Spectrum, 1951-02-09

              the spectrum official student publication of the university of buffalo volume i<t^^>4b buffalo n y friday february 9 1951 number 6 band for prom announced tickets are now available the annual junior promenade of < the university of buffalo will be presented on saturday march 10 in the mary seaton room of kleinhans music hall plans have been made for this main event on everyone's social calendar complying with the many re quests to bring a name attraction to buffalo the committee has se lected claude thornhill his piano and his orchestra to provide music of an extra smooth quality for your dancing pleasure in the past few years claude thorn hill has gained the reputation of presenting a top-notch prom or chestra — and reports from other universities have substantiated this a special vocal group featured by thornhill the snowflakes get their name from their leader's well-known theme song snow fall the committee responsible for the prom consists of the following persons don holzman general chairman jerome geiger business manager eileen cocker secretary dolores jarecke tickets donald jeacock publicity david lund patrons edward maloney arrange ments philip mudd prom queen samuel piazza program burton stulberg printing and dr r h pegrum faculty advisor a ticket booth will be erected in the norton union lobby february 19 a more detailed outline of the prom will soon be forthcoming — but for the present keep the date in mind — saturday march 10 — and start thinking about your arrangements miniature floats and masquerade at n.u mardi gras buffalo will travel south next friday night feb 16 for a festive mardi gras norton union will be transformed into new orleans for this novel open house in true mardi gras style cos tumes and floats will be highlight ed the two masqueraders whose costumes most impress the judges will be crowned king and queen of the mardi gras and will be pre sented with loving cups in honor of their reign fabulous fables will be the theme for the miniature floats en tered in competition by various or ganizations dancing in the auditorium to the music of marvin cohan and his or chestra will be the main attraction the roving kind will find gambling on the third floor where thousands will fall at the spin of a wheel and men will spiri their ladies while square dancing in the west room food is of course included to be served for a slight charge admis sion is by nu card applications for entering the miniature float contest may be ob | tained at the counter in norton i ' today surveying the hundreds of text books turned-in for resale by stu dents kenneth helfrich chairman of the national student's associa tion prepares for the daily rush on the new used-book store smoker and sing acquaint ub frosh with fraternities the elk's club saw beer flow freely thursday night when the interfraternity council presented its mixer for independent men the successful party was held as a pre view to fraternity sponsored greek week which officially begins on monday the week will acquaint fresh man men with the constructive aspects of fraternity life and is another effort on the part of our greek letter organizations to trans form our alleged streetcar school into a campus college the sororities will add their par ticular talents to the opening af fair when they join the men in the interfraternity sing on monday night in hayes auditorium this competition will be highlighted by the presentation of a trophy to the winning organizations norton lobby will be the central attraction for the rest of the week the eighteen international nation al and local fraternities will dis play their banners while members readily identified by jackets pins and eager expressions will talk continued on page 6 , crofts bows from university service george d crofts comptroller and treasurer of the university since 1921 has given notice of his retirement to become effective june 30 dean claude e puffer will succeed him in the post mr crofts in addition to han dling the financial affairs of the university for the past 30 years has been responsible for the devel opment of the campus through ex tensive grading planting and con struction and reconstruction of buildings total assets of the uni versity have grown by 20,846,657 under his management dean puffer who began his ca reer at buffalo as an instructor in economics holds degrees from the university of washington and a phd from stanford university he leaves his post as dean of admin . istration to succeed mr crofts students profit as nsa bookstore sales mount . j the used-book store which , opened on this campus last monday came as the culmination of over a year's preparation on the part of the national student association it is the first successful venture un dertaken at ub to reduce the high cost of text books to the student body offering to sell texts at two thirds their list price the book store has been deluged since the be ginning of the last exam period with books from students wishing to regain a part of the cost of their texts on last monday the nsa book store opened its doors to lines of students eager to save on this semester's book bill in the first three days of operation over 1,600 was taken in in the sale of used text books it was necessary in attempting this project to secure book lists from the departments of the uni versity in order that the texts for the various courses could be known in accomplishing this the nsa re ceived the full cooperation of the faculty and in addition the used book store has received a great deal of unsolicited publicity from numerous instructors book store sales close on wednes day february 14 and on monday i february 19 the nsa will begin the return of unsold books and re ' imbursement of students for books ' sold in order to meet the costs of operating the book store the ' nsa will deduct 10 from the < amount received for each book 1 the used-book store has been 1 proved successful during the last 1 week commented mr kenneth i i helfrich chairman of nsa and it has been demonstrated that stu dents are overwhelmingly in favor of the project we are extremely grateful to the faculty who have aided us in securing book lists and have immeasurably assisted us in publicizing our enterprise mr helfrich added the nsa plans continuance and enlargement of the used-book store in order to offer the fullest service possible to the students of the university of buffalo campus fetes reign of winter frigid blasts herald carnival capers in the snow highlight week-end of festivities manpower board revises draft enlistment status the secretary of defense gen eral marshall has announced a new basic policy for enlistment in the armed services by college stu dents the new policy was recom mended by the assistant secretary of defense for manpower mrs anna m rosenberg and was con curred in by the director of se lective service major general lewis b hershey and the mili tary departments the policy is intended to prevent the waste to the nation and the damage to the educational system that is involved in having young men leave school in mid-term because they desire to enlist in the service of their choice before they are called for pre-in duction physical examination by their local draft boards under the old rules no armed service would accept a voluntary enlistment after a man had re ceived notice to report for his pre ' induction physical examination the new policy provides that stu dents enrolled in colleges or uni versities and thus automatically en titled to deferment for the school year in which they receive their induction notice shall be allowed to the extent of available openings in each service to enlist in the service of their choice at any time in the two months immediately pre ceding the final month of their school year as in the past each service would accept enlistments only to the extent that places were open for those who desired to en list under the new policy a young man called by selective service dur ing the academic year could con tinue his studies and still retain the right to designate his choice of service by enlisting in the period beginning 90 days before the ter mination of the school year and ending 30 days before the termina tion date services accepting en listments during this two-month period would not call the students to duty until they had finished their school year general marshall expressed the opinion that the new rules would prove of benefit to the students the colleges and the national defense effort he emphasized the import ance to the nation of maintaining a vigorous educational system and elimination of unsettled conditions that have developed on many cam puses as a result of large-scaled enlistments by men who wanted to enlist before they received their se lective service calls i this afternoon at 4:00 p.m the annual winter carnival will get under way with a friendly beer-sip ping contest at the grotto this chug-a-lug will be em-ceed by don lever who has already achieved considerable reknown in this field each campus organization is urged to provide at least one four-man team for this gala marathon no specific qualifications are required we hope that this event will have the grotto filled to the ceiling with both contestants and spectators harry martin will be calling the squares at norton u this evening from 8-12 this square dance will feature a new admission policy that all femmes will be admitted without monetary obligations while the gents provide 25c for admis sion hamburg it hot dogs and soft drinks will be served in the game room during the dance with the dawn of saturday morning the surrounding landscape will be transformed into a winter wonderland by fraternities sorori ties and independent organization as they compete for honors in the snow sculpturing event with the assurance of no tropical heat waves the judging will take place at noon on saturday at that time the prize will be announced and presented saturday afternoon features the open cross-country ski meet oil campus at 1:30 p.m competition is open to the public any one who is able to remain perpendicular for any length of time on skis is urged to enter if you don't win — well the afternoon trek is good for those unused muscles contestants may enter as either individuals or as representatives of some campus or outside organization at any rate the competition will be keen and the prize well worth winning if the skiers have energy left they can try the easy method of skiing to hang on a rope while a car tows you around the campus ski-joring will cdntinue until 5:30 or until cars run out of gas the snow ball at norton union on saturday promises to take a con siderable portion of the weekend limelight joan kohl and don hols man chairmen of this ball have scheduled dancing to ray watkin's orchestra which will be soothing not only to tired skiers but also to those who are recovering from grottoitis dress is informal and tickets can be obtained at the igloo in the norton lobby tickets are also available at the door for the popular free-refreshmenas-includ ed price of 1.20 per couple with the compliments of the sitzmark er's ski club refreshments will be served in the main cafeteria from 10-12 plan to get into tbe swing of things by attending this semester's coming-out special the snow ball if you have seen movies of ski continued on page 8