1943-11-24; Central Michigan Life

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By Arm Gidilewich
Hallelujah, the beautiful dream of
hall Sloan residents—■hot water—has
become a reality. A shower is no
longer an Arctic expedition and we
have hot and cold running for all.
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We thought they were freshmen
too, when last week girls newly accepted into the Physical Education
club went about campus in clothes.
There's nothing unusual in that,
but these clothes were inside out.
The "good deal" was the traditional
red apple handed to instructors.
All this is faintly reminiscent of
freshmen hell week, which has
dwindled down to mere shower-
dunking and bed-making. In short
the hell has gone out of "hell week"
with the pajama parade.
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Enigma. For days now we have
been gnawed by a persistent curiosity. Does that boy we saw
carefully stacking and wrapping
wishbones really collect them?
Was the lad really following a
noble hobby or was he merely
dishing out foul (foul pun) sarcasm?   We wanna know.
* *   *
After three weeks one of the
freshmen comes out of the phone
booth with a baffled but beatific
expression. "Gee, you don't have to
put nickels in."
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Pure chatter . . . Yvonne Bates
placidly combing or should we say
carding, huge sheepskin mittens in
the Keeler lounge ... A cat nap
being snatched by a V-12 stretched
out on the couch in the Ad. building foyer . . . Bette Baldwin casually strolling down the "cafe" with a
cup of coffee in one hand and a
piece of toast in the other.
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That's an idea. If one can't go
home for Thanksgiving, one writes
one's mother and has Thanksgiving dinner mailed to Sloan hall.
We shall investigate further tomorrow. Cold turkey can't be too
bad.
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Oh well, we never did like busses
anyhow.
Prospective Grads
Urged to Enroll
AU students graduating in February, June, or August of 1944 who desire teaching positions must enroll
at the placement office this month,
according to Park G. Lantz, director
of laboratory schools. Registration
papers may be acquired from that
office. These must be returned by
Monday, November 29. After that
date a fine of one dollar will be required of every late registrant.
Lantz expects between 50 and 60
candidates to register for elementary or graded teaching positions, 50
for high school, and 30 for rural.
This estimate is based on the number of students now doing practice
teaching.
Demand for teachers next fall will
be great according to all reports
and observations. Total vacancies
each year have steadily increased.
In junior and senior high schools
in 1943 there were 492 more vacancies than in 1939, and in other
schools vacancies have also increased. In the majority of -cases
statistics show that vacancies for
every subject taught in any grade
have more than doubled since 1942.
Data shows that in 1942 and 1943
the placement office placed all students who registered for positions
with an academic or specializing.
All students with limited degrees
were also placed.
CAFETERIA LUNCH HOURS
Cafeteria line Munch, hours have
been- set at 11:10 a. no. to 1 p. m»,
to conform to new class periods
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NORVALL G. BdvlftB
VOLUME 25
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1843
NUMBER 3
A WS Names Fall Election Nomine*
Group Meeting
Dates Announced
Dean of Women's Office Releases Schedule.
Organization meeting nights for
the current semester have been released by the dean of women's
office. Since the social calendar
is going to press- before the end of
this week, it will be necessary that
anyone wishing to make changes
do so at the dean of women's office
immediately. "Even" and "odd"
weeks refer to even and odd weeks
of the semester.
EVEN WEEKS
Monday
Strings     4:30 p.m.
Band     4:30 p.m.
Panhellenic  Council     5:00 p.m.
A Cappella   7:00 p.m.
Applemlossom      7:30 p.m.
Student Council  ,.,  7:30 p.m.
Tuesday
Band     ... „  4:30 p.m.
Inter-fraternity council   4:30 p.m.
Orchestra      7:00 p.m.
Helen R. Emmons     7:30 p.m.
Wednesday
Band    „  4$0 p.m.
Glee  Club     7:00 p.m.
Kappa Delta  Pi    7:30 p.m.
Kappa  Mu  Epsilon     7:30 p.m.
Chippewa  Christian Fellowship    8:30 p.m.
Thursday
Orchestra     4:30 p.m.
Appleblossom     7:00 p.m.
Friday
Home Ec.  Club   7:00 p.m.
ODD WEEKS
Monday
Strings    '.  4 :S0 p.m.
Band     4:30 p.m.
A  Cappella    7:00 p.m.
Student Council  7:30 p.m.
Tuesday
Ban*     4:30 p.m.
A.W.S.   Council    5:00 p.m.
Orchestra     .'.  7:00 p.m.
Y. W. C. A  7:00 p.m.
Wednesday
Band     4:30 p.m.
Glee  Club     7:00 p.m.
Chippewa  Christian Fellowship    8:30 p.m.
All sororities and fraternities 7:00 p.m.
Thursday
Band    _  4:30 pi.m.
Orchestra     4:30 p.m.
Men's   Union     7:30 p.m.
Commerce   Club     7:30 p.m.
Friday
Physical Education  Club    7:30 p.m.
Y. M. C. A  7:30 p.m.
SPECIAL SCHEDULES
Sigma Tau Delta—Second Wednesday of
every calendar month   7:00 p.m.
Pi Kappa Delta—Fourth Wednesday of
every calendar month   7:30 p.m.
House President's Council—First Wednesday of each month    5:00 p.m.
calendar  month    9:00 a.m.
Mercier    Club—Second    Sunday    of    each
Trimmings Galore
for Navy Dinner
Thanksgiving dinner will be observed with the traditional turkey
and "trimmings" at Ronan's V-12
mess-hall tomorrow.
The Junior Red Cross will decorate the sailor's dining-room which
will accomodate the 350 men expected for dinner in two shifts, one
at noon and the other at 1 o'clock
p.m. Since they will enjoy a vacation from classes, some men will be
guests of Mt. Pleasant and neighboring city families for the day.
Those eating at Ronan are in for
a real food-fest too.. No fooling,
350 pounds of turkey, 5 bushels of
potatoes, 5 dozen heads' of lettuce,
120 quarts of dressing, 50 pounds of
tomatoes, 8 dozen bunches of celery,
72 quarts of fruit cup, 60 pounds
of peas, 60 pounds of com, 700 rolls,
60 pies and 140 quarts of milk will
be downed at this "ration rassle."
'. Incidentally, a new record was
set last Thursday noon by the girls
In the chow line when they served
ithe entire battalion in 32 minutes.
iThis eclipses by one minute the
'previous mark of 33 minutes.
SHOPPING SERVICE
The A.W.S. Shopping service
will be open from 12:30 to 1:30
and from 4:30 to 5:30 every day,
starting today, in the outer part
of the deaati of women's office.
The service will shop for sailors or
make suggestions for gifts for
their Christmas shopping.
MARY JEAN COON
Chairman
SURGICAL DRESSINGS
The home economics sewing
room will be open the following
nights this week for those who
wish to make surgical dressings:
Wednesday, November 24, from 7
to 9 p. m. and Friday, November
26, from 3 to 5 p. m.
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NAVY MEN
Any V-12 men interested
dramatics who can rehearse from
4:30 to 6 p. in. amy evening are
asked to leave their names in the
office of Dr. Wilbur E. Moore,
W354-A.
'Barber of Seville'
to Be Here Friday
American Opera Company
Will Present Two Performances in Auditorium.
Two performances of Rossini's
best known opera, "The Barber of
Seville," will be presented as the
next number of the lecture series
this Friday. Matinee curtain time
will be at 2:30 p.m., while the evening presentation will begin at 8:30
p.m.
Set in Seville, Spain, in the 17th
century, this light opera relates the
great love between Rosina and
Count Almaviva. The barber, Figaro
brings the couple together regardless of the fact that Rosina's uncle,
old Dr. Martolo does not approve of
the match and tries to prohibit the
marriage.
Characters in order of appearance
include Count Almaviva, George Or-
tell, tenor; Figaro, Reed Lawton,
baritone; Dr. Bartolo, Fompilo Ma-
latesta, basso; Rosina, Lydia Cor-
tese, soprano; Don Basillo, Nino
Carboni, basso; Bertha, Mildred Talbot, mezzo-soprano; Fiorello, Alexander Andrayan, basso.
Tord Benner will be conductor;
Helen Drummond, narrator, and
Reed Lawton, director. Costumes are
by Gigi, and scenes by  Clelya.
Council Committee
Plans Assemblies
Voluntary assemblies for the remainder of the semester were tentatively planned last Thursday by
an assembly committee from the
.Student council. Committee members include James Crippen, Ann
Arbor sophomore; Lujean Lirones,
Mt. Pleasant junior, and Dr. D.
Louise Sharp, dean of women.
First of four assemblies is scheduled for Monday, December 20, when
various branches of the music department will present a Christmas
program. Second will be style show
on January 19, under the direction
of the AWS. This program will be
put on in cooperation with the art,
physical education, and home economics departments. On January 26
the freshmen students on campus
will endeavor to show "Ye old upper classmen" what talents they
possess. An evening of varied musical entertainment is in store for
students February 9 when the concert band and V-12 13 present a
combined program of overtures, fantasies, marches and dance music.
Two more required assemblies are
listed for January 12 and February
16.
With the exception of the first assembly on Efecember 2 all will be
presented at 8:15 p.m., Wednesdays
in the auditorium. The Monday, December 20 assembly is so scheduled
because Christmas vacation begins
on   the Wednesday of that week.
tCouncil Members
Will Be Chosen
on
Council Appoints
Pol) Committee
A committee to oversee fall elections Of upperclass officers and Student council vice-president, Monday,
Dec. 13, was appointed at the council meeting Monday night. Bill
Gregory, Escanaba sophomore and
president of last year's freshmen
class, was named chairman. Working with him will be Murray Biegal-
le, V-12 Scottville junior, and Arlene Hopkins, Frankfort senior. All
petitions must be in by Friday,
December 3.
Other action by the council this
week appointed Irene Butkowski,
Dearborn senior, student loan fund
chairman. The group voted unanimously to epoperate with the A.
W. S. and Men's union in supporting the Christmas Ball, proceeds of
which go to the Victory Loan fund.
An intra-council election gave
Virginia Hensley, Mt. Pleasant
junior, the secretaryship of Student
council for the current year. Lu-
Jean Lirones, Mt. Pleasant junior,
was elected treasurer.
AWS Council Changes CAWS to V-A's?
War Committee Chairmen Named
Latest addition to the ranks of
Central's "V" organizations is the
"V-A's", or Victory Aides, as the
AWS council renamed the CAWS at
its meeting Monday noon. Victory
Aides as a name for Central's women
war workers isn't new, however,
since the organization went by that
name when first set up last year
before being given the official title
of CAWS.
Definite organization of war work
got under way last week with the
appointment of committee chairmen
for the various branches by Marjorie
Anderson, AWS president. Alice
Slough, Ellsworth senior, will be
student chairman of sewing, and
jwill Work vfrith Miss Pauline Rodgers
!of the home economics department.
sSurgical dressings will be organized
under*' Connie Denison, Marysville
sophomore, and Mrs. Harry Miller,
assistant librarian.
Virginia Fedcke, Saginaw junior
and Dr. D. Louise Sharp will take
charge of box packing and letter-
writing bees. Shopping service for
Central servicemen will be under
direction of Mary Jean Coon, Ionia
junior.
First meeting of the sewing group
took place Monday from 7 to 9:30
p. m,, and girls are urged to turn
out for the second meeting Monday,
Nov. 29, from 7 to 9 p. m. in the
home ec. sewing room.
Presidents of organizations including women students will discuss the
war work situation at a luncheon
meeting at 12 noon, Monday, Nov.
29 at Keeler*. Notices will be sent out
iand presidents should provide; a
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Freshman Representative
and Representcrtive-at-Laiege
Will Be Picked,
Two new AWS council members
will be elected when Central's women students go to the polls oh
Thursday, December 2. ,
Jean Chisholm, Hint, and Gwendolyn Gwinn, Ludington, have been
nominated for the position of ftfesh*
man representative on the board,
while two sophomores have been,
nominated to replace Mary Lee
Doerr, representative-at-large, who
did not return to school this fall.
Louise Newton, Mt. Pleasant, and
Pat Bates, Saginaw, will be on the
slate for this office.
All AWS officers, except frosh
representative and any replacements
necessary, are elected on the 'third
Thursday of March from a slate
consisting of two nominees for each
office. Election of the freshman representative is the Thursday after
Thanksgiving. Nominations are
made by a committee appointed by
the AWS president.
Fall Rushing Rules
Set Up by Greeks
Rushing rules were voted upon and
accepted in a Panhellenic meeting
Monday night. Any woman student who has acquired one semester's credits at this institution and
has an average of C for her entire
record and a C average for the preceding semester is eligible for rushing.
The fall open rushing season will
officially open on Sunday, December 5, at 8 p. m. Each sorority will
be permitted to pledge within ten
of its quota.
Open lushing will consist of coke
dates, recreation room activities
such as dancing and ping pong,
room-visiting, walks and hikes such
as going up town and the like, visiting between classes, going to church,
eating together, and any such activities that do not involve expense
to the sorority or the sorority member. Teas, dinners, spreads, shows
and parties of any kind are prohibited. The maximum number of
girls who can take part in rushing
a girl at the same time is three.
Between rush seasons, activities
must be confined to members of
the group. Violations of rushing
rules will be reported immediately
to the Panhellenic court.
There will be no surgical dressing
for sororities this Saturday. Sororities can participate either Wednesday, 7 to 9:30 p. m., or Friday from
3 to 5 p. m. in the sewing room in
Warriner hall.
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See MeP'
Freshmen, if you think you're being called on the carpet when you
find that "see me" note iri your mail
from the dean of women, you can
"calm your fears and dry your
tears." Dean Sharp has started her
annual "get-acquainted" program
land is having a short .conference
with' each freshman and- trariiSfer
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