THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1950 '1 y -O-opsClebrate tudent Movement Began n 'U' CampUS in 1932 By DAVE THOMAS This week more than 100,000 students of the North American dent Cooperative League are celebrating the 18th anniversary of lent cooperatives. In its 16 years of existence, the student cooperative living move- it has grown from a single house on the University campus to organization with national offices and active groups at 300 colleges universities in both the U.S. and Canada. . . . . . * * * * AT THE UNIVERSITY, six houses with 240 members have gen ed from the original Michigan Cooperative House which was { blished by students with the help of newspapers, faculty andV aspeople during the depression year of 1932. n niversary TROUP TO TOUR: Union Opera Cast Set' For Crowded Vacation * * * * * * Spring vacation means going home and loafing for most stu- dents, but not for members of the Union Opera cast. A four-day road tour which will take "Lace It Up" to Buffalo, De- troit and Toledo will pretty well fill up the vacation period for Opera staffers. This year's Opera will be the first to hit the road since "Merrie-Go-Round" visited 11 cities in 1929. H-HOUR FOR THE TOUR will be 6 a.m. Monday, when two Uni- versity buses- containing 56 sing- ers, dancers and executives will leave the Union and head for Buf- falo, where the first road per- formance will be presented at the Erlanger Theatre. "Lace It Up" musicians and stagehands will also go to Buf- falo Monday, but they will travel via Pullman, in accordance with union regulations. An ordinary moving van will haul the scenery to the out of town theatres. The purpose of the new organization was to provide students with inexpensive, democratic living, and this it did with a ven- gance; furnshing room and board for two dollars a week on an unrestrictive membership basis. Today, running the six cooperative houses is a $20,000 yearly iiness, and the Inter-Cooperative Council, an incorporated organi- tion which owns five and runs all six of the houses, has assets of 25,000. * * * * THE MAJOR OBJECTIVE of cooperative living is still non-dis- iminatory fellowship and thrift, however, and current weekly rates ir room and board average $8.50 for men and $7.50 for women. To attain this economy, each member of a co-op house works approximately five hours each week, either preparing food, doing cleaning or maintenance work or performing administrative duties. Cooperative living at the University and across the nation has en conducted on the Rochdale principles from the beginning. The rinciples, which are named after a town in England where a group 28 weavers opened the first modern cooperative store in 1844, .lude: 1. Each member has one vote in the organization and must > an equal amount of work along with his fellows. 2. All members are admitted on a first-come first-served basis ithout regard to race, creed or color. * * * * PURCHASING FOR ALL the houses is done through the Inter- boperative Council which owns two trucks to aid in distributing the wo-week quotas of supplies which the council purchases from whole- die jobbers. For economy, uniform menus are determined by a central menu committee made up of the stewards of all six houses. The six cooperative houses on campus at present are evenly vided between men and women. Owen, Michigan and Nakamura -e for men and women students are accommodated in Stevens, sterweil and Lester. * * * * WOMEN CO-OP MEMBERS are allowed a unique privilege- ey may elect their own housemother, subject to the approval of the ean of Students. Social functions between the men and women include ex- change dinners, ;parties, coed nights at the IM Building and educational programs. Always near the top in scholastic rating, members of the women's >operative housing units posted a 2.88 average last year, the highest 'oup average in the history of the University. They were closely llowed by their male counterparts who had a 2.68 average to place cond in the general group scholarship rating for 1948-49. * * * * THE ESTABLISHMENT of Michigan House on Campus in 1932 d not, of course, mark the beginning of all cooperative activity at inerican colleges. But it was the first lasting cooperative activity any significance in America. After the initial success of Michigan House, new cooperatives began cropping up almost every year, until 1942 when there were 13 student co-ops at the University. During the war, however, these houses were lost one by one as 'operty owners sold out to take advantage of high real estate values. BEGINNING IN 1943, the co-op council began buying houses, irough a system of loans advanced by faculty members and students. he loans are repaid and mortgages retired through rents paid by the .embers of the cooperative. Most recent of the houses acquired is Nakamura House. The upper portion of the house' has been redecorated and work progressing on the living room and downstairs portions. More than 70 men are eating at the house at present and 34 of iem room there also. Before dinner they sit around their half- >mpleted living room watching one of the members receive a cut- te haircut or duck below to the kitchen for a "guffing" raid-a e-dinner snack in cooperative lingo. Haircut, housecleaning or painting job, it's all part of living >operatively, and realizing a basic co-op principle-continuous ex- ansion. First Inspections Reveal Many )wellings Are Fire Hazards -Daily-Alan Reid ANNUAL BANQUET-Nick Datsko (standing) president of the Inter-Cooperative Council, makes the annual co-op report to the 240 members of the campus organization. The report is required by state law since the ICC is an incorporated organization. Other ICC officials are (left to right) Morrie Caminer, accountant, Prof. John Shepard, adviser, Alice Scott, secretary and Jim Williams, vice-nresident. * * * C'o-op Council Opens Lester House Drive Seek $6,000 for 1 New Women's House Inter-Cooperative Council has )egun a drive to purchase their ,ixth cooperative house, according to Nick Datsko, president of the. council. The new house will replace Les- ter' House, women's cooperative, which is the only one of the six -o-op houses on campus not owned by the Inter-Cooperative Council. "WE HOPE to raise the $6,900! necessary for the down payment onr the house by the end of the semes- ter," said Datsko. "In this way we will be ready to occupy it by next fall." I The financing of the down Ipayment will he done in the same manner that the council has employed in the past to fi- nance their expansion program. High-Wire Act Adds Humor To Michigras. Michigras-goers will be treated with a hilarious "slack wire" act direct from Detroit night clubs, concessions chairman Steve White, '52, revealed yesterday. Featuring Bob Stanley in 15 minutes of thrills, the act will re- veal the hazards of performing on a tight rope gone loose. * * * WITH MICHIGRAS scheduled to hit campus in just two weeks, workis progressing at high speed on all phases of the show, from parade floats to special entertain- ment. Even as vacation-hungry stu- dents prepared to pull out for spring vacation, various organi- zations were lining up props and, costumes and laying last minute. plans for their part in the come- dy carnival. The lure of big gleaming tro- phies was spurring student groups all over campus to put everything in tip-top order by April 21 when the two day fun-fest starts. * * * OVER AT CHI PSI house, the men were shaking in their boots as they viewed the freakish mon- v.c, ,,, hich will *arrnri7,'n ld nn- After the Buffalo performance, members of the "Lace It Up" staff and cast will be entertained by the University Alumni Club of Buffalo in a special reception at the Buffalo Athletic Club. A 1 A.M. CURFEW has been set for the staff in Buffalo, for at 6 a.m. Tuesday the whole crew will head back for Detroit where the second and third road per- formances of the Opera will brighten the Music Hall stage. The group will return to Ann Arbor after the Tuesday night show, then go back to Detroit for a second motor city per- formance Wednesday night. On Thursday, the "Lace It Up" retinue will head for Toledo, where the final performance of the 1950 Union Opera willbe pre- sented at the Rivoli Theatre. After Thursday, Opera staffers will be free to go their various ways for a brief, well earned rest before returning to Ann Arbor for classes the following Monday. By then, all that will remain of "Lace It Up" will be its costumes and scenery. These will be brought back to Ann Arbor and put in storage, until they are renovated for use in future Union Opera pro- ductions. Group to Study Job Problems Of Graduates The Conference for the Study of Michigan Employment Trends will consider the job problems of col- lege graduates when it meets April 13 at the Union, according to John C. Brennan, assistant to the director of the Bureau of Appoint- ments. C. W. Otto, secretary of the Lansing Chamber of Commerce will speak on the "Spirit of Co- operation of the Chamber of Com- merce" at the luncheon gathering of the group, which will be held from 12:30 to 2 p.m. * * * AT THE CONFERENCE dinner at 6:15 p.m., Ewan Clague, direc- tor of the Bureau of Labor Statis- tics, U.S. Department of Labor, will look at "National Employ- ment Trends." Though the meeting is being held mainly for the benefit of per- sonnel directors throughout the state, Brennan declared that any students on campus at the time would be welcome. Anyone interested in attending either or both the luncheon and dinner sessions may make reser- vations by contacting him at the Bureau of Appointments, Rm. 3564 in the Administration Build- ing, Brennan said. SL Petitions For Campus Events Due All student organizations plan- ning to sponsor major campus events next year should submit petitions to the Student Legisla- ture calendar committee by April 30, according to Arnold Miller, '50, chairman of the committee. Each sponsoring group should list three alternate dates - in the order of preference - and turn their petitions in to the SL of- fice shortly after spring vacation, he added. "WE WILL ATTEMPT to give each organization its first choice of dates," Miller said, "but in cases of conflict we will be forced to choose between the two groups." He placed traditional events such as Homecoming Dance, Union Opera, JGP and IFC Ball in the "major events" category - plans for which must be submitted by April 30. Miller warned, however, that merely being placed on the Legis- lature's tentative fal calendar would not assure University ap- proval of an event. "WfE HOPE TO submit our calendar recommendations to the Student Affairs Committee on May 9," he said, "and the final de- cisions will be made at that time by the SAC members." Organizations desiring to sponsor smaller events such as conferences, lectures or conven- tions, will be asked to submit petitions o the calendar commit- tee by Nov. 15, next fall. Petitions which are submitted after the deadlines will be con- sidered only under "extenuating circumstances," Miller said. "By' strictly enforcing these deadlines we hope to avoid con- gestion on the calendar and in- sure financial success for every student-sponsored event," he add- ed. Letters have been sent out to al campus organizations explain- ing the calendaring procedure and groups desiring additional inf or- mation may contact the SL office. Orient Experts To Meet Here The nation's leading authoriles on far eastern affairs will meet at the University from Wednesday to Friday. University members taking part in the second annual conference will be Prof. Joseph Yamagiwa, chairman of the far eastern lan- guages and literature department and secretary of the Far Eastern Association; Prof. Mischa Titiev, of the anthropology department; Prof. James M Plumer, of the fine arts department and Prof. Warner G. Rice, director of the University Library. WUOM will feature a group of the most prominent authorities on a roundtable broadcast at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Read Daily Classifieds .. A 0 -Daily-Carlyle Marshall DINNER DETAIL-Three members of Nakamura House, (left to right) Herb Malin, Leon Brown and Bob Brown, prepare the evening meal. Co-op members work an average of four hours a week; cooking, cleaning, painting or balancing the books. DISCREPANCY: Religious Preference Cards Not in Line With Attendance The technique used consists of lookers at their "Hall of Wonder. voluntary membership loans which The women at Angell House were are made by members and friends making like "dogs" and "pigs" in of the cooperatives. preparaion for their "exchange dinner" float with Chicago House. * Meanwhile Chicago House men' JUDGING FROM past exper-were trying on the "wolf" masks ience, Datsko expects that enough they will. don for the affair. By LILA FERRANCE Of the students who sign reli- gious preference cards, less than: a third normally make it toI church services, according to at-I tendance records. About one fourth of the pro- fessed Protestants show up at' Sunday morning services, making an average gross total of 1800, but more than half the Catholic stu- dent congregation makes an ap- pearance. THE REV. Dr. DeWitt Baldwin, director of Lane Hall, suggested; Union Veep Coniites tantis Announced Fifteen candidates for the six Michigan Union vice-presidencies were announced yesterday by Hugh ooper, '51D, of the Union nomin- ating committee. Running in the coming all-cam- pus elections from the literary col- lege are Gerald Mehlman, '51, Thoburn Stiles, '51, and Ned Stir- that the discrepancy might be attributed to thenumberhof stu- dent commuters who go home for the weekend and attend church' there.- Church attendance shows the usual unbalanced Michigan ra- tio, with the Lutherans and Congregationlists reporting two women to every three men. Christian Scientists were the exceptions to this rule when Mrs. Millie Crawford, church li- brarian, indicated a one to one ratio. "And sometimes we have more women than men," she declared. But acording to The Rev. John Burt of the Episcopal church, the women attend much more regu- larly than the men. * * * THE SEASON o0 the year seems to affect church attendance heavi- ly. During Easter, Christmas and Passover seasons, Ann Arbor churches have their biggest sea- sons. An average daily attendance of 350 to 400 students at morning Lenten masses is reported by The Rev. Fr. Frank J. McPhillips of the St. Mary's Student Chapel. Since Easter vacation starts to- day, Ann Arbor churches don't expect many students this Sunday, but many churches have scheduled special Good Friday services, from noon to 3 p.m. today. '4 of these loans, at a minimum of $25 each-will be received to fill the subscription in short order. The council has determined to begin paying off these loans in 1953, when a similar loan which inaugurated the purchase of Nakamura house will have been retired. Membership loans of this type are generally retired at " the rate of $2,000 per year from the room fees paid by cooperative members, Datsko said. Paying off the mortgages on the properties is, of course, more of a long range proposition, according to Datsko. "But we're on a sound financial basis and expansion means a larger income with which to pay off our mortgages." Swim ("M rse A Water Safety Instructor's course, open to students and townspeople, will be offered by the Red Cross in conjunction with the University, April 24 to May 5. Applicants must be 19 years old, and are advised to attend the pre- liminary instructions which will be given at 7:30 p.m. April 17 to 20 at the IM pool. And at Michigras headquarters, parade master Bill Des Jardins, '50E, was wearing a relieved look on his face. He had just received word from R.O.T.C. headquarters that Signal Corps radio telephones would be available to help co- ordinate the parade. Campus Quits Editors of Campus have decided to suspend publication of their bi- monthly picture magazine because of financial losses incurred in turning out the first three issues. A 4 LVilela Liubinsteil's New Silken Lipstick Four-Cast Your four best lipstick shades tuoked into one smart container! 4 I Almost half of the multiple dwellings inspected so far in the city engineer's fire hazard probe, including many student residen- ces, have been declared liable to disastrous fires. Two of the buildings, one a rooming house in which 20 stu- dents live, were named "veritable fire traps" by Thomas A. Hunter, University engineering instructor who is conducting the investiga- tion for the city engineer's office. * * * THE. INVESTIGATION. h as been mostly confined to the area bounded by Huron, William, and State streets, and Fifth Avenue, but also included are 12 fraternity houses, six sorority, and five Lea- gue houses, most of them lying outside of that area. 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