GIVE
to the
RED CROSS
vUL. 42—No.
ISC Schedules
Benefit Dance
r:Jam Session' Proceeds
Go. To Red Cross Drive
Independent Student Commit
tee's "Red Cross Jam- Session". in
Recreation Hall tomorrow night
will feature a six-man band, espe-'
eially organized for the hop. Tick- .
ets for the informal dance are 90
cents, with all proceeds going to
the American.Red.Cross.
The band includes John Setar,
once with Tommy. Dorsey, clarinet
and alto saxophone; Gene Sprague,
,foraferly with Fred;Waring; trum
pet; Robert Ernst, formerly. with
Ina Ray ,Hutton, ,drums; Pat La
rnade,• recently with . the Campus
•42wle;'piano; Robert Mulligan, also
ofTthe Campus Owls,. trombone;
George Barbour, saxophone.
.Between: the Pieces•played by this
orchestra, records :Will provide
slow. ; music. . • •
During .intermission,. Charles
Sp'hulte will -act as master of cere
mCnies. 'Rita IVlittleman, accompa
nied by; Shirley Alpern, and Geor-
Stook, abcOMpanied by 'Sally
' FreedlY; will . sing... Also •on the
flooi show.sehedUle is a vocal trio,
coMpoied.of Jackie. Ikeese,,Carolyn
' Deti, ..and ,Dive Pacheble.
Several campus groups ssisted
' ISC in 'planning the , dance..'Salva
tore Rocci, IMA, and` Louis Plot
-nick, Penn :State Club,• will take
'charge of the tickets.. Martha. Irvin,
' .Philotes, and Audrey Peters,
Birdie .Deirnel, Slezack, Jac-
Faloon;':_andetty,„"Kejin,
IWA, directed the-publicity: X-G-I
members will have charge of the
checking room.
Davis lectures
In L.A. Series
will newspaper of the
future , be like? , it be •a
101kiertalide, come in • a•
capsule, of. the radio on
ticker'. tape, or will it •be Much
fi`.,llke - the" newtikaper of. today?
' - ariswei.,,: to these and other
. :;,i.. 4 .tineStionS • regarding ^, 'f,Th
of-.TorriOrrow" . dis
....cassed by •Donald W. Davis; .agso
:-•39liteiorb.fe•sgc:ir jOumalisrn, - in
i tie: Ifitirth ..of. .the current - series
Vberal Arts lectrires • 121
20; - • •- '
;Impending . • 'changes in the
.of news aqdriews, gathering',
intetiprl-trition, and the
meOhanics, , . of , new.sbaper prOdric
f),. distribution • . will .• be.
Ij:Ointed out, including the .
of , „the. facsimile, or home
recorded newspaper. " •
illuStrate his talk Professor
. Davis will • make• use of screen
',slides and 'other visual Material.
A- number of slides that; will be
:.:,shown in • explanation of, the fee-,
newspaper are among the
first to be prepared on this sub
leat
Professo'r Davis has been .close
ly • associated with newspaper
prdblems and practices for 25
years.. For 17 years he was with
the Springfield (Mass.) Republi
can and affiliated newspapers,
much of the time in an executive
capacity.
Payment of Fees
•= `Payment of fees for the .1945
:Sprip . .g,SemeSter may, be made
'ithe .A,rrpory, from 9 a.m.
to - nOon,. and from 1 'p.m. to
March 23.
Miount : of *fees' roOr be • esti
lated '.on•'a fee ' Otitnat'
Otaingble •.at Ap.:Bursar!o , cif -',
41ne be .impOsed
1 1 4*, 1 3 r Ments , ';'1 3 pi n t s7,out
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FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1945-STATE COLLEGE, PENNA
DR. K. SHRIDHARANI
Players Open
Tryouts For
Brother Rat'
• The Penn State Players have.ex
tended . the deadline on,„the .cast
tryouts, , , fpr "Brother Rat," next
campus production,. until - tonight,
Director Lavirigice -_Tucker
announced..
' Students .may sign up at. St
u :Union, today for an. appoint
ment. All tryouts will .be held in
the' Little Theatre of Old• Main at
o'clock tonight. • •
,"Brother-Rat';" a. farce in three
acts_ 1;44 - John, MppliS • Jr,s:and., : r*
Fiiikleciaffe;' was produced
New York in December, 1936, by
George Abbott. • Since that time,
"Brother Rat" has played through
out the country, rivaling "The
Male Animal" and "Mr. and Mrs.
North" for popularity among col
lege, university, and little theater
groups.
coriderned, with cadet life at . a
rOutaty academy, the play pro
gresses throUgh a. love affair and
some 'dubious .military maneuvers
with' a rollicking treatment of em-.
bryonic generals whb have not yet
. . . .
grown into their, long pants. .
"The -• play is ' especially timely,
because of „its - Military • aspect,"
Professor • Tucker 'ventured. "This
.play is . strietly.Arnerican.• It is fun
not 'only' for the audience,•'but I
expect to 'have - fun out of direct
:i4 - • 1 " •
- .A..COMplete 'major. the prodUc-
Akin 'wlll4 - start 'rehearsals Sunday
nightz.•. . ' •
•
EngineerStaff:Tryouts....
There. wilL.be. a meeting in 418
Old Main, -7:38: p.m. Monday for
all students interested in 'joining
the staff of the Penn State Faigi
neer. — Candidates,. must • be en
rollediri technical courses.
Give To The Red Cross
Red Cross Begins Campaign For $2,000
In cooperation with the national Red CCross, the campus unit of
the Red Cross will conduct a War Fund drive among the students of
of the College.
During the week starting Monday, the .War Fund committee,
under Co-chairmen Betty Shenk and Walter Falkenberg, hopes to
raise $2,000. Virginia Brown and Millaid Bunnell of the State Col
lege .chapter will assist.
ISC plans to stage a Red Cross
benefit dance in Recreation Hall
tomorrow night.
T. w. o thermometers will be
erected downtown, .a .large one and
a small• one.. The large one will
register the contributions made. by
the tovmspeople while.. the smaller
, one will show 'the •gains.made -by.
:tile campus -unit .and the - students.
Any .size -contribution will ae
cQptay , of
ope
•
Published Weekly by The Daily Collegian Staff
Forum Presents
Hindu Philisopher
Shridharani To Speak
About Asia's Future
"Asia Faces the New World,"
a partial analysis of the future
.whiCh awaits the Far East, is the
topic to be presented •by. Dr. Kris
hnalal• Shridharani, Hindxi Phil_
osopher, in the second of the
State College Community Forum
lecture series Thursday night.
Dr..Sluidharani, who will speak
in Schwab Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Thursday, was sent to progressive
schools in India which had come
under the spell of Western edu
cational ideas. Later he attended
Mahatma Gandhi's National Uni
versity, where- he began his liter
ary career.
After accompanying Gandhi on
the epoch-making "Salt March"
to the sea in •1931), he entered the
International University .of the
Poet Rabindranath • Tagore,• Nobel
Prize winner. At ,Tagore's, request
he . traveled ,on, the Continenc and
in England before coming to the
United States in 1934.
- At Columbia UniirerSitY . Shrid
harani ..'reCeiVed ' the - degrees of
;master .Aof science; mester,nf, Arts,
.and ..doctor' of philosophy:
-thesis, "Wr
..Without
became a • successful
. book; and
Was followed by . two others, "My
India; My America," and "Warning
to the West." .
Persons ' not holding.. series
tickets for ,the Community .Forum
e v eitire.S-:triny'qirChasif -single.• ad-7.
mission tickets tor Dr. .Shridher
ani's lecture at Schwab Auditor
ium on the night of the perform
ance.
Stuart Chase, economist who
was to have been the second of
the Forum speakers and was un
able to be in State College Febru
ary . 13, Will •appear. May 29, it
was announced • today by James
T. : Smith, chairman of the Com
munity. Forum.. •
Government Gives College
Army Counseling School
The College has been desig
nated as a Veterans Testing and
Counseling. Center where..dis
charged servicemen may secure
aid• in making eaucational and
vocational choices. •
This one of a number .of . cen
ters soon. to be established .in
colleges and universities equip
ped to .administer tests and offer
counsel to veterans—particular
ly those who have disabilities
which are pensionable and con
stitute vocational handicaps.
The program will be set up
under the Veteran's Administra
tion.
giver a member of the national
Red Cross. Red Cross buttons will
be given in acknowledgement of
all contributions.
Three displays, one each in the
Corner. Room, Cathaum thehatre,
and. State theatre. are now being
prepared. -.Speakers from .t h e
c . pus'unit will attend meetings
of the%-various campus -organiza
tims.'
, The campaign wl11•be conducted
tinder a ay4erri of section leaders,
College Registers 3,568,
Enrolls 276 Freshmen
Enrolled in The College for the spring semester are 3568
civilians and servicemen, according to figures released today
by Registrar William S. Hoffman. Of this number 2903 are
civilians, 415 ASTP's, and 250 Navy V-12 trainees.
The first semester freshman enrollment of 276 includes
173 men and 103 women. ThiS exceeds last year's spring
freshman total of 220.
The 1797 women registered out-number the 870 civilian
men approximately two to
one, but with the addition of
the ASTP, Navy trainees,
and graduate and special student's
the total reaches 1;655 men and 1,-
913 women. Ex-servicemen now
number 130 at the College.
The School of Liberal Arts has
scheduled the highest number of
students with 1,055, of which 813 •
are in 'lower division. Enrollment.
in the other schools follow: Agri
culture, 268; Chemistry and Phy
sics, 292; Education, 628; Engi
neering, 259;.. Mineral Industries;
147; Physical Education, 102..
There are 16 transitions, 149 gra-
duate students and 87 special ,stu--
Debate Team
Next Meets
Shippensburg
Entering the second half of the
debating season, men's debate
team will enter the Shippensburg-
Oregon Plan Debate at the • Ship
pensburg State Teachers' College
tomorrow, it was announced today.
by Sandford Rafsky,••new manager
of the debate team.
Debating for the.affirmative will
be A/S Fred Kecker and Martin
Cohn, and - for the - negative A/S
James.P. Jones wia - tittis Castle • -
berry. The proposition to be de
bated will be:. Resolved, that the
federal government should enact
legislation requiring settlement of
all labor disputes by compulsory
arbitration when voluntary means
of settlement have failed. constitu
tionality conceded—. '
The team will leave Tuesday for
a series of debates ending Mardi
17, it was announced today. Martin
Cohn and Ottis Castleberry will
compose the traveling team.
• The schedule of debates follows:
Tuesday—a debate with Ursinus
women on the subject, "Military
Training"; Wednesday morning—
Nevi York University on the sub. !
ject of compulsory arbitration of
labor disputes.
Wednesday afternoon the team
Will meet Cooper Union Institute
in .a debate on "Liberated Areas";
Thursday—. Columbia University
'on the subject of compulsory arbi
tration; Friday—the team will par.
ticipate in a . radio debate over
:WNYC and a round table forum.
• Saturday morning—the team
will face the College of- the City
of New York and. Saturday. after-'
noon New York University Heights
and Seton Hill. College.
New . Choir Tryout Hours
Additional . tryout hours have
been scheduled for students. who
wish to . sing .with the Chapel
Choir, announced Mrs. Willa Tay
lor; of the music 'department, to
day:
divisiOn leaders and solicitors
Betty Shenk will head the wo
men's division. The section lead
ers are Jewell Baronoff, Margaret
Spencer, Doris . Jenkins and Joyce
Leet and they will cover all town
and camptis -'women's dormitories,
sorority houses, and home man
agement houses.
The men's division will be under
the chairmanship of Walter Pal
kenberg and • the section . leaders
are Steven Green, Harold Hein,
Carmen Panar, George. Scarazzo,
Lee Strickland and Stanley Ziff.
Each . student .will be approached
individually by a solicitor:
.:•.A meeting.of the section: leaders,
•division leaders and ,solicitOr
be -held , in.l2l Sparks at 2 p.
1 Sunday.' .
GIVE
to the
RED CROSS
1 A A I k a A A A M i k a' •
Enrollment- by semester • is as
follows: second semester-245 -
men, 433 women; third semester
—ll9 men, 171 women; fourth:.
semester -78 • men, 386 women;
fifth semester 7-71 men, 173 wom
en; sixth semester-67 men, 224
Women; seventh semester-46
men, 134 women; and eighth se
mester-42 men, 165 women. Of
the transition students nine are
men and seven are women. There
are 20 men enrolled in the two
year course,' and one woman.
One hundred and three men and.
46 women are entered as gradua
te students, and 17 men. arid 70•
women are enrolled as special
students. _
College Leaders
Discuss Campus
Canipus . leaders wilt-discuss. ,
`Vlbat's . 'COokin' •on Campus!'
a freshman: meeting • in.. 304 014=
Main Monday. night. •B. A.: Con-;
drop• of • PSCA; Richard •Mauthe,
Red 'Cross; William Kelly, All-
College •Cabinet; •.
Collegian; Salvatore •Rocci, , lSlC;7
and James . Hugo, IFC, . will con,
:duct the panel: discussion:
Also .on. Tuesday .night, „PSCA'
will offer a Coed' question Box.
on Penn State . ActMlles. There
sa Haskins -is general-chairman;
while Jeanne .Hirt. and„. Mary.
Haines are in charge of the•meet- .
ings:
At Lenten services Rev. Mal
colm Mussina will speak on "Thee
Sermon on the Mount" at -Lenten
Vespers in 304 Old Main, 4:30 to
5:15 Thursday evening. Barbara
Struck will be the student lead
er and Ann Berkhimer and Bar
bara Reinkmeyer, co-chairmen.
Second Semester freshmen will.
meet in the Hugh Beaver room,
Old Main, 7 p.m. Monday.
Collegian Candidates
New candidates for the edi—
torial staff of Collegian wilt
meet in 8 Carnegie Hall, 7
m. Tuesday.
Those interested in trying
out for the advertising ..staff
will meet at .7 p. m. Monday. in
the. same room. If unable,to. at-.
tend. call. Evelyn Was.9on--„
4371.