TI " i N DAILY 1 rig Weekend Presents 'est Festival To Begin Friday Afternoon Event To Feature More, Improved Activities Than ini Previous Years By JEFFREY HEUER This Friday will mark the fifth biannual Spring Weekend, held in alternate years with Micligras. Spring Weekend began in 1953 under the joint sponsorship of the Women's Athletic Association and the Michigan Union. It has since grown in size and stature. This year's Spring Weekend, "Jest in Time," certainly fills the billing of bigger and better. More events are scheduled than ever before. The weekend will begin 'with a parade from the diag to Palmer field, including the participating units and the semi-finalists in the See' article, this page. beauty contest. Entrants in the beauty contest are boys 'dressed hopefully as girls. They will. be Judged during the parade ,n the basis of originality of costun e, parading technique, and enthusi- asm. House Building Contest The rest of the afternoon will be devoted to the house building contest on Palmer field. Friday's highlight will be Skit Night.' Saturday's festivities will -begin with a canoe race entitled "Once Upon the Delaware." Participants will cover themselves and their. crafts in attire befitting the theme. For example they will carry on. the jest by wearing beatnik George Washington costumes. They will be propelled part of the course by paddles and the rent by hand. Win- ners will be chosen by speed, cos- tume, and again enthusiasm. The second event of the after- noon will be an old-fashioned greased pig contest, in which cou- ples of contestants will try to capture the elusive animal when it runs into their area. Following this, a contest entitled "Corn of Plenty" will be staged on the merry-go-round. Participants must keep the merry-go-round in mo- tion while eating cooked corn that will be suspended near their heads. Dance Climaxes Weekend Mhe climax of the entire week- end -comes Saturday night. with the all-campus dance at the I-M building, "Mirrored Moments." The g.K3m will be decorated by twenty booths placed arQund the dance floor. Designs for the booths were submitted by the participating housing units, and from these, 20 were selected to enter the contest. The booths will portray entertain- ment spots throughout time, in keeping with the general theme. They will be judged on originality, skill in construction and overall appearance. The dance will feature Sarah Vaughan, presenting two shows during intermissions, and the mu- sic of the Scott-Bald in Orches- tra. The overall Spring Weekend winners will be announced at midnight. Skit Night Promises Laughter By CAROLYN KUSHNER Hill Auditorium will be changed into a musical theater for Spring' Weekend Skit Night at 8 p.m. Friday, April 28. At this time, five skits will be presented around the theme, "Erred Era." Each skit deals with some incident in his- tory that has been adapted to a more modern or ancient time. Each of the five musical slits to be presented will last fifteen minutes. Music and lyrics are composed by the participants in the skits. The skits tend to be 'more in the vein of comedy than tragedy. Dr. Richard Cutler of the Psy- chology Department will emcee the show on the stage of Hill ,Auditorium "Music Hal." The stage will be made to look more like a theater by the use of cur- tains placed around it. The five skits will be judged on the basis of 30 points for original- ity of dialogue and music, 30 for performance, 25 for creativity of sets and costumes, and 15 for adaptatin to the theme. Seventeen skits were chosen several months ago from all those that were submitted. The five skits to be presented on Friday evening were chosen from these 17 at the end of March. "Inter-Historical Public Rea- tions Corps" is the name of the skit being put on by Alpha Ep- silon Phi and Delta Tau Delta. It deals With an advertising agency out of time which handles famous historical characters. The music and lyrics were written by Jack O' Brian. .Delta Gamma's and Phi Gamma Delta's skit is called "Monkey Shines." It takes the Scopes' Mon- key Trial back in time to the Stone Age. 'The words and, the script were written by Suzy Smucker and Todd Fay. "Old Noah Jnes" is the skit being presented by Kappa Delta and Theta Delta Chi. This skit fills Noah's ark with famous people and their famous problems. The music and words were written by Roger Sergent and Clark Johnson. "Oedipus Rex," by Sophocles, will be the basis for the skit put on by Sigma Kappa and Tau Delta Phi. It's'title is "Redipus Sex" and it deals with the Oedipus com- plex. Dick Loewry composed the music while Jerry Laxand Danny Friedman assisted by Hank Khas- now wrote the lyrics. "Goody Cloyce," schoolteacher turned witch will dazzle the au- dience in "Salem '61." During her day in court she will have a chance to tell all in a series of flashbacks. This skit is being presented' by Kappa Kappa Gamma and Sigma Phi Epsilon. Ann Wells wrote both the music and the lyrics. SCiEDULE FOR SPRING WEEKEND '61 "JEST IN TIME" IDAYf 3:00 p.m.-Parade from diag to Palmer Field., Beauty Contest on diag. 3:45 p.m.-"Hour Town"-house building contest at Palmer Field. 4:45 p.m.-Semi-finalists from beauty contest are judg- ed at finish of house building contest. 5:30 p.m-Announcement of winners of the afternoon. 8:00 p.m.-"Erred Era'" Skit Night at Hill Auditorium. Announcement of winners follows. SATURDAY 1:00 p.m.-"Once Upion the Delaware" Canoe Race. 2:30 p.m.-"'orkers in the Grease" Greased pig con- test. 4:30 p.m.-Announcement of winners of afternoon. 0:00 p.m.-Dance "Mirrored Moments" begins at Yost' Fieldhouse. Orel estra-Scott.Baldwin. Entertainment-Sarah Vaughan. 12:00 p.m.-Announcement of over all winners of the weekend. 1:00 a.m.-"The party's over.. .. -Daily--James Warneka PADDLING PIXIES-Thoroughly wound up in their work, these two jesters put a little bounce into Spring Weekend preliminaries on the diag. That they chose paddleballs to express themselves is in keeping with the general nonsensical spirit of the occasion. That paddleballs are appearing more frequently in classes, in the library and about campus is in keeping with the student's annual acceptance of that spirit. That most of the excess of student energy created by the spirit is chan- neled into the organized activity of "Weekend" is happily in keeping with the wishes of the Uni- versity administration, a group that can only hope for the best with the coming of the new season. Committee Survives Many Problems The Spring Weekend Central Committee has had its ups and downs, its problems and successes in planning the forthcoming two- day festival.' Getting pigs for the greased pig contest to be held at 2:30 Satur- day was not an easy project, the committee reports. Committee, members fiist had to call the county agent who, in turn, had to call the farmers. During the contest called "Pork- ers in Grease," a greased pig will be'placed in a free area. The ob- ject is to catch him as he runs. Four units with teams of two par- ticipants will run in each heat. The girl and boy will have their feet tied as in a three-legged race. "Jest in Time," the' theme of Spring Weekend was thought up by the creative Sam Zell while he was sitting around, meditating with the rest of the comnimittee. The initials of the theme were given to the symbol of Spring' Weekend, Jit. Jit became a jester as did his friends on the Diag from the word "Jest" in the theme. Jit himself was designed by Mike Shrover of the Graphic Pub- licity Committee. The house-building contest is a unique feature of this year's Spring Weekend. It is called "Hour Town" and it will take place at 3:45 p.m. Friday on Palmer Field. Each group will build its house on a plot approximately 40 feet square. The groups will be sup- plied with building and scrap ma- terial, but they will not know what material they have until they appear on, the scene. Girls, playing carpenters, will build the houses and the male portion of the group, dressed as females, decorate them. This pro- cedure must be strictly followed because the groups will be dis- qualified if the boys touch the building material. In the middle of "Hour Town" a large clock will gong, timing the workers' progress during their allotted hour. At the end of that hour a city will have arisen on Palmer Field. The finished houses will be judged on the basis of original- ity, structure, and decorations. t T ___ I Assure First Class Passage into ,S