1 PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1953 'U' Facilities Include Many StudyRooms Union, League Offer Comfortable Lounges, Informal Atmosphere Variety is the word when it' comes to study facilities, and stu- dents may choose practically any- thing from small, homey lounges to large rooms of modern design. Rooms in the Union, League, and Lane Hall are available in addition to the General Library and many divisional libraries and study halls. The League offers a place for women to study with their dates in the third floor hall and in the Henderson Room on the same floor., The atmosphere is informal with comfortable chairs, couches and tables. Smoking is permitted in this room. Open to women only is the League Library on the third floor. This room is also arranged in- formally and offers a chance for coeds to slip off their shoes while concentrating on the books. There is no smoking in this room. Last year the Student-Faculty Lounge in the League offered a place for students and their pro- fessors to hold informal review sessions. Coffee was served at all times, paid for by contributions to a kitty. For groups having res- ervations hostesses were on hand to serve the coffee. For breaks between studying, the League has coke and soft drink machines as well as the Round-up Room in the basement. There is also a television set avail- able. The Union offers their study hall to men and their dates. Two rooms are equipped with tables and chairs, and coke machines and telephones are nearby. Smok- ing is allowed in the hall. Lane Hall is equipped with a library which has regular hours during the semester. The room is furnished with tables, comfort- able chairs, couches and has a fireplace.' The library here, which is a branch of the General Library, has a large number of books, bas- ically religious reference books. There are also many magazines and periodicals along religious and human relations lines. The General Library and its many divisional libraries have sources for specialized fields. Some of these are the education, nat- Ural resources, fine arts, music and engineering libraries located in campus buildings. One of the most modern of cam- pus study facilities is in the Busi- ness Administration Building. A large number of periodicals are kept here. Dean Reports On JobStudy Last year circulars were distri- buted to all women students to make a sociological study of the number of coeds holding jobs in 1953. This study will probably be pub- lished this year, when results are announced by the Dean of Wo- men's Office. A large job of com- piling statistics must be done. Results will show just how much work is done outside of studying by women of today and how these figures have changed in the last twenty years. Women may find jobs doing housework, baby-sitting, clerking, soda-fountain work, and typing on or near the campus. Positions are also available at the League, Union, General Library, Univer- sity Hospital, and women's resi- dences. Assistance in job finding is of- fered by the Dean of Women's Of- fice in the Administration Bldg. which handles applications for students and keeps a list of po- tential baby-sitters. Positions for women to do housework or to care for children in return for complete board and room are also handled through the Dean of Women's Office which stipulates that the hours of work- must not exceed 21 and all homes in which women'live off-campus must be approved by the office. It is recommended that first semester freshmen do not work, unless it is absolutely essential, in which case the maximum weekly hours for part-time jobs should not exceed 10.. The Personnel Office in the Ad- ministration Bldg. handles Uni- Freshmen Women To Live in Dorms, Co-ops; Sorority Rushing To Be Held First Two Weeks LEAGUE LIBRARY-Open to women only, the League Library on the third floor of the League provides a place where coeds may study in solid comfort, and are allowed to shed shoes and curl up on soft couches. The room is also handy to soft drink machines. The Alice Crocker Lloyd drama collection is housed in this library, as well as a variety of other reference materials. SET HIGH STANDARDS: National, Local Honoraries Recognize Coed Leaders "And after the work . . . . the glory." Many national and local honor societies are among the organiza- tions on campus. Their purpose is not only to recognize outstanding scholastic achievement, but also to honor leadership and service qualities in their members. * * * ACTIVITIES known as service projects are carried out each year by the honoraries. These include everything from charity to man- ning election booths and sponsor- ing dances. A goal to work toward is how many students view honorary so- cieties. There are all varieties including those for affiliated women only, independent wo- men only, both,.or coeds in spe- cialized fields such as music, speech and journalism. Tapping ceremonies, which in many cases occur twice a year, in the fall semester and again in the Spring, are an exciting part of student life, and the exact date of tapping is kept secret to add to the surprise. * * * OFTEN THE woman to be tap- ped is hard to find. Members of honoraries have had to chase all over-campus, up and down many flights of stairs,down long corri- dors, into telephone booths and showers, and even to the morgue of The Daily to find their prospec- tive member. One of the hazards of tapping is going through the Law Quad, where angry lawyers have been known to shower buckets of wa- ter on the tapping procession as it goes through the arch. Following are descriptions of some campus honoraries. * * * Alpha Lambda Delta Freshmen women may be inter- ested in this honorary, which taps all freshmen women receiving a scholastic average of at least 3.5 during the first semester or the first two semesters at the Univer- sity. Initiation is followed by a breakfast. Members may order gold lamp of knowledge pins with the Greek letters, Alpha, Lambda, and Delta. Wyvern . Wyvern is an honorary society for juniors. Service projects for the year include counting votes at election time, scholarship fund, and in the past they have present- ed concert hours, where members played records requested by stu- dents in the League. When first organized, the prime purpose of Wyvern was to look after incoming freshmen, and members served as guides. When this job was taken over the Orientation Committee, Wy- vern became a junior honor so- ciety. Its name is derived from an old Welsh word meaning "protecting dragon." The gold pin is in the form of a dragon curled around the letter 'W.' Tapping is done with members clad in brown skirts and yellow sweaters, singing their traditional tapping chant, "Damn, damn, damn to Michigauma," (men's honorary fraternity). *#I, Mortar Board .,. The University chapter of this national senior honorary society has as its purpose honor and helping serve the campus. The re- quirements are based on service, leadership and scholarship, with prospective members required to achieve three-tenths of a point average above the all-campus wo- men's average. Members tap in black robes and a mortarboard, which they relinquish to the coed they tap. New members are recognizable the next day by the mortar- boards they must wear to their classes. The group has worked in the Student-Faculty Lounge and has aided the local chapter of the Lea- gue of Women Voters. They organ- ized a drive to raise money and collect books to complete the Alice Crocker Lloyd Drama Collection in the League Library. A $100 scholarship is awarded an outstanding junior woman. The pin of the organization is a black and gold mortarboard. Senior Society . . Honoring independent women, Senior Society sponsors many pro- jects such as helping count Stu- dent Legislature election ballots and manning ballot boxes. At As- sembly Ball, the annual coed-bid dance for independent women, members of Senior Society sell boutonnieres. Their pin is two in- terlocking gold S's on a black background. ** * * Scroll,.. Scroll, a local honorary just as is Senior Society, differs in that its members are affiliated women. Tapping is also done in caps and gowns. One of their ,projects is selling Michigan Alumnus sub- scriptions, which finance a $100 scholarship. Members are entitled to wear necklaces with an emblem in the form of a scroll. Group Keeps Activity File, FindsTutors One of the many League groups of interest to the entering fresh- man is the Merit-Tutorial Com- mittee, which keeps records of coed extra-curricular activities and recruits tutors. The group keeps a card file con- taining information on the activi- ties of all undergraduate women. Participation in all-campus func- tions and class projects, major house offices and membership in campus clubs, church guilds, WAA clubs and honor societies are list- ed. Personnel reports are compiled by the activity chairman of each house and by heads of various organizations. The file is used by the Office of the Dean of Women, Social Director of the League, Ju-' diciary Council, League commit- tees and honor societies. After graduation, records are transferred to the Office of the Dean of Women and to the Bu- reau of Appointments, where they are kept on file for reference by prospective employers. The committee also aids stu- dents seeking academic help by providing them with the name and phone number of a tutor. The tu- tor and student make their own arrangements for the time and place of tutoring. Hourly rates are charged for tutoring. The fee for tutoring is $1 an hour for every subject but chemistry, which is $2 per hour. A student must have received "B" in a subject which is in his major field or "A" in any other! course in order to be a tutor. The Merit-Tutorial Office, lo- cated in the League, is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Fri- day. Students may apply for a tutor at any time. Dormitories .... Two main types of University housing are open to freshmen wo- men-dormitories and University- owned cooperatives. Choosing the right one is the first major problem that faces most incomers to the University, and the campus housing planners have tried to provide enough var- iety to satisfy every woman. * * * COEDS HAVE 12 dormitories to choose from, ranging in size from 100 residents to the largest, which houses over 400 women. Each housing 100 undergradu- ate women, Betsy Barbour and Helen Newberry dormitories stand next to each other on State Street, opposite Angell Hall. on Observatory Hill, a few blocks from the main part of cam- pus, stand the largest women's dormitories. Stockwell Hall, on the corner of Observatory and North University, was built ten years ago and has space for 400 women. Next to it, in the middle of the block stands Mosher-Jordan Hall, actually two separate houses, each housing about 250 women. ALICE LLOYD HALL, consisting of Angell House, Hinsdale House, Kleinstueck House and Palmer House stands just beyond Mo- sher-Jordan and has room for about 150 women in each house. New Dorm, as it has been nick- named, is the newest and most modern of the women's dormitor- ies. Martha Cook, situated next to the Law Quadrangle, has space for 150 upperclasswomen. It is an honorary dormitory and the girls must reach and keep a high scholastic average as well as participate in campus activities. If a girl would rather live in a more homelike atmosphere, a league house would probably be advisable. These houses are su- pervised residences, varying in size from ten to 30 upperclasswom- en. Some of them do not serve meals, while others provide one or two a day. There are about 20 of these league houses on campus. Some women may find it neces- sary to work part of their way through college. The cooperative houses are provided for such needs. Here, a woman works part of each day for the benefit of her house. * * * .. Sororities .*. Sorority rushing this year will take place the first two weeks of school and is open to freshmen and transfer women, as well as upperclassmen. Registration f o r prospective rushees will take place at the end of Orientation Week and here they will be assigned to groups headed by a Rushing Counselor. Each Rushing Counselor is from a different sorority house but she is completely disaffiliated and her job is to help only the rushee. The Newest Rage for the School Set !} PT " BROWN GREY ILLO.CREPE SOLES I Dark 'n terrific a1l- 51or With white sidewalk o make whatever-you- feel 190k smaller. HaUry Store Hours 9 to 5:30 OPEN MONDAY NITES She gives her rushees informa- tion about sororities, answers any of their questions she can, and at- tempts to help each coed pledge the house she wants. Coeds will be told when the party held before pledging, and Pledges who have made their rushing parties are and what to do not conflict with classes or grades, a minimum of all C's as wear. The Counselor accompanies home football games. an overall average for the second her group to the first set of par-! As soon as a coed becomes' a semester, may move into the sor- ties, called "mixers," so they will pledge, an active member of her ority house or annex the following have no trouble finding the vari- house choses her for a "daughter." fall. ous houses and will leave and ar- The pledge's "Mother" will invite An annex is a house rented by a rive on time. her to the house for dinner, to sorority to hold the overflow of Rushees are invited to a mixer stay overnight, meet for coffee, or members which the house itself at every house on campus. Panhel- any number of things to acquaint cannot accommodate. Those liv- lenic suggests that they attend all her with the active members of ing in annexes usually eat their these parties so they will see every the sorority. meals in the sorority house. Randall's has another FIRST! house on campus and be able to Pledges also have one meeting judge a house by personal experi- a week where they learn their ence. pledge lessons-information about All rushing parties are informal the sorority-and get to know except "final desserts," the last their sisters better. as seen in Seventeen big, white eyelets...t wear look smarter and1 note the little prico, Ran daf 306 SOUTH STATE t the sweater look is the smartlook. on the 1i . On the Campus 4., 14' 9:V MICHIGAN CAMPUS and PAIR-OFFS IN WASHABLE DOWNYMERE .BY~ 1 ARE THE COEDS' FAVORITES Because the "sweater look" is so smart today for all campus wear, you'll like this group of mix 'n match blouses and skirts designed by STEPHANIE KORET. 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