VOL. dtfr'—No. 16 Seven Colleges Participate In CA Conference 150 Students Discuss 'Religion- , -Off the Shelf' • Approximately 150 students from seven Pennsylvania univer sities and colleges are taking part in the Student Christian Move-. Merit conference on the campus today, tomorrow, and Sunday, Claire L. Weaver, chairman in charge of arrangements, announ ced.today. , Topic of the conference is "Re ligion—Off 'the Shelf." Students attending the three-day affair represent YMCA, YWCA, ' or Christian Association at their re sPeative schools. ' Sixty students are from other colleges,- while the remaining • 90 ,are from the College. Institutions represented at the conferenCe are 'Mansfield State Teachers College, Bucknell University, Lock Haven State. Teachers College, Susque hanna UniversitY,' Bloomsburg. State ; Teachers College, Juniata •College, and the PennsyliTnia State College. , Miss Weaver. stated that the purpose of the conference is to give the delegates ' , new ideas for leidership and - Christian ASSOC-. igtion- Work. -It •-is usually -.held, 'twice Ei -- year,:buticee*Ogi-ot , -iht wk,',•11 . 1 - e'f - coinfererfCe" Wilrbt %el& jtist once in 1944. Dr. Roy McCorkel, national secretary of the American Friends Sersiice Committee. and'.• • SCM council member, will be the guest speaker tomorrow. He will, speak at the Wedtminster Foundation at 9:15 'a.rn. and 7:30 p.m. '.A Panel discusSion entitled "Re ligion-from"the " Shelf to' the Campus", will be conducted 1 :7 the Rev: Milton S. Vogel, pastor of. the Evangelical Church, at the . • ".(Continued, on page:seven) • Phi Kappa Phi Beds Officers - r!ar. 'Mary L. Willard, associate }piofessor of chemistry at th'e Col hai-been elected president of the Penn State chapter of Phi :kappa Phi, national honor society, for the ensuing year. She succeeds Dr. B. V. Moore, head of the de . R t lrtment of education and psy - etiology, in the presidency. Other officers chosen were Dr. Clifford C. Wernham, • assistant professor of, botany, vice-presi ,nt; . Miss Katherine C. Dwyre, ';':order librarian, secretary; Dr. M. Haber, treasurer; and Edwin -H. Rohrbeek; past president. 2.a:nd,. College agricultural editor, ;'.,,Journal correspondent.' Dr. Moore and Ernest W; Cal „, ,lenbach, professor of poultry bus binidry and past secretary of the. chapter, were elected members of the executive committee. LDebaters Change Date The Pennsylvania State De baters' Convention, scheduled kor . today and tomorrow, has been postponed because of the Greyhound bus drivers' strike, it was announced by Louis L. Ullman, manager of the men's debate team.. Ullman stated that most Of the delegates will have to travel by bus, and that the con yention will be held March 31 and April 1, provided the strike is ended. The Colleg Publish ^- --- 'ff Thespian 'Time To Dance' Weekend Features Musical, Art Wendall's Hotel Al Lamont Band "See how it's done. Then do it yourself." This is the battle cry of the Thespian "Time to Dance" week end made possible by the signing of Art Wendall and his Hotel Alta mont Band for the dance in Rec Hall from 9 to 12 o'clock Satur day night, after the Thespian mu sical provides the necessary in struction. "Wendall's band isn't Harry James," admitted Thespian gaule teir George M. (formerly Q.) Gra ham, "but it's a damn site better than what we see around here. We are trying to throw a well balanced weekend and are sure that this band will do the trick." Starring with . Jimmy Burden LaVie Prepares Post-War Issue "I guess we're just a bunch of glorified , filing clerks." In these words Fred Dietz, edi tor of LaVie, described the efforts of his staff to insure the publica tion of.a complete LaVie after.the, war. "Many of us are without jour nalistic experience and are doing this work just to help Penn State," he added. • • LaVie WasL one of "'the t .campus f"psr,...-,cast.zaities thg - :Weitle - rattitude. was ; !`l,Vli - aVe. the use? There won't be anything left but . a:huileh of kids and 4-F's," ActiVity after activity tolded up. Big dances were •cancelled for the duration. . Inter-class funds... Were frozen. So everyone expected that last spring's issue was the end of the yearbook for the duration. But gradually many, activities began to .be carried on in a limited: fashion. Among. these was LaVie. Although .the •St.aff no longer has the satisfaption of seeing their Work in-print; they are'making it, Possible for every cla'as to. have a record of Penn. State in its time. Further proof that LaVie . is not a 'dead organization was given when 'Fred- Dietz, editor,. issued a call - for fifth' and sixth semester candi- dates. • • . Every two semesters the staff files 'away a complete , LaVie ready for the printer after. the war. The 'yearbook will be published either in one large or several separate volumes, depending_ on how many years there are before publication. The money which upperclassmen have paid for LaVie is now in war bonds. But after the war the amount contributed by each will be deducted from the price 'of the yearbook. Every effort will be made' to inform graduates when the first issue is published. ' Spring Enrollment Shows Total of 3007 Students Spring • s et - nester enrollinent shows a grand total of 3007 stu dents; from the report of 'Registrar Ray Watkins. Enrollment in the Agriculture School is 219, the School of Edu cation is 624, Chemistry and Phys ics is 431, Engineering is 271, Lib eral Arts is 865, Mineral Indus tries is 64,. and Physical Educa tion is 74. With a lead of 675, the women students outnumber the men. At present there are 1841 women and 1166 men enrolled. Graduate students enrolled for the new . semester include 84 women and 170 men, making a total of 254. Total number of special students is 96. ed Weekly by The Daily Collegian Sta: FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1944-STATE COLLEGE, PENNA and his 26-piece orchestra in the Thespian production, a talented newcomer, Betty Wiser, will sing and dance three numbers. Betty's experience in show business in cludes singing with Joey Kearns and his WCAU band and vocaliz ing for the V-12 band on campus last semester. Some time back, when she was singing for the Horn and Hardart Children's Hour, Betty swallowed a 'fly during a number. "I have graduated from swallowing flies to singing for Thespians,' she said. Pete Jo nSon, second semester presiden and varsity lacrosse player, oes a song and dance rou tine wi h the chorus. Pete is fol lowing in the footstps of his tal Uninhibited Women Pursue Hapless Men In Players"Janie' Jitterbug party, Daddy's Scotch and Bourbon, target practice, a drunken butler, 30 pickled sol diers', and necking . . . It's .all in the Players' production of "Janie," coming to Schwab Auditorium on April 15 and 16. - Directing the rehearsals, Prof. A. C. Cloetingh tries to put all these refined activities into a sem blance of order, Strangely enough, his most, 'difficult job is to get-the .hoYS the, • "In loieaCelies; - the director' is always forced to push the men. They're always afraid of making c . foola of thernselves on the stage. Girls,. however, have no such in hibitions. We never have any trouble with their love scenes," he explained. - One• shy. youth in Particular needs special coaching from the director. in the--,art of making a pass at a girl. He does it- wrong,.. Mr. Cloethigh stops the rehearsal, and rnakes him do it over again, 'and again, and again.- By show time the Player pass -making tech nique is.guaranteed to far surpass the •campus. average. The fastest starting jive party yet seen on a Penn State stage is (Continued on page five) Trustees Announce Faculty Appointments, Leaves, Resignations Ten new appointments, one leave of absence, and two new resignations of College staff and faculty members have been an nounced by the Board of Trustees.' New staff members include .MrS, Eleanor B. Benner, assistant in borne economics; Eugene P. Klier, instructor-in metallurgy; James A. Knight 'Jr., instructor in textile chemistry; Mrs. Fran ces M. Bolderoff, acting publica tions producing manager; Helen L. Shaffer, research assistant in glass technology. James K. Wood, research as sistant in petroleum refining; William Kamnitzer, • research as sistant in glass technology; Mrs. Isabella W. White, instructor in home economics; Mrs, Genevieve K. Krawiec, instructor in the nur sery school; and Mrs. Lois J. Copper,., assistant in home eco noifiics. James A. Kerr, instructor in English composition, was grant.: ed a leave of absence to assist with publicity in central exten sion. Bruce D, Gleissner resigned as assistant professor of economic entomology to accept a commer cial position, and M. S. Wier re signed as research assistant in petroleum refining -to accept a commission 'in the Navy. lan ented family, his father being a former Thespian of the class of 1911, and his sister a Metropolitan Opera student. A veteran of three Thespian shows and Lancaster night club singing, Adele Yablon comics her waS+ through three numbers. Not at all bashful, Miss Yablon has the following mercenary appeal, • "If somebody "wants to throw me a contract, I'll take it." The customary lack of costumes adorning the Thespian chorus was designed by Paul Galvanik. Leon Rabinowitz wrote the patter. Jimmy Burden did all the ar rangements. George J. Grahani had the nervous •breakdowns for the entire cast. Tokyo Newsman Discusses War A survivor of 61 days' imprison ment in an unheated Jap cell, Jimmy Young, foreign correspon dent and author, will speak on "Why Japan Will Fail" in 117 Carnegie Hall, 1.1 a.m. Monday. Young, director of the Tokyo Bureau of the International News Service, was rash enough to cable his American papers . that Japa °nese troops :,weren't deirig:'SoYwell in China. Later, he repeated his opinion at a dinner party. Th next morning, the clerk at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, called his room and told him there was a gentleman in the lobby• who _urgently requested the pleasure of a personal interview. Soon thereafter a temporary end to Young's reputation as a special fly-in-ointment to Jap war Lords was effected when, after a secret trial, he was put in jail for "libelling" the Japanese empire. However, Young got a break from the Japanese which, it is said, few people enjoy—he was al lowed to eat everything he wanted while in jail. The catch is, he paid for it himself. After his release, Young pre sented to his wife the creative re sult of his imprisonment, a small potted orchid which he raised in jail. Weightier things than orchids resulted from Jimmy Young's Tokyo experience, including nu merous contributions to such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Readers' Digest, and Cor onet. •He has also written two books, "Our Enemy" and the starting. "Behind the Rising Sun," from which a movie was made: This expert on Oriental intrigue is from America's Middle West. A native of Springfield, 111., educated at the University of Illinois and Johns Hopkins, Young began his foreign service on a trip to Africa with his cousin, the late E. W. Scrippi of publishing* fame. Gunther Cohn Profile Highlights 'Engineer' Highlighting the April issue of the "Penn State Engineer" will be a profile of Gunther Cohn, who was awarded the first "En gineer" scholarship a few weeks ago. Other material will include sev eral technical articles, and fea tures which should be of inter est to non-technical students, Eugene F. von Arx, editor, an nounced. The publication will ap pear next week with its usual natural color cover, the editor added. PRICE FIVE CENTS ISC Sponsors Dance To Benefit Red Cross Fund Chairman Cites Failure Of Students to Donate In an attempt to put the Red Cross drive over the top, Indepen dent Student Council is sponsor ing a dance in Recreation Hall on April 8 for the benefit of the Red Cross drive. ISC, the only organ ized group on campus soliciting for the Red Cross, has collected $750, falling short of their $3OOO goal. The Navy-Marine band and all persons working with the com mittee for the dance are donating their services. Admission will be $1.25 and the entire proceeds, clear profit, will be donated to the Red Cross drive. The failure of the drive thus far, according to 'Mary Virginia Brown, chairman of the drive, has been the failure of many students to contribute. The most frequent excuse is that their ' parents at home are taking care of Red Cross donations. Miss Brown pointed out that it is every student's responsibility to do his part towards the war effort, even if it means• the. & - rfeiting of small Inxuries during the- week. The Red Cross - drive, the biggest of the year, should have the sup . (Continued on page eight) Post-War Training Improve.s Drivers - Training the nation's youth to be skilled and courteous automo bile drivers will insure postwar traffic safety, according to Amos E. Neyhart, administrative head of the Institute of Public Safety at the College, who decries the as sumption that the end of the war will bring highway chaos. - The Penn State expert advo cates establishment of driver training courses in all high schools on the grounds that it is the new drivers who will need to develop the right attitudes, skills, and un derstandings of the traffic prob lem. They are the ones, he feels, who are suffering maladjustment and warped concepts because of the war. Assuming that traffic accidents will increase in the postwar world is wicked and dangerous, he said, for it creates a power of sugges tion on a national scale that might exert an unhealthy influence on returning servicemen and subse quently contribute to an accident increase. . "The chief element of training for men in this war," he explained, "has been self-preservation and safety, and I am confident that men returning.from the war fronts appreciate even more than we do the value of human life. I don't think, therefore, that they will provide any safety problem in the postwar world." LaVie Calls Candidates Candidates for LaVie's edi torial staff should report to room 315, Old Main, 7:15 Wed nesday and Thursday nights, Fred Dietz stated. In order to make the staff, candidates must be in the fifth or sixth semester. Dietz said that there was an especial need for men on the staff.
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