On July 1, 1943, Ohio Wesleyan will have another Naval school in addition to the Naval Flight Preparatory School aboard the U.S.S. Stuyvesant, formerly Stuyvesant Hall. It will he a Navy College Training Program V-12 school.
This school will have 400 pre-medical and pre-chaplain students assigned to it. To house these men, nine of the thirteen fra-ternity houses have been taken over. Two of the remaining four will be used by the university for seventeen year-olds, and 4F and 2A, students. One will be used as a recreation hall, and the other has been sold.
The houses taken over by the navy are: Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Alpha Sigma Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Kap-pa Psi, Phi Gamma Delta, Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Chi, and Chi Phi. The Kappa Sigma house will be used as the recreational center, while the Alpha Tau Omega house will be used for men students. The Tau Kappa Epsilon house has been sold.
This leaves just the Beta Theta Pi house. There is some indecision as to just what this house will be used for. It is possible that the Navy has’ under estimated the capacities of the houses it has chosen, and will need another house. It is rumored that that is the reason for no definite plans being made for the Beta house as yet. However, University Treasurer D. J. Horn-berger has assured this writer that the house will he used. If not by the Navy, then it will be used for the civilian men after the Alpha Tau Omega house is filled, or he taken over in September for a girl’s cooperative. Both of the girls cooperative buildings being used by the Hight Prepara
tory School.
No matter whether the. houses are taken over for Naval use or for civilian use, they will be rented to the university, which has the contract for housing, feeding, and edu-cating the V-12 men. Rent is based on a percentage of valuation, and the houses are guaranteed to be returned in as good condition as when they were leased.
Robert Watson, ’11, alumni financial advisor and treasurer of the alumni associa-tion, was given power by the Board of Trustees to enter into any contract for the use of the chapter house and property which will be advantageous to Theta Chapter.
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