Spectrum, 1957-01-11

              the spectrum -" i ompletc ampns overage number 12 university of buffalo friday jan 11 1957 volume 7 bursar to hunt ticket dodgers ibm machines are used to trace some offenders fines ranse up to 100 bits of parking tickets fluttering around campus park ing lots are finding their way home in a huge pile of un known and unpaid tickets in the bursar office with tines at 5 a throw for first offenders and 10 thereafter many ticketed students are waiting to see if the university can catch them the majority of unpaid fines come from cars tagged for having no ub stickers and these are traced monthly through the state motor vehicle department students with parking stickers are being sent itemized bills if they fail to pay within a reasonable time treasurer richard d strath meyer said there were no statistics available for comparison to deter mine if the higher fines had re duced the amount of parking in fractions but added that the rev enues received are used to cover the administrative costs we do not charge the one-time visitor who violates campus park ing regulations and are quite lib eral in other questionable cases but all tickets issued are turned in and checked strathmeyer added one of the highest officials on campus came in recently and paid his 5 like anyone else he smiled university parking received no toriety in saturday's new york times by a story comparing the ub fines with those in buffalo and saying illegal parking costs er rant motorists a pretty penny on the ub campus the story con tinued saying students could be ex pelled if the fine did not reform them mr strathmeyer said no students at ub have been expelled we have received considerable cooperation from the students even those who receive fines they have given us many useful suggestions on our parking problems and sev eral have already been adopted he said one cause of infractions is the 7 to 5 sign on each faculty parking lot many students do not notice that this pertains only to certain designated rows while the remain der are always reserved for facul ty parking the space allocated for faculty parking is reduced by 60 after 5 o'clock ibm machines and elaborate de tective work is being used to run down some offenders punched cards containing such clues as addresses are run through the en tire university file and the machine hpits out the likely offenders the artful dodgers are only a small minority however and have been hit with fines up to 100 the treas urer said dormitories will house 1,100 in september 1957 tember 1957 when the new 450-student men's dormitory receives its lember 1957 wh e the new 450-student men's dormitory receives its first occupants the 12-story structure will feature a formal flower garden facing campus and will have a treated concrete front to give an effect of high columns the windows set in walls of light and dark green will be fram ed by stainless steel runners a glass-walled cafeteria will connect i to the rear of the building and has been designed for eventual expan sion the ub campus will have an ap proximate capacity of 1,100 resi dent students in september of 1957 and school officials are hoping to expand that number to meet the anticipated demand of future years if constructed a proposed women's dormitory would increase the capacity by more than 400 architect's sketch of new dorm program mapped to meet threat of bomb calls campus switchboard operator said the call came in on an outside trunk line she added that several other threat calls had been received dur ing the summer session and early in the semester detectives on the scene said trac ing methods are available and have been used in the past to locate the callers they refused to comment whether such devices might be in stalled at üb the fact that campus bomb threats usually fall during exam time is being weighed by university officials who feel that an immedi ate rescheduling of exams in alter nate buildings will put a damper on any future pranksters a plan is under consideration that will include stiff penalties and ways of detecting offenders plus administrative measures for class room reshuffling officers of precinct 14 and erie county sheriff's deputies respond ed to a bomb call in crosby on fri day dec 14 they closed the build ing for the entire day and con ducted a complete search acting dean schillo said many exams were being scheduled in the school of business administration by instructors who wanted to cor rect them over the holidays the puffers leave for far east ringwalls go to mexico the winter gales on e ub cam pus seem to have anfedded effect this year for two top'officials have departed for distant and warmer climes in europe and one is plan ling a field trip to mexico this month dr puffer left last week for a vacation and expects to visit india and the orient during his six-weeks f travel he will be accompanied ! v mrs puffer and will attend the centennial observance of the uni versity of calcutta on jan 19 where he will represent üb he will be joined there by dr robert s fisk fan of the school of education ho is currently on leave as ad visor to the pakistan ministry of education dr fisk will advise pakistan in a modernization of its school system a remote tribe of tarascan in dians in mexico will be compared lth buffalo pre-school children by dr egan a ringwall director of the ub psychology clinic accom panied by his wife and their two small children the doctor will live in the indian village to gather data on a theory developed in a one year study of buffalo children he wants to find if there is any relationship between perceptual maturity in young children and the parent-child environment the family expects to visit the city of guadalajara where dr ringwall will study spanish speaking fami lies and their children the psy chologist hopes to establish more natural surroundings for his study by living in the indian community i selected the tarascans because many have still retained their old cultural patterns and identity he explained he hopes to contact a unesco group that has been working in the area for the past two years ub to see two operas next week the ub opera workshop is again presenting to the public of buffalo an outstanding production of opera this time featuring two little known works by famous com posers they are donizetti's the night-bell and salieri's little harliquinadef t ßoth operas will be fully staged costumed and sung in english a small chamber string orchestra will play the two works the night-bell was written in one week by donizetti to aid a small opera company that was in desperate financial straits the work was an immediate success and the opera company recovered this one-act opera is a comedy based upon the character of a newly wedded 18th century apothecary who is constantly interrupted all night long on his wedding night by the jealous other-man enrico a rake the latter rings the bell and detains the apothecary from his marital bed by assuming various disguises imploring the apothecary for unusual medicines needless to say enrico is successful and the confused apothecary is hurried off to london early in the morning by well-meaning relatives and friends little harliquinade was origin ally included in a regular full-scale opera as an intermezzo or be tween-seenes entertainment during a large opera it is a stylized farce depicting the fidelity of men and the cleverness of women these two operas will be pre sented on the four evenings of jan 16 17 19 and 20 by the students of the university opera workshop in norton auditorium the per formances begin at 8:30 p.m the cast brigella william wagner harliquine stan wieczorek columbine eugenia annas and ruth johnson * * * the night-bell don annibale pistachie robert bauer serafina eugenia annas and ruth johnson enrico william wagner spiridione stan wieczorek madame rosa joan dunn chorus — the university chorale music and stage direction herbert beattie artistic director henry hollenstine stage door bert secor and robert flock lighting david c zierk costumes howland costume co library denies board request for later hours at the meeting of the board of managers tuesday evening don carrel made a report regarding the suggestion that the library be made more available for study during exam week the proposals were 1 — that lockwood memorial library be kept open until 11:00 pm weekday evenings starting one week prior to examinations and continuing through examina tion week 2 — that the third floor of lock wood memorial library be open for student use on weekday evenings in a letter received from the as sistant director of lockwood john carson rather turned down the first request on the basis that the merits of extending hours of eve ning service are not clear the best available evidence seems to indicate that attendance drops off after 9:00 pm the vast majority of academic libraries terminate their service at 10.00 pm this suggests that legitimate needs of users are satisfied by normal hours of service the request for use of the third floor was turned down because the downstairs seating space is seldom more than 70 per cent filled and the congestion is due to one per son using more than one chair for his belongings mr rather said that use of the third floor would also present a disciplinary prob lem and need for a larger staff welcome back to campus day planned for chancellor furnas arrangements for a welcome back to campus day for chancel lor purnas will be handled by a newly established special events committee also underway at the present time are plans for a din ner honoring dr puffer to be spon sored by the board of managers the dinner will attempt to convey the sincere appreciation of the en tire university of buffalo comman ity for a job well done by dr puf fer the new committee will be di rectly responsible for both events and any blmlliir affairs that may arise in the future at the last board meeting the following people were appointed to the new ly adopted committee carl cjolan ski john allen david truax and patricia yeates dgts pre-registration for second semester see mrs simon or mr race in hayes 192 begin ning jan 7 for advice for courses and forms numbers will be given in hayes 302 after coun seling tk:s is the last issue of the spectrum until after exams