Miami Hurricane, January 15, 1942

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NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI 21,1
Volume XV
Çoral Cables. Florida, January 15, 1942
Number 15
Ashe Reports on College Prexy W ar Conference
For the immediate and more effective prosecution of varied tasks in the service of the country, the National Conference of College and University Presidents met in Baltimore, January 3-4, in order to higher education and the war. Dr.' Bowman F. Ashe, president, «as among the 1,000 college presidents from 46 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico who attended.
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The conference was under the jponsorship of the Committee on Military Affairs of the National Committee on Education and Defense and the United States Office of Education.
The Conference proposed the following resolutions and made tht following recommendations:
. 1. Institutions of higher education cooperate to the fullest extent with the National Resources Planning Board and other federal agencies responsible for surveys (s) to determine the immediate needs of man power and woman power for the essential branches of national service—military, industrial, and civilian, (b) to determine the available facilities of colleges and universities to prepare students to meet these needs, and (c) to appraise the ultimate needs in professional personnel for long-term conflict and for the post-war period, in order that a continuous and adequate supply of men and women trained in technical and professional skills and in leadership to meet both immediate and long-range needs shall be maintained ;
2. There be brought to the attention of the President the necessity of issuing a statement of national policy which will avoid competitive bidding for faculty and students by government agencies and by industry and will conserve adequate personnel on all levels of
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REGISTRATION
Students are requested to complete work on clesa schedule* •» aud report to the registrar’* office with permit to register, aud five card registration set for final checking on or before January |g. |B order to avoid last minute confusion on schedules, Registrar Harry Brovin urges all students to do this as soon as possible.
Ibis Will Shoot Remaining Pix January 19-23
Seniors, juniors, “M” club members, and sorority and fraternity members whose pictures for the Ibis have not yet been made wlil be photographed next week, Jan. 19-23, in the senate chamber, room 225, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Seniors, to be photographed Monday and Tuesday, will wear graduation robes, furnished by the photographer. Juniors will be photographed Wednesday and Thursday. Junior boys are asked to wear coats and ties. “M” club pictures will be taken Friday. Members are asked to wear their major-letter sweaters.
Fraternity and sorority members may go in any day of the week.
Eckle Will Discuss 'Trends In Japan Which Have Led To War0
“Trends in Japan which have led to war” will be the topic under discussion when Dr. Paul E. Eckle, assistant professor of history, addresses the IRC next Wednesday at 7:45 p.m. in the Social Hall,
room 236.
Dr. Eckel lived in Japan from 1929 to 1935. He taught history and commerce at the University of Commerce at Kobe, the College of Commerce at Tarumi, and at the Tenri College of Foreign Languages at Nara. It is at Tenri College that the Japanese train the fifth columnists for work abroad.
Dr. Eckel was in Manchuria in 1931 when the trouble with Japan reached a head. To prove Japan has an efficient fifth column he will give an account of their activities in Manchuria that resulted in eventual Japanese victory.
Included in his speech will be a discussion of Japan’s economic penetration in the Philippines and the present collective dictatorship of Japan.
Dr. Eckel received his A.B. from the University of Miami, and his A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.
IRC To Elect State Officers
State officers of the International Relations Clubs will be elected Wednesday, January 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Social Hall.
A committee made up of Naomi Grossman, Mel Tannenbaum, and Florence Ehrlich will present nominations for the offices of state chairman and state secretary-treasurer. Additional nominations will be accepted at the meeting before final elections are held.
Those chosen will play a leading part in state activities of the International Relations Clubs of Florida since the state convention •ill be held at the University next year.	.	1
Red Cross Collects R5 In Day's Drive
®od Cross War Relief Fund *rs in a one-day drive con-on campus yesterday by __ JI«nic Council, Interfreter-"ty Council, and student associa-5*oo officers, collected 65 dollars, “ing to a count made this “ing in the office of Miss Mary .»Merritt, dean of women.
[.Presidents of Interfraternity Panhellenie Councils, of all ■»¡ties and sororities on cam-•nd of all classes and the t association, served •* ua~ °f funds. Vice-presidents .masses also gave their time.
History Group Gets New Members
History Honors Society nominated candidates for membership in the group at a meeting Monday night.
Katherine Glascock, Louise Wheeler, Bernard Shapiro, and David Platt were selected. A eo mittee composed of Ann Gunther, Helen Teretsky, Bill Feldman and members of the history faculty was organised to fill vacandea in the society.
Nino Martini, leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, will appear as guest soloist with the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra at the second annual subscription concert Monday at Orchestra Hall of Miami senior high school.
John Bitter will conduct the orchestra in the concert, which will be repeated in Fort Lauderdale on January 20. This will be the first of three repeat performances to be presented in Fort Lauderdale.
The complete program for the concert follows:
Nocturnes	Claud* Debusxy
"Nuagee"
Tetes"
Symphony No. 8 'JUnfinished"	Fran* Schubert
Ch* gelida manina, from "La Boh*m*"	Giacomo Puccini
I* croi* entendre encore, from "Le* Pecheurs des Perles"
George* Bixet
Nino Martini INTERMISSION
Sch.rxo’ from the "Afro-American Symphony"
William Grant Still
E*trellita	Alexander	Ponce
Bol“°	Maria Grever
El Trust de	los tenorios	Alfio	Serrano
Nino Martini
Emperor Walt*	Johann	Straue*
New Coat Replaces Six-Year Old Student Paint Job
Those men crawling on the walls of the Main Building aren’t human flies. They are painters. Painters doing, or getting ready to do, what painters usually do. For the first time in six weather beaten years the old building is going to have its face lifted.
According to John J. O’Day, University property manager, the walls of the building will be a light
USAAC Cadets To Get Diplomas Saturday Morning
Forty-eight U.S. Army aviation cadets, who have completed the P.A.A. Navigation courses at the University, will receive their diplomas Saturday morning at 10:00 in the theatre. Commissions will be received in about 30 days.
Festivities will begin with a stag dinner for the class tomorrow night at the Coral Gables Country Club. Guests will include the U.S. Army officers and doctors stationed here, the Pan-American navigation staff, Dr. Bowman F. Ashe and Dean Foster E. Alter as representatives of the University of Miami, British cadets, and the lower class of the cadet detachment.
Dancing will follow the dinner.
Campus Calendar
Jeauary 14 to Janaary 22 Thursday, January 15,	8 p.m.
Snarks, 1354 S.W. 12 Street. 8 to 10 p.m. German Club, Granada Building 8 p.m. Mu Beta Sigma, Social Hall (233)
Friday, January 16, 6 p.m. Sigma Kappa Dinner for Grand Treasurer, 622 Velarde Avenue 8:30 p.m. Dr. Kohn, Smith College, Theatre
Sunday, January 18, 8 p.m. Concert, Granada Building Monday, January It, 12 n. Women’s Athletic Council, Social Han (233)
Taeedey, January 20, 11 a.m. Ki-wanis Builders, Social Hall (233)
6:80 to 7 p.m. Episcopal Student League, Social Hall 7 p.m. Alpha Kappa Psi, Social Hall
Widaeeday, January 21, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Y.W.C.A., Social Hall (233)
7:80 p.m. IJLC, Social Han
cream with stone grilles and artwork painted a darker shade of cream, like the Law School Building. The work is to be completed by the last of March.
This paint job has the school all agog. For a long time the more aesthetic and sensitive have been wailing about the besmudged and streaked condition of old Main. Back in May of 1936 the students put on such a drive to paint the building. Folks thought that paint job would last forever. It didn’t, but those were the pioneer days of lusty student campaigns.
A music student named Carl Fien came up with the idea of a concentrated drive to glean funds to paint the sole University building. After raising the money by means of various forms of dignified and not so dignified begging, or soliciting, (they even sold a special red edition of the Hurricane for a nickel) the ambitious
students bought the paint and set to work to do the actual labor themselves. Men and women students spent their spare hours strangling a paint brush and applying the traditional three coats at once. They even made the newsreels with their work. Even after the first fever of the novel cam-
Deboters Practice For U. of Pa. Moot
Debaters will practice today at 4:00 in the jury practice room of the Law School building in preparation for the first debate of the year, on January 27, with the University of Pennsylvania.
The varsity team for the year has not been selected but the annual barnstorming tour of the men’s team, scheduled in the Spring, has been approved.
Th°*e interested may still submit briefs. The intercollegiate subject for debate for the year is “Resolved that: the Federal Government Should Regulate by Law All Labor Unions.”
paign died they went on and they finally got the building painted.
It is the scarce remnants of the paint applied by student hands that is being removed to make way for a new, professional paint job.
English Honors Complete Plans For Winstitute
English Honors Society elected a new secretary-treasurer at its meeting Tuesday and completed plans for assisting the English department with the presentation of the Winter Institute.
Lorraine Corsiglia is the new secretary-treasurer, replacing Rosemary Leroux, who will graduate in February. Her first duty will be to order books written by Winter Institute speakers for sale by the
society in the theatre lobby during lectures. Barbara Curran and Bella Sabshin will work with the secretary and Frank Richardson, president of the group, on the book committee.
Julia and Eleanor Arthur are in charge of registration card distribution for institute and Clementine Smith, Robert Hess, Hal Bar-kas, and Ben Axelroad will be the ticket-taking committee. Book tickets will be issued to outsiders this year.
Teas will be held in honor of Winter Institute speakers under the direction of Naomi Grossman, Ronald Kerfoot, and Hal Barks*, who comprise the refreshment committee. Among the radio programs to be presented on the Institute theme will be a round-table discussion in which Allison Corey and Ben Axleroad will participate.
On the ushers committee are Caroline Dodd, Janet Seerth, Irene Cropp, Evelyn Daniel, Alma Jane Lindgren, and Carol Montgomery. All committees will meet with Walter Scott Mason, director of the institute, during the next week to nmke final arrangements.