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VOL. 36—No. 35
Classroom Shortage Over, Claims
Watkins; No Ind Semester Courses
Scheduled In Unfavorable Locations
.
- - Opening Of New Buildings Expected To Fully
''Alleviate Crowded Conditions; Changes In Size
Of ClaS's Sections May Take Place Next Year
The most, crowded claisroom conditions in College his
tory, which forced Scheduling Officer Ray V. Watkins to a
foyerish search for rooms early this semester, will pass into
bistory with the beginning of the second semester at 8 a m.
tomorrow.
- Opening of the 15 classr
—unit, together with parts of :
jion, Agricultural Engineen:
' 41,411 dings, will provide plenty
ee classroom. shOrtage, Wat]
+++
$606,059 Movable
i filuipment Plans
, Near Final Action
Delay In GSA Program
'loused Bylebal Tieup
'',(l . l'ler Financial Support
~.Assurance that the $606,059
movable equipment program of
the Geheral State Authority would
get under way here in the near
(we was received yesterday
ffotn two official Harrisburg sour
ces^ by the Collegian
/Roger W. Rowland, GSA Secre
tary of Property and Supplies, de
, clared, m a letter to,tite Collegian.
")this 'ACquiPment prograd will
iricuye 'forward piromptly,; at - -the
;psesent,turie and - it is our bopoo ,
thakalLthe eqttipment%bolightand
Taitalled - befordnhObegidaiiii 'of
tAle,,pext_ semester."' T
means of - fintiiicibi the equip,-'
Rent contracts has , been the only
drawback holding up occupation
- cinhe new buildings, according to
qte statement of David H Diehl,
ksistant ExecutiVe Director of
the General State Authority
PWA Causes Delay
"Last fall it took several confer
epees in Washington to enable us,
to, let the present equipment con-
_trikets," Diehl declared "The PWA
,would not participate in financing
the 'movable laboratory equip-
Tent, nor would they allow us to
use, original funds to do so, thus
necessitating other fidancial ar
' rangenients -This has taken con
iiderable time due to legal com
plications, but now is completed
Rids• are being taken fop this
equipment"
„Although these delays might
'have seemed exasperating to un
dergraduates, Diehl said, they
- were not premeditated He add
"ed 'ffiat,_as an "old Grad," he felt
that Penn State was getting a won
derful-break from the GSA pro-
-Jan Savitf's Orchestra
Oyfs Accent On Youth
Anilfiperleice !!1 Swing
Swing music is young, , and
~'shuffle rhythm" is even younger
-so, it stands to reason that the
top-notch giver-outers of this
"swing" stuff and also of "shuffle
rhythin" would be a band of young
musicians ,
' , And that's Jan Saintt, Senior
,Ball maestro, iwhose•Top flatters
will bring their scintillating "music
with 'a ' shuffle" , to Rec Hall two
,weeks from Friday. The Top Hat
rters, •now reigning supreme over
, tife'Blue Room of the Hotel Lin
'coin.' in New York; are musicians
whose ages 'average 24 years, with
two of the lads not yet eligible to
vote ` , • •
r Ed Clausen, Savitt's second ten
or man, is only 20 years old. Gene
De - Paul, the Top Hatters ivory
pianii'plajmr,- has only
been 'musically-minded ;the same
• length of time De Paul is famous
for , his. collaboration with Larry
Clinton on,the '"llezekiah" num
•
•, Men Are' Experienced
Savilt'S men, though ,young in
re, have experience galore be
hid 'them, having been associated
pith - many of the topnotch bands
of the country' Glenn Malec,
unny; Berigan, George Hall,
`woody Berman, Crosby,
-Rank Dailey, Red-. Norvo, and
Fddie Delange 'have' all Contribut
eds' swing experience, to, members
of the Top Hatters ,
'corns of the new Liberal Arts
Electrical Engineering, Eduen
ng, and Agricultural Science
'of space to overcome the for
kins.stated yesterday.,
Second semester classes will not
be scheduled in the water tower,
slaughter rooms, sheep barns, li
brary alcoves, and other unsuitable
locations made necessary by the
first semester shortage, Watkins
declared Large Liberal Arts
L A Room List
Reminding the student -body
that the terms North and South
Liberal Arts have been abolish
ed and that all rooms in the
three Liberal Arts buildings are
now , labeled merely Liberal
Arts, Scheduling Officer Ray V.
Watkins yesterday announced
that the location of LA class
rooms by number is as follows:
In the north building, rooms
3 to 8 inclusive.
In the new central budding,
rooms 1„ 2,9, 10, 11. 19, 20, 121.
227. 228, 304, 305. 309, 312, and
316.•
In the south 'building, rooms
12 to.lB inclusive, 124 to 128 in
clusive. 233 to 237 inclusive. and
, 239.
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$ ,
classes will be moved from,White
Hall, leaving there only,classes in
which demonstration; facilities are
""Lectures Shifted
Other , changes will "include the
shifting of engineering lectures to
the new Electrical Engineering
building and the transfer of Agri
cultural Engineering classes from
the horse barn to the new Agricul
tural Engineering building Mathe
matics classes, some of 'which oc
cupied classrooms lacking black
boards last' semester, will have
suitable equipment, Watkins said
Despite new facilities, however,
there will be little change in the
size of class sections, Watkins
stated, adding that such changes
might be planned for 1940-41
,4,000 Skaters Use Rink;
Conger Reports Profit;
No Sunday Night Skafing
More than 4,000 skaters have
skated on the College rink since
its installation a little more than
two weeks ago, Ray M Conger,
director of the Student Recreation
Board, announced yesterday Last
Sunday was the biggest day with
450 paid admissions, he said
Because of the misundeistand
ing which seems to be prevalent
regarding the hours which the rink
IS open, Conger stressed that there
would not be skating - Sunday
night. Hours for skating are from
2 to 530 p m and from 7 to 10
p m each day except Sunday
The rink will be open only during
the afternoon hours on Sunday
Military Ball Features
Wilson Band Friday-Night
Military, Ball, annual ROTC cadet affair, is bound to break at
least two precedents when Teddy Wilson's boogy-wooiyipiano sounds
out in Recreation Hatt Friday ,night. This will mark the, first year
that the ball has featured ar name band and also the first time it has
been held in the more spacious quarters, since it previously was held
in the Armory
According tO •chairman Arthur
Skibbe '4O, this year's affair should
mark a new era which will see
Military Ball attain the campus
wide recognition that it enjoys at
many other big colleges He stated
that on most Pennsylvania Col
lege campuses the affair is one of
the biggest social events of the
year. It is with this aim in view
that this year's committee is work
ing, lie stated
"The Phenomenonof the Piano,"
as Wilson is known in swing cir
cles, has banded together an ex
perienced group of "jive 'senders"
that are said to blend with his
famous Ivory tickling. Featured
along with the piano-playing
Teddy is songstress Jean Eldridge.,
TEDDY : FiksoN
Z 658 STATE COLLEGE, PA', TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1940
Grade Sheet Necessary
For Scheduling, Hoffman
Again Reminds Students
As the lass day of registration
approached. William S. Hoff
man, registrar, reminded stu
dents that a grade sheet, secured
at the registrar's office, was nec
essary for the scheduling of
courses.
.Hoffman requested all stu
dents who have not , secured
their grade sheet to do sb as ear
ly as possible today in 'order to
avoid a last-minute rush.
Creaser, Home Ec
Instructor, Kills
Self Wednesday
Despondency Over Slow
Recovery From Injuries
Is Advanced As Motive
' Delay in recovery from a back
injury received last summer when
she was thrown from a horse has
been advanced as the motive for
the suicide of Miss Marion L
Creaser, assistant professor of art
education in the department of
home economics, who was found
dead in her automobile in a gar-,
age near her apartment at 11 30
p m Wednesday
Miss Creaser's body was dis
covered by Mr and Mrs David A
Campbell, from whom Miss Creas,
er _ rented her apartment, when
they returned from a party and
found their garage occupied by an
other car
Since the gasohne tank of her
car was empty, it was assumed
that she had driven into the gar
age quite a while previous to the
hour the suicide was discovered,
although'she, had been seen earlier
in the day.Miss;,Creaser left no
notes, but it'wasknOwn by 'friends
7th:itf-ihe‘l4Fe k "despon"dely over`het
injuries. '„ " '
Spent One Year Here
Miss Creaser, a native of Grand
Rapids, Michigan,- where for 10
years she was head of art work
in the city schools, had been affili
' ated with the College
~approxim
ately one year .
She was graduated from the
University of Michigan in 1921,
and obtained her master's degree
in education at Columbia Univer
sity several years later.
Centre County Coroner Charles
Sheckler of Milesburg investigated
the case Thursday morning and
announced that an inquest would
not be necessary, pronouncing the
case a suicide
Trustees Elect Shields
To Head Board In 1940
The College Born cl• of Trustees
recently re-elected J Franklin
Shields of Philadelphia as presid
ent for the coming year Vance C
McCormick of , Harrisburg was
named vice-president Other offi
cers elected were James G White,
honorary vice-president, President
Ralph D Hetzel, secretary, Samuel
K Hostetter, treasurer
EleCtions to the executive com
mittee were also made as fol
lows H M Andrews, E S Bayard,
John C Cosgrove, F A Heim,
James Milholland, and McCormick
Shields and Dr Hetzel are ex
officio members of the committee
DebatO Fee Split, Hospital Plan
Appr eyed By College Trustees
10-Day Ruing Season
Will Beginomorrow
Invitations To PartieSlNi l lße Distributed Through
Panhellenic Post Office; tStudent Union Desk
, Twat , . e campus sororities ; 1 begin 10 days of concentrated
rushing tomorrow, as the two-v/ )(silent period provided for in-the
Panhellenic Rushing Code ends* ay
Under the code, each sororit ,will give five planned parties, the
dates of which were scheduletib the various rushing chairmen and
approved early in January by erriet Singer '4l, chairman of the
rushing committee
All party invitations will be
distributed through the Panhel,
lenie Post Office at Student' Un
ion desk Those for this week '_
parties must be at Student Unil
by noon tomorrow, while invite
bons for parties from
til next Thursday must be at th:C,
desk by noon Monday.
Members of Panhellenic
elation will distribute invitation
to women in campus dormit9rie
and town women will be called;
to come for their invitations. :
Rushees are requested tcr tele-,,
phone acceptances or refusals' ,I,q)
all invitations immediately, as
courtesy to sorority women whq,, ,
cannot complete party plans'un
til they know how many will , `be,
present.
During open rushing, sorority
, ..
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, Reader Inlerest•-, Fireside Sessions
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Poll Ends.Todayi - -::';' Begin February 14
- 1 - Sh Opinion' ,
Survey, 9 ow ,
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~On'.:tollegian-s-_,Conte'nP.
The first Collegian poll of read- - Relations Is Objective
ers' interest, which begin yester
day at registration, will continue Frepai ing to inaugui ate the
today at Rec Hall Fireside Sessions by Februaiy 14,
Members of the Collegian ed,- Thomas H Ainsworth '42, chair-
Aorlal staff will present students man, announced yesterday that
with mimeographed question
naires as they complete their reg
istration Questions on the sheets
are of the objective type and take
only a short time to fill out.
The questions, which arc simi
lar to those asked by metropolitan
newspapers of their readers, will
give student readers of the Colle-
glan an opportunity to show their
preferences and dislikes of the
various news columns, features
and editorial matter now publish
ed in the Collegian
Students are urged to partici
pate in the poll, results of which
will be disclosed in a series of spe-,
cial feature articles in a few
weeks
Thorne '4l Gets Award
J Lee Thorne '4O, architecture,
was awarded first prize of $25 in
the national sketching competition
sponsored by the Scarab architec
tural fraternity at the University
of Southern California
The sketch was a water color
portraying a sailing yacht on a
stormy sea Exhibitions of Thorne's
work will circulate to various col
leges and universities having
chapters of Scarab
hird Issue Of Portfolio—
Bigger And Beffer—Will
Be Released This Week'
Once again Fenn State's liter
ary lights have dipped into the
printer's ink and gone to press
with Portfolio, their brainchild
Barely two issues old, this maga
zine has lived up to and exceeded
advance 'publicity releases and its
third Issue, due sometime this
week, is being awaited—if not
with bated breath—with more
genuine interest than has been
shown in a literary_ publication by
Penn State's sophisticates for
many a decade.
Choosing its contributors from
Ag Hill to the Mu is Room, the
current Portfolio will present ar
ticles and 'stories by Warren B
Mack of the horticulture depart
ment, William J Hopwood '4O,
Robert L. Hertz '40., William D
Deibler '4o„Allce Shutts, gradu
ate, James F. Holly, graduate, El
len e Ritts '4l, Frank J. Lynn '42,
Anne J. Lambrecht '43, and Hum
mel Fishburn of the music depart
ment.
This issue ,will also contain de
tails of the freshman short story
contest to be sponsored by,Port
folio.
!Women may issue invitations to
,freshmen to visit the houses at
1 any time Sorority women may
Blake freshmen to eating places
;;and the movies, if the bills are in
j eluded on expenses accounts un
',der the $2O allotted for the 10-
'`:lay period Visiting in freshman
rooms is permitted but overnight
'rushing prohibited
The Standards
jq Rushing should not be made a
burden - with regard to time and
:money either to freshmen or to
.sorority women
rt- A prospective member's reason
for joining a sorority should be
;,frtendship and whole-hearted ad-
Pmiration for the group
Rushing technique should be
! , based on true worth and not su-
Continued on Page 6
fraternities, sororities, and living
groups have been cooperating very
well in piomoting the project
Ainsworth stated that the num
ber of groups who signified inter
est and preference for speakers is
comparable to last yew, when the
total number of speeches delivered
to various groups in the College
was approximately 100
The Fireside Session speakers
this yea' will include authorities
on diversified matters pertaining
to student life related to campus,
religion, mannerisms or personal
ity and sex Although most of the
speakers are campus autholities, - it
has been announced that several
outstanding townspeople are also
available for the speeches
As before stated by Ainsworth
berme the semester holiday, the
idea of the Fireside Sessions is to
promote better relations between
the faculty and the student body
The sessions are scheduled to con
tinue until March 15
Alumni To Celebrate Pitt
Victory With Banquet In
Pittsburgh February 15
Penn State Alumni of Western
Pennsylvania will celebrate the
first Nittany Lion football victory
in 20 years over Pitt at a victory
dinner, at the Hotel Schenley in
Pittsburgh on Thursday, Febru
ary 15
President Ralph D Hetzel and
six State coaches will speak Mr
Milliolland, of Pittsburgh, a mem
ber of the executive committee of
the Board of Trustees, will be
toastmaster
The coaches include Bob Hig
gins, football, Joseph Bendenk,
baseball; John Lawther, basket
ball, Leo Houck, boxing, Charley
Speidel, wrestling, and Charles
Werner, track.
Rifle Team Defeats Utah,
V.P.I. In Triangle Meet
Penri State's Varsity rifle team
defeated Utah State College and
Virginia Polytechnic Institute with
a total team score of 3673 in a
postal match last week.
'Utah scored 3477 to win second
placewhile V P. I followed with
a total of 3433.
Co-captain Ben Stahl led the
Penn State riflemen with a score
of 377 out of a possible 400 and
Robert McCoy was second with
375 points
I AT LONG LAST 1
Dr. Fletcher
Named Dean _
Of Ag School
_Successor To Dean Watts
Will Be 4th Ag Hill Ruler;
Began Work Here In 'l6
br Stevenson W Fletcher, un
til last Thursday acting-dean, be
came "officially" the head of the
Sawa! of Agi 'culture when he
was appointed by the College's
Board of Trustees in Hari isburg 10
days ago
in
who„hactip. g
In the capacity of clean since the
retirement of Dr Ralph L, Watts
on January I, 1939, will be the
foul th dean to "rule Ag Hill " His
appointment also miles the title
of du ector of the Agiicultural E%-
pei anent Station at the College,
which position he had also been
filling since the Watts' retirement
As stated by Ainswoith before
the semester holiday, the idea of
the Fileside Sessions is to promote
better relations between the fac
ulty and the student body The'
sessions are scheduled to continue
until March 15
Changes In Time Table
Announced By Watkins
Announcing a number of time table changes, Scheduling Oftwei
Ray V Watkins yesterday pointed out that Commerce 46 will be given
in place of Commeice 45 this semester, and that Sociology 15 will
also be °timed
Two sections of Spanish 1 not
listed in the time table will be
available, Watkins announced
Liberal Alts 12 will be offered to
women as a substitute Louise for
ROTC
German I and 3 are being of
fered during the second semester
for the first time in many years,
Watkins stated.
The following time table chang
es were released yestei day
ABCh 00
439 00 B MTh 8 F 1 109 Ag W S
9-12 211 Ag
438 00 D MTh 8 F 1 109 Ag T F
9.12 211 Ag
AgEng 04
3 04 M 9 W 2 117 Dany
Boa 13
27 13 B Elective M 2 IV 1 208
BL T 2-5 212 BL
Corn 18
Add
46 18 Sr CF LA M Th II F
4 7 LA Rowland
Drop
45 18 Si CF LA M Th 11 F
, 4 7 LA Rowland
DH 20
11 20 A Jr DHb 2nd DM W 2.5
1120.8 2nd DM F 2-5
Ed 25
434d.25 Sr Ed S 9-10 40 221 HE
525.25 S 9-11 35• Ed to 318
Main
546 25 Th 4.50-6 30 35 Ed to 19
HE
551 A 25 S 11-12:40 35 Ed to 318
Main •
sbB 25 Th 3-5 , 35 Ed to 19 HE
587.25 Th 7:30.9.10 35 Ed to
19 HE
Ger 40
2 40. T Elective M Th 9 F 8 18
HE
440 M Electrive MTh 9 F 8
118 HE
E WEBER
Glee Club Will Share Student Fund;
Health Assessment Increased To $5;
Student Placement Bureau Okayed
Name Change From College To University Fails
To Receive Discussion; Payment Of Swimming
fee Is Restricted To Those Taking Course
An even split of the 50-cent debate fee between Debate
team and Glee Club, effective next fall, was approved by the
Board of Trustees at its recent meeting in Harrisburg
Also approved in the precedent-setting session of the
Board was an increase in the health fee from $2.50 to $5 per
semester to provide for seven days free hospitalization and
free dispensary sei vice Like the debate fee split, this new
hospitalization plan will go into effect in September.
Establishment of a student
placement bureau at the College
became certain as the Trustees
authorized Dr Ralph Dorn Hetzel,
president of the College, to take
the necessary steps toward setting
up such an employment service
The proposed name change from
college to university, however, was
not discussed
An amendment to the swimming
fee regulation limiting payment of
the $1 a semester fee to those tak-
ing swimming courses was approv
ed by the Board and will go into
effect this semester
To Choose Director
The first step on the establish
, ment of the student placement
bureau here will be the selection
of a competent director for the
psoject j2L yrestde j . _A“Attz_.g 1 • d.'
man 0 Morse, assistant to the
president in charke of resident in
struction, stated yesterday He in
dicated that considerable time will I
be required before the plan can
be put into operation
The placement bureau question
was first brought to, the attention I
of the Trustees last October 13,
when the Alumni Committee of
100 presented its plan for such a
bureau The plan was referred
back to President Hetzel, who ap
pointed a committee to draft a
tentative setup for the placement
service
90 5.3 312 Main to 219 EE
LA 54
12 54 Elective W I 18 HE Brill-
Simons
Math 58
558 B Follow-Up MTh 10 'l' F
1 213 EngD "X"
29 58 B Follow-Up W S 10 M 3
203 EE "X"
Mng 66
492 66 St Mng T 2-5 W 1-5
Mitchell
Phys 75
262 75 A So CE 1-2 T F 8-10
262 75 D So IE 2-6 W F 1-3
262 75 H So IF, 6-6 T Th 1-3
262 75 R So EE ME 6-10 W F 1-3
262 75 W So EE 4-5 T Th 3-5
415.78 'l' F. 10 W 3 35 Ed to
207 HE
426 78 M Th 10 F 3 35 Ed to
18 HE
437 78 T F 9 W 2 35 Ed to
207 HE
500.78 W 7.9 35 Ed to 19 HE
502 78 W 4-5 50 35 Ed to 19
HE
503 78 T 7-8 40 35 Ed to 19
HE
511 78 T 4;5 50 35 Ed to 19
HE
ROTC 81
Infantry
481 F So LD (M-Z) 2nd For
NI 4 T 1-3 Th 3 102
EngA 405 Main
Engineering
4E 81 B So IE 6-6 M 2 M 4 W
10-12
Sec 85
15.85 Elective TF 10 I,V 310
LA Russell
Sp, 87
187 A Follow-Up T F 9 W 2
7 HE "X"
1 87.8 Follow-Up M Th 10 F
'•- 3-7 HE "X"
Complete
Coverage
PRICE FIVE CENTS
3 Students Hurt
When Auto Skids;
Fourth Uninjured
Harkins '4l, Cramer '4l
Suffer Serious Injury
$4OO Damage Estimated
1 Two College students were ser
liously Inn t and one slightly
_in
jured early Friday when the car
in which they were driving
ded into a pole at the intersection
of routes 220 and 322 at Martha
Furnace4 , A -fourtlr'studentrmlii
culOusly escaped, injury
The two students most seriously
' injured, John W Haikins '4l and
Berne F Mame! '9l, did notre
gain consciousness until seveial
hours after the accident, but now
ate well on the road to recovery
and are expected to resume school
this semester
Haikins suffered from a frac
tured left collarbone, broken nose,
lacerations about the face and
head, and body bruises Cramer
received a possible fractured
skull, laderations about they face
and head, and body bruises
Houghton W Clark, Jr, 40,
di iver of the car, received cuts
about the face and head and` body
bruises Jack A Sloan '42"Was the
uninjured passenger in the car
The student were all memberi - or
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity
Damage to the sedan, which was
traveling toward State College
from Port Matilda when It skidded
into the pole, was estimated at
about $4OO
'Kiss And Keep Healthy,'
Says West Coast Doctor;
Refutes Ritenour Theory'
All youse guys and gals may in
dulge in promiscuous oscillation
with unleashed abandonin fact
the more abandon the better—
without fear of passing -on that
cold to the one and only,lif - bite
of what killjoy Dr. Joseph P. Rit
enour has said to the contrary
Although Confucius didn't: say
so, no less an authority than Dr
L "Cupid" Katzoff, eminent West
Coast physician, created an inter
national (well, intercollegiate any
way) sensation recently when he
denounced University of Californ
ia officials for contemplating a ban
on kissing to stop the spread of
colds
"The university people have for
gotten their chemistry," chided Dr
Katzofit "Kissing generates enough
heat to destroy the germs and it
builds up resistance A genuine
kiss is like an electric current mag
netized by the masculine and fem
inine polarities.
Must Be. Virile
"And I don't mean the kind
between Mrs Brown and Mrs
Jones at the Tuesday bridge club,"
he said, stressing that the antisep
tic virtue lay in the Only
thus, he said, was kissing self
purifying
"Besides, the modern girls-Uses
enough lipstick and otheF - pimt
to kill any germ. There is no need
for hauling around a jug of diluted
carbolic acid to wash with - JAfter
every kiss." .
So .now can the boys see the
girls when they are in the infirm
ary, Doctor?