For the Last Time

®!je jSeto 5?ampsf)tre VOLUME NO. 51 ISSUE 6 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DURHAM, N. H. — SEPTEMBER 21, 1961 PRICE — TEN CENTS IBM Method Pleases Registrar; National Bestows Still a Few Bugs to Iron Out Highest Honor $50,000 Blaze Levels Barn; Registrar Paul E. Shaefer house. One problem with that On Alpha Omega said Monday that the new IBM registration procedure had been move will be the fact that stu Alpha Chi Omega Sorority “largely successful”, and that dents might have to stand in recently was awarded a trophy Prize Horses Led to Safety only a few bugs would have to line outdoors in the cold. “We’ll for overall chapter excellence. be ironed out in future process have to work that out,” he said. The award, made by the Coeds and football players ing sessions. Last Friday and Student reaction to the new sorority’s national organiza were among the several hundred Saturday marked the first time registration process was gen tion, goes each year to the students and townspeople who in which the entire UNH stu erally favorable. Upperclassmen chapter which rates foremost joined firemen in battling the dent body had registered under enjoyed being able to find out in a wide range of categories blaze which leveled the UNH the new procedure. Summer at once which courses were clos of the 96 locals within the horse barn last Thursday. The sessions had for the past two ed out, and to be able to select Alpha Chi family. 49-year-old building, valued at years been processed at the alternative courses and sections According to Sarah Clapp, $50,000 by University officials, Memorial Union Auditorium in at once, without the old ‘drop president of the UNH chapter, was a total loss. day long sessions. and add’ procedures. the trophy was awarded to the Even though the fire was The possibility that some of chapter for superior scholar fought by so many inexperienc A few minor problems held the sophomore class might also ship, campus leadership, sound ed firemen no one was injured up smooth dispatch of the more be processed on the first day financial standing, altruism, and and all 17 of the University’s than 3700 student enrollments. of future sessions was rais unity within the chapter. prize horses were led to safety The IBM equipment, which is ed by Shaefer. By mid-after Also figuring in the national’s in nearby fields. Physical ed housed at Thompson Hall, fail noon Friday the bulk of the appraisal of the UNH chapter ucation riding classes will be ed to function properly at one seniors and juniors had reg were such factors as relation continued as scheduled, despite point Saturday causing a lag istered, while late Saturday af ships with the Alpha Chi na the fact that the horses are in the handling of completed ternoon hundreds of freshmen tional and the filling of the homeless as a result of the mid student programs. The lag, were still in the midst of the membership quotas established day fire. Shaefer said, amounted to about enrollment procedure. 'Some by the UNH Pan Hellenic Harold Kimball, Physical a day and a half by Tuesday sophomores could have been group. Education department riding in afternoon. The slowdown did handled late Friday afternoon, The award was based on the structor, is making prepara not affect students at all, re hence allowing greater time for chapter’s achievements for the tions to conduct classes from sulting only in a delay in the the dispatch of the freshmen year 1960-1961. The award is the Putnam Pavilion until other preparation of instructors’ class class on Saturday. the first such honor to be ac arrangements are made. rolls. corded the UNH chapter. Need Shelter Several departments failed to The last student to complete “We’re not too discouraged a- adequately staff their respective his registration Saturday pass bout the riding program,” Kim registration tables, hence caus ed through the checkout at Homecoming Theme, ball stated, “we never did ride ing several long lines to form. 6:18 p.m., according to Shaefer. in the barn.” He voiced con A long line developed at the cern for the breeding horses, Economics Department table Committee Chosen which should be kept under cov Friday morning when only one Plans for the 1961 Homecom er with the advent of cooler clerk was on duty to hand out NOTICE ing October 14th are well und weather. cards to prospective economics | The Granite is looking erway. The Homecoming com Many housing offers have students. i for photographers for the mittee, which is being advised poured in from nearby farms. Saturday afternoon, as the J 1962 yearbook. Anyone in- by Mr. Richard Stevens, Alumni The thirteen Morgans, three 1050-strong freshman class was l terested or wishing more Activities Director, includes the foals, and one old mare are now being processed, long lines ap i information see Linda Al following: Sue Gordon, Chair stabled at the Racing Com peared at tables of the English bert or Bill Gallagher in man; Pete Austin, vice chair mission barn and at Green- and Chemistry departments. the Granite office, MUB, man; Suzie Callan, Barbara dream Farm. The lines were due, according Monday or Wednesday af Booth, Carol Snowman, Susan Since no state owned build to Shaefer, to failure of the de ternoon. Hayward, Penny Poole, Dennis ings are covered by insurance, partments to provide adequate Seniors Murphy, Kimball Clough, Larry some time may elapse before clerical help to process the rush Must sign up for senior Olivier, Bill Graf, and Marian The old gray mare ain’t what she used to be now that action is taken to replace the for basic composition and chem portrait sittings from Oct. Stuart. At a recent meeting her stall and those of 16 other horses have been destroyed structure. UNH Treasurer T.R. istry courses. 2 to Oct. 7 in the Granite they selected “Memories Re- by fire. Last Thursday’s $50,000 blaze at the UNH farm Meyers explained that if state Shaefer pointed out that the offiice, MUB. MAINE” as the theme for the remains a mystery as to possible cause. buildings are destroyed by fire, registration hall at the Union HOURS weekend highlighted by the an (UNH Photo Service) the governor and council may was not large enough to hand Monday Thru Friday nual UNH-Maine football game. provide new or temporary le the number of students reg 9-12 — 1-5 — 6-10 All fraternities, sororities, and structures from various emerg istering, and that the February Saturday dormitories will participate in ency state funds. registration session would pro 9-12 exhibiting displays which will Must Agree bably be held at Lewis Field- pertain to the campus theme. No action can be taken at UConn Student Newspaper the state level until the Board of Trustees of the University agrees upon a plan for recon F o r The Last Time Faces Possible Censorship struction, based on the recom mendations of the College of BY STEVE TAYLOR Agriculture. According to authorities and The student newspaper at the University of eye-witness reports, the fire must have started in the upper- Connecticut is presently being threatened with ad rear section of the barn. Wil ministrative control by the University’s Board of liam Bailey, a UNH farm em ploye, was leading the last Trustees. The Connecticut Daily Campus has here horse into the barn after morn tofore been operated by an all-student editorial board ing exercises when someone across the street called his at while its finances have been controlled by the Uni tention to smoke coming from versity’s Student Senate, j *. under eaves of the roof. A lengthy report filed by the control the situation at the Control Spread University Board of Truestees’ first indication something un At 11:20 the Durham Fire Daily Campus Study Commit wanted is about to happen. Department was alerted and by tee during the summer and “As a matter of fact the ad 11:25 five pieces of apparatus printed in the September 18 ministration has already estab had arrived on the scene. Equip issue of the Daily Campus sug lished a position that could eas ment from Dover arrived min gests that the student news ily perform these tasks. Fur utes later. Water from both paper be placed under super ther, it seems that as far as the a hydrant and a nearby pond vision of an ‘advisory commit Trustees are concerned, if we were of little use aside from tee’. Reports in the Daily don’t approve of their plans for controlling the spread of the Campus indicate that the paper us, we should simply go to blaze to nearby buildings and was subsequently placed under another University . woods. control of the ‘advisory com As yet no official statement mittee’ and that control of the “The Daily Campus has not has been made as to the cause paper’s budget and finances was been, nor never was censored or of the conflagration. Some taken out of student hands. coerced by the Student Sen authorities suggested that spon An editorial in the Daily ate . The potential censor taneous combustion may have Campus states: “During the ship that the Daily Campus touched off the blaze, but this summer we (the editors) re faces is greater under this new seems to be unlikely to season ceived notice that the Board of system,” the editorial con ed firemen in light of the fact Trustees decided to make . cludes. that the 100 tons of hay had the Daily Campus .

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