Semi-Weekly ' L:E: - Y 1 - ' SUCCESSOR :cult a ittfttr _,,-. 7 ,_, lttx , la , _ egitittit COMPLETE QAmpus To The' Free Lance, ' (OA4:-` 3 ) , COVERAGE Established 1887 , I • “. ~:•r--i- \::?/-..-;',/ \::?/-..-;',/ , . - _ , - VOLUME 35-NO. 40, - Z 658, Two Campus Records Fall As Sororities Pledge 142 s : A • G .l .ii. . „ , ...I ~i ~,,.... , •,, Kappas' 24 Tops '3'6 High; Thetas Second With 17 :Pledging Sunday In 11 Houses 25 Over 1937 High; 235 Bids Sent To 173 • _ . Women; 30 Refuse .Sre also "IVc 'Pomo'," on Page 2 and complete IN' of itletlycs, Page 4. ' , Tivo campus i ecords-in sorority rushing were shattered as women's houses ended their two-weeks formal rushing 'Period Sunday night With a total of 24 pledges, Kappa Kappa Gamma broke - the previous record of 2L women pledged by Kappa Alpha Theta in T 1936: The eleven houses as a whole / pledged 142 'ions high of 117 in 1937. Of the 235 bids 'sent out to 173 women, 30 'were refused, one wo man was absent, and 142 were ac cepted Bids were accepted by 119 out of 145 fieshmen, 11 out of 14 sophomores; 11 out of 12 juniors, and one gi aduate student ' Among -the individual- houses, Kappa 'Alpha Theta was 'second after Kappa Kappa Gamma-with 17 pledges, and -Chi Omega and Alpha 'Omicron i'i _tied for third place with 16 'each \ Gamma Phi Beta pledged 12, Alpha Chi Ome ga, Alpha-Epsilon Phi, and Delta Gamma' received 11-,pledges each; Tlielb. 2 ;Piii:AlPlia - ,l%.iedge - d 710 , rPhi- Mu, 8, and Eukratia, 5 A two weeks silent period for women who have not been pledged started Sunday, aftei which there will be open rushing and pledging New second semester women stu dents may not be r'ushed_until next full , New pledges will -wear the col-' ors of their houses until tonna] pledging which most houses will hold within a week At that time - they will receiVepledge pins Colors of the pledge 'ribbons aie Alpha Chi Omega, red and green,' Alpha _Epsilon Phi, greenl and white; Alpha °tuition Pi, led and white, Chi Omega, car dinal and straw; Delta Gamma, pink, blue and gold;, < Eukiatia, purple and gold, Camila Phi Be ta, mode and brown, Kappa Al pha Theta, black and gold; Kap pa Kappa Gamma, light and dark blue, -Phi , . Mu, rose and 'white, and Theta Phi Alpha, silver,' gold bnd blue women, 25 'more than the prey Rumors :Mark Aivakenipg - Pf Political, Life Cliques Prepare For Wars; Bartholomew, To Lead '4l Independents Wlth,rninors cirCulnling far:and Bide as class elections, draw near, the Tont'cal - column swings back into action Selection of Williant - ll' Barthel einem, '4l as chairman✓ of the Sophomore Independents at a see dal meeting In Old Main Sunday. completes the line-up of climb clubmen in each dabh Leonard Cooper '4O, II Edward %mum '4l and John W Craw ford '42 ate the Combine Clique heads Bartholomew joins lames R Satisser,, '4O and Gerald Doherty 'l2 as Independent lead ; ers in their respective classes . , All group!, have held at least ono organization meeting • since the second semester began. but ,little has been Atecomplished, in' the eloetion line at norgathering. ,_Bartholomew's selection came di; a surprise In view of the fact that he had attended several Cam pus Clique meetings lion ever. -Itaditationi 'point to- his being a strong leader among the Indepen dents Ile bus called an open Meeting of all sophomores inter ested In. the Independent Clique fp; Old Main next Sunday . Faint DoctoW Give Old Main ' -Ne'w Facicir , Foi the first tune since 1929, ,the intelior of Old Main is being "given a $7,000 beauty , treatment .With biuslies'of all-sizes, eight "beauticians" are _spieuding 960 - gallons of "lilac lane" paint over 280,592 square feet. , The'expeits_liove been working 'diligently,for the past few weeks under the direction of Dan Krum rme, ,foieniati, who sayi, "We` are 'doing our pail to add toter to col lege life." • ;Although the artists ale unable to have their Massive client decked in green, bull, and cream 'color, , time fol. the Easter , parade, , Krumiine believes the treatment J tvnll be completed ,before summer vacation , Seabbaid And Blade ',,,,:111ay Initiate James Governet tkethur B \James may , be initiated as an honorary mem .,ber 'of 'Scabbard. and Blade, ac .cording to Wdlidm S. Crumhsh, ,jsresident.,The ceremony will take ~ '"place about Anril, , l: a. Exigovernor John S. Fisher and '.Major General , Edward C. Shan inon,l.Cominaridmg Officer of the .PennsyDiania National Guard, are lath honorary members of the se. 'elety,,,having been initiated here. ALLOTS -$476,130 11 1 '11 ii l l i , , 'lllll, Fans Requested Not 7, ' To Smoke in Rec Hall ,Spectator; at athletic event, this week-end are aim request ed not to smoke , vbile in Recre atiun Hall, because of the recog nized ill-effects of smoke-laden nit "upon` the ',anticipating ath letes This requeset has been made by members ,of - the Physic al Education faculty Will Meet Here In Summer Several thousand Members of the CoUntry` Life Ashomation of America will meet here for Once days, next' summer, 'from August .I 0 to September 2. , Senior Ball - 1300th Depos its Must Be At-S.U.,By 5 P.M. ' All fiateinittesdesiring to ies night must pay the regular $5 de. 5 p in today, Co-chair Man Thome Furmslungs for the booths should be at Rec Hall soon after noon Winner of the sing-titling Lon• test; for, the new number written by Senior Ball maestro Duke El lington had not been chosen when the Collegian went to press, pend ing arrival of the manuscript from Ellington Which will be used in judging the titles sulimitted:::, Over .100 entries were 'received andi:judges Edward J Nichols, Hummel Fishbuine, and J. E "Sock" Kennedy are picking thOse titles which they feel may be ap propriate for an Ellington song. Beal said that the warmer would Dean Okays . Independent \Unification Endorsement Rests Plan With Student Body "I am inteiested in the success of any' legitimate movement for impiovlng the recreational oppor tunities of out unorganized men students" With this statejnent, Arthur R Watnock, Dean of Men, yestei day endorsed the student movement to oiganire all non-fiaternity men into a socially and politically solid group - Explaining that the success of the movement depends upon the amount of promotion and pal Mei patios that student leadeig can get from interested students, Dean Win neck said that the plan would icceive all the help that College officers could give, "Howevei," Warnock insisted, 'the first move is up to the student body • "In the experience -of mid westei univeisities whei pio gicss of this kind of effort has been made," 'Warnock said, "two significant facts stand out One is 'the necessity for small units as a framework for iccieational plan ning—each with Its own social and athletic managers The second is the fact that the impetus back of such 'movements must come veil , largely from the students themselves", Faculty - efforts.to organize and promote movements of.this kind have:unually:lnad-thraugh',Jack of student - cooiferatton, Warnock pointed out.• Engineers Plan tint - Exhibit 15,000 Expected To Attend All-Engineering School Show Marcht_lB IThe College's first all-engineei ing open house will be held Satur day, March 18, it was announced yesterday by Frank Evans '39, in charge of publicity. Evans stated thatlipproximate ly 15,000 people are expected to attend the• one-day show, which will , display engineering work, re search, and plants of every type. The exhibit will be of interest to non-technical visitors as well as those who are more technically minded Formal invitations have been extended to all high schools in the state, as one of the purposes of the open house is to act as a vocational guide for high school students interested in technical subjects , In conjunction with the open house program, in rangements have...been completed for a StX Patrick's Day engineering dunce to be held in the Armory March 17 Yinnus; in charge of the dance, announced that Bill Babe's band will provide the music. .. The open house program, to be contained in all the engineering buildings, is-being prepared by a Lonumttee of nine senior engin eeting students headed by Nicho las Kay. i . .erve booths for Senior Ball Friday oosit at Student Union desk before s A Boal announced yesterday. be—notified and would receive his $5 prize before Friday. The title and song will be heard for the first tunic in public at the dance The ,Duke will bring to Penn State hts entire`oichesetra. includ ing Ivy Anderson, blues warbler featured soloist' for the bind. Tickets for Senior Ball will go on sale' at the A. , A—ticket office Friday morning, and the sale will continue until the time of the dance. The price is , set at $3.85, per couple, with.dancing from. 9' until 2. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TU Outstanding Senior ToGetAnnualAward Collegian Junior Boariii Will Present Cup At - . Wisconsin Boxing Meet Lontinuing the practice inaugurated last year, the Collegian mill Present, its becond annual award to the outstanding senior mho has, in the opinion of the managing bodrd, "brought the most honor and prestige to the College during his four years," in Recreation Hall im mediately preceding the Penn State-Wisconsin boxing meet on Sat urday, March 4 Robert L Wilson,lmember of the junior board, will make the presentation The award,- an 18-inch brook 7 t choices, the members have nai. lowed the field to three and will -and ebony tiophy showing fig— !Owed then final' detasion by the pf Victory mounted on four- end of this week ,inch souffle base, was given 1.1 The Collegian would like to em- Sol B Niehoff '3B last year. Mie- phasire the fact that this award bolt, winnei of nine letteis eh I's not puiely on an athletic basis hree ht)01 LS, soctei,, basketball !Non is it palely a scholastic and Mack, and captain of the soc- inward It is an annual honor giv- cer squad us well as co-captain of en to the senior who has, when the basketball team and a stand- rye, }thing is taken into consid out in Eastern athletic cncics m elation, done most to further the all thiec sports, wa% the unarm- honor and piestige of Penn State noun choice of the board in his foul years of college. - This yeai's junioi board, which On the trophy will be engraved has sole say as to the recipient of Penn State Collegian Award, Out- the award, has a tougher job on standing ,Senior 1938-39, Present its hands , Starting with ten ed to Policy Upheld ' On Transfers Marquardt cites Favorable • Records Of Students Dr Carl E Alarquardt. College examiner, yesterday defended the College's policy toward admission of transfer students against criti cisms of Dr Walter A Jessup, president of the Carnegie Foam dation for the Advancement of :reaching, who, in the lird annual report of the Foundation, deplores the increabing number of transfer btud en 1.4 In colleges With the admission of 74 men and women as transfers, repro soling 17 states in addition to Pennsylvania, and hicluding one undergraduate from the University of Vienna, Austria, sewed semes ter trans fer enrollment here reached a new high Jessup says that these "fleet ing scholars" use colleges today us cafeterias and that most col leges accept„little n esponsibility tot .s m ell-balanced educational diet or for intellectual health _ Marquardt refutes this view point by stating that,out of 1,500 to 2,000 applicants each year, only about 500 transfer students are admitted to the College, includiug all sessions, lie adds that when transfers graduate a larger per centage of.them have higher mho lastly averages than" regular eta. dents "Often colleges stand. hat In hand, begging the student to come In, even if only for u short call," Jessup adds Amazed, Marquardt says, "this College, aL least,' never writes for credentials of students desiring to tranater from another Institution, even when the student requests us to do so Much less we ac tually Invite them to come here" — ln general, Jessup's hope for fu. lure limited transfer admissions is reiterated by Mat quardt, who feels, however, that "It is only when admissions ate granted ht discriminately that a problem arises" Housing Board Ready `,To Hear Complaints • Do unsantiary conditions exist in your rooming house? Are accomodations ample enough to care for all roomers? Do you have any'complaints with regard to housing to make? If so, report them-to the Student Housing Board, care of ,Student :Union. Complaints need not be signed and in any case - will be held strictly confidential The Housing Board at a - session in the Christian Associa ' tion Office Thursday night voted to begin action on complaints made by students. The group will most likely meet Wednesday afternoon with , 1a representative 'of. the Bgard of Health and a member of the Administration to clarify the Board's func tions and to initiate a specfie program of housing reform. .DAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1939 FOR BUILDING EQUIPMENT Two' Debaters • Ott 6-Day Trip Cohen, Sweet Face Six Foes; ' , Cohimbia, CCNY Meets ' Varsity debaters Charles G Sweet '.19 and David E Cohen '39 left yesterday, accompanied by Debate Coach Joseph F'. O'Brien for a six-day tour of eastern schools, meeting-six opponents Pump-priming and isolation are the principal issues as the State men match. wits with some of the best debate squads in the section Sweet and Cohen oppose Uni versity or Pennsylvania debaters in Philadelphia tonight and meet Rutgers, Queens College, City Col lege of New York. and Columbia on successive days St Joseph's College was met in Philadelphia last night ill a discussion "Re solved that the United States and Great Britain should corm an al " Friday's debate with C C N Y unmerning pump-priming will be broadiabl. over radio station WNYC at 430 p m The Colum bia debate on "Is Governinent a Profession' , will dist) be broad cast oval WOR at 12 neon Satur day ..- Freshman Collegian Candidates To Meet 8:30 P. M. Thursday The firbt meeting of candi dates for the editorial staff of the Collegian will be held on Thuthday at. 8 80 p in in 812 Old Main. All business candidates, in cluding those who have not re am Led as yet, should attend this meeting. Green To Lecture On Nature Prof George It Green, head of the department of nature educa tion, will speak on "Nature Cori seivatio.n" at a zoology and en tomology geminar to be •,lield March 6 at 4:10 p m. in Room 2 Zoology building. GIVES HIS SUPPORT Religion Week Is Commended By Dr. Hetzel President Is Chairman At Convocation Commendation of Religion in Life Week which will begin Sun day, was expressed yesteiduy by President Ralph Damn Hetzel, lion orary Outman of the week Said Dr Hetzel, "The Religion Life Week pavan) is - win thy of the scions attention of evely student It will pi esent an unusu al oppoi tunny which I hope the College - community will recognize and utilize to the utmost." As honoiaiy chaninan of the week, President Hetzel will pie side at the general convocation to be held Monday at 11 a m in Schwab Auditoiium foi which all classes will be dismissed. "Religion in Life Week napless es me as a typical American cotn mwuty pine, and it is in that spit it that we enter upon it," states Piof Victoi A Beede, head of the foi esti y depaitment and general dmn= of the week, when asked foi his views, "The success of the week will be incubated by the lasting intei cots whien tentaut ate' it is over," he added Both Phyllis IC Hea7og '39 mid J. Duain Mimic 'JO, student co chait men, gave , then conception of the week, Miss Heizog stating that women students who take ad vantage of this forceful yet un emotional piesentation of ieligion in modem life should receive in valuable 'Justine! benefit. A chance fot the men students to find in the counsels of the lead ers the answets to many a mob lem that has tome up in heated bull sessions was Moote's com ment on the enteiptise A new phase of the neck's ac tivities was also t evealed yostet day when it was announced that some of the speukeis paittemating nould appeal m classes as guest lectuseis, teaching subject' with which they ale well acquainted. Editorial The New Deal , IN THIS AGE of transition and rapid growth of the student body, a long-needed - rem gamsation of student gov ernment is finally nearing realization. For years these has been talk of reVising, eorgainz mg or "slemogralAzing" student government. The phrases sounded so well that pglitical demagogues proceeded to ex ploit them and make political capital out of the student body. Political platforms, once the order of the day, died out. When they did i eappear, most class Wheels either forsook the students and promoted their own interests or were stymied in their attempts to fulfill definite campaign pledges by non-elected bodies like the Student Board, which hit absolute gutter-bottom, last year when it threw its weight against the le-election of Joseph A. Peel :as class president by claiming him for not naming a dance com mittee before election, although the constitution of student - i (Continued On Pane Two) " OCW 12:401011WIUDIreflZfilia March 10 Is Set For Opening Bids On Six Contracts Federal Funds Promised For Equipment; Prospects Of Half Million State Grant Appear Dim ;weed M the CoUrgum HARRISBURG, Feb. 20 •An estimated $476,130 in led mai funds has been assured the Pennsylvania State College for h'.ed equipment to be installed in the new buildings now nearing completion here, Col Augustine S Janeway, execu tive director of the Gene] al State Authority, announced here. Bids on six contracts for laboratory and scientific and elects ical, equipment will be opened lime March 10, Colonel Janeway added 1 + + + Largest individual job provides rot the fui nishing and installation or laboi atm y equipment in the Chemist's , and Physics Building at an estimated cost of $161,000 Improvements also will be provid ed fen the Agi icultui al Science, Eteett nal Engineering, Minot al Industucs, Library, Foi esti y and Poultry Buildings The funds weie obtained by the College iitimaiy through the fact that the of ignial bid on consti ac tion of the buildings made by Mat thew H McCloskey, Ji , Philadel phia contractor, was appioximate: ly $600,000 below State Authoiny eqmiates College Needs 5500,000 More Betiuse iegulations of the Pub lit Woi Administt awn forbid the allocution of federal funds fot other than fixed equipment, the College will need about $500,000 mole to supply movable equipment and ttumture fm the new build ings PI OVISIOII Lot this mill be made in the state subsidy to the College to be included to Covet not James' budget lot the coming biennium, which is scheduled to be presented to the Legislatute nest Monday night With the Govetnoi's economy plan beating down sta mgently on all allocations, capitol cncles wets positive today that James would not giant anywhere neat $500,000 Lot th is, thus necessitating only pat ttal use of the new buildings Registrar To Take No Drop-Adds After Tomorrow Morning No drop-add slips will be ac cepted in the Registrar's Mime after tomorrow mottling, cc cording to Registrar William S Hotrtimil This is in atcoidance with the College iuling that no schedule changes ale to be made 11101 e than two weeks uftet the beginning of the semester E‘ceptions will be made alien di op-adds are accompanied by evidence that the ease is eatia oidinaly Teachers Rap James' Budget Cutting Plans Letter To Collegian Reveals Disapproval of "Money Sa% mg System" 13y,EDGAR V HALL, '4l In a h hat pl y winded letter to the Collegian, the Pennsylvania Fedi!' ation of Touche! s Joined the incteayng nauks of protestant, against Cove: not James' plan to balance the budget by cutting stbool emit on iations thi oughout the state Dethitnig, that "out gantza- Lion P 5 vet V much opposed to the pt oposal of the govet not that the apps opt iations to educational in stitutions shall he tut," Sara T Walsh, legislative teptesentative of the tale: talon, speaking NI the gt oup, placed it squat ely against James' proposed plan "We Icahn that this would ser iously affect the walk of state- Hided colleges," Miss Walsh con tinued "It is unfoitunate that Covet not James at, the beginning of his adnunistaution has taken a position foi seduced finances to education in coal avei sion to his pledge to guatantee adequate edu cational oppoitunity foi every boy and gill in Pennsylvania" Conference Arranged Alteady entei taming the plea of William MaLhet Lewis, out go,ng president of the Pennsyl vania College Presidents' Associ ation, foi "intelligent economy" in 41)1110P1 lam fot state supported educational institutions, and the change of e‘-state senate' Edward J Thomp.on that he was belittl ing the Thompson Plan because it oas ii Detnociatic intitiated measure, the govettioi arranged a joint confeience in Harrisburg vesteidav with spokesmen of edu. catoi and ham attains Sigma Delta Chi Circus Coming To Town 11 It's going to be a circus—when 'Y'ou see, pt ofessot s, College admrp -Ist' atot s and campus big-wigs stimuli in then seats as they are being "toasted" at Sigma Delta Chi's annual gi ninon banquet, Match 7 Each year, the professional journalism lionoiaty chooses a theme fin its vituperative expres siveness Skit% are mitten about, those who leave themselves, wide open, and dining the Louise of the banquet these skits ale acted out. This theme will be "A. Cir cm. And Side Show." The traditional swat do will al so be made ut the banquet. Penn State's outstanding loafer will get the brown dei by. The College chunk will receive the beer mug, and the big red apple will he pre sented to our outstanding hand shaker. Other outstanding indi vidualists will also receive prizes.
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