Spectrum, 1955-01-14

              the u of b spectrum panhellenic teas announced see page 6 winter carnival coming february 1-6 official student publication of the university of buffalo volume 5 mmp buffalo n y fbi jan 14 19.55 number 13 students applaud new chancellor spectrum poll reveals intense student interest in chancellor's plans ior future expansion three day celebration highlighted by inaugural ceremony jun 8 the students of the university of buffalo last week witnessed the initiation of their university into a select society to which it had pledged for over 100 years the society of great universities for three days the educators of the world paid their respects to the guiding hand of the destiny of the university of buffalo chancellor clifford c furnas on thursday january 6 the honorable harold e talbott secretary of the air force addressed the convocation at a dinner held in the ballroom of the hotel statler some 250 official delegates of other universities including the presidents of colleges throughout the world were present friday january 7 nine symposia wore held embracing the fields of business administration dentistry education engineering law medicine nursing phar macy and social work that afternoon general meetings were held concerning the natural sciences social sciences and humanities in his inaugural address given saturday january 8 at kleinhans music hall chancellor furnas stated that by 1970 the university of buffalo will have to cre ate facilities for about 20,000 students in contrast to its present enrollment of 10 000 buffalo newspapers blared the details of the convocation and inauguration for three days however they failed t contact some very important persons the stu dents of the university of buffalo what do they think about the magnanimous plans for the future of their university a spectrum poll reveals that the students are somewhat awed by the magnitude of the uni ity planning they feel that exparisioin is imminent most feel that even the facilities in use today are not adequate for the present student populatiton there is a feeling that perhaps the humanities will suffer while the more technical studies will be given greater emphasis this is always the case when a man of science heads a university yet all indications seem to point to the progressive ex pansion of the humanities and arts the greater size of the university should increase rather than decrease the school spirit slowly we are growing out of the trolley car college class and with this comes a rise in spirit the students had no way in which to express their congratulations to chancel lor furnas during his inauguration we would like to take this opportunity to do so we are solidly behind the man who is behind us congratulations sororities and fraternities at state teachers are localized dr h m rice president of the state university of new york col lege for teachers at buffalo re cently held a closed meeting with sorority and fraternity presidents dr eice stated denationaliza tion even at its present stage could have been avoided had cer tain national sorority presidents cooperated more fully with the of ficials of the state university when the question first came up in explaining the present status dr rice charged that some of the national officers had practically told the state to mind its own bus iness and either avoided or ig nored notifications from the office of dr wm s carlson dr carlson is president of the state university of new york with headquarters in the state capitol at albany recently dr rice received a let ter from clifford h searles a for mer state supreme court judge now representing sigma tau gamma in its legal fight against the state university the letter asked that dr rice reconsider action on tha status of campus fraternal groups in answering the letter dr rice noted that the case has been un successfully appealed to a three judge court and held little hope that the case would be considered by the supreme court after reviewing the procedure from its early beginnings and ver ifying the board of trustees right to localize fraternal groups dr rice presented a set of rules which he declared should be put into ef fect immediately pledging is to be carried on as in former years the only exception being that new mem bers will not be admitted to the national organizations general alumni assn awards 13 citations at 3rd annual luncheon the general alumni association of the university of buffalo awarded thirteen citations at its third annual luncheon friday jan uary 7 in clark memorial gymna sium mr roy e larsen presi dent of time inc and chairman of the national citizens commis sion for the public schools was the main speaker the thirteen citations presented by dr clifford c furnas chan cellor of the university and mr seymour h knox chairman of the university council were given to the following individuals for serv ice and leadership in their respec tive fields dr edgar c beck medical education dr edmond j farris medical research dr louis finger alumni affairs james s hill civic affairs dr albert p sy education j eugene mcmahon civic affairs dr ber nard g wakefield dental educa tion dr lillian a wilcox edu cation philip schweickhard edu cation edward h kavinoky civic affairs bertram d tallamy en gineering edgar f wendt civic affairs and henry w wendt civic affairs chairman of the luncheon was burt g weber ll.b 19 presi dent of the general alumni board mearl d pritchard ph.g 21 served as toastmaster the invo cation was given by rev cyril i trevett b.a 38 director of cath olic institutional procurement services and the benediction was given by rev earle w gates b.a 36 minister first church of evans sitzmarkers winter carnival fer 1-6 this year the sitzmarkers are having their winter carnival run for a six day period february 1-6 the schedule of events is as follows : tuesday — begin snow sculptur ing wednesday — continue work thursday — finish snow sculptur ing friday — 5 p.m judging of snow sculpturing at thruway plaza saturday — 9:30 a.m novelty ski events 12:00 noon bus transportation to chestnut ridge park for winter sports party 9-1 p.m snow ball — awarding of prizes by the chancellor and the crowning of the king and queen one of the main events of the carnival is the snow sculpturing contest the building of structures is to be initiated on tuesday and can be worked on at any time all the campus organizations have been asked to participate and twenty groups have already sub mitted an entry the theme is the re-creation of sun valley the structure to be buih by a particu lar organization will be chosen by a representative of same on a competitive basis the sculpturing will be held on the parking lot of the thruway plaza the sun val ley city will be of rectangular lay-out centered around a huge symbolic buffalo both ice and snow may be used also any color ing if desired several out-of-town universities st lawrence uni versity of toronto have been in vited to send representatives espe cially for the contest trophies are to be awarded for the outstanding organization visiting and one for the over-all championship on saturday morning the nov elty ski events such as bongo board contest three-legged race obstacle cross country and hare and hound race will take place these contests are open to all par ticipants regardless of skiing ability on saturday night the snow ball will be held the highlight of the evening will be the crown ing of the king and queen they will be picked from the names sub mitted by fraternities sororities and independent groups the rules of this contest are a fraternity may enter one candidate for queen a sorority may submit one candi date for king anyone else wish ing to enter the contest may sub mit on application with twenty-five signatures a king candidate must have female signatures the appli cations must be in by february 2 they should be turned in at the candy counter of norton union the candidates must participate in at least one novice skiing event the morning of february 5 bob scher and bill rose co chairman of the carnival hope that the entire student body will par ticipate in the events of the car nival and make it the biggest event of the winter season the other members of the committee are jan bixby and duncan macnaugh ton — snow-sculpturing diane gaylord — king and queen con test novelty-novice events — fred fisher and ed arabas dance — helen jones and judy walker in charge of publicity secretary of the air force talbot inspects afrotc facilities during inaugural weekend the week of january 3rd will long be remembered since one of the most important events in the history of the university of buffalo afrotc took place on january 6th and 7th this event was the visitation to the university of buffalo of the honorable harold e talbot secretary of the air force major general m k deichelmann commandant of the af reserve officers training corps brigadier general william c hipps administrative assistant to the secretary of the air force and lt colonel h l hogan 111 aide to the secretary of the air force on thursdaym january theh secretary the force andh were theh a man honor under the i john mccandless.b lli-h nine-b teen ruffles < i fl duringh the early the secretary the usafb the newly painted m cadet wing 1530 ■ hours the secretary h spoke to cadets andß many eve-h he spoke the inaup;\ira-h honor doc h tor chancellor r the general m k deichelmann ar rived at the university of buffalo soon after the secretary of the air force and his aides he witnessed the secretary's speech and made a limited inspection of the university of buffalo afrotc facilities on friday january 7th general dei chelmann visited the usaf de tachment and inspected cadet wing headquarters he also made an informal talk to the wing staff and cadet officer corps the visit of these dignitaries will certainly be a milestone in the his tory of the university of buffalo afrotc corps the university of buffalo afrotc can feel very proud since it is one of the first and few colleges and universities to be visited by these gentlemen continued on page 10