Spectrum, 1959-02-20

              the spectrum complete ampus overage volume 9 university of buffalo friday february 20 1959 no 15 summer tour to highlight european arts by joan ackerman arts in european life will be studied on i 35-day tour of europe offered this summer by the univer sity of buffalo the tour is under the personal direction of ur irving cheyette professor of music educa tion this tour of europe will provide six semester hours of graduate or undergraduate credit which may be applied to meet the new york state in-service requirement and as many other state education depart ments also accept such course credits these are transferable to other colleges and universities this course with the advisor's ap proval can he applied toward the programs for the master of educa tion or master of arts degrees this summer session will begin june 28 with orientation lectures on campus these will continue until july 3 july 4 being the departure date from idlewild airport in new york via klm — royal dutch air lines this orientation will consist of a program of illustrated lectures dims slides and recordings of the arts of each country to be visited the following rive weeks will be spent traveling throughout great britain and europe visiting cultural centers — theatres galleries fes tivals and museums seminars and meetings with leaders in the fields of music art and drama have also been scheduled the continent will j lie toured by deluxe motor coach | and excellent hotels have been se lected the tour cost of ivi-'m includes the transportation hotel accommoda tions and other relative expense including tips taxes guide fees and all meals with the exception of lon don paris and rome where two meals per day will be included the j cost does not include the cost of college tuition fee of 14 the j tuition is only required of those who j desire the six credits a limited j number of applications will be ac cepted from those who desire to en joy this eventful trip but who do not wish to qualify for the university credits offered they will be ex pected to participate in all scheduled activities after departure from new york and the tuition fee as above mentioned will be waived upon request to the registrar a formal application form will be furn ished a deposit of 200 payable to the university is required to assure reservation and the final payment will be due on or before june 1 a full refund will be made of any de posits or payments upon notice of cancellation not later than may 1 and therafter we reserve the right to retain such amounts as may be required to fulfill the reservations contracted on your behalf a pay loiter plan is available to enable prospective members to participate in this offering and di vide the payments over a period of ims months full information will lie furnished upon request dr cheyette director of the tour lias travelled widely and brings to this program a broad background in the arts prior to his present post he was director of music education at state teachers college indiana pa professor of music education at syracuse university and fulbright punch prizes and bermudas at union day jack freedman presents award to sigma kappa's vocalists barb lang and flossie martin rushing the season are kathy brady and joe voelkle clamdiggers dave robie and marilyn o'dowd the punch was good although unspi ked ready for florida are ken hutton and marilyn story page 2 vassar president will speak here at convocation sarah gibson islanding president of vassar college will visit the uni versity of liuffalo campus march 11 and speak before a women's convo cation in norton i nion dean scudder invited women stu dent leaders to a luncheon friday to discuss the planning and publi city for the event bernice weinstein was selected to act as chairman of the convoca tion with representatives from the women's residence halls union board and the spectrum in charge of arrangements and publicity mis islanding became the first woman president of vassar college in 104i prior to that she was dean of the new york state college of home economics at cornell uni versity the first college head there earlier she was associate professor of political science and dean of women at the l'niversnty of ken tucky of which she is a graduate lecture features foreign students a group of foreign students cur rently attending ub will gather in millard fillmore at 3:30 thurs day for a panel discussion on the social customs of their home lands the discussion is the second in a series of student-faculty lectures sponsored by the special events committee kathy knbeniac is chairman a coffee hour will fol low the program harvard university quits nsa cites their five objections tiarvara i diversity aas resigned from th 9 national student associa tion th i is student senate was in formed by president tom horsey among th reasons for withdrawal advanced in a report on the xsa prepared hy the harvard student council were the following 1 t-ack of factual background in the handling of resolutions which are formulated in committees 2 a uuge part of ns legisla tion deals with problems of nation al and international scope and of political nature whereas delegates are chosen for non-political reas ons 3 poor and inefficient organi sation which impairs effectiveness of the programs 4 misrepresentation abroad of student attitudes 5 attachment of the harvard name to resolutions which were found inadequate both in principle and method of approval by harvard th council concluded we don i feel that we have or will re reive enough to justify con tinned membership unless xsa begins to remove flaws that have . _ so dras tically cut back the association's potential value the executive commitee f üb's student senate will conduct an in vestigation to determine the future relations of this school with the xsa football seating issue discussed new proposal advanced by burr by iris zeldner better seating tit football games has long been considered a lost cause chuck hurr director of athletic promotion visited the stu dent senate on tuesday to discuss this dilemna we are desperately concerned with the feelings of the students r.nd the paying customers as well students are our foundation a cash customer is profit margin mr rurr said the kast stands will he hypothetically split down the middle he explained and stu dents will be sitting on one full half from the so yd line to the goal line this plan will seat at least 3000 students the baldwin wallace game this year had an attendance of 2990 there were 2100 at the temple game and 2186 cheer ed the bulls to victory against bucknell the total attendance of these three games was about equal with the total attend ance of all of last year's games sine do more than half the full enrollment of daytime students is expected at any one game looo seals will be sufficient if how ever the entire student body de cides to support i heir team mr liurr seemed sure that arrange ments would be made to build additional bleachers mr hurr estimated the cost of operating the stadium at about 180 00 since the cost of operation is so immense it seems reasonable that student fees exist our ath letic department cannot operate at a deficit the outgo must equal the income he said mr burr reported that at other schools of our size stu dents do not get choice seat if there is a demand all the schools polled start student seating at the 30 yard line he said none in midfteld it was suggested that seats be allocated by classes but mr bun stated that it was not found desir able where it has been tried paying customers mostly alum ni get the choicest seats on the west stands these seats do not fare the sun as do the student bleachers mr burr commented benefit tor ii i years suffer for 4 - while you're students judiciary holds first meeting rules in 2 cases by anthony drake a precedent was established at uh lasl thursday evening when the llrst atudenl judiciary in the school's history held its inaugural meeting sitting with two nonvoting re present ives of the faculty and ad ministration the live student judges examined two cases and debated procedural matters in a live-hour session owing to vagueuess in the new constitution the court was unable to avail itself of any direct state ment on jurisdiction so the court acted upon its power of constitu tional interpretation it interpreted the constitution as allowing it to de termine its own jurisdiction the first case involved the theft of a 7.50 textbook from the bookstore the student had been observed to enter the book section and purchase a lab man ual hiding the text under his coat as he passed the cashier when apprehended by bookstore personnel he produced a sales slip for the exact amount of the book which he later claimed to have found on his desk the student claimed that financial need'prompt ed the theft his admission of guilt was concurred in by unanimous vote of the judiciary a 25 fine and a curfew restricting the stu dent to the premises of the tower dorm after 10 pm for a 30-day period were imposed previous cases of shop-lifting have been turned over to the police observing that . . the institu tion has a responsibility to protect ils students ...,'' the judiciary decided thai . the confiden tiality of persons discussed should ' hi maintained the second case involved a letter ! sent by one student to another upon the stationary of the school of en gineering the letter read as follows there are some things i am com pelled to do that i do with great i i egret this is one of them continued on page 7 continued on page 2 norton hours monday commencement day building will open at 12:30 p.m bookstore will open at 12:30 p.m cafeteria will open at 4:30 p.m