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Published Weekly by the Students of the University of Maine re Margaret iue Bockus, Vol. LVII Z 265 Orono, Maine, March 15, 1956 Number 20 The Elms; rooke; Fran- ooke; Anne )urne; Kay e; Mary Kil- New Suspension rt, ex officio; Jane Keith, of the origi- Rule Announced your copy BY MILT HUNTINGTON write, call of address Because of a new disciplinary suspension rule passed by the lager, Fer- Faculty Council Monday, the punishment of a delinquent student ookstore). will depend upon the time of the semester the offense occurs. According to George H. Crosby, policy of the instructor. If a student Members of the committee for the Penny Carnival, Saturday evening. from 8-11:30 p.m. in the registrar, the Committee on Adminis- is dismissed a week in which prelims made Women's gym, get decked out in costumes of the Roarin' Twenties for the annual C!elli. Committee tration took action on a new disci- occur, those prelims cannot be members are, left to right, Gloria Trafton, general chairman; Jane Weisman; Mary Jane Keith, posters; plinary suspension resolution which up and the student is in trouble. Barbara Moore and Myra Goldman, publicity. Theme for the carnival this year is "Flapper's Fling." reads as follows: Might Fail Course Photo by Johnson) "Disciplinary suspension within If a student is suspended over the a semester shall not exceed a week of finals, he is almost certain to week in length. Students shall have failing grades. not have the opportunity to make If a student is dismissed on a Thurs- 'Flappers Fling' up any academic assignments day with a vacation starting on a Fri- Station WORO Soon missed during the supension peri- day, the student would be guilty of Is Theme For od. violating two 24-hour cut rules, Fri- "The effect of the assignments day's and Monday's. To Cover All Campus Penny Carnival missed upon the student's course The 24-hour cut rule states in part: flinaialitiMWEIROGVIIMer."'"""""'"'":-.:'"'Y'.10179www.-: • • L grade is left to the discretion of a student missing the last class before JOHN LITTLEFIELD vacation and the first class after a BY The Roarin' Twenties era has the instructor in the absence of a Can you hear campus radio station WORO? departmental or college policy. vacation will be dropped from the been chosen as the setting of the course without a grade unless an ac- If not you are not alone for since its start in 1948 WORO has In no case, however, shall the annual Penny Carnival,"Flappers ceptable excuse is rendered. faced the problem of reaching a campus-wide audience. Fling," which will be held in grade be reported 'deficient' as a If all goes well, however, WORO transformer located near the heating the result of disciplinary suspension." The student's Dean is respon- may have its problems solved within plant. The waves will then be trans- Women's Gymnasium Saturday The new rule falls in between cen- sible for the decision concerning two weeks and almost every student ferred back to the individual trans- evening, March 17, form 8 to sure and a "long" suspension depend- 24-hour cut rule penalties. Ac- on campus will be able to hear mitters in each dormitory or fraternity 11:30. ing on the seriousness of the offense. cording to Crosby, the Dean may WORO's programs. through the electricity lines thi.t run Plans for t!-,e gala affair include a The degree of the penalty is decided feel that the one week dismissal Solution Found over campus. dance featuring Dale Whitney and his upon by the Committee on Adminis- is punishment enough without tration. adding further penalty for 24- The solution to the problem of The sound waves received in the band, a midway of gaily decorated Interpreting the rule, Crosby ex- hour cut rule violations. reaching all students involves an in- transmitters will then be transferred booths where carnival games will be plained that if a student is dismissed The rule was set up, according to tricate technical system which has to the receivers in the same cabinets in play, and intermission entertain- for a week as a disciplinary measure Crosby, to lessen the vacation aspect been devised by WORO's chief en- with the transmitters and then will be ment by co-eds in the Square Dance at the start of a semester, the grades of a suspension, but fortunately few gineer John MacGregor and Charles sent out to the individual students' club, Tumbling club and Modern of the student should not suffer too 1 cases arise involving disciplinary sus- Snell, an electrical engineering major radios within the building. Dance club. severe a blow, depending on the pension. at the University. Key to the entire new system are Miss Cassidy Directing the individual transmitters in the dor- The two students worked on the Under the direction of Miss Eileen system during the fall semester mitories and fraternities. MacGregor and Cassidy, the members of the Modern have perfected it to a point which they and Snell worked on these between Dance club will interpret "Blues in the •". think will provide full campus cover- semesters and have already installed Night," while the Tumbling club will, Tri-Delt Fashion Show age by the station. six of them in dormitories. entertain carnival-goers with a series Briefly the new system involves a Original plans called for 20 of the of central transmitter located in Dunn transmitters but costs limited the two intricately worked out acts under' Hall and individual receivers and students in constructing the transmit- the supervisior of Miss Alice Finne- transmitters in practically every dor- ters and only 16 are now available. gan. mitory and fraternity on campus. These include six transmitters that Gloria Trafton is general chairman Will Make Connection have been used by WORO previously. and she will he assisted by the follow- A spare telephone line will con- More Transmitters ing committee heads and their work- nect WORO's studios in Stevens Hall MacGregor said that he believes ers: Kathleen Vickery, decorations: with the central transmitter in Dunn. the 16 may prove sufficient and the Myra Goldrmn and Barbara Moore. From Dunn the radio waves will be other four originally thought necessary publicity; Ma:y Jane Keith, posters: transmitted to the University's central (Continued on Page Eight) Linda Ashton, tickets; Future Of 'Stein Song' Once In Doubt BY JACK NIVISON sity. He read it once and gave the most popular march in the Yankee The future of the Maine Stein Song, song a final "okay." Division. emblem of the Maine Spirit for the Key To Spirit But the Stein Song rose to its great- past 50 years, was in doubt in 1904. est popularity in the late 1920's when The Stein Song has been the key Faculty Outraged Rudy Vallee, a former undergraduate to the Maine Spirit since 1904 when it It was banned, at first, by the fac- of Maine and then a world-famous was written and composed by Lincoln ulty committee. Members of that radio entertainer, took an interest in Colcord and Adelbert Sprague. Col- committee were aroused at the usage the song and started singing it. cord and Sprague were undergradu- of such phrases as "Fill the Steins" Became Popular Hit and "to the gods." ates at Maine at the time and they Through the medium of the radio They felt that "gods" suggested pa- worked on the song together. the song's popularity spread through- ganism and since this was during the The music was arranged by Sprague, out the country and the Stein Song period of prohibition in Maine the who at one time was head of the became one of the most popular hits committee felt that "Fill the Steins" Music department and director of the would arouse a great number of par- Maine Band. The words were written "Maine Men" are the only ones ents. by Colcord, who later became one who sing the Stein Song the correct But the song was saved by George of the leading writers about Maine. way. In Rudy Vallee's version the "let every loyal Maine Man sing," is E. Fellows, president of the Univer- inspiration for the song came The sung an octave higher than what was to Sprague when he heard an old originally written in the song. army march, "March Opie," by E. A. To really give the country a chance Abolish Hell Week Feinstad. to hear the Stein Song, the Maine Maine's Beta Upsilon chapter It was during World War I that band in 1930 was part of a nation- of Alpha Tau Omega voted 21-9 the Stein Song first gained some of its wide toast of coast radio hookup of Among models at the annual Tri-Delt fashion show which will AY! Monday popularity.