Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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oi nineteen forty-three SURPRISING, how many blind dates grow into nice little love affairs! More classes, and Freshman learns to his sorrow that this sure is different from high school . . . assignments and more assignments . . . then the shock of the first grades ... a low, grinding sound, audible all over the campus . . . the fresh- man settling down to hard work. The thrill of belonging felt at the first convocation, when the student body gathers together. The gradually diminishing flow of letters home . . . the joyous discovery that college professors are exactly as presented by radio comedians . . . the long walks . . . the first sight of the asylum grounds . . . and all its implications and complications . . . And with all these experiences behind him, by the time Thanksgiving vacation rolls around the green has pretty well worn off. The freshman becomes a campus citizen, having found his interests and formed friendships, and perhaps having begun to realize the opportunities offered him for self-improvement if he wishes seriously to participate in the life of the college. 19

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Freshmen: class 18 WITH the scarlet of the maples comes the green of the fresh- man . . . enviable in that they are seeing the beauty of the campus for the first time, through unaccustomed eyes . . . keenly thrilling to its color and sweep, even as the jaded seniors once did. The pungent odor of burning leaves rouses nostalgia in the hearts of the new-comers . . . though the hectic, happy-go-lucky first days of college leave little time for homesickness. The rush of registration merges into the confusion of finding the many classrooms. Someone helps out a bewildered freshie and an- other fine friendship has begun. Eagerly the first and most glorious football game is anticipated, and rightly so, for no matter what it ' s like, in memory it is a magnificent affair . . . bands blaring, banners gayly beckoning, and a scarlet airplane touch- ing up the post-card sapphire of the cloudless sky ... in memory we always win that first game by a huge margin. The victory celebration adds another to our college memories. The first dance . . . eagerly little Miss Freshman arrays herself in glamorous bib-and-tuck, anxiously awaits her buzzer signal, hurriedly skips downstairs, happily sallies forth with the blind date which the kind junior arranged for her. I

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Campus government dominated by CAC MOST potent student governing body is Campus Af- fairs Committee, which a short time ago declared itself an executive committee of the university, respon- sible to the president. Before this, the meetings were open to the student body. Saul Cohen (see page 188) is the only non-member who attended every CAC meet- ing this year until the sessions were closed. Cohen declares: This secrecy looks suspicious. . .CAC should guarantee that no shrewd tricks be used to circumvent justice. CAC has complete power in regulating extra-curricular activities, administers $3.50 per student of the A.L.E. fee. (Remainder of the $10 per year per student goes to pay for the football stadium). Much criticism has been brought against the committee this year, v ith charges of undemocratic administration predominant. Significant was the Town Hall session on campus democracy (see page 62). CAC is made up of five students, six faculty members, is chairmanned by Dean Voigt. Sub-committees of CAC are the Men ' s and Women ' s Selection Boards, who select class officers, dance chair- men, others. Voigt heads the women ' s board, Dean Whitehouse, the men ' s. Also under the CAC is the Committee on Student Publications, headed by Professor George Starr Lasher, which names the editors and business managers of the three student publications. The committee hears monthly reports from the publications, advises their executives on policy. All officers chosen by this committee and the selections boards must be approved by CAC. New this year is the Student Grill Committee, another CAC sub-group, which plans policies of the grill, has Whitehouse as its chairman. 20