Fees Due At Armory Today VOL. 42-1N0.....22- Lynch Opens New Cabinet's First Session Panar Heads' ommittee To Reopen 'Swing Inn' The newly-elected All-College Cabinet swung into action Tues day in an hour and a half session under the guidance of president Michael Lynch. After a brief explanation of the duties of the various semester 'f ficers by Mr. Lynch, (the discus sion turned to the possibility of reopening "Swing Inn" this se mester. Jess Panar was appointed chairman of the following com mittee to investigate the situation: Sally Bernstein, June First, Rita Grossman Mary Haines, Amy Ka liney, William Morton, Frank Schneider, and Stanley Ziff: Chairman Judd Healy pointed out that there is still-a represent ative from the fifth semester to be appointed to Tribunal. Presi dent Lynch appointed Rdbert Mc- Gregor to represent - Cabinet in the standing nominating commi' , tee composed of the chairmen of Judicial and Tribunal, Dean of 'Men, .Dean of Women, and a rep resentative from Women's Student Government Association. Cabinet then approved a motion stating that copies of the Cabinet Constitution be distributed to all first semester students and trans fers. Freshmen will be quizzed on its.' - when .they take - their. blue-book- on- college cus toms: and traditions. • . 'Pledges; Cabinet exPreaseti favor toward the establishment of a stu dent book exchange. The following committee was selected to report on •the project: Joseph Steel, chairman; Jewel ,Baronoff, Mary Margaret Dunlap, and Dorothy Widmer. • •According •to the revisions of the Cabinet Constitution made last semester, class meetings. should be scheduled by the 'semester presi dents within two weeks after el ections. 'Calbinet voted, to extend 'this Period one week in order that more time may (be devoted to the planning and organizing .of these. meetings. B , ecause there has (been some resentment among the coeds of (Continued on, page five) former Theta Xi House How International Home For 16 Men Students Since the beginning of the semester a 'new international, in ter-racial, inter-religious house, called Fairmont Huose, East, has been operating at the corner of Locust lane and Fairmont avenue in the old Theta Xi house, for merly occupied by the A. S. T. PP. The idea of a democratic, inter- Cultural house was started by a co-ed group of students at the Westminster Foundation last March. With the help of. Rev. Donald W.: Carruthers and Dr. George E. Simpson, the group ob tained a house and put their plan into effect. 'At the present time there are 16 men students representing many racial, ' religious and. cultural backgrounds living at 'Fairmont House, East. The house is run on a co-operative system; the students share all expenses toward running a dwelling unit. •No meals are served, and all house duties are shared by the .students. The student executive commit tee is made up of Henry L. Lives, chairman; Martin Alperin, vice Chairman; Bernard Byers, secre tary-treasurer; and RObert M. Moore, Jr., house manager. Members of the. advisory com mittee. include Mrs. Arthur .T. Thompson, secretary; Dr. George E. Simpson; Dr: Henry L. Yeagley; and Rev. Donald W. Carruthers. The project will run through the summer semester and if success ful. may be continued on a larger scale during • following semesters ttr it FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1945-STATE COLLEGE, PENNA ,Tribunal Bids 9 Frosh to Wear Eccentric Attire Nine frosh will don the eccentric costumes designed by Tribunal this morning and will wear them until 5 p. m. Thursday. • George Miller, who was sen tenced to take a quiz last week, appeared before the judicial on charges of dating. Upon entering the room, he said,' "I will wear anything you give me. rm not ashamed of it. I know your object is to get every freshman up here, and customs don't mean a thing." A long white flannel night shirt, a white night cap and mules will compose his outfit, and he will carry a lighted candle at all times. • Nick Danyluk, Jules Steinberg, and M. Liebman will wear a sandwich sign and carry a sprink ler filled with water at all times. Each time; they pass the willow tree on the mall, they must water it (because they failed to. button to it. Because he broke dating. cust oms, Benny Finesod will'be attir ed in a short skirt, lady's picture hat, and complete facial makeup for the week. E. A. Hook will wear sandwich sign and a green lamp (Continued on page five) AAF,States Exhibition The Arniy Air Force Technical Training... Command ". will hold. a - postragon., 91_ ,tt•a s ining 4 . :nent and 'teaching devices by AArFTTC in the Armory at 1 o.m. Thursday. Motion pictures will be shown in 107 Wain Mngi ;leering at 11 a.m. Thursday. The demonstration will be con ducted '93 , the Educational Demon 3tration Program team consisting of three Army Air Force officers and three enlisted men. In civilian life these men were engaged in the field of education, and in the AAFTTC they were instructors. The mission of the unit is to iemonstrate to .civilian educators the teaching methods and tech iiques which have been developed 'n the Army Air Forces in the oresent war. Various mdck-ups and ' visual aids, which are being used at the ?resent in the AAF technical and ! - :lying training schools, will be shown. The program will include, 'n •addition, a discussion of ap proximately 100 separate mock aps described in booklets on dis 2lay and the scientific principals Aihich may be taught and demon ;trated with these mock-ups. Proper methods for requisition ing the material being made avail able and the present status of the supply of these, items will be dis cussed. The four-hour program will be gin promptly at 1 p.m. and it, is requested that everyone be on time in order to avoid interruptions. WAVE Representative Seeks To help ell the 7 Navy's need for 20,060 additional women, WAVE Recruiter . Anne Kirkpatrick will 5e in State College from July 31 tc August 3. •Intervierwing headquarters of Recruiting Specialist Kirkpatrick will be the ldbilay of the State .7ollege Hotel. Interested women nay speak to Miss Kirkpatrick' 'rom 10-a.m. to 6 p.m. on any day Jetween July 31 and August 3. -3pecial evening appointments may 3e made by those who are un-afole. `.o see the recruiter during her regular hours. According to the Navy Depart :nent, all young women 'between the ages of 20 and 36 are eligible to ~ a pply for admission to the WIA.VIES. New recruits receive a oreliminary intensive eight weeks training program at Hunter Col lege, and are then given aptitude. tests which help in determining Published Weekly By The Daily Collegian Staff Senate Approves Fall Semester Calendar Revision The Committee ,on !Calendar pre:. sented a revised calendar for the fall semester at a recent meeting of the College Senate. The revis ions %were made at the request of the Navy in order that a full six teenaweek period of classroom study might 'be scheduled to be gin November 1. The fall semester calendar as included in the report is as fol lows: Fall Semester 1945-46 October 26, Friday, 'Freshman Week begins 8 a.m. October 30.31, Tuesday-Wed nesday, Fall Semester Registra tion. Octdber 311, Wednesday, Fresh man Week ends 5 p.m. November it, Thursday, Fall Se mester Classes +begin 8 a.m. November 16, Friday, Payment of fees. December 22, Saturday, Mid- Semester Below Grade Reports 112 noon. December 22, Saturday, Christ mas Recess begins 1'1:50 a.m. December 27, Thursday, Christ mas Recess ends 8 a.m. January 2, Wednesday, Short Courses in Agriculture begin. Fefbruary 16, Saturday, Fall Se mester Classes end - 11:60 a.m. February .1 , 8, Monday, Fall Se mester Examinations begin 8 a.m. February 21, Thursday, Fall Se mester Graduation Exercises.. Fdbruary 12.3, Saturday, Fall Se mester. ends 1 . 1:50 a.m. Summer Square Dance ' The WIRA square dance, an in stitution of long standing at the College, will be held at the White Hall parking lot, 9 o'clock to 12 midnight tomorrow, announced Mary Gundel, president of the WIRA summer executive board. The dance has been held an nually for several years and has always been well attended by students, •faculty members, towns people and servicemen who are in vited to attend at no charge", Fred Hartswick serve as caller Saturday' night and music will be supplied 'by the Bald Eagle Ramblers. in case of rain, the dance will be in Rec Hall. IPre-Law Society Elects Pi Lambda Sigma, national pre-legal fraternity which has been inactive on campus since the beginning Of the war, has been reorganized under the ad visorship of Prof. Joseph T. Law. Heading the new organization, which has about 30 members, are Sanfcird E. Rafsky, chancellor; Terry Powell. vice-chancellor; and A/S James P. Pones, secre tary. WAVE ANNE KIRKPATRICK Players Speed Through Practice For New Show There is bustle and confusion in Schwab auditorium this week as actors go through speed re hearsals of "Guest In The House,' to be given on August 3 and 4. With imagmary props pulled out of the air and a minimum of settings, the actors rush through their lines, using all the necessary action but no expression. Love scenes, emotional scenes, dramatic scenes all sound the same to the audience .as members of the cast work to perfect their lines. "Didyoumissmeatall? " Da n (James McDougall) asks of Eve lyn when he returns from a long absence. "Didyoumissme?" she replies. "Morethanlthoughtlcould miss anybody," he tells her, with none of• the expression that will appear in the finished production. Meanwhile, 'Director Henning Nelms paces up and down in front of the stage, glancing every few seconds at .his wristwatch to see how olng it is taking the cast to get through its lines. As actors leave the- stage he calls them over to correct some of their motions, watching the rehearsal at the same time. (Continued on page five) Registrar Refuses 366 - With oyer 1.;.:u0 men and women WaPdY., William S. - cHof mai, registrar, an nounced that he has had to re fuse 366 women. 476 girls and 214 boys have been admitted. - Of the women refused, over one half are non-Pennsylvania. Nine men and 51 women from out of the state have been accepted. Mr. IH o ma n feels sure the incoming freshmen will be good students, saying, "306 of the girls graduated in the upper fifth of their graduating class, and the re maining 170 were in the upper two-fifths. Of the men, 64 were upper fifth, 68 upper two-fifths, and 56 upper three-fifths." Because the quota of 600 women students has been reached, no more girls will be accepted un less they plan to live in town. Besides the 800, 145 are taking their first semester during the summer, 8 live in State College, 7 commute from Bellefonte, and one is working. College rulings permit ony ten percent of out-of-state women applicants _to be accepted each semester. Police Issue Warning Captain Phillip Mark, of the Campus Patrol, has issued the warning that the police will start fining all people going through stop-signs. • Recruits heir choice of work. After six nonths of service in the United states, a WAVE may apply for averseas service. At present Naval Department figures state that approximately 3,000 WAVES are serving in Ha waii alone. WAVES replace sail n•s overseas in such positions as telegraphers, radio operators, storekeepers, aviation machinist mates, stenographers, secretaries, pharmacist mates, and hospital corpsmen. Fees Due Today All summer• semester stud ents must pay their fees at the Armory today from 9 a. m. to 12 noon or from 1 to 5 p. m., according to an announcement from :the office of the bursar. Read Letter To the Editor Page Eight PRICE FIVE CENTS 3 Faculty Members Accept Positions In European Area To Teach Servicemen At Shrivenham, England Three members of the College faculty have (been granted leaves to accept assignments as teachers at the, university study centers now (being established in the European theatre for the (benefit of Army oficers and enlisted men. These and other leaves, plus a series of resignations and appoint ments, were formally acted upoa at the meeting over the weekend of the executive committee of the Board of Trustees. Granted leaves and already en route to their assignments, which are expected to take them to the Army center at Shrivenham, Eng land, are Thomas C. Benton, pro fessor of mathematics; Ralph U. Blasingame, head of the agricul tural engineering department; and Grover C. Chandlee, head of the chemistry department. The executive committee also acted upon six resignations, as follqws: B. K. Johnitone, head of the de partment of architecture, to be come director of the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology, effective October 3rl. U. Vivian Crow, associate pro fessor of home economics, to be come head of the department of home economics at Carnegie In stitute of Technology, effective September ,ilO. . Fred V..•Grau,- associate, proles— , sor of agronomy extension, to be come director of the greens sec tion of the United States Golf As sociation. Anna 0. Stephens, physician in the College Health Service, to ac cept a similar position at Woman's College, University of North Car olina. Laura W. Drummond, head of the department of home econom ics, to join the staff of Teachers College, Columlbia University, ef fective June 30. Katharine M. Stokes, assistant librarian in charge of readers' service, to become circulation li brarian at the University of Illin ois, effective July 15. Harold J. Read, graduate of the University of 'lllinois, and later a member of the staff at Illinois and also_ at the University of Pennsylvania, and more recently a research fellow at the Mellon Institute of Industrial. Researcn, was appointed associate professor of metallurgy, effective July 1. (Continued on page five) Freshman Boy Dies In College Hospital Ralph "Gene" Flora, Jr., 17, a first semester freshman from Mt. Jewett, died suddenly at the Col ege Infirmary at 12:05 p.m. Mon-- day. Flora, acutely ill since his ad mission to the Infirmary Saturday evening, had symptoms of lepto meningitis. ,He resided at 419 Foster ave ue where he was first taken ill on Friday. Late Saturday afternoon his condition became worse and Dr. E. Cullen of State College was called. On Dr. Cullen's advice Flora was rushed to the Infirmary in an ambulance. At the Infirmary he was given injections . o f penicillin an d sulpha-merazine and seemed to respond satisfactorily, according to Dr. J. P. Ritenour, head physi cian at the College dispensary. His parents, summoned from Mt. Jewett, arrived early Sunday morning. Monday morning the boy's condition seemed improved al though he still remained in a semi-conscious state, Dr. Ritenour eaid. At noon, his parents went out to lunch. During their ab sence the boy took a sudden turn for the worse and died. Flora was the second patient Fn die at the infirmary in over five years.
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