State Upsets Powerful West
STORY OH PAGE 3
~ ~sT I latty |g| (Ml
VOL. 4©—No. 55
Educational Objectives ...
NSA Endorses Gl
More Professor Ratings
By Jane Fouracre
The educational objectives of
the local chapter of the National
Student Association will include,
among other activities, increased
Gl subsidies, professor ratings,
curricula reforms and elimination
of discriminatory practices.
The national education panel
endorsed salary raises for profes
sors and will set up commissions
on the regional and c ampus levels
to investigate college facilities
and to work with administrations
to raise academic standards. A
system for rating professors, simi
lar to the one used in the Liberal
Arts School last year, has been
used successfully in other schools.
Samples of such forms will be
distributed l to member schools
this year.
NSA will also work for in
creased Gl subsistence, while
holding the line on college tui
tions. Plans include a program
similar to the Gl Bill to aid wor
thy students who need financial
assistance to attend college.
The problem of discrimination
in northern and southern states
was resolved nationally by the
decision that each region and
member campus would work on
the problem locally. The results
will be reported at the next con
vention when it will be decided
whether a national policy applica
ble to all schools will be- neces
sary.
The reports of the southern
delegates showed that , advances
are being made, evidenced by
non-segregated conventions and
joint attack of mutual problems
by negro and white schools. The
northern delegates pointed to re
forms, in New Ehglarad and New
York. Both factions felt that the
situation could be met locally. The
year’s delay will give us an op
portunity to prove what can be
done on the local level. It will be
(Continued on p age two)
Fans See Bowl Movies
In 2 Showings Tonight
Movies of the Cotton Bov/1
football game in which Southern
Methodist and Penn State nlayed
to a 13-13 tie New Year’s Day in
Dallas will be shown in Schwab
Auditorium at 7 and 7:45 o’clock
tonight.
Two showings will be presented
to accommodate-the large num
bers expected to be interested in
these official College films, said
Ray Conger, of the physical edu
cation staff and sports photog
rapher.
Assistant Coach Jim O’Hora
will explain the movies.
News Briefs
SDA Meeting
The local chapter of Students
for Democratic Action will select
delegates for the national conven
tion at their meeting in 409 Old
Main at 8:15 tonight. The Na
tional charter of the organization
and -a report on the petition
drafted by SDA for the joint co-op
committee will also be presented
at this time.
Box-Lunch Social
IWA will entertain men from
Nittany Dorms at a box-lunch
social in the Grange playroom.
Saturday at 2 p.m.. said Sylvia
Schenfeld. puldicity chairman.
Hank Glass will be the auction
eer. All independent women and
men from Nittany Dorms are.in
vited.
THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1948—STATE COLLEGE, PENNA
Subsidies;
'Serenade' Cures
Sunday Boredom
“Sheepskin Serenade.” senior
class entertainment, “will help
fight off that Sunday afternoon
boredo m.” said C! Frederick
Troutman, show director'
The Serenade, with Henry Gloss
as M.C. and music by Paul Grove
and his band, will include a dance
routine from last Thespian
show by “Fuzzy” Lomady and
“Ginny” Gallup.
One of the features of the after
noon will be the appearance of
the winner of the Penn State Club
Talent Show. The senior class has
arranged with the Penn State
Club, said Troutman, that the
winner of the Friday night show
will aippear Sunday afternoon.
A group of coeds, known ns the
•‘Chocolate Drips.” will do several
black face dances. The “Drips”
include Mary M. Barnett. Louise
Grossman. Barbara Knoll. Gla-ddy
Lou Miller, and Lee Ann Wag
ner. Troutman characterized the
group as “terrific." |
Other performers from the
ranks of Thespians will also ap
pear. said Troutman, but just
what they will do is still indefi
nite.
IE Professor
Dies at 65
Dr. Phillip R. Hall, industrial
engineering professor, died at his
home at 11:45 o’clock yesterday
on his 65th birthday.
Dr. Hall’s death resulted from
a heart attack climaxing a .two
weeks’ illness. He had been with
the College 37 years and had just
completed the signing of hia re
tirement papers Wednesday.
A private funeral will be
held at the Koch funeral home,
2:30 p.m. Saturday. Dr. Hall is
survived only by his widow.
Sfudenl Musicians Play
In Intercollegiate Band
Student musicians from the
College will be chosen this Sun
day at Lock Haven State Teach
ers College to play in an intercol
legiate band, said James W. Dun
lop. assistant professor of Music
Education.
Each college in the state has
submitted a list of their outstand
ing musicians from which the
final band will be chosen.
Once selected, the band will re
hearse at Lock Haven on April
1. 2 and 3 and give ■> puiilic con
cert on the third. The band will
be under the direction of Erik
Leidzen of New York City.
Chapel Choir Director
Lists Audition Dates
Tryouts to fill the vacancies in
the chapel choir created by the
graduation of several seniors at
the end of this semester will 1 e
held next week, said Prof. Willa
W. Taylor, director.
Prospective tenors mav audition
Monday. January 19. iroin 7 to
7:30 p.m.. and basses from 7:30 to
8 p.m. Sopranos will try out Tues
day. January 20. from 7 to ,’:3O
p.m.. and altos from 7:30 n< 3 >.ni.
All tryouts will be given :n 211
Carnegie Hall.
WRA Swim Club Offers
Interpretive Swimming
Based on Tschaikowsky
“Interpretative Swimrain g,”
based on selections from Tschai
kowsky’s “Nutcracker Suite,”
will be presented in White Hal]
at 8 o’clock tonight and tomorrow
night.
Admission to this annual aqua
cade is by tickets presented to in
terested students by participants
in the program who were listed
in yesterday’s Daily Collegian.
The opening number will be
the "Overture” followed by a
dance interpretation of the “Reed
Flutes.” Nan James and Louise
Grossman will present an orig
inal comedy duet. Another duo
number will be presented by
Judy Klein and Jacque Zivic.
Mickey Barnett will use “The
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies”
in tlje only solo of the evening.
The 41 participants wil] take part
in the finale. “Waltz of the Flow
ers.” Miss Marion Wha 11 on ,
swimming instructor, is adviser
for the group.
Cabinet Sets
Registration
Priorities for Anal phase regis
tration have been set by All-
College Cabinet, with registration
time for the different categories
of students following this sched
ule.
Third and fourth semester,
two-year agriculture, special and
new students, register from 8
a.m. to 12 noon, February 6.
Fifth and sixth semester stu
dents, from 1:10 p.m. to 5 p.m.,
February 6.
Seventh and eighth semester
students .from 8 a.m. to 12 noon.
February 7.
Graduate students any time be
fore February 14.
“The semester classification is
the semester in which the stu
dent is registering for the second
semester 1947-48, ’ explained Ray
V. Watkins, scheduling officer.
Students will be permitted to
register only at the designated
time, and any student who fails
to complete final phase registra
tion on the above schedule will
be charged a $5 late registration
| fee, he said.
Players' Tickets
All tickets for Saturday's pro
duction of the Players' show. "Out
of the Frying Pan.” have been
sold, but there are still some avail
able for January 24." said Robert
D. ReU'sneider. director.
Trustees Approve Sketches
For Old Main Mural Panels
Prelimi lury sketches for the
east and west panels of the Henry
Varnum Poor mural in the Old
Main lobby have been approved
by the mural committee and the
President of the Board of Trus
tees. Milton Osborne, chairman oi
the committee said yesterday.
Plans have been completed and
the walls are ready for Mr. Poor
to begin work us soon as he ar
rives at the College. He is ex
pected this month.
According to the sketches, the
new panels will he characterized'
by more action and more brilliant
colors than the fresco on the
north wall which was completed
in 1940.
The same shade of red used
on the barn in the upper left
hand corner of the present fresco
will furnish the background of
tile east and west panels at the.
[head of the stairways.
I The west wall will depict the
various student activities on the
Virginia, 50-46
I Cloudy and
I slightly warmer
ich of Dimes Drive Starts Today
lege Campaign Set al $l,OOO
Ma
Col
Club Picks Judges
For Talent Show
Judges who will select the
semi-finalist winners in the sev
enth annual All-College Talent
Show to be held at Schwab Au
ditorium tomorrow night were
named yesterday bv Fred Peruzzi.
publicity chairman of the Penn
State Club.
The judges selected are Louis
H. Bell, director of public Infor
mation -at the College: Ben
French, managing editor of the
Daily Collegian: Jean Haxton,
vice-president of ISC; Robert D.
Reifsneider. assistant professor of
dramatics: and J. Arthur Stober,
editor of Froth.
Semi-finalists will be deter
mined on an aggregate point basis,
with each judge giving 10 points
to the act he thinks best. 9 io the
next best. n nd so on. From the
five contestants with the highest
point total the winner will be se
lected bv audience applause.
Tickefts for the show are now
on sale at Student Union and will
also be available at the door on
! the night of the performance.
Co-op Committee
Lays Final Plans
Final laattle plans Cor the .co-op
plan campaign will be laid by
combined efforts of the All-College
Cabinet and ioint co-op commit
tees. in 417 Old Main a t 7 o’clock
tonight, said Emory Brown, chair
man.
A setback occurred when the
proposed main speaker for the
educational mass meeting report
ed a previous speaking engage
ment at Northwestern University.
He is nationally prominent ana
active in the co-opera
tive movement.
However, petitions have been
prepared and will be distributed
l'or student signatures before for
warding to tile Board of Trustees.
Letters to individual Trustees
were posted last night. Decisions
will be made tomorrow on the
plans for a co-op tag day and a
postal card campaign.
campus. The group will be drawn
uround a central figure, repre
senting a memorial to students
who left the campus during the
war.
Opposite this panel on the east
wall will be a group of figures
representing graduates who have
become leaders in the state and
nutio n.
The south panels on the east
and west walls will be used tor
large scale paintings. All of these
panels wil be connected with a
series of scenes showing college
activities in various fields on the
campus and throughout the
state.
The original tresco was made
possible by a gift from the Class
of 1932. Gifts of other graduat
ing classes, student groups and an
appropriation of S3.UUO trom the
Trustees of the College have
raised approximately Si3.OUU to
make possible the completion of
the project.
WEATHER
FIVE CENTS
Dr. Arthur Davis Heads
Collection Committees
The March of Dimes, national
campaign for funds for the fight
against infantile paralysis, opens
today.
With a cyclical upswing in the
number of polio cases the need
will be urgent this year, says a
letter from Basil O’Connor, presi
dent of the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis.
The campus goal in this great
American- charity is $l,OOO, said
Dr. Arthur R. Davis, overall
campus chairman, today. The
drive is being conducted on the
campus as a project of Dr. Davis’
divisionof health education in the
School of Physical Education and
Athletics.
Students and staff members
have been divided into groups,
and committee chairmen have
been appointed for each group.
The faculty, said Dr. Davis, will
not be included in the camp
us drive. They may contribute
toward the campus goal if they
wish by mailing contributions
directly to Dr. Davis at Recrea
tion Hall.
Permission has been granted
by Dean Schott for the School of
Physical Education and the office
of the president of the College to
conduct the drive on campus.
DRIVE ENDS JAN. 24
The campus drive will end on
January 24, but the national
campaign continues until Janu
ary 30. The final collection on
campus will be made at Recrea
tion Hall at the boxing and
wrestling matches January 24.
Chairmen and the groups they
will cover are Margaret Erb and
Nancy Killiam, women’s dormi
tories, sororities and town houses;
Albert McDonald, men’s dormi
tories; Ray McDonald and Alvin
Russell, Windcrest; and Harry
Patchin, Nittany Dorms and Pol
lock Circle.
Nicholas Ranieri, fraternities;
Mrs. C. Sumner, professional so
cieties and honoraries; Virginia
Gallup, non-faculty men and
women.
This is the first time that the
March of Dimes campaign has
been conducted by a campus
group, said Dr. Davis. It is being
done m response to a request by
the national office.
Late AP News
Courtesy Radio Station WMAJ
Truman on Economics
WASHINGTON President
Truman sent his economic mes
sage to the Republican-controlled
Congress yesterday. He told the
legislators they must give him
powers to set up price control
and rationing once again or take
the responsibility lor a nation
wide slump.
Petrillo Curb
WASHINGTON A Republl
can and a Democrat in Congress
got together to propose decisive
steps to curb wiiat they called
dictatorial methods ot James C.
Petrillo. Republican Representa
tive Clare Hoffman of Michigan
suggested a federal law making
it a criminal offense to interfere
with radio broadcasts. Democra
tic Representative Graham Bar
den of North Carolina followed
this up by declaring, ''Congress
must take the anti trust principles
and see it we can’t make Petrillo
line up and walk with the rest
of the nation.”