Spectrum, 1959-03-06

              the spectrum complete am pus overage volume 9 university of buffalo friday march 6 1959 no 17 blue masquers denied funds house committee advises permanent use of norton rooms be discontinued by anthony drake to be or not to he — that is the question blue masquers have been asking themselves for the past week the student dramatic organization has lost its appropriation from the senate finance committee and now faces curtailment of its facilities in norton senate finance committee chairman dick virkus informed the blue masquers that their re quest for an appropriation of 131 was denied he later commented that poor student attendance at masquer productions and the lack of quality of these productions made the expenditure of student fees for their support unjustifiable this attitude was concurred in by senate president tom dorsey who said i could not justify fur ther student support of the organi zation the blue masquers were then called before the house commit tee of norton union at this meet ing the blue masquers were re quested to supply a written list of members and officers an in ventory of equipment and props and the minutes of all meetings held this previous semester tne points of discussion were to be the use of facilities and unnecessary activities and occupancy of the 3 rooms they use in norton would permit only one-ac plays the requested material was pre sented by acting president marvin winer who claimed the organiza tion had a membership of 30 per sons of whom an average of 15 20 regularly attended each meet ing further inventory lists of props costumes make-up lumber flats furniture and lighting equip ment were provided the house committee asked mr winer why the office was in use for non-masquer business they pointed out that frequently the office was occupied by only one or two persons who did not seem to be engaged in any activity con cerning theater no explanation was offered . . with reference to the finance committee's denial of funds the masquers observed that their pro duction activities would be cur tailed and would restrict them to doing non-royalty one act plays of inferior quality noting that blue masquer plays were student directed house committee chairman dick wolin said we feel that plays should have professional guidance put in a lot of time miss terrell o everett mas quer's faculty advisor explained that she herself advised and as sisted th group she also empha sized the importance of learning by-doing which could be accom plished by the masquers only if they directed their own shows to the question does the blue masquer competency merit con tinued existence miss everett replied the blue masquers shouldn't be compared with pro fessional or departmental produc tons they should be compared only with themselves the suc cess of a show — even a broad way production cannot be fore seen until the show is seen by the public if professional help is used in blue masquer production their purpose will be lost when the meeting was opened tci general questioning mary win er related that he considered the masquers a good organization a lot of people put in a lot of time at least 20 people work very hard on our productions mr winer also agreed that any arrangement whereby the blue masquer facilities were made available to other groups on cam pus would be satisfactory he pointed out that the masquer of fice is used by stunt night per formers and other groups mr dave marsh ass't direc tor of norton explained that sometimes i come into the mas quer office and find one or two persons in the room who are do ing nothing just ordinary chit chat ." it was observed by miss everett that much of this chit chat involved plans for future productions 500 pupils to visit us tomorrow tomorrow the university will play host to over 500 visiting high school students during the first of three spring visting days for prospective üb students the purpose of welcome day is to orient area high school juniors and those seniors who are still un decided as to their college choice to the programs of study avail able at üb highlighting tomorrow's pro gram will be talks by faculty members representing the uni versity's 14 schools the schedule of events tomorrow morning fol -- 9:30 am registration — re freshments norton hall 9:30-10:00 am general session and movie frontier c nor ton hall 10 11 am campus tour 11 12 am divisional meetings norton hall on saturday april 11 area seniors who have been accepted for admission for the fall term will return to prepare for future individual planning sessions high school seniors from outlying areas who have been accepted for ad mission will receive their orienta tion on april 25 and 26 dr sarah blanding arriving next week to speak on my fair lady's future my fair lady's future is the title of a talk to be given-by sarah gibson blanding at the women's convocation at 3:30 pm wednesday in norton auditorium all ub women have been sent formal invitations to attend the affair which will be followed by a reception in the norton lobby millard fillmore lounge miss blanding is the first wom an president of vassar college she has also been dean of the new york state college for home eco nomics at cornell university and earlier was associate professor of political science and dean of women at the university of kentucky when she become president of vassar in 1946 she was serving as a member of governor dewey's temporary commission to study the need for a state university in new york that same year presi dent truman appointed her the only woman member of the presi dents commission on higher edu cation and later to the board of foreign scholarships which ad ministers the fulbright awards at present miss blanding is trustee of the committee for eco nomic development trustee of the fund for adult education of the ford foundation member of the public policy committee of the advertising council and a trustee of the hazen foundation miss blanding received an a.b degree from the university of kentucky an ma degree from columbia university and 16 other honorary degrees from other schools i)k sarah blanding stage props checked jim fox and carlson of house committee examine props with shirley guilfoos blue masquer carol ward sandy straley and judy everett of the house committee check masquers inventory tower false alarm causes more confusion a confusion in the identity of fire wardens at a false alarm in the tower dormitory early last saturday morning may bring about the wearing of official arm bands by tower personnel who are acting as fire wardens assist ing m the evacuation of the dorni atory in saturday's alarm head dent al salatino who was aiding in the evacuation of the tower dorm had some difficulty identi fying himself to police who an swered the alarm the police were also trying to clear the building and apparently believed mr sala tino to be a student apply now for staff students interested in apply ing for positions on the copy reporting or layout staff of the spectrum may do so any tim during the semester chairman of irc attributes disputes to growing pains a question of state's rights trough an element of excitement 0 anntheiwi.se quite routine meet ng of the inter-residence coun cil last week when representatives of all the lormitories met in the private din ng room of the tower the sug gestion was made that irc form i lecture committee to present lee lines to all the dorm students the michael hall representative pointed out that her dorm already possessed such a committee and that they objected to its being ab sorbed in an irc group pointing out that the absorp tion of such individual dorm com mittees by the irc cut clown on dorm initiative the representa tive stated michael hall is thinking primarily of itself and they don't want their functions taken over each dorm should have the right to develop its own original ideas ' jovial irc chairman jack i continued on page 3 continued on page » ml i parade theme applications for mud day parade theme suggestions will be available on the norton un ion candy counter and may be submitted in roo m 265 by march 16