1963-03-22

              ILLI.NOIS WESLEYAN
Vol. 69 Bloomington, Illinois, Friday, March 22, 1963
Acacia, KD Take First Place In Show
Janie Maerk is the little match girl from the first place Variety Show act who is moaning the fact
that she can't find her place in life.
By A Staff Writer
- Absent from Wesleyan's campus
for a year, the annual Greek Varie-ty
Show returned Friday night,
with all the color of a Barnum and
Bailey circus-which in some cases
was just what it was. As show time
grew near, vacant seats became
filled and soon Presser Hall Audi-torium
was bursting to the seams
with students and faculty. The
vivid presentation was sponsored
by the Interfraternity and Pan-
Hellenic Councils, with all pro-ceeds
going to the Campus Chest
fund.
No one can deny that the entire
show was enjoyable, beginning
with the two very clever emcees,
,John Waddell and Gary Powers,
who because of lengthy study at
the Public Library arrived late,
and lasting through the last Greek
presentation.
The acts were judged as they
were given, and the winners were
announced at the conclusion of the
show. Acacia and Kappa Delta re-ceived
first honors with an act fea-turing
a clever combination of
colorful costumes and dialogue.
The title, "America, Land of Oppor-tunity,"
*as somewhat misleading
in that the act was a far cry from
anything of a true patriotic na-ture.
A potpourri of characters
was presented, ranging from a
stripper to a "madharajah." The
presentation was indicative of ex-tensive
preparation and was de-serving
of the first-place award.
The act depicted the straits of
a "poor little innocent match-girl"
who hanpened to find herself near
a circus. The match-girl thou ght
that the circus wo'ild be a good
miace to try and sell her matches,
but when she tried to get near any
of the circus people they only
snubbed her and told her to get
away.
After being given a plume by
one of the harem girls in the side-show
in order to get rid of her,
she was discovered to actually be
very beautiful in her plume and
so the barker and ringmaster de-cided
to sign her up to be the
circus' new Golden Girl. The little
match-girl was given a contract
and her road to a golden future
(slight pun) was paved. The entire
circus troop realized that the
match-girl was truly a star and in a
gala vaudevillian ending celebrated
her success to the accompaniment
of a seven piece circus band and
one loaded cannon.
The whole extravaganza was di-rected
by Betsy Batchelor and Jim
Sutphin who, along with the
pledges and actives of the houses,
participated in the show.
All of the acts showed evidence
of time and effort being placed in
them by all the members of the
houses involved.
"Cast of Thousands"
Although the Sigma Kappa and
Phi Mu Alpha act did not have the
cast of two thousand and the five
hundred piece orchestra that were
announced by Master-of-Ceremon-ies
John Waddell, it did have the
excellence to be judged as second
place. Backed by a complete or-chestra,
a fork salesman tried to
sell his wares to native Chinese
but it was "no sale" as the people
on stage were reminded that their
forefathers would be horrified to
see their kin eating with forks
which looked like dragons' claws
instead of the traditional chop-sticks.
The act was called "Chop,
Chop."
Gary Powers acted as co-Master-of-
Ceremonies.
"Wesleyan Story"
Receiving third place honors
were Kappa Kappa Gamma and
Sigma Chi who presented the
"Wesleyan Story," a skit based on
Leonard Bernstein's "West Side
Story." Many of the songs were
adapted to fit various situations
on campus but in the end we were
assured that the act was all in jest
as we are sure it was.
Also in the show were Alpha
Gamma Delta and Tau Kappa Ep-silon,
Alpha Omicron Pi and Phi
Gamma Delta, and Sigma Alpha
Iota, Delta Omicron, and Theta
Chi.
All of the proceeds from the
Greek Variety Show were donated
to the Campus Chest.
In charge of the evening was
Arch Wilson, Interfraternity Coun-cil
Social Chairman, and Dottie
Kirst, Pan-Hellenic Council Social
Chairman.
emorial Gym Site
Of Campus Robbery
Money was stolen from four
women students in the locker room
of Memorial Gymnasium Tuesday
morning. A total of $14.50 and one
billfold were taken. Dean of Stu-dents
Anne Meierhofer reported
that there are several strong sus-pects
for the theft. Police have
stated a willingness to co-operate
in the solving of these thefts and
might be called in in the future,
Dean Meierhofer said.
Dean Meierhofer also reported
that none of the money that was
stolen was in a locked locker at
the time. She emphasized that
much of the problem of campus
thievery is magnified by the fact
that students are not keeping their
valuables locked. If all students
would keep their rooms and lockers
locked, thieves would not have the
opportunity to take others prop-erty.
No. 23
Uncle Sam Becomes Friend To Fathers
Fathers of today and of the
future, do not lose hope yet-
Uncle Sam may not want YOU after
all. White House press secretary
Pierre Salinger announced Friday,
March 15, that President Kennedy
signed into effect an executive
order which will shift virtually all
draft-eligible fathers from class 1A
to class 3A, thus making it highly
improbable that they will be called.
Exceptions to this rule are doc-tors,
dentists, and veterinarians,
who will remain in class 1A even
if they are fathers-provided they
meet the physical qualifications, of
course.
Asked why the action was taken,
Salinger said he believed the Se-lective
Service Board was able to
fill its monthly draft quotas with-out
tapping fathers.
Daily News Columnist Coming
The next all-school convocation
will feature Sidney J. Harris, col-umnist
for the Chicago Daily News.
It will again be held in the Me-morial
Gymnasium on Wednesday,
April 3, at 2 p.m. The topic of
Harris' address will be "The Role
of the Arts in America."
In addition to the convocation
he will head up a discussion group
that is to meet at 8:00 p.m. the
same day, This group will meet in
the Faculty Lounge of the Me-morial
Center.
Native of London
Mr. Harris was born in London,
England, in 1917, and came to the
United States with his parents at
the age of five. He started his
newspaper work as a copyboy while
still in high school and working on
the old Chicago Herald and Exami-ner.
He continued working while
attending the University of Chi-cago
as a philosophy major.
After school he worked briefly
for the Chicago Times after which
he began publishing his own maga-zine,
The Beacon. His magazine was
a news-and-opinion journal for the
Middle West. When this venture
did not succeed Mr. Harris joined
the staff of an encyclopedia com-pany
as an associate editor. Then
he went to work for the City of
Chicago Law Department, as an
associate in social and economic
research.
In 1941, Harris joined the staff
of the Chicago Daily News as a
reporter and feature writer. Three
years later he started his daily col-umn
on the editorial page, "Strictly
Personal."
This column is now syndicated
to scores of newspapers throughout
the United States and Canada
through General Features Corpora-tion
in New York.
Theatre Columnist
In 1945, Harris became the
drama critic for the Chicago Daily
News. He had a special theater
column appearing each Saturday in
addition to regular drama reviews.
The next year he was appointed an
instructor in the Great Books at
the University of Chicago's Down-town
College. Since then he has
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Sidney J. Harris, columnist for the Chicago Daily News, will speak
at an all-school convocation April 3 in Memorial Gym.
The