1948-03-10; Central Michigan Life

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Band Concert
Tomorrow Night
VOLUME 29
Elections
Tomorrow
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1948
Award Winners, Freshmen
NUMBER 19
Fourteen Frosh
Run ior Office
Freshman elections will take
place tomorrow in the foyer of Warriner hall. Fourteen candidates are
competing for the office of president, vice-president, secretary and
treasurer. The polls will be open
from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
After a week of intensive canvassing for freshmen class candidates, highlighted .by fourteen petitions turned in at the Personnel
office Wednesday, March 3, these
petitions were checked .and candidates have been announced.
Those freshmen slated as nominees are as follows: president, Kirk
Driver, Midland, Grant Little,
Grant City, Mark Spagnuolo, Caro,
Edward Valade, Traverse City, Raymond Weber, Saginaw and Charles
Alexander, Owosso.
Vice-president, Alan Stuart, Royal Oak and Paul Klozik, Midland.
Secretary, Velma Muntz, Cass
City, Clara Zelenka, Owosso, Ver-
mina Metcalf, Caro and Mary Ge-
Bauer, Elkton.
Treasurer, Bob Johnson, Graying and Arnold Wilson, Hastings.
Election polls will be open on the
second floor of the administration
building from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Thursday, March 11.
Cabinet Passes
Ban on Alcohol
A new ruling, affecting all off-
campus parties, was passed by the
President's cabinet Monday, March
1. No  off-campus  party will be
approved ait a place where there
is a bar unless the bar is closed
during the time of the party. This
rule went into effect immediately,
except in such cases where the
parties had been scheduled ahead
of time and could not be cancelled.
Listed are the set of rules which
have been in affect plus the new
ruling which was just passed by the
cabinet:
1. Parties are to be arranged jointly by the supervisor of student
groups, the chief officer of the organization and its faculty advisor.
2. The regulations to govern parties must be adopted by the organization, agreed to by all persons who
are to be members of the party and
approved by the three officers listed under No. 1 above.
3. It is agreed by all concerned
that the advisor of the group or the
chaperon of the party will report
immediately to the Dean of Students
violation of any of these regulations.
4. As far as possible parties are
to be listed on the printed social
calendar for the semester in which
they are to be held.
5. Alcoholic beverages such as
"wine, beer, hard liquor, etc. are not
*o be brought on to property owned
by the college or used by college organizations.
If such beverages are brought on
to college owned or college used
Property, students bringing such beverages on to the property or using
such beverages on the property shall
See—ALCOHOL—-Page 6
Band, Gives
Winter Concert
Tomorrow Night
The Central Michigan college
concert band, under the direction
of Norman C. Dietz, is presenting
its winter concert tomorrow evening in Warriner hall auditorium at
3:15.
The program will' last about an
hour and fifteen minutes and will
present works from Morton Gould,
Sigmund Romberg, David Rose,
Tschaikowsky, Jerome Kern, plus
several other composers.
There will be no admission for
this concert.
The following week, March 17 and
18, the concert band will wind up
their winter season with a two-day
tour of northern Michigan where
they will play concerts at a number of high schools.
Graduating Seniors
The largest graduation class in
the history of the college is slated
"to graduate this coming June. At
Present, 216 seniors have been list-
e<i as graduation candidates, whereas last year there was a total of
201.
Red Cross Drive
Opens at Central
The National Red Cross drive
opened at Central Michigan college on March 9 and will continue
until the quota of $521.50 is met.
Professor Harry A. Miller of the
English department is chairman of
the drive, and he stated that a letter has been sent to the presidents
of all campus organizations urging each organization to contribute.
Professor Miller said that in the
past both faculty and students have
cooperated well in meeting Central's quota. Contributions may be
given to Professor Miller or to the
following people in charge of the
local drives: Mr. Richard Lichtenfelt, Keeler and Reservation; Professor Frank Robinson, -Grawn
hall; Miss Ethel M. Praeger, College elementary school; assistant
prof. Jane McNamara, gymnasium;
professor Harry A. Miller, Warriner
'hall; assistant prof. Rosalind M.
Mentzer, Ronan hall, and assistant prof. Dorothy Schaefer, Sloan
hall.
AWS Candidates
Appear Tonight
Candidates for Associated Women students council members for
the coming year will be presented
tonight at 7:15 p.m. in the auditorium. This is the only required
assembly for all girls this semest-
er.
The program will include a model
meeting to be presented by the
AWS council; short reports to be
given on the coming style show,
coed carnival, band concert and
AWS elections; and also a report
on what the AWS really is.
Audio-Visual Films
to Be Shown H?re
Coming attractions for the.Physi-
cal Education, Health Education,
and Psychology and Education
classes will be films sponsored by
the Audio-visual department on
"Emotional Health," shown on
March 15-17; "Children Of Tragedy" shown on March 19; Body
Care and Grooming," April 5-7;
"Peoples of the U.S.S.R." and
"Young Uruguay," April 2; and
"Human Reproduction," April 12-
14.
Receives Award
Don Nelson, Cheboygan senior, left, awards Senator Wayne
Lyman Morse a special distinction diamond key at a dinner given
in his honor. See story page 6.
Guilty? Maybe
You Can Decide
Is Karen Andre a murderer? This
is the question which must be answered by the hand-picked jury from
•the audience in the murder trial of
"Night of January 16" to be presented by Masquers March 16, 17,
and 18 at 8:15 pjn. in the college
auditorium.
The jury, to be selected from the
audience before each performance,
will occupy the jury-box on the
stage during the entire play. Between each act the twelve jurors
will be required to remain isolated from the" audience, and at
the end of the play they will retire
to a deliberation room until a verdict has been reached.
The selection  of   a   jury   in this
manner necessitates two endings to
the play, either of which may be
used depending upon the verdict.
Some well known people who have
appeared as jurors in the past are
Jack Dempsey, James Roosevelt,
RicardO Cortez, and Babe Ruth. Included in this group are four United
States Congressmen as well.
The leads are portrayed by Meegan Kelley as Karen, the girl on
trial; Gil Roberts as Flint, prosecuting attorney; Ernest Vegter as
Stevens, brilliant attorney for the
defense; and Joan Bush as Nancy,
wife of the murdered man.
Of this three-act play, by Ayn
Rand,   the late Percy   Hammond,
dramatic critic   for   a   New York
paper, has written, "I have the word
of no less an expert artist and showman than George M. Cohen .that
'Night   of January,; 1,6'   alternately
chilled and fired his blood with the
dramas, agues and fevers, more than
any other masterpiece that has come
within his experience."
The play is of such a nature that
the evidence of guilt or innocence
seems to be evenly balanced, causing a controversial question to be
answered by each new group of
jurors.
It may be significant, however,
that in past performances the number of acquittals have outnumbered
the convictions by more than three
See—-PLAY—Page 6
Awards Given
Later in Year
The annual Chippewa- Awards
election will take place tomorrow
from 8 ajn. to 5 p.m. in the second floor '"foyer of Warriner hall
when students "and faculty go to
the polls to choose the four most
outstanding seniors. This is one of
the highest honors • a senior can
receive. The electorate will1 he'ask-,
ed to base their votes on s,uch qualities as citizenship, scholarship, lead-,
erhip, versatility, and personality.
A list containing the names of
all eligible candidates will be posted at the voting booth. Faculty and
students are eligible to vote for the
four seniors of their choice. Ballots naming a person more than
once will be thrown out. Winners
will be the four students receiving
the most votes.
The four chosen for the honor
will be presented with the awards
later in the year. The women will
receive neck chains and the men
keys.
The Chippewa Award was originated in 1941 by the Chippewa
yearbook staff. In May, 1944, because of budget difficulties by the
Chippewa staff, the student council voted to finance the awards and
retain the name.
The election committee appointed by the student council is headed by Dennis Curry, Mt. Pleasant
freshman, other members of the
committee are Ester streeter, Saginaw sophomore, Helen Holz, Bad
Axe junior, and Ben Clark, Mt.
Pleasant sophomore.    .
Campaign Material
Limited to Foyer
"Plastering of campaign posters
and materials on walls, doors, windows,- and other college property
is strictly forbidden," says Mr. Norval Bovee, college business manager.
This restriction applies to use of
scotch tape, glue, pins, tacks, nails,
or any other other methods students might devise to display campaign materials.
"The materials to be exhibited
should be posted on bulletin boards
and placards in the second floor
foyer in Warriner,"* he stated.
Artist Course Committee
Takes Student Poll
The Artsist Course Committee,
made up of faculty and students
appointed by the President, is now
in the process of selecting artists
for the 1948-1949 season.
In order for this committee to obtain an expression of opinion from
the   student  body,   a  ballot  upon
which students may express their
opinions is in this weeks LIFE.
The   following   information
which will be helpful to all students in preparation for the filling out of the ballot.
Many problems face the committee  which  are not general knowledge to those who are not intimately connected with the job of
arranging the course. For instance
there  is   a   maximum   amount   of
money above which the committee
cannot go. That amount may vary
from year to year but it remains at
approximately   forty-five   hundred
dollars.  Thus, that figure must always be kept in mind. Then there
is, the question of how many ar-^
tists. Shall two or three very expensive attractions be purchased or
shall a greater number of less expensive attractions be brought to
the. college? How many speakers
should be included in the course and
what should be the nature of their
subjects?
The committee is faced with the
•problem of dates and the availability of certain artists, and the desirability of making the season's
program as interesting, as worthwhile, and as varied as possible.
In order that students may have
definite   information   relative   to
the costs of various types of at-  ,
tractions, there are listed below
the costs of obtaining such attractions. These are, of course, only
a few of the many artists avail-  .
able.today but they are representative., The committee hopes that
all students will consider this in-  -
formation seriously in preparing
their ballots.
See—POLL—-Page 4 "
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