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'.:. „1.4 ` ' i" I EaAla&A./.lAdil LA Dean Wins Land Grant Post Dr. Ben Euwema, dean of the School of the Liberal• Arts at the College, was re-elected to the executive committee of the As sociation of Land Grant Colleges and Universities for a new three year term at the organization's sixty-first annual convention at Washington, D. C., this week. Dr. Euwema was also re elected chairman of the Division of Arts and Sciences, as well as being named to represent that division in the association's Sen ate. E. L. Keller, executive assist ant in Central Extension, was elected to the engineering divi sion's executive committee, and was also chosen chairman of the engineering extension section. Dr. Harry P. Hammond, dean of the School of Engineering, was named to the advisory committee for engineering instruction and was also appointed to the Sen ate's committee on the National Science Foundation. Dr. Eric A. Walker, head of the department of electrical engl neering and director of the Ord nance Research Laboratory, was named to the, executive commit tee for the engineering research section. Dr. J. Lewis Morrill, president of the University of Minnesota, was elected president of the As sociation to succeed the late Dr. Ralph Dorn Hetzel. 'Frying Pan' Enters Arena Players' arena production, "Out of the Frying Pan," will have its first public opening at Center Stage, 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Tickets for this performance have been sold out, but reserva tions for future performances to be held every Saturday night are available at Student Union. The cost, $l.lO. includes refresh ments after the show. Fraternities, sororities, an d other organizations who wish to reserve all the seats for a Sat urday night performance may make arrangements at the dra matics office on the second floor of Schwab Auditorium. One hun dred persons can be accommo dated at each showing. Arena productions were in troduced at the College last year with Players' presentation of "Skylark," a comedy directed by Kelly Yeaton. In this type of play the acting is presented in "circus" fashion. That is, the audience is seated on all four sides of the stage. Be cause of the relatively small size of the audience. and its proximity to the actors_ a more intimate feeling between actor and audi ence is developed. Warning The campaign for magazine subscriptions being conducted on campus by persons who are not students at the College is not authcvixed, according to a statement Issued last night by Miss Pearl 0. Weston. dean of women. Coeds who may be ap proached are warned to inves tigate Wore subscribing as there Is 4 possibility that this salmi camps may be a fraud. Cabinet Backs Co-op Project All-College Cabinet last night decided to back the establishment of a campus cooperative store with inter-class funds, provided the student body approves such a project. Harris Gilbert. representative from the Board of Formal= and Dramatics, proposed that a ques tionnaire, prepared with the ad vice of the psychology depart ment. be circulated to test opin ion on establishment of the co-op. Results would be used as an index of student support for the store. Locatid in SU Building The co-op would be located in the Temporary Union Building, and would use the present stu dent book exchange as a starting Point, said Emory Brown. co-op committee chairman. Incidental supplies, including notebooks, pencils. etc., would also be sold. Eventually a toilet article counter would be included, Brawn revealed. Profits above the cost of operation would be returned in the form of lower future prices. On December 5. the co-op plan will be submitted to the Board of Trustees. If approved by this Board, the store should be a real ity in February. A democratic ally elected student board of di rectorc would supervise the bus iness. Brawn stated. Interclass Finance Committee report, given by Eugene Fulmer, All-College secretary - treasurer, concerned assessing sophomores who spent their freshman year off campus for missed LaVie pay ments. The sum, $2.50, is equal to two semester payments of $1.25 made by students who attended the College for their freshman year. The La Vie assessment, which totals $lO in four year, is included in general fees and en titles the payer to his class year book. Cabinet adopted the Inter (Continued on page three) Christmas Recess Faculty and students were reminded today by the College administration that the Christ mas recess will begin 11:50 a. m. Saturday, December 20. and continue until 8 a.m. Monday, January 5, 1948. The vacation had originally been scheduled to terminate on January 2 and that date ap pears on the calendars pub lished in the General Catalogue and other publications. An ex tension, was approved. how ever, at the May 1 meeting of the College Senate. PM Dance Tickets Available at SU A limited amount of tickets for the William Penn dance on the Saturday of Pitt weekend are still available at Student Union, according to Ray Kelly, enter tainment chairman. All students wishing to attend the dance are urged to purchase their tickets before going to Pitt. No one will be admitted to the dance without tickets, which are $3.60 per couple. Joey Sims and his orchestra will supply the music for the dance to be held in the main ballroom of the hotel from 9 to 12 p.m. The football team will be honored by the Penn State Alumni chapter of Pittsburgh. Reserved tables will be avail able in the Silver Room, the Adonis Room, and the Urban Roof. Refreshments will b e served cabaret style. Rooms are still available at the William Penn for Friday and Sat urday evenings at $2.50 a night. Reservations may be obtained at Student Uni o n. Information about the rooms can also be ob tained at Student Union or by calling Jack Cameron at 3938. Lions Battle Navy Early Birds Spend Night In Old Main for Tickets By JOHN HALL A large delegation of students will be on hand for the open ing kickoff of the football game between the University of Pitts burgh and the Nittany Lions next Saturday if the advance ticket sale is any indication. The first block of 943 tickets went on sale at the AA window yesterday and was completely sold in less .than an hour, accord ing to Harold R. Gilbert, graduate manager of athletics. The first batch of 4000 ad ditional tickets to the Pitts burgh game will arrive today or tomorrow, Gilbert said. Students who are away over the weekend need not worry about their tickets as they will be held for them until Wednes day. Orders will be filled in the order in which they were 1- ken, he added. First place in a long line went Players Echo 'Sound of Hunting' "A Sound of Hunting," Play ers' all-veteran show about a group of infantrymen in Italy during the last war, will be pre sented in Schwab Auditorium at 8 o'clock tonight and tomorrow night. Tickets at 84 cents, including tax, may be purchased at Stu dent Union today, tomorrow morning, and from 6 to 8 o'clock tonight and tomorrow night. All seats are reserved. Judged Worthy Play Tonight marks the second per formance of the play reviewed by George Jean Nathan, when it ran' on Broadway, as "the worth iest play of the season." Burton Rascoe of the World- Telegram compares "A Sound of Hunting" to the post-World War I hit, "What Price Glory." "Although the humor is sar donic, the dialogue is wittier, less inhibited, and infinitely fun nier than in 'What Price Glory.' " ' The play is about a squad of reconnaissance-p atr o I infantry riflemen of the 34th Division who have been cornered by enemy fire for 17 days in a battered farmhouse near Casino. When they finally get their chance of being relieved, one of the squad members is hedged in another (Continued on page eight) 'Madame Butterfly' Opens Artist Series Blue Band To Go 'All Out' for Navy Making it s next-to-the-last appearance of the football sea son tomorrow at the Navy game, the Blue Band "is going all out to put on a show for the Navy personnel," according to Prof. Hummel Fishburn, director. He added that besides the usual quick changes, the group will perform as a glee club by singing one of the traditibnal Navy songs. "The Band will also do an adaptation of the last home game routine that is entitled 'A Day at the Academy.' " Leaving at 11 o'clock *is morning from Carnegie Hall, tie Band will arrive in Baltimore in time to present a public concert in Sun Square, 7:30 o'clock to night. In previous years the or ganization has performed at an indoor smoker. to Donald Holtzman and Iry Duchovnay, Beta Sigma Rho, who arrived at 12:15 a.m. and slept in Old Main. Holtzman slept on a mattress in the corridor out side the AA office and Duchovnay slept in the basement. Holtzman had his pick of tickets when the window opened. The best he could get were be tween the thirty and forty yard lines. Another Early Arriver Second place in line was filled by a representative of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, Jack Wallace, who arrived at about 3 a.m. Wal lace was relieved after an hour and this hourly relief was main tained until the window opened. Dave Billing, representing Phi Sigma Kappa, arrived about the same time and occupied third place in line. By 7:30 a.m. an estimated 200 (Continued on page eight) State;Mt. Mercy To Debafe Undergraduate Marriage Eugene Fulmer and Royce Nix, representing the Men's Debating squad, will oppose Margaret Mc- Gill and Joan Schmitt of Mt. Mer cy College in 121 Sparks, 7:30 o'clock tonight. The men will defend the pro position—Resolved: that under graduate marriage should be en couraged while the women op pose it. Jack Sigler, acting presi dent of the Forensic Council, will be chairman of the debate. The style of the debate will be cross examination. Each team will present a constructive speaker. Following these talks, the other members of the teams will cross examine the opposing construc tive speaker. The cross-examiners will then speak for five minutes in a summary rebuttal based on the original speeches and cross examinations. "Madame Butterfly," colorful Puccini opera, will be presented as the opening number of the Ar tists' Course Series in Schwab Auditorium 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday nights. Tickets for these performances will be on sale from 1:30 to 5 p.m. and from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at Student Union, said Dr. C. E. Marquardt, chairman of the committee. McArthur Conducts Edwin McArthur, who has been guest conductor for many of the leading symphonies, will direct the melodious Puccini score. He will preside over an orchestra of New York musicians, a well trained chorus, and the complete cast of young singing stars. Ar tistic director for the production is Desire Defrere, stage director for the Metropolitan Opera for the past 16 years. The opera is produced by the Charles L. Wag ner touring company. "Madame Butterfly," an Ital ian opera, is based on the story of a U. S. Naval Officer, Lt. B. F. Pinkerton, located in Japan, and (Continued on page eight) WEATHER Continued Cold and Cloudy PRICE FIVE CENTS Sparks will fly in Baltimore tomorrow when Penn State's rugged grid juggernaut encoun ters what Coach Bob Higgins calls "Probably the biggest obstacle in our patr—Navy, in one of the nation's top weekend tilts. Kick off is elated for 2 p.m. in Balti more Stadium. The 24th renewal of State-Navy football relations, tomorrow's struggle marks the end of the current five-game contract with the Middies. who are not sched uled to battle the Lions next sea- , son. Skipper Higgins' grid machine, which has flattened seven foes to date, will seek to repeat last year'c 12-7 triumph over Tom Hamilton's team and advance closer to notching the first unde feated, untied campaign since 1912. Spunky Elwood Petchel. who was top offensive cog in last year's bruising win over the Middies. will not see action tomorrow be cause of a knee injury sustained in the Temple mudfest. The Lions' stalwart forward wall., one of the country's fore most, will line up with John Wo (Continued on page four) PSCA Holds Cabin Party The second PSCA-sponsored all-College cabin party of the se mester will be held this weekend at Ralph Watts Lodge. Twenty persons are registered now for the party which means 20 more students can still pur chase tickets, said Alex Atty, as sociate secretary of PSCA. Any students of the College who wish to go may sign up in 304 Old Main before 5 oclock today. The party will leave the rear of Old Main at 2 o'clock tomor row afternoon and return Sun day morning. Those attending should bring blankets. Chaperones for the weekend will be Mr. and Mrs. Howard Sparks, of Windcrest. MARY HENDERSON
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