AGE SIX F THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, MM STARGAZING BY RADIO: West Quad "Hams 'Contact South Africa P r-Med Students To ur 'U' Hospital Facilities HAIL TO THE COLORS: Colorful History Found Behind Maize and Blue 4 * * By JACK LAZARUS "William 8 Zebra Sugar Queen calling Zebra Sugar 4 Baker Love." This may strike many as a new foreign language, but radio "ham" operators can easily translate it into "Station W8ZSQ, West Quad- rangle calling Station ZS4BL, South Africa." AT THE REQUEST of Prof. Freeman D. Miller of the astron- omy department, the West Quad Radio Station has tackled the job of contacting a "ham" station lo- cated near the Lamont-Hussey Observatory of the University in South Africa. Contact has been made just once with station ZS4BL in South Africa according to Rob- ert Wimmer, '52 West Quad Radio Station president. "Because of weather difficulties and the fact that the South Afri- can station is lacking strength, radio operator Ralph Hileman has spent many hours without suc- cess," he commented. * * "IF CONTACT could be made with Karl Henize, Observing As- sistant stationed at the African observatory, I could ask my ques- tion and get immediate answers," Prof. Miller remarked. "It now takes about three weeks-if luck is with us-to get replies through the mail," he added. Henize was sent to the Lamont- Hussey Observatory in Nov. 1948, so that he might observe the southern skies, Prof. Miller ex- plained. USING AN astronomical cam- era loaned by the Mt. Wilson Ob- -Daily-Burt Sapowitch "HAM" BROADCASTS-From the West Quad Station W8ZSQ, radio operator Ralph Hileman (left) attempts to contact Karl Henize at the Lamont-Hussey Observatory in South Africa while Prof. Freeman D. Miller of the astronomy department waits hope- fully. Henize, an observing assistant, is dong research for Prof. Miller and the Mt. Wilson Observatory. Only one attempt thus far has proven successful. servatory, Henize photographs the sky and reports to both Mt. Wil- son and Prof. Miller. "While the Mt. Wilson Ob- servatory is primarily interest- ed in the milky way, the Univer- sity is interested in two neigh- boring galaxies," Prof. Miller said. Wimmer pointed out that radio waves from the West Quad must travel more thanehalf way around the world before reaching their destination. Students Change Easily to '50 University students didn't have speedy adjustment was the sig- any trouble this year making the turn of the half century. drastic change from 1949 to 1950, Another gave credit to the stu- daccording to campus librarians' dents, explaining "people up here A search through library slips are on the ball." for absent-minded offenders re- vealed only four bearing the out- dated "1949." Librarians generally DO YOU KNOW . . . that an agreed this mark is better than in average race horse eats 20 pounds past years. of hay, nine quarts of oats and One reason suggested for the two quarts of bran per day? SAVINGS on SUITS A .A Grand for now, and all thru spring. Half Yearly SALE . . . and a marvelous oppor- tunity to save $$ and $$ on fashion suits so important to the coming season's wardrobe. Buy now! Wear your new suit under furs ... later as a smart street costume. " WOOL CREPES " GABARDINES " BOTANYS " TWEEDS " MAN-TAILORED STYLES " DRESSMAKER STYLES 1\ew Michigan Singers Group To SingToday Campus Debut To Be Led by Prof. Klein The Michigan Singers, an extra- curricular choral group led by Prof. Maynard Klein, director of the University Choir, will make their campus debut at 8:30 p.m. today in Hill Auditorium., The choir of 52 voices will sing a group of Motets by Hienrich Schuts, Tomas Luis de Victate, Josquin de Pres and Palestrina. These selections will be fol- lowed by Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel" by Debussy, sung by Norma Heyde, Grad. and narrated by Harriet Boden. Brahms' Zig- eunerlieder and Liebeslieder will complete the program- * * * THE MICHIGAN Singers, more than 90 percent of which represent the School of Music, is open to the entire student body for mem- bership. Standards for admission are relatively high because of the nature of the music sung and the limited time of rehearsal, Prof. Klein said. This program marks the first full concert on campus by the choir. The group took a minor part in many concerts last year, and during the semester gave a full program in Saginaw. * * * PROF. KLEIN hopes the Mich- igan Singers will beecome a regu- lar part of the musical tradition on the Michigan campus and, in addition, make off-campus trips in the interest of the University. Tonight's concert is open to the public. By JOHN DAVIES Operating rooms, wards, occu- pational therapy rooms and miles of corridors were among the sights observed by nearly 80 pre-Medical Society members who toured the University Hospital recently. Given in three sections, the tour was conducted by Herbert Anderson and Nathan Fairchild of the hospital's administration staff. * * * THE TOUR generally began with a brief explanation of the Hospital's physical layout. They pointed out that the University Hospital treats only LSA Drops Combined Curricula Plan (Continued from Page 1) curriculum programs was under- taken to restore the integrity of the bachelor of arts degree, ac- cording to Dean Peake "In addition to this, the his- torical reason for the combined curriculums no longer exists." "These programs were originally instigated to provide an incentive for a pre-professional student to take three years of liberal arts work in the days when it was possible to enter a professional school with only two years of undergraduate work. "Now, competition for entrance to most professional schools is so keen that a degree is usually nec- essary to gain admittance," the dean explained. (For example, Dean A. C. Furs- tenburg, of the medical school es- timates that 70 percent of those admitted to the medical school last year had degrees). Another reason why the college felt that it could make the change, according to the dean, is to be found in the relatively small num- bers of students who make use of the combined curriculum course of study. "Last spring, for example, only 33 of the 333 students in the law school freshman class were on combined curriculum. There were 32 out of 146 freshmen medical students in the program at.that time and only three business ad- ministration students. "Forestry had no one in the program and in dental school there had been only one in the last five years until this year when the count rose to five." Ask Ru shing)( Report Now With fraternity spring rushing just around the corner, IFC chair- man Bob Preston, '51E, yesterday requested all houses to notify him at 2-5644 "as soon as possible" as to whether or not they intend to rush next semester. Rushing registration will be held from 3-5 p.m. Feb. 13-16 at Rm. 3C of the Union. Fee will be two dollars and applies only to those who have not signed up pre- viously, Preston explained. Formal rushing will commence Feb. 19 and will extend through Mar. 5, he added. The majority of campus frater- nities will participate in the spring program, but it is not a practice for all organizations to rush then, Preston pointed out. patients referred to it by doc- tors in the state. In addition, the hospital is en- tirely self-supporting, with the exception of the Veterans' Read- justment Center and the Neuro- psychiatric Institute. THE STUDENTS were then taken to the registration section of the first floor, where the pa- tient's name and other pertinent data are typed directly on a du- plicating machine form. Several copies of the registra- tion form are run off and sent to many different departments of the hospital. Near the registration desk the students were shown rooms used in taking blood samples for Kahn tests and the adjoining room used for taking miniature x-rays of all patients. * * * NEXT STOP on the tour was the ninth-and top-floor of the building, where the occupational therapy room, the Galen's Shop and the Kiwanis' Play Room, a nursery for small children, are located. In the occupational- therapy room, the premeds examined pieces of equipment-a printing press, weaving loom, pottery wheel and power tools used by the patients in regaining use of muscle groups damaged during ill- ness. Tour members were then con- ducted to the children's wards on the sixth floor. The children, many of them wearing plaster casts, were seen through glass windows located be- tween their rooms and the corri- dors. ON ANOTHER part of the same floor, the students visited a typi- cal open ward for adults, con- taining 18 beds. Over each bed is a curtain ring which permit a cubicle curtain to be drawn for privacy. The wards, which are located. in the Y-wing's of the main structure, have a solarium at the far end. Each week educational movies are shown in the wards, the guides said. Next, a typical private single room-moderate sized, simply fur- nished and, in this case, having a superb view of the Huron River-was examined. * * THE PREMEDS visited the op- erating room suite of the hospital, containing 11 operating rooms- nine for major operations, two for minor ones.l Alongside the operating rooms are anesthetizing rooms, where the patient is put to sleep be-1 fore being wheeled in for sur- SLAIN WITH SPEARS - The bodies of Prof. Marvin Pittman (above) and Dr. Robert F. Conk- lin, both exchange professors at the University of the Philip- pines, have been discovered in a shallow grave in the moun- tains of Northern Luzon. Three natives have confessed the rob- bery-slayings, the U.S. Embassy reported. Allison Will Conduct Course Here Prof. Allison Davis, of the Uni- versity of Chicago has been ap- pointed the first Negro professor to teach in the University. As a visiting professor,he will teach a course in social stratifica- tion in American communities. Prof. Davis will commute from the University of Chicago where he now instructs. PROF. DAVIS is best known for his study of class and caste lines, according to Prof. Amos Hawley of the sociology department. His book "Deep South" is a study of class structure in south- ern communities. Graduated from Williams Col- lege, Prof. Davis also attended Harvard- and the University of Chicago. He was a Rosenwald fellow at the London School of Economics in 1932-33. In 1948 he was appointed full professor of education at the Uni- versity of Chicago. ulVie Theatre Plans Drama Four University students will play roles in the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre's production of George Kelly's "The Torchbearers" to be presented at 8 p.m., Jan. 24 and 25 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. A. Howard Fieldsteel, Grad, will play the principal role as Frederick Ritter, a man tortured and confused by his wife's am- bitions to go on the stage. Other students in the produc- tion are' Art Nevins, '51, who will play Mr. Spindler, a would-be drama expert and Ralph Guy, '51 and Herb Rovner, '51, doubling in the role of Teddy Spearing, an aspiring thespian. Also in the cast of the three- act farce is Marjorie Steward, assistant Law School librarian and wife of a law student. gery. The typical ating system students were shown a operating room, with oper- table, intricate lighting and air conditioning units. * * * By RICH THOMAS Blue is blue and yellow is yel- low, but it took the University 50 years and an act of the Regents to decide if this bit of spectral dogma was true. From 1859 to 1912 speculation was rife as to just what the school colors - maize and azure blue - should be. For a time, the Univer- sity was operating under a double standard; the athletic department had their shades, the administra- tion sanctioned their's. * *- * THE FIRST record of the use of any colors at all appears on the diploma of an Elisha Jones, '59, to which document was at- tached a ribbon of deep blue. Then in 1867, a committee of students met in the old Univer- sity chapel and proclaimed the official colors to be "azure blue and maize." The exact shades of these colors, however, were never precisely defined by the committee. That's where the trouble really started. For a while the regulation hues were the yellow of ripe Indian corn and the blue of the deep sea or cobalt. But after a few years, the colors mysteriously began to fade. BY THE TURN of the century, apparently due to a misconception of the meaning of maize and azure blue, they had reached the shades of baby blue and light lemon yel- low. The tints were so anemic that the athletic department had found them completely ineffectual for use as decorations and uniforms reverted to the more vibrant tones originally intended. In official circles, however, the badly-laundered colors and the kaleidoscopic situation prevailed until 1912. With the 75th anniversary of the founding of the University drawing near, the Board of Re- gents acted, appointing a com- mittee of professors to study the chaos and resolve it if possible. THE RESULTING report dis- covered that maize and azure blue were the virile colors as set forth by the committee of '67, not the ones currently in use. A hasty change was made in all decorations, emblems and banners, and the University was able to present a solid, undivided front to the celebrating alumni, saving re- lations and undoubtedly several thousands of dollars in contribu- tions. Things have never been quite so colorful since. 'U' Coed Honored Geraldine Mulson, '50E has been awarded a scholarship by Kappa Kappa Gamma, national college sorority, of which she is a mem- ber. Miss Mulson is one of 19 under- graduates in colleges and uni- versities all overdthe country who were so honored. Treasurer Elected Mrs. Juanita B. Mantle, of the Bureau of Appointments, has been elected treasurer of the National Institutional Teacher Placement Association. Mrs. Mantle is assistant to Dr. T. Luther Purdom, director of the Bureau of Appointments and past president of the association. ; Ready for J JHOP WEEKENDP, INVITATIONS PLACE CARDS MONOGRAMMED NAPKINS COASTERS PLAYING CARDS MATCHES THE CRAFT PRESS 330 MAYNARD SrREET Announces GRAND PRIZE WINNERS OF THE 1949 FOOTBALL CONTEST I THANKS A MILfLON, FRIFNDS1 THE SCORECAST CONTEST WAS THE 8I6GEST YET W/TH MORE WINNERS THAN EVER BEFORE! SO UNTIL NEXT YEAR, WHEN WE HOPE TO BE BACK AGAIN-SMOKE THE ONE CIGARETTE PROVED DEFINITELY LESS IRRITATING, DEFINITELY MILDER THAN ANY OTHER LEADING BRANDI SMOKE PHILIP MORRIS! i ONE OPERATING room, had a gallery for medical students. The gallery is rarely used now, be- cause operations can be more clearly observed by using lifts- small stands-for the med stu- dents to stand on. The operating rooms will soon undergo a renovation program. New floor coverings, lighting sys- tems and doors will be installed, guides pointed out. Yd. L&XM CQ. at ay. 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