EIGHlT TIIE MICHIGAN DAILY -, V I SCORCHED SKIN' POLICY: Pale People Quit Hovels To Bathe in Rooftop Sunshine By HERB ROVNER Wibh final doldrums and thoughts cf the coming monsoon pushed aside, coeds are taking advantage of King Sol this week atop roofs of dormitories and sorority houses. Clad in the latest beach styles, coeds are sunning themselves and playing bridge on sun decks, while their books lie untouched in aban- doned rooms. * * * IF MICHIGAN weather stays true to form, however, the sun- shine interval is only the "lull be- fore the storm" and will be re- placed by steady rainfall. Raincoats and boots will be- come the fashion and bathing suits, which are briefer than ever to allow a maximum of sun, wil again be stored in drawers and trunks and drawers. Men, too, were not indifferent to the shining sun. East and West Quad men were already crowding their respective sun decks, anxious to soak up vitamin-filled sunshine. * * * WITH THE WOMEN, however, the sun was not all"a matter of health. New pastel spring formals as well as bathing suits can look their best only if the wearer has a deep suntan. Mosher- Jordan women have been forced to resort to the Wo- men's Athletic Building and the lawns behind their dorm, since neither house boasts of a sun- deck. Women who for the last few weeks have surreptitiously been trying to get sun tans on the roof of the New Women's Dormitory, were chagrined when told that be- cause of the lack of railing protec- -Daily-Alex Lmanlan SUN WORSHIPERS-Some of the many women who have flocked to dormitory apd sorority house sun decks for their daily ration of vitamin D are pictured above in appropriate attire. Women from Stockwell and Helen Newberry enjoy hours of relaxation in the sun on their own sun porches, but other women are forced to retreat to the Women's Athletic Building or their own lawns. Activities on deck range from card playing and listening to music via radio or victrola, to the last minute writing of term papers. * * * I* * * I * * * tion, the roof could not be used as a sun deck. * * * HEALTH SERVICE officials sug- gested that students should be cautious as to time spent in the sun each day. Although the ef- fects of too much sunshine vary with the individuals, they said, heat prostration or fainting spells can frequently result from over- exposure. They also warned women to be careful in their use of sun lamps. Some women have been badly burned when they fell asleep under the lamps, they said. union Co-op Is Described B Reuther "Once Co-ops bridge the gap between rural and industrial areas, the whole character of our demo- cratic way of life will undergo a wholesome change," Victor Reu- ther, UAW educational director said here yesterday. Speaking before an afternoon conference session of the Midwest Federation of Campus Coopera- tives, Reuther outlined the de- velopment of co-ops in UAW locals throughout the central states. HE SAID THAT the co-ops have grown from purely union estab- lishments selling groceries only on weekends, into large wholesale outlets open to the entire com- munity in several Michigan cities. "Our sole objective is to get the highest quality merchandise at the lowest possible prices for our people," he said. Reuther said that eventually they hope to expand the co-ops into huge one-stop shopping cen- ters selling clothing, coal, fuel oil, gas and electrical appliances, as well as food products. * * ** ONCE YOU democratize the co- op movement back to the process- ing industries the benefits will be even more tremendous," he added. He pointed out that "people are not easily excited by the ideolog- ical values of co-ops and they must be competitive if they are to succeed." Housing Bias (Continued from Page 1) third major group which finds it- self a frequent object of discrim- ination. One landlady whom I phoned about a room asked if I were Jewish. "Not that I have anything against Jews," she said, "but I don't think Jews and Christians should mix." When I jokingly told her I was an atheist, she abruptly hung up. MRS. ESTHER C. Griffin, Ad- ministrative Assistant in charge of the off-campus housing section in the Office of Student Affairs, said that the Office has no ruling prohibiting the listing on its bul- letin board of the rooms of land- ladies who openly state discrim- inatory restrictions. The Office, though, will not state the restrictions on the room announcements which it lists on the bulletin board, she added. Rooms for Negroes how- ever, are so indicated on bulle- tin board announcements. Asked what action, if any, the Office of Student Affairs would take if a student reported that a landlady whose room was listed in the Office had openly refused to rent to him because of his race or religion, Mrs. Griffin replied that no complaint of this nature had ever been received. Mrs. Griffin said that race or religion play no part in the ac- ceptance of residents at Willow Village, University Terrace, or the Veterans Housing Project, all un- der University jurisdiction. Davies Defends Screen Writing By JANET WATTS Some of the best screen writing The run-of-the-mill screen play is not dialogue; it's stage direr- is better written than the average tis for ial fet," ht e de- general piece of fiction. toa for visual effect, he de- That's the opinion of of Valen- tine Davies, who wrote the movie The idea of turning Shirley script for "It Happens Every Smith's story into a movie oe- Spring" now showing here. curred to Davies when he first * * * Iread the story three years ago DAVIES, who will return to in the Alumni Quarterly. Hollywood today after appearing It was the title that attracted here for the world's first author's me first and then I discovered it premiere Thursday, thinks that might make a good screen play, so "screen writing has to be better- I asked Mr. Smith if I could adapt You can get away with things in it for the screen," Davies related. prose that you can't in visual writing." DAVIES GRADUATED from the "Movie scripters are not given - University in 1927 after an active enough credit for being fine ; 'acareer as an undergraduate. Dur- technical writers, They must be ing his junior year he wrote a because screen scripts have to be tDaily column called "Toasted precise and graphic," he said ; z Rolls" under the pen name "Sir There's a big technical differ- V Toby Tiffin." He also wrote the ence in writing for the screen and script for a Union opera, "Tam- in writing a novel, according to bourine." Davies who has done both. He re-'++ During the last war he served cently turned "It Happens Every as a personnel officer in the Coast Spring" into book form. Guard. It was during this time * * * VALENTINE DAVIES that he got the idea for "Miracle "IN NOVELS you can be subtle, . says script writing is a on 34th Street" for which he won but screen writing is graphic. fine technical process. an "Oscar" in 1947. 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