Western Washington Collegian - 1950 October 20

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COLLEGIAN
KVol.XLVII — No. 5 Western Washington Colege, Bellingham, Wash. October 20, 1950
HOWDY PODNER! With Homecoming festivities
just two weeks away, general chairmen Leila Brown
and Bud Hill pause in their busy schedule of pre­parations
to present President W. W. Haggard with
a real Western style hat. This year's celebration will
follow the theme of a western round-up.
Chairmen Promise
'Real Western9
Homecoming Days
All strays wearing the Western brand are being rounded up and
!
! just two weeks from this weekend they will all be brought together
on the Western ranch for WWC's 1950 Homecoming.
Student committees are working to bring present students and
. returning grads a full weekend of fun and entertainment. The
ll^fnfce-st'tiiirviti-t'iioees scttnartrptAe d tthhilsS morning
4with the homecoming kickoff as­sembly
and nominations for
•Queen Sigrid XIII.
The theme of a "A Real Western
Homecoming" is being carried out
!and the campus will assume the at­mosphere
of a ranch for the three
days of the celebration. All students,
by special permission of President
W. W. Haggard, will be allowed to
jwear Western style clothing, to help
the dudes get into the swing of
; things.
Fifty-two years ago the first grad­uates
were turned out on the range
and every year thereafter another
group has left the old ranch for the
wide open range. This year under
\ the co-chairmanship of Bud Hill and
jLeila Brown, invitations have been
Wnt to all alumni to return to the
fold ranch for a weekend of fun com-iimencing
with the coronation of
the 1950 Homecoming queen.
Friday night the ranch hands will
see a big pep rally and parade
through downtown, and the annual
fbonfire which will be lit off in front
, jpf the new Industrial Arts building,
ilmmediately following this, the skit
-' roundup will be held in the college
auditorium. After this the oldtimers
-Trill have a chance to meet old
friends at the all-college mixer in
the Junior high gym.
The next day, Saturday, November
4, activities resume when all the
alumni gather for the annual home­coming
luncheon to be held at Edens
hall.
The climax of Homecoming is
reached Saturday afternoon when
the Vikings clash with the Eastern
Washington Savages at Battersby
field in the big football game of the
year.
The festive weekend ends on a
smooth note with the Queen's ball
Saturday night in the Bellingham
Armory. The orchestra has not been
chosen yet, but it will be the best
obtainable, according to members of
the W club.
The Queen's ball will end at 1:00
a.m. Sunday morning, closing West­ern's
1950 Homecoming.
TACOMA DRIVERS
Anyone driving to Tacoma
Saturday morning for the PLC
game should sign up immediate­ly
in the Co-op, if he or she has
room for extra riders, it was
requested by George Rudes,
chairman of the pep committee.
Girls, Sunday Movie
Gives Some Advice
"Every Girl Should Marry" is to
be this Sunday's movie, sponsored
by the "W" club. It will be shown
at 6 and 8 p. m. in the student
lounge.
This movie, a comedy starring
Betsy Drake and Cary Grant, is an
"hour and a half of laughs," ac­cording
to the New York Times.
Admission is only 25 cents.
ROTC Training May
Be Started Here
Military training to start in the 1951-52 college term may be­come
a reality here.
The Board of Trustees of the college yesterday approved a
proposal for having an Army Reserve Officers Training Corps
(ROTC) unit on campus, it was announced by Dr. W. W. Haggard.
Action on the matter began October 4, when Col. Charles A. An­derson
called here to discuss the*"
subject with the president and
Dr. M. S. Kuder, director of
student personnel services.
It was revealed that the proposed
Western unit would become one of
24 new ROTC groups, other than
those of land-grant colleges, to be
organized within the Sixth Army
area.
The request has been made that
an infantry unit be established here.
Other possibilities, in order of pre­ference,
are: ordnance, signal, trans­portation,
military police or chemi­cal.
The ROTC would be considered a
college department of military
science and tactics, functioning in
an academic and administrative
capacity. Credit could be earned to­ward
graduation,' provided the re­servist
complied with each quarter's
requirements.
Calling for a specified amount of
drill, the program would probably
require frequent use of the State
street armory, located two blocks
west, of the campus. It is believed
that there would be no difficulty in
securing use of the armory, which
is used weekly by t h e National
Guard.
The army would provide the staff
of commissioned and non-commis-
Queen Sigrid
Choice Soon
Nominations for the Home­coming
queen and h e r court
were made this morning by the
four classes. The candidates will
be presented to the student body
in a special assembly Thursday,
October 26.
Voting will begin immediately
following the assembly in Room
112. It will continue through
Friday, October 27.
sioned officers and all supplies for
the local unit. Western, however,
would be expected to supply space
for the staff and storage of equip­ment.
Elmina Boothby to
Return Next Week
Miss Elmina Boothby hopes
to take up her duties as college
nurse again Monday.
That's what she said yester­day
after being released from St.
Joseph's h o s p i t a l Wednesday.
Miss Boothby suffered a serious
leg injury two weeks ago in a
fall on the steps of the Main
building.
Frosh Can See
Test Results
Results of the objective tests
which were taken by all enter­ing
students this fall are now
available for all those who took
them, it was announced t h is
week by Dr. Merle S. Kuder,
director of student personnel.
Dr. Kuder recommends that stu­dents
who wish to examine their
test scores should schedule an ap­pointment
with their faculty coun­selors.
The counselors will assist
the students in interpreting the test
scores, he said.
Tests which were taken by all
freshmen included the English
placement, Nelson-Denny reading,
American Council Psychological ex­aminations,
and the Kuder Prefer­ence
inventory.
The interpretations of these tests
can be of assistance to the student
and his counselor in program plan­ning,
according to. Dr. Kuder.
Should Have Examined Western
EDITORIALS
LIFE'brought the Western campus to life this
week.
Thoroughly digested by many here was the
newspicture weekly's bulky education issue, par­ticularly
the article, "Who Teaches Our Teachers?"
This article, written by an anonymous self-commissioned
investigator, is a superficial examina­tion
of America's 150 teachers' colleges. The
author's thesis: "many teachers colleges bring an
inferior faculty and an inferior student body to­gether
in an inferior physical plant."
Impact of the article on campus was nothing
less than terrific. Indignant professors pointed at
once to the article's obvious shortcomings—over-stressed
generalizations, conclusions without suf­ficient
data, isolated extreme cases made to ap­pear
as if the norm. "Pure sensationalism," said
one.
On the other hand, at least one professor
found the piece "far too lenient. I would have said
a lot more."
Good, bad, or indifferent, the article in ques­tion
overshadowed all other topics of conversation
this week. In some cases, history and psychology
were forgotten as class meetings were turned into
bull sessions inspired by the topic.
SHOULD HAVE COME HERE
The author has been all but hung in effigy
for a bad piece of reporting. We'll let further
criticism rest for now. But it's too bad he didn't
get to Bellingham in the course.of his travels. If
he had, the tone of his article might have been) en­tirely
different.
He would not have found here "an inferior
faculty and an inferior student body brought to­gether
in an inferior physical plant."
"John William Sperry" would have found at
WWC a respecte'd and distinguished faculty, as
capable an academic assemblage as could be found
in any liberal arts college of similar size. More
than 18 percent of WWC's faculty hold doctor's
degrees—a percentage above the national average.
Many others have begun advanced work leading to
the doctorate.
Dr. A. C. Hicks served for three years on the
governing council of the American Association of
University Professors. No one from the bottom of
the ladder is elected to that position. Nor is an
"inferior" football and basketball coach consulted
by his contemporaries throughout the nation re­garding
his successful straight-line defense system.
In many other ways, year after year, the WWC
faculty proves that the administration of this col­lege
has secured acknowledged scholars, and edu­cators
for the teaching staff.
In almost any region of the country he could
find out graduates—"inferior" students—in posi­tions
of prestige in many fields of endeavor. Promi­nent
former students who have been honored re-
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