1950-03-22

              Illinois Wesleyan
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PICK 'BEAUTY AND
BEAST' SATURDAY
BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1950
Raise in Tuition
To Take Effect
According to Dr. Merrill J.
Holmes, president, there will be
a tuition increase of $10 a se-mester
beginning with the fal
semester of 1950. There will be
no increase in the School of Mu-sic.
Dr. Holmes explained at a
recent Student Union meeting
why the increase is necessary.
According to Dr. Holmes, the
increase in tuition will cover only
a gap in the budget, which must
be balanced. The remainder of
the money needed will have to
be gotten from two times as
many gifts to the unversity as in
the past year. The tuition in-crease
comes by action of a com-mittee
of trustees. Illinois Wes-leyan
is not out of line in tuition
rates as compared to universities
and colleges in this district,
which is proven by the following
list: Bradley, $400; Augustana,
$390; Monmouth, $400; Illinois
Tech, $550; Beloit, $495; Illinois
college; $390; Millikin, $370/$460;
DePauw, $450; Lake Forest, $500;
Wheaton, $400.
A domitory rent increase will
also go into effect next fall.
Pfeiffer Hall and Magill Hall will
be increased from $100 to $120
a semester. All other dorms will
be increased to $100, with the ex-ception
of DeMonte Lodge, which
will remain the same.
Sprin Vacation
Wil Be Extended
A decision was made by the
University Council last week,to
extend the Spring vacation until
Tuesday, April 11, at 8 a.m. The
reason for this decision was that
students who live far away may
have an opportunity to spend
Easter with their families, rather
than on a train headed for
Bloomington.
President Holmes stated that
next year classes would be dis-missed
at noon on Good Friday
for Spring vacation.
DARRRELL P1ERSOL (on floor) is shown above with his committee which is planning the an-nual
Campus Chest Carnival, which will be held Saturday night in the Memorial Center. For further
information, consult the story on page 2.
Edith Ax to Leave
IWU for New Job
Miss Edith Ax, secretary to
President Holmes, will be leaving
Wesleyan next Monday to take a
position as secretary to the su-perintendent
of Unit District No.
5, L. E. Starke. She is filling the
position vacated by Mrs. Helen
Fritzen, who resigned.
Edith's new office is located at
Normal Community High school.
French Club MMeoe t
Today in ern. Center
A meeting $f the French club
will be held in Memorial Center
at 3 o'clock today, March 22. All
French club members after
which there will be refreshments
served.
The French club will show a
Sigma Alphag ]ota
To De Convocatilon
Sigma Alpha Iota will present
the convocation program on next
Wednesday, which will feature
solo and ensemble numbers.
Soloists will be Peggy Letsin-ger,
Marilyn Frederick, Lois Aug-spurger,
Carolyn Cameron, Ro-berta
Troxel, Barbara Crawford,
Alese Buck, Kathy Bienfang, and
Allison Cope. A vocal quartet,
composed of Mary Peterson, Al-lison
Cope, Kathy Bienfang, and
Lois Augspurger, will sing two
selections. The SAI chorus, un-der
the direction of Enice Rix-man,
will sing four numbers.
movie on April 25. The movie,
"Grand Illusion," as a war story
about German prisoners who es-cape
to Switzerland.
Faculty, Student. Music Educators Attend Meeting
The 31st meeting of the Music cause a person wants to get all sessions of the national conven-
Educators National Conference that is possible. Included in the tions of the MENC are Dean
is in progress in St. Louis at the many fascinating and interest- Kenneth Cuthbert, Professors
ing subjects to attend were the George Scott, Dwight Drexler,
Kiel Auditorium from March 19 community festival which con- Henry Charles, Francis Barnard,
to 23. sisted of St. Louis music groups, Gretchen Van Roy, and Lenora
This national convention has -contemporary music concert, mu- Gutstein. Besides these, 20 Ili-educators
from all over the coun- sicals, preludes, interludes, and nois Wesleyan students will at-try
to attend the many activities many interesting exhibits and tend part of thie sessions.
and sessions which form the con- clinics. Jesters, Twins Appear
vention. Some of the general Britten Opera Premiered The Three Twins will sing at
include "Education and Life," Other sessions were the sec- a buffet supper and also the Op-
"Education and Peace," plus oth- tion meetings, forums, work- era Jesters will perform at an
er very interesting subjects. shops, and one of the most in- Illinois Wesleyan luncheon held
During the four days' festivi- teresting subjects is the U. S. on Tuesday.
ties so many things are going on premier of Benjamin Britten's Dean Cuthbert was in charge
at once that it is very hard to latest opera, "Let's Make An Op- of the section on College and
choose which exhibit, concert, era." University Music for the North
meeting, workshop to attend be- Faculty attending the various Central division of the MENC.
Petitions For Mothers
Day Chairmanship
Due At SU Monday
Petitions for the chairmanship
of the annual campus Mothers'
Day program are being accepted
now. The petitions must include
qualifications and grade average.
The deadline for all petitions
is Monday, March 27. Petitions
may be given to any Student
Union representative or may be
brought to the SU meeting at
4:30 p.m. in the Memorial Center
on the above date.
B-N Symphony to
Give 'Pop' Concert
Next Ion., Tues.
The Bloomington-Normal sym-phony
will present the third in a
series of concerts Monday and
Tuesday, March 27 and 28, 1950,
at 8:15 p.m. at the Scottish Rite
Temple.
The symphony, which is under
the direction of Dr. Kenneth N.
Cuthbert, will present a "pops"
concert, which will include the
following selections:
Leanore Overture No. 3 ... Beethoven
Prelude to "Parsifal" Wa_g_n_e_r______
Symphony No. 5 "Reformation"
_ _ Mendelssohn
Intermission
American Salute ................-.... Gould
Swan of Tuonela ----............... Sibelius
Grand Canyon Suite (On the
T rail) .................................. G rofe
Andante Cantabile from the
String Quartet, opus 11__
.-------------------.-----...... Tschaikowsky
Slanvonic Dance No. 8 -....... Dvorak
Selections from "Carousel" ----------R-o-d-g..e.r s-Hammerstein
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TO Rock Island
Illinois Wesleyan's debate team
will enter the fifteenth annual
Intercollegiate Debate league
tournament March 24 and 25.
The event will be held on the Au-gustana
campus in Rock Island.
Members making the trip are
Darrel Piersol, Samuel Goich,
Charles Gaines, and Joseph
Shive.
Practice debates are scheduled
this week and next with Bradley
university, Millikin university,
and the University of Illinois.
Eureka college sponsored a no-vice
tournament March 11. The
question debated was concerned
with the nationalization of in-dustry,
Don Messman and Bill
Ackerly presenting the affirma-tive,
while Charles Gaines and
Joseph Shive took the negative
view.
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JONES TAKES PREXY
Brown, Wtse,
Braziller W"in I-In,
Final Ve
Student Participation
Slightly Increased
Bill Jones, Dave Brown,
Sara Watson, and Paul Bra-ziller
came through in yes-terday's
election as winners
of the four top Student
Union offices for next year.
An approximate total of 827
votes were cast, as compared
with 810 in last week's pri-maries.
The percentage of students
voting was upped from 70 to 71
per cent. This may be attributed
to the vital campaigning which
was done during the past few
days.
The final tabulation of votes
is as follows:
President-
Bill Jones, 476
Bob Haag, 347
Vice-President-
Dave Brown, 458
Bud Schafer, 364
Secretary-
Sara Watson, 436
Lois Augspurger, 361
Treasurer-
Paul Braziller, 460
George Herbst, 361
Marie Ann Schlemmer and the
League of Women Voters were
in charge of both the primary
and final elections. They were
aided by various faculty mem-bers
and house counselors who
sat at polling places. Student Un-ion
members also helped at the
polls and in counting votes.
Debaters To G0