IFC Adopts Code to Eliminate Detrimental Hazing 33 Sattg @ VOL. 47—No. 10 Few Tickets Left For 'Three Men' A few tickets are still available for tonight’s and tomorrow's per formances of Players’, boisterous farce. “Three Men on a Horse. 1 ' which opened at Schwab Audi torlum last night before a cus tomarily light audience. Reserved tickets, on sale at Student Union, are priced at 84 cents. Curtain time for both nights is B‘o’clock. The comedy depicts the vagaries Injected into the life of a home loving greeting - card - verse com poser when his phenomenal abil ity to' pick the winners of horjje races is discovered by the titular three sportsmen. "Out of the Frying Pan" com pletes Players' weekend bill-of fare in closing a three-month weekly run at Center Stage to morrow night, with curtain time at 8 o'clock. The audience is lim ited to 100. Only a few tickets remained yesterday. Priced at $l.lO. including atler-show re freshment and dancing, they will be on sale at the Student Union desk until noon tomor row. “Frying Pan” gives way next week to “Hotel Universe.” a seri ous drama depicting the strange power of a Riverian villa and its psychic occupant to create new lives for his companions. “Hotel Universe” will give stu dents their first opportunity to see dramatic material in the pent house or arena style of produc tion. Both the current play and last spring’s “Skylark” were in a lighter vein. Reservations for “Hotel Universe,” which will play every Saturday, may be made at the dramatics office. Foresters Stage Informal Ball Initiating All-College dances in the new Temporary Union Build ing. the informal Forestry Bail will begin at 9 o’clock tomorrow night in the ballroom of the TUB. Tickets, priced at $2 per couple, may be purchased at Student Union or the lobby of the Forestry Building. The Campus Owls will play for the ball, which lasts until 12 p.m. Features which will make the TUB a better place to hold dances are the soda fountain and twin wing lounges and the main lounge for relaxing between dances, said Sam Anthony, chairman of the Forestry Ball. Anthony also said that check ing lines will be eliminated from the dance. Coats will be put ia the cloak room adjacent to the floor. Ticket sales for the ball are lim ited to 325 couples because the capacity of th e dance floor nt the TUB has not been determined. Froth Confusion Issue Goes on Sale Tuesday Are undergraduate marriages successful? Dr. Clifford R. Adams, director of the Penn State mar riage clinic, gives his answer in the February Froth which goes on sale Tuesday. Dr. Adams is the author of "How to Pick a Mate,” and his “Marriage Clinic” articles aopear regularly in the “Ladies’ Home Journal” and other national mag azines. The February Froth is called the confusion issue. “The Cow That Discovered Sex” by Elliot Shapiro and “The Beach Party” are but a few of the hu morous stories and features that carry out the befuddled theme. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, 1048—STATE COLLEGE, PENNA. PRICE FIVE CENTS Fraternity Sinatras Prepare for IFC Sing Contest U you hear low-moaning sounds eminating from the local fraternity houses during the next month, don’t throw your old shoes in the general direction of the disturbance, but grin and bear it. The reason for the bari tone barrage is the IFC Inter fraternity sing contest. Headed by Jack Cameron, a committee will select the best group of fraternity singers for the finals to be held during the IFC- Pan Hel ball in April. Lawrence To Play At Military Ball Elliot Lawrence and his orches tra, stylists of dance numbers that axe different, will return for a third visit, to the College to play for the second annual Military Ball. His first appearance at the College was for the ex-GI Spring Nocturne in 1946. This ball, sponsored jointly by the Army and Navy ROTC units, will be held at Rec Hall March 19, with dancing from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., said ball co-chairmen Philip R. Jones and Philip Garmu. Lawrence and his orchestra were contracted because of his contribution to the success of the Military Ball last March, He was unanimously chosen by members of both the Army and Naval ROTC’s to play at this year’s af fair. Invitations have arrived g,nd all cadets and midshipmen who have not as yet received theirs are re quested to pick them up from Major John Powhida, 1.05 Car negie Hall, as soon as possible. Students and faculty members desiring to attend the Military Ball may contact any cadet or midshipman, the chairmen added. Late AP News Courtesy Radio Station WMAJ Opposes Civil Rights RICHMOND Senator Harry Byrd, in a speech at the Jackson Day dinner, charged that the President’s Civil Rights Commis sion wants to give the Justice Department the power to super vise primaries and the election of federal officers. He called the FEPC, poll tax and Jim Crow proposals “a mass invasion of state rights never before suggest ed by any previous President.” Stop-Gap Rent Control WASHINGTON Republican floor managers in both houses of Congress have agreed on a legis lative time-table to extend rent control. The stop-gap measure in the House will be passed next Tuesday, extending controls through March 31st. The Senate will accept it next week. Cut Oil Shipments WASHINGTON The Com merce Department has cut 24 per cent from first-quarter fuel oil and gasoline shipments overseas. The current East Coast embargo will remain in force until March first. Mississippi Flood WASHINGTON Presi dent Truman has ordered Federal re lief for flood stricken areas in Mississippi. The principal flood has covered more than six hun dred thousand acres of cotton land. Greenwood, Mississippi, ex pects a flood crest by Saturday. A first glance at the story on this page describing the new Interfraternity Council Code on Informal Pledge Train ing shows it to be a step in the right direction toward the elimination of “Hell-Weeks.” However, a careful reading of the code itself reveals many loopholes. First of all, the code does not eliminate “Hell-Week” at all. It merely states that IFC “will not condone any practices connected with informal initiation which would place the fraternity system in public disrepute.” It also prohibits “physically dangerous or morally degrading” practices. How ever, it does not define public disrepute, physically danger ous, or morally degrading—general terms, which could be interpreted in a thousand ways. Exchange Checks Money for books sold by the Book Exchange may be picked up in 102 Old Main. Books which have not been sold and that are no longer in use on campus will be sold to a foreign book exchange. A subsequent announcement will be made as to when money for these books may be collected. Books which are still in use on campus but that have not been sold this semester will be stored and offered for sale in the Fall. New Dorms Honor Deans of Women Women’s dormitories now un der construction on East campus have been named Simmons Hall and McElwain Hall in honor of the late Dr. Lucretia Van Tuyl Simmons and Harriet A. McEl wain, according to James Milhol land, acting president. Dr. Simmons, who joined the faculty in 1903 as an instructor in German, retired in 1939 as professor emeritus. During her 36 years on the faculty, she had served as head of the department of German and in 1918-1919, w'as dean of women in addition to holding the position of professor of German. Miss McElwain came to the College in 1883 as Lady Principal. Since there were only 24 women students at the time, she was also appointed professor of history and during the first two years here, taught Latin and mathematics as well. She served as secretary of the faculty and registrar. The new dormitories, which are being built and furnished at a cost of $6,000,000, will house and provide dining accommodations for 1,000 women students. Gl Book Receipts Due For March Reimbursement Veterans who turn in their re ceipts for book purchases be l ween Monday, February 23, and Mon day, March 1, will receive their reimbursement checks on or about March 15, said Charles F. Mat tern, co-ordinator of veterans’ affairs. Receipts are to be turned in to the bursar’s office, not 303 Old Main as was previously announced in the Collegian. Veterans are urged to pay close attention to the supplying o f all information when filling out their receipts and the envelope in which they are to be handed in. Last semester many signatures were overlooked. This necessitated calling in the veteran to sign his slips and resulted in delays in re ceiving checks. (Hullrgiatt An Editorial (Continued on page two) Rabbi Hollzberg Leads Discussions Rabbi Abraham Holtaberg, of the Har Sinai Congregation in Trenton, N. J„ will lead several discussions during Religion-in-Life Week, February 21-26. The Rabbi will make his first appearance at the St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church services, 10:45 a.m. Sunday. He will sipeak at the Hillel Foundation. 8 pun. Sunday, on “The Aims of Jewish Culture.’’ Whether or not Jews, Catholics and Protestants can meet today's problems together will be discuss ed in a forum, “Are My Goals Yours?” 10 Sparks, 8 pm. Tues day. Rabbi Holtzberg, Rev. Herbert King, Congregational Church min ister and Howard University teacher, will speak on the Jewish and Protestant views respectively. Father Adrian Veigle, president of St. Francis Church, Loretto, Pa., and a graduate of the College, will explain the Catholic view point. Rabbi Holtzberg is a lecturer on crime and the relation of the criminal to society. He has con tributed articles on human rela tions and addressed audiences in most cities in his state. News Briefs Wesley Party Wesley Foundation will hold a swimming Party at the Glennland Pool 7:30 o’clock tonight. Swim mers will need their matricula tion cards. A short program will be held in the Wesley Founda tion rooms afterwards. Campus Centre Club The Campus Centre Club is sponsoring a dance in the Hugh Beaver Room, 304 Old Main, 8 to 12 o’clock tonight. Transfer stu dents from Pottsville, Hazleton, Dußois and Altoona Centers are invited to attend. Specialist on Committee Prof. Carl O. Dossin, extension poultry specialist of the College, has been named by Dr. W. A. Maw, of MacDonald College, Que bec, as a member of the Exten sion Awards Committee for 1948 of the Poultry Science Associa tion. Delta Sigma Pi The following officers were elected by Della Sigma Pi, Com merce and Finance honorary: Russell Teall, head master; Karl Spaeth, senior warden; David Huber, junior warden; Edwin Manbeck, scribe; Owen Giblin, treasurer; George Dorrance, his torian; John Stevenson, social chairman; and Bert Agnew, re porter. New Pledge Code Provides Penally For Infractions To eliminate detrimental “Hell Week” from fraternity initiation programs, the Interfratemity Council adopted an informal pledge training code at a meet ing Wednesday night. The observance of “Hell Week”, which has been a part of most fraternities’ pledge initia tions since their first years of or ganization, has caused some un fortunate “incidents” at the Col lege. With this code IFC hopes to eliminate hazing practices that, "materially detract from the fra ternities’ prestige and merit . . . and afford a reasonable basis of increasing anti-fraternity senti ment in this country.” Third Cod* This code, the third to be adopted by the IFC in its program to better fraternity standards, is divided into three parts. 1. Interfratemity Council will not condone any practices con nected with informal initiation which would place the fraternity system in public disrepute. It is not the purpose of this code to list in detail such malpractices. The dictates of common decency provide sufficient boundaries. Informal Training 2. Informal pledge training, hazing, or “Hell Week” will not include practices which are phys ically dangerous, or morally de grading, or which would bring discredit to the fraternity system at this college. 3. The judicial committee of Interfratemity Council shall have full jurisdiction over any reported violation of the spirit of this code. The penalty, which shall be at the discretion of the judicial committee, shall not ex ceed $6O. John Hamer, vice-president of the International Relations Club, (Continued on page four) Education Council Seeks Volunteers All students hi Education, in cluding psychology, industrial education and home economics, who are interested in working on committees with the Education Student Council, are asked to leave their names in the coun cil’s suggestion boxes within the next two weeks. The committees, which will be headed by student council mem bers, will work on faculty -student mixers, discussions, and other phases of the council’s program. The use of committees has been designed to give more students in the education school a chance to participate in the work of the council. At the last meeting of the council, tentative projects for the spring semester were discussed. A teacher evaluation program is planned for the education school. At the same time two new ad visors for the council, Mr. Robert B. Patrick of secondary education, an d Dr. Doris E. Ekstrom, of home economics, were announced. Senior Class Members Vote on Gift in April Senior class members will vote in April to decide how the senio class gift fund, more than $6OOO, will be spent Donald Mitchell, chairman of the gift committee, said yesterday that tentative plans call for contacting each member of the class by postal card April 1. This method, rather than a meat meeting, will produce a greater toting percentage of the senior class, he said. Suggestions for using the money include purchase of a printing press lor the College, a telescope project. library for Langivan University ;n China, and a ttre prool booth for showing moving pictures in the Temporary Uukui Building,
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