Students OK Collegian's No-Final Plan VOL. 40—No. 107 I Bands On The Stand Victory Ball Climaxes War Bond Weekend Two campus bands—Jimmy Burden and Bud Wills' Campus Owls—the Navy-Marine Band, the Army Air Corps band, and a victory raffle, will combine, for ces to put across Penn State's second victory weekend Septem ber 25, according to Robert Brawn and Lawrence Fairies, co chairmen of . the committee in charge of weekend arrangements. Activities for this year's com bination social-War Bond drive weekend, closely parallel those •Opi: • last year's big 'weekend. The dance in Rec Hall 9 to 12 Sat urday, September 25, will cli max a weekend which brings the Lion's ."first football tilt with Bucknell's Bisons and the new Thespian show :.`Once Over Light- '3' . • In an effort to tie up the dance with the current national War Bond- drive, $1 to be returned in war stamps, will be assessed each couple attending the dance. This admission will be collected 'at the ticket windows in Rec Hall the night of the_ dance.. Serving'on the committee under Brawn and Fairies are . Leon The committee in charge of V- Weekend • .arrangements decided on the purchase. of $1 worth of defense stamps for dance admiss ion after they discussed the Cialella,, , Joan Clark, Alton Letz- possibility of possible confusion ~ To Powell, Margaret between dance admission and the Ramaley,: Frank..Serago, Horace, war bond drive.. which startec. -•m d::•liaka;34.,l.ZArg,#;.;4 - 14115ifinrr.g7the ffat..• . grictiroti thiodifiSebteirlfier. -` • • Students. Speak `Finals' Plan Gets Oyerwhelrning Approval, Profs Put On Carpet In First Collegian Poll :'Students• of • every semester• and every • school. this •week declared themselves overwhelmingly.in fa.-:' vorfiof. a plan proposed.in.the last 'Liberal Arts Council ... ; (on4ticts.:Elections ;Jar New Members N'eW:menibers of Liberal 'Arts Council will be chosen :by popular in Sparks lobby from 7:30 . • to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, council President Suzanne M. -1 .•!`Clbuser .announced:. Matricula tidn s need not be , preseihted, j tr.; election directors have corn- Usts of Liberal , Arts stud= , '- - ents who ore eligible, to - vote. The ehoice of nominees will determined by .petitions which must • contain 25 names .of Lib - ' , eral Arts students of the same .as the- potential - nominee. '.These:Petitions are due in Stud ;errt. Union 'by tomorrow noon, Clouser :announced. . ' This election marks the first tirtie Liberal Arts Connell bers have beeh elected by their " fellow students. The former pol icy of having the Council choose its own members from petitions .• was criticized as being uhrepre :::ei-tative of the constituents. With this in mind, voters are urged to take advantage of their Ockwer ,to. vote by considering . carefully the qualifications of the candii ates. With the advent of .'''the elections the school . council. syi:tem should gain in popular t't+stige, if an adequate number cti voters arrive at the polls. 'our members _will, be elected frairrt each . class represented vote. ppbonyare • ond • juniors :"!'iWitti--all-college 'of , ' l ..are ; :el„:. i gible. to •petition. Tatirgiatt FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1943-STATE COLLEGE, PA game also on September 25, will be the raffling of a football and two five-dollar credit slips, Laibe Kessler, chairman of this com mittee, stated. Three tickets will sell for 25 cents and the prizes will be awarded at the halves. Kessler urged all hat . men to volunteer for the sale of the raffle tickets at the game. Assist ing Kessler on the committee are Clair Eisenhart, 'Larry •Fairies. Hank Keller, Howard Milliken, and Richard Stevens: ' A total charge of $4.40, the price of tickets for last years' weekend, admitted ocuples to • a four hours of dancing to the mu sic of- Benny Godman; a Thespian Glee Club Revile, a Saturday af ternoon. Field- Day, and a Dantz a-poppin program. that presented four campus bands. This year a •separate tickes will be needed• for. both the Thespian show and the • dance Saturday night. . • • issue of Collegian`for placing cer tain (fnial:examinations'on a volun tary ,basis.- • The show 'of almost' unanimous 'student approval _came . in answer to one of the questions on a mim eographed poll of student opinion taken by members of Collegian's underclass editorial boards. "A Collegian editorial last week proposed. 7 that students whose classroom and bluebook average in any course was at, least a `2' be exempt from a final examination in that course he so desired. Do you favor that plan?" the ques tionnaire asked. • ,• •In= answer, 381- out of 409 students 93 per. cent an;. swered "Yes," and 36 of them added for emphasis. such -re marks as "Definitely," "A-1 . idea," "Certainly, . if only . it. could be Put across." and "Yes, . I'll need .that extra Time to concentrate on math." One of the .28 dissenters-a sixth se- • mester coed—qualified her op , position 'with "It's a pleasant .. • dream, • but 'why- waste lime • dreaming.when -the Plan is ob- SClnvirbs Shivers As Audience Snickers Stooges, Abramson Repeat Appearances At Variety Show Returning to the foreground in, a repeat ,performance, the Three Stooges will again bring comedy and music to the Variety,,•Show this week-end. Jack Hunter, on ly remaining star of laSt year's stooges, and .his. new henchmen, Edward C. Kaiser and Frank Mc- Kain, all Advanced ROTC men, took ' their bows two weeks ago enacting scene , op women's bridge playing. Methods, Aclding 'to , the jest of the show, on&act -•sltit. entitled— "Cottie ..presants_ the predica Published Weekly by The Daily Collegian Staff Party Politicians Will Have A Chance Again Cabinet Plans To Reorganize Cliques For Student Government Elections V-12 Formal Features Navy-Marine Queen Highlighted by a 'Navy-Marine Queen and starring the newly or ganized V-12 Band, the first Navy- Marine Formal ever to be held in Rec Hall will become a reality next Saturday night. Final balloting for the Queen, to be seledted by a committee of four N-12 students, will take place .at the dance when sailors and Marines will make their choice as they enter. The winner is to be presented with a gift from the unit by one of the V-12 officers, accord ing to A-S Richard A. Romagnoli and Frank E. Neish, co-chairmen of the* affair. The four coeds picked to vie for V-12 Queen are Mabel Parks, Lee Yeagley, Dorothy - - L a m b, a n d Nancy McGeary. Later in the evening, the elected Queen will lead the grand march with her escort. Decorations will harmonize with the military theme of the formal with red, white, and blue crepe paper providing . the. background for the huge American flag. The bancreilielvo.l--:a4SizOb-&-•:‘..decoiated f Continued .0n Pape- Three! vioushr too modern for the lo- cal hierarchy..? ' Asked in another survey ques tion to rate the caliber of teaching within their own school as "good, fair, or sub-standard," a majority of the members of five schools re ported that they considered the caliber of leaching within their school "good." In the Liberal Arts and Physical Education Schools, however, the Majority termed their teachers merely "fair"; 1,3 of the 96 liberal artists called the caliber of teaching "sub-standard." . Most satisfied with the quality (Continued On Page Three.) Following up the survey of student opinion on the 'finals' plan, Collegian editorial board members will conduct a spot poll of faculty members of the plan, Larry. T. Chervenak, managing editor, stated yester-• day. Every fourth orofessor Hcfed in last year's directory will be contacted; results of the survey w'll appear in next week's Collegian. - menu of a hill-billy girl confront ed with the approaching deaths of her four husbanes. Shirley Fier man in the role of Cottie plays the lead. Other characters . are . Anna Padle as Nellie, Henry:Si mon portraying Felix, and Harry. Pebly who plays Jerd. Arthur C. Cloetingh takes the honors as di rector. The play was written by Patricia McMullen. Servicemen will submit Vocal talents in a quartet composed of Flobert Campbell; Marine V-12; Franklin Frtik, t tx N I,' avy -,q;,1,1e5 ; et • Campus political cliques will once again organize for student government elections after a one semester relapse, it was decided at All-College Cabinet's biweek ly meeting Monday. SuggestiOn for the change-back came from a report mace by Pvt. Jack R. Gray of the Committee on political parties. A unanimous vote of the representatives ap proved the report. It was alSo suggested that two members of the seventh semester act with the Cabinet chairman in organ izing the cliques. Committee. • members asked • that the former names, "campus" and •"independ ent," be abolished and others be assigned. No action was taken on this. Elections for the next semes ter's Cabinet members will be held within the first two weeks of the new term. • Co-Chairman Robert Brawn di vulged the tentative plans for Victory weekend set for Friday and Saturday, September 24 and 25. A football raffle, a fancy ser viceman's drill, and a four-band dance with a coke canteen were among the temporary proposals. Cabinet voted to, givelo.o.:toweyd expeiisel ; Tiirtfie:progr •: kembers were reminded of the nation-wide war bond drive which officially began on campus Pitch In For Drive • Campus Prepares For Stamp Sale Al September Band Concerts, Dances With plans for stands to be set Gloria Duerst, Harold Fetterman, up at various campus functions ,Peter Johnston, Renee Marks, (Frank McKain, and Helen McKee. throughout the month completed, This is the nation's third War students are taking definite steps Bond drive, and attention is being toward 'boosting the sale of War directed toward the sal?. of Series Stamps and Bonds. in this month's , E War Bonds, $25 bonds purchased nation-wide War Bond drive, Ray- by average citizens.• Fifteen billion. mond, Parks, chairman in charge' dollars is the nation's goal and-the of the student bond committee, I sale of E Bonds is expected to' ac stated yesterday. I count for at least four billion dol- Parks, who is working on the lars of this. committee in conjunction with H. j The student drive to increase the R. Gilbert of the State College War sale of stamps on the campus is Finance Committee, pointed out strengthened by the necessary that stamps will be • sold at con- purchase of $1 worth of stamps as certs,.dances, and any other activi- admission to V-Weekend dance ties which will be scheduled dur- scheduled for September 25. ing the month. I Parks' committee will attempt to In addition to these, Parks stated encourage the students to obtain '',:hat there is a 'possibility of setting stamp books and fill them . during I up a •stand in town, operated by the month. students, where the College could further try to solicit the sale of it 2 stamps. It is believed that both in-1101SCOMUS Is Ready dependent and sorority women I Second issue of the Discoblus, could volunteer their 'aid at such a • publication of the School of Phy stand if the idea goes through. • sical Education, will be out early Students - working with Parks on next week, Annette Keefer, edi the committee are James Casey. tor, announced today. ley Wagner, Advanced ROTC; and Paul Morris, Navy V-12; with Gordan Cerow, Navy V-12, ac companying 'the group at the piano. Mary Jane McChesney will appear as soloist with the group. In addition to his appearing in the quartet, Fertik will sing sev eral tenor solors. Cerow will ac company him at the Piano. Back again for her second Varz• iety Show appearance, Jane Ab ramson, songstress. , will present Several original numbers, aecom -I)Ln-tying ,he . Sharpen Ax For Axis— Buy Bonds PRICE FIVE CENTS yesterday. Chairman Raymond Parks' report showed that booths would be placed about campus, with honoraries and possibly sor orities conducting sales. Hat so cieties will sell stamps as part of the V-Weekend raffle. Stud ents will be asked to start new stamp books to be filled during the month. A booklet with pictures of campus building and fraternity houses in use as service barracks will be assembled for members of the armed forces stationed here. 'H. Ridge Riley, Alumni As sociation secretary, is in charge of a committee of students ap pointed at the last Cabinet meet ing. John Chapman, - first semester president, suggested that Cabinet investigate the possibility of pla cing a recording machine in the first floor sandwich shop of Old Main. Because of offices in the building, the machine could be used only after 5 p.m., it was. pointed out. Cabinet .chairman Harry F. Kern appointed a com mittee of Peggy Lou Chapman and Peter Johbson with John Chapman acting as chairman to bripg . a report, on the matter to the' next :Meeting.: Cabinet will inek'in the Alum ni office at 7:30 p.m. Monday, September 17, Kern announced. Concluding the program will be a ballet dance by Patricia Hal berg, to the accompaniment of Pat Lamade. Diverging from the usual. schedule, the Sunday afternoon presentation will begin promptly at 2:30 o'clock instead of 3 o'- clock. Saturday night's show will begin at the usual time, '7:30 p.m. Tickets, which are free and may be obtained at Student Union and the Service Center, are necessary for Sattl.tday. night.
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