Southwestern College - Moundbuilder Yearbook (Winfield, KS)

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AGAIN -ME THE In every college scene men oulnumber women, and the frnnl straps uf Rivllzlrmlsoll Hall is nu excepliun ,- . . ,, ,

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Student counselor Mary Marie Glaser gives her freshman tounsellees advice about Southwestern rules and customs Miss Helen Evers, faculty adviser, counsels one of her freshman advisees concerning his curriculum problems PROBLEMS AIRED HERE Simple and friendly as is the atmosphere at South- western, freshman students need practical guidance when they come to the campus. With this need in mind the college authorities have planned a system of coun- seling new students. Each student, new or old, has a faculty adviser who helps him plan his program of studies. This adviser follows his academic record through the year and is ready with encouragement or advice whenever his advisees come to him. Mrs. Mildred Skinner, counselor of women, helps all girls with special problems. The girls turn to her for advice of every kind, for she is not a disciplinary officer, but a friend. Dean Russell Grow is at present serving as counsellor of men. All freshman girls are divided among a group of upper class girls, called student counselors, who before school begins in the fall write to their counselees wel- coming them to Southwestern and offering advice. Be- fore registration begins the counselors talk with their groups, answering questions and giving suggestions. They encourage the freshmen to bring to them any problems which arise later. President of the student counselors this year was Mary Marie Glaser and other counselors were janet Allen, Dona Bettis, Mary Lois Fulton, Ruth Gross, Bette Jones, Genny Jones, Lois Mae Miller, Velma Miskimen, Gladys Morton, and Doris Mossman. In addition to this program, the Student Christian Association has sponsored a Big and Little Sister proj- ect, which Dorothy Snare directed this year. New stu- dents are aided in adjustment to college life by the older girls who introduce them to the rules and cus- toms of the campus. Page 15

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AMPUS For the first time in tive years, men again outnumber women on the Southwestern campus, and this time it is two to one. About fifty per cent of the students are re- turned service men attending school under the provisions of the G.I. Bill. The increase in manpower is felt in many ways: in the revived football program and the resumption of CIAC basketball competition after last year's unoflicial play, in the classes where the great majority of the students are men, and primarily in the social happenings on the hill. The girls did a magnihcent job of carrying the spirit of the Jinx onward through the war years f keeping alive societies and clubs, school loyalty and pep, but they were happy to relinquish a large share of the responsibility to the men as they returned to Southwestern. Football practice, an activity absent from the erunpus since 1942, tlrcw much interest 5 s A sight which became increasingly familiar was the groups of boys Cl'21lHI11iI1g in the Student lnion Page I7