30 tn: NTI NC DAYS T I LL I.F. FORMAL
The Tech News
\ OLlH\tE XLV
l ucrease in Allo tments to Camp u s Organization~ Mak es a $30 Student Tax Imper ative The 195-1·55 revised student nctidty budget has been released by }.lr. Lloyd our bUb!Oi$S manager. The allotments were compiled by a commillee consiMinr of IJean Roys. Mr. Lloyd. Bob temple, president of the tudent Council. and Brian 1\.elly. enior class 1>resident. The proposed budget was th~n presented beiorc the Tech Council for further recommendations. The pussed budget ton~i•ts of the following ligures compared to last year's requests ; 1954·55 Request
1953-54 Budget
Athlelic Al!Sodation Band Camera Club Cosmopolitan Club Debating Society Glee Club Literary Society Nnuticol Assn. Peddler Rille Club Student Christian Assn. Tech News Tech Council
$ 14,885.00 100.00 25.00 105.00 500.00 420.00 50.00 250.00 900.00 200.00 800.00 2.000.00 130.00
$14 ,925.00 300.00 25.00
Budget request
$20,465.00
:f19,100.00
()rgani.tation
400.00 425.00 25.00 200.00 600.00 400.00 800.00 1.000.00
Income; First Tem1 ( 1954·5): 782 students at 12.50 econd Term ( 1954-5) : ca. 732 students nt 12.50
BRONWELL NAMED NEW PRESIDENT •9th President To Undertake Duties Feb. lst
Difference
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40.00 -100.00 105.00 100.00 5.00 25.00 50.00 .tOO.OO
-200.00 1,000.00 l .iO.OO
+ 1.359 50 $ (), 775.00 9, 150.00
Totnl income at present : lncn•ase of $5.00 for 2nd tCrnl :
18,()25,00 .1.660.00
'l'Qtal income 195.3·54 Deficit
22,585.00 1.%2.53
Balnnce for 1954-55 1954-55 allotment
20,465.00
21 ,022.~ i
Credit balance for tc)SS-56
$
55i.4i
Based on these figures, the five dollnr incrcn e is setn tu be nccc;~:~ ry to IJalnnce this yea r's budget reques ts and to cancel l'lSt yNtr's deficit. Without the increase. the income would be 18,925.00 and the C'!J)cnscs ~urn up to $20.4(!5 00. This would leave a dencit over 1953-54 of 1.540.00 and on ovrrall dcfidt uf $3,102.53.
I Ratification of Tech Council
Constitution Nears Completion Ratilic:Hion of the new constitution for the Tccb Council was nearly com· pleted last Thursday night at 11 regulor session of the ennte. The extensively revised clauses were discussed ror over two hour with a third of the ronstitU· tion still to he reviewed. The princip:tl topic of di~ll~treement centered around chnn~es in the ·•elil!i· hihty code", which prompted Prc~ilient Stempel to ~elect a J-man committee to consid\!r a more modified and practi· cable re\·ision. ln presenting the new con5titution t•> the Senate, Dick Ashbaugh explained that the hnl'ic setup or this one wa.~ the s:~me as the other except that it now separated the Mudcnt government into two bodies He then prolcedcd to outline the proposed change$, some of 11 hich provoked lon11. vehement cli~cus sicln~ among the c11:1te member~ Hob Stempel's position 3 $ Pre~ident wa, nlso d.trifred at the meetinl!. He is to be designated liS President or the T cch C~:~uncil (both bodies of l he go\'· t•rnment I but will pres ide O\'er only the Tech • enate. In addition. he is ~:ivcn the power to summon ~pcciol meeting, nf either branch of the ·rech Council should he deem that the bu~i ness on hand is urgen t enou11h to warram one. 1l will state in the constitu· tton that the Tech Senate i~ to meet weekly and the Cound l of £'resident~ once a month.
i\ heated dcuttte eruptNI on the Senate lloor wht'n the propo~al lei hnve the clubs and organi.tation, on campus elect their new officers for the foll11winl( yea r before either May lsl or :\•lay I5th was introduced. Previously 1here had been no time limit specified for 1he election of otlicer~. The debate aro~e nfter Roy Seaberg expressed his opinion 1hat organi.tntions would be too hnrd pr<'..~cd before May lst (such as Mns<jue. who will have just presenle\1 their majo r production ) to review their bud!£cl s, vo te in compels. elect oni c:er~ and conduct thei r rCI(ular business in the space of one or two meeting,. Brian Kelly immedJalely off~et the arl(umcnt by osscrtinl( that lhe new oflicers would have n chonce lo learn their jobs I.Jefore the fnllterm when the old officer~> would not be there to help them. He added that the purpose of the chnn&e was to allow the Council or Presidents to elect a presiding officer who could see to it that all or11anizalions' budget!> be ~uhmittcd before summer vacation The ar~otument , which ~'!.!>ted fully I 'i minute~ . cnr!('d amiably wtth the acceptance or the proposal tO hJtvc the officers elected bcfure :\lay 1st. Al•o adopted in the new t•<Jnstitution i~ the Plan E system of elcctinl( the l're~ident of the Tech Council. Tll(ll plan was the one in<~lilUtetl for the first time last year whereby t he c:lnc.llrlntes SPe CONSTITUTI ON-Pn~r~> 3
NOV. 11
NUMBER 4
WO RCESTER, ~IASS.<\ CI UJSET'l'S. TUESDAY, NOVEM UEit 2. 1 95~
STUDENT ACTIVITY BUDGET ANNOUNCED FOR THE YEAR
F'OUNDER'S D AY
TWELVE SENIORS ELECTED TO WHO'S WHO Twelve \V . P. 1 students have been offidally nlccptcd to thi . year's Who's Who i\mtml( Students l n American Univcrsitie~ and Colleges. The (IUota of twclw w:t'l secretly chosen by the Tech 'enate and thei r names, nil Seniors, were forwa rded di rectly to the publisher~. Candidates were picked primarily on the oosis of their contribution II) the school. The following ore those men who hnvc been elected and thei r v:~rious activities on campus: Earl Milton Uloom. of Endirutt, N. \'., a member of Sigma Phi Ep~ilon . Earl is :1 4-lellcr man-in football , basketball, trnck. and tennis,-a member of Skull. the Varsity Club, JHEE, and President or i\ IEE. Elmer Corujo, of Gloucester, Moss., a member of l'hi Cn.mmn Delta. El is in Skull, lH EE, the Soccer team, the Varsity Club and the 1. F. Council. Richard Anthony DeLuca.. or Haverhill, Ma~s., a mem!Jer of Theta Kappa Phi. Dick is a rcpre~entalivc in the Tecb Senate, a Captain in ROTC, Pi Delta Epsilon, Peddl er , TECH :-/p,ws, Unnd Manager, Newman Club, Varsity Club and Captain of the Cheerleaders. Donald Joseph Grenier, of Worcester, Mass., n member of Theta Kappa Phi. Don is Caplain of the Baseball team, on the Football !cam, Skull, in lhe
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Newm!ln Club, and VarRily Club. J'eter Henry Hor$tmnnn, of Ridgewood, N. J ., n member of Sigma Phi E1Jsllon. Pete is co-captain or the l~ool· IJall team. a member ()( Skull, ASME, Tau Beta Pi, Varsity Club, un ROTC CilJJlain, and !"resident WPIAA. Philip Chatterton Jones, of Worcester, M a~~ . . a mcm hcr of Phi Gamma Delta. Phil is President of AICH.E, Secretary of PC D, Mnnnger of Cross Country team, I F C o u n c i I , ancl ACHERS. Brian James Kelly, of Framin~thnm, Mass., a memher of Theta Kappa Phi. Urian is a member of Skull, Pi Deltn Ep$ilon, Pf'ddlur, Newman Club, Tech Senate, Senior Class ll r<:sidcnl, Presi· dent of TKI', Tec u N&ws, Co-captain of the Lacrosse team, 11-J EE, and Bottaliun Commander in ROTC. Henry Edward Leikkane n, of Fitchhllr~. :vtnss., a member of Alpha Tau Omega. "Ace" is also io Skull, the Basehall lenm. a 2nd LL. in ROTC, Varsity Cluh, ASMF., nnd President or i\TO. Richard James Lucey, of SJJringfteld. Mass,, a member of Theta Kappa Phi. Dick is PrdfJ/er Editor-in-Chief, VicePresident of TKP, President of Council of Presidents, 1st Lt. in ROTC, Soccer learn, Varsity Club, AlEE, Tecu News nnd Pi Dclln Epsilon, Newman Club. See WHO'S WIIO-Pnst' 6
Pro£. Arthur B. Bronwell, 45, of lllorthwestern University, Evanston, Jl. Hnois, was elected president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute at lbe fall rn~eting of the Board of Trustees. Prof. Uronwell expects to take ove-r the presi· dent's duties on February lst. H e has been on the Northwestern l'. ledrica l engineering faculty since JCJ37 ttnd jointly, for the htst seven years, he has held the position of executive secretary of Lhe American Society fo r Engineering Education. He is a na:tive of Drexel. l llinois. Wl'l's ninth president, troined in educnlion as weU as administration, is the first to come from the educational field since the late Jra N. Hollis in 1913. The latter wns a Harvard professor of engineering when he became Worcestu Tech's fifth president. Professor Uronwell succeeds Alvin E. Cormcny, who relinquished his dulles last Spring. WPl''s president-elect was graduated from l ll.inois Jnstitule of Technology in 19JJ and took his master's degree there in I «)36. His association with Northwestern began the following year. He hcrntne professor or electrical engineerin!( in 11)47. That yenr also, he received his master's degree in business administ rn· lion nl Northwestern. He did graduate study in l'hy~lcs nnd engineering at Universit y of Michigan in the Sun1mcrs CJf I 939 nnd 19•10. He assisted in the d C!lign of the new 1'echnologlcnl Instit ute building at Nonhwe~tern and from l'J4 I to I \147 organized the electrical cngineerinf! (lepartment's daytime and eveninf( graduate programs. In addition to hi~ academic work, he hns also helm in industry. He wns a special project engineer for Dell Telephone Labora tories, New York City, in the Summer or 194 1 and was an engi· nccring eonsultacH rrom 1941 to 1945 for Galvin Mfg. Co. He organited nnd supervised, in 1942 and 1943, the Army Signal Corps School in radio anc.l J)re-ru.llnr (or o.fficer candidates at Northwestern. During the next two years, he supervised a warlime research project on airborne radar. Tn I 9SJ, he received a grant from t he National Science f'oundation for resenrcb on a new princlple or detection and conversion of microwaves, this project being carried on by graduate students. He holds a palcnl on a viewing tube for color television pictures. ln his ntTHiaLion with lhe American Society for Engineering Educalion, he has been responsible ror many or its Bctivities and the orgnnlz.alion of its numerous committees. The society has a membership of more lhan 7000 and it is (or engineering educators what the national engineering societies ASCE, ASME, AlEE, AlME, AIChE, etc,, are for lheir profe!)Sions. Its purpose is adVIIncement of education in all its functions which penain to engineering and allied branches of science and technoiQgy. S~e
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