Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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J. K. BROWN 3 na -1 3 5 AY m 'F :- cn 'T 3 ni 0. cu n 0 o Q- : n nf 21 0 : in in 'U in 2. L -Z 3 0 I n co nf I cn BILL W Many unclerclassmen sought higher standing ,H , Eiiiil5 , mg I 1 , I hi 1 ggi LEE a it , ' +A Nfl? E N ll. ' y Ha! Qi 1 H, Hui. 1 5 gf l Mi' in X X, .v Ei D '?P 1 T H' .-id l'- F - V w N 1 -is aaa ' lg. F igs! . -,2 gg?, U ll xi tl -1 M M 1' 4m ,YM ,,- X 1 wml Clk , ' 1 .fa us 1 x N 37 E 1 bi ,Q 1 ,lj 'x N t it 1 - ' , 7. Yearbooks photographer was seldom unprepared With, the onset of cold weather, other defects appeared. Several radiators burst, Hooding the first-Hoor halls, and, in places, the basement. The radiators often seemed to emit a greater amount of cold than heat, until the heating system bugs were ironed out. Heat then became a minor issue as washroom drains, exhibiting balkiness, took the spotlight. Also in the spotlight was the project's dining hall, which gave rise to a series of legends about food preparation. Stu- dents' complaints about food quality have been loudly voiced -even to the extent of one leather-lunged protestor who was suspended for his protests. But veterans and dogtown eaters, connoisseurs of evil cookery, only smiled and coun- tered with descriptions of consistent diets of such horrors as hominy grits and cornpone. A rellection pool, providing the project's centerpiece, doubled as an ice rink during the cold weather until a sewer pipe burst and polluted the pond. The university, in its hucksterish way, was very quick to capitalize on the appearance of the units by burying the mid- west and inundating the east with promotional literature extolling the new project, and showing in detail all favorable aspects of the dorms. lvlany students say, l'm not quite sure why I came to Drake 5 I guess it was the nice pictures of the new buildings that they kept sending me. One thing that should be of interest to all male students: the dorms seem to draw coeds to the campus. ln 1951 the ratio of men to women was 2.1 to 1, while in the fall of 1953 it was 1.8 to l. Some publications select bests. Otlzers select worsts. We, stellar individualists, select mosts. This time it's the most frustrating situation of the year. On the evening of Thursday, Dec. 17, a star Drake bas- ketball player and his girl friend were on their way to do some pre-Christmas shopping. Before they reached their des- tination, the basketball player was hailed by the driver of a new model Lincoln sedan. The driver beckoned the athlete to get in. He complied. They drove around the block. What happened next was for the Grand Jury to decide, although the basketball player related the story to reporters essentially as follows: The d1'iver, swarthy F101-en Diljaglia, a 27-year-old Des lVIoines businessman, hinted to the athlete that it would be awfully nice if the boys from Iowa State could emerge vic-

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SAE's quarfei' sang iheir way fo applause and a frophy in APO's quari-ef confesf Candidaies for degrees and Hweir admiring relafives saf wifh faculiy and adminisfrafive officers: heard violin and organ solos before degrees were conferred during February com- mencemeni' ceremonies af Universiiy church

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-T. K. BROWVN Like rhe early spring flowers they sluclied, Prof. Leland Johnston's boi'-any class appeared in the woods torious by about 10 points in the forthcoming Drake-Ames game. To indicate just how nice it would be, Dillaglia dis- played several bills of large -denomination. No dice, replied Ben Bumbry. Terrible, The nadir of poor taste. H VVith this episode, a chain of events was started that, frustratingly enough, was to give Drake's name more promi- nence in the next few weeks than portly Robert Stuhr's pub- lic relations department had been able to achieve in months of toil. . The Hrst link in the chain was the immediate notification of Coach Jack lWcCle1land by the conscientious Bumbry concerning the bribe attempt. The coach duly reported same to the gendarmes, who promptly hopped on Diljaglia and had him indicted for attempted bribery, the first instance to which the new state anti-bribe law might be applied. As if striving to make an example of DiPaglia, the court gave him a ten-year sentence. But regardless of the outcome of the trial, DiPaglia might just as well saved himself a lot of time and trouble, for Iowa State won by the exact 10-point margin that he wished, through no fault of Bumbry, who scored 17 points. A fatal- ist might opine that this is DiPaglia's punishment. And as for Bumbry, the question of his reputation being tainted by- DiPaglia's momentary association was merely rhetorical, for shortly afterwards Bumbry was declared scholastically ineligible for sports, had to leave the team, and chose to leave school. He wound up the season playing for the local Clarkson Realty team, a hot-shooting AAU squad. fllthouglz many lll'ylHll87ll.1' during the year ceizierrzl around such fine and vital subjects as football and the draft, a crass, mundane note was recurrent. This was a note im- mortalized by Calypso singers, given foundation by national governments and sought after, in one way or another, by nearly everyone in the world. lVIoney. Despite the fact that universities advertise themselves as non-pront public service institutions concerned only with man's betterment, money managed to make the news at Drake several times during 1954. ii Public Relations, it might be expected, had several things to say about money. They ran up the distress Hag when it was found that nearly thirty thousand dollars were needed to complete financing of the dorm project. They wore a happy smile when they revealed that according to their cal- culations, Drake's average yearly expenses were a com- paratively reasonable Sl080, making it one of the low men on the totem pole of midwest college costs. Money made many departments, including this publica- tion, set up a howl when budgetary appropriations were made, slashing funds available to most university enterprises to below the '53 level. But money news came from unexpected sources, and thereby received more than passing notice. The library, long regarded solely as the place to go when solitude and sleep is wanted, revealed that it was owed nearly 34,500 in both un- paid library fines and unreturned books. The fact that the books were missing didn't surprise many, for instructors have long maintained that petty thievery is the inevitable result of their recommendation of a book for course reference. 27