Debate on Imperialism Opens Forum Series Tickets Still Available at Student Union Colonial policies of England and America will be discussed in a debate by two authorities on foreign affairs in the first pro gram of the 1947-48 Community Forum lecture series in Schwab Auditorium, 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Tickets for six lectures includ ing Harold E. Stassen, GOP can didate for the Presidential nom ination, are still available at Student Union for $3. Single ad missions for each of the forums will be sold at the door of Schwab Auditorium for 75 cents. According to Dr. Bruce V. Moore, head of the department of Psychology, who is chairman of the Community Forum, ticket sales are slow. If students are not interested in the forum series, said Dr. Moore. it will be discontinued. Nineteen campus and town or ganizations, including all-College Cabinet, Penn State Christian As sociation, and the Hillel Founda tion, are sponsoring the fourth annual series of the Community Forum. Foreign Affairs Experts • Speakers in the opening pro gram tomorrow night are Robert A. Smith, head of the New York Times foreign desk, and Sir Frederick Puckle, advisor to Lord Inverchapel, British ambassador to the U. S. During the war Mr. Smith, a former Rhodes scholar, served as (Continued on page eight) Professor Wins Players' Contest "Center Stage," the new name suggested for Woodman's Hall by Dr. George J. Szasz, was the win ning entry in the Penn .State Players' contest conducted to find a more appropriate title for the future home of the arena pro ductions. Two tickets to every Players' show of the year will ♦, awarded to Dr. Szasz, an instructor in chemistry and the head of the International Film Club. Honor able mention was given to Mrs. J. Ben Hill for her suggestion, "Playerena," and to D. N. Bibbo for the name, "Play-i Pen." Mrs. Hill and Bibbo will re ceive two tickets each for the first arena production, "Out of the Frying Pan." Some of the other names sug gested were "The Lion's Den," "The Gingerbread Playhouse," "The Menagerie," "Hetzel Hall," "The Globe," "Players' Pit," and "Hank Glass' Super Duper Play house." Fraternities P Theta Chi Leads With 22 Twenty-two additional fraternities yesterday reported pledging 259 men, bringing this semester's still unreported. Theta Chi leads pledges, While Alpha Gamma Rho Students To Organize Democratic Action Club Students for Democratic Ac tion, will organize in 239 Sparks, 7.30 o'clock tonight, according to Corbin .Kidder, temporary secre tary. The aims and policies of the program, a division of Americans for Democratic Action, will be explained at the meeting. Semes ter plans will also be djscussed. All students, including coeds and non-veterans, are eligible for membership, Corbin said, al though the organization bars Communist sympathizers. Other acting officers are Law rence Rothstein, chairman; and Melvin Lurie, treasurer. OIR Elatig9 `jzz g trultegitut VOL. 4&—No. Forum Chairman Bruce V. Moore Faculty, Staff Vie In Political Race When State College citizens have listed their choice on the Sunday movie Question in today's election. they will glance up to the main part of the ballot and find seven faculty and staff per sonnel among the candidates. Running for the borough coun cil on the Republican slate are Edward L. Keller. professor of engineering, and Eric A. Walker. Professor of electrical engineer ing. Candidates for council costs on the Democratic ticket are Robert E. Dengler. professor of classical languages, and John H. Fergu son.. associate professor cd politi cal science. Raymond W. Acheson. book keeper at the College creamery. is the Republican candidate for Auditor. and Harold 0. Triebold, professor of agriculture, is in the race for School Director under the sponsorship of both parties. Mrs. Arthur K. Anderson. sec retary of the psychology educa tion clinic and wife of the pro fessor of physiological chemistry try. is running for a School Di rector past on the Democratic ticket. Also a candidate for borough council on the Democratic slate is Mrs. Charles C. Peters, wife of the professor emeritus of educa tion. edge 454; abulation to 454, with nine houses the semester's pledging with 22 , Beta Theta Pi, and Kappa Delta Rho have each pledged 19. Those pledged were: Acacia Norman Emerich, Rich Gesser, David Hunter, David Keller, Al bert Keller, Richard Lashley, Frank Rupp, William Shrader, Robert Smith. Alpha Phi Delta Alfred O'lorio, Clifford Giaco bine, Bernard Lepri, Domenick Lockwood, Arthur Scarazzo, An thony Trotta. Alpha Gamma Rho Richard Bedger, Andrew Bu chanan, Torrence Dohl, Penrose Hallowell, Fred Harpine, William Lange, Alvin Leidel, Edgar Loy, James May, Edwird McMillen, George Nichols, Paul Orner, James Rockwell, Clarence Shall (Continued on page seven) Campus, Boro Registrants To Vote on Sunday Movies TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1947-STATE COLLEGE, PENNA Penna. College Presidents Pay Tribute to Late Prexy Pennsylvania college and university presic.ents meeting at the College last Friday paid tribute to the late 'Prexy' Ralph Dorn Hetzel. The following resolution was adopted by the Pennsylvania Asso oiatjon of Colleges and Universities: Dr. Hetzel "rose through the ranks of college teaching and direc tion of extension at Oregon State College to the presidency of two great institutions of learning, the University of New Hampshire and the Pennsylvania State Col lege, "His encouragement of re search and teaching has merited the fullest confidence and loy alty. What he has accomplished at Pennsylvania State College, both physically and intellectu ally, during the 20 years of his leadership there will be to him an enduring memorial." Dr. Herbert L. Spencer, presi -lent of Bucknell University, ad dressed the 75 college executives and other educators present. He pointed out that only 4.2 per cent of the population of Pennsylva nia has enjoyed the l viefits of higher education. State Below Ability "Pennsylvania ranks 14th in its ability to support education," Dr. Spencer stated, "yet it ranks 16th in its support of elementary and secondary education and 34th in its support of higher educa tion." All groups should forget the past and work together for the development of higher education in our Commonwealth. the Buck nell president recommended. The Association also heard Senator Weldon B. Heyburn de scribe the work of the State Joint Governmert Commission in its survey of higher education in the state. La Vie Sets Belle Deadline Deadline for organizations or individuals desiring to submit entries for The Belle section of La Vie has been extended to noon Saturday, Marjorie Mousley, photo editor, said today. Rules for submitting entries have not been changed. The coed must be featured in a portiait, no snapshots or group photographs being accepted. Name and ad dress of the coed entered, name of the organization sponsoring her, and the address to which the photograph may be returned are required to accompany the portrait. All portraits, along with ac companying information, should be turned in at Student Union desk, not the La Vie office. Miss Mousley emphasized that any individual or organization, including fraternities and sorori ties, may submit as many entries as they desire. The only stipula tion is that the coed entered must graduate in June. Senior board of La Vie will judge the contest. All photographs submitted will be returned to the organization or person entering it within two weeks of the final entry date. Fee Assessment Veterans' Administration will only pay those fees assessed on all students, according to the ad ministrative officers of the Col lege. Debating and glee club fees, class dues, etc., are not consid ered college-levied fees, and will not be paid by the VA. Only equipment or books necessary to pursue the curricu lum will be paid by VA, and each student must secure his own paper and notebook supplies. ISC 'Skirt Skip' Revives Old Look "The most carefully guarded secret since the atom-bomb is out," said Fred Peruzzi, publicity chairman of Independent Student Council, referring to ISC's gift to coed budgets, the "Short Skirt Skip." "After seeing hundreds of signs all over town, on campus, and under their beds, students can breathe comfortably again," said Peruzzi. 'Old Look' Revealed "The Old Look" is the theme of ISC's alliterative "Short Skirt Skip," he explained, and the motif is a reversal of the contro versial "new look," Christian Dior's contribution to the fabric shortage. Huff Hall and his orchestra will provide the music for the infor mal dance at Recreation Hall, from 9 to 12 p.m., Friday. Dress for the occasion will be informal for men, and coeds will wear sweaters or blouses and knee high skirts. Official measurers armed with steel measuring tapes will be on hand to uphold the standards of the R.A.K.C. (Right At the Knee Club). The committee in charge of the dance consists of William Shiele, chairman;. Jean Esterman and Francis Colamenco, decorations; and Fred Peruzzi and John Low ery, publicity. Delays Ticket Sale Tickets for all Players and Thespians productions will go on sale at Student Union at 1:30 instead of 8 o'clock, a c in the past, said George Donovan, Student Union manager. The change in time was made, said Mr. Donovan, so that students need not get up at 3 o'clock in the morning in order to get choice seats. Marquardt Announces Sale Of Artists' Course Tickets Artists' Series tickets will be on sale at the Athletic Association Office in Old Main today. Tick ets are $6.90 and $B.lO, tax in cluded, for the four programs. Carl E. Marquardt Cabinet Urges Adoption of Referendum The question of Sunday movies in State College will be resolved at the polls today when towns people and registered students vote on the referendum. All-College Cabinet, backing the adoption of Sunday movies, urged boro voters to approve the measure in a letter written by Thomas J. Lannen, all-College president, to the Centre Daily Times on October 29. Cabinet Appeals to Boro Sunday movies will provide recreational facilities for the ex panded student body, Lannen pointed out, "and with crowded post-war conditions and mental tension, it is felt that the need for Sunday movies as a means of mental relax .. tion has become an apparent need." Ballots w ill also be cast for boro and county officials and on the installation of voting ma chines. Figures of eligible voters, according to town and cam pus, are not available in State College, and it is a matter of speculation (Continued on page eight) Leonard To Speak On Current France The role of France in the cur rent trend of European and world affairs will be explained by Dr. L. Larry Leonard, assist ant professor of political science, in Hugh Beaver Room, 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Dr. Leonard will attempt to ex plain the significance of the re cent municipal elections in France and the position of deGaulle and the Communist Party. Following the talk, Dr. Leonard will show a "March of Time" film on New France and attempt to answer questions from the floor. Advisor to the International Relations Club, Dr. Leonard has recently returned from France where he served with the U. S. Embassy as a Treasury depart ment representative. During his two years as agent with the French Ministry of Finance, Dr. Leonard traveled through Poland, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, the Low Countries, Germany, and England. Previous to this post, he served with the State Department in 1945 to help set up the United Nations, and in 1944 worked on the UNRRA commission. Approximately 1500 ticket s. which hake been left over from the advance ticket sale last Spring, will be available. Students with priority cards may purchase tickets from 8 o'clock in the morning until noon, and faculty and townspeople starting at 1:30, said Dr. Carl E. Marquardt, Artists' Series com mittee chairman. After 3:30 o'clock in the after noon, Artists' Series tickets will be sold to those who do not have a priority ticket. Series can also be ordered by mail after today from Mrs. Jeanette Fritz, ex aminer's (Alice, Old Main. All programs this year will be presLnted two nights to enable more persons to st e the slums. said Dr. Marqualdt. Pee:Jose of the double amount of tickets, any left over will be offered to pa trons in nearby towns. Programs presented this year (Continued oa page eight) Lannen
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