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A. C. C Takes Fraternity Scholastic Honors With 1.86
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To The Free Lance,
Established 1887
VOLUME 35-NUMBER 3 . Z-658
Sideligtits
Oxi
Freshman
Week
By EMANUEL ROTH
The class of '42 has been in
State College for almost a week
Strangers In a strange land, they
have innocently enough concocted
some boners which should estab
Ilsh the class as the vittiest which
has'ever breathed the air of the
Nittany Valley
'For example, take Russell Eck's
case Russell, a Delta Sim.' Phi
and a towering Blue Key member,
Was strutting up the trarnpus with
his honorary lid comfortably set
tled on his head A. freshman, his
curiosity aroused, followed him a
few 'stepi. halted him. asked, "Are
those the new dinksr Eck is re
ported anxiously anaiting the day
when customs go into effect
Another "'act ventmed into
Frances Atherton Hall lobby
Dressed in his Sunday go to meet
in' clothet, 'his hair immaculate,
he asked the lady at the desk to
rtng,a cei tains-gills' number He
took over the phone, timidly put
the mouthplet,e_ to bib ear, 'A utted
for a few minutes, then resigned
ly, -4eclated," "Huh, no one an
bviers
Taking the 'ft esiamen , week
schedule , too literally" is another
source of neophy tic cracks "Where
Gates Auditorium " Jack Rex,
chali man of the' Intel class F:inanco
Committee / and a - counsellot was
"asked
M A
r — r- - " , o 4 trroN ,
flurry of exeitOnitirit'' Interrupt
eed,tho calm in , the balcony at the
freshman, mass meeting' Wednes
day gight , "There's the gill I used
to; dote back s home , " bellon ed am
enthusiastic freshman from Leba•
non, pointing to a pert young thing
filing in on the ground floor They
'were seen ut a diem 'the following
evening
Men enrolled in the Nome Eco
nomics department encounter
some unexpected advantages Sla
frosh last week insisted that they
take their physical examinations
with ,the women enrolled In the
department It' is - believed that
their request was not granted
- -
A self-denying freshman, un
identified to date, slipped a 'penny
into-ate of Burgess Leitzell's new•
tangled parking meters just' to see
how It worked, another sacrificed
three Coppers'aridwanted to know
,when he'd hit the jack pot
• • - •
, iln reply to the question ow ac•
tivities at registration, one bright
young lassie wrote ~"Danolug (Al•
so unlimited — posnibillties along
several other lines)",
ME=
Thee were also some freshmen
who were in douht e as to ,their par
eutage One' such stalked up to
the juggler of schedules, Ray Wat.
kips, with his -registration pare
pheimalia and stammered, "Who is
my parent, my father or my moth.
er,"
She had heard a lot about these
underground - , tunnels arias crass•
Ing the campulhand she wondered,
Wall - seemed so mysterious, so ex.
citing; ~,could one really walk
through there Her curiosity drew
her' up ,to Student . Union, desk
where she - asked, "Is it:- true that
a: tunnel connects -Atherton Hall
and Old Main?"
A buxom finial° from Altoona.
,
~wanted, t o know just bow dose ,the
Studenr:Union brought "students
'together
* -*
-,.Seene — in front of ihtain Dngi
neering Two freshmen scrutiniz
ing page 119 of the handbook "I'm
, wondering," one remarked, "what
the code letters Ty' mean in front
,ot.Women's Building",
!:',"HeY, - boy," .another newcomer
asked, George' Donovan,' veteran
-head of the Student Union, "where
"is" Room 3?" a' companion
',mitred whether:physical examine
:4.ll:Mr a ere taken in the College
.drug store and -where that drug
estore was another from - Reran
. ton wanted to know:where the Col
tlege show - Wee located..
seavit-vv ,, etc.ty
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1.195_
A D ORION/XL $4,000,000 GRANT
'' - ' HINGES ON APPROVAL OF PWA
Group Now Without
House Places First;
Alpha Zeta Second
Gamma Phi Beta's- 1.85, Leads Women's
Groups; Fraternity Mark Rises
From 1.39 To 1.43
See table of avei ayes on page: and editorial, "✓axkfymy Thai,
Existence" on page 2
With an average of 1.86;,the Associated Commons Club
captured top scholastic honois for the second semester of
the 1937-38 scholastic year. Gamma Phi Beta led the 10
women's fraternities with" an average of 1 85 tot the semes
ter.
This honor came as a climax to the Commons Club's ex
.a.tence as a house on this LATIUM%
This semester, because of daculty
in finding a house, the ACC nil:
function only as a club and not a,
living gioup
Alpha Zeta Second
Second place honms among tlw
52 men's frateinities on the
clunp
us went to'Alpha Zeta, agricultui
al A01;114 fraternity, with an aver
-age of 184 Second,'place among
the; women's Juiteinittes was,gai
e'rZa r by , ltaipa Alplti":Tlietlovtth'
a I:A:average
. The record of the 'Alpha Zeta is
unique on this campus in that for
eight straight semesters, it has
held second place scholastic hon
ors seven times and the other time
won flit place
- Mens' Average Jumps
The all-College average foe the
second semester was 1 43 or a con
siderable increase over the all-col
lege average of the first smoter
which was 138 The all-men's av
erage of 139 for the second sem
ester led the fun semester aver
age of 1 34 as did the second bent
ester all-women's average
_whicn
was 1 58, or -anincrease of 02.
Another significant Jump in sec
ond semester scholarship was tho
all-fraternity average of 138
which' was 04 better than the 1 34
record of the hrstsemestei.
IF Head Cites
Highlights, Of
Rushing Code
Coslrery Clarifies Important
~Issues, Points Out Need-
.Explanung'tliati thereivdl be a
necessity fot several changes Jo
the Men's Rushing Code fot neat
year, Raymond S Coskery '3O, In-
RUSHING SCHEDULE
7 a ut to
. 11 a nt —informal
contacts
11 a in to 4 p In—Luncheon
5 p in to 10 p in —Dinnei
TOMORROW
7 a In. to 10 a ru —Breakfast
, 11 a in to 4 p In —Luntheon
5 p in to 10 p in —Dinner
THURSDAY
Same us Wednesday
r FRIDAY
_
Scone as Wednesday
A SATURDAY
7 a In' to 7 p in —Same as
Wednesday
7 p in to 10 p m —Pi °reran
ces turned in ,
10 p ni to 12 p m —Silent
' 12 p m —Fraternities may ob
lain preference cards
SUNDAY
7 a in to 2 si ni—Open rush
ing anti dating
2 p m to 3 p ru —Silent
3 p in to 10 p rn —Open rush
ing
10 14 in on—Silent , ,
. MONDAY
Silent until 6 p in
6-p m —Pledging
teifratetnity Council president, to=
aay outlined a seven-point rush
ing coder in an endeavor to clar
ify some of the more important
issues of the present code
-Coskery asked that the atten•
tion of each tushing chairman and
house president as' well as that of
every fratet nay Man be called tc
the following piogiam.
I—Date cards may not be signed
,until,7 a. in today
2 —All cabin o piates or out-of
towti picnics must be sanctioned
by the Judiciaiy committee Ths
committee consisting Lof Jack
Putney, A Howiy Espenshadr
and Sheldon Tannet will- meet
each morning of tushing season
in Room 410, Old Main, between
, the hours of 9 and 10 a in.
3.-The plan of the witty must be
submitted to , the committee...by
the rushing chairman 'oi'''the
house-president, The plan must
- include the name of the intended
chaperon, ,the intentions of the
party and the location. ,
4.—Bods .can, be received by th'
fraternities upon the payment of
their first semester 'dues ($2 50)
to" the'.Council at the Student
'ilnion,desk between 10 a. in And
7 p. m.. tomorrow.
5 —Freshman are reminded 'that
(Continued On Page Three)
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, , PAV TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1938
Chapel Speaker Tells
Of 'World Before Us'
"Before you get your degrees
war 'will have come," Dr F P
Miller told Fi ebhman chapel klb he
spoke on the subject "The World
Berme Us" /
He told the Armin that none of
the gloat issues of the world had
been solved, although in the com
ing world of changes there is a
good chance for the college stu
dent of this generation and the
next to solve them
Higher education has not ful
filled the hope of the older gen
erations that our problems v,ould
be selved, he said Instead, he
added, crumbling
.detnocracy be
gitm, in colleges He attributed
this to the "Amei lean mind pros
tituted by the attitude of selling
oneself" , ,
Sophomore ROTC Units
To Drill On Front Campus
"Forward, MARCH!"
And Penn State's R 0 T C. bligade—more than 2 000 strong
and largest in the East--will open another semester of compulsoty
nattily training when sophomores take over the front campus lawn
at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Divided into two equal tams, the front campus will he uttltzed as
it' dull field for 'the sophomores
throughout the year, Troops will
be barred from the seeded area,
Freshmen Near Armory
Freshmen, whose training this
semestei as usual will consist
mainly of footwork with very lit
tle movement, will be herded into
two sections, one drilling in front
of the Amory, between the Arms-
EnrollmentPf 9,500 Is Seen By
Dr. lietzet If Grant Materializes
A ecm. d-M caking enrolbnent appi oxi
mately 900 .indents withlis three
years if the proposed new $4,099;000 build
ing program should mate! ialize „vas visual
lied here yesterday by Presideq2 Ralph D
Iletzel
This would be an inclease of :about 3,000
students over the anticipated enrollment this
fall and would place Penn State's student body
among the laigest in the East
Through consta action of additioiq looming
facilities foi more than 000 studimts undei
the pioposed ploglam, however, the F litopoi bon
or students les:ding on and off campus would
lemain piactlcally the same
Of the increase in the student' iMiollment,
appiommately 2,100 would be compelled to
live off. campus
Should the new ptomain matelialize, the val
ue o f the College's physical plant would be
doubled.
Belie the pi esent five-million-tiellal pro-
A.A. ,Budget
Has Surplus,
Of $5,39.119
Income, Expenselitures
Shmblncrecise
=II=EMIMiI
A surnia - tif $5;893.1.0 area realtz:"
ed by the Penn State Athletic As
sociation during the year ending
June JO, according to the annual
financial report released Yestet (WY
by Neil 10 Fleeting, graduate
managet of athletics
The surplus 1N clb as Decrease of
nearly $l,OOO over last year's sut
plus of 84,436 92
Grid Deficit Dwindles
Pilmary factorb for the rise
were a $6,000 slash in the football
deficit and an Increabe of $17,-
43611 in income trans all sources,
Including more than $14,000 In
ticket bales and guarantees
While aggregate income zoomed
to 5145,193122, expenditures also
lose to $140,13303, compared to
$123,70919 for the previous year
$116,000 For Sports
Conduction of intercollegiate
sports Involved an oath* , of $114.-
831 83 us against 8102,228.12 the
year before, while cost of admin
istration also robe from $16,93107
to $18,856.20 Maintenance of Bea
ver Field was $4,500
Income received from student
tickets totaled $47,849'28, ticket
sales and guarantees, 965,55839,
faculty season tickets $2,023, and
Beaver Field concession. $149 55
Deficits were recot ded to all 16
snorts, a Ith track piling up the
biggest, 79,914 23 , 2
Other sports deficits Baseball,
$7,678 49, basketball, 95,468 17,
wrestling, $4,844 59, lacrosse, $4,-
17835, soccer, $3,753 42, football,
8.1,151 83. cross-country, $3,069 01,
boxing, $2,691 42, golf, 32,460 91;
swimming, $1,374 45, gymnastics.
$1,328 96, fencing. $1,127 19. ten
nis, $83874, and rifle, $15690
ory and Main Engineering, an s il
the other section drilling in back
of the'Armory, facing the old li
brary.
Sophomore 'actin c classes, mean
while, will be held in Rooms 24 and
25, White Hall (new women's
gymnasium) while freshmen will
meet in the Armory_ Locker Room
and Room 100, Horticulture Build
ing.
gi am was launched, the plant was valued at an
estimated $10,000,000 Completion of both State
Authoi ity Nog' ams would add another $9,-
000,000 to its value
Meanwhile, the special committee named
to recommend pnolects foi immediate con
struction under the present PWA extension
has included in its report plowman for a
long-range program here imolving M1,227,-
119.
Too lunch time was imputed foi thawing
plans and specifications to pci nut inclusion of
the long-rangy fungi:lm widen the ptesent
PWA extension, the committee explained, but
added it believed that PWA laws would bere
enacted by the next Congress and "that no sub
stantial loss in federal giants will lie omit
sioned by this regrettable but necessary de
lay"
The report was approved by Governor
George If Earle and sent to the full General
State Authority Boat d for further action
President Considers
,:General Convocation
For School And Town
genelal faculty, town, and
- school convocation such as was
hhld last year with the Pies-
L 4nt„ of the College as the chief
m under .consideration
lix'President Hetzel,,,,the
Sineathe'llOl'ding Of iiiifyeaf•V
convocation in Rea -Hall, the
Luilchng has had sound woofing
applied to all the walls, the am
plifying system has been /111-
ptoved and a new $4, 1 300 elec
tric'oigan has been purchased
No Book Mail
This Fall—Peel
Senior Class Prexy Declares
Lack of Space, Leader
Prevents Opening
There will be no student book ex
change this semester, Joseph A
Peel, _seines class president, re
vealed yesterday
Reasons given lot the discontin
button of the plan were the lack of
space trt which to store books and
the fact that no one has been
found to take charge of the ex
change
Conducted by the Independent
patty, last year's book mart col
lected second hand books from stu
cents and sold them to other. stu
dents
A maximum percentage charge
of two-thirds of a book's value was
set and a small service fee was
paid by both seller and the put
chasm of the books Nearly 1,000
books were exchanged
These is a possibility that the
student exchange will be operated
again nett semester, Peel said
Helen Faust Named
Assistant To Dean
Miss Helen F Faust '3O has been
appointed assistant to dean or
women en charge of sophomores
While attending school here.
Miss Faust was a charter memben
of Cwens and 1 , , now extension
,chairman for the. national organt
' zation She was president of W
S G A. during her senior year and
is a member of Mortar Board, Pi
Gamma Mu, and Kappa Delta Pi.
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Registration
Ends Today
At 5 O'clock
Semester's , Classes
,• Start Tomorrow
.111)Dereluaa regtaArallon
al 5 o'clock this after noon in Rec.
leation Hall
Beginning Yes lei di*, i eglett a
lion will be rebooted at. S SO o'-
clock thle morning and continue
until 5 p m, with only an bout -
and a half break at noon
The usual $5 hue, for tardlnens
will go into effect after 5 p m to-
day, Regisnar William S Hoffman
announced
Students must repot t to their
scheduling officers to obtain ap
proved belted ul eb Wore going to
Recreation Hall, %there they will
till out the necessary blanks in the
same manner as last year Matricu
lation cards will be needed
Fees mill not be paid until ni
de} and Saturday, September 22.
and 23, from 9 a m to 5 p in In
the' Ai morY A. A. books %%11l be
distributed at this time
Meatus bile, classes will begin at
1 10 o'clock tomorrow afternoon
The borne schedule—including
hours from 8 to 12 and 1 to 5
will be in effect, inasmuch as Ray
V Watkins, scheduling officer,
turned down a proposal for 7 JO
o'clock classes by substituting ad
(lamina 4 o'clocks
WRA Meets Today
The Women's Remotion Asso
cation will meet flom 2 to 4 P
m today in Room 110, Home Ec
(nomics Building
Interclass Budget System
Reports $22,070 Balance
A net balance of $22,070 80, including $17,473.91 in LaVie saving
by three upper classes, was repotted by the Tameless Budget System
in its annual statement released yesterday by Neil 11 Fleming grad
uate manage' of athletics
Recepits from souices totaled $92,62495, while e‘pendituies wets
$4l 677.90. The surplus of $997 05f—
thus gained was added to last! (Senna Ball, Junior P , mn, Soph
year's net balance of $21,129 75 to ' Hop), 58,40099, Student Union
cteate the new balance
$22,000 From La Vie
Princ , ple. items of income weie
from class assessment for gene's!
activities and La Vie, totaling $22,-
13018, cap-and-gown deposits.
$4,671.95; class dance subscrip
tions (Senior Ball, Junior Piom,
Soph Hop), $5,675, Student Un
ion (mainly fiom dances), $1,153.-
24, freshman-clinks, $585 76; invi
tations, announcements and pio
giams, $723.70; Lion Coats, $726 -
25, and Junioi Blazers, $364 65
Interest on LaVie savings accounts
was $452 81.
Expenditures were distributed as
follows: LaVie, $11,079.39; cape
and gowns, $6,120.07, class dances
Ph Millions Okayed
By State Authority .
For Immediate Use
$2,500,000 Also Expected For Four Men's
- Dorms; Plans To Be Submitted
At Harrisburg Today
An additional four-million-clollai grant to the College.
including a conditional outlay of 2. 1 /z millions foi additional
dormitories, hinged today upon final approval by the Public
Works Administration
Such, 4 least, were the indications here as President
Ralph D Hetzel plepaied to piesent hnal project plans to
the General State Atithoi ity before submission to state and
federal PWA officials
Would Begin by Jan. 1
Deadline for tiling plan:,
with the PWA is September
30 The projects would be
launched before the end of the
year.
Recommended by a special com
mittee named to study ptojecti
for immediate construction undei
the pr-sent PWA Atension, a con
sel tt cl op pi Ogl g,11) kne.Neitalte
ly of l3additions to.piesent striic
tines and involving an outlay of
$1,576,094 already ha, been an
proved by Goveizior George H
Exile and the Gemini State Au
thority ,
Surprise Announcement
Meanwhile, although the 1 1 / 2 -
million-dolial grant came as a
tontine climax to a detailed com
mittee study, the announcement of
o. possible additional gi ant of ap
pioximately 2 1 / 2 millions came as
surmise revelation by Sen Ed
n aid Jackson Thompson (D , Cen
tie); who has championed most of
the state's school const•uction leg
islation, including the General
State Authority Act
However, while the $1,576,091
grant would be made outi fight an
del the existing PWA-General
State Authority Setup, the addi
tional 2 1 / 2 millions would conic on
ly on condition that the funds 0€
used to constiuct income-beating
lanfdings, the operation of which
would peimit amoitization of 55
pei cent of that amount, the total
supplied by the state itself
The other 45 pea cent would
conic as an outfight grant by the
federal government
Plans fm both pacts of the pia
gi am, which will be mibmitted to
the Authoi ity today by Pi esident
Reuel, follow
Pact I (designed fin immediate
(Continued On Page Six)
$2,91126, Blue Band, $1,458 15;
class numeral, awards, $1,400;
iteshinatt disks, $948.24; invita
tions, announcements and pi o
gi ams, $752509, Lion coats, $746.-
53; and Junior Blazers, $920 45
Class Fund Surplus
\ Final surplus in the '3B class
treasury was $53,86332, due pu
=lily to the iecoid-breaking prof
it-of $2,062.91 realized at Sento,
Ball. The surplus non is estab
lished as the permanent class fund
Approximately - 8,500 invitations
announcements and programs were
sold for mid-year and June com
mencements Also sold weie 581
Lion Coats, 221 Junior Blazers and
;1,346 freshman dinks
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CAMPUS
COVERAGE
PRICE FIVE CENTS
October 6 Set '
As First Day
Of NYA Work
Over 1,800 Applications Out;
Must Be In Saturday
' 44 'l'o-ofie-Considerectr;:—:.
with last minute requests for
applications tot NYA. aid making
the total 'umbel issued more than
1100, Stanley D Maddox, College
infector of NYA, today revealed
that wink under this plan will not
begin until October 6
All applications for 2 , ,YA must
be in tile hands of the committee
on or before September 17, Direr
tor Maddox sold This_ alit give
I ettiruing upperclassmen sufficient
time to obtain a blank, fill it out,
and send It to their parents for
certification If, on returning to
college, they fled that such aid is
needed
Applications received after Sep
tember 17 ssill not he considered
In the first storing. although any
exceptional case that conies up
may be given consideration later,
he resealed
The federal apploptiation this
y eau will allow fot approximately
ben jobs ...-avetaging between $l2
and Sl4 each month
Tentative approval of students
will be based on the information
given In the college application
Students thus approved Hill then
1111 out a fedetal blank and final
selection will depend upon this
latter information
A program of eight pay periods,
each lasting u month, has been
planned Pay periods will - begin
on the sixth of each month and
end on the fifth of the following
month
Collegian Dance
. Opens Social
Calendar :-- - -
A subscription to the Collegian
means chat It implies—a copy, Of
°vet) , issue of the , paper for the
bthool year In the beginning of
school, hocevet, it means some
thing else in addition It Means
admittante tree of charge to the
tint big all Lanese dance of the
social yeah
This dance, annually sponsored
by the Collegian, has always serv
ed as the starting Point or many
boy-meets girl acquaintance -This
year it a, ill be held as usuaLin
Rm. Hall and the music will be
furnished by Jack Ingham and hts
band
The dance 19 scheduled for Fri
day night. October 7, and with
Big
ham, a well lowa n song writer for
the Thespians, as the maestro, it
promises to be another in, the long
line of successful Collegian dan
Les WILL you be there?