1947-11-19; Central Michigan Life

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VOLUME 29
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, ISM*?
Officers Today
Half Million in Equipment Given
for Naval Electronics Program
Radio and electronics equipment^,
valued at over half a.million dollars will be sent to Central Michigan college as a part of the naval
reserve electronics training program which will operate here as
Electronics Warfare Company No.
9-127.
Lt. Francis A. Robinson, assistant professor of history, has been
named by the commandant of the
9th Naval' District to command the
unit. Assisting him will be Lt.
Theodore W. Cook as executive officer and! Lt. J. D. Marcus as
communications officer. Both Lt.
Cook and Lt. Marcus are college
faculty members.
Lt. Robinson announced that
openings exist for two more officers in the unit. He urges any
former navy officer (with a DL or
other type communications rating)
to get in touch with him.
Enlisted personnel of the Electronics Warfare unit will consist
of 40 men. It is desired that about
half of these men come from the
college and the others from anywhere in the county. Since the college men will be here on a rather
temporary basis, men from the Mt.
Pleasant area are needed to' form
a more permanent nucleus for the
company.
Lt. Robinson stated that the
program is intended to re-train
former navy and army electronics
men and to train new men who
show an interest in this type of
work.
Army men who have had communications or electronics training
will be enlisted in the naval reserve program with a rate corresponding to their former army rate.
Promotion while in the program
can be accomplished1 through examinations over the work covered.
Lt. Robinson explained that as
USNR training officer for the area,
in addition to commanding this
electronics unit, he has wide discretionary powers in making1 advancements in rate.
:Any advancements made here
will be carried over to the regular
inactive , reserve when the - man
See—NAVY—Page 6
'Sadie's' Day
Is Successful
Sadie Hawkins day, if not the
romantic thing it might have been,
was assuredly a social success following the assembly, and later, the
dance in the gym.
Only romantic success even hinted at at the dance was the mock
wedding officiated at by "Marrying
Sam" Thorpe when he, tied the
knot for Scotty Allen and Lucia
Labrosse, who, for Sadie Hawkins
day at least, gave up her never
ending search for the villain who
put the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's
chowder and settled down to more
practical things. After all, what
good are the overalls if- there is
no man in them?
Prizes were awarded to several
people at the dance for their unique and! attractive costumes. Dorothy Kasel, Alma junior, was selected the cutest gal there, while
Margaret Cardinal, Cadillac junior,
and Nairn Nathan, Bagdad, Iraq,
frosh took prizes as the most original pseudo-Dog Patchers. To Art
See—SADIE—Page 6
Outstanding Entertainers
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Life Staff. Needs
a Few Volunteers
Volunteers are needed to supplement the regular Life staff.
Because about 90% of the stories
have to be edited) Friday after-
aoon, the present staff realizes that
they cannot handle all the stories
jj1 the manner required. Persons
having skill as rewrite men or
headline writers are invited to see
either of the editors or Mr. Ivan
D- Col©, publications adviser.
A need also exists for a few re-
Porters to handle the bigger stories
each week. Special assignments
^U be made for the major stories
each week, as it is felt that these
will require more skill in writing
than a beginning journalism student possesses.
Feature material will be accepted
at all times. Features for the special Christmas issue are needed
especially.
Persons applying for staff membership should remember that there
"JS one requirement—dependability—
besides possession of the required
writing skill.
Nigerian Student
Is Newest Arrival
The latest arrival among foreign
students now attending this college is Thomas Ahyaogu Offiah of
Ano Ndizuo Gu, Nigeria.
Mr. Offiah, here on a scholarship provided by the state board of
education, plans to study the American education system and get a
degree so that he may return to
Nigeria and teach.
Central Michigan college was
recommended to him by a fellow
Nigerian who was lecturing at the
time for the "University of Chicago.
Mr. Offiah stated that he is highly impressed by the friendliness of
the faculty and students and that
he was pleasantly surprised at the
liberal nature of the curriculum in
that the individual student could
arrange- his studies from a rather
wide range of classes.
Two outstanding features of the .Sadie Hawkins assembly,
the string trio and the Dow down singing and swaying of Jean
Sutter are shown above. Art Kipp, Eddie Hanson and Harold
Clement are the boys in the trio.
Old Heating Plant
Is Still Useful
Many students have been wondering why the old' heating plant
hasn't long since been torn down.
Mr. Normal Bovee, business manager, disclosed that although
the heating plant looks like
it is merely taking up room
this is not the case ' at all. Actually the plant is the nerve center
of the campus. Through it the electrical distribution is controlled. It
also houses the junction of the
water and heating pipes. Before the
plant can be destroyed an underground vault must be constructed
to take its place, and the necessary funds are not available at
the present.
The emergency buildings next to
the heating plant will remain for
awhile too. They will not be destroyed until the new field house
and the new elementary building
are constructed. So far only $320,000
has been appropriated for the field
house which will take $1,000,000 to
complete. As yet the necessary
$680,000 hasn't been appropriated
for the elementary building.
'New Student Council Constitution Needed';
Pro Libs Launch Campaign at Council Meeting
Biggest issue brought before the
Student council at its bi-weekly
meeting last Thursday night was
the problem of setting up a committee to determine the advisability
of amending the present Council
constitution or forming an entirely new document.
Elements of the Pro Lib party
had circulated • a petition asking
that the constitution revision issue be brought before the council
for action.
The present council constitution,
say these people, is antiquated and
makes for inefficient handling of
many student government functions.
Following a short, but at times
heated debate, a committee was
appointed to determine* whether
the present document's deficiencies
were great enough to warrent drafting a new constitution—and to
draw up a rough draft of a new
constitution to be used as a guide
for the constitutional convention
if one is to be called.
John Lee, delegate to the NSA
meeting last summer, was named
chairman of the constitutional advisory . committee. Assisting him
Wil be Natalie Haglundi, Pat Jahnke,
Leon MeCord, Matt Musial and
George Mosher. Mr. Austin Knapp,
political science instructor, will be
asked to serve as a seventh member of the committee.    •
Council president Pat SWeeny
then proposed to name a three
person committee to determine the
advisability of merging the A.W-S.,
Men's Union and Social Activities
committee,.
The question was immediately
raised "Why is such a merger
necessaryi?"
: Council member George Mosher
(veterans representative on the
council and a Pro Liber) explained
that if Central were to have a
type of student government such
as is advocated by NlSA, then the
iSe(&-^ONiSTITUT!ION--iPage 6
No Opposition
for 7 Offices
Upperclassmen wil cast their ballots today to select class officers,
vice-presidents of the Men's union,
and Student council and. a sophomore representative^ to the Men's
union.
Unless some dark horse sticker
candidates make their appearance
at the last minute, election is virtually assured for seven candidates,
as there is no regular opposition for
their offices.
The vice-presidents of Men's
union and Student council will
automatically become presidents of
their respective organizations next
year.
The voting procedure has been
changed this year in an effort to
eliminate lines at the polls. Students are asked to present their
activity cards which will be punched when, the ballots are received.
Balloting will take place in the
foyer of the second floor of War-
See—EDITORIAL—iPage  2
riner hall from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The
folowing 22 candidates are running
for office in this general fall election:
Student council vice-president:
Ervin Ignash, Kinde junior. Men's
union vice-president: Clifford
Clack, Ionia junior. Men's union
sophomore representative: Ben
Clark, Brighton sophomore.
Senior Class
President: Suzanne Houghton,
Ionia; Donald Nelson, Cheyboygan.
Vice-president: • Patricia Jahnke,
Saginaw; Lester Thomas, Grand
Rapids. Secretary: Helen Andersen,
Muskegon; Alfred Hohneck, Cin-
cinatti. Treasurer: Jack Anderson,
Lupton; Marjorie Janson, Reese.
Junior Class
President: Donald Arsen, Detroit. Vice-president: • Paul Greer,
Fremont. Secretary: Helen Holz,
Bad Axe. Treasurer: Robert Tope,
Mt. Pleasant.
Sophomore Class
President: Keith Chisolm, Flint;
Lome MeCord, Detroit. Vice-president: William Walz, Coytesvihe, N,
J.; Isham Williams, Saginaw. Secretary: Frances Collver, Saginaw;
Rosalie Johnson, Manistee. Treasurer: Jaequelyn Lynch, Detroit.
Blanks will be provided on the
ballot so that any one wishing to
vote for sticker candidates may do
so.
Home Economics Dept.
Receives New Equipment
Two new gas stoves and an electric refrigerator, gifts of the
Michigan Consolidated Gas, Detroit Edison, and Consumer's Power companies were installed in the
home economics department of
Central Michigan college recently.
A osecond new gas refrigerator
and two new electric stoves soon
to be presented by the same companies are to be installed in the
new Arts & Crafts building when
the department relocates there
upon the building's completion.
Mrs. A. Fitzgerald of Big Rapids
and Miss Eleanor Morrison of
Grand Rapids were instrumental
in sponsoring the gifts on the
college's behalf, said Miss Rose
Hogue, head of the department.
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