Miami Hurricane, April 22, 1935

              The Miami Hurricane
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI T-^-^^^ESTFLORlDAi APRItT 9t^TciaK~
JUNIOR PROM SET FOR FRIDAY
HEWS of
By Audrey Rothenberg
^oc*a^ Fraternity Formed
NOTICE
“Silver Fires,” the new anthology of the best poetry produced in Eunice Tietjens’ class during the past year, goes on sale today.
In letters of bronze it is written: n pan.American University of Miami, 1931. On the eastern wall 0f the University stands this tablet dedicated to the ideal Pan-American. Today, 1935, that ideal, that trust, if we might call it that, has not been abandoned. ;
The very successful Pan-Ameri- ! can conference held within these j
walls and the recent Pan-Ameri- i	------
can which brought to this school Alberto Cassella’s Gripping
University Players Will Repeat “Death”
OMEGA KAPPA IS ACCEPTED UNANIMOUSLY
Inter Fraternity Council and Organizations Committee Pass New Group
ELECTIONS TONIGHT
NEWMAN CLUB
1 here will be an important meeting of the Newman Club Tuesday evening, April 30, in the University building. Allmembers are urged to attend.
HERBERT AND SHILLINGTON LEAD MARCH
Annual Affair To Be Held At Miami Biltmore Country Club
FAVORS TO BE GIVEN
leading diplomats from various of the Latin American nations point to the fact that Pan-Americanism is fast departing from the stage of a dream and is rapidly nearing a reality. The leaders of this movement have shown the proper approach to this ideal when they
Third Time April 24, Five Charter Members Named
' And Plans Underway ^iti	For House
Play To Be Held IiT Playhouse
Tuesday night, April 23, the University Players will repeat for the third time, as a request performance, Alberto Cassella’s gripping play, “Death Takes a Holi-instituted the system of exchang- j day.” The performance will take ing students. Where better than; P^ace the University Theater, in our universities can a true cos- ! When this play opened in New mopolitan and international spirit j York it received one of the most be bred into our nation. Dr. ; enthusiastic acclaims ever given Zamora, when he extended to the Ia modern drama. Critics of New Honorable Alfredo Lozano Agu- ! Yorks dailies were wildly enthu-delo in the behalf of the Univers- sia.stie about this beautifully po-ity of Miami the invitation to j ebc drama. Last week when the exchange students with the uni-! Players first gave their presenta-
versity in Columbia offered increased opportunity for us students here to contact the rich culture of the southern republics and perhaps to give a few selct
tion of the same drama the critics of Miami filled their respective papers with glowing accounts of the performance.
This play stands far above
A unanimous vote of approval by the Interfraternity Council marks the establishment of a new social fraternity on our campus. Omega Kappa, and members of This fraternity is to be called the organization will hold their initial meeting tonight.
The fraternity, which had been authorized two weeks ago by the Organizations Committee, received final word of its authorization Thursday afternoon after a meeting of the Interfraternity Council. Marvin Black, president of the council, issued a statement in which he said: “The Interfraternity Council welcomes the organization on the campus and (Please turn to page six)
students the rare experience of most of our present-day theater actually living in one of these!fare< It; is provocative and excit-nations. Such a policy will prove i in& in the keenly imaginative fan-more potent in the realization ofitasM of its drama and is played
University Debators Defeat St.Petersburg College Two To One
Tickets To Be Priced at $1.50 Per Couple; Reinhart’s Orchestra To Play
At midnight this Friday evening Betty Herbex-t, president of
i
.	j the Junior class, and Bill Shil-
*	Team „A*S0 Meets i lington, chairman, will head the
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Last Wednesday morning the affirmative team of the University Debating Council returned from its trip to the west coast where it competed against the squads of the University of Tampa and St. Petersburg Junior College.
Dave Hendrick, Bob Boyer and
Jimmie Mool made the trip, accompanied by Joe Weiland, and j A newspaper brought back globing accounts be on hand to take pictures of the
promenade.
grand march at the ninth annual Junior Prom in the spacious hall of the beautiful Miami Biltmore Country Club.
Miss Herbert and Mr. Shilling-ton will be followed by other officers of the Junior class, remaining prom committeemen, faculty, students and patrons. At this time attractive favors will be given to the ladies at the Prom and wll be distributed by Mrs. B. F. Ashe, Miss Merritt and others.
photographer will
Council Passes New Fraternity: Plans Elections
good will than would one hundred high-sounding treaties and one million hearty hand shakes. With such a policy, expanded to
with beauty, skill and under- j standing.
The curtain rises at 8:30, and all friends wishing a genuinely
its logical limit, the University of! interesting evening in the theater Miami will tend more and more to i should be told about it. The tick-
live up to > its name as a Pan-American University, and what is more, it will take its place among- the American centers of learning as a distinctive institution—the point of contact with the unexploited resources of Spanish culture.
ihe Colums, Padraic and Mary, have at last surrendered to the
ets are priced at fifty cents.
Elections Will Be Governed By Betas
Phi Beta Gamma, honorary law fraternity, has announced that it will not enter the school elections this year, but rather will act as call of the big city "and are re-1a supreme court keeping check
turning this week to Gotham. Uiey have hinted that they may come back next winter. Those °f us who were privileged to study under theixx bux-n a candle that this may prove true. This Jungs to our minds the splendid ePartnxent °f English possessed y this school during its winter semester (including, of course, e Winter Institute). Many S udents who attend renowned eastern universities have cast Jealous ,eyes southward at the e^o contact with leading liter-aty ^kures affox-ded by the Uni-
over undex-graduate politics
The fraternity consists of ap-px-oximately twenty-five members, headed by Ernie Duhaime as chief justice, and Claude Barnes as state director of expansion.
At the suggestion of president Marvin Black, the Interfraternity Council held a special called meeting at the Pi Chi fraternity house Tuesday afternoon at 12:30 p. m.
Tl^e mo^t important decision of the members was the recogni-tion of Omega Kappa fraternity as a new social organization at the University. The petition submitted was unanimously accepted.
The regular meeting of the council will be held on the second Monday of May, at which time officers will be elected for next year. Members present at the last meeting were Black and Turner, Delta Signa Kappa; Caesarano and Shillington, Pi Chi; Luehl and Mool, Pi Delta Sigma; Southward and Everson, Phi Alpha; and Rose and Lefko-witz, Phi Epsilon Pi.
This black and white formal is an annual affair of the Juniors in honor of the Senior class. Bob Reinhardt’s twelve piece orches-tra will furnish music during the (Please turn to page'six)
of their reception in the two cities.
At Tampa the boys were received by Dr. Hinkley of the English department of the University, and were escorted to the First Congregational Churchy where the non-decision debate was held.
Frank McDevitt, Joe Knight and Kiernan Schoomaker, who visited the University two weeks ago, met the team in St. Petersburg, and took the boys to Wil- “Miami, the World’s Play-liams Park, where the debate was j ground,” written by Charles
Charles Heckman’s Poem Is Accepted By Padraic Colum
OFFICERS WERE ELECTED FOR ALPHA PHI
OMEGA, NATIONAL SCOUTING FRATERNITY
At the first meeting of the I vice to the youth of America to
'render service to the University Alpha Phi Omega National Sco	partlcipating in student af-
ing Fraternity, held last ^ Thurs- | ^
day evening	in the	Gii s	ocia	j	newjy formed group is one
Hall, officers	tor	the	coming ycai	,	& natj0nal chain which in-
versity.	Thig	speaks	"wellt	Such ¡were elected.	¡eludes	chapters of the fraternity
'	Ptan as	has been	instituted here i Those members	who will	*eP*e	ap	a]j	the leading schools and uni-
01' the last few years cannot but1 sent the fraternity are: I^rry | versitles throughout the nation. Uag more students here for pur- j Lewis, president; Charley an	t0tal number of chapters is
fSes °ther than merely the en- i ley, vice president; Randall De 0^ent of piQrida sunghine_ it j Hart, scribe; John Esterlxne,
has been
Ehglish hext
rumored that the same staff may return in toto fe\ W'nter with, perhaps, some on) notable additions. We can Spey wish Professor Lowe God’s in his work toward this end. svlirthine not included in the a Us for Eunice Teijens’ po-(Please tui*n to page six)
treasurer.
Lewis was unanimously elected president because of the interest and time which he has given toward securing a char-
well over forty. With the insti tution of its newest chapter here at the University, the national order completes its program for having divisions of the organiza-
I1CMJ a.¥... .	tons located at all strategic geo-
ter for the new organization. jgraphical positions.
According to its new président; ^ ^ meeting 0f the fra-the purpose of Alpha Phi Omega	will be held Thursday ev
is to foster a better friendship between its members, to render ser
held before an audience of approximately five hundred people. Two judges and the audience rendered the decision in favor of Miami by a two to one vote, the judges splitting their vote with the audience overwhelmingly in favor of Miami.
Rho Beta Omicron Will Initiate Six
Six students were accepted into Rho Beta Omicron, honorary speaking fraternity, at the regular meeting of the organization held last week.
Heckman, has been selected by Padraic Colum to be used in a new book of poetry which he is preparing. The poem was written for Eunice Tietjens poetry class, and will appear in “Silver Fires,” poetry magazine.
This poem, written in free verse, presents the two sides of the city of Miami, and is written in a dramatic fashion. It holds a strong, masculine tone, and is very outspoken.
Eunice Tietjens, who has worked constantly with Mr. Heckman in her poetry class for the past two years, really believes that
he has great talent and versatil-Carl Fein, Audrey Rothenberg,	«it is quite unusual and to
Irvin Katz, Armand Yusem, Art j me quite delightful to see Heck-Brooks and Chester Cole will be man g,0 in for poetry in the way
initiated into the fraternity next Wednesday evening. These students were selected as prospec-
he has,” she says. “It is the old Greek idea of a perfect athlete, one with a healthy body and a
tive members after making trial creative mind. This is a corn-speeches before the members of i bination one does not so often the organization.	I meet.”
At this time officers for the en- j----------------------------
suing year will be elected, con- joe Tarpley, Pianist, sequently all members are urged j	Presented In Recital
to be present at the meeting. ;	------
----------------------S Joe Tarpley, pianist, was pre-
I sented by the University Con-j servatory of Music in a recital ¡held last Thursday evening in Re-
Scheibler To Address Honorary Chemical Club
Jeanne Louise Scheibler will ad- j cltaJ HalL dress the next meeting of the Hon
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Mr. Tarnley is connected with
™ neM 'rVtvVbVheld ¡‘he faculty of the University Con-Chemical Society to be held	^	^	several
years charmed Miami music circles with his talent. This recital was prior to Mr. Tarpley’s leav-(Please turn to page six)
orary
this Wednesday evening at 8:00 o’clock in the University building. She will talk on the subject of Cellulose. All members are urged to attend.