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Buy Your Tickets Now For The Fiftieth Annual Junior Prom STRAW BALLOT NEXT BWPDS WEEK Z 88 No. 22 Volume XXVI Storrs, Connecticut, Wednesday, April 24, 1940 CAMPUS CONDUCTS MUSTACHIOED MAESTRO AND SONGSTRESS Semester Meal Tickets Are POLITICAL BALLOT IN'NEXT EDITION Compulsory For Dormitory Results To Show Barrax Residence In Future Student Interest How deep is the interest of the stu- j NEW RE-ORGANIZED Rent and Board To Be Combined dent here in the forthcoming nation- | Under One Fee al political campaign? The CAMPUS ADMINISTRATION TO will attempt to seek an answer to APPEAR IN CATALOG Combination of the fees for dor- this question by conducting a straw mitory rent and semester meal tick- vote in next week's issue. To Have Revisions et will go into effect next semester, The leading candidates of both ma- Of School Fees according to the schedule made pub- jor parties will be listed on the bal- lie by President Albert N. Jorgensen lot. Students will be asked to desig- I Although it will be published the today. This means that all students Date which candidate he THINKS j latest in ten years, the University residing in brick dormitories and the two men's barracks must buy WILL WIN THE party nominations catalog which is expected to appear Bemester meal tickets. and which candidate he would prefer j in the middle of May will be one of Under the new plan students re- to be elected. the most revised catalogs ever pub- GEORGE HALL siding in the dormitories will be The response to the poll will indi- DOLLY DAWN lished here. The complete reorgani- billed a single fee to cover both cate the magnitude of interest of Con- zation plan recently passed by the room and board. Women students necticut students in national politi-1 Trustees will be contained in it. living in Holcomb Hall will be re- quired to eat in the cafeteria which cal affairs and whether or not our Prom To Headlight Week-End which accounts for the delay in pub- isolated position has fostered an at- is now under construction in the new lication. titude of indifference. unit of Holcomb. while the men stu- Of Traditional Festivities Instead of the usual complete Uni- dents will receive tickets for the The prevailing opinion is that the versity faculty list at the beginning, present dining hall. Students not students are neither informed nor living in dormitories may purchase interested in the results of national Hall's Music Fits Garbus Says Nutmeg the faculty has been divided into the Dancers Whimsies semester tickets for either dining hall politics. If there is little response to To Be Ready May 15 schools and colleges, and a list of but these tickets will be honored only the poll, the indication will be that George Hall, whose orchestra the staff members will precede each at the cafeteria for which they were the charge of provincialism is true. comes to Hawley Armory for the section devoted to one of these. The originally issued. Cover To Contrast On the other hand a large return of fiftieth annual Junior Prom, will cli- recently organized Divisions of Stu- Insure Dormitory Finances With Junior Jackets the straw vote will show that Con- max a weekend of festivities that dent Personnel. Health, and Publica- The change in the method of bill- necticut students have a sincere In- will storm the campus from May 3 to ing student fees was described by The 1940 classbook Will be ready tions have also been listed. terest in national affairs. 5. for distribution May 15. Julius Gar- Dr. Jorgensen as a move to insure The catalog will contain 192 pages. the stable financial position of the The vote will also show if the poli- Featuring Dolly Dawn and the bus. '41 of Hartford, announces. This "Dawn Patrol." the mustachioed year's Nutmeg will be one of the most 12 more than last year and the stu- new self-liquidating dormitories, bids tical trend here is similar to that in for which have recently been adver- the state and nation. According to maestro boasts more radio hours than colorful ever produced by the junior dent list will be set in smaller type, any other orchestra. On tour at pres- tised. Money for the payment of the the latest Gallup poll, Connecticut is class. three columns to a page instead of ent at hotels and colleges all over the interest on the dormitory bonds will two. Vacations will be approximately Republican by a slight margin. country, the band shattered all pre- The cover is a maroon shade In he taken from the general revolving Unless new faces enter the politi- cedents by playing for eight consecu- contrast to the tan of the junior the same, although the Christmas re- fund into which all student fees go. cal picture during the next week, the tive years at the Hotel Taft Grill in jackets; the seal and letters are de- cess lasts until the sixth of January, Whether the combined fee will be bossed in a rectangular center piece. Republican candidates listed on the New York City. Hall is Known as a 1011. instead of the third, as it did payable in installments. Pres. Jor- ballot will be Senator Arthur Van- perfect musical psychologist. His mu- The usual junior section continues this year. gensen could not say. According to the President this matter is one denburg, Senator Robert Taft, Tho- sic always fits the demands and tem- the informally phrased style of in- A reduction in the University fee peraments of his audiences. dividual writeups. The color design which must be settled through the mas Dewey, and Senator Joseph of $15 per semester has been listed Martin. The Democratic party candi- His twenty-two year old vocallsl throughout adds to the appearance of business office. Dean Dole and Dean and while board has gone up. dormi- French. It is expected that some dates will be listed as President has been in radio for seven years and this section. method of divided payment will be has sung with the Hall band lor the A complete record of all the I'ni- tory rent has gone down. So this Roosevelt, Vice-president Garner, worked out for those who are unable past four. Miss Dawn, who also versity activities for the past year in- makes a total reduction in expenses James A. Farley, and Secretary of to pay the entire sum outright. State Cordell Hull. sings with the "Dawn Patrol", a cluding societies, fraternities, clubs of $15 a semester. Meal tickets for less than a semes- smaller unit of the Hall Orchestra, and classes is shown in colorful The cover and paper used for the Waller Scott of Bridgeport will lias won innumerable singing polls sequence. Informal pictures are plac- ter will still be sold to persons liv- catalog will be the same as in former ("Continued On Page Seven! make the final tabulation of the bal- and has set new high records tor ed intermittently to add to the inter- lots. phonograph record sales, having out- est. years. Several changes will be made sold even Bing Crosby. which will probably not be noticed Every student may receive a copy Laurels To Be Named Glee Club To Give Druids To Be Announced of the yearbook providing lie has until the volume is carefully perus- During Tree Planting ed, according to Walter Stemmons. Prom Week Concert Other highlights of the Junior Prom paid his student activities fee for the will be the announcement of the mem- school year 1939-1940. Head of the Division of Publications. The senior girls' organization which bers of the secret honorary society will, after a period of five years be- The Annual Glee Club home con- for senior men, the Druids. Junior ROGERS SCHOLARSHIP TO BE AWARDED come a member of the National Mor- cert will be held Saturday evening, men who have been selected for next tar Board, decided at a recent meet- May 4th in Hawlcy Armory. The pro- year's crop of Druids will be tapped TO JUNIOR OR SENIOR WOMAN STUDENT ing to adopt the name The T.anrel>. gram, which begins at 8:15 p.m., will during the evening. The co-ed who Miss Mildred Travis, assistant in- feature Don Rushlow and his Con- has been chosen for Queen of the af- The flrsl award of the E. Charlotte weeks period a sum of 60 dollars structor in Botany at the Universitv necticut Dons. fair will also be revealed at the prom. Rogers Scholarship will be made in would be accunimulated. In previous and a member of National Mortar The weekend's festivities will com- This orchestra has appeared in June to a woman student, preferably groups the money had been used to Board, has been chosen as faculty ad- mence with the traditional Junior a major in nutrition. This scholar- buy something for the house, but in visor to the group. country clubs the state over, includ- Parade and tree planting ceremonies ing Sunset Ridge, Edgewood, and In- ship, the only one that has been or- 1930 it was suggested that a loan On May 4th. at the tree planting on Friday afternoon. Junior women gani/ed and supported by college al-, fund be started with the hope that it dian Hill; and they will feature 10 ceremony, the Junior candidates for who have been elected to the secret uiiinae for the benefit of women stu- j grow. membership will he publicly recog- pieces and a vocalist. women's honorary society will be re- dents, is named in honor of Dr.