T HE MICHIGAN DAILY p SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1950 OCCASIONAL MOANS': Paper Wor By NANCY BYLAN The bane of a League president's e is not committee meetings or ficial conferences, but finding ne to do English papers. At least that's how it looks 2o arge Flint, '50, who spends the ajor part of each day "running clearing house for all women's tivities on campus." HER SORORITY SISTERS and -workers at the League are in re of her even-tempered, level- aded nature. "She never com- ains or gripes," one of them de- ared, "but once in a while we ar her moaning about 'that- iglish paper'." In addition to spending sev- ral hours every day answering etters, attending meetings and iandling complaints, Marge .as to keep in touch with every- hing that's going on in the many groups in the League or- anization. "What's more," she sighed, "I i consulted on everything from p rallies to blood donations by ople who want to know 'how the >men should be approached out this."' * * * HER ENGAGEMENT BOOK ads like a railroad schedule. It's ,t unusual for her to have four pointments in one afternoon- erything from conferences with can Bromage to Daily inter- ews. She usually has to rush ray early from one meeting to t to the next. An interest in personnel work nd a desire to help make the ,les of the University led Marge into League activities, lthough she admits to having shopped around a bit before ettling down." At the end of her freshman ar, Marge petitioned for sopho- ore side to Women's Judiciary 'uncil. The following year she plied for a junior position on e Council. * * * "THAT WAS BACK in the days hen judic members were still Plagues League President * * * *5 Balloons To Be Featured In Parade Twenty huge helium balloons, monstrous rubber heads, five marching bands and a calliope will transform this year's Michigras Psych Students 'Guinea Pig' Selves -' W * * * * . . * parade into a Midwestern edition of a, Rose Bowl spectacle. The balloons are in the shape of a duck, elephant, kangaroo and a dragon 16 feet high and more than 70 feet long. They will lead the parade, scheduled for April 21. * * * THE BALLOONS will be carried by a number of students wearing gigantic rubber heads reminiscent of Mardi Gras splendor. Following the balloons, inter- spersed with 40 student floats, will be five marching bands, in- cluding the University's. Also in- cluded in the line will be an au- thentic circus calliope. Parade co-chairmen Jerry Mehl- man and Valerie Lemper have pro- vided students with detailed in- formation as to float construction, and have procured materials for the entries at discount price. Some trucks have been lent by local companies. For the student floats, there will be three prizes and three runners- up selected by the parade judges. -Daily-Burt Sapowitch BUSY COED-Marge Flint, League president, examines some pictures of Junior Girls Play, just one of the many women's activities with which she must keep in touch. In spite of long hours at committee meetings and conferences, Marge finds her job "extremely satisfying." * * * wearing black robes and acting like the arm of some -great judi- cial organ-and I wanted to make some changes." Marge has been planning since her junior year to attend a school of professional social work, but her experience as president of the League has al- most persuaded her to take up personnel work instead. In addition to sports-she's an important asset to the Alpha Phi basketball team - Marge likes foreign movies, grey clothes and potato chips. She is also an inveterate "room- hopper," frequently staying tp into the early hours talking with her sorority sisters, who consider her "the best-liked girl in the house." They only have one com- plaint. "We just don't see enough of Marge." Read Daily Classifieds HOW LARGE?-Don Nichols, '50, tries to match the band of light (right) to the size of a cigarette (left) as Prof. Lauer gives instructions. For this experiment, Nichols, a heavy smoker, went with- out a cigarette for 24 hours. Theory of the experiment is that the deprivation will cause the cigarette to be more important, and thus appear larger, to the subject. )LLEGE ROUNDUP: Schools Debate Rights Of Women Students By JANET WATTS Colleges took stock of the role of amen in the campus community st week, as schools considered e extension of coed's hours, wo- en cheerleaders and female poli- ians. University of Wisconsin students l vote Wednesday on whether amen 'should be granted a half ur more time on all nights. The oposed referendum would allow eds an 11 p.m. closing hour in- ead of the usual 10:30 time. And i week-ends women would stay .t as late as 1 a.m. * * * THE REFERENDUM will have fly an advisory effect, for the ac- al power to change women's urs rests in the hands of the omen's 'Self-Governing Board. Designed as a measure of stu- lent opinion, the referendum etion followed, a 1000-name pe- ition from campus women who hought hours for freshmen, ,ophomores and juniors should e the same as for seniors. Women at the University of Illi- 'is seemed ready to take over other masculine role-that of eerleader. And students were ap- ,rently ready to accept them, for campus poll revealed that stu- nts favored coed cheerleaders, n to one. * * * SOME FEARED that there "is a ,nger of exhibition from women eerleaders." But supporters of e plan countered with the idea at a special screening committee would eliminate the problem of "exhibition." And as they saw it, women would definitely stimulate cheer- ing and eneoujage new pep and spirit. A woman's place may not neces- sarily be in the home, but it cer- tainly is not in the Harvard club. Or so some austere Harvard stu- dents argued last week when a Harvard-Radcliffe group relations committee suggested that Rad- cliffe women be allowed to join clubs. Enemies of the proposal feared; the menace of the emancipated Radcliffe women and believed thatj acceptance of women could only' mean the undoing of the HarvardI club. - TRY' OUR EVERYDAY CHEF SPECIALS from Soup to Dessert $1.50 LLENEL "GA Goodh Trick"~ - - W. W But What's Even More Tremendous? WHY THE NEW '50 ENSIANkV Of Course! ~A6.00 Buy yours at the Student Publications Bldg. A DAILY PHOTO FEATURE Story by Roma Lipsky Pictures by Carlyle Marshall Act in Roles Of Subj ect, Invest igator, Tests Conducted In Classrooms If you've ever wanted to know how an experimental guinea pig feels, or to test a formulated hy- pothesis, the psychology depart- ment is the place to go. A full-scale program of indi- vidual research on the graduate level, plus trial testings in experi- mental undergrad classes keep the lab rooms of Natural Science building occupied almost 24 hours a day. ** * AND ALTHOUGH the experi- mental class is known as one of the toughest courses on campus, it provides an opportunity for ex- perimental work under actual test- ing conditions. Prof. Donald Lauer, in charge of the year long course, a basic requirement for all psych ma- jors, describes its several aims as: 1. First hand experience in the various areas of psychology, such as learning, motivation, person- ality, clinical and social psychol- ogy; 2. Familiarity with standard equipment and basic techniques of measurement used in psychol- ogy; 3. Survey of the basic experi- mental designs with their appro- priate statistical methods; - 4. Learning to read, write and evaluate reports of experimental work. * * * EXPERIMENTS run off in class, with students alternating between experimenter and subject roles, in- clude everything from reversed perception to deprevation. In a recent test, subjects were required to draw a star by looking at it through a mirror. After two lab hours of watch- ing the world through a looking glass, one of the subjects report- ed that "everything looks inside out. I feel as if I'm going back- wards every time I take a step forward. " Latest experiment was a test of how depriving smokers of cigar- ettes for varying periods of time affected their perception of the size of a cigarette. Results of this run-off will be published as soon as all the data is analyzed. ON THE graduate and teaching levels, experiments, in which both students and animals are used as subjects, are part of any day's work. Prof. Lauer is currently study- ing learning in dogs, and has been training dogs to respond to bells and buzzers. Another series of experiments now in operation uses white rats as subjects in a learning series. Here, the rats are being taught to press a lever to receive a metal ball, then put the metal ball in a slot for food. "This is comparable to working for money, and making purchas- es," Prof. Lauer said. * * * DEPARTMENTAL equipment includes everything from human mazes to lopsided rooms, as well as a complete stock of paper .and pencil tests. All in all, the department's pro- gram is organized to give students a well-rounded academic psychol- ogy program, as well as practical experience working areas and with equipment used in psychological studies, Prof. Lauer said. Students are taught to relate scientific methodology to know- ledge of psychology, to use proper caution in making generalizations and to recognize the limitatiqns of the field. a 4 HUMAN MAZE-A standard psychology experiment has rats running through complicated mazes. Here Doris Smith, '50, tries the same sort of operation in a specially designed maze. The cor- rect path is marked with red pencil for the experimenter to follow, but Doris' goggles cut out the red numerals. C ' r~ i. IL & t LOPSIDED PERCEPTION-John J. Wright, '50, is placing a jug inside a slated walled miniature room. When viewed from a certain point, the walls of the room appear straight and the jugs, exactly the same size, look as if one is much larger than the other. This model was built by members of the psychology department. 4 avante guardists .. .ARE YOU LONELY? Here is your chance to meet fellow Bohemians! 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