Dana Gives $50,000 For 4 Professorships WE SCRIM Charles Anderson Dana, the University off Bridgeport Campus Weekly University’s mo6t generous bene­ factor has given the University $50,000 to establish four “Dana Volum e ________________ Bridgeport Conn.. February 4, 1960 W,^i Professorships” at the Universi­ ty, announces James H. Halsey, presiden t The gift will be used to at­ Too Many Cold Cuts Irk Students tract four outstanding teachers to the University campus in the b y Dianne Stone that “ thfe fo o d ’s terrible and awful. She also thinks that stu­ fields of-business administration, A random sample of the Uni­ that’s why I’m living up here. dents should be allowed to pay education, chemistry and physics versity students indicates mixed I think they ought to Eire a cook. for room only and not board be­ over the next five years. feelings about Dining Hall meals. They should have longer hours cause “its expensive to pay for Competition with business, in­ Heading the list of complaints for meals and two shifts if pos­ meals and eat out also.” dustry and other colleges for new are ham and cold cuts served sible. They should have steak at Jack Coogan, a senior major faculty members in the face of too often, not enough variety, the mtddle of the year and not (continued on page 6) rising enrollments often created food is low grade, not enough only at the end so that everyone a salary problem with which the to eat, poor preparation, hours can have it” are too short, and board expen­ Miss Buell believes that “if a BOOK THEFTS University could not cope, potes Taking a book illegally Pres. Halsey. ses should be left to the student’s student eats what has been plan­ discretion. The best the students ned for him, he is getting a well from the library is consider­ Mr. Dana's grant is to be used ed an offense against the to supplement the salaries of the could say about the meals was balanced diet We have three “the food was well balanced” or very fine cooks who are trained Ethics Committee. Dr. Al­ four Dana professors beyond the fred R. Wolff, director of salary schedule in effect at the “not that bad.” to do this job and I would say Shelia Rose, a freshman ma­ that they do a very fine job.” student personnel, stated re­ University. cently in a clarification of In 1958, Mr. Dana gave the joring in retailing says that She maintains that in order "cold cuts and ham are served to make the dining hall Hours book theft penalties. University $350,000 for the Sci- “This means that if a stu­ Charles A. Dana ence building campaign. too often. One day at lunch I longer more money would have took a {date of cold cuts and I to be paid by the students since dent is caught cheating on just can’t describe the piece of new staff would have to be hired. an examination, and already meat I got since I couldn’t fig­ Because of an effort to keep the has a notice of involvement ure out what it was. The steak cost of food at a mihimum, until in book thefts in his record, Parents Plan Fund Drive they served before we went home overcrowding presents more of the cheating will be treated a need for longer hours, it won’t as a second offense,” Dr. for Christmas must have been W olff explained. good to start with but when be considered. To Boost Faculty Salaries they were through cooking h “In the case of a student "All I ever eat in Marina,” involved twice in book thefts, Salaries of faculty members Rockaway, N. Y., secretary. Mrs. you couldn’t cut it with a saw. stated Barby Goldberg, a fresh­ But maybe this is only the opin­ much more severe penalties at the University will receive a Robert M. Zorn, Stratford, is vice man majoring in elementary ed­ will be imposed than if he boost if efforts by parents of chairm an. ion of a spoiled kid.” ucation, “Is the roll and desert Miss Marcia Buell, dietican and were an ordinary second of­ University students are success­ because the rest of the meal fender,” warned Dr. W olff. f u l manager of the Dining Hall, may be balanced but it tastes The University’s Parents’ As­ claims that ham is served in sociation has formed a Faculty Class Cancellations t various forms once every 1& to Salary Fund committee to raise Aired Over WICC 18 days; cold cuts are served funds among parents to increase once every eight to nine days. salaries. , Jo Newmann, a senior major­ Annual Sweetheart Dance Cancellation of classes for ing in education, advocates that An annual goal of $13,500 has weather conditions will Miss Buell write to other schools been set up by committee mem- normally be announced over so that she will get a better idea Features Two Name Bands bos under the chairmanship of WICC Radio, in three stages of variety when planning the Two dance bands will furnish on Feb. 8. at which the finalists Ralph E. Meyers of Bridgeport the dancing sounds for the up­ as follows. Announcement Of diet In that way students would for the Sweetheart Queen will This total would match the in­ not be eating the same things coming Sweetheart Ball slated be chosen by a committee of come of the Ford Foundation cancellation o f (a) classes every week or every other week. for Feb. 12, at the Ritz Ballroom. faclty members. The queen will grant for the improvement of meeting between 8 a. m. and Miss Buell says she tries to Di.ck Williams, a veteran of be selected at the Sweetheart acuity salaries received by the 1p.m. shall be made be­ keep the food on a “three-week many college dances will be the Ball, Feb. 12. University in 1955. cycle” to keep variety in the main attraction with his group Contributions made-by parents tween 6 and 8 a.m., (b) m eals. of 12 and Bert Orr will furnish are to be divided annually among classes meeting between 1 Joel Englander, a senior ma­ music for the “breaks” with his University faculty members at and 5:80 p. m. shall be made joring in business, thinks that the Latin-American specialties and the end of each academic year. between 10 a. m. and noon, meals are "abominable. The se­ pop tunes. Pres. James H. Halsey praised (c) classes meeting after lection is very poor. The meals Williams has styled his band file efforts of the parents. He are served cold. They serve low 5:80 p. m. shall be announ­ especially for use in college noted that the salary level of the grade food. Even hot dogs and proms and emphasizes a min­ University “compared favorably ced between 4:80 and 5:80 beans, I enjoy beans but their imum of jazz and “gimmicks” to similar institutions but the p. m. beans are cheap and disgusting. and a maximum of good dance level must be improved if we are To reduce confusion, the You can not get seconds. In m usic. some meals I don’t get enough to compete with business and Reading Laboratory shall Some of his prior engagements to eat.” include Norwich University, Industry for high quality man­ automatically cancel sessions pow er.’’ The University, dietician re­ Springfield College, University of for their elementary group marks that only choice meats Connecticut and the University Objectives of the University when the Bridgeport public and top grade foods are served. of Maine. Williams, who features Parents’ Association include as­ elementary schools do. Dur­ The portions served are equal in himself as vocalist has been re­ size but there are seconds in ceived with enthusiasm by\ the sisting the University in Keeping ing the fall term the Read­ the highest quality faculty pos­ vegetables and potatoes, and if students of these colleges. ing Laboratory shaD notify the line is finished and there is Orr, a specialist in Latin sible. in writing parents of its stu­ food left over, a complete second music features himself as a Officers of the Parents’ As­ dents of this policy. Further, is served. In that way a stu­ bassist and has appeared in such dent can obtain anywhere from hotels as the Fountainbleau *n sociation indud: Leroy A. Rice, the Reading Laboratory will Bridgeport, president; Robert 1500 to 4000 calories a day. Miami and the Montague in not make cancellation notices A junior majoring in graphic Nassau. Oberfelder, Forest Hills. N. Y., on the radio. design, who moved off-campus The events for the weekend vice president; Roland Wolf, Far last year, Sid Patterson, claims include a Tea at Wistaria Hgll Dick Williams College Credit for Television Course Hinted by Judy Rosenbhmi of California. Six Nobel Prize graduate credit in teacher edu­ Chemistry by the sponsors of to supplement the televised Pres. James H. Halsey and winners have appeared, as guest cation curriculums. the program. Authors of the course and to evaluate student Dean Clarence D.L. Ropp of the lecturers. This year a chemistry However, Dr. Ropp feds that text, “Modem Chemistry,” are growth. The local coordinator College of Arts and Science, have course, taught by Dr. John F. the courses are for undergrad­ Dr. Baxter, and Dr. Luke E sorves as liason between students revealed that they would con­ Baxter of the University of Flor­ uate study only, and that grad­ Steiner, of Oberiin College.