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SC Crewmen to Meet Stanford Saturday
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Parisians Go Wild At Arts Ball
Vol. XLV
Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, March 31, 1954
No. 105
ALUMNI TROPHY—Arnold Eddy, SC alumni director, is showing the Asa V. Call Achievement Trophy to Paul W. Elmquist, chairman
—Courtesy L. A. Times
of Alumni Day, and Barbara Goode, coed hostess. The trophy will be awarded Saturday to outstanding Trojan alumnus of the year.
SA CALL TROPHY ILL BE AWARDED
The outstanding alumnus of the year who has brought the greatest honors to Troy ill be named and honored Saturday as part of the alumni day activities.
The Asa V. Call Trophy will be presented to the person who is chosen. Lewis K. Gough, esident of the General Alumni Association and winner of the trophy last year will make e presentation. Nadine Conner, Metropolitan Opera star, won the trophy in 1952. Gor-
epresentative lasts Student arty Apathy
Independent Men’s Representa-Murray Bring, and Seyom •own, have delivered the ultima-that unless campus Indepen-nts show some interest in the rmation of the new Independent rty, they will “abandon our po-ical leadership of SC Independ-ts.”
Bring and Brown yesterday is-ed a joint statement announc-g a special meeting at 2:15 p.m. day in 103 FH.
The joint statement is as fol-ws:
“The forthcoming campus elec-ns demand that the Independ-ts, if they wish to function as organized group, immediately rmulate a campaign program, erefore, once again, we sum-all interested Independents meet for this purpose.
“But this meeting has an im-rtant qualification. If no more dents show an active interest participating in a party for In-pendents than have in the past v months, we shall abandon our litical leadership of SC Inde-nde^ts.
“We see no useful function of nning a top-down campaign; no nefit to the university in trying generate enthusiasm from a cuous student body, unless they emselves wish to be active.”
don Dean, former Atomic Enegry Commission head, was selected in 1951. In 1950 Hugh C. Willet, former director of admissions and registration, was chosen.
Dr. Fagg to Speak
Both the award and a speech by President Fred D. Fagg Jr. will be made at a barbecue luncheon for the alumni on the north campus lawn.
Carnival-type booths placed between Founders Hall and Bovard will function for the children of alumni.
Booth chairmen yesterday set the deadine for setting up the booths at 8 Friday night. The deadline for decorating the booths is 8 a.m. Saturday.
Thirty booths will be run by fraternities, sororities, and independent organizations. Food and games of skill are the predominant activities.
Booths vary from a fortune teller’s tent with incense, oriental music, and dancing girls to a balloon shaving booth with the theme, “Send Your Little Shaver to SC.”
Registration at 9:30
Alumni day festivities start at 9:30 Saturday morning with registration. A coffee bar will be operated on the north campus lawn.
The Varsity football practice game will be open to the visitors following registration.
Tours of the campus will be given on a Toonerville type trolley powered by jeeps.
Other activities inuclude an al-umni-facultv baseball game in the afternoon, swimming in the pool throuhout the day, and a tour of SC’s television channel, KTHE. Students and parents, as well as alumni, are invited to Saturday’s festivities, according to Bobette Bentley, ASSC Vice President.
Western Area Association to Hold Meeting
“Higher Education and the Public Interest” will be the theme of the Western College Association’s 30th anniversary spring meeting to be held from Apr. 7 to 10 at the Hotel Statler.
The association is an organization composed of more than 100 colleges and universities in California, Arizona, and Nevada.
Samuel M. Brownell, U. S. Commissioner of Education and brother of Attorney General Brownell, will address a luncheon session on Apr. 9 on “Leadership Responsibility of Higher Education.”
Chancellor Rufus B. von Klein-Smid will address the association on Apr. 10 on “Critical Issues in World Affairs.”
President Grayson Kirk of Columbia University will speak to an evening meeting of the association at Immaculate Heart College on “Man’s Right to Knowledge and Free Use Thereof,” on Apr. 9.
Dr. J. E. Wallace Sterling, president of Stanford University and of the association, will conduct most of the sessions.
The program for the meeting has been planned by a committee headed by LAS Dean Tracy E. Strevey. Co-chairmen are Sister M. Thecla, president of Immaculate Heart College, and Dr. Bernard L. Hyink, dean of SC students.
Don Daves Captures Lead In 'Mr. Trojanality Contest
New Party Has First Meeting
Conservatives Adopt Constitution; Elect Committee Leaders
The first general meeting of the newly formed Conservative party yesterday afternoon adopted a constitution, elected chairmen for various committees, and “kicked around” suggestions for possible candidates for next month’s student-body elections.
The group under the leadership of party chairman Alan Carpenter, adopted the constitution by a unanimous voice vote. It elected the following committee chairmen:
Finance, Ed Wilkinson; Rally, A1 Moure; Platform, AI Goldbert; and Mechanics, Don Kimball.
Party Components The party will be composed of members at large; a party chairman; a steering committee, composed of one representative from each campus group, and a mechanics chairman who will be in charge, and have direct control over, all the party’s committees.
Among othei things, the constitution holds that the steering committee will be composed of the following:
1—Each	fraternity or sorority shall have the right to choose its own member to represent it on the steering committee, and each group shall have the right to recall their representative.
2—Any	independent can be seated in the steering committee who can show substantial proof that he represents a group of 20 or more independents or that he has sufficient value to the party on his own merits.
Allows Dual Membership The constitution also holds that “any SC student can become a member of the Conservative party if he is not actively affiliated in any other campus 'political party.”
Carpenter said that the party allows “dual membership, which is particularly applicable to the women who are members of sororities and at. the same time liberal about campus issues.”
He pointed out that women from one house can get together and join the party even, though the house as a whole might belong to another party.
“We, of the Conservative party,” said Carpenter, “seek, above all, to solidify students into one common unit for democratic government.”
DON DAVES
. . . in front
CARPENTER
next in line
Damp Days Delay Pie-Throw Event
The weather is gumming up the works and the 240 pies which were to be thrown yesterday at the Trojan Chest contest.
Bob Kent, special events chairman for Trojan Chest, announced that the weather is successfully fouling up some
events such as the push-cart race and pie-throwing contest, but the Mr. Trojanality Contest and Beaux-Arts Ball will not be met with dampened spirits.
Pie-throvv Next Week The push-cart race will be held today if the sun cooperates with plans, but if the rain rains on, a later date will be announced for the race.
The pie-throwing contest has been re-scheduled for next Tuesday noon. But last Monday night, 31 of the fraternity houses had an opportunity to get in some practice for the big event.
Houses Buy Pies Trojan Chest workers visited the houses and auctioned off nice, gooey pies, which weren’t for desserts. They even furnished raincoats for the lucky targets of these creamy corruptions.
Forty-five pies were sold to bring in $109.41. The highest price for a pie, bought by the Acacia House, was for $7.50. Ray Williams did the honors of throwing it at Bob McClure who is still digging coconut out of his ears.
Pledges had a good chance to get revenge on the actives.
May Surpass Quota Figures released yesterday by Jim Barber, chairman of the Trojan Chest drive, reveal it has been successful to date.
“I’m real pleased with the contest, and it looks like we’ll beat our $6000 quota,” said Barber.
Monday night class collections brought in $306.68; the fraternity pie-throw $109.41; Tuesday’s class collections $347.49; the sororities, (Gamma Phi, Tri-Delt, and AE-Phi), as of yesterday $216; and the Mr. Trojanality contest $49.50 to make a total of $1029.08.
BOB KENT
mad at weather
271 PINTS
UCLA Still Out Front In Blood Drive
ENATE OK SOUGHT
Wallach to Present Charity Drive Plan
bylaw to create an ASSC mmittee on Community Aid, ich Sophomore Class President b Wallach will introduce to-ht, promises to be a top con-eration of student Senators en they meet at 7:15 tonight in SU.
he bylaw, termed by its author most constructive plan I’ve propossed,” would set up a ittee to coordinate all Tro-charity drives.
Its chairman, who would be pointed by the ASSC President d confirmed by the Senate, uld not be a voting Senator
and vould hold the office for one year, according to W’alla:h’s proposal.
If the bylaw is accepted, the various student charity drives, like the Trojan Chest and Living War Memorial drives, would retain their separate entity but their chairmen would be chosen by the Community Aid Committee head rather than by the ASSC President.
“The plan provides for a ‘continuation of experience,’” Wallach said.
“For instance, the director of Troy Camp, SC's summer camp
for underprivileged children, has a tough job. Each year the new director has to find a camp site, arrange for counsellors, provide for the food, see that the project is state licensed, etc.
“You can see that the job is much more difficult for a person' who has had no experience with the project before he becomes director.
“Under my bylaw, committee chairmen would have to be members of the committee they head for a year before taking over the chairmanship,’ 'Wallach said.
Navy Cadets Will Parade For General
ROTC units march again.
Naval ROTC midshipmen will review and parade in the week-old footprints of Air ROTC cadets on Bovard Field at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon.
The midshipmen, 315 strong, and the 20-piece Trojan Navy band will march in review before USMC Maj. Gen. John T. Selden. General Selden will share the reviewing stand with Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid and President Fred D. Fagg Jr.
Review Honors General
Albert S. Raubenheimer, educational vice president; Dean Tracy E. Strevey, dean of LAS; and Capt. Ronald M. MacKinnon, commanding officer of the NROTC, will also be on the reviewing stand.
Jerry Carr, battalion commander, will lead the midshipmen during the review.
The review will be held in honor of General Selden, the 13th Commanding General of Camp Pendleton.
Collection or 127 pints of blood yesterday brought the total to 271 pints at the end of the second day of donations in the spring drive of the Red Cross.
The Bruins are still ahead with 378 pints collected in the first two days of their drive which is running concurrently with Troy’s, Mary Barrett, Drive chairman, said.
“Not only is our reputation at stake, but we are letting the Red Cross dowm,” Miss Barrett said. “They are counting on us to help fill the monthly quota of 17,500 pints for Los Angeles.”
The leading contender for the Red Cross ROTC trophy is the NROTC, with 36 pints donated, while the AFROTC has given 29 pints. The trophy is awarded to the group with the highest percentage of members donating.
In the race for Red Cross fraternity and sorority trophies, Tau Kappa Epsilon, with 13 pints and Kappa Kappa Gamma with 22 pints, are ahead.
In last semester’s drive, every house on the Row gave at least 35 pints.
“We must have more response from the Row, independent students, and faculty members if we are to fill our 1200-pint-quota, beat UCLA, and provide the blood so badly needed by the Red Cross,” said Miss Barrett.
Sign-up ables will remain open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the rest of the week.
“We have done all we can to promote the drive,” she said. “It is up to the students and faculty to get behind the Red Cross and successfully meet the quota just as the have done in every drive in the past.”
AI Carpenter Second By One Vote Margin
Don Daves has swept to a commanding lead after the first day’s balloting in SC’s spirited “Mr. Trojanality” race, Ed Wilkinson, contest chairman, revealed late yesterday.
Front runner Daves amassed 69 votes. Runner-up AI Carpenter polled 41, 40 were cast for third place Bill Van Alstyne. Three more days are left in the contest. Voting will close at 1:15 Friday afternoon.
Daves, a Phi Delt, has been mentioned as a probable ASSC presidential candidate, while Sig Ep Carpenter and Van
Alstyne have also been active in campus activities.
Other vote getters yesterday were “Mr. Casanova,” Eddie Etezad, with 26 votes; Bob Gerst with nine; and Roy Foreman with seven.
Although the rain dampened first-day voting somewhat, $64.75 was collected for the ‘ Trojan Chest, according to Wilkinson.
“We’ll probably get a bigger response as the contest moves toward its finish and the weather clears up,” said Wilkinson, urging students to get out, plunk down a quarter, and vote fdr their favorite.
In addition to a host of prizes that await the “Trojanality” winner, a glamorous Hollywood actress will crown the lucky fellow at Saturday’s Beaux Arts Ball, Wilkinson hinted.
Her identity will be revealed later this week, he said.
Voting continues through Friday for the 37 candidates for the title. If clear weather prevails, the voting booth will be set up in front of the Student Union. If it rains again, it will be in front of Bovard Auditorium.
Winner of the “Mr. Trojanality” contest will automatically be given the title of “Mr. Formal” of SC. Numerous prizes will accompany this award including a complete After Six formal wear outfit, a Kaywoodie white briar for-mal pipe, and a Ronson lighter.
BILL VAN ALSTYNE
. . . poor friends
SC Chancellor Given Medal ByFoundation
The George Washington Honor Medal was prdlented to Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid yesterday in recognition of the university’s Institute of World Af-, fairs and its “outstanding achievement in bringing about a better understanding of the American way of life.”
Presented at a luncheon at the Statler Hotel presided over by Don Belding, who represented the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge, Pa., the medal was accompanied by a check for $100. Art Baker seized as narrator to the service groups, organizations, and individuals who won awards.
SC faculty taking part in the session included Dr. Tracy E. Strevey and Dr. Theodore H. E. Chen, speakers, and Dr. Lawrence C. Lockley, chairman-of-the-day.
Round table participants were Dr. Ross N. Berkes, Dr. Carl Q. Christol, Dr. J. Eugene Harley, Dr. Donald W. Rowland, Dr. Richard W. Van Alstyne, Dr. Clayton D. Carus, Clifford A. Rich, Robert W. Oliver, Dr. Wilbert L Hindman, Dr Lawrence G. Guild, Dr. Rodger Swearingen, Dr. Totton J. Anderson, and Dr. Russell L. Caldwell. Barbara Gruwell served as a rapporteur.
Trojan Chest Benefit Movies Slated Today
Two movies are being shown in conjunction with the Trojan Chest drive, with proceeds going to Trojan Chest.
A film on a flight to Hawaii by United Airlines, sponsored by the Trojan Flying Club, is being shown today at noon in 133 FH, according to President Biil Solrol. Admission will be 25 cents.
The second movie, “Mahatma Gandhi,” to be shown Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Hancock Auditorium, is being sponsored by the Student Council on Religion. Student admission will be charge, $1.20.
TAMING
SCORES
By Dr. Ele&zer Lecky
Last night, fresh from screen, radio, and TV, Shakespeare came to Bovard Auditorium. His “Taming of the Shrew” was given in a setting modeled after the stage of the Globe Theatre.
The performance clearly showed that an Elizabethan stage — even with the modifications made necessary by the architecture of Bovard Auditorium—is “right” for an Elizabethan play.
Professor Corrigan, the designer, could not do away with the proscenium or extend a platform across the orchestra pit. But he was able to build a shell around the stage in the Globe manner. Then, to gain space for interior scenes, he brought the usual inner curtain forward, enlarged it, and placed it between tall pillars.
Make-believe Atmosphere
This curtain is a compromise, but it sets apart playing areas, allows scenes to be changed quickly, and helps establish an atmosphere of make-believe. The pillars, too, are very useful. They
OF THE SHREW' HIT AT BOVARD
represent definite things such as I that male supremacy is a fiction.
comers or columns or back rests, and in themselves they are ab stract forms.
The whole set, we are told, is so constructed that it can be packed away and brought back again. We hope to see it up next year, and with the main upper level finished, as are the side ones now.
Epithets and Puns
At this late date it is hardly necessary to say a great deal about “The Taming of the Shrew.” Clearly, like Dr. Baxter, the drama department has in Shakespeare a top-drawer writer. But “The Taming of the Shrew” did not come out of Shakespeare’s top drawer. We listen in vain for first rate poetry. We get only epithets and puns. We get intrigue, and here the set does very well to suggest streets, doorways, and pillars, the places of intrigue.
Shakespeare could hardly have written this play as a commentary on the battle of the sexes, for Shakespeare must have known
| He allowed the shrew to be vanquished by will rather than by wit, power instead of persuasion. It provided a brief triumph in a make-believe world, a passing entertainment.'
Cherie Brigham gave an excellent interpretation of Kate. She managed to communicate a sense of humor along with the bad temper, and she spoke her lines subtly. As Petruchia, Paul Fiiillips succeeded in being engaging despite his truculence, but his voice lacked variety.
Louis Pollay (Hortensio) and Don Wright (Tranio) did well in their supporting roles. As Bianca, Gretchen Kane was a proper foil for the fiery Kate. John Le Van's (Lucentio’s) two lute songs were pleasing. The roles of the older characters were handled with unusual fitness by Bill White (Bap-tista), Neil Shaver (Gremio), and Henry Hall (Pedant). Costumes, lighting, and music all were commendable.