W OMENS SUPPLEMENT YI e dAir iga ~Iaitr SECTION THREE I ANN AlBOR, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1941 Style Show Committee Work Open For Eligible Women Students Will Open Women s Activities Petites Pommes dcle err The whole trouble with being a freshman is that everyone is ready- i(Ready did we say? No, let's make it 'desperately anxious') to push a bit of advice your way. No sooner does an upper classman find that she has a newcomer in her grasp than she clutches the poor thing firmly in a modified half-nelson, pushes her into the nearest chair, and after subduing her with a few soothing words (or a well-placed clip on the chin) proceeds to give her the straight-from-the-feed-box dope on the shortest route to being a BWOC. Disregard these amateurs, women of the class of '45, and be grateful that your Aunt Cobina, that orchid among Michigan's wall-flowers, is here All Transfers May Apply For League Positions During First Semester Activity Petitioning Procedure Is Noted To Head League At to place her gnarled old hand on your shoulders Among the activities which women guide and participate in on campus are the various League committees, the class projects and other .League work. These are open to all women with the exception of first semester fresh- men. It is especially stressed that transfer stuents may apply immedi- ately upon entrance for positions with regard to these activities. The ony stipulation is that they first obtan an eligibility card at Dean of Students Joseph A. Bursley's office and have it signed at the social director's of- fice in the League. Petitioning for all events will be announced in The Daily approximate- ly a week in advance of the opening day for acceptance of petitions. Since these reports are the. only means the League has .of measuring the inter- ests and cesires of the applicant, each woman is urged to express herself frankly and sincrely. All informa- tion will be tr'eated confidentially. There will be a sample petition print- ed in another part of this issue. CommIttees Open Orientation Committee: Women working on this committee act as advisers to freshman or transfer stu- dents in the fall of each year, to help them plan their programs and to be- come acquainted with their surround- ings. Social Committee: This group plans and executes such campus events as Ruthven teas, bridge tournaments, Sunday night suppers, tea dances and style shows. Tutorial Committee: This commit- tee is organized to give assistance to women who need academic help. Wo- men on the committee may serve either as tutors (in which capacity they receive a slight remuneration), or as members of the business staff, where their duties are to contact stu- dents and tutors and arrange confer- ences. Dance Class Committee Dance Class: Women on this com- mittee help with the executive work and serve as teaching assistants un- der the direction of the dancing teacher. Since experience in teaching is not necessary, all women interested should apply. Theatre-Arts: The Children's The- atre, sponsored by the ,Michigan League, is under the auspices of the Theatre-Arts Committee. Women are offered experience in make-up, cos- tumes, properties, dancing and ush- ering, as well as in Qther aspects of the theatre. House Committee: This committee is in charge of publishing and dis- tributing the What's Up bulletin of League acivities, has charge of plan- ning the outfitting of student rooms in the League and takes care of the Undergraduate Bulletin Board. Among its other duties are the hand- ling of publicity for various League activities, supervision of Club 7-11 and miscellaneous assignments. Merit System Committee Merit 'System: All League activi- ties are in charge of the Merit Sys- tem Committee. Work of this com- mittee includes signing of eligibility cards and completion of a system of personality cards for every woman, which will be filed in one of two files. for Panhellenic or Assembly, and which include a record of all the activities in whichthe woman has participated, including League activi- tiespublications, honor societies, ahletics and others.h An impi tant part of the work of this committee is in seeing that chairmen of every ac- tivity fill out personnel blanks for every woman who has worked with them. (Judiciary Committee refers to these reports when considering wo- men for chairmanships of the vari- ous committees.) Candy-Booth: The League spon- and point out to you the many pitfalls which may confront you in Ann Arbor's welter of new experiences. (Heavens, we're beginning to sound like an 1880 edition of "The Young Girl's Guide" already!) However, to go on, we take it for granted that before you even arrive here you have learned the Cardinal Rule for Michigan behavior, which, just for safety's sake we will repeat: Never, never, -that's right, never-call a fraternity a 'frat.' _This warning is a primary one principally for the sake of your own safety. We have heard of freshmen being sandbagged for committing this most heinous of crimes. You arrive at your dorm-or house or your tent, or whatever charm- ing hovel you will be calling home for the rest of the year; you are shown to your room. In your mind you have been planning one of those smooth motif-centered rooms which the women's maga- zines make sound so simple to achieve. You are shocked at the bare whiteness of your room and you immediately give up your decorating plans, deciding that perhaps you're the severe,' monk-type, after all.A Baits Is Head Of Judiciary Committee Group Acts InAll Matters Of Infraction Of Rules; Takes League Petitions Two Juniors, Three Seniors Sit On Board Accepting petitions and interview- ing for League positions, working with the Office of the Dean of Women to formulate house rules and acting as a disciplinary board in cases of in- fraction of these rules-these are the duties of the Judiciary Committee. Made up of three seniors and two. juniors, this group has complete juris- diction over matters of violation of general residence regulations and vio-, lations of campus regulations referred to the committee by the Office of the Dean of Women. Aside from these powers the group makes all recom- mendations for League offices, stand- ing committee chairmen of the Un- dergraduate Council, central commit- tees for all class projects and the Orientation Advisers. Committee Members Jane Baits will this year head the Judiciary Committee, whose members will include also senior,members Har- riet Heames and Margaret Hulbert and juniors Elizabeth Gram and Lor- raine Judson. The chairman was ap- pointed by last year's retiring chair- man from the two junior members and the other new members were ap- pointed by an electoral board com- posed of three faculty and five stu-' dent members, upon recommendations of the Undergraduate Council. Some of the important house rules, all women should know, follow: Government Of House Officers: Each organized house shall have a house president with other officers and committees chosen as deemed necessary. Elections: The house president shall be elected or chosen by the women in the house. The president must be elected by the close of the second week of classesof the first semester of each school year. President: It shall be the duty of' the house presid'ent to call a meeting of the students in her house once each month, unless otherwise speci- fied in the house constitution, and other house meetings as needed. She shall preside at these meetings and be responsible for the enforcing of rules. Signing Out: Any student expect- ing to be out of the house after 7:30 (Continued on Page 4) WAA Will Sponsor Program Sept. 24 At Sports Buing Headquarters Of Women Is Dean's Office MARGARET SANFORD * ., * League Council Representative Of All Women Organizes And Supervises All Activities, Initiates Undergraduate Business Consist'ing of representatives from every section of the entire women's student body, the Undergraduate Council organizes and supervises wo- men's activitis and initiates all busi- aess for the undergraduate Michi- gan League. Enlarged this year to a member- ship of 16, the Council personnel was appointed and installed in office the latter part of the second semester last year. The group is under the leadership of the president of the League, Margaret Sanford, '41. Oth- er officers include two vice-presi- dents, Elizabeth Luckham and Betty Bailie; secretary, Mary Gage and treasurer, Louise Keatley. Chairmen of the League standing committees are also members of the Council. These include Phyllis Love- joy, -candy-booth; Virginia Apple- ton, theatre-arts; Marjorie Polum- baum, merit system; Dorothy Merki, house; Betty Johnson,.dance classes and Betty Fariss, social. Chairmen of standing committees are appoint- ed by the 'retiring Undergraduate Council from recommendations sub- mitted by Judiciary Committee. In addition, the following women will serve on the Council: Jane Baits, president of the Judiciary Commit- tee; Donelda Schaible, president of Women's Athletic Association; Jean Hubbard, president of Assembly; Pa- tricia Hadley, president of Panhel- lenic Association and Janet Hiatt, women's editor ofThe Daily. One of the major duties of the Undergraduate Council is to approve all recommendations given to it by the Judiciary Council for the prin- cipal positions in all class projects ' (Continued on Page 3) Housing Units Are Available Seven University halls of residence, 18 sororities and a number of private residences approved by the University and termed League houses are avail- able to undergratuate women stu- dents in the University. Of the dormitories, the five larger ones, Helen Newberry Residence, Martha Cook Building, Betsy Bar- bour House, Mosher-Jordan Halls and Madelon Louisa Stockwell Hall, provide kitchenettes and ample laun- dry facilities, besides the usual living and dining rooms on the first floor. Newest of,, these dormitories is Stockwell Hall, which was opened for residence in February, 1940. It has accommodations for 378 women. You meet your roommate. You decide after about two min- utes that she is (a) so sophisticated that she scares you; (b) a good egg; (c) a creep. If she starts the conversation with some- thing saccharine like: "I'm sure we'll be such good friends," put her in G6 category. Type (b) is, of course, ideal, but your deci- sions will be changed about sixteen times before you're through, and she's probably thinking you're a crone, too, in any case, so feeling satisfied and superior. _ ; don't start What Not To Wear.. . Just-about at this point you're going to start thinking about the clothes you have packed away, unworn and shining, in your new wardrobe trunk, and you'll say to yourself hot dawg this is really going to be my chance to show the poor dowdy goons on this corridor who'll be best-dressed girl on third floor, wing, or fourth floor, end, or wherever your cell happens to be. So you whip - out your flashy new quilted robe and pose against the doorpost, bracing yourself to dodge the compliments. And oh, sister, here is where you find out how your trusty fashion bible done you wrong. Because within about an hour you realize that you simply can't feel loungy in anything you've bought especially to lounge in and everyone is too busy to notice what you've draped on your frame, and you, too, will soon be com- fortable and horrible-to-behold in a pair of last year's ripped shorts or a striped towel or a discarded piano scarf or some related object. Next on your list of problems-to-be-met-with-and-foiled is a social calamity more commonly known as the Exchange Dinner. Described briefly, it is a ghastly little' gathering of skeptical victims, each of whom is intro- DEAN ALICE C. LLOYD Women students are advised to feel free to consult at any time with a member of the Office of the Dean of Women in Barbour Gymnasium, updn any subject. At the head of women's affairs, in the capacity of dean of women, is Miss Alice C. Lloyd., She is assisted by Mrs. Byrl F. Bacher and Miss Jeannette Perry in the Gymnasium office and by Miss Ethel A. McCor- mick, social director of women, whose office is in the League. ' Among the divisions of which Mrs.} Bacher is in charge are student em- ployment and housing other than dormitories. She also serves in the position of adviser to foreign women students and to Beta Kappa Rho, organization of women students with regular employment. Miss Perry is in charge of loans, sorority affairs and dormitories. While graduates, as well as under- graduates, are welcome to seek con- sultation from the Office of the Dean of Women, their activities are mainly under the supervision of Miss Mari- an H. Bader, house director in the Horace H. Rackham School of Grad- uate Studies. Club Members Will Offer Sports Demonstrations To Conclude Exhibition Dr. Bell To Speak To New Students By BARBARA JENSWOLD To introduce its sports program to entering freshmen and transfers, the Women's Athletic Association will give its ninth annual style show and sports exhibition at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 24 at the Women's Athletic Building. Following her introdution by Don- elda Schaible, president of the organ- iation, Dr. Margaret Bell, head of the women's physical education depart- ment, will give a short greeting to the new students. This will prelude the style show of sports outfits, which will be followed in turn by a sports exhibition on Pal- mer Field. The sports to be demon- strated are not part of the physical education department program, but are arranged and directed by the student managers of the Women's Athletic Association. The entire pro- gram is planned and executed by stu- dents in the WAA. In the main, these sports groups represent clubs rather than classes which are a part of the program of the physical education department. Models Already Chosen Alreadychosen are the models for the style show, in which the correct wearing apparel for campus sports- men in both class and club will be displayed. Dorris Allen, who Is in charge, will comment on the cos- tumes worn and explain to which sport each is adapted, as the models parade down the terrace steps and return to their places on the balcony. In case of rain, the style show will be held in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre in the League. Starting the program off will be a demonstration of the appropriate dress for swimming, with Margot Thom the model. Hockey costume is next in line, as worn by Virginia Morse. Three dance outfits will fol- low this, on' models Evelyn Spamer, Shirley Risburg and Doris Ann Black. Showing the correct wear for out- door sports will be Carolyn Denfield, who will be followed by Harriet Pratt dressed for the tennis courts. Bad- mington apparel is to be displayed by Martha Peirsol. What the well- dressed young women will be wearing on the baseball diamond will be the subject of Mary Lou Curran's demon- stration. To Show Riding Outfits Two riding outfits, modeled by Mary Hayden and Betty Johnson, and fencing dress sported by Doreen Voiles and Mary Reichle are next in line. Following this will be Jean Johnson, wearing an archery cos- tume. Golf will be represented by Anna Jean Williams in a skirt, shirt and sweater combination and Belva Barnes dressed in an American golfer dress. Bowling dress, worn by Mary Neafie and a ping pong outfit on L. G. George complete the sports ap- parel demonstration. Besides these will be costumes for date and campus wear, shown by Ruth Gram, Millie Radford, Nancy Chapman and Mar- got Thom. After the models have finished their show there will be a spoits dem- onstration on Palmer Field. In charge of this part of the program is Jean Johnson. Opening demonstration will be of archery as performed by Nancy Ber- caw, Joanne Woodward, Gloria CarlI Virginia Beechle and Eleanor Gray. Others include Crop and Saddle- Betty Johnson, Dorothy Lindquist and Mary Hayden. Tennis-Eliza- beth Bunnell, Betty Churchill, Jo Lloyd and Harriet Pratt. Ping pong- Joan Peterson and Nancy Upson. Golf-Virginia Frey, Edith Longyear, Anna Jean Wiliams and Gertrude and Mary Reichle. Badmington- Jane Edmonds, Rose Gengradoming, Helen Smith, Marie Gengradoming and Martha Peirsol. Bowling-Nancy Stock, Dorisann Hendricks, Barbara Alt and Kay Gladding. Dance-Shir- ley Risburg, Evelyn Spamer and duced to a person of the opposite sex and each of whom dinner in this person's company. Inevitably the person one meets and eats with is slightly sub-human, more than slightly on the gargoyle side, and definitely a boring conversationalist. And don't say we didn't warn you. Finally, beware of the roommate with the sense of humor who "fixes you up" with a he's-tall-and-dark-and- a-wonderful-dancer blinI date (and more about these, later) who turns out to look like the 'straight man' in a third-rate vaudeville act. The only thing to do in a case like this is to punish her by having him dig up a friend for the traitorous wench. At this time in your life, dear young freshmen, since you are newly arrived on campus, we feel that we should run a special department for the two outstanding social situations with which you will be confronted, describing with, more or less elaborate detail the procedure in each of them. Rushing is, of course the first of these contacts, and Aunt Cobina, in collaboration with her college board of six young lady graduates of the finest reform schools in proceeds to eat a - r Panhellenic, Assembly Groups Will Have Information Booths the East, has prepared a program of action designed to make Michigan's blase sorority women notice you. We won't say exactly how they'll notice you, but we guarantee a good degree' of attention. W hat'Not To Do.. First, as you are met at the door, give each of your greeters a strong, spine-wrenching handshake. This will show them you are healthy, and a sickly sorority sister is the last thing they want. Before you are introduced to the house mother see if you can find out her first name and call her by it in a resounding voice, punctuating your acknowledgement of the introduction with a hearty smack between the shoulder blades. They'll love your infor- mality. Eat as many of the sandwiches and ca- napes as you can get your hands on. Don't hesitate to ask for seconds, and be sure to slurp up your tea in long sweeping Wagnerian slurps; sorority girls love a strong, original personality. You may not be asked to the desserts, but that will probably be because they'll all feel they haven't a chance with such a dream of a pledge prospect; but show them how democratic you C aw~o_...___fr s~nvccro s)..f -, 1- f I I'l < . PATRICIA HADLEY * * * * JEAN HUBBARD To aid students desiring informa- tion about sororities on campus, there will be a booth, sponsored by Panhel- lenic Association, in the League Lobby during Orientation Week. Composed of three delegates from each sorority who meet once a month, Panhellenic Association was estab- lished to promote cooperation among the various sororities and to unify the interests of affiliated and non- affiliated women on campus. Offiers of the Excuiv ermmit- This fall whenever a woman stu- dent sees the phrase, "Declaration of Independents," there will be mirrored in her mind Assembly, the organiza- tion for independent women on the University's campus. She will be greeted by this theme when she reads the pamphlet espe- cially designed for the newcomers, again when she stops at Assembly's Information Booth in the League lobby during Orientation Week. and