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'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.
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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.
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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.