Classroom F
Calls For Larger Rooms
Pouring In From Faculty,
Scheduling bffieer Says
Library Alcoves, Education Building Rooms, And
Student Government Room In Service; No New
Buildings To Be Open During This Semester '
- The most ciowded conditions “ever to exist here arecon
fonting students.and faculty this year, >scheduling officer
Ray V. Watkins revealed yesterday. 1 ■ -
' With piactically all rooms filled Incapacity, Mr Watkins
yesterday had received-over ten requests for larger rooms
from faculty members The first seat shortage was reported
before 2 p.m. Wednesday, less than an' horn after classes
started. Moreover, the 194 classes by appointment had not
been heard from' as yet,'Mr. Watkins stated
-f -f 4- ’ . J -f In a feveush seaich for clasS
" . ' -ioom''space, all the rooms in the
Tl_-* J-'T ' - Education f building, all available
pona i
ssue
May Provide
Equipment
New GSA'Move May
Raise Funds To Put
11 Buildings In'Use
The prospect of leceiving mov
able equipment and* furnishings
foi .> the College’s'll new buildings
loomed' ovei tlie heietofore an
tagonistic Hatrisbuig horizon to
>'day,after the Geneial ,State Au
thority’s formal submittul of a $7.
000 000 bond issue last Monday
r James If Stuait', executive direc
ton said that the entile issue will
be-offeied, for ’ pui chase to the
Stats Teacher? 'Bouid and State
Employees’ Retnement Bouid
, Oi September 15 1038 pluns foi
a 56,000 000 equipment progiam
weie first l piomoted, buf the bond 1
issue -was held up by the two Stute
boaids until the Authoiily pieseut
ed legal opinion i>y a Philadelphia
larw firm , _ ‘
- 87,000,000
'-■When the opinion 'awheu last
Mondaj, Revised ‘ebtimates) liow
-evci. had taised the amount' ueed
,ed to-57,000i000 , and it'uab to'be
this figuie which was* to be sub
mltted to- the .Teachers ‘_Rethe (
_meut Boaid yesterday>and tlfe' Em
=TilojT;es'-'Rerti'eifr6nr*Boui dftpSay’
.^According, cm thfs
campus the CoUege v will need S5OO,
(K)0 f b£r'tho* total 000 issue to
completely equip the»ll structures
All'of in the GSA
$05,000,000 flrogiam.have been ly
ing idle since theii co'mpletion sev
eral months ago because the foi
mei administration did, not provide
su£ficlent’funds,‘foi equipment and
'furnishinf, Stuait" claimed in a
piess confeiencd last Monßaj '
Housing Atrocious!
Two Couples Exist
In One Small Room
(“POOR housing conditions
in' STATE .COLLSOE’ . j
' That’s "what the, headlines aie
screaming in,big black type /The
newspapers claim, that a case ex
.tots where there is only one bath
room foi 14 students
>r “Unbelievable," sajs the Board
pf health t t . . v -
» But'ir vou thhik-tbot Is bad, do
vqu‘know t w’hat v happens in Rus
sia*’, ‘ ( .
•Russians 1 Worse? Off
ln Mi /Stalin’s feitiie coun
tiv two couples live in one tiny
'loom with only .one bed. foi the
foui of them, if •you don’t believe
it'see “Squaring the Chcle.” the
Penn State 4 ,Players latest contrii
bution ’to the. housing slioitage on
an' international scale
*' On. October /7, “Dad’s Day”, all
these truth's 1 will be icvealed In
Schwab Auditorium before uu
jOveiciowded delegation of dads,
biotbeis, and sisteis. and
.tlie’dieadful tale won't'be told un
til then ;s - r "
“Squaring the Circle", the mad
dest Russian comedy-tliis side of
PhiUipsbuigi .lias; been - acclaimed
throughout the world, in Moscow,
Prague, Rome,' Berlin and Vienna,
the home towns, of all \the dictators
'and they vitnessed'and came away,'
,wiser men - Haven’t you l noticed
the lesults? " ' ’
V in Germany, none otliei than the
great Max Reinhardt'directed the
play 'lt lmd New-York’s'East.Side
-hanging on the fiie escapes and
furnishings. / \
v i 1 *43 .Women To' Hike ' ,
4 A hike to Watts Lodge for fresh
, man' women will, leave' the* Home
Economics building at ; 2 p v m s to*
’ day.* games'will
be offered ‘ Transpoi tation- will be
’furnished for;the leturn tiip,at_7
p case '6f.rahYthe,hike will
,be held 1 * „ J
>£ A^fieshman.womens forum will
lnt3o4r JOld r Mairi. at f 7- p
library alcoves, and even the stu-
dent government room ha\e beeen
called into service '
College officials ,weie further
distressed this week by the instal
lation of 200 scats without ped
estals ir. South Ltbcial Arts budd
ing. The budding contractor faded
to furnish the necessary supports
and*" tie old chairs were moved
back into the'budding in time for
Wednesday classes.
Not To Use New. Buildings
Not a single room in anv of the
new buddings will be used> this
semest**!, Mr Watkins has announ
ced L«ck of equipment is icspon
siblc fj* tins situation, the sched
uling officei declared , '
A considerable inciease in en
rollment over the past several
yeais 1 as resulted in the present
crowded conditions, .while the new
buddings elected to control! the
mcrea> • , cannot be used Each
yeai moie fieshmen have been ad
mitted.
College officials uic hopeful thirl
Ihc situation may be alleviated by
the opening of some of the new
buddings foi next semester '
‘Off The Grass’
Drive Begins
President .Hetzel Urges,
4 Dcjns, Students .To Help
i., Restore pCampu^yßeiutyfei
Editonul "Campus' Beauts
fill," on page 2
, ,A “Keep Off the Grass- cam
paign f'o restore to the campus the
beauty it had'before the budding
piogrum was begun has been open-’
cd by President Hetzel in a letter
‘ent this week to all the deans in
the College ■
* Witn the budding progiam com
plete, the entire campus is being
gone ovei and glass sowed in all
barren spots while theic is time
enough fox it to come up before the
giowir.’ season ends
Students me asked to co-operate
in the.iestoration by staying on
walks and away fiom newly tei
laced and seeded axcas. Paths than
have been worn on the campus will
be dug up and seeded
The/Complete text of President]
HelzeT’s letter follows
/ “Loveliest In Nation"
..“During the past two yearsj be
cause the qampus has-been torn up
by budding'operations, disipgard
by some pel sons of oui previous
custom of protecting the grass did
not ser-m important Now the beau
ty. of tl e giounds is lapidly being
restored .and ouf campus will soon
take its place again as one of the
loveliest .in the nation
“In this vestoiation every stu
dent and evciy, member of the fac
ulty and staff is requested to co
operate foi' the good .of all bj
keeping strictly to the campus
walks except,m those''areas which
have'oecn designated'for reciea-
Moq 01' other 'special use 'lt sljould
be .taken for granted that no one
will walk 011' newly seeded plots
hut special ;attention is'called to
the unsightliness which lesults
when persons cut across thegrass,
particularly at coineis ”, ’
’ - 1 R.'D hetzel
Downtown Dorms
Again; hr Service
■NY-omen’e downtown dormitories
aie being used again this year to
accommodate the flow of 72
women'from campus *
Mrs' Bernards doimitoiy at 23G
S' 1 St ‘ accommodates 19
•women, including 2 freshmen and
2 . transfers > Thirteen transfers
live at Mlss.HlU’d dormitory at 512
\V -College.'Are 'Miss Parker has
,11-freshmen and'. 1 6 transfeis in
her 228 S ‘Allen St,
and Miss Wiley’s domitoiy houses
2T transfer women./<
]As .soon'as rooms-on campus aie
will be 'filled'with
women living undei ciowded con
dlilous/'l'The:: t downtown-wompn
w 'll,be the next to be moved *■ j t j
cilities ArefMost Crowded In History
iiemi-u'eeKly
VOLUME 36—No. 4 Z 658
HENRY PObR SIGNED TO PAINT
MURALS IFOR OLD MAIN LOBBY
: .+
2-Vear Agi
Must Take
'43 Custom
Precedent-Breaking,
Decree,Handed Down
By Student Tribunal
By deciee of the Student
bunul, fiist yem students in
two-yeui agiicultmal comse li
tor the Hist time in tlie histoii
the College been oideted to
low fieslmtuji customs
The'deciee v handed down at
first meeting of the body last Tt
day night, is based on a cluusc
the customs code which says "i
cial students enteiing College i
. atuigs'as freshmen must obs:
freshman ' cnstomlT ” Two 3
ugi icultuiul students, uei e'lieU
be included nndei tills clussil
tion 1
Wilson Named Secretary
At the Tuesday meeting,
buna I elected Robeit L AVilsc .
secretary gianted exemptions
50 freshmen ovei 21 \eais of n
allowed - «eveji temporal y e\ci
lions gave five peimanent exei
lions foi vurious leasons, ;und
fused, 11 applications - foi j-'e\ei
,tion ' , ' , ' -I'J-,'' 1 *
By its ’own
Is going to spelled
capital, letteis—TOUGH Custo
are stiffei than they have been
a numbet of years and Tribun.
wains that itß enforcement will be
accoidlngly sti icter
At its second meeting last night.
Tiibunal mled on the first cases
of violation and held second heal
ing on the seven temporal y exemp
tions Tuesday
Fioiti now on tegulai meetings
of the body ,will be held at 7 30 p
in ou Tuesday evenings in Room
305 Old* Main Violations may be
repoited by any student at Student
Union office up' to 5 p m each
day
Those fteshmen/whose applica
tions weie gi anted must carry
with then at all times exemption
caids signed by G Wairen Elliott
’4O. cliahmnu of Tiibunal<
Choir Arid Glee Club
Tryouts Next Week
Tryouts foi the Men’s Glee Club
and the Choii 'will be held at 7 p
m next Tuesday and Wednesday
nights In the second floor of
Schwab f Auditorium
High voices (tenois) will meet
Tuesday night with low s voices
(baritoues and basses) scheduled
to leport Wednesday
RUSHING
is In full swing now among the
College’s 50 fraternities Hun
dreds of freshmen and upper
classmen will be--Invited to
join. Get a complete, list of
PLEDGES
in'tho special Issue of the
. COLLEGIAN
i Out Monday evening
’43 Enrollment Sets
With' the registration', of 1341
men and*women last Thursday and
Friday, and.with' late tegistiants
and'regisfiation of part time stu
dents expected to biing the total
number clOße to 2000, the class of
1943 fod&tl itself- possessor of a
new Fieshm&n enrollment record
todaj/ according to figures releas
ed * .from Registrar William S
Huffman's office t , "
. The enrollment this year is well
above the mask of, 1714 set last
yeai by the class ot 1 1942 - ‘ »
Figures released yesterday' ,by
the' RegtatiarV office did not in
clude* the enrollment at, the For
est! y School Alto, which
is expected to approximate 125. or
20 students' more than .last 3 car 7
■' Based.ou figured made available
Federal
At S. U.
‘Confusion’
Causes Death
Dislike for College
Life Blamed In Suicide
Of James Mayers *43
Dislike of Hie confusion of col
lege'life duxing fieshmen week
was today the only known motive
ioi the suicide of James W May
eis M 3, who was found hanging
from a rafter m the stanway of
his loonunghouse at 157 G Harts
wick avenue Monday
Centie County Coroner W K
Heaton of Plulipsbuig pxonounceJ
the death a suicide aftei a per
sonal investigation into the 18-
yeai-oid Philadelphia, boy's self
destrucnon
A High School Athlete
Mayeis was ’ a gi’aduate ot*
Chutcli Fann School, neai Phila
delphia, whete lie captained the
football team and was a mcmbci
of the oasketball and track teams
Friend-, described him as a noim
allv ,good-natuied, happy fellow,
ulthoug) quiet
Since his-'auival heie, Mayeis
had appealed unhappy and con
fused He told several friends thar,
he didn't like college, saying he
had so much to do he didn’t know
wheie to stint >
on. Wednesday, the all-College reg
istxation foi the first semestei of
this yeai also set a new emoliuient
maik of several bundled above
last jeai’s recojd Howevei, the
exact numbei bj which it exceeded
last yeai b -maik could not be
learned at the time the Colleglau
went to' pr s ess
Ag Enrollment Topped
For the flist time in seveiai
years. alßo, the freshman Agilcul
tuie eniollraeiit of’l9o was tanked
below that of the' schools of En
glneeiing and Chemlstiy and Phv
sics' >,Llberal>Aits tanked first
with'an unofficial estimate of 366
Engineering was'second with 278
enrollees end Chemistry and Phy
sics ranked> third with 223 The
School of Education, Mineral lu
I'STATE COLLEGE, PA , FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1939
NY A Blanks Ready
Tuesday, Wednesday
-. Pay Period Set-Up For
’39-’JO Term Explained
By Director Maddox
All students, employed or NYA
work, whose names appeared on
* the fust list of accepted applicants
which was posted Wednesday, wiP
lepoit to the Student Union desk
ne\t Tuesday and Wednesday,
September 26 and 27, to leceive
then Federal NYA blank" which
must be filled out, it was announ
ced yesterday by Stanley B Mad
dox, daectoi of NYA heie
The lists now available at the
offices of the lespective deans, in
clude the names of those students
whose applications were received
by the committee at the cailiest
possible time.
Pay Period Starts Wednesday
Maddox also announced that the
hist pay period which began Wed
nesday will end Octobei 10 Fol
lowing pav peitods will begin on.
the eleventh of each month and
; continue until the tenth of the
| next This yeui, because of a $21,-
; ll>s boost in the NYA approprm
tion, theie will be an inciease in
| the nun ber of pay periods as weh
i as the amount of pay received by
1 (he students Last yeai the uumbci
of peuods was eight and this year
will be nine, Maddox said, with an
inciease of $125 over the $l2 25
salary payed dmmgvthe 1938-30
CORRECTION
Freshmen will pay fees in the
Armory from 9 a m to 5 p m >
today September 22, and not
September 26 as erroneously
stated in a headline In last
Thursday’s Collegian
The regular Sl5 ROTC fee will
be paid by freshmen as sched
uled in the Freshman booklet
.and not with the regular pay
ment of fees on Friday
' Freshman Pay gees
i' Today, Others Follow
■ ■ On Thursday, Friday
Payment of fees ivill get under
way in the Ainioiy at 9 a m to
day with fieslinten beginning a
schedule which will continue un
til 5 p this afternoon
Oppei'dassinen will make theii
pavmenls next Tbuisday and
Piiday at the same horns pie
sciibed foi fieshmen (9 a m
,to 5 p m continuously)
r The five’doilai fine foi late
payment will ensue again this
yeai it was leveaied at the
Buisar’s office
Co-opeiation of the students is
asked bv the administiation so
'that classes will not be missed
because of fees
ecord
dustiies and Physical Education
tanked fifth, sixth, and seventh
respectively with enrollments of
160. 62 and -16 , Enrollment fig
lues through late 1 legistration and
the registiation of special students
oa Saturday may inciease these
flguies but it is'unlikely that the
positions of the schools in ranking
will,be chauged
‘Registiation at the undergrade"
ate centeis will exceed 429 pei
sons, acccidiug to the legistrar
Foity-five % students engaged in
practice teaching aie also counted
in the total enrollment figure, he
announced This gives a total of |
0,478 or 70 above last years fig
uie of 0,008 The final figures aie
cxpectod to be well above this,
however. ” '
Murals in Old
Main—sought more
than two / years by
interested groups—
have finally been ar
ranged for with the
official signing this
week of a contract
between the College
and Henry Varnum
Poor, noted Amer-
ican artist
The view shown
here is of Old Main
lobby with murals
piojcctcd above the
rlairway It was
joed during the
Irive to give the
layman 'an idea of
the change which
was to be produced
The painting shown
aver the stairway is
Massacio's “The
Tribute Money"
’ J ' r
Hacker ’37, Former
IFC President, Dies
Geoige M Hackei ’37, died of
mfuntiie paralysis in a Philadel
phia hospital Wednesday morning
He,was believed to have contacted
the fauil disease while swimming
Whuc on this campus Hackci
was veiy pionunent m activities,
being president of Interfratermtv
Council and Sigma Nu fraternity,
a membei of Men's Student Boaid,
Lion's Paw, Skull and Bones, Blue
Key, president of Parmi Nous/and
freshman football managei.
Dining Cha rman Named
Chairmen of the women’s dining
looms committees, selected by
Senate Tuesday night, aie Alexan
diin McLean, West Atheiton din
ingroom. Bertha M Douthett ’4l.
East Atheitou dining loom, and F
Famous Artist Plans
To Start Work On
Campus In February
M,500 Gift Presented By Class Of 1932
Sufficient To Cover Expense Of Project
As Two-Year Drive Ends Successfully
A moie than two-year campaign for the painting of
mmals in Old Mam ended early this week with the comple
tion of a contract between the College and Henry Varnum
Ppoi, noted Amencan aitist A single mural will be painted
b'/Pi the mam stanwav at a cost of $1,500
Plans foi the inuial which will
depict the beginnings of the Col
lege vere appioved eaily in Au
gust bv the Boaid of Tiustees, and
Posi his been at woik since that
time own tliough the contract was
iiot officially signed The muial
will be paid foi by a gift of th**
i lass of 1932
The t-ntne wall above the main
-tanwav will be done m tiue fiesco
medium and the apeituie in the
lounge will be closed to provide
an unbioken backgiound
To .Take Two Months
« Actu.,l work on the wall wjli
•probably take only'two-months and
s expected to begin in Fcbiuai*y
The apeituie will be close 1 during
,‘he Cluistnms holidays
Although the muial will be uu
bioken, Pool has indicated that he
may give iL a tnadic effect by en
larging the scale foi the central
poition which will piobablv in
clude a monumental Lincoln
The signing of the Moirill Land-
Giant net and the founding of a
Land-Giant college are likely to
be used as a theme Tin design
will seek to give expression to this
centim idea rathei than to pie
sent a baic lcutal of the found
ings of the College, it has been in
dicated
At p>escnt Poor is at his home
in New Yoik City, New Yoik,
studying eaily pietuies and his
tones o r the College, and histones
of the Moiu’l Land-Grant Act pie
paiatoiy to beginning actual woik
heie
White the painting of a muial
svei the Old Main stalls does not
lepies'nt the satisfaction of all
that interested gioups had cam
paigner foi, it is constdeied a mil
jot steji towaid that goal
' Latei, if the fust mura. is fav
uably leceived, it is hoped that
help will be given to cany the'eu
tne piogiam to completion This
would include painting of muraL
on the lemainmg walls of the Old
Mam lobby and possibly in othei
buildings on the campus
Scholarship Blanks
Available Now At
409 Old Main
Application for the Louise Cai
negie and John \V White scbolai
ships are now available Room 409
Old Main, the office of Pi of Jacob
Tangei. chairman of the Commit
tee on Academic Standaids The
blanks must be returned no later
than Octobei 10
Student,? whose academic lat*
incs aie eligible to applv for the
scholarships Howevei. because
the number of students applying
each yeat has been gieatly in ex
cess of the 16 scholaiships avail
able. selection has been practically
limited to those in the uppei j> per
cent of their class
Sophomore Collegian
Staffs Meet Tonight
Theie will be an impoitant
meeting of all sophomore busi
ness and edltoiial candidates for
the Collegian in Hoorn 312 Old
Main at 8 p. m tonight The
meeting is being colled by C.
Russell Eck *4O, business man
agor and A William Engel, Jr,
*4O, editor.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
‘Cleanest’
Rush Week
Nears End
Preference Cards
To Be Turned In At
. c ’/ 1 iidentCfnion, Today-
With the fust period of "the
cleanest rushing season in 11
yeais" an end, the more than
fOO fieshmen who bought fratern
ity date caids will indicate tlu
Hist two houses of their choice
at Student Union desk today
The term “cleanest rushing sea
son in 11 years” was applied by
Di Sheldon C Tanner, chairman
of the lushing judiciaiy commit
tee, who spiked all rumors of code
violations
No Rushing Complaints
Di Tanner said that so far his
committee uas received no com
plaints of . ushing violations and
that he has been given the finest
possible cooperation by fiateimtv
houses The committee will be open
to icceive and mle on reports of
lushing inflactions until one week
eftei the season ends
Aftet freshman fill out then
piefcieuce cards at Student Union
from 8 a m to 5 p in. today, the
piefcieuce lists will be compiled
and made a/ailable to fialeimtios
at 8 p na
When the fiatermties call foi
copies of then pieferences thev
must ray then annual Interfra
feinity Council dues of $5 befoic
they can leceive their lists At the
rame tune they will be given bid
caids to be r illed out and letuined
to Student Union by midnight Sun
day.
Silent Period Ends Tomorrow
The sdent penod which has been
in effect since 10 p m
will end at 11 a m tomonow when
the two-day intensive rushing per
iod begins.
Oates made foi the intensive
penod me not binding on either,
the rushee oi the fratern.ty even
though signed on the dale caid
Rushing will continue from 11 a m
tomoiicw morning until 4pm and
will be resumed from spm to 10
p m Hoars for Sunday
10 am to 4 pin alid 5 p m to 10
pm when the season officially
closes. . „ , _
After 10 pm Sunday the fra
ternities must make out their bids
and tui n them in to Student Union
no later than midnight On,Mon
day ficshmen will have from 3
am to spm to get their bids 1 -
At 5 p m. Monday freshmen who
have leceived bids will go to the
fraternities of their choice where
pledging will take place.
*4o Coeds Plan Mixer
A mlxei foi freshman women
will be held In 304 at 7 30 p m
today. All freshmen coeds are in
vited to the affair of which Mh
lam Miller *4l and Peggy-Middle
tou *4l are co chairmen.