T DAY,: N6VEtMBEIR 29, 1949

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Illini Penalized
For Holiday
Class Cutting
Holiday class cutters at Michi-
gan have an easy time of it com-
pared to the students at the Uni-
versity of Illinois, according to an
article in The Daily Illini, student
newspaper at Illinois.
University regulations there, the
Illini reports, provide that any
student who absents himself from
classes preceding or following va-
cations like Thanksgiving or
Christmas will not be able to take
the final exams in the courses
they cut.
Absences from the examinations
result in the student receiving an
'E' for the course.

CALLING ALL CARS:
Cab Jockeys Maneuvered
By Two-Way RadioSystem

QUAD'S IDENTOMA TIC:
Rogue's Gallery Sparks Allen-Ruusey

By EVA SIMON
The garbled sounds emanating
from one of Ann Arbor's radio con-
trolled cabs baffle most student
customers, but the seasoned cab
driver takes them in his stride.
Experience has taught him to
:hut his ears to most of the
messages picked up by his receiv-
ing set, and to respond only when
his own number is called.
* * *
Though during his first week on
he job, the average driver is
iriven frantic by the dozens of
aalls converging on his radio, he
:oon gets used to it.
More hectic is the job of the

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radio operators, who have to
keep track of the location of
each of their company's cabs,
besides satisfying those "I have
to catch a bus in two minutes
flat" requests.
During their busiest hours, they
often get four or five calls a min-
ute from customers, besides calls
from drivers reporting on their lo-
cation or asking for help.
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EACH CAB is identified by a
number, which is in turn repre-
sented by a peg on a board in front
of each company's operator.
Every time a cab picks up a
customer, the operator places a
slip of paper telling where the
cab is going on the appropriate
peg.
When a cab is not in use, it stops
at one of the "stations" located in
strategic places around the city,
such as the University Hospital
and the front of Angell Hall.
One cab company has small cyl-
indrical metal pieces representing
each taxi. When a driver stops at
one of the stations, his "slug" is
placed on a simplified map of the
city showing the location of the
stations.
Radio cabs have been useful to
police in broadcasting descriptions
of suspects and reporting acci-
dents. They have also come to the
rescue of many an absent-minded
customer who has left a wallet or
some other valuable in a taxi.
Complications arise from the
fact that all the companies
broadcast on the same fre-
quency.
Thus messages from two or chree
different operators can often '>e
heard in every cab at the same
time. Plans are under way to pro-
vide separate frequencies for each
company in the near future.

Some houses have a TV set to .
distract wouldbe students, while in
others there is a perpetual bridge
game which drags prospective Phi
Betes away from their books, but
in the West Quad's Allen-Rumsey
there is the identomatic.
The identomatic is a variation
on the idea of mounting photo-
graphs of all house residents in a
prominent place so that outsiders
can get to know the dorm's in-
mates and the inmates can get to
know each other.
THE RUMSEY variation works
like this: A list of the pictured
men's names has been put on the
edges of the photo board with a
tack beside each one. A tack has
also been put above each picture.
Hanging from the board's
sides are a pair of electrodes
which, when put on matching
tacks cause a light at the top of
the board to flash.
Thus all a student need do to
match up a name with a face, or
vice-versa, is put an electrode on
the picture or name tack, which-
ever he knows, and then run the
other electrode over the second set
of tacks.
* * *
INVENTOR of the mechanism
was Nick Schooley, '50E, a former
house president of Rumsey.
Schooley couldn't explain how
he got the idea, but one of his
roommates thought he knew.
"He's an electrical engineer," he
said smilingly, as if that wouldp
explain practically anything. td
But wherever the inspiration
sprang from, it "definitely seems a
to be paying off," according to
Bernard Ellison, resident advisor
of the house.
* * *
HOUSE DIRECTOR Amy Hol-
man seconded Ellison's enthusiasm
and termed the board "invalu-
able." It's as interesting to the

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NAME-FINDER-Mrs. Amy Holman, housemother of Allen-Rum-
sey House, tests her ability to name residents on the recently con-
structed identomatic. The electrode in her left hand is placed
under a photograph, and the one on the right touches a thumb
tack adjoining one of the names on the list. When the name and
photo match, a light flashes at the top of the board.
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to the residents, she declared.j.
Men in the house seemed just
as entranced by the gimmick.
Alan Berson, '52, offered him-
self as object proof of its success.
Before: "After all of last year I
only knew ten in the house." Af-
ter: "I now know about 35 or 40
anyway."
ArchChapman, '53, chimed in
with the observation that "it's nice
o know something printable to
all a guy when you see him. This
izmo gives us that something."
* * *
BUT it was not only getting to
now the other residents that
made some men take to the photo
oard.
Joe Darnell, '53, looked at it
this way: "The more boys you
get to know, the more girl
friends you get to know. And
from there on," he leiered,
"things take care of themselves."
The electrified rogue's gallery
also apparently done its part in
nspiring creative thougnt in the
.inds of some of the residents. Jim
Goodspeed, '53, demonstrated an
exneriment idea he got from the
acard.
"THIS is chemistry," he said in
xp~anation, 'seizing a lovi'ig cup
xhicli some past Rumsey debaters
iad bi ought home in glory.
"Now, you pour your bee uh-
verage in the cup," he continaed,
'and then put the electrodes in.

If he light on the board goes
on," he finished triumphantly,
"th~at proves your drink con-
ducts electricity."
"Is that good?" one on-looker
asked.
* * *
"Gee," Goodspeed said, appar-
ently considering the idea for the
first time, "I don't know.
"Well, anyway that's one way
to keep your cocoa warm," he
finished lamely.
Apparently the intricacies of
the photo board left one student
practically speechless. All the
comment he could muster was
"There certainly is an amazing
number of wires behind it."

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