',Statzersli.r Thirreee'Lancir, • Estaiallshed 'lBB7 VOL. 38-r-p . p. 80 . , ense. ConnCil Co! egian , Pu•lishes , •. • O rgan i zation of STCD From New Quarters s,Bo4 Register _ „... broughout State This is The Daily ' Collegian's As house warming isauel Totals Drop. • . . 4. . ..,..„ The Collegian staff and all its • . • . Exchange.. Views Vii - paraphernalia-lock, stock, and bar- Total registration figures have Program Nears Compleaon rel up and moved over the week- reached 5,804, Registrar William end to spacious new offices on the S. Hoffman revealed yesterday, as . . Course Descriptions ground floor of remodeled Carrie- an overwhelming ' majority of gie Hall. underclassmen showed their in- Released By Bunnell Gone are the days when 30 or tentions of attending the "third With the announcement that six 40 student journalists had to pack semester" this summer. into a two by four office 'at dead-. A - drop of about five per cent short. courses in the Student line tithe. Now our classified ad Training for Civilian Defense pro was recorded in the undergradu- gram have already been organized, customers, our news "tipper-of- ',. ate totals, afs 5,332' registered this fers", and subscribers can' enter asemester in comparison to the . 5,617 who registered second se Millard T. Bunnell, supervisor of neat,. efficient looking office, and extension class centers and coor - readily • • dispatch • their 'business • dinator of the STCD program, znester last year. However, re without being trampled on. . ' • • yesterday advanced the probabil gistration totals dropped four per ity that registration and actual cent last 'September. . . classwork in the majority of the • Of .. the • underclassmen, 2,336 , courses will begin within. several said they would . attend the sum- weeks. mer semester, 282 said they would Great care and time are being not attend, and .1,588 said they. taken; Mr; Bunnell pointed out, to were undecided. These figures :prepare truly worthwhile courses do not include seniors, who would Organization of the protection not ordinarily be here for another . which will offer students practi group of 'the campus civilian de- cal information designed o fit • fense committee has- been corn- semester. ' them for leadership in civilian de pleted, 'according - to George W. The largest turnout for the next' fense programs in their home Ebert, superintendent 'of • the semester will be from the junior communities. grounds and buildings department class, the poll indicates. Of the LEAVES POST Elden T. Shaut The courses already announced and chairman of the committee. 1,219 in the class of 1943, only "42, president of the Independent follow: Mr. Ebert announced yesterday 102 said they would not attend - Men's Association, will leave for 1. School for Air Raid Ward that division of- the campus into the summer semester. However, . six weeks of practice teaching at ens. This course will consist of 15 sections had been, completed 341 were undecided.' .Millfinburg. . John H. Knode Jr. six hours of lectures plus 10 or and that wardens, deputy ward- The complete figures on the '42 will 'be acting president during 20 hours of first aid instruction, ens, and ineir'assistants have been "_this d semester" voting: - Shaut's absence. , ' and will meet once a week for appointed and are being instruct- Yes No Un'ed , * * * 9 or 14 weeks, depending on the ed 'according to the national goV- Junior men .... 590 58 '249 • first aid requirements. Modelled erninent'S, regulations for their Junior women . 186 44 92 . after the air raid warden schools training. - Sophomore men 573 199 ' 399 Knode Appointed in Centre County, 'it will enable _Training, for; theofficials, who Sophomore 133 students to fit into programs in . Will be all-irriportant in any sore - vic '` ilea - • •"'.• '*-" 4 . -27 ---..- ■ . -.•-. their respective : communities --and of war emergency, .includes first Freshmen men . 586 121 450 Freshmen women 159 33 182 Act i ng 'lMA nead to qualify for official "Air Raid aid, fire pretection, 'bomb protec- Warden Insignia." tion, blackout direction and will • ' John H. Kncide Jr. '42 was ap- Topics the course will 'embrace • be available to students as well include civilian defense organi, as faculty Members as soon as the Naval Ensign To Give - pointed acting president of the nation; the role of federafl, state, appeihted wardens have- beenu• Independent Men's association to and local governments; air raids: v trained to carry out their jobs. -7 Physicals ' Today serve in the absence of -Elden T.. a discussion of what they are; the The course, which 80 students Ensign Paul W. Thompson will Shaut '42, who will leave today air raid warning system; air raid and faculty members. are taking, be giving preliminary physical for six weeks of student teaching, warden 'service; auxiliary service is a general course .with special exams and making applications at a dinner meeting last night in units; spot maps; protection from emphasis on equipment and bomb for all juniors and seniors inter- the Hotel State College. • - . high explosive bombs; control of structure.. The college, as in- ested in " the V-7 Naval Reserve Twenty members of the IMA incendiary bombs; protection struction center for the county, program in 305 Old Main from 9 Council were present at the meet- against gas; and first aid. will give training to all wardens a. in. to 3p. m. today. ' ing. Speakers included - Danny Administrators for this. course in the , eight sectors which the The V-7 program ' includes DeMarino, assistant. dean of men, are Arthur L. Haskins, . William county has been divided into. training for both deck and engin- and Ross B. Lehman, editor of G. Edwards, and Walter W. Train , The ' work which remains •for eering officers. - • • ' - - The Daily Collegian. • - er, of the School of Agriculture the committee to do, Ebert said , The - MA's bi-annual .scholar •. • was the completion of a survey . - - of the buildings on campus to de- • Mattern And Shapro ship award plaque was presented 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 . to Fairmount Hall for the highest • Greek Neohyt gencies. As soon as the survey Named IF Chairmenes termine the safest setup for emer p . . horn se average for the second se- mester of last year. Fairmount Late News . ,' I.,Ledd. Dog's Ille - is completed, • each building will be post ed safe areas, dangerous H. with 'the following in- Charles F. Mattern '42 and Ar- will retain the plaque, until a thur Shapiro '42 are the chair- rating for last semester grades is Flashes .. . forrnatioh: ashes ... . - During. Hell Week' areas, faculty members in *charge, men of Interfraternity Ball to be made. held Friday, March 27, Thomas Among, the many suggestions , • warning signal, and all-clear sig-l• 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ::.'All "Hell" •is .breaking lose in J. L. Henson '42, IFC president, 'offered at the meeting for the the' fraternity section .right now. nal.. announced last night. • • ,shiengthening of the IMA as a BATAVIA—Dutch officials ex- Out TkE way, things are really - .The rest of the committee in- campus organization, Lehman pro-, pressed doubt that the Japs would :humming. ,The boys have been Booth Money Due At SU eludes Robert A. Etien, Robert W. posed that the group include in attempt an all out attack on Sing -chasing. the pledges for all they All fraternities or other groups Fickenscher, William H. Long, their rolls . students. living in the apore, but would instead keep it ' are worth. One of the neophytes -interested in having boothes at Robert E. moeser, James .J. Ratti-. smaller boarding houses through- under heavy siege while divert 'l.VaS seen - in Rec ' Hall with his Senior Ball must leave their •$5 gan and George 'K. - Schubert, all out the ' town. TheSe hOnses; ing' their main strength to the at hair plastered. into an upright deposit at Student Union no later seniors. which, are too small to be a single tack on India. hair-do, collecting toe-nail pair- than February 24; it was announ- The committee will meet soon unit, would enlarge the member- BERLIN—The high command . ings. He had to have an ounce ced by George L. Donovan, Stud- to decide on possible bands, theme, ship of the group considerably, claimed today that the Axis coun of the things before he dared go lent Union manager. and decorations for the affair. . Lehman pointed out. ter-offensive in Libya has extend , - home. . . . • ~ . One house: conceived the novel - • •• i •iv • d • •• which was recaptured' three days idea of having the pledges shave ago. Axis forces are now with from the neck down instead of up. e c hLor Def Les Tta LtLans .in 60 miles of British-held Derna. And at another' house, the broth- • . , MOSCOW Russian troops ers, built a fire in one of the upper Shattering precedent and time- parachute was blown by a cross probably the least pampered voice counter-attacking in the Ukrairte stories, then ordered the pledges honored customs have become a current away from her intended in opera. He disagrees entirely have driven the Germans back to to go downstairs backward - on habit with Lauritz Melchior, world landing place and into the 'middle with the customary pre-perform- within 30 *miles of the Dneiper - their hands and knees and return famous Wagnerian tenor. of Melchior's garden. ance ritual of sprays and lozenges. River. the same way with water in their The Incredible Dane, who will "I figured at once that she was A thick'steak sankwich, a glass of WASHINGTON Drift offi mouths to extinguish the blaze. present the second program of the heaven-sent," Melchior recalled," beer, and a cigar are usually more cials announced yesterday that ap -1941-42 Artists'_ Course Series at "so I married her." effective. in tiding him through a '.Autograph collecting is another .proximately 13 million rrien and Schwab Auditorium on Thursday, One of the reasons that the ten- "Lonengrin" or "Gotterdammer favorite, Two - weary boys track- boys of non-military age-18 to 19 February 5, began his tradition- or is so convincing as Siegfried is ung." ed Sis Fitting to the library, and and 45 to 64 years of age, inclu reversing at a tender age by enter- that he really is a big-game : hunt- Some .explanation . for Melchior 's secured the scrawl just as she and sive—probably will register dur ing - the musical world as a bari- er. True, he doesn't flit around in extraordinary activities may be her boyfriend were leaving. An-The registra tone. a deer-skin costume, but he has found,in the advice he once gave to ing April or May' other project was an autographed InJulyl92oMelchior ac-- shotpanthers in South America, a group of young singers. "Don't ' pair of "unmentionables." complished the unusual when he bear in New Brunswick, and moose be ju.st, a singer and nothing more ," of one month. Energy by the truckload must became the first artist to make a 'in Northern Canada and Alaska. In he advised, "because if you are a PARIS Six more Parisians have been spent by the two bands transatlantic radio 'broadcast. North Dakota he went the limit in one-track person, You won't be a were put to death today in re ef., pledges from. different houses The opera star even met his wife big game hunting by bagging a' good Singer! It is 'not enough to talia;ion for recent outbreaks who really had some work laid in a manner bordering on the - fan- 1600 pound bison. sing with -tenchnical skill. There against the German army of occu out for them. One group had to tastic. A movie star, Mrs, Melchior That the Melchior voice seems must be feeling as well, and that pation. The uprisings included 'ilea a 'thousand cigarette hutta had juinped from a plane during only to improve with the years is can be expressed only if one has four bombings and two shootings and-number , their. , • •the filming of a picture, and her especially amazing because it is lived intensely." during the month of January. H . :Activities of college civilian de ...fariiP councils throughout the state ,'were reviewed and ideas were in ':-terchanged and spread 'as repre ,Se,ntatives -from 25 colleges and universities In Penn6rlvania, in ,:eluding five from Penn State, met the Chamber of ,the House of Itepresentatives •in Harrisburg This state-wide civilian :defense meeting was the first of :its,kind in th'e nation. : -At the meeting, which consist -7ed of addresses•and a round-table ".,discussion, it wars made evident :that many colleges had—followed F'enrt State's leadership in insti tuting defensemeasures on their L campuses .as their share toward aiding Penhylvania to gain rebog. Ime of the nations most 'prOgiieSsiye -'states in regard to the e / sttensiveness of the programs. '.Stressing the educational- priv-• ilegiS-'enjOyed under a democratic •system .of government, Governor Arthur H:: James; the featured ,speaker, said, "If there ,is -any place' where we need an aroused appreciation of what we are-fight ing for, it, is in the places of high er learning." Maj.. Edward S. Shattuck, legal chief of-the.national...seleptivelser-, , vice 'system, advised the group that students training for produc tion jobs will not be drawn into the. armed. services. After A. R.• Warnock's address on "Ameridan Unity ''on the Col lege Campus," the colleges ex changed reports •on their 'respec tive defense programs. Much in, terest • was evoked by the report of: Jean Babcock '42 •on • last week's•" Victory Ball". and by the report, of Edward K. Hibshmain on his committee on contacts. Jaines Ward, of the National Civil ian Defense Council, requested information on the dance for pos sible use •in future nation-wide campaigns. . „ . . • J ye ,81 Defense 6roup Completes Plans OF THE PENNSYLV TUESDAY MORNING, FEBI%UARY 3, STATE COLLEGE, PA STATE COLLEGE rgiatt WEATHER Snow Flurries And Cooler PRICE: THREE CENTS (Continued on Page Four)
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