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League, Uniorn
Operate Joint
Book Ecag
Books Taken In At Both Booths
Are Sold At Union This Week;
Freshman Texts In Demand
Starting up again after an interim
of three years, the League, under the
direction of Mary Moore, '43Ed, is
operating a book exchange in cooper-
ation with the Union from 8 a. m. till
5:30 p. m. every day until Saturday,
when business will end at noon.
A booth was installed in the League
lobby last Saturday, to take in books,
but was closed this week, so that
there would be only one point at
which the books would be sold. Any
books to be handed in this week must
be taken to the third floor lobby in
the Union.
Does, Brisk Business
Though the c-ntire Exchange or-
ganization got off to a flying start b3
doing a thousand dollars worth of
business Saturday and Monday, ac-
tivity was very slow in the League.
This, according to Dick Ford, '44
Union chairman of the Exchange,
was due to noor support from the
University women.
"League women, however, have co-
operated wonderfully-better than
the Union in certain aspects," he
emphasized.
Books In Demand
The demand for books at the Ex-
change has been too great for it to
fill, freshman texts being especially
needed. Other books which have been
in demand are all engineering texts,
books for all English courses, and for
all mathematics courses. "Growth of
European Civilization", "Inductive
Readings for College Study", "Ana-
lytic Geometry", "Basic Spanish",
and "Beginning German" have been
especially called for.
.,Only books for the first semester
cdurses are being handled by the E-,
change and no charge will be made if'
a book is not sold.
Checks will be mailed to students
ipmediately after the close of the
Exchange.
Back To The Babushka
A variation of that fringed babush-
ka you wore last, winter is the ker-?
chief with a draw string. It keeps Ann
Arbor rain out of the back of your
neck and looks pleasantly pioneerish.
You can get mittens and reticule to
mhatch.
Little silver frying-pans and cart-
Wheel ear-rings are making their de-
but on fashionable ears this season.
Right For Rushing
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Although rushing is on a more
informal plane this year than pre-
vious years, (C est la guerre, of
course), there are still fast and un-
changing "little unwritten rules"
about what is.wornwhere which
will still be observed.
You've all gotten through the
initial tea so any advice on that
would be extraneous. The next barL.
rier to 'e hurdled isi the "coffee"
following 'dinner (which you will
eat e1sewhere, please) -to that the
so-called (in. the best of college is-
sues) soft 'wool dress and high
heeled sport- shoes is the o t ap-'
propriate outfit (that we can"think
of at the moment -anyhow)
And then will comni the luncheon
betore the game on saturday. Feel
free to wear to that function ex-;
actly what you would wear to the
game ,but make it sporty and neat.
If you're the lucky one, you will
then be faced with what to wear to
the' informal dinner".'. : paradoxi-
cal with its title, you will dress to
kill in your slickest silk or dressy
wool .Lots of luck and what to wear
for your first pledge meeting is ma-
terial for another article:
COME, COME, GIRLS:
BWOC Bingo Doesn't Add Up
To Proper Definition Of Orientation
SOME 800 WOMEN were influenced in the course of last
week by some 15 or so BWOC's-influenced toward the
League as a social organ, not as a fairly war-conscious organization.
They were told in man; ways by the BWOC's in person that if
they work hard, yes their superiors, be nice and cheerful and again,
work hard, maybe some day they will be-and we murmur the words
reverently-a Big Woman On Campus too. In other words: "It was
a tough fight, Momma, but I won."
In groups of 15 to 30 women, these new-comers "became orien-
tated" to this campus by simply allowing themselves to be herded into
various rooms where they were given the privilege of meeting each
-BWOC individually and by carefully drinking in each word, they had
pretty well mapped out their climb-the-ladder-into-a-senior-job
course.
If that wasn't enough, they were prodded -back into the ballroom
where they were invited to partake in a game of Bingo. But in the
place of the usual numbers or letters were the names and positions of
the aforementioned BWOC's. The freshmen and transfers listened
carefully to the names being called out and obediently covered the
corresponding ones on their boards.
IF ANY NEWCOMER escaped this actually ridiculous influence,, it
is indeed a surprise.
When all effort and energy should be mobilized toward some goal
congruous with the times, the freshmen are impressed with the im-
portance of selling candy between hours in University Hall and paint-
ing posters hour upon hour in Suite 1 or 2 of the League.
This is not an out and out attack on the League as an organiza-
tion nor is it a dogmatic criticism of orientation activities, nor again is
it meant to antagonize anyone. We are simply bewildered-we want
to know why this outlandish, disgusting performance on the specific
occasions we have just mentioned.
We can't understand why such activities are not abandoned for
the duration. The League is a large organization, efficiently organized
and headed by sensible, clear-thinking women who from all indica-
tion are seriously war-minded and are doing all in their power to
further the war effort on the University campus.
BUT DESPITE ALL THAT, utterly stupid things do manage to slip
in. We honestly feel that the particular instances cited did slip in
somehow because, after talking to numerous orientation advisers and
after even pinning down some of the BWOC's, we discovered that ac-
tually they too realized how all wrong it was. And yet nothing is
done about it.
In other words, the "brains" of the campus are not steering 800
women in the right direction.
The League is directing and has for years, the surplus energies of
the coeds. Shiny names and coveted positions are a means of organiz-
ing the extra energies of hundreds of women to some sort of ad-
vantage-of giving them a definite incentive.
The big name is the incentive. But that must be forgotten now
when every hour counts and should be utilized as much as possible in
the total war effort. If anything, persons with influence on the cam-
pus should use this as a tool to lead others toward the goal of all-out
participation.
UTNDER.THE DIRECTION of such a capable woman as Miss Ethel
McCormick, new adviser to women on the war program, the Mich-
igan League, is the center of women's activities, can be a powerful in-
strument in the war effort.
We would like to see the heads of the various League committees
(the League council) heading branches of the Red Cross, CDVO, OCD,
etc. We should like to see the League turned into a' building for
women in war work, where women can still work on the League
committees, but committees in war-dress.
We feel it is about time people stopped admitting mistakes and
conceding to criticism and started doing things differently. A repe-
tition of last week's unfortunate lack of judgment is below the intelli-
gence of Michigan women. -Barbara de Fries
Betty Harvey
'Symphony In Rhythm'
Charms Record Crowd-
Take a bit of the "sweet" and a
bit of the "hot", add a dash of rhy-
thm, an augmented saxophone sec-
tion, a number of brand new arrange-
ments and the result will be Bill Saw-
yer's new, band, a "Symphony in
Rhythm", which plays every Friday
and Saturday at the weekly Union
dances.
The Saxophone section has been
enlarged by the addition of a bass
saxophone and a soprano saxophone.
Both instruments will be featured in
novelty arrangements.
"Boy Wonder" Joins Band
Planning to give Louis Armstrong
and Bix Beiderbecke some keen com-
petition is a fourteen year old "Boy
Wonder", whom Sawyer found in
Buffalo, New York. Living with one
of the fellows in the band, he is now
attending Ypsilanti Grade School.
The youth's small stature is no han-
dicap when it comes to the question
of putting power behind that trum-
pet: "One O'Clock Jump" has taken
on new significance as a specialty
number, when the "Boy Wonder"
.takes over the solo interludes.
Gwen Cooper, who was featured
with Bill Sawyer's band last season,
will continue as his vocalist. Billy
Layton will take over the duties of
male vocalist in the band, replacing
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Al Burt, who has gone into the armed
forces. Dave Falvay, who carried the
trombone solos last year, will con-
tinue in that capacity during the
present season.T
Record Crowd Attends Dance
Sawyer has been working all sum-
mer on new solos for the celeste. They
will be introduced this fall.
The Friday and Saturday dances
of last week-end, the first of this sea-
son, were attended by record crowds.
Approximately six hundred couples
attended the. dance Saturday, which
came close to establishing a new high1
in attendance.#
To complete the picture of new fea-
tures the bandstand itself has been
remodeled in white.
Serving in the taproom of the Un-
ion during intermission will be con-
dnued as in previous years.
Shipments Lower
NEW YORK, Oct. 5- (AP)- The
National Association of Hosiery Man-
ufacturers reported today that ship-
ments of all types of hosiery during
August amounted to 12,118,397 dozen
pairs, against 13,785,394 dozen pairs
in August, 1941. Shipments of full-
fashioned hosiery were 28/2 per cent
tower than last year.
Glee Club To Meet;
Trials For Women
Vocalists To Begin
All old members of the University
Women's Glee Club are urged to meet
at 3:30 p. m. today in the Kalamazoo
Room in the League to help formu-
late plans for the coming year.
Try-outs are also asked to come
from 3:30 p. m. to 4:30 p. m. tomor-
row and Thursday. All upper-class-
men are eligible to try for member-
ship, and plenty of fun as well as good
training is promised by the organiza-
tion's president, Margaret Gardner,
'42Ed.
Date for the first rehearsal will be
4 p. m. Friday, Oct. 9, in the Kala-
mazoo Room.
The Glee Club's schedule promises
to be full this year. Last year it sang
classical and popular arrangements
at Fort Custer, the Union and Ann
Arbor churches.
See the women's editorial page,
page 4, of the supplement included
in this issue to get the women's
point of view on subjects pertinent
to the times. See also the front
page of the supplement for the
reorganized program of the Michi-
gan League. Editorials will be'a
regular feature of the women's
page and will be basedoil observa-
tions of the staff membersas wel
as on comments, critieisms and
demands brought to the attention
of the staff by outsiders.
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CONTEMPORA R/ES
Come to the Campus
Try-Outs To Meet
At 4:15 Tomorrow
With Women's Staff
A meeting for freshman and sopho-
more try-outs on the Michigan Daily
Women's Page will be held at 4:15
p. m. tomorrow in the'outer editorial
room of the Publications Building.
Anyone who wishes to work on the
staff must be present at that time as
beats for coverage of organizations
and WAA will be distributed and the
work explained.
Daily organization will be consid-
erably changed this year because of
the confusion caused by a third se-
mester and a shortage of help. In-
stead of being promoted according to
class or length of service, staff mem-
bers will receive salaried appoint-
ments according to ability and merit.
This means that juniors will not re-
ceive precedence over sophomores
when a vacancy in the staff occurs.
Olga Gruhzit:
Alpha Phi; Editor-in-
Chief, Gargoyle; Past
Wyvern; Scroll; Lea-
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