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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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~
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