Western Washington Collegian - 1959 April 17

              TODAY'S FEATURES
* Legislature, Page 1
* ; Truth Wanderers, Page 2
"& Viking Track, Page 3
* Drama Editorial, Page 5
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Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Vol. I I , No. 26-April 17, 1959
Fhiv e vie /t•«o r crown: ection Nex
SIGNS ANNOUNCING "Exoti-que"
appeared over the campus
Monday as the Junior Prom Com­mittee,
chairmaned by Nancy Park­er
and Dennis Fish, began its final
phase of operations—two weeks of
intensive publicity for the April 25
Junior Prom.
Pictures of the five queen
candidates and the new crown
will be on display next week,
and tickets will be sold on the
main landing starting Monday
for $1.75 per couple. With each
ticket will go a vote for Junior
Prom Queen.
Two junior girls from Seattle and
one each from Chehalis, Monte-sano
and Bellingham are vying for
the new pearl and rhinestone crown.
" P E G G Y OWNER, Seattle, is a
brown-haired, green-eyed home ec­onomics
major. She is a member
of Valkyrie, is listed in Who's Who
In American Colleges and Univer­sities,
was a songleader for two
years, served for two years on the
AWS Commission, and was elected
Homecoming Princess by her class
as a freshman.
DARLENE McCONNELL, Se­attle
and Sun Valley, Idaho, has
minors in English, psychology,
and math. She is 5'5", has blond
hair and green eyes. Darlene is
a member of Critics Club, IRC,
and forensics. Classical music,
progressive jazz, and procrasti­nation
are among her special
hobbies.
MARY ELLEN DOYLE, Chehalis,
is a transfer from Centralia Junior
College. A 5'7" brunette, she is
minoring in music, English and pro­fessional
subject matter. While at
Centralia JC she was a Homecom­ing
princess, Coed Club secretary
and Sophomore annual editor. Mary
Ellen claims swimming, horseback
riding and singing as her special
interests.
CAROLE REINHART, Monte-sano,
is also a transfer. She came
to Western from Grays Harbor
Junior College, where she was
ASB secretary. Since coming to
Western, she has chairmaned a
Homecoming committee,: worked
on the Elections Board, become
a member of the Scholarship
Society and of Helmsmen, and
received one of the prospective
teacher scholarships. Carole is
majoring in English, and minor -
ing in speech.
BARBARA VESLEDAHL, Belling­ham,
is 5'8", has blond hair and
blue eyes. She is a bio-science major
and an art minor. Her extracurri­cular
.activities include AWS presi­dent,
AWS Commission, several
AWS committees, Homecoming class
committees, and sophomore Home­coming
Princess. .
One of these five girls will be
crowned 1959 Junior Prom
Queen by the 1958 Junior Prom
Queen, Joan (Hendrickson) Gar­land,
at the intermission of the
dance, Saturday night, April 25,
in the Bellingham High School
gym.
Governor Cancels ECS A
Speech; Replacement Found
GOVERNOR ROSELLINI will be
in the East at the time of the
Evergreen Conference Student As­sociation
meet, April 29-May 2, and
sincerely expressed his regret that
he had to cancel his engagement.
Harold Shefelman, chairman
of the Board of Regents of the
University of Washington and
chairman of the governor's Tax
Advisory Council, will address,
student leaders at the ECSA
luncheon in Governor Rosellini's
place.
All delegates to the conference are
required to attend seminars on the
purpose and philosophy of student
government in college liFe and qual­ities
and skills of leadership.
GIRLS ARE STILL needed as
dates for the dance. Thursday,
April 30. The girls should be juniors
or seniors. Applications may be
picked up in the Dean of Women's
office. Hours will be extended until
midnight.
Legislator's Eligibility
Questioned by Group
PICTURED ARE THE five candidates for Junior Prom Queen. In the back row, left to right, are
Mary Ellen Doyle, Carol Reinhart, and Barbara Vesledahl. In the front row are Darlene McConnell
and Peggy Owner.
Arab Student to Represent Panama
For WWC on Model UN Council
By LYLE PRICE
"THE QUESTION OF TIBET is
already on the Security Council
agenda of the Model United Na­tions
and no doubt that and Berlin
will be the major topics."
Thus spoke Mike Barnhart,
leader of the WWC delegation,
in looking forward to next
week's mock UN meeting in Los
Angeles. He and six others will
represent Panama in the con­ference.
"We have a heightened interest,"
explains Barnhart, "because Pan­ama
will be sitting on the Security
Council. The very fact t h a t Panama
has a vote on the council is some­thing
of course," he added, "wheth­er
not she's listened to is another
thing."
MINA GHATTAS, a foreign
student from Lebanon doing
graduate study, will be the rep­resentative
to the Security
Council.
Panama, as one of the rotating,
non-permanent Security Council
members, is chosen from a large
geographical area, in this c a se
Latin America. Her policies trend
toward pro-American, that is United
States, because of the obvious in­fluence
of the Canal and of trade
between .the two nations.
WHILE GHATTAS is attempting
to reconcile his Arab upbringing and
American orientation to perhaps
still a third point of view, other
members will concern themselves
with five separate committees.
Dave Lastcr is the delegate
to the Political and Security
Committee, which will take up
matters of nuclear arms and
outer space co-operation.
M I K E BARNHART will hold
forth on two African issues and in­ternational
co-operation in foreign
trade.
Sherry Brown is to consider
in committee the relocation and
care of refugees in relation to
E u r o p e , especially Hungary;
Palestine, Hong Kong, South
America, Morocco and Tunisia.
Jan Hendrickson will be faced
with questions of Southwest Africa,
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WESTERN'S SUPREME COURT,
a three man group known as the
Judicial Board, has been asked by
the Student Legislature to give an
opinion as to the eligibility of Leg­islator
Sam Martin.
Martin explained the situation
Wednesday as he told fellow
Legislators that the matter in­volves
his cumulative grade
point average. He said the con­stitution
seemingly requires a
Legislator to have a 24 gpa
when elected to office.
The young athlete said he had
the required g.p.a. when elected last
quarter to office. He said he does
not have the g.p.a. now.
"I'VE PUZZLED THROUGH the
Constitution and I can't make any­thing
out of the confusion. I'd like
to send the matter to the Judicial
Board," Martin continued, "and I'll
abide by its decision."
Dave Amos looked at his copy
of the Constitution, said the require­ment
says "to hold office," and con­cluded
that to him that seemed,
quite clear.
KEN ROBERTSON, another
erstwhile Collegian editor turned
or returned legislator (Amos is
the other), held that the con­stitutional
passage says the of­ficial
must hold minimum Col­lege
standards, which he said
/Martin is doing.
Jack Rabourn said that the 2.4
requirement when one takes of ace is
based on the theory that grades
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