Miami Hurricane, February 19, 1942

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NEWSPAPER' OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI 11,1
Volume XV
Give Free Donee Tomorrow Night
A free dance will be given to-aorrow night at 9:00 in the cafe-lafr by Interfraternity Council >fUl p»nhellenic Council honoring Uaivenity student* in Red Croaa No set admission will be but students, cadets and general public will be re-intatr* to make some donation at tbe door to aid the Red Cross.
Phi Mu Alpha is donating its arvices to furnish the music. A gad Cross patriotic theme will be followed in the decorations, plaques representing the fraternal organizations on the campus will be placed on the walls under which members of the fraternities tnd sororities may congregate.
Chairmen of the dance are Al-vaiyn Boege, Chi Omega, Ruth Jane Craver, Sigma Kappa, Bob O’Reilly, P> Kappa Alpha, and Karr Goldman, Phi Epsilon Pi.
This is the second in a series of iafomal dances to be given in the cafeteria on Friday nights. All students, cadets, and the public are welcome at all these affairs. The first dance of the series was given last week by the Freshman class. The next will be given next week by the Y.W.C.A.
Freshman Resigns For Naval Reserve
Mike O’Brien resigned his post as president of the freshman class yesterday because he is leaving school to join the Naval Reserve After approving the resignation, the freshman executive board unanimously elected Jimmy Richardson, former vice-president, to succeed O’Brien.
Richardson’s first presidential duty is to straighten out the finances of the bam dance held last week for benefit of the Red Cross. It is estimated that the freshmen lost $12 on the dance due to a misunderstanding over fraternity and sorority tickets.
A class meeting has been called for next Tuesday at 11.
Quartet To Give Benefit Concert
A benefit concert, the proceeds of which will be used to buy defease stamps, will be presented by the student string quartet, assisted hy student soloists, in the Gran-*da building, Sunday night at 8.
Tbe group will play a Beetho-Jea quartet and, assisted by John Miyder, clarinetist, the Mozart Qaintet.
Brenner will sing and ■jjh Wolkowski will offer piano
Üjή* admission y-five cents.
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Coral Gables, Florida, February 19, 1942
Number 19
Students Ignore Intramural Project Vote For Second Time
EDITORIAL
Exactly one hundred and thirty out of over one thousand regularly enrolled University of Miami students marched to the polls Wednesday and expressed their approval or disapproval of the proposed one dollar assessment which would help to complete the University’s new intramural plant. The other 870 or so lacked the interest, courage, motivation, or necessary means to even vote, and thereby sounded the death knell for the final completion in the immediate future of the much-needed intramural setup. Frankly, the real reason for this pitiful showing remains a mystery. It was a repeat performance, on a far grander scale, of the voting of Wednesday week, when 259 hardy souls dared to express an opinion.
Democratic government is based on the principle that all citizens participate in the governing. Government of the people, for the people, and by the people becomes only government for the people by some other agency when citizens do not exercise their greatest right—that of the ballot By stubbornly refusing to vote, students at this University are depriving themselves of student self-government, a prized privilege at any institution of learning
Although the loss of time caused by the loss of $1000 is hardly great enough to be called disastrous to the much-prayed-for intramural plant, the real disaster lies in the only-too-evident attitude of the 870 University students who ignored the signs, the publicity, and the polls.
Pi Chi Is Accepted by Sigma Chi
Pi Chi fraternity will be installed as the ninety-ninth chapter of Sigma Chi March 20 according to an announcement last night by Jim Hamilton, Eminent Commander of Pi Chi and Sigma Chi transfer from Wabash. Pi Chi is the last of the University’s local fraternities.
Hamilton said that the Pi Chi’s had received the long-awaited good news in a telegram from J. Russell Easton, executive secre-
tary of Sigma Chi, in which Easton stated that the final tabulation from all chapters of Sigma Chi had been made and that Pi Chi’s petition had been passed by an overwhelming majority.
Active in the work which has led to the installing of a Sigma Chi chapter here have been former Grand Consul of Sigma Chi, George Ade, Hervey Allen, University trustee, Southeastern Sigma Chi chapters, and the Miami Sigma Chi alumni chapter. The local had been visited several times earlier in the year by Sigma Chi investigating officers.
Pi Chi alumni on the University faculty and administration include Dean Jay F. W. Pearson, Dr. John Thom Holdsworth, Dr. H. Franklin Williams, faculty advisor, and Dr. F. E. Kitchens of the University Clinic. Other well-known Pi Chi alumni are Pat Cannon, U. S. congressman from Florida, and assistant U.S. district attorney for this area Stu Patton.
*Green Pastures" Author, Wile, her To Close Winter Institute
Bradford, noted writer of negro folklore and author of the ** «Her, “Green Pastures,” will start the lectures for the last week ^'Winter Institute with his talk Monday afternoon on “Aspects of Folklore.” His wife, Mary Rose Bradford and Poet John Gould r will also give one lecture each during this week.
night with a discussion entitled, "A Southerner Looks at the Pro-
_Tnesday evening, Mr. Bradford E* «Peak about “Guides for Be-“*•” Mrs. Bradford will dis-MThe Problem of Publishing One Writes” Wednesday on. Wednesday evening, '“tcher will give a lecture of his own poetry. “Writ-„ Home Town Novel” will subject of Mr. Bradford’s Thursday evening, and he do»e the Institute Friday
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fessional Southerner.”
Of Mr. Bradford’s many works, a few of the best known are: “Old Man Adam and His Children” (which later became Green Pastures), “This Side of Jordan,” The Three-Headed Angel, and John Henry- He was awarded the First Prise O’Henry Memorial Award in 1M1.
Members of the Pi Chi active chapter are: Keith Phillips, Don Angell, Bill Wood, Bill Cook, John Born, John Quimby, Bernard Bergh, Jack Kiel, Geo-ge Henry, Ed Patton, Tony Roth, Tommy Kent, Milton Howland, Harry Rinehart, Bill Gale, Francis Christie, Bob Bolger, Harry Parker,
Jim Hamilton, Marsh Cheney, Ed Newbold, Paul Sutton, Steve Sla-ger, Don Kuhl, Starr Horton, Hanley Kieth, Bill Mason, Jim Barry, Thomas Smith, and Bob Suddeth. Officers are: Hamilton, Eminent Commander; Born, Lieutenant Commander; Quimby, secretary; Wood, treasurer; and Cook,pledge-
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Glee Club Rehearses Twice Weekly For Waring Contest: Men Needed
Men are needed for ;he University Men’s Chorus which is now rehearsing every Monda\ and Wednesday at 11 in the Granada building in preparation for the Fred Waring national college glee club contest. Robert Reinert, director of the chorus, would like to have about 100 voices and from that pick 40 for the competing chorus, who
Any men who are interested in choral work are asked to report to rehearsals.
Three songs are being prepared for the contest. Regional and national awards will be ipven. The University chorus will compete with those from Florida and Geor-
Careless Cigarette Butt Causes Cafeteria Fire
A fire which started when someone left a cigarette butt among trash and napkins in the cafeteria employees’ locker room caused damage estimated at $200 last Friday night.
The flames broke out around 9:30 p.m. Ed Cagney, who was in the slop shop, first noticed the blase and quickly gathered volunteers to help extinguish it. Joe Klein summoned the Coral Gables Fire Department which was on the scene within 3 minutes and quenched the Are by 9 -45.
Students attending the Winter Institute lecture and the Freshman Barn dance, which was taking place in the cafeteria, suffered only mild confusion.
gia schools. Judging of regional competitions will be done from recordings. Final competition will be in a public performance in either Carnegie Hall or the Metropolitan Opera House. The winning glee club will broadcast on War-ing’s program.
Senior Statistics Wanted
No sonior will have his pictsrt in the Ibis unless he hae filled oat a statistics card sad turaed it ia. Those who have aot don# this aiast do so imsaedistsly, and haad them ia at the Uaiversity Poet Office.
If may seniors fsiied to obtain those cards whoa having their pictures taken, they may writ* oat their statistics on plain paper. Necoeeary itarns ia-
Students’ lack of interest in the intramural project was again shown this week as another election was ruled invalid by the Honor Court because not enough of the student body voted. Less than 130 votes weer cast Wednesday, 115 for the one dollar assessment and 11 against it. No more elections on this questions will be called.
Seymour Simon, only candidate for chief justice of the honor court, was elected by 144 votes.
The intramural elections were held to make it possible for each student to vote to assess himself one dollar to further the work of the intramural project. The student senate contributed $500 toward the work before the election last week. That election, held February 11, was declared invalid since only 259 of about 1000 regularly enrolled students voted.
DPhiE Spelling Bee Won by Edwards; Corrigan, Second
Mae Edwards, independent, spelled “holocaust” correctly to win the Delta Phi Epsilon spelling bee this morning. Claud Corrigan of Lambda Chi Alpha won second place by spelling “furbelow” after seven other contestants had been downed by the word. Miss Edwards was presented a small loving cup by Shirley Hames Goldstein, president of Delta Phi Epsilon.
Twenty-six contestants participated in the annual affair. They were Claud Corrigan and Edison Archer, Lambda Chi Alpha; Earl Barber and Hal Barkas, Pi Kappa Alpha; Tony Roth and Ed Patton, Pi Chi; Jimmy Politis and Clarence Turkisher, Phi Mu Alpha; Gloria Waterbury and Kathleen Rhodes, Delta Zeta; Ester Rosen-stein and Rita Schoenfield, Alpha Epsilon Phi; Barbara Browne and Jane Mack, Chi Omega; Martha Kautzman and Mary Anne Curtis, Sigma Kappa; Connie Scherr and Beth Stone, Zeta Tau Alpha; Shirley Mayberry and Betty Batchellor, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Marjorie Cullbreth, Sigma Alpha Iota; Fred Hasty, Stray Greeks; Stuart La Motte and George Young, Kappa Sigma. Frank Richardson and Mae Edwards were the independents entered.
Ibis Organization PictnresPostponed
All Ibis organization pictures which were scheduled for today have been postponed because of inclement weather. The pictures will be taken Tuesday, February 24, in the patio of the Main bulid-ing according to the following schedule :
Taesday, Fab. 24 Lead and Ink	11:00
Women’s Association	11:10
Chemical Society	11:20
Mu Beta Sigma	11:30
Krwanis Builders	11:40
Baptist Student Union 11:50 Methodist Student Organization
12:00
Episcopal Student League 12:10
Newman Club ........... 12:20
YMCA .................. 12:30
YWCA .................. 12:40
GDI (Executive council) 12:50 S narks................. i;00