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Women's Editor.... Janet Hiatt
Ass't. Women's Ed.. Grace Miller t
Junior Night Editors:
Margaret Avery Jean Gilmer
Jeanne Cordell Kay Ruddy
Barbara DeFries Lois Shapiro

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Michigan Merry-Go-Round
By DROOP EARSON and ROBBER ESSALLEN

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W ords Of Welcome
!omDe'n Lloyd
In the year 1941 there is a special significance
i the ceremony of welcoming to the University
e women who come for the first time. Their
iterest in education is evidenced by the fact
hat all the signs point to a larger enrollment
of women than ever before.
F Women have a special mission in a war torn
World. In England and in Russia and in China
it has been remarkable to watch the increasing
responsibiltiies of women in the titanic struggle.,
It is my belief that in peace time women will
be called upon more and more to take .a vital
part in the life of their comunities. Educated
Women will be especially needed in the recon-
struction of society which will inevitably follow.
So in welcoming women to a great state uni-
versity this year, we want more than ever to
have the new students realize the privileges
Whch are theirs in being here, and the leader-
ship which we expect of them in the ydrs to
pome. We hope that the women whocome this
ear will earn the pleasure of work well done as
Well as the reward of new frieridships' and com-
adeship
The University welcpmes you, invites you to
7njoy the privilege of learning and asks -you to
ontinue in. the great traditions of all iiisti-
utions of learning; traditions -of intellectual
onesty, personal integrity, .and sincerity of
r urpose.
Alice C. Lloyd, Dean of Women'
Panhellenic Presidenty
Speaks To Rushees
As long as sororities have been in existence
"here has been a controversy, as to' their value
assisting in the development of a well-
" dunded social and academic education. Such a
tontroversy seems rather. unnecessary.,
It is easy to see the necessity for small groups
f students to get together on as large a cahpus
is that of the University of Michigan. The
xorority is just one of these groups. It has, it is
true, a more formal organization than some of
he spontaneous friendship groups in one of the
' ormitories.
I woud like to explain jist what a sorority
s by pointing out some of its ideals. A sorority is
congenial group of girls who have chosen each
other as associates because of their mutual in-
terests. They strive to maintain and promote
,high citizenship and scholarship. The sorori-
ties collectively and individually cooperate with
the University in any of its aims. Thus yousee
that initiation into a sorority is not an honor but.
an entailment of responsibility.
The sorority is not the small snobbish clique
of movie and magazine fame; it is only one of
the many types of groups of which you may
become a part. It is a choice you have and this
choice is not a life and death matter. I regret
to say tlat on a few campuses the sororities and
'fraternities are the center of the social activity,
=and that those who do not join are pretty well
left out.
This is not the case on the Michigan campus.
In fact a great deal of the gossip you hear about
sororities before you come to college is outdated,
erroneous, or unauthoritative. If you are going
to go through rushing this fall, forget any gossip
you have heard and pick the group of girls you
feel are the most congeial to your personality.
Don't take rushing too seriously and if you
definitely have made u> your mind to join one
of the nineteen sororities and have misgivings
that thea may not want you, remember that
they are as anxious that you will want to join
their group as you are to be a member.
Patricia Hadley, '42,
President,
Michigan Panhellenic Assocition
Calling all hairbows . . . . calling all hair-
bows.... you can always tell when 'a U. of 14.
coed liasn't put her hair up the night before,
because she comes to class with the front part
done up in a toll and the back tied up very neat-
ly in a bright ribbon.
Ye N'ewe Managing Editor, who hails from
Mississippi and is a man of definite opinions, is

now busily engaged in collecting material for
his book which he will call, The South Won
The Civil War. He's so determined that he tries
to pay his bills with Confederate'money and
goes quite mad if he even gets a whiff of "Yankee
Clover" perfume.
We're fond of the local barber's remark when
he grunted that he was glad to see the summer
school students leave: "'They come in here with
a rubber collar and a two dollar bill and a clean
pair of socks, and they don't change any of
'em.".

FROM THE WOMEN'S DESK-a recent com-
munique regarding strategic advances by the
department of old quotations-"For the dura-
tion," that ole ole so degrading and soo soo
untrue quip that four out of -five girls are
beautiful and you know the rest becomes, "Four
out of five men are physically fit for the draftr
and the fifth is our man Mich." Incidentally,
we might add that as it were, age was fast put-
ting said quote into Bartlett's book.
IF YOU'RE GOING OUT FOR ACTIVITIES,
and if you think The Daily might be one of
them, and if or if not your talents run in the
edit line, then eventually you'll be required to
write features. All of which very "unsubtley"
leads up to our pet anguish-think up a sub-
ject for a red hot feature, and this seems to be
the place to howl a bit. We've done just about
everything in our search for human-appeal ma-
terial, from interviewing the local barber to beg-
ging other scornful and just as desperate staff
members for ideas. Say, how about a feature
on how to write features9...
Here And There
OUR VOTE for the title of Female Benefactor
or the Season would go to Lois Fromm, local
sophomore, who talks the best argument, and
the funniest one we've heard, against blind
dates on campus. If you've a little time and
your larynx is in shape for a hearty guffaw,
persuade her to tell you about the smooth eve-
hing she had one night at the Orpheum. If
there were more people like Lois talking against
time, blind dates might join the Dodo bird in
extinction. So, pin a rose on her, maw, and a
great big Congressional medal, if you've a sec-
ond-hand one hanging around. . . . And while
we're handing votes out, let's shove one over to
jean Hubbard, President of Assembly, as being
the most feminine-looking executive on campus.
The Moonlight-and-Honeysuckle Napoleon, we
all call her. Well, maybe all of us don't-but it
seems likce a good idea ....
- ANGELS WILL BE ANGELS, as 'tis said,
and this time it's the incoming frosh and trans-
fer women who get the celestial epithet . . . at
the physical education exam. Remember the
profile view's the thing when. you see yourself
in the latest in medical specimen costumes. We
might add you'll walk a long mile around the
ace track, '45's, and standing in line is not
rare--so report comfortably shod and you might
bring along your knitting -too. Patience is the
keynote of the examination and a stitch in time
may save yours ..,..
Fifth Columnists Stop Reading
HOW MANY OF YOU have heard of the,
rather farmy phrase, "red out?" We tried to
put' it in some of our copy the other day, when
speaking of the general abtivity and cleaning
going in sorority and fraternity houses, at

this point in the year. One of our editors, sus-
pecting radical propaganda, deleted it, men-
tioning that he thought it was some reference
to the Young Communists' League activities.
Sometimes we think that a little clear refresh-
ing farm air and a good dash of bucolic vocabu-
lary would do our sophisticated editors a lot of
good.
WE, OF THE DAILY STAFF, don't mind
coming back early to a town of the walking
dead. We don't even mind leaving home and
loved ones (Time out for "Hearts and Flowers"-
with violin obligato; here) to enter-this brutal,
commercial newspaper world. But the millions
and millions of flies (we do better on them than
the big leaguers) that stage their air raids in
The Daily office are bringing forth the long-
shoreman strain in many of our vocabularies.
The worst of it is that most of them seem to be
enjoying a sort of Indian summer lethargy and
when you bat at one that has lit on your nose,
it doesn't move a muscle-just rather peevishly
wipes, at its forehead and continues to sit-
and annoy. Gad, how we journalists suffer for
our art ....
REMINDS US THAT our women's editor cer-
tainly is a slave driver. We spent a whole after-
noon painting her room under eagle-eyed super-
vision-even to mixing the casein paint and wa-
ter with an egg-beater borrowed from the
kitchen.
Reminiscences
THAT GUFF about the flies reminds us of a
mosquito tale a la Rebecca McCann of "The
Cheerful Cherub" fame ...
"God made the star-hung skies for us,
And singing trees and hills and lakes.
Of course He made mosquitoes too,
But everybody makes mistakes . ..
LEST 'E FORGET-the 100th class enters
the University this fall. Let's all join in a silent
prayer that the powers that be don't decide to
revert to the primitive and let this year's en-
rollees etch make' a speech in the fashion of
the round dozen graduates of the first gradu-
ating class-or maybe you all think the com-
mencement exercises aren't long enough ...
Under And Misunderstandings
THEY TELL US the latest in the vulgar ver-
nacular of the draftee is getting up in time for
"revelry" at 6 bells too-must be one of the
Army's "war games."
NIGHT MANEUVERS to date include Col-
umnist Kay (Scoop) Ruddy's-don't laugh-
exercises! Kass, she has breakfast at 11 a.m.
and lunch at the noon whistle following a mid-
morning snack; a slight coke and sandwich
every hour on the hour throughout the after-
noon keep her going until suppertime-and
then we're kept awake nights by the two-way-
stretch!

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LETTER Box
Dearest Mother:
I just returned to my room after
my first day of rushing-it was tea
after tea today. In every house, I
was taken upstairs mostecordially to
leave my gloves and bag; then we
came back to the living room and I
was placed in a chair, while all the
girls collapsed in little ripples of vel-
vet, silk and wool on the floor around
me.
At first I was rather nervous, be-
cause after all, I wanted them to like
me, but soon I began to remember
a few of the things you and Sis told
me, like relaxing and just acting
natural. I tried to just be myself and
pretend that I was talking to my
friends at home instead of to people
whom I had a fierce desire to im-
press. I found that it wasn't hard
after all, and I loosened up and
talked aboutdcampus and where I
was from and other such "get ac-
quainted" subjects instead of sitting
like a scared rabbit, or else talking
too volubly to get rid of my nerv-
ousness. As soon as I forgot my self-
consciousness I felt completely at
ease even though I was talking to
girls I had never seen before.
And," Mom, I was so glad that you
and Sis supervised my choice of
clothes and din't let me get any-
thing' too fussy for these rushing
functions. I felt well-dressed in my
simple dress for although every color
and every material were in sight,
they were all neat and in good taste-
nothing frilly or fussy.
You know, Mom, that I've never
cared about smoking for myself-
well, when I was offered a cigarette
this afternoon, I didn't feel funny
about not accepting it, because I
think it is foolish to take one, look
absurd smoking it and not enjoy 4t
one bit, when I could see that the
sorority girls didn't really care
whether you took one or not. They
only offer cigarettes to you to be
polite, but it isn't necessary to ac-
cept them and then look and feel
uncomfortable trying to smoke.
All in all, it was a full day. sImet
loads of people, and found, as soon
as I could relax and act natural I
really had fun talking to them
Love, Joan

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Leagaliffes
By MARGARET AVERY

1Iaa4 IJOIN'S

For your social development, fullest enjoy-
ment and relaxation, we present the Michigan
League!
"Walk in past the splashing waters of the
Cooley Fountain and consult the bulletin board
by the information desk to see
>. z where your meeting is to be held.
It may be an organization meet-
ing in one of the spacious second
floor rooms-the Ethel Fountain
Hussey room, the Kalamazoo
rbom, or the Grand Rapids room.
Or maybe you're designing a
dream in cellophane for Pan-
hellenic and Assembly Ball decorations-or
draping cheesecloth over the lithesome limbs of
JGP, Frosh Project or Soph Cabaret dancers.
Then the chanices are that the bulletin will send
you two flights up to the newly decorated suites
one and two-exclusively for such creative
enterprise.
Headquarters for application for these artis-
tic and dramatic opportunities are the Under-
graduate Offices on the first floor. There you
will have a chance to file an
application and appear later in
the council room for interview-
ing. Then go to it with your
gayest ideas-painting scenery,
plotting publicity projects and,-
composing skits.
The Lydia Mendelssohni The-
atre at one end of the second ,
floor may be filled to the ca-
pacity of its 700 seats when
your show goes on. There, too,
Theatre Arts puts on its juvenile productions,
and University talent goes on exhibition through
Play Production.
At the opposite end of the corridor from the
theatre a mirrored hallway leads into the great
ballroom, scene of Panhellenic and Assembly
balls, afternoon tea dances-special annual for-
mals and class project parties. Regular dancing
classes held here give both men and women an
opportunity to brush up on the latest steps,
with members of the League dance
committee acting as teachers and
partners.
Then when your favorite danc-
ing partner whispers of a perma-

Sharp-that's the Daily Women's staff. Back
early and right on its toes. Crisp and efficient
and ready to meet every problem-we thought!
All of us having arrived by Sunday night, and
all of us being very much in bed at a late hour on
Monday morning, we were rather chagrined to
see Deani Lloyd at the door of our suite (four
beds and a bare wall) on a tour of inspection or
something of the kind. We all sort of pulled
ourselves up on our elbows, looking slightly like
the "before Alka-Seltzer" ads and everyone
alhemmed between what is commonly known as
painful silences. After about two or three min-
utes of this we mumbled something about being
back early for the Daily, trying, of course, to
look self-sacrificing the while. Dean Lloyd left
and a quavery voice asked, "Do you suppose we
should have stood up and saluted-or some-
thing?" We weren't so sharp. .. .

the little garden is also
for teas or receptions.
The open lounge at
floor stairway, known

a favorite meeting place
the head of the second
as the Concourse, gives

an opportunity for relaxation
every afternoon before supper,
as classical selections are
played from recordings. Re-
quests left with the attendant
are honored as soon as possi-
ble in the afternoon concerts.

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Every Friday and Saturday night the second
floor recordings come from the nickelodeon as
the 7-11 Club takes over for an evening of
bridge and dancing. Everybody is Welcome,
with or without partners.
Living quarters for residents and visitors are
available above the second floor, and here, too,
on the third floor, is found the well-
'-"equipped League library. In this quiet
/ room 2,400 books and magazines are
available for use from 12:30 to 9:30
J p.m. daily, either in the comfortable
lounge chairs provided, or at home
,through a liberal lending system.
Hidden away on the fourth floor
is the "cave," used for meetings, and
headquarters for the League tutorial
system. Here women who have excelled
in specific studies assist those who
have encountered scholastic difficulties for a