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_PA_G_E_TW_O Th_e_G_ol_d_B_u.::g.~W_e'_te_'"_M_,,_:.y_landCollege, Westminster, Md., November 1, 1945 THE GOLD BUG Social Functions Supervised By eap'd. ea"p!Uce Official student newspaper of Western Maryland Col- lege, published semi-monthly, on Thursday, during Oc- Student A'ctivities Committee tober, November, January, February, March, and April, By Don Capobianco and monthly during September, December, and May. En- By Henrietta Jones tered as second class matter at Westminster Post Office, under the Act of March 3, 1879. One behind-the-scenes campus com- social function each month. By thus Sadie Hawkins Day has oftimE'§ been likened unto a mittee little known to the student closely supervising the social calen- Subscription Price 52.00 a Year body is the Student Activities Com- dar the Committee prevents the plan- FOX HUNT in reverse .. , The analogy is a good one, Editor-in-Chief Virginia Voorhees, '41i mittee, on which are represented both ning of conflicting activities. for, as fable has it, is not the FOX the most cunning of beasts? ... While on the subject of SADIE HAWKINS, Managing Editor .. . Margaret Statler, '47 the students and the faculty. The In order to work most efficiently 'as the general chairman of the dance, C. GRANDEN News Editor Enrique Lamadrid, '-41i members of the committee are Dr. a coordination agency for the social BROOKS, and myself were hoping to have a big surprise Ass't_ News Editor Jean Tull, '43 Forrest Free, the Dean of Men, Dr. functions on the Hill, the Student for the campus on that day, and that was to have LIFE Feature Editor Mary Davies, '47 Kathryn Huganir, the Dean of Wom- Activities Committee has seen fit to MAGAZINE to send a photographer down... We sent Make-up Editors Don Capobianco, '46 en, Mrs. Nina Veale, the Director-of make certain regulations governing them an invitation several weeks ago, but as yet, they Charles Brooks,,'48 Residence, Henrietta Jones, the Pres- those functions, Students wishing to have not sent reply .... We are still hoping they will Copy Editor. ._ __ Fern Ray, '48 ident of the Women's Student Gov- use McDaniel Lounge or Blanche come, however. Business Manager Mindelle Seltzer, '41i ernment, and John Dorsey, the Presi- Ward Gymnasium for an evening Advertising !\lanager Lucy Jane Stoner, '4f, dent of the Men's Student Govern- function should first of all obtain per- e Recreation Room Meets With Approval Circulation Manager John Barnes, '48 ment. mission from the house director, It is the unanimous opinion of the campus that the Contributors: Shirley Snyder, Betty Schmidt, Wayne The Committee acts as a supervis- whose prerogative it is to approve opening of the new RECREATION ROOM on Saturday Cowan, Sam Keiffer, Dorothy Anderson, Anne Klein, ory board for campus activities and or reject the application. night was a complete success. EVERY ONE whO( If the event is to be finished by Helen Frantz, Doris Hines, Charlotte Suddith, Anna strives to regulate such activities so 10:00 p. m., no further approval is came in expressed his pleasant surprise and appreciation Stevens, Joanne Dillon, Lenore Hoffman, Henrietta Jones, as to balance more effectively the cor -c-faculty, students and alumni alike .... Undoubtedly, Jane Dudderar, Dr. Fred G. Holloway, Arlene Chen, Bet- lege calendar. Activities are planned required, unless elaborate decorations, this new project has done more for promoting school spir- up, which may necessitate so that at least one main event will cleaning ty Baker, Wesley Selby. it than any other single thing in our time .... THE take place each week and one large (Cont. on Page 3, Col. 2) SPIRIT that was manifested at the opening was one of amiability and cooperation .... If this attitude can be Campus Personality Morgan toward perpetuating the existence of the Rec Room on retained after the novelty has worn off, it will do much "eali/Uf Me Bach." the Hill .... Some cynics have ventured to predict that This will come it will meet with an abortive death .... Students And Current Events, , , to pass only by the negligence of the participants, and if Every so often something happens to remind By Mary Davies it does, it will be the height of ingratitude on the part of us of a condition among WMC students which the students to those who have striven for years to insti- we know to be generally true of the "average" Even after two bumps on his head developed an interest in swimming tute a place on the campus where the men and the co-eds college student on any campus: the fact that within a year, Fred Morgan manages and sailing small boats. "When I was might get together for relaxation and dancing ... and Western Maryland students actually know ex- to retain enough intelligence to hold about 17," Fred recalled, "two other to PRESIDENT HOLLOW AY who, we understand, was tremely little about current political, social and down several prominent positions on boys and myself got tired of messin' one of the leading spirits in making the Rec Room an economic situations. Even majors in history and the Hill, among which is the presl- around in the little rivers near home actuality .... The success of the place is now up to us, political science, where more emphasis is placed dency of the Senior Class. Last year so we took a week's trip up the Ches- and for once at least, we ought to dispense with the tra- on such events than in some other courses, admit on two separate occasions he received apeake Bay in a sailboat. We did our ditional passive co-operation that is so prevalent on the that they "don't know anything", or know very blows on his head-the first when he own cooking and stopped at small Campus, and pull together in insuring the continual suc- little, about national and international affairs. was swinging on the chain fence in towns along the way, sometimes stay- cess of the dreamed-of Recreation room. Those of us who attended the International Re- back of Smith Hall and the second ing fot: a couple of days or some- lations Club conference in Baltimore last Sunday when he skidded off the sled he was times moving right on." • Desire For Automobile Etiquette had the inadequacy of our grasp of current hap- riding on onto his nose for several Now that gas rationing is a thing of the past, more and penings made very clear to us. In discussing the feet, bnt he recovered successfully more AUTOMOBILES can be seen driving up to the Palestinian question, the statement was made from both. "Some people still say I campus .... We are glad to see them back for they tend that some million and a half persons of the Jew- wasn't hit hard enough," he grinned. to make things look more like the pre-war days and they ish race are transient and starving in Europe to- remove the necessity of dependence on the buses and the day because they have no place to go, no homeland .Transfer Student Western Maryland Railroad- for transportation .... How- to which to return now that hostilities have end- Since his arrival at Western Mary- ever, many of the drivers of these vehicles seem to think ed. We had understood vaguely that conditions on land at the beginning of his sopho- that the COLLEGE DRIVE is a small edition of the Lin- the Continent aren't as they should be, but the more year, Fred's friendly smile and coln Highway, and therefore tear through with compar- full import of the war-produced destitution and Southern drawl have become familiar able acceleration. . Last year, when some of the dereliction of European humanity hadn't quite to mos~ of the students on the "Hill". SEMINARIANS were engaged in this practice, causing reached us so clearly until that time. For his freshman year of college, many to believe that they were intent upon hastening a -.--4_..--t<. s --there-s'.:relrtgnornn~ --of- exte-r-nal-a~~tte\l.qed F'err~J.n:-J..u~ior.ca.. . ~ ~ --w.v---members--of--eo1I-eg-(r