Successor To The Free Lance, Established 1887 VOL. 36—No. 43 Student Placement Mineral Industries (This is the third in a series of ar holes dealing with the methods used by the various schools and departments in the College to place their graduates and the success those methods have had 1 By RICHARD C. PETERS "The key man in placement service is the depai tment head— the man who has the closest con tacts with the students as individ uals and as a gi oup " That is the belief of Edwai d Stei dle, dean of the School of Minei al Indust' les, a school which is a leader in placement of graduates of all its six depaitments Dean Steidle pointed out that effoits for placement in Mineral Industries has been systematiied and greatly improved in the pas.. six years According to the. plan used in all depai tments of the School, a complete 'mold of pet banal history of the individual stu dent, plus information concetning his extia-curricular activities in College, Is compiled by the various department heads eat ly in the sen ior year On. the basis of this information and that provided by grade sheets, departmental recoicls, and pet sonal knowledge of the student, a sheet containing personal in foi =Awn, cumulative grade point averages, 'dative standings in the entire col lege class, and in the group grad uating from his pat ticulai depart ment, is drawn up All this infor mation is made available to inter viewers and personal reptesenta- Lives of companies A selected poi lion of the com pilation is published in a small booklet with a picture of each man, which is sent to piospective em ployers, with a letter offering full est cooperation of—the department in Winging together employers and! prospective employees Interview, then ate the means of placing the graduates, which ate arranged thiough these several media In connection with the tecently- Moposed central placement bin - eau, Dean Steidle stated, "I am heartily in favor of a central place ment bureau and have always looked foi ward to the day wile.] we would have one lime at Penn State " "I believe the Leith al placement but eau should act as a coot dinating factor fol all schools and depatt ments on the campus It definitely should be built around the depart ment heads, who after all have the closest contact with the students," Dean Steidle concluded Entries For IF Sing Due Today 10 Houses Now Entered; Eliminations Begin Soon Setting noon today as the ab solute deadline for submission of entries in the lust Intel Irate' nity Sing Contest at the Student Union desk, G Women Elliott '4O, chair man of the sing committee, an nounced yesterday that about 10 entries had been received foi the competition so fai Final aiiangements Cm elimina tions in the affan, which will be judged by Hummel Fishbuin, head of the department of music, and Phi Mu Alpha, music frateinity, have not yet been complete, Elliott Indicated Plan Round Robin "We hope to iun off all the eli minations in one big round-robin event some Sunday afternoon," lie said "If that proves impossible, we will pick the finalists by a sem% of elimination contests starting next week " The three best choral groups will vie for Interfiateinity Coun cil's cup at intermission of Intel fraternity Ball April 5 Each group must number 16 men and must smg foul numbers, according to rules of the competition Naramore Will Leclure "011 Field Shop Practne," a lec ture accompanied by motion pic tures, will be pi esented by Chester A. Naramore, secretary of the pe troleum division of the AIME, at a meeting of the Mineral Indust' ies Society in Room 121, Mineral In dustries Building, at 7.30 pin to morro.. =41.1 p utt ~t atr COMPLETE CAMPUS T o tt rg i au COVERAGE ./855' Penn State To Head New Intercollegiate Government Under Constitution Instituted Here Last Weekend 38 Boxers Meet In EIBA Tourney Here This Week low Entry Finds Army, Syracuse And State Entering Full Teams Special to the Collegian NEW YORK, N Y, Maui' 4 Thn ty-eight collegiate boxers rep resenting six institutions were biacketed here yesterday for the 17th annual Eastern Intercollegi ate Boxing Association tourna ment which will be held at State College. Pa, on Friday and Sat in day The entry this year is the low est since 1937 when only 34 box eis participated Full teams were entered by Ai my 's defending champions, Penn State and Syracuse Cm nell entered six men, Yale foul, Westein Maiyland thice, and Dai tmouth one Penn State by vim tue of the backeting staits with are men in the semi-finals and only George Hankins, 120, and Flank Stanko, 135, obliged to fight their way through prel iminai les Summaries of the draws fol lows (Letters in parentheses in dicate school initials Fighters named first and last in each class wcie seeded as favorites to meet in the finals 120 pounds. Fahey (S) b,>e to meet winner of Rouse (W Md ) and Sullnan (Y), winner of Han= kms (P S) and Reid (A) to meet Brown (C) 127 pounds• Coopei (P. S) to meet winner of Gluckson (C) and Rowlands (S), Weber (Y) bye and Lavendusky (A) bye to meet in semi-finals Lavendusky was 120 pound champion in 1038 and 1939 135 pounds• Stanko (P S 1 vs Williams (Y), winner to meet Pa lopolt (S) bye, Rickel (W kid ) bye to meet winner of Clement (A) and Fine (C) 145 pounds: Selloff (S) IP, Ms in (A), Van Sand (Y) IA Baird (P S) Continued On Page 4 Central Council Of IMA Admits Another Unit, Draws Up Plans For Ball Anothei new unit, the Tulsan, was admitted to membeiship in the IMA at a meeting of the Central Council at the Blue and White Club Wednesday night The coun cil also foimulated plans for the IMA Ball and decided it shall be an open afar Mai ch 30 in Re creation Hall Although all plans foi the dance have not been announced, Chair man John R Walford '4O stated that the allan will be open in order to show non-haternity men what the IMA is doing and to en courage expansion of the organi zation He added that the Campus Owls are top choice for the orches ta a College Wan By ROBERT FL LANE It seems like only yestei day, but It was Just 18 years ago that a small, but rapidly expanding little college hidden somewhere in the Ndtany Mountains in the center of Pennsylvania was demanding that it be lecogniced as Pennsyl vania State Univeisity It was Just 18 years ago that the administration of that college re leased a statement comet mng "crowded conditions" The report ran something like this, "The num ber of women students who can be admitted to the College has teached a maximum until more facilities me provided " In 1922 twice as many gills had to be denied admission as Were re ceived The oft-repeated chant, "We want to be a university," carried all the way to Washington, D C, In 1922, and even further, it en tered into the sanctity of the presi dential chambers of the White House The cry was so loud and v.go.c..s that r-oze °the: ha=t e Z 658 STATE COLLEGE, PA , TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1940 1 ARTISTS' COURSE VIOLIN VIRTUOSO, FRITZ KRELSLER Kreisler To Play First Local Concert Thursday Fritz Kreisler, violin impiesaiio, will make his State College debut Wine one of the largest crowds which has ever Jammed Schwab Auditorium, when he appears here as the third numbei on the Artists' Course set ics at 8 p m Thursday Stage tickets ,for the Kreisler program - were sold out shortly af ter noon Friday, with a limited number of standing room tickets still on sale at the Athletic Associ ation windows These tickets will remain on sale until they are ex hausted Si up until the time of the master violinist's perfoimance at the Schwab Auditorium box office on Thuisday Kreisler's program Thuisday night will include three of his own compositions "Preclude," "Capi ice Viennois," and "La Gi tea " The (list portion of the pei formance will be two concerts, Bath's Conceito in A Minor, No I, and Vieuxtemps' Conceito in D Minor, No 4 Following a five minute Intel mission, Kieisle: will continue with five shorter numbers, includ ing 'Rondo Brilliant" by Schubeit and "Timka" by Winteinitz, plus his thiee original compositions Job Booklets Are Ready For Seniors In C And F The Commerce and Finance em ' ployment booklets and personal in fmmation sheets, completed under the direction of Delta Sigma Pi fraternity ate now available foi seniors at the economics depart ment office in the Libeial Ails building The committee in thaw was Jonas B Kauffman '4O ichan main, J William Kitchen '4O, George B Terwilliger '4O, Dean F Millet '4O, Clarence H Evans '4O, and Andy D Warcholak '4O ed Name Ch Piesident of the United States had the matte' brought to his atten tion "My attention has been called to vow endeavor to develop Penn sylvania State College into a state uinveisitv worthy of that meat Commonwealth I wish you all success in youi uncle' taking to per suade the people of Pennsylvania to follow the example of evely state west of them, and to movide a free institution of teaming ample to meet the needs of the Common wealth" Those weie the woids and the wishes of President Wal ton G. Balding Yes, it seems like only yestm day, but it 'catty was 18 yearns ago that the students, faculty, and the alumni of a little "cow college," which was then a half century old, should ieceave just lecognition of what it had become The oft-repeated cty, "We want more money," was heard frequent ly in 1922 The Pittsburgh Post Gazette filled its editin lel columns a:z;:eal Perza:yhan_a's Harder Will Give Priestley Lectures Metallurgy Authority Slated For March 11-15 "Physical Metallurgy in the bei owe of Indushy" is the topic which Di OSCAI E Hauler, assist ant &team of Battele Memmial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, has se lected for the 14th annual Pi iestley Loathes which he will deliver in the Labeler A: ts Building Mauch II to 15 The lactates, which me sponsor ed by the local chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon, national honor ary chemistry halm nay, in coop elation with the depai tment of chemists v, deal with the borderline between phrsieal chemistry and sonic other blanch of science Active Scientist Di Haidei is a member of nine science oiganizations, has been an office' in live of these, and at the present time is national vice-pi esi dent of the American Society for Metals Two In Infirmary Friday Last Et !clay, when only two pati ents were confined to the College Hospital at noon, was the lightest day the Hospital has had since September aged In 1922 own "bi =child The following is a pat agiaph (loin an editonal appeasing in that paper "When one considers the magnanimous equipment given the great state UIIIVCI slims of the west, the conviction is inevitable that Pennsylvania is not heating hei own institution fairly " Insult was added to minty when President Button of the Univeisity of Michigan wrote a letter to Pi es- Went Thomas of Penn State in which he stated, "Michigan's last legislature provided foi $11,000,- 000 for us this biennium, your leg islatures appiopi iation, seems almost paltiv " President Buiton was probably iefei i mg to the fact that the popu lation of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota combined in 1922, was not as peat as that of Pennsylva nia Yes. although all this happened 18 yeais ago, one wonders why it seems like only yesterday Could it be that yeste.day might be today? Senior La Vie Portraits Available For Corrections Today At Photo Shop 'the first pi our of the semi' pm twits foi the LaVie has been returned horn Wilhamspoi t and is now in the Penn State Photo Shop, lhomas .1 Finn '4O. editor, has announced - fn order to avoid mistakes, he has requested that each senior lepoi t to the Photo Shop immed iately to make sole his picture c, the col rect one and is properly captioned The dummy will be there foi a limitcd time only, and it is or -gent that any coireetions be made at once Book Exchange Donates Profits To (horny Fund Committee Announces 1,027 Books Handled; Students Saved $5OO Realizing the biggest molit eve' attained In, the Student Book lA change this ye.o s committee has announced that the entire pro ceeds have been turned ovei to the emeigency fund of MI% Holzer:, committee Co-chan men Thomas C BaLk enslose '4l and Gmald F Doheitv '42 stated that approximately 1,027 btiuks were handled - by the •e•- thange dui mg its mid-semester op ation In conjunction with that item, they added that $2,560 worth of business was contracted No Compensations &A.m.(ling to the committee s Imo] ds, appi ommatelv $5OO was sax ed 'tudents who used the ex change Commenting on the ec oid of the exchange, Semoi Class Pi esident David E Pergrin de ed "All the committeemen %%diked w i thou t compensation which is a swell indication of the dud Penn State son " Those members of the lommut tee in addition to Backenstose and Dohert , , are William B Bartholo mew, Pete! Lesko, William G But - ket, Chat les E Hough, Rithard M Geissingel, David I Finkle, Rhl ham L Cm bm, Theodore G Rot hshm, Ruth V Dice, Bette L Campbell, Stephen W Okowaski and John E Gallagher, tumors Eel! L Kemmlei, Joseph L Duf fy, Elden T Shaul, Robert D Baird. IVaiien H Williams, Earl L Horst, Mildred M Taylor, Ben yamm Seem and Chm les 0 Tan, sophomores, Joseph Edel stein, Eugene R Yeager, Edward C Veigel and Flank B Flynn, freshmen Why Do Corpses Mink? Answer To Be Given AI Sigma Delta Chi Dinner Why do corpses What kind of copses stink most? ['hese questions and numerous other questions of the Dead Past Hill be answered March 14 at the annual GI Ida on Banquet, when Sigma Della Chi, national journal ism honmaiy, will brutally, fiank ly—and humorously, show Penn Staters a few "skeletons in the Col lege closet" The inside story on the much publicized "debate fee split" which was one of the big battles on the campus dui mg the past yea!, the hue mcluies of the "epidemic" which ten onzed College students students last December, an expose of the campus hat societies—those are just a few of the dal ing things in stole foi those who go to the banquet Committees in charge of the al - I.mgements promise that the us ual "roasting' of College authon ties, students and faculty membeis, will be unusually hot this year, and many a campus bigwig is in foi the most torrid night of his Gift Given For Students One hundred dollars was donated by the Women's Recreation Asso ciation to Mss Ralph D Hetzers Lommittec tot aiding needy stu dents 2: -.-_.or .f....'-taxtua! matters Hetzel Tells Delegates That Student Rule Results From Active Interest In Environmental Conditions And Success Depends Upon Ability To Solve Problems Warnock. Ray And Emory Ilafayette And Muhlenberg Named To Select Talk To Representatives I Remaining Officers; Association To Establish At Luncheon Gatherings Cooperative Spirit Among College Governments "Student govei nment is an out-, giowth of the ability of students to sense their vital intei est in, and the t esponsibility lot the condi lions which make up then em n on meet, was the explanation given by Pt e,ident Ralph I) Het/el lot 'lndent government at the Penn s% Ivan to Student Got ei dimwit Lon % ention dmnei in the Ratan% Lion, Inn Satuida3 , night Speaking on the subject ' A Col lege Pt esident Atm:discs Student Govei nment, ' the President • aid that an diluent -Ancient govei went similai to the one hole, con sideiably lessens the task of the administration and places despoil -413dd% mote squarely on the stu dents' shouldeis "It's not a give me MN, Line me that pi oposition Its success de pends on the abilitN of the students to think to analyze, and to milt out invoked pioblems," Het7ol de elated Warnock's Four Points Dean of Men Ai thur It Warnock outlined the foul generaltheme ' teustics common to all student goscinments at the opening lunch eon on Filday afternoon "Student grim nment is an aid in keeping aliens running harmoni ously, it must find some way to do hail, unpleasant tasks as well as easy, pleasant jobs By sponsoi mg activities it will enable students to do things es a glom) that they would nut be able to do other wise Successful student government must deal is alb the. always -current problem of bi urging the most pow ful student leaders into student govet nment " 'Tear Down the Barrier' "Student - Facul Es-Admmrstra tn e Relations' was the title of Col Ambrose R Emery s talk Saturday aftmnoon Colonel Emery empha sized the imam lance of tear ing down the bai 'lei between students and faculty, and stated that the, solution las in the iminovement of, the attitude, of all pal ties con- cei ned Dean of Women Chailutte L Ras pi edicted even tut thei devel opment in student govei nmcnt, and predicted that possibly in the near Mule student leaders would be listed in college catalogues, and that student r epresentatwes would be permitted to attend the sessions of the Board of Trustees 40 Have Trench Mouth Esammation of smems taken by the College Health Set vice has bound 40 students suffer ng born bench mouth 'We're Human!' INS Ace Says Of Capital Writers By ROBERT H. LANE rite bus from Leuistcm n screeched to a stop in front of the State College Hotel at 130 p rn Fu day There was nothing unusual about that, except, possibly that the bus anived at the scheduled time As the passengers stepped from the bus they appeared to be the customary group of people who were returning to State College after a short sojourn elsewhere It was nothing out of the ordinary But,that is why it was odd. Be cause among those common-look mg individuals was a Washington newspapei correspondent A man who belongs to that sotiety of Greek Gods of journalism who are the most widely-publicized and envied t h roughout the entire new.spapei profession He was Leon W Shloss, editor, Washington Bureau of Interna tional News Service, invited to come hole as the guest speaker for the Pennsylvania Student Govern ment Cons ention My Washington newspaperman of mot ie memory was a din ing in dividual who talked with the speed of Floyd Gibbons, and whose main feature was a to-hell with-everybody attitude Instead, this writer was a quiet unassuming person who failed to c ally either a pencil or pad in his hard After close obsei t ation I See Editorial, "First Convention Then Sel_ction of the Pennsylv .inia State College to head the Pennsyl% ama Intercollegiate Student Government ASWCIII.- bon, newly-formed uncle' the constitution IA hieh was adopted Sunday morning, climaxed the state-wide Student Govern ment Coin ention here last week-end Lafayette College gained the esitenc‘ and Mull lenbeig College v.a , , selected semettuy-treasuier All offices were mauled to colleges lathe' than to individuals with each college iequired to name its nelson to fill the office for a one-year tm m follow mg the Spi mg election Schloss Concerned With Red Inroads In College Groups INS Ace Hopes Student Governments Are Free Of Subversive Control "I would like to hod out if sub % eishe otgameations have made any inroads into student govein rnent One of the hist places that Communism always attacks is the tanks of youth I have unimpeach able knowledge that many of the counny s youth mganizations are fronts tot Communism" This star thug statement vi elb de hteted bi, Leon W Shloss, edam Washington But eau of Inteination al News Set vice at the Pennsylva nia Student Government Conven tion chnnet held in the Unii.eisit , , Club Fu day night Warns of Communism Speaking on the subject "A Newspaper mans Vieu point of Col lege Student Gmeinment, Shloss pointed out that the leaden of student goveinment are charged with guaiding every Ammican fight, and at the same time it is their duty to repulse eve' v at tempted subversive encioachment on the countiy's collegiate youth "Simplicity and truth are the two elements that a newspaper man looks foi first in any story, and those two things aie what I would consider necessary for an efficient and capable student goveinment. Shloss claimed I discovered that he had two eyes two ems, two legs, and two aims, 1 in fact he looked like a human be ing "If we aitomplished what the genet al public imagines we do, the impossible would be an element of the past No, we re only human Macbe you won't beho,e it, but we sleep at night and eat three squat° meals a day " Howe% ei, dime were instances when Schloss courageously ap plied "movie reporter" technique, such as getting the late Senator Borah out of bed at eight in the moining to answer a phone call Commenting on the presidential question, Shloss smiled and said, "In view of having a 50-50 chance of being right, better odds than on other stories I write, I am willing to go out on the limb and say 115 wlll not run. PRICE FIVE CENTS A State Assonation.' on page 2 The constitution, presented at the final conference session by A William Engel, 11 40, acting chanman of the committee of nine, was adopted tn, unanimous vote of the 17 imtitutions pres ent Menthe's of the constitution poop besides Engel, included Ulm is Stein, Erie Conic- iUniver sity of Pittsburgh), Fred Gal biaith, Lehigh University, War ren Hite, Univeisity of Pennsyl vania, Andrew Horton, Lafayette College, Chailes Meole, Millers \ ille State Teachers College, Nor man Roden, Drexel University, Eloise F Rockwell and Thomas C Baekenstose, both of Penn Slate Establishment of a permanent association of student govern ments of colleges and unixersities of Pernishanta was provided for following the adoption of a reso lution presented Sunday morning by George tlowalt, Muhlenberg Seek Cooperation Although designed primarily to benefit student governments, the association should achiete a spir it of cooperation among students thioughout the commonwealth The pi eamble states "We the students of the colleges and um veisities of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in order to ach lON e a spud. of cooperation to site consideration to questions affecting student interest and in oidei to establish and strengthen student governments' so that re sponsibility and administration of student problems be given to the student', do heieby ordain and establish the constitution of the Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Stu dent Government Association " Chief outcome of the association will be an annual convention, while an e‘ecutive committee has been established to handle imme diate aflans Included on the ex ecutive committee are the three ofliceis and one lepresentative flom each of the following groups I—Colleges and universities of a iegishation of more than 2,000 2—Colleges and unit ersities of a i egistration of under 2,000 3—State Teachers Colleges 4—Junim Colleges Continued On Page 4 Whitmore Will Deliver Fourth liberal Arts Talk In HE Auditorium Tonight Di Frank C Whitmore, dean of the School of Chemistry and Phys ics, will speak on "The Impact of Chemistry on the Modern World" in the Home Economics Auditor ium at 730 p m today His talk is the fourth of the Liberal Arts Leatwe series to be given this ) eat Dean Whitmore came to Penn State in 1929 and has been doing iescai ch work in organic chemis fly in addition to his administra tii, e duties Previous to his coming here, he served as professor of organic chemistry and head of his depai iment at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern Um % ersity A former president of the Am erican Chemical Society, Dr Whit more is a member of the Ameri can Academy of Arts and Sciences and president-elect of the Franklin Institute Chemical Society
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