University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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As usual, the vorld ' s biggest student Spring Carnival honor s American of the Year yr Tl ' ! y- ' ' — ?rT- ■v« college careers of ' 56 rush into the future ' 0M. ■i

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I In 1955, Chairman Chuck Wagner introduced honored guest, Ed Sullivan. As the sun sets on seniors breathlessly XVI

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Freshmen are icumen m pR ' ,i0!l § ' V? Loudly they sing cuckoo, as they drift about in their first bout with the maze of college registration. Sadly they learn that a trial schedule is merely a trial, and that a line is the slowest distance between two points. They started at 9:00 AM on September 13 (if their name was Zwieback, or there- about), and, by the time 2:00 PM, September 16 came (admitting Arthur Aardvaark), 0000 had joined 0000 upper confreres in the gay, exciting game of college. It was not that process was terribly complicated or tedious; it just be- came increasingly difficult to get The Perfect Schedule. In- deed, Professor O.C. Schnicker ' s Registration Committee had shaved the average registration time to an hour and a half. Old-time professional students could regale the glassy-eyed newcomers for hours with stories of misfiled re-admits who turned up three days later, cramped and sore from the crowded space in the file cabinets. Or of the C F student who made a quick killing in rubber stamps and was given his diploma immediately. But the freshmen were amazed to learn that the person ahead of them always took the last place in their coveted section. This meant being stuck with the three o ' clock, which meant changing the English to eight o ' cl— Eight o ' clock! You mean that you have classes at eight o ' clock in the morning? Why 1 can ' t . . . that is, I . . . You ' re sure every other section is closed? Dutifully they trot back and forth across the vast expanse of the Memorial Building floor, waiting in lines, having cards initialed, filling out cards, schedules, cards, schedules, cards. Finally, they finish and wend their way homeward, warm with the glow of self- satisfaction. Or, as one put it: I ' m glad that I don ' t have to go through that again. S S-j 18