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THEM CAMPUS Publkhed Weekly by the Students of the University of Maine ,.1. 1.111 Z 265 Orono, Maine, March 6, 1952 Number 18 Fraternities Trumpet Trio To Hold Spotlight 'Senate Group Named To Hear Of In University Band Concert To Initiate Study Of Help Week Band Song Writer High School Week End To Speak Monday Enrollment Stimulus Seen; BY WALT SCHURMAN Joseph A. McCusker, Maine Butler To Head Committee class of 1917, chairman of the Na- By BILL MATSON tional Interfraternity Conference A plan under which high school seniors would spend a week end Committee on Greek Week, will at the University in the spring was proposed Tuesday night at the General Student speak to all fraternity men at 8 Senate meeting. Senate member Don Spear moved that a committe be appointed p.m. in the Women's Gymnasium by Senate President Greg Macfarlan to consider such a week end Monday. His subject will be Help as a means of combatting thee Week versus Hell Week. drop in student enrollment. Following a dinner at 6 p.m. in The motion received almost unani- Forum Turnout Estabrooke Hall for representatives mous approval. of the Interfraternity Council and Following the meeting, Macfarlan chapter advisors, McCusker will ad- Is Meager But named Paul Butler to head the com- dress the general meeting. He is ex- mittee, with Diane Draper, Duke Wal- pected to outline the NIC's policy on ters, Norma Jose, and Lennart It's '.A Success' Hell Week. Nelson as members. Help Week is not unknown on the Tuesday's open ,tudela forum was Spear said that his motion was University campus. A year ago in almost a victim of what it was trying prompted by views expressed in an November, Sigma Phi Epsilon in- Trumpeters ( left to right ) Hal:idae. Lester Nadeau. to combat—student apathy. editorial in last week's Campus. augurated a program of civic improve- and John Godsoe will be featured in the Varsity Band's Fifth When the moderator, General Sen- Butler Is Vice President ment that seems to be catching on with Annual Concert and Dance on Friday. Mardi 14, at 8 p.m. in ate President Greg Macfarlan, called the other fraternities. At that time the Memorial Gym. ( See story on page 52) Photo by Marroux In another action the Senate elected the session to order only about 50 stu- the services of Sig Ep's pledges were Paul Butler to the key post of vice dents and faculty members were as- offered to the town of Orono for a president. The election was neces- sembled in the Louis Oakes Room for day's work. The pledges spent the sitated by the resignation of Linwood the meeting. Assembly Carville. day cleaning up and painting Orono's Talk Goodwill Chest At the outset Macfarlan commented, Town Hall. The body also named Dick Vose to "The small turnout is an excellent 1FC Tried Program In Fall By Dr. Wilson Is Drive For S3320 the student-faculty calendar committee. example of lack of student interest." Last fall several fraternities fol to fill a vacancy caused by the Febru- Despite the small attendance, members lowed the Interfraternity Council's Friday At 9:25 Begins Monday ary graduation of a student member. of the senate stated later that they recommendation and made the ser- Senate member Helen Pendleton felt that the meeting was "quite suc- vices of their pledges available to the Dr. Howard E. 'Wilson, UNESCu Gsd ill Che.st Drive starts gave a brief report on the Open Forum cessful" in light of the different con- that was held Tuesday afternoon. Miss communities of Bangor, Old Town. official who will speak at an assembly Monday. March 10. The goal for the troversial topics raised. Pendleton termed the forum "quite and Orono. in Memorial Gym at 9:25 a.m. tomor- entire campus community In addition to Macfarlan, other is $3,320. successful." In addition to his Greek Week row, was formerly associate of members who served on the panel were an The over all goal has been broken Constitution Being work, McCusker is treasurer of the Studied Dean Ashley S. Campbell of the Col- President Arthur A. Hauck: in the down into smaller amounts of Duke Walters National Interfraternity Conference. money reported on a meeting lege of Technology, and Senate mem- joint Canadian-United States Com- of the constitution committee that was He has been active in the conference covering specific areas. These smaller bers Jan Boyce, Beverly Pettengill, held on Monday. for many years and served at one mission on Education. goals were determined by the number According to Wal- and Mark Lieberman. ters and Macfarlan. the work of the (Continued on Page Two) In 1944 Dr. Wilson was co-secretary of residents in each area. They are The discussion of student-faculty as committee, which is to iron out cer- re- for the commission. of which Dr. follows: Balentine. $151; lationships brought out many Colvin, $77: tain inadequacies of the present con- com- Hauck was one of the original mem- North Estabrooke, $115; ments on the status of club South Esta- stitution. is progressing well. advisors, Date Bureau Helps bers. brooke, $107; West Hall West, value of faculty members' office hours, $102; The question of the Senate's public Dr. Wilson's subject tomorrow will West Hall East. $109; The Elms, and the desirability of student -bound Sophs $80; relations was raised. In the discussion -faculty Hop be "Cultural Relations as a Factor in Corbett. $.308; Dunn, $309: $180; committees to discuss Oak, that followed. President Macfarlan important ques- World A ffairs." Hannibal Hamlin, $121; North tions affecting both groups. "We guarantee dates for all sopho- Dorms, said that the Senate had a public re- $47; So. Apts., $33; Trailers. mores who want to go to the Hop," A member of the faculty of Har- $33; lations committee hut that no powers The big point discussed was the gen- Bangor, $141; Brewer, $27; Emerson Colby, chairman of the vard's School of Education from 1928 Hampden. or duties had been delegated to it. eral apathy of the student body toward $15; Veazie, $10; Orono, $216; Sophomore dance, said yesterday. to 1945, Dr. Wilson was editor of the Still- Following a general discussion on its government. water, $17; Old Town. $57; Colby said students lacking dates Harvard Educational Review from Cabins, what should be done with the com- Other points were raised concern- $30. would have the free services of a date 1937 to 1945. mittee. Macfarlan assigned the group ing the importance of the Senate as bureau under the chairmanship of Neil Dr. Wilson was made assistant di- The fraternity goals are Alpha to work with the Citizenship commit- the representative of the student body, Rideout. The bureau has a representa- rector. Division of Education, for the Gamma Rho. $44; ATO. $49; Beta. tee. headed by Butler. the new vice and the need for publicizing senate ac- tive in every dorm. Carnegie Endowment for International $46; Delta Tau. $55; Kappa Sigma, president. tions. $41: Lambda Chi, $60; Phi The Hop is scheduled for tomorrow Peace in 1945. Three years later, he Eta. $57: Much of the discussion was devoted Phi Gam, $57; Phi Kap. $54; Phi Mu night in Memorial Gym. Music will was appointed executive associate and to student apathy and what might be of its Men's Dorms Get be by Mal Hallet. director European Program. (Continued on Page Sir) done about it. Complimentary tickets have been IVics And Records sent to all sophomores. New victrolas will soon be placed in the Airlift Returns Student Weeks Will Talk On 'Editor's Chair' lounge of men's dormitories, William D. Skinner, president of the From Farm To Campus "Editing has never been as exciting seen by a magazine editor. n as late r in the An:erican Army. Mens' Central Dormitory Committee, as it is today." These words of Ed- The Weeks lecture is the first of a In 1922 he received the B.S. degree said this week. Funds have already William Sweet was week-ending at ward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic at Harvard. He spent a year in been set up to service the new ma- Harbor series made possible by a contribution his father's farm near Bar Monthly, give some indication of what chines and purchase of $2,500 by two Bangor citizens. The graduate work at Cambridge Univer- records. when a private plane with skis landed he will talk about when he opens the series will bring noted speakers to the sity and, then, entered the publishing The committee has planned a there. University-Community Lecture next campus whom it would he otherwise field. Couples Dinner for next Sunday night Finding that the pilot was from Ban- Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Women's impossible to obtain. The donors, who After one year as a manuscript at New Cafeteria. Plans for exchange gor. Bill asked for a lift.