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New Panhel Code Allows
Mid-Semester Rushing
All Contact Banned
During Final Exams
A new rushing code, with be
tween - semester rushing as its
major change, was adopted by
Panhellenic Council, governing
body for women's sororities last
spring.
. Under the code, invitations to
four formal parties will be issued
one week before final examina
tions begin. No contact between
rushees and sorority women will
be allowed during final week.
Formal rushing will start on
January 29 and continue until Feb
ruary 7. Usual week-end silent
periods will be in effect.
The rushing code was changed
so that the intensive rushing
period will be during registration
and the first two days of second
semester clases. According to the
committee which drew up the
code, class-cutting for rushing pur
poses will be decreased.
Two first-semester open houses
were replaced by get-togethers.
However, .three open houses will
be held by sororities early in the
firSt semester. All freshman and.
transfers will be asked.
Transfer students will be per
mitted to visit fraternity women
in dormitory rooms except during
strict silent periods. Fraternity
women will be allowed to visit
transfer students until Christmas.
Visiting in freshman rooms is
cforbidden after the four-week
period of free association at the
beginning of the semester.
Half the men students and, one
third of the co-eds at the Univer
sity of Nebraska are either entire
ly or partially self-supporting.
GRAHAm
and
SON
Established 1896
Welcomes the
CLASS
of
1945
•
"Mix with the
Athletes and
Coaches"
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• Newspapers
• Candy
• Tobaccos
• Magazines
• Pipes
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At Penn State
GRAHAM'S
IS A TRADITION. .
Dean Of Women
Mist Charlotte E. Ray, above is
Dean of Women. Directly or in
directly she has a voice is all ac
tivities of • the 1500 women stu
dents on, campus.
HE DEPARTMENT
STATE'S BIGGEST
Largest in the state, the College
home economics department, has
numerous units, including a cafe
teria, adviSory council, home man
agement houses, several honor
aries and a club.
Located o; the ground floor of
the Home Economics• Building, the
cafeteria, which \is open.- to the
public, enables students to gain
practical experience. •
The two-year-old Home Eco
nomics Advisory Council is a stu
dent-faculty organization com
posed of two representatives and
two alternates from each class, two
members from each officially rec
ognized home economics organi
zation, two faculty representatives
and two graduate student repre
sentatives.
In their junior or senior year,
home economics • students live in
one of the three home manage
ment houses for either a' third or a
half semester, where they put into
operation previous training. Stu
dents plan and prepare all meals,
market, clean, launder, care for a
baby and entertain. Family living
is emphasized.
Home economics majors may,
aim for two honoraries. The gllen,
H. Richards Club pledges women!
at the end of the sophomore year
who are in the upper two-fifths of
their class, possess leadership
qualities and professional ability
and have two activities for which
they receive no college credit.
Highest honor for a 'home eco
nomics student is membership in
Omicron Nu, a scholastic honor
ary comparable to Phi Beta Kappa
in the Liberal Arts School.
Purpose of the Home Economics
Club is to acquaint students with
the various fields and to promote
interest. Membership is open to
students who maintain a minimum
average of 1.00, attend three con
secutive business meetings,' work
on one committee and show in
terest in the club.
Students publish the Home Eco
nomics Handbook which serves as
a directory for freshmen and trans
fers. Candidates for staff positions
are called second semester.
Food Price Rise Causes
Higher Dorm Board Cost
Because of the national rise in
food prices, the College Board of
Trustees has increased board
charge in women's dining halls $9
a semester, effective immediately,
according to President Ralph D.
Hetzel.
Though the charge will be $126
a semester or $252 a year, it is low
in comparison with that of other
institutions, he added. Downtown
dormitories have also Taised!their " •
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
PANHEL GOVERNS
15 SORORITIES .
Playing an important part in a
coed's campus life .at Penn State
are• the 12 national and 3'.16 - cal
sororities. Each has as its aim the
formation of strong filendships
during college years and .• the
building 'of mutual service. • .
Panhellenic Council . is a group
composed of two representatives
from each sorority house. Rushing
chairmen from the respective
houses and delegates appointed by
active members are required . to
attend regular council meetings.
At these weekly meetings, rush
ing problems, association with
freshmen and transfers, and so
cial and activity projects of the
organization are hashed over and
settled. Hiss Mary Jane Steven
son, assistant to the dean of wom
en, is advisor to the iroup. This
year's president is Jean A. Kraus
er '42.
•
Panhellenic Council presidents
are named in rotary fashion. This
enables every house to be repre
sented by a president.
The Council metes out punish
ment to sororities that break Pan
hellenic rules. It is a branch of
the National Panhellenic Congress
which is composed of 2'2 fraterni
ties, comprising nationals all over
the nation.
In addition to helping houses
keep within the regulations of the
Panhellenic code, the Council
sponsbrs several programs during
the college year. These activities
include a stunt night at whicli
each• sorority vies' wor prizes by
presenting amusing skits before
freshmen, the Panhellenic dance,
held at the Nittany Lion Inn after
Christmas vacation for all frater
nity women, the Panhellenic tea.
for freshmen women to meet in- -
formally with fraternity women
and the Panhellenic sing.
To further help the freshmen,
the Council has published a hand-.
book which answers puzzling
questions that might bother fresh
men in regard to sororities.
Two Women's Dormitories
Remodeled During Summer
McAllister Hall and Women's
Building received "beauty treat
ments" during the summer.
Both dormitories will be open to
freshmen women. In McAllister
Hall, modern bathrooms, new plas
tering, new floors, and improved
heating and wiring systems were
installed. Partitions were removed
to enlarge some of the smaller
rooms, and new locks and post
office boxes have replaced the open
box system.
Women's Building was similarly
remodeled. One room, from which
a window formerly opened onto
the fire escape, was converted into
a corridor to make the escape more
accessible.
Pre'sides Over WSGA
Jean Babcock '42, above, is
president of the Wonien's Student
Governmeint Association. All wom
en students automatically become
members of the WSGA, women's
self-governing organization.
Women In Defense—
WSGA Plan Begins This Fall;
Credit Given For Courses
Of interest to freshman women
as well as upperclass coeds is the
Women in Defense program which •
will be initiated this fall ,under
WSGA House of Representatives
with Margaret K. Sherman '43 in
charge.
Last semester women enrolled
for credit courses in Red Cross
first aid, niltrition, elementary
mechanics, sewing, and office
skills and practices. , •
Designed to develop skills and
interest in defense, courses will be
open to all coeds•. as WSGA ac-
tivities or for College credit. They
will include Home Economics 13
or 309, modified for defense and
work with the Friends'. Service
Committee.
The Overhaul Course, under
Prof. Ralph U. Blasingarne, head
of the department of agricultural
engineering, will give practical in
formation on automobiles and re
pairing of home . equipment such
as sewing machines, sockets and
electric irons. It is similar to the
"hairpin" course at Cornell.
Included in a clerical course
WELCOME CO-EDS
Make A Point Of Seeing Our
Top Notch Fashions.
Swealers
Skirts
• Blouses
• Dresses
• Coals -
* Hats
and Accessories
SMART SHOP
123 S. Allen St.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1941
outlined by Miss Honora .M.
Noyes, economics insfructar,. will
be ' filing - procedures, possible
business machine demonstrations,
postal information and switch
board operations.
A similar defense program has
been undertaken at 'Wilson Col
lege with, non-credit courses - in re
creational leadership, , sports and
health, first aid and public' speak
ing.
In connection with defense
though apart from the Women in
Defense program, Miss Laura W.
Drummond, Miss Phyllis K.
Sprague and Miss Ina Padgett, of
the home economics department,
and Frederick F. Lininger and
Raymond A. Dutcher, of the
School of Agriculture, are' work
ing on the State Nutrition'Couricil;
under the direction of the Federal
Government.
Fordham University has added
lecture courses on recent advances
in pharmacology and practice and
theory of first aid.