, . Community Forum 4 Today's Weather: Tonight atty „ r. T ia tt rgiatt Cloudy, colder, • and snow flurries 'TOR A BETTER PENN STATE? VOL. 50 - NO. 86 Dr. Reid To Spring Week Senior Dance, Houseparties Follow Event The,date for this year's Spring Carnival, feature attraction of Spring Week, has- been set for Thursday, May 18, it was an nounced by Jack Senior, chair man of the Spring Week Corn mittee. 'The Spring Carnival previous ly had been scheduled for April 21, but All-College Cabinet last Thursday authorized the new date for three main reasons: 1. Preparations and publicity for the Carnival at the April date would interfere with All_ College elections, which will be held April 19 and' 20. 2. Chances of bad weather postponing the festive event as' was the case last year will be less likely in the latter part of May. - , . 3. Senior , Ball and the house parties will follow on May 19 and 20 and will provide a gala climax to Spring Week Committee Adds Member Senior is head of a committee of six members appointed by All- College President Ted Allen at a Cabinet meeting several week's ago. Since then the committee has added one new member. • Working with• Senior are Wil liam Norcross, AIM; Robert Ga briel, IFC; Dorothy Werlinich, Panhel; Florence Freeman, Leo nides; John Dalbor, Daily Col legian; and Fred Auch, recent ly appointed member-at-large. Tentative plans have been Made by the - committee for Spring Week to begin - on Tues_ day,' May 16' and continue through Saturday, May - 20. Many outstanding events are being ar ranged to make the week the outstanding program - for the Spring semester. Carnival Was Sithaess Spring Week, in. spite of the postpenement for almost a month because. of •*raih, was . a success last year. It was originally plan ned by James Dunaway, last year's •promotion manager of Froth. He took the. Plan to Inter fraternity. 'Council in November, 1948,. and suggested .it as part ofFroth's 40th anniversary cele bration last Spring. • • A survey cif , the students was ,conducted and it showed that a great majority favored not only .Spring' Week but also the Car niVal. In an All-College Cabinet meeting in December, 1948, the plan was. approved and Dunaway was appointed chairman of the committee.' LA Council Probes Accused Teachers A number of instructors in the School of Liberal Arts are Currently under fire because of their teaching tactics. The names of these teachers have been turned over to the Liberal. Arts School Student Counsill for action. The Council's Teacher Rating Committee ' head ed by Roger Dietz and Ed Shan ken, is now investigating the charges. Letters of complaint, and pos sible remedies are sent by the Council to Dean Ben Euwema, who then takes the necessary action towards the teacher in question. The Council and the Inter national Relations Club are also currently sponsoring a series of lectures and discussions which are part of a program to make students at. the College more con scious of international problems. • Giesey Calls Health Facilities Inadequate Peter Giesey asked All-College Cabinet Tuesday night to appoint a committee to investigate' what he called the present "inadequate facilities of the College Health• Service." Giesey . said„he had investigated the matter "to some extent" 'and revealed to dabiriet,some of his findings:'' He declared that Dr. Herbert H. Glenn, director of the College Health Service, estimated that the I • waiting' room in the Dispensary was built to facilitate about 11 people. Many students know, said Giesey, that the room often over flows into the outer hall and even up' the steps. - . Space Is Limited "Space is so limited," Giesey said;J "as to allow • only three. or four doctors to Work at one time. At least one doctor is forced to stand and wait." • 'Gieseyt -turned, his attention to the Infirrhaty, and declared that t d ' Qv - - ^t -"ester Peter Giesey the women's quarters were filled. Women who should have been hospitilized were sent back to their rooms, -he said. Once, in the past semester, the men's quarters were filled, and again, men were sent home. "One year ago, students with temperatures of 102 had to be sent to . their quarters," Giesey continued, "but in 1938, one-half million dollars was allotted to finance the building of two new wings on the present Infirmary. This sum was about a quarter milion dollars short. Why wasn't at least one wing built?" Criticizes Ambulance Addressing students present at the open meeting, Giesey turned (Continued on page four) News Briefs French Club The Fiench Club will hold its monthly meeting in 105 White Hall at 7 p.m. tonight. A color film, "Tapisseries D'Aubusson." will be shown, featuring the mod ern tapestry-making techniques in Aubosson, France. Classical Musicale The first classical musicale will be presented in Simmons Hall at 7:30 'o'clock tonight. Inter-collegiate Gov't ICG meets in 8 Sparks at 7 o'clock tonight. Dr. Nelson Mc- Geary, head of the political science department, will speak on "Some Leading Constitution al: banes hi Pennsylvania."- STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1950 Speak At Schwab Tonight Carnival Date Set for May 18 Band Members To Take Part In Festival Fourteen Penn State Blue Band members will, take part in the Third Intercollegiate Band Festi val today, tomorrow, and Satur day at Carnegie ,Tech Piits burgh. They will join 126 musicians from colleges and universities throughout the state for practices today and tomorrow morning. A matinee concert will be given for: Pittsburgh high school students tomorrow afternoon, and Satur diy eveninrthe •pncert will be presented for the public at the Carnegie Music Hall. ,Guest conductor of the band will be 'Mark Hindsley, conduc tor of the University of Illinois band. James 'Dunlop, conductor of the Blue Band, accompanied the band members to Carnegie Tech. Mr. Dunlop is secretary-treasurer of the 'Pennsylvania . Collegiate Bandmasters' .Association. Blue Band members participat ing in the . FeStiVal are: Wallace Schlegel, flute; Ernest Skipper, George Kandra, and Grant Thompson, clarinet; Paul Nippes, alto clarinet; Ruth Beatty, bass clarinet; Richard Boerlin, bas soon; Eugene Golla, cornet; John Seifarth and Mark Faigen, French horn; George Phipps, baritone; George Black and Fred Hughes, trombone; and Richard Shirk, snare drum. Police Seek . Stolen Painting A highly valuable oil painting ' which disappeared from the win dow of a local resaurant Tues day 'afternoon is being sougtt by police, John R. Juba, captain of the State College police disclosed yesterday. The painting, an original by Count Geraldando DeGubby, French impressionist, was loan ed to the Players by Alpha Ep silon Pi as an exhibition for "Time Is A Dream," current Players production. The painting was the gift of an alumnus. Players are offering a _ $lOO reward for information leading to the return of the picture. Count DeGubby painted the picture after seeing a perfor mance of "Time Is A Dream" in Paris in 1927, Henry Glass, fac ulty adviser to .Players said. At the Paris exposition the follow ing year, Count DeGubby's work won third prize 'in the inter national art competition, Glass said. 1W Meeting Dr. R. T. Oliver. of the speech -lepartment, will speak about Korea at the International Rela tions Club meeting in the recrea tion room of McElwain Hall at 7:30, tmOght. Ifll Tickets Will Be Available Until Lecture Program Begins A number of good seats remain for Dr. Ira DeA. Reid's Com munity Forum lecture tonight at 8 .o'clock in Schwab Auditorium. Dr. Reid will speak on "The American Race System: Democracy's Dilemma." Tickets, which are $l, will be sold at Student Union desk in Main right up to the time of the program, according to 'Jo Hays, chairman of the ticket committee. Previous to Dr. Reid, the State College Community Forum has brought to the College such im portant figures as Dr. Harold Urey, atomic scientist; Hanson Baldwin, military analyst and military editor of the New York Times; and Carl Sandburg, Ameri can folk poet and Pulitzer Prize winner. Sen. Styles Bridges was listed to appear on this date, but was stricken with virus pneumonia and had to cancel his lecture. He may appear here in the Commu nity Forum series in either March or April. Dr. Ira DeA. Reid Cabinet Adopts Class Ring All-College Cabinet, at an open meeting Tuesday night, adopted an L. G. Balfour Co. design as the official Penn State class ring. The design had been accepted by Cabinet for consideration at a previous meeting upon ' recom mendation by the ring committee. According to Ted Allen, All-Col lege president, students may or der the ring immediately. Nego tiations are already underway for the Balfour Co. to begin manu facturing the ,ring. Charles Beatty, ring committee chairman, made it clear that the ring's size, weight, ,and stone will be left to the student's disgression, once official specifications are made. Allen appointed a com mittee to set the ring specifi.T.a- Hons. It includes Charles Beatty, chairman, James Balog, Philip Barker, and Morton Snitzer. The original ring committee was in structed to continue investigating plans for ring distribution. Late VP) News, Courtesy WMAJ Truman Urges Telephone Truce WASHINGTON Presid en t Truman yesterday urged both the telephone company and the union to accept a sixty-day truce which he proposed and to ex haust every possible means for settling their dispute without a strike. White House observers pre dicted that the company will ac cept the truce, since Mr. Tru man aske,d a continuation of present wages and working con •ditions. At present there has been no indication on the union view. British Vote Today LONDON—Britain's voters will cast their ballots today in its general election, during which 34 million voters will be able to make their opinions known. The Labor Party is given a slight edge over the Conservatives, led by . Winston Churchill, but it is expected to be a close race. PRICE FIVE CENTS Wrote Several Books Dr. Reid, known to many who heard him speak on, Religion-in- Life Week programs at the Col-, lege in past years, is at present professor of sociology at Haver ford College. He, has written sev-. eral books on the Negro in Amer ica. Among them are "The NegrO Immigrant," "In a Mirior Key," and ."Adult Education among Negroes." He is alsb co-author of "Sharecroppers All." Dr. Reid was formerly profes sor of sociology and later head of the department at Atlanta Uni versity. From 1940 to 1947 he served as editor of Phylon, the University Quarterly Review of Race and Culture.• Holds Many Positions He also is a member of the executive committee of the Amer ican Sociological Review. He • is a member of the Federal Ad visory Committee on Employ ment Security of the Department of Labor. Formerly Dr. Reid served as a consultant on minorities for the Social Security Board and for the War Manpower Commission. He was also on the• Board of Mana gers of the YMCA in New York and Atlanta, Ga: Dr. Kent Forster, professor of history at the College, will intro duce Dr. Reid tonight. Today. . . Art. , \•• , v k t. ~... ,„,, v ,*. 1*4 11. pk , ~...•,v, ,t„, 3\ ... ~,, t vir 1, k\ , k P \k, '4 ‘k '..Yt. ' ...kvnak. C ~.. 6 o • A _..„ .., ~....,.. , AraW ? e. l. k s,,N., .k," The Nittany Lion Roars FOR Dr. Ira DeA. Reid, to -night's speaker in the Commun ity Forum lecture series. Dr. Reid, an expert in his field, will speak on "The Ameri can Race Problem: Democracy's Dilemma." His long experience in the field of sociology emi nently qualifies him to speak on a matter .of such tremendous imoortance. The Lion today offers his daily roar to Dr. Reid for the airing of one of the great prob lems facing the United States today, and urges all the stu dents to attend his lecture to. night.
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