VOL. XXXIV NO- 18 COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA Tuesday, February 21, 1950 Flames Cause $1,500 Damage In College Laundry Blaze Starts j Government In Clothing «!W5$i ,,«-. iPlans Radio s Near Floor . ***^w By Jim Baker Flames, which originated amidst By Beth Quynn -student's laundry bundles stacked William and Mary may soon be on shelves near the floor of the heard on the air waves if anything college laundry building, raced up **•*»-.,,.. comes of a lengthy discussion con­ the walls of the building last »* cerning the possibility of having night, igniting the wooden super­ a campus radio station, which took structure above. place at the last meeting of the The building is insured, accord­ Student Assembly, held February ing to I. E. Harris, manager of the 14. laundry, but whether the policy There is a strong probability covers laundry in the building, that there may be a station broad­ was undetermined at press time. casting from the reservation before Harris estimated approximately the end of the present school year. 100 bundles of laundry destroyed. * The chief difficulty at present is None of the laundry equipment, in locating someone with a know­ however, was damaged, he added. ledge of radio who could head the Estimated Damage project in an administrative capa­ It is estimated that upwards of city. $1,500 damage was done to the mm building as a result of the fire. Contact Dayton This does not include the damage Any interested parties have been to the laundry. urged to contact John Dayton or After apparently subduing the some student assembly represen­ fire an hour after it was called at tative. 7 p. m., the fire department was recalled 20 minutes later as flames A delegate will be sent from within the walls broke into the here to a convention for college radio stations to be held at Blacks- open. Campaign winners in the recent elections a re. left to right, Phil Dulaney, vice-president of the See LAUNDRY, Page 12 burg in the near future. senior class; Bill Lee, senior representative to the Honor Council; Dong Weiland, junior representa­ Reporting on changes in the tive to the Honor Council; and Al Shubert, senior representative to the student assembly. (Kepner) vacation schedule for next year, Dick Scofield stated that it would Co-op Urges Rights be impossible to have examina­ On Matoaka Lake Seniors Elect Dulaney Vice-President; tions scheduled with registration. Communist Professor " By Bill Lee After discussing the possibility Students and faculty members Shubert, Lee, Weiland Hold Offices of having a Communist professor may enjoy fishing and canoeing speak at the college, the Student privileges on Matoaka Lake in the By Bob Hedelt sports. He is a member of Pi From Pennsylvania Assembly voted against the mea­ near future. sure because of the obvious objec­ A meeting of the General Co­ Four vacated student govern­ Kappa Alpha fraternity and is Another Pennsylvanian is junior ment positions were formally fill­ majoring in economics. Weiland, Whose home town is tions involved in carrying out operative Committee was held last such a plan. Thursday in the Dodge Room to ed in a special election held last Schubert's home is in Philadel­ Phoenixville. Weiland, an eco­ hear discussions on this and other Wednesday in Phi Beta Kappa phia, Pa., and previous to his elec­ nomics major and a member of Pi Additional business brought be­ current projects and problems of Hall. tion as senior representative to Kappa Alpha fraternity, has just fore the assembly included a mo­ the student body. the student assembly was active as recently been elected vice-presi­ tion to petition Dr. Pomfret for the Phillips F. Dulaney was elected a member of the Society for the John Dayton, president of the vice-president of the senior class dent of that organization. He also use of the small gymnasium for student body, queried into the pos­ Advancement of Management. He plays number one on the William dances when other facilities are while Allan E. Shubert emerged is a member of Kappa Sigma fra­ sibility of permitting students to victorious as the new senior repre­ and Mary golf team. not available, and also discussion ternity, and majors in business ad­ of plans for the May Day dance to fish in Matoaka Lake. He felt that sentative to the assembly. In the The election, which was con­ a certain injustice existed in al­ ministration . be given in the spring. Honor Council duels William S. ducted to fill vacancies left as a lowing this to be a "sport" solely Lee, Jr., secured the position of A Spanish major, Lee entered relished by the faculty. "The lake Senior representative and Douglas William and Mary in his junior result of February graduations, at­ is overpopulated with fish and J. Weiland won that of junior rep­ year, transferring from St. Helena tracted underclassmen as well as Graduates there are plenty for all because I resentative. Extension of William & Mary in juniors and seniors. The Honor doubt if there will be too many Norfolk. He is a member of the Students who expect to be Council election was voted upon by candidates for a degree in June students desiring to fish in the From Capital Flat Hat Staff and the founder and the entire male student body while or August of 1950 and who have lake," stated Dayton. Dulaney hails from the nation's present co-chairman of the Tide­ the senior class decided the vice- not registered, have been re­ Further Comments capital. In addition to his new water Student Alumni Association. duty as vice-president of the senior presidential and assembly con­ quested to do so at. the regis­ Further comments were added This Kappa Sigma claims Norfolk trar's office. to this discussion by Hugh Haynie, class he is active in all intramural as his home." troversies. vice-president of the student body, who thought that a number of canoes stored in the basement of Crew Creates Sets Phi Beta Kappa Hall should also be put into service on the lake for For 'No More Peace' recreational purposes. By Lin Crandell A motion was made and carried by Dr. Katharine Jeffers, dean of "Who hid the hammer?" "Has See GENERAL CO-OP, Page 12 anyone found a gas mask yet?" Amid these cries the backstage crew of No More Peace, current William and Mary Theatre Group Students Achieve production, is transforming the stage of Phi Beta Kappa Hall. Dean's List Grades No More Peace, to be presented By Retha Friedman on March 8 and 9, will necessi­ Two hundred and seventy-eight tate the use of three sets, the students made the Dean's list for heights of Mount Olympus, where­ the1 Fall semester. The women had in reside Napolean, St. Francis of it over the men with a Dean's list Assissi, and a switchboard opera­ average of 18 to 12.22 per cent. tor, three main characters of the The 21 students who made all play; the small town of Dunkel- A's were: Elizabeth R. Ackerman, stein, lying between France and Lois Emily Ketterson, Evelyn Ellis Spain; and the gloomy interior of Moore, Mary Jeanne Payne and a prison cell. As it is now plan­ Martha Elaine Williams. Also ned, Olympus will be constructed Richard Gordon Bennett, Joseph on a seven foot platform overlook­ Gallaway, Peter F. Capibianco, ing the stage; the change of scen­ John Thomas Cox, Samson A. Cox, ery will be performed by a mere Alan L. Fitzgerald, William A. switch of the lights. Lehrburger, Donald Robert Mapel, The sound effects for the play, Fenton Lee Martin, Walter Ray- having been recorded previously, -nond Jr., Robert Earl Roeder, will be played back over a loud­ 'erbert Rothfeder, Robert Ses- speaker system situated at the rear >as, Dale E. Sumption, William of the auditorium, thus enabling Pictured above are the members of the cast of the forthcoming William and Mary Theatre pro­ See DEAN'S LIST, Page 11 See CREW CREATES, Page 12 duction, NO MORE PEACE. (Kepner photo) Page Two THE FLAT HAT Tuesday, February 21, 1950 Honor In Jeopardy InM emoriam William Aiid Mary The Honor System, a most cherished and I time-hallowed priority of the College of William and Mary, is being abused and flaunted by too By Howard W. Wiseman, Go Round many of its supposed supporters. Each student Author of The Seven Wise Men who enrolls in this institution is required to sign By Glenn Garrison and Bruce Croivell Special to the Flat Hat a pledge stating that he understands and will up­ Motoring through the country-side one after­ Last Thursday the College of funds,; and for the next four years hold the principles for which the Honor System noon last week in a Richmond Greyhound (we had stands. Yet breaches of the code occur every week William and Mary lost one of its he worked as a one-room school­ most prominent alumni of recent just gotten wind of a new Bean-Easy up there), —usually whenever a test or pop quiz is given. teacher near his home at Sassa­ years, the Honorable Schuyler we passed through the little town of Toano, and Students use both crib sheets and even open books— fras in Gloucester County. Otis Bland. Since 1918, he had were struck by its festive appearance. Confederate and get away with it. represented Virginia's First Con­ After building up his resources, flags snapped colorfully in the breeze and our ears Since the withdrawal of reporting a person gressional District in the House of Bland returned to William and caught a few bars of Dixie before we whisked from the list of honor offenses, wholesale cheating Representatives and was Chair­ Mary in the fall of 1894.