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Pit ^s at Chili an ortunity merous functions • 11. The "auuntains which oppe m pas d in working through ' he cell, 'lectric cell, the Kunz and Tyents. is in the E. securing of a pated to public " I hope M I D A will see fit to back >n and other de- the men's d o r m i t o r y plan to the m c e r n i n g the cell limit." T h u s E d g a r B a r t o n '38, president )r Kunz. when in- of MIDA, commented on the issue * reporter, talked t h a t bids fair to constitute the m a i n plank in the organization's platform 1 and its use. jment will m a k e d u r i n g the coming m o n t h s . "The council h a s g r o w n g r e a t l y tttve, which will nize its value to since last year, and if it votes to back the d o r m i t o r y plan as it did then, its $ed to s t u d y light support should m e a n a g r e a t deal fish, plants, the more," he said. T h e formal s t a n d te light of s t a r s , t h a t MIDA will t a k e will be decided :• the s t u d y of by vote a t the council m e e t i n g Monday night. MIDA collected s t a t i s t i c s on housthe present pho,bsc »rie.s in ing conditions d u r i n g t h e first semesia, E u r o p e and ter and first half of the second seawaiting the pat- mester of last year. "The facts t h a t nz-Tyk iner im- we learned from the rooming house survey proved t h a t men's dormitories .Joseph Tyk- n- a r e a vital necessity," Barton delai i. profeasor in th

A. C. WILKAKD, president of the University, pictured as he addressed 1 1 Independents and their dads a t t h e MIDA-sponsored Dads' Day banquet. Heading from left to right, C. R. Frederick, a s s i s t a n t dean of men; Mr. Willard: F r a n c i s Taylor '39, c h a i r m a n of t h e b a n q u e t c o m m i t t e e ; and E d g a r Barton '38, president of MIDA.

Barton Looks To MIDA For Dormitory Support

t e r and from r e a l t o r s who feared the dormitories would jeopardize values of their rooming house holdings. A MIDA committee w e n t to Springfield, presented the evidence of housing conditions, even showing p h o t o g r a p h s of rooming-house interiors. Meanwhile other agencies were pushing the s t u d e n t center angle. Almost every organization on the campus hoped for passage of the bill because of either one or both of the benefits t h a t would result. But the bill w a s not passed. N o w a new rooming house survey is under way. Questionnaires are being sent out which a r e expected t provide answers to questions concerning furnishings, atmosphere for study, personality of landlady, bathroom facilities, amount o\ tent and

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