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Mum Kimll‘t. ............................ Joel: Perkins Advertising Mantis-um Circulation: t‘lrt-nluliuo Aimlsluulx Advertising Anslium .. VOL. 27—«No. 9 .itPllllL if}, 1341 Wit? Eilfiillilfitl. Giillll’i . . . In this modern day and age, when the future of the capitalistic institution oi learning is finding it- self more and more dependent upon the attitude of its alumni and the public towards it, no school in the position of Illinois Tech can afford to make the mistake of antagonizing its student body by unfair business practices. At Armour College, both the cafeteria and the bookstore, owned and operated by Illinois Institute, have long been the subjects of pointed attacks by students. The reason may lie in the fact that neither of the college cursed enter~ prises have been able to live up to the standard set when they were inappropriately placed in the non. profit class. Looking at the other side of the picture, it is entirely possible that there is something really amiss in the management of each of the establish- ments. Their unwillingness and inability to see eye to eye with the student might be still another ex- planauon of the frequent verbal attacks. The latter condition can be excellently illustrated by the incident that came up in the cafeteria just recently. It seemed that a group of students—won- sistent buyers of cigarettes in the lunchroomwput their heads together and decided to ask one of the higher school officials if, after paying the full price for a package of cigarettes, they were not entitled to receive matches with their cigarettes. A trifling matter, you may say, but the fact remains that the cafeteria, after denying matches with the sales off. ered to SELL the cigarette buyers bulky packages of matches for an additional fee. On talking to this school official the group was assured that the mat- ter would be looked into immediately. Consequently, students trying to to purchase cigarettes the next day found, to their dismay, that they were no longer for sale in the lunch-room. The cafeteria cashier explained the whole thing by saying, “Ne were told not to sell anymore cigarettes until further notice.” Inasmuch as We know the school wouldn’t delib- plaining students that they must appreciate what the school is doing for them in selling them cigar- ettes, even without matches, we must meekly con clude that the cafeteria was temporarily unable to buy the cigarettes. After a cigaretteless week, the administrative officers comprisingly brought out, the cigarettes and put them back on sale~BUT STILL \VITHOUT THE MATCHES. This shows what tremendous influence student opinion has over the business affairs of the school. The book-store, it seems, is an even larger cinder in the eye of the student than is the cafeteria. Its prices have caused more than one student to shout “Why didn’t the burglar alarm go off, Jesse.” Since its most important single item is probably the sale of books, we decided that a brief survey of book prices was in order. The prices of four different books in five different book-selling establishments were investigated with the following results: "HM; A rumor t :rcvnmnml Wilcox «E: Xiunlwr llmuksicre Bookstore Pollen Kroch‘n llrt‘utnno's 1 $3.46 $3.33 $3.25 $3.50 $3.50 2 . 3.80 3.70 3.55 3.90 3.90 3 3.85 3.80 3.70 4.00 4.00 4 ‘ 3.44) 3.32 3.30 3.50 3.50 Since Krocli’s and Brentano’s one general book— stores. not specializing in textbooks, we may well. eliminate them from our argument. It is noteworthy that of the three remaining bookstores, THE AR- MOUR BOOKSTORES PRICES ARE THE HIGH- ‘ EST, even though a good part of its overhead is borne by the student body. Although the Greenwood Book-Store, situated near Lewis, is a privately owned business house paying for its own rent, light. heat, etc. its prices are consistently lower than those of the. Armour book-store which thrives in the students own Student Union Building. In order to further cut expenses. the Armour book- store lakes. in great percentage of its orders for books directly from the profcseors, thus eliminating the necessity of keeping a large stock of books on hand. With all this. their prices are higher than Green woods and do not even rate a comparison with Wilcox and Follelt. We doubt, it” any such business tactics go to bring about goodwill between the student and the school. The alumnus, on looking back, will well remember the nicltclhabbing antics of his alum-mater, and he might find it quite tillficult to give his old school the assistance which it so sorely needs. mun. “i"iilb utstsucu Willlillild'l‘lill’il it seems silly to mention anything so trivial as a blood-red trail leading from an open doorway across an unused nelti. Edgar Wallace could offer an explanation. So also could the Ceramics Staff of lhe‘Rcscarch Foundation, who made the trail as a byproduct in the tlcyelopmcnt of a manufacturing process for red pencil leads. With recent additions the Ceramics Division has become one of the most completely equipped labor- atories of its kind in the Middle West. Its stall, headed by Dr. Henry El. Fisk and including E. S. Radcliffe, W. C. Cress, E. E. Preseler and Joseph Dusek, has in operation no less than eight unit lab~ oratories, together with special apparatus for attack- ing the diversified research problems of the ceramic industries. The most technical studies and delicate measure- ments are centered in the main Research Founda- tion building. Here is located the petrographic lab- oratory, with its polarizing microscope equipment, its goniometer for determining crystal angles and re- fractive indices, and its apparatus for specimen em- bedding, cutting, grindiug and polishing. Here also is the enamel laboratory, provided with an automa- tically controlled electric enamel furnace, frit fur- nace, spraying equipment and blast cleaning cabin- et. Adjoining these is the preparation laboratory for weighing, mixing, grinding, air-separating and classifyng. Certain laboratories are now located on the Lewis campus, including the plaster laboratory, casting room, kiln room, and two preparation rooms. One of the latter is devoted to clays, while the other is for preparation of glazes, bodies, and dental porcelains. The research activities of these labora- tories are soon to be housed in a special portion of the new Experimental Engineering building, thus consolidating the facilities of the Ceramics Division. Among the research projects in ceramics are studies of dolomite refractories, pencil lead manu- facture, laboratory ware, open‘hearth slags, enamels and porcelains. LAB Al” ARMQUR Armour’s civil engineering dc- partment has recently been on- largeol by the addition of a Stress analysis laboratory. "his laboratory is an expansion of one originally housed in the basement of Chopin Hall. It is used in a graduate course on “Experimental Stress Analysis” as well as an elective senior course on “Applied and .lilxperimental Stress Analysis”. The work in the laboratory is related to machine and structural design where it is necessary to know, among other factors, the mechanical properties of the mat- erials used and the stresses pro- ducecl. The material testing labora- tory under the direction of Profes— ser Huntly deals primarily with the determination of mechanical properties of engineering mater- ials. The new stress analysis lab oratory deals with this determina- tion of stresses in machine and structural members. Stresses and deflections in various types of beams and frames are determined experimentally and. compared with the theoretical values. The experimental method is sometimes the only use available since in some problems the mathematical theory is too complicated or it. is impractical. It is in these prob— lems that it is important to have available equipment such as photoelastic apparatus and mem— brane analogy apparatus. This equipment is available in the new stress analysis laboratory as well as equipment for determin- ing stresses by the strain rosette method and an Eney and Beggs defer-meter for obtaining influ- ence lines mechanically. Nell Steele Now Cs library Council it has been announced that Miss Nell Steele, Librarian of Ar— mour College of Engineering, has been selected to serve on the Mot~ ropolitan Library Council for the Chicago area. The Council, form“ ed by the Clucago Library Club, is composed of twenty-five mem- bers. Miss Steele was selected to be one at the five members repre- senting libraries of institutions of higher education in the area other than the Northwestern University and the University of Chicago Liv brarics. The Council was created for the purpose of doing special work in the field of library conference and cooperative action. Since its membership is by invitation only Miss Steele’s appointment repre- sents an outstanding honor for both herself and the school. 0f the Council’s twenty-five members, one member each. is chosen from the Chicago Public Library, Crearer Library, New— berry Library, Northwestern U .ia versity Library and the Univer— sity of Chicago Libraries. Five members are chosen to represent public libraries other than those mentioned above, five members to represent libraries in institu- tions of higher education other than the Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, three members to represent two representatives of the State Lib- rary advisory committee and three representatives to be chosen at large. The different groups of representatives were selected by the Executive Committee of the Chicago Library Club. The first meeting of the Council will be held this coming Thursday, April 17, at 3:30 pm. in the Directors Room of the Chicago Public Li» brary. ifiiilliirilblii MN“ The Armour College of Engim eering has met the’ requirements specified by the American Chem- ical society and the American Ir.» stitute ol‘ Chemical Engineers and as a consequence, all students sat— isfactorily completing courses in chemistry and chemical engineer» ing at Armour are eligible for membership in these societies. Experience Necessary Students receiving a. Bachelor’s degree from institutions whose eli- gibility has been approved by the Committee on the Professional Training of Chemists become qualified for full membership in the American Chemical Society following graduation and two years experience in the field of chemistry, chemical engineering or poshgraduate study. Students who graduate from unapproved in- stitutions can qualify only after a longer period. Qualifications for Membership The requirements for recogni- tion by the society are very com- plex, but, can be given briefly as follows: 1) The members of the stuff of the department are probed as to honorary society alliliatlons, de— grees possessed, works published and other general information which will prove helpful to the committee in judging the stall, member’s knowledge, experience and personality. Graduate assist— ants are likewise thoroughly set-u» tinizetl. 2) The curricula of the departn ment is closely examined as to the number of semester hours of chemistry students, are required to take, the qualitybf the students in the department and the pre- requisite subjects. 3) The examination also extends to an investigation of the equip ment possessed by the depart- ment. Its quality and quantity are the prime concern of the commit- tee. 4) Although the library is part of the equipment, it is examined separately for books, periodicals, magazines and other publications concerning the field of chemis~ try, which are deemed necessary by the investigating committee as essential for an eligible institu- tion. These requirements are time tested, for the American Chemical Society was established in April of 1876 and has grown into the largest organization of its kind in the World. Freshmun Duncan-- (C’ontz’nued from Page One) ing in the Marine Dining Room of the Eldgewater. Because his style is smart, his music sweet, and up to the minute, he is con- stantly engaged to play for pri- vate parties and fashionable coun- try club dances. His orchestra is well proportioned and with Jack. and Mary Jane Brown, his fea~ turcd singing stars to do the vo- cals, we feel sure he will make a bit with the Tech dancers. He promises to play an tune on the “Hit Parade,” any request, old or new, made by by dancing couples. The date is April 18th from 9:30 ’til 1:00. The bids, printed in pink and white, are in the hands of the Fresh Social Commitee as well as the other social chairmen and representatives from the up- per classes. The bids are a dob lair-fifty a couple which provides three and one half hours of em tertainment and pleasure. In the event of a sell-out, extra bids will be on sale at the door on the eve- ning of the dance.