Y L Latest Deadline in the State 4b GENERAL SUPPLEMENT ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS ii - '. Group Football Seats Ok ayed T, SL, Athletic Board Agree OnNewPlan Officials Discard Earlier Scheme By AL BLUMROSEN (Daily City Editor) Only last minute agreement saved University students from the worst ticket tangle since the basketball preferential seating of two years ago. Meeting at the Athletic Admin- istration Building in a session that lasted until 12:30 a.m. today, members of the Board in Control ox Inter-Collegiate Athletics and the Student Legislature agreed on a football ticket distribution plan that will enable students to sit with their friends. EARLIER PLANS had made group seating virtually impossible. The new regulations are as fol- lows: Each student must present his own coupon no. 6 in order to get his football tickets. Tickets can be picked up any time before 8 p.m. Friday. But Ticket Manager Don Weir, expect- *ng huge lines at the last minute, urged students who want to sit in groups to register as early as pos- sible. Students may pick up their tickets at registration. if they wish. Student groups picking up tick- ets should re-enter Barbour Gym through the north door. STUDENT tickets will be dis- tributed Saturday only to those who register that morning. "By 12:30 p.m. Saturday we must be able to place on sale all tickets not picked up by stu- dents," Weir added. These regulations were author- ized at a meeting between Athletic Director Fritz Crisler, Weir, Dave Strack and four members of the Student Legislature. * * * SL MEMBERS at the meeting were President John Ryder, Quen- tin Nesbitt, Dick Hooker, and Tom Walsh. The new system .went into effect this morning, with a hard working staff from the Athletic department attempting to make the new rules clean to confused students. Walsh said that information sheets explaining the new rules would be distributed at registra- tion early this afternoon. * * * THIS MORNING, various ru- mors about the ticket distribution plan flooded the campus. The original ticket distribu- tion plan would have had stu- dents sitting next to the person in toge same semester bracket that they registered with. Group seating would have been almost impossible. The original plans were neces- sary because of the early date of the Michigan State game, accord- ing to a statement from the Board released yesterday. * * * Sign Up for Daily Is Campus Chant -Daily-Alex Lmanitan LIMBERING-UP . . Charlie Ortmann, Michigan's sophomore passing sensation last year, is shown on the practice field during this fall's ,drills sharpening up his eye for the 1949 Wolverine football season which opens Saturday against Michigan State. * * * * King Football To Arrive In An-11n A rb or Saturday By MERLE LEVIN previous victories over the Wo (snoe tsCo-Editor)v thatverines in the early '30's. Venerable King Football, ta elusive old guy who reigns supreme EV * * 9* over the kingdom of Autumn Hys- EV GRANDELIUS (195), a jun teria, arrives in Ann Arbor at 2 ior, has come from nowhere t p.m. Saturday and some 97,000 clinch the left halfback job ahea of his devoted followers will be on of veteran Bud Crane, and Fran hand at Michigan's newly enlarg- Waters (205) will hold down th ed stadium to welcome His High- fullback spot. ness back. The Spartans suffered a se- -And incidentally to take a vere blow when a neck injur gander at the No. 1 game in the forced Capt. Hal Vogler to va- nation this week. cate his tackle position per- * * * manently, but the invaders wil STILL-MIGHTY Michigan, vic- hardly be helpless up front. torious in their last 23 games and DnB National Champions for the past Don Mason and Ed Bagdon gi two seasons, plays host to ambi- the Spartans the finest pair tious Michigan State, ranked guards in the country bar non among the top ten teams in the and John Gilman and Hank Min nation by pre-season dopesters in arik are among the country a battle that comes strictly under better ends. Minarik especiallyi the heading of "Ggudge." well remembered to Michigan fan Theavisiting Spartans are good as the man who grabbed tha Th n pt s ar much disputed touchdown pass f and they are determined. They the Spartans in last year's debacl feel that they have received the * * dirty end of the stick in their BARREL-SHAPED Pete Fu dealings with their old down- 210, will be at one of the tackle state rivals and they want to do for the Green and White whi something about it. Don Coleman, a 185-lb. sophomo They figure, with good logic, who lias been impressive in drill that a victory over the Wolverines will probably replace Voglero would be the fastest and most con- the other tackle slot. clusive way to prove their right See CITY Page 6 to at least an equal ranking with- the Maize and Blue and the by-PROJECTS U D word in the Spartan camp has ~U~J been "Beat Michigan" ever since spring drills got under way last April.' FORTUNATELY - or unfor- tunately, depending on your sen- timents-the Spartans have the material to go with their deter- At least three phases of the lon mination to halt the roaring Wol- awaited Phoenix Project are a verines. ready underway at the Universit Biggest noise in the MSC of- with a nationwide $6,500,000 fun fensive is right halfback Lynn drive slated to get underway la Chandnois, who averaged 7.4 this year. yards a try in 94 rushing at- In addition, five pre-doctora tempts last year and is receiving fellowships of $1,500 each in th the necessary buildup for All- Graduate school have been gran American honors this season. ed for a year's study of the "appl Chandnois at 195 lbs. is big, fast cations and implications" c and rugged both offensively and atomic energy. defensively and should be rarin' * * * "Subscribe to The Daily." More than fifty student hawk- ers will scour the campus this week, chanting the phrase. SUBSCRIPTION sellers will be camped at the exits to Waterman Gymnasium to enable students to subscribe with ease. Other sales- men will canvass the dormitories and the Union and League. Daily subscriptions run three dollars per semester, five dollars per year. Salesmen will tell prospective customers that only by reading The Daily will they be able to get a comprehensive picture of the University, its highlights and side- lights. * * * THE DAILY offers complete na- tional coverage as well as full re- ports on local happenings. Asso- ciated Press wire and photo serv- Book Exchange, Opens Doors For Business Run as Non-Profit Organization by IFC Anticipating an avalanche of more than 2,000 used textbooks, the Student Book Exchange will open its doors on the third floor of the Union from 9-5 p.m., today through Friday. The exchange will also be open from 1-5 p.m. all next week. * * * RUN AS A non-profit organiza- tion by the Interfraternity Coun- cil, the Exchange allows students to price their own books and place them on sale. Unsold books may be claimed from Oct. 3-6 while checks for all books sold will be mailed out within two weeks after the Ex- change closes next Friday. A 15 per cent fee is charged to cover overhead. Pointing out that students can usually buy Exchange books from one to two dollars cheaper than in most local bookstores, Exchange manager Dick Brown, '50BAd., said, "We feel that the Student Book Exchange not only is bene- ficial to students wishing to sell their used textbooks, but also of- fers a splendid opportunity for students to save money in buying expensive books." Although hampered by their in- ability to find a more central lo- cation for the Exchange, Brown feels that they will do an even greater volume of business this year than the record of nearly $5,- 000 in sales last semester. "With fewer returning service- men buying books on the G.I. Bill we should handle even more books' this year," he said. ice, combined with a crew of more than seventy reporters and pho- tographers assures an all-inclu- sive panorama. Daily editorial page gives staff- ers a chance to air their views on news events and the aper's most read feature "Letters to the Edi- tor" gives students a similar op- portunity. A photo engraver, newly added to Daily equipment means timely on-the-spot local news photos. Soph-Fros h Rivalry To Boost Spirit Class warfare will be the order of the week Oct. 10-15 when stu- dents are expected to inject some extra 4ip into the University's school spirit. Tug Week, sponsored by Student Legislature, has been arranged as the result of a campus-wide poll taken last spring, when students voted to bring back some of the traditional trappings associated with pre-war campus "rah-rah." Among these are the tugs-of- war for which the week has been named. Bill Gripman, '51E, pioneered the project in Student Legislature last year and is chairman of the committee planning the week. Gripman says, "I hope that the week will in some way add to the spirit of the school, which has been noticeably absent during the past few years despite our many championship teams." Tug Week activities will begin on October 10, a Monday, with a sophomore rally in tile after- noon on the General Library steps. On the following day a rally for Freshmen will be held at the same place. Chuck Murray, '51, is in charge of the two rallies. Leading representatives of the faculty and student body will ad- dress the two classes at the rallies, and songs and cheers will pep up the proceedings. Climaxing the week will be three tugs-of-war on Thursday. In each tug, 25 Freshmen will pit their strength against an equal number of Sophs while other stu- dents will cheer the opponents on. The Huron river will be the scene of these battles of brawn. Joe Stone, '50, publicity chair- man for the "Week," has this to say of the rope to be used in the tugs-of-war: "The present rope which the Frosh will pull on against the Sophs has been used for 62 years. Three more years and it's eligible for rope Social Se- curity!" A mass potato sack race is de- signed to keep coeds busy on the See CLASS WAR Page 2 -Daily-Hank Tyson BEFORE THE RUSH-Carl Schade, '50 Bus.Ad., climbs to a lofty perch in Waterman Gymnasium to adjust one of the scores of signs that will aid students in registering and classifying. Schade is one of 50 part-time workers who helped get the gym ready for the 20,000 student who will begin entering it today. * * * U' Students Will Enter Registration 'Machine' )1- "- to d e ve of e, n- y's is ns at or e. si, Ees He ire .s, at When University- students begin to file into Waterman Gym this morning, they will be part of a scholastic miracle of "mass pro- duction," as Assistant Registrar Edward G. Groesbeck calls it. It takes a master plan to route 20,000 students through registra- tion in three days, and that is what the Registrar's Office has, in effect. They've achieved such ef- ficiency that 1,000 students can register and classify inside an hour. * * * BEHIND THE elaborate maze of desks, fee-stampiing station, and wooden barricades lies a scheme that involves hours of of planning and the work of dozens of employes. Blueprints of Waterman, mark- ing wherae. an elaborate maze of telephones, desks, tables, and fee- stamping stations are to be plac- ed, provide the working outline. From the blueprint stage, which is where the registration set-up was until yesterday morning, a crew of hard-working janitors, rounded up from a dozen campus buildings, and 50 part-time em- ployes, mostly students, took over. * * * FOLLOWING CHALK .marks placed on the gym floor, they set up registration furniture and posted signs. In charge of this op- eration were Kroesbeck and Max Crosman, assistant to the regis- trar. Both lent expert hands at setting up wooden tables. When registration actually gets underway, the part-time ladder-climbers and sign-hang- ers become fee-stampers, mes- sengers, alphabetizers. The lat- ter cut up and distribute "rail- road tickets" within an hour and a half after registration is over. Between 300 and 400 students are speeded through registration every 20 minutes. They get their ID pictures taken by one of four fast-moving cameras which were first used last year. They sign up for courses. Barring unforeseen difficulties, they find it a pretty smooth process. Groesbeck reminded students that they will need their blue- prints to obtain football tickets. He also said that if students come on time for registration they will not have to wait. "No one will have to stand in line outside the gymnasium this year," he said. * * * Maze of Tests, Teas Confront Newcomers The inevitable whirl of orienta- tion week events already has near- ly 2000 freshmen and 1000 trans- fer students spinning i na bed- lam of meetings, lectures, physi- cals, parties, tests and teas. Under the direction of Ivan W. Parker, Director of Orientation, and his staff of more than 320 student advisors, the new students already have digested the fresh- men and transfer assemblies Mon- day night, hour-long sessions with Academic Counselors, the W.A.A. Style Show, Ruthven Teas, and dormitory meetings last night. * * * THE PARADE of events con- tinues today with registration at Waterman Gymnasium and the "College Night" activities tonight. Each of the undergraduate schools and colleges has prepared a spe- cial party or program to welcome its respective new students. An "informational" program featuring short talks by faculty members giving valuable tips on registration, couinseling and other details of interest to new students will be presented by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at 7:30 p.m. * * * TOMORROW NEARLY all new students will plunge into a heavy round of social events sponsored by the Union and the League. Highlighting the day's, activities will be a freshmen mixer from 3-5 p.m. at the Union. Dancing and games are scheduled with the, Union Executive Council promis- New Studies Needed for Graduation Does Not Affect UpperClassmen By PHIL DAWSON Freshmen entering the literary college this week will be the first students to try out the college's new curriculum requirements. The revision was voted by the faculty last spring so' that stu- dents may "share a common intel- lectual experience and . . . enjoy greater latitude of choice In de- termining their field of specializa- tion." UNDER THE NEW plan, which is described in a special supple- ment to the literary college an- nouncement, students must meet revised distribution requirements including: English composition; philoso- phy or mathematics; foreign language; humanities, literature, fine arts or music; social sci- ences; and natural sciences. Concentration requirements have been considerably liberaliz- ed; a new type of degree program has been set up-the college pro- grams. An example of these new interdepartmental programs is the one in American civilization, which will call for courses in Eng- lish political science, philosophy, history, and economics. In addition, the present pro- grams of departmental specializa- tion will still be available. * * * THE NEW distribution require- ments represent an increase of 10-12 hours credit over the group requirements; freshmen entering now will take approximately 50 hours credit for general education purposes. But the general education will be spread out over the entire four years, instead of being completed in the first two years. ANOTHER NEW feature of the curriculum is the requirement of a year's work in either philosophy or mathematics, to be taken in the junior or senior year. The principle is that all stu- dents should have some exper- ience in abstract logical thought as part of their general educa- tion. In accord with this idea, the mathematics department, for ex- ample, is setting up two semester courses "for students who desire to gain some insight into the logic and range of mathematics." FOR THOSE who do not expect to specialize in mathematics, or use it as a tool, they have revised completely the usual approach to the teaching of freshman courses. The new courses will deal with various parts of mathematics as they illustrate basic concepts; em- phasis will be placed on logical reasoning, with a minimum of arithmetical work and manipula- tion of formulas. * * * AS PART OF the decision to set up the new curriculum require- ments, the faculty of the literary college established a Standing Committee on Curriculum to coor- dinate and study the new plan in operation. This committee, elected by the faculty and headed by Prof. Karl Litzenberg of the English depart- ment, becomes in effect a commit- tee on undergraduate educational policy. * * * THE LONG-RANGE job dele- gated to the Curriculum Commit- tee is continuous study of the cur- riculum in order to make appro- priate recommendations to the faculty on educational problems. The curriculum revision aims at better general education and greater freedom for students in choosing fields of concentration. The Curriculum Committee is the central coordinating agency for experimental work toward these ends. Besides Prof. Litzenberg, its members are: Prof. Otto G .Gra W6. THE NEW SYSTEM, whereby each student must pick up his own ticket, whether he wants to sit in a group or not, clears up one of the Board's main objections to the two year old group seating arrangement. The Board statement said that there had been complaints from individual students about the old system. The complaints said that * * * STUDENTS HAD complained that someone else had presented their registration coupon with a group and that they were unable to get individual seats. The Board said other students had complained that "group seating was unfair and that the grouts always reeived better ER WA Y: ks Atom Research Funds ng 1l- bty nd te te he it- i- of the Board of Regents has allocat- ed $2,000,000 for construction of a functional building to centralize research and to handle "hot" atomic materials. THE REMAINING $4,500,000 will be used to explore the fields for research in the physical and biological sciences as well as the social sciences. This latter work is the Phoe- nix P rniept' 'caim in a nioue A study by Prof. Harley Bart- lett of the Botany department of the effects of radiation on plant life. Work with an electron micro- scope by Prof. Robley Williams of the physics department and R. J. Lowry of the botany department on division of chromosomes. * * * RESEARCH BY Prof. James B. Medical men regard the use of these atomic particles as new tools with which to fight dis- ease. When the Phoenix Projects gets under full steam, all the research facilities of the University will be involved. Existing laboratory fa- cilities in the physics, chemistry, engineering departments and in University hospital will be util- ized.