1949-03-09; Central Michigan Life

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VOLUME 30
Seniors  Bequeath
Tests to
Sophomores
MT. PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1949
NUMBER 18
'49 CHIPPEWA
Ready to Roll
The   bigger   1949   edition of the
CHIPPEWA has been shipped to
the   printers   and   engravers. The
book is   larger by 16   pages and is
being   reproduced   by   the   letterpress method, considered superior to
the process used in recent editions.
Last semester, Mr. Ivan D. Cole,
adviser, Bonnie Jenks, editor, and
Den Foust, business manager, contracted for the finest kind of engravings.   In   addition   to   high
quality engravings being used, the
pictures will be of a larger size.
In the classes section will be more
individual pictures of students than
have been included in previous volumes. The staff has .given   greater
coverage to sports and features. The
cover differs from the types used in
the past yearbooks. In contrast to
last year's   publication, the CHIPPEWA of 1949 uses a   conservative
motif.
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CIRCULATION OF THE yearbook
is planned for the first week in
June. All students who have been
in attendance at Central both semesters of this school year will be
eligible to receive the book without
charge. The cost of the book is included in the semester fees. Students
enrolled for the first time this semester may obtain a CHIPPEWA
upon payment of $1.50 at the of circulation.
Organizations who have contracted for pages of the book are
requested to pay the business
manager immediately, as plans of
the book utilized a larger budget,
necessitating prompt payment of
all contracts.
Writer's Forum
Is Well Attended
"Poetry is not something remote
from the everyday experience of ordinary people," stated Dr. Edward
Davison, poet and lecturer, when he
addressed a group of faculty members and prospective writers at the
English conference, March 1.
"However, contemporary poetry
is confined mostly to the upper
reaches of graduate schools,]' he
said, "and it has been divorced
from the masses of the reading
public. It now seems to be considered a little too good for them."
Dr. Davison went on to say that
poetry should be returned to the
public to whom it belongs.
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DR. DAVISON arrived on the
campus Monday night to take a
principal part in the Writers' conference which took place all day
Tuesday and which was extended
through Wednesday morning. More
than 300 persons attended lectures
and group discussions.
Dr.    Davison offered   criticism
and  suggestions to  authors on
manuscripts submitted in advance.
He spoke to  college students on
creative  writing  and  conducted  a
clinic for high school poets.
Group discussions also were held
on short fiction, the essay, and
journalistic writing.
Chip Staff Celebrates End of Copy Writing
R. DeForest
Wins Office
Russell DeForest, Central's candidate for vice-president'of the conference on Public 'Affairs held in
Columbus, Ohio, March 2, 3, and 4,
not only won the nomination at his
party caucus but also won the election on the second ballot of the convention.
Thus he not only served on the
powerful steering committee but
also had the opportunity of serving as chairman of the assembly.
Other  members   elected   to 'the
Announce I-M
Debate Teams
Intramural debates have been
scheduled for the month of March,
announced Emil R. Pfister, director
of discussion and debate. The
teams- will be of mixed couples,
each team will participate in three
debates, each of which will be
judged toy faculty members and the
student audience. Bud Winters will
be in charge.
Plans are also being made to
stage a debate • for Sacred Heart
Acadamy. Francis Amond, Mt.
Pleasant sophomore, is working
with the students in preparation
for inter scholastic debates next
year.
The college intramural debate
teams are as follows: Marjorie Ann
Cherette and Gordon Britten, Robin Key and JoAnn Haglund, Esther
Streeter and Lee Scott, Jerry
Schuette and Mildred Fisher, Russell DeForrest and Marjorie Lass,
Mary Wright and Lee Hout, "Vir-
jean Brewer and "tfelson Hickman,
June Newman and Jack Slagle,
and Kathleen Markling and Cal
Constantakis.
AWS Assembly
to Be Tonight
A required' assembly for women
students will be tonight in Warriner auditorium. The main purpose of
the assembly called by the* Associated Women students will be to introduce the candidates for officers
of that organization to be elected
March 17.
Beverly Mell, Detroit freshman,
chairman of the event, announced
that several skits would be given
to show what AWS has done for
women students on Central's campus. There will be an opportunity
for women to make suggestion as
to what they want AWS to do in
the future.
Shirley Wells, Davison junior, will
sing, and Joan Force, Saginaw junior, will recite "The Thip." Others
participating in the'program will be:
Margaret Ann Johnson, Donna Bau-
kus, (Margaret Dacey, Mary Alice
Gordon, Sally Campbell, Clara Zel-
enka, Marie McElroy, Mary K. Taylor, Jackie Duncan, and Margaret
Ross.
Central Inaugurates New
Sophomore Testing Program
Four new members were initiated
into the Home Economics club at
their regular meeting February 22.
Refreshments were served after the
meeting.
The college has inaugurated a
new testing program.
Hereafter every campus student
whose total hours of earned credit
falls at or between 29 and 58 semester hours on March 2 will be
required to take the National
sophomore tests.
They will be given at Central
this year on March 23 and 24. On
those dates all sophomores will be
relieved of responsibility for, class
attendance during testing hours.
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THE STUDENTS WILL be divided into two groups. Group I—students whose initials begin with A to
L. Group H—students whose last
names begin with M to Z. Group I
will meet either Wednesday at 9 to
12 a.m. or Thursday at 4 p.m. Group
II will meet either Wednesday at
4 p.m. or Thursday at 9 to 12 a.m.
These tests will be administered
in the college auditorium by Miss
Esther Altman, supervisor of testing. Assurance has been given
that proper lighting facilities will
be installed to provide effective
working conditions.
The tests will cover contemporary
affairs, English knowledge and usage
and general culture.
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IT IS EXPECTED that the results of these tests will provide data
Arts & Crafts Exhibit
Features Student Work
<An exhibit of prints is now on
display in the second-floor gallery
of the Arts & Crafts builaing.
The featured prints are the works
of students of Cass Technical high
school, Detroit.
Margaret Millar, art director, invites all students to take advantage
of the exhibit which will close
March 10.
Four Centralites
Attend Speech Meet
Four central students ' attended
the annual meeting of the Michigan
Intercollege Speech league at
Alma college March 4. Those taking
the trip were: Lois Blanchard,
Grand Haven sophomore; Barbara
Hunter, Lake George sophomore;
William Pietscher, St. Louis freshman; and Benjamin Clark, Mt.
Pleasant junior.
to aid the curriculum committees in
proposing curriculum and course
improvements.
The Michigan college association, and the State department of
public instruction, have entered
into an agreement which makes it
necessary to report to the State
superintendent of public instruction the 'scores achieved on these
tests by each student who expects
to be a teacher.
There is no doubt that the test
results will also enable each testee
to plan more effectively his subsequent program of college study. The
results will" be made available to
each one who takes the tests.
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THE SOPHOMORE testing program has been conducted nationally
for many years in a large number of
co-operating colleges and universities.
The tests permit each student
to understand how he rates in
cultural achievement in comparison with many thousands of other
sophomores throughout the nation.
The senior testing program which
has been carried on here for many
years, and which in numerous cases
proved especially valuable to those
who took it, has been discontinued
at present. Funds are not available
■See—TESTING—Page  4
Central Michigan college debaters will debate the University
of Michigan team today at 4:30
pjn. in W267 and W355. The debate will be the cross-examination type and is open to the public.
Bed Cross Quota
Is Set at $51
A quota of $550 has been set for
this college in the American National Red Cross drive, which began
Tuesday, March 8, and will continue
until the quota has been reached.
One of the college organizations
will set up a table in Warriner hall
foyer to accept student donations,
according to Prof. Harry Miller,
chairman of the college drive.
Assisting in the drive are: Miss
Ethel Praeger, elementary school;
Claude Love, in Grawn hall; Jane
McNamara, physical education
building; Richard Lichtenfelt, Keeler union.
Solicitation of residence students
will take' place in Ronan. Keeler,
Barnard, and Sloan halls.
steering committee were Joseph De-
Salvo of Washington and Jefferson-
college, Barbara Johnson of Michigan State, and Harry Griffith of
the United States Military academy.
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GORDON BRITTEN, campaign
manager for DeForest, arranged to
have the nomination speech given
by David Brown of Wilberforce, a
Negro college. The seconding speech
was given by Ester Streeter.
Hagen Grosse, sophomore from
Berlin, Germany, served on the
committee on European problems
in which he spoke regarding the
Berlin situation.
Central's delegation was advised
by Mr. Emil R. Pfister, assistant professor of speech and director of discussion and debate, who was a member of the evaluation committee.
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THE CONFERENCE was sponsored by the department of speech
of Ohio State university and was
attended by 200 delegates from 44
colleges and universities from 16
states. Other Michigan colleges participating were Hope college and the
University of Michigan.
Listening Hour
Sponsored by DO
^Jim Leonard, Mt. Pleasant senior,
was the narrator yesterday afternoon at the Public Listening hour
sponsored by the Delta Omicron sorority.
The program was entitled "This
Modern Stuff."" Howard Hansen,
Stravinsky, and other present day
modern composers were discussed
and examples of their music were
given   through   the.   medium   of
phongraph recordings.
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THE NEXT Public Listening hour
is scheduled for March 22 at 3 p.m..
in the woman's lounge of "Keeler
union. This program is entitled!
"Curtain Call" and will include discussions and illustrations of certain
operas and operettas. All students-
and faculty members are invited to
attend.
Miss Emma Lou Cooper, teacher
at the college elementary school.,
was pledged into Delta Sigma Epsilon at the home of Nina Conway,
Mt. Pleasant sophomore. Miss Cooper
will act as adviser of the sorority.   •
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