Miami Hurricane, June 25, 1948

              Saey Faces Finals Monday
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The Miami
Hurricane
Vol. XXII
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, CORAL GABLES, FLA., JUNE 25, 1948
No. 29

Prizewinning Author Assigned To Faculty
The author of “Victory in the Dust’ and recipient of a J. B. Lippincott first novel award of $1,000 in 1942, is now teaching American Literature and American Poetry at University.
Arthur G. Phillips’ novel is set in a racetrack local. He is now working on a second novel. Mr. Phillips took his Master of Arts degree at Boston university and also had some training toward his Doctorate there.
Previous to this appointment, he held teaching positions at the University of Alabama, the University Extention Division of the Massachusetts Department of Education, and at Union College, N. Y.
During the war, Mr. Phillips held the rank of full Lieutenant in the Navy and saw most of his service in the South Pacific where he com manded the USS Mindoro, a combination cargo and escort vessel.
Sororities Will Remain At San Sebastian
Sororities will be allowed to continue to maintain rooms at San Sebastain dormitory, representatives of 12 campus chapters learned last week.
Miss Mary B. Merritt, dean of women, informed the representatives at a meeting in her offices in the Administration building on June 19, that the dormitory would not be shut down in the fall as previously predicted and that the organizations would be allocated new quarters in the building.
The 12 sororities were offered a selection of either two-room quarters or efficiency apartments on the first floor of the building. The new quarters are to be finished to each organization’s own color plan and are expected to be ready for occupancy on August 1. Old sorority quarters, now on the second floor of the dorm, will be converted into regular sleeping quarters.
Each sorority was represented at the meeting by one chapter member and an alumni advisor.
Panhallanic Handbook Gets Revamping
This year’s Panhellenic Council handbook is in for the “new look” treatment. At a meeting of the Council on June 19, in the Administration building, it was decided that the 20 page booklet would get a thorough revamping.
Miss May A. Brunson, counsellor for women and a member of the seven woman committee appointed to rewrite the handbook, explained that “it will contain more informa-
tion designed for rushees.” Miss Brunson also said that the booklet will have a glossary defining technical terms used in the work.
Approximately 500 copies will be printed. The edition is scheduled to come off the presses on August 1.
Other committee members are: Dorothy Boss, Beverly Douglas, Martha Horlamus, Betty Howard, Marge Lockhart and Arlene Saks.
Pre-Med Club Goes National; New Alpha Epsilon Delta Frat
The Pre-Medical club will go national early next month. The U-M organization, to be known as the Florida Gamma chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta, received word recently fro mthe national pre-med honor society that it would become the 47th group in the U.S. and the third in Florida to affiliate with the fraternity.
Alpha Epsilon Delta, member of the Association of College Honor Societies and the American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science, has over 7,000 members.
The purpose of the fraternity is to encourage excellence in pre-medical scholarship, to stimulate an ap preciation of the importance of premedical study of medicine, to pro mote cooperation and contacts between medical and pre-medical students and educators, and to bind together similarly interested students.
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Eastern viewpoint presented Night rifle practice set Summer grads must register Rec Hall hours set Classified
Unit leaves for camp Need for world view Whipping Post Saey leaves for Boston Golfers' enroute to NCAA Softball loop opens Veterans’ Affairs
Honorary members of the U-M pre-med club are Dr. W. H. Stein-bach, chairman of the chemistry department and club faculty adviser; Dr. E. Morton Miller, zoology department chairman; Dr. Julian Cor-rington, professor of zoology; and Dr. Harry P. Schultz, assistant professor of chemistry.
FREE DANCE TONIGHT
All students are invited to attend the second free summer school dance to-night on the North Campus basketball courts from 9 p.m. to 12 p.m.
Ed Swanko’s band under the direction of Karl Einig will provide music.
The dance is sponsored by the University as part of its summer school recreation program.
Business Club Hears Lecture On Job Placing
"The methods of occupational devices in use for placing employees in suitable positions” was the subject of Wednesday night’s talk to the business club by Frank Richardson of the vocational guidance center.
The bi-monthly meeting was presided over by Jack N. Sovastone, who leads discussions on future business and social events planned by club members.
Open to all business majors, the organization was formed last February to foster supplementary educational training in business fields. It has petitioned Delta Sigma Pi, national professional business fraternity, with hopes of installation on this campus next fall.
Officers of the club are: chairman, John Coffey; president, William Richards; vice president, Tom Max-ey; secretary, John W. O’Neal; treasurer, Jack N. Sevastone; and the adviser is Professor O. Steinhoff.
The next meeting will be on July 8 at the home of Eugene Ailson.
Geographers' Motorcade Reaches Boston Today
Six States Visited As Tour Continues Through Bay State
Water Skiing Course Offered To Students
Students interested in aquatics are urged to join the water skiing class which meets twice weekly at Cran-don park under the direction of Jack Bantten.
Ability to swim is the only requirement. Beginning classes are offered Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 3:30 pm. to 6 p.m.
Advanced classes are offered Monday and Wednesday from 3:30 to 6 pm. and Tuesday and Thursday from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Fees are $3 per week.
Ten Fraternities Send Delegates To Conclaves
With conventions as the order of the day, University students are holding conventions of their own. Fraternities and sororities are holding annual conclaves this month in various parts of the country.
Green Briar Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, will be the site of Chi Omega’s meeting. Representing the U-M chapter will be Betty Ann Harding, president for the coming year, John McIntyre, Nancy Gramley and Marian Mundy.
Mary Kate Williams is the Delta Delta Delta delegate at their sixtieth annual convention at the Banff Springs Hotel in the Canadian Rockies. Dorothy Knapp will represent Phi Sigma Sigma in New London, Connecticut, on June 26 to June 29.
Zeta Tau Alpha will observe their golden anniversary at Virginia Beach, Virginia, June 25 to June 30. Delegates from Miami chapter include Betty Howard and Sylvia Kes-singer.
Sigma Kappa’s convention was held in Sun Valley, Idaho, this month with President Margie Cara ker in attendance.
Swampscott, Massachusetts, plays host to two sorority conventions, Delta Zeta and Delta Gamma. Ruth DuPerrieu is the Zeta delegate.
Senior class vice-president, Louise Peeples, will represent Delta Gamma at their diamond jubilee convention June 22 to June 28.
Gloria Cohen and Pearl Sapero are the Alpha Epsilon Phi delegates at their conclave in French Lick Springs, Indiana.
Asheville, North Carolina, is the site of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity convention from June 21 to June 25. Representing Epsilon Omega chapter are Bill Stanton and Chuck DeCarlo.
The University of Miami’s traveling geography students are in Boston today after almost three weeks of journeying that were crammed full of sightseeing, lectures, and more sightseeing.
Colored slides are being made by Joseph Carrier for the permanent collection of the geography department. Black and white moving pictures by Edward Selden and stills by Carroll Waggoner and Stephen Hamilton also record the geographical features studied.
The mobile class of eight students, supervised by geography department head Dr. J. Riley Staats and his wife, has passed through temperatures from 54 to 90 degrees and altitudes from 9 to 3,600 feet in the six states through which they have
Uniforms Emerge From Moth Balls
Campus Opinion SpLit On Draft
Campus reaction to the recently passed draft bill ranged from bitter skepticism to benevolent approval, survey revealed this week.
Opinions of exempt veterans and eligible non-vets differed very little. Almost every one agreed that military training would not hurt the men, but that it was unfair to college students to interrupt their studies.
The most bitter comment was made by Eddie Youcis, a veteran, who said, “The army is corruptive. The draft is not a good thing because veteran college students are getting something they were deprived of before. My schooling was interrupted the last time and I’m going to feel pretty lousy about it if I am interrupted again. Why don’t they leave well enough alone?"
On the opposite side, veteran Alvin H. Stelle, Sr., declared
“Yes, it’s a good thing. It teaches men discipline.”
Junior Marion Cox, an exempt veteran, explained his approval of the bill by saying, “Everybody needs it because it makes a person grow up. Besides, we won’t have to depend on older veterans to train us at in the last war.”
“I think the draft is totally unnecessary,” commented Vance R. Stokes, Junior and an exempt veteran. “They have enough trained men to call up any time a war threat looms sufficiently on the horizon to warrant such action."
“The draft could be done better in 14 or 15 months,” complained Sophomore Henry J. Williams, a non-vet eligible for service. “Two years is an awfully long time to take out and start over. Military training is okay,
but not when it interrupts college.”
“Get ’em when they come from high school or not at all,” declared Freshman non-vet Howard Bienton, adding that the army helps a fellow mature.
Another student who thinks the draft is alright, but not if it takes a man out of college is Bill Lewis, a non-vet Freshman pre-medical student. “If you’re in college, they should wait until you get out,” he said.
Gone all out for compulsory military service is veteran Howard Berger, a Junior. “I think it’s a good thing because we need a standing army in times like these,” he commented. “The army is good for fellows—it gives them a more serious slant on life.”
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The heavy drizzle which turned into a continual downpour at the outset of the trip failed to dampen the spirits of the group. Objectives of the trip were discussed over station WHOO in Orlando Monday night by Mrs. Staats.
In addition to frequent roadside lectures, the class visited a number of industries, the first of which was the turpentine plant in Crawley, Georgia.
In Asheville, N. C., they watched the spinning of wool into thread and the weaving into cloth at the Biltmore Industries. The group also visited the mill of the American Rayon Corporation, which manufactures viscose thread from white blotterlike sheets of spruce pulp.
In the Great Smokies, they swung around the narrow “Crossely-sized roads,” as Richard Logan called them, climbing to the highest point on their trip thus far. At Luray Caverns they donned their coats to descend 264 feet below the earth’s surface for a look at the beautiful and unusual stalactite and stalagmite formations. The Skyline Drive between the Shenandoah Valley and the Piedmont Plateau was too misty for pictures.
Last weekend found the tour in Washington, D. C., visiting the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, Washington Monument, the House of Representatives, and other governmental buildings. A boat trip down the Pa-tomac to Mount Vernon was followed by a tour of the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institute.
Monday the group left for the heart of the coal and iron producing area in southwestern Pennsylvania and then went to Boston to visit other points of historical and cultural interest.
CAFETERIA CLOSED SATURDAY
The Main Campus cafeteria will be closed all day Saturday during the summer, it was announced this week.