Miami Hurricane, November 30, 1939

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The Miami
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF
Hurricane
THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume XIII
Coral Gables, Florida, November 30, 1939
Number 11
Frosh Battle Sophomores in Annual Field Day
Greased Pole, Sandbag Fight Main Contests
Sandbag fights, a greased-pole climb, touchball and volleyball games, and a pie-eating contest will feature the Sophomore-Freshman field day, which began this morning at 11 o’clock. The entire student body was dismissed at 10:30 in order to participate and watch the day’s hostilities. m First event in the annual fracas that decides whether freshmen may remove their “dinks” is a fight for possession of a 200-pound sandbag, which sophs will guard from frosh attacks.
$ To be held at 11:30 is the next activity, which consists of attempts by freshmen to climb a greased pole and take down n dink tied to the top
Freshmen and sophomores were all even at the end of the morning’s events. Although only fifteen sophs were on hand, they staged a gallant defense of the greased pole to prevent the frosh from getting the dink on top of the pole. The first year men were able to drag the 200-pound sandbag out of the circle. A pie-eating contest, girls volleyball, and men’s touchball still remain on the schedule.
in spite of opposition by the sophomores. Immediately following this, the pole will be braced horizontally, so members of the two classes may straddle it in pairs and stage a bevy of pillow fights.
After an interval for lunch, the activities will continue with a volleyball game between the first and second year girls. An hour later, a touch-football game between the sophs and the “rats” will begin. Kickoff is at 3 p.m. Final event of the day will be a pie-eating contest.
Judges for the various events are Bob Olson, Eddie Grubb, and John Homko. Committee in charge of the field day includes Bob Olson, chairman, Don Chadderdon, Keith Phillips, Dot Lowe, Jean Small, Ruth MacDonald, Frances Christie, and Mary Florence Hall.
Climaxing the day’s activities will be a free dance in the cafeteria at 9 p.m. Sponsored by Kappa Sigma fraternity, the dance will continue ’till midnight. The entire student body is invited.
Radio Shows Star T win Quartet, Book Of Month, Theatre
Double quartet, the Book of the Month, and an Elizabethan theater are features of University radio programs during the next few days.
The newly-organized double quartet sings tonight over Station WQAM at 7:15. Bob Reinert directs the group.
Tomorrow, professors Lewis Leary and W. M. McMasters will review the Book of the Month on “Critics Corner” (WIOD, 4:45). It is titled “The Nazarene,” by Scholem Asch.
Monday’s “Classroom of the Air” (WIOD, 4:45) centers around a table model of an Elizabethan theater, built by Donald Bleeke, senior music major, as a term project in English.
A copy of the Fortune Theater, built in London in 1600, it is constructed to scale from the specifications named in the original building contract. Don will discuss problems of the Elizabeth playwright with staging, as illustrated in Romeo and Juliet.
Freshman Renames Women’s Society
Co-ed Council is the name of the new women’s student organization as suggested by Catherine Bell, freshman, at the group’s meeting Tuesday morning in the theatre. Adele Rickel, president, announced activities scheduled for December.
The Council will cooperate with the YWCA for the Christmas program to be presented next Friday at 8:30 p.m. in the Card Room of the Administration Building. Marjorie McLain was appointed chairman of the decorations committee, assisted by Jo Carol Weinstein, Selma Bronston, and Martha Hibbs.
A committee composed of May Morat, Dottie Lowe, Peggy Price, Virginia Allen, Kathleen Hickey, and Nana Kuperberg will formulate plans for a social code booklet that the organization is to publish for the use of university women.
Two other agencies have been added to the Council—the Speaker’s Bureau with Joanne Kanaar, chairman, and the Social Service committee, which will be announced later.
Flyers Plan 1st Flights On Friday
University Birdmen Start Actual Flight Training; New Club Is Formed
Word was received yesterday from Washington, D. C., that the student pilot’s course, sponsored by the Civil Aeronautics Authority at the University, has been granted permission to start actual flight training. The first flight classes will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3:30.
Of the twenty students taking the course, ten will report to the Embry-Riddle Seaplane Base on the County Causeway for seaplane instruction, and the other ten will report to the Miami Municipal Airport for instruction in land planes.
Land and Water Flight*
At the end of the initial instruction period, which will cover at least thirty-five hours of solo flight time, the students on land planes will be shifted to pontoons, and vice versa. However, this is not official as yet, and must await ratification by the authorities in Washington.
In the meantime, the University of Miami Aeronautics Club is advancing by leaps and bounds. Their charter, constitution, and by-laws are in the hands of the Administration for approval, and it is expected that the Club will officially become a student organization within the next week.
“Umaci” See Movie
Last night the “Umacs,” as the club has been called, attended the Lincoln Theater as the guests of the theater and the aviation department of the Miami Herald. They saw the picture, “20,000 Men A Year” which is a .story woven about the C.A.A. course.
The next official meeting of the club, at which time students will have had their first taste of flight instruction. will be held to further organization plans and to plan projects for the remainder of the year.
Citizens Formulate New Constitution
Presentation of the first constitution of Campus Citizens occupied the greater part of the group’s recent meeting.
With an article providing for an executive board composed of a chairman, vice-chairman, recording and corresponding secretary, and treasurer, sponsors will be five faculty members. Fifty cents per semester will comprise the group’s dues.
The preamble of the constitution includes the platform of Campus Citizens, which is: “To be an organization to make the people of Miami conscious of the cultural achievements and ideals of the University, nnd to continuously strive toward uplifting student life intellectually and socially.”
Jo Weinstein, head of the campus problems committee, announced that a complaint box, in which may be posted personal or objective grievances, will soon be available to the student body.
Elections of corresponding secretary and treasurer were deferred until the next meeting, which is to be held Tuesday at 10:30, in Room 219, when all members of the group will be present to participate in the election.
Shut that door! A prowler is on the loose. Clarence the Consistent Class Cutter is at work again. That’s he— slinking on his hands and knees past pillars and posts toward the desired destination—the door.
It is amazing, the depths and breadths and heights that the human mind can reach when it is desperate. Einstein had nothing on the class cutter. But then Einstein wasn’t desperate. Clarence is. Clases bore him, and nothing breeds desperation like boredom.
It is not all of us who are brave enough to try this daredevil approach to freedom. For the most of us, the easiest way out is simply to be “the little man who wasn’t there.” Of course, after the sixth or seventh time, the faculty gets slightly annoyed and begins hinting for an excuse or two. This is where you . . . and Clarence . . . shine.
If you are not particularly ingen-
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Dr. Arnold Volpe ☆ ☆ ☆
Kipnis Is Soloist In Symphony’s First Concert
Alexander Kipnis of the Metropolitan Opera, is soloist at the first University Symphony concert of the season next Monday, December 11.
Conceded to be one of the greatest bassos in the world, Mr. Kipnis has been heard during the past two seasons at the International Music Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, at the invitation of Toscanini. He is also noted for his exceptionally deep voice.
Dr. Arnold Volpe, who will direct the concert series, has been rehearsing the orchestra daily since the beginning of the semester, with the assistance of Joel Belov. The first concert will find the orchestra improved over the past two seasons, despite the loss of key players through graduation.
Student activity books will be honored at the concert, which will be held at Miami Senior high school.
Season tickets for the series of six concerts are priced at $6, $7.50, $9. Single tickets are $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50. Reservations may be made by calling the University, room 240. Other soloists featured this season are Joseph Szigeti, Harold Bauer, Gregor Piatigorsky, Walter Giese-king, and Mary Hughes Call.
State Youth Advisor Guest of Baptists
Guest of the University Baptist Student Union next week will be Miss Billie Ruth Currin, one of the most prominent youth leaders in the South, who will hold open meetings in the Social Hall, Monday through Thursday, at 3:30 p.m.
She will also be available each day from 9:30 to 3:30 for personal consultation relating to problems of student religious life.
Miss Currin will assist in reorganizing the local union. She has achieved great success in her B.S.U. work at Florida State College for Women, Tallahassee. A $16,000 Baptist Student Center, the most modern religious center on a college campus in the South, was built mainly through her efforts.
Students of all religious groups on campus are invited to attend the meetings.
ious, you give the professor the quick 1-2-3 about having a bad cold. Of course, he never believe you, but he’s not going to call you a liar to your face. He does it in the subtle but stinging way of dressing down your grades. Nine times out of ten, when you plead illness, he’ll catch you downstairs in Messrs. Hilbish, Hisg, and Howe’s infirmary anyhow. If you are smart, you will never spend a gruesome hour with the Dean. You will conceive tales that will cause applause from Peter Grimm.
Two flat tires in one morning is a pretty heavy dose to hand out to anyone, but it’s a darned good story, and if you’re in good with your particular garage mechanic, well, there you are.
If you’re a quick-thinker, these tactics are fine. But don’t spend half the night thinking these tales up. Believe me, it isn’t worth it, you can’t have any fun that way!
Solons Table 3 Petitions; Advance $35
Debate Team Is Granted Part of Appropriation; Special Meeting Tuesday
Tabling all but one petition which came up for discussion, and accomplishing very little was the progress made by the Student Senate in its meeting Tuesday morning.
Deeming it necessary to gather additional information in order to clarify various questions, the senators voted to table the Hurricane’s hospitalization proposal, which was presented to the Senate for its approval.
That the plan will not necessarily benefit local students, C.A.A. people, or football boys was one of the main objections to the proposals, while the matter of students’ inability to pay an extra six dollars per year for this service was pointed out.
Ibi* Request Tabled Asking for a greater appropriation than last year, the Ibis petition for $3881 was tabled until full information could be secured.
Much opposing discussion arose when the debate team’s petition for $350 appeared. The debators did not receive this grant, nor was it awarded the same appropriation as last year —$336. Instead, $35 was alloted the organization to purchase materials and to organize the team.
A special senate meeting has been called for Tuesday morning at 10:30 in Room 224. All senator are urged to attend.
'Thumber’ Remains, Collegians Decide In National Survey
(By Student Opinion Sunrryi of America)
Austin, Texas, November 30 — The ride “thumber” should not be banned from the highway. That is the verdict pronounced in a nation-wide poll of college and university students, perhaps the largest group of Americans who use the hitch hike manner of travel.
An overwhelming majority of the collegians—four out of every five— believe that laws against hitch hiking should not be on the statute books, according to the results of the latest study of campus attitudes conducted by the Student Opinion Surveys of America for the Hurricane and nearly 150 other member newspapers. Ballots were gathered by personal interviewers on campuses from coast to coast, and the results from this carefully-selected sampling have been tabulated at the Surveys’ headquarters at the University of Texas.
South Approve* “Hitches”
It is of interest to note that in those parts of the country where cities are more widely scattered, and where travel is therefore more difficult, greater percentages of students opposed such laws.
The Southern states, comprising the largest of the six sections into which the U. S. is divided in this scientific cross-section, voiced the loudest disapproval when students were asked, “Do you favor laws prohibiting hitch hiking?” New England students, who live in the smallest of the sections, were the most in favor.
New England Againat Nationally, these were the results: For banning hitch hiking	20%
Against banning	80%
Significantly, too, New Englanders are among the more wealthy of students, according to figures compiled by the Student Opinion Surveys through its weekly polls. These show that in this section of the country only three out of every ten men and two out of every ten women have to work for all or part of their college expenses. In the nation as a whole, nearly five out of every ten students hold some kind of job.
In this poll on hitch hiking it is also evident that it is the working student who more consistently objects to moves by several legislatures to prohibit the man with the varsity sweater and the sticker-pasted traveling bag from trying his luck on the road.
Piano Team Plays
Annual recital of the piano team of Mrs. Hannah Spiro Asher and Mrs. Evelyn Plagman Jones will be given on Monday night in the lounge of the administration building. Students wishing to attend should call the Music Office in the Administration Building.
"The Fine Art of Cutting Classes,” Specially Prepared for "The Hurricane” By An Expert
TOUGH TACKLE, STELLAR
Coon
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BACK LEAD WOLFPACK
'Little Artie” Rooney
Rebounding Hurricanes Face Wolfpack Tomorrow
Music Society Holdslnitiation; Plans Vespers
Sigma Chi chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, national music fraternity, held initiation services last Saturday evening at the home of Mrs. James Car-son, chapter patroness and faculty advisor. The initiation was followed by a reception given by alumnae and active members honoring the new initiates.
Mrs. Earl DeNoon, president of the alumnae chapter, and alumnae members conducted the initiation, assisted by Beatrice Collins, president of the active chapter, Mildred Thompson and Anna Dalida.
New Member* Chosen
New members are Maxine Baker, Margaret Brooks, Esther Brown, Grace Day, Rosemary Hoffman, Jewel High Metzger, Helen Nielsen, Elizabeth Orr, Catherine Pinder, Eunice Preston, Martha Riles. Junia Sells, Audrey Thomas, and Marie Farmer Wright.
Honorary members of Sigma Alpha Iota include Miss Bertha Foster, Mrs. Nora Andrews Hudson, Mana-Zucca, and Frances Sebel. Mrs. Frances Hov-ey Bergh has recently been appointed as faculty advisor for the chapter.
Activities on the fraternity calendar include a picnic Saturday for prospective members. The group will also present a Christmas vespers program in the lounge of the Administration building before the Christmas holidays.
Pi Chi’s Dance Set For Biltinore Club
Pi Chi fraternity’s tenth annual Queen of Clubs dance will be held December 16 at the Miami Biltmore Country Club, according to Mel Patton, chairman of arrangements. Proceeds from the ball will go to the Donald Grant Memorial library fund, benefit of the University library.
Girls from various University and high school sororities will be selected to compete for the title of Queen of Clubs. Before the dance, candidates will attend a banquet, where they will be judged by nationally prominent people on the basis of poise, beauty, and personality. Alberta Burke, Chi Omega and last year’s queen, will crown the winner.
Members of the various committees include John Lipscomb and Pete Winiger, tickets; Harry Parker and Wally Tyler, judges; John Oespovich and Bill Guerard, decorations; Bill Hartnett, Randy Dickens, A1 Holt, orchestra; and Sumner Wilson, advertising.
Report Address Change«
All student* who have changed their addresses since registration are asked to notify the registrar’s office as soon as possible.
Harding Elevates Three Sophomores To First String
The victory-hungry Wolfpack of North Carolina State will be snarling at Miami’s door tomorrow night, when the Hurricanes take on the boys from the Tarheel state in Roddey Burdine Memorial Stadium.
Yesterday, Coach Harding said, “The team lost a tough one at South Carolina last week and will be on the rebound. North Carolina State is a very tough outfit. Just last week they faced Duke, and then they come down here to face our club. I wouldn’t care to predict the outcome, but I can say that they’ll know they’ve been in a battle whether they win or lose to us.”
State’s Record
The Wolfpack boasts an unimpressive record, having won but one game out of eight played so far. Among the Carolina losses were decisions dropped to Tennessee, Du-quesne, Clemson, Duke, and North Carolina. All-American tackle “Ty”
To feature Hem Olsen's orchestra, the post-game football dance will be held at the Coral Gables Country Club tomorrow night, with tickets priced at 55 cents per person. George Back is in charge of arrangements.
Sponsors for the North Carolina State-Miami gridiron clash will be Pat Overbaugh, Zeta Tau Alpha; Jean Vandevere, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Sue Allen and Sara Brinson, Chi Omega sorority members.
Coon forms the backbone of the Wolves .line, aided by Bill Retter, a standout center. “Little Art” Rooney is the chief offensive threat of the invaders.
Miami was hard hit by the gruelling contest at Columbia, S.C. Colorful Joe Dixon ended his football career with a brilliant performance against the Gamecocks, for he sustained a rib injury that will keep him out for the rest of the year. Joe Kru-tulis, sophomore end, will be a doubtful starter because of a badly bruised hip, while Mike Corcoran may be out with a pulled leg muscle.
Miami Lineup
Coach Harding has indicated that a largely spohomore backfield may start, with “Red” Tobin, “Lefty” Schemer, and Dave Wike the probable openers. Terry Fox would round out that backfield, although it is quite possible that Johnny Noppenberg may start at the blocking back post in place of Wike. The line will consist of ever-faithful Co-captain Walt Kichefski and Frank Paskewich at ends, Stan Raski and “Kutch” Kearns at tackle, Co-captain “Chuck” Guimento, just picked on the second team of the Little All-Americans, and Jolly Snowden at guards, and Don Salisbury at center.
Harding has driven his team hard this week, and spirit and morale is good. Doc Sapp, reserve blocking back, has been converted to center to strengthen the pivot post reserves.
Round Tables Headline IRC Radio Program
As the third in the series of bi-monthly radio programs which it is sponsoring, International Relations Club presented Jucques Wilson, Mary Louise Becker, and Ben Axeiroad in an open foruni discussion last Wednesday over Station WKAT.
With “Britain in the Far East” as the topic, Mary Louise gave a background of British imperialism in the Far East. Describing Britain’s domination of the Indian pepoles, she pointed out the incongruity apparent in Chamberlain’s seeming desire to fight for democracy in oppressed countries when he continues to refuse to grant India her independence.
Wilson Guesses Peace
Wilson surmised that Britain would probably try to bring about peace in China in order to maintain the status quo there, and so insure her against increased strength of the Chinese Nationalists, or of Japanese control in China. He declared that Britain would probably do all in her power to prevent a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Japan in order to keep them on unfriendly terms, hoping thus to precipitate a war between them at some later date.
Axeiroad Defends Britain
Axeiroad, the mediator, contended that Britain is primarily interested in the preservation of democracy, and is following a policy compatable to such lines of thought in regard to her colonies.
The next broadcast will be December G at 7:30 p.m. over Station WKAT. Harry Estersohn, Adele Grace Novokoff, and Gladys Lobsenz will discuss “Propaganda, Its Present Manifestations and Past Record.”
Debate Tryouts Set
Tryouts for varsity, girls’, and freshman debate teams will be held Tuesday evening, December 12th.
Materials on question to be debated are in the library. Students are asked to see Mr. Tharp or Jack Madigan, debate manager, for details.
Campus Calendar
Today, All Day — Freshman-Sophomore Field Day, Intramural Field. 9 p.m.—Free Dance Sponsored by Kappa Sigs, Cafeteria.
Tomorrow, 3:30 p.m. — Ibis Staff Meeting, Room 238.
3:30 — Hurricane Staff Meeting, Room 237.
8:15 — Miami vs. North Carolina State, Roddey Burdine Stadium. After game — “M” Club Dance, Coral Gables Country Club. Saturday, 8:15 p.m.—Miami vs. Florida Frosh, Burdine Stadium.
After Game—Freshman Dance, Cafeteria.
Tuesday, 10:30 a.m. Campus Citizens Meeting, Room 219.