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LOS ANGELES, CALIF., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1955
Three Dollars Gray's 'Elegy' Will Purchase To be Baxter's
SongfestAlbum Vldeo Suhtect
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WELL STACKED—Amo, Robert, and Leendert Ouwendyk, bricklayers, are completing work on the eighth Walls of Troy pillar. Construe-
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—DT photo by Pete Synodic.
tion on the 6-foot-high pillars has been in progress for the past four days, completion date is expected in nearly three weeks.
Six thousand seconds of entertainment is being offered for only $3.
Orders for the Songfest souvenir album consisting of two 12-inch long playing records of vinyl plastic, must be placed before Apr. 29. Persons participating in the show may place their orders with Songfest representatives and others should order their records from Harry Nelson in 228 SU.
The recordings will be made during the show, May 13 at the Greek Theater, and will be distributed about 10 days afterwards.
As this $3 price is only possible for a large number of orders, the committee must know by prelims if it will be possible to go ahead with the plan, according to Dick Whitesell, chairman.
The records will be encased in a folder containing the program and a history of Songfest. The recording will be made by a record company who does outside work for RCA Victor. It will then be sent to a commercial record company who will remove all unwanted sounds and make the master record.
Walls' Foundation Work Ends Today
fVter N. Synodis	[ ates the bricks about one foot be-
fore the five o’clock whistle low the top. The collar is indented *'s today, the last stretch of ! to accommodate the bronze t-oximately 640 feet of Walls Plaque that will list the name of
the organization which donated the fund for that section of the walls.
rroy foundation will have been j’hpleted.
■The announcement was made
(“sterday by Frank and Walter •ten. carpenters and foundation en for Meyers Brothers Con-| actors, who started work on the E-inch-high concrete rail on larch 18.
With the foundation set, work j	i	f .
being hurried along on the 64 CZ rrtrj 11/lfP S I SSI IP rick columns that will span the W 1 uuuutc J ******* falls from Harris Plaza east to ie end of the student parking t.
After four days of work on the ■foot-high pillars, eight are near > tipletion. Bricklayer Leendert Wendyk estimated that a little ^>re than two columns can be ilt in a day, giving an approxi-|ate#completion date of three
Dutch Experts
[ peaking with a marked Dutch tent. Arno Ouwendyk pointed fith pride to the sentinel-like |columns of expertly-layed brick.
'That’s the best kind of se-
Evted common brick you can uy.” he said. “Cost four and one-alf cents a piece. Gotta use good [materials t& do good work.”
Placing a tape measure along beveral line£ of clay-red bricks, he pndicated the exactness of the Icolumn .being formed. Every row Qeasun^d 21 hi by 17 Vi inches to .m^rk.
>ne brick is out of line, the column is ruined.” he said, special cement collar separ-
Scholar Magoo To Top Wamp
Inited Productions of America. better known as lTP A, will design the graduation issue of Wampus, it was announced yesterday by EditorTom Pflimlin.
Pete Burness, director of the “Nearsighted Mr. Magoo.” told Pflimlin that I’PA would design the May cover of the humor magazine portraying Magoo in his graduation gown receiving his diploma from SC.
“In additon,” Pflimlin added, “UPA will design a two-page comic strip about Magoo’s escapades at SC.”
United Productions of America, formed in 1948, recently won an academy award for the best cartoon of 1954 entitled •‘When Magoo Flew.”
The same studio is noted for such cartoons as “Gerald Mc-Boing-Boing,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “Unicorn in the Garden.”
Burness is an SC graduate, class of ’29. and was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity.
ITURNINC HOME
Troy to Graduate Visiting Engineers
At least 22 foreign countries from the East for week-end meet-|*ill benefit soon from American ings. They are Trevor Gardner, Engineering training when 91 in- Washington. D.C., Assistant Sec-[emational students attending the retary of the Air Force in charge |C School of Engineering return j of research and development, and k> their respective homelands to Dr. Joseph G. Davidson. New lactice their chosen vocation. York, chairman of the Carbide ^ Foreign students come frof Af- and Carbon Chemicals Co. ■lanistan, Brazil, Canada, China, :
Official
Notice
?ypt, Greece. India, Indonesia, an. Iraq. Israel, Japan, oJrdan, alaya. Mexico, Pakistan, Pan-■na' Peru. Philippines, Spain, Urkey. and Venezuela.
Included in the 1075 students [^day classes in engineering at h are three women. One co-ed | a graduate student in electrical vgi neering from Turkey. The pei two women are undergrad-tes from the Los Angeles area
^bout 500 of SCs 5000 engin-rinp graduates are expected to lend an alumni banquet on the tnpus W< dnosaay night. f*o °f SCs most famous entering alumni will fly here
Students who expect to complete requirements for the bachelor's degree in June should check the list that is posted in the corridor outside the registrar’s office In Owens Hall. Those who have not filled out diploma application cards should do s« at once.
Howard W. Patmore Registrar
2 Candidates Declared Out Of Election
Two more candidates have been declared ineligible for the ASSC elections, Bette Dobkin, elections commissioner, announced yesterday.
Jim Decker, who wras running for XMS vice president, and Bill Faddis, w'ho was running for commerce vice president were the fourth and fifth hopefuls to be dropped from the lists in two days.
The cuts left Bob Ladd running unopposed for AMS vice president. Gretchen Haller and Stan Miller will vie for the commerce vice presidency.
Merle Marlow will run as a write-in candidate for IR vice president, as she was too late to get her name put on the ballot, Mrs. Dobkin said.
All candidates must meet with Mrs. Dobkin today at 2:15 p.m. in 102 FH. If they fail to appear or send a representative in their place, their names will not appear on the ballot.
Movie Pioneer Mack Sennett To Be Honored
Mack Sennett, father of motion picture comedy, will present the original manuscript of his autobiography, “King of Comedy,” to the cinema collection of the SC library tomorrow.
Sennett will be honored at a tea in the Colonial rooms of the Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library building from 3 to 5 p.m. He will come to the campus with Cameron Shipp, with whom he wrote the book.
SC already has original manuscripts of autobiographies by actress Billie Burke and the • late Lionel Barrymore. SC’s library has been designated as a world j depository for cinema literature.
Sennett has been credited with introducing or discovering more great screen talent than any other person in the motion picture industry.
Gloria Swanson, Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields were some of his “finds.” He invented the Keystone Kops, the bathing beauties, and the throwing of custard pies, although Sennett gives Mabel Normand credit for the actual discovery of the technique.
Maynard Smith, graduate student at SC, who worked with Shipp on the manuscripts of the Sennett, Burke and Barrymore books, will attend the tea for Sennett as will heads of the SC departments of cinema, drama, and telecommunications. Many members of the faculty have indicated that they will be present.
Thomas Gray’s “Elegy in a Country Churchyard,” will be the subject of Dr. Frank C. Baxter’s television program “Now and Then,’ ’today.
Dr. Baxter will read the poem and comment on the 18th century poet’s English classic.
The quiet, Cambridge scholar reached his .poetic heights in this poem. And yet the somber tone of the work was off-beat for him because Gray wrote some of the brightest letters and odes in English literature, according to Dr. Baxter.
The program will be aired over KNXT, Channel 2, at 10-10:30 p.m.
50-Year Engineering Alumni Fete Readied
Doctor Says Smog May Cause Cancer
Veterans
Notice
All P.L. 550 (Korean Veterans) deferred tuition accounts have a payment due Friday, Apr. 22, 1955.
Students who do not make their payments on or before the scheduled date of payment, or who fail to make satisiactory arrangements with the Director of Deferred Tuition for an extension, will be charged a $5.00 late payment fee.
Captain B. K. Culver, USN, (Ret.)
Director, Deferred Tuition.
Smog is more a long-range than an immediate menace to the health of the average person. Polluted air must be cleaned up not only because it is a nuisance, but more important because it may be a cause of human lung cancer.
Paul Kotin, M. D., assistant professor of pathology in the School of Medicine, made these statements Tuesday to the third national air pollution sympositfcn at the Huntington-Sheraton hotel in Pasadena.
“Our studies of the prolonged or possible cancer-producing effects of polluted atmosphere have convinced us that the increase in lung cancer throughout the world must take into account the phenomenon of air pollution,” Dr. Kotin said.
Further research must be done on the hydrocarbons spewed into the air by the exhausts of automobiles and trucks, he said.
“Unburned hydrocarbons exposed to oxidation or polymerization before they are inhaled must be regarded as experimental can-eer-producers,” he said.
There may be some cancer-
SENNETT'S BEAUTIES—Mack Sennett, originator of the silent movies' famed bathing beauties and keystone kops, will add the original manuscript of his autobiography to the cinema department library today at a tea held in his honor.
BVA Endorses Candidates; Barbs Support McMahon
By The Watchbird
If endorsements mean anything as far as elections go, Jerry McMahon may win a landslide victory at the polls next week. Yesterday he received endorsements from two important factions on campus-ASSC president Bill Van Alstyne, and a group of independents formed as “Independents for McMahon.”
Van Alstyne yesterday pointed to his “experience as ASSC president which has given him “the privilege of knowing and working with many of the candidates as his reason for sticking his “Good Housekeeping seal” on 15 of the contenders; 11 TRG members and four MSG participants.
More Endorsements
Besides McMahon. Van Alstyne endorses the following TRG candidates:
Betty Metzger, ASSC vice president; Sue Corwin, ASSC secretary; Steve Robertson, senior class president; Jim Hurst, junior class president; Burt Karson, music president; and Jerry Det-wiler, veterans’ representative.
All the above TRG-backed politicos (except McMahon) are un-contested in their nominations, so
Van Alstyne had little to choose from. He picked four TRG’ers for Senator-at-Large spots; Dave Gershenson. Mary Laird, Judy Green, and Carolyn Johansing.
Support MSG MSG candidates receiving Van Alstyne backing are: Marguerite Cooper for International Relations President (uncontested); Rafiz Ahmed, Foreign Student’s representative: Lauretta Misraje, Independent Woman’s Representative; and Maxine Karpman, 'Senator-at-large.
Not only is the present student body president endorsing McMahon. but also a group of independent students, conspicuously TRG-minded, have formed a committee called “Independents for McMahon.”
Independent Wheels The executive committee of the group includes nearly every senior independent who has held some high office at SC during his four years.
The committee, headed by Jerry Baker, senior class president, has an impressive executive committee including Howard Smith, Knights’ president; Bob Ray, Trove ts president; Merle
Welch, El Rodeo editor; Jerry Detwiler, Veterans’ Representative; and Burt Karson, music president.
Cerrell Member The committee is headed by six TRG members, including party chairman Joe Cerrell.
Immediately MSG attacked the new committee labeling Independents for McMahon as “another plot of the TRG leadership to reinstate their one - party monopoly on campus.”
Seyom Brown, Murray Bring’s press relations man, compared the group to a “Democrats for Nixon Committee aimed at only one purpose—the confusion of Independent student.”
Technical Independent Brown referred to Baker as “technically an independent, but active in Row politics.” He has been a loyal member of TRG since his sophomore year.”
The Independents for McMahon, formed two weeks ago, hopes to put on an effective, “active” campaign for TRG’s fairhaired boy. Through personal contact and circular advertising they hope to draw at least 1000 independents to the polls.
While others were making endorsements, Daulat Masuda, Foreign Student’s Representative and MSG Party chairman publicly denied “the TRG inspired rumors that our party is being dominated by ex-TNE men.”
“This smear campaign is a TRG smoke screen to hide the fact that TRG is the living campus heir to TNE tactics and policies,” said Masuda.
To prove that MSG is not Row-affiliated, Masuda has invited any of the student body at large to help form a party platform today at 3:15 p.m. in 103 FH.
Van Alstyne issued the following statement as to why he was publicly endorsing candidates, something “new” in SC politics: “In offering my sincere endorsement of certain candidates for ASSC offices. I want only to fulfill the last responsibility of my office. I have no intention whatsoever of trying to intefere with the free choice the students may render at the polls, but I feel very seriously that students who are not so familiar with student government should be given the broadest possible basis from which to judge the candidates.” i ft
producing compounds in the air that have never been identified, or heretofore gone unsuspected as being carcinogenic.
Tests of the effect of smog on every biological system of the body such as the heart, lungs, and blood have been made. Dr. Kotin said, without being able to determine just how much any part of the body can stand.
“We have not been able to determine any acute or immediate effects of smog that would indicate it is a health hazard to the average healthy person. On the contrary, however, we are becoming increasingly convinced about air pollution’s role in the development of lung cancer over a long period of time.”
In his fifth year af smog research at the SC medical school, Dr. Kotin reported to the symposium on scores of laboratory tests with synthetic smog often at much higher levels of concen-posed to ovidation or polymeriza-tration than found outdoors.
The School of Engineering was a co-sponsor of the symposium, which was attended by Dean Robert E. Vivian, member of the executive committee.
Celebrating 50 years of en gineering education at SC, the School of Engineering will present an alumni banquet at 6:15 tonight in Town and Gown.
Dr. Joseph G. Davidson of New York City will speak at a dinner Friday night on “Engineering and its Relation to Human Progress.”
Trevor Gardner of Washington D. C. will discuss the Air Force’s research and development program and its relation to engineering education at a Saturday luncheon on campus.
“Manned Space Flight Engineering Problems” will be discussed by Krafft Ehriche, design specialist in the engineering department of Convair in San Diego.
Dr. Royal Weller, chief scientist o? the U.S. Naval Air Missle Test Center at Point Mugu; K. E. Van Every, chief of the aerodynamics section of Douglas Aircraft; and Dr. David M. Wilson, head of the SC civil engineering department, are some of the other outstanding speakers.
SC first held engineering classes 50 years ago and awarded its first engineering degree in 1908, according to Dean Robert E. Vivian. Now about $1 million worth of scientific research work is under way in the School of Engineering in the fields of guided missiles and aeronautical engineering.
WB Unravels TRG Past, Pidures Cerrell
By The Watchbird (Editor’s Note: This is the eighth in a series analyzing the campus political organization. Yesterday the Watchbird related the history of the “Free Greek” faction which became the TRG Party. Today he gives impressions of the present TRG party.)
It is impossible to explain the contemporary picture of Trojans for Representative Government Party without telling the story of Joe Cerrell, the independent who runs the Row party.
Joe Cerrell loveg politics. Coming to SC as a freshman in the spring of 1953, he immediately went into active participation in Bo Jansen’s wavering Unity Party. Joe worked hard when Unity was desperately in need of hard workers. Paradoxically, his first position in SC politics was campaign manager for Murray Bring when Bring was elected independent men’s representative in the special election of March 1953.
Joe Became VP
Joe became vice-chairman of Unity and Jansen’s chief political lieutenant in the Unity-TRG coalition campaign of 1953. When Jansen resigned late in 1953, Cerrell took over briefly as Unity chairman before the party collapse.
When Unity dissolved, many of the former Unity members vowed to organize an independent party with “no pacts with the Row and no Row people as members.” However, Cerrell and Jerry Baker refused to condemn cooperation with the Row, and stayed out of the new independent party which collaDsed in a few weeks.
Cerrell joined TRG and worked hard in the background during last year’s’campaign. When there was work to be done, Joe was there to do it and his efforts in behalf of many candidates brought him a following in the party.
Joe Elected Chairman
Last fall, Joe—a sophomore—was elected chairman of TRG. At first some people thought Cerrell was just a figurehead and his chairmanship was just a gimmick to attract independent votes. While his position may attract independents, he definitely is not a figurehead. Joe Cerrell i3 the leader of TRG.
Cerrell’s key to leadership seems to lie in a basic knowledge of political strategy and a willingness to work very hard. During campaign months he averages eight hours a day on TRG activities.
Politics is a game to Joe. “Some independents sit in the Independent Representatives’ Office playing bridge all day,” he once said. “I go in for politics instead.”
Cerrell also participates in state and national politics. He is president of the Trojan Democratic Club and has been active in Democratic activities in this Assembly district.
Largely due to Cerrell’s insistance, TRG no longer endorses more than one candidate for each office except for minor positions such as class vice presidents. Also, TRG houses are not allowed to run candidates without party support. If a candidate in a TRG house does not get the party nomination, he just doesn’t run.
In the special election this spring, Alpha Gamma Delta President Barbara Frank didn’t get the TRG nomination bi< decided to run without party support against TRG-en-dorsed Sue Corwin.
Alpha Gam’s Expelled
The Alpha Gam’s were expelled from the party. Said Cerrell, “Barbara is either with us or against us—there is no middle ground.”
The expelled Alpha Gamma Delta, Zeta Tau Alpha, and Alpha Omicron Pi are the only sororities not in TRG presently. AOPi’s petition for TRG membership Is pending.
TRG membership rolls include 15 fraternities and 12 sororities. These houses and the independent membership of TRG represent some 1750-2000 potential voters.
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