Spectrum, 1952-04-25

              spectrum official student publication of the university of buffalo university to raise tuition rates volume 2 gg buffalo n y friday april 25 1952 increase to be small it was announced today by the administration that a small in crease in tuition will become effective september 1 1952 the students of all the daytime divisions except the medical and dental schools will pay 25 more a semester the evening students rates will be increased from 16 to 17.50 per semester hour the chancellor t raymond mcconnell indicated that there was no alternative but to raise the tuition despite the fact that we depend on tuition fees for a very great proportion of our operating income the university of buffalo has kept its tuition rates lower than those in most comparable institutions throughout the country even with the small increase that we must effectuate in the fall the university will be charging considerably less than most of the well-known colleges and universities in the u s costs of operation have risen so high in recent years that practi cally all schools have had to increase their tuition fees ours is a small adjustment and we believe it will not cause undue hardship among our students chancellor mcconnell outlined three purposes f.r which the new revenue will be used 1 selective faculty salary iii-b is imperative for the i university to keep its outstanding i faculty members to to i the equally able and i reduction in the prospective i in spite ad i the university i be to a deficit i in the univer i chancellor emphasiz i ed that the tuition i tate is than i other schools equally i main i tains a standing i because has a plant i relatively low and i maintenance because con i ducts few enterprises i such w museums because an i unusually proportion its i income is to faculty salar i ies funds for scholarships and i to mc i be greatly in i so no de i to i drop for the moving up day committee requests the following aids from the student body in preparation for this year's m.u.d celebration all persons interested may submit names addresses and phone num bers to the m.u.d mailbox at the candy counter workers are requested for elec tion day wednesday may 7 to aid the committee in sweetheart elec tions and also to aid in the actual m.u.d festivities on may 10 drivers and new model convert ibles are needed for the m.u.d parade the convocation committee would like the assistance of three children two girls and one boy seven to eight years of age as at tendants to the campus sweetheart automobile applications are now being accepted for entries in the individuals division of the parade there is no application fee ub development program to be launched on may 5 the university's development program instituted last december with the niagara frontier convo cation will formally launch its campaign on monday evening may 5 with a dinner at the hotel la fayette the program seeking a goal of over 3,500,000 will be concerned with twelve districts zoned from buffalo and erie county cam paigning will be in the hands of various committees selected through the work of the steering commit tee headed by owen b augs burger honorary chairman of the campaign is lawrence d bell of the bell aircraft corporation committees have been appointed to conduct the campaign on facul ty alumni parent and student lev els dean julius w pratt g thomas ganim john j keller and jack castle respectively have been appointed chairmen of the latter committees a share system has been de vised for participation of all indi viduals in the campaign a basic share is 150.00 or 5.00 per month for thirty months the shares may be bought in numbers from one to twenty or more — thus permit ting all subscriptions in propor tion to personal means u b publicity has been the main purpose of the committees to the present numerous publications on campus life and university ex pansion have been printed a film taken on campus will soon be ready for release television and radio arrangements have been made with local stations promoting the university and campus activi ties a publicity campaign has been launched with all local papers in suring coverage of campus affairs university expansion and depart mental profiles the campaign hopes to accom plish completion in three phases of the university 1 the medical dental building 2 the pro posed physics and classroom build ing and 3 the dormitory build ing group the program is striv ing to make a greater univer sity of buffalo the outcome of its detailed and widespread campaign home concert on tonight s rehearsal schedules have been completed and the glee club is ready to present their 31st annual home concert this evening in the hotel statler ball room it was evident at the concert given last monday for the students of emerson high school that the chorus under the direction of wal lace a van lier is fully prepared for their 1952 public debut the 50 members have practiced dili gently every monday for the past year and already have performed at many private gatherings spe cial emphasis has been placed on reaching the audience a difficult task when you consider that many high school students hate to sit quiet during a concert but the fact remains that audiences at many high schools such as cleve land hill and williamsville high school have enthusiastically re ceived the university's good will ambassadors mr van lier will direct works of verdi wagner tschaikowsky and schumann as well as several more popular types of numbers an outstanding favorite of this year's audiences has been mary had a little lamb a four-part choral arrangement adopting the most modern of stylistic devices making it amusing moody and in triguing included in the program are many of the soloists heard at last wednesday's variety show arleno siekierski soprano ed ward rouseh tenor and roger pfohl pianist will perform mr pfohl will play one of his own com positions june walther is the glee club's accompanist the members of the chorus are especially pleased this year to have acquired the professional services of dave cheskin's 11-piece orchestra mr cheskin and his vocalist shir ley boden will provide the music for the four hours of dancing that will follow the choral concert the latter will begin at 8:15 p.m and end at 9:45 p.m dancing in the statler ball room will begin at 10:00 p.m and last until 2:00 a.m the dance is semi-formal which means that the girls will have one last opportunity to dress up this year moving up day comes in sight may 10-big day the moving up day publicity committee under the direction of sandy silverberg has expanded this year to include a greater amount of publicity outside of campus unlike earlier celebra tions moving up day has come to concern a greater part of the city — its occurrence has become a city wide rather than campus-confined occasion at present there is a moving up day billboard at main and ferry streets articles will ap pear in both the buffalo evening news and courier-express con cerning m.u.d activities the sweetheart candidates will appear on radio stations wben wben tv wxra wkbw webr and wgr store window displays have been secured throughout the city for further publication on monday april 28 mayor jos eph mruk will sign the traditional moving up day proclamation pro claiming saturday may 10 offi cially moving up day with tfte interest and support of all u b students there is no reason why the thirtieth anniver sary of moving up day on the university campus should not be the most successful event of u b listory ???????? can you guess who he may be mystery mister mud he's here in this environment so teach each u b gal and gent who is he watch the spectrum and the posters in campus build ings for a new clue each week un til moving up day in the mean time you can buy a chance to guess for only five cents at a drawing during the moving up day car nival the lucky person whose name is drawn will display his genius by unveiling the mystery and win a valuable prize buy your chances from any omnibus member or at the booth in norton lobby mud week number 23 shirley boden continued on page 6