~ s f
CO Hostesses
4:.:4 7 l4•Tortight . -..- .
At.',oooii. .House
',With the naming of 50 hostesses
. be stationed in five entertain
ment sections, plans are 'complete
for, Old Main to throw its doors
open- in the first All-College Old
Main Open House program from.
7:30 to -12:30 tonight, .. •
Gerald B. Stein '44, general
chairman, said it is probable the
tower will be open to afford a
night view - of State College. Eight
,campus organizations are contri
lc!ittitig•to, the-program.
Ito9ni 405 will be inaugurated
as, a recreation room with barn
'dancing; Sandwich Shop will be
'the scene of daricing;' lounging,
recordings, and ping-pong will - V
'offered by the Penn State Club;
Old-time movies will be shown in
.the Little. Theater and games will
, be •played in Room 304 and the
;first:floor lounge:.. -
Members • of the Sandwich Shop
Ccennititted are: IMA—John. H.
Lnode, Jr. :42, Kehl .Markley '44;
'44,. Richard S,
'..43;.Camptis Women's Bus-,
ineas - Clue—Helen J. Humphreys,
:• . BOtty Etters . Jean Richards. Hds"
tesses . Miriam Zartman '45,
415 an -E: Piollet '45, Jane Stall&
noiti '45, Barbara R. Wells '45.
r.Penn State Club J. Louis
Nageotte '42, Martin H. • Duff- "43,
:Irvin H. KoChel .'45, John C.
;S#eib, '42,- Thomas' E. Wilcox '44,
Charles W. Thompson 43. Hos
_
"tesses Joan M. Baker '45, Mar
.
::garet H. Hamilton 45,- Mary Jane
'Meany '45, Jean K. Runk '45,
;,'Mary Jane Gleichert '45. Ping
.,pcing---Dorothy G. Beachley '45.
''.'LSquare dancing = Miss Jessie
'Cameron, Ray. Conger, in charge.
, T.l - 100esses -- Jane Neetzow '45,
• Priscilla T. Cobb '45, Kathleen
'Wt. Osgood '45, Jean B. Ogden '45,
Evelyn G. Godfrey '45, Janet V.
Movies , in .- Little Theater—Paul
';: - Araitiar '45, Fred Goodman '45,
Milton Dolinger '44, Evelyn R.
', Wilner '43, Corrine J. Deutsch
4'43, John B. Cannon '45, Stanley
P. Berger '44. Hostesses—Vivian
Price 45, Betty' L. Arnold '45,
Marian K. Krape '45, Beatrice M.
Bruimer '45, Wanda Mae Alex
ander '45.
. First - floor lounge, game room
; (Continued on Page Four)
I Campus Briefs
Paper Tuesday—The Daily Col
legian will not be published until
Tuesday morning because of the
extra issue published last Monday.
The usual schedule will again be
resumed
-Scholarships Graduates who
have applied for John W. White
Fellowships. for-grathatestUdy for
ihe
_year 1942-43 are now being
considered •by the Committee on
'Academic Standards. Application
blanks are available in Room 108
Old. Main, and should be returned
by March 1.
-Jpb Interviews Representa
tives' of national business and in
dustrial concerns will be making
periodic trips to the campus from R •
now until April to interview Lib- egistrar's ;Figures
eralArts seniors for jobs. Appli
cation forms may be obtained in Age OF Students
Dean Stoddart's office.
Civil Service—The Civil Serv- Are ycu 19.76 years old? If so,
ice. Commission is accepting ap- you are an average Penn State
plication for all . grades and student, according to registration
branches of engineering positions figures released recently by Reg
under its new weir program. Ap- istrar Wham S. Hoffman.
plicapts must have usual college If the average undergraduate is
engineering course or work in an a male student, he has missed the
appropriate defense training last draft registration by 75 days,
course. Applications are avail- 14 hours, and 24 minutes, exclud
'able at any first or second-class ing Sundays.
post office or from the U. S. Civil The life expectancy of the ave-
Service rommissiori, Washington, rage undergraduate is 48 years, 1
D. C. %.month, 2 weeks, and 6 claws. Sub-
Chapel Service "Christians sequently, he will live to buy de-
Around the World" will be the fense bonds for two more wars,
topic of the Washington's Birth- provide:i people remain what
day chapel services in Schwab they are and have been, and the
Auditorium at 11 a. m. Sunday. world holds together that long.
Dr. Roswell P. Barnes, Ei3sociate He will probably register for both
general secretary of Christian of them, as he will for the present
Churches of New York City, will wv.l: in due time.
be the speaker. The average undergraduate
;c.v.
Baitg
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VOL. 38—No. 94
Draftees Get College
New Sports Lodge
Opens Tomorrow
Grand, opening of Penn State's
new Winter Sports Lodge, will be
held at 2 p. m.•_this. Saturday, it
was announced last night by Ray
Conger. , . .
Four brief talks will be Made
at the opening of the All-College
recreation center ,by Mr. Claude
G. Aikens, • community represen-:
tative, Russell E. Clark, College
burSar, Ross B. Lehnian; student
body speaker,. and T.' Stuart Mar:
low, representative of the. Class'
of '39. • • . •
Music and dancing,. around the
huge second-floor fireplace plus
free doughnuts and coffee, will
provide entertainment for sports
men and spectators.
Conger, director of Recreation
Coordinated, emphasized last
night that the opening exercises
would be conducted as scheduled
regardless of the skiing condi
tions.
The two-story structure, styled
'in a rustic fashion, was built at
the base of the ski trail with a
$5,300 fund donated by the Class
of '39 and a surplus of $2,000
from the defunct numeral award
fund.
Transportation will be provid
ed by a ski-bus scheduled to leave
Atherton Hall at 1:15,p. m. Other
travellers should follow -the - ski--
tow signs .to the cabin from
Boalsburg.
Construction was started in No
vember, but was delayed by the
committee's• inability to obtain
priority, elements and electrical
fictures. Radio and electric light
fixtures have been installed with
two great wagon wheel chande
liers contributing to the rustic in
terior.
The first floor features a kitch
ezi-and sports room for any ski
ing sportsmen, while the second
floor is built to accommodate
large parties by reservation.
Two Doctors To Speak
Before Pre-Med Group
Arrangements have been com
pleted to -haVe Dr. Stanley. P. Rei
man, head of the department of
oncology, at the Hahnemann Med
ical College, and Dr. N. Volney
Ludwick, professor' of radiology,
Hahnemann' Medical College,
speak on cancer before the Pre-
Medical Society in 121 Liberal
Arts, Wednesday at 7:30 p. m.
OF THE PE
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20,
.STATE COLLEGE, PA
ATTENDS CONVENTION H.
Leonard Krouse '42, Senior Class
President. will attend the Penn
sylvania Intercollegiate Student
Government Agsociation today.
* * *
Krouse, Lehman
Attend Confab
H. Leonard Krouse. senior class
president, and Ross B. Lehman,
editor of The Daily Collegian,
will be delegates representing the
student body at the third annual
convention of the Pennsylvania
Intercollegiate Student Govern
ment Association to be held to
day-,. tomorrow, and Sunday at
Bucknell Univei•sity.
Appointed by All-College Pres
ident, Robert D. Baird, Krouse
and Lehman will take part in dis
cussing and studying the general
theme of the convention, "The
Role of Pennsylvania Colleges
and Universities in the Present
War." Two delegates from each
college and university in the . State
have been invited.
• Lehman will serve as Vice
president of the convention. At
last year's meeting it was decid
ed that a delegate from the Col
lege would serve as vice-presi
dent this year.
Phi Kappa Elects
George B. Kaiser '43 was elect
ed president, of the• Phi Kappa fra
ternity' to succeed Williznl F.
Finn '42. Others elected were
Paul Parmeton '43, vice-president;
Adrian J. Krebs '44, treasurer;
and Cail J. Colombo '44, secretary.
Average
Set
At
19.76- Years
must wait one year, two months ;
three weeks, six days, and ten
minutes before he may legally pa
tronize the Rathskellar. (The ten
minutes he will lose standing in
line.)
Penn State's oldest senior, who
is 48, is 3.2 times as old as its
youngest freshman, who is 15, or
33 years the junior of the senior.
The data also revealed that the
average coed is 1.2 years younger
than the average male student.
Six students, all seniors, are 40
years of age or over, whereas 18
students, all freshmen, are 16
years of age or younger.
Contrary to popular belief, the
ratio of coeds to male students is
revealed as being three to one
rather than five to one. (Believe
it or not.)
SYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
Course Bulletins
Available Today
Forty-six Student Training for
Civilian Defense short •courses on
a wide' variety of topics designed
to -give students practical train
ing in subjects related to the war
are described fully in a combined
catalogue-time table which will
be
_available at Student Union be
ginning at 4. p. m. today.
Prerequisites, if any; and spe
cifie• requirements aye-given with
.the dekription of each of these
Courses. - • - "
Since it will be impossible for
the average student:to take more
. than -several courses at one time,
the STCD committee' has request
ed each student to consult the
catalogue carefully before report
ing for registration next week.
Registration will be held in
Rooms 1, 2 and 3 in the basement
of Carnegie Hall from 6:30 to 9
p. m. on Monday and Tuesday.
Counsellors will be present to ad
vise applicants regarding the
courses offered. Classes will be
gin Wednesday or Thursday.
Courses in which insufficient
enrollthents are received will be
dropped, ffie committee said.
Since enrollment in certain other
courses may be limited by labor
atory or other facilities, final ac
ceptance of enrollments in these
courses will ,depend on available
facilities.
Although no College credit will
be granted, certificates of com
pletion will be granted •to those
students who are regular in at
tendance and participate •in the
class work.
Debaters Defeat
Dickinson Team
When Dickinson met Penn State
last night for debate, iit was the
latest of a series which began in
1898, and with the exception of
one year during World War I, has
been held annually since its in
ception.
The question was: Resolved:
That the federal government
should regulate by law all labor
unions in the United States," and
the debate took - the form of an
Oregon-style cross-examination.
The Dickinson speakers were
John Duval '43 and Donald Meals
'44, while' Penn State was repre
sented by E. Richard Besser '43
and Rob6rt D. Baird' '42.
Judges were Dr. J. W. Claudy,
superintendent of Rockview West
ern State Penintentiary; Rev. Ed
ward L. Jones, pe,Stor of the State
College Presbyterian Church; and
William McAftee, coach of debate
at State College High School. The
judges' vote was in favor of the
negative—Penn StElte.
NYA Hours Increased
The NYA office announced
yesterday that the number of
hours allowed students doing
NYA work has been increased
from 40 to 45 hours for the per
iod ending March 7.
Portfolio Contest Closes
Portfolio's All'-College poetry,
short story and essay contest will
close March 5, Bernard M. Wein
berg, edit - or announced. Contest
rules may still be obtained at Stu
dent Union.
41.
rota n
Snow Flurries
and Cooler
WEATHER
PRICE THREE CENTS
Credit
Seniors May Receive
Diplomas Despite
Grade-Point Deficit
As a further concession to the
wartime emergency, the College
has made it possible, with reser
vations, for drafted seniors to re
ceive diplomas without complet
ing their final semester's work
and for other drafted. Students 'to
obtain credit for disrupted studies:
Students in good standing who
leave, the College for the armed
forces, before the completion of
the. semester's work in which they
were enrc lied Will be grantid pro
portional 'credit, according •to a
report released yesterday by Dr:
Cdrl E. Marquardt, acting . chair
man of.. the Committee on Acai
demic Standards.'
The fallowing recommendations,
submitted by the Committee, have
been approved by the Council of
Administration:
1. Seniors who leave either by
direct order from military authori
ties or through action of a. Select
ive Service Board during the last
five weeks before graduation will
be granted their diplomas even if
deficient in not more than six
grade points. The cases of those
deficient in grade poinis will be
reviewed by the Committee on
Academic Standards. This ruling
does not apply to students who
enlist voluntarily.
2. If any other student is called
during a semester he shall receive
college credits on the following
basis:
a. If he has completed at least
(Continued on Page Two)
Marine Recruiting
Officer Detained
Lieutenant Robert 114. Port, re
cruiting officer for the Marine
Reserve who intended to be at the
College yesterday to interview
sophomores, juniors, and seniors
interested in applying for the
Candidates Class for Marine
Corps . officers, was detained ari,d
will be in 311 Old Main either to
day or Tuesday.
The V-5 Naval Reserve recruit
ing officers and doctors left the
campus yesterday after almost
two weeks at the College. Over
100 students received their phy
sical exams and 40 were physi
cally qualified. This medical
board will return in about a
month for further *recruiting.
Late News
Flashes ...
LONDON The British an
nounced the loss of the' destroyer,
Gurka, which was sunk some
where in the Atlantic by an Axis
submarine.
BERLIN The German navy
has been reported to have stepped :
up its U-boat campaign in the
Mediterranean. A tanker of Pan
amanian registration was the most
recently sunk ship.
WASHINGTON President
Roosevelt yesterday suffered from
a slight cold and was unable to
make any appointments for the
rest of the week.
PALM BEACH, FLA.—Three
people were killed and 31 kijured
in a head-on crash between two
trains. One of the.. trains was
coming from West Ptilm. Beach
carrying soldiers. Six ~ 'of its
coaches and its engine Were com
pletely wrecked.