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E PAGES ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1959
TWELVE PAGES
Socia
I
Scene
iUE BUILDING-An (aerial view of the Women's League
s a side view, autumn shadows creeping up the side. In the
ground at right is the Health Service Building.
a ge Cooinates
:tivities of Women
By LINDA BRODEY
* The Women's League was
founded in 1890 and has served as
the clearing house for women's
activities and self-government ever
since.
The League is divided into three
branches which include Women's
League Council, Women's Senate
and Women's Judiciary. The Board
of -Governors of the League is
c composed of four alumnae, two
faculty-women, two women admin-
istrators and five students. This
body .determines policy concerning
the Michigan League Building.
The Council of the Women's
League has three branches of gov-
ernment: the League officers, the
Administrative chairmen, the first
vice-presidents of Assembly Asso-
ciation and Panhellenie Associa-
tion, and -the president of the
Women's Athletic Association.
Acts as Guide
t The League President presides
over League Council meetings and
acts as guide and .advisor to the
various women's activities con-
ducted through the Women's
League. This year's League Presi-
dent is Katherile Johnson, '60. As
League Holds
Class S5hows
Each year Women's League
sponsors four class projects which
include Frosh Weekend, Soph
Show, Junior Girls Play, and
Senior Night.
Held in the spring of the year,
freshmen women compete with
each other to give the best all-
around campus dance.
Originatin as a dance drama,
the first Frosh Weekend was pre-
sented at Sunset on Palmer Field
as a freshman class project. Later
Assembly and Panhellenic Board
combined ideas and organized,
See LEAGUE, Page 9
president Miss Johnson is also an
ex-officio member of the Board of
Governors of the Michigan League
and of the Student Government
Council.
The internal vice-president of
the League coordinates all activi-
ties sponsored by the administra-
tive committees of the League and+
prepares the calendar of events for
the entire year. The external vice-
president coordinates League ac-
tivities with other campus organi-
zations and presides over Women's
Senate.
The Vice-President in charge of
Class Projects is the guide, advisor
and coordinator of the central
committees of Soph Show, Junior+
Girls' Play and Senior Night. Other
officers include the Vice-President+
in Charge of Finance and the
Chairman of the Interviewing and
Nominating Committee.
Chooses Committees
The Interviewing and Nominat-
ing Committee has the responsi-
bility of choosing,.rthrough the+
petitioning. and interviewing pro-
cesses, all wtvmen students serving
as chairmen° or committee, mem-.
bers for League projects through-
out the year.
Members visit the residence halls
before petitioning opens to-explain
the process and answer any ques-
tions prospective petitioners might
have.
Each of the chairmen of the
seven administrative committees
also has a seat on League Council
in addition to her duties in seeing
that League projects run smoothly.
Performs Services
The Community Service Com-
mittee volunteer their services to
the community each year, acting
as hostesses at the University Hos-
pital, the Speech Clinic and the
Veterans' Readjustment Center.
The members plan holiday par-
ties and entertainment for these
centers and act as advisor and re-
ferral agency for other campus
See WOMEN, Page 9
Opportunities
To Be Shown
Union, League Prepare
For Social Orientation
Of Incoming Students
The Union and League, in co-
operation with the administra-
tion, will sponsor the social orien-
tation program to parallel the
University's academic orientation.
Orientation week for freshmen
and transfer students who have
not had summer academic orien-
tation will begin Monday, Sept.
14, "with a mass meeting in Hill
Auditorium where they will meet
their orientation leaders and join
their respective groups.
The rest of that day and Tues-
day will be devoted to academic
testing with the language place-
ment tests being given on Monday
evening.
Registration Scheduled
On Wednesday there will be
registration with individual groups
meeting before. In these meetings,
the orientation leaders will ex-
plain the procedure and answer
any questions the newnstudents
may have about registration.
The rest of the week will be de-
voted to social activitiesso that
incoming students can get to feel
at home' at the University and be-
come familiarized, with the social
and extra - curricular activities
which are available to them.
Highlighting the schedule will
be 'programs planned by the
League and Union. League Night
is a musical presentation to ex-
plain the League's functioning in
song.
Madness Planned
Union Madness is a completely
social event which is open to.
everyone on campus, not only the
new students. There will be a car-
nival, a jazz concert and dancing.
One of the campus traditions
will be President Harlan Hatcher's
welcome to incoming students. At
the game time, the deans of men
and women and various student
leaders will address the new stu-
dent body.
Following the "President's Wel-
come," there will be an all-campus
sing on the Diagonal. The band
and cheerleaders will be there to
lead the group in their first intro-
duction to school spirit.
There will also be College Night
where students will become fa-
miliar with the schools they are
enrolledi in. Besides this, the'
League and Union are planning
coke dates and the dorms will ar-
range mixers.
Individual. orientation groups
will be able to attend League-
Union Forums where the students
will be given the opportunity to
ask upper classmen questions
about the University and campus
life, too.
Students To Tour
In addition, there will be tours
of the campus including the Stu-
dent Publications Building, the
League, the Union and the Stu-
dent Activities Building. These
buildings will have displays show-
ing what activities they offer.
Students will be finished with
the academic testing and registra-
tion by Wednesday of orientation
week.
On Wednesday, many of the stu-
dents who pre-registered during
the summer will come to the cam-
pus to participate in these activ-
ities. ,
'Housing
Groups
ON THE HILL-Short flights of steps lead along the rear' of Alice Lloyd Hall, next to Couzens Hall onto the path tha
back of the dorms facing Observatory Street. Stockwell Fall can be seen in the background, while next to Lloyd and oi
picture is the Mosher-Jordan complex. These four residence halls hold the majority of University women living in this
LARGEST IN COUNTRY:
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D~Iverse
Old, Modern
Dormitories
Hold, Women ,
Four Residence Halls
Gathered on The Hill;
Others on Campus
Mary Marley Hall is the new-
est and largest of the women's
residence halls, but by no means
the only one.
The 1,200,women who live in the
H-shaped, six story Markley ara
located near the majority of wom-
en's residence halls on the Hill.
The Hill, completely covered with
women's dorms, left no room for
the newest, which was built one
block to the west.
Markley is made up of eight
"houses," divisions made for ease
of governing and group living. It
features such dormitory luxuries
as a phone in every room and a
snack bar.
Hold Lounges
The living quarters of Markley
are arranged vertically on both
sides of the "H." The central bar
contains lounges, dining facilities
and other group facilities.
t runs along the Student opinion was sampled in
at of sight in the building Markley. Women were
type of housing, consulted on everything from room
arrangement to color schemes for
the building. All the rooms in the
dorm are doubles. The basement
contains laundry rooms and sound-
proof music rooms where students
can practice undisturbed and un-
disturbing.
Also located on the Hill is Stock-
well Hall, a Gothic building hous-
Lot been anounced ing 500 women. Stockwell on the
feature nationally left of the Hill starts the chain
inerse that leads through Mosher-Jordan,
*r Alice Lloyd and Couzens Hall on
Lays a large role in the right.
ctivities. Each Sat- Sororities House Others
following football These dorms, together with
allroom. Dances are Markley, house most of the in-
Friday night In the dependent women on campus.
his popular tradi- Women's housing also includes 22
ily known as Little sororities, leag'ue houses, coopera-
tives and dormitories scattered
also sponsors jazz around campus.
e Hill Auditorium. Many/of the sororities have built
and Spring oren- new houses or additions or are
Union d dnes is planning such work in the near
Uoband in sh future. This fall Alpha Xi Delta
d grill nban n both and Alpha Kamma Delta will have
ino party for the argely remodeled houses to move
y fo theinto.
ION, Page 3 uHelen Newberry and Betsy Bar-
[ON, age ~ bour dormitories are located di-
rectly across from central campus
and are small units, housing about
I m p Pus 100 women each. Martha Cook is
reserved for upperclass women and
is also located directly across from
1 l a n n e d central campus.
Mosher Closed
ie Club will sponsor Last year JordanHallwas closed
sing September 16, for repairs nd the wonen moved
sten, 61 pulictyas a house into Markley. This Year
stein, '61. publicity they will return to Jordan Hall,
ounced recently., which now has new plumbing. But
eld in the evening, the women of Mosher Hall mustn
iversity President this year yield to the plumbers and
r's welcome to the move into Markley.
ents. Weather per- Women's living quartersextend
g will take place on all over the camts area, and
In case of rain, it range in size from a r30-member
in Hill Aud., Miss sorority house to the 1200 resi-
dents of Markley.
By RICHARD CONDON
The Michigan Union, the largest
men's union in the country, is the
only totally student run organiza-
tion on campus, and offers stu-
dents, faculty members, and;
alumni recreational, social, com-;
munity, and cultural advantages.-
The facilities within the Union
itself include a grill and dining
room, hotel accommodations, li-
brary, billiard room, swimming 4
pool, barber shop, dark rooms, a ;
hobby room, music listening rooms,
and public meeting rooms.1
The Union activities, however,
by no means end here.
Each year the Union offers the
Creative Arts festival. This brinigs
to campus in the Spring exhibits
and events in all areas of the cre-
ative arts and focuses them in a
conventional period.
Counseling Service
The Student counseling offers to'
literary college students the unique
opportunity of receiving peer coun-
seling on an informal basis.
It has been instituted in order
to give frank, specific advice to
Advice from Dean
On Sunday, September 13, within which, and s
Ann Arbor will thoroughly un- because of which an i:
derstand the phrase "the wave may accomplish The
of the future." Of the 3,000 and the key word is 'm
drops forming Michigan's wave must, nor will.
of '63, 1,500 will splash down I am sure you area
on us that day. The excitement, the 1960s, of The De
optimism, energy and genuine Accomplished by ever
capacity for learning pouring in each wave hurrying
out are as conspicuously real America's colleges and
as the weather of a sunny, sities this fall. Yourx
cloudless July day on a Cape bility is to use to you
Cod beach with a salty wind mum these four ye
sweeping in from the Atlantic. environment, this facu
It is well to remember that libraries, laboratories,
this atmosphere of heady en- and 'activities'-this
ergy, this sense of effective life"-so you may best
well-being is not, itself, The learning, in characte
Deed Accomplished. It can be effective living.
the ideal climate, the carefully (Miss) Deborah
provided optimal environment Dean ofV
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Women
undergraduates in any of sixteen
fields.
It is the only such service at the
University, though it is not offi-
cially entitled to authorize elec-
tion cards. It again is operated
through the Union student offices.
A Student-Faculty-Administra-
tion Conference is held each year,
in which an opportunity is given
these important segments of the
University community a chance to
sit and discuss common problems
on an informal basis. The purpose
of 'this conference is to help iron
out any difficulties among them.
Tutors Available
A complete, up-to-date file of
available student tutors who have
excelled in one or more fields of
learning is kept in the Union stu-
dent offices. This is an important,
though little known service ren-
dered by the Union.
At various dates during the
course of -each academic year out-
standing professors and visiting
authorities in a specialized field
are invited to speak by the Union.
They either give talks or partici-,
pate in panel debates and discus-
sions at the end of which are
question and answer periods for
the audiences.
This year the Special events
committee of the Union will spon-
sor a fall pep rally on a larger
scale than has ever been attempted
at the University. Though its ex-
act date has n
as yet, it will
famous enterta
The Union pl
campus social a
urday night
games a campu
in the Union ba
also held every
Union Grill. T
tion is common
Club.
The Union
concerts in th
During the Fal
tation periods
offered. This in
the ballroom an
ing and a cas
new students.
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an all-campus
Maureen Golds
chairman, anno
It will be h
following Un
Harlan Hatche
incoming stud(
mitting, the sin
the Diagonal.1
will be held i
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