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BACK ^ H E ARGUS IN ITS FIGHT NO. 927 WINS PRIZE VOL. 1 OCTOBER 20, 1947, BUFFALO, NEW YORK NUMBER 3 BOARD SAYS TO ARGUS Norton Union Refuses To Recognize Argus As Official University Activity Lee Jones, Lois Chassin, And John Quinn Back Argus Final Vote: Seven To Five Against. Official recognition as a Norton Union activity was denied to the ARGUS at the last meeting of the 'Board of Managers Thursday evening. The non-recognition movement was led by Stafriey D. Travi.s, faculty delegate, who contended, \If we recognize the ARGUS, there will be a doubling up of one activity after another.\ MAX PATRICK QUESTIONS; IS UB A DEGREE FACTORYI (The foUmcin^^articles was specially written for ARGUS, at the, request itS f ditors. The author, who taught in the UB English Department for the past five years, has accepted a position at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, in order to devote himself to his specialty, English Literature in the Seventeenth Century.) B.v J.'M a x Patrick The appearance , of the ARGUS on the UB campus is a healthy growth In the academic himself temporarily, and if he identifies himself with the uni- versitv community, contribut- Four Answers To Question, Why We Live To the question, “W hat have we to live for?\ Gaston Berger, professor of 'Philosophy in Aix- Marseille University and a delegate to UNESCO, gave four possible answers when he spoke Friday afternoon in Lock- body. The BEE, admittedTS^, much as possible to it, t r and deriving from it the values serves a useful function. H o w -, P and stimuli which a truly active ever, with the attainm e n t of m a turity, th e student body needs other organs like the CAULDRON i\id ARGUS to express that new m a turity and to send vitalizing hormones in to the intellectual blood-stream.' The student body of UB has been King in reaching this ma turity. A true University in volves' student life and activi ties, preferably centered around dormitories; but at UB only a nfiockcry of such life has existed in the past. Even today, most of its students tend to regard the university as a degree factory in which they expose them selves to a fixed quota of class room hours and examinations. Nut Enough Campus Interest These deluded souls come to a tradition is, at long last, being built up on the UB campus. W h en that day comes, UB will change from a mere degree fac tory into a true university. US is ripe for such a develop ment. Its standards are equal to those of the top universities in the nation — a fact tod little realized by the average Buf- falonian, but a fact which is '•“ jvery apparent to anyone \yho, the University for their re- j ijkj, the present author, is fa- quired hours only and then slip m iliar with other universities, away to their homes scattered Academically, the tutorial sys- throughout the district. Instead ^he liberal tradition, and of entering into an intellectual the presence of an excellent and efflorescence centered in the giert faculty, ensure that a stu University, they bury them student life can afford. UB To Be True University Such a tradition takes long to establish; but once brought into being, it vitalizes the whole community. The new di;ive for dormitories, the ARGUS and the 'CAULDRON, and such clubs as the newly formed Young PCA indicate that s u c h l ^ o not forego the rights of reason, but our con- wood Mepnorial ■ L ibrary; \We live for happiness and there is a general harmony between happiness, justice dnd reason. The development of science will be on an equal footing with the progress of civilization. The only thing we have to do is develop our understanding of nature.” Prof. Berger, author of nu merous philosophical works, summarized th e ' .Communist DR. PERRY WITH ARGUS The ARGUS is proud to announce that Dr. Henry Ten Eyck Perry, head of the English Department, has consented to be facul ty adviser to this publi cation. BOARD MEETINGS NOW OPEN selves in the commendable but dull social activities of their ward or hamlet: they cut them- selve.s off from the stimulating interchange of ideas among students; and they allow them selves to be dominated by the inanities of a commonplace en vironment. They mean well, but they fail to realize that the most precious thing which a university affords is the intel lectual stimulus of campus clubs, informal or formal dis cussion groups, bull sessions, argum ents, and the interchange of ideas and theories amongst students. The true university dent has as full an opportunity for self-development as is pro vided anywhere. Indeed, in the author’s opinion, such an oppor tunity is provided only by about fifteen universities in the supplem?:nted by active student life; and such active student life must be not only social and athletic but in tellectual; of these three, Cbe intellectual is by far the most im p o rtant and the most neg lected at UB. The student should receive more than mere I Mr. Travis drew a parallel, using Blue Masquers (of which he is faculty adviser) as an example. If ■ the ARGUS be comes part of the University, then students will try to form another dram atics'organization, he predicted. He envisioned a barrage of petitions from all sides asking for admission into the Norton fold. Urges More Activities Stepping down from the chair m o m e n ^ rily, Leeland N. Jones Jr., president of the ception of reason d rfferem '1 re^h<>dTy'th^^ M ^ n -P o a rd. tw k issue with Mr. We think reason is a natural' their meeting last] Travis. The number of stu- power apt to change with cir cumstances. I am convinced the strength of ^m m u n ism is Thur.sday, which is a n o ther step dents at the University of Buf- forward toward real democracy on the UB campus. It was de cided by an almost unanimous that it is' s i i ^ l y based on a Nor- ish claims of the lower classes of society. Communism is really the hope of the Promised Land.\ “The Cl^ristialts.\ he con tends, “insists on the super natural character of man. Man is not enclosed in the world, as ton Union card be allowed to attend any regular meeting of the Board to observe this body in- action. Lee Jones, chairman of the falo has increased four or. five hundred percent over pre-war years, and yet we are trying to keep our Norton Union activi ties .stationary. We must change our whole mold, ” Jones argued, reiterating an urgent need for an expanded aetivities program. It was the belief of Robert J. Board, expressed the hope that Evans that the present large as simple pkrt of nature. Man has a destiny and it is impos sible to understand his state unless we take his religious need into account.” The Exis^entialisin of the contemporarji French philo- this move would serve to better acquaint the students with the actions of the Board and so give “We Must Act Now\ serts, “Man is dependanb , neither on nature nor on God Untied States. But it is l a r g e l y w ^ • jo^s not exist) nor on wasted if it is not supplem e v,o= them a better understanding of the significance of \policies handed down by the group. Lois M. ChaSsln im mediately countered with, “We must act _ , now -to confront the situation U C lO b B r Z S l^ t hand. Maybe this is my own Beta Sigma Rho . w ill present I opinion, but I think sophet, Jean-Paul Sartre^. as-T ts Autum n Nocturne Dance on!‘lj® trian the Bee. an a ‘the Bee has Nocturne Dance enrollm ent would eventually drop back to iKs pre-w ar level, which would make expansion an unwise move at this time. society. Man is tree and he has to choose his own ways, quite independently from any rules.” been an established institution LANGUAGES THE EASY WAY By WINFIELD C. BURLEY , An ekperim ent is failing in professional competence from; the language departm ent of the University. As well as this! this university. Last~year for , , professional competence, they the first time a new approach — -------- - . --------- ---- student submerges himself iu have gained an intel- to' the study'''of modern lang-i homework than would normally university activities and von-j richness and alertness \%Tac ,r»trr,rii,oe,n v... tUoibp exnentpd for n .sicnilar nnm- tacts, he removes himself in a,^y,ich no professor can teach; October 25 in the Niagara Room Wullens handling the vocals. Tickets are $2.40 per couple. mqeting and answered que;s- ^ tions directed at him by Board members. \I am now in the process .of reorganizing m.v staff from the ground u p \ A ’ ’ I lack of trained personnel, he m a r as such. Nine hours areU aid, prevented him from doing spent in the classroom .^each the best job. possible.' week. While this sounds like a lot, it means in practice less large measure from the hin-|but ^chich is pleasurably ac Argus To Editorialize The ARGUS editor, Winfield uages was introduced by the ^ he expected for a sim ilar num -!C. Burley, told the Board that Romance Languages Depart-,! h er of credits. (The course car- the purpose of the ARGUS was I ment. It was the establishm e n t' ries six credit hours per sem | not to compete with the Bee, drances.of h ^ fam iliar environ-’ cultural of an intensive course in begm- i ester), in addition, the equi- but rattier to cover news ordi- m ent, and, in the intellectual emancipation afforded by col lege life, • develops himself to become an intelligent leader of men, not a mere “educated” cog in a rather dull and certainly student activities. ning French (111-J12) mu.ch|yalent of two years study i:=^ narily neglected by them and to I like m any suciv, programs re-igiven in one, an important ;^ovote more space to editorial- P h ! flin i m a \icen tly instituted at many fa-'feature for tho.se who f ind t h e i r ' ‘>'''ig on campus conditions: riu umega imous colleges and universities time short in making up re-' ' The cast of printing one i.ssue : ----- I throughout the couiytry. qUiroments for their degrees I ‘he Argus was discussed a fter in a rath e r dull and certainly j In a meeting to be held Oct, | All those who took this course Assuming that most of man's. ® report was g'ven. uncultured industrial society. 28th at Norion Union, a UB i-^t vear agreed that it was one knowledge comes through h'.s; ‘he .report, $ ll.^ is Id o n o t s u g g e s t t h a t a n y man k h a p ter of tW National f r a t c r - „ | delightful courses'pars. Dr. Beyer planned the ®®®h week- About 950 T woman s h ^ l d isolate h im self nity Alpha Phi Omega i.s to be ^ad even taken 0 0 ^ 0 ^ 0 •ntirely from the conunuqity In which he lives; but when he attends a university, he wilUtion-is-ppen to present and past o r g a n iz e . Membership in this organiza- wejl-pleased with their own progress. Basic to .the coiurse is. a de-emphasis on the generaM v|lor the, student to increa.se hi.'' course .so that .six of the hours in class were p r i h a a r i ly ^ o received from advert,sin.g conversation, an effortless way sufficient. Mr. Flioil. 4K«fit moat if he does so isolate 'Boy Scouts regardless of rank, idull m'atter of learning gram-1 (CunUnued on Page 4) however, adm itted ih.at tlie Bee is heavily subsidized each year.
