“ I Stye SafUj 0 (MlMtatt I . 'TOR A BETTER PENN STATE" . » ✓ VOL. 50 NO. 25 Players Open 'Ah, Wilderness' 500 Cast Votes In First Day; Council Elections Continue About 11 per cent of the students eligible to cast ballots in the student council elections had voted by late yesterday after noon, polls reported after a quiet first day of spotty voting. Approximately 4,260 students. are eligible to vote for can didates to six school student councils, but only about 500 ballots had been , cast before, the polls closed at 5 p.m., an unofficial tabulation showed. However, William Shade, elections commit tee chairman, indicated that the number of students voting was probably higher than in previous years when all-council elections were held separately. End Today , Voting in all contests will end today, with the polls opening at 8 o’clock in the morning; and closing at- 5 o’clock this after noon. Eligible students will be al lowed to vole, upon presenta tion of. their' matriculation cards at the polling places for, their respective school coun cils. They may vote only, for candidates who are in their own classes. Both All-College President Ted Allen and Elections Committee Chairman Shade have urged that all eligible students cast their ballots. . New Council Students in the School of Lib eral Arts will elect an entirely new council of 7 sophomores, 11 juniors and 7 seniors, in voting in the lobby' of Sparks building. Of the 2,200 LA students eligible, only about 200—or 9 percent— voted yesterday. In the School of Engineering, where one student for each de partment is to be elected, about 11- percent of the 500 eligible over 75 -students—had voted in (Continued on page: six) Student Suffers Exhaustion at Pool Stephen Richard Czarnecki, of Reynoldsville, a junior in physi cal education at the College, was taken to the College Infirmary in the Alpha Fire Co. ambulance at 9:30 a.m. yesterday after he became :ill in a swimming class at-the Glennland Pool. -v Dr. Reid B. Brader, physician at the College, said the student apparently was. a victim of ex haustion and would remain un der observation at the Infirmary. Today . . . The Nittany Lion Roars FOR Rose Eifert, president of Leonides, independent women's political and social Organization. , Miss Eifert and other mem bers of the group have com pleted plans to stage the first independent houseparty at White Hall Saturday night. ' The affair will provide those non-fraternity men and women with a social gathering of . their own, a sorely-needed item in past College "Big Weekends." The Lion salutes all members of Leonides responsible -for the coming houseparty and gives his daily growl to Miss Eifert, 'in particular; for her planning and foresight. (See Editorial on Page 2) Tribunal President Tribunal Fines Auto Violators , Student drivers who continue to drive or park ,on campus dur ing daylight hours added an other $5 to the Inter-Class Fi nance fund in' $l. fines handed down by Men’s Tribunal'Tuesday night. ' ■ With each fine Tribunal Chair man Robert Keller, warned the dependents that a second offense would cost $2, a third $5,. and a fourth $lO plus a recommenda tion to the Dean of Men. Tribunal also heard two cjses of illegal possession of parking permits. A $3 fine was suspended in one case because the driver was partially handicapped. He was also given a recommenda tion from Tribunal to help him secure his own permit. The other; drived had riot been caught on campus with the tag and theijfefore • could only be warned 1 not to use it. 1 A sixth driver, accused of park ing all night on campus, was giv en a $1 fine and a suspended sen tence. He had been fined last week but all the notices for that offense had not yet reached Tri bunal.. Chairman Keller explained that the Campus Patrol’s general policy is to warn the offender at (Continued on page six) SlavonicXhorus Organizes Sunday The first Slavonic all-male chorus in the history of the Col lege will hold an organizational meeting in the PSCA room, 304 Old Main, 7 p.m. Sunday. Alpha Rho Omega, honorary Russian society, is open to •all stu dents who are interested in foster ing the, Slavonic culture of the organization. Paul Kritsky, society president, announces that a program of chorus songs and Cossack dances has already been set for Schwab, Sunday, December, 11. Entertainment will follow the regular business meeting Sunday riight,, in: order: to acquaint, rieW members With one another. 4 STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1949 Suspended .Sentence Cabinet To Plan $BOO Disposal Of Boole Fund Disposition of the $BOO Hetzel Memorial- fund collected two years ago to provide for a shelf of, books in the College. library will be considered at tonight’s meeting of All-College Cabinet. Cabinet, meeting at 8 o’clock in 201 Old Main, also will hear the results of the student council elections to conclude today in six schools of the College. Also up for Cabinet considera tion will be the final vote on four reallocations in student finances proposed last week by All-Col lege Secretary-Treasurer James MacCallum. The money transfers could not be acted upon immedi ately because they involve sums of $lOO or more. A report also will be presented by the committee, headed by All- College Vice-President Harry McMahon, established last week to draw up a preliminary list of student candidates whose names are to be published in the annual Who’s. Who in (American Univer sities. / A new .chairman of the Nation al. Student. Association commit tee; to succeed Ernest Ott, is to be appointed, as well as a Cabi net representative to the Council on Racial Equality. -A'report on Community Forum plans and a report from the Cal endar committee also will be heard. Leonides Entertain An • independent open house in White Hall, sponsored by Leonides,, independent wom en's organization, will take its place among houseparty activi ties Saturday night. Fraternity and sorority mem bers as well as all campus in dependent men and women have .been extended an invita tion to attend this, the second major social function of the season to be sponsored by in denpendenl groups. Intermediate Registration Plan To Aid 'Misplaced Students' Are you now or have you ever been a member of the “mis placed student” party?' . . ' The party consists of those persons, who enter college with out a sound knowledge of their aptitudes and of the best pro fessional use to which they can put them. A party member can be identified by either his marked proneness to “flunk out” of the course in which he originally en rolls, his yearly transfer to a dif ferent curriculum, or his falling into the clutches of the “fifty per cent rule,” VA Aides Fight With the advent df the G.I. Bill, the Veterans Administration set up' machinery to light this costly and dangerous “ism.” The machin ery consists of aptitude tests and is powered by trained guidance men, who interpret test results and advise prospective vet-stu dents as to their abilities and pro babilities with a high degree of accuracy. As a result, the “party’s”, mem bership has. been considerably re duced. But this system is not fool-proof and does not apply to non-vet students. The College has come up with what might .prove the downfall of "this “ifem” at Penn State—by creating the Division of Ihtermed- Initiate Schwab Season With O'Neill Comedy Hit Players will open their 1949-50 Schwab season tonight at 8 o’clock with Eugene O’Neill’s comedy, “Ah, Wilderness!” under the direction of Robert Kendell. The play will also run tomorrow and Saturday evenings.' ■ The cast includes June Williams, Joyce Rexford, George Miller, Hank Glass, Richard Pioli, Jeanne Young, Richard Evans, Joel Kranich, Ruth Tranter, Tony Bowman, Kathryn Sheats, Herbert Yingling, Bud Bernstein, and Ruth Johnson. First presented on Broadway in 1933, “Ah, Wilderness!” was one of O’Neill’s greatest successes. George M. Cohan was featured in the role of Nat Miller. Filmed Twice Rally Features Snake Dance, Band Parade A parade, scheduled for 7:15 o’clock, and a snake - dance through the streets of the town will be one of the highlights of the pep rally scheduled for 7:30 tonight on the steps of Old Main. The famous fast-stepping' Blue Band will lead' the marchers on the route and remain at the -pre game rally, held tonight to elimi nate conflicts with fraternity house party weekend. Parade Route The parade will start at Lo cust Lane and Fairmount Ave nup, between the . Beta Sigma Rho and Delta Sigma Phi frater nity houses. \ The procession will go down Locust„Lane to Beaver,-turn onto Beaver and go up" the Mall to Old Main, where Joe Reinheim er, will greet / the marchers' and emcee the program. Besides Reinheimer, the pro gram will. feature football co captains.Bob Hicks and Neg Nor ton and all the football coaches available for the rally. Dick Clair, head Lion cheer leader, announced that he was looking forward to making this rally the biggest of the season. Last Home Rally ' Clair stated, “This. is the last rally,"of the home season and we want to see all' the students out to show the team that we’re still behind them. “Last Saturday’s loss to Michi gan State and the number of injuries suffered by the team could result in a general let (Continued on page three.) By AL RYAN iate Registration (DIR). Made possible by a revision of the Col lege regulation sometimes refer red to as “the fifty per cent rule,” the DIR is similar in many re spects to the VA guidance set-up. Below A .50 Average Whereas the VA tests are usually given before the student enters college, DIR tests are made only after the student, has fallen below a .50 average in _ his second or third semester. It is contem plated by DIR that its services might eventually be made avail able to all students of the College —when and if it outgrows its ex perimental size. Take the case of Sam, who dropped below the required .50 while in his second semester at one of the College’s centers. Sam, of course, is a fictitious person, but his is a typical case. Sam chose engineering as his (Continued on page six) See June Williams feature. Page 3 /The comedy has been filmed twice, both times by MGM with Mickey Rooney playing the cen tral role. In the cast of the first film were Wallace Beery, Lionel- Barrymore, and Bonita The second, a musical adaption entitled “Summer Holiday,” was released last year with Walter Huston, Frank Morgan, - and Gloria DeHaven appearing in support of Rooney. O’Neill goes small town in “Ah, Wilderness.” His “wilderness” is a large small-town in Connecticut on the Sound. Although the play takes place in the year that O’Neill was seventeen and in a town simi lar to New London where he spent his youth, the family scene strikes one as something over heard, rather than lived. .There, is a family, with three children and two in-lawp making up the inner circle. A few out siders touch up the family’s lives. The boozing, uncle and the hys terically sentimental aunt furnish some help by precept and bad ex ample to the solution of the prob lem. of the romantic adolescent. ' Renounces Morals Richard, the. main character, is a senior in high school and a rebel. He reads Swinebum; Shaw, Wilde, and Omar Khayyam and is in revolt against life' except as it centers in a girl of his own agd, whom-he addresses in the phrases' of his favorite author. The scraps of verse he sends to her alarm her father, who forces her to break with Richard in good, melodra matic style. A letter which the girl is forced to write, renouncing her love, sends him off for a night of dalliance with a village prosti tute. The boy’s genuine good na ture, .enforced by his timidity, saves him from going too far, but not from going home drunk, to the horror of his family. His father and mother are sure that the world has come to an (Continued on page six) Seniors Oppose Changing Ring A straw vote taken among members of the senior class in a class meeting last night opposed a change in the design of the pres ent school ring. The. less than 50 class members present also voted in favor of making official the ring design now used and favored restricting purchases of the ring to sixth semester students or above. Class President James Balog appointed Samuel Casey as chair man for the Senior Ball, to be as sisted by Joseph Reinheimer, Lo raine Stottler, Morton Snitzer and David Greenwald, with Balog in ex-officio capacity. Hp also named Paul Sabol as chairman of the Lion Coat com mittee; Sabol will choose two as sistants. John Ogro, chairman, with Syl via Ochner and Gloria Gittelman were appointed to a committee to gather preliminary information on senior class honors to be awarded in the Spring. . Balog asked the group for sug~ (Continued on page three) PRICE FIVE CENTS
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