ESTABLISHED 1904 VOL. 26, No. 44 Local Council Seeks I. F.C. Merger Under Mutual Rushing Plan Petition Submitted to National Chapters For Approval OFFICE APPORTIONMENT DECLARED NO PROBLEM Indications Predict Passage or Measure—Will Necessitate Alteration in Laws Absolution of Intiamuial Council by Interfiatcimty Council under the name rushing code was predicted last night when ten local fraternities pe titioned for membership in Inleifra ternity Council Definite admission of the local body was icferred to indi'idual chapters 01 Intcifiatermty Council foi appiov al It was indicated that the petition will be passed by Council at its next meeting t Tho petition as presented to Council contained no reservations whatever Ir agreeing to obscitc the same lush ing code as that adopted by the na tional fraternities, the principal dis crepncy between the local and nation al bodies was removed. Offer No Objection With the acceptance of the pio posnl by Omega Epsilon, all of the ten local fraternities had latiticd the proposal Wednesday night As sent to Intel fraternity Council, the peti tion contained the signatuie of presi dents of all the local fiateimties and ol the cxecutixe board of Intiamuial Council. That the apportionment of officers, m the combined organization might causo in the group difficult to oscrcomo was denied by an official of tho local organization. He expiessed the opinion that repiesentatixcx of local fraternities would not seek of fices in the combined oigamzations at the piesent time A two-thuds vote by the present Intcriratcinity Council members will be ncccsmry to insuie acceptance ol the petition. Constitutional changes will be necessaiy bcfoie the local oi ganization can be meiged with the national The piesent laws leqimc a fraternity to have chapters in fi\e col leges oi universities bcfoie it can be accepted as a member. GIRLS’ GLEB CLUB WILL SING SUNDAY l*rof. Pislibnrn To Direct 30 Co-ed Voices at Fourth Concert In Schwab Auditorium Fifty membeis of the Gills’ Glee club, under tho direction of Hummel: Fishbuin of the music dcpaitment, will piesent u musical program it. Schwab auditorium at J 30 o’clock Sunday afternoon as the fouith num boi in a senes of mid-winter conceits Opening the conceit with a group of two numbers, the co-ed \ocalists will be followed by Miss Edna R Rod erick Ml, soprano soloist Miss Rod erick will sing a group of three num bers. Tho Gills’ Vaisity quaitet, compos ed of Miss Grace E Dietuch Ml, Miss Sarah L. Wentzel Ml, Miss Edna R Roderick Ml and Miss Louise 0. Wiest. M 2, then offei a numbci ol selections. “From the Given Heart of the Wat ers,” by Tayloi, will be included in the third gioup offered by the entire Glee cluh. Henry S. Brunner Ml. a graduate student, will play several violin selec tions after which the girls’ quartet will piesent two additional selections As the concluding numbers, the Glee club will sing "The Snow Legend," by Clokeit, and Bcigh’s “Medicine Man " ftettn ifafr A 1 Plebes To Don Blue, White Dinks in Fall With the entrance of the next freshman class in September, the traditional green dink will be re placed by a blue top piece with a white button, symbolic of Penn State, as the result of the action taken by Student Council at a meet ing Tuesday night The example set by Dattmouth College and Cornell unneisity, wneio plebes wear dinks in college colors, was cited as a reason for the change Apnl 2G was selected for the fiist Freshman Frolic It i<* possible that town nreichants will offer prizes foi the annual affair. CLIQUES ORDERED TO REVEAL ROLLS Council Approves Proposals of Committee—Regulates Parly Tactics Fraternity cliques will make pub lic membership and nominees as a re sult of Student Council’s action in approving the lecommendations of the election committee Tuesday night Public announcement of clique members and platforms was optional under last year’s code The new sys tem lequires that each gioup submit to the elections committee a list of its fraternities and candidates by mid night or April 27 The Collegian will publish these lists Election week will start May 5, concsponuing to the date of the elec tion period last year. Three days. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday have been assigned smnkcrs- To Use A A. Cards The student body w ill vote on Tues day afternoon, Wednesday and Thurs day morning of electron week A A cards will be used for checking pur poses instead of the student directory as in foi mil ycais, the ticket to be punched when the ballot is issued I [Two Student Council scmois will have! | charge of each ballot box I With committee appioval necessaiy' I foi piopaganda before publication, lthe rew system specifies that no 1 ■ campaign literature is to be distn -1 butod befoie the start of election! week, May 5 All clique procedure.: in addition, must be sanctioned by the committee befoie execution. This is the first year Student Government has placed such restriction on politic al factions Council passed the recommenda- 1 lions without a dissenting vote Cluude S Bryan MO was named to complete the committee The ques tion of a mass meeting is still undecid ed DR PIKE MILL BEGIN TVLKS ON PSYCHOLOGY WEDNESDA\ Dr Horace V Pike, clinical psychi atrist at the Damillc State hospital, will speak on “The Unconscious Mind, and a Consideration of Some of the Fallacies of the Fieudtan Method of Investigation” in loom 28 Physics building at 7 o’clock Wednesday night The lectuie will bo the fust of a sei-j ics of six on "Abnoi mal Psychology " : The l«3t lecture will include a clinical demonstration at the Danville State hosprtul. No definite' time has been set for the other lectuies ns yet. SPRING FEVER NO BARRIER TO SEDATE SCHOLAR DESPITE THOUGHTS OF LOVE, PROFESSORS SAY Todav is the beginning of the to agice with the woathei man as to fewer’ mm\ opinion" “spring fever” season. ( tho date for “spring fewer" and do- On the other hand, Dr Chatles L' Contrniy to the wntings of poets j dared, “This disease has never been | Peters, duectot or educational le that a "voung man’s fancy lightly ] known to make its appealnnce at Penn ‘ search, sticks l>\ the old theor\ that , turns to thoughts of love” at this sea-'state until about May 1.” “spiing fc\ei” does hare a had effect ison, it is the belief of seveinl Penn | The fact that the student bodv is on students lie bolieres that the I SluU orolessois that students apply! vinewd and keens right on woiking tendency to go "jowiding ’ was hke.ly STATE COLLEGE, MARCH 21, 1930 COMMITTEE ASKS VIEWS OFFACULTY IN CUTTING PROBE Submit Questions on Proposed Change—Professors Show Increased Interest SIGMA TAU BACKS PLAN FOR SENIOR PRIVILEGES In> estimating Body Will Report Query Result to A.A.U.P. Early Next Month A faxoiable icaction to the student demand for widei cutting priuleges was evidenced last night by the de cision of the investigating committee, headed by Prof S McClelland Butt, to begin a canvass of faculty opinion on the piojcct An unofficial tabulation of tho fac ulty group shows that membeis are fuvoiably Impressed by student inter est manifest in the plan They ic vcalcd that the'need for a uniform: class attendance policy was forcibly brought out at the public hearing Monday night Sigma Tau, honoraiy engineering .fiatermty, also added weight to the side of the proposed cutting plan by unammouslv passing a icsolution m favor of widei cutting privileges foi seniors at its meeting Tuesday night To Question Faculty A senes of questions i elating to the proposed change will be sunrit ted to members of the College facul ty this week to determine their at titude towards the proposition The questionnaire also will he sent to the deans of the various schools An analysis of the replies will be included in the committee leport which will be Submitted to the local chapter of the Ameitcan Association of Unneisity Professois early thi spung. Professor Butt, speaking for the committee, said that the group was very much pleased bv student intei .est shown., m. the problem— backed by Dr. J Ben Hill, another member, who belies es this interest will bear consideiable weight in tin* investigators’ decision Faculty interest in the nriUtei is steadily increasing according to Prof Thomas W Mason, and is only sur passed bv student mteiost in the op inion of Dr Arthur P lioness Piof. Robert E Minshall peisonully ad\unc |ed the belief that the committee war ■ entirely favorable to the matter DR. RIES RESIGNS CHEMISTRY POST Mill Manage Experimental l’lnnt for DuPont Ammonia Company—To Lease Here in June Di Emil D Rics, head of the chem ical engineering department, has re signed his position to accept the man agership ot an experimental plant of the DuPont Ammonia company at Charleston, W. Va. Dr Ries’ resignation will become eficctrve at the end of this semester Ho will take up his post with the West Virginia company about August 1 In J Ins new position he will supemso all ■ research projects conducted at th'* j plant. In 192 G the engineering head came to Penn State as associate professor in the School of Chemistiy and Phvs ics from the faculty of the Massachu setts Institute of Technology Pie luously he had been in chaigc of | motoi fuel research for the Stnndanl Oil company Make First Bid for Intercollegiate Crowns in Palestra Today HETZEL WILL GREET Locust Lane and ARTISTS TOMORROW Campus Cliques Unite Is Report Public Instructors Hold Session For Culture Development In Engineering D With n welcoming address by Piesi dcnt Ralph D Hctzel, the annual Mountain Aits Conference, spoiisoi ed by tlie Pennsylvania State Depait-' nient of Public Instruction foi mstiuc tcis of ait and allied subjects, will' open in 200 Enginccimg D at *J o’clock 1 tomoirovv mottling. Dean Will G. Chambers, head of the School ot Education.** Valentine Kil by, art* director "ofihe ■Pennsylvania ; State Depmtment of Public Instruc tion, and L. H Dennis, ueputy su perintendent of the same department will also speak at the genual session of the convention Dean Chambers will nddicss the conclave on “Aits and Genual Cul tuie,” while Mi knliv will sneak on 1 “Alt and the Machine” “What Ideas; in Vocational Education Jlus Gieutj Britain to Olfei Pennsylvania will; be Mi Dennis’ topic Appioxnnateh 125 delegates me expected to attend the conference in cluding members of high schools and: ,noimal colleges m the central dis- I tnct of the State Teachers ot in dustrial nit, ngncultuial, home cco 'lioinie*, and commercial studies will I attend the convention j Following the genual ussembh ' delegates will gather m special ses sions to discuss pioblems m then di lect held of woil Fit VI'F.KMTY DELATORS EM) SECOND BOUND TOMORROW Closing the v ctond tound of the m teifiateimty debating tourney, Sigma Tau Pin debatus will face the Kappa Delta Rho team at 7 o’clock totnoi iiovv night in the Kappa Ddta Rho 1 house | Eleven fiateinities were eliminate 1 jin the second lound of the touinev and j the six lenmining teams will meet in :thou thud dehate Mondnv and Tucs | day nights Beta Kappa oiators will | oppose the Delta Upsilon team, Bet i iSigma Rho will engage Phi Kappa IN* 1 while the Alpha Chi Rho foienstc ’team will meet the Phi Ep*i’or Pi dc jbateis (Eulkgfettt j 1 "■ ' i ■ \ & ■ r ■ (i... , ..... Most amazing to Nittanj line ad- Ji Stage tranccsca da Ritnim in is the shift of Alex Chaikow- Y thtcHoned split m the ltilil ' Auditorium at 8 O’clock Aj to the hestyttoieht class and A tlueateiuii spin ■" “ placing of Captain Malty McAndreva Caniptis tliquc "as at cited .then tht . Tomorrow Night , the 175-pouml portion "ith Rill 1.-adeis of the too tival tuitions (c, Suable holding .loan the nmldle tidcd to leuounte aspuations fpi the - . , ..eight ditmon Marty and Bill hate Cumpu? nomination and attempt a Penn State Placers will mund out both been fighting in cla<*es above* meiger with the Locust Lane clique, ten jeais of diamatics during which t |, en we ight& this season With this political cudes maintained last night, one hundred full-length plajs wire handicap temoted they are expected 1 Resulting ftom a eonfeicnce he ! moduced, with the presentation of •„ ma he poweiful bids for mtereol 'taecn the leadcrt of the Campus and '“Fiancosca da Rnmni” in Schwab gloiy. ' Locust Lare giotips Wednesday night, I auditouum at 8 o’clock toiuoiiow Change Mind a special meeting of the lattei ot-. night ~ . , ~ , , , "anisatun is suid to hove lon hold' In oontuwt lo tlio pioduaions of \lc\ Chaikoti.hv "ill probably lie hot night It tvos i-pcAod that linjl ton tools ago, “Finnccsiu dn R I ini ’ the hglitc.l hcats«oi*ht c\or to on -11 111 . ~ . . . I ~.,n i iu elubotatolv staeed tomotiow gage m collegiate competition, but the I ™ T 1 rr d S set and N.l?«n> ificnto. la phming faith in h» 1 R,.airy bclttccn Slot I, lhov, Thl . t „ st j,o ab .l«> to erode and outpoint h,s ;and J Coopot Flench foi the somoi , ma m costumes ot the hcatier oppoent. Bj continuing his I pi esidcntial cniididacv of the Lump* j» t , na|tfvnntv j, uuo d brilliant petformam.es this seasqn it i u gioup was rallied as the cause foi , * lo f u , ther ce l e biato the occasion is hkelv that Chai’s foes will be un ithe impending bieak W hethei the *j lls pi a%eis u ,u hold then anmu*i- able to cope with his superior foot 'mer will seek the nomination in tlu* sin puppet at the Gentle Hills Cuun-.wmk ami lightning-like left jab Loci st Lane combination if then U v t j u b mimediateh following the Although Houck may not adopt the 'gioup is admitted is not ONpie-'sed in | show This affau will be in the folia changes, chances aie the revamped .political patlejs Jof a dinnei in honoi ot Piol Aithu. hneup will be used, loi Leo has been 1 „ c „ , , |c Cloetmgh. direetoi of the show, cudgeling his brains since the Sjra- Frcnih Rumor Suuilthid and also director of the opening pin ruse meet in an off nit to insure uc ] That the confluence* Mednesdav 1 1(} eJM nRO> tciy in the tournament foi which In* ] mg'*t destiojed the foundation foi j cf* Young ’JO, pi evident of has been pointing since the beginning {lumois that Ficnch’s suppoi tei s , plujci', w ill heiuf the gioup of vet- of the season He lepoited last {would join the clique victonoiis l (1 in at t OM cust in the show He will night that deimite decision would he . m the jumoi elections last jeni, is plav the leading pait of “Luneiotto,” made aftei his chaiges weigh in at •» duimed bv campus politicians Pie- a cu]ipled. hunch-backed chniactoi. o’clock tins aftcinoon Uiou lepoits had named Kiench as opposite Miss Phdlis Bcidlei Ml, who Close followers ot the ling opine 1 the clique nominee i.< to po.ti.iv Uiu title ehu-attei ot that the shift enhoneos Prmi Sutr s ! Who will bo the ilmiiu tamiidnto foi ,“Fiumesui ” *!i moos lot a rouith intoitollcciat.- ‘lust .cat's .utoisis a question "hnhl Aithm R Ciinmiigli.im '3l. will title Spoils smlcs picdict a throe nst jcai s Mtiois i a que-u n me , . f „ p ~. , ( lornercd race between Navy, Western j Ini* been icpeatcdlv discussed m pu‘-,*”“ ct tl ‘Manland, and Penn State. Navv dr | itu.ul pallets since the .stait of '- ll ', jha MlsS Flolemt .Snedd-m Mi. as c ited the Nittan> pugilists in the dual 'quo .ictiuties It is geneialli be- i ll(]v . in . ttJUtlll(: to • Fiamesca,” will ,»«■*« he.e 1-toM, while the Lions wete beced that the pi’itc has not senoush v j iau , t j K , ulunr loles with Miss Mctoiious o\ei the Lieon Tcirors couaidcied ..nv one man up to tin- 1 " t»,\ the same scou* timo j Thl . coult jaWn, uho odors tho Othtt stinoi; tennis that hate on- Conflicting tepoils us to the minibct nl, e f of the tintfcdc, will be of houses in each of the thice enfant-, j,| aN L ,,j \ tY Xetl (! Campbell Ml Saul nations cie cuncnt lo Shei M 2, as the fathei of •‘Finn _ o- Itescn,” anil Ralph D. HeUel jr Ml ‘COLLEGIAN’ JUNIOR complete the niajoi ink l -* OOP A TPtT'O C?tPT T?i r 'irrii7iT\ Cmninoinoratic c pioi'iani' mtanked OHiJ-iiliV-/A tzilJ {jk bou\enus of the lmndiedth plac 1 ill be piesentod to the spectator In _l "' ,lee|>in(r with the dtjrnitc i>t the oc- I’uhlicatum Choose*, l> for Business ( c jmoii, the audience h icquostod to Hoard—. Names Uto Mens, I<m diess lm mallj | —o Women’s editorial Croups Nmc icpoitois und m\ '•oiiiioiiioic candidate* N\eie . . ~ “ “ , , nameil ta tin.- junini o.litm ini i.nil l.us - j D- «l'“ ' r Simmon,, head Pt .., .tnir-ol the. Ci.li.li.HMit a tht ilopaitntont, itill lot u.tl olootmn 1Un1n0,,!..-. m K ht Th.ip <■" “A> lh “‘ St hnttalei a- tht snphomnic aunan note also oleoto.l, - ul > <’ f tl*' Oonaan lootim to tho jam,,. ed,tonal -lair hane , m I. Inho, nl Ait, buil.lmtr at , , , , ~ t- ~ ilO r clock Tue**d.«\ afternoon M- n h " Cal«n. Iluito k J ■ a-" • p,of. Goatee I Win 11, of tile ilcp.il t- M.lliam II .lino, Uany K MiCo'.l dol „ c . r „„ Ihltlll II Hllov, Ilioml.no A .Sol ill . . lh „ r A thl , m . Nt ,„ lk Saul 0 Shoi, W Slav ail r.miison.l 1 st . nL .„ j), Snanion, mil spoil ami Ednalil W White ato tho non | nKslll , „„ A|lll | s , j,,ta„tnß "Wot lei tiwtciale ctltloi, ! ami Tolot ” Tho now - junim stnlf i> composed of Lumood V Kil>, Collin 1*77 « r\ • n Fink, Jcv-e C McKeon. WVn.M! L 1 W/lO S UCinClTlg Holim. Sanntol Sinclnu. nml Ethwud . , - ■ ' A' • r \ to* SSiwnS jrfiV* s*rt ■./jt.-igtyV :~r'. » ' ‘shifted to the bantamweight class' DT A VPRQ action iui taken because Pavoy 1 Lii 1 LllU I llLiiJLilvl • enn make weight with much les* du -1 UTTMnDEIYHI HD AM A fltult y than Jul,c * who wou,d be fo,t -! HUiIUIVEUin UuMIA ed to weaken himself in losing suf- I - * licient poundage DU SIMMONS WILL SI’EVK ON ■SCHNirZLKR* TUESDU “FOR THE GLORY OF OLD STATE” PRICE 5 CENTS HOUCK SHIFTS RING LINE-UP AS LIONS MAKE TITLE STAND 3 Stoop Will Box Bantamweight Tonight Epstein Takes 125-Pound Berth MtANDUEWS TO FIGHT IN LIGHT-HEAVY CLASS Alex Chaikowsky Mores Up to Unlimited Post—Coach May Enter Former Team Coach Leo Houck shot a hard right to the ;aws of boxing dopc sters yesterday when he revealed his decision to send a radically re vamped Lion team to defend its crown in the Eastern Intercollegi ate ring tournament at the Pales tra, Philadelphia, tonight and to morrow. Houck's strategic move in\o!ves the re\eis>al of bciths held duiing this season by Julio Epstein and Da\cy Sloop Julie will move up to the l'Jo-pouiui post while* l>H\t*v will K* teiod the competition arc New Yoik mmoisttj. Gcoi getow n. Si racm-e, PtniHj Ivamu, mid Massachusetts In- (Continued on third page) W. S. G. A. SELECTS BANQUET SPEAKER Miss Gertrude Adams Mill Vddres* Sectional Co-ed Conference Delegates \pril 12 Miss Geitiude \dams, foimerly a n.enilH.*i ot the College English di - p.irtment, will speak on ‘‘Aftoi Col lege tthat."’ at the fnuii.il hamput to be hchl at Ontie Hills Countiv 'clul. \piil 12, dosing the \\. S G A sectional confluence Plans an* undei wa\ fm a f.impius Usui i» he staged Thursday night, \pnl in, in Schwab nmhtoiiiim Tim Penn State I’lnycis’ contest pla.i, c lections b> the men’s and women's Varsitv quartet anil Thespian skit, are among the possible presentations ot the revue.
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