Western Washington Collegian - 1953 November 20

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COLLEGIAN
Vol. XLVII - No. 9 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Nov. 20, 1953
"IF" Magazine Holds Writing Contest;
Science Fiction Selected as Theme
"What will life in America be like
100 years from now?" That is the
theme of a new collegiate fiction
contest. A national science fiction
magazine is paying $2,000 for the
answers. With submissions limited
exclusively to undergraduates in the
United States and Canada, students
will present their phophesies in the.
form of a 10,000 word novelette,
basing their predictions on class­room
work, and their own interpre­tations
of the trends today.
The form of a novelette has been
selected by the editors of IF Mag­azine
because they believe there are
% great many young people in col­leges
who would like to express
their ideas and fancies on the sub­ject
if given the opportunity. Pro­fessional
writers attending college
will not be eligible to enter.
Ideas and imagination will count
more than actual writing skill. The
background can be any phase of life.
The scene can be a city, village or
the country. Plots can be built
around a profession, a family or a
single character.
First prize is $1,000 in cash, with
six runners up receiving an addi­tional
$1,000 in prizes.
Rules for the contest are as fol­lows:
1. Closing date is midnight,
May 15, 1954.
2. All stories shall be novel­ette
length (10,000 to 12,000
words), typed on white paper
and doubled spaced. One side
of paper only shall be used, with
full inch margins.
3. AH manuscripts must be
accompanied by a self-addressed
envelope with sufficient postage
for its return.
4. All winning manuscripts
become property of IF Maga­zine.
5. Judges shall be the edit­ors
of IP Magazine and their
decisions shall be final.
6. The author's full name,-
. address, name of college and
class must appear in upper left
hand corner of first page of
manuscript.
7. Manuscripts will be ac­cepted
only from fully registered
students in college and univer­sities
in the United States and
Canada who are not professional
writers. No other persons are
eligible.
8. Winners will be announced
the first week in September fol­lowing
the close of the contest.
9. All manuscripts must be
addressed to College Science-
Fiction Contest, IF Magazine,
Kingston, New York.
Safety Regulations
Discussed
A meeting of the college safety
council was held in the Seminar
room of the Arts building on Thurs­day,
November 12.
Dr. Alan Pawelek, chairman of
the group, outlined plans for the
year.
Fire drills and traffic and park­ing
regulations were discussed; sug­gestions
for the improvement of
each were given. Dr. Pawelek says,
"Any suggestions from students or
faculty members toward the im­provement
of general campus safety
living will be welcomed."
Debaters Give
Good Showing
At Tourney
At the practice tournament at
CPS, November 13 and 14, WWC
made a "pretty good showing," ac­cording
to Paul Herboid, forensics
director.
GALS COME THROUGH
The women's team, consisting of
Nancy Tate and Jean Dunham, won
all its debates. The men's team,
made up of Larry Richardson and
Paul Oakes, had more losses than
wins, and is currently rebuilding its
arguments. According to Herboid,
"they met some pretty tough com­petition."
Both these teams are in their
first year of forensics.
Each of these persons was also
entered in imprtmptu speaking.
Richardson and Oakes each received
a rating of I in his second round,
coming up quickly from a 4 in his
first try. Tate received a 2 in both
rounds; Dunham was given a 3.
Bernice Thiesfeld received a 2 in
after-dinner speaking, and a 3 in
extempore.
There are ten people in a round;
everyone below the first three re­ceives
a 4. Herboid says, "to place
in the top three is pretty good."
The schools participating in this
pre-season tournament were: Col­lege
of Puget Sound; Pacific Luth­eran
College; Seattle Pacific Col­lege;
University of Washington; St.
Martin's College; and Western
Washington College.
Gyorgy Sandor, Pianist, in A<5KL Program
"I have not heard finer piano
playing than Sandor has given in
all his recitals, and during the last
fifteen years I have heard every
pianist of note," wrote the critic of
the 'Sydney Daily Telegraph' at the
close of Gyorgy Sandor's first Aus­tralian
tour. This was but one of
the many triumphs in a dazzling
career that had carried him through
four continents.
This brilliant musician will be the
guest artist in the current series, at
10 a. m., Tuesday, December 1, 1953.
He will also appear Tuesday even­ing
at 8:15 p. m. in the College
Auditorium as guest soloist with the
Bellingham Civic Symphony orch­estra.
At that time he will play the
Beethoven Fourth Piano Concerto
with the orchestra. The public is
cordially inivited to attend.
STUDIED WITH GREATS
Born in Budapest in 1912, Sandor
studied the piano with Berl Bartok
and composition with Zoltan-Do-daly—
two of the greatest musicians
of pur time. After a sensational
debut at the age of eighteen he
toured the European continent, and
tie made his first American appear­ance
before an enthusiastic Car­negie
Hall audience in 1939. This
was followed by a tour of ten Latin
GYORGY SANDOR
American countries, from Mexico to
Argentina. He served in the U. S.
army from 1942-1944, and as an
American citizen, resumed his ar­tistic
career. Since then he has
toured both North and South Am­erica
annually, adding Europe from
1947 to 1951 and Australia in 1950.
In the.United States he has ap­peared
with as many as twelve or­chestras
in a single season. In 1946
he gave the world premier of Bar­tok's
third and last piano concerto
under Eugene Ormandy in Philadel­phia
and New York. In 1952 Sandor
made two Latin-American tours,
from Mexico to Brazil. In the cur­rent
season he is touring the United
States from coast to coast, playing
numerous recitals and appearing
with orchestras from Philadelphia
to San Diego, California.
Sandor will present the following
program in his appearance here:
Part one: Organ toccata and
Fugue in D Minor, J. S. Bach; Ron­do
in D Major, Mozart.
Part two: Scherzo in B Flat
Minor, Chopin; Waltz in A Flat
Major, Chopin; Funerailles, Liszt.....
Part three: "Intermezzo," Bartok;
Scherzo (The Cuckoo), Howard
Swanson; and Suggestion Diaboli-que,
Prokofieff.
41-Pet. Student Body
Vote in Primary
Vets Reminded
of Nov. 30
Veterans under. Public Law 550
(the Korean Bill) are reminded
that monthly certificates of training
will be signed on Monday, November
30, in the Office of Student Per­sonnel
Services, Room 111. With
the Thanksgiving holidays begin­ning
on „the 25th and' Monday being
the first day back after the holidays,
it is particularly important that
these veterans make it a special
point to sign on the 30th. Delay
in forwarding the monthly certifi­cates
will necessarily result in delay­ed
subsistence checks.
Veterans under this bill should
also make sure that they register
for not less than fourteen quarter
hours for the winter quarter in
order to receive full subsistence. No
changes of educational objective
from the one shown on the certifi­cate
of eligibility are permitted
without prior approval of the Vet­erans
Administration.
Colleges to Give
Enrollment Exams
J. E. Terral, director of Educa­tional
Testing service, Princeton,
N. J., announces some business
schools and divisions will require
applicants for graduate study in
business to take an admission test.
This will affect any person wishing
to enroll in the fall of 1954 term or
later.
Tests will be given February 6,
1954, and May 13, 1954. Applications
and fees must be filed with the Ad­mission
Test for Graduate Study
in Business, Educational Testing
service, 20 Nassau street, Princeton,
N. J., at least two weeks before the
testing date.
Some universities requiring appli­cants
to take the test are Columbia
^Harvard, Northwestern, Rutgers,
Seton Hall, Chicago, Michigan,
Pennsylvania, and Washington Uni­versity
of St. Louis.
Business students planning for
graduate work should write,to the
institution they plan to attend to
see whether they are required tc
take the test.
Sample questions and information
will be sent out in a bulletin of in­formation
issued by the testing ser­vice.
Edens, Senior Hall
To Hold Banquets
Traditional Thanksgiving ban-will
be held Tuesday, November 23,
at Edens and Senior halls.
Turkey with all the trimmings
will be served at the invitational
dinner. Dress is required and dinner
will be served at 6 p. m.
At Edens hall Nancy Turk will
sing and a violin solo will be played.
Mitsu Yonekawa is program chair­man,
Joyce McLachlan is social
chairman, Helen Nobles will direct
the entertainment, Ann Meurer is
in charge, of the decorations and
Janet Kay Warneke is invitation
chairman.
Carolyn White is decoration chair­man
and Donna West is in charge
of the place cards at Senior hall.
Approximately 550 Western pupils,
41 per cent of the student body, cast
their ballots in the BOC primary
election Thursday and Friday, No­vember
12 and 13. Fourteen names
appeared on the ballot, and each
student voted for four candidates.
The twelve nominees receiving the
largest number of votes were chosen
to appear in the general election
Monday and Tuesday, November
23 and 24.
The twelve chosen are: Lorrene
Bergmann, Gary Douglas, David
Gay, Douglas Kazen, Duane Mont­gomery,
Dick Oril, Mike O'Sammon,
John Ricketts, Nancy Silliman, Jim
Simon, Rey Sundal, and Bob White.
Four of the twelve candidates will
be chosen to serve on the Board
from winter quarter 1954 to winter
quarter 1955. This includes summer
quarter 1954.
As in.the primary, ballots for the
final election will be cast in the
main hall of the main building from
9 a. m. to 4 p. m. both days. Stu­dent
body cards need not be pre­sented,
but the voter's name will
be scratched off a list of WWC
pupils.
Neva Oreskovich, a -junior, is
chairman of the election commit­tee.
Other members of the commit­tee
are Sophomores Mary Lee Flick-inger
and Esther Gibbons, and Sen­iors
Carolyn Crook and Marilyn E.
Smith. Volunteer workers are also
helping with the balloting.
Five Tourneys
Scheduled For
Debate Season
Paul Herboid, forensics director,
has announced the 1953-54 season
schedule of. tournaments.
On January 8 and 9, eleven speak­ers
will go to Seattle Pacific col­lege
for the Pacific Northwest tour­nament.
A large number of indi­vidual
events will be offered there,
including debate, discussion, ora­tory,
extempore, impromptu, and
oral interpretation.
On February 11, 12, and 13, the
Tyro tournament will be held at
College of Puget Sound in Tacoma.
This tournament, including schools
in Washington and Oregon, is much
larger than the previous ones. Ap­proximately
twenty colleges and
universities will be represented.
The "biggest of the big." ac­cording
to Herboid, will be held at
Linfield college in McMinnville,
Oregon, on March 4, 5, and 6. This
will be one of the largest forensic
tournaments held in the United
States; approximately thirty col­leges
will send teams.
Montana State university, at Mis­soula,
will be the scene of a large
tournament on April 9 and 10. Col­leges
and universities from the en­tire
Far West will be represented.
The Pi Kappa Delta, national
honorary forensics society, will hold
a cvonvention and tournament at
St. Martin's college in Olympia
sometime during the spring quarter.
Teams from Washington, Oregon,
and Idaho, will debate.
Herboid says, "as the season pro­gresses,
and the number and size
of schools at the tournaments in­creases,
the competition get tough­er."