Vol. 29, No. 26 COLLEGE COUNCIL SUGGESTS CUT IN FRESHMAN WEEK Administrative Recommendation . Would Shorten Period By Single- Day ACCEPTANCE PROBABLE, DEAN WARNOCK STATES Official Committee Will Meet To Deliberate Changes During January With the 'Freshman Week question still-undecided, the College Council of Administration has stepped' forward with a definite recommendation to the Freshman Week committee to; shorten the orientation period by one day for next year. The recommendation, which was passed at the Council’s meeting on Monday, came up after the committee studying the period for first year stu dents had challenged the value of Freshman Week itself, with a view to dropping it as a Penn State institu tion. No details of the Freshman Week program were discussed- by the Council. To Meet Next Month Although the recommendation has not yet been discussed at a meeting of the Freshman Week committee, it is probable that it will be accepted, Dean of Men Arthur R. Warnock, chairman of the committee said. The 'deans of the various Schools of the • College are members of both the Council of Administration 1 and the . Freshman Week committee. # A formal meeting of the committee will be held some time in January at .which a revision of the orientation program in accordance with the Coun cil’s proposal will be attempted. Dean •Warnock believes that it'will not be difficult'to arrange a .program which ■will'be" shbrter^by.'one'day.""' r ' ' .To Request Cooperation ■Since no suitable agreement caq be worked out with fraternities, mem bers of the committee feel that fra ternity rushing should continue as in former years,. the Dean said.. How ever, fraternities will be requested to cooperate to- the fullest extent pos sible in promoting the purposes for which. Freshman Week exists. ■Earlier in the year, the Freshman 1 Week committee had asked Interfra ternity council to postpone rushing for several days in order to avoid any conflict with the', activities of first year students in their first week at the. College. However, the. proposal was not accepted by the fraternity representatives. In considering-the value of Fresh man Week as an aid to the first year* student, the' committee was cognizant of the extra burden on the student’s budget in requiring him to register a week before College opens. The value' of each particular phase of the Week has. also been discussed and will be voted on when the committee plans next year’s program. * PHI ETA SIGMA SOCIETY ELECTS 5 SOPHOMORES Smith, College Comptroller, Speaks At Meeting Tuesday Night Five sophomores who averaged 2.5 . or over during their entire freshman year were initiated into Phi Eta Sigma, freshman honorary scholastic fraternity, at a meeting Tuesday night. # * John J. Belinich, Willard A.< Derr, Charles F. Frank, Fred S. Hanson, and James W. Shearer were the in itiates. Raymond H. Smith, College comptroller, addressed the fraternity on the relation of scholarship to econ omic life. All freshmen who secure a 2.5 aver age or over at the end of their first semester in College are .eligible to membership in the fraternity. Those who fail to secure the required aver age during the first semester, but.at *tain it at the end of the freshman year are also eligible to become mem bers. STATE GROWERS MEET HERE DURING HORTICULTURE WEEK Reproduction is .the subject being discussed by commercial fruit, flower, and vegetables growers'of the State here this week during the ninth an hual-Horticulture Week of the College. The discussion this year is the third ■ in a series of five which began in 1930 with water relations, followed by nu trition in 1931. Next . year, plant diseases ?nd insect pests will be the topic considered. To Attend JOHN A. WOOD ’33 leadersWattend STUDENT CONGRESS Bressler, Wood Will Represent Penn State at Conclave • In New Orleans John A. Wood, president of the sen ior class and men’s student govern ment, and Angelin Bressler, head of the Women’s Student Government as sociation, will attend the eighth an nual congress of the National Student Federation of America at New Or leans, La., from December 28 to 31. Three hundred delegates from all parts of the United States are ex pected to attend the opening session of the congress on December 28. Tu lane Universityand Newcomb College, of New Orleans, will act as hosts to the visitors.'. • Addresses Scheduled- ./Addresses by men.and women prom-, jnehtiihleducatiohiand.. politics be: included on' the 'foiir-day program’,' as well as discussion groups on campus and student government problems. Prominent' speakers will be Rabbi Louis Binstock, who has investigated student affairs in foreign countries;, Dorothy , Dix-, newspaper \ columnist; and William J. Thompson, who has been recommended as an appointee for.,Secretary of War. . Morning sessions of the congress will be occupied by round table discus sions, the first of which will deal with the honor system,and student govern ment. Orville E. Mohlor, star quarterback at the University of Southern Cali fornia, will lead a discussion group on college athletics, including a dis cussion of commercialism, coaching systems, intranjulral and interfrater nity athletics, and the l-elation of col lege athletics to the general public. GRANT ANNOUNCES VARSITY QUARTETS Schlaack ’3l, Stine ’33, Boyer ’33, I’atlerson '3l Form' Men’s Music Organization Final selection of the men’s and women’s varsity quartets for this year has been made, according to an announcement by Director Richard W. Grant, of the department of music. Members of the men’s quartet are. Richard C. Schlaack ’34, first tenor; Curtis J. Patterson ’34, second tenor; William H. Stine ’33, ‘ baritone; and Robert G. Boyer ’33, boss. ■The women's organization consists of Margaret S. Giffin ’35, first so prano; Grace L. Moyer ’34, second so prano; Frances Christine ’34, first alto; Anna C. Strong ’35, second alto. Each organization will probably ap pear with the men’s and women’s glee clubs When they give their ’ annual winter concerts later in. the year. These concerts are an annual feature of the winter season. BALDINGER RECEIVES OFFICE * Milton I.' Baldinger . ’33, president of the local . chapter of the Inter national Relations club, was elected recording secretary of the Middle At lantic States division of that organi zation at a convention held at Buek nell University last week. TABSCOTT RETURNS TO POST j Captain Ernest E. Tabscott, of the department of military science and tactics, has returned to active duty here after spending three months at the Walter Reed general hospital in Washington, D. C., where he under went an operation. ' _ STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY,: DECEMBER 16, 1932 BOARD CONSIDERS RECOGNITION FOR STUDENT CLIQUES May Require "1 Average of AH Delegates to Political Organizations STICKER, SEAL RULING . ABOLISHED BY COUNCIL Graeber ’33 Will Occupy Vacant Position From Chemistry, Physics .Schqol Official'student and College recog nition of political cliques as a legit imate extra-curricular activity was recommended by Student-Board Mon day and discussed by Student Coun cil at a ..meeting Tuesday. Under the proposed arrangement, a certain scholastic average, probably a 1, would be required of all clique representatives. This would force campus politicians to observe the same requisite that is now required' of members of all other activities. Would Raise Standards • “If student government is expected to take its place as one of the lead ing activities on the campus, the class officers should be chosen from or ganizations which uphold the scho lastic standar*ds of the College," said John A. Wood, senior class president and Student Council head, in com menting. on the proposal. A scholastic requirement will.re sult in a higher calibre of student be coming interested in campus politics, Wood pointed out. The observance of the requirement, will also result in official recognition by the College au thorities and will bring student poli tics out into the 6p?n, he added. Sticker Rule Dropped . Abolition of the present student, re striction on pasting or painting Col- JegelstickMSjJand aegis. on-.autqniobiles or-'baggage, was. effected by Student Council . Tuesday. Hereafter such practices will be permissible. .! Edwin G. Graeber ,’33 was appoint ed to fill the: Clem E. Gritsavage.’u3 as 'senior’member of the Council from the School •of Chemistry and Physics. • In .tHe elec tions last spring, Graeber was one of the candidates running against Grit savage, who did not return to College this year.' . First year students at ; the forestry school at Mont Alto will .be compelled to observe the regular, freshman cus toms, the Council'ruled Tuesday. This includes donning, the green dink, and observing’'the dating and smoking regulations, although the latter is per mitted the first year men here. . Committees''appointed to effect a complete student government revision will begin drawing up a constitution immediately after the Christmas va cation, according to Wood, who for mulated the plan. One of the changes will be the bringing of the Interclass Finance committee under the control of Student Board. A. Albert Blaess ’33 heads the Stu dent Board committee working on the project, while Harry M. Wilson ’33 is chairman' of a similar Student Council committee. The Student Tri bunal committee is headed by John L. McAndrews ’33, Tribunal ’ president, and William S. Lenker ’33 has charge of the Interclass Finance committee revision. ALUMNI TO SPONSOR ANNUAL , PITTSBURGH COLLEGE DANCE Alumni and -students of Pittsburgh will dance to Rudy Vallee at the an nual Intercollegiate Ball to be held at the Hotel William Penn, Monday, De cember 26. This affair is one of the ten dances being sponsored by alumni through out the State. Tickets may be had irom Robert 11. Fuller at the Chi Phi house, who is acting student agent for the committee in charge of the dance. SHAFFER CHOSEN SENATOR S. Elizabeth Shaffer was appointed as the second freshman senator at W. S; G. A. Senate meeting Tuesday night. The other senator, Marin Knepper, was elected by her class mates. Who’s Dancing Tonight Phi Delta Theta (Formal-Closed) Bill Bottorf Frcay Hall ai Varsity Hall * Dill Merrill 15 Seniors Selected i For Ball Committee Fifteen seniors were named yes terday by John A. Wood, class president, to compose the Senior Ball committee. John H. Good ’33 has been appointed chairman of the group. ,The committee includes John N. Adam jr., Wiley L. Byers, Maurice P. Edge, Albert L. Fretz jr., Ron ald E. Griffith, Marjorie G. Groat, Joseph S. Koval, Robert J. Lee, Mary B. Laramy, George l£ Mc- Clellan, John B. Munch, Edward H. Oberhuber, Ray A.. Rhoads, Albert L. Shane,- and Oliver M. Sheaffcr. MAURER’36 NAMED CLASS PRESIDENT ’Receives 326 Votes To Win From Moore, Backenslose in Heavy Balloting Richard H. Maurer polled 32G votes to receive the presidency of the fresh man class for this, year at a meeting Tuesday night. - j. Maurer received , a plurality of 23 votes over Chester W/, Moore, who, polled 303 votes to gain, the vice-presi-j dency. . Daniel L. Backenstose, the 1 third. contestant for the presidency,] received 142 votes, .while Paul W.j Brubaker withdrew his'candidacy. A] total of 771 votes was'cast in one of: the heaviest first-year biillotings ever recorded here. ’. j Addressed'Class , Each of the candidate! was chosen as a trial president at ajroeeting lastj week and each addressed-the class for; five, minutes on some subject of gen eral interest Tuesday, night. Maurer stressed ,t.hfe need .fora swimming pool and the abolition (of freshman customs, Moore spoke Future' discussed'" “Is Vocational ;■ -Training Needed?” in'the talks. . The class secretary,, treasurer, and historian will t be chosen ; at a meeting of; the;clas's following-.the Christmas Vacation.! John N. !| Rath’mell, junior claSs “president,* has been conducting the ■ freshman meetings up to this time but'the first meeting after va cation will be in charge of the newly electe,d president. Previous to this year, .freshman class elections have always been held in February and no clique organiza tion was permitted. A Student Board decree this fall, however, moved up the elections two months and recog nized first-year cliques. . REMODELING COMPLETED IN OLD DAIRY BUILDING Dean Watts Announces New Location For Agricultural Library Remodeling of the Old Dairy build ing to fit it for housing the agricul tural library is almost completed and the transfer of the library from the second floor of the Agriculture build ing to the new location probably will be made during the Christmas recess, Dean Ralph L. Watts, of the School of Agriculture, announced this week. The entire first floor of the build ing will be used for library purposes with the exception of the offices oc cupied by the department of animal husbandry. The room formerly used in the manufacturing of butter has been equipped for reading, while a second room has been turned into a stockroom. Bacteriological laboratories, housed on the second floor of the building, have been enlarged and re-equipped for use during the second semester. The present library room in the Ag riculture building will be used by ag ricultural classes next semester. ' DELTA SIGMA PHI, SIGMA NU MEET IN I. F. BRIDGE FINALS Victors in their semi-final matches, Delta Sigma Phi and Sigma Nu fra ternities met last night in the final contest of the Interfraternity auction bridge tournament. Delta Sigma Phi defeated Delta Theta Sigma while .Sigma-Nu - won from Phi Mu Delta in the semi-final playing earlier this woek.i Thirty-one teams took part in the tournament, according to Ralph B. Vance ’34, man ager of the competition. MORSE WRITES ARTICLE Adrian 0. Morse, executive secre tary of the President, has -written an article on “How Can We Develop Lea dership in Industry?” for the current issue of the Engineering Extension News, wljieh was issued recently. j Honor Prizes Proposed for (SENATE COMMITTEE High Scholastic Attainment] MODIFIES PROPOSED S ' RULES FOR DATING Dr. Dye Advises Additional Awards Not on Basis of Need—Favors Continuing New Selective Method Recognition of the Penn State scho lar purely on a basis of scholarship in addition to the present system of awarding the John W. White and 'Louise Carnegie scholarships to high standing students in need of financial assistance was advocated by Dr. Wil liam S. Dye, chairman of the Senate Committee on Academic Standards, yesterday. “At present the well-to-do student, even though he stands at the head of his class, does not receive an official i honor award from the College,” Dr. I Dye said. He proposed that prizes in I recognition of exceptional scholarship | alone and of little intrinsic value, be ! awarded annually to the three or four highest students in each class. These prizes would be of the type offered at Harvard for the highest scholastic attainment and would bear ; no relation whatsoever to the present j monetary scholarships, according to Dr. Dye. All students receiving the } proposed prizes would also be eligible for the White and Carnegie awards 1 provided they have need of financial aid, he said. According to a plan endorsed by Dr. Dye, the funds for providing for the honor prizes would come from the interclass treasury under the sponsor-; ship, of the Student Council. The! prizes would be awarded by the stu dent group on the recommendation of the committee on academic standards. Fully satisfied with results attained j through the new’ method of awarding the monetary scholarships this year - , Dr.-Dye declared that the same plan would . be followed in selecting re cipients in the future. Through the applications required of tho eligible candidates, the committee .was able to‘determine’the need of each student than through-'-the fdvnW nominating method, he said. ' This elmngo in policy, the placing of awards squarely oq a basis of need w’ithin the upper tenth of each class,} fulfills the purpose of the donors, it* was revealed, since they intended to ‘LA VIE’ ELECTS 18 TO JUNIOR STAFF Senior 'Board ‘Announces Selection Of 13 Editorial, 5 Business Candidates for Year Eighteen candidates, thirteen 'edi torial and five business, were elected to the junior staff of the 1933 La Pit* by members of senior board of the yearbook at a meeting Wednesday night. Margaret J. Beamer, Anne M. Broderick, June B. Roberts, Betty B.; Thompson, S. Jack Carahcr, Herman; Chinn, Raymond Goldfine, Andrew F. Kisacky, A. Homer Manwaring, Charles A. Myers. Bernard H. Rosenz weig, James M. Sheen, and William M. •Stegmeier were named to the editorial staff. New* members of the junior busi ness staff of the yearbook are Ben Baron, Albert M. Bilcovitch, Fred erick W. Mankey jr., Franklin R. Po lin, and Donald B. Smith. The newly-elected members of the staff will compete for positions on the senior board, with elections sched uled to take place shortly after the 1933 annual is sent to the printers. Work was begun on the yearbook in September. WRITES BOOK ON 'TREES' “Trees and Shrubs of Pennsyl vania,” a book by Prof. George S.| Perry of the Pennsylvania Forest Re search institute at Mont Alto has! been published by the department of forests and waters. GAME BIRD COURSE LISTED A new course on “The Incubation and Rearing of Game Birds” will be offered next semester by the depart ment of poultry husbandry, according to Prof. John A. Ferguson, head of tho forestry department. ‘Collegian ’ To Issue Next Number Jan. 6 Because of the Christmas holi days, the next issue of the Col legian will not appear until Fri day, January 6, 1933. The vacation period will begin at noon tomorrow, while classes will be resumed tit 1:10 o’clock Mon day afternoon, January 2, 1933. provide a means for aiding and en-j couraging exceptional students handi-j capped by lack of funds. J Selection of students for the John! jW. White fellowships will hereafter j [ be made from lists submitted by the; j heads of the departments instead of j j fyy nomination, Dr. Dye announced. ( !A dose study of the work being done. By the winners of the fellowships will; •also be made in order to ascertain ; whether the purposes of the awards, •are being fulfilled, he declared. ! 23 FLAN TO ATTEND j : FACULTY MEETINGS! Professors Will Participate in; Conclaves During Coming ; Vacation Period ; * Twenty-three faculty members will! Changes Asked •represent Penn State at various meet-! if the agreement is put into effect sings and conventions during the. the welfare gioup asked that the Christmas holidays. I chapter houses be answerable -to In i' The School of Agriculture will send t terfratcrnity council, and that fra .iiine faculty members to a meeting of' ternities not abiding with the agree ithe American Association, for the Ad- ment should lose all privileges for ' vancement of Science at Atlantic City, ; allowing visiting by women unchap : December 27 to 31. Drs. 'Roy D. An- eroned at any time. jthony, Warren B. Mack, and Charles The committee agreed to sanction jiE. Myers, of the department of hor- this agreement if approved by the I ticulture, and Dr. Walter Thomas, of’ Inteifraternity council and W. S. G. the agricultural biochemistry depart- A. \vitl» the inclusion of these modi rnent, are among those who will at-, ficatibns. Doan Ralph L. Watts, head tend the Atlantic City convention. jof the Agricultutc School, is head of t Others who will represent the ag-:^ ,c Student Welfare committee. ,vicultura) school include, Dr, Edward Dean Arthur R. Warnock, ex-of- H. Dusham, Prof. Harlan W. Worth-: fic, ° member of the committee, asked iley and Prof. Vernon R. Haber; of, that the fraternities,.abide strictly.by ithe>departmeat-Tof’*Jtoolog-y7'Jtnd-'-Pro-r'^ s '- a S I -? eni ? n -the- advantages are. iffessors J. B-n Hill, Henry W. Popp: to be reaHz3d - “ If fraternities will 'and Henry W. Thurston, of the botany! honestly enforce the voluntary ngree 'department. Prof. Frank M. Swartz, : ™ e . nt wh,ah they have j)roposed, con *of the geology department, will at- (^t ; :ons v/ ‘h be improved over what Ijteml a geological society convention 1 th°y »re at present,” he said. ;in Washington, D. C. | Approves Society . At the! 1 meeting yesterday after nooii; the 'Senate Committee on Stu dent | Welfare also authorized the for mation. of a local professional society among students in advertising. ..’Permission by. the Welfare group was also given to the Senior Ball Committee to change the date of the class dance to Thursday, February 0. instead of Friday, February, if it is considered necessary because of a wrestling meet with Michigan sched uled here for Friday night. The committee went on record as requesting class dance committees to give serious consideration to reducing costs of dances in keeping with finan cial stringency, and in reducing the admission price so that the dances would be available to a majority of students desiring to attend. Waller To Speak Speaking on “Personality Changes! in Student Teachers,” Dr. Willard i Waller of the department of sociology; and economics, will attend a meeting; of the American Sociological society, in Cleveland, Ohio, while Prof. Charles ’ J. Rowland, of the same department, j will’attend a conclave of the Amer-j ienn Society of Accountants in Cin-. cinnati, Ohio. ! I Travelling to New Haven, Conn., Dr. Francis M. duMont, head of the department of romance languages, will attend a meeting of the Associa tion of University Professors. Prof. Franklin C. Banner, head of *the de partment of journalism, will repre sent Penn State at a convention of the Association of American Schools and Departments of Journalism at Lexington, Va. Dr. Ray H. Dotterel*, of the depart ment of philosophy, will attend a meeting of the American Philoso phical association at Cincinnati, while Dean Robert L. Sackett, head of the School of Engineering, will read a paper at a conclave of the -American Association for the Ad- (Conthitii'd on -paffc four) 31 NAMED TO F.S.C.A. FRESHMAN COMMISSION Wnrnock, Seamans Speak at Initial Meeting of New Organization Thirty-ono members were named to: ' tho freshman commission of the Penn i I State Christian association at its or-; : ganizntion meeting hold last Sntur- ■ day. Arthur R. -Wnrnock, Dean of; Men, and Harry W. Seamans, secre tary of the Christian association, ad-j dressed the meeting, which was in' ehargo of John E. Ryan ’3-1. Members of the commission are Rus sell B. Alderfer, James C. Ambrose, E. C. Bickcll, Herbert E. Bohren,- James A. Carson, Everett R. Curr>,‘ Robert J. Davidson, Bindley 11. Den-! nis, jr., James W. Diltz, Elwood M. Douthett, Lloyd E. Garman. J. Fran cis Gchr, Stephen A. Gcnc-y jr., Thom-) as S. Hershey, Ralph T. Irwin, and! Richard H. Maurer. ’ Chester W. M-oore, Frederick M. O'- Neill, Styrk G. Reque jr., Kutzer L. I Richards, Joseph T. Riley, Charles 11. Salt, George L. Shaifcr, David K. Sloan, W. Dean Struble, Walter R. | Slorrs, Chester Tyson jr., J. Harold! Whislcr, G. Malcolm Wilkins, and, Shufor Meeks complete the organize* ■ lien. , [ PRICE FIVE CENTS Student Welfare Group Favors Essential Points in I. F. C., W. S. G. A. Plan MINOR CHANGES LISTED FOR FURTHER APPROVAL Strict Penalty Requested for Violations of Provisions By Fraternities ; The Senate Committee on Student ' Welfare yesterday afternoon approved , with minor changes the proposed agreement between Interfraternity council and W. S. G. A. to extend the time for visiting at fiaternity houses by unehaperoned women. Changes recommended by the com mittee included the entire restriction of visiting by unehaperoned women during vacation periods. The time limit on Friday and Saturday nights was modified to 12:30 o’clock in order to allow women students time to re port to dormitories at 1 o’clock. ENROLLMENT RANK LISTED IN REPORT College Hates Twenty-second Among All U. S. Universities With Total of 7,996 Penn State is twenty : second among the colleges and universities in tb/j United States in regard to total stu dent enrollment, the annual tabula tion of registration figures shows. Total full and part-time student en rollment here, including that of the Summer Session and Intersession, is 7,9G6. The regular session total is listed as -1,070, while the grand total, including extension and correspond ence com sos is 25,720. New York University heads the list with a total enrollment of 27,005, ac cording to the tabulation. Columbia University is next with 27,682 stu dents, followed by City College of New York, the University of Califor nia. the University of Minnesota, Ohio State University, and the Uni versity of Illinois. Among the Pennsylvania institu tions, Penn State’s enrollment is sur passed by the Universities of Penn sylvania, Pittsburgh, and Temple. The total figure here exceeds that, at the University of Nebraska, Cornell University, and the State University of lowa. FLETCHER MAKES ADDRESS Dr. Stevenson W. Fletcher, vice dean and director of research in the 'School of Agriculture, spoke on the "History of Fruit Growing in Vir ginia" bcuire the Virginia State Hor iuiduiro society at Charlottesville, , ' .i., las l week.
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