PAGE SIX Contest District Finals Here Today Eight students, Nathan. M. Cohen ’44, James B. Craig ’44, Gaylord W. Greenlee ’45, Sara M. Bailey ’43, Harold Epstein ’44, Bernard M. Weinberg ’43, Robert S. MacNabb |45, and Stanley J, Chmielevski, will represent Penn State in the Central Pennsylvania district fin als of the National Extempore- Discussion Contest in 121 Sparks Building, today. Contest sessions will be conduct ed at 2 and 8:30 p. m. Representa tives from Bucknell, Dickinson and Lock Haven State Teachers Col lege will compete with Penn State’s candidates for the first and second prize positions. At the afternoon meeting con testants will form panel groups to extemporaneously discuss the con test topic, “How Can We Best Im plement The Good Neighbor Pol icy.” After these each student will deliver a speech based on his own views of the subject. Approximately eight will be sel ected on the basis of the atfernoon performances for the.evening com petition. Two delegates to the re gional contest will be named after this meeting. Radio station, WMRF, Lewis town, will broadcast a special rec ord tomorrow from 4 to 4:30 p. m. made at the conclusion of this eve ning’s finals by the two winners. Prof. Herbert Poepp-Baker of the public speaking department will make the recording. Flower Judgers Place At Chicago Penn State’s four-man flower judging team took fourth place honors in the National Collegiate Flower Judging contest held in connection with the National Flower Show held in Chicago on Monday. The team made up of one sen ior and three juniors placed behind Cornell University, Ohio State, and the University of Illinois in the college division. Sam Asen ’42, Wayne Cronk ’43, Alfred L. Senape ’43, and alter nate Coleman J. 'Duel ’43, all hor ticultural students, competed for Penn State in the meet. Team coach Dr. Conrad B. Link, instructor in florticulture, also served as a judge in some of the meet’s national competition. Journalism Honorary To Initiate Ten Women Theta Sigma Phi, women’s na tional journalism honorary,' will initiate ten women journalism majors in 412 Old Main at 2 p. m. tomorrow. Pledges include Seniors—Anna Lee Carey, Betty Jo Patton, and Aimee L. ‘Sobbott; and Juniors— Emily L. Funk, Ruth H. Gerber, Jean A. Kelly, Ruth E. Morrow, Edith L. Smith, Marjorie L. Sykes, and Florence N. Willey. Come On Smoothy, Get Hep! INTERFRATERNITY RALL Is Only A Week Away. Dance To The Ultra-Modern Music Of • RAYMOND scon • MARCH 27 • HIS QUINTET AND • DANCING 10-2 • HIS ORCHESTRA • REC HALL All-College President's Veto Power Defined The power of the All-College President to veto legislation has been specifically defined in Ar ticle I, Section 6, which states that if the president approves legisla tion it goes into effect immedi ately. If he refuses to approve the measure at the same meeting, it then too will automatically take effect. However, if the president vetos' the legislation, Cabinet can only repass the measure with a two thirds vote of the members pres ent. The old constitution states that the All-College President must sign the legislation within two weeks after Cabinet passes it for it to take effect. Failure to sign within two weeks also makes the measure effective. If he vetoed within two weeks, Cabinet could repass legislation with two-thirds vote. Students Favor WSS F Campaign Progress is being made in the campaign for funds for World Stu dent Relief Palmer M. Sharpless, chairman of the WSSF Executive committee,. announced yesterday. Favorable reaction among the stu dent body was reported by all those working on the committees. Typical of student sentiment was the Alpha Kappa Pi house, which agreed to gjve up :a'moyie during the week and: donate, the money to the WSSF. The women of 'Alpha Epsilon suggested a plan for ra tioning meat and giving the sav ings to the fund. Many other fraternity houses are reported considering donations soon. Thursday the senior, class took the lead in the campaign by donating $lOO from Senior Ball profits. WSSF is part of World Student Program Week which stars March 29 and ends Easter Sunday. The WSSF has been ‘ recommended by Mrs. Franklin D. Rooseyelt as the logical organization to take care of student need in war zones. Schol arships, medical treatment, and care of prisoners of war are among the many services ,of ‘World Stu dent Relief. Profs Discuss Plans For 4-H Club Work Plans for 4-H Club work throughout the state during the year were presented at the Cam pus 4-H Club meeting recently by Miss Martha E. Leighton, as sistant professor of agricultural extension, and Allen L. Baker, professor of agricultural exten sion. “Work for victory and defense” will be the motto of members, who will be urged to raise as many animals as possible for their part in speeding up production. Miss Leighton stressed the need for home economics clubs to can and knit to help defense. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Prof. Disclaims IQ's Reliability Too much faith has been placed in intelligence tests and vocational guidance tests as an indication of a child’s unchangeable ability, ac cording to Dr. Charles C. Peters, professor of education. It is Dr. Peters’ contention that so-called “native ability” has been overemphasized in homes and schools, and that too little attention has been paid to improving ability by training and development. “Except in extreme cases, it is impossible to say that an infant will grow up to be intelligent or stupid,? Dr. Peters declared yester day. We should center our atten tion on training children to ac quire certain abilities rather than on predicting whether or not they have them.” To the extent to which it is pos sible to overcome deficiencies, di viding people into varying levels of intelligence is ■an undemocratic procedure, he added. The demo cratic way would be to offer all people an opportunity to increase their talents. In an effort to prove his hypoth esis that the results of tests are not always indicative of ability, Dr. Peters is directing several studies which measure supposedly native ability before and after specific training. Revised Rule Affects Independent Members Two new by-laws to the con stitution passed by Cabinet pro vide for a new method of select ing independent men’s and wom en’s representatives to Cabinet. Instead of having the IMA president sit on Cabinet, as inde pendent representative, as has been the case, a general election will be held at which both the IMA and Penn State Club presidents will be candidates for the inde pendent men’s representative to Cabinet. In this way a person will be elected who represents more completely the entire inde pendent group father than just one faction or another. 1 The second by-law concerning the independent women’s repre sentative to Cabinet states that WSGA nominating committee will name the candidates after which all independent women will vote on the nominees. The winning candidate will sit on Cabinet as well as be ex-officio member of WSGA Senate. Dairy Club Elects IJewly installed officers of the Dairy ‘Science club are David J. Woods ’43, president; Howard J. Merrill ’43, vice-president; Wil liam B. Hastings ’43, secretary; William C. Shoemaker ’44, Agri cultural Student Council .repre sentative.; and Wilbur S. Bull ’44, publicity. Numerous famous people have had their faces on American pa per money. Most of us would pre fer to have our hands on it. Summer Sport Schedule A Possibility - Fleming '45 Debaters Engage Pittsburgh, California Freshman debaters took to the road this week for a series of four debates. Tuesday evening the ’45 debat ers met the Pittsburgh freshmen in two debates on the labor ques tion while Wednesday they dis cussed, “What Kind of a Peace Do We Want?” with debaters from California State Teachers College. Harold P. Zelko, instructor of public speaking, accompanied the yearling debaters on the trip. That Old Bench Is There Again Meteorologists have this business of calling the arrival of Spring fo the minute and they say that the groundhog is quite adept at pre dicting the weather but Spring ar rived several weeks before its scheduled 2:11 a. m. entrance to day. This astounding fact was reveal ed by research yesterday which disclosed that the historic bench perched in front of Graham’s (A. C.) has been squatting in- front -of the store since March 7. At that time the pin-ball ma chine leeches ventured outside, commented favorably on the atmo spheric conditions, and after a hasty vote decided that Spring had arrived. A motion to dust off the bench and put in its proverbial spot was in order. Due to extremely favorable con ditions yesterday, the leeches were considering the installation of a pin-ball machine beside the bench. A few minutes discussion in're gard to the gravity of the national emergency and the leeches drop ped-the plan. < The bench itself is fairly new. It replaced the old, battered perch last year. After several moments of med itation, Randall Graham was heard commenting on the arrival of the new season. “Yep, the calendar says it’s here now. But we were two weeks ahead of them”’ he said slyly. „ Home Ec Council Adds Six Members ’■ New class representatives on Home Econotnics Advisory Coun cil were elected yesterday by 101 home economics students. Coeds elected are Barbara C. Painter and Kathryn K. Metzger, sopho more representatives; Margaret K. Ramaley and Ruth M. Storer, jun ior representatives; and Allten K. More and Helen H. Wolf, senior representatives. Alternates are Kathleen M. Os good and Miriam R. Ramsey, sophomores; Helen R. Keefauver and Anne M. Serocca, juniors; and Nancy I. Spencer and Cheryl Charlson, seniors. SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1942 Taking definite action towards an intercollegiate Summer sports program, Neil M. Fleming', grad uate manager of athletics, reveal ed yesterday the possibilities of’ competition for members of the golf, tennis, lacrosse, track,;- and baseball teams. Summer athletic events Will be bn an informal basis, According 'to Fleming, with the emphasis on games with nearby colleges' arid service units to help the limited budget. - - - , “Other schools are going on .a Summer athletic program, which will lighten our load in schedul ing games and matches with schools in the Eastern vicinity,!’ said the graduate manager.. . Transportation and lodging fa- 1 cilities will have to be curtailed to a certain degree because of the tire shortage and budget prob lems, he explained, but the "pro gram will provide competition for the athletes, as well as sports events for spectators, throughout the summer. Freshmen will probably be-con sidered as sophomores after ‘May 18, which will help coaches whose squads will be depleted by* grad uation and Summer defense jobs. • - The eligibility of freshmen' will depend, however, on the decision of the Athletic Advisory Board and 'the system used by opponents. Only college to make . definite overtures for meets so far is Cor- 1 nell. The Big Red athletic coun cil is seeking summer golf, ten-' nis, and lacrosse .engagements with the Blue and White. : . ' Service teams from Indiantown- Gap and Aberdeen' Pfovirig... Grounds are possibilities for- the' schedule, since they do not have the transportation problems -Which ; handicap many small colleges. A complete report on Summer Acti vities and scheduled games ; will probably be released some time next month, according to Fleming. { Greater Ratio Needed > To Amend Constitution In order to amend the revised constitution, the vote of Cabinet must be three-fourths instead of two-thirds as was stated in the old constitution. Also under Article XII, Section 1, on amendment, a claused has' been added which requireSj the amendment to be read to Cabinet at three successive meetings and only after these readings cai} the amendment be passed. This new clause makes it. im possible for Cabinet to rush' any amendments through without plenty of time to consider and re consider such a move. • Also .with the vote raised from- two-thirds to three-fourths any amendments made will have to be approved even more completely by Cabinet members than before. • . You have to have some sand if you hope to leave any footprints there.
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