Spectrum, 1951-01-12

              the spectrum official student publication of the university of buffalo volume 1 iffpi 48 buffalo n y friday january 12 1951 athletic council election put off until next week the election of the three student members of the athletic council postponed from january 8 will take place next tuesday january 16 in the lobby of norton union from 9:30 until 4:00 the council which was formed last year to de termine and suggest athletic policy serves to coordinate ' student atti tudes with the faculty committee on athletics in addition to the three student members who are to be elected next week the council includes one representative from each of the major sports and one from minor sports and alumni members the candidates for membership on the council each of whom was required to hand in a petition con taining 250 student names are carl markey carl rudio eric t ßeeber paul gonson harold pliss lowell grosse robert shintzius and leon ard swagler greeks cooperate in planning for fraternity week . it is with a sense of pride that l the inter fraternity council of the university of buffalo presents for 1 the first time in its history a fra « ternity week there will be an interfraternity table at registration at which in terested freshmen and other under graduates can obtain information concerning fraternities at this ' time the inter-fraternity handbook will be distributed on monday february 12 from > 9 until 4:30 norton auditorium will be the scene of informal talks by members of the various frater nities who will speak on the dif ferent phases of fraternity life . that evening the annual inter ; fraternity sing will take place in * the auditorium i on tuesday the speeches of the day before will be continued in the east and west rooms for the bene , fit of those who could not hear 1 them on monday that evening ■ alumni of several of the fraterni 1 ties will speak on the advantages of fraternity membership after ' graduation j the interfraternity basketball playoffs will be held in the gym on |' wednesday evening the norton union open house is planned for friday evening ' while the interfraternity council's i annual freshman mixer will take place on saturday night at the i'banat auditorium latest information on draft to be revealed at meeting all classes will be suspended next tuesday jan 16 from 11:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m during which time a meeting of all male students will be held in clark memorial gymnasium this meeting under the auspices of the committee on information concerning selective service formed by the deans coun cil will feature an address by chan cellor mcconnell his subject will be the selective service and the problems of enlistment vs the draft dr mcconnell who will bring up-to-the-minute information re garding selective service from a meeting ot the american council on education recently attended will be assisted by dean drake dean puffer dean sommers and dean jones in explaining to men students just how they as students stand in relation to the draft and in clarifying the advisability of waiting out the draft in preference to enlisting many students are wondering whether or not they should enlist to avoid the draft and just what their chances are in the various services what hopes there are for their remaining in school after june 1951 and exactly what the difference is between a postpon ment of induction and a defer ment much light will be thrown on all these questions at the meet lug tuesday academic pageantry marks inauguration of dr mcconnell chancellor mcconnell receives seal and charter of the university chancellor thomas raymond mcconnell right receives the seal and charter of the university of buffalo official symbols of the chancellorship from seymour h knox chairman of the council of the uni versity during last saturday's inauguration ceremonies modern liberal principles pledged by new chancellor in a ceremony impressive with academic splendor dr t raymond mcconnell was inaugurated eighth chancellor of the university of buffalo at kleinhans music hall last saturday the distinguished educator proved in his address that he has both insight into the prob lems of modern education and an understanding and appreciation of the traditions of this university the new chancellor described the university as dedicated to demo cratic ideals and experienced in democratic processes imaginative and open to new ideas wary of in stitutional habit and resourceful within limited means dr mcconnell paid tribute to dr capen former chancellor in the following words dr capen was more than a competent administra tor he was an educational leader in the greatest sense of the word who with unvarying integrity and courage made clear the necessity and defended the practice of educa tional and intellectual freedom in accepting the charter and the great seal of the university dr mcconnell expounded his philoso phy of education which will guide his policy as chancellor to pre pare it students to live as free men is the university's highest calling he must learn to be in tellectually independent and re sourceful adaptable and creative and n dr capen's words the aim ff college education is the cul tivation of certain abilities and at titudes of mind not the acquisi tion of a particular body of infor mation . . . the ability to use knowledge to find it when needed to weave it into new combinations to judge to discriminate to cre ate these sentences indicate the chancelor's view that the function of the university is to educate and not to train a warning against the tendency of the modern university toward over-specialization is found in much of his speech i have become con vinced that we have over-empha sized specific training to the detri ment of an intellectual grasp of the fundamental disciplines upon which intelligent practice and the advancement of technology depend again quoting sir walter mober ly most students go through our universities without ever having been forced to exercize their minds on the issues that are really mo mentous . . . they are not incited to disentangle and examine criti cally the assumptions and emotional attitudes underlying the particular studies they pursue the profession for which they are preparing the ethical judgments they are accus tomed to make and the political or religious convictions they hold fundamentally they are unedu cated in discussing the problem of freedom of choice in the univer sity dr mcconnell commented how wisely this freedom of choice has been used is open to question ... it has led to superior achieve ment in students major fields but their knowledge of other subjects is much less satisfactory it has been asserted that the practice of intellectual freedom in the uni versity necessarily confers on the student the right to elect courses free'y . . . but this conclusion does not seem to me to follow . . . the university must expect from its students much more than pro number 5 leading educators at ceremonies a civic dinner in honor of dr t raymond mcconnell was held at the hotel statler en friday eve ning january 5 the event opened the inaugural ceremonies which ob saturday saw dr mcconnell offi cially installed chancellor of the university of buffalo delegates to the ceremonies citi zens of the community and faculty and students of the university at tended the two main addresser were delivered by dr james lewie morrill president of the university of minnesota and dr oliver c carmichael chairman of the board of trustees of the state uni versity of new york in response to these addresses dr mcconnell paid tribute to tbe men who had aided him in his ca reer as an educator and to the twt speakers he also discussed vari ous aspects of the plans for the new medical-dental building in his address dr morrill praised the famous educator for resourcefulness in pioneering the development of general education — the redirection and revitalizatioa of the liberal arts to meet the needs of contemporary life in commenting on the great lose suffered by minnesota with the de parture of dr mcconnell dr mor rill alluding to the great mesabi open-pit iron mine said i remem ber that morning when our deari mcconnell told me he had made th decision to come to buffalo that great chasm came into my mind — as if moved into the middle of our campus a great void in our uni versity enterprise but hf commented later the loss of one can be another's gain swagler replaces hawkins on board at the meeting of the hoard of managers last tuesday jan 9 leonard swagler was elected the board member from the school of business administration replacing the vacancy left when robert hawkins former member from rus ad who as a member of the naval reserve was recalled to active duty vacancies created between reg ular elections are to be filled as stated in the board of managers constitution in an election by the remaining board members a cordingly tuesday at the first meeting since mr hawkins de parture the floor was opened for nomination and only one mr swagler was made he was then elected by a unanimous vote mr swagler who had lost to mr hawkins by a very narrow margin ln the regular eleotion of the board of managers last april is presently chairman of the n.u finance committee continued on page 3 continued on page 8