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VOL. 37—No. 90
Hockey, Skiing PI
Support By A. A.
No Future Admissions
Slated For Hockey
—Hockey and skiing emerged.as
full-fledged intercollegiate sports,
guaranteed full financial support,
at a-busy, four-hour' meeting of
the Athletic Advisory Board in
the JMlttany Lion Inn on Satur
day. ■ ... ;
‘ On motion of the student mem
bers of the board, Jack W. Brand
■’4l, William B. Bartholomew ’4l
and Adam, A. Smyser ’4l, the
sports were promised full finari
-cial support. It was announced,
toof that in the future no student
admissions would be charged for
hockey. .
■ In' its busiest meeting of the
3'ear, the Board took these other
.important actions:
1. Passed a resolution urging
the college to end its policy of
discrimination against athletes
for campus jobs and urging the
establishment of a student place
ment bureau as soon as possible.
2. Called on Dr. Carl P. Schott,
dean of the School of Physical
Education and Athletics, to have
all. coaches report what jobs are
now held by athletes in their
sports.
■3. Approved a return of the
four-year eligibility requirement
to the athletic code and voted
that it be submitted to the stu
dent body at the Athleic Associ
ation elections.
-4.' Voted to pay for numeral
..awards beginning next fall out
of the regular athletic budget.
(The - awards are now paid half
from interclass finance funds and
half by the students, receiving
'ffieirD ‘T .“''"
5. Voted to incorporate the
requirements for numeral awards
into'the Athletic Association con
stitution if approved by the stu
dent body at-the AA elections.
6. Voted to give Mont Alto
Forestry School- the power to
award class numerals to its sports
participants instead of the let
ters P.S.F.S. (Penn State Forestry
School) now awarded.
-7. Voted to restrain under
graduate xenters from designat
ing themselves as Penn State
teaihs rather than center teams.
8. Considered football sched
ules for 1943, 1944, and 1945.
FieM Harrows
In Senior Award
Three seniors were still being
considered yesterday for the Col
legian’s annual Outstanding Sen
ior Award to be presented be
tween the wrestling meet and the
basketball game in Rec Hall Sat
urday night.
The final decision will be made
Friday afternoon. The trophy, a
15-inch cup, is made by the jun
ior editorial board of the Col
legian.
Requirements for the award
are all around activity on the
campus ancl accomplishments
during the entire tour years spent
at the College. Both men* and
women :are eligible.'-
. This .will be the fourth year
that the award has been made.
Previouis winners ' were Sol B.
Miehoff; ’3B, Joseph A. Peel ’39
and H. | Clifton McWilliams, Jr.
540.: . ; -
■l_,i ,
Cabinet To Meet
t All-College Cabinet will hold
'lts/ regular -meeting -in Room 305
VJDld.Main immediately after the
: basketball game tonight.
TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1941, STATE. COLLEGE, PA.
edged
Board
Delayed Heifetz Concert
Scheduled For March 25
Jascha Heifetz will make his
delayed concert appearance here
Tuesday, March 25 in the second
number of the Artists’ Course
series, Dr. . Carl E. Marquardt,
committee chairman, revealed
last night. . . ~
February 11 was the original
scheduled- concert- date but ill
ness caused that performance to
be postponed. March 25 is the
first available substitute date
agreeable to both Tfbifetz and
the College.
Series seats and individual
tickets for the great, violinist’s
concert are still on sale.
Free Concerts
To Begin Sunday
The Blue Band, under the di
rection of Hummel Fishburn, as
sociate professor of mUsic, will"
present a complimentary concert
in Schwab Auditorium Sunday
at 3:30 p.m. This will be the first
in the annual series of concert?
sponsored by the music depart
ment, Richard W. Grant, director
of music, announce'd yesterday.
Concerts, which have been
scheduled to be given through
out March and early April, in
clude those to be given by:
The Infantry Band, directed by
Frank Gullo, assistant professor
of music, on March 9;
The Glee Club, directed by
Professor Grant, on March 10;
- Trie Phi"Mu~ATpha Orchestra,
directed by Professor Gullo, and
the Louise Homer Club Girls’ En
semble, directed by Willa C. Tay
lor, assistant professor of music,
on March 23;
The Symphony Orchestra, di
rected by Professor Fishburn, on
March 30;
The Engineers’ Band, directed
by Professor Gullo, on April 6.
Brotherhood Week
At a well-attended all-campus
mass'meeting in Schwab audi
torium Sunday night, observance
of National Brotherhood Week
was officially begun and will
continue through Friday. Meet
ings of church and campus or
ganization groups will meet from
time to time throughout the
week.
Engineering Students Approve
Acceleration Of
That 60.5 per cent of the Col
lege engineering students favor
an accelerated program of study,
was revealed late yesterday in'
the results of the survey con
ducted last week in cooperation
with the Society for the Prorrio
tion of Engineering Education.
This nationwide survey, which
was requested by the Advisory
Committee on Engineering De
fense Training of the U. S. Of
fice of Education, will determine
the desirability and feasibility of
speeding up the regular under
graduate programs of technical
colleges.
Following are the results of
the survey, the SPEE committee
will report their findings to the
Advisory Committee, which will
meet March . 8 to decide if the
plan will be continued, and to
seek federal financial aid.
Following are th eresults _of
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
Bucknell Chosen
New President
Of Association
Bucknell University was chos
en president of the Pennsylvania
Intercollegiate Government As
sociation and host to the 1942
convention before the second an
nual three-day convention of the
Association closed here Sunday
morning. '
Penn State was chosen vice
president- with All-College Cab
inet to designate a student for the
office.
In a convention marked by the
attention its speakers paid to in
ternational and national affairs,
the state director of selective
service, Dr. William Mather
-Lewis, president of Lafayette
College, urged the students to
“pay attention to the matters at
hand and not go out and meet the
crisis.”
Education is an essential indus
try, he told the students. “If we
disrupt it,” he said, “the Dark
Ages of the eighth century may
give us another blackout.”
Dr.'Lewis predicted in his talk
Saturday night that “we will
know by July 1 whether Amer
ica is to be actively engaged in
this war.”
A resolution ' urging absentee
voting for Pennsylvania and
pledging the college students to
do their utmost to see it adopted
was unanimously passed at a
general session of the convention
Sunday morning.
Sixty-two delegates represent
ing 24 colleges attended the con
vention.
Student Health Board
Reorganizes To Act
On Housing Standard
Indirectly responsible for es
tablishing the free hospitalization
plan that began operating last
fall, the Student Healthy Board
has again organized, this time
with the intention of influencing
action on a measure that will
. tend toward a minimum housing
"standard for students. .
Headed by Charles R. Reid ’4l,
the board of 12 students will
serve chiefly as an intermediary
for problems that arise between
students and the College Health
Service, the latter represented by
Dr. Joseph P. Ritenour, director
of the Service.
Thursday has been set as a
tentative date'for the first meet
ing of the Board, Reid announced
yesterday.
Study Program
the survey conducted by the Col
lege: Additional cost to the Col
lege per student for a summer
term is estimated at $350; Fed
eral aid should cover 100 per
cent' of this additional cost, oth
erwise the program would not
be acceptable; three . summer
terms will be considered equiv
alent to a fourth year of college.-
The accelerated program is
favorable to 60.5 per cent of the
students, unfavorable to 11.5 per
cent, and uncertain to - 28 per
cent. According to College of
ficials an accelerated and normal
program operated simultaneous-.,
ly would be feasible but awk
ward, but if both programs are
conducted simultaneously, 6.3
per cent of the students would
follow the normal program, 64
per cent the accelerated, and 27.8
per cent uncertain, the survey
revealed.
Baird, Doherty Selected
As All-College Nominees
Releases Party Slates
Richard C. Peters ’4l, chair
man of All-College Elections
Committee, has released the com
plete All-College election ticket
and reminded party chairman of
the platform and petition dead
line set for noon today.
Political Lineup
ALL-COLLEGE
Campus Independent
Office
Pres. Mattern Baird
V. Pres. Krones Doherty
SENIOR CLASS
Krouse Alexander
Long Clovis
Behngy Mall
Hartz
V. Pres.
Hoffman
JUNIOR CLASS
Pres. . Blakeslee Richards
V. Pres. Lundelius Rumsey
Sec’y. -Rooth Fitting
Treas. Mawhinny Ridge
SOPHOMORE CLASS
Pres
Grey
Eisenhart
Campsey
Goodwin
V. Pres.
Sec’y.
Treas.
Final Check Shows $442
Donated For War Relief
Final returns from the All-Col
lege Cabinet war relief - drive
showed $442 collected for the
World Student Service Fund and
British War Relief Society.
Through preferences shown by
contributors, $215 will be donat
ed to the WSSF and $227 to the
BWRS, Elinor L. Weaver ’4l and
A, John Currier Jr. ’42, co
chairmen, have announced.
President’s Son On Air
Ralph D. Hetzel, Jr., director
of ClO’s unemployment and edi
tor of “Economic Outlook,” will
participate in a panel discussion,
“The School’s Place in Defense,”
at the American Association of
School Administrators’ conven
tion now being held in Atlantic
City, N. J. The discussion will be
bi’oadcast over. the Mutual net
work from 3:30 to 4 p.m. today.
Flue Fire Checked
Firemen from the Alpha Fire
Company succeeded in checking
a flue fire which damaged a
chimney at the home of Charles
Hockman, Millbrook, at 9:30 last
night. The estimated damage was
slight.
Candidates Meet Tonight
A meeting of freshman candi
dates for the Collegian-editorial
staff will be held in Room 312
Old Main at 7 p.m. tonight. All
freshmen are invited to try out
for the staff, regardless of at
tending any previous meetings.
Platforms, Petitions
Deadline Noon Today ,
Selection of Robert D. Baird
for All-College president and
Gerald F. Doherty as his run
ning mate on the Independent
ticket climaxed the ’42 and ’43
Independent nominations last
night as the curtain fell on clique
primaries, setting the stage for
the All-College political cam
paign.
Coincident with the announce
ment that all party -petitions and
platforms are due at noon today,
Jtichard C. Peters ’4l, chairman
of the elections committee, re
vealed that the political mass
meeting would be held in Schwab
Auditorium at 8:15 p. m.. instead
of 7 p. m., next Tuesday.
R. Glenn Alexander was nam
ed as the Independent senior
class presidential nominee, with
James L. Clovis as the vice-pres
ident candidate. Secretary and
treasurer posts were given to
Paul C. Mall and Janet M. Hartz,
respectively. J
In the final Independent nom
inations, the ’43 clique chose Wil
liam T. Richards for their presi
dential aspirant, George N.
Rumsey will campaign for vice
president, Glayds E. Fitting for
secretary, and Thomas R. Ridge
for treasurer.
All pai-ty platforms submitted
today must contain the All-Col
lege averages of the candidates.
Active campaigning for party
candidates will not be allowed
until after the mass meeting,
Peters warned. Any violators
will be tried by the Student Tri
bunal,. and if found guilty of
election code violations will be
subject to dismissal from Col
lege.
Chambers
Lebow
Stevenson
• Ramsey
Women Meet To
Name Candidates
See Page 4 for Complete List of
Candidates' Activities.
Candidates for WSGA and
WRA offices made by respective
nominating committees will be
introduced at the compulsory
women’s mass meeting in
Schwab Auditorium from 7 to 8
p. m. today. Additional names
may be added to the ballot from
the floor.
Roll will be taken, and WSGA
Judicial Committee will penalize
absentees. Coeds having classes
should attend them and then pre
sent excuses to Judicial.
No nominations will be accept
ed from the floor for the presi
dency of WSGA or WRA since
candidates must have had a
year’s experience to be eligible.
Withdrawals from the WSGA
ballot announced by Elinor L.
Weaver ’4l, WSGA president,
are Marjorie L. Sykes ’43 from
the vice-presidency nomination,
and'Jean E. Hershberger ’43 from
junior senatorship candidacy.
Both WSGA and WRA require
all candidates to have a 1.5 All-
College average and WRA re
quires that vice-president and
treasurer be of sophomore stand
ing.
Outing Club Planned
A meeting of all students in
terested in the formation of an
outing club, with a wider variety
of outing activities, will be held
in Room 10 Sparks Building at
7 p. m. tomorrow.
PRICE THREE CENTS