1943-12-15; Central Michigan Life

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After toiling through freshmen
initiation, moiling through elections,
and using what remaining energy is
left for mid-semesters, the day of
days is almost here—the day before Christmas vacation. Our roommate with the musical tendencies is
realy reverting back to her somewhat incomplete childhood with
"No more home work, no more
books, no more teachers' dirty
looks." "       .
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Now that the election's over,
and we're strictly non-partisan
anyhow, we can safely compliment the TePee party on its solid •
platform, one plank of which was
to go. for a doghouse for Sadie.
Think what a revolutionary thing
that would be. Think what Sadie's
doghouse would do for student
morale. Sadie's silence would
ensue from having a place to
sleep. If Sadie sleeps, Sloan ;
sleeps. If Sloan sleeps—this can
go on and on.   Better stop here.
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It used to be that Sunday afternoon recreation consisted of two alternatives. Either go to the movies
or go to the movies. Now since the
advent of the Hansen sisters, and
a couple of pharmacist's mates, new
vistas have been opened,on Sloan's
lawns* • All one has to do is don
one's slacks, flex one's'big-right toe,
and dash over for a snappy game of
football.
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The slipperiest case Sloan has
seen in years has to do with suspected freshmen, a jar of vasolinie
and over a hundred doorknobs.
Talk about subtle systems of revenge. We have no facts upon
which to base the assumption that
the freshmen did it, but we do
have a well oiled knob on our door
and what upperclassmen would
get up at six to do it? •
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Back to the soil for Dorothy
Sharrard and Janet Doyle. Notice
the rhyme. If we had ambition we
would compose an agricultural ode
or something. These two horticulturists spend spare time cultivating
and plowing, we presume, .two rare
luxuriant speciments of twining ivy.
At this point our musical roommate
• is intruding,with "Oh, Tell Me Why
The 'Ivy Twines." We're going to
explain the situation to her with
gestures. Pardon us while we step
out into the alley.
Chippewa Calls
for Campus Snaps
So ya say ■ ya want a yearbook
with lots of pictures? Ya want
plenty of action shots' with all kinds
of settings and all types of people
in all sorts of poses? Well, I'll tell
ya what, you're gonna have to do!
Scout around the dorms and
houses for snapshots of campus
scenes and Centralites—'look through
your room-mate's albums and investigate between' pages of books
for stray six. Gather Up yow choice
shots of your friends and donate
them to the 1944 Chippewa.
Shortage of film makes it compulsory to resort to such tactics if
this year's" annual is to be a true
reflection of campus life. Your cooperation will make your Chippewa
what you expect it to be.
AU pictures are to, be submitted to
Arlene Hopkins, editor, or to someone in the Student Publications office (W105). No deadline has been
set, but contributors are urged to
get their pix in before Christmas
vacation."
Editor's Note—Navy men are Centralites, too!
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VOLUME 25
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1943
NUMBER 6
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Council Approves
Lower Standards
for Fraternities
Men with .90 Average Eligible for Membership by Plan
Proposed.   .
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The proposal to lower the scholastic requirements for fraternity
membership passed the two-thirds
marker last Monday night when
the student council put their ok on
the proposition.
The proposal, which passed the
Inter-fraternity council last Thursday by a 3 to 2 vote, will open fraternity membership to men with an
approximate .90 average for over all
college work. This: will mean that
semester "freshmen with only 15
hours of C work will be eligible
fraternity men. The requirements as
they now stand call for a 1.0 average
for over all college work. Such a
plan would stand only for the duration.
However, the proposal has yet to
go through the student social activities committee where.it may run
into considerable opposition from
faculty members. If the activities
committee passes on the proposed
plan it will go into effect immediately according to Dean George Lauer.
The activities, committee will act on
the plan some time next week.
The Winnah!
BETTY RUETZ will take office
as Student council vice-president
this semester and become council
president next semester.
Next in Series of Music
Hours to Be Given Jan. 2
v The first in the series of Music
hours was presented Sunday, Dec.
12 in the Women's lounge at Keeler
union at 4 p.m. to a group of music
lovers.
Second in the series will be given
Sunday, Jan. 2, at, 4 p.m. also in
Keeler union.
The Scheherezade Suite by Rim-
sky-Korsakov will be played in addition to ballet music from Faust
by Gounod and selections from the
opera Carmen by Bizet.
Chrysler Officials
Consult at Central
Chrysler corporate _n representatives, William' D. Merifield and H.
M. Barnes,. from .Detroit were on
campus last Thursday, December 9,
consulting with Central's curriculum
committee.
Heretofore   Chrysler   corporation
has had a program  consisting of
actual part-time  factory jobs for
graduate students majoring in industry, so that after having firsthand experience they would be more
able to instruct others.
In the meeting last Thursday
plans for extending this program to
undergraduates was the major discussion. But no definite steps have
yet been taken in this .direction.
Dr. Richtmeyer, mathematics department head, is the chairman of
the curriculum committee which
sponsored this meeting.
C. M. C. E. Bluejacket Unit Remembers
Pearl Harbor Day with $1925 in Bonds
Last Tuesday was the second anniversary of Pearl Harbor and Central Michigan's bluejackets remembered the "day of infamy" to the
tune of $1925 in War Bonds. Commanding officer of the unit, Lt.
M. R. Kelso, commended the V-12's
for their bond purchases which are
in addition to the allotments they
are already making for the same
items.
Latest figures in the Battalion
War Bond drive show that 92.6
percent of the navy students at
Central are making monthly purchases of War Bonds. Company
five, commanded by Hugh D. Untiedt Jr., Pasadena, Calif, freshman, leads this impressive record
with 100 percent participation.
Company four, commanded by
Merle A. Munroe Jr., Ft. Steila-
coom, Wash, freshman, has 96 percent participation (not 100 percent
as previously  reported.)   Company
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one, commanded by William Dukin,
Omoha, Neb. freshman, has 91 percent participation and company
three, commanded by L. Fred Bissell, Kalamazoo freshman, shows
90 percent.
Company two, John W. Anderson,
Minneapolis, freshman commanding, has 85 percent. This gives the
entire unit the excellent participation figure of 92.6 percent, only
those men who live considerable
distances and have high traveling
expenses not making the monthly
allotment.
It is believed that the Central
unit will be awarded the commandant's pennant, a recognition originating at the headquarters of this
the ninth naval district and which
is awarded to those units having
90 percent War Bond pftrticlpa-
tion, involving 10 percent of the
unit's monthly pay over a two;
month period.
Robinson and Gregory Win Positions
as Junior, Sophomore Class Heads
Close Races, Light Balloting Characterize Monday's Elec-
.   tion; Croftchik, Sigsbee, ana Melzow Complete Victorious
Senior Slate.
By Jim Crip/pen
In one of the closest elections in Central history, Betty
Ruetz edged out a victory over Ruth Horn for the vice-presidential office of the student council in Monday's election.
When the ballots were tallied, Ruetz carried 148 votes to
Horn's 185.
Class elections were also astonishingly close. Joan Dillon,
 — ' :' ♦nosed out Arlene Hopkins, Frankfort, for senior class president by
a slim margin of 38 to 34. Bertha
Croftchik, Ashley, defeated Andre
DuFresne, Trenton, for the vice
presidential office by a 49 to 21 vote.
Virginia Sigsbee, Midland, was
elected senior secretary by a-vote of
37 over 35 for Regina Kreiner,
Brown City, and Leroy Melzow,
Flint, was on the winning end of a
45 to 27 vote over Eleanor James,
Manistee, for the office of treasurer.
The latter three were Independent
candidates, while Dillon wasi a TePee adherent.
Committee Makes
Get-together Plans
After - Christmas Get - Acquainted Program to Include
Assembly, Dance, Pow-wow.
Arising from a discussion of
campus relations and social life, a
committee has been formed to improve relations between the girls
and the V-12 and V-5 men on
campus. The committee is made up
of five men and five women, including: Alice Slough, Ellsworth
senior; Janet Waldron, Belding
sophomore; Joyce Crawford, Bessemer sophomore; Mickey Manning
Honor junior; Betty Brace, Mt.
Pleasant sophomore; Carl Ritter,
Kalamazoo freshman; Wayne Ross,
Boston sophomore; Jack Oke, Detroit sophomore; Jack Bates, Detroit sophomore; and Don Carter,
Spokane, wash, sophomore, chairman.
The first meeting of the committee was held at Betty's home a week
ago Monday night and plans were
made, for a hike to Cathedral woods
and den party last Sunday. Twenty
boys, lour from each company, and
20 girls, went on the hike.
The committee planned a Get-
Together week starting the day after
Christmas vacation. Send-off for
the program will be an assembly
on Wednesday, December 29, called
"Town Hall Tonight." All students,
civilians, V-5, and V-12 men, .are
invited. Hugh Unteidt and Ms
band will play for the program and
John Anderson, Minneapolis, Minn,
freshman, will be the master of
ceremonies.
A New Year's Eve orchestra
dance will be sponsored by the group
on Friday and the week wfii be
climaxed by a pow-wow with a bonfire, school yells and songs on Saturday night.
Miss Celia Segerman, assistant
professor in the health and physical
education department, will give a
lalk on USO to the Union. Township Farmer's club Thursday, December 9. Miss Segerman spent the
summer in Tfi-mpm, Morida dls-eet
ing ft USC
Junior Slate .
The TePee party seemed the
choice of junior voters as all four
class offices will be filled with its
candidates. Junior returns were
Jack Robinson, Montello, Wis., 49,
over Louis Haake, Mt. Prospect, HI.,
35, for president; Mary Moore,
Gladwin, 40, over Bette Baldwin,
Tuscola, 32, and Fran Mewmaw,
Royal Oak, 13, for vice president;
Elna Burke, Midland, 45, over Mary.
Jean Coon, Ionia, 34, for the secretary's office; Joyce Sherwood, Kalkaska, 48, over- Gerry Hinricks, 35,
for treasurer.
Independents, however, rode
home with a good share of the
glory in, the_ sophomore class elections. Bill Gregory, Escanaba,
rolled up 58 votes to triumph over
Mary Lerg, Lake City, polling 26,
and Jane Bradshaw, Royal Oak, 24.
Connie Denison, Marysville, won
over Betty Sack, Big Rapids, by a
vote of 71 to 37, to cop the vice
presidential office. Beverly Preston,
Grosse Pointe, tallied 59 to win the
secretaryship over Mary Jane Pel-
ton, Bentley, who rolled up 46; and
Dorothy Sharrard; Peck, carried
away the treasurer's berth by a vote
of 39 to 38 for Janet Waldron, Bel-
,ding, and 28 for Shirley DeGrasse,
Royal Oak. •
Split Tickets Characteristic
Two hundred and eighty-three
frequented the polls between 8 a. m.
and 5 p. m. Monday which when
compared with elections of previous
years appears a bit light. Overlooking the fact that the TePee's7 took
all junior class berths, students for
the most part voted a split ticket as
reported by the student council
elections committee. The committee
also stated that the light Vote this
term was probably due to the lack
of interest in the campaign up until the closing hours.
The student council will announce
in the near future the plans for to*
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