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Vol. 31
Pasadena junior college, September 22, 1939
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AT 8 TONIGHT
No.2
FROSH HI-JINX AT T
TOMORROW NIGHT
Aviation
Flight course
applications
available
Long-felt rumors concerning a gov¬
ernment-sponsored aviation course at
PJC gained official confirmation this
week with the announcement by the
PJC flight training committee that ap¬
plications for the course are available
immediately in the offices of Dr. Irving
Weitzel on the east campus and Dr.
Archie Turrell on the west campus.
Presented under the supervision of
the Civil Aeronautics authority of the
federal government, the new course in
no way prepares students for military
aviation, and it is not connected with
either the army or navy. The CAA was
created by Congress to advance the
cause of civilian aviation and com¬
mercial operations.
The requirements for enrollment in
the course are: The applicant must be
from 18 to 25 years of age as of Sept. 1,
1939; a citizen of the United States;
must be of senior standing at PJC with
a “B” average in studies (grade point
ratio 2.00 or better) ; and must pass an
extensive medical examination by gov¬
ernment-selected doctors.
The course offered here includes a
ground school of technical subjects
connected with flying, and a regular
series of flight lessons to be given at
some nearby airport, probably Alham¬
bra.
Flight training starts November 1
and consists of half-hour flight les¬
sons five days a week in ships pro¬
vided by a government-approved opera¬
tor. This series of lessons will con¬
tinue throughout the college year. On
completion of the course, students will
be in line for a private pilot’s license.
The ground school will convene on
the west campus.
Of interest to women students is the
information that out of only 20 women
to be trained in the entire state this
year, PJC has received a quota of ten
women students, the other ten being
trained at Mills college.
Mallorymen autograph
football to be used
as door prize
Topping off the first week of college
life for the freshmen the Student Chris¬
tian Association will sponsor “The
Kickoff” tomorrow evening at 7:30 in
the Pasadena YMCA, Marengo at
Holly.
Guests of honor for the evening will
be the varsity Bulldogs, who will sign
a white football to be featured as the
door prize. The program, headed by
Student Body President Howard Clapp,
master of ceremonies, is planned as
follows:
Starting at 7:30 will be a Walt Dis¬
ney short to be followed by Celeste
Clauser, with Spanish dances; Lamont
Johnson, reading; Lawrence Omohun-
ero, piano solo, and an accordian quar¬
tet.
For those dancing, Jay George and
his orchestra will play from 9:30 until
12 o’clock.
Indoor sports under the direction of
Mr. Summers, YMCA, and H. Reeder
of PJC, have been arranged for those
who do not dance. Freshmen may se¬
cure free tickets at the ticket window
on either campus by showing their
identification cards or by applying
through the orientation classes.
Low prices offered
for Mission play
Great reductions in prices are offered
to PJC students for John Steven Mc-
Groarty's “Mission Play,” which is to
be given in the Civic auditorium for a
week beginning September 25. On
Wednesday and Thursday, the 27th and
28th, students showing their student-
body tickets at the box office are able
to get orchestra seats at 55 cents, and
balcony seats at 30 cents. Normal prices
for these seats will be $1.10 and 55
cents.
This celebrated historical drama is
the same play which ran for 21 con¬
secutive seasons at San Gabriel. It
closed in 1933, after setting a record
of 3169 performances, the longest run
of any drama outside New York City.
New legal system
PJCs court procedure,
unique in country 7s schools
PJC’s student government has been made even more like that of an
American municipality by the addition of a full-fledged legal system,
with prosecutors, attorneys and a Bar association in addition to the
already established court.
Crit icisms of the court as the weakest part of the student govern¬
ment caused Chief Justice Harlan Erickson and members of the Student
Legal society to get together over the summer and draft a new legal
code and a new set of court procedure. The legal code was adopted offi¬
cially at a meeting of the student body board Tuesday, September 19,
and the new court procedure has been ratified by the five justices and put
into effect by them. Full text of the code will be found at the end of this article.
Most important feature of he new legal cod is the “teeth” which have been
put into it by ’a section reading as follows: “Any student refusing to abide by
the rulings and judgments of the Associated Students’ court shall be denied any
further rights as a member of the Associated Student body.” This section ostra¬
cizes students who formerly had laughed when the chief justice would say "I fine
you $2.”
The new code, completely comprehensible yet specific and forceful, divides
violations into misdemeanors and felonies, providing definite fines and penalties
for each. The code supplies labor requirements which may be substituted in
place of fines for those students who are unable to pay fines.
ELECTIONS COMMISSIONER
Elections are efficiently provided for by the setting up of an elections com¬
missioner, in charge of all elections but responsible to the chief justice and the
board of representatives, thus taking care of the difficult situation that has oc¬
curred often in the past when the chief justice has run for office. The code also
establishes a complete set of election rules.
These extensive changes in the code of course called for great revision of the
court procedure. Outstanding among these changes, and outstanding in schools
of this country is the system of prosecutors and attorneys that has been estab¬
lished. In charge of he prosecutors is the student prosecutor, Ed Sudrala, and
leading the attorneys is Warren Allen, president of the Student Legal society
and the PJC Bar association. The court itself has been enlarged to a three-way
system, consisting of a Minor court, a Superior court and a Supreme court. The
Minor court has the preliminary hearing of all arrested students. It sets sentence
in cases where the student pleads guilty and sets the hearing in one of the other
courts when the student pleads not guilty. The Minor court is presided over by
Continued on page two
present
semester
Mast and Dagger will
first assembly of new
Assistance
Conferring with Dean of Men Andre L. Stong are three of his four senior
assistants. Left to right: Peter Burrows, Don Wierda, Mr. Stong and Sid Brown.
Shavenau Glick is the fourth assistant.
Dean Stong appoints
lour senior assistants
Four seniors, and perhaps more later on, will aid Dean of Men Audre L.
Stong in his work this year. Mr. Stong has found it impossible to interview
even a good-sized fraction of all the men students, so these senior assistants will
try to remedy this condition.
The assistants are Peter Burrows, Don Wierda, Sid Brown and Shavenau
Glick. They are equipped to handle questions concerning all phases of jaysee
life; Burrows is a bandsman, Silver Screener, ROTC lieutenant and is interested
in general service; Wierda is interested in oral arts, student administration, or¬
ganizations and carries a social science major and English minor; Brown majors
in music and is competent to handle the problems of science students; Glick is an
expert on publications and athletics.
“I realize that students would rather tell their troubles to another student
than to an adult like myself,” Mr. Stong commented. “Also, I feel that my four
assistants would be able to interview a much greater number of boys during one
semester.”
Mr. Stong’s offices have been en¬
larged by the addition of room 146, giv¬
ing his staff more space for its work.
Wanted
Stevens club hears
bishop at breakfast
The Right Rev. Bertram Stevens,
bishop of Los Angeles, addressed
Episcopalian members of PJC’s student
body and faculty at the Stevens club
breakfast last Wednesday.
Officers of the club this semester are
Frank Belcher, chairman; Nancy Mc¬
Farland, secretary; and Anne Clark,
treasurer. Plans are being formulated
for a supper-dance on Wednesday, Oc¬
tober 4.
The most memorable vacation of her
career will be ended for Miss Dorothy
Dixon, PJC composition instructor,
September 30, when she returns to
Pasadena after being aboard the Bri¬
tish liner Athenia when it was torpe-
Little is appointed
elections director
New rules governing student elec¬
tions, accepted Wednesday by the
board in its approval of the new stu¬
dent code, will be directed by Lois
Little, former student court justice,
who has been appointed elections com¬
missioner by Chief Justice Harlan
Erickson.
The new code prevents the chief
justice from campaigning for an of¬
fice in an election over which he pre¬
sides. It also regulates campaign tac¬
tics, provides for prosecution and pun¬
ishment of violators.
The Chronicle needs reporters!
If you are interested in journalism
come into the Chron office, 37C, today
or the first of next week for an assign¬
ment. It is not necessary to take a
journalism course in order to write for
the Chronicle.
FINAL SUBJECT A EXAMS
Final subject A examinations re¬
quired of lal 13-1 students who have
not taken the test previously will be
given Saturday, September 30. Re¬
port to the scholl bank at 8 a.m. and
pay the $2.50 fee.
doed off the coast of Scotland early
this month.
Leaving Pasadena in June, Miss
Dixon made an extensive tour of
Europe. Caught in the opening of
World War II she sought passage to
the United States along with thousands
of stranded American tourists.
She booked passage on the ill-fated
Athenia and sailed from Glasgow. Af¬
ter the sinking of the vessel by a Ger¬
man U-boat she was rescued by the
SS Orizaba which will dock in New
York, September 27.
LEO FACTO RETURNS
Europena visitor number two from
PJC, Leo Facto, west campus social
science instructor, returned to Pasa¬
dena this week.
Facto was aboard the SS Champlain
which sailed from England one day
ahead of the liner Athenia. Facto
spent the summer in Holland. While
there he studied entensively the pre¬
parations of the Dutch for neutrality
to be observed in the war which is now
a reality.
MARIMBA BAND,
KNIFE THROWER
ON PROGRAM
Dick Winslow, marimba playing
dance band leader, and his orchestra
will be the main feature of the semi-
semesterly Order of Mast and Dagger
assembly today.
In addition to the orchestra, there
will be a comedy, rough and tumble
dance team, a dog act and a knife
throwing act. The knife thrower, an
expert, will ask for someone in the
audience to come up on the stage and
be a human target. He will frame the
volunteer with knives, throwing them
as close to the person as possible.
FIRST AND LAST
Highest honorary club at PJC, the
Order of Mast and Dagger has the
privilege of presenting the programs
for the first and last assemblies of each
semester. On the last day of each se¬
mester they sponsor an assembly when
new members are taken in.
The regular assembly schedule will
be followed with the assembly on the
east campus at 8:55 and on the west
campus at 10:39.
Recordings
Music hour
extended
Room 200C has been acquired by the
Campus Music Hour, student-produced
weekly review of the world’s greatest
music, as its new concert hall for the
coming school year. In addition to
new quarters, the Music Hour has
gained an extension in time, present¬
ing three hours of fine recordings each
week instead of the two hours fea¬
tured last year.
On the west campus, a one-half hour
program of organ music played by
Mrs. Frances Smith will be presented
in the auditorium.
STRAUSS ON WEDNESDAY
Next week’s program on the east
campus will consist of Viennese waltzes
composed by Johann Strauss, including
his “Voices of Spring,” “Artist’s Life,”
“Emperor Waltz” and “Wiener Blut.”
This recorded series will be presented
for one hour Wednesday, starting at
12:20 p. m., and two hours Thursday,
starting at 11:20 and 12:20 p. m.
Secretary of music, Yvonne Han¬
cock, has promised a new and interest¬
ing program of fine recorded music
each week on the Campus Music Hour,
and has expressed the desire that stu¬
dents who appreciate this type of en¬
tertainment will support it by attend¬
ing the performances in room 200C.
ARTIST SERIES CEASES
The Campus Artist Series, which
brought to the PJC campus last year
prominent professional concert singers,
dancers and instrumentalists, has been
discontinued this season, but may be
revived if enough student interest is
shown in such an undertaking, Miss
Hancock indicated. An increased
amount of student support may make
possible the presentation of programs
featuring PJC campus talent in addi¬
tion to the professional artists hereto¬
fore engaged.
Communications concerning the
Campus Music Hour or the Artist se¬
ries may be addressed to Miss Yvonne
Hancock, secretary of music, and may
be left in her box in the student body
offices.
Campus Music Hour
In room 200C, east campus
Wednesday — 12:20 p. m.
Thursday — 11:20 and 12:20 p. m.
“WALTZES OF JOHANN STRAUSS”
(Recorded)
1. Voices of Spring
2. Artist’s Life
3. Emperor Waltz
4. Wiener Blut
In auditorium, west campus
Wednesday — 12 :20
Half-hour organ music .
. Mrs. Frances Smith
PJC teacher on Athenia
to return September 30