Seml-IA/eekly Volume 34—No. 29 Racial Views Of Students Are Sought NAACP Survey Aimed To Gauge Campus Opinion Here Questionnaire Blanks Available At SU Desk A survey on the attitudes of students, toward inter-racial' re lations sponsored by the Na r lional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People will begin today in the Student Union olfiee. Henry' R. Smith, Jr., '3B is in charge. Question naire blanks may be obtained and filled out at the desk. The purpose of the canvass, as outlined by Smith, is to at tempi to discover the current opinion concerning racial problems. Frank, personal answers are requested in or der to make a success of the survey. 12 (Questions Listed The questions on the blank are be low : 1. Do yon consider yourself abso lutely unbiased and friendly towards colored people? 2. .Because of their race or "color, would you deny public olfiee to ‘men and women who have proved them selves properly qualified? Ik Do you feel that colored people or any other minority group are in ferior, psychologically or biologically? 4. Are you opposed to mixed faeul-: tics of white and colored members in public schools when the student body is mixed? r». Dm yon object to associations with colored students in class rooms? G. Would you object to being ..a member of on organization to which colored students were participating? (Check “yes” or "no" after eaeli ac- ; tivily) glee eluli, football, swimming, discussion groups. 7. Would colored athletes receive your support if they would be. instru mental in aiding your school to gain •athletic prominence? 8. Would you elect a colored salu tatorian or valedictorian if he were .found deserving of that honor? S). Would you object to eating in a restaurant in which colored students receive service? • 10. Would you eat in a boarding house that served colored students? 11. Would you refuse •to patronize a barber shop that gave colored stu-j denis service? , 12. Would you live in the same house with a colored student? All questions are to be answered either “yes” or “no.” Space is leEt ul the bottom to explain unsvvers in the inquiry. ‘ldiot’s Delight ’—A Play To Satisfy Many Tastes . No matter what your tastes you will, find them embodied in Robert E. Sherwood’s clever 1 Pulitzer prize-win ning play, “Idiot’s Delight,” to be given by the Penn State Players on Thursday and Friday evenings, Janu ary 20 and 21. Director Frank S. Neusbaum’s en thusiasm is unbounded when it comes to describing this Broadway hit that will have its first non-profcssjonal presentation here 'in Schwab audi torium. - “It has everything!", is Ncus baum’s pet reference to this master ful work. And just to prove his ■point, here is “Idiot's Delight" in brief: It is a powerful anti-war drama. There is an abundance of comedy and even farce. You-will see a floor show, listen to innumerable piano special ties, and hear a jam band. It hus melodrama. And justfor-good meas ure, Mr. Sherwood has included the all-important love interest. The play, a Theatre Guild produc tion, opened in' Washington, D. C., on March .9, 1905, with 'Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontaine in the leading roles (played here by Herbert S. Yanofsky ’4O and Itulli J. Shtascl ’4l), and then on March 24, 1905, began its long run in New York. College Given $5OO A gift of $6OO was left- to the Col lege from the estate of the late Wil liam L. Stone of Honesdale, President Halph D. Hetzel announced today. * Boom! Puff! And Bull Pen’s Gone Engulfed by whirling flames and smoke, the liaJf-razcid “Bull Pen" can be sccn as ready, fuel in the lop photo, while Slain College firemen (on right) spray water oil corner nearest to Physics building .. . (hen—an other explosion rocks (he mu (Invest corner, nearest Pond laboratory, and more concrete blocks tumble to the ground. Arrow hi bottom photo shows wall about lu collapse. . *■ 4- ■ + Equipment, Records Lost As Fire Levels Chemistry Annex Although total losses resulting from the burning of the Chemistry An nex on December 20 have not as yet been computed, irreparable damage amounting to thousands of dollars was incurred in the destruction of the spe cialized equipment and research records in the laboratories of the ruined "Bull Pen." Built 20 years ago as a temporary laboratory and lecture hall, the An nex’s activities soon established it ast —— rriiw ™u„S'. e " lOSt l ' esearc " “" t<!re i s Customs Violators Greatest loss was sustained in the demolition of the valuable X-ray equipment in. the physics laboratory of Dr. Wheeler P. Davcy, research di rector of chemistry and physics. Dr. Davcy estimated the loss at approxi mately S3O,OUt). .Graduate students and assistants, with hut a few mure months of work remaining for the completion of de gree requirements, were deprived of from two to four years of efforl'as flames gutted the records of their, work. .Six students, slated to get theiv Ph. D.’s in dune, will now be unable to attain the degrees. Also destroyed was the .sophomore physics lab, preparation rooms, class rooms, storage space Cor chemical glass, and $5OOO worth of the glass itself. Collected over a 50-ycar period from 1870 to 1020, the chemical mu seum of former Dean Pond also went up in smoke. The salvaging by firemen of the high pressure laboratory in charge of Dr. I&ichard B. Dow and the trans former station was an encouraging feature in view of the wholesale de-l struction of other equipment. President Hetzel, 'confident that the building program to be started next month would somewhat relieve the problem of lack of classroom space, expressed thankfulness because the fire occurred during the Christmas vucation recess. “For years," President Hetzel said, “wc have had the desire to tear down tlie Amphitheatre because we knew it was highly inflammable. In stead, we hud to watch the structure carefully because we needed the space for classes.” - S. K. Hostetter, assistant to the President in charge of business and finance, said that insurance on the building and contents would cover-the financial loss. STATE COLLEGE, FA.,: FRi Given Stiff Sentences Opening court after a three weeks’ recess, the Men’s .Student Tribunal sentenced five freshmen, charged with violating the customs code, to a week of servitude. The Tribunal re leased 12 others with suspended sen tences. Joseph Dixon, who entered school last February, confessed that he never wore customs. Tribunal pena lized him with two signs reading “I was sure I was exempt" and “.Even 1 must wear customs;" also with a dunce cap lied with green ribbon. Louis E. Williams will wear a green, khee-leiigth four-in-hand lie, one foot wide ut the bottom. A sign “Tribu nal ‘tied’ me" will also be worn. James M. Richardson will carry a bow and arrow with him and a sign with a picture of a dink with an ar row through il. The sign reads, ‘Tin hunting for my dink." Joseph C. Sciorilti also was penalized with a hunting theme. He will carry un axe, hunting knife, rope, flashlight, canteen, and a blanket roll on Ills back. A sign reads, “Im scouting for my tic." Walter K. Dau, a trans fer, will wear the sign, “1 missed the exemption deadline." Included in the sentences was the provision that they must appear at the basketball game tomorrow night 'n full attire. Sentences will be lift ed Thursday. Display Noted Books A collection of hooks which have greatly influenced trends of the ‘mod ern worlej will be on display in-the exhibit room of the College library until January 22. A number of the books were selected from lists pre pared for- the Institute of Arts and Sciences, Columbia - University. [DAY, JANUARY 7, 1938 Students Attend National Meeting Campbell, Keiuion, Wheeler Take Active Part In Discussing College Activities Charles K. Campbell, John D. Kcn non, and Charles M. Wheeler, Jr., all seniors, represented Penn State at the annual meeting of the National Student Federation of America, which held its session December 28 to‘January 1 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Keunon was appointed chairman of the committee on direct administra tion while Campbell upheld the case for optional K. O. T. C. in a debuto with the championship University of California team. The committee on direct adminis tration discussed the problem of stu dent-faculty relationships. Among the topics reviewed were: freshman orientation, social regulations, fi nances of student governing bodies, discipline, honor systems, and extent of student control. "Although wc couldn’t generalize our solutions to these problems," ICou iion said, "we did agree on one Ibitig, und that was that honor systems in large schools was impractical." Be cause of the size of colleges repre sented and the varying sections, no! one solution could be made to cover the other matters," he continued. One hundred and ten colleges and universities from all the states sent delegates to the Federation’s meeting. Artists Series Ticket deductions Announced A limited number of Artists Course tickets al reduced prices will be on sale al the auditorium Wednesday evening .when Hans ICiudler and his National .Symphony orchestra will appear as the second number of the annual series. Tickets originally priced at $i and $8 for the series are available at $8.25 and $2.25, respectively. Cor the remaining four numbers. Prices for individual numbers have been set at a point to protect the series ticket holders. j If any individual tickets are avail able,They will be sold at the follow ing scale: National Symphony orch estra, $2; Georges Enesco, $1.50; Kurt Joos European ballet, $2: ami Percy Grainger, $1.50. 15 Changes In College Staff Announced Mitchell Named Head Mining Engineering Department Miss Nitzky, Secretary For 32 Years, Resigns Fifteen changes in personnel, in cluding four promotions, four new appointments, three leaves of ab sences, three new assignments, and one resignation, have been announced by the College administration. Heading the list of appointments was the naming of David K. Mitchell ’2d, associate professor of mining and metallurgical engineering at the Uni versity of Illinois and former advisor to the Illinois Emergency Relief Coin mission. as professor and head of the department of mining engineering. The appointment becomes effective at the end cf the present academic year. Other appointments include John jw. Bucli, of the Hudson Coal Com jpany, to the mining engineering staff, effective February J; and William D. Crawford *B(5 and George Blum as re search assistants in the petroleum re fining laboratory. •Secretary to four presidents during the past 22 years and eighth oldest, member of the administration staff in point if service, Miss Mary T. .Nil ?ky announced her resignation Janu ary I. Named secretary to George W. Atherton on March 18, 1005, Miss Nitzky also bad served in the presi dent’s olfiee under Dr. Edwin E. Sparks, Dr. John M. Thomas, and Dr. Ralph D. Hetzel. Promotions: Max Kriss and Jt., W. Swift, from associate professors to professors of animal nutrition; It. E. Marker, from assistant professor to associate professor in organic chem istry.; ■T.»,E. r .Qak\vpud»-fri>m research assisl’aii 1’"" to’ "instructor in organic chemistry. New positions: C. V. D. Bissey. scheduling officer, to head of statis tical division of accounting office; Kay V. Watkins, assistant professor of English composition, to scheduling | officer; U. B. Donaldson, assistant i county extension representative, to i assistant professor of agricultural economics extension. Six-month sabbatical leaves of ab sences were given to: J. L. E. Mc- Cord. professor of farm management and agricultural economics, to pursue graduate study at Cornell University; J. >B. McCool, Clinton county exten sion representative, to take advanced work at the College; aud J. S. Oberle, Chester county extension representa tive, to visit other colleges. All leaves are effective February 1. Highway Expert Talks A. E. Keeley, assistant chief engi neer of the state department of high ways, will speak on “Highway Trans portation in Pennsylvania” in room 110, Home Economics building, at <1:10 o’clock today. Overholts Heads Group Dr. Lee O. Overholts, botany pro fessor, was elected president of the Mycologlcal Society of America at its annual meeting held at Indianapolis, Ind. Building Program Adjudged Top Campus Story Of 1937 Announcement of.the College building program to be launched on Febru ary 20 was chosen by members of the Collegian staff as the most important and best College news story to break during 1937. Official announcement of the launching was made during the last ■week of August. Granting this College a Phi Beta Kappa charter (Sept. D) placed second with the Soose-Kociubitisky ineligibility story (Sept. 16) in third position. The breaking of the Eastern Inter-, collegiate record by the wrestling team and the results of the boxing in* tcTCollegiutes (Mar. 13) was selected for fourth place, followed by the pre diction that Dr. Curl P. Schott would be ‘ selected dean of the School of Physical Education and Athletics (Apr. 10) Penn’s Defeat Named-Sixth stating sixth -was the Lions’ 7-0 football victory over Penn (Nov. C) while the announcement of clique platforms for the first time in Col lege history (Apr. 13) placed seventh. The election of an Independent candi date to the junior class presidency, the first time such a position was won by an Independent man since 1912 (Apr. 28), was selected for eighth place. The authorization of a student book exchange to be conducted by the Senior Cap, Gown Orders Due Seniors who will graduate at the end of this semester must place their orders for caps and gowns, Invitations and announcements at the Student Union desk between 8 o’clock Monday morning ad 6 o'- clock Wednesday afternoon, John D. Kennon, president of the senior class, announced yesterday. Lion Five Upsets Penn Quint, 40-28 Ourlmcn Score Third Straight Win As Miehoff, I’rosser Spearhead Attack .Sty iiyuti/isia of Ohio trip. I‘uyc J Applying offensive pressure in the limtl six minutes of play and holding its opponents scoreless in that period, State's fighting basketball team upset a favored Penn quintet, 40-28, in Phil adelphia’s Palestra Wednesday night. More than 6,000 fans many of whom were Penn State alumni, wit nessed the- third straight victory, scored by a Mon team which outplay ed the Quakers in every department of the game. Sol Miehoff, veteran forward, re peated his sensational higld-scoring of the western trip with- u brilliunt performance both offensively and de fensively. Miehoff counted 17 points and Charlie Prosser backed him with 14 tallies. - State ran up an 18-7 icad but Penn ran up the score to 21-15 at the half. The Quakers drew up to 29-28 with six minutes of the game remaining. Here Miehoff led a scoring spree, w'hieh clinched Lion superiority. Max Corbin calmed the deliberate Stale attack, slowly bringing the ball into scoring territory and setting up the plays. Penn was - unable to pierce the shifting zone defense and banked on long shots throughout. Miehoff and Joe Proksa stemmed Quaker ’ drives at.anidcpuct .repeatedly, with pass .in terceptions: Th? lineups:' ‘ fid. fls. lot. ..... 6 5- 6 17 PENN STATE Miehoffj f —’ l2-2 5 Proksa, f 0 0- l 0 Stopper 0 0-00 ..6 2-2 14 Hoffman Prosser, c 0 1-0 0 3O-1 4 u-15 10-13 40 fid. fls. tot. 3 I- 2 7 Corbin, g Reichenbach, g Total .PENN Dougherty, f 1 0- 3 2 Mischo, f ... 0 ,0- 0 0 Connell MenzeJ, c 4 0-0 8 Gustafson 0•1- t 1 Brickley, g 0 0-1 0 Seeders 2 1-1 5 Stanley, g 2 1-2 5 Total 12 4-10 28 Infirmary To Dispense Anti-Pneumonia Serum Penn State is a distribution point for anti-pneumonia scrums,- Dr. Jos eph P. RiUuour, College physician, announced today. More than 100,000 units of the seriunis have already been distributed from the College In firmary, where it is stored. Prof. Michael A. Farrell, head of the division of bacteriology, has ar ranged to make tests to discover whether the patient can be treated: successfully with the types of serums now available. 'lndependent Party (Dec. 16) rated in ninth position, with the announcement of plans for the $1,100,000 women’s dormitory (Jan. 16) completing the list of ten biggest Collegian stories of 1927. The destruction of the Chemistry Amphitheatre by fire (Dec. 29), was not considered in the selections. Among other stories receiving men tion were the investigation of the College health service, selection of Penn State as the site for the wrest ling intefcollegiates, the general maintenance appropriation of $4,150,- 000; the granting of a Thanksgiving vacation, the new registration sys tem, and the consideration of Dr. Ralph D. Hetzel, president of the Col lege, as a ’ successor to Dr. Glenn Prank as head of the University of Wisconsin. r RESTLING >nors At Stake, See Page 3 Z 658 PRICE FIVE CENTS College Aids In Campaign On Syphillis Blood Tests Given As Wasserman Week Is Observed Specimens Examined By Bacteriology Dept, In conjunction with the state wide observance of Wasserman Week, designed to curb what medical men have termed the “scourge of syphyllis,” the Col lege health service and the de partment of bacteriology are co operating with the state depart ment of health in offering free blood tests to the entire student body. The blood tests arc being taken at the dispensary, with Prof. Michael A. Farrell, department of bacteriology, offering his services to jxaminc all blood specimens here, in stead of shipping them to the state department of health. Facilities for the Wasserman test will he available throughout the year as well, Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour, head jf the College health service, said. Campaign Nation-wide Estimating that 10 per cent of the entire nation was affected with syphil ;is and other venereal diseases, Amer ican medical circles two years ago started a concerted nation-wide cam paign to prevent their spread. Gaining sudden impetus, the drive was soon augmented by schools, news papers, magazines, books, and special committees, all aiming to portray the •‘ghastly facts” in frank, liberal dis cussions. . Inasmuch as many of the syphillis victims die or become cripples in ig norance of their plight, blood tests nave been established as the only cer tain way to determine presence of the disease in a person. ‘ lmport ’ Will Reign At Snowball Dance Tomorrow night Penn State will crown its first imported queen. ing the intermission of the Snowball dance, the “import,” selected by the dance committee, will be crowned the “Snowball Queen.” The dance will be held immediately following the basketball game. The Armory, where the dance will take place, has been transformed into a polar region by Wilfred C. Washcoe *3B, Thespian technician in charge of decorations. Washcoe predicted a heavy “snowfall” to occur as the im port, with her two Penn State atten dants, ascends the throne of ice and snow to accept the title of Queen. The dance, sponsored by the Penn State club, is in charge of a commit tee headed by George A. Baker ’3B. Others in the group are: William W. Galbreath '39, Herman M. Foget *4Q, Ralph W. Keith '39, and Robert L. Smith ’39. Bill Bottorf will supply the music. Admission, including checking, is 75 cents per couple. The Tribunal has permitted the lifting of freshman customs for all those who attend the dance. < N.Y.A. Time Extended To 40 Hours A Month N. Y. A. time allowance will be ex tender! to 40 hours per month, Stan ley B. Maddox, in charge of N. A'. A., announced yesterday. This limit, replacing the former 35- hour allotment, will be effective as long as funds permit. It is designed to give N. Y. A. employees an oppor tunity to make up time lost at the be ginning of the semester. Compilations show that GlB stu dents arc doing N. A’. A. work. Of this number. GUI) are undergraduates, and J 8 are gruduute students. German Test Slated An attainment test for entrance into the Upper Division of the School of Liberal Arts will be given to stu dents of German on Monday, Janu ary 17, at 6:30 p. m. in room 108, N. L. A. All students desiring to take the test should arrange for it with Prof. Charles C. Wagner, 12 S. L. A.
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