THE MICHIGAN DAILY M!! PATIENCE' BLOOMS: Mysterious New Plant Puzzles DiagStrollers By PAUL BRENTLINGER Is it a creature from Mars? Is it a glamourized sun lamp? These are some of the questions that ran through the minds of diag strollers as they tried to iden- ASCE Holds Annual Spring Picnic Today Michigan's student chapter of the American Society of Civil En- gineers will hold its annual spring picnic today. As last year the site of the get- together will be the farm of Prof. William Housel, of the Civil En- gineering staff. The faculty-student softball game has been scheduled as the feature of the afternoon. Those who plan to go may sign Up on the board outside Rm. 307 West Engineering Building and be on hand at 1 p.m. tomorrow when the group leaves from the parking lot at the south end of the West Engine Annex. Ticket Discount Engineers will get a 25 cent re- duction on Senior Ball tickets by presenting stub "B" of their ac- tivities cards at the time of pur- chase, Bill Gripman, president of the Engineering Council an- nounced. Tickets for the ball are now on sale at the administration building. tify the strange green and yellow creation that sprang forth in the, center of the campus yesterday' morning. DILIGENT RESEARCH finally revealed that the questionable ob- ject is merely a giant lily, which is supposed to represent the lily carried by poet Reginald Bun- thorne, leading character in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "Pa- tience." "Patience," as produced by the University's Gilbert and Sul- livan Society, will open next Thursday night at Pattengill Auditorium for a three-day stay. The lily truly plays a momen- tous role in "Patience." Bunthorne, an aesthetic poet of the first or- der, spurns the love of twenty rapturous maidens, and finds so- lace in a lily. DURING THE course of the plot, Bunthorne succumbs to the charms of one of the ladies. How- ever, as the last curtain falls, the young lady leaves poet Bun- thorne for a military man, leaving him with only his lily for comfort and company. "Patience" is being directed by Tom Wilson, who wielded the baton for Union Opera's recent production of "Froggy Bottom." Carol Neilson, Jim Ueberhorst, and Jimmie Lobaugh have leading roles in this fourth offering of the local Gilbert and Sullivan group. Tickets for "Patience" are on sale daily in the Administration Building lobby. SL Analysis Shows Bloc Voting Less Bloc voting seems to be on the way out. This was the opinion of stu- dent legislator Duane Nuechter- lein, '50BAd, in an analysis of the recent Student Legislature elec- tions made at an SL meeting. Nuechterlein told The Daily that bloc voting is not as apparent as it has been in previous elections, and more candidates were -elected by persons who knew them per- sonally, not because they were told to vote for certain candidates. * * * CANDIDATES who received the largest number of votes and were elected early in the vote count were not those who got in by the blocs, Nuechterlein said. "I believe that Panhellenic Association and its president, Mary Stierer, should get a lot of the credit for discouraging bloc voting by promoting open house in sororities, fraternities and other groups to get the vot- ers acquainted with the candi- dates," he said. This eliminated much of the blocs and gave voters a chance to vote for themselves, and next year we will work to eliminate blocs completely, he added. QUADRUPLETS BORN IN BRONX-Nurses hid two boys, while two girls lie in an incubator following the birth of quadruplets to Mrs. Ethel Collins, 27, at Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx, New York. Three extra nurses were hired to watch the babies around the clock and an extra receptionist was on hand to help handle the crowd clamoring to see the children. The father, a $72-a-week clerk in a brokerage firm, hired an attorney to take care of the flood of offers for the quads which ranged from a furnished home to a television contract. Hospital officials reported that all were doing well, but the babies and the Collins' other child were taking it most calmly. - i Dorms Take Fire Precautions Intensified fire precautions are being taken in all women's resi- dences thisfsemester,hgradually ending in fire -drills held in all women's dormitories, sororities, league houses and cooperatives. Although they are checked each year by fire precaution experts, the offices of the Dean of Women has sent out cards to every wom- en's residence asking if they de- sire additional advice from fire experts. Of the 40 cards which have been returned, only three houses have indicated that they desire fur- ther assistance. In addition, meetings have been held between house mothers and house presidents to discuss pre- caution measures. In most cases, one student has been placed in charge of the program and is re- sponsible for organizing fire drills and other precautions. L DORM NEWS (Contributors to What's Up in the Dorms column should hereafter con- tact Janet Watts at The Daily or 567 Jordon.) Spring elections and formal dances have been two of the most important topics of dormitory con- versation lately. Ande Riddell was elected presi- dent at the recent Martha Cook elections. Other officers selected at the same time are Adele Hager, vice president and social chair- man; Diane Constand, secretary; Tal Hoyt, treasurer; and Marian Hardy and Donna Billington, sen- ior and junior representatives to the house board. * * * THE VIGOROUS campaigning before the election was climaxed with an election night parade down the fourth floor corridor to the front door. Tyler House held its house elections Thursday night with 89 per cent of the house residents voting. Al Atwood was named president with Alex McKeen se- lected as East Quad representa- tive. By Robert Starling 7Te USIC CE TER YhiC. p re e.n Li TELVIPIO TELEVISION Crp, /3tA.5OCTh. * "You understand, of course, under actual flying condiions you would lgore 'the edge of the blackboard." Why Not Start Flying This Weekend? Just $6 gets you in the air for your first lesson. Jordan scheduled Hall's elections are for next Thursday. 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