1954-11-03

              Illinois Wesleyan University
Vol. 61 Bloomington, Illinois, Wednesday, November 3, 1954
Illinois Wesleyan students are
attending a forward and enter-prising
school! This congratula-tory
news was made known by
President Holmes in his annual
report to the Joint Board of
Trustees of Illinois Wesleyan uni-versity
on October 26.
President Holmes cited an in-crease
in student enrollment
from 701 last year to 916 this
year as evidence of the increas-ing
attention of faculty mem-bers
to individual students and
the efficient work of Lee Short
and his staff in the Admissions
department.
The new faculty members were
commended for strengthening
the program of the University.
President Holmes stated that
they had measured up to the
school's best expectations and
that in every case they were
well received by faculty associ-ates
and by students.
President Holmes accredited
some of the unusually fine spirit
on the campus to the use of
William Edward Shaw hall and
the announcement of the be-quest
of Mrs. Blackstone, pro-viding
some half million dollars
of new assets to the endowment
fund.
Foresee Heavy Enrollment
The Board of Trustees was ad-vised
that it would need to study
Organzred Nov. 4
As part of the fellowship move-ment
initiated by President M. J.
Holmes this year, Illinois Wes-leyan
university invites all Cath-olic
students to the first meeting
of the Newman club at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 4, in the
Faculty lounge.
The purpose of the club will
be; through parties, dances, and
just plain socializing, to encour-age
better fellowship among the
Catholic students. The idea is not
a new one. It was first intro-duced
by Cardinal John Newman
of New York, and since then it
has spread with surprising suc-cess
to campuses throughout the
country.
_Seventy-five students-aare reg-istered
as Catholics here at Wes-leyan,
and it is hoped that all of
these and anyone else who might
be interested will attend the first
meeting Thursday and help elect
officers and plan the organiza-tion
of the club. Mrs. Horen-berger
will act as faculty adviser
for the club, and it will function
under the sponsorship of Trinity
Church of Bloomington.
If the Catholic students Tup-port
the Newman club, it will
mark another step toward the
goal of getting all the students
at Wesleyan into religious clubs
of their own denominations. We
sincerely hope to see all you
Catholics Thursday night.
certain questions which would
affect the future programs of the
University. The president said
that an approved maximum en-rollment
at which the school
would level off must be reached.
L. L. Williams, secretary of the
board, estimated that by 1971 the
university enrollments of the
state would be 223,100, or 96 per
cent, more than in 1953-54.
President Holmes pointed out
that the capacity of the inde-pendent
colleges to accept more
students could make a consider-able
difference in the programs
of the state-controlled, tax-sup-ported
institutions of the state
for increasing their facilities. He
emphatically declared that de-spite
this large anticipated en-rollment
the University would
preserve the advantage of a
close relationship between fac-ulty
members and their students.
Increased Facilities
President Holmes then re-ferred
to the facilities that would
be needed in the way of build-ings,
endowments, and annual
gifts for the budget as the school
moves toward this maximum en-rollment.
He said that steps were
already underway to provide for
an additional dormitory for 125
men, an administration office
building, and a Fine Arts audi-torium.
He hinted that in the distant
future Wesleyan students prob-ably
could look forward to a
women's gymnasium, a building
for the School of Art, a chapel
adequate to seat the entire stu-dent
body, additions to the sci-ence
building, and apartments
for married students.
A number of students were
crestfallen to hear that no men-tion
was made of the Grill.
Deficit Spending
It was disclosed that this
year's revised budget needs $19,-
000 to be in balance, and that in
two years' time there has been
accumulated a deficit of almost
$60,000.
President Holmes indicated
that L'though total expenses for
the University have almost dou-bled
during the last 10 years, cor-responding
total student tuition
fees have increased slightly more
than one third.
The president expressed hope
that new assets for capital fund
purposes would be forthcoming
from individuals and foundations
set up to aid education.
Exchange Plan
In conclusion, President
Holmes recommended that the
University enter into plans for
tuition exchange with some 70
other colleges, whereby children
of Wesleyan faculty members
would be admitted to any one of
these other institutions tuition-free.
In return Wesleyan would
admit children of staff members
of other colleges listed in full tui-tion
scholarships here.
siner; Enrollllent Exp~ahied
& d Film M okes
ood Social S dy
Students in the Labor Prob-lems
and Introduction to 'Soci-ology
classes taught by Clark H.
Bouwman, assistant professor of
sociology, attended a special
matinee showing of the movie
"On the Waterfront" this week.
This film portrays some of the
problems confronting both the
laboring classes and those who
"boss" them; the problems on
the waterfront being realistically
portrayed as they concern both
sides of the situation.
One of the students who saw
the film said that the picture
gave him a more graphic reali-zation
of the many conflicts
existing in the labor-manage-ment
relationship.
No. 7
New Fres hmaen Men's orm
To Finis ed by Nex Fa
The new men's dorm will mean dations. He will mov into a new
housing for 124 more men on location on Phoenix street.
Wesleyan Plays
The fall meeting of the Na-tional
Association of Intercolle-giate
Athletics will be held here
on November 7, according to Jack
Horenberger, district chairman.
District representatives in-clude
Ralph Allan, Millikin; Les
Belding, North Central; Harry
Forrester, Quincy college; How-ard
Hancock, ISNU; Sherrill
Hanks, Shurtleff college; and
James Collie, McKendree college.
A meeting will be held in Feb-ruary
to select the four teams to
compete in the tourney, the win-ner
of which will proceed to the
finals at Kansas City.
Arrangements will be made at
the meeting for the state bas-ketball
playoffs which will be
held at Huff gymnasium at the
University of Illinois the first
week in March.
T rrcphp - . d
On October 19 and 26, Terra-pin
club tryouts were held and
we now have 12 new members.
They are Sue Sarver, Betsy
Woodman, Cindy Strasma, Sha--
ron Harper, Beverly Jirik, Lou
Greeno, Carol Vanderbeck, Nan-cy
Jo Figg, Gayle Stegman, Ann
McCausland, Ellen Williams, and
Judy Holtsberg.
In Terrapinettes, we have eight
new members: Diane Elias, Mary
Ann Stanowicki, Barbara Snell,
Judy Roesch, Shirley Trump,
Ruth Reichert, Carol Krueger,
and Ann Foster.
Those members from Terrapin-ettes
who have advanced to Ter-rapin
are Gertrude Beck, Mar-garet
Larson, Barbara Sandy,
Mary Lou Ott, and Carol Har-bridge.
Congratulations to all the girls
who made Terrapin and Terra-pinettes.
For those girls who did
not make either group, a tryout
will be held at the beginning of
the second semester. Because
practice for the show, which is
held in March, will start soon
after that time, a few additional
requirements will be added, since
time is limited.
club on Tuesday evening, Octo-ber
19. Miss Ann Pigott was elect-ed
club secretary for the coming
school year. Miss Dorothy Hag-man,
new English instructor at
Wesleyan and teacher in Egypt
for the past three years, shared
some of her experiences with the
group. The club was also very
happy to have Mrs. Kollaritsch
as its guest.
Refreshments were served by
the committee. Misses June Ray-mond
and Ann Pigott presided
at the table.
campus next September. In his
report to the Board of Trustees
October 26, Presdent Holmes an-nounced
that construction was
expected to begin this Decem-ber,
and that the dorm was to
be finished by next fall in time
for the opening of school.
The cost of the four floors of
the dorm will be approximately
$400,000. The University hopes
that part of this will be pro-vided
for by gifts from friends,
and the rest by financing. The
student rents will help to pay
off any financing and the rest
will be paid out of University
funds.
FLOOR PLANS
There will be a lounge on the
first floor, as in Magill Hall, and
a recreation room on the ground
floor. Since the ground slopes on
Franklin avenue, part of the
ground floor will be below street
level and part above. Room
plans and fixtures will be much
as they are in Magill Hall. The
house mother will have a three
room apartment on the first
floor.
Houses are already being re-moved
to make room for the new
University project. Coach Jack
Horenberger's house was the
first to be moved from its foun-
Home Economics Cub
Hods First eeti g
The first meeting of the Illi-nois
Wesleyan Home Economics
club was held in the home eco-nomics
department, October 26.
The purpose of the meeting was
to invite all those interested in
home economics to become initi-ated
into the college division of
the American Home Economics
association.
Kay Major, president of the
club, introduced the officers for
the 1954-55 school year. Miss Nie-meyer,
the club adviser, extend-ed
her welcome to the group and
told of her experiences in club
work and its advantages. Kay
Major and Pat Macy presented
a skit portraying the year's pro-gram.
Refreshments were served
by the committee.
An impressive initiation cere-mony
wvas held for the 26 new
members of Home Economics
ter. Admission to University
functions is by student iden-tification
card only.
The books on the floor in the
hall basement of the library
out in front of the Periodical-
Reserve Reading room may be
taken by any student who de-sires
them. They are books that
have been given to the library.
However, will the students
please have the books checked
by Mr. Cain before taking them.
from the building.
FRESHMAN DORMI
The plans of the administra-tion
at this time are to make
the new dorm a freshman dorm,
while Magill will remain open to
freshmen and other classes. The
buildings that are also planned
for in the future are a new ad-ministration
building and a new
Fine Arts building with an au-ditorium.
Britsky Exp ains:
Contemporary Artists
raint Own Feelings
The annual Art exhibit was
held last Sunday afternoon. Mr.
Nicholas Britsky, art instructor
from University of Illinois, de-livered
the gallery speech.
Mr. Britsky's talk was on the
confusion and complexness of
contemporary painting. He stat-ed
that paintings are such be-cause
the contemporary artist
paints what he feel,s not what
he sees.
USES ILLUSTRATIONS
In his talk, Mr. Britsky used
several illustrations to empha-size
his point. A wealthy busi-ness
man took this attitude,
"After seeing those works of
Dutch masters and other Euro-pean
pieces, I should look at this
trash?" A child came out with
this summary of contemporary
art, "I love the bright colors."
Continuing, Mr. Britsky then
summed up the illustrations. The
average layman doesn't care for
most contemporary paintings
because he sees things differ-ently
than the artist. In sum-ming
up contemporary art, Mr.
Britsky said he believed the
main objective of the artist is
to produce something beautiful.
PERSONAL NOTES
Mr. Britsky was born in the:
Ukraine, and came to this coun.-
try at the age of nine. He grad-uated
from Yale, and then won
a fellowship and spent a year
abroad. At the present time, he
is kept busy on the side design-ing
and building his own house.
Notices
Those students who have not
yet picked up their identifica-tion
cards from the admissions
office may pick them up at the
main desk in Miemorial Cen-