Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Dr. Miner, Eschenbach, R., Mellott, C., Binder, A., Heckman, R., Snoyer, E., Dr. Work. Student-Faculty Few people on campus have heard of the Student-Faculty Liaison Committee of the College of Engineering and Science. Nevertheless, it is an important organization, for it provides a unique opportunity lor students and faculty members to confer and to attempt to understand each others' view-points. The Committee was formed in July, 1944, to provide a means for the students to acquaint the faculty with their opinions, criticisms, and suggestions to improve the effectiveness of the College as an educational unit. Aims of the committee, as stated when it was founded, are: calling attention to problems which ommittee the students believe merit consideration; providing a source of student opinion in matters requiring student-faculty attention; helping to improve teaching methods: and making investigations anti obtaining information that will assist in pursuing the preceding aims. The Committee is at present composed ol I)r. Douglas F. Miner, Dr. Webster N. Jones, Dr. B. Richard Tea re, Jr., Dr. William R. Work, August K. Binder, Jr.. Richard C. Eschenbach, James D. Garner, Richard L. Heckman, Cloyd R. Mellott. and Ernest I). Snoyer. Liaison dent Conference Com The Student Conference Committee is one of the least known but most important groups on the Carnegie Tech campus. The leaders of the important organizations and publications meet with President Doherty once a month to discuss problems concerned with such things as eating facilities, changes in curriculum, relations with individual professors, and other problems important to both the students and faculty. The committee is appointed in part by Dr. Doherty while the remaining students automatically become members by virtue of the prominent campus offices they hold. This year the student members are James D. Garner, President, Student Council; Jean M. Price, Secretary, Student Council; Hubert I. Aaronson, Editor, Carnegie Technical; Richard C. Eschenbach, Editor, Carnegie Tartan; John T. Guvol, President, Men's Dormitory Council; Joanne Hipp, President, Women’s Dormitory Council; John D. Reese, President, Interfraternitv Council; Sarah R. Thompson, President, Panhellenic Council; Benjamin L. Schwartz., President, Intcrhonorarv Council; Donald A. Anderson, President, Citcom Clan; Frank Mihelich. President, Evening Student Council; James Boyce, Chairman of Executive Board, Scotch and Soda; and Harry A. Thor, Commander, Tecvcts. First Row: Price, J., Thompson, S., Dr. Doherty, Girts, B., Hipp, J. Second Row: Reese, J., Anderson, D.. Maley, G.. Schwartz, B.

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Fir I Row: C. Cook, J. Lisle, ). Price, J. Garner, I). H allas, L. Emm el, R. Knott. Second Row: A. Yorkin, L. Engle, S. Kohn, R. Kindl, A. Christenson, T. Farrahy. Student Council is a representative organization which deals with affairs concerning the entire student body. It has jurisdiction over all student organizations at Tech and all extra-curricular, non-athletic student activities, except those controlled by the Dormitory Councils or Interfraternity or Panhellenic Councils. At the present time there are seventeen voting members and four non-voting members. The work of Student Council is carried on by means of various committees appointed by the President. Meetings are held every Wednesday at 4:30 in the Carnegie Union and are open to any student who wishes to come and listen, or to express his opinion on any subject dealing with the work of Council or with anything under the jurisdiction of Council. Freshman Regulations were supervised by Council. After the Traditions Exam was given, there was an informal dance in the Gym with Hill Leroy's orchestra—free to all freshmen and their dates -to celebrate the end of regulations. This was the first all-school dance of the season and turned out more successfully than anticipated. Council has given the students a full social calendar for 1946-47 with at least one all-school dance a month. This, along with other affairs, helped bring Tech up to the standard of the pre-war schedule. 26

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First Rom: Sciioexbkkckr, B., Reese, J., Teichmann, X. Second Rom: Marcus, S., Goodill, J., Frederick, H., Ulrich, G. Third Rom: Dickerson, V., Parker, X , Seward, j., Skelton, W. Interfraternitv Council This year's Interfraternity Council has had the pleasant opportunity of witnessing the revival of active, full-scale fraternity life at Carnegie Tech. It has seen Tech's fraternities expand and take on prominence in all school activities, as in prewar years. It is gratifying to every member to be a part of the organization which represents such line traditions. In ter fraternity Council has constantly striven to assist with the administration and student body in such school projects as the Community Chest Fund and Intramural athletics. It has served as a mediator through which fraternities can act as a group. It has oecn the coordinating force which has given fraternities a united front—encouraging joint action among fraternities, so that they may better serve themselves and the school. Nor has the Council been inactive socially. Three of the most enjoyable and spirited functions of the year were held under Interfraternity Council’s auspices: Homecoming Weekend House Decorations, the annual Interfraternity Dance, and Greek Sing and Swing. Homecoming weekend found Tech's fraternities ready to welcome the old alums. To foster school spirit, the Council awarded a plaque to the fraternity house or dormitory which put up the best decorations welcoming back the alumni. Later in the year, IF sponsored the highly successful Interfraternitv dance. Interfraternity Council is now very active; it has emerged this year with a larger number of men behind it than in the best prewar days. As a result it has acquired added responsibilities, both to the school and the fraternities. It shall meet these responsibilities by giving Carnegie Tech and the Greek world a year marked lioth by close cooperation among the individual fraternities and between the school and fraternities. Now, Interfraternity Council is ready to make straightforward progress toward those ideals for which fraternities exist. INTERFRATERNITV COUNCIL OFFICERS President Reese, J. Treasurer Gartner, II. Secretary SCHOKNBERGER, R. 28