Show I. I CONSTITUTION FORUM Ir SUGGESTIONS FOR THE PROM What a pleasure to hear we weale weme arc ale to have a new constitution The rIC present one ono is a useless corpse which has burdened us for a long time and is ripe for fora a deep burial La Constitution est mort Vive Vivela la Constitution The new one to des deserve rye our allegiance must make some provision provision pro pro- vision for student body supervision supervision supervision super super- vision of the thc Junior Prom The lC Prom in iii past years Ita hia lias been the subject of the grossest extravagance gance Hundreds I of good dollars have been heen s spent nt for idle fripperies JH jiries ries elaborate decorations needless multiplications of re re- re- re ts It seems iii almost lbs t that there has bas grown Ill ilp on the campus a II tradition which obliges leach each Junior Prom committee to outdo the previous years year's committee com corn i in ill l making huger the already enormous pil pile of bills No one objects to worthwhile I expense Most of the real pleasure pleas pleas- I tire ure of the evening arises from the hall hail and the music Very well procure ro the best of r these obtainable and spare no pains to see seo that the they are tile the best But why pile up tho the dollars for fot elaborate decorations 7 Wily Why mar marthe marthe marthe the effect of an au already beautiful hall hail with designs necessarily out of harmony with itJi the tilO architecture architecture architecture ture 7 Why charge a man tw twp dollars for a leather bound Abound dance look book when an engraved program is fully as beautiful and useful In what way C can n th these se nonessentials non enhance the delight t of the tile dance 7 Exaggerated you say As a n matter mattor o of fact a recent Prom dost cost 1200 I Twelve hundred dollars for a four hours' hours entertainment entertainment enter enter- I I- And the only two r really essential items came to but sixth one-sixth of that amount the amount the hall hail lOO and the tile music I. I I Absurd isn't it Y rl Tlc e door receipts re receipts receipts re re- fell short o of or ti the cost and the class on the following year ear g emptied its already impoverished impoverished impoverished im im- im- im coff rs to make good the deficit Who Vho could blame the Prom committee 7 They had a most worth worthy ambition ambition jud judged ged b by campus standards standards and and they achieved it most niost worthily But the system which made that crime possible the system which still what prevails slaves we weare weare weare are to tradition n that fiat that shamefully shamefully shamefully shame shame- fully irr irresponsible systems system should never be allowed to exist Under I Ithe the future constitution Let the flew sheet be dean n of that blun blunder er As a suggestive remedy why not retain the present t machinery a a committee elected by the junior class lass class but give the A. A S S. S U. U U. U b rd executive supervision over the tile actions of the committee com corn 7 Let all proposed expenditures expenditures ex ex- be approved by the board before they are mc contracted for and let an any deficit or any profit accrue ue to the A. A S. S U. U U. U account accounts Such Stick a plan I might make for a little more sanity at itt least |