Spectrum, 1950-11-17

              the university of buffalo volume 1 the official student publication of buffalo n y friday november 17 1950 nj^^^m 48 number 1 an item of interest the board of managers met last wednesday night to choose a name for this newspaper from among those deposited in the ballot box in norton union that there was no agreement between the board members present on any of the suggested names was inconsequential for the board did not have a quor um with which to conduct business because we were ready to go to press at the time of the board meeting needing only the name chosen by the board to complete our 1 make-up we must publish this edition titled as you see it realizing the imperativeness of determining a name without delay the board will meet again tuesday november 21 at 4:00 p.m in the card room of norton at that time be a quorum present a name for this paper will be chosen from those suggested by the student body *> all students are urged to offer their suggestion for a name by writing it on a slip of paper and placing it in the ballot box beside the candy counter in norton lobby ub building plans progressing hopes and needs cited by chancellor mcconnell crofts treasurer of the univer sity who was unable to be present were read by miss emily h web ster ba 23 in these mr crofts reviewed the needs of the universi ty praised previous alumni gifts and stressed his confidence in fu ture alumni support vymv its in addition to th ar chitect's sketch of the new medical dental building included past and present views of the campus a chart of alumni gifts of past year an artist's sketch of the new bronze plaque to be erected in hayes hall lobby to signify those divisions which have the highest percentage of donors a map of the campus depicting location of the proposed new buildings and maps showing geographically the distribution of the university's more than 10,000 alumni the highlight of chancellor t raymond mcconnell's speech at the 4th annual class agent reception held wednes day evening october 25th at the buffalo athletic club was , his pointing at the needs of the university and the importance of the alumni loyalty fund the alumni leaders to whom dr mcconnell's remarks were directed^istene^attentively the mccon-b was the flj new point 1 to the pro i new mcconnell h a based i the plans for fl the medical-dental upon i the to in i other words no architect's flj the represents ar 1 tual the university fl does have the funds i necessary to the building i a work flj for procure i there a that i be secured and h the medical-dental building i in the too dis h photographs i the room a flj the university's i present needs dr i as re flj the of i for men a i laboratory a replacement i an addition i to norton mcconnell flj with ma i loyalty i the area we serve bj structures ran become i flj new who was in i by md i the loyal m emphasized i participa i fund __\ he 1 every i division was in every dl flj vision the the fund i flflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflj president flj bs i the investment b alumnus has the bj independent fl he we are to i the govern i eventually it flflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflj assumes for edu flflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflflj home every i alumnus of bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbj to university fl class are a no i the very the h depends upon the man i the to their fl classmates fllbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbl the remarks of george d h pre-aaeds form association suggested by ed kopf last friday nearly 300 pr»-med students were asked to a ' meeting called by ed kopf present of the senior class of arts and science , in order to form an organization of all pre-med students in an excellent 20 minute speech mr kopf outlined the desirability of such an organization he there are many^b in the sopho 1 more year laboring under the fl is easy to ac 1 no i many students were shoe ked i to learn from roger c fl wick assistant dean students i students who applied fl for recommendations 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asked to con tribute to the blood bank last year's response was ex tremely heartening — we are sure that this year's will be even bet ter in this drive we tho students can play & major role helping to replenish the community's blood banks that university of buffalo stu dents already hav benefited from last year's drive receiving blood for transfusions without charge in their times of need is widely known in anticipation of these personal tragedies which may bring any one of us into very desperate need of blood we ask you to subscribe to this campaign — donate a pint of your blood when on november 27 the red cross mobile unit vis its our campus — the editors lars potter guest artist to star in our town how many of you have ev_er driven through a small town in the country how many have noticed the tall church steeple the white houses and wondered what goes on behind the green shutters well thornton wilder saw and wondered then he wrote it down in a play he did it so well that he won a pulitzer prize grover's corners new hamp shire just a small typical new england town in the year 1901 my town your town no our town everybody's town a town that is duplicated thousands of times throughout the united states and countries all over the world it is the story of people a warm sympathetic captivating story of the webb's the gibbs the soames's and all the individuals with whom they come in contact it shows the children growing up marrying and some dying the cares joys griefs and problems of these people are written in such a way that you the audience becomes a part of the town itself and can see and under stand these people blue masquers announce the pro duction dates of december 1 2 8 9 the play is being directed by mr leo jones starring in the lead role is a guest artist well known to buffalo theatregoers mr lars potter mr potter has starred in numerous pro ductions at the studio theatre and brings to us the experience of many years on the stage he starred in the studio theatre pro duction of our town in 1940 his supporting cast include truman schelling grace reiter franklin pack richard babbage venecia sakowski and dorothy radzik dude dancers will wear plaid shirts dungarees each autumn for the past few years norton union has presented its annual harvest dance accom panied by the traditional sadie hawkins day celebration conscious of the possible monotony of such a repeated affair the norton dance committee derided this year to deviate slightly from the past tradi tion thus we have the dude dance the highlight of this week's campus activity co-chairmen of the dance don holzman and xer knepflar an nounce that i.ho o'.eco rations will be quite unusual and most interesting norton union cards and very in formal dress will be the only tickets required an additional ten cents will be asked for admittance to the saloon where cider and doughnuts will be served don brown will pro vide atmosphere with piano music and several surprises will be staged during the course of the evening's entertainment dance music will be provided by paul henry and his orchestra which will include a vocalist to add to your dancing pleasure dancing will be from 9 until 1 while the cafe teria hours will be 9:30 until 11:30 dangerous dan don't allow any frills in his spitoon saloon so to be on the safe side wear dun garees and plaid shirts new argus club plans magazine an assemblage of 25 students and faculty members gathered in the west room of norton hall on november 8th to d i s c i s s the problem of maintaining free dom of expressions in american universities it was agreed that a very feasible illustration of such a pleasant ideal would be the pub lishing of a campus magazine ed ited by the now defunct argus staff the leaders of the movement felt that the best way to ai ( omplish this would be to form an artras club mr richard jackman the chair man of this gathering explained that the club would function as a norton union organization but would be independently maintained as a vehicle whose main objective is the publication of the afore mentioned magazine mr herbert roy explaining the financing of the magazine an nounced that the club formation would be along those lines usually adhered to in the construction of fi corporation the proposed cor poration would be one of non-profit status mr i.ysander kemp jr an english instructor will act on the continued on page 3 coffee hour today-3-30