The Undergraduate Chair
THE fraternity plays were performed and judged, with Sigma Chi emerging victorious.- Entertainment honors, at least, went to DKE, which failed to place but regaled with its second annual original musical comedy. In the absence of a Broadway chorus, "Joe the Greek" Sarantopoulos, not beautiful but talented, introduced the performance with a little modern dance. A local lass was procured to play the part of Gina Appasionata, a nationally known and disreputable movie star, who wound up in an eventual tete-atete with George Roumanis, the male lead, who sang in his famed Tony Bennett manner. Frank Gado wrote the book and lyrics, some of the songs, and collaborated on the rest with Nick Stevens, a Sigma Nu renegade.
Roumanis, a modest boy from the Bronx, has been the musical toast of the campus ever since he dazzled the fabulous Janet Pilgrim on the stage of Webster at last year's Band Variety Night. Dazzling this amazing girl was no small feat, even for the romantic George.
The Sigma Chi winner was an original too, written, directed, and starred in by Don Cowlbeck, and skirted a dangerous subject with skill.
The already complicated and repugnant system of student punishment has undergone a further refinement with the introduction of a brand new type of warning. The latest weapon in the arsenal of righteousness is known as the Undergraduate Council Judiciary Committee Warning and is equal to exactly one-half of a College Warning - with a degree of mathematical precision that would seem more appropriate for physical quantities. But introduced it is, with the stated intention of providing a more accurate method of adjusting punishment to "crime."
Dean McDonald said the former fines for the offense known as women after hours had been particularly inappropriate to the nature of the infringement; in fact, a laughing stock. If anyone cares, the former UGC JC Warning is abolished and replaced by a Letter of Censure. It would be worth committing some terrible act of depravity to receive one of these.
A snowstorm prevented Senator John Sherman Cooper, one of the Republicans from Kentucky, from appearing at the fourth annual UGC Political Affairs Conference. Senator John Sparkman, the perennial Democrat from Alabama, did show up, and President Dickey filled in for the missing Cooper. Gordon Bjork '57, the conference chairman, said the affair was a success anyway, and it was doubtful that Cooper's trip had much purpose, it having been demonstrated that Republicans outnumber students at Dartmouth four to one.
The Interfraternity Council has all but approved radical changes in the rushing regulations. The chief feature of the new plan is a "matching system" whereby impartial administrators will match up lists of fraternities made out by the prospective pledges at the end of the last evening of rushing with lists of rushees made out by fraternities at the same time. Both lists will give choices in order of preference. The purpose is to eliminate the sad and unnecessary situations which have made their appearance at past sink nights when an unlucky brother had to tell an unlucky hopeful that he hasn't got it, face-to-face. The only serious criticism raised against the proposal is that it is too impersonal, but since elimination of an excessively personal element is the purpose of the new system, this criticism flounders.
Another feature of the proposals will move rushing up to registration week with the obvious intent of limiting interference with the studies of all concerned. This seems worth while.
A number of other matters, such as the daily hours for rushing, are being worked out, and the new rules will no doubt be adopted as soon as a reasonable consensus of fraternity opinion on these minor points can be determined.
A group of students "have formed a new experimental theater group dedicated to "furthering the interest in drama at the College." The group is headed by Richard Alder '58, hopes to present one full-length play before the end of the year, will use Robinson Hall along with several other student activities, wants to join COSO, and intends to abet, not compete with, The Players.
MILESTONES
WDBS: Station Manager, Richard M. Harris '58, New Britain, Conn.; Program Director, John H. Long '58, Rochester, Mich.; Technical Director, Allen H. Pulsifer '58, Johnstown, N. Y.; Business Manager, David H. Johns '58, Morrisville, Pa.
Dartmouth Outing Club: President, Frederick C. Hart Jr. '58, Norwalk, Conn.; Vice President, Samuel C. Silverstein '58, Kings Point, N. Y.; Winter Sports Chairman, Stuart C. Clark '58, Altadena, Calif.; Cabin and Trail Chairman, Frederick D. Turner '58, Buffalo. N. Y.; Winter Carnival Chairman, William C. Van Law Jr. '58, Moweaqua, Ill.
Basketball Captain: M. David Carruthers '58, Mendham, N. J.
Hockey Captain: David C. Chapin '58, Wellesley Hills, Mass.
