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Show UNIVERSITY 5 NEWS SUMMER SESSION Summer school at the University Univer-sity of Utah began last Monday a with 556 enrollees, who took to classwork enthusiastically early Tuesday morning. Registration included 35 students stud-ents from other states, including Arizona, California, Idaho, Illinois, Illi-nois, Montana, Nevada, Texas, and Wyoming. Idaho had the largest enrollment, with a total of fourteen. Made up this year as usual almost al-most entirely of teachers and educators ed-ucators returning to schooi to meet changing teachers requir-ments, requir-ments, and to earn higher degrees Students outline rigorous courses cours-es of study for summer, and the new air-conditioning system of the library has begun to work overtime to provide a cool and comfortable study atmosphere. Social activities are by no means neglected during the summer sum-mer time, because the "Activities Committee" arranges parties, dances, and trips to entertain students in leisure hours as well as to help them find new friends among school associates. J Special events of the summer include in-clude a party and dance held on Wednesday afternoon in honor of students and faculty, and a play "Brother Rat," presented by students stud-ents of the Agricultural College on Friday. Big events of the season will be a school-conducted and sponsored spon-sored trip through Yellowstone and Teton National Parks, and another through Grand Canyon, Zions, Bryce and Cedar Breaks which will be made on the Fourth of July holiday. The tours are been a highly successful part of the recresational program of past years. At various times throughout through-out the session, students may make flights over the Salt Lake Valley and the Wasatch Mountains Moun-tains in chartered Western Air Express "Mainliners1 planes. WOMEN IN DEFENSE A SMALL BEGINNING A recent request by a national women's magazine for in formation forma-tion on girls at the University of Utah who are occupied in any type of defense work stimulated an unofficial investigation by the 'U'' news bureau into the part campus women are playing in the national crisis. The fact that there is no o:gan-ized o:gan-ized defense work for girls led authorities to suppose that there were none of the weaker sex on the Utah campus so occupied. The click of knitting needles was the first sound to attract the news bureau reporter. Following the clatter (and chatter) he found approximately 55 coeds, members of the Red Cross Sewing Center, University Chapter, busily knitting knit-ting children's sweaters of bright wool. Within two months the girls have provided tile Red Cross with 75 of these garments. A smartly-uniformed University Univer-sity senior girl with the Red Cross insignia on her arm step- Oped out of an official-looking automobile aut-omobile to transact the business of her organization on the campus. She is a full-fledged member of the Motorized Unit Corps. Two girls were seen to climb high stools and lean over drafting draft-ing boards with an air of quiet self-assurance in one of the government's gov-ernment's defense engineering classes. At the end of their training train-ing period this summer, they will be qualified to step into drafting positions in airplane factories and other defense industries. Many girls from the speech and music departments are t.iking their own small but important part in entertaining enlisted men (Continued on page 41 UNIVERSITY of UTAH NEWS (Continued from page 1) through the U. S. O. and the two independently maintained reception recep-tion centers in Salt Lake City. The news agency was able to send a story and pictures to the magazine on the first beginnings of activity in national defense of University of Utah girls. B |