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.