Civil War Relics
• CIVIL WAR RELICS are now the prop- erty of Alfred University, thanks to the generosity of Mrs. Frank M. Prentice of Hornell, niece of the late President Jona- than Allen. Now in the University's possession, these relics make up a price- less collection of a now-gone era. Read of them on page four.
THE FIAT LUX
Student Neivspaper of Alfred University
Prexy's Pool's Past
• PREXY'S POOL is the sentimental name given the pool located on the campus, along- side the Library. Some interesting research by a staff Fiat Lux reporter has been com- piled and it may be read in an interesting and entertaining feature story to be found on the editorial page, page two.
VOL. XXVII NO. 7 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1939, ALFRED, N. Y. Student Box Holder
Final Vote On Band Pact Set
Revised Contract Goes To Senate Wednesday
• FINAL VOTING on the signing of the revised Union Band Con- tract will be held at Wednesday night's meeting of the Student Senate. Voting was delayed last week because not all of the in- dividual houses had considered the new contract in their meetings and so had not instructed their representatives as how to 'vote at last Wednesday's meeting of the Student Senate.
President Richard Callista '40 in- structed the Senators to call meet- ings of their respective organizations and to come prepared for final de- cision at this week's Senate meeting.
Student Senators Irving Milrot '40, and Theodore Stanislaw '40, were ap- pointed by President Callista to con- tact the national organization of the American Federation of Musicians and to verify the power of the Hor- nell local.
Argosy Staff To Award Contract
• THE ARGOSY is preparing to award the contract for publishing the year book. "Specifications for the 1940 Argosy are being prepared and will shortly be sent out to different companies for their bids," Professor K. B. Lloyd stated at the meeting of the Argosy board, Wednesday at Agri- cultural Hall.
"A tentative budget is being pre- pared by the Business Department in anticipation of the needs for the com- ing year", he said.
Seek Increased State Aid For Ceramic School
• FOR THE PURPOSE of presenting to the state budget director reasons why the New York State College of Ceramics should receive its proposed exapnsion appropriation, President J.
Nelson Norwood and Dean M. E.
Holmes will be in Albany Thursday.
Favorable action on the appropria- tion has already been taken by the Board of Managers of the Ceramic Col- lege and by the Board of Regents of the State of New York, but has yet to
be approved by Budget Director A. S.
Weber, Governor Herbert H. Lehman, and the New York State Legislature.
AppMade Prexy In Dorm Vote
• BUD APP WAS ELECTED presi- dent of Bartlett Dormitory at a meet- ing recently. Other officers are: Bob Moebus, vice-president; Charles1 Tay- lor, secretary - treasurer; and Bob Starr, social chairman. All officers are members of tbe class of '43.
Ballard Leaves To Pack Up Fair Exhibit
• STANLEY BALLARD '40 left Mon- day night for the World's Fair in New York City, where he will disassemble the exhibit pf the College of Ceramics in the New York State Building.
The University truck will make the trip to New York Wednesday night and will return with the Alfred ex- hibit. Ballard worked on the potter's wheel at the Fair from its opening until July.
Thirteen Luckless Frosh Fail Exam, Must Do Penance
• "AN UNLUCKY THIRTEEN freshmen failed the Freshman Court quiz and will do penance for their lack of knowledge, Thursday in Assembly," promises Chief Judge Harold Rouff '40.
Just what penalty will be in- flicted on the frosh, Judge Rpuff would not disclose. However, he did promise that the rest of the student body would be "highly en.
tertained".
Unusual In Store For Play-Goers
• ALFRED PLAY-GOERS will be treated to the unusual on Frosh-Soph Night at Alumni Hall, Wednesday, November 8.
Wayne Rood, directing "Devil Take A Whittler," has announced that this production will estab- lish a precedent on the Alfred legitimate stage. With Mrs.
Glydden Parker, nee Pat Ham- mil, supervising, the choreo- graphy, unusual music, dancing, make-up, and stage effects make this fantasy the Arkansan paral- lel of "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Mrs. Parker, with five years of pro- fessional stage experience behind her, is admirably fitted for instruction of this sort. At present in her second year of study in the Ceramic Art Col- lege, she has studied dancing iu the United States and abroad, and has played in several famous Broadway productions. Her last appearance was in the well-known "Three's A Crowd," where she played with Clif- ton Webb, Libby Holman and Fred Allen. '
An entirely different type of piay is "The Judgment of Indra," directed by Bob Beers. Purely symbolistic, with singular lighting, stage, and sound effects, this play will be the only tragedy of the four productions.
An impressionistic stage-setting lends individuality to "Refund," Bet- ty Tim Kaiser's play. The situation presented here has been the unful filled dream of every student since time began, and in which no profes sor has ever wished to find himself
Senators Allocated 1939-40Funds This Way
Organization 1938-39 Women's Athletic Governing Beoard .
Alpha Tau Theta 2.50 Archery Club 40.00 French Club . . . ' 10.00 Footlight Club 31.00 Y. W C. A 30.00 Forensic Society 60.00 International Relations Club 10.00 Fenching Club
Spanish Club
A. U. C. A 30.00 Intramural Board 50.00 Latin Club
Band 75.00 Orchestra 15.00 Math Club 40.00 German Club 10.00 Student Senate 141.00 Forum 75.00 Phi Sigma Gamma 2.50 Frosh Court 15.00 Student Life Committee 3.00 Astronomy Club 15.00 Men's Athletic Governing Board 75.00 Total $800.00
1939-40
$ 80.00 $ 92.50 5.00 45.00 10.00 175.00 50.00 100.00 10.00 25.00 20.00 20.00 75.00 15.00 50.00 40.00 30.00 20.00 167.50
$900.00
Weak Strings
Mrs. Seidlin Sends Out Call For
More Stringed Instruments
'•"THERE WAS a gratifying response ' to the request for additional orchestra material," says Mrs. Joseph Seidlin, director of the University Orchestra,
"but we are still basically weak in strings."
With less than two weeks to re- hearse for the Founders' Day Exer- cises, Mrs. Seidin makes an urgent plea for more string players and a drummer.
Numbering eighteen at present, the orchestra, which rehearses Tuesday evenings at 8 P. M. in the Ag School Library, still has need of at least seven more members. There will be two more rehearsals before the first appearance of the orchestra at the Founders' Day Exercises, to be ob- served this year, November 9.
Latin Club
• LATIN CLUB will meet tomorrow at 8:15 in the Brick. The program,
"Roman Election" and "Thanksgiving in Rome", is in charge of the officers, Fay Greenberg '41, Marion Immediato '40 and Marguerite Carpenter '40.
Infirmary Gets New Equipment
• CLAWSON INFIRMARY took an- other step forward this week when they acquired a new, electrically oper- ated Wilmot-Castle autoclave. The autoclave is used to sterilize bandages, gauze, and instruments.
According to Miss Lydia Conover, superintendent of Clawson Infirmary, this piece of equipment was. badly needed to replace a second hand, gas heated, autoclave which has given over nineteen years of service to the infirmary.
The new autoclave, with a confusing array of knobs and valves and gauges, agleam with shiny chrome plate, is an impressive piece of machinery.
Plans are being made to turn the ex- amining office into a laboratory. A new microscope has been purchased and will be used for urine analysis and blood counts.
Plant Trip Awaits Faculty Action
• MAIN BUSINESS to be taken up at the meeting of the faculty of the Cer- amic College this week is a discussion of the date for the annual field trip of the Ceramic engineers. The trip will take place either between Thanks- giving and Christmas or in the latter part of May. If it is decided to have it at the former time, specific plans will be drawn up at the faculty meet- ing.
Dean M. E. Holmes reminds all senior engineers that they are required to take the trip, and all juniors that it would be to their advantage.
Bill Woods Heads Cabinet
• OFFICERS of the Frosh Cabinet-.of the A.U.O.A. have been elected as follows: William Woods, president;
Robert Starr, vice-president; Willard Hauth, secretary-treasurer.
The organization plans to have a smoker for the Ag frosh, to assist the senior Christian Associations with the Thanksgiving Dance, and to take charge of the Chapel program on Wednesday, November 8. Members of the Cabinet will become members of the A.U.C.A., its parent organization, at the beginning of the second semester.
Ag School Visitors
• L. F. LEE, instructor of Vocational Education at Newark High School, Newark, New York, and several of his electricity students, interested in matriculation here, visited the Agri- cultural School last Friday.
They were guided by Director Paul B. Orvis on a tour of the school, at- tending several classes and the school assembly.
Frosh-Soph Contest
Saturday
• "FRESHMEN and sophomores will definitely clash in some form of or ganized contest Saturday afternoon,"
announces Chief Judge Harold Rouff '40.
The postponment of the contest last week was due to the arrange- ments which the Freshman Court is making for the fracas. Rouff has been trying to make contacts for the pur- chase of a giant pushball which would be used in the contest.
However, if the pushball should prove too expensive or impractical in any other way, President Ralph Rhodes of the sophomore class and Judge Rouff will meet with represent- atives of the frosh and arrange for the contest.
Artists Visit Ceramic Art Exhibition
• ALFRED CERAMISTS attended a convention in Syracuse last Saturday.
Gliddon Parker's "The Island" a sculptured piece, exhibited in raw clay because no Alfred kiln was large enough to fire, was seen at the head of the- stairs at the entrance of the building. A stone ware vase which won the award of merit for potters for Professor Charles Harder was ex- hibited and also numerous pieces by Professor Don Schreckengost, and a vase by Lyle Perkins '39.
Those who attended the convention were Professor C. Harder, Miss Mari- on Fosdick, Kay Kastner, Janet How- ell, Gwen Hill, Ed S'chlieter, Bernie Fried, Vera Smith, Alice Flanagan, Walter Robinson, Eileen Davis, Bever- ly Butterfield, George Johnson, Gidden Parker, Mary Vail and Jane Walkley.
Three Groups Added, Six Dropped,as Senate Passes $900 Budget
Les Brown Signed for Interfrat
BULLETIN
• LES BROWN and his Duke Bluedevils, second only to Artie Shaw in a recent
Metronone survey, will play__
for the Annual Interfratern- ity Ball Thursday evening, December 14th, it was an- nounced this morning by Floyd W. Oliva '40, chairman of the Ball committee.
The announcement was made following the signing of the con- tract by the Interfraternity Coun- cil last night with Raymond Knee- land of Buffalo, band agent, at a meeting held in the lounge of the Ceramic building.
The dance will be held from nine o'clock until two o'clock in the recently refloored gymnasium.
Brown's is an up and coming swing outfit that has been receiv- ing much praise from swing fans.
He will be the first white band- man to play for the Greek hop in three years.
Senators Pare
$367 From List;
Dramatists Get Spots
• DIPPING INTO its coffers to the extent of $900, the Student Senate appropriated funds to carry on the work of 18 extra- curricular organizations for the school year 1939-40, Wednesday night in its Physics Hall meeting room.
Requests totaling $1267.10 were presented to the Senators for con- sideration by Treasurer Raymond Zurer '40. Although cut to $900, the budget this year calls for an increase of $100 over last year's campus ap- propriations.
New Appropriations
The Spanish Club, the Latin Club, and the Fencing Club are organiza- tions which were without support last year, but were appropriated funds
Frosh to Elect Glass Officers
"NOMINATIONS for freshman class officers will be held after Assembly, Thursday," announces Student Senate President Dick Callista '40.
On the following Thursday, ballots wil be distributed in Assembly and the nominees will be voted on in a pri- mary election. Final elections will be tield on Tuesday, November 14 in the Publications Office of Burdick Hall.
Polling hours will be from 1 p. m. to 5:30 p. m.
Worship, Song Fest
#A- worship service and song fest were the features of the Y.W.C.A.
program, Sunday night in Social Hall.
The program was under the direction of Anne Wasson '42 and Jean Collier '42.
America? It's A Fine Place!
There's No Complaining From Carl Jacobi, German Refugee
• ONE PERSON who likes Amer- ica, and who isn't always com- plaining about conditions, is Carl Jaeobi '43. He wants to forget about his past in Germany and start anew as a citizen of the United States.
In Berlin, his father was a physician and owner of a hospital. A license was recently granted him and he Is now practicing in New York City.
At the. age of fifteen, Carl went to his mother's native country, Holland, where he remained^ in a Quaker School for more than two years. That was the beginning of his interest in Ceramics. He had intended becoming a potter until he came here last win- ter, at which time he decided to study Ceramic Engineering. In New York he worked under Miss M. Robinson, a former Alfred student, in the Green- wich House.
For Carl, hobby immediately means photography. This interest was fost- ered during the short period that he was apprenticed to a Berlin photo- grapher. Examples of his work show that he is really skilled in that type of work. Athletics is also a very important part of his life; soccer, cross-country, and boxing are his favorites. One can see him jogging along Alfred's irregular course with the Frosh team almost every after- noon. He says that a soccer team is the only thing lacking at Alfred.
He cautioned the Fiat reporter not to give him too much publicity be- cause he is afraid that the students of German will be bothering him for help. However, he added, all pretty girls are welcome, for he is seeking one to take the place of the girl he left behind. Judging from pictures of her in his room, the successor will have to be very near perfect.
March of Time' For Assembly
• A NEWLY RELEASED issue of 'Farmers U. S. A.," March of Time will be shown in Assembly Thursday, only three days after its release.
Time will be followed by "Conquer- ing the Colorado," a story of a canoe trip down the Colorado River, and a Passing Parade short, "The Story That Could Not Be Printed".
Thomas Elected To Student Life Group
• STUART THOMAS '40 has been elected by the faculty to membership on the Student Life Committee.
Thomas, Margaret Lawrence and Merle Parker, all seniors, are the student representatives on the committee.
New Setup Started By Ag Photo Club
• AN ENTIRELY NEW set-up the Photography Club at the Ag School under the direction of Abraham Hell- er, has been started. At the second meeting of the year, Thursday eve- ning, the election of officers will take place, and Abe Heller will present a talk on the essential parts of the camera and their functions.
In order that the programs hold the interest of the members, plans have been made to present at different in- tervals of the year persons who speci- alize in the field of photography.
This Thursday a new type of photo contest will be opened to all the mem- bers, which will be known as a "Scav- enger Picture Contest". The idea is that each member of the club will draw from a hat a subject, and inside of two weeks, a photo or several photos of the picked subject must be presented for judging. Impartial judges will pick the shots that best represent the mentioned subject.
Budget Finished
9Zurer Quits
Campus Politics
• A F T E R COMPLETING the budget for the/ year 1939-40, Treasurer Ray Zurer '40, resign- ed from his position as Independ- ent representative on the Student Senate.
"Politics, in addition to 19 hours of senior ceramic engineering courses, are to heavy a load to carry. Work on The Fiat Lux and The Alfred Engineer will more than take care of my extra-cur- ricular energy. Personally, I think the old "merit system' of limitation of activities should be revived and rigidly enforced,"
stated Zurer to The Fiat Lux re- porter.
this year. Dropped from the list of the Senate appropriations were the Forum, Phi Sigma Gamma, Frosh, the Student Life Committee, the Astron- omy Club, and the Men's Athletic Governing Board.
Of those' dropped from the Senate purse, only the Frosh Court, through the Blue Key asked for an appropria- tion. However, the Senators feeling that the Blue Key was self-support- ing through its after-game dances, vetoed the request. They did, how- ever, express the feeling that if the Blue Key should need Senate support in its projects, they probably would be voted funds at the time of need.
Increases Voted
Increases went to Alpha Tau Theta, the Arcery Club, the Footlight Club, Y.W.C.A., the Forensic Society, the Intramural Board, the Orchestra, the German Club, and the Senate Projects.
Decreased appropriations w e r e voted to the A.U.C.A., the Band, and the Math Club. One organization, the Newman Club was refused an approp- riation on .the ground that it was a national sectarian organization and therefore not theoretically open to all students.
Footlight Club Gets $175
Except for the Footlight Club, all ap- propriations to the various organiza- tions are outright and with no strings attached. The Footlight Club, re- ceiving $175 to top all appropriations, must spend, $132.50 of its money on, new spotlights and dimmers, perma- nent improvements for the Alumni Hall stage.
The Men's Athletic Governing Board of the new athletic set-up, submitted no request for money. However, it is expected that athletic sweater awards will be paid for by the Sen- ate as usual.
Collegians Signed
• LUKE WEST '40 and his Alfred Royal Collegians have been signed for a three week period by Fisher's Fun Farm on the Hornell-Almond Road.
The campus orchestra started Friday night and will play for dancing this and the following Friday nights.
PAGE TWO THE FIAT LUX, ALFRED, N. Y. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1939
The Fiat Lux
Student Weekly Newspaper of Alfred University Published every Tuesdau of the school year by a student staff. Offices on ground floor of Burdick Hall. Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1913, at the postoffiee in Alfred, N. Y., under Act of March 3, 1897. Subscription
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Raymond R. Zurer BUSINESS MANAGER William Drohan
BOARD OF EDITORS Jack B. Moore—managing editor
Adrienne Owre—editoral page Susie Kohl—news Becky Vail—society Betsy Obrig—features Ernie Nadelstein—sports Frank Petaccia—N.Y.S.A.
BUSINESS STAFF:
ADVERTISING MANAGER George Ward CIRCULATION MANAGER Ogareta Ehret ALUMNI CIRCULATION Robert Ayres ADVERTISING CIRCULATION Carole Sheldon SECRETARY Dorothy Klauss LOCAL ADVERTISING Edward Szybillo SOLICITOR Ruth Hussong REPORTERS : Betsy Ryder '40, Elizabeth Curtis '40, Mar- guerite Carpenter '40, Jane Colberg '41, Audrey Place '42, John Daggett '41, Sophia Perry '42, Alan Parks '42, Jameg Timmens '42, William Landis '42, Malcolm Beals '42, Joseph Bogardus '42, John Hallock '42, W. Blewett Chenault '41, Jack Haecker '41, Al Friedlander '41.
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL REPORTERS: Josephine Sime- one '40, Bruce Baker '40, Louise Lansing '40, Richard Wilcox
•39.CIRCULATION: Tay Wray '42, Marlynn Burch '42, Audrey Place '42, John Ray"'42, Clifford Reader '42, Sol Dambowic
•42.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1939
A winning team
• IT ISN'T VERY OFTEN that the editorial page of The Fiat Lux devotes space to athletics.
However, on the eve of the last game in which twelve members of the Saxon football squad will be taking part, we feel that some word should be said, some tribute paid to the football players of the Class of '40.
Stretched over a three year period, these men have been responsible for sixteen Alfred victories, one tie, and three defeats. It might be well to note that this is Coach Alex Yune- vich's football record at Alfred University.
In this day and age when the goal of foot- ball teams seems to be victories and not—as the somewhat hackneyed phrase goes—building of men and character, the Alfred football team has accomplished what the student body, here and elsewhere, demands—a winning team.
They are the nucleus of a winning team.
The Fiat Lux now names and congratulates these members of the squad who will play their last football game for the Purple and Gold, Saturday at St. Lawrence.
They are Lawrence Bizet, Harold Rouff, Richard Brownell, Harold Edleson, Phillips Greenman, Richard Callista, Robert Eschbach, William Riley, Leslie Doy, Theodore Ienszew- ski, Angelo Bosco, and Sam Fossaceca.
—R. Z.
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Senior rule vs. democracy
• A BOMBSHELL was thrown into the midst of the harried Student Senate recently—a bomb- shell with an olive leaf and a neatly printed message, "Viva Democracy," attached. Heaver of the bombshell was John Hallock '42, presi- dent of the Independents Group and of the In- ternational Relations Club, and while it was thrown with good intent, its objective boils down to this: Abolition of traditional Senior Rule on the campus for a theoretically more perfect and satisfactory system of "Democratic Rule".
Hallock's plan this week will be formally presented to the Senators by Ralph Rhodes, president of the Class of 1942, following near- unanimous action taken by that group to spon- sor it. Gist of the petition will be "Dear Sen- ators—we love you, but, really, do you think that you're doing right by us? Howsabout stepping down and- handing campus rule over to the entire student body?"
The Senate will find itself in a unique, if uncomfortable position when the issue rears its ugly head. For it will be up to them, and they alone, to decide if they should stick to Senior Rule or whether they should commit political hari-kari and bow to a movement which saw its origin in a small group of ex-freshmen. For the Students Association's constitution states that only by a three-quarter vote of the Sen- ate can it be amended.
Problem before the Senators then is to de- cide whether or not the proposed changes justi- fy adoption. The amendments would see the substitution of four class elections of Senators for the present Sorority, Fraternity and Inde- pendent elections. Senior class status would re- main a requirement of Senate officers.
If Hallock, acting as the President of the Independents, had an ulterior motive in instigat- ing this campaign to alter the Senate—hoping to further the Independents' power by squelch- ing Fraternity and Sorority politics—then he had best look elsewhere for a remedy. The pro-
posed changes will not stunt Greek group poli- tics—rather they will foster its spread.
However, if he started the ball rolling in his capacity as International Relations Club prexy—hoping to inaugurate Democratic Rule on the campus—then mayhap he has hit upon the solution.
The proposed change is nothing new under the Sun. Other schools have had such a system in effect for years; Alfred even had a similar setup less than a decade ago.
However, if the Senators decide to accept such a plan they must realize that mere adoption of the plan will not suffice—it will mean con- centrated, hard work on their part to see the changes put into effect. And therein "lies a hazard. The proposed system as it stands on paper is complicated, complex. Chaos would result at first; mistakes would be made, toes would be tread upon. However, if the students are to be given self-rule now as they will be when they get out in life, then they'll never be more ready for it than they are now. We say to the Senators: "Hear out this proposal;
weigh its values. If it appears justifiable—
draw up a definite plan of action and then—- FOLLOW IT. The responsibility is yours. If there be orchids presented later, they will be for you. However, if it fails, do not be mistaken, the blame will be laid unceremoniously at your door. Enter into this situation with your head up, with all facts clearly spread out before you.
—J. B. M.
Campus Camera
College TOWN -
Mascot of Alfred's battle-scarred eleven is a sissy—dog named Rollery—
"Shaw was worth it"—King Jitterbug—
BY THE EDITORS
• TRAFFIC JAM'S A SISSY! The same elongated canine, official mascot of the football team, recipient of a $5.25 bequest from the Stu- dent Senate for a suitably decorated blanket, pal of such tough gridders as "Butch" Esch- bach, "Duke" Dutkowski, "Blip" Greenman,
"Snuffy" Edleson, "Bo" Johnson—Well, he's still a sissy.
Incident No. 1 in the indictment of Traffic Jam is an ever huger dog—Dana, Elaine Richtmeyer's great dane. Curly Oliva brought Dana to town Thursday evening. She caused quite a sensation in front of the Post Office. Her coloring and size caused many to believe the dog was Traffic Jam.
Closer inspection proved otherwise. For Dana's jaw is much wider than is Traff's and she is built along broader lines.
Then along came Bosco, another of the tough gridmen. Following Bosco was Traffic Jam. Bosco walked Traff out to meet Dana. It seemed that this might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship—
both being such magnificent animals. Traff didn't see Dana until he was within ten feet of her.
He took one look—didn't stop to rub his eyes or look again—he just turned tail and ran. And boy, did he run! There was no hesitation on his part.
He knew what he wanted—to get away.
Well, we can't say we blame Traff. Hal Rouff, another of the gridiron battlers, protected his name in a verbal battle with Floyd Oliva. He called at- tention to Traff's better proportioning and he tore Dana down in general. Oliva merely had to refer to the flight of Traff in defense.
There's another dog on the campus now. He belongs to Glinsky, Morales, Corbman and Company.
For the duration of the football season, they are investment brokers. But to get back to canines, the new dog is named Rollery in honor of fthe toughest gridder of them all—Chicago's terror of the football field and basketball court. Rollery is not in school this year, but no doubt his fame and memory will linger on for many years.
At any rate, Rollery (the dog) is about six inches high and weighs about five pounds. He is clad in an Alfred blanket, probably made over from a lady's handkerchief. He belongs distinctly to the class call- ed "cute".
To get back to the case of Traffic Jam, "Itchy"
Corbman charges that this ferocious bit of dog caused Traff to turn of run. If this be so, the defense hasn't a leg to stand on.
The final bit of evidence came Saturday night at the Ithaca game. It really was cold. And so Traff was led into the warm locker room. His pals were out in the cold—battling in the mud of Merrill Field.
But, Traff didn't protest at all at being put into the locker room. He didn't mind not seeing the glorious victory of the team of which he was mascot. He stretched out along the floor and contentedly closed his eyes and went to sleep until half-time.
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• KING OF THE JITTERBUGS. The title goes to Ken "Jitterbug" Kleinman. The Cedarhurst Lochinvar knows the name, rating, and identifying feature of about every band in the country.. He goes into par- oxysms of ecstacy at Jimmie Lunceford's music. He puts on a show worth $2.20 as he beats out the time to the Collegiate canned music box.
But, to top it off—he doesn't mind in the least being awakened at 1 a. m. to be told that Artie Shaw is now playing "Back Bay Shuffle". It happened last week. Chick Berger, frosh contender for jitterbug laurels and next door roomer in Burdick Hall to Klein- man, woke him up with the astounding news of Artie Shaw's rendition.
Responsible for this information is Kleinman's roomie, rotund Moe Cohen, the Brooklyn contribution to Alfred and copy reader for The Fiat Lux. He claims that Kleinman didn't mind the interruption of his slumbers in the least. Artie Shaw was worth it.
-SMART GUYS-
ONE B SPOILED T H E STRAIGHT "A" RECORD 1HAT JIMMY WILSOMiLEFT) EMORY U. SENIOR.MADE
13 YEARS OF SCHOOLING/
AT AUBURN. W I L L I A M STEL2ENMULLER SHATTERED HIS FATHER'S RECORD 97.50 AVERAGE WHICH HAD STOOD
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SOCIAL NOTES
G HOWDY DAY AT IDS ANGELES cnv COLLEGE. .STUDENTS WEAR IDENTIFICATION TA£S AND SAY HOWW TO EVERYONE THEY MEET/
UNIVERSITY M E N AND CO-EDS ARE NOT ALLOWED
TO SIT TOGETHER AT FOOTBALL GAMES AT MIAMI UNIVERSrTY(OHIO)/
Stars and Mars easy for Fisher, but math a maze
• DR. CLYDE FISHER, assembly speaker of last week, has his fing- ers in many pies, but insists that astronomy is the best tasting of them all. His introduction into that field was both early and humble; an uncle and a great- uncle, back on a little farm in the middle west, teamed up to point out the Big Dipper and the other old favorites to a mystified boy, who thought for a long time that the stars were a wonderful secret between the three of them.
From that start, Dr. Fisher pro- ceeded to the use of a neighbor's five-and-one-half- inch telescope, learning so much by himself that when he got to college his astron- omy professor made him an assis- tant instead of trying to teach him anything. "But oh, the math!" he exclaimed, "I knew my stars, but another instructor had a bad time telljng us the causes for what we watched." To this day, Dr. Fisher
prefers to just obsorb the beauty of a night sky rather than cal- culate light-years and collect heavenly statistics.
The first taste of instruction back in his college astronomy class proved to be somewhat of an in- spiration for he taught five yearsx
of high school in Florida and Ohio, before turning to another phase of nature lore. "Yes, I like the planets best," said he with a smile, "but I got my Ph.D. in bot- any and followed it with geology.
Then I tried animals and birds."
Dr. Fisher is now working with the Museum of Natural History in New York City, at a post which requires all of his varied knowl- edge. He explains things to the layman who wants all the technic- al details in words of one syllable.
His position is that of a teache*r, not a research man. On the side he turns out various magazine ar- ticles, one of which will appear in the November National Geographic.
Prexy's Pool's Past
Shows rowdy record, but no proof of presidential
immersion
'Too many false starts, too few finishes'—-01iva
To the Editor, Fiat Lux:
Talk about too many cooks spoil- ing the broth—This -campus with its many students leaders has it all over that oft-told culinary muddle.
Within the past two weeks there has been proposed an extensive re- vision of the Student Senate, the campus governing body; a Section- al Youth Congress made up of rep- resentatives from nearby Colleges and High Schools for the purpose of discussing the youths' part in the next War; there has been talk of altering (again) the Frosh court and all the while the campus has been humming as it observes its annual Homecoming Day and its five-week Fraternity R u s h i n g period.
The Senate issue has been tabled for the past few weeks but is re- ported due to come up before the Senate this week. Just what its fate will be is uncertain—but cer- tain is the fact that many students have forgotten that any such pro- posal was ever made. The Youth Congress idea appears to have died an early and untimely death.
Homecoming Day, for all its en- thusiasm, conflicted greatly with the opening week of Rushing.
Looming in the near-future comes now the annual big Interfraternity Ball—and that seems threatened by an issue which should have been taken care of last year, the Union Band contract.
Moral of this little story is eas.
ily obtained. It is very apparent that many student leaders on this campus think more of conceiving ideas than in the actual carrying
• ONE OF ALFRED'S most fa- miliar landmarks is that curious cavity known as "Prexy's Pool."
Innocent as it may appear, its pres- ent desolate appearance masks a remarkable history.
Now a sort of shrine for indolent upperclassmen, the pool was, in time past, the terror of the fresh- men. Although last year saw an unfortunate frosh carrying out the bizarre sentence of attempting to fish therein, little is remembered now of the days when it was actually filled with water and was employed for ducking purposes, both threatened and consummated.
The story is told of a former cocky freshman, who, having been notified of his proposed punish- ment, appeared at the pool dressed (or should we say undressed?) ap- propriately for the occasion. This same freshman, be it known, is now a successful physician.
This hallowed landmark has al- so been known as "Prexy's Bath- tub." Although the pool's- proxi- miy to the President's office sug- gests this possible use, there is no written record of its ever having been employed for such a purpose by any of Alfred's executives.
There is a story (perhaps apocryphal) that, once upon a time, there was a certain feminine assistant in the University offices who consistently refused to employ the title of "Prexy's Bathtub." To this punctilious lady, that would have been a sacrilege. She always called it "the President's Bathtub."
out of them. I say, "okeh—I'm for more and better student programs
—but let's carry them out, and not leave them stranded defenseless and pitifully open to future searing student criticism.
Floyd Oliva '40 Tag: William Drohan
Busy social weekend will see Kappa Nu, Sigma Chi, Blue Key.
Kappa Psi as hosts
— BY JANE COLBERG
• SOCIAL FORECAST of the week-end of November 4 is fun in numerous ways and places.
Kappa Nu, Sigma Chi, Inde- pendents and Blue Key will lead the merry masses to their respective frivolites, while Kap- pa Psi will entertain at a House Warming.
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• SPOOK DANCE—that is Kappa Nu's week-end contribution. An eerie atmosphere is promised by the committee of which Joe Cotler is chairman assisted by Art Kais- er '41, Harry Pariser '41, Joe Myer '42, and Morty Weinberg '41.
Faculty guests will be Dr. and Mrs.
L. L. Lowenstein, Chaplain and Mrs. McLeod, Dr. and Mrs. Seid- lin, Prof, and Mrs. Don Schrecken- gost.
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• IT'S A FINE NOTE—at least it will be at Sigma Chi's theme song dance next Saturday night from 8- 12. Peggy Smith '40, is chairman and her committee includes Jane Morris '42 and Jean Collier '42.
Faculty guests will be Dr. and Mrs.
Arlie E. McGuire, Prof, and Mrs.
Kaspar Myrvaagnes, Mrs. Eva Mid- daugh and Miss Ruth Stanton.
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• BLUE KEY will celebrate the long-awaited opening of the gym- nasium at an informal dance to be held there Saturday evening, No- vember 4, the night of the St.
Lawrence game from 8-12. Music will be furnished my the Palmer Sound System, and refreshments will be available at Frank Cronyn's concession booth. Merle Parker '40 and James Lynch '41, are co-chair- men of the dance.
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• INDEPENDENTS will have a closed dance from 8-12 at Social Hall Saturday. Proof of being independent will be required for admission.
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• A N E W L Y REDECORATED DOWN STAIRS will <provide the scene of the Kappa Psi House- warming to be held next Sunday from 3-5 and to which everyone is invited. Dean Dora K. Degen and Mrs. A. L. Whitford will be honor, ary hostesses. Stuart Thomas '40, general chairman, and is assisted by Bob Ayres '40, Tony Fiorica '40, and Thad Clark '42.
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• THETA THETA CHI sorority en- tertained its little sisters at dinner last, week. Guests included Sarah Schrieber, Jane Tooke, Marguerite Ruth Lang, Aisla Johnston, Regina Tooke, Lennie Cole, Beverly Leng, Wright, Lee Linhof, Mary Miller and Patricia Maloney.
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• MACBETH'S THREE WITCHES, ominous goblins p r e d i c t i n g Ithaca's downfall, and mysterious jack-o-lanterns created an eerie Hallowe'en atmosphere at Pi Al- pha's open house Saturday. There was dancing from 5-8 to "Mr.
Ghost Goes To Town" and other recordings, and a spaghetti supper, blending harmoniously into the mellow orange of the decorations.
Guests included Mr. and Mrs.
James A. McLane, Mr. and Mrs. P.
A. Crumb, Miss Nelle Saunders.
Betsey Ryder '40, was chairman, assisted by "Charlie" Driscoll '41, Peggy.Olney '41, Frances Fish '41, Margery Russell '42, Janet Rogers '40 and Adrienne Owre '40.
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• TONIGHT AT 8:30 a former Klan president, Carl A. Swanson '38, will be united in marriage to a former member of Pi Alpha, Norma Wit- schieben '39. Carl is quoted as say- ing that he was going to take the witch out of Norma's name on Hal- lowe'en.
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• TALL BLUE CANDLES and pale yellow flowers provided the tea.time setting at Delta Sig last Sunday when they were at home to all college students and faculty from 2:30-5:30. Dean Dora K.
Degen and Mrs. Frank Lobaugh were hostesses.
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• ECONOMICS PROFESSOR Gal- braith was entertained at Kappa Nu for dinner last Sunday. Follow- ing the dinner their recording of an apple for the teacher was play- ed.
• SOME 52,000 CIGARETTES were used by Williams College fraterni- ties during rushing season this fall.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1939 THE FIAT LUX, ALFRED, N. Y. PAGE THREE
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Cheerleaders Come Into Own; Gene's Comeback; Grid Parleys
By Ernie Nadelstein
• ALFRED'S CHEERLEADING squad has come into its own these past two weeks with the arrival of the final installment of their com- plete uniforms. The enthusiasm of the students and the cheer- leaders through fair and stormy weather has resulted in the finest cheering we've heard all season.
The cheerleaders for the past two weeks have been aided and abetted by "Little Louie" Dodd, Dean of Hor- nell High School Cheerleaders. "Lit- tle Louie," now eight and possessing the magnificent total of 39 inches in height, has been cheerleading for Hornell High since he was three!
His fame like that of Durante has gone before him, and he has had many invitations to lead cheers for various Colleges in Western New New York.
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» W E FAILED to give Cross-Country reporter Gene Burgess an assignment the week of the Cornell meet. Gene had previously covered the Colgate and Olean meets, finishing behind the leaders to get a full, detailed story.
The afternoon of the Big Red meet, without an assignment and sonse- quently without a worry, Gene romp- ed in t h i r d . . . .we're not giving Gene an assignment for the Toronto run!
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©HAVING LOST PARLEYS for the past few weeks we wonder if it's true what they say about being able to pick the winners as long as you don't bet like Oywin of course we didn't pick these on a bus but here goes: DARTMOUTH over Yale;
PENN over Navy; NOTRE DAME over Army; PRINCETON over Har- vard; L. S. U. over Tennessee; OHIO STATE over Indiana; NEBRASKA over Missouri; FORDHAM over Rice;
CORNELL over Columbia; PITT over Temple; STANFORD over Santa Clara; and KENTUCKY to upset Alabama.
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• IN ENEMY CAMPS: St. Lawrence, next weeks competition, lost their fourth game of the year, losing to Ni- agara 18-0 Clarkson defeated Cort- land Teachers 13-7, the same score that St. Lawrence won by the previ- ous week Hofstra bounced back in the win column with a win over Brooklyn College 7-0 Rutgers swamped Lehigh to the tune of 20-6
. . . . The Pittsburgh Cross-Country team beat Fordham 21-34, starring for the Panthers was Boulanger, the runner who beat our Brad Rendell in the I.C.4-A. ouLcloor two mile run by a few steps Syracuse harriers beat Penn State 26-29 Both teams will bear watching in the I.C.4-A. run to be held November 20 in New York City The Saxon hill and dalers fourth last year finishing behind Man- hattan, Michigan State and Pittsburgh, while beating such powers as Penn State, Syracuse and Cornell We're picking Alfred's Saxons to finish first or second this year!
'Seven Seniors' Pace Grid Machine to Fifth Win, 18-6
• BARNARD COLLEGE has received a gift of $100,000 to be used in estab- lishing a health education program.
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Ithacans Prove No Match For Saxons
By Al Friedlander
• A FIERCE hard-blocking and charging senior forward wall bowled over the visitors from Ithaca College Saturday evening at Merrill Field, to lead the Sax- on jvarsity to an 18-6 triumph in the last home appearance of the 1939 squad.
A crowd of some thousand-odd home rooters sat shivering thru the first real cold spell of the season to watch the Saxons tear into the back- stretch of t h e football race. The purple and gold will pull under the finish wire against St. Lawrence at Canton, N. Y., Saturday afternoon.
"Seven Seniors" Star
The seven senior linemen—Alfred's first line of defense—Dick Brownell,
"Butch" Eschbach, Dick Callista,
"Snuffy" Edleson, Harold Rouff, Bill Riley and "Blip" Greenman, opened
Twelve Seniors Prepare For Grid Swan Song;
Close Against Larries
Statistics Rushing
First downs Passes attempted Passes completed Passes interferred by Fumbles
Fumbles recovered by Kicks
Distance kicked Average kick
Alfred 308
15 6 1 0 3 1 4 155 39
Ithaca 112
4 2 0 2 1 2 9 283 31
huge holes in the muddy Ithaca line.
They blocked out tacklers with power- ful effectiveness to enable the Purple and Gold to ring up their fifth triumph as against their lone, Clarkson, set- back.
The Saxons completely outplayed their burly, heavier opponents, and up until the final minutes of the game when the Alfred reserves entered, the Ithacans were scoreless, had made no first downs, and had gained 21 yards from scrimmage. The Saxon regu- lars mushed for 290 yards gained and rolled up 15 first downs before leav- ing the game mid-way in the final period. Alfred scored three times in the first half and threatened in both the last two quarters. Ithaca's tally came late in the closing minutes of the ball game.
Saxons Score In Three Minutes
A wet snow aided by a strong wind blowing across the field kept the sod soggy and sloppy as the teams lined up for the opening kick. With scarce- ly two minutes gone the*Saxons were at the Ithaca touchdown stripe. A poor Ithacan kick gave the ball to Alfred on the Blue and Gold 26-yard line. Two runs by "Bo" Johnson and a plunge by "Duke" Dutkowski put the ball on the Ithaca 6. Johnson then
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Leckonby Gone, But Northmen Promise Battle
• TWELVE SAXON SENIORS will don their Purple and Gold uniforms for the last time Saturday afternoon when the Saxons clash with St. Law- rence at Canton. This game will ring down the curtain on t h e present campaign and the collegiate careers of a dozen of Alfred's greatest grid- sters. The players who were respon- sible tor Alfred's rise out of medio- crity to one of the best small college elevens in the East, are linesmen:
Brownell, Callista, Eschbach, Edleson, tore around right end and aided by a brilliant block by Dutkowski, scored standing. Alfred failed . to convert and led 6-0.
Later in the period a 50 yard march by the Saxons put the ball in play on the Ithaca 21. This time Dutkowski aided with beautiful blocking, slushed 21 yards around the same right end to score. Again, the Saxons could not convert and led 12-0.
The Saxon final points came late in the second quarter. A recovered Ithaca fumble gave the home team the ball on their own 30-yard line.
The Saxons ran seven plays and aided by powerhouse blocking by the seven linemen and half-back Larry Bizet, together with three runs of 23, 28 and 12 yards by Johnson, the ball was put on the Ithaca 6. Dutkowski plunged over for his second touchdown and the final Alfred score. The attempt at conversion failed.
Ithaca Soph Goes 40 Yards
George Davis, Ithacan fullback, set up the only score for the visitors.
Late in the last period he went 40 yards thru the line to set the ball on the Saxon 37. Three first downs put the ball on the Alfred 7. Davis again took the ball and slid over for the score. The atempt t o r u n the ball for the extra point was smothered by the Saxons.
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Tough Schedule
Fresh from its impressive victory over Ithaca, Alfred may find unexpect- ed trouble in attempting to garner their sixth win of the season. The Larries faced the most difficult sched- ule in its history. They lost to such large opponents a s Colgate, Dart- mouth, Vermont and Niagara. The only win of the season was against Cortland Teachers.
Leckonby Gone
This year's Saxons will not have to reckon with "Wild Bill" Leckonby, who almost single handed beat Al- fred 26-0 last year. Leckonby is now playing 'professional ball for t h e Brooklyn Dodgers. John Goodrich will fill Leckonby's role and is rated as one of the finest backs in St. Law- rence history. Coach Roy B. Clog- ston has a top notch center in Burg, er but the only weakness is a t the end positions. The Larrie spirit is high in spite of their defeats and they will attempt to end their season with wins over the Saxons Saturday and the following week, Clarkson.
Hill-Dalers Invade
Toronto Saturday
• EIGHT SAXON HARRIERS' will invade Canada Saturday af- ternoon to match strides withe | the University of Toronto hill and dalers. The Purple and Gold will' be seeking their third win of the season having beaten Colgate and Cornell on previous week-ends.
Those to make the journey are | I Captain Lennie Dauenhauer, Gene
Burgess, Brad Rendell, Elton Gamble, Frank Morley, Ira Hall, Milt Tuttle' and Dave Nordquist.
Last year, the Toronto team ran at Alfred and were beaten 17-38. The Blue and White placed a runner fourth, the only visitor to finish among the first ten. Of last year's winning squad Rendell, Burgess, Mor- ley, Dauenhauer and Tuttle are out to repeat again this year.
The squad rested last week and is expected to be in its best form. Frank Morley, who was forced to drop out of the Cornell race, will be ready for the Toronto meet. With last weeks 25-30 defeat of Cornell, hopes and spirits are high as an undefeated season looms.
Frosh Women Joust With Friendship
• TWENTY-TWO HOCKEY players from Friendship and their coach, Betty Jane Crandall '38, played against the Alfred frosh women last night on Merrill Field under the lights and were referred by Athletic director Crozier of Friendship. A light supper was served after the game to the members and coaches of both teams. This game was1 the second of the Alfred frosh - Friendship hockey games, the first having been played at Friendship last year.
Comstock '35 Practicing
»DR. PHIL E. COMSTOCK, who was graduated from Alfred Uniyersity in 1935, has finished his work a t t h e University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry and is practicing in the of fice of Dr. Lee W. Turner at 11 Wall Street, New York.
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