, counselor of men; Bernard L. Hyink, dean of students: Harry Nelson, student activities adviser; Chaplain Clinton A. Neyman; Dr. William Stratford. IFC coordinator: Bob Croutch, independent | men’s representative; and Rodger Darbonne, chief justice of men’s judicial court.
The room for dancing will be decorated and refreshments will be served.
Students
Register at Troy
Enrollment May
Surpass 1953
Entrance Mark
More than 11,000 day students, including 2000 freshmen are expected to attend opening day classes today, according to Howard W. Patmore, registrar. Approximately 7000 more have enrolled in University College (evening) classes. In estimating the population of the 1954 campus community, Patmore predicted that en- j
Tommy Walker Issues Call for New Musicians
Summer Roundup
The feverish pace of campus activity diminished some-hat during the summer, but Trojan students and faculty embers continued to make headlines. The following is a undup of campus developments since Commencement day June.
rustees Chairman Hancock Resigns
Stating that “business considerations and my personal Ians for the future will require all of my time anG atten-on,” Capt. Allan Hancock resigned as director of the Al-n Hancock Foundation and as chairman of the SC Board Trustees.
Hancock’s July 1 resignation was followed a week la-r by the appointment of Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, edu-tional vice-president, to the directorship of the Hancock undation. A reduction in KTHE-TV operating time was dered shortly after.
+ * + right Tells What’s Wrong
America’s No, 1 architect Frank Lloyd Wright told a vard audience June 29 exactly “What’s wrong with Amer-.” The outspoken critic of American architecture called r an organic architecture “where a part is to a whole a whole is to a part.”
“We (Americans) haven’t started on a culture of our m with our own spirit,” he contended. He also said that r guide in appreciation of architecture should lie in the art and in our love of beauty, not in the head.
axter Seen Coast to Coast
Educational TV pioneer Frank C. Baxter began a new rogram at the beginning of summer called “Now and Then.” n immediate success, the half-hour show went coast-to-oast in August.
The program runs every Sunday evening at 6:30 over 'NXT channel 2. Dr. Baxter discusses all facets of English 'terature “Now and Then.”
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obette Beauty Contest Finalist Troy’s “Most outstanding coed,” Bobette Bentley Halver-on was named one of the six prettiest school girls in Amer-~a as part of a nation-wide soap company contest to find erica’s most beautiful school girl.”
The resulting trip to New York July 26, became a hon-moon for Mr. and Mrs. Jim Halverson who had wed three eks before. Besides the trip to New York, prizes Included $1000 wardrobe and a coast-to-coast television appearance n the Colgate Comedy Hour.
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chool Girl Beauty Picks SC
Lorna Young, a Salt Lake City high school student was amed “America’s Most Beautiful School Girl” on the Com-dy Hour August 1. She informed coast-to-coast audiences hat she had won a full scholarship to SC and would enroll ere in September. (See photo this page.)
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laze Breaks Out in Library Fire broke out briefly August 23 in the ground floor of eny Memorial Library. The blaze was started from a ning cigarette in a barrel full of trash in a janitor’s set. Library clerks and later firemen battled the small aze. Damage was negligible.
Pair Booted in Election Deal
Two students have been suspended for a year for “unethical activities” in last spring’s student body elections, the University administration announgfd last week.
Susj^nsion of Edward L. Ripley and Donald T. Rocco will continue until the fall semester 1955.
The two campus politicians were suspended because of an attempt to get assurances of committee appointments from Presidential Candidate Bill Van Alstyne in return for block votes from a secret campus political organization. President Van Alstyne refused the deal and later reported the incident to the Daily Trojan and the Men’s Judicial Council.
Suspended June 17
Both the Judicial Council and tbe Student Activities Committee held hearings on the incident. Upon recommendation of the student activities Committee, the University administration suspended Rocco and Ripley, June 17.
In the hearings, the two students admitted approaching Van Alstyne and requesting that he sign a blank check on a bank in which he had no funds. This illegal check was to have served as security that he would make appointments favorable to the undercover political group. In return they promised Van Alstyne support of this faction in the presidential election.
Van Alstyne Names TNE
In a DT interview last spring exposing the offer, Van Alstyne said Rocco and Ripley represented TNE, an underground campus political group. TNE reportedly disbanded earlier in the spring. Campus politicians say, however, that some TNE members revived the group shortly before the offer was made to Van Alstyne.
“In return lor guaranteed votes and election, they said I should commit a forgery and give it to them as an instrument of blackmail,” Van Alstyne said in the spring interview.
Book Peddlers Set Own Price In Trovet Sale
Looking for used texts? Have some to sell?
The Trovet Bookmart Is open for business 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Friday in the Commons basement.
Prospective sellers set their own price and the Bookmart will try to sell the book at that price. If the hook Is sold, the seller is charged 10 cents to help cover operational costs. If no buyer is found, the book is returned to the owner and no change is levied, according to Bob Thompson and Orbun Powell, co-directors.
“If you want to save money on text books or make money selling your old books, the Trovet Bookmart has been set up for just that purpose,” Powell said.
In addition to books, desk lamps, typewriters, drawing sets, and slide rules are also handled by the Bookmart.
Courtesy Herald-Express
PRETTIEST—Lorna Young, 18-year-old blonde with the title of "America's Prettiest Schoolgirl" begins classes at SC this morning. Miss Young, a freshman English major, won the title recently in a nationwide contest.
PrettiestSchoolGirl Enters Troy Today
“America’s prettiest schoolgirl” entered SC today as a freshman. She’s Lorna Young, 18, of Salt Lake City, a brown-eyed blonde who won the title recently on a nationwide’ television program in New York City. She had previously been awarded a full tuition scholarship to SC by alumni living in Salt Lake City. I-----
ASSC Post Petitions Out
Openings for ASSC appointive positions were announced Friday bv President Bill Van Alstyne.
Included in the list are elections commissioner, par liamentarian, URA director, forum committee chairman, and community aid chairman.
Applications for offices can be obtained in 215 SU. They must be turned in no'later than 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
LATE BULLETIN
TEP Fire Wakes Row
Row residents were awakened by screaming sirens at 4:30 this morning as five fire companies rushed to a blaze at the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity house, 917 West 28th Street.
However, the TEPs had the fire “practically out” by the time the firemen arrived and two of the companies immediately returned to their stations, according to Acting Fire Chief John Langston.
The blaze, apparently caused by an overheated spotlight, burned* deep into one of the major beams supporting the upstairs landing and left a charred hole about 8 inches wide and 3 feet long in the rug and landing floor. TEP President Dick Goodman estimated damage at $1000.
Goodman discoverad the fire when he awoke about 4:20. As he opened his bedroom door, he said smoke poured into the room and he saw the landing ablaze. While Goodman dashed after the fire extinguisher, his roommates, Al Mour and Senator-at-large Bob Gerst, tried to beat the blaze out with blankets. Goodman got the fire under control with the extinguisher and then called the fire department. Firemen completed extinguishing the fire and cleaned up. They left about 5 a.m.
Cause of the fire was a small floodlight which had been used as a party decoration. Gerst said the lamp apparently fell down, became overheated, and started the rug on fire.
Her smiling face has a well-scrubbed look in keeping with the fact that the beauty contest she won was sponsored by a soap company.
Voted Dream Girl
The contest was the first she had ever entered outside her own high school where she had already been voted dream girl vice president of the sophomore class, and later vice president of the student body.
Miss Young also was a debater, a high school reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune, and a fashion model.
She is majoring in English and minoring in dramatics. She plans to become a high school dramatics teacher. She also plans to take TV classes in SC’s department of telecommunications.
Plans to Study
Miss Young is a direct descendant of Lorenzo Young, a brother.of Brigham Young, one of the founders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Her father is Salt Lake City j district manager for a major au- j tomobile manufacturer, but Lorna j came to SC without a car. She i plans to study, she said.
She’ll never be able to say she has “nothing to wear” because she won a $1000 wardrobe in the prettiest schoolgirl contest i in addition to a $1000 cash prize. | She entered the competition at the last moment at the urging of her high school teachers.
Research Set On Bacteria
A scientific paradox—the fact that some bacteria which need oxygen to sustain their life can also thrive on a compound that usually acts as a poison—wil Ibe studied at SC for the next three | years.
Dr Sydney C. Rittenberg, professor of bacteriology and acting head of the department, has just been given the $24,000 research project by the National Science j Foundation.
Specifically, the SC professor will investigate how a compound, I malonate, is metabolized by bac- J teria. Malonate is an organic acid produced by certain legum-1 inous plants such as beans and sweet peas.
Dr. Rittenberg will be assisted in his research by Drs. Daniel Ivler, visiting instructor, and J. B. Wolfe.
rollment would exceed last year's mark. Day class entrants, 10,656 last fall, with 5433 more in night classes and 1183 in Civic Center courses.
“We expect to have more freshmen this year and more Korean veterans and foreign students, but I am unable to say how many at the present time,” Patmore said.
Mail Helped
The usual registration rush was greatly alleviated by mail registration, Patmore added. More than 3000 students took advantage of the fclan.
Barry Kirk, a cinema major from Beverly Hills, had the distinction of being the first to register. He began the registration line at 5:15 a.m. Monday. However, by 8:30 a.m., when registration was due to begin, a line had formed behind Kirk which stretched around the corner and terminated a few feet from the statue of Tommy Trojan.
Big Rush
In a few hours, hundreds of new and returning Trojans were registering for classes.
In addition to the registration rush last week, students also hurried about attending Orientatioru Ceremonies.
New Trojans were welcomed to SC last Monday and Tuesday in assemblies which touched 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 with the campus.
Tours
Campus tours were organized. The Knights and Squires led the new men students while the Spurs and .Amazons conducted the new women students around the university.
Bureau Requests Sorority News
All sorority press chairmen are asked to bring news of their respective chapters, date lists, etc. of this week, to the university News Bureau tomorrow by the 10 a.m. deadline. Their items will be sent to the downtown and Hollywood newspapers. The bureau is located in room 150 Administration Bldg.
Tommy Walker, director of the Trojan football band, issued an | urgent call last week for new and returning students with mu* i sical experience to play in the band.
Walker said that 40 more mu-I sicians are needed to bring the band up to full marching strength.
“We already have 68 players, but we require a total of 104 musicians and four reserves,” he said.
Openings Listed
The band leader said he has openings in every section but stressed the need of six trombonists, two tuba players, 15 trump-i eters, eight drummers, one baritone and one French horn player.
The band aiso wants 16 lancers, who need no musical experience, and two property men, who have done some kind of work with public address and sound systems, Walker said.
Free Tickets
“Our band members certainly will have a plush job this year,” he noted.
“In addition to getting a free ticket to every home game, our band members, lancers, and property men will travel to Portland and Palo Alto for the games with Oregon and Stanford.
Transportation Too
“We travel by the best streamlined trains and stay at the best hotels. Of course, the band members g<?t their transportation, meals, and hotel space free of charge from the university. Each band member also receives $5 in cash for spending money at the gvnes played away,” Walker said.
“As SC is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, it is only fitting that we should have the best band possible. We will be able to do this if every student who can play an instrument joins our group.
“Any interested person cflji contact me this week at the band building at 902 West 37th Place, or telephone me at Richmond 2311, extension 591,” Walker said.
Library Receives Archive Material
The library of the late Dr. Allison Gaw of Hollywood, professor emeritus and former head of the English department at SC was presented to the SC library today by Mrs. Gaw.
The collection included 2138 books, 502 pamphlets, 1086 periodicals, 200 music scores and a great number of Los Angeles theatre and commencement programs, notes, photographs, manuscripts of unpublished works and other archive material.
Emphasis on the book collection is on English and American poetry, fiction and belles lettres, plays and critical works from Elizabethan and Restoration periods, and contemporary drama. Many first editions are included.
Works of Dr. and Mrs. Gaw in the collection include their play, “Pharaoh’s Daughter,” which won first prize for Biblical plays in a national playwriting contest in 1927, and their editions of “The Lyric West,” a magazine of American verse.
Adivity Book Sales Reopen This Week in Student Lounge
Activity books will be on sale this week until Friday, Ticket Manager John Morley announced.
Books may be purchased daily from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Student Union Lounge. Morley also said books may be purchased during several evenings next week from 5 to 8 p.m.
Morley urged students to obtain their activity books as early as possible in order to avoid
Official
Notice
Application period is now going on for students completing credential requirements on January 26. 1955. Come to 356 Administration Building for applications. The deadline for returning applications is Friday, October 1. Applications returned after the deadline date will be too late for fall processing.
Applications will be processed in the order in which they are returned to the credential office.
Syra R. Gold,
Credential Technician
the last minute rush.
“There is no reason for students putting off buying books until the last day.
“Although those buying books this week do not get the benefit of tbe Washington State game, they will be able to attend all the other home sporting events, including the Pittsburgh game Friday,” Morley said.
In addition to home athletic events, the $13 book also entitles students to all university drama productions and the 1955 El Rodeo, SC yearbook.
Spouse books for married students whose	husbands	or	wives
are not registered at SC may be obtained after the registered student buys his book.
Holders of spouse books must also have their identification picture taken.
“Students	planning	to	pur-
chase an activity book 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 of-
fice, Building 20 at 36th Place,” Morley said.
Tickets will be issued in plaoe of activity books for the Pittsburgh game. Books will be ready in tiny? for the Texas Christian tilt Oct. 8.
Official
Notice
(1)	Waiver examinations, for lOlmw — Funamental Skills, Men-Women, and 102-EIemen-tary Swimming, will be h*ia as follows: lOlraw-W^nesdaV, September 22, 1954 102-Thurs-day, September 23, 1954 from S to 5 p.m., the practical at 3 o’clock, and the written at 4 o’clock. Please see Mr. Robert Downey, Room 107. "hysical ing up f#r 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