Give to Clothing Drive VOL. Lions Face Mules In Season's Opener Launching the first postwar sea son, the RVluhlenberg 'Mules" move into New Beaver Field to morrow to meet Coach Bob Hig gins' 194.5 edition of the Nittany Lions. Coach Larry Rosati hopes to avenge last season's 08-13 defeat in this sixth contest between the two schools. The Mules, who ciKop ped four out of five tilts to the Lions, have one game under their belts, a 28-8 defeat kw a stalwart Sviarthmore squad. Promise of an exciting game is had - as the boys wearing the Car dinal and Grey. :work most of the time from a T formation and pos sess a strong passing attack. Their lone touchdown against Swarth- Pep Rally A - "Beat Muhlenberg" pep rally is •being . sponsored by the Penn State Spirit committee of All-Col lege Cabinet at 8 o'clock tonight. The rally will begin either in front of the Lion Shrine or in Recrea tion Hall, in case of rain. Blue Band, cheerleaders, and hatmen will all be present to as sist in the program. Highlight of the evening will be the introduc tion of Coach Bob Higgins by Mi chael Lynch, All-College presi dept. Coach Higgins will in turn present several Of his players to the student body. - Blue Band will lead the pro cession of the student body by way to Pollock Road to the Jor dan Fertility Plots, near Grange; where • a bonfire will be built. . more came via air According to freshman coach 'Marty Mac Andrews, who witnes sed. Muhleniberg's initial setback, Robert 'Ferrel, Mule quarterback, who tossed the scoring aerial, is 'a dangerous passer with a dead - eye and a good arm. Not only is he a good passer, Mad Andrews added, but . he's • plenty rugged playing the full:60 minutes of the Swarth.. more game. A .passer needs a received, and end Joe Staudinger is the man to watch. Staudinger made a circus catch of Ferrel's heave for the `touchdown, besides snaring a few more. "Muhlenberg has an advantage over us," said .Mao Andrews, "as they - have played a game. Rem (Continued on page six) Initiation Dale Set For Phi Beta Kappa Prof; E. D. Anthony, president of Phi Zeta Kappa, announced that the date for initiation into Phi Beta Kappa has been tentatively set for October 9. The following 'coeds will be in itiated at. that time: Flora Bor, .2:64, senior, Arts and - Letters; Joan Nancy Huber, 2:82, graduate, Arts and Letters; Mrs. Helen Wilde .qartz, 2.50, senior, Arts and Let ters; and Janet Virginia Shaffer, 2.70, graduate, Arts and Letters. AAUW Gives Banquet For Foreign Students Foreign students on campus will be the dinner guests of the Amer ican Association of University Women at its first meeting thiis Fall. The International Fellow ship dinner will be held at the Presbyterian Church, 5:45 p. m. October 4. Reservations for the, banquet must be made by tomorrow. For eign students who want to attend the dinner should see or call Mrs: Harriet Nesbitt, 311 Sparks. The prie , of the dinner per person' is $l.lO. Attention Frosh! Freshman men and women are requested by Tribunal and Judicial to wear their green dinks and hair ribbons to. the football game tomorrow. Trergiatt FRIDAY MORNING, SEPIIEMBER 28, 1945-STATE COT JLEGE, PENNA Blue Band Reorganizes For Muhlenberg Game, Says Prof. 'Fishburn The newly reorganized Blue Band will play at the Muhlen berg-Penn State - football rally to- HUVIMEL rISHBURN night and at the game tomorrow, announced Director iHummel Fish.. burn. do not feel that there is yet enough material to go back to the. olctuniformed crack.marching outfit," he said. "The present band will uerform as in the past• two years, simply as a playing group from the stands," added Professor Fishburn, who is starting his sev - (Continued on page seven) IFC Sponsors Lawn Contest All fraternities are eligible to enter in the Lawn Display con test being sponsored by Inter fraternity Council for Homecom ing weekend. The house whose display is judged the best for ,or iginality, fitness for occasion, gen eral display, and design will be awarded a trophy for permanent possession. Only two rules govern the en tries: 1. A maximum of $lO is to be spent by each fraternity. 2. All displays must be up by 8:30 D. m., October 5. Judges for the contest include: James B. Helme, professor •of fine arts; John V. Roy, assistant •pro fessor of fine arts; and Walter W. Trainer, supervisor of landscape construction and maintenance. The name of the winning frater nity will be announced at the Penn State-Colgate football game. John Brooks heads the decora tions committee for the Home coming weekend contest. Assist ing him are Harry McMillan and Jack Sack. • Poll Shows 3 - Semester Plan Favored By LARRY FOSTER A surorising 55 per cent of the students approached by Collegian in a cross-section poll were in favor •of the College retaining the present three semester program. The question of whether or not the College should revert to the old two-semester-a-year plan is cur rently one of the leading issues on campus. President Ralph D. lHetzel has recently asked an all-faculty committee, that has been studying the best plan of term arrange ment, to consider whether the Col lege should return to the two semester program about July a, 1946. Collegian endeavored to get an accurate cross-section poll among students who represented various Published Weekly By The Daily Collegian Staff N ROTC Gets New Skipper Captain William IVldGarry ar rived at the College Monday to assume the duty of commanding officer of the Naval ROTC unit at the College. Captain McGarry, who was born in Arkansas, entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1923, graduating in 1927. A veteran of 22 years in the Navy, his sea duty has consisted of service on battle ships, cruisers, and destroyers. For two years, the new skipper attended a post-graduate course at Annapolis, and two more years were spent at a post-graduate school in (Paris, France. The latter was • attended •by naval officers from various countries, including Ruthenia, Poland, and Japan. Captain McGarry's last year and one-half of sea duty was in the Pacific as commander of De stroyer Division..BeFore that, there was a year and one-half of duty in the European. African Theater of Operations. The new commanding officer re turned to the United States in Au gust and is now taking over his first shore duty •in the past eight years. On his chest, as evidence of his active naval career, he wears a galaxy of service stripes, includ ing the Bronze .Staz medal and a commendation ribbon. Debaters To Compete In Term-End Contests Debaters are forever being ac cused of arguing on either side of a question without any real con victions one way or the other. To give them a, chance to really pre •sentlfltif own views, Term-End Public Speaking contests .have been devised. The freshman half of this con test will be presented by Allan Grossman, Eugene Fulmer, Bob Drucker, and Harold Krauss in 316 Sparks, 7 p.m. Tuesday. Jo seph F. O'Brien, Mrs. Harriet D. Nesbitt, and Lynn Christy will act as judges. The varsity men will each be given ten minutes in 121 Sparks, 7 p.m. Wednesday to persuade the audience, especially Judges Paul a..• Beal, E. Richard Booser, and Eugene T. MacDonald. Varsity contestants include Bob Kagan, Jim Jones, Sandy Rafsky, Leroy harris, Ken Harshbarger, Fred Kecker, Phil Buckley, Bill Karn, Martin Lennig, and Malcolm Goldstein. The subject, ever popular with debaters, is compulsory military training. Awards, consisting of •gold gavel keys, will be pre sented the winners by Chairman Ottis Castleberry, Tuesday, and Moderator John H. Frizzell on Wednesday. The public is cordially invited to both contests. Ventresco Ineligible Ralph Ventresco, fullback, was declared ineligible to play in the football game tomorrow by the Senate Committee on Athletics today. Read letter to the editor, page 3. factions. Approximately one out of every forty students enrolled for the summer semester was ap proached. Of that .number, two thirds were men students, and one-third - were coeds. Coeds Favor Plan Among• the male students ques tioned, 70 per cent are•fraternity, and 30 per cent are independent, and of the total, 52i per cent are ex- Gls.' The results proved startling, in that 60 per cent of the coeds favored retention of the three se mester program, and of this 60 per cent, 100 per cent said they would return for another summer semes ter. It is believed that the ex-Gls would be the students most affect ed by a return to the two semester BMOC's, BWOC's Match Wits (?) We Hope! The council of experts has been selected, and Lou Bell promises a perforniance rivaling that of Clifton Fadiman in getting "infor mation please" from the contest ants in the "Battle of the Sexes" in 121 Sparks at 3 p. m. Sunday. The women quiz kids include Madge Rohrbaugh, Russella Ada mitz, member of Owens, sopho more honorary; June 'First, Dry Dock chairman; and Helen Hat ton, Collegian editor. The mental giants on the men's side include Jack Davenport, eighth semester president; Al For syth, ASTP representative; A/S Bob Foote, president of Phi Kappa Psi; and Mike Lynch, all-college president. Play Tickets Go On Sale Tickets for Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," to be presented by Players in Schwab Auditorium, 7:30 p.m., October 15 and el, will go on sale at Student Union Monday. The shaw promises to give some interesting effects in lighting, set, and make-up. Elvira and Ruth, as spirits, will appear to be dipped in one color, wearing costumes, wigs, and make-up of the same shade. Ruth (Sydney Friedman) will be a Blue Lady in the produc tion, and Elvira (Dee James) will be the Lady in Lavender. The set for 'Blithe Spirit," de signed by Hazel Scott, will be mod ern,-. Appropriate to the brittle hu mor Playwright .Coward injected in his show. Exotic colors pre dominate, with coral living-room walls and turquoise insets. A pur ple hallway will be seen from the living room. Three abstract murals, done by Maurice Hymowitz, decorate the walls. One will cover a whole wall in the living room; the other two will be an indistinct pattern in the 1%8.11. In addition, a large pic ture in a blue mirror frame, paint ed by Lee Shane, will grace the fireplace. Painting of the set, supervised by Margaret Witt, Will be done by means'of a spray. Lighting will be very fluid, establishing the mood of the play. 'Miss Witt, in charge of lighting, feels that the experimen tal efforts will be very effective. Props for the show present a big problem technically, especially in the ifinal scene when the two .spirits begin to throw vases, pull pictures from the wall, and knock over furniture. This in itself doesn't seem like much of a prob lem, but when one realizes that all this must be done by remote con trol, with no one actually touch ing the objects, he will concede that achieving the task will really be a feat. Parmi Nous Elects Vaughn •Stapleton was recently elected president of Parmi Nous, uppercless men's activities honor ary. Other officers elected include Herbert Mendt, vice-president, and John Seavy, secretary-trea surer. program. Most of the students in terviewed, and especially the co eds, had the veterans in mind when they made their decision. Surprisingly enough, the ex-serv icemen split their vote, 50 per cent taking opposite stands. Men Split. Vote ' Approximately 152 per cent of all the men students approached are not in favor of the three se mester program, while 48 per cent ratify it. Although the final decision lies with the faculty, it is interesting to learn the students' viewpoint because their future plans will be directly affected by the forthconi ing ruling. Following are some student . (Continued on page two) Read Letter To Editor Page 3 PRICE FIVE CENTS 114 Students Receive Degrees Seven Seniors Attain 1.4 College Averages One hundred and fourteen; sen iors will receive degrees• at the corn•mncement on October 18. Members of the honors group, those graduates having an aver age of 2.4 or better are: Flora Bor, Ephriam iH. Catsiff, Betty G. Cop lan, Helen V. Hatton, Michael R. Lynch, Fay E. Young, and Flor ence M. Zankel. Those receiving the degrees of bachelor of arts are: School of Liberal Arts CURRICULUM IN ARTS AND LETTERS Mary T. Barron, Helen L. Baut man, Flora Bor, Ottis L. Castle berry; Betty G. Coplan, Mildred L. Garth, Charlotte Geller, June Gross, Mary E. Haines, Helen V. Hatton, Betty L. Hornick, Gloria M. Kaufman, Margaret B. Kim sey, Audrey R. Kreeger, Joyce B. Levine, Joseph P. Mayers, Helen Beth Orange, Marguerite M. Quick, Sanford E. Rafsky, Bar bara K. Ritzmann, Dorothy E. (Continued on page seven) Khaki-clad Engineers to Invade Dry Dock "Army Night" invades Dry Dock Saturday with the boys in khaki presenting an evening of jive and sweet music. The Army F.criginters are featuring the Slagle • S!sters, singing ''Tot'em Tom Tom" 'and. other peppy numbers.. • - AST John Warifield, as master of ceremonies, has a specialty trio for the 30-minute floor show. Bob Her man will hold down the piano bench while Jim (Dusty) Lowe and Jack Jessel jazz the clarinet and. drums. Program chairman Dick Bradley has included the Hicks, Kitwell, Bunce, Shaw quartet and Stan Burris, master magician, with his assistants, Robert Sieu and Ralph Temples. After weeks of practic ing and playing for the Lock Ha ven USO last week, the • band promises an evening of smooth mu sic. • IS[ Sponsors Formal; Stars 11-12 Quartette "Pigskin Prom," Independent Student Council's semi-formal dance, scheduled for Recreational Hall from 9 p. m. to midnight, October 6, will feature selections by the V-12 quartette of Barracks 37 during intermission. In answer to several requests the Navy vocalists, Mac Hale, Mc- Kim, M'eNabb, and Martin, will re peat the tribute to Lieutenant "Okinawa" which they presented at Dry Dock two weeks ago. Also on the intermission list Of enter tainers is Ruth Davey, who has sung on a nat!onwide hookup. Martin Lennig will be master of ceremonies for the affair. Tickets, $2.50 per 'couple and. $1.25 for stags, will be sea — only at the door, according to an an nouncement made by the ISC dance committee. Booths for fra ternities, barracks, alumni, and .visitors from Colgate are $3 each and may be/reserved with Robert Moore, 3995. Brad Hunt and his orchestra are being imported to supply the mus ic for the affair. Members of ISC are asking for volunteers to aid in hanging the 'blue and white streamers and balloons. All inter ested in helping are asked to call Shirley Levinson, 124 Atherton. Football Tags Ready .Beat Muhlenberg signs for both upperclassmen and fresh men to wear in their coat la pels may be picked up at the Athletic Store today and to morrow before the Muhlenberg game, Gordon Miller, Penn State Spirit Committee chair man, announced.
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