Bates-Lane, Barker Tie in Runoff
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!o\ XLVI
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., MONDAY MAY 9, 1955
No. 131
Row Ruckus Rouses Cops, IFC Review
By Rachel Lee
The Inter-fraternity Council will review today last Thursdays disturbance on the Row, marked by the setting of three bonfires, the burning of a palm tree, and damages to one sorority house.
Row occupants were stirred from their sleep and study by a rampant group of Rowmen who started the blazes around 11:15.
j The women of the Delta Gam-
Art Exhibition (Opens Tonight In Harris Hall
The annual exhibition of work 'by students in the department of fine arts will open tonight at 8 in the Upstairs Gallery of Harris Hall. 824 West 37th Street.
The public is invited to the opening. at which student artists twill be honored with a reception, ind also to visit the gallery from 1:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The exhibition rill run until July 5.
Consisting of work accomplish-in studio and laboratory class-curing the year, the exhibition include paintings, drawings, ature, ceramics, prints, dels. fabrics, various craft work, jewelry.
ie Esther Steinman award be> presented to the most lising beginning student in fiting. and the Charles Stein-award will go to the begin-itudent showing the most lise in *culpture. faculty wives and women from lent organizations in the fine department will act as host-»s at the opening and serve re-shments to guests during the ►ning.
ma house were given the biggest scare of the evening when the men broke the porch light and lock panel on the front door. After gaining entrance, the men started throwing eggs, tomatoes, and water around.
Witnesses who saw the palm tree blaze said “it lit up like a gasoline-soaked torch.” The tree was in front of the home of N. W. Myrick, 667 West 28th Street. Myrick said he woke up while the firemen were hosing the tree to prevent the flames from spreading.
“My wife and I planted that tree 53 years ago,v Myrick said. “Then it was only 6 feet high.” Before it was burned, the tree was estimated at more than 30 feet.
Capt. Karl Lee of the University Division Police said that three police units were dispatched to break up the ruckus. He termed the whole affair* a “sad situation” and stated he was unable to understand why there had to be such activities.
“It probably started out quite innocently and just built itself up,” Captain Lee said in trying to explain the affair. “I can go along with reasonable pranks, but not when there is malicious destruction of public property,” he added.
The disturbance had been under joint study by the IFC and the Inter-fraternity Alumni Advisers, headed by Ralph Haney.
The Faculty-Student Activities Committee will consider the report Wednesday.
uch Ado' Cast eady for Opening
Members of the cast and technical crew of “Much Ado ►out Nothing” spent last weekend in rehearsals perfecting Shting and staging effects, for the play’s opening at 8:30 [morrow night.
The play will be performed on a reconstruction of the
Jlobe Theater. The set was built j
Poly Sci Group Elects Officers, Holds Initiation
year ago by Bob Corrigan, for-ier assistant professor of drama, )r “Taming of the Shrew.” The Resign was taken from the Globe ^construct in San Diego and the riginal specifications preserved the British Museum.
Directed by Howard M. Banks, ie production features Lee Whit-tig. Don Wright, Gay Gadbois, lohn LeVan. and Catherine Mat-h.
Other members of the cast are lerhert LaBin, Bill White. Fred
quartet, Jim Low, Marion Oles, Robert Barnes, and Suzanne Wolf.1
Choreography was done by Dr. | Lois Ellfeldt, head of the dance : department. It illustrates the! Elizabethan “cinque-pace,” “jig,” i and “durranto.”
The play will run at Bovard through Saturday, with high school matinees on Friday and Saturday. Tickets are on sale for SI at the drama department, at the Ticket Office, and at the box
mith, Woody Wilson, Denny ! office before all performances.
Preston Orem. Joe Kinz- 1 ?y, Paul Siebert, Peter Hyman.
'fton Ehlert, Robert Johnson,
Tom Hays. Jonine Booth. and 'arol Daniels, along with pages |ind dancing couples.
Costumes were designed by lohn Blankenchip. who also did It he costuming for "The Lady’s tcot for Burning." and executed (by students in the drama department. Staging and lighting are under the direction of Production (Manager Bill White.
Original music for the produc-' tion was written by Jim Low. a student of Elizabethan styles. It will be played by the Elizabethan
Official
Notice
Final payment of regular deferred tuition accounts Is due May 17.	j
Final payment of Korean <
Veteran deferred tuition accounts is dur May 2S.
Students who do not make their payments on or before the scheduled date of payment, or who fail to make satisfactory arrangements with the Director of Deferred Tuition for an evten«'cm, w II h* charged a $5.00 la'* pu'tnent fee.
Capt. B. K. Culver. I’SX (Ret.)
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Pi Sigma Alpha, national political science fraternity, initiated 57 new nembers and elected officers at their spring dinner meeting recently.
New officers include John Carney, president; Beatrice Markey, vice president, and Harriet L. Johnson, secretary.
Guest speaker Dr. Hugh Perry, founder and head of Western Research Associates Company, spoke on “Opinion Surveys and Government Policy.”
Poll Fallacies
Dr. Perry pointed out the essential fallacies of pre-election polls and surveys, claiming that they cannot be accurate and that it would cost too much to set up an accurate poll.
He also predicted that in the near future there will be a public opinion attache in our embassies in foreign countries.
Award of the Roy C. Malcom Fellowship in Political Science to Lee Layport, senior in political science was announced.
New members are Chauncev A. Alexander, Alexander Alpert, Helmet Bader, Mrs. Evelyn C. Best, Murray Bring, Seyom Brown, Helen E. Cass, John W. Cassey, Marguerite Cooper, Fred George Crawford, Henry H. Haggard.
Dean P. Hanson, Donald Hind-ley, Eugene R. Hinkston, Erwin G. Hogan, Mrs. Harriet E. Johnson, Edward J. Jones Jr., Frederick J. Kaminga. Meyer Kimme1-man, Robert M. Latta, Janet J. Leonard.
Also Initiated
Thomas James Leonard, Leah V. Levin, Harry A. Lindsay, Donald L. Loughery Jr., Daniel B. Lucas, David E. Lyon, Susie McBee, Donald W. Mansfield, Karen Mattoon, Onesimo Vas Mendes.
Richard L. Merritt, Albert C. Mour, John J. Mullin, Robert H. Munn, Kathryn Norstrom. Doyce B. Nunis, Robert Poff, Roland D. | Pullin, Glenn E. Quinn, James R. j Rasmussen, Frederick E. Roderick.
John F. Rood. Ruth A. Ross, Albert Saijo, Rob Rene Schuyler, Gilbert B. Siegel, Sol Siegel. Richard P. Sherman, John M. Smart, Derwin Daniel Terry, John B. Williams, Luana Williams. Buenaventura M. Villan-I ueva, Harvey Lyle Zuckman, Jerry Baker, and Robert Huntley.
HERE'S TOMMY — Bob Jani, Songfest chairman, and Robbie Carroll, co-chairman, show Chancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid, one of
—DT Photo by Phil Cook.
the "Tommy" awards to be presented to the winners of the annual event. Dr. von KleinSmid will be master of ceremonies.
Songfest Will Host Music Student Walter Schuman Nominated for
Starlight Girl'
Sparling Elected Sophomore Veep In Close Contest
By Maggie Christensen
Nancy Bates-Lane and Leroy Barker, contestants for president of the School of Commerce, have put on two campaigns and been through two elections to wind up with still no decision. The run-off election last Thursday and Friday ended in a 154-154 tie. # j	■
Election Commissioner Bette ^	IN I
Dobkin announced the results I l*AW IJp Friday afternoon, and said that ■ ■ Wy v vIVVjQiv the next run-off will either be *	m •
held inside the School of Com- |
merce or will be postponed until vQUjC* JvVlcI next fall.
Joan Sparling was elected %lf II	, , I III
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with 137 votes to Cynthia Dixons ”UinWUl GI W 11
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The two candidates were shar-	By Harvey Zuckman
ing a table at the 901 Club Fri- Daily Trojan Staff Correspondent
day afternoon when the results were announced. Appearing at the Daily Trojan city room with TRG party chairman Joe Cerrell, they said that they were both so tired of campaigning that they couldn’t go through another election.
Co-Presidents
“We want to be president together, with the support of every commerce student that voted,” they said. “It has never been done here before, but it would be wonderful for the school. The voters have made their choice, they want us both, and we both want the presidency.”
Cerrell objected to their plan, saying that the ASSC Constitution calls for “one president.” He
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6 — Soviet delegates to the model UN walked out today because of SC* Dave Johnson, Canada’s acting delegate to the International Monetary Fund.
Johnson had succeeded in crippling a Russian resolution to establish an international tariff commission. When the chairman overruled the Russian protest, the Soviet bloc walked out.
. Wants Compromise Donald Hindley. head of SCs Canadian delegation, called for the UN to use all means possible to “achieve a working compromise between the East and the West,” in a major address to
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where the actual UN charter was
the Senate.
McMahon Say Majority
ASSC President-elect Jerry McMahon said that the commerce president must be elected by a clear majority, and “since neither candidate had a majority, there is no commerce president, and no one person can appoint a dual presidency.
drafted 10 years ago.
In defense of his stand against creation of an international tariff commission Johnson pointed out at Thursday sessions that th# International TVade Organization, which was just recently established, is responsible for such
By Jim Karayn
The man who most symbolizes the SC tradition has beeh selected as host for the second annual Songfest May 13, Robbie Carroll, Songfest co-chairman announced yesterday. The man, of course, is Rufus B. von KleinSmid, chancellor.
Dr. von KleinSmid will act as master-of- ceremonies for
most of the selections during the
show Friday. Don Davies will moderate the remainder of the 24 selections from back stage. Dr. von KleinSnrd will also give . a short address prior to the mass choral number saluting SC’s Diamond Jubilee. The spectacle will include over 700 voices and the Trojan concert band.
Schuman to Direct Famed choral director and arranger, Walter Schuman will direct the two choral numbers, which will present all the participants in Songfest.
Schuman heads the RCA Victor Voices of Walter Sehuman. Last year, he was oi?e of the judges of the first annual SC Songfest.
According to Bob Jani, Songfest chairman. Dr. von KleinSmid was chosen because this year’s event will pay tribute to the university’s 75th year. Dean of Students Bernard Hyink was the host last year.
Tommy Awards The “Tommy” awards which will be presented to the winners of Songfest are now on disolav in the south lobby of Founders’ Hall. The display includes the 10 first and second place trophies for each of the five divisions and the Grand Sweepstakes trophy. The Sweepstakes award is an ex-
act replica of Tommy Trojan. The divisional cup trophies will have small “Tommies” on top of them.
Songfest Records Jani announced that today is the deadline for purchasing the souvenir Songfest records. The album will include two 12-inch long playing records. The entire 24 selections will be on the discs.
According to Dick Whitsell, Record chairman, 400 orders have already been taken and those people who placed orders must turn in their money this afternoon. The albums sell for $3. Money must be paid at Harry Nelson’s office, 228 SU.
“This is positively the only time that records Viay be purchased.” said Whitsell. “No records will be sold after Songfest.” Tickets Left Jani said that ticket sales are still on. He said that while there will be tickets sold the night of the event, if anyone wishes the $1.50 reserved seat tickets, they had better buy them this week. They may be purchased in the Student Union Ticket Office.
There are 4400 seats in the Greek Theater; only 1500 are reserved seats. Tickets are $1 general admission, $1.50 reserved.
Frank DeVol to Play For the Jubilee Ball
Frank DeVol, deadpan band leader, will lead the music while seniors dance at the Jubilee Ball.
DeVol’s orchestra holds the all time record at the Hollywood Palladium of 16,666 patrons during his first week at a recent engagement. He has accompanied many popular singers on their records, including Margaret Whiting, Peggy Lee,
Kay Starr, Mel Torme, and Nat “King” Cole.
The Jubilee Ball, which is this year's version of the Senior Prom > is sponsored by the Junior and j Senior classes. It will be held on |
May 20th at the Riviera Country \
Club. The main ballroom has j been reserved for the occasion.
The bar will be open and there will also be a soft drink bar.
Only 200 bids, at $3.50 each, are on sale for the dance, according to Jubilee Ball Chairman Don Daves. They are being sold for two weeks starting today at a booth in front of the Student Union. Students who have senior fee bills will receive free tickets
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ond floor of the Student Union.	. . . will play
English Reading Fetes Whiteman Anniversary
Lee Green, who last month won the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music “Debut and Encore” award, over the weekend was nominated a candidate for Hollywood Bowl’s “Starlight Girl” of 1955
Miss Green was selected along with 17 other coeds from Southland colleges because of “outstanding achievements in the field of music both on and off campus.”
Winner of the contest, along with three attendants, will reign as hostess at numerous Bowl activities during the Festival Year which opens July 7.
Besides the L.A. Conservatory award, and Starlight nomination. Miss Green recently was one of two winners in a recital contest
He said that they would both activitf: Creation of a new or-have to run in another election. 8an'za'l1°"
and that Commerce President Don Robinson would continue in office through the last Senate meeting of the spring semester.
The present ASSC Senate will have to make the final decision on the election, according to McMahon. President Bill Van Alstyne is in San Francisco serving in the model UN, so a vote can be taken until he returns.
wasteful duplication.
SC Dominates
Lack of preparation shown by most of the delegations has given SC almost complete domination of the conference thus far. In fact, the San Francisco State administrative officers also have seemed unprepared to untangle the procedural squabbles that have broken out.
BAR PRESIDENT
Loyd Wright Chosen Outstanding Alumnus
Loyd E. Wright, prominent Los Angeles attorney and president of the American Bar Association was named SC’s most sponsored by the Inglewood Mu- distinguished alumnus of the year at the Alumni Day cele-
I bration held here Saturday.
In receiving the coveted Asa V. Call Achievement Trophy,
sical Art Society.
At Christian College in Columbia, Mo., which she attended prior to enrolling as a junior at SC, Miss Green was prominent as a singer on campus radio and TV productions.
While there, her scholastic aptitude and musical capabilities enabled her to win the Jane Fro-man Voice Scholarship and Boe-chreder Musicianship Award as the outstanding senior in the field of music.
Starlight Girl and her three attendants will serve as hostesses at the Bowl on College and University Night, August 2, when the outdoor theater features Conductor Andre Kostelanetz and the First Piano Quartet.
the class of ’15 graduate was des ignated as “the alumnus who, by reason of his accomplishments, has brought the greatest honor to the university.”
Drew Thousands
The presentation, made by Kennedy Ellsworth, president of the General Alumni Association, highlighted the annual festivities which drew a crowd of several thousand past and present Trojans and their families to the campus.
Wright, a past president of the State Bar Association and the Los Angeles Bar Association, arrived from ABA headquarters in Chicago to receive the award.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of ‘Leaves of Grass,” the first volume of poems written by Walt Whitman. For this reason, Dr. Louis Wann, professor emeritus of English, has chosen the works of Walt Whitman as the topic of the English reading, today at noon, 229 FH.
Included in the readings will be ‘Song of Myself,” “Beat, ■ Beat, Drums.” “ComQ Up From the Field, Father,” and “Goodbye, My Fancy,” and his famous poem on the death of Lincoln, entitled, “When Lilacs Last in the Door Yard Bloomed.” Dr. Wamf will particularly emphasize Whit, man’s use of rhythm.
Works on Display.
“Leaves of Grass,” as well as other Whitman works will be on display this month in Doheny Memorial Library. The display is in the north corridor of the main floor.
“Many people misunderstand what Whitman was trying to do in his writing,” Dr. Wann said. They do not understand the reasons behind Whitman’s use of free verse played in Whitman’s writing. The effects and word meanings that he achieved with free verse would have been an impossibility had he used the
conventional forms of poetry.”
There have been several biographical and critical volumes on Whitman published this year, according to Dr. Wann. A good many celebrations have been held throughout the country because of the centennial of “Leaves of Grass.”
Poet of Intelligencia
“Although Whitman is still a poet of the intelligencia, he has held his reputation well,” Dr. Wann continued. “By most people, he is still regarded as the greatest poet that America has produced.”
Dr. Wann taught at SC for thirty-two years before his retirement in 1953. He specialized in American literature, and established the first seminar at SC on the chief American authors. Similar seminars are being held for graduate students.
After his retirement on 1953, Dr. Wann became a member of the “65 Club,” an organization for retired SC professors. He was recently elected president of the society.
He has published several books including “The Rise of Realism,” an anthology of American literature, which contains selections from Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Bret Hart, and other Western writers and realists.
Dianne Olsen Named
1955 Moonlight Girl
Chairmanships
Wright served on President Eisenhower's commission to celebrate the 200th anniversary of John Marshall, and was appointed by Vice President Richard M. Nixon to the Commission on Judicial and Congressional Salaries.
Wright a "Kappa Alpha fraternity member, was president of SC’s General Alumni Association in 1947-48. He is senior member of the law firm of Wright, Wright, Green, and Wright.
Award of Merit Robert E. Brooker, vice president of Sears Roebuck Company, who also arrived from Chicago, was presented the Award of Merit as a distinguished alumnus.
The same award was also announced for Mrs. Richard Nixon, wife of the United States Vice President, who was graduated from SC in 1939. Mrs. Nixon was not present to receive tbs award.
Phi Sigma Kappa members chose their 1955 “Moonlight Girl,” Dianne Olsen, at the annual formal in Palm Springs attended by 65 couples.
Miss Olsen was crowned by Alex Cooper, KLAC disc jocky, at the Shadow Mountain Club climaxing a week of dinners
and entertainment by the Phi Sigs, according to Vaughn Hall, house senior committee head.
The “Moonlight Girl” and her attendants Irene Walpole, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Adrienne Atwood, Delta Delta Delta, were serenaded by the fraternity members and then danced to the music of Dale Rennie’s orchestra.
As winner of the contest, Miss Olsen, Pi Beta Phi, will be invited to house parties, lunches, and dinners as guest of honor. She and her attendants will each receive a trophy.
Previous to the nighttime activities the couples swam, played volleyball, and golfed at the Shadow Mountain Club. A cocktail party was given at the Fire Cliff Lodge before the formal.
felANNE OLSEN
. . Phi Sigs chooM
Now Available
Fourteen ASSC Senate Committee Chairmanships are open to any undergraduate student at SC. Petitions are now available and may be picked up in 215 SU.
Jerry McMahon, ASSC president-elect hopes that, all people who feel they’re qualified for any job will apply.
The chairmanships open are Greater University Committee, Homecoming, Forum. Elections, University Recreation Association, Public Relations. Orientation, Trojan Chest. Troy Camp, High School and Junior College Relations, Religious Emphasis Week, Recognition of Student Organizations, Parliamentarian, and NSA.
McMahon said a 2-point grade average would be preferred although there is no special grade stipulation.
McMahon will interview all applicants personally sometime before the May 25 Senate meeting. He’ll announce the chairmanship appointments on the ba is jpf the petitions and interviews.