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PAGE TWO " The Gold Bug, Western Maryland College, Westminster, Md., May 9, 1940 The CAMPUS LEADERS GOLD BUG letics, Bob hopes the future coaching- CAMPUS in ath- Looking towards COLLATERAL for a position teaching state or this one. in either his own Practice teaching fell to his lot dur- Official student newspaper of Western Maryland College, ing the peak of the basketball season published on Thursday, semi-monthly during October, No- • It's a neat trick if you can do it, but there is a vember, February, March, April, May, and monthly dur- and one week he had four games in sign in the library to this effect: "RESERVED ing September, December, and January, by the students six days. of Western Maryland College, Westminster, Maryland. BOOKS WILL BE LOANED ONLY WHEN Entered as second-class matter at the Westminster Post "Western Maryland has the friend- THE LIBRARY IS CLOSED." Do they leave a Office, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ly atmosphere of the small college," window open? SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 A YEAR says Bob, and especially emphasizes "that I'm gonna miss everybody." • On the surface, Military Inspection went off as per 1939 Member 1940 schedule. But. anxieties were entertained when the Impe- I'\"ociated CoUe6iate Press eiato, in command of a trench mortal' squad, aimed at a sheet target and missed it by a scant seventy-five yards. ON Spectators gasped as the shell seemingly' hovered over the EDITORIAL BOARD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. ..Henry C. Triesler, '41 THE grand stand; golfer Lu Mar Myers standing in the shad- ASSOCIATE EDITORS. ..... Henry Holljes, '41 ow of it gasped too. No casualties. Ruth Mansburger-, '41 NEWS EDITOR .__Isaac Rehert, '42 RECORD Tak. A R;d.r? FEATURE EDITOR ..Lucie Leigh Barnes, '42 SPORTS EDITOR William Robinson, '41 Gamma Beta Chi fraternity is busy • Mr. Harmon, for over twelve years official one thing REPORTORIAL STAFF ROBERT STROPP now making plans for their swimming or the other on the campus, and general go-getter for all requests for from nuts to bolts to extra beds, has recently NE'VS-Jane Fraley, '42, Jeanette Brannock, '41, Edward party to be held shortly after the had to take almost daily trips to Baltimore to the Uni- Thomas, '42, Jack Rawlins, '43, Irvin Katz, '43, A keynoter of versatility, this close of school. Ridgely Pollitt, '43, Alvin Levin, '43, Gladys week's campus leader, Bob Stropp, Mr. and Mrs. George Dexter of Bal- versity of Maryland Hospital. The little man is on the Crowson, '43, Sara Reid, '41, Mary Miller, '43, other side of three score years and ten, and he has had Albert Jones, '43, Dorothy Moylan, '42, Sara Belle bid first for society's recognition on timore, Maryland announce the en- trouble with his knee that has called for regular radium Veale, '43, Lois Guba, '43. Dec. 24, 1918. Life at W.:M.C. began gagement of their daughter, Anne treatments. FEATURE ....__.. Betty Handy, '41, Jim Wrightson, '43. for him in September 1936 at Coach Veasy, to Ernest Evan Randle, a SPORTS-John Robinson, '43, Joe Workman, '43, Earl Haven's football training camp. Now graduate of Western Maryland Col- Strong Heart Still Schubert, '43, Neil Eckenrode, '41. PROOF ........ Charles Baker, '42, Thelma Bowen, '41 at twenty-one, Bob's a husky six-foot, uege. The date of the wedding has one hundred eighty pound (one hun- not been set. • It is strange how a name lives on. Already Strong- u~un ..up ~'''.M~~'OM"L A"H"T'.'M~ n dred sixty-five during basketball sea- Paul Burtis, the manager of the heart has been transferred to a new canine-this time a National Advertising Service, Inc. son) senior. varsity golf team lost by one point to black and tan indeterminate hound that has chanced' onto Colle/{~ P"bli,b."., Repre,e"t"'ive "The nice thick mattresses around Andrew Gibson, the guest speaker of the campus. The gray cat too that haunts Smith Hall the place impressed me most as a Monday assembly and "pro" of Bonnie looks up at the romantic name. One noteworthy thing newcomer," Bob answered an inquiry. View Golf Course, Baltimore, in a about the "Strongfiea'rt Nature Club" that skyrocketed to BUSINESS STAFF Edgar Rineheirner-, his room-mate, practice round on the local golf prominence in a lunch hour is that in answer to announce- Bruce Graybeal, in ment, Lou Williams, Willard Everett, nUSINESS MANAGER............ Edward Weant, '41 looked around, "He was waiting course. ADVERTISING MANAGER ..Werner Orrison, '43 around to impress the mattresses his At a. recent meeting of the Art their hiking shoes, appeared later on the seventh green. CIRCULATION l\IANAGERS. William Vincent, '42 sophomore year." They claim to have sat hopefully around until the possi- Mary Louise Asbury, '41 Club, Elise Wiedersum was elected bility of a hike faded j they then put the number seven An accomplished athlete in football president for the coming year. ' (all sectional end), basketball, and Marjorie Cassey, a former student flag up in a tree and departed. Welcome track (shotput), while at Rome Free of Western Maryland, was a guest of • "Betcha" Academy, Bob has continued to shine To The Hill at Western Maryland. except he Mildred Melvin Sunday, May 5. Miss 50·1 That fifty per cent of the students in the dining hall don't hear the Dean's announcements. Ceeecy is now a student nurse at the hasn't had time for the shotput. 25-1 That there weren't over a hundred girls present Sibley Hospital in Washington, D. C. Non-athletically, Major Stropp (R. for Women Student Government elections. O. v i~~Jl?:~~ ~~ Yc:~~~l: i~eo~ ~h~:J~:~:;:~~ T. C., Inf.) has served as president March 17 announced the arrival of 200-1 That there are less senior men actually present at member of the student body on his toes, and every of Delta Pi Alpha, and vice-president John Addison Andrew, son of Mr. and asset of the school in evidence. More than we of his sophomore class. Favors choc- Mrs. Albert Andrew. To us Mrs. An- Sunday Chapel than there are accounted for in the like to admit, we feel that this Saturday, our olate . ice cream, blondes, brunettes; drew is better known as Dorothy Mac. Dean's attendance record. Visitor's Day, will pass more or less as merely a and redheads. Ewen of the class of '41. 2-1 That if a lone wolf is stealing all the money miss- number on the calendar-the more or less being "Wbat year of college did I enjoy Alpha Delta Lambda, formerly the ing from the men's dorms, he'll be able to buy a determined by the amount of interest in the form most? (Sly smile and merry twin- Chemists' Club, reelected Willard new car. of personal friends that the individual students kie)-The first foul' year-s." Everett as president of the organiza- 10-1 That the game rooms are not nearly so popular since the advent of spring. have as guests. Every person connected with the tion for next year. Other officers are 20-1 That if someone doesn't clean the Gold Bug office, college should be personally interested in every Terror Stropp likes the game "when Emily Knowles, vice-president and visitor and personally interested in that visitor in it's closest." For the most thrilling treasurer; and Bruce Graybeal, sec- the staff will be forced to request a plow. connection with Western Maryland-for, come moments of his athletic career Bob retary. • Whoever decorated Homer Elseroad's limousine cer- from far and near though they may, every visitor chooses the 1938 game with Wake Jack Morris has been notified by tainly had a eense of the artistic. We strongly suspect is a potential friend of our school. Forest. He really got a big kick out Representative David Ward that he members of the art department. American flags and At other colleges, "visitor's days" are planned of "beufin' those guys who were sup- has successfully passed his entrance swastikas never mingled before in such unprejudiced extensively and intensively for weeks, they posed to be so much better." examination to the United States Mil- abandon. Whoever mixed those colors was generous with stretch into several days, in some schools, to even To fellows entering sports he ad- itary Academy. He will report to the grays--or maybe that was the cheapest paint they a week. They feature specialized exhibits' and vises, with a grin, "Keep tryin' hard. West Point on July 1, 1940. could find. demonstrations in every department, organized Regular hours, regular meals, and On its annual spring concert tour social activities, and special functions at which regular rest. If you're young like me beginning May 19, the choir will sing each visitor can meet every member of the fac- you can really get the old zip in at a vesper service in Newark, Ne-w ulty. This kind of visitor entertainment has been there, but if you're old like old man Jersey, and immediately following, at reviled as "propoganda" but it need not be so. It MacDougal over there (meaning that lhe New York World's Fair. The is merely extending to the guests the fullest hos- "octogenarian" Mac McPike) you choir plans to return to the "Hill" on pitality of the college. It is like the sincere smile hafta take a little more rest." May 21. of welcome to a potential friend. • WE BLINKED TWICE at this headline in William Nevertheless, we feel that a full program has and Mary's The High Hat: "Bring Sugar to Tri-K Tea been planned for -this Saturday and that if it is 'I'onite". But by sugar they didn't "mcan the kind you carried through the visitors can not help but feel PARADE OF OPINION actually dump into a tea cup and stir up, but the kind that they have been introduced, at least, to the that can sweeten everything around her with her charm. Western Maryland we know. Every visitor to In other words, a girl." our campus is more than welcome, and the camp- What Do You Think Of Men's us for the day will be at the command of its Student Government? • THE BUCKNELLlAN ANNOUNCES th-a.t thlf latel1t guests. LLB C1'eutWn on their CaJrnP1tS is "l1tudy datel1"'-;stahlislwd to correct tlw UJ.ea- that it doel1n't master whether a. boy wke STUDENTS FACULTY is an athlete or a good dancer- has a. brain o-r not. This Men's SGA '{J(L1)C'I' recommends study "imtead of lea.rning u new da'llce Constitution Galbrcul-lt-: The SGA has been O.K., HU.J't: The SGA is a highly desirable refrain in an evening." (We refrain from, commenting.) organization. gov- Better student but I see no need for a student support ernment. If any changes are made, would, of course, make a more profit- • STATISTICS: W ~o%~ff~stYo~heo:o~~:i~~~g~G~n!~f~h ;~l~ may always appeal to the able SGA. There are over 3,000 co-eds at Wisconsin. In a typica1 students govern the election on May 13 in Alumni Hall administration for that change. year the average girl would have 210 quarts of "coke" to during regular assembly period: HoUjes: Life would have been the Whitfield: I'm always in favor of imbibe, and 20 pounds of candy to ruin her complexion "b. On a day one week after the date of the same this year without the SGA. The student government. Students should with, not to mention 20 feet of gum to chew. Seven and a nominations described in clause a, or as soon chief impediment to an effective SGA ask themselves two fundamental .half days would be squandered in the movies and 55 days thereafter as possible, the three nominees re- is a divided SGA. Student govern- questions: Is the SGA worthwhile? devoted to studies to compensate for the 99 classes cut. ceiving the highest number of votes the week ment should, like the college, be co- Arc the values it offers worth retain- Preparing for her 80 days of dates, she would sleep 115 before shall be voted upon by the Men's Student ing? It's only justification for exist- days for beauty, spend three days putting- lier hair up, League by wr-itten secret ballot, each voter in- educational. Students would cooperate ence is its contributions to the stu- and 16 combing it, bathe 90 hours, arid zip 1,000 zippers. better if they considered it an oppor- dicating his first and second choice. tunity to help the college that helps dents. The basic element of a sue- Besides these pursuits, she would spend 13 days clinging c. A candidate must receive more than half of them. ceasful SGA is an esprit de C0?"p8 that to a telephone. In the chase for the opposite sex she the votes cast in order to be elected. In the permits no violations of SGA regula- would annihilate 50 pairs of stockings, absorb two pounds event that a poll of the first choice votes on each McLaughlin: There is not enough sus- tions. of cold cream, and buy a quart of perfume. ballot gives no candidate a majority, the candi- tained interest. Many students think Makosky: Mr. McLaughlin has made -ACP date receiving the fewest :(i.rstchoice votes shall of it solely as a policing organization great strides in making the SGA an • WE WERE LOOKING OVER "Quotable Quotes" as be dropped from the running. The ballots on and object to discipline of any kind, effective organization. I hope that reported by the Associated Collegiate Press, and we found which he was first choice shall then be recount- including self·imposed. The SGA his successor will be as honest in pur- a paragraph quoted from none other than our own Presi- ed, each going to the credit of the candidate in- could be a powerful force for con- pose and as earnest in effort as he has dcnt, Fred G. Holloway. We pass it on to you-it is a dicated as second choice thereon. In case no structive good on the campus. been. challenge to pessimists. "John Keats contrasts the lot of second choice is indicated, the ballot shall be bird and man by describing the world of man as one void in a run-off recount. The candidate re- Robimon: What student government? Bertkelf: The SGA has regarded it- 'Where but to think is to be full of sorrow.' There are controlled Do you mean the faculty ceiving the greatest number of votes after the student government? Remove fac- self too exclusively as a police organi- three things that may be said in answer to this despair. second choice votes of the dropped candidate zation and not enough as a force to First, it is encouraging that man can look out upon life are counted, when this is necessary, shall be ulty control from it and the SGA will lead and point the way to gentlemanly and say of this or that 'It is not good.' Second, it is en- president. In the event of a tie either for low be all right. conduct. I'm disappointed that dur- couraging that the recognition of wrong challenges us to candidate or after a run-off recount the presi- LeCompte: The principle fault I see is ing the past ten or fifteen years there eradicate it. Third, it is encouraging to know that we can dent shall conduct another balloting on the lack of cooperation. With student has been no progress toward more band ourselves together in the determination to place our· same candidates as soon thereafter as pos~ support it could and should become honorable student conduct in tests selves on the side of those forces that make for the sible," an increasingly effective organization. and examinations. progress of civilization."