SUCCESSOR
To The Free Lance,
Established 1887
VOLUME 35-NUMBER 4 Z 658
Theta Nu Epsilon Found Guilty Of Rushing Violation
SHELLEY HINTS BUILDING 'IRREGULARITIES' HERE
Pledging Postponed
As Punishment For
Illegal Card Signing
Intensive Rushing To Be Resumed Today,
Tomorrow; Silent Period Will Be
Observed For 12 Hours
Charged with violating the Men's Rushing . Code when
it was discovei ed that they had signed date cards befot
7 o'clock Tuesday mot lung, Theta Nu Epsilon ft atm nity wa3
found guilty and penalized by the Judiciary Committee, it
was announced yesterday by Raymond S. Coskei y '39, In
tel ft atm mty Council pi esident
A 24-hour postponement of pledging was the penalty
inflicted by the Committee composed of Jack Putney, A How
'l y Espenshade and Sheldon C. Tanner
Fee Payments
For Freshmen
Close Today
Upperclassmen To Pay Fees
Next Tiluidav,' Friday'
On Armory Floor
a'avment of fees. following the
same pi, oceeduie as inaugui ted
last yea!, got under 'say in dw
Atmoi at 9 o'clock yesteidas
inol fling, a nth fi C%IIIIICII beginning
a too-day sthedule ttlttch will con
tinue until p m tonight
Uppei tlaksmen still make then
onymentf• next Thui sday and ii
dayy at the same haws pi esti ibed
fot ft eshmen
Seven alphabetved windows, to
facilitate payment, and avoid con
gestion, ace lined along the Ai mot y
dull floor They follow in the in
del No 1, An to Cog, No 2, Coh
to Gnc , No Gas to Jog, No 4,
Joh to Mak, No 5, Mn! to Rev,
No 5, Ref to Sto, No 7, Sto
Five dollar Fine for Lateness
The live-doll:1i line for late pay
ment will ensue again this year, it
was revealed at the But sties office
Appeals must be hled in witting at
This office battle .1 .M o'clock Mon
day afternoon
However, coopeiation of the stu
dents is asked by the achninistca-
Lion so that classes will not bi
missed because of fees
No gumming of towel-and-locl
tickets will he Issued in the Ai
aim v, but it pointed out that the,
ale mailable now at the Bonsai
office
Mason To Pick
Players' Cast
14 Will Enact 'Room Seisice:
Now Being Made Into
Ness Movie Comedy
Casting for "Room Service,"
first oflering of the Penn State
Players, rs earn mg its final phas
es, Prof David Mason, director of
the production which rocker
Ohoadum , for almost two {Tali,
Innounced yesterday
Nom being made into a movie
star ring the Mare Brothers,
"Room Service" mill be enacted by
a cast of 14 in Schwab Auditonum
cn October 1, before a Dad's Day
U thence
To Select Cast
The cast, Dii ectoi Mason, an
nounced, would be selected 'limn
the following Bet nat d Seidman
'4O, Joseph Dobbs '39, Hei bet t
Dmoshow '4O, Robci t Robinson
'4l, Clay Done , . '4l, Ruth Wag
net '4O, Robot t Thompson '4O,
Paul Dean '4O, Julius Maiymoi
'4O, Willai Racy '39, Coleman
Bendel '42, William Bat tholomew
'4l.
tirvitt, #tiatr oat,
z
g
1.•
/ass,
Compated to last yea' 's hgute,
applommately 100 less date (aids
%%et e sold this yea' Last you' ,
hgane totaled slightl3 oven 600
The olhend nun m,u6 this season has
been set at 517
Still in the fol mal engagement
pm lock intensive i ushing 01)01 a
bons will be resumed today as ;cell
as tomoriow Bleakfast, luncheon
ild (linnet date, cc ill continue in
the cegulai io , uttne _
At 7 o'clock tomorrow night
ushees will tutu in then pi etei-
RUSHING SCHEDULE
7 a ni to 10 a in —l3t eahfast
11 a in to 4 p m —Luncheon
5 p in to 10 p in —Diane'
TOMORROW
7 a m to 10 a m —l3teakfast
11 a m to 4 p m —Luntheon
S p m to 7 p in —thnnei
7 p in to 10 p in —Pule: -
enees' -
7 p m to 7 a m (Sunday)
—Silent
SUNDAY
7 a in to 2 p in —Open i u,ll
- and dating
2 p m to 3 p m —Silent
J p in to 10 p m —Open
i ushing
10 p m on—Silent ‘,
MONDAY
Silent until 6 p in
6 p m —Pledging
owe cat& After 10 in the I
C t uslung tonuntttee will classi
fy the cards At midnight fi tet
tittles niav pt ocut e .1 pt efei ence
list by calling at. Student Unioi
desk
Open uslung and dating t oll
begni at 7 o'clock Sunday inoining
and will continue until 10 p
A one-hour silent pet iod flint 1
to 3 p m will be °libel %NI, hou ev
et
Pledging at h o'tlntic Alontla
night %till climax the 10-(1.11. I ush
ing season
Coskciy, Council head, pointed
out that dates on Sundae Al CI no ,
binding and that tushees could
bleak engagements on am oso
cation whatsoever
Coslcety also 'fated that ham
mties could obtain blank bid caids
at Student Union upon the pay
ment of fist semestei dues
Pa atesinties must file signed bid
muds at Student Union by 11 o*-
clock Sunday night
Commenting on tni pi went
iushing status, Coskery said
"This yeas has been a teal hoise
as fan as fiateinity I ushing st
Penn State is concerned The new
code has been mote m less success
ful, despite numei ous flaws and
loop-holes. Those flaws have been
detected and the loop-holes can be
plugged up Next yeas a mole ef
ficient code can be assmed "
BILLY SOOSE
Penn State's latest product
soars to the foremost ranks
of Boxlana's middleweights
on the crest of an unbroken
victory wave. Read all about
him In
BETWEEN THE LIONS
On Page 3
PENN STATE COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PA , FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1938
Tomorrow Is Deadline
On NY A Applications;
Over 1800 Blanks Out
All applications foi NYA aid
must be in the hands of the tom
mitten by Saturday, Septembei
17, if they ate to be considered
in the hi st starling, Stanley B
Maddox, College dilecto: of N
A, recently announced
Ovei 1800 applications have
Rhum/ been handed out and the
committee will begin stating
them as soon as the deadline ha;
passed
Increase Seen
In Health Fee
For Next Year
Student Advisory Committee
'Co Discus , . Problem With
College Medical Staff
A decided inct case in the IlealLl
Setsice fee looms as a possibility,
foi nest y cm, with the student ad
visoly committee fot the SCI VI(A.,
planning a meeting tally ne‘:
%%eel:
Uneovei ing an old problem, Di
Joseph P Ritenout, College physi-
Cl.lll, said yestei day, "This new
committee will call a meeting short
ly to discuss the method of obtain
.ng student reaction about an in
ej ettse in the seryme.fee 11-, _
Acting on a suggestio7by 1)1
Ritenout last May, Semot class
ptesident Joseph A Peel and Dm is
Blakemme '39, president of W S
C A, named six men 1111(1 tht
%%omen to a Health Set rice studem
ethisoi y committee
Committee To Delve Into Problem
Louise A Haines 'A Alice It
Oral '4O, and Ell7abeth D Yost '4l
were the three women named li,
Miss Blakemme Peel appointed
Alan G Mclntyie 'l9„ Raymond II
Hammel 'JO, Earl E Folkemoth
'lO, Henry bi Hams '4O, Arnold
Fenei 10. ht '4l, and Louis A Sipos
'II
The student group of 12, one wo
man and two men to be added from
this veal fieshman dash, will dis
cuss health service problems with
the staff in order to give the stu
dents what they want
"An teal ease in the fee would
merely lie a much better lIISUI unix
policy for one's health while in
College," Di Ritenom declined Is
discussing the change
Many students who need hospital
care never get to the hospital, ii
was pointed out The ',Liget fee
would give fiee inturnaly servica
for an extended pet and those
who paid the fee and never became
ill would benefit as the sy stem
would take the disease can :el out
of calculation more so than unde
pi esent Conditions
`Me Homesick? No! My
Old Man Kicked Me Out'
I walma go home'
Oft repeated by homesick ft esl
plume, those wade symbolize tl
lemma go home to Ma and the hie
~ ou could walk up the sheet and
Penn State you found a stiange
whine you Arne just auothet guy
and Impel el.m.men
Conducts Survey
How did the Class of 'l2 solve
this gnawing feeling of desertion'
Of 25 freshmen contacted in a Col
legian survey conducted though
out the neck, lq admitted that
then homesickness passed with
time
As a gal limn Scianton put it
' I got to know a few other flesh
men, acquainted myself with thy'
mood' of the campus, I shut out
lonic horn my mind, making
tremendous effort to fuse myself
into the Penn State spurt of
things I suddenly found myself
Nsiiting, home that the Penn State
cloud was a swell eicmd"
Queer. to say the least, oet e
some of the other panaceas fo:
nostalgia lot wet ded b, foi met ly
afflicted newcomers
"I just talked myself out of it.
Why should I lony, fm home' Af
Freshman Registration
Establishes New State
Record As 1714 Enroll
1309 Are Admitted To Local Campus; 105
Enter Mont Alto; 300 Go To
Undergraduate Centers
Lat ges't tt eshnl,w class ei ti
Unit eioity'
That is the di %Unction claimer
Hoffman, College i egista at
Total tilillll,,lollN to the ft est
imin r lass on the sis Penn State
tamouseo cc et e 1,714 on Simtembet
Of this total, 1300 Mete admitted
to the fi eohnian cl too on the cam
pus het e, 105 to Mont Alto', Foi
csti p School, and 100 to the under
oi actuate centers—Pit 800, Union
'own, Hazleton, and Potts, die
Dui mg the tegubu fteohni
,egisti a turn poi toil last is cc 1., 1,201
Inembei s of the Ciao, of 42 on oli '
ed hole This r , as molt the ciao ,
quota', but it uao believed that
maot 11101 c i egistei ed with tly
uppei classes on Monday and Tue.
day
Bp five o'clock Tuesday, a total
of 0,798 undo gt aduates t egt,tei, it
ui the College With 410 undo' gi lid-
Composition
Department
Exempts 20
Twenty fieshman were exempted
it oni English Composition I as I
result of the English Usage test
given dui ing Freshman Neel.,
The exempted students may take
English Composition I, of ma,
choose some other English Com
position , English Litetatuie, 01
Join Holism tout se In tin, case,
they get no ci edit for English
Composition 1
The student. who received e•ein
!Awns ate Helen T Bt yant, John
D Ghillie, John P Dubois, Aloi ton
Goldberg, Robert L H a nder,
E Haiku's, IVdham P
Hindman, Matgatet 0 Krug
Mace E Lehm, George D Len
ington, Esther A Lloyd, William
M Renshaw, Rhoda F Samuel.
John W Schultz, Mut tay L Seh
wat tz, Grace M Seim Solomon
Bn die, Ralph B Stu awbtidge, Jean
F Weaver, and Jane Al Roush
Average Omitted
The scholastic a velage earned
by P 1 liappa Alpha liateinilt dol
ing the second semester uas
Inad
vertently omitted in the last issue
The house average cup. IM.
•hmen, in a seemingly hostile a tmos
that feeling tt hen you feel you
wide At home you neie somebodt ,
Say "hvah" to et ei vbody But at
voi Id, a woad aloof, sophistication,
in a whaling 111.1lq of chubs, book ,
to all, my old man locked me out
of the house, and said, 'lnn, you're
going to college" So I Mould nol
iy, No'"
Necking Solves Problem
Another freshman confided that
a little gentle necking helped to
, olve Ilea problem while a philo
sophic neophyte pointed to Old
Main towel and said, "That thing,
lighted up at night, uould make a
I abv feel at home in due time"
The ovc helming inajoi dy of
those asked, howevei , e•plaipeil
that bull sessions, mutual cot&
denies, and a nsing list of as
wiped out the lad
emnant of longing foi the old
home town
"That cow shed on Ag Hll," an
?palm unfolded, "is a sale cute
foi lonesomeness I like Lows I
like milk tod kle pop is a swell
hand at milking"
enroll in a Pennsylvania College on
foi the chi, of '42 by William S
uate (mite' students, 125 at Mont
Alto, and 15 education students
doing pi attic,: teaching «m Is of
the campus at the pi esent time, this
maks a total 0f4,10b 000 0010110(1
in the College, a :Hi :Ane late
iegisti ants still expected Lact
10th'., total legistiation was onto
1 1111DLHoffman believe, the Cod
loge will I ant. about twenty-thnd
in sue in the country this %ea]
l'he leasen roi such I age flesh
Mall Classes (It 001110
MI Holtman explamed, is that fn
• eal medical, lint and dental •tu
dents aie listed as fieshman If
only nutlet giaduates e 1011%1(101-
ed, he is cei tam that neithei Perri •
reIIIPIC, 1101 Pitt has eve) hail a
lai gel freshman group than Penn
Slate's Class of 1912
WSGA Q Lists
11 Eligible
Candidates
Eleten candidates foi the housa
of teptesentatwes net e nominated
Ut the N't SGA senate committee at
t meeting Tuesday night in Room
'.05, Old Mani It at thei nonuna
lions mill be made at "jou!, meet
ings, to be held in each %%omen'
Om manly Monday night
At the elections Monday, Sep
tembet 20, 22 women will be se
cited as [cut esentatives one flora
each of the ten ftatei nines, one
ft not Gt ange, one ft om W omen t.
Building, one from each of the
I've coopetative houses, three from
Fiance, Atherton Hall, one front
the town gills, and one from the
gi I Is mot king of Invtng in town
Committee Acts Ex-Officio
The senate committee's nominee.
I nc Giange—Jean M Chew '4l
and Bettt E Hearn '4l, Women'.
M Menell '4l,
rot theast wing of Athol ton Hall--
Eleanoi L Fagans '4l, Vela L
Kemp '4l, and Bea tI Douthett
'4l, southeast wing, Athei ton—
Chailotte S Knabb '4O and Nancy
Amp '3O, southwest wing, Athol -
ton—Mai pule A Hal tek '4l, M
illed L Long 'lO, and Hai nett L
Dayton '4l An ads trots committer ,
composed of a ieptesentatne ftom
the Dean of Women's office and
cue fi am the chapoons' house will
act as eN numbers of tit
house
S A 1,. Vonpol mg a tr an,-
fei mic n lation pi °gram solo to
the getum spony ms plan and head
ed by Josephine A Keener, chair
man of the Image of t ept esenta-
In es Marcia I, Mtn fing 'ill has
Leen named Lhan man of the Fian
ces Athei ton dining -loom commit
tee
Copies At S. U. Desk
Subsu lbels to tile Collegian
oho do not I eiei‘ e Melt Lopy of
this Issue by dell err !nth obtain
it upon pt esentation of I eceipt at
the Student Union desk in Old
Alain
RUSHING
IS in full swing now among
the College's 51 fraternities.
Hundreds of freshmen and
upperclassmen will be Inuit•
ed to join. Get a complete
PLEDGES
In the next issue of the
COLLEGIAN
Out Monday Evening
rgiatt
Heads Centers
+ + +
Centers Make
Advancements
In Five Years
Slat led As Exnenment, Fom
Eslablishments Hose
150 Enrollment
By PAUL HALDEMAN
in ISM font joule] gt !ulna le Len
eel sTht el e established In the Col
lege on an exnet line:Hal basis
In I'll I these foul totle, !tete
eutganizell a ith a total
ment of 111
'hla% the loin molel chiliad le
centeis at Dultok, Uniontown
Haileton and Potts, ille one pie
pat mg CIO students tot ad, anced
standing as ,ophoinoie, ul Jun
lot, at an) Institution to Moth
Him may lutes tusk to ]a nsfei
L idea Pat ul R Ptigh smug vi
the nutlet graduate e entei s
h. ve satosfie I the need. of MIA
in then live Peals' eystenee
Established On Requests
Celtic's ,]e !dished on the
basis ot n equests him hops e,enta
e leaders of an at ea In u Inch
the need is telt Con educational
facilities tot high Scheel giadliateS
pn china ail to take collegiate n ot k
but it ho find it Wad% liable to
lease home
After an extenst! e soil et of
such an .tea, the College estair
holies andel g't ado,' te centers to
meet this need
All uhembeas of the teaching,
staffs ate full time teat hots ho
testae in the cats of the Centers
ultich the% sense, but n esnonsibil
its till all subject molter n cots
m telt a esitiont delta] [meta heads at
the College
Recognized by Larger Institutions
Stundai 0, or In,ti nt thin In the
Celltelo nol4l parallel those tol
toned on the eimPue to date
student, tune mit.ce,..4 nth ti ass
felled to 101 colleges wad lints etsi Questioned ,cocoa sing I
on
ties full
tine Penn State
akin' , 01 IT made lo
;ai ‘ in" such as ( i ieliatai g Shelton to the house tonnidttee,
utenni sinntlig J 0,11110 1". P lu i" I official.. of the Mt Clu,kei, loot
at 1 ' 1 ' 1" "' l" ' and lnh pan% bete refused to snake ant
(Continued On Page Four) I statements
Dances Of Student Union
Make Hit With Freshmen
Ihe Ft (..1) had a gavial hi eak
With over 1500 pet Son, each after noon doing the shag and v.altz
mg a dials, the seises of infoimal Student Union dances in the Ai mots
lust Thin sdar, Ft Ida% Monday and Tuesday moved a social highlight
of Fieshman Week
Not only wet e the first teat
lotualize, but the tippet classmen
squeezed then tins in to get at
quamted Alai' the nett el faces of
the fan et ses nab the nmot ation
cf these dances ht George L Don
wan, manager of S U
Attempting to gise the ft eshmen
something to do din ing the days
Ns hen they wei e slighted bt the
' hatet ratty men wider the egula.
Lions of the newt ushing code, Don
to an tnaugut ated the "dame by I
!mantling" drat! s
And the dances—just lihe those
of last spi 11 n ti emendous
success
Iri all piolmbilth thee Minns
Anonymous Letter
Precipitated Probe,
Prosecutor Avers
Charges McCloskey Appointed Inspectors
Himself; Would Like To Check
Mortar On Job, He Says
Spry pal lo Jhr I °Willa"
HARRISBURG, Sept 15—Thee e ate "in egulauttes" in
the hte-nulhon-rlollat buthling plogiam now undet way at
the Pennsylvania State College u inlet the joint sponsoi,,lllp
of the Genet al State Aut hot tty and the Public \Voi k, Adnun
pat allot]
Such was the hint passed het e s ester (las by Dauphin
County Dish ict Attoi nev Gn I B Shelle, a Inle testifying
before the special house commuttee, In e , ,ligating pat( and
Cm t option chat ges against Gus et not Geni ge f I Eat le and 1.1
olhei tanking adnunistiation and Demo atic patty leadeis
Ins estigation Held .
Appealing befme the com
mittee for the sixth straight
day, Shelley had lust complet
ed his testimony concet wag
charges of graft and "megu
tat in the new State Fin
ance Building now being con
sti acted heie under the Stale
Authmity when he shifted to
the State College poled
Saving that the Stite
(mot' action Job wa. one of four
I e had been nive.twatnig, Shelley
"W . F cci tautly could cant to
,tiltoena the al,pectol s becau.e
out ificounation lb that they 1112
Alt( loskey's (1 1 .111 apponitaleat. "
the efei elite %%iv., to Matthei
II AttCloskev, Philadelphia tan
atm and Demoti attic pal Ly lead
CI, who holds the construction ton
II at at the College
Would Check Mortar
then Lame the blow-oft
"tVe would want to died, the
mottot on the job beeause—" hk
lleie he . t‘ti suddenly inteitupt
ed tit Albeit T Thomas, tounsel
to] the committee
"As I untleistand it," nom.,
said, "you have nothing on this es
tept an anonymous letter''"
"I es," Shelley replied
No check has been made of 111-
changes allegedly contained to the
'vile! Shelley claims he possesses.
the (lista ict atom icy added
Reached by the Collegian at hie
home tel e bull Shelley det lined
to continent WI thol 011 the !Mittel
mcomei s given an oppoi tunitv to
mill be continued tmo aftet moons a
meek in the Atngny, but it is not
definite \Vetch your faveHte col
lege nemkpapet tot tutting details
Whethei of not ft eAman men
Mill be pet nutted to attend such
Student Union dances tests o ith
a decision by the High Lot ds of
the Student Ti buna I—and the
men of '42 shouldn't count to
heavy on being thet e
Ft CSIMIaII women it. ill definitely
not be pet nutted to attend the
Ai sooty social pallet :figs until
after then three week non-dating
pet and e•pn es -
CAMPUS
COVERAGE
PRICE FIVE CENTS
62 Out Of 65
Get Exemption
From Customs
Student Ttibunal Passes On
Freshman Applications;
Meets Tuesday
Mote than Oft ft °simian applied
tot eu.nnitiont. front otven lug
tp.ton.., itt the hi meeting of
the Student Ti atonal, Tueada,
night
Ill‘emptton- %tete granted to G 2
of the applicants, the most pie , u
lna I C.I St,ll being above the age
I nit of 21 A fem. mote %%et e or
tepted EICC.III,e they %el e tt art s
et s hem nthet colleges u het a
ustonis %%et e olptel ed
Issue Warning
T Mandl announced that meet
iti4s could he held evert. rueida,
is ening at 7 30 in Room 305 Ohl
Blum, and that any additional ap
plicants fot exemption s would be
head at that time
Tilhun,ll, o Inch to made up of
I get nai d A Bt tggs, Het het t B
Joseph I Cohan, Victor E
Genttlinan, and George \V Yeek
eittots, again issued a
sal mug to fieshmen, as folios s
"We tt ish to reiterate that ant
tiolatm of customs till be -dealt
utth set et eh Thole is a derma.
pm pose fat these etzstont, and se
have been appointed to see that
they ale olisett ed to a "I*
"Some ft eshmen have been eat -
me high talmol namet al and let
tci t,seatei 9—this is a violation of
etr loins, and sill be dealt with a.
guilt eshmen ate also saute.'
hsl thet ate not to seat the,,
name lag, on then dmhs—the tag.
ate to he stun on the jacket ot
sea tel
"All uppeiclas;l»en ale request
ed to aid the Tithunal by tuining
in the name of any violator at the
Student Union desk in Old Main"
Washington Pastor
To Speak In Chapel
The Reseiencl Di Howard S
Wilkinson, Ream of St Thomas
Episcopal Chinch ni Washington.
D C, wheie Picsidcnt Roosevelt
Atends, mill be Sunday's chapel
speakei
Di Wilkinson is a graduate of
Dickinson College, Boston Univei
sitv School of Theology, the Epis
copal Theological School in Caitl
in idge, Mass . and received the de
gice of D D Dom the University
of Southein Caltfoinia
Dui mg the famous Boston police
ike. Di Wilkinson did duty as
a mototevle policeman during th•
meal, and solved his palish on Sun
day, Poi the past summer, he wa , '
Exchange Recto' at Smiths Parish,
Villa Mont Elate, Bei muda