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Seattle nivU ersity ScholarWorks @ SeattleU The peS ctator 4-1-1952 Spectator 1952-04-01 Editors of The pS ectator Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/spectator Recommended Citation Editors of The peS ctator, "Spectator 1952-04-01" (1952). The Spectator. 452. http://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/spectator/452 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The peS ctator by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ SeattleU. New EducationalDevice Spectator FollowingModern Trends SEATTLE UNIVERSITY Available to Students Plans have at last been completed for the immediate installation of a book report dispenser,it was announced today. Vol. XIX SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1952 °^^>® No. 15 The decision to purchase this complicated mechanical device follows the generalpolicy of the school to provide the students with the very latest in modern conveniences. ' Lindroth Fiddles While Buhr Hall Burns The machine, similar to the one presently used by the public li- brary to check out books, will pro- Petition Seeks vide photostatic copies of reports according to the specific needs of Comprehensive the student. Each selection can be made by means of a dial clearly designating the general subject Exam Revisions matter, the number of words, and A petition containing the names the degree of intellectual insight of 300 seniors, and suggesting a contained therein. change in the mannerin which the One of the most valuable fea- philosophy comprehensiveexamin- tures of these reports will be a ations are being administered, was generally coherent arrangementof submitted yesterday to Rev. James complete sentences. Misspelled McGuigan, Dean of Studies. words will be limited to one in every fifty, The studentsfeelthat the present according to the basic written does not permit them English requirementsnow enforced exam departments adequately express their knowl- in all of the Univer- to sity. Individualstyle, animportant edge, and that theability of gradu- quality ating on such a in most book reports, will seniors to converse supplied by own subject is vastly underestimated. the student's dwriting or typing attempts. They therefore advocatein the pe- tition that there be several assem- &±he main advantage of this new blies of the entire faculty through- machine is that it will enable the out the year to enableevery senior students to devote the time usually to exchange intellectualnotes with spent in trackingdownpre-written his professors on philosophicaland reports to the far more profitable theological matters. A much more task of judging yo-yo contests. accurate evalution of the students' Faculty, too, will share in its knowledge will thus be obtained. benefits. Correction will be re- hold that duced to a minimum; thus leaving The seniors this will the free for relaxing prove practicable than teachers even more spring only the method employed previous to activities. The notable disadvantage is in the in- 1950. Under that old way, every foreseen Harpist Pyromaniac graduating senior required to evitable decrease in library rev- Turns was enue to of Drive appear before an appointed board due the discontinuation Donation two-day of three faculty members for the necessity of reserve an books. In Quest for Inspiration; quiz year study of Parking oral onhis four- (Continued onPage Four) For Lot philosophy and theology. This sys- Damage Estimates High tem was abolished because there Begins Tuesday was never a sufficient amount of that remains of the former Bnhr Hall is a handful properly The donation drive that willsur- time to question such Seniors ashes. Late last evening Lloyd Lindroth, popular young large numbers of graduates. The Schedule PAII pass all previous donation drives entirely string ensemble, set fire to Buhr Hall by rubbing two harp- will be launched into full swing pressure of time will be strings together. In a few minutes the building was a blaz- next week, according to re- eliminated under this new and All-School Mixer latest more relaxingplan. ing inferno. ports received today. Donation Conscientious firefighters from Vets'Hall formed a buck- tickets will besold for 49 cents and Jim Farris, representing the Tomorrow Night brigade squelch damp the holder of the winning number Senior— Class, adds: "The fact re- "Come as you are" is the theme et to the flames. With a handkerchief will receive two tickets to the mains when anyone is heldunder face, Roller plunged into the and of the last mixer of the year to be over his Joe blaze wrenched Telenews Theatre plus a beautiful the pressure of time, as he is for held tomorrow night in the base- the two drinking fountains from hand-tooled leather pillbox. The example during the written com- ment of the Engineering Building. the wall. These were manned to Don't Look Now, number will be drawn from the prehensives,he will very rarely do Music will be provided by Evelyn capacity by two fearless engineers. Loyalty Cup on the night of Com- justice to that which heis attempt- Elastic and her Rubberband. In an interview with the press But mencement. Proceeds of the drive ing." later, explained ... Intermission entertainment will Lindroth with a will be used for the long-awaited The petitionwill bepresented for glassy look in his eyes, "I had to There willbe asneak preview of parking lot top feature the Tuxedo Twins, Mary of the1952 nextTuesday construction a on approval at the next faculty meet- Ellen Jensen and memorizethe first18linesof Chau- AEGIS of Building. Jackie Rendall. Buhr the LA ing. the program is Crooner cer andIJust couldn't concentrate. in Auditorium between The precedent of raising money Also on Ineeded inspiration. Something 3:02 and 3:03 a.m. Union Building John O'Brien, accompanied by his for the Student Ed. had tosacrifice itself tomy genius." .Fund was abandoned this yearbe- INCIDENTALLY brother . .. The dance is beingsponsoredby Spectatorsat thesceneof this act (Tar and feathers will be The April Fool of cause of the more immediateneed edition The the seniors for purpose of pyromania testified to seeing provided) of a place for students to park SPECTATOR, usually published the of re- their moving in the Lindroth pensively strumming his cars during school hours. "The by Sig, not appear the deficit incurred Gamma will class treasury by Mardi Gras. lyre, the flames mirrored in his number of students arriving late year the this because all the mem- The debtmust bepaid grad- crazed eyes. for class after hiking fromparking bers lost the West before are on Quad- uates can receive their diplomas. The Art Department announced AFL Workers places on Rainier Avenue has be- rangle. that untold damage has resulted come increasingly annoying to the Co-ChairmenBillHiglin and Les from the fire. instructors," stated Fr. McGuigan, Whittles stated that they hopedthe Picket "Cave" student body The fire had spread to the Little Dean of Faculties. would takeadvantage Theatre on Campus, damaging Detailed blueprints of the new Mendel Hosts of the opportunity to further this hundreds of props and scenery In Mass Strike garage wereapproved yesterday at noble cause. Cooperation will be backdrops. It has been the faculty meeting held in THE fully repaid by an evening of estimated The Cave Men, who recently be- sparkling that the whole first and second members AF (As- SPECTATOR office. According to Noted Speaker entertainment. came of the of L Admission is 50 cents per person balcony will have to be rebuilt. sociated Flunkeys of Labor), have the architect's design, the entrance Dr. What A. Wheeze, notedgrad- and tickets will be on this aft- The orchestra remained relatively plans will be facing Marion street and sale revealed for the massive uate of Whazza Matta Wid U., was ernoon and tomorrow morning in untouched. picketing of the Cave. Jake Mc- the high level parking area will be by guest speaker last evening at the the Athletic office. They may also pro- representa- reached means of a steel ramp "A day of mourning is Clelland, the AF of L third biennial meeting of the popu- be purchased tomorow evening at claimed for tomorrow," stated an tive,stated that the picketing will built over the Science Building lawn. The garage itself is expected lar Mendel Club. the door. unofficial source close to the presi- be in protest to long workinghours Dr. Wheeze, dent. "A ceremony will place and low wages. to accommodate 500 cars-. The exit take provided currently on a high atop LA Building, will be by another ramp the where According to local leading notion-wide tour, the remaining ashes will be scat- the union's across Spring street and paper, "the elevation of the stan- descending to street level the addressed the Aegis Order Form tered to the winds." on group dards in this case is long past due northeast side of the Engineering onthe sub- since Cave employers are still Building. A special elevator will ject of "Truhling- szeit - Fieber," Obtainable Soon known to make their employees carry students to the lower floors Knights Present work for a living." Some of the of the LA Building. better known as The 1952 AEGIS complete witha Cave men claimed that they were "To guarantee the success of this Spring Fever. new type of spiral binding will be forced to do manual labor for one expensive undertaking, the cooper- Danger signs of distributed to the student body the disease, such "twitterpa- somewhere around Needed Flag Pole hour every day in order to receive ation of every students is needed," as the Fourth of their three They tions," cave-itis, and wandering July, according to the recent an- body five-coursemeals. said Ernie Pastornicky, chairman High point of the student further asserted that is strict eyes werediscussedin great detail.