FRIDAY, SEP rEAIBER 10, 1943 Lacrosse Practice Features Four As Team Nucleus Team's ROTC Mainstays To Coach New Candidates Fall practice for Spring lacrosse will begin September 13, with the nucleus of this year's team con tained in Bill Rogers, Pete John son, Mike Milligan, and George Raymond, Martie Sadock, lacrosse manager, stated yesterday. Bill Sussman, Bill Briner, Howie Hausner, George Pittenger, Rocky Kern, Luke Catanoso, and Dick Ross, team mainstays,- who are in school this semester with the ad vanced ROTC, will not be able to play in any of the lacrosse frays, although they will be at practice to lend aid to new candidates who wish to make the team. Larry Faries, another veteran lacrosse boy, will graduate at the end of this semester. Coach Nick Thiel, stating that no experience is necessary, urges civilian and V-12 trainees to try out for the team which, though rather depleted by the Armed Forces, has an experienced, ex squad group of coaches. /Bill .Bakin, another member of the squad who will not be back for next season, expects to be call ed into the Navy before long. Bill Piper's status is still uncertain. Al though he was on the team last semester; Piper did not return fof• the summer.. Manager Sadock doubts whether Piper will return to school since the Army, Navy, or Marines may have called him- to active duty., `Finals' Plan - Receives Overwhelming Approval hi fir i Collegian. Poll (Continued from Page One/ of their teachers were the mineral industries and agriculture stu dens, with the chemistry and phys ics, engineering, and education students following in ,order. In evaluating the caliber of teaching within the individual de partments, the survey sheets from all but the Liberal Arts and Edu cation Schools followed the pattern of the as a whole. Most marked of thesevaria lions came - within. the 'Liberal Arts S.cheol, where the major ity of sociology and-psycho'- ogy Students, rated the. teach ing their.. owns depart ments as "good" while, term . ing the school's. standard • as "fair...' The Liberal Arts School's, department of - eco nomics, meanwhile. •was• the • only, department in , the Col lege whose: students. rated it "sub.-standard" in the poll. Of the 19 economics department students (mainly. commerce and finance majors) inclUded in the survey, four said the teaching- was good; four. term ed it average, and ten called it "sub•-standard." • "Too many of our good profs. have been taken by the war," one c-and-f student explained after marking his sheet `sub-standard.' "It isn't the economics professors but Some of thoSe commerce profs," wrote . another. Evaluating ' the Liberal Arts School teachers as• a whole; 11 of the 'lB 'students had called the teaching "fair," four said it: was good, and only four had called it sub-standard. Variants in the School of Edu cation were the home economics students, who tended to rate. their teachers somewhat below those ,o 1 the school in general, and the, psy chology majors, who seemed in clined to rate their professors somewhat higher than the school's average. Throughout all Schools, upper class students tended to be more critical of their teachers than un derclassmen. It was in singling out good and poor teachers, however. ~;r;f.,... ; . t . y QK `f`2 ~`~~ Penn State football rivals may look for troub . c from these fOur charging linemen when the Lions usher in a new season September 25. Reading from left to right they are: Ed Czekaj, end; Red Moore, tackle; Ted Hapanowicz, tackle; and Johnny Jaffurs, guard. Czekaj and Hapanowicz are for mer George Washington gridders assigned to Penn State as Marine trainees, while Moore and Jaf furs are Penn State products returned to their alma mater under the Navy and ROTC programs. The CoedA Vie For Royalty Navy-Marine Band, Queen Will Highlight V-12 Formal (Continued 6.6111 *toe one) accordingly. Plans originally call ed for the displaying of both the Navy and Marine flags, but neither was available in the unit; This will mark the second public .appearince of the latest rhythmic organization -cn th "canipti&--4he V 42 Band. The service orchestra is under the • directicli of Pvt. Wayne Chaffin, who has whipped the organization into shape with a minimum of rehearsals:The band first appeared. at a USO dance at the Armory several weeks ago. The formal is limited to; all Vrl2 men and special invited guests of the officers of the. unit.. The price is $l, payable at the door. Connnittees . .chosen foy the dance that students of, every , school let• loose. with a flood of very definite answers. A- total of 98 teachers were singled out as beings especially- good—includ ing one psychology professor Who is a. fifth semester coed's "dream mans" Seventy-four teachers , —listed under such labials- as• "stinky.. ' "lousy." and "very.< incapable"—were included' among those consid ered- especially► poor. In only, seven cases, however, were ptofessors cited , in both cate gales, and in every school. certain professors were un •doubted. favorites. Of the 6 teachers mentioned by the. Chem-Phys School students as being especially good included Grover C. Chandlee, professor - of chemistry; Albert H. Holtiinger, assistant professor of chemistry; Arnold J. Currier, associate pro fessor of chemistry; Dean Whit more; James - H. Olewine, professor of organic chemistry; and Eugene Von Arx, an undergraduate in structor. Chief objection was to an undergraduate teaching mathe matics. Favorites of the Engineering School students included Theresa Cohen, Holtzinger, all d :J o e . l Crouch, professor 'of industrial en gineering. A seventh semester in-. dustrial engineer supplied the in formation that `.`all engineering professors are good." Top Ag School students' choices , were William V; Dennis, professor of' rural sociology; Olewine; and Henry W. Popp, professor of bot any. TWo of Popp's supporters, however, qualified their choice with "good but a little strict" and "very good but goes a little too fast." Their choice as worst teacher was a zoology professor, with several THE COLLEGIAN Lions play Bucknell in their opener. include the following V-12 Tars and Marines: entertainment com mittee, A-S Arthur Miller, chair man, James Shea, and Pvts. Welke and Sturtiri; ticket committee, Pvt. Parker, chairman, and P'vts. Kipp and Robert Campbell; re freshment committee, ,A-S Olin Cramer, chairman, and A-S Carl Gerlach; decorations committee, A-S Tony .Hail, chairman, and A-S William Baker; •and" invitations committee, Pvt. Dowdy, chairman, and A-S According to advice from Mili tary circles, if next week's dance is'a - success; folloWed.by others of the same nature. Penn Slate Engineer Sponsors 'Slide, Rule Ball' For Alumni Weekend Penn State Engineer will Spbn sor the first "Slide Rule Ball" during• Alumni Week-end in con junction with the Colgate foot-. ball gathe. The ball will be staged iii Rec Hall October 9, Richard Devaney and Walter R. Berg, co chairmen for the event announ ced. Music will be furnished by the Campus Owls from 9 to 12. Ad mission will be $l.lO for civilians and- $.77 for servicemen. Additional information will be released .as soon as final decisions are made. Staff members have hopes 'of making the dance an an nual affair.. The • following students ,have been hcosen for the committees: publiity, Fred Mazzitelli and :Ed Koval; tickets,.-Jim Bell; decora lions, Ken Tompson; invitations, Gene Von Arx and. Charles AM merman; checking, Fred Boody; and • refreshments, Albert Wilson. IMA.IO Present' Grid Motion Nitres Tuesday Motion pictures of the most im portant and interesting football games of last year's season will be shown in 121 Sparks at 7i30, p.m; TueSday with the idea of instilling into students a pre-season football spirit. These, movies, which will be presented by IMA, will include games with Penn, Syracuse, Col gate, and Pitt. Coach Bob Higgins will be on hand to explain the tactics used by the Lion team and to comment on different phases of the games. No admission will be charged. Positions Are Still Open On Cross-Country Squad, Says Coach Ray Conger Coach Ray Conger stated today that positions on' the cross-country squad are still open to all studefits and servicemen. Anyone interested in trying out for the team should report to the water tower at 4:30 rixn.'any day next week. "Places on the squad are wait ing fcr anyone who shows that he has what it takes," added Coach !Conger. "No one has yet estab lished a clear claim to a position on the squad, so don't be afraid to come out," he said in an interview yesterday. The two outstanding men on the Squad appear to be John Her manies, a Marine, and Dennis Crimmens, a Navy V-'l2 trainee. Hermanies saw action with the track team this summer, while Crimmens ran for St. John's of Brooklyn in the IC4-A meet last year. The reniainder of ;the candidates show promise but do not have the experience Hermanies and Crim mens possess. They are William Riess and Philip Jones of the Ma rines, •and regular students John Dibeler, Stu' Block, Mervin Alpert, (Harold • 'Weidow, Perry Smith, Stanley Saikin, and Cecil Dute.s chle. Muhlenberg and Colgate have , been added to the cross-country schedule, while Manhattan wad dropped. The complete schedule follows: Oct. 9, Muhlenberg; Oct. 16, Cornell at Ithaca; Oct. 30, Col -gate. at Hamilton; and Nov. 15, IC4-A meet at New York. Lucille Ball and Red S musical in glo Higgins Reissues Call For Civilian, Service Grid Men Stapel Is Casualty as lions Sharpen Claws Reluctant to pass over any grid iron material which may be avail •able, Coach Bob Higgins this week issued a call for additional candi dates. V-12 basic students who are not eligible for varsity competi tion until the completion of one semester will be issued equipment now and ,wll be coached by Marty McAndrews and Chief Joe Vram. 7^. ~Z'r3:k%~Fs M "i % With the term ending October 22, basic squad members will be ready for action with the varsity for games scheduled after that date. These include Maryland, West Virginia, Cornell, Temple, and Pittsburgh. Civilian students, regardless of previous experience, are also urged to try out. Aware that the possibility of eligibility restrictions because c 1 below grades may weaken the" squad 'temporarily, especially in the V-12 ranks, 'Higgins is looking to the fresh turnout to fill any gaps whch may occur with men like Marino Marchi, Mike Slo bodnjak, Al Olzewski, and Wally Allwoerclen available for line duty. - First serious setback from in juries came in a scrimmage ses sion this week when Charley. Stapel, standout freshman :back from Avalon High, pulled a leg cartilage which may keep him out of the opener with Bucknell two weeks away. Bright spot of the week's scrim mages was the showing of 'Sparky Brown, advanced ROTC private, who 'approached his form of last season as he romped quite effec tively from his three back position against the toughest opposition Higgins could assemble. Women Coaches Find Students Apt Athletes Martha Stringer Clauss, first Penn State coed to coach boys' athletic reams, today described her brief coaching tenure at Franklin Township High School as a "won derful experience." Mrs. Clauss coached the basket-. ball and baseball teams at Frank lin before resigning to join her soldier-husband at his' station in Hattiesburg, Miss. In a letter to Lloyd M. Jones, professor of physical education, Mrs. Clauss said she found boys easy to work with and eager to learn. Miss Pauline Rugh, although preceded in the coaching field• by Mrs. Clauss, has earned the dis tinction of being the first woman to coach football. ' Her team opens its season on Saturday, September 14. Kelton in a scene frpm "Dußarry Was a Lady," a ions rechnicolor, costarring Gene Kelly. PAGE THRED
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