I _./ i WOMEN'S SECTION L Sir A tiattij WOMEN'S SECTION ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1941 Annual Program To Be Sponsored By Senior Society Chinese National Day Selected For 'Double Ten' Benefit Ball Sorority Functioi Dormitories, League Houses Will Hold informal Parties For Independent Fortnight Society Will Tap Five Directs Assembly Women At Banquet Independent Fortnight, held each year during the two weeks before As- sembly Banquet, will be sponsored this fall by Senior Society, from Oct. 28 to Nov. 10 inclusive. It is during these two weeks that every member of Senior Society works to increase the attendance at the banquet. To cary out the program which they have planned this year, mem- bers of the society will be divided ui into three groups, each of which will take care of one of the three branches of Assembly. These three branches are the dormitories, the League houses, and Beta Kappa Rho, an or- ganization for women working here in Ann Arbor and also attending school. To Hold Parties In the dormitories during the Fort- night, there'will be a party held after hours for the residents of the hall. The program, which will consist of skits, dances or games, is planned by' the members of Senior Society which have that particular group. These women will also sell the residents of the dormitory what their standing is in relation to the activities offered on campus, and give them informa- tion as to how to improve that stand- ing. Certain other members of Seniort Society will be in charge of the pro- gram for the League Houses. Theset women will plan a gathering of they League House residents, excluding those hying in sorority annexes. Betat Kappa Rho members will also be en-1 tertained by a party planned fory them by the honorary society. I Banquet To Be No. 10r When this campaign for better at-s tendance at the Assembly Banquet, anyl more unity among the indepen-I dent women, is over, the banquet it- self will take place, Nov. 10. During this event Senior Society will tap fiveI additional members to be added tot its present roll. ,I " independent Fortnight will actu- ally continue throughout the year as far as League Houses go, in order to1 increase activity in that group," said Rosebud Scott, '42. During the re-f mainder of the year Assembly will also present its annual ChristmasI Dance, which is informal, and later in the year, AssemblyBall.I Society History1 Senior Society was oiganized in1 1906 and was one of the first, groups of women to start sponsoring activ- ities on campus, When Independentt Fortnight first started, the Society sponsored much of the entertainment provided for freshmen, most of which has now been taken over by the Ori- entation Program.3 Dean Alice Lloyd and Miss Marie, Hartwig are the faculty advisers of Senior Society. .There is also a plan under way to include some of the alumnae of the Society as advisers. Members of the honorary group this year are president Miss Scott; vice-president, Jean Krise; secretary, Donna Baisch; 'treasurer, Pearl Brown; and the following women: Doris Cuthbert, Peg Sanford, Emilie Root, Betty Walker, Dorothy Ander- son, Peg Polumbaum, Elizabeth Luck- ham, Mary Virginia Mitchell, Mildred Curtis, Jean Hubbard, and Rhoda Leshine. Coke Bar At Union Enters Third Year As Campus Mixer For the third consecutive year, the Union Coke Bar will be held each Tuesday afternoon from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., beginning the first Tuesday after the last football game. Dancing will be held in the small ballroom and coffee, tea, cokes and cookies will be served out on the ter- race. In case there are any who wish to play bridge, tables will also be set up on the terrace. , Each week, a few campus groups (sororities, fraternities, dormitories and league houses) are presented e i. c g c c ,,.c t t x I t k Y a f i s t c JEAN HUBBARD Chinese Music Arrangements, Oriental Style Show Planned; Door Prizes To Be Offered On the 10th day of the 10th month, exactly 30 years after the shot at Wu Chang that marked the found- ing of the Chinese republic, Ameri- can and Chinese couples at Michi- gan will gather in the League from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. for the first formal dance of the season, "Double Ten.'' Fifty million war victims on the other side of the Pacific will observe the national holiday in refugee shel- ters and demolished cities. For the relief of these, proceeds from the Double Ten Ball will be contributed to the United China Relief Fund. Oriental Music Planned Not only current popular songs, but also ancient Chinese melodies arranged for dancing will be offered by Glenn Miller's brother, Herb, and his orchestra. Oriental love songs are to be interpreted in plaintive ori- ental style by a Chinese vocalist, and interspersed with American vocal selections. Throughout the ball American culture will be contrasted and interwoven with Chinese as a symbol of goodwill between the na- tions. Among the door prizes to 'be given out are a lady's Mandarin jacket, a woven Chinese tapestry, an embroid- ered bhg, and other hand-fashioned Chinese gifts. Favors for, all couples will be the programs designed in ori- ental style with Chinese characters and motifs. Chinese Models To'Parade Fashions of China from the 14th, 17th and 19th centuries down to present day dress will be paraded by Chinese models during the intermis- sion. Lynn-Lee Shew, Chicago ex- pert on Chinese fashion, will lend her authority for the arrangement and direction of the show. Chinese lettered scrolls hung on the wall, and other oriental decora- tions will provide atmosphere, and Chinese couples will be urged to come in costume rather than American for- mal dress. Moving among the dan- cers they will illustrate the mingling of cultures symbolized by the huge Chinese and American flags to flank the central background of the diaz. Lim-Yuen Is Chairman Paul Lim-Yuen, '43, general chair- man of the Double Ten Ball, is assist- ed by Isabelle Chao, Grad.; Ray- mond Chen, '44, Lois Wang, Grad.; David Liang, Grad., ,and Cheng K. Tseng, Grad., as vice-chairmen. Decoration chairman is Philip Chu, '42A, while Che Tang, '43E, is in charge of publicity and Robert Chang, Grad, is ticket chairman. They will be supported for ticket sales and models by University Chi- nese students, the largest group from China on any campus in North Amer- ica. Details of ticket purchasing will be announced in the near future. The idea for "Double Ten" was conceived this fall when the Chinese Student group pondered over the problem of gathering funds to be contributed to United China Relief's nation-wide drive under progress at present. In order to take advantage of the appropriate date, combining celebration of the national holiday with the benefit drive, plans for the ball have been compiled in a shorter period of time than ordinarily al- lowed for a large dance, and may be enlarged or slightly changed. As' For Rushees Pause And Ponder Maps SOS! Record Fall Rushing. Period ns Open Register Rooms 1942 JUPE Script Contest Remains Open Central Committee Sets Rules Specifying Two-Act Play, With Few Male Roles1 By BARBARA DeFRIES Each year, some lucky person gets t $100. And all for doing nothing moret than weaving a script for the Junior Girls' Play out of an idea. Wouldr you like to try?-c Of course, if you begin now you'll have to overcome the three months head start of your competitors butt you have until Nov. 1 and that's am- ple time.. However, the central com- mittee of JGP will expect a briefI synopsis of your play before you turne in the finished product, so they'll have some idea of what to expect. 'Musts' For Play There are a few rigid requirements1 which we will dispose of next and then maybe some of our off-the- record suggestions might help you on your way. The play must con- sist of two acts, with the first act_ longer than the second and with the climax coming at the end of the first. For obvious reasons, the fewer male characters the better. There should be many character parts pro- vided-to keep the class clowns hap- py-and from 18 to 20 speaking parts, a minimum of straight parts and absolutely no love scenes. The latter requirement is important be- cause there just isn't anything corn- ier than a feeble love scene. To Add Zip! Extra zip may be added by allow- ing plenty of room for dance chor- uses, vocal numbers and solos and opportunities for original songs and musical arrangements. Concerning plots, it seems that campus and fu- turistic settings are a bit weather- beaten, so stay clear on anything that might as much as border on them. Incidentally, if ,you're at all musi- cally minded, youmight try your hand at writing an original tune. The mere fact that you've never played an in- strument in your life or warbled in a church choir, is most irrelevant. All you need is a bare tune or a few lyrics and a mus°school frien will take care of the technical details. To The Winner! Now back to the prize business. Winner will receive $100 or a round trip, all-expense paid trip to New York, including theatre tickets and passes to other parts of the "night life." For a week you can live like a king (or queen) on the JGP commit- tee or you can pocket the $100 and later buy a U.S. Baby Bond. In case of collaboration, which is not only permitted but encouraged, the . co-authors may split the money or 4f there are more than two, they will be awarded tickets to out- standing campus affairs, such as J-Hop. May Festival, Choral Union, or the Oratorical Series. a[D ilyTryout Meeting For Women Stil .Lacki ng Even before the summer had start- ed it was pretty clear to any girl planning to go to Michigan State College that it would be a tough fight, maw, for a dorm. In fact, if a person even had a telephone booth two or three miles from campus she was considered the luckiest of crea- tures. There was one report of a prospective State coed who couldn't get accommodations, saying wistfully that she envied a friend who was "fifteenth on a waiting list for a recreation room!" The housing problem at State has gotten steadily worse, but Michigan students no longer chortle; they hae a situation of their own, now. Ann Arbor is finding it hard to turn up enough nooms for an unprecedented rush of freshman women. Expansions in established league houses are being made, as far as it has been possible, and the number of the houses, themselves have almost doubled. Last year, the Office of the Dean of Women listed 33 houses and this year, the list has swelled to 60. Emulating State's trick of turning "rec" rooms into at least temporary dormitory accommodations, women's residence halls here are putting their council rooms to use in the same manner. The bitter thing about the whole business, of course, is that it is the women's accommodations which are scarce. With 200 more women than men entering the literary school this year, the older gals of the upper classes are preparing their holes for hibernation and all the men of all the classes are looking forward to a banner year. 660 Freshmen Marcia Sharpe, Barbara Brown and Marilyn Moser stop to puzzle over a campus map before proceeding to the sorority houses for rushing parties, which continue this week and next. H illel Foundation Makes Plans' For Full Year's SocialProgram Pei ti sPommesdeTerre The social season, as we blue bloods call it, has started, you lucky people, and from this day, henceforth, the campus will be just one gay, mad whirl of collegiate fun-(it says here.) You know how it will be-you've seen it often enough in the movies, haven't you? There will be tremendous crowds going to tremendous football game, at which the boy with the broken ankle Hillel Foundation, social and re- ligious center for Jewish students on campus, has planned a full socialt program for the coming year, Robert3 Warner, '43, student director of the foundation announced. Opep house after the sun has set on the Day of Atonement, at 8 p.m. tomorrow, will be held at the Founda- tion. Refreshments and dancingI will be on the program, Sylvia Fore- man, '43, and Robert Morrison, '43, co-chairmen of the social committee, said.< , First 'P.M.' Thursday The first afternoon "P.M."-a weekly affair including dancing, re-' freshments, ping-pong, bridge and record playing will be given at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Foundation.' Conservative services read by Jack Lewin-Epstein, Herbert London and David Krohn will be held at 7:45 p.m. Friday, after which Hillel leaders will lead a fireside discussion. Both "P.M.'s" and Friday evening services and chats are a regular feature on Hillel's program. Membership Drive To launch this year's membership drive ,a luncheon will be held at 12:15 p.m. Saturday at the Union for all those participating in the drive. Materials and information will be distributed to all committee members at that time. Following the Michigan vs. Iowa game, Saturday, Hillel will hold open house with refreshments and danc- ing and for the entire football sea- son, open houses will be held after every game and during every #game away. To Hold Succoth Party A party in honor of the Succoth holidays is scheduled for 8 p.m. Sun- day at the Foundation; there will be Assembly To Give Tea For Freshmen, Transfer Stodents Assembly, independent women's organization, will entertain fresh- manand transfer orientation groups with their advisers at a tea to be given at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in the League. Following tea the groups will proceed together to the last formal function of orientation, Dean Lloyd's address at 5 p.m. in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Independent sophomore or upper- class women who are not acquainted with Assembly activities are invited to attend the tea as well as freshmen and transfer orientation 'groups, an- nounced Jean Hubbard, '42, president of Assembly. They may join the orientation groups in the League Ballroom any time from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., at which time they will have an opportunity to meet Assembly of- ficers, and make any inquiries about the activities of independent women. Informal functions designed to help orient freshmen will continue next week with the first of the PACI t~n. riA~nr r Pi pa *~ Mfr~fihmn dances, songs, and refreshments. An- other social event in the offing is a membership mixer planned for 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16. A gala jamboree in honor of the Michigan State Hillel group, who will be visiting that day, is planned for Dec. 6. A debate, a basketball game. tour of campus and a dinner will precede the culmination of the cele- bration in the annual Fall Frolic to be given in the evening at the League. Important plans for second semes- ter social activities include the Hillel Player's major production to be given at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre sometime in MVarch, and the annual Spring Formal which will take place at the League in May. A pre-membership mixer last Sat- urday at Lane Hall was the first item on the social list for Hillel. 48 Women Fill Campus Coops Entry Application Is Detailed; Need, Scholarship, Important In league with the times is the Michigan campus with its fairly re- cent cooperative movement, and the women are right in step with the men in recognizing this practical method of getting a college educa- tion. Three women's cooperative houses on this campus house 48 women, all of whom are very carefully picked to fill these responsible positions. Reg- istration application for entry into the houses is very detailed, with special emphasis on scholarship rat- ings, need, and ability to assist in management and household care. Followed Men's Example The women's cooperative move- ment followed closely upon the men's, beginning about two years after the first actual cooperative liv- ing quarters had been set up. Pre- vious to this, there had been coop- erative eating establishments, the oldest of which had its beginning in Lane Hall, and has now evolved into the Wolverine Restaurant. First of the women's cooperatives was the Alice Freeman Palmer house, begun in 1936. This was fol- lowed by the Catherine Pickerell house, in 1939, with the Muriel Les- ter house coming into existence dur- ing the last school year. Sophomores Eligible Women who have made good scho- lastic records are eligible, their sec- ond year on campus, to join a coop- erative house. These houses are un- der the same student government plan as the League houses, and are counted as League houses. Each house has a chaperon, chosen by the women residents, and approved by Entertaining To Be Continued With Desserts And Dinners Throughout Next Week Women Representatives Of Numerous Colleges. Approximately 660 women, the largest group ever to register for :ushing at the University, will attend lesserts today at the 19 sorority louses on campus. The rushees, in- Jluding both freshmen and transfers, ire taking part in the period of for- nal rushing now underway, which vill be climaxed by pledging Sunday, Dct. 12. Formal rushing will continue this veek and next with the sororities en- ertaining at desserts from 7:30 p.m. ;o 9:30 p.m. today, tomorrow, Thurs- lay, Friday, and Monday, buffet sup- >ers and breakfasts Saturday and Sunday, and formal dinners on the ollowing Wednesday and Thursday, ifter which a silence period between sorority and non-sorority members vill precede pledging. May Still Register Although the registration booth vhich Panhellenic Association oper- ted in the League lobby throughout *rientation Week is now closed, reshmen and transfers who desireto >e rushed during the present period >f intensive rushing may see-Virginia Osgood, '41,, in Miss McCormick's of- fice in the League during this week. According to Patricia Hadley, '42, president of Panhellenic; women may attend initial teas upon invitation without having registered for rush- ing, but they must pay the registra- ion fee 'at the League before any iorority is permitted to invite them ,, a second function. Come From Far And Wide The majority of rushees are resi- lents .of Michigan, with near-by states well-represented. There are ilso women registered from such re- note parts of the country as Arizona, Texas, California, Maine and Florida. To represent the distant territories >f the United States are three women .rom Oahu, Hawaii; Manila in the Philippines, and Anchorage, Alaska. As evidence of the growing bonad between Latin America and the Jnited States, particularly in regard to the exchange of students are two ;women. One is coming to the Uni- iersity from Santiago, Chile, while ,he other has lived in Aruba in the Netherlands West Indies, the island being situated off the coast of Ven- ezuela. Many Transfers A large number of junior colleges ind colleges are represented by the Transfer women who have registered nor rushing. Among the colleges are Albion,. Alma, Antioch, Arizona, Car- eton, Chicago, Columbia, Denison, DePauw, Duke, Hofstra Hollins, :Iood, Illinois, and Kalamazoo. Also Marygrove, Michigan ; State, Dberlin, Randolph-Macon, Rockford, Smith, Stanford, Texas, Wayne, Wheaton, Wooster, and Vassar. Wo- mnen have also transferred to Michi- ;an from Briarcliff, Colby, Flint, brand Rapids, National Park, Penn EIall, Pine Manor and Stephens jun- or colleges. Following this period of intensive rushing there will be an opportunity for women who are still interested to register for informal rushing which will continue throughout the semes- ter. This will be announced at a later date. Wyvern, Alumnae croup To Be Guests At Tea Next Tuesday Alumnae scholars of the freshman ,lass will join members of Wyvern, junior women's honor society, at tea oext Tuesday as guests of Dean Byerl Bacher. The purpose of the meeting will be for the scholars and juniors to get together for personal greetings and discussion following summer cor- respondence and informal meetings between individuals. After meeting in the lobby of the League at 4 p.m. they will proceed to- gether to Miss Bacher's home. Those who will be detained by classes until .. a. ^:t $ r t . 'L ,,, a '?c Fir', ,_ 2 ' v -- 'tr a ; ; . x. { will kick the winning field goal in the last % second of the game. There will be gigantic fraternity parties where a gorgeous coed whom, strangely, no one has noticed before, will break into some remarkable bit of hoofing and become the belle of the ball. And there will certainly be a lagoon where everyone canoes madly about, and 20 violin-orchestras play with a Kostelanitz effectiveness and where your date, naturally will rip off a chorus 'or so of the dark horse on the hit parade, in a rather tired tenor voice. Michigan's In The Swing!... We are quoting these little items so that in the future, when we mention some brilliant social event you will realize that Michigan, too, overlooks nothing. All these will be present. If they're not, don't blame us.. We believe what we see in the movies. But, in the meantime, Aunt Cobina feels that she should give you one more little heart-to-heart talk. (It's clear we've been seeing too much of the Hardy Family) with a garnish of her usual splendid advice, before allowing you to edge into / the crool campus on your own, as it were. We decided that the most malignant of current social affairs should be torn apart and shown in- all its horror as our final gesture to etiquette at sZ . Michigan. / Well, sisters, we didn't have to take any Gal- .. j lup polls as to what fits that malignant bill; for sheer sad apples the "mixer" (or, as we call it, back in Skunk Hollow, more simply, "Sadie Haw-, kins Day") certainly takes the biscuit. It is a pretty generally recognized fact that "mixers" are- beyond human aid, but if we join the scouts m = I ..-',. ;i nr th