1962-12-07

              ILLINOIS WESLEYAN
Bloomington, Illinois, Friday, December 7, 1962
By HARRY HONEYCUTT
Tonight, at ten o'clock, or in
other 'words whenever the basket-ball
game with Augustana is over,
the Social and Welfare Commission
will present the first faculty va-riety
show to be given on the Wes-leyan
campus. The show will fea-ture
Dr. Justus Pearson of the Eng-lish
department, who will give a
short reading, Dr. Lawrence Tuck-er,
who will head a short vaude-ville
act, Dr. Marie J. Robinson and
Dr. Bunyan Andrew and group,
who will do a short skit, the art
professors, who will take part in a
performance which they as yet re-fuse
to discuss, Dr. Mario Man-cinelli
and Miss Ruth Kreiger with
a few musical selections, and a
host of others:
Unfortunately Dr. James White-hurst,
our famous campus magician,
will be unable to perform due to a
previous engagement.
Saturated with originality, shot
through with energy-toasted little
chunks of humor, the hour-long
show at Presser Hall. tonight will,
as the M.C. of the performance
Professor Ed Carpenter said, "let
the faculty let their hair down."
The show will be put on tonight
and tonight only. It is part of the
Commission's efforts in gathering
Wassail At Christmas
The annual Christmas Dinner for
those eating in the. Commons will
be served Tuesday, December 18.
Starting at five, hot wassail will
be served in the Dug-Out. Dinner
will start as usual at 5:30. The
menu includes turkey with all the
trimmings. It is requested that all
men wear suit coats and all women
wear heels.
Miss Niehaus, Dr. Robinson, Nurse Arnold and Professors Car-penter
and Luerssen conclude plans for tonight's faculty variety
show. How are those grins for laughs? Hope the jokes are better
tonight.
money for various charities, both tistic ending of the opera took
local and national, and the chair- place. As the two lovelorn suitors
man of the Social and Welfare came to the end of their duel, a
Commission under the S t u d e n t thought struck simultaneously into
Senate, Jill Basey, hopes that it each of their minds. Mr. Brian
will be the start of a long-lived looked at Mr. Drexler. Mr. Drexler
and enjoyable tradition on the nodded.
Wesleyan campus.
This is to be only one of the
many efforts that the Social and
Welfare Commission will undertake
in order to raise more- money. In
recent years an annual Campus
Chest Carnival has been he 1 d,
which will not be held this year
because of the recent decline in
the support of the carnival by the
student body. The carnivals usually
featured booths run by the fraterni-ties,
sororities, and dorms on cam-pus.
A few years ago the Campus
Chest was helped out in a hilarious
manner by the faculty when, as a
benefit show, they did a comedy
take-off on the opera "Carmen,"
which the music department had
performed in all due seriousness
just one week before.
Dr. Marie J. Robinson played
Carmen. Mr. Fred Brian acted as
one of the suitors. Dean Meierhofer
appeared unabashedly in tights as
a page, while Miss Marian Niehaus,
not to be outdone, appeared as a
member of the chorus, in bloomers
and a middy blouse.
It was in the last scene that the
two suitors, who in the original
and unrevised edition of the opera
were supposed to do glorious battle
with swords, calmly fought unto
the very death with a pair of lethal
looking squirt guns.
It was here that the really ar-
Calmly, Mr. Brian squirted Dr.
Robinson in the face. Then, Mr.
Drexler also squirted the incredu-lous
Dr. Robinson in the face.
Whereupon Dr. Robinson, never
at a loss for a rebuttal, turned
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Campus Carol Set;
New Event Added
Wesleyan's annual Campus Carol,
sponsored by Sigma Alpha Iota and
Acacia, will be held Monday, De-cember
17. SAI and Acacia have
planned schedules and will pick up
residents of dorms and Greek
houses as they carol. "The two
groups are scheduled to meet at
President Berthof's home where
faculty members will be waiting.
Something new has been added
to this year's Campus Carol-light-ing
of the tree called "Internation-al
Tree of Learning" located be-tween
Holmes and Duration Halls.
There will also be a free-will
donation, and each group repre-sented
will be asked to contribute.
The money collected will go to
Campus Chest.
At the close of the evening, the
carolers will meet in the Memorial
Center where groups will perform.
Coffee and donuts will then be
served in the Commons.
Director Short Explains Program
For Juniors At Spring Festival
All-University Council met last
Tuesday night and considered the
problems involved in inviting high
school juniors to attend Spring
Festival. According to Mr. Lee
Short, Director of Admissions, this
is being considered. He asked for
suggestions and expressions of ap-proval
or disapproval by members
of the Council.
Applying Early
It was brought up that students
are applying to colleges earlier in
the year, and most of the seniors
who would be attending Spring
Festival have already decided upon
their choice of college.
However, the problems involved
in inviting an additional amount of
students are large; the number of
students on campus for the event
would be approximately doubled if
juniors were to attend.
"Unwieldy Group"
Don Guess commented that "This
big a group would be rather un-wieldy,"
and maybe it would be
possible to invite juniors at one
time and seniors at another to
solve this problem.
Carol Larsen said that maybe it
would be possible to concentrate
mainly on juniors, since they are
TO WASHINGTON . .
Will Attend
American Univ.
During the coming spring term,
John Weistart, Theta Chi from
Minonk and philosophy major, has
been selected as Wesleyan's Wash-ington
Semester student at Ameri-can
University. Students from the
more than one hundred universi-ties
participating in this program
have an opportunity to view the
workings of Congress, the Supreme
Court, and the government depart-ments
at first hand and to do re-search
in public affairs at Wash-ington
libraries and within the fed-eral
agencies.
Other Wesleyan students who
have represented Wesleyan in re-cent
years in the Washington Se-mester
are Mary Katherine Humm
and Carolyn Morby.
According to Dr. Donald Brown,
campus coordinator for the Wash-ington
Semester, there may be one
or two more vacancies for Wes-leyan
students this year; and those
interested should talk with him.
Students from any department are
eligible. Since the two Washington
semester courses involve only six
hours of political science credit,
usually three courses can be taken
at American University in any
field. Students remain registered at
Illinois Wesleyan and return here
to complete their college course.
the students who have not yet
made up their minds about which
college to attend. However, it was
felt that eliminating all seniors
would be a mistake.
It was suggested that juniors
could be on campus just during the
day, and the seniors only could
stay overnight. "That would be kind
of cheesy," Mr. Short commented.
Dean Everette Walker said that
perhaps in another year seniors
could come in the fall and juniors
could come in the spring. "Most
people gripe about one weekend."
Mr. Short answered, "How would
they feel about two?"
Limited Number of Juniors
Possibly a limited number of
juniors could be invited so that
they could be included in the
same weekend with the seniors. If
they were highly screened, in order
to get "the cream of the crop,"
the program would be effective for
a limited number of juniors and
still the number of students would
not be too large to be accomo-dated
by the facilities on campus.
Although the Admissions Office
does not have a very complete list
of prospective juniors, it may be
possible for members of the vari-ous
residence halls to submit the
names of high school juniors with
whom they are acquainted.
President Lloyd Bertholf thanked
the Council members for their com-ments
and suggested that Mr. Short
could consider these suggestions
when planning for the next Spring
Festival.
All-University C o u n c i 1 meets
once a month and is composed of
members of the faculty and ad-ministration
as well as the presi-dents
of houses, dorms, honorary
societies aid publications.
Bookstore Gifts
The bookstore now has on dis-play
numerous items for last-minute
Christmas gifts.
The many distinctively Wesleyan
items include mugs, sweatshirts for
adults, sweatshirts and T-shirts for
children, as well as gold-etched
Wesleyan crests, paperweights, and
'wall-plaques.
Paint-by-number sets at various
price ranges and pen and pencil
sets packaged especially for Christ-mas
giving, are also available.
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