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VISUAL DESIGN problems are'studied by Eng, he Winslow and Ruth
Huemdorf at therlnetl‘lule of Design, now mergedgiwith HT

 

The Institute of Design officially became the department of design

Lee Richards, junior civil engi- l
neer, was appointed combined head
of Junior Week—Open House by the
Illinois Tech Student Association’s
board of control, Wednesday night.
Marty Hoeft and George Aravosis,
both juniors, were named Junior
Week and Open House chairmen,
respectively, by the board.

Nine candidates were inter-

viewed for the three positions dur~
ing: the three and a half hour ITSA
session.

Richards, former vice-president
of the sophomore class, is a mem—
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Omega Nu, ASCE, and the Inter—
fraternity council. Hoeft, an indus»
trial engineer, is a member of the
election commission and the So-
ciety for the Advancement of Man—
agement. Aravosis, a mechanical
engineer, hasrbeen active in school
elections and class functions.

“The emphasis of Junior Week-
Open House activities will con-
tinue to be on building greater
appeal to the many high school
students, parents, and visitors who
are attracted‘to the spring affair,"
Richards stated.

“However, we shall also do our

  

best to encourage and promote
purely student activities for which
Junior Week was originated,” he.
added.

The first task facing the three
appointees is the recruiting of men
for publicity, business, art, and
other stafl’s. Volunteers for Junior
Week-Open House work can offer
their services by personally con~
tacting any of the three men or: .
through the Junior Week box in
the campus post office. The com-
mittee personnel of JW~0H may be
composed of students from anyw
year.

 

 

 

 
 

of Illinois Institute of Technology, December 9.“
Henry T. Heald, president of Illinois Tech, Serge Chermayeff,

president of the Institute of Design, and Crumble Taylor, secretary

of the Institute of Design corpora-
tion, signed the final papers at
Illinois Tech.

Absorption of the Institute of
. Design leads to a large expansion
in physical size and student cn~
rollment for Illinois Tech. The
business operations of the ID and
its three-story building; at Dean
born and Ontario streets, will be
assumed immediately by the par»
ent institution. Incorporation of
the 400 students of the ID into
Illinois Tech’s 3500 student body
awaits the academic decisions of
the parent school’s; accrediting
authorities and the necessary ac«
tion of the ITSA to'define the
. status of the ID students.

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body, and staff 01’ the institute of
Design is expected. For the pres-
ent the newly createddegign de-
partment will continue. the ID cur-
ricula in industrial design and
visual communications but the

architectural school will be moved
immediately to Technology Center.
The Institute of Desigu’s architec-
ture students will be permitted to
transfer to Illinois Tech’s depart-
ment of. architecture.

   

 

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FLASH . . . ! Lloyds of London
is giving 1.637 to 1 odds that the
“Christmas Spirit” is none other
than Cal Q. Luss, who gained fame
as Henry Holmes’ ghost writer,
and was recently selected “Cus-
todian of Model Fords.” Can this
be correct? The whole world will
know tonight when the “Spirit” is
unveiled at the Sherman Hotel dur—
ing half-time ceremonies of the
“Winter Whirl" dance.

Here are the first three clues
and the final hint to the identity
of the “Christmas Spirit”:
to his identity:

1. His name is in the new di-
rectory . . . you all know him
and read his publication.
Distinguished . . . our plum-
tom loo/es like the head of a
department . . . Break down,
Rel), and give this guy some
credit for a change!

Came to [IT at the age of 16
and’the teachers say if our
spirit doesn’t turn over a
new leaf, he’ll never gradu-
ate.

The Christmas Spirit is a
veteran . . . with Island duty,
too! His name? you ask . . .
well, here’s his card . . . A
bzmlmote before security,
and a product of the boob
store.

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“Approximately two engineers
will be competing for every avail-
able job in 1950.” This statement
summed up “The Job Outlook for
the 1950 Graduate” as seen by
Maynard M. Boring, vice~president
and manager of Technical person-
nel for General Electric Company.
flour hundred placementgconscious
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”NZ pm. to hear his remarks. Mr.

Boring was former chairman of
the Manpower committee of the
American Society for Engineering
Education.

He cited figures gathered by the
committee revealing the successful
placement of 82 percent of the

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1949 graduating classes and the
surprising 92.6 percent placement
of those who completed engineer~
ing educations in 1932 to 1934 dur~
ing the height of the depression.
He assured 1950 graduates of
eventual placement, but reminded
them it would require their persist-
ence and patience.

“They might“ not get the jobs
they wanted in the first place,” he
revealed, but then, if anyone
thinks he knows what he wants to
do, he is wrong.

“People change their views as
they age,” he continued. “‘ Hitch
your wagon to a star’, is bad ad-
vice; one should rather keep an
open mind.”

The next placement lecture will
feature Paul W. Boynton of

Socony Vacuum Corporation, who
will speak on Tuesday, January 10.

 

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Five ITSA offices will be open for candidates in

  

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the all-school elections on Wednesday and

Thursday, January 11th and 12th. The offices to be filled are four class presidencies and the

junior niember—atvlarge.

As in past years the system of preferential voting will be exercised. Under this system the voter

marks opposite the candid-ates for
a given ofilce numbers indicating
his first, second, third, etc., choice.
As the final tabulation is made, the
ballots marked for the lowest
ranking candidate are distributed.
among those marked as second
choice, and so on until a majority is
reached.

In order to clarify any doubt in
the mind of anyone who is unccrn
tain about the offices tobe elected
and by whom, the election commisu
sion has authorized the publication
of the following; directive.

If you are in your first semester,
you will be electing its class

ill/fills

oilieei forms/our“ e’" .
only. You will also 'vote for the
junior member~at~large. You are
eligible to vote, as well as run for
any of these oliices.
if you are in your second
semester. you will elect clans
officers for one year. That is,
for your third and fourth
semesters. You will also be
electing a junior member-at-
large and are eligible to vote
as well as run for these offices.
If you are in your third semes—
ter, your present class officers will
remain in tenure until the June
elections. However you are eligi—
ble to vote for, as well as run for,
the office of junior member—eta

  

If you are in your fourth semes-
ter, you will be electing your class
officers for your next year, that is,
for your fifth and sixth semesters.
You, moreover, will elect a junior
member-at-large. You may run
and/or vote for class officers,
but you may only elect a junior
member-at—large.

If you are in your fifth
semester, your officers will re-
main in tenure until the June

elections. You may vote for
the junior member-at—large,
however.

If you are in your sixth semes—
ter, you will be electing your class
officers for your seventh and eighth
semesters. You are also eligible to
vote for, but not run for, the junior
mnmber-at-larg‘e.

If you are a seventh or
eighth semester student or a
graduate student, you are not,
eligible for candidacy for any
office, but you may vote for the

ITSA’s junior member-at—
large.
For any further information

consult the Election Commission
Directive published Wednesday, or
contact one of the following: elec-
tion commission members:

Don Lynch, Milton Cox, Tom
Murphy, Ira Graham, Marty Hoeft,
Frank Lynn, Wesley Ooms, Jim
Lang, Fred Wright, Bert Cohn,
Dick Kaplan, Wally Kaiser. Joe

 

Bass, Dave Miller and Pat Stroner.

 
  
  
 
 
 
   
  
 
  
 
 
   

ELECTION COMMlSSlON MEMKSERS are

charged with regulating

important all-school political competitions in January.

 

 

By Bert (John

The Associated Press recently ran a story in newspapers all
over the country reporting on the experiments of Doctors Phil

and Harriet Shurrager. The
spinal, or paraplegic, cats had
periments carried on at Illinois
Tech.

Letters from all parts of the
country began arriving almost im-
mediately, some asking for more
information, others condemning
the work as inhumane.

”from now, it had been generally
accepted that walking was impos-
sible without direct nerve connec-
tions to the brain. Working in
laboratories on the fourth floor of
Chopin Hall, the two psychologists
isolated sections of the spinal cord
in cats and demonstrated that
learning could be accomplished in
the hind legs. And they showed
that use of the hind legs could be
relearned in both “acute” and
“chronic” cats, that is, cats whose
spine had been out recently and
cats who received spinal injuries
some time in the past. .

Unfortunately, it is not yet
known whether these methods
of conditioning can be suc—
cessfully applied to humans,
but the experiments have re-
newed hope in many para-
plegics. One boy from Wash-

ington Wrote Dr. Shurrager a

letter requesting more infor-

mation.

A woman in Alabama, unable to
walk because of a spinal injury,
offered to come to Chicago at her
own expense and become a guinea

 

Shurragers had reported’ that
been trained to walk during exm

pig in further experiments. There
were other letters from para-
plegics. wanting to know how they
could be helped after their own
doctors had given up hope. Also
included were letters from Anti-
Cruclty societies, condemning the
experiments on “poor, helpless”
cats, even though the operations
are painless.

The article reported on a four-
week—old kitten whose spinal cord
had been cut. Seven Weeks later
the cat was at times able to walk
as far as fifteen feet and change
direction without. falling over, if
it didn’t turn too rapidly.

Every day it exercised on
corrugated cardboard, and its
hind legs were massaged. In
another three weeks the kitten.
could stand alone, and soon it
repeatedly raised itself to a
standing position Without old.
By the ninth week, the kitten

was able to move with confidence
and fell only when attempting to
go too fast. Its training period
ended in the thirteenth week when
it could crouch, jump, leap, and
turn corners as easily as a normal

 

 

oat.

With the knowledge gained from
these experiments, the Shnrragers
hope that the methods of condi-
tioning a spinal cat can be applied

 

 

to human paraplegics.