Dorm Committee Will Submit Final Recommendation Today , • Ali 4 , 4., r. 4 at r t an 1 / 4 ,1• 0 0p, ,/4\ VOL. 39—No. 54 STILL UNDEClDED— ?resident Ralph D. Hetzel will receivethe recommendation of the special committee to day concerning wheth er men or women shall occupy Irvin, Watts and Jordan Halls with the opening of the Fall semester. Final action and approval rests with him. Meanwhile, the boys in the dorms are wait ing for the decision, so that they may secure quarters downtown while rooms . are still available. Cabinet Hits At Mixed Drinking; Open House Set For Friday Postpone All-College Convocation Until Fall All-College Cabinet took a •defi nite stand for action last night when it went oh record as endors ing active enforcement of standing legislation prohibiting mixed drinking whether in chaperoned parties or not. In • the discussion it was made clear that offenders would be tried by a Cabinet judiciary,.committee after they had been reported' to members of Cabinet 'privately or at regular meetings. Points in the discussion stressed that "mixed drinking" refers not only to drinking with coeds, but with women not connected with the College as well. The plan for enforcement of the rulings will provide for penalties to be meted out according to the seriousness of the offense to persons not belong ing to fraternities as well as fra ternity men. The discussion was brought,up by M. Williams Lundelius who pointed out the fact that not enough students knew what the regulations regarding mixed drinking were. lie said •there were, in his estimation, far too, many violations of the code both with fraternity and non-fraternity men. It was decided at the meeting that, beCause of the lack of time during the rest of this semester, the All-College convocation pro- (Continued on Page Three) Late News Flashes . . . WASHINGTON American naval forces struck heavily at the Japanese occupied Aleution Is land of Kiska; according to a Navy Department announcement, dam aging several supply ships and silencing Japanese land batteries. No further developments in the continuing battle of the Solomon Islands were reported. CHUNGKING The small Am erican Air Force in China threw ,ati its strength yesterday in an at-• tack on the five largest cities of occupied China. MOSCOW—Russian sources ad mitted yesterday that German ar mored columns are overrunning the entire Caucasian area while Soviet troops are fighting desper ate rearguard actions and inflict ing heavy casualties on the ad , .vancing Nazis. WEDNESDAYS MORNING, AUGUST 12, STATE COLLEGE, PA College Calendar In compliance with a request by the Senate Committee on Calendar, The Daily Collegian is reprinting the following re vision of the College calendar for the Fall semester. The re vision includes recent changes in the dates for the payment of fees. Sept. 7, Mon. 8 a. th. ,Freshman Week Begins Sept. 9-10, Wed.-Thurs. _ Fall semester registration Sept. 10, Thur., 1:10 Fall semester classes begin Sept. 24-25, Thur.-Fri. Payment of fees Oct. 24, Sat. Alumni Homecoming Day Oct. 31, Sat., 12 noon Midsemester below-grade reports Nov. 25, Wed., 5 p. m. Thanksgiving recess begins Nov. 27,Yri., 8 a. m. Thanksgiving recess ends Dec. 17, Thur. Fall semester graduation Dec. 19, Sat., 11:50 a. m. Fall semester ends -1324 Applications Already Accepted Applications accepted for ma triculation to the freshman class on September 7, now total 1,324, according to the Registrar's office. This number is exclusive of the 571 freshmen who were matricu lated in June, and those now in at tendance at the undergraduate centers, or who have been admit ted to the undergraduate centers. If all of those accepted for ad mittance register next month, the class of '46 will surpass that of the present sophomore class by more than a hundred. The Registrar's figures also show that approximately 26 per cent of those offered admission are non-Pennsylvanians, and approxi mately 48 percent, 385 in number of those accepted and paid are women. IFC Meets Today Interfraternity Council will meet at the Phi Epsilon Pi house at 7 o'clock tonight. Proposals for change in the existing rushing code are likely to be included on the order of business. OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE ' "A Night in New York," corn plyte with Madison Square Gar den, Empire State Building and many other familiar New York spots, is the theme of Friday night's Old Main Open House, Gerald B. Maxwell Stein '44, OMOH chairman announced yes terday. To create the proper atmosphere signs will be posted at the en trances transforming the Little Theater into "The Music Box" just east of Broadway—and the fourth floor game room into Mad ison Square Garden. The All-College Ping Pong tour nament will be conducted in the Garden with the exception of the finals which will be held in St. Nick's arena on the first floor. Stu dents and faculty members wish ing to take part, in the tournament must_ sign up at Student Union be fore noon tomorrow. Geoige "Grover Whalen" Dono van will present the ping-pong meet winners with Defense stamps '—two dollars for first place and a dollar's worth for the runner-up. For thkevening, the Tower will be known\ as the Empire State building. Room 405, where either "Trans-Atlantic Merry-go-round" or "Topper Takes a Trip" will be shown, officially represents the Radio City Music Hall. Lounging and dancing in the Penn State Club 'room, square dancing on the Terrace and social dancing in the sandwich shop will, for the evening, be conducted in "The Stork Club," "The Village Barn," and "The Roseland Ball room" respectively. Collegian's 6th War Film To Be Shown Tonight The sixth in a weekly series of World War 2 pictures sponsored by The Daily Collegian in con junction with The College Book Store and Hillel Foundation will be presented at Hillel Foundation tonight at 8 p. m. Gordon L. Coy Collegian editor announced last night. Americans All, the title of the first film is a story of the young people who work and play be tween the Straights of Magellan and the Rio Grande Valley The other reel, Our Neighbors Down the Road, is a photographic tour through Mexico and South America. 'New York For A Night' Theme Of OMOH Finale Weather PRICE: THREE CENTS Warneke Arrives To Finish Shrine Heinz Warneke is scheduled to arrive in town for his final visit and for the last stand in comple tion of the Lion Shrine. The work, which appears to be nearing com pletion, will take probably two or three more weeks, Joseph Garatti stated yesterday. ' Far ahead of schedule,- the "roughing out," originally consid ered to require five months work, will be entirely completed within a few days when Mr. Garatti takes off the only remaining rough stone between the lion's front legs. Plans for placing the lion in its final position will probably be started within a few days. It will stand, somewhere in the wooded plot near where the carving is be ing done. The exact site "has not yet been decided 'upon. Collegian Holds Smoker For Freshmen Tonight Freshmen men and women who want to try out for The Daily Col legian editorial and business staffs are urged to attend a smoker to be held at Delta Chi fraternity at 7 o'clock tonic t. Entertainment, short speeches, Pi Lambda Sigma, pre-legal pro dancing and refreshments are on fessional fraternity, pledged seven the program. Gordon L. Coy and members into the society. Leonard E. Bach, editor and bus- Those pledged were Martin L. iness manager. will explain the Zeigler '44, William F. Lahner '44, inner workings and present the Francis E. Zabkar '44, William R. members of the staff; - Pomerantz '45, Henry Keller '44, All freshmen. are. urged to at- and Donald K. Probert '44, as an tend, whether in the journalism nounced by John B. McCue '43, curriculum Or not. president of the fraternity. Hell Week Not What It Used To Be; Fraternity Life Bowl of Cherries I Even as the horse and buggy has seen better days so have Penn State Hell Weeks seen better years. Shorter terms, calls for more work from students and the war have made :houses go easy on pledges this Summer. A number of houses, however, are doing their best to make pledges remem ber Hell Week as its name indi cates—a week of hell. Inquiries put to fraternity men in charge of their house's program indicate that pledges won't exactly find themselves at tea parties. One house will add to its knowl edge of State College and the vi cinity when and if two of its pledges return from counting the number of railroad ties between here and Bellefonte and counting the number of bricks in the power house chimney. Another' pledge has been given a stinker of an assignment. He Hebei To Get Report By Noon Postponed by an administrative tie-up, final action on the question of who will occupy the men's dor mitories with the opening of the Fall semester has been held up another day. According to Samuel K. Hostet ter, assistant to the President in charge of business and finance, and chairman of the committee in vestigating the question, his group has in process the preparation of the report of its study and will by noon today present this to Presi- dent Ralph D. Hetzel. with whom final approval and action rests. Mr. Hostetter would not indicate last night, what the committee's recommendation includes. He de clared that it is up to the Presi dent to accent or reject the deci sion and make further announce ment concerning the matter. Rudolph Bloom '43, spokesman for the dormitory men, again re iterated his statement that no mat ter what the recommendation, is "the men of Irvin, Watts and Jordan are ready to cooperate with the decision 100 per cent." "We were a little hot under the collar at first about the idea of be ing evacuated," Bloom stated, "but now that we see the Col lege's position we realize that such a move would be beneficial to the greatest number in the long run." Under discussion for the past several weeks, the proposal pro vides for the converting of the dor mitories into quarters for women so that some 300 extra freshman women may be admitted to boost the College's dropping enrollment. Also under consideration is a plan to mAke. the Sandwich Shop in Old Main into a dining hall for the extra women with Old Main first floor lounge being made into a refreshment room to take the place of the Sandwich Shop. Meanwhile, according to Bloom, men in the dormitories, anticipat ing their being asked to leave, are encountering new difficulties in finding rooms in the town. He explained that the number of apartments and rooms open to stu dents is very small. Future Lawyers Pledge must return to the house with a live skunk. Included in the "know your community" assignments given to pledges are the long distant sight seeing tours. A pledge must de liver in person a letter to the pres ident of the Bucknell or Lehigh chapter house. Some houses have been training pledges in the rudiments of air raid warden jobs by making them keep - their lonely all-night vigils at the Boalsburg cross-roads and at the Shingletown Gap. Orice back in the fraternity house pledges under-go all kinds of humiliating acts to teach them proper respect for their betters. That they are considered little more than barbarians by Brothers comes out at meals when pledges must often eat using only their hands. Eating square meals arid through straws are familiar feats (Continued on Page Three)
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