d' • . 4r 1 43 atig VOL. 50 - NO. 74 STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1950 AIM Committee To Study Dorm Assignments Committee To Select 650 Upperclassmen A student committee has been set up under the auspices of the Association of Independent Men to assist in choosing 650, upper classmen to live with 1,000 fresh men in the new men's dormitbr ies. The West Dorms Assignthent Committee for Upperclassmen was originally suggested by Dan iel A. DeMarino, assistant dean of men, and consists of 12 AIM council members plus Mr. De- Marino. The group was put into operation to, help the administra tion with its allocation problem and to give the students a part in the new dorm assignments. A preliminary application blank in the form of a questionnaire will be available to' interested men around registration time. At present, the committee is ironing out details and putting finishing touches on the questionnaire which, along with a personal in terview with the committee„ will be the basis for choosing the upperclassmen. All seniors, juniors, and soph omores will not live together in one section, but will be inter spersed with the freshmen throughout the three Wilts. They will be able to room together and no counseling duties will be asigned to them. According to the committee, responsibleness, leadership qual ities, and good study habits fig ure prominently in the attributes desired of upperclassmen to be chosen, The committee has met three times so far, and will meet several more times before the semester is over. William Zakor is chairman of the group and members include Roland Bunting, James Holland, Richard Schoenberger, Paul Wait kus, Victor Fiscus, Robert Keri nedy, Howard Fitting, James Worth, Robert George, Richard Mills, and Fred Schulze. NSA To Discuss Tours. At Meeting A meeting for students inter ested in work, study, and travel abroad will be held by the Col lege chapter of The National Stu dent Association at 7 o'clock to night in 110, Sparks. NSA is sponsoring a series of low cost' foreign tours for stu dents this Summer. The series will consist of nine foreign travel pr6grams, six fore i g n work camps: and two foreign' study programs. - News Briefs No Cabinet Meeting There will be no meeting of All-College Cabinet this week. While there is some business pending, it will be taken up at the next meeting on Thursday of the first full week of next semester, according to All-Col lege President Ted Allen. Graduating Seniors Seniors who- nave not picked up their' announcements and in vitations for graduation this Feb ruary may get them between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily at Student Union. Liebig Chem Society The Leibig Chemical Society will meet in 105 •Frear Lab. at 7:30 tonight. Officers for the coming year will be elected. FTA-SEA Meeting Future, Teachers of America and Secondary Education will meet in 1 Carnegie at 7 o'clock tonight. "FOR A BETTER PENN STATE" Chick Werner, track coach (left), is shown starting five mem bers of the squad on a practice 880-yard rune' The weatherman was cooperative with the "boys-in-so-little-clothing" as the ther mometer hit a record-shattering 71 degrees. According to Charles Hosler, / meteorologist at the College Weather Station, the mercury had reached 63-degrees by 11 a.m. yesterday and broke the record at 3 p.m. 14 o t sinc January 14, 1932 has the temperature reached such heights in the Nittany Vale. A high of 70-degrees was recorded at that time. • College To Use Dial System Telephone directories contain ing new campus numbers which go into effect Saturday at 2 p.m., are being distributed today. The College also will switch to the dial system at that time. Dispersion point, according to R. Y. Sigworth, super Visor of utilities, will be the basement of Willard Hall. Here's how the new system will change the present telephone sit uation: 1. In order to make a campus call, dial the number desired rather than wait for the opera tor to answer. 2. For off-campus calls dial 9, await dial•tone and then dial the desired number. 3. For, calls to dorms from campus dial 8 and give the dorm number to the operator. Calls to dorms made from off-campue points will continued to be han dled as before—by, dialing 5051 and giving the operator the dorm or room number. 4. When calling from a dorm, give the operator the off-campus number. (dorms are not . provide• with dial phones.) For calls to the campus, other than to dorms, 8441 will be dial ed in place of the number former ly in _use-6711._ . • Ag Student Counci Elects Howes, Fast Carroll Howes was elected president of Agricultural Student Council at a meeting of the group recently. Other officers elected are: Robert Fast, vice president; Ruth Mollenhauer, secretary; Richard Nickerson, treasurer. Installation ceremonies for the officers, who will serve ' one-year terms, will be held Feb. 15. Christian Science The Christian Science Organ ization will hold a meeting in 207 Carnegie Hall at 6:45 tonight. PSCA Bible Group • PSCA Bible Study Group II will meet in 304 Old Main at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Forestry Society The Forestry Society will meet in 105 Forestry at 7 o'clock to night. The annual election of offi cers and Agricultural Student Council Representatives will take plaCe. (Continued on page four) Pre-Spring Daze Weather Hits All-time High Shades of Sp ring! The weather station thermometer, affected by the heat, climbed to a record breaking 71 degree reading at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It was the highest- January temperature ever re corded by the College weather station. Shirt sleeves were in evi dence yesterday as were cam pus bench rendezvous, a com mon, sight in Spring, but hard ly believed possible in the depths of winter. On January 14, 1932, the temperature reached 70 de grees, .but January of 1950 has been an unusual month as far as weather is concerned. Precipitation has been noted on all days this month except three, but only one. inch of snow has been recorded, com pared with an average January figure of 11 inches. Today's forecast calls, for in creasing cloudiness and -con tinued. mild, possibly cooler by late tonight. $ll3B Pledged In Dimes Drive Students, townspeople, and• res idents of nearby towns pledged their support to the 1950 March of Dimes campaign to the extent of $1,138 via the "Discs-for-Dimes —and Dollars" show sponsored by Radio Station WMAJ Sunday. The total contribution exceeded last year's efforts by $4OO. The show, which began at 9 o'clock and continued without interruption for four hours, fea tured record requests made by persons who pledged contribu tions to the campaign for aiding sufferers of infantile paralysis. Pledges were received by tele phone and the station's staff was kept busy answering calls from those wishing to contribute. Staff announcers presided as disc jot keys, rotating in half-hour inter vals. The Groovology 54 sign -off theme, Perry Como's "The Lord's Prayer," drew a pledge in mem ory • of ex-Boxing Coach Leo Houck. Take Penn State with you. Join the Penn State Alumni As sociatiian, Queen Contest Finds Sponsor Daily Collegian To Search For Campus Sweater Girl Penn State will have its Sweater Queen! Thomas' Morgan, Daily Collegian editor, announced yesterday that the student daily will sponsor a Sweater Queen contest next • semester. As many entries as they wish may be submitted by organizations or individuals at Student Union desk in Old Main beginning today, Photographs of candidates must be no smaller than 6 by 8 inches and must include the coed's face, as well as her upper body clothed in a sweater. Only regularly-en rolled coeds at the College are eligible for the title. Name and address of coed .and sponsoring organization must be placed on the back of the photograph. Morgan's announcement came on the heels of a hurried Daily Collegian senior board meeting yesterday afternoon. Following Froth's refusal to sponsor such a contest yesterday, the news paper sthff stepped in to fill the gap which would have been cre ated had no Sweater Queen con test been held. Students To Vote Financial Facts On Junior Prom Are Released Profit of $1,434.73 Made by Junior Class A profit of $1,434.73 was real ized on the Junior Prom, accord ing to figures released recently by the Interclass Finance chair man, James MacCallum. Expenditures amounted to $4,- 379.76. Receipts from an attend ance of 1368 couples and check ing for 1243 couples reached $5,814.49. The profit is a gain of $286.09 over last year's profit of $1,148.64. The money will be added to the Interclass Finance fund. Receipts— Admissions Tax on admissions .... MEM Total' Receipts .. . $5,814.49 Expenditures— Orchestra $2,000.00 De&rations 500.00 Tax on' admissions 948.00 Programs, 150.00 Advdrtising 177.42 College Labor 173.60 Catering 133.00 Checking 75.00 General bills and misc. . 222.69 Total Expenditures $4,379.76 Late AP News, Courtesy Radio Station WMAJ Coal Crisis Appears To Be Close --- Boyd ministration official hag . said President' Truman is not likely to 'act in. the coal situation this week. 'James. Boyd,. chief of the Bureau of •Mines, says he has told the President that a national emergency. in coal may now exist --or at least appears to be close - . The number of striking soft coal diggers rose to 87,000 yes terday as 12,000 joined the work stoppage , in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. John L. Lewis is expected 'to confer in Washing ton today with leaders of some .of the areas affected by the mine. strike. Chrysler Strikes DETROIT—Most of . Chrysler's CIO auto workers went on strike yesterday' in a pension dispute. As a result thousands of workers at the Briggs Mfg. Co. ' a Chrys ler supply firm, were laid off. In New York the stock market declined sharply and then regain ed a good part of the lost ground, the fluctuation being blamed partly on• the auto strike. Western Cold Wave WASHINGTON Bitter c o 1 d has beset' the Rocky Mountain and Northern Plains states. The temperature fell to 57 below zero in Chester, Montana. But the Midwest, South and much of the East has. had weather more reminiscent of Spring or Sum mer. Alger Hiss WASHINGTON Secretary of State Dean Acheson has told newsmen he "does not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss." Acheson's statement came a few hours after Hiss was sentenced to five year's imprisonment for per jury. He is - free on bail pending an appeal. , Jtidith Coplon's attorney an nounced that he and Valentin 'GubitcheV's lawyer disagree on A panel of five judges will select finalists from the photo graphs submitted. The queen will be chosen by popular ballot at Rec Hall. A selection of gifts, in cluding a free ticket to the IFC- Panhel Ball will be awarded the title winner. In.addition to the crowning of the winning coed, a complete talent show will be staged in Rec Hall that night, tentatively sched uled for the• end of February or the beginning of March. George Donovan, director of associated student activities; George Kahl, radio station WMAJ disc jockey, and William . S. Hoff man, burgess of State College, have already been named to the Board of Judges. • Ted Allen ,All -College Presi dent, and James Coogan, director of sports publicity, are expected to round out the quintet of pulch ritude purveyors. $4,555.44 948.05 311.00 $1,434.73 a number of points. Miss Coplon and Russian Gubitchev are co defendants in a spy conspiracy trial. One point of disagreement is whether Miss Coplon's earlier conviction in Washington should be mentioned. Last On Saturday The last issue of the Daily Col legian this semester- will appear on Saturday. First issue date for the spring semester will be an nounced later this week. Today . . . The Nittany Lion Roars FOR the staff of the Daily Collegian. Editor Tom Morgan pester. day announced that the Col legian will answer one of the campus's crying needs and sponsor a contest to elect a Sweater Queen. The Lion rears back his shaggy head and gives forth with one of his loudest roars of the year for an organization that has the . intestinal fortitude to recognize that a co-ed's curves, too, deserve recogni tion. Ames.
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