College Senate Extends Christmas Vacation Published Weekly by The Daily Collegian Staff FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1944-STATE COLLEGE, PENNA. 2 Days To Reach Goal WSGA Winds Up Yule Drive Two days are left for WSGA to make its $450 goal set for the 1044 Christmas drive; according to Mary Margaret Dunlap, speak er of the House of Representa tives: Each Coed's share in this drive is 25 ; cents. The total amount re-. ceived • from solicitation will be divided 'among , three projects to which WSGA has made its an nual contribution -for five years. These projects are: . • 1. fl:he Mifflin County Chil dren's Aid Society, located at Lewistown, - which assists chil dren who have , been adopted into families that are unable to prc vide niore than the bare necessi- ties of life. The Aid Society pro vides a happy Christmas for these , adopted children and in doing this uses all- the nnoney contributed hy Penn. State coeds. 2. American. Women's Hospitals whose work:includes disease. pre vention, 'Child health, and .mater-: :,..nity,./worir . 'to bring. relief,from suffering sainong the civilian p0p ..;.14ti0n,:,0f. Europe.. - , . Hetzel's , Fund 'for' Eni:- ergencleSlielps,,,stp4grit§' ineet.elneitericies'•.bY'<lokitS , and. giftS -Or' hospital care, ' , books, .fees,: and.. travel:l-• , ' Both Tnen• and coeds are 'urged by; Miss ',Dunlap to give • all .they •:the;'drive.:' WSPN- repre'- 90rifatives canvas all :),irOm .'en;.,dorrnitcoriet men , cmay i•sl4aVe... - their 'contributions' iu bwies ;:rplared .an ~ A therton lounge, - Stu-. ....dent 'Union, or at . Corner, '.'Dance -::With 'Your :Poliy kAll7.co.lo§p:forrisaF Hop -. ".L1,!....::.e-s..' - Chr•iitina Motif Vollowing the Christmas . motif, dedotated area be'feb:. , =.1 .- t:4ed at "the' All-College Chritmas, 040OrMal dance to be' held '..,..ile4eatiOtr Hall DeceMber, 16. ..• Under a • canopy, couples will 1 . 41ance from 9 p.m.• to midnight to ~...the• music. of Bud Wills and his -campus Owls. Entetainment at At - de - mission will present Ruth' Hill • • singing "0 Holy :Night" and Frank `' Gtillo of .the music department . . leadinggroup singing of Christ .*. •ma.- carols. ' • Fraternity and barracks booths ,c.sit be reserved. for $2 by calling A/S James Jones, Barracks. 13, 3392.' All civilians and servicemen may obtain tickets from GSO members starting Monday. Couples will b'e adinitted for $1.20 While stag's will be admitted for 60 cents. The 100 new GSO members as well as the regular members will be admitted free upon presentation of member ihin cards. Their dates will be ad mitted for 60 cents. \ "This affair is All-College de spite it's being sponsored by a • closed organization," emphasized Nancy 'Norton, president of the Girls' Service Organization. "Ev eryone is welcome and we hope to see them at this, the big Christ mas event of the season." various committees have al ready set to work. Their chairmen are,: Harriett Witmer, refresh ments; Shirly Conner, decorations; ; Bernice Griffith, entertainment; and Agnes Coleman and Betty ektemyer, puhlicity, Yokums Reign Over Dance Replicas of Li'i Abner, Daisy Mae, and Pappy Yokum in their "Dogpatch" atmosphere will greet all at the "Spinsters' Skip" in White Hall, 9 p.m. to midnight to morrow. The traditional dance is sponsored by Cwens, and Mortar Board, sophomore and senior Wom en's honorary societies. Campus Owls under the direc tion of Bud Wills will furnish the music. Dave Briner will be trum pet soloist, and "Doc'? Savige with his trombone will present an ar rangement of "Roie Room." TiCkets may be obtained from rnerfiblers of Cviens and Mortar Board; and have been placed, in dormitories. They . may also be bought at Student liniori or.at the • tlement, , the mode' of dreis for the . tvening informal, with skirts, jeans, -sweaters, and plaid -shirts predominating. Trobeeds front the , V.ance be applied to thp;Cwers and Itlorfar, -Bbard schblarship fuhol.,:Eaeli, of these': hOnoraries - awards . one $5O scholarship. .per -year to -a :coed qualified by activities, scholastic standing, need, and' other .factors. Athletic Office Offers Reserved Stage Seats For Artists Course Stage 'seats for . the College Art ists' ,• Course • perfetmances of Yehudi Menuhin and Jesus Maria Sanforna will 'be sold at the Ath letic Association Office ticket win dow, Old Main, beginning 8 a.m. Monday. • Tickets for the , two. series will be $5 Plus tax. Approximately 125 will be available. If any, single seats remain after the double ticket sale, tickets for Menuhin will be available at $3.50 plus tax and for Sanroma at $2.50 plus tax. Preceding each performance in Schwab Auditorium, standing room will, be sold—at $1.50 plus tax for Menuhin and at $1.25 plus tax for Sanroma. Menuhin, who has Just returned from a whirlwind - European tour during which he presented 40 con certs in 6 weeks, will appear in Schwab Auditorium 8 p.m. Friday, December 15. While overseas, the famed vio linist presented the first concert in the Paris Opera House since the Allied liberation and played for doughboys less than two miles from. the front. In addition, he played in the plane elevator of an aircraft car rier, in Salisbury Cathedral, in five English war factories, in hos pitals, and for American troops at Oxford University,. An Editorial The Christmas vacation this semester was originally schedUled to start December 20 and to end December 28. Because this meant that New Year's Eve would have to be spent away from home, and New Year's Day in classes, the students at the College almost unanimously desired a change in the schedule. Yesterday afternoon the College Senate met and approved a resor lution' of the calendar committee to change the vacation to from December 22 to January 2. Need less to say this change met with a large measure of student and faculty approval. It was an intelligent and prompt Move taken by the College and credit for Ahis desirable change in dates is due to two groups the student body for calling to the at tention of the proper authorities its thoughts about, the matter, and the administration for' considering stUdent opinion and in this ease deferring' to it. • ;Students of 'the College should not . believe that the holding of a* rally and .the ciraniatton of . a Peti liOn . gain them:: Concessions most. important justice of then requestS.,.l'he: sd :ininistratiOn will not be_ raiiroadad, into acting. agoinst, 'the. best terests the' College at any time:_ . . . and. . the•:. students- spoke• liStened: But ,in the .intnre . they:must •be sure that :they, erSpeak not_ only tor themselves but "for a-better Penn: State. Donuts. f or. Dollars • ,:Mobile:UOitHelPs . Selleontts As a special feature of the Sixth War Loan Drive a Danutmobile will be stationed outside the Main Gate this afternoon and tonight. Members of . the • Women's 'Pi= nance Committee, Gamma Phi Beta sorority, and the• Red Cross Motor Corps. will distribute hot donuts to all students"' and'towns folk who purchase War bonds and stamps.. A parade by members of the State College American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps will an nounce the official opening, of the Donutmobile at 4:30 thii afternoon. At '5 o'clock two World War I•I vet erans, Ist Lieut. Elias E. Moses, New. Kensington, Pa., ' and ' Ist Lieut: Edward E. Myllmaki, .Bos ton, Mass., will tell of some of their experiences overseas. Both men, former pilots with the 15th Air Force, were shot down over Pie- Curtain Going Up Players Open Tonight and tomorrow night at 8 o'clock the curtain at Schwab Auditorium will roll up on a stage bare of property as Players pre sent "Our Town," their initial of fering of the fall semester. Portman Paget and Claire Co hen will play the leading romantic roles in the production as they por tray George Giobs and Emily Webb, son and daughter respec tively of two leading and quite influential families. Scene of the play is Grover's Corners, N. H., a typical small town. The plot centers around the drama which occurs in the lives of almost every typical middle-class American family, drama which is made up of the homely processes of just living. Rally, Petitions Precede Action Of Administration President Issues Statement "The calendar committee will consider extending the vacation at Senate meeting. When the pre sent schedule was made up, the committee attempted to • .give as much vacation as possible to the students and still have each se mester the reanired weeks long. "Sacrificing New Year's eve seems like a small thing to ask," he . continued, "when we consider how much . the boys in the fox holes on the fighting fronts are .giving. • I. am deeply disappointed .that 'the stUdent 'body does . not to cooptrate to:.the _fullest extent: pOssible 'with the armed forces of .our 'country during. this time, of war."' After thee' Senate meeting at , which the decliop to extend the vacation was made, President het: zel, declined to .Make ' , any corn: went. esti, Rumania, and spent some time 'as German prisoners of war in Bucharest. Lt. Col. Guy G. Mills, commandant of the ROTC, is also slated to speak at the rally. One donut will be exchanged for a 25 cent war. stamp and a box of six be' given to every .pur chaSer of $2 or, more of stamps or bonds.. The Donutmobile, only mo-, bile dondt factory. in `.the' world, is capable of producing 6,000 dough nuts per hour. Stamp and bond sales at the College have been lagging, accord= ing to reports received frbni mem bers of the Independent Student Committee who have been oper ating a bond and stamp booth in the lobby of Old Main. This' booth will continue to stay open from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1:30 to 5 p.m. daily. Season With As the philosophical stage direc tor who narrates the plot and thus ties the action together, •Players have drafted Prof. Arthur C. Cloe tingh who had the same role in the original campus production of "Our Town" given in 1939. Director Lawrence E. Tucker has emphasized that backstage crews are peculiarly important to this play. Acting technique centers around pantomime; therefore sounds and lighting play a large part in making the meaning clear to the audience. Costumes too must be effective in creating the atmosphere of the small town, Pa Webb will bring out. his old corncob pipe while George Gibbs limps down the road in squeaky and obviously < new College Seilate last night ac ceded to the request of students that the Christmas recess be sched- uled from December 22 to January 2 instead of from December 20 to 28 as had been decided upon orig inally. Classes will end at 5 p.m. De cember 22 and will reconvene at 8 a.m. January 2. This change in schedule applies to V-12 as well as civilian students. Concrete action towards achiev ing a change in schedule began Wednesday night when approxi mately 150 students gathered in front of Old Main. They trudged to the Tri-dorms, Woman's Build ing, Mac Allister Hall, and Bee Hall where they crashed the basketball game. Unsuccessful in obtaining use of the public address system. at Bee Hall, the procession reformed and marched to the President's house. : Although there were no iifficial, leaders at the rally, a committee including Bette Craven, Doye Pachelbel, Ruth Tisherman, Helen Blanker, Arlene Green, and Don Fine approaChed PreSident Hetzel. He advised them to present their petition to the calendar commit tee. • 'Committee Approves The calendar committee, of which Jacob - . ranger, head of the political,' science department, is chairman, approved:the pan and presented a Fesolhtion to the Col lege S'en4e. There -hag . beerr in officlil. count-of the' nuMber • of peisois' who „signed'the Estimaies •place- the•.riutifWi• be tween -1500 and 2900: Members 'of - the calendait'com mittee 'are Joseph • J.' —l3edenk; -Ernest Callenbach, - William S. Holt - Ilan, Ina: Padgett, -A/S Julian Anderson,...and : _r>oris Stack., The lattei. two - student representa tives. • Petitions have been ,circulating. on campus since . ..the Collegian called the dates of the Christnias recess to the-attention , of the stu dents in an edit rial in the Decem ber 1 edition. No official tally of the votes for and against the resolution was an nounced.'College Senate, includes the deans cif• all 'the' Schools; the department•heads, and other elect etl members. Closed Meeting .Following its usual custom. the Senate , held a.elosed meeting. Ed ward P. Zemprelli, who, was• a candidate fOr seventh semester president . on the Nittany ticket, appeared to present the students'- viewpoint. He . was informed , that there had been for some time a rule against students appearing at these meetings. When the rumor of the change in schedule reached•Atherton Hall, excitement ran high in the usually decorous dining room. Students will have another weekend at home in addition to two extra days of vacation. 'Our Town' shoes. Henrietta Campitel, Rich ar d Frontman, Abraham Levy, Judy Mendell, William Silverstein, Leonard Stein, Leatrice Strober, and Marian Wilder have the sup porting roles. Many extras will also add to the general impression of the typical small tcwn. Tryouts for New Play Anyone interested in trying out for Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," Players' 25th anniversary produc tion, should sign up at Student Union. today through Tuesday, an nounced Prof, Frank S Neusbaura, I who will direct the play.
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