Miami Hurricane, May 04, 1939

              Hurricane
THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Volume XII
Coral Gables, Florida, May 4, 1939
Z201 Number 29
Mike Colas, Top Cuban StudentTakesOwnLife
Senate Votes Senior Solons Service Keys
Ibis Petition For Keys Rejected; APO Allotment Back To Reserve Fund
Executive officers, graduating: senior senators, and senators who have served in the Student Senate two or more years will be awarded keys, according to motions passed in the group’s meeting this week.
While Milton Feller, senior senator from Law School, heatedly declared | that seniors are deserving of the awards, Bob Olson and Ed Turner contested him. They maintained that a senior senator is no more important than a representative from the underclassman groups.
13 To Gel Key«
Those students to receive keys include Joe Thcmas, president; Ray Fordham, vice-president; Betty Goff, secretary; Frank Kerdyk, treasurer; Milton Feller, A1 Teeter, Hugh Shil-lington, Len Ricci, Norman Worthington, senior senators; Bib Olson, three-year service; Dan Satin, George Hollahan, Dorothy Ashe, two-year service.
A petition from the Ibis for $20 with which to buy keys was prev-iou, !y rejected ^ ' the finance committee. Its members stated that because the Hurricane is purchasing keys from its fund, the Ibis can do the same.
APO Allotment Back to Reserve Fund
Joe Thomas, having relinquished the presidential chair to Ray Ford-ham, made a motion that “if Alpha Phi Omega doesn’t use the $100 previously set aside for it, this money, earmarked for the Hurricane’s printing bill, will be returned to the senate reserve fund.’’ It was carried.
A1 Teeter amended the motion, moving “that if any portion of the money originally intended for Parker Art is returned by A.P.O., and if the senate still has it in reserve next year, it will be appropriated to Parker Art next September.” This was also passed.
Tony Vandenberg then added another amendment to the motion. He stated that the senate should go on record as merely favoring Teeter’s motion, as the new senate might resent being told what to do with the money. It was passed.
Soph Spring Dance Post Game Feature
Who's gonna win, Walt or Chuck? We don’t know, but we do know that there’s plenty of fun for all at the Sophomore Spring Dance tomorrow night at the Coral Gables Country Club after the football game.
Co-chairmen Bobby Long and Dot-tie Ashe promise a big celebration, no matter who wins the battle. One team will lose, no doubt, but at the dance all of ’em will be a winner, for they’ll be guests of honor and get in for nuthin’.
The party starts at 10 bells, with Gus Warren’s red-hot, ten-piece band furnishing the music under the light of a tropic moon in the Country Club patio.
Admission to the rest of us is 49 cents a person, and everyone’s invited. Students will be admitted to the game on their activity books.
Yes sir, it’s your last chance to have a good time before those term papers and exams, so come on over and join the party after the game. There won’t be any Spooks, Kings, or Queens, but just a swell Ume for everybody. Tickets are on sale now. See any Sophomore.
Citizens Sponsor Debates, Lectures
Holding classes to acquaint new students with the location of various department, ideals, and requirements of the University is one of the plans being formulated for the Campus Citizens’ one-day orientation course to be held Tuesday, September 19.
The discussions, to benefit freshmen and other new students, will place special emphasis on the importance of serious study and on the condemnation of cheating, according to Jimmy Munley, chairman of the orientation committee. Munley also stated that Dr. Jay Pearson and the administration have pledged support in the undertaking.
To impress upon the people of Miami the value of the University to the community, the cultural committee plans to present debates, plays, and lectures in public schools, over the radio, and in Miami parks.
All those interested in the activities of the Campus Citizens are invited to attend the meetings in the social hall every Thursday at 12:30.
Classes Hold Elections Tomorrow
Class meeting« will be held tomorrow at 10:10 for the purpose of electing cla«« officer« for the coming year, it is announced.
Thi* year’» freshmen are requested to meet in the auditorium; sophomores in room 222, and juniors in room 231.
Honor Court members will conduct the elections.
Seniors also are requested to meet at the same time in room 317 to discuss commencement exercises. The meeting called last Friday was adjourned because of poor attendance.
Sintonia Benefit Concert Greets Public Monday
Featured by a three-group ensemble, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia’s benefit concert will be held Monday, May 8, at 8:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Coral Gables elementary school.
A large portion of the proceeds will be used to add books to the music section of the University library.
One of the three participating groups, the University Symphony Band, under the direction of Assistant Conductor Bob Hance, will feature the current popular song, “Deep Purple.” A selection from “The Red Mill” will be presented by the Phi Mu Alpha Little Symphony, conducted by Alan Collins. This organization recently has been furnishing musical entertainment between the acts of various play presentations.
The Sinfonia Chorus, to be directed by Joseph Barclay in the absence of Bob Reinert, will sing many songs of Phi Mu Alpha and the nationally-known “Drinking Song” written by Eddie Baumgarten. Eddie will preside at the piano during the renditions of the 50-piece organization.
Madigan Voted Interfraternity Council Head
Election of Jack Marigan, Phi Alpha, as president climaxed the Interfraternity Council meeting yesterday afternoon in the social hall. Other officers are Hal Levitan, Tau Epsilon Phi, and Stuart Cohen, Phi Epsilon Pi, who Vvere elected vice-president and secretary-treasurer respectively.
It was decided to hold meetings at 12:30 on the first and third Fridays of each month next year, and plans for the near future were also made. The Council will meet again on Friday, May 12.
There is to be a special meeting Monday night of the presidents of all the fraternities on the campus to discuss the Coffin Trophy. The cup will be awarded Friday week by the Council.
A committee to investigate rush week rules for next year was appointed and plans to inaugurate an “Intrafraternity Ball” and other improvements were also discussed.
’Learn Tolerance’, Hyzer Tells IRC
“Tolerance in education can be gained only through knowledge,” declared Mr. Leland Hyzer, Miami attorney, while speaking to International Relations Club members at their fourth annual banquet held al the Tiffin Restaurant last Saturday evening.
He continued, “This university has developed a policy of exchange of students, which creates better understanding and closer union between the United States and the various Pan American countries. However, it is of equal importance to exchange teachers.”
Other parts of the program included group singing, French solos by Mrs. Paul Eckel; a violin solo by Charlotte Hager, accompanied by Mr. Joseph ^Tarpley; impersonations by Louis Molina; and a talk, “Notes from Virginia,” by Mildred Zinn, president of the group.
Dolly Matteson acted as toastmis-tress, and Bud McLinden, retiring president, greeted the guests. While introducing Dr. Robert McNicoll, Dolly stated, “Least, but not last.” Receiving favorable comment were the programs shaped like globes; the menus in Spanish; and the lighted world centerpiece.
Everyone is invited to attend the next meeting of the I.R.C. in the social hall next Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
Worry Over Health, Future Believed Cause of Suicide
Miguel Colas, outstanding Cuban senior, was found dead at 6:30 a.m. this morning in the backyard of his lodging place, 307 Alesio, a victim of suicide by hanging. Friends attribute his death to depression over ill health and worry about gaining employment in this country.
Born in Santiago de Cuba in 1906, Colas came to the University of Miami in 1934 on a student immigration passport. He completed his undergraduate work here in January, was taking post graduate work this semester, and was to receive his degree of Bachelor of Arts at commencement exercises May 29. Because his passport would expire at the termination of his student career, possibility of his procuring work in this country was slight.
At the University, Colas made a definite place for himself as a student leader. Probably the most distinguished Cuban student the University ever had, he was staff columnist for the Miami Hurricane, president of Lead and Ink, honorary journalism fraternity, member of Iron Arrow, men’s honorary, Outstanding Student of the Month of January in the Hurricane’s Hall of Fame, member of International Relations Club, and was listed this year in “Who’s Who in American Universities and Colleges.”
His column, “Latino Americanas,” which has appeared weekly in the Hurricane for the past two years, reflected his keen desire to bring students of the United States and Latin America into a close bond of friendship and interest, and his talents as a writer and a journalist. At many different times, Colas had voiced his ambitions to have a career of journalism in the United States. In a newspaper interview he declared his serious intention “to forge a Latin-American culture out of European cultural domination, and to familiarize Latin-America with the culture and life of the United States.”
Last seen by Hurricane staff members late yesterday afternoon, Colas turned in this week’s column, talked of his plans for a job, and called a meeting of Lead and Ink for tomorrow, then changed the day to next Tuesday.
Colas is survived by his mother, Señora Heloida Colas and a brother, Jorge, who is a journalist in Havana.
Nelson’s "Anger” Awarded G. P. Brett Prize for Poetry
Ralph Nelson, sophomore in the Music School, won the $10 George P. Brett Poetry Prize contest sponsored by the Ibis, University yearbook, judges announced this week.
Of 15 student poems submitted for competition, Nelson’s poem, “Anger,” which appeared in the University Day issue of the Hurricane, took highest honors. It will be reprinted in the Ibis, scheduled for release May 15.
Judges for the contest were Dr. Clarke Olney, Dr. William L. Halstead, Mrs. Natalie Grimes Lawrence, and Lewis Leary, all of the English department.
Nelson, who is official Student Poet for the Hurricane, is starting a contest-winning career, having previously won $100 for the best original song in the Song Cnotest conducted this winter.
The $10 poetry prize was donated by Mrs. George P. Brett, widow of the late president of the Macmillan Book company. Arrangements are being made to present the award to Nelson at commencement exercises, May 29.
Lead and Ink Elect New Members
Lead and Ink, honorary journalism fraternity, will hold an important meeting Tuesday at 3:30 in room 219 for the purpose of electing new members and officers for the coming year.
Last term sophomores, juniors, and seniors who have done outstanding work on student publications for two terms are eligible for election.
Present members are: Mike Colas, president, Freda Speizman, Virginia Witters, Brad Boyle, Joan Goeser, Dick Arend, Margaret Shillington, Phil Fenigson, Cliff Hendrick, George Wheeler, Lewis Dorn, and Norman Worthington. Faculty members of the fraternity are Lewis Leary, Simon Hochberger, and Leonard Muller.
Gov’nment, Press Group Off to Convo
9 Delegates To Attend FIPA-FSGA Conferences At Gainesville, May 5, 6
Five members of the University of ¿Miami student government association, two Hurricane representatives, and two Ibis workers will be delegates to the annual Florida Student Government and Florida Inter-collegiate Press Associations to be held at Gainesville May 5 and 6. With Mr. Simon Hochberger to be one of the judges of publications, he and his wife will chaperone the group.
The purpose of the conferences is for the different schools to gain new ideas from other colleges in regard to student government and publication work.
In the field of publications, judges will select the best yearbook and newspaper from the various Florida colleges and universities. The Ibis has won the award for two successive years. Round table discussion of phases of newspaper work will also be evidenced. Student government sessions will consist mainly of forums.
Students to attend from the University include Betty Goff, President of F.S.G.A.; Ray Fordham, Charlotte Meggs, Dorothy Ashe, and Bob Hill-stead from the student government; Lewis Dorn and Cliff Hendrick, Ibis; and Hedwig Ringblom and Virginia Witters, secretary of F.I.P.A., Hurricane.
The group left this morning by car and will return Sunday night.
Chi O, Pi Chi Finish First In Songfest
Amid a capacity crowd, Chi Omega sorority and Pi Chi fraternity emerged victorious in the second annual Songfest competition sponsored Friday night by the Phi Mu Alpha musical fraternity. Kappa Kappa Gamma and Delta Sigma Kappa won the awards last year.
Selections rendered by the winning groups were “Allah’s Holiday” and “Ciribiribin” by the Chi Omegas; “Steal Away” and “Vive L’Amour” by the Pi Chis.
Judges were Reinald Werrenrath and Ralph Roth with Stanley Bied-ron, Paul Barbuto, and Eddie Baumgarten in charge of proceedings.
Following the Songfest, a dance for all participants was held in the cafeteria, with music furnished by the Sinfonians.
Jewish Culturists Present Vespers
With the Jewish Culture Society in charge of the program, the monthly Vesper Services will be held in the auditorium Sunday at 4 p.m. Jerry Weinkle will officiate.
Together with a talk by Sr. Stanley C. Meyers and the reading of a prayer by Rabbi Colman Zwittman, musical entertainment will be presented. All students are invited to attend.
Botanists Weekend Mid Flora and Fauna
Front view of the tonsils in this corner, snoozing students from above in that a shot of delicate table manners between students in Dr. Walter Phillips’ field botany class provide the subjects for the mirth-provoking pictures that cover the walls in the botany lab. One of the best crops of pictures came out of a field trip last weekend.
This year’s weekend trip in the lake region of central Florida was a calm, quietly amusing, industrious affair. Nothing exciting or unusual happened. The class collected stacks and stacks of specimens and Dr. Phillips took rollls and rolls of pictures.
Johnny Noppenberg could hardly wait for the car to stop so he could rush off in a wild search. Dr. Phillips beamed; he thought that, at last, John was taking an interest in botany. Disappointment followed, for when John returned he was laden with oranges, not plant specimens.
Sebring was the overnight stop. It proved to be a nice, quiet, staid town — sort of a girls’ dorm on a large scale. All children under fifteen had to be in when the curfew rang at nine. By 11 o’clock the whole town was asleep but not the botany class. It is reported that A. J. Walker spent half the night playing bridge. Dr. Phillips entertained the group by telling his experiences in public bath.
Near Riot Predicted As Rivalry Runs Rampant In White-Orange Tussle
Nevar-Say-Sleep Franklin Slated for Editor
Charlie’s Journalistic Fate Hangs In Balance As Student Senate Fails To Acquire Quorum
Charles Franklin, managing editor, received the unanimous vote of the Publications Board as editor-in-chief of the Miami Hurricane and will take over his editorial duties with next week’s issue, provided the Student Senate O.K.’s the Board’s recommendation at a special meeting next Tuesday. Franklin will succeed Margaret Shillington, whose term as editor expires with this issue.
Franklin was appointed head of the official student newspaper by the Publications Board which met last Friday afternoon for that purpose. His appointment, scheduled to have
Hart-Kaufman Opus Theta Alpha Vehicle For Next Thursday
Theta Alpha Phi, honorary dramatics fraternity, will present “You Can’t Take It With You,” popular comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, Thursday evening, May 11, in the auditorium. It will be the first production of the legitimate play in this area. The cast, with one or two exceptions, will be made up of Theta Alpha Phi members.
The story centers around the home and family of Martin Vanderhof, portrayed by Speed Marvin, and their peculiar philosophy of life, which is doing exactly as they please, and indulging every whim. The family consists of: Penny Sycamore, scatterbrained daughter of Vanderhof, played by Adele Rickel; Paul Sycamore, her husband, by Dan Satin; Alice, their pretty and normal daughter, Peggy O’Donnell; Essie, the toedancing daughter, Maybelle Gilbert; and her husband, Ed, the xylophonist, played by Eddie Baumgarten.
Others in the cast include Sid Cassell as Essie’s dancing master, “Eet-steenks” Kolenkhof; Jack Madigan and Jean Moore as Mr. and Mrs. Kirby, the Wall Street millionaire and his wife; George Dawkins as Tony, their son who starts the action off by falling in love with Alice; C. H. Motter as De Pinna; Phyllis Salter as Gay, the drunken actress; Joyce Christensen as Grand Duchess Olga Katrina; Buddy Cohen and Sylvia Locke as Donald and Reba, the colored servants.
Other players are Dean Russell Rasco, Walter Scott Mason, Ed Turner, and Vic Levine. The complications start when Alice and Tony try to reconcile their families.
been approved at last Tuesday’s Senate meeting, is postponed till next Tuesday.
An attempt to have a special Senate meeting today to settle the election before the Hurricane went to press was frustrated when only five members showed up.
At present a sophomore in the College of Liberal Arts, Franklin will be one of the few juniors in the history of the Hurricane to hold the position of editor. He has worked on the paper since the first term of his freshman year, gaining the position of sports editor at the end of his first year and the position of managing editor during the second semester of his sophomore year.
In addition to his journalistic accomplishments, Charlie is president of the sophomore class, sports editor of the Ibis, University yearbook, vice-president of Phi Alpha social fraternity, and is a student assistant in the athletic office.
Upon recommendation of the Publications Board, George Wheeler, present business manager of the Hurricane, will hold the same position for the second year. Charles Baakc, present advertising manager, will be appointed assistant business manager, Wheeler announces. He succeeds Ray Reiner, graduating senior.
F.B.I. WANTS GRADUATES
Dean John Thom Holdsworth requests all graduating law and business administration students interested in positions with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to meet him in room 374 tomorrow at 9:30 p.m.
Quarterbacks’ Game Features Walt vs. Chuck
Orange juice will be running in the ramps of the Orange Bowl tomorrow night when just about the whole of Greater Miami will be on hand to see the University of Miami intra-squad football game, sponsored by the Quarterbacks Club during their spring membership drive.
Adult football fans must be members of the Quarterbacks Club, and only their 1939 membership cards can get them in. Memberships are being sold downtown, and will probably be obtainable at the stadium.
All University students will be admitted to hte game free by presenting their activity books at the gate. The north side of the stands is reserved for them and the band. Plenty of kids are jubilant because the Quarterbackers decided to permit all grammar, junior high, and senior high school students to attend the game free. Most of the high school bands in the area will be present also, and plenty of noisy rooting is predicted.
Oranges and Whites The squad has been split into two teams, the Oranges and the Whites. Chuck Guimento, Orange captain and varsity co-captain, and Walt Kichef-ski, White captain and the other varsity co-captain, have picked their teams and declared themselves satisfied. Concerning victory, Chuck says, “Both teams will give their best. I think the best team will win.” Other than that, the stocky guard has no comment, but during his forecast he wore a sly grin. Walt sticks with his previous statement that his team would walk away with a 32 to 0 victory. He says he isn’t boasting, just considering the teams.
Freshmen
The game will complete five weeks of spring drills for the Hurricanes, who have been going at it hammer and tongs on the Biltmore practice field. With twenty-two players graduating next year, Coach Jack Harding has been trying to settle on the ¡relative merits of the freshman crop. Friday’s tilt will give Harding, Morris, Ormiston, and Dunn a chance to judge under actual fire over twenty yearlings. Quite naturally, Coach Harding has no desire to depend upon sophomores again for the central figures of year after next’s team, so it looks as though the ones who show up well tomorrow night will stick for next fall.
Quarterbacks Back The Quarterbacks Club took over many arrangements, and came up with prominent members of their organization taking the roles reserved for coaches and waterboys. They have divided into two groups, one bunch acting as Orange rooters, the other side cheering for the Whites.
Bryan Hanks will furnish the in-between-halves pep talk for the Or-
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Muller Braves Public’s Ridicule; Cleaves to Beaver Thru Thick, Thin
Mountains can crumble and seas can dry up, but Mr. Muller’s beard grows Oblivious to snarls and scoffs of scorn, Leonard Muller, instructor in the language department, breezes about airily with great unconcern for one in danger. (It has been rumored that students with cause for revenge are considering relieving Mr. Muller forcibly of the new acquisition on his chin.)
His entrance into the class the first
Campus Calendar
Tomorrow, 4 p.m. Talk, “Bartolomé de las Casas, by Dr. Robert McNicoll. WIOD.
8 p.m. Football game, Orange and White teams. Co-Captains, Kichef-ski and Guimento. Orange Bowl.
10 p.m. Sophomore Dance. Coral Gables Country Club. Gus Warren’s band.
Saturday, 7 p.m. Faculty Dinner, Cafeteria.
Monday, 8:30 p.m. Sinfonia Concert, Coral Gables Elementary Scholo. Thursday, 2:30 p.m. Town and Gown Meeting. University auditorium. 8:30 p.m. “You Can’t Take It With You,” Theta Alpha Phi. Auditorium.
day after his return from a siege of illness was greeted by a variety of reactions. Mouths dropped open; lips twitched into smiles, and then broadened into grins; shouts came from the less controlled. There were several polite students who gazed the other way or who became suddenly busily engaged in their lessons. But among all there was the general belief that Mr. Muller’s illness had not affected him physically only. Such a beard, they bewilderdly murmured, could only have been thought of in a delirium.
Explaining his radical movement, Mr. Muller, with characteristic vehemence, spurts, “When I came over here, everyone expected to see a typical Frenchman in a cutaway and goatee. I am only making myself look like what they expected. Please don’t look so startled.”
After a week of living under the strain of juvenile ridicule, Mr. Muller is getting a little weary, although he is still holding out. It is the hope, and belief, that after a week more, people will not grow hysterical looking at him, and will forget his appearance. It is the student body’s prayer that he will shave the atrocity off and look human again.