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Judicial
Straight
Students Proud Of
Self-Imposed Rule
When Mother whispers her last
words of advice to daughter and
leaves her surrounded by luggage
in her dormitory room, WSGA
steps in and takes over.
Regulations governing women
students are made by representa
tives of the women’s student body
and when these rules are violated,
in steps the Judicial Committee,
a student group.
Functioning as a jury, WSGA
Judicial Committee is composed of
two representatives from each
class who meet weekly to hear
violators’ cases. Penalties are
given according to precedent, ser
iousness of offense, and number
of times the defendant has been
apprehended.
Reports bearing names of wom
en punished, type of penalty, and
length of sentence are posted
weekly in dormitories where vio
lators live.
From the 1,350 women enrolled
in the College last year. 260 cases
were tried before WSGA Judicial
Committee. Of these, 19 women
were tried twice, and 6, three
times.
Strictness of penalties ranges
from a blackmark (five of these
result'in a lenient campus) to a
strict campus of indefinite dura
tion. For minor offenses one
o’clock permissions are removed.
More serious infractions are pen
alized with campuses requiring
coeds to sign in an hour or two
earlier and denying dating privi
leges for a specified time.
Strict campuses include removal
of dating privileges, being in the
dormitory, for the night by 5:45
p. m., receiving no telephone
calls, and not leaving campus dur
ing the penalty. For failure to
indicate “riding” when the person
signing out intends to drive out
side State College, a one o’clock
permission is removed.
Failure to wear customs may be
punished by any of the above, by
extension of customs, or infliction
of stricter customs. These include
wearing a green band around the
head topped with a large green
bow, all hair pushed behind the
band and bow, wearing large
name cards (about 12 by 5 inches)
in plain sight, and wearing large
posters, one saying “Caught,” the
other, “Dating.”
Women's Government
Combined With Men's
This is the second year that
women are included with men stu
dents in the newly organized all-
College student government.
Women are represented on the
all-College Cabinet by presidents
of WSGA, WRA, Panhellenic
Council, and Philotes. This cabi
net is immediately responsible to
the all-College president and vice
president.
Organization of the Interclass
Finance Board has been revived
this year to include the incoming
and outgoing treasurers of each
class and WSGA instead of select
ing representatives at random.
Under the constitution, separ
ate governments of men and wom
en students, various school coun
cils, fraternity and independent
men’s and women’s organizations,
Student Tribunal, and activities
groups are brought into the all-
College Cabinet, yet retain their
individual governments.
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Makes Coeds Toe
And Narrow Path
L. Eleanor Benfer ’4l will serve
as chairman of the WSGA Judi-.
cial Committee. Through this body
women students in a large meas
ure keep their own discipline. (See
column one.)
Love! There's
No Slopping It!
Campus romances—instead of
being casually put aside at gradua
tion—actually account for as many
as half of the marriages of former
women students, the College lias
revealed.
Out of 765 recent alumnae of
the College who are now married,
53.24 per cent have Penn State
men as their husbands. “Nearly
all of the latter marriages resulted
from friendships on the college
campus, only a very few being the
outgrowth of later acquaintance,”
said Dean of Women Charlotte E.
Ray.
Miss Ray sent questionnaires to
1,752 regular session coeds who
were graduated from Penn State
between 1921 and 1935. Based on
replies from 67 percent of them,
her report showed that:-
1. Two out of every three alum
nae of these years are married, the
totals ranging from 78.18 per cent
for the class of 1925 to 49.42 per
cent for the more recent class of
1931.
2. The percentage of those mar
rying Penn State men is fairly uni
form from year to year,. although
for one class, 1924, it was unusual
ly high, 71.42 per cent.
3. Nearly two-thirds of the mar
ried alumnae have children. The
number .runs as high as 84 per
1 cent in one of the earlier classes
and as low as 26 per cent for the
last class surveyed. The- biggest
families'were reported by the class
of 1924, with 1.8 children per fam
ily, and the largest number of chil
dren in one family was seven.
4. Of (the married alumnae, 17.61
per cent reported that they hold
part-time or full-time jobs outside
the home. This percentage was
significantly lower for classes re
porting the most children.
5. The leading occupation among
the unmarried alumnae is teach
ing. Home economics ranks sec
ond.
The freshman chess team at Un
ion College, Schenectady, N. Y., is
conducting matches via short
wave radio.
Judiciary Head
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Parties Will Occupy Frosh
During No-Dating Weeks
Men’s and women’s honor
aries will sponsor parties for
freshmen on weekends of the
first three weeks of no dating.-
Freshman women will attend by
hall groups and freshman men
will be asked at random.
The program follows:
Friday, September 20—Penn
State Club
Saturday, September 21
Mortar Board Cwens and Friars
Saturday, September 28—Al
pha Lambda Delta and Druids,
Skull and Bones and Phi Lamb
da Theta
Saturday, October s—Phi
lotes and Ellen H. Richards.
Where the parties will be held
will be announced later.
40 Coed Debates
Held Last Year
Convincing an audience, an
swering rapid fire questions and
thinking logically are requisites
for women debaters. Last year’s
squad of 12 coeds participated in
40 debates, parliamentary discus
sions and symposiums on • basic
blame for the European crisis,
United States’ foreign policy, de
mocracies’ place in averting the
war, un-American activities, and
the third term.
Meets were held with Alle
gheny, Boston, Bucknell, Cornell,
Gettysburg, John Carroll, Loyola,
Mount Mercy, Ohio Wesleyan,
Oxford - Cambridge, Pittsburgh,
Princeton, Randolph-Macon, Syr
acuse, Swarthmore, Ursinus, Vil
lanova, Washington and Jefferson,
West Virginia, and Wetsern Re
serve.
Debates were mainly Oregon
style consisting of a 20-minute
constructive speech, 14-minute
cross-examination, and six-min
ute summary for the affirmative
with negative. Audiences could
question speakers in open forums
which followed.
Intramural discussions sponsor
ed by Delta Alpha. Delta, women’s
speech professional, are an-annual,
feature in which sorority and club
groups participate.
Freshman or transfer women
interested in debating should see
Clayton H. Schug or. George W.
Dougherty of the speech depart
ment.
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a theatre arts building.
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Coeds Automatically Join
Recreation Association
Marjory A. Harwick ’4l will
serve as head of the Women’s Rec
reation Association to. coordinate
the many-sided sports program
arranged for the College coeds.
(See column five.)
Fraternity Booklet
Mailed to Freshmen
The 47 men’s fraternities are
“telling their story” to prospective
new members in the incoming
freshman class by mailing them
copies of a new 16-page booklet:
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WRA President
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940
Sports Clubs Active
Under Central Group
Upon registration each coed is
automatically a member of the
Women’s Recreation Association.
Headed by Marjorie A. Harwick
’4l, other officers are Bernice M.
Mauer ’42, vice president, L. Elea
nor Benfer ’4l, secretary, Betty
M. Zeigler ’42, treasurer, Helen
L. Mazer ’42, social chairman, and
Ann T. Drivas ’43, publicity.
These:-officers and the presi
dents of Archery, Dance, Fencing,
Golf, Outing, Riding, Rifle, Swim
ming, Tennis, and Variety Clubs
compose the WRA Board which
plans women’s recreational activ
ities during the year. Officers are
nominated by a committee of
board members and faculty advis
ors and are elected by the coeds.
Club officers are nominated and
elected by club members each
spring.
A coed may - join only two
clubs but may participate
in activities sponsored by all.' In
addition to the individual pro
gram, each club is hostess at a
Saturday night open house when
badminton, bowling, bridge, danc
ing, refreshments, and swimming
fill the biU.
The Intramural Board, headed
by the WRA treasurer and com
posed of representatives from each
sorority house, plans intramural
•competition in badminton, base
ball, bowling, golf, swimming, and
tennis during the spring and faU
seasons.
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