"THE MICHIGAIN fAIVY
SUNDAY FEBRUTARY 21, 1 t
Visits
E ngineering
School
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NEVER STUMPED-Robert Skultad drives home a vital point during an outdoor meeting of Sigma
Rho Tau, the Stump Speakers' Society. With a good debate record behind them, the Stump Speak-
ers take special delight in besting lawyers, the engineers' traditional enemies.
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TWO 111UNDRED TO ONE-Bravely facing the overwhelming
male-to-female ratio in engineering school, Helen Striho operates
a machine lath as Roderick Tipping records data. Data-taking
isn't usually as interesting as Tipping seems to find it, according
to most engineers.
Slide Rule Expose
WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE--Members of the Engineering Honor Council carefully examine blue-
books belonging to students accused of violating the Honor Code. Those found guilty of cheating
are subject to disciplinary action ranging from an official warning to suspension from the Univer-
sity. Members of the Council (left to right) are Andrew Turner, Ned Hess, Hugh Kennedy, Bruce
Lockwood, Donald Barnett, Robert Preston and IRchard Allen.
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According to statistics, every
fifth person in the world is Chi-
nese and every fifth student at the
University is an engineer.
But while the world has come to
know and understand the Chi-
nese, the average University stu-
dent still regards the engineer as
a mysterious being who lives en-
tirely by the slide-rule.
"TOO MANY PEOPLE kid us
"bout our slide-rules,' a harried-
looking senior engineer com-f
plained. "They don't seem to real-
ize that, without them, an engi
neer would be lucky to graduate
in eight years," he added.
"If we appear to be sociallyz
backward," another explained,
"It's because we find our time
completely taken up by our ed-
ucation."
"We can't afford the time to
attend social functions all day
long-like the lawyers do," he
sneered.
SO CAME INTO THE o %he
traditional rivalry which has ex-
isted for years between engineers
and lawyers. Its exact origin is
lost in antiquity, but history re-
cords many pitched battles, mid-
night raids, and attempts to block-
ade the Engineering Arch.. . .
Engineering societies, a few
of which are pictured on this
page, when placed end-to-end,
would stretch from Ann Arbor
to (as engineers say) infinity.
No one has ever attempted to
compile a complete list of these
letter groups but, according to
an expert, there are approxi-
niately two for every one engi-
neer.
Notwithstanding their heavy
classroom and laboratory load,
many engineers have debunked
popular misconceptions by becom-
Sing prominent in all-campus ac-
tivities. The rosters of many great
Michigan teams have been studded
with the names of engineering
students. Engineers have been ap-
pointed to the Mens' Judiciary
Committee and elected to the Stu-
dent Legislature and the Board
in Control of Student Publica-
tions.
SEVERAL ENGINEERS have
headed the Inter-Fraternity Coun-
cil and a former managing editor
of The Daily called the East En-
gnieering Building his 'home.
The College of Engineering will
be thrown open to the entire cam-
pus during the Engineering Open
House scheduled for April 22. All
the complicated apparatus about
which the engineers speak so rev-
erently will be placed on display
along with those strange crea-
tures, the engineers themselves.
Visit the engineering school on
April 22 and see for yourself how
the other fifth lives.
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THE
MICH IGAN
DAILY
PICTURE
PAGE
Photographs
by
BILL OHLINGER
Edited
by
LEON JAROFF
MYTH DEBUNKED-Belying the fable that engineers cannot
read, these future technicians crowd the library in the West Engi-
necring Bldg. Current and choice are technical journals, mathe-
matics texts and the works of Plato.
LABORATORY SPECIMENS-Engineering s tudents gain practical experience during long,
and *:ometimes grueling, laboratory sessions. Above, "electricals" take advantage of their
well-eiuipped labs to master the idiosyncracies of the electron.
FAMlLIAR SCENE-No place on campus is safe from invasion by
fledgling surveyors-not even President Ruthven's front lawn,
wiihei e Robert Rausche and Maurice Merlau have set up their level.
Rausche is sighting in the general direction of Martha Cook resi-
dence hall while Merlau records his observations.
AWEIGJI-An accurate, scale model o f a cargo ship cuts through the water in te en-
chool's 300-foot naval tank while John Ku (ltft) and Edward Stewart observe wave for-
'he model is suspended from a traveling tow-car which crosses the tank at any required
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TECHNIC TE (IINIQIiE-Informality is the keynote in the editorial office of the Michigan Technic.
Discussing plans for the February issue are (left 1o right) Robert Giglilo, David Peterson, Editor Jim
Chandler, Iichard Ilumes, Robert Ford and David Stein.
Tech iniic (nitiiniies P iiblicatioii
Despite Loss of Sales Booth
One of the more familiar sights
on campus until last December
was the makeshift booth which
graced the entrance to the Engi-
neering Arch whenever the MICH-
IGAN TECHNIC went on sale.
several law books were found on
the scene of the cime.)
Despite. its great loss, the
TECHNIC staff has continued to
publish its slick-paper, profes-
sional-looking magazine.
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