Spectrum, 1952-03-14

              spectrum official student publication of the university of buffalo volume 2 w^9 buffalo n y friday march 14 1952 number 18 whopping vote puts in new board last saturday night the mary<i seaton room was filled to near capacity by a crowd of university students attending the i f c sweetheart dance during the course of the evening six candi dates for the sweetheart crown were presented to the audience they were pat morton of theta chi jo weaver of sigma kappa joan kohl of chi omega elaine umanski of phi sigma sigma gerry silver of sigma delta tau dorothy maratta of alpha gamma and doris fish of beta gamma phi during a short pause in which members of the inter fraternity council cast ballots for the sweet heart of their choice announce ments of i f c awards were made s,beta sigma rho fraternity re ceived the scholastic improvement • cup their average rose from 1.9 , to 2.2 — nice going boys keys i were awarded to dick burke ■ marshal levine vince muffoleto i chuck meatyard bill smith gene . rumbarger paul clark izzy hoff i man jim nesper roger gratwick ; faculty advisor to the council also ! received a key the results of the balloting were then handed to armond saiia mas 1 ter of ceremonies who crowned • joan kohl sweetheart and awarded i her the sweetheart cup joan's ' attendants were pat morton and • gerry silver the queen and her ■ attendants received bouquets of red . roses a record number of u b students flocked to the booths on wed nesday march 12 to vote for their representatives to the board of managers of norton union the members of this board will determine for a great part the policies of the student body concerning norton union activities for the next year the importance of the effect which this board has on the student body had finally been brought to the realization of many 3tudents as a result of vigorous campaigning for the entire week previous to the election and a tremendous spread ln last week's issue of the spectrum the following candidates all of whom polled the greater parts of the record vote were elected to the hoard of managers eight persons were chosen as representatives of their respective schools they are arts & sciences joseph mattina business admin arthur goodreds engineering ronald alney education barbara klein pharmacy paul d fickenscher medical school eugene hyzyt dental school robert swart law school norman kuehnel the eight candidates who were elected as representatlves-at-large in order of the number of votes which they received are richard burke paul rizzo ben celniker james buckley sheila hynes lorraine cebulski james walsh and loretta borowiak these results are unofficial pending retabulation of the vote a special note should be made here concerning the people who were called upon to count the votes considering the record vote the tabulation was done very rapid ly and a word of thanks should be sent their way the big day gets its theme all the world's a stage the moving up day theme for 1952 was submitted by stewart bren ner 172 rounds ave buffalo and selected after much debate and discussion at last tuesday's mov ing up day executive committee meeting by the committee mem bers a list of seventy-one themes submitted by the student body was presented to the committee — the choice was based upon originality and the consideration of the great est number of variations possible moving up day which will fall this year on may 10 is beginning to take shape under the leadership of the recently appointed mud committee headed by burt lapp with loretta borowiak as secre tary the committee has appealed to the student body for help of every size shape and manner ap plications for aid may be dropped in the mud mailbox at the candy counter — include name address telephone number and job prefer ences the program for moving up day will involve the traditional parade originating from the foot of main street and terminating at the uni versity campus the judging of the floats the presentation of awards a newly instituted afternoon car nival given under the auspices of hhe arts and sciences student council and finally the last and on past occasions the most suc cessful norton union event of the year the moving up day dance moving up day committees are numerous and varied workers are needed on all of the following awards responsible for the presentation of awards to winning floats bands for the assembling of parade music publicity for the general publicizing of the affair convocation committee to acquire programs seat guests etc for the afternoon convocation also need ed is an m.c for convocation pro ceedings ' parade committee arrangement for entire mud parade queen's luncheon arrangement for lunch eon after parade election com mittee to be in charge of setting up qualifications for the queen and her actual campaign and election carnival committee to arrange for all afternoon activities and finally the dance committee which will arrange the entire mud dance all those interested in the pa rade committee are urged to at tend the parade committee meet ing on tuesday at 3:30 work on all other committees may be ap plied for at the candy counter stunt night brings hilarity to norton shows simple and slipshod scin tillating and stupendous sophisti cated and smooth silly and stupid sensual and sexy sly and stealthy or stupid and sad they all go on friday march 21 at norton union's annual stunt night ann williamson's timing will limit the pleasure of every act to a brief but exact 5 minutes a ne cessary provision since upwards of 20 acts will be put on any or ganization or group of students may enter the competition by sub mitting an application to applica tions co-ordinator betsy sterne in r-252 of norton union applica tions will be received up until 2:00 p.m march 14th , as mentioned stunt night is a competition with the various acts trying for the 15 first prize 10 second prize and 5 third prize miss carol seitz has obtained the professional services of popular radio personalities who will act as judges for the competitions as an innovation a special award will be conferred on the winning artists upper classmen have partici pated in stunt night's most infa mous orgy that of trying to find a seat on which to sit a place on which to stand or a place from which to hang really it's not usually too crowded especially at about 3 in the morning after the janitors using a fire hose have washed out the upper layers of people a few freshmen under ticket chairman pat ahem hav ing heard of the difficulty have moved the mixer committee to adopt a new policy for stunt night that of asking for a purchase do nation of 25 cents beforehand as an admission requirement pro ceeds from this humane endeavor go to the campus barrel from which funds are given to various charities like the red cross and the march of dimes back stage manager is joe pe perone and don lesser will keep confusion at a maximum in the dressing rooms that is unless the monitors under lorraine cebulski put a damper on pre-show costum ing rites defects in scenes or lighting will be covered by bob stark's aesthetic lighting effects and june bassett will see that faux paux are covered by bewildering yet stupendous publicity bulletin board what's new in n.u 7 for one thing the surprise that will be served with the coke at the cof fee hour this p.m from 3 to 5 in the west room mr grater the manager of the cafeteria has prom ised something never before served at a coffee hour the new mem bers of cap and gown will do the honors at the urns don't be left out in the cold come up today for a hot cup of coffee served by ellen trankle and her committee all students of at least junior standing interested in final prep aration for teaching and other school services through the pro fessional study of education in 1952-53 should file an application for admission to examinations for advisement now application may be secured in the office of the school of educa tion hayes 385 and should be filed there on or before march 24th the examinations will be held in norton union auditorium on thursday march 27th beginning at 8:45 and lasting all day until 5:30 p.m they will not be given again this semester eapbak the above pictures show only part of the gigantic crowd that filed into the mary seaton room for the inter-fraternity council's sweetheart dance the event ivas highlighted by the presentation of various awards and the croicning of the ifc sweetheart patronize our advertisers they support your paper support the red cross