Argus, 1949-03-28

              argus vol ii buffalo new york march 2i 1 1949 no 16 athletic scholarship petition signed by over 2200 students drive to continue all week mr julian rivo chairman of the student committee which is circulating petitions for a program of athletic scholarships announced friday that over 2200 signatures have been obtained the committee said that only about one-half of the students have been exposed to the petition and that the deadline will be ex tended to this friday to aid com plete coverage the group circu lating the petitions were supple mented by a large number of vol unteers last thursday and it is estimated that most of the class rooms on campus will be covered by this wednesday as a result of this increased help demonstrating surprising enthu siasm the senior law school class backed the petition to the hilt when 66 out of a class of 77 affixed their names when one considers that most of the students attending this graduate school hold degrees from canisius college and niagara university this is quite a remarkable achievement the committee stressed the fact that the females on campus must get behind this petition as much as the men it has been noticed they said that many girls are re luctant to sign petitions of any sort even though they are m favor of the ideas expressed m them the people m possession of the petition lists have been instructed to turn them m to the bee or argus mailboxes m norton as soon as the individual lists have been filled m order that the com mittee be accurately posted on , their progress all lists must be turned m by thursday morning at the latest ' the committee said so that it will ' be possible to map a last minute drive to cover untouched segments of the student body wanted fresh air in classes there are several undergraduate courses offered on this campus which if dropped from the cur riculum would result m a prodi gious saving of time — a saving of the time of both students and in structors this does not imply that the material taught m these courses is valueless for often the very opposite is true the objec tion rather lies m the fruitless devotion of class time to a re hash of simple factual material which is usually more carefully thoroughly and lucidly stated m the textbook in this case we have a class situation m which those students who have read the assignment fidget with impatience and those students who have not read the assignment take careful notes and neglect to read the chapter m the future most probably every senior on campus has at one time or an hillel to hold model seder the jewish students at the university of buffalo and at state teachers college will celebrate the holiday of passover by way of a model beder on wednesday evening april 6 at 8:00 p.m m the norton west room passover is the jewish holiday which commemorates the libera tion of the jewish people from egyptian bondage and the begin ning of their 40 year journey through the desert to the land of irael in keeping with the tradi tional celebration the theme of the student seder will be human freedom the hagadah traditional pass over liturgy will be used as the basis for the evening's celebra tion harvey schiller chairman of the hillel religious committee announced that milton alter and julius brodsky will read the he brew and the english portions of the seder service mr jacob lenzner will chant the traditional passover melodies and will lead the community singing rabbi hofmann will be on hand to ex plain and to interpret the various parts of the seder a token meal consisting of matzoh hard-boiled eggs cold cuts and wine will be served by a student committee composed of donald gilden irwin chertoff nancy freedman hallie morrison and representatives from state teachers college because of a limitation of space food will be served on a first come first served basis argus newshound devours bee a boxer puppy wandered into a psych class recently he amiably surveyed the class which was avidly reading the bee this dis criminating pup then proceeded to grab copies of the bee place his paws upon them and render the pulp to a pulp rating system ready to pop within the next few weeks an instructor rating system will be inaugurated on the ub cam pus this rating will aid students m selecting their instructors and inform instructors as to the effec tiveness of their teaching methods each of the eleven questions will be rated separately so that students and instructors will be able to consider each teaching characteristic singly numerical values will be assigned to the opinions expressed in the ques tionnaires to aid m the interpret ing and publishing of the results on registration day you will no longer have to grope around m the dark wondering if you are selecting instructors you will like you will know m advance about your future instructors and will be able to act accordingly in a rating recently completed at the university of michigan slightly more than one percent of the instructors were flunked by the students the results com pared so favorably with what de partment heads think of their in structors that a similar survey will be conducted annually for the next five years as a partial basis for granting faculty pay in creases and promotions according to lloyd s woodburne assistant dean of the college student cooperation and a large working staff are needed to in sure the success of the system all students who are interested m the system which will benefit all students and who would like to work on it are urged to leave their names m the argus mail box at the nu candy counter please leave your name today attention all a & s students preliminary programs for the fall should be filed between april 4 and may 7 at the univer sity registrar's office by those who also expect to attend the summer session please file pro grams as follows seniors and juniors — april 4 may 7 sophomores — april 11-may 7 freshmen april 20-may 7 between april 25 and may 7 all students who do not expect to attend the summer session should file preliminary programs for the fall forms and general instructions may be obtained at the univer sity registrar's office all fraternity-sorority candidates win frat machine sweeps election c a s g candidates learn that fine platform and open discussion of issue do not win elections 1774 out of 5616 enrolled students or 31.6 turned out to cast their ballots at the student board a managers election which was held last wednesday the losers in this election cou only scratch their heads i stunned surprise and admire th slick efficiency of the winnin one school the legality of th voting procedure was not to b questioned there are no ethic in any political election in th case of the school of education a murmer of protest was voice by the c.a.s.g when the ballo boxes were moved from thei normal position and carrie ihrough several of the classrooms their suspicions may not hav been justified but the c.a.s.g felt that the results revealed a abnormal balance of votes th sducation school ballots countcc a total of 1023 votes for the eigh fraternity candidates and a tota of only 90 votes for the other ten candidates the wheels of the fraternity machinery creaked into motion a approximately the same time tha the c.a.s.g committee for ac ive student government was organized five fraternities anc three sororities plus an assort one candidate and the basis was laid in ths ay.fdr a solid block vote mr flierl the master stra tegist held these candidates in the background lest the damag ing accusation of clique be leveled against them none o these candidates submitted any thing other than a vague plat form and many did not feel the necessity of doing even this mr whelan who does not represent any fraternity was the only as pirant whom the fraternities ulti ately backed who published a pecific program as a result the ass of the student body was un ( er the impression that these can idates were independents who presented a fair cross section of mpus students on election day the lightning ruck the five fraternities and the three sororities plus an assort ment of . weaker organizations which were induced to swing sup port behind them turned out en masse at the balloting places in addition the pledges of the fra ternitieb were under orders to line up undecided voters and this they went about doing with great enthusiasm and imagination also judging by the snide insinuations and more than insinuations which several observers reported to be wafting about in the warm spring breeze at any rate these political tac tics worked to perfection the re mits were not so one sided as many people would like the stu jent body to think for the a.s.g candidates were helped iomewhat by the relatively large future teachers must apply now all students interested m final preparation for teaching and other school services through the professional unit m education should file an application for ad mission to examinations for en trance into the professional unit students are admitted to the professional unit m education only when they are of senior or graduate standing and on the basis of results of examinations interviews departmental recom mendations academic standing and health those eligible for en trance into the professional unit m the fall of 1949 should make application now those not apply ing at this time may not have the opportunity to enter the unit m the fall of 1949 students will be notified of the date of the examinations after the applications have been filed applications may be secured m the office of the school of edu cation hayes 285 they are to be filed m that office on or before c april 4th ] epplin to visit campus again captain a r epplin procure ment officer for the marine corps platoon leaders class will make his second visit to the university of buffalo to follow up the contacts already made there with interested male students captain epplin's second visit will be made on the 31st of march 1949 and headquarters for this procurement drive will be at the annex m norton union hours of visit 9:oo a.m until 4:30 p.m in addition the captain this time brings word to female un dergraduates of the university they now have the opportunity for commissions m the marine corps through the women's offi cer training class female under graduates who meet the mental and physical requirements and will obtain a baccalaureate degree are eligible med lectures to be given two important lectures will be given by the medical school m the near future on april 3 the topic will be what you should know about psychosomatic medi cine by dr gilbert beck and the second one on april 10 will be modern trends in obstetrics for women only by dr edward g winkler both of these lectures will be held m the medical school at 24 high street at 3:30 p.m and the public is invited to attend on behalf of the committee for active student govern ment and myself i would like to sincerely congratulate the successful candidates in last wednesday's election those who attended the polls made their choice clear and we na turally accept their decision we hope that the new board does not interpret their vic tory as a rejection of the plat form advocated and published by our committee the few new board members who pub licly stated their views seemed to be in sympathy with our program our committee will continue to exist because of the hun dreds of students who indi cated their approval we earnestly volunteer our support and services to the newly elected board of man agers in effecting the much needed reforms which we all seemingly seek henry rose see page 3 for election tabulation continued on pare 4 column 1 continued on page 3 column 5 buy an nsa card vote in the referargum