_ , - Semi:Weekly " - - - , COMPLETE , ( ,/," ---- 0...M104 .-- 4, 4ir r:- - - - "7 j&Cre . it CAMPUS kit - 1 EA COVERAGE tit ' c 7 , l‘' OA • I ) ' ' 2/ t.,,,,,,,, ''' • r ‘,.., tafr • ~I vr,::::?,c3 . 0 r i ' l. ‘.' li , ;,,-!'-:,.-! - -','- , 7 / , .. , ii _ , .. VOLUME 35—No A 2 a5B 4 Lion Boxers Bye Into Intercollegiate Semi-Finals SENATE mus ,pE, 1 1N Foßo Draw. Gives Army Edge To Repeat Schweitzer, Sibiestri Bich In Line-Up For Meetings Spam! to the Collegian NEW YORK, March 6 Drawing byes in the 127, 135, 175 and unlimited classes, Penn State's boxing team au matically placed four men'ln the semi-finals of the 16th annual Eastein Intercolle - mate Boxing Asociation tournament, to lie held at Syracuse Friday and Satur day. The palings, made heze-yestei day by officials and coaches of the Association, favored Atmy's de fending champions, who- gained five byes to four for Penn State and Syracuse, two each - for Cor nell and Dartmouth, and ono for Western' Maryland Yale, the sixth entry, failed to thaw asn glc bye. 2 Lion Newcomers' Two tompa i ative newcomei s $/ete nisei teirlitto the Penn State lineup, with/flunk Schweitzer re placing Jim Lewis,' injured 165- poundet, and Frank Silvestri sub stituting for Frank "Red" Stan ,: a Byenng into - the semi-finals 'for the Nittany-:Lions were Al Tap 'man, Undefeated - 127 - pounder, • Capt Roy Hanna, - ,125 -pound sen an , John G Patilek, senior at 175_ pounds and John R. Pati ich, ?sophonioir 'heavyweight, Othet Penn State entries ale 'Mike Cootie', at 120 pounds, and Heinle Sandson at 155 , The Passings, The pan ings, involving ' , 16 box ers, 120-pound class— La vandusky, Aptly, bye, Fasunello, Yale, vs. Rouse, Westet n Mat ylund, Coo per, Penn State,vs — Wood, Dal t mon th , Tel riev, Syracuse, vs Dell, "Col nell (Lavanclusky IS de 'iending„t hampont ) , 127-pound tlass—Coldbas, bye, Frtsell, Ditt tmouth; bye, Taman, Penn State, bye; Duke, Syl wise, vs. Clement, i At my -(Goldbas is defending cbmitpton ) , 135-pound class—Resing, At my, bye, Si &tem idge, Syracuse, bye, Hanna, Penn State, bye, Sul tiny, Dartmouth, vs Wi with-Yale ,',145 -pound Clithb—Stauber, - Syt 'Reuse; bye, ' Selby; but tinouth, byes Fine, - Cornell;,vs Urea, t, ;Penn State, Van Stied, Yule, vs Shanley, Ai my 155-pound class—null, Al my, bye; Thompson, Dartmouth, -vs Cloth, Connell, Ft ey, Yale, vs. Hayes, Syracuse;- Betide", West ern Mat yland, vs Sandson,- Penn State. 105-pound class—Caltoun, West ' (Continued On Rage Four) !Bigtviga To Roast Tonight, y In Sigma Delta chi Oven ' There trill be absolutely nothing sacred and no holds. q barred when ,campub bigwigs, professois andlewn celebrities gather at the Natal* , Lion Inn tonight for Sigma Delta Chi's sixth annual Glidnon Banquet. , Roasting ceremonies begin promptly at 7,p in. Thomas H. "Tommy" Richardson , noted-humolist and after-din speakei, will' be guest' elite' tamer for the jouinalism honorary's ).traditional affair Richardson, whose witticisms - will enliven everyone, was-once official Jestdr for Connie Mack's baseball Athletics He is snew pidsident,of the Eastern Professional ,Baseball League The theMe of this year's bairl M.leets a - Citcus into whlch:skgs 'and gagsiapping plomment Penn `,State students, the Administration 'uniblirofesSois and .nell-known townspeople Nave'been cleverly woven. ~,, , )Again; and with its-'sauce un 'grudging laiishness, Sigma Delta Chi; will make ,five' awards sym rtiolic, of ' . the .outstanding campus, 'characters To, the senior who has (loafed through four years of col- —arry ,ton, the "Old Oipsy. Doodler,", will bring his nation. blly-known band here for the annual Interfraternity Ball to be held In Recreation Hall March Private Phone • Setup Planned_ By Sororities Change Seen As Step Toward Alleviating Congestion 'On 4961 Exchange Plato, to ettiter itoltall private ,telephones in each sorority lithise or else restrict calls made tin ough 4061 to live minutes have been proposed in an effort to alleviate congestion ,on the women's tele- Two 'sororities, Chi Omega and Kapp's, Alplfa Theta, have already , signed an agreement to connect directly with the downtown ex- Linioge It will be masented to the Bell Telephone Company along with a letter ,of approval front Dean Ray The proposal to limit calls to 'live minutes was made by R Y Sigwei th, supervisor - of utilities, who in a survey last Monday and Tyesday found that , 3l per cent. of all calls made through the Frances Atherton switchboard were over 10 minutes, several lusting 50 1111filliCb , 11ndei the plan callers mould he given a morning %hen their eon vensatiou had gone liveminutes, and cut off one minute later Rockwell _Declares Novel Dance Theme Evolution of the coed will be the them of-the fifth annual WSGA I'm mai. dance to be held in Rec !101l Friday, CIIIIIIIIIIIII Eloise Rockwell '4O, has announced' Committees lot the dance publicity—Joan C Spelling '39, cite,' man, Paula B Wohlfeld '39 and Jean C. Taylor '4O, deem- ations—Jean C Craighead' '4l, chan man, Elizabeth B ,Long "30 and Mabel It Goss '4O /Admission is flee to all women students Bill S Bottorf's ultimata a will play lege will go ,the traditional Brown Derby. ' Most consistent drunk of the year will receive a niug and the biggest grade-cluselei, a slimy new apple To the individual who has been rendetcl round-should eied front the weight of:keys, keys and more keys will go a gar gantuan key-of-all-keys. iNew - this year will be the knife ,award to be plesentetoto biggest campus, ohticitut. • Enrollment Increase Balked By Budget rhea ex the second xu a VC) tco of ixrttcicu niter prel tag lha mph cations of the Caveman's budget allocation to the College F, the; lust ISV/11, the probable utdizotiou of physical facilities was drs caused 7 oday's a, tale' deals with mu oliment By JOHN A Although the College has bee to meet the gijatei demand, the al in Govei not James' budget for the highly improbable In the hist place, the College's physical plant, without including I the 11 buildings now nettling com pletion, has moved inadequate in meeting the needs of the present student body, especially so since the huge Chemistry Amphitheater '(Bull Pen) was leveled by" fin. dui ing the 1937 Chi istmas recess To inelease the We of the stu dent body, then, would not besfea sible unless physical facilities should be expanded at the same time This, howevei, seems 'e mote unless College budget esti mates me revised The maintenance appropriation for 1937-39 totalled $4,275,000 Poi the 1939-41 biennium, James ha', recommended $4,425,000—an Increase of only $150,000 As was shown in the pidvious aiticle, this $150,000 would be hardly enough to cover light, heat, watei and jaintoind sell/lees foi the two yea's, 'much less equip the new stiuctures ' / To place the new plant at full capacity would require .1585,939 ~Er;woilli lofa movable = dquipmcutr the College pointed out in its or iginal- request to James This, however, is only part of the , stoty, for increased physical 'Realties and increased enrollment would entail mimed operating costs The Rest of the Story The College made this cleat in atti,original budgetl equest when it asked $514,580 foi "additional personnel requited for 'chef of personnel now opeiating under an excess instructional load and to meet the requirements for an increased student enrollment con sistent With the expansion of phy ,sical facilities circled by, the build ing plogiam under the Geneiad State Autholity Moreover, physical plant opei at ion (heat, light, powei, watei, minim ial seivices, etc ) would le guile an additional $146,864 55. All of these items were tedni.ed, 4.4 course, it the second request, ' alien the', College indicated its "minimum requirements" would cad for $351,600 lot movable equipment, $232,000 foi addition al peisonner and $116,864 161 op eiating expenses. With intteased enrollment like ly to mean t an increase in main tenance costs by mote than $700,- 000, theiefote, it is obvious to see „that the $150,000 increase ion tamed nu the Governor's budget is insufficient As Dean of Alen A R Witinoik , and in his local column last week. "Obviously the sin of the student Doily cannot be incteased." Noll Addresses Ag Seminar Dr C6utles F piofessor of experimental agtonomy, Wilt ed on "Breeding_ Oats fur Smut Resistance" at the Agronomy Fat.- ulty Seminar at. 4 10 p in. Monday in 103 4g Building Students Ba Student Opunon Survey AUSTIN„ Tex; March o—Per. haps pointing to future trends in the important American problem of, work-relief, college students of today who may be the, nation's leaders of tomorrow have declared themselves In accord with Con: gross's slash in WPA appropria tions, a nation-nide survey shays --During the closing clays of Janu ary. Congress rebelled at Presi dent Roosevelt's spending-policies aoiCordered a $150,000,000 cut in relief appropriations" That left $725,000.000 to finance the WPA from February 7 to June - 30, in. stead of the $875,000,000 proposed by the administration." , STATE COLLEGE, PA.,,TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1939 n hopeful of incteasitig enrollment' !location of only $4,425,000 included coining b ennium makes this seem`, Two Schools Rel6se Honor Student Lists Top Scholars In Liberal Arts. Chemistry and , Physics N Named By Deans Flom students fot the School' of I t ibeial Arts and the School of Cheintstay and Physics were an nounced yesterday by then le spettive deans The School of bibeial Arts re pm Led 108 students and the School of Chemistay and Physics mum t eil 65 Liberal Arts: Senior s • 3-average—William D Barns, Florence Davis, Isabel J Kinney, Charles F Leedecker, , Lours Stein; 2 li'-- Richer d 0 Davis, Charles W - Flanagan, :theta' B ~ Gluock, -Robert= L- Gi,cr, der, Barbara Al McClure, Julius I Marymor, Dean C Miller, lames A Noonan, Ellis Schein, Henry It Smith, Charles G Sweet, Helen M _ Under wood; 27—David E. Cohen, John A Troanovitch, 26 John J Craighead,' Harvey H Heilman, C William Sprenkel, Florence V Watkins, 2 s—Covella J‘ Newman, Morton Schneider, and Joan C Sperling Juniors- 3 average—Sylvia L Bernstein, Mary E. Hatton, Ruth J Kocher, Josephine B Miller, 28—Ann W Boninc, Sara E Hileman, Eleanor H Hoffer, Ro- Bert S Philliber, 27—Sylvia M. Etter,,Min ran E. Lathrop, Harvey . Levin, Seymour N. Resnick, 26 Seymour S Epstein, Richard E Smith, Ji , Ivan L. Tirane', Naomi Tin over • 25—Robert B. Boyden, Oliver Morrison, Sally II NOW:, Saul Richman, and Frank R %amino, Jr Sophomores 3 average—George (laicism, Her man Smith, 29 Edward M Beischtem, 28—Mary E. Baker, M. Cm della Beach, Mar garet M Cimanosky, B Boyd Harrington, Jr , Norman_Racusin, Edythe Rickel; 27 . -William E teowler, Hai ris Freedman, Kath ryn M Gochuuum, Marianne 'C Hessetner, Ruth Daiwa, Elinor I. Weaver, 26—Eugene T Doyle, Louise F Fisehler, Gertrude H Hecht, Stanley R Pliska; 25 Edith A Bui rage, Lera L Carter, Lawrence Le Dr lever, Philip M Pei man, Mary J Gillespie, Helm M_ Hazard, Grace lil Hendershot, Lauren" A. , McGill, and Leonard S Schneider Fteslunen 3 avet age Julm Basaiab, Alice M Murray, 2,9 William E. Harkins, Jean F. Weavet; 28—Marie E. Wan, Lori E. Patrick, 2.7 —, Hairy Fite(lama, Robert' Meicy, Irene at Paul, Milton E. prensky, (Continued On• Page Two) :rove Slash In a poll ot. , college youth taken for the Penn-State Collegian and 82 other college newspapers. the Student Opinion Surveys of Amer. icu asked students, "Do you agree with Congress In reducing relief appropriations'.' The vote Yea . . . 63.3% ' In keeping aMt this tendency to oppose the President's policies; the Surveys' percentages showing .student approval of Franklin D Roosevelt as chief executive drop_ ped more than two points from the showing during January College approval of. the President has 'vs ried during the last three months as follows: ' 9 AIRMINDED SENIORS Nine seniors who have studied flying and made their first solo hops since entering college are shown above with Sherm Lutz, flight in structor at the State College Airport All are members of the Penn 1 State Airmen, local branch of the National Intercollegiate Flving Club They are, reading from left to right, William F Andrews, Rob ert F MacFarlane:, Raymond E Conner (president of the Airmen), Kenneth Warrick, Walter L Close, William C Foust, Frederic E Greist, Merle L Lehman, Donald P Hughes, and Sherm Lutz Group Studies Future Standing Of Soph Hop BULLETIN ' A joint meeting of Student Board and Student Coun cil, believed to be the hrst of its kind in years, will be held al 8:15 Thursday, Senior Class President Joseph A. Peel announced last night. A matter of,"paramount import ance to the students" will be discussed, Peel indicated. The Board originally had been scheduled to meet tomorrow night: - Stideavoi mg _to determine the ratite status of §opli Hop,_ Stu deWßoaid minted ,i - splintil - man -inaif investigat e rnd open t a solution at a meeting tomot row night Headed by Joseph A Peel, president of Student Bound, and in cluding Donald W Wlight 'JO and Ainold C Latch '4.l„the committee has been woi king on plans to 'educe expenses and increase intome s Holding the dance infoi ma!, lin mg a smaller name band, and omitting, exti as agent decotattons and programs, is the three-fold plan considered for ieducing ex penses Raising the income; shifting the date to the Saturday sight of u football week-end, and loweting the admission cost have been discussed as possible solo Cams In view of the large debts teal iced ft am Sop!' Hop in the pie.t two yeats, the issue has been an annuitant one beim° the &mid A loss of apptoximately sl3qo was intuited this yeut with a $697 deficit sustained in the pieviutis year The Board discusseti the situa tion fot more than a half hour at its last meeting, but failed to leach a definite conclusion Thus the special group was appointed Ohio Firm Submits Low Bid For Pumps Special to"the Collegian. HARRISBURG, Match b—An unofficial 100 bid of $5,456 lot deep well pumps at the Pennsyl vania State College was submitted by the Peet - less - Punip Memnon, 0, the General State Authoklty announced bete `Although no official statement could be obtained on the matter, was believed theinaject is part of ' the onginal progrum to nu ove the College walat supply, included in the first Authority un dertaking at State College which was launched February 14, 1938 In WPA; S December January February However, despito the (hop lu his popularity during the month. which was probably due to,admin- Istration blekerings, lilt!' Con gross, RooseNelt still paradoxically has almost emietly as many who approve of ,him perboually as lie hes opponents to his roller de meads ' Breaking down the results of the relief-cut question by sections of the country the Surveys found sizeable majorities in each section agreeing with Congress• Far Western . .. .. ....67.8e Southern THEAR VACATION Dr. Hetzel Leaves On His Annual Vacation; Plans Travel in South ' , residua Ralph D Hetzel, at.- Lompanied by his wife, left for tile Southland Sunday moi fling by automobile for hie annual ea eat ion Although no definite I oute of him tour has been mapped, it is belie% ed the President mill keep In touch m ilk administi ative of ficials here in cm del that ho might I elm n at a moment's no tice If necessary 42 Cliques Appoint Joint Dance Group Appointment of a joint Campus- Independent tommittee of nine by the respective 1912 class cliques uas the latest development in the tentative plans for a Freshman Dance Two women wore included n the group ' Thomas J. Henson, Campus, and Elul L Kennlei, Independ ent, will serve as to-ehauman for the affan, now slated for Rem c ation Hall. Satuzdav, Afutch 25 Joyce L , Btavton and Anne RI Boa ton ‘me the women named Others are John J Long, Ru bel t S Stafford, William A Zie lunka, dimes L Clot is, and Ben jamin L Seem Selections were made by Getald F Doherty and John W Crawford, Independent and Campus chairman respective ly, with approval by Acting Ptem dent Robert D Band ill For FDR East-Central . . ..642% West Central 62.4% New England 62.3% Middle Atlantic 58.7% Typical of the comments on the question allB the one given by a University of Kentucky arts and sciences student She said. "Con mess has already given out. so much money that it has made peo ple lazy. and they don't cant to notk" Taking another vie;‘ Isere many mho, like a liablelaity of Noble_ ska atudent, point out that al. though they believe relief to be undesirable they 'favor its cow. tinuntion as long as the need ex ists" Holiday Ruled Out In '39-40 Calendar; Favored In Future Referred To Two Committees For Study;- Student Representation Tabled Until Next Meeting .Ser, Edam tat, "Step Talmud Go-jpegatton," Page 2 A student petition to amend the 1939-40 calendar to include a mid-year vacation was apparently killed by the College Senate at its meeting Thursday afternoon in a ses sion lasting newly two , houl 5 Although the official minutes of the meeting did not state this specifically, Registrar William S Hoffman, secre tary of the Senate, was,insti ucted to infoim the students that the Senate "had not found it feasible to grant their pe tition foi this yam," meaning apparently the 1939-40 cal endar • t The Senate indicated, hov,evei, That it ‘tas somewhat In favor of the vacation and teferied the en tne question tot detailed study to the Calendar Committee and the Committee on Academy Stand aids, which were instructed to te net t "at an early date" Representation Plan Tabled %cause of the long discussion of the vacation proposal the ques tion of student representation in the Senate was tabled foi consul elation -eV-the nest , meeting— The student petition for a mid yea' access was presented many to the Senate by Walter A Jones, Junun class 'pi esident, who acted as spokesman foi the imited pinup, including Joseph A Peel, semi class head, and Raymond S Coskery, piesident of Interfia tetnity Council After a bumf discussion, the students 3%eie requested to leave the meeting Move . For Week Recess A motion was made to giant a one-week vacation between semes ters, as requested by the student petition Question arose, however, as to whethet this should apply to the 1929-40 calendat, uheady ap proved by the Senate, ca Intone ealendai s A substitute motion was made to place the Senate on record as laming the vacation in the fa tale, but before a vote was leach ed, a thud motion to table con ndeiution on the calendal was in troduced and adopted l'he discussion then turned to additional study of the proposal, and the question was retell ed to the Calends] Committee and the Committee on Academic. Stand ards, tsith the request that they considei sign the question of "lon gel final examinations" and suni lac problems After instructing the secretary to inform the students of its ac tion, the Senate tabled the ques tion of student loin esentation un til its next meeting Guys And Gags Feature fStuff'n Nonsense' Revue The three G's of the Thespians—Guys, Gags and Gals— will again medonnuate 'when the gimp piesents as Spting show, "Stuff n' Nonsense," in SCIIM ab Aticlaimunt Ftulay and Saturday nights Among Lhe musical numbers sill be "Dancing in the Moonlight." "Jigaboo," "Drum Beats," and'"Oh, Can't Find Them" Added to this Itst of ouginal dance tontines and song hits will be a numbei of comical skits portraying the satitical side of cintent campus happen ings t These sic is include a take-off Sttingei, the Thespians' female on the Collegian's housing cam- taizan, Lois Jane Hunter, the de paign, McCloskey at his best, A mule freshman of the outfit, and Locker Room scene, a glimpse of the Senate Calendar Committee in action, and "Bury the Dead" in A% Inch the Thespians unearth then own idea of a Playeis' Show Among the other specialties will be the Ness Yoik Woild's Pal; in Swingtnne, and the two stooges— those two guys who persist in dancing To attract the eye and please the public, the Thespians will again feature Babs Thiele, defin itely their umph girl, Marce SUCCESSOR To The Free Lanes, Established 1887 PRICE FIVE CENTS Co-ed Meeting Scheduled For 7 P. M. Today To Introduce Candidates For Women's Offices; Floor Nominations Slated, 'Sec ;ilia, IncograPuiii on page - 2 A mass meeting to intioduce candidates foi women's offices and to peimit int Oct nominations will be held in Schwab Auditorium at 7 p m today Josephine A Keeney '4O, candi date for WSGA presidency, has withdrawn hem name from the Senate nominating connnittee's slate Any nominations made horn the flow tonight must be accompanied by statements of the proposed candidates qualifications and are subject to the approval of the Se nate nominating committee Candidates must qualify on the basis of scholarship, leadership, expenence, peisonality and char acter Women will vote in the pt rotary elections in the first Soot lounge of Old Main front 9 ant until 5 p m Thursday The two candid rtes for each office who ieceive the most votes will be eligibre for the final elections Wednesday, Much 15 Nets . officeis wtll be installed at n coffee pout m Atherton Hall ut b 30 p m Thursday. Match 16 At this time, .swards will be given those nomen students who have sensed WSGA (bung the past year Accoccling to the change in the constitution since WRA's reorgati ,hation, sophomore i epi esentatives to WRA Bottid will be chosen - by the Boaid this yea', lathe' than by popular vote Pat Altwatei, then stet ballet dances The follow mg compose the east in "Stuff and Nonsense." Ellwood Cooper '9O, John Geltz '4l, Stan ton Rubin Robert Hertz '4O, Gem ge Pettish '4l, Malcolm Weinstein '4l, Ned Stattzel '4l, Roy Rogers '42, Get:age VanAl styne '4l, Russell Smyth '9l, John _ . Heck '4l, George Pomeroy '39, Roland Young '42, Bud Yanofaky '4O, Joseph Dobbs '39, Paul Dean (Continued On Page Two)
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