Dorm Committee Will Submit Final Recommendation Today
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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-
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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
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