VOL. 44— No. 25 WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13, I*43—STATE COL. *♦ jBV }^M^^raMnH3raE^^HßK« t*+eg&& \ «MiiiiiiMH <• fx<' f > a* TMMBHHBMiiiIw '? / zBmBUgBBaBgBSBB&^BMik s^4dlßHßHi^^»9B^^DHi «§£&* ROLAND HAYES, tenor, who received praise reviews for his recital last (week in Carnegie Hail, wili present (the same pro gram tomorrow .night in Schwab Auditorium. Tickets are now on sale at Student Union, Corner Room,, and (Keelers for $1.50 in cluding; tax,; . - La Vie Names Junior Staff La Vie, Penn State’s senior yearbook, has selected one senioY and 27 junior students to its edi torial-stalls, according to Seymour Rosenberg, 'editor. •Added to the senior staff is Lois. T. Berriman, while the fol lowing. will make up the junior editorial board: Frank R. Ander son, Barbara A. Blume, Jo Ann Brennan, Mary A. Conahan, Eleanor L. Fehnel, Marilyn A. Ferdinand. Arine M. Hagy, Lois M. High, Barbara L. Jelen, Doris L. Ker rick, Nancy J. Killam, .Irene F. . King, Annette M. Lanning, -Lois . M.u.Maloy, . Harriet. F.Morgan, ■■'-Elpise M. - Morris, Marjorie D. flVlousley; Nancy .L.-iMpsser,,,Allen " Ostan..';[[?*,'- - tDohna Outmari, Jean A. Posey, Mary K.' Rice, Stanton F. Roth, Jane N. Shoemaker, Louise E. Smith, . Elizabeth R. Watts and Selma Zasofsky. Further additions will be made to tfee junior staff by the senior board, Rosenberg added, while failure, to do the assigned work 'by' staff members will necessitate dropping them from both the .senior and junior groups. AH students who are registered - as sixth semester at the present, ' but .who intend to- graduate by June 1947, should contact mem bers, of‘La Vie in Room 412 Old Main any time after today, so that ‘ arrangements, may be made for them to have senior photo graphs taken, -, Students- who intend to gnadu (Continiied on page two) Late AP News Courtesy Radio Station WMAJ NEW YORK —The United States is welcoming with open' arms a renewed Soviet ■ offer to begin work on 'the question of solving -the -problem of world armament reduction. Soviet Foreign Minister Mbiotov said in a 'New York .speech last night he- thought America and Russia could 1 get to gether on their proposals WASHINGTON—A Republican Senator Kenneth ■ Wherry of - Ne braska has called for removal of rent ceilings. Wherry says the best ’ way to lease the housing shortage is by junking rent con trols. WASHINGTON President Traxlan has been un suiclce&iful in attempts to concil iate a clash between housing boss Wilson Wy'att and Reconstruction Finance Corporation head George A'llexi. The dispute involves $90,- 000,000 in loans to assemibly-line home produlcers, After a confer ence, today, both Wyatt and Alien siaid they were in no mood to smoke the peacepipe. WASHINGTON Massachu setts . Representative Joseph Mar tin Jr., is asking for a 20% re duction in income faxes. Martin, a Republican, is scheduled to be the new Speaker of the House. , WASHINGTON Som e 10,000 ORA 1 wlorkers have been given 30- diay notices. Approximately 12,0-00 more are slated to, -get the same news atbout November 30,. Fulmer Reports Dining Needs To Cabinet Frank Tidona, president of In dependent - Student Committee, has been appointed by Robert Foote, all-college president, to serve with Eugene Fulmer and Frank Davis on a committee to further investigate possibilities for men’s dining commons on campus. Fulmer reported upon the meet ing he and Davis had with Harold W. Loman, director 0 f the College Dormitories • and Dining Com mon's, 'saying: that Mr.' Loman is not .convinced of the need for such a dining commons and would like to see figures proving the exist ence of a definite need. Fulmer said' that proposed solu tions for the .problems of a men’s dining commons on campus, other than the already-suggested Sand wich Shop, were that men from the eastern part of town be per mitted to cat at the Pollock Circle Dining Commons, and that an other temporary, dining commons [be erected at the western end of campus. Tile committee will investigate further into the matter and at tempt to convince College officials that further eating facilities for men are needed on campus. Cabinet agreed to accept the proposed committee compensa tions for the coming year. Proposed amendment, name ly, that any committee chairman be permitted to deprive any com .puttee...member, .pf compensation it he thinks they have not earned it, was defeated, Cabinet also agreed to accept the proposed list of persons to re ceive complimentary tickets for college functions. Florence R'atchford reported on the College flag, for which a de sign was submitted last year. She said that President Ralph D. Het- (Continued on page four) News Briefs Fraternity Pledges Tlau Phi Delta, national forestry fraternity, pledged 11 men: Paul Beattie, Henry Boccella, Richard Cook, Lee Enright, Lynn Kemp ton, Francis Kennedy, Paul Mersh, Robert Pearle, Edwin Stout, and Donald Tarter. Graduate Society Elects Sigma Delta -Epsilon, 'honorary graduate society, recently elected Madeline S. Colemian president. Other officers selected are Mary Olive Chapman, vice-president; Clara Rehrig, secretary, and Teresa Cohen, secretary. Froth Subscriptions Anyone holding a subscription to Forth -are urged t 0 pick up their Soph Hop issues by noon tomorrow, according to Sheldon 8.. Mermelstein, business mana ger. AH' remaining copies will be sold tomorrow afternoon, he said. Rooms on Campus . Club and society reservations for rooms on campus after 5 o’clock must be made at least 24 hours in advance at .the College Scheduling Office, north entrance to the Ai'mory, or by calling Ex tension 437, College Scheduling Officials said today. No IFC Meeting Tonight There will not be an Interfra ternity Council meeting tonight, . ccording to President Fritz Lloyd. A regular meeting will be held next Wednesday, he said. Legion of Merit Major Walter N. Brown, Jr., of Xenia, Ohio, will be presented the Legion of Merit award at cere monies to be held behind Car negie Hall, 4:30 o’clock -today. The presentation is to be made by Colonel Ben Hur Chastaine, ■head of the Army R.O.T.C. bat talion, at the regular R.O.T.C drill practice, College Rejoices As Grahams Bench Reappears It’s Back! The Bench is back at its accustomed place in front of Graham’s A. C. Vanishing in the dark hours of last Friday night, The Bench pro vided the plot for a mystery story until it wiss recovered Monday morning. Its absence gave a new and unusual appearance to the front of Graham’s store since the wooden bench which started as a wooden box has occupied that spot for half a century. Absence of the benoh .also prompted un told discomfort for those who used it as a repository for' their pos terior.' Robert Graham explained the return of the historic and much initialed bench by stating it was found on the lawn of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house. Mr. Graham said it wiss impos sible that the housing shortage o'ver the houseipar.ty weekend was so acute that the benoh may have been usd for emergency service.. The- bench was found by Mr. Graham while delivering news papers on campus. He was elated to discover the prominent off campus tradition. Equally- glad to see it back were the large num ber of students and faculty mem bers who commented o« the re appearance of the well-worn lumber. Wyand to Lead Biscussion Af Student Union Meeting Student Union Committee will rndStTfor the'iirstT time 'this: semes ter in 10 Sparks at 7 o’clock Thursday evening to hear George S. Wyand, assistant to the presi dent, discuss the progress the Student Union project-has made to date. All campus organizations are urged to send two representatives to the meeting, according to Law rence G. Foster, chairman of the committee, So that they may keep .their group informed and to offer suggestions from their organiza tion. An open discussion for sugges tions and criticisms of the project will be held after Mr. Wyand’s talk. All students who are in terested in a Student Union build ing are urged to attend and pre sent their ideas. Prizes for the 'art projects on a Student Union theme will be awarded to the five winners as previously announced. Book awards will be given to Donald Horton, Robert Christensen, George Tilghman, Arthur Lilien, and William Whitby. IRC Elects Officers; Sets Forth Purposes The International Relations Cluib organized Monday night. Officers were elected and the pur poses of the club were set forth. Those elected to office were Dick Morgan, president; Theodore Lucas, vice-president, and Ther esa Cohen, secretary-treasurer. -The purpose of the club is pri marily that of a discussion group. During the year various speakers will lecture on the many interna tional problems of today. After these lectures a group discussion will be held so that the students may offer their own opinions. The club will also undertake to participate in' model United Na tions Organizations which are sponsored by International Rela tions Clubs of various colleges throughout the counrty. It may also attend regional meetings of these type -clubs and sessions of the United Nations Organizations. Dr. Henry Janzen, who is the faculty advisor for the. club, sponsored a similar type discus sion group at Ohio State Univer sity, which he -said turned out to be very successful. The next meeting of the club wall be held in 128 Sparks at 8 p. m. Monday. Weather Today II f TT Partly Cloudy and Cooler .LEGE, PENN A Senate Votes lo Reestablish Final Exams for Seniors Men's Debate Opens Friday Professor Joseph F. O’Brien’s College Debate Squad initiates its season in a cross-examination de bate with Mount Mercy College in 121 Sparks at 7:30 p. m. Friday. Having engaged only in inter squad meets up until now, the team is anxious to engage in for mal competition. • - Annually, the debate te’ahi en counters representatives from Mount Mercy in a home and home scries. Mount Mercy is a women’s college, located in Pittsburgh, and tlie question to be argued should ■add interest to the male versus female debate. To be contested, is this state ment: “Resolved, that women should participate more fully in public life.” Hams Gilbert and Eugene Fulmer will draw the starting assignments from Coach O’Brien. Other meets scheduled within the next month are inter-collegi ate debates with Allegheny Col lege, Brooklyn College, -and the U. S. Military Academy at West Poiji t. An inter-team ■ cross examination debate has been slated for a forum at the William Gloane House in New York. Engineers To Elect 'Elections for the regular Engi neering Student Council will be held Wednesday, November 20. Nominations were made by the interim council and additional nominations may be made at the time of voting. The ballot boxes will be open from 8:30 to 12 a. m. and 1:30 to 5 p. m. Voting will be supervised by the interim council. One ballot box will be placed in each department in the follow ing positions: civil engineers in Eng. A first floor, industrial en gineers in Eng. C second floor, aeronautical engineers in Eng. D first floor, architectural engineers in the architectural library, elec trical engineers in E.E. building first floor, and mechanical engi neers in Main Eng. library. Nominations fo r • respective classes of the departments are as follows: Civil Engineering: Salvatore Rocci, Walter Goldstein, seniors; Carl Lawrence, Domenico Bibbo, juniors; Ralph Caldei’one, William IClent, William Thieme, sopho mores. Architectural Engineering: Wil liam Dickson, Elmer Phillips, William Skelly, seniors; Robert Christenson, Jack Williams, jun iors; Joseph Brennem, Morton Gornik, John Diehl, sophomores. Aeronautical Engineering: Pat rick Donoughe, Fred Massitelli, George Petitgout, seniors; Thomas Garry, Irving Mabry, James Sau- (Continued on page two) Coroner' s Jury Gives Galloway Verdict A coroner’s jury of six men re turned a verdidt that Katherine Diamond Galloway “met death October 20 by a gun shot wound” at the inquest held before Centre County Coroner Charles C. Sheck. ler, of Mileslburg, Monday night. Three witnesses were called by District Attorney E. L. Willard. They were David E. Jones, who lived in the trail er next to the Galloways at Winderest; W. E. Hi'bush, State College patrolman, and Dr. H. T. Dale, State College physician who was called to the scene. FIVE CENTS A COPY Final examinations for graduat ing seniors will be reestablished, beginning with the current semes ter, announced William S. Hoff man, secretary of the College Sen ate The .Senate voted at its last meeting to require the senior ex aminations again, since the semes ter has been lengthened and' the amount of time for finals will be extended. Senior exams wer e eliminated diming the period when the Col lege was under the accelerated, program. However,. under the schedule which, will be followed this semester, final examinations will be assigned' the full period) of eight days prescribed by the Sen ate of the College.. Mr. Ray V. Watkins, Scheduling Officer, will attempt to schedule final examidaiif'ons for graduating seniors during the first fiv e dlayis of the period assigned’. Grades will then he reported to the Of fice of the Registrar in sufficient 'time so that those seniors l suc cessfully . passing their examih'a 'aitions will have their names in cluded on the Commencement pro gram. - Markswomen i Jo Organize ■Women desiring to join the Rifle Club will attend an organ ization meeting at the rifle range in White Hall at 7:00 p. m. Thurs "day-hightwNow -'hr its 23rd -yesr, the Rifle Club; originated at the College when Miss Marie Haidt, head of women’s .physical educa tion, and a topnotch marks woman herself, came here. College women are as good , marksmen as men, according to Miss Haidt. At least in the prone position, which is the only one used toy women at the College. She pointed out that women’s scores are not as high as men’s in those positions which require greater sire n g,t h—the sitting kneeling, and standing positions. 'New members in the club are always instructed in the use of the sling, sighting, mat position, breathing, and the trigger squeeze before they are permitted to shoot the 22-caliber -Winchesters used on the range. During the past __ years, many excellent markswomen have de veloped their skills in the cluib with the help of Miss Haidt, who is 'the club’s advisor. One of the finest of these is Lila Lehman, now doing post-graduate work at the College, who consistently shot perfect scores while she was a club member. Ann Baker, WRA president, Dorothea Carson, Anita Geiger, Virginia Higgins, Marilyn Fomerene and Wanda Riekard are among the good markswomen in the cluib. Approximately 100 women have been reporting to the organization meetings of the Rifle Club in re cent years. Since a great number of them have consistently been freshmen, th e group this year is expected to be a smaller one. Ski Club Plans Parly The Penns Valley Ski Club members and their guests will get together for a dungaree party at the ski lodge Friday night at 8 p. m., Lewis Richardson, social chairman, announced today. Chauncey Lang will be caller for the square dance and there will be games and refreshments in the first social g.thering of the cluib this year. Mrs. Kalman J. DeJubasz and Marguite Little will have charge of the entertain ment. Collegian Meeting Collegian candidates and re porters will meet in 3 Carnegie Hall at 7 o'clock tonight.
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