Spectrum, 1956-02-24

              the spectrum a look at fraternities sec pages 1 2 5 6 7 complete ampus overage number «, < university of buffalo friday february 24 1956 i volume 6 dr deeringer gives views on greeks following the recent death of an mit student in a pledge initiation dr jack deeringer deal of stu 1 dents was asked by the sunday ■ courier about the fraternity situa * tion here he was quoted as say ' ing that such a tragedy was not 1 likely to happen at ub because we ' aren't what you call a real frater ' nity school anyway ub is a com '< muter's school since most of the student body lives close by this comment aroused much ad verse criticism on campus to clarify his position dr deeringer made the following statement to the board of managers tuesday night in view of the article that ap peared in sunday's courier-ex press and any misinterpretation that might have developed because of statements made therein i would like to clarify my position before the board when i was asked how many fraternities had houses i stated that you would not consider ub a fraternity school since only one undergraduate fraternity presently has a house in reference to the statement relative to the commut ers the statement refers to the fact that the majority of students com mute between campus and the city i further explained that in re lation to a question about hazing the university has no policy the individual fraternities and tbe ifc regulate fraternity affairs there are universities that have publicized the fact that they are fraternity schools and invite na tional fraternities to colonize on their campus while ub does feel greek let ter societies can be a very vital part of a student's life it has not officially invited new national fra ternities to colonize dean deeringer u of toronto president addresses ub graduates i honor students are congratulated by dr merton w ertell from the left h j kargatib norma a schlehr richard t mahoney mary brown jeffery john e houck and dr ertell photo by bill ryan debate tournament many schools to compete oh campus tomorrow the second annual university of buffalo invitational debate tour nament will be held tomorrow three rounds will take place at 10:30 a.m 1:15 and 3 p.m in crosby hall hayes hau and fos ter hall more than 20 debates will be held simultaneously in each round on the national topic resolved that the non-agricultural indus tries of the united states should guarantee their employees an an nual wage each debate will be judged by the faculty advisor of a participat ing school on the following cri teria case analysis evidence ar gument refutation language de livery and teamwork ballots will be correlated at headquarters in norton hall after each round a trophy will be awarded for the best team and a plaque for the best speaker these will be announced at the banquet following the pres entation of riders to the sea by the blue masquers teams will compete from buffalo state teachers college canisius college duquesne university fre donia state teachers college ho bart college houghton college howard university loyola univer sity niagara university oswego state teachers college penn state university rochester institute of technology university of roches ter st bonaventure university st john fisher college siena col lege syracuse university the officers of the debating so ciety and chairman of the tourna ment committee are jim ryan president and general chairman don dietrich vice president and banquet chairman sally parsons treasurer and personnel chairman mae olds secretary and registra tion chairman philip siegel and marvin migdol co-chairmen of publicity al aswad statistician the faculty advisor is assistant professor janet c potter chairmanships are open for in dividual debates those interested are asked to see sally parsons ln macdonald hall or to report to tho registration desks in norton lobby tomorrow morning ... will consider any reasonable plan when asked by the spectrum concerning his views on fraternity housing chancellor furnas stated that he had not been presented with any formal proposal dr furnas said in general i believe fraternities to be a very good thing but i do not know how far the university would go towards housing on campus the university will consider any reasonable plan submitted to it any decision will depend on the practicability of such a plan he said - the chancellor said that he had consulted with dean derringer last spring on the matter of fra ternity housing dr derringer was to consider and submit any reason able plans to vice chancellor puffer dr furnas dgts coffee hour march 1 digiteer success hailed on thursday march 1 from 2:30 to 5:00 the dgts steering committee will present a coffee hour the coffee hour is primar ily for the new dgts students but anyone on campus is invited to come entertainment will be provided by the steering commit tee the combination of the division newspaper digiteer and the steering committee has been very successful it is expected that the constitution committee of the steering committee will make its report at the next meeting the committee has been meeting for the last two weeks in order to bring the old constitution up to date acting chancellor puffer awards degrees to 242 by bill ryan vice-chancellor claude e puffer presented degrees to 242 candidates wednesday at the mid-year commencement held in kleinhans music hall the benediction was given by rabbi justin . hoffman chaplain of hillel dr clif ford c furnas chancellor and assistant secretary of defense for research & de velopment was present to award the chancellor's medal to miss e marguerite gane two students ln the undergradu ate school were awarded degrees of highest distinction they were myrtle k posmantur magna cum laude and janice e gurewltach summa cum laude other gradu ates with high distinction were lois m horton norma a schlehr mary b jeffery charlea a racht john e houck richard t j ma honey amy b hecht and harry j k kargatis dr sidney smith president of the university of toronto waa guest speaker of the mid-year com mencement commemorating wash ington's birthday dr smith's topic was neighbours over the back fence on washington's birthday dr smith referred to the rela tionship of the united states and canada as the back fence rather than our four thousand miles of undefended international boun dary he stated that as back fence neighbors there may be disagree ments without provoking quarrels such amicable grumbling is a sign of real neighborliness he said he said that the differences that have occurred between the u.s and canada may be attributed to three reasons the amount of official business that concerns our two gov ernments — is very much greater than it was in the years between the two world wars with the abandonment of isolationism the u.s . . . has taken on the task of world leadership the nations who had been busiest in weakling hairs out of the lion's tail have been di verted to pulling feathers off the tail of the eagle as the final reason dr smith said that as canada has advanced very rapidly in economic and cul tural development she has been oversensitiveness dr smith said that george washington was perhaps not in tentionally an architect of the family of british nations the american revolution brought about not the rejection but the adaptation of the principles of con stitutional government to amer ica he said in the development of constitutional government jt continued on pa «) board question are you in favor of the proposed sale of grover park for housing development use questionnaires at can dy counter today