Miami Hurricane, August 17, 1951

              175-Car Parking Area Slated For Fall Opening
A tree-shaded parking lot to accommodate about 175 cars, now under construction across from the Ring theater, will be ready for use this fall, John A. Shubert, U-M purchasing agent
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said this week.
Completion date for the paved surface is Sept. 1 ; shade trees will be installed and the lot ready for use Sept. 24 when the fall semester begins.
“The new lot should furnish plenty of parking space for school requirements,” Shubert said. “I think it will take care of our needs for a long time.”
Dimensions of the lot are 100 by 400 feet, about half the area originally leveled. No plans to surface the remainder of the area are under consideration at present.
Wide-spreading, fast-growing ficus trees will be planted in a four-foot strip dividing the lot lengthwise down the center, according to Dr. Taylor R. Alexander, botany department chairman, who will supervise the planting.
Alexander, who suggested that trees l>e planted on the lot, said he felt it would help beautify the campus and students would appreciate the shade when they wanted to sit in their cars between classes.
Some trees undoubtedly will come from the housing unit nursery, Taylor said, and others possibly from other nurseries in the area that have surplus stocks or plants grown too large to handle conveniently. Donations by friends of the University may add to the supply.
The lot will be surfaced with the same type oil-bound rock base topping as has been used on other parking areas around the campus
The planted strip will be surrounded by a curbing, which will not only protect it hut furnish a distinct dividing line for the area Taylor said. A drive about 20 feet wide will be left at cither end of the strip.
Decision to pave the lot, which was smoothed by bulldozers during the spring semester, came at an administration meeting about two weeks ago. Construction began Friday
SA Committees To Meet Frosh
An orientation program to welcome about 3000 new students ex
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FCC Official Praises Panels Aired By U-M
The U-M radio department’s programming was reviewed and complimented by Federal Communications Commissioner E. M. Webster in a speech before the Miami Lions club at Edison center Monday night.
Webster reviewed the department’s radio-TV set-up of direct lines from the North campus studio to WVCG, WTTT, WKAT and WGBS, its recorded programs on other stations, and television courses and shows presented over WTVJ.
Commending the diversity of University broadcasts, Webster singled out “U-M Round Table” for special mention.
"Programs such as these (presented by “U-M Round Table”) make one think. They make one study the road ahead,” he said. 'This is education in its broadest sense.”
The Radio-TV Advisory council got its share of Webster’s plaudits as “one of the highspots” in U-M Radio-TV education. The council is made up of all participating AM FM and TV stations in the Greater Miami area, two University faculty representatives and one student
Radio department chairman Oliver Griswold and Associate Professor O P. Kidder, Jr., in charge of TV instruction, represent the faculty on the council. Jack Callaghan, president of radio fraternity Epsilon Rho is the student representative.
Professor Sydney Head, formerly faculty representative, is on a year’s leave at New York university, doing advanced study In mass communications for his Ph.I).
Webster suggested that the Lions and other civic-minded groups in Greater Miami, form a similar coun cil to advise broadcasters on programming. He said they should plan ahead for the time when more tele vision outlets will be set up here.
The U-M radio department announced the fifth in the series of pop concert recordings to be broad-
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Committees were formed by representatives of all social fraternities and sororities and other campus groups at an organizational meeting August 8.
The program is scheduled for September 14-21. Special social functions and other meetings will help acquaint incoming students with the facilities of U-M.
A meeting of the faculty committee, headed by Miss May Brunson of the Dean of Women’s office, and newly inaugurated SA president, Jack Bohlen, was held in May.
Local students, familiar with the campus, are invited to help SA carry out the orientation program. SA office is room 4, second floor of the Student Club, phone 87-2561, ext. 310.
Teacher Trainees Leave;
31 Degrees Confirmed
Masters degrees outnumbered bachelors nearly 3 to 1 among teacher training graduates Aug. 15. Thirty-one degrees were awarded.
The candidates received conditional degrees at the first sumer session graduation exercises early this month, so no formal ceremonies attended actual graduation.
Total enrollment in the teacher training session this summer was 370, an increase of 63 students over last
summer’s class.
Other programs for the coming week are the “U-M News” series over WVCG Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4:15 p.m.
Guest speaker on today’s program will be Dr. Ralph A. Harris of the music school; Dr. Norman Buchan, journalism department, will speak Monday; and Miss Mae A. Brunson, assistant professor of orientation and counselor for woman will be presented Wednesday.
Permits Issued; Gallery Work To Begin Soon
Building permits for the Lowe Art gallery have been issued by the city of Coral Gables and actual construction on the building will begin soon, Allan McNab, art gallery director, said Wednesday.
Coral Gables architects planning board approved the plans late Wednesday afternoon after an earlier rejection because of minor changes.
McNab said present plans call for completion of the gallery building, one of the finest in the Southeast, in time for a formal opening and dedication ceremonies Feb. 4.
The building will be constructed of poured, steel-reinforced concrete walls and framing members. The two exhibition rooms or galleries, will measure 36 by 100 ft. and 36 by 80 ft.
Movable walls will permit changing of interior arrangements of the galleries to accommodate needs of different exhibits. The panels can be set to form smaller or larger bays to set off exhibits from one another
The smaller room will have a slide projector for lecture courses with 16 mm. motion picture equipment under consideration for future installation.
Gust K. Newberg construction com pany, which built the Ring theater, has begun collecting materials for the job and should start work on the gallery site next week, a company spokesman said.
The gallery is a gift of Joe and Emily Lowe, a New York couple who have aided New York artists for years through the Lowe foundation.
U-M Chess Club Forming Team For State Tourney
U-M Chess club is organizing a team to compete in the Florida State Chess tournament Sept. 1-3 at the Plaza hotel in downtown Miami, Clarence Kalenian, club member and defending state champion reported.
U-M’s chess team placed fourth in last year’s intercollegiate competition and has topped the Miami Magic City Chess league for the last two years.
In 1950, another U-M chess player, Marketing Instructor Stephen Shaw, was state champion.
Chess club members who wish to compete in the September tourney may notify Kalenian at Box 1085, University Branch, or phone 3-9461.
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JOAN SIIAYNE AND DON TERRY, supporting actors in the King theater's latest production, “Southern Exposure,” pose in front of one of Miami's authentic southern style homes.
'Southern Exposure' Opens Monday; Marks Return To Ring Type Staging
The Monday night opening of “Southern Exposure” at Ring theater will mark the playhouse’s return to ring staging after last session’s horseshoe modification for “Boy Meets Girl.”
Student Activities Sets Juke Box Dance Tonight
About 200 persons danced to the music of Uncle Harve and his Ragtime Wranglers in the Student Club patio Friday night at a square dance sponsored by the Student Activities office.
Dancing began at 8 p.m. and continued until midnight.
Tonight’s dance, same time, same place, will be a juke box feature. A repeat of the popular barbecue dance held last session is scheduled for next Friday night.
-Ann Strong Makes 3rd London Trip
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Student Gives Views Of Eng Land
By JIM WHITK.MIIF.Ln
Hurricane News Editor
A student's eye view of England was brought to U-M when Ann Strong, BA, '49, returned recently after her third trip to London in the last three years.
Miss Strong is now working on a thesis for her master’s degree and, in the fall, will enter her third year in Law school. The thesis is on political extremism in the United Kingdom.
British opinion of (he United States has changed little in three years she has observed Miss Strong believes.
“They think we’re the best friends they have, but don’t us much in spite of that,” said. “Our position is a lot like
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that of Canada, which is the most beloved of the dominions but still not liked very well.”
Britons are more politically conscious than Americans, Miss Strong said. They take a more personal interest in their representatives in Parliament than we do in our congressmen. As a result, the MP's are more sensitive to public sentiment than congressmen are.
The Iranian dispute has aroused a hot political controversy in Britain, hut the man-in-the-strret sums up the oil trouble by saying the laltor government made a fool of itself, she said.
Austerity standards of living don't seem to distress Englishmen as much as an American might expect, Miss Strong said. The black market is nearly non-existent in
necessities and is on the wane in luxury goods.
“The British are quite stuffy about law enforcement,” she said, “they just won’t patronize black marketers, except in a few luxury Ami the average people couldn’t afford anyway.”
Her impressions of British nationalization are mixrd. She cited improvements in mining and transport industries, hut called the housing situation “a mess.”
Miss Strong reports that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is "extremely popular" with Britons, even more so than during the war.
There is no great fear of impending world conflict among the British, she found, only the anxiety that U.S. hysteria might involve the entire world in war.
The new play, by Owen Crump, is a modem comedy set in Natchez, Miss. Action occurs during the annual pilgrimage of northern tourists to the river city. The tourists visit mansion houses of the Old South which are opened to them for the occasion.
The author of a book, banned by the Natchez city fathers, makes the pilgrimage to Natchez and, with the help of his landlady's pretty niece, searches for material to use in a retaliatory book about the city.
Several Ring favorites are in the cast, among them Paul Nagel, Jr., as John Douglass, the author; Marge Weinstein as Penelope Mayweather, the landlady; and Diana Liffman as Mary Belle Tucker, a tourist guide.
Nagel, now a radio department instructor, has appeared in Ring productions of “Arsenic and Old Lace" and “Time of Your Life.” Marge Weinstein played in “Cyrano de Bergerac,” “The Silence of Antonio Palli” and “Dark of Moon,” Diana Liffman also played in “Cyrano de Bergerac.”
The niece, Carol Randall, is played by Nelda Rosin; Avery Randall, Carol's father, by l>on Terry; Kmmaline Randall, her mother, by Joan Shayne; Benja-minc Carter, Douglass' publisher, by Don Kunrc; and Australia, the mpid, by Mrs. Ixtu Mel .can.
Except for Ray Fisher, cast as a screwball photographer, players take the parts of northern tourists.
Fred Koch, chairman of the drama department, is director of the play, and Mrs. Don Bunce is doing the costumes. The play will run until
Sept. 1.