The Stetson Reporter

The Stetson Reporter ■-* Sixth Year—No. 29 DELAND, FLA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1941 Z103 Price Five Cents POLITICAL PICTURE IS FUZZY AS PREXY ELECTION LOOMS Nominations Will Probably be Held April 25th; No Outstanding Candidates Yet in Sight NEW ORDER IN PARTY SYSTEM By Bob Heebner Student Association president Gadi Lawton announced this week that voting for next years student officers will probably take place on Tuesday, April 29th, with nomina' lions on the previous Friday, April 25th. Changes in the campus political picture makes any forecasting impossible but ob- servers expect the fraternities to split into two factions, with the large floating non-fraternity vote to adhere to one side or another. No candidates are outstanding at present, either as nominees of one side or another, but a large number may be found qualified for the student prexy job by the time election day rolls around. The new political order began several years ago when Hal Dekle, candidate for student body president on the Non-frat ticket, won over Ward Hunter, aspirant under the Fraternity party. The Non-frat victory swept the other candidate into office, Bob Barnett as vice president, Helen Hooks as sec- retary, and Bearden Cunningham, treasurer. Previous to this year the fraternities had confidently picked a candidate each season and had him elected. Each Greek group took turns in presenting a candidate, and Wilton Rowe Rowe was elected over Governor Slaughter in the 1938-39 campaign under this set-up. But in the following year when the Delta Sigs were to have a presidential candidate, the Pi Kaps instead were authorized by the Inter-fraternity council to present Ward Hunter as a candidate. The enraged Delta Sigs with- drew their support from the Fraternity party and backed up the fiery campaign being waged by Bob Gun by and James Dyson on behalf of the Non-frats. The resulting Non-frat victory was not the first for that era as in the previous fall they mustered their forces to elect Hotsy Hartsfield as Homecoming IVIayor and Ruth Dent- Ier as Hostess, over the strong opposition of "Skeeter" Cobb and Roberta Morris. However, the following fall found the Frats returning to power, with Ed Mason and Sarah Elizabeth Clark winning over genial Rob- (Continued on Page 4) Glee Club and Band Please Big Audience At DeFuniak Springs Demand Encores at West Florida Music Festival While most Stetson students sojourned at home during the Easter vacation the Stetson Uni-- versity Symphonic Band and the Glee Clubs journeyed to West Florida for concert engagements and the West Florida Music Festival at DeFuniak Springs. The Glee Clubs under the direction of Professor Harold M. Giffin left last Wednesday morning at six o'clock for their Easter holiday tour which included Lake City, DeFuniak Springs, and Pensacola, while the Band, under professor Heney, left later the day, to appear on the program at DeFuniak Springs. On Thursday evening the Band and Glee Clubs gave a joint concert in the Chautauqua' Auditorium before a capacity audience of 3,500, most of whom1 were high school students attending the three day festival. Both groups were enthusiastically received, and resulted in a demonstration of enthusiasm for encores until they ran out of numbers to play. Most enthusiastically received was James Collins, Jacksonville cornetist, according to Robert McEmber, a member of the band who attended the festival. POSTPONED The recital of Band Instruments which was to be given tonight in the Elizabeth Hall Auditorium by Gordon Booth, Bardwell Donaldson,, and Williiam dishing, has been postponed because of the illness of Gordon Booth. Plans For Initial Journalism Institute Are Being Completed High School Newswriters Will Be Invited Here To Participate Stetson wjll hold its first annual High " School Journalism .Institute on this campus Saturday, x\pril 26, according to Mrs. Mary Bailey, professor of Journalism for the coming year. The institute will be sponsored by the University's Department of Journalism with the cooperation of the Stetson Press Club. High school students from all parts of the state who are interested or active in journalistic work will be invited to participate in the news meet. A number of prominent Florida Newspaper men are scheduled to address the youthful journalists, and to discuss pertinent newspaper problems with the students in a round-table discussion. Two contests will be sponsored by the Institute, one for editorial writing and one for news- writing. The winner in these two contests will be presented with their awards at the closing banquet in the University Commons Saturday evening. . According to Mrs. Bailey, present plans provide for registration at 9:00 Saturday morning followed by an assembly period during which students will probably be welcomed with brief talks by President W. S. Allen, Robert Heebner, Editor of the Reporter, and Joy Reese, president of the Stetson Press club. During the morning round table discussions will be held and contests staged. After lunch, an inspection tour of the campus, and observation of the University Press, at which time the visitors will see how the campus paper and other publications are put out. The group is slated to hear prominent newspaper men speak on current problems and the part played by the modern newspaper man or woman today. Eater in the afternoon an informal entertainment and reception lias been planned for the conventionites which will be followed by the closing banquet in I the commons, "1 think it will be a fine thing both for the visiting schools and j for Stetson and we are trying to i plan a varied program so that ! every one will have a good J time," (Mrs. Bailey said in (Continued On Page 5) SIXTY THREE LATIN STUDENTS Will COMPETE IN FINALS HERE Winners in Preliminaries To Take Tests in First State-wide High School Latin Contests Sixty-three Latin students from seventeen different Florida high schools are slated to arrive on the campus on Friday to compete in the finals of the initial state-wide Latin contest which has been inaugurated and conducted by Dean Benson W. Davis, head of the Classical Language Department of the University. P r e 1 i m i nary examinations were sent out on March 28th, for each of the four years of high school Latin, and it is the winners of these tests who will compete in the finals here on Friday afternoon. The contestants will be invited to a break* fast in the commons on Satur- day morning when the four win- ners in the finals will be announced. Along with Dean Davis on the program will be President W. S. Allen, and Gadi Lawton, president of the Stetson Student Association. The contestants will be housed in the dormitories during their stay on the campus. The contest is designed to- stimulate the study of Latin. "Latin is not a dead language," Dean Davis commented, "as more people are using it than ever before." i Dean Davis came to Stetson from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He last week retired after serving two terms as president of the Florida Classical Language Association. Besides being Dean of the University he is a professor of Latin and Greek. . Advisability Of Lights In Chaudoin Quadrangle Will Be Among Intramural Debate Topics Florida Beta Chapter of Pi Kappa Delta at its supper meeting Monday night completed plans for the Intramural Debate Tournament which will be held on the campus May 2 and 3. The tournament, which is similar to the Intramural Dramatic Tournament, will have divisions for both men and women, and will be open to speakers who have not participated in intercollegiate forensic work on the University campus. The topic chosen for the men is Resolved: That a Jight should be installed in Chau doin Quadrangle; and for the women, Resolved: That the possession of at least one fraternity pin should be a pre-requisite Jor all women registering for Sy417 (Marriage and the Family). All the regularly established intramural units are urged to enter a four-man team for these humorous debates, which will have four minute constructive speeches and three minute rebuttals. There will probably be four preliminary rounds Friday afternoon, and the finals for both men and women Saturday evening. The plan is part of a pro gram to enlarge intramural activities while promoting interest and talent in forensic work. At the meeting, which was presided over by the President, Vance Graham, plans were discussed for the spring tapping of new members, and it was decided that bids would be issued after spring holidays. A report was also made of the business meeting at the recent regional Pi Kappa Delta Tournament and the possibility of acting as host for the next regional meet was considered. FACULTYADD1TI0NS ARE ANNOUNCED Lydia Theurer and Mrs. Mary Bailey Receive Appointements Two additions to the faculty for the 1941-42 session were announced last week by President W. S. Allen. Mrs. Mary A. Bailey, on leave of absence since last June, returns as instructor in journalism, and Miss Lydia Theurer, who receives the M.A. degree from Stetson this year, will join the faculty as instructor in speech. Mrs. Bailey, who was associated with Stetson for two years, prior to her leave of absence, holds the Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Idaho and th M.A. degree in ■journalism from Northwestern j I uiversity. She taught courses in journalism at Stetson and j was assistant director of pub- ' licity f< r a time, and was direc- :or of publicity for several nonth.s before her leave. Her courses next year, including . news writing, news editing, and advertising, will be under the . Stetson ScIk ol of Business. The .resent din-dor of publicity, Robert Barrett. and Miss Thelma Preston, assistant to the director. t-P' continue as the Bureau of Publcity staff, Dr. Vllen said. Miss Theurer, who has attended Stetson since her freshman year, will teach radio speaking, ebate, and assist in dramatics as well as heading a Student Speaking Bureau, to be inaugurate?! next year. She received her A.B. degree last year and will receive her M.A. degree this spring from Stetson. Her work on and behind the stage of the Stover Theatre has been outstanding during her fve years on the campus, and she is well gnown for her activities in speech an debate work. Broadcast Debate Over WMFJ "Resolved that the United States should enter the war immediately on the side of the Allies" will be the topic of the radio debate which will be broadcast over station WMFJ, in Daytona this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Debaters who argue the timely question during the 3Q minute program are John jCewis, Vance Graham, Ruby Amory and Harvey Klein. According to Lydia Theurer, debate coach who will serve as radio chairman of the broadcast, the Oregon plan of direct questioning will be used for this debate. Florida Music Meet Starts Tomorrow Stetson Faculty Members Among The Judges One of the highlights of the year for Students in the Public Schools of Florida is the State Music Festival and contests in Tampa. Beginning to-morrow the pick of the State's School Music tal-. ent will assemble in Tampa for the annual three day festival. As in the past a number of the Stetson Music faculty will act as judges in the various contests in voice, piano and violin. Those who are planning to attend the festival include: Dr. William E. Duckwitz, Music School Director who will act as (Continued On Page 8)