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Page Two TIIX TICHR Friday, December 10, 1943 II___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _I_ I_ l1 1l S The Tech IL 'TWEEN DECKS Fraternity One night last week, the fifth say, is a pain in the neck; Vol. LXIII Friday, December 10, 1943 No. 49,1company commander called a spe- Findings cial muster in the passageway. The Sargent Girls' best friend Managing Board ; "'Listen, fellows," he pleaded, "the last week was Lieut. P. Y. Craeig of General Manager .. ............................... .Lamar Field, '44 I chiefs have been complaining that this Unit, who gave quite a bit of Phi Sigma Kappa Elections Managing Editor . ........ ................. James i:. Galirvan, Jr., '44 we don't get out to breakfast mus- his time to drumming up escorts Elections were held last Wednes- Associate Board ter on time, and if we don't get on for dateless girls who wished to at- the ball the whole company will be tend the big Sargent Formal last day night by the Omicron chapter Leslie M. Brindis, '45 John C. Conroy, '45 Frank S. Pohanka, Jr., '4 W'arren J. Grosjean, '45 restricted. You surely don't want Saturday night. Scuttlebutt trav- of Phi Sigma Kappa located at to be restricted this weekend, of all eled rapidly, as always, and not 487 Commonwealth ave., Boston. Staff Assistants weekends." long after Lieut. Craig had donated James J. St. Germain, 2-44, was Robert A. Arrison, '46 George R. Dvorak, '46 H. James Rosenberc, '4° cause, '. Nicholas Berlage, '46 Herbert A. Frankel, '46 Robert H. SymonettO, '46 "Heavens no!" shrilled a high- his services to such a worthy elected President succeeding the Harmon A. Poole, '46 pitched- voice from the rear. "Sina- a lad came striding into his office the glib question, "Is this the retiring President Robert J. Peter- Offices of The Tech tra's in town!" with Date Bureau?" son, 2-44, John W. Leonard was News and Editorial-Room 3, Business-Room 301, Walker Walker Memorial. Cambridge, Mass. elected Vice President. Arthur L. lIRkland 1882 Telephone KIRkland 1881 heartiest Telephone The entire Unit extends Today is the first day that the to Ensign, formerly Hall, 6-45, retained the office of STUDENT SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 Per Year congratulations V-12 Unit has had a real Navy pay- Chief, Glancy for a well-earned ad- Treasurer, and Richard S. White, Published every Friday during College Year, except during College Vacation. day, complete with Navy paymas- Entered as Second Class Matter at the Boston Post Offlce. vancement. Ex-Chief Glancy has ters. Up until now the payroll and 2-46, was chosen Secretary. always displayed the kind of com- cashing of checks have been han- men that Publishers of "Vu", the M.I.T. Pictorial Magazine mon sense in dealing with dled by the Bursar's office, for Phi Kappa Elections we could t·lE a lot more of. we owe them a vote of which Having finally put their new Member thanks. Believe it or not, it's a ,hoArRE9ENTED FOR NATIONAL ACWMTMII DI It is remarkable to us that there real headache to handle that much house in running order, the Phi National Advertisig Services 1iw Pssocialed GoUegecd6 Press have been so few casualties result- cash. Kaps elected a new crop of officers. CoUea PxMisb R#Prsrw*em DistributoT of ing from the springboard over in 420 MAOleOn Avle NoW YORI, N. Y. Pete Quattrochi, 10-44, was unan- Some fellows, who ClHCAo - OWTOM - ALeOSM L UO FU* COM, the armory. One hundred and fifty V-12 boys imously elected president, and Al- Colleiiale Wiest have evident'y been reading Super- with their dates have been invited bert S. Barsa, 6-45, and B. Edward man, leap off the springboard for to the big A.S.T.P. Ball on the 18th. Makeup Assistants For This Issue the first time in their lives with the Let's hope it won't be too long be- Ferrentino, 6-45, were re-elected Stanley J. KatcheFr 246 Steven J. Miller, 246 intent of turning a triple backward fore the V-12ers can return the house manager and personnel di- somersault. The result, needless to favor with a big dance of their own. rector, respectively. Other new of- ficers chosen were Bart Carmody, TH E A.S.T.P. CHRISTMAS BALL 2-46, treasurer; Jose Bianon, 2-46, K, ---Bo ysr---,-,.-1 ]'a : social chairman; Joseph J. BEngio- has undertaken what may vanni, 2-46, assistant house man- The Technology A.S.T.P. Unit ~l--,~^ ---- Y-- be a momentous step, in sponsoring a formal Christmal Ball next I I·-L_~ager and I.F.C. representative; . there'll be a hot time in the night at the house at 314 Memorial Mark E. Sullivan, 2-46, recording week-end. Up to now there has been almost nothing to remind old town tomorrow night, for the Drive. The invitation states -that secretary, and Robert C. Cullen, 2- the social "nature calls you and your date to the Army students that they are going to college except the A.T.O.s are keeping 46, corresponding secretary. season alive with their traditional the outhouse orgy." There was no things that the Army controls and governs. All sports are fall brawl. Hal Reeves has been indication -that nature could Ibe The new officers will formally Army-organized, and except for a few former Tech students, engaged as maestro for the shindig made to wait and the party is sched- take over their posts on Tuesday, the men have not had a chance to participate in the regular un- and will swing out at Fry's Barn I uled to get rolling at 8:30. December 14th. come eight P.M. Festivities are IIIII1 r II g --- - --- pi - - - C- der-graduate extra-curricular activities. scheduled to end at midnight. The I C -- Tn there has thus far been no social committee promises an ample As far as social life is concerned, supply of refreshments in the form self-sponsored affairs. Finally some of the boys took the long- of beer and cider. All experienced The Massachusetts Institute of Technology needed step of sponsoring a big dance. Not only have they entertainment engineers know the CAM BRIDGE, 'MASSACHUSETTS old atmosphere that Fry's barn given the Institute A.S.T.P. Unit the opportunity to attend a creates and indications are that the THE 1,ASSACHUSETTrS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY offers they have also invited the Navy V-12 students affair will be a lively one. the following Professional Courses: military ball, but I to attend as well as A.S.T.P. men from Boston College, North- . the outhouse orgy is the Official title for the beer and cider SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE eastern, Harvard, and Boston University. brawl at Theta Delta Chi tomorrow. Architecture City Planning City Planning Practice We congratulate the Army boys on the project and wish i - - - - - - -_- - - them the best of luck for a successful evening. Let us hope that I SCHOOL OF SCIENCE this will not be the last of such affairs either. IRevews mdPreviews Biplogy and Biological Engineering Geology Options: Quantitative Biology Options: Geology ! Food Technology and Mineral Resources SECOND ANNIVERSARY RKO BOSTON-Perhaps a bit of Industrial Biology Mathematics a letdown after that terrific (M) Physical Biology Options: Pure Mathematics week with Frankie, Richard Himber Two years ago we put the caption "Let's Set the Rising Chem istry Applied Mathematics and his Orchestra will hold forth General Science Industrial Statistics Sun" under our signature on the front page. A year ago we re- down on Washington Street this Physics week. On the screen is the new to this war than merely Options: General Physics moved it, saying that there was more Olsen and Johnson slapstick com- Applied Physics killing Japs. The months since then have born out that state- edy Crazy House. I ment. METROPOLITAN-Errol Flynn is SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING featured in an exciting epic of the I We've killed a lot of Japs since then, and a lot of Germans Aeronautical Engineering Electrical Engineering Northwest Mounted Police entitled Building Engineering and Con- Cooperative Course too. Be can boast that we've killed enough Italians to make Northern Pursuit. The co-feature is struction General Engineering them give up the fight and come over to our side. We're mov- Footlight Glamour, a new Blondie Options: ing northward in both the Pacific and in Europe. We no longer film. Heavy Construction Marine Transportation Light Construction Mechanical Engineering fear nuisance raids on our coastal towns and dare to let our lights . PARAMOUNT AND FENWAY - Business and Engineering Admin- burn at night once more. Luise Rainer is starred in Para- istration Mechanical Engineering- mnount's adaptation of Stefan Options: Cooperative Course Heym's novel Hostages, a story of a Based on Physical Sciences But as we move daily closer to victory, all the complex and Metallurgy girl's love for a man who knew that Based on Chemical Sciences interlocking problems that we are ultimately going to have to Options: it was futile to bargain with Hitler. Chemical Engineering Metallurgy face and solve are beginning to show themselves more clearly and Also starred in this exciting dra- Chemical Engineering Practice Mineral Dressing mzatic film is Paul Lukas. Harvest Civil Etngineering their existence i Electrical Engineering Naval Architecture and Marine fortunately, more and more people are realizing Melody, a new musical featuring Engineering and are beginning to do something about it' Rosemary L~ane, eases the tension Options: Electric Power Sanitary Engineering caused by the main feature.