"Chapel services will be discontinued on Fridays."

This notice isn’t terribly exciting to me and I can’t tell if it’s just a boring announcement or if it will become more interesting as I get deeper into my research.

“ Certain changes in Chapel procedure will become effective in the 1964 Spring semester. Chapel services will be discontinued on Fridays. Freshmen and Sophomores will attend Chapel services on Monday and Wednesday at the usual time. Juniors and Seniors will attend on Tuesday and Thursday. Four cuts and four make-ups will be allowed per semester, an addition of one each.
This action has come about as a result of the MSGA Report submitted to the Faculty, Administration, and Board of Directors of the College last spring. The report asked that some change be made in the procedures used in the compulsory Chapel program.
These changes are the first results of the Report and although they may be viewed with some hesitation by a few members of the student body, particularly juniors and seniors, they are reportedly only the first steps in renovating the Chapel system.
The faculty committee on Chapel is still meeting so further changes may be forthcoming.”
(Chapel Changes Announced, page 1, Ursinus Weekly, Vol. LXIII, No. 11, January 13, 1964)

What we have here is just an author-less announcement that was published in the Weekly. If I had to guess I would say that not many people got the news from the announcement itself but rather through word of mouth on campus. In fact, it sort of reminds me of one of those all-campus e-mails that we usually just delete without even skimming. So what’s the point of putting this up if it’s so terribly mundane? Well, I could say that it marks the beginning of the end of the chapel program, or I could try to speculate about the smallest of details…but really I’m just interested in holding onto this as a sort of place marker so that I can try to dig up more on the Men’s Student Government Association Report and their involvement in the decision to alter one of Ursinus’ oldest traditions.