Classes Start Tomorrow VOLUME 50--NUMBER 3 Hat Society Head Urges Customs for Sophomores Morton Snitzer, president o Skull and Bones, yesterday urged . Chairman Robert Keller, of Student Tribunal, to inflict customs upon the sophomore class inmediat:ely. Snitzer's strong request resu flashers' flinging most of the bl field and into other sections of Beaver Field stands at Saturday's football game. He blasted the act as "danger ous, costly and a wanton waste of man-hours." The act in question took place after Penn State's football team scored a touchdown in the fourth quarter to make the score 20-6. Administration leaders echoed Snitzer in denouncing what was termed' a "thoughtless aqt." Snitzer declared: "Sophomore customs have been in effect at Penn State before, when sophs were restricted in dating privi leges and were subservient to the demands of upperclassmen. It is feasible that they could be re vived at this time, especially if the card-flashing incident should be repeated. In fact, I have urged Keller to resurrect sophomore customs immediately." Keller was not available for comment. AP NEWS— Courtesy. WMAJ Reveal 24- Hour Aerial Defonse WASHINGTON An elabarat 24-hour defense system has been in force in the Northwestern part of the nation, a group of touring 71,9wsmen learned yesterday. , rhe cat was left out of the bag regarding a hither-to confiL dential phase of American na tional security during an inspec iion trip made by reporters with Democratic Representative Henry Jackson of Washington State. Every plane which takes off in the Pacific Northwest or enters the area •is spotted by radar and identified to a central control. If immediate identification is not made, Army fighters are sent, up. A-Bomb Round-Up • NEW. YORK—More atom bomb developments poured into UN headquarters here from all sec tions of Europe yesterday. Allied military intelligence in Berlin reported a network, of Russian rocket launching sites' in eastern Europe. Exact locations are secret, but it ig believed the . (Continued on page seven) . . I • . , -.....- . \ , 'sue 3 o v tii • • 4. _..„). ilv , The Weather ~ , ,, -.-;41 m :'‘ 1,2 1. . ° Tottrgtatt Fair and mild • , i • 'TOR lik. BETTER PENN STATE" ted from, the Sophomore card e and white flash cards onto the Train Ticket Sale Begins Students who plan to attend the Army football game this weekend vveke urged yesterday to buy tick ets today for'the• "Blue and White Special," a train planned for the event by the Bellefonte Central Railroad officials. . 'The train will require 350 reser vations before the railroad will guarantee it. Students will be given until Thursday to make res ervations. The train will originate in State College. The railroad set the round trip fare at $15.15, guaranteed air conditioned coaches, and offered as a bonus 'a ticket to a radio broadcast in a New York studio. Officials also announced that coach lunch service would be available from Harrisburg to West Point: Pending receipt of the required number of reservations, the start ing time of the trip was set for 11 p.m. Friday, arriving in West Point at 9:20 , a.m. Saturday. The train will leave West Point after the game at 5 p.m., arrive in Weehau ken ,at 6:20 p.m., leave the Penn sylvania Station •in New York -at 3 a.m. Sunday, and arrive in State College at 11 a.m. Ticket reservations may be se cured at the Athletic Association (Can - aimed an page seven) 2 German Students Enroll at College 'Two students from occupied Germany will be enrolled at the ColTeire this fall as part of Ameri ca's plan to help promote 'inter national understanding.. The students are Otto Baer, of Oberlingen, Baden, and .Heribert Krane, of Lunen, Wsstphalia. Chosen on the basis of scholar ship, personal qualifications, and interest in furthering, democratic ideals in their own country, they were granted this opportunity through the Institute of Interna tional Education. in New York City. Although they were expected to arrive , in New York Sept. 21, word has been received by Delta Theta Sigma and Alpha Zeta, ag ricultural fraternities at the Col lege, that they did not leave Ger many until that date and are not expected to arrive at the campus for about two weeks. Student members of Delta Theta Sigma and Alpha Zeta have accepted responsibility for the room and board expenses of the two men, who will live in the fraternities with the students. Trustees of the College have agreed to take care of fees, while the federal government and In ternational Education will pay transportation costs. Players To Hold Annual Shindig The Penn State Players, the College dramatic organization, will hold its annual shindig for all new' students and undergradu ates interested in becoming as sociated with the group at the Little Theater in the basement of Old Main at 7 o'clock tonight. Prankster Hank Glass will em cee the affair and introduce stu dent and faculty members of the Players. Refreshments will be served following the entertain ment. All students interested in the various phases of dramatic pro duction, such . as advertising, stage lighting, costuming, or construct ion, are invited to attend the get together. STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1949 Friend of Chastaine If the report of a discovery of a pirate treasure, worth about 90,000,000 pounds sterling, sounds like a fantastic story and confuses you, you'll have nothing on Col. Ben H. Chastaine, professor of military science and tactics at the College. Colonel Chastaine also was confused when he recently re ceived a cable from a friend who reported locating a pirate's trea sure in the Seychelles Islands, which are British possessions and are located northeast of Madagas car in the Indian Ocean. The friend is Col. D. M. Hen nessey, of , the British Army, who spent several years with Colonel Chastaine in Formosa and Man churia while they were prisoners of-war. He wired Colonel Chas taine about the find from Kenya, Africa. The discovery sounds fantastic, Colonel Chastaine agrees, but he knows Colonel Hennessey as a British Army officer who \has held very responsible posts in the British foreign service. So Colonel Chastaine is awaiting further de tails about the discovery. Cabinet To Hold First Meeting The first meeting of the semes ter for All-College Cabinet sched uled for 8 p.m. Thursday, will be primarily a meeting to help Cab inet members become better ac quainted, according to Ted Allen, All-College president. The • meet ing will be held in 201 Old Main. The business session will in clude a report on the Blue and White Special, the train sched uled to take students to the Army game. Also included on the agen da will be .the financial report from All-College Secretary-Trea surer James MacCallum. Cabinet also will have a discussion con cerning the student gOvernment room, which will probably be ready next month, and the com ing freshman and sophomore class elections. Other members of Cabinet, in addition to Allen and MacCallum, are: Harry McMahon, All-College vice-president;. James Balog, sen ior class president; and Harry Kondourajian, junior class presi dent. The sophomore class will be represented temporarily by Ken neth Ralston, '5l, the retiring sophomore class president. Plans are now being made for the elec tion of permanent sophomore class officers. Schools of the College are rep resented by the presidents of their student councils. The School of Agriculture is represented by Donald Seipt; Chemistry-Physics, (Continued on page seven) College Creates Air Science Dept. A department of air science and tactics, with Lt. Col. John E. Ste wart in charge, was established at the College July 1. Work in air science and tactics had been offered through the de partment of military science and tactics since 1946. The change is in keeping with the establishment of the Air Force as a separate branch of the armed service. New officers assigned to the de partment are Maj. Charles J. 0' Brien, Maj. Arthur C. Belfrey, Lt Alfred F. Pelka, Lt. 'Joseph H. Ja coby, and Capt. Carl A. Unrath Collegian Candidates Students interested in join ing the staff of The Daily Col legian are asked to repott to 8 Carnegie Hall' at 8 p.m. to day. Candidates for the Col legian are not required to be journalism majors. All stu dents, regardless of sex or class, are welcome to attend tonight's initial candidates' meeting. Locates Pirate Trove Schools Gilbert Answers Seating Gripes Numerous complaints from students about present seating in Beaver Field stadium were answered yesterday by Harold R. Gil bert, graduate manager of athletics. In a two-hour discussion of the situation betweet Gilbert and four student leaders, Ted Allen, Al Gilbert that in the new arrangeme Harold R. Gilbert Actors Prepare For First Show Rehearsals for the new Thes pian show, "Welcome Willy," will get under way today in Schwab Auditorium. With this first rehearsal, the Penn State Thespians, musical comedy organization at the Col lege, will inaugurate their 52nd successive year. "WelcOme Willy" will appear before the public in Schwab Au ditorium during Homecoming Weekend, October 13, 14, and 15. Appropriately staged for this weekend, the show is a collection of eight skits, beginning with the introduction of Willy Watson, Penn State '24, who has returned for the homecoming festivities. Included among - the other seven scenes are a half hour minstrel show, a parody :on radio give away pr ogra m s, christened "Name Your Poison," and a flash back to an 1893 version of Atlan tic City by the sea. The skits for "Welcome Willy" were written over the summer months by Ray Fortunato, ,Bob Koser, , Jack Krusen, and Sid Manes. Direction has been di vided among Koser, Fred Le uschner, Manes, and Sid Simon. Harry Woolever, director of the dance routines in last spring's "Poor Mr. Varnum," is again in charge of choreography. The en tire production is under the sup ervision of Thespian faculty ad visor Ray Fortunato. Tryouts were' held Thursday, Friday, and Sunday nights last week. •The' cast is not yet com plete, but it is 'expected to in clude many of the old Thespian favorites, as well as several new personalities discovered in the re cent tryouts. Fan Dies at Game Robert W. Farrell, Sr., age 60, of Picture Rocks, Pa., died of cere bral thrombosis at 3: 115 p.m. Sat urday while attending the Villa nova-Penn State football game. Mr. Farrell, accompanied by his son and daughter, was seated in the west stands at New Beaver Field when stricken. The body was removed to the Koch funeral parlor. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Students interested in part time employment are instructed to make application at the Stu dent Employment office in the TUB. Application should be made after • the student has completed his semester schedule" . (See Editorial on Page 2) 11-College president, pointed out to nt seniors have been moved to the visitors' side of the field, opposite to that of the Penn State team, and that sophomores and juniors have seats generally considered worse than last year's. To this, Gilbert explained that seniors were placed in the west stands or "home side" of the field in "the lean Nittany football years when the team went beg ging for student support." He said that seniors were given 50- yard-line west-side seats at that time in exchange for guarantee ing unqualified support of the team." He stated further: "Since the late 30's, alumni support has grown tremendously, to the point that it has demanded better foot ball teams arid consequently bet ter schedules." According to Gilbert, the pres"- ent seating arrangement was de cided upon by the Athletic Ad visory Board with a view to sat isfying this terrific growth and interest of the alumni body, which "has doubled in the last ten years." "Also," he continued, "to play a better schedule costs more money. 7'he financial guaranties we must make to many opponents run into large sums. We cannot play better schedules and tackle a full intercollegiate sports • pro gram, and at the same time fill all the best seats with students. "Students pay only $l5 a year for seats at athletic events in all 16 sports. Continuing good sched ules means maintaining the ma jority of the best football seats to sell for a price that will pro duce the reguired revenue. Present at yesterday's discu sion besides' Gilbert and Allen were Morton Snitzer, president of Skull and Bones; Robert Keller, chairman of Student Tribunal, (Continued on page six) College Tackles Student Woes It is not always the student's fault when he does poorly in col lege. Sometimes the parents, the high school he attended, or the college itself is contributory to the troublesome situation, officials of the College say. To assist in locating the reasons for scholastic troubles, the Col lege established this summer the Division of Intermediate Registra tion. Dr, H. K. Wilson, director of the Division, assisted by W. Scott Gehman, has already interviewed more than 200 students who ex perienced scholastic troubles last year. Guidance and counseling has started with these students. Most common cause for trouble, Dr. Wilson explains, is enrollment in the wrong curriculum. ,"Many students have had as guidance in choosing their life careers," Dr. Wilson says. "Others have had very bad advice and are driven into a field for which they are not adapted." Dr. Wilson cited the case of a boy whose father wanted him to be an engineer, his mother in sisted that he study for the minis try, and the boy wanted to be a farmer. Aptitude tests showed the boy should do very well in agri culture. Other common causes for schol astic problems, according to Dr. Wilson, are commuting long dis tances, troubles at home, improper reading or study habits, and the old problem, too much attention .to the boy. or girl friend. PRICE FIVE CENTS Support Grows Students Pay $l5
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