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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Saturday, March 10, 1945,
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BARNABY J.y Crockett Johnson
1945, 1,s Newsp.fp PM, .5
V-BALL STAF Ft's nice to see you, Ellen. Old Mr. Dormant's ofice is He'
MyBAL STts '. Hes-er-eccentric.. His
I'm all ready to go to lunch. at the end of the corridor, partners run things ... But he
EDIT xon ... But would you like to see He's in there now. Feeding makes all the big decisions. Caa Coa
Ray ixo where I work? My boss is out, pigeons at the window.. H' s.. Coo s..
BUSINESS MANAGERS He'"s still awfully shrewd. At
BUSIESSMANAERleast about money matters ..
Dick Strickland I'd love to. Feeding l a t e t .5
June Pomering WON pigeons?
CIRCULATION
Dorothy Kuhnle
CONTRIBUTORS
Bud Rovit, Paul Sislin, Lois
Tverson, Milt Freudenheim, Ray
Shinn, Mary Brush, Joan Wilk, Art '-oCK
Kraft,. Murray Grant, Anita Franz, 3
Bill Mullendore, Shirley Frank.
AN EDITORIAL:
Dancing in Wartime
YHYhave a big dance like Tic-
HYw all rigdante ie are in school now will help form
ory Ball right in the middle that nucleus.
of a war? Why waste time dan- Ty
cing to a name band when our Therefore, dance away the al-
every effort is supposed to be bent led hours while you can, but
toward bringing this terrible fray remember that tomorrow and to-
to an end as soon as possible? mork ad tomrhe youe t
Why dress up in our most formal to morrd in the hope that
h attire and be happy and clean every tomorrow in the not too
and gay when so manyd mill distant future will be a peaceful
are risking their life's blood on one. -Ray Dixon
some foreign battlefield at this
very .moment? Why give all the
time and publicity it takes to put '. ON SECOND
on a big dance like this when it THOUGHT
could be given in plugging for
war-useful projects? By Ray Dixon
These are questions which we Poetripe a la V-Ball:
all might ask .ourselves as we To V-Ball I goes,
dance. Togged in sport clothes;
Not knowing that "V"'
About the only justification for Stands for Victory
a dance of this kind is that it is Not volley.
a relaxing interude in our war job So solley!
of going to school. Some of us
are being trained by the Army or
Navy, some are deferred for one We have it on reliable authority
reason or another and some of us that McIntyre plays like Hal.
are girls who will have to fill a* * *
man's shoes while he is away do- The ambitious gent who started
ing a bigger and more important dancing at 9 p. m. and didn't quit
job. But we all have a definite until the dance was over will kind-
potential war and post-war value ly proceed to Buckingham Palace
to our country that cannot be to be knighted as Sir Dancelot.
denied. 4
THERE is no basicly good reason Undoubtedly the reason he
why we, of all people, should pranced so avidly was because of a
be chosen to receive an education slight case of dance in his pants.
while others are receiving only 4:
liquidation. But things have work- Everyone came dressed in their
ed out so that we are the ones and zootiest clothes because V-Ball
we must realize that this privi- was formally known as J-Hop.
lege involves-a responsibility-the * *
responsibility to learn as much as This is as good a time as any to
possible as quickly as possible to revive the old gag about the girl
insure that, once victory is won, who came to V-Ball dressed de-
a lasting peace will follow. murely in a gownless evening
- Shaping the government of the strap. But, then, that's just wish-
post-war world will be done by ful thinking.
those who are now in power. But* *
the job of interpreting' and living After spending time and money
in the post-war world and keeping all through high school learning
up the high standards of living we how to dance in a taxi dance stu-
have set for ourselves will largely dio, we now spend most of our
'be done by us. An educated nu- time in college wondering how
cleus will be needed to provide the we're gonna taxi our date to and
impetus toward the making of a from V-Ball.
better civilization-a civilization *
that knows enough to realize that Taxi dancing- that's V-Ball
wars are futile. Those of us who with intermissions.
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I'D RATHER BE TIGHT:
Slack- appy Coeds Must Go
By HAM UEL GRAFT
NEW YORK, sIvarcc 9-It seems beach clothes, which bore a slight war effort," they donned dunga-
to me that a situation which has resemblance to trousers. They rees, rolling them up to the
been growing in enormity for the steadfastly denied all similarity knee-caps to disguise the mas-
past three years, is about to come pointing to the texture of the ma- culine appearance of the vete-
to a head, and will either dissolve terial, and the flamboyant use of ments. They again got away
of its own tension, or will make color. The poor deluded male was with their pretense.
enough noise to drown out the completely duped again. While on the subject of dun-
Men's Glee Club., They weren't through with garees, I would like to make one
Four years ago, one Susie Brais- their slow evolution yet. They point perfectly clear. Women hate
en, a pretty'thirty-nine year old had set a goal for themselves, dungarees. Dungarees are rough
freshman (second semester) walk- and to the best of their abilities and are exceedingly scratchy. Also,
ed into the smoking room in the they were going to achieve that dungarees are about the most un-
Angell Hall basement, wearing a goal. Under the guise of "the (continued on Page 21)
pair of grey fnannel slacks with-- -
violet roses affixed here and there
at random. Pandemonium reign-
ed; several of the older and more
sensitive professors resigned; the
complete student body (with the
exception of Susie Braisen), rose
up in protest against this scan-
dalous act (of wearing pants).
Immediate and appropriate
steps were taken against Miss
Braisen. She was subjected to a
public hearing in the very center Xi-
of the Law Quad, at which she was
formally denounced and her Phys
Ed medals were taken away. Miss
Braisen was not a strong woman;>'
her character had peen sordidly
besmirched from Vost Field Rouse l
over to the Wuerth Theatre.
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She was at her wits end. There
was only one course of action
left to her and she realized it
only too well. Unflinchingly,
with head held high, she deter-
mined to end her unhappy exist-
ence, and accordingly, she walk-
ed defiantly into one of those
so-called "restaurants" in the
heart (or rather liver) of Ann
Arbor and ordered a "full-course
meal."
Her funeral was not large, and
only the most curious attended,
but from behind curtains and
doors, thousands of coeds watched
the funeral train, and to the
rhythm of the dirge, they began
to admire Susie, and they began
to wonder how they themselves
would look in slacks.
They were wise however; it
would be too much of a revolution
if all of a sudden the female pop-
ulation of the University of Michi-
gan emerged as one woman in a
pair of slacks. (God forbid) They
used the subtle approach. First
they began wearing slacks as if
they were pajamas knowing full
well that society would ignore
sleeping apparel as too delicate a
subject to trifle with. Then grad-
ually they designed sun-suits and
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