1943-12-08; Central Michigan Life

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Chattel
Mattel
By Ann Gidiletvich
From  Sadie to spirituals.   Stuff
keeps happening in Sloan's third
north corner.   With a candle and
an   ouiji  board  "mediums"  Helen
Hamilton, Ginny Sigsbee, Veedee
Dalton and Dottie McCannon can
scare up a seance so fast it would
make your ectoplasm spin.
We would like to ask the ouiji
board how those freshmen still
managed to look cute despite pigtails, hanging slips and whatnot.
It's a relief to see clothes worn
right side out again but it's going
to be a bore for upperclassmen to
begin making their own beds.
* *   *
(Bev.) Preston aaid (Penny) Pen-
dall, Inc. The most coordinated
roommates on campus. It borders
on the uncanny when Preston
shoves a letter over to Pendali, Pen-
dall picks up the pen and casually
dashes off a few paragraphs, then
shoves it back to Preston. Preston
licks the envelope and that's that.
* *   *
Rooms 228 and 229 have the
"Coordinatinest" signs on. Sloan
.doors. 228—"Congested area. Enter
at your own. risk." 229 follows
with "Kwitchevdambelliakin —
We're at war."
New angle in the lost and found
department. Natalie Peterson was
rather surprised when a strange
voice informed her, over the phone,
that he had her wallet, and would
return it only if she accepted a coke
date. -He got the date, she got the
wallet with all concerned happy
about the whole thing. Maybe these
V-12's will revolutionize the dating
system yet.
* *   *
Bernie Booker and Mag Kaufman. Pictures of martyred Industry as they cosily curl up with a
couple of books on Sloan steps.
* *   *
Our roommate has decided, she,is
musical and unfortunately she has
a song for every occasion. Her repertoire now includes "Nearer My'God
to Thee" which she insists upon
yodeling each night as she clambers
up to bed.
VOLUME 25
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1943
NUMBER 5
Twenty-Eight Receive Nominations
For Thirteen
Pep Meet
on Friday's Sked
AU Candidates for Campus
Offices to Be Introduced.
To climax a week of campaigning
for high campus offices and give
Chippewa cagers a rousing sendoff
for the first home game of the
season, Centralites will meet in the
auditorium at 7:30 p. m., Friday,
Dec. 10, for a combination all-college pep meeting and political rally.
Tentative plans to date include
yells, group singing led by Dr.
Rolland H. Maybee of the history
department, and music by a brass
band under direction ' of Glenn
Hoffman.
High point of the evening will be
the intfoduction of candidates by
Independent and TePee political
parties. All candidates not running
on party slates will also be presented to the student body.
Sponsor of the event is the TePee
party.
First-Year Confab
Is This Weekend
Untiedt's  Band to  Play for
Dance in Ballroom.
In order to discuss the problems
met by beginning teachers, Central
Michigan college will stage its third
annual First Year' Teachers' conference, Saturday, December 11, in
the ballroom of Keeler union with
sessions scheduled at ten a.m. and
1:30 p.m.
Invited to attend the meeting not
only are last year's graduates who
have entered the teaching profession, but also all college faculty
members, and students who will
graduate next June on either two-
year or four-year program. By last
week-end more than 50 first year
teachers had indicated intentions
to attend.
•Entire conference meeting time
will be devoted to discussions to
help in solving current problems
and aid present seniors for induction into teaching. Among questions which will be considered will
be the solution of the most difficult problems, suggestions gained
through experience in entering the
teaching field, and proposals for
better college preparation*
Hugh Untiedt's V-12 13 will play
for dancing planned from 9-12 Saturday evening in the ballroom.
Louise Newton, Mt. Pleasant sophomore is chairman of the affair.
5th Company Gets
Top Honor Rating
Company five, commanded by
Hugh Untiedt Jr., Pasadena, Calif,
freshman, has been named to the
position of honor company for the
present week, taking over the favored spot from last week's top
company three, commanded by L.
Fred Bissell, Kalamazoo freshman.
Eugene A. Rich, Hope, N. Dak.,
freshman, is petty officer of company five.
Platoon officers of this week's
top company are Harold Van Lente,
George W. Davy, Paul V. Beard,
James A. Royle, Harold R. Goodman, and Wayne H. Ross.
Superior military conduct and
a low demerit total is the praiseworthy combination a company fulfills to be named to the honorary
position. Once qualified, the members of that company are eligible
for liberty (just what it sounds like)
each afternoon of their week at
4:30 and on week-ends have one
hour more than their less fortunate
shipmates.
us Offices
Scramble for Petitions Characterizes
Last Minutes Before Final Deadline
Ruetz, Horn Opponents for Top Council Office; Two Parties
Name Candidates; Five Petitions Disqualified.
The sorely neglected nominations campaign which was
supposedly limping to a close this week, unexpectedly burst
forth in a swirl of last-minute petition launching and the
mustering of coalitions and political parties traditional on
campus.
Annual Christmas
Tea Will Be Dec*
Climaxing the round of Christmas
parties of the various organizations, the annual AWS Christmas
tea will take place in the Keeler
union ballroom Sunday afternoon,
December  19.
Shirley DeGrass, Detroit sophomore, has been appointed as the
chairman of ths tea. Helena Vining
Smith, Flint senior, was named
chairman of the food committee;
Barbara Goodrich, Grandville junior, invitations; Barbara Gelow,
Saginaw sophomore, hostess; and
Pat Bates, Saginaw sophomore, decorations.
Independent Rally
to Feature Untiedt
Featuring Hugh Untiedt's V-12 13,
adherents of the newly formed Independent party will sponsor a rally
in the auditorium at 7:30 p. m.,
Thursday, Dec. 9.
High spots of the program include
tap numbers by Jackie Barret and
Dorothy Sweeney, and vocal solos
by Helen Teel.
Chisholm, Newton
Win AWS Berths
Victors Will Be Freshman
Representative and Repre-
sentative-at-Large.
Jean Chisholm, Flint freshman,
and Louise Newton, Mt. Pleasant
sophomore, edged out Gwen Gwinn,
Ludington freshman, and Pat Bates,
Saginaw sophomore, in a close race
for AWS council berths in December 2 elections. Jean will take her
place as freshman representative on
the council and Louise will be rep-
resentative-at-large, a position left
open by the failure of Mary Lee
Doerr to return to Central this fall.
Anna Marie Murphy, Clare junior,
as chairman of the House President's council, will represent the
off-campus women on the council.
The only position left unfilled is
that of the Sloan hall president,
who will be elected December 9?
Of a total of 224 votes cast, 75
were by freshmen; 62, sophomores;
42, juniors; and 45, seniors.
Butkowski Named
Dance Chairman
Tickets Go on Sale Today in
Dean of Women's Office;
Limit 150.
Tickets' will go on sale today in
the dean of women's office for the
annual Christmas ball to be at
Keeler union, from 9 until 12 p.m.,
Saturday, December 18. Irene Butkowski, Dearborn senior, has been
named general chairman of the
dance. The committee-in-charge
consists of Mary Moore, Gladwin
junior, representing the student
council; Glenna Douglas, Lyons
sophomore, representing the AWS;
Bill Wardrop, Mt. Pleasant sophomore, Men's union; and Irene, representing the Victory Loan fund.
The dance will be semi-formal
with corsages banned. Tickets will
cost $1.65, federal tax included—
but only 150 bids are  to be sold.
The following committee chairmen have been named for the affair: programs and tickets, Dorothy
Naumes, Mt. Pleasant sophomore;
orchestra, Bill Wardrop; decorations, Mary Moore; entertainment,
Glenna Douglas; chaperons and
invitations, Irene; and the publicity
by Bernie Booker, Flint sophomore.
Proceeds of the dance will be
given to the Victory Loan fund to
be used after the war for former
students of Central who have served
in the armed forces or for their
children. The money is being invested in war bonds at the present.
Christmas Greetings for the Forces—
Letter~Wriling> Box-Packing Bee Tonight
Girls, you've got a date tonight—
everyone of. you. And with a boy
from Central, too. For tonight the
AWS V-A's are sponsoring their
first letter-writing and box-packing bee of the year to try to send
a Christmas greeting to just as
many of Central's "Fighting 600"
as possible. Place—Keeler union
League lounge from 7:30-9 p.m.
Chairman of the event is Virginia Fedcke, Saginaw senior, assisted by Frank Mewmaw, Royal Oak
junior.
Everything will be supplied but
pen and ink. The AWS has bought
many articles for the boxes, including candy, stationery, playing cards,
cigarettes, handkerchiefs, tooth
powder, and soap.
Mkny letters of appreciation
have been received from the men
who were sent boxes and letters last
year.. Some of the comments received as follows: «'. . . The food
was in excellent shape even though
it had traveled over two thousand
miles. The other items were most
welcome. Whoever designed the contents of the box certainly had an
insight into what a fellow in service
appreciates. It was a most thoughtful gesture on the part of the AWS
to send them to us."
"The thoughtfulness and consideration involved are even more
meaningful than the actual gift."
"It wasn't only the contents of the
packages that gave us a thrill—it
wsjs the realization and the re-
; assurance that "though we are gone,
TO are not forgotten by the gang
6ack home. Thanks a miWon for
your thoughtfulness."
Class Will Present
Reading Program
The class in interpretive reading
will present a program of choral
reading and individual selections to
the Mt. Pleasant Women's club December 13*. A similar program will
be given for the" public at 8 p. m.
December 14 in room 355, Waariner
hall.
Christmas poems, and modern
American arid British poetry will
be featured, including "London
Town" by Masefield; "Stupidity
Street" by Hodson; and two selections from Tennyson's "In Memor-
ian."
According to the program released by Dr. Wilbur E. Mdore, head
of the speech department, individual
work will be done by Matthew Dol-
key, Detroit senior; Robert Dow,
Sunnyside, Wash, sophomdte; Jine
Wattrous, Caro sophomore; Elma
June Neely, Lakeview sophomore;
and Bill Gregory, Escanaba sophomore.
♦ When the 5 p. m., Friday, deadline fell' 33 petitions were signed,
sealed, and delivered to the personnel office there to await authorization. However, after close checking
by the student council elections
committee in cooperation with Dean
of Men George N. Lauer, petitions
for five people were disqualified because of duplication of signatures,
or because signees had not paid
their student activity fee thus disqualifying them from participating
in the election. Other disqualifying
reasons were lack of honor points
on the part of the candidate and
students signing petitions for candidates other than those of their
own class.
Polls Open from 8 a. m.-5 p. m.
With these disqualified, 28 nominees remain from whom students
will choose 13 to fill leading campus
offices next Monday. Polls will be
open from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. in the
second floor foyer: Betty Ruetz and
Ruth Horn will clash for the top
office on campus, that of student
council vice-president, who will become president next semester. In
the race for senior class officers
are Joan Dillon and Arlene Hopkins for president; Andre DuFresne
and Bertha Croftchik for vice-president; Regina Kreiner and Virginia
Sigsbee for secretary; and Eleanor
James and Leroy Melzow for treasj
urer.
Nominees for junior class berths
include president, Jack Robinson
and Louis Haake; vice-president,
Mary Moore, Bette "Baldwin, and „
Fran Mewmaw; secretary, Elna
Burke and Mary Jean Coon and
treasurer, Joyce Sherwood and
Gerry Hinricks.
Representatives of the sophomore
class have put Mary Lerg, Bill
Gregory, and Jane Bradshaw in the
running for the president's office;
Betty Sack and Connie Denison for
vice-president; Mmy Jane Pelton
and Beverly Preston, secretary; and
Dorothy Sharrard, Janet Waldron,
and Shirley DeGrass for treasurer.
Political Parses Form
Campus parties  formed  in  the
; closing hours of the nominations
campaign are to be known as the
TePee party ("The Peoples'" Party)
and the Independents.
Affiliates of the TePee party in*
elude Ruetz, Dillon, DeFresne,
Kreiner, James, Robinson, Moore,
iCroftchik, Sigsbee, Melzow, Haake,
and Sharrard while Horn, Hopkins,
Burke, Sherwood, Lerg, Sack, Pelton,
Baldwin, Hinricks, Gregory, and
Waldron will carry the flag for the
Independents.
The council elections committee
again warns students who do not
have student activities tickets valt»
dated that they triu not be eligible
for voting unless the fee is gaid by.
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