University of British Columbia - Totem Yearbook (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)

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Flillli U lntermingling business with pleas- ure is ordinarily considered taboo. Ignoring this preconceived theory, however. lim Midwinter, Coordin- ator of Activities, apparently decid- ed that 1950 Freshmen Week could not be a complete success unless a favorable economic outcome was realized. Reviewing the age-old Bargain- ing Theory studied earlier in his economic career, Midwinter appar- ently concluded that in order to maintain a favorable balance of trade, the price level structure es- tablishd during past years would have to be revitalized. As a result, frosh week was a financial success, to the extent of two hundred dollars. But do not discount the aspect of pleasure. With a great deal of pleasure, as a matter of fact, grinning freshmen rose from the murky waters of the university's oft-visited duck pond and proceeded to repay Engineers' compliment. And frosh bubbled over with en- thusiasm when UBC's Aggies ral- lied to the yearlings' cause, forcing Redshirts to abandon. And what a great deal of pleas- ure for Engineers to escort comely freshettes to the Frosh Orientation when first year students decided to forgo President N. A. M. Mc- Kenzie's welcoming address. Fits of pleasure reached a high- light when the university welcomed Canada's No: 1 woman athlete for 1950 to its ranks. Eleanor McKen- zie, only recently returned from the British Empire Games in New Zea- land, registered among six hundred newcomers. And when freshmen were allot- ted their first voting rights, a. meagre thirty percent took their new-found advantage. But despite this fact, that thirty percent pro- duced an undergraduate society 38 04 happy we come equalled only by Engineers in terms of accomplishments. Laurels rest. on the head of Don Marshall, first year student who stepped out of the chafrmanship of Kitsilano High School and into the presidency of FUS. But while ISO freshmen were busying themselves at the polls, and while Aggies and Engineers were vainly deciding which group had the greater right to the water pumps, starry-eyed freshettes were evaluating the merits and demerits of campus club life. All in one blow, armed forces, politics, religion, music, fine arts, newspaper and radio programs ap- peared on the student level. To complete the stage, an Aero Club plane appeared from the sky and landed on the lettered lawn in front of the Arts building. Then the frosh, decked in their traditional regalia, put on their own stage show. It was legal entertainment week for the intellectual upperclassman, and they felt justified in making the novice student feel at home in the same fashion that they were compelled to feel at home during their initial semester. Freshmen were forced to sing Hail UBC , and nobody knew the words. And since freshman were oblig- ated to produce cigarettes for up- perclassmen. a legal requirement for the tender green-horn, the Men's Big Block Club repayed the in- curred liability via the Frosh Smoker. 'kDuring first week on campus co-eds were eyed by upper classmen. Above top three co-eds who were picked to run for Lanbda Chi AIpha's Frosh Queen, the hen line at the Frosh Dance, and freshettes first glance at tri weekly campus paper.