Miami Hurricane, November 16, 1945

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TEP Fixeg Dec. 1 For Contest Day
Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity will play host to University students at a dance to be held at the Terrace dub on Dec. 1. The dance and beauty contest will be the first of what promises to be an annual TEP-sponsored affair.
Jack Eby’s orchestra, formerly with Miami’s Royal Palm club, will provide music for the affair. During the evening, acts from Miami Beach night clubs will entertain.
The high spot of the evening will be the selection of “Miss University of Miami.” Candidates for this title are being put up by campus organizations. Any independent group may sponsor a candidate by s laving a petition signed by fifty non-affiliated students for a particular girl. No student may sign more than one petition. All groups must have their candidates’ names and glossy pictures in box 345 at the University post office by Nov. 24.
Among the awards for the win. ner are included a six weeks’ course at the Miami School of Modeling, a complete ensemble from Hartley’s, and a complete beach ensemble from Three Sisters, Miami women’s apparel shop. All con-, testants will receive corsages and gifts.
A tentative slate of judges is as follows: Miss Mabel Frampton, fashion editor of the Miami Daily News; Miss Eileen Bryne, fashion editor of the Miami Herald; and Miss Margaret Stone of the Miami School of Modeling. Two more judges will be added in the near future;. Each contestant will be personally interviewed several days before the final judging.
The contestants will be .judged for poise, personality, and grooming as well as beauty. They will appear at the contest in street-length dresses.
TEP requests that each sponsoring organization turn into box 345 a short thumbnail sketch of its.contestant
University To Buy Biltmore Hotel?
Purchase of the Biltmore hotel by the University and abandonment of plans to construct a nqw campus south of Bird road were announced as probable in a news articte published this morning in the "Coral Gables Riviera.”
New serving as an Army Air Corps hospital, the Biltmore was erected about twenty years ago at a cost estimated at about ten million dollars. It was bought by the Army for about $900,000 several years ago.
The University board of trustees is negotiating with the Army for outright purchase of the property, the "Riviera” said, with funds collected in the expansion drive last year. The expansion fund has about $600,000 in cash and another million dollars could be realized from sale of present University holdings.
Freshmen Take Over Campus; Hick Costumes Order Of Day
2Vo School Thursday
Hopes for reaching an international agreement with our allies have been renewed, for if we can all agree on what day to celebrate Thanksgiving, we can agree to anything. School will be closed Thursday on account of the holiday. But don’t go far because classes resume on Friday.
IRC Slates AtomicBomb Talk Tues.
Th:t the secret of atomic energy should be shared with our allies under strict control of the United Nations, is the subject for an informal discussion at the meeting of the International Relations club Tuesday evening at 7:30 in room 270.
After the pros and cons of the subject are discussed and a conclusion is reached, the decision will be sent in the form of a signed resolution to President Harry S. Truman, Senators Claude W. Pepper and Charles O. Andrews, and Congressman Pat Cannon.
“Although university groups have sent resolutions to the government in Washington in the past, this is the f’rst time that students of the University of Miami have been called upon to express themselves. It is hoped that students of physics and chemistry will attend the meet, ing '.o that a conclusion based on scientific principles as well as those of the layman may be reached,” state;! Muriel Courshon, president of the club.
PianistSandor To Play'Emperor Concerto At Sunday’s Concert
Gyorgy Sandor, pianist, will appear with the University Symphony Orchestra Sunday afternoon at 4:30 and Monday evening at 8:30 in the Miami Senior high school auditorium.
The Symphony, under the direction of Dr. Modeste Alloo, will play Haydn’s “London Symphony” and Toch’s “Pinocchio.” Sandor and ¿he Symphony will play Beethoven’s “Emperor” concerto.
Not content with fame thj oughout
Europe, Sandor toured North and South America' with such success that he is now acclaimed as an outstanding performer by three continents.
At the age of six Gyorgy was introduced to the piano by h:s sister. At eight he was prepared to enter the Fodor Conservatory of Music, where he was acknowledged as the school’s outstanding student
When Gyorgy Sandor was sixteen he began to study under the Hungarian composer, Zoltm Ko-daly. Later, Bela Bartók, also a Hungarian, taught Sandor. In 1939. Sandor made his American debut; since then he has toured South America, Central America, and Mexico.
Enlistment in the army brought Sandor's tours to a temporary end. However, G.I. recitals kept the pianist in practice. In 1944, Sandor, now » United States’ citizen, was given nis honorable discharge frrm the *tniy. He has resumed his tours throughout both American continents.
5 Groups Sing Thanksgiving
The City of Hollywood, in cooperation with the University YMCA has invited three sororities and two fraternities to be its guests at a ion Thanksgiving day service, Thursday at 10 a.m.
The groups, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Delta Phi Epsilon, Iota Alpha Pi, Tau Epsilon Phi, and Phi Epsilon Pi, will sing two choral numbers. The boys’ choral group will sing “Faith of Our Fathers,” and the girls wrill sing “Oh God, Our Help in Ages Past.”
The choral groups are under the direction of Marvin Rickard with Doris Feldman acting as accom panist. The choral numbers will be part of a program sponsored by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and will take place at the open-air theater on Harding circle in Hollywood.
“Dogpatch Duds” will dominate the campus today with the inauguration of Freshmen Week, Nov. 16-23, Ed Worton, president of the freshman class, has announced.
Today, “Hick Day,” a shoe deposit box will be available to those who wish to check their shoes. “Hick Day” will e.Ttend through the evening and entertainment between the halves of
tonight’s game will be in honor of
Sig Kappas Back Drive
Sigma Kappa sorority, winner of last years’ bond drive, is sponsoring a bond booth to open next Monday in the Arcade in front of the theater. Each sorority and fraternity on campus will receive notice of its assigned day on which to sell bonds and stamps in the booth, and wrill be notified as to date and instructions. Each organization is to decorate the booth for the day it is assigned.
The Victory bond goal has been set at $10,000. The group making the highest number of sales wrill receive an award from Sigma Kappa.
the freshmen, stated Worton.
“Freshmen are expected to outdo each other in costumes ‘right off the cob.’” said the class president, “and cash prizes wrill be given to the four luckiest hicks’ at the University,” he added.
The “Hick Hop,” first affair of the celebration wrill take place tomorrow night in the cafeteria from 8 to midnight Judging the costumes will be Mr. and Mrs. James Steiner and upperclassmen Dorothy Jefferson and Bill Etheridge. The awards will be presented at the hop.
A navy band will provide music for the affair and refreshments will be served. Members of the freshman class will provide entertainment Admission is seventy-five cents, stag or drag.
“It is obligatory that freshmen wear costume,” continued Worton, “but upperclasmen may do as they wish.”
3 One Acts To Be Staged
Three one-act plays written by students in Frederick H. Koch’s playwriting course will be the next dramatic production of the University, Mr. Koch, assistant professor of drama, has announced. They will be presented on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 8:30 p.m., in the theater.
“Practice Makes Perfect,” by Berry Lipkin, is a comedy which will be directed by its author. The second play, by Robert. Vaughn, has not been titled as yet; it is a drama of the Detroit race riot in 1943 and wrill be directed by Elaine Planick. The third is a musical satire on radio land. Richard Hittleman and Roger Bass, the authors, who also wrote the music and lyrics, will direct.
Following the plays the playwrights will be introduced to the audience, and questions and criticisms will be accepted. No admission will be charged for the plays.
Sandor
University students will be admitted free of charge upon presentation of student activity books on Sunday only, Mrs. Arnold Volpe, manager of the Symphony, announced. Reduced season rates on reserved seats have been offered to students as well as faculty members.
Slop Shop Wears School Colors
William J. Hester, secretary of the University, has asked for an indication of student opinion to find out whether students would prefer that the Slop shop .be closed for a week before the holidays in order that repairs may be completed, or if they would rather wait until the Christmas vacation. •
At least one week’s time will be needed to refinish the furniture and sand and varnish the floor of the Slop shop, stated Mr. Hester.
Repairs began this week with the painting of the walls of the Slop shop in the school colors, orange, green and white. Mrs. Sylvia Orwig, manager of the shop, stated that exit and entrance railings will be put up to facilitate traffic during the rush hours, and that ash trays and waste baskets will be provided at all the tables. Walls will be decorated with college banners and pennants.
Council Passes Resolution On Behalf Of Private Colleges
Dr. Charles E. Foster, dean of the School of Education, presented a resolution before the Florida Teacher Education Advisory council at Wednesday’s session which specified that Lewis teaching scholarships be made available to students attending nonstate supported universities as well as the University of Florida and Florida State College for Women.
The council, which has been holding conferences at the University this week, charged that because Lewis scholarships are granffed only to students attending the two state supported institutions, teacher-training programs at private colleges are endangered.
The council reviewed teacher certification rules and made recommendations for changes to go into the new bulletin which is now in preparation. These changes wrill not be announced until approved by the State Board of Education.
At the session on Monday afternoon, the status of narcotics education in Florida schools was reviewed under the leadership of Dr.
Colin English, state superintendent of schools. Tuesday morning’s session, led by Dr. M. W. Carothers of the Florida State College for Women, dealt writh problems of education resources in the state.
The final session on Thursday was devoted to a discussion of the state-wide Sloan Foundation Project in Applied Economics in which the University of Miami participates.
About forty delegates from the State Department of Education, the Florida Education association, and the other colleges and universities attended. The conference was under the general chairmanship of Dr. W.
T. Edwards of the State Department of Education.
On Monday, Dr. Bowman F. Ashe entertained the delegates at a luncheon in the Antilla hotel.
Senate Votes Loan For Junior Prom
A special session of the Senate was called Thursday, Nov. 9, when it was voted that a provisional loan would be granted to the junior class for the Junior-Senior prom. Further arrangements will be made at a later date.
Mark Brown, president of Student association, has extended an invitation to all students to attend meetings of the Senate on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 11:30 ajn. in the senate room.
Library Asks Students9 Aid
A distress signal for student aid in the library has been sent out by Miss Esther Rezek, member of the library staff.
Both men and women students are needed whose scholarships are good enough for the deans to approve a minimum thirty-five hour work month. Lower classmen are preferred so that they may continue in this capacity next year.
Six students are needed for this work. Only the men are allowed to work during the evening hours. No experience is required and the students are paid for their assistance.
Anyone interested has been asked to contact Miss Rezek in the library.
Pre-Meds Slated For Aptitude Tests
National, aptitude tests for pre-medical students wrill be given during the early part of December, Miss Georgia May Barrett, professor of psychology, announced Wednesday.
Pre-medical students who wish to take the examinations have been asked to contact Miss Barrett before Thanksgiving. The exact date of the examination wrill be given upon applying for the tests.
Hie purpose of the aptitude tests is to select those students who wish to apply for medical college.
Stray Greeks To Begin Rehearsals For Xmas Sing
Stray Greeks wrill hold their second meeting of the semester Monday at 4 pjn. in 336. President John Harlow requests all members of the organization to be present because rehearsal for the Christmas sing will begin.
Foliowring the business meeting, the group wrill adjourn to the Barcelona restaurant for dinner.