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f c omplele ompas overage VOLUME 6 UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1956 NUMBER Work Starts on Arts Center A Look Into the Future on Our Campus Work will start this summer on the two story Visual Arts and Music Dept, building at left. Fine Arts Library center, and Theater building, right, will be constructed later. Norton Committees Working To Insure Successfui MUD; Aii Campus Picnic is May 13 Construction Begins In Early Summer All the committees in Norton are very busy with MUD Coming — they’re in a tizzy. Who will be Queen — maybe your date. Every one’s working to make May 12 gieat. There’s Mixer, Dance, and Pub licity, too. Watch the Spectrum to see what’s new! The Progrram Committee is very busy lately under the chairmanship of John Allen and Secretary Kuth Pellman. There are six standing committees. The Dance Committee under Joe Calabrese is sponsoring the Mov ing Up Day Dance, May 12, in Norton Union. There will be three bands to be found in Millard Fill more Lounge, Auditorium, and the Snack Bar. The Mixer Committee under Dick Lisciannro, is in rtiorere of a Col fee Hour and Fashion Show on Thursday, May 10. On this day the Queen Candidates will model. The Queen will be announced and ser enaded by the Fraternity Sweet heart Songs. The Visual Arts Committee un der Dick Wilson is going to show movies of previous MUD parades on Tuesday, May 8. Those people whose job it is to let the student body know of each event via sling- ers, posters, publicity stunts, etc. are on the Publicity Committee un der Ann Hicks. A wonderful day will be in store for all who attend the All Campus Picnic, on Sunday, May 13, at Chestnut Ridge Park. There will be games, prizes, and inter-frater nity baseball games. Those who are making plans for this are mem bers of the Tournament Commit tee under John Pellegrini. Last but not least of the com mittees is the Music Committee, headed by Conrad Kubiniec, which is giving a Choral Program on Wednesday, May 9, featuring the UB Glee Club. These committees are all work ing to make this year’s Moving Up Day the biggest and best ever. ON THE TOURNAMENT CIRCUIT UB Orators Place 2nd in U of R Del^ate The debate tournament at ^ e University of Rochester last week end marked the second straight contest in which the UB narrowly missed the first-place trophy, plac ing second each time over top area competition. The previous occa sion was at Lemoyne College In Syracuse. Representing the Uni versity at each of the tournaments *ere affirmative debaters Marvin Migdol and Phil Siegel, and nega tives Don Dietrich and Norm Wolf. Pacnity advisor Janet C. Potter ac companied the teams on the suc cessful trips. Wins were scored at the Le moyne Tournament over Utica College, Oswego State, College of Porestry and RIT. Don Dietrich was high ranking debater of the tournament, scoring phenomenally as best^ speaker In all of his de bates. Mlseracordla College edged out a first place In the meet over the UB orators. At the University of Rochester International Tournament th e Judges gave the nod to the UB men over RIT, Wells College and Ni agara University. The winning team In this tourney, RIT suffered TWO'LOSSES to the second-place Buffalo aggregation. High man on the Bulls’ talley sheet was fresh man debater Marvin Mlgdol. This weekend will see the team back in action at the Tartan Tour nament at Carnegie Tech in Pitts burgh. The affirmative will con sist of A1 Aswad and Phil Siegel. The negative will be Ray Green and Jim Ryan. MUD Dance To Feature Three Bands The annual Moving Up Day Dance will be held Saturday, May 12, from 9-12 at Norton Union. Tickets are $.75 per person. Re freshments will be available. ’Three bands will perform at this year’s gala affair. Eddie Kaye, direct from Bafo’s Night Club, will fill the need of the campus jazz en thusiasts, while Eli Konikoff, di rect from the Motor Boat Club, will captivate the Dix^and en thusiasts. Tom Inghram will pro vide relaxing dance music. This dance will terminate the MUD activities. Some of the people responsible for it are as follows; Tony Bartholomew — General Chairman Ron Mankowski, Stan Kowalski —Publicity Jack Welch—Tickets Nancy Cash—Decorations Bob Saglian—Band Larry Figura—Refreshments The first physical step towards construction of the UB Music and Visual Arts building commenced with the exploratory drilling by engineers around the old stone quarry on the northeast end of campus. Engineers are attempting to de termine the extent of the bed rock. David Thompson, of the office of planning and development, stated that the university is considering construction of a natural amphithe atre in the quarry area as part of the fine arts center. Work on the first building is es timated to begin.early this summer. The two story' modern building will cost over $1,000,000 and will be the first of three proposed units. Completion is set for September 1957. Preliminary pians call for a two- story building divided by a court yard. One side of the unit would be devoted to the music department and fine arts-class rooms. A band and a choir theatre would be lo cated in one wing along with prac tice rooms on the second floor. Act ual allocation of space is in a ten tative pianning stage. The department of music is pres- entiy located in several buildings both on and off campus. Mr. Thompson estimated that the new music facilities would greatly in crease enrollment in that depart ment. Visual arts would be represented by ground floor studios assigned to typography, print making, photog raphy, ceramics and sculpture. Shop space has heen provided for kilns and workrooms. Design, drafting, metal working and painting have been tentatively assigned to the second floor with numerous small work studios. The basement of the building would be primarily devoted to production studios and practice rooms. Dr. Puffer said the A r^ build ing will be used mainly for class room space until additional space can be made available on campus. Paul Schweikher, architect for the project, is presently working on the specifications and contrac tor’s working plans. Mr. Thompson said the univer sity would attempt to match the color of stone used in other cam pus buildings. Wide usage will be made of glass paneling to .form the two end walls of the building. In addition to the UB project three eastern colleges have recent ly announced proposed fine arts centers. Dartmouth and Wellesley stated that they intend to build combined social and art centers. Columbia university intends to con struct a $6,000,000 center for all arts which would be similar to the UB development. If construction commences this summer, UB may be one of the first schools in the East to break ground on the Fine Arts program. Both Dartmouth and Columbia are in the fund raising stage and have not announced any definite con struction plans. Sketches have been drawn for the remaining two units of the UB center. A proposed 30,000-volume Fine Arts library and theatre building are awaiting the neces sary funds. SKIN OF OUR TEETH' Blue Masquer's Production Of Thornton Wilder's Prize Play To Be Presented This Weekend The Blue Masquer production of Thornton Wilder’s distinguished play, “The Skin of Our Teeth will open tonight in Norton Audi torium for a three night run through Sunday. The presentation, culminating a month’s intensive re hearsals, begrins at 8:30 the first two nights, with a 7:30 curtain for Sunday evening. This is the play that won a Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award as “the best play of the season’’ in 1942. An allegory on the salva tion of mankind, it tells the de lightful story of a family who sur vives the Stone Age, the Ice A m ' ^ t h ^ \ * ' **’**’' In telling this epic tale, Thorn ton Wilder reverted to several amusing and clever devices. As in ■Our Town”, there is little reli ance on scenery, but what is used IS employed with imagination. The important thing is the play, its Ideas, its treatment, and its cast- mg. Director John Douty has as sembled a large cast that is short of spectacular. In the roles of Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus are George Markoff and Carolyn MacEachon. Sabina, the flamboyant maid, will be enacted by Diana Cushing, and the Antrobus children will be Alice Lincoln and Robert Thurston. The sardonic fortune-teller is Florence Dispeaza, who dons a pipe and Gypsy attirement for the p a r t William Pierce and Peter Her mes as, -respectively, Mr. Fitzpa trick and the Announcer head the supporting cast which includes Bill Mulligan as a Telegraph Boy, Clarice Golanski and Marie Vol- land as Muses, Gerry Marchette as Homer and Tremayne the actor. Jack Davies as Bailey, Joanne Bo- rowiak as a bathing beauty, and Kathy Donahue and Lois Wiley as Mammoths and Dinosaurs. Paul Selbst will be seen as Moses, and the cast Is rounded out By Jean Bork, Carl Golanski, Jim Robert son, Annette Frank. John Wil liams and Seth Bridge. Olive Dor man is Production Manager and Janice Carnes is the Assistant Di rector.
