"THE MICHIGAIN fAIVY SUNDAY FEBRUTARY 21, 1 t Visits E ngineering School I 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. A 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. LN 11 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. -9 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 An s~ I 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. k ~ a ? ": y ye ..,,. trs"