WWCollegian - 1946 January 25

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SCHOOL SPIRIT IS BEING
BORN; WEAR YOUR BADGE.
"LET'S GET ASSOCIATED"
THEN THERE WAS CHENEY
NOW OUR OLD RIVAL
ELLENSBURG MON.-TUES.
Vol. XLIV —No. 15 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Friday, January 25 1946
National Survey
Made By Times
0n House Shortage
WWC is far from being the only
school with the difficult problem of
housing veterans and others who
desire to enter college now that the
war is over. According to a survey
conducted this month by the New
York Times, colleges and universi­ties
in every part of the country are
turning away thousands of dis­charged
war veterans because of
insufficient housing, overcrowded
classrooms, and lack of instruction
staffs.
Nearly all of 60 leading American
institutions of h i g h e r learning
reached in the study, report that
they are either turning away quali­fied
veterans and civilians, or will
be forced to do so when the Septem­ber
term opens. Many colleges and
universities report that never before,
not even during peak pre-war days,
have so many students applied for
admission.
NO ADMISSION
Several reasons are offered by col­lege
officials for this inability to ac­commodate
veterans. During the
war, colleges reached a new low in
enrollment. As a result, teaching
staffs were frequently reduced. But
more important still was the inabil­ity
of the institutions to keep their
building programs up to date.
Today, the survey indicates, the
question of housing is the most im­portant
that colleges face. A ma­jority
of the institutions report that
it is the inability to provide living
quarters for the veterans that is
forcing them reluctantly to adopt
the "no admission" policy. This is
especially true about married stu­dents.
Few institutions have suit­able
living quarters for married
veterans and their wives. Trailers
and Quonset huts, however, are al­ready
functioning on many cam­puses.
ENROLLMENT JUMPS
Stanford University has been
forced to turn away many married
veterans because of the housing
shortage. Registration for the winter
quarter will approach the pre-war
high of 4,200. The enrollment of
veterans jumped from 441 during
fall quarter to 1000 for winter
quarter.
Denver U. has 2,000 veterans en­rolled
now, or 45% of the student
body. Nine hundred are expected
to apply for March registration. Al­ready
400 prospective students have
been turned away and the university
expects to turn away 1000 more
during March and September terms.
Two hotels are being remodeled to
provide classroom and living space.
The University of California has
100 veterans attending classes now
and 2000 are expected for the Feb­ruary
term, with 3500 by September.
No one who has qualified has been
rejected, but many may be dis­couraged
because of insufficient
housing.
^ Dateline . . .
Saturday, January 25—Dance, 9:00,
Student Lounge.
Monday, January 28 — Basketball
game, 8:00, gym.
Tuesday, January 29 — Basketball
game, 8:00, gym.
Thursday, .January 31—Mixed Rec,
7:30,. gym.
Monday and Wednesday, e v e ry
week—Choir practice, 4:00, Room
239.
Tuesday, every week — Orchestra
practice, 4:00, Room 239.
Wednesday, every week—Band prac­tice,
7:30, Room 239.
West Shows South
African Pics Friday
Lecturer Here
Next Week
AUSTEN WEST
Prom Plans
Being Laid
Plans for the 1946 Publications
Prom, to be held in the college
gymnasium Saturday, March 9,
progressed this week with the an­nouncement
by the Prom committee
that the admission price has been
set at $1.50 per couple.
Clint Nunamaker and his band
are scheduled to play for the big
event. The decorations committee
is hard at work trying to make the
first postwar Publications" Prom the
gayest.,and most colorful in. many
years.
Sometime in the near future 20
Prom princess candidates will be
chosen by the men of WWC It
has not yet been decided how the
final selection of a ruling princess
will be made.
Club Will Form
A chance ror all WWCE students
who want to learn to dance or who
want to learn to dance better is be­ing
offered by The Marion School
of Dancing, which is organizing a
dance club for high school and col­lege
students. This club is sepa­rate
from the dance school, not
an instruction course, and members
will not be requested to enroll in the
school.
It will be a non-profit organiza­tion,
but a nominal fee not to ex­ceed
$1.00 registration or 35c week­ly
dues, depending on the number
of students participating, will be
required to take care of expenses.
Remember, the dance ~ will be held
every Thursday evening at 8:00
p. m. from February 7 until May 30.
If you are interested phone 2400 or
3442-R before Friday, February 1.
Bulletin Snaps Shot
Here Last Tuesday
• Stuart Hertz, photographer for the
Seattle P.-I. and "on call"- photo­grapher
for Life magazine, was on
? the campus Tuesday taking pictures
for the Faculty Bulletin.
Hertz was assisted in his work by
Mrs. Ruth Burnet, Dr. K e i th
Goltry, Miss Pearl M e r r i m a n,
-Joanne Plumb, Pedie Hyatt, Bunny
Bilodeau, and Barbara McConnell.
Hertz was the guest of Charles
Rice of the Industrial Arts depart­ment
for lunch.
Mrs. Ruth A. Burnet, Klipsun
and Collegian adviser, hopes to ob­tain
Hertz for Klipsun and Col­legian
pictures to be taken soon.
She also wishes' to thank all the
-people who cooperated with the
photography committee.
Austen West, n o t e d lecturer-photographer,
will present his pic­tures
of South Africa at the assem­bly
on February i. Among his many
interesting natural color pictures
are the homesteads of Cape Town,
Johannesburg and its gold mines—
how they work, and who works
them; playgrounds of South Africa,
including Durban, famed resort; the
great natural bekuty of the country
as you.go up into the African snow.
Also the Zululand—a warrior na­tion,
once breeders of black Hitlers,
their love letters in beads, and their
tribal ceremonies.
West served as a lieutenant in the
Motor Transport Corps of the South
African Army, and had many inter­esting
experiences. During the time
West was a rancher in South Africa,
he relates that he often had to
stop work to quell rebellions and
hunt down cattle thieves.
This is West's first visit to the
United States, but he has received
favorable comment wherever he has
lectured.
Get In Swing!
Wear Tag
"BUT I DON'T KNOW TWEN-,
TY WOMEN IN THIS COLLEGE
TO NOMINATE FOR PROM
QUEEN!" So goes the big cry
of many of the men at WWC,
and for the most part, it may be
true. Can't let a thing like that
go on, can we, coeds? LET'S
GET ASSOCIATED!" is the
purported panacea, or in smaller
words, the best way out.
The WWCollegian staff, in
order to make the 1946 Publica­tions
Prom a bigger and better
affair than ever before, urges all
WWCers to support "LET'S GET
ASSOCIATED WEEK", begin­ning
January 28, or next Mon­day.
You know Monday, that
old Blue zombie that comes
around every week? Well, let's
pep it up by sporting these little
identification deals. Every stu­dent,
from the little ready teddy
frosh to the big doin* bruin sen­iors,
should get in stride. Let's
see a L.G.A. card on every one of
you next week!
Lee To Cook
On January thirty-first a new era
of good cooks will come into being,
for that is the day Celia Lee arrives
from the Seattle Centennial Flour­ing
Mills to demonstrate for the
people of WWC, and all outsiders
who wish to attend. Celia Lee is,
in private life, Miss Mabel Mulli-ken,
a very talented and charming
home economist.
She will demonstrate ner "Mix
In A Minute"—quick cake method
from three until four in room one.
All students, faculty and off-campus
people are welcome to at­tend.
Miss Mulliken will also speak at
the meeting of the Home Economics
Club on that day.
She will speak at 4:00 p. m. in
room one, on "Jobs for Girls Train­ed
In Home Economics." All girls
who are interested, other than
members of the Club are urged to
attend.
WSSF Drive
Starts Here;
Plans Rolling
The World Student Service Fund
(WSSF) will start an active cam­paign
sponsored by Blue Triangle
next week. Blue Triangle will, how­ever,
by no means be handling it
alone. School-wide, the campaign
will be led by "a central committee
made up of the presidents of all
clubs.
GOAL SET
As the goal is one dollar per per­son,
WWC's quota will be a little
over $400. All the organized houses
are expected to raise a sum equiva­lent
to one dollar fpr each occu­pant.
Those who don't live in an
organized house will be organized
into a town group, and all of these
organizations will be held respon­sible
for a certain amount. It can
be raised in any way from a raffle
to a dance.
. The war's end has only multiplied
the need for help in the rehabilita­tion
and reconstruction of university
life in Europe and Asia. During the
coming year, aid will go to students
in 18 countries.
WSSF INCLUDES
The World Student Service Fund:
1. Provides direct relief for stu­dents
and professors who are vic­tims
of war,
2. Is the American student's
part in the world enterprise of stu­dent-
to-student help,
3. Provides aid where it is needed
most on an international, interra­cial,
non-sectarian, non-political
basis, and
4. Means "reconstruction" now. •
ONE DOLLAR DOES THIS
One dollar will supply the note­books
and paper required by a vic­tim
of war for six months. It will
also provide a month's supply of
soy-bean milk for a Chinese stu­dent
threatened with tuberculosis.
Dr. Shih, Chinese professor from
the University of Washington, is
scheduled to speak in the February
15 assembly about the WSSF cam­paign.
World wide, student needs for the
coming year have been estimated
conservatively at $2,000,000. One-half
of this amount must be raised
by students and professors in the
United States.
Carnival Proves
Inflated Success
Almost all WWCers and their
friends turned out Friday night
after the game 'to try their hands
in big business. Before the evening
was over, the shock of the-fabulous­ly
high prices had passed and $10
was calmly paid for a doughnut.
With these 200 to one odds some­one
was heard to remark that this
was even 'better than going to
Canada.
Fortune telling, under the chair­manship
of June Shomshak, held a
line all evening. Barney Barnhill,
Barbara McConnell and Mary Ann
Teichroew looked into the future.
The baseball throw was mobbed
all evening, messengers carried tele­grams,
and almost everyone tossed
pennies.
One side of the Lounge was de­voted
to dancing and by the door
was a sale of cokes and doughnuts.
To climax the evening, the drawing
for the winner of the dog on display
at the Co-op last week, showed
Kathleen Brodahl to be the winner.
Edens Hall To Stage
Benefit Barn Dance
"Cow Cow Boogie" Frivolous Theme; Rutledge and
Anderson Co-chairmen of February 1 Event
"Cow Cow Boogie" is to be the theme of the Edens hall tolo barn dance
which will be held in the Edens hall dining room next Friday evening,
February first, at nine p. m. Margaret Rutledge and Catherine Anderson
are co-chairmen in charge of the event.
Decorations for the dance will be on the rustic side, with a little hay,
a few signs, cowbells and milkpails adding the proper atmosphere. Couples
attending the dance are requested
to dress as they would "down on the
farm", and some suggestions have
been cotton skirts, blouses or dresses
for the girls, or perhaps jeans and
plaid shirts; and plaid shirts, cords,
slacks, or jeans for the men.
The dance is to be a benefit for
the World Student Service Fund,
and all money taken in will go to­wards
meeting the Edens hall quota
in the present drive. Admission is
one dollar per couple, and tickets
will be on sale in the front hall of
the main building all next week.
All girls of the school are invited
to come to this dance and bring
their dates. Dancing will be to the
music of the jukebox, which will
be played in the pit as it was at last
year's spring formal. Punch will
be served from suitable containers
in keeping with the theme.
Committees working on the dance
are as follows: decorations, Mary
Ann Teichroew .and Barbara Mc­Connell,
co-chairmen; Helen Boyer,'
Barbara Stockton, Martha Walen,
Leonora Thomas, Midge Sprom-berg,
Lois Benefiel, Marilyn Lee
and Priscilla Schumann; and tick­ets,
Pat Temperley and Ethel Mar­tinson,
co-chairmen; Jean Knudson
and Annette Bilodeau.
Others are publicity, Pat Williams
and Jeanne Landers, co-chairmen;
Blanche Deering, Bonnie Hinote
and Zelma Blekkink; invitations,
Margaret Whitaker and Georgia
Driver; refreshments, Lois Craig
and Marjorie West; music, Arlene
Swanson and Margaret L u t r o;
and clean-up, Marjorie Traulsen
and Shirley Hjunt, co-chairmen;
Delores Wilson, Elsie Espeseth,
Betty Butler, Gerry Woodward,
Mary Ellen Francis and Barbara
Huffman.
Clothing Drive
Ends Today
The AWS Clothing Drive, under
the directorship of Virginia Pendle­ton,
draws to a close today, and all
things that are to be credited to the
various classes must be in by this
afternoon.
The winner of this contest will
be announced in the near future,
as will the losing class and the
penalty to be imposed on it.
0.
Schapiro Plays
The first real exposure to good
music this quarter for Western
Washington came last Tuesday in
the form of Maxim Schapiro, Rus­sian-
born concert pianist. He play­ed
before a large audience of stu­dents,
faculty and townspeople and
offered such classics as a Beethoven
sonata in three movements, the
Barcarolle by Chopin and various
compositions by other artists.
Schapiro's complete mastery of
the keyboard came out in versatile
rendition of a tango and a ragtime
bass along with the classic greats.
At the beginning of the program,
Stuart Hertz, who spent that day
photographing various phases of
college life for the Faculty Bulletin,
snapped Schapiro's picture while he
was in action at the piano.
H. S, Seniors
To Visit Here
On February 15 the 1946 High
School Leader's Conference will get
under way with WWC playing host
for a day. Over 100 high school
girls and their advisers will repre­sent
28 high schools from Snoho­mish,
Whatcom and Skagit coun­ties.
Every hour of the day will
be filled with interesting and en­joyable
features for the conference
delegates. The program will begin
at nine a. m., at which time the
• girls and their advisers will register.
At 9:45 a campus tour will be
conducted and the morning • will
end with the assembly. A lunch­eon
will be served the delegates at
12:30 and the afternoon program
will begin with five discussion
groups, the high school girls com­posing
four groups and their ad­visers,
one. The day will culminate
with a fashion show and tea at
three.
Chairmen for the various commit­tees
are Zelma Blekkink, luncheon;
J e a n n e Landers, fashion show;
Margaret Keehn, registration; Mil­dred
Fyfe, guide books; Jeanne
Nunamaker, publicity; Virginia
Pendleton, songs; Pedie Hyatt, tea.
Survey Made
The higher education division of
the Washington State Educational
Survey, will be on the WWC cam­pus
from Monday, January 28,
thi*ough Thursday, January 31,
under the direction of Arthur J.
Klein, Dean Emeritus of School of
Education at Ohio State University.
Working with him will be Dr. Earl
Anderson and Dean E. Y. Blewett.
Dr. George E. Strayer, who recently
retired from his position as pro­fessor
of Education Administration
at the Teacher's College, Columbia
University, will probably be with
them part of the time.
We Need A Band!
Downbeat Stuff
Music, Maestro, PLEASE! We
love you, we love you, we need
you. A rose without a thorn, a
chicken without a feather, and a
basketball game without a band
—it just won't work. What we
need is some students who are
interested in a good band and
interested enough that they'll dig
up their instruments and turn
out for band practice.
Did you notice the lack of pep
at the games last Friday and
Saturday night? The paying
customers did. That was your
fault—you didn't come out and
yell for our team. We've got a
pip of a team—they're good, but
they need the support of the
students and a band. Music is
the root of basketball pep and
we're the branches that give out
with the leaves of yells and more
yells. Don't you see? . It's the
spirit of the thing.
"Let's (3et Associated!" Theme On Campus This Week