THE MICHIGAN DAILY VEDN ESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1954 THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, rEBRUARY 24. 1954 YAWN, YAWN, YAWN: Reactions to Sleepy Students Differ By FRAN SHELDON Yawn. Students spend a lot of time falling asleep in class. Very often professors find this tendency to surrender oneself to Morpheus "understandable." SOMETIMES they find it "dis-. concerting." Sometimes they let the student sleep, but sometimes , they resort to chalk tossing, stamping feet, or young children to keep students awake. Yawn.q Many methods of keeping stu- j dents awake have been devise:{ One of the more recent ones to ; ' i " > be employed at the University is [ y a variation on the bring-a-sur- prise -method. Best illustrated by the baby that appeared in a class taught by Prof. Andrei Lozanov-Rostovsky of the history department, this method is based on the theory that surprises cause alertness. The baby appeared only once, but, as one student ex- plained, "you never know when something like it will happen again-and nobody wants to miss It."',* * , . . PROF. ALLAN $e'ager of the English department, on the other hand, has a method that can be used repeatedly. It is the chalk- chucking method. Lecturing, al- Draft Test Deadline Set Final date for turning in appli- cations for the April 22 Selective Service Qualification Test is March 9. William S. Zerman, assistant to the Dean of Students, recommend- ed that ROTC students also take this test because of their possible withdrawal from the officer's training program. Zerman pointed out that numerous students were eliminated from ROTC last fall and a similar situation may reoc- cur next year. Applications for the test may be obta'ined from any Selective Ser- vice 'Board including the Ann Ar- bor Local Board No. 85 which is located at 210 W. Washington. Registration cards must be shown upon obtaining an application. SL Petitions I VOw Available Petitions for 24 Student Legisla- ture seats to be filled in the next all - campus student elections March 30 and 31, may be picked up from 1 to 5 p.m. daily through Friday in the SL Bldg., 512 S. State. Twenty-two of the positions are for two-semester terms, and two of the candidates elected will serve for one semester. Deadline for returning complet- ed petitions to the SL Bldg. is March 6. Wernette To View Economic Advance Professor J. Philip Wernette, of the business administration school will speak at 4 p.m. today in Rack- ham Lecture Hall on "What Fu- ture Economic Progress Means to You." Wernette, editor of the Michigan Business Review, served as. an ex- pert on taxation for the Commis- sion of Financial Advisors, Repub- lic of Colombia, in 1929, and the Republic of Peru in 1931. F 4 1 I NEWEST TYPE CLASSROOM ALARM CLOCK ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING SLID DEMOCRACY ways with a piece of chalk within easy reach, he has been known to toss the chalk halfway across a ACS Promotes 'U' Cancer Work The American Cancer Society announced yesterday that it is supporting Dr. Albert Wheeler's re- search into a natural compound which may tend to protect the body against some of the deadly effects of cancer. Dr. Wheeler, of the bacteriology department, is investigating the effects of cancer on the activity of an enzyme called catalase. He and other scientists have discov- ered that tumors produce a sub- stance which destroys catalase, re- ducing the amount of it in the liver. By injecting some of this tumor substance into cancerous animals, he has been able to slow the growth of the malignant cells, but results so far have been inconclu- sive. A Nw onep I EUROPEAN TRVEL Available for ONLY 15 Girls Spepd 21 days at Capri (Includes Ballet. Painting, Galas, Operas. 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So, fraternal-like, Our Boy sat down and wrote her a Letter of Congratula- tions, starting "I hear you have a Baby .. ." Only trouble was, he for- got to mail it. Went off for the Week- end, leaving it on his desk, where his Roommate spotted it. The latter, being The Soul of Honor, didn't read any farther than the lead. off . . which was, logically enough, "Dear Ermintrude." Jumping at a Conclusion, he addressed an enve- lope to Ermintrude II, slapped on a stamp and dropped theMissive in the Mails. Our Sophomore still has a sister named Ermintrude. No Girl. And he still has No Idea why. Had he but had a Telegrammar, he'd' have Known Enough to send Sis and Spouse a handsome Congratulations telegram. (Telegrammar -- an idea- packed, pocket-size guide to tele- graph use. To get one, free, just write to Room 1727, Western Union at 60 Hudson St., New York City.) Tele- grams get to the Right Destination . .. carry Good News, Invitations, Bids for Dates (or Cash) more result- fully than any other Form of Com- munication. When you have a mes- sage to send that Means Something, just call Western Union or sprint to your Western Union office. classroom to hit his mark- sleeper. This method is said to extract a maximum of result from a min- imum of effort. Yawn. William Weigand, also of the English department, uses chalk, but in a slightly different man- ner. He holds attention by toss- ing a single piece of chalk into the air "and catching it." When attention wavers the chalk falls to the floor. Many professors, however, dis- play unconcern if students do sleep in their classes. They adhere to the I-don't-really-care method of teaching and "let 'em sleep." Yawn. One such professor said, "Al- though I don't really mind if stu- dents fall asleep it is rather dis- concerting at times, and -at those times I make noise-bang on the table or stamp my foot or hol- ler .. Another pointed out that al- though he could not condone sleeping in class, he found it very "understandable." The seats are comfortable, he explained "and many of the lectures are boring, so it is easy to fall into a stupor." Good-night. SL Referenda Due March 1 All referenda for the spring all- campus elections, March 30 and 31, must be submitted to Babs Hill- man, '55Ed., Student Legislature elections director, before March 10, According to the present stu- dent government constitution, campus advisory referenda, to be included on the ballot, must be re- quested by petition of 600 students. 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