WEATHER 411. • State Tllt Par Daily ';‘,•ii Totirgtatt Welcomes and Cloudy Gymnasts 0 . 47—No. 55 Select Olympic Gymnasts Today Stone, Klepper Lead Staff As 48-49 Collegian Heads Lewis S. Stone, Jr., and Vance C. Klepper will head the Daily Collegian staff for 1948-49 as editor and business manager. Stone, a chemistry major, succeeds Allan W. Ostar, retiring edi tor, while Klepper, an advertising major, replaces Donald W. Ellis as business manager. Elliot Shapiro will serve under Stone as managing editor with Malcolm White assuming the pOsition of news editor. Other senior editors are Arnold Gerton, editorial director; Thomas Morgan, sports; Jo L. Fox, features; Frances Keeney, women's; Claire Lee, assistant women's; Lois Bloomquist, wire; Betty Ruth Gibbons, photo; and Selma Zasofsky, co-promotion. Elaine Nelson and Loretta Neville were named to the senior editoria board Assisting Klepper on the busi ness staff will be Margaret Breece, assistant business manager; Bar bara Keefer, advertising director; Selma Lampert, local advertising manager; and William Frazier and Brett Kranich, circulation mana ger. Other Senior Positions Other senior business positions will be filled by Wilma Brehn, classified manager; Elliot Rosen garden, co-promotion manager; Kosti Bargas, junior board direc tor; George Latzo, sophomore board director; and Mimi Pomer ine, secretary. . . Serving on the new junior edi torial board will be Seymour Ba rash, Raymond Benfer, Richard Brossman, John Bonnell, Barbara Brown, Florence Feinberg, Doro thy Hunsberger, Elaine Katz, An (Continued on rage eight) Ad Contest The Daily Collegian's "Its in the Ads" contest has gone over the top today with prizes val ued at $105.50 as a Mirror-tone radio from the Harmony Shop is added to the list of awards in the quest for the "thing." The other prizes are: I. Old Town Trampees--Glick Shoe Store. 2. Blouse—Smart Shop. 3. Record Album Book and Record Shop. 4. Sweater—Young Men's Shop. 5. 5- pound box of ca n d y Candy Cane. 6. $lO credit—Mitchell's Dress Shop. 7. ( Du Barry make-up kit—Mc- Lanahan's Drug Stor.e 8. Fishing rod—Don Kepler's. 9. $lO credit—Margaret Shop Combined Fine Arts Festival Theme Depicts Integrated Hort Woods House A proposed functional, modern building in Hort Woods to house an integrated fine arts school is the theme of the Combined Arts Festival May 2 to 15. A model of the structure, the product of the combined thinking and work of student architects, will be displayed in 3 White Hall throughout the period. Concept of the school is the division of arts into three categories of time, space, and humanities with a major wing to house each. Most of Hort Wokis will not be cut, and thus will provide an artis tic setting for the building. The theme, simplicity, is followed throughout with ribbon windows forming a horizontal stress design. Robert A. Christensen, John R. Diehl, James H. Kring, and Ed ward D. Lenker executed the de sign and the preliminary plans, which are also on display at White Hall. P. Tony Astore, John V. Chapman, Vernon E. Frost, Carl R. Kohler, and James A. Younkins assisted with construction. The Fine Arts School theme was chosen in an attempt to promote The College as the cultural nu cleus of the state. Many connected with the festival feel that the de velopment of such a school would (Continued on page eight/ Press Convention Meets Al College The Colleg4 will be host to approximately 500 high school students and advisors attending the State High School Press Con vention today. The students are representatives of most of the secondary schools in Pennsyl vania. Pierre Huss, diplomatic corres pondent to the United Nations for the International News Service, will address the convention. Mr. Huss, originally from Luxem burg, has been with the INS for 18 years. Most of his work has been in Germany before the war. He will speak on "The Soviet Union and the United Nations." Other speakers will be John Biddle, president of the Pennsyl vania Newspaper Publisher's As sociation, who will deliver a mes sage from the Pennsylvania pub lishers, and Pen Euwema, dean of the School ( t 4 Liberal Arts. Dean Euwema will discuss the value of liberal arts training. Registration will be conducted at 10 o'clock this morning at. the Daily Collegian business office, in Carnegie Hall by Theta Sigma Phi and Sigma Delta Chi, wo men's and men's national jour nalism fraternities. Dr. J. Allen Figurel, president of the Pennsylvania School Press Association will present the opening convocation in 121 Sparks at 11 o'clock. Roberta Hutchison, Theta Sigma Phi, Richard Sarge, Sigma Delta Chi, and Baylen Smith, Alpha Delta Sigma, presidents of their respec tive societies, will officially wel come the students to the conven tion. Discussion groups will follow (Continued on page eight) Built of pre-cast concrete blocks, the proposed Fine Arts Build ing will be supported by columns which make it possible for cars and pedestrians to pass underneath. Studios and drafting rooms are oriented to the north light, while the library and roof garden are placed to provide a view of Mount Nittany. Dance studios have convenient- access to the outdoors, for sum mer practicing. The courts, which are formed by the extension of the wings from the main body, will be utilized for outdoor painting and sketching classes. IrTrwsmurmoc -- ixArwiwiiqui - aznp Coeds Subdue Fire, Vow Not to Miss Drills It's doubtful that Kitty Romano and her roommate Florence Buick of Watts Hall will ever sleet) through a fire drill again as they did Monday night. Commenting at the time on their lack of con cern, about the drill, the girls shrugged shoulders and mumbled that the dorm "would never have a fire anyway." At 6:34) o'clock yesterday morn ing. Kitt'v received forceful moof to the contrary when she was awakened to find her Pillow in flames. Jumping out of bed she screamed to her roommate and together they filled a wire waste basket with water (it was Letter than a glass. Flo said)) and in a few minutes succeeded in subdu ing the flames. CORE Volunteers Receive Ticket Drive Assignments "CORE Day" volunteers will receive assignments and instruc tions for an all-out pledge ticket drive, to be conducted Monday to Wednesday, in 304 Old Main at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. The final effort to obtain patrons and $2600 to insure one or more non-discriminatory barbershops will reach every man on cam ,ickets will not be donations, but advance payments on each of four haircuts in any shop not barring pus and in town. The $1 pledge Ad Honorary Sponsors Pittsburgh Field Trip Twenty advertising majors will make a field trip to Pittsburgh Monday and Tuesday under the joint auspices of Alpha Delta Sigma, professional advertising honorary, and the department of journalism. Tours of the Service Engraving Co., Ketchum McLeod & Grove Advertising Agency, radio station WWSW, the Pittsburgh Post- Gazette, and a large department store advertising department have been arranged. The students and Robert Van Slambrouk, professor of journa lism who will accompany them on the trip, will be luncheon guests of the Advertising Club of Pittsburgh. Nation's Prime Gym Stars Vie for Honors in. Rec Hall Gymnastic fans and competitors from all sections of United States will flock to Rec Hall today for one of the farthest-reaching, largest-scaled sports events ever staged at the College—the 1948 Final Olympic Gymnastic Tryouts and 60Th Annual National Ath letic Union Championships. Divided into two programs. Caps and Gowns The deadline for ordering com mencement caps and gowns has been extended to 4:30 p.m. Tues day. Seniors ma•y place orders at Student Union during the follow ing hours: Saturday 9-12 a.m. Monday 2-4:30 p.m. Tuesday 2-4:30 p.m. Negroes Patrons are asked to indicate their preference among the exist ing shops. Each barber will then be offered the sum allocated to him if he agrees to adopt the CORE plan of non-discrimination. Tickets will be acceptable in any such shop regardless of the orig- inal preference. A new establishment, sponsored .by CORE, will be the alternative if all barbers refuse to change their practice. No efforts would be spared to make it modern, at tractive. sanitary and efficient to eliminate the possibility of its becoming a Jim Crow shop. Church groups have divided the borough into areas for can vassing and have organized teams. More than 100 church workers are expected to participate, and an nouncements of the program will be made from all pulpits to morrow. Cabinet To Honor Leading Seniors Names of outstanding senior me n and women being seccogniz ed by All-College Cabinet awards will be announced at a special Cabinet meeting in 201 Old Main at 8 p.m. Monday, said Thomas Lannen, All-Colleg e president. These awards ar e made in ad dition to the six honor women and five honor men chosen by popular vote of the seniors them selves. Cabinet will also vot e on final acceptance of the constitution for the proposed Association of Inde pendent Men. Afte r preliminary Cabinet approval, it was adoptied by Independent Student Council, and Pollock Circle and Nittany Dorm Councils. Efforts will be made to set or voting machinery s 0 that the Governing Council may b e elect ed and begin its functions this semester ,if the constitution is approved. Als o the agenda is the rec ommendation to the new Cabi net for the disposal of about $9OO in surplus funds and approval of next year's budget. PRICE FIVE CE By Tom Morgan afternoon and night, the event will mark the first time in Olym pic • history that final United States gym tryouts have been held outside New York City. Tickets for remaining unre served seats will go on sale at Rec Hall prior to this afternoon's program. Price is $1.20, which covers admission to both sessions. First program event this af ternoon—calisthenics—is scheduled for 2 o'clock, while side horse competition will open tonight's proceedings at 8 o'clock. However, at 1:55 and 7:45 o'clock, specialty acts will enter tain the crowd assembling in Rec Hall. At 1:55 girls from Eliza beth, N.J., will demonstrate United States Olympic women's free-hand exercise, under (Erec tion of George Miele and Joseph Saltzman. George E. Ceiga, assistant pro fessor of music at the College, will accompany the women's ram tine with organ selections. INDIAN CLUBS At 7:45 Edward A. Hennig, 68, "grand old man" of the Indian clubs, will entertain incoming spectators with a clubs act backed by organ music and an instru mental ensemble composed of Ann Wisden, violin; Genevieve Taras, violin, Robert Frederick (Continued on page three) Tribunal Punishes Traffic Violators Campus traffic violators will be fined by Tribunal beginning Mon day at 8 a.m. For the first three violations of Parking and operating regulations fines of $l, $2 or $5 will be levied, said Alan Hack. Tribunal chair man. A $lO fine and/or proba tion will be levied for a fourth violation. Failure to appear at a hearing of Tribunal will automatically advance the fine to the next higher offense. Tribunal will hear cases beginning May 11 at 8 n.m. Funds collected from the fines will be turned over to inter-class finarice. For the information of students. Tribunal listed the following reg ulations concerning undergrad uates: Driving on central campus roads is prohibited between $ a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday to Sat urday noon, except that physi cally handicapped students may be granted special operating and parking permits. Cars may be used for special classes or laboratory work if ar rangements are made with Campus Patrol by the faculty member in charoe. Student car operators, includ ing commuters, may park only in West parking area. According; to Tribunal practice, any person fined has the right to appeal to Cabinet. Time Tables Time Tables for the Fall se mester are now on sale at the Scheduling Office, in the Ar mory. They are priced at 15 cents each. The office is open until 12 o'clock today and 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon, 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., starting Monday. First phase registration will begin Monday. TICKETS
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