.. . . , . . -• ... ,- ' 1 I t ; 41. ~ • . Block AKPsi • ••-:, . ~ v• .ei • ,p: t‘ t - ; • 'Tilt 11'31z:1-fig 4. ''' - ' 4'.4' ' . (Igi l- trigtatt . Fair and cold . Petition -. 1 ,• , • 441 141.yri01 l . .s. "FOR A BETTER PENN STATE" VOL. tO - NO. 97 Plans for Spring Week Underway, Senior Reports Plans for gala events for the coming Spring Week, May 16-21, are now definitely underway, ac cording to Jack Senior, head of the Spring Week Committee. Thus far most of the latest plan ning by the committe has con cerned the Spring Carnival, which will be held . Thursday, May 18. The Carnival, again this year will feature booths sponsored by var ious campus' organization, frater nities, • sororities, independent groups, and clubs. Last Spring 45 booths were en- . .tered in the • carnival, and more are expected this year. All organ izations .planning to enter booths in the Carnival this year are, re quested by the Committee to be gin formulating their plans. Suggestions for booth ideas should be submitted in the form of letters 'addressed to the Spring Week Comthittee in care of Stu dent Union Desk in Old Main. At a later date the Committee will make available application forms to the organizations asking for de finite information on their booth . . plans. . Spring Week itself, has' been tentatively set up by the'Commit tee. Other events will be added later. Tuesday, May 16—an event, still undecided, to provide a • a . Grand Opening for Spring Week. Wednesday; May 17—baseball with Dickinson; tennis with. Duquesne. Duquesne. Thursday, May 18—Spring Car - • • nival. Friday, ,May..l9—Senior Ball. Saturday, May 20—fraternity • and indepedent houseparties; triangular track .meet with• Pittsburgh and ' West Vir . - ginia; lacrosse with Hobart. . Sunday, Mary 21—Blue Band 'concert in Schwab Auditor • .ium. All-College Cabinet -last month authorized the Spring Week Com mittee to change the carnival date from April 21 to May 18 to fit in with -the Proposed • Spring ,Week. Plana for the number, type, and location of. the booths are still in definite, but will be announced in the neaffuture. Last year the bOoths arid stands (Continued on page eight) . College Glie ClUb Schedules -0.. Weekend Totir anciCaficert ,The. College Glee Club Will will make the weekend trip, but make a weekend tour this year in the group will be .cut to 48 mem addition to its regular Spring tour. bers by .means :of tryouts for. the This, weekend tour will include Spring 4ourwhiphlwill take place Concerts at - Johnstown, and • In- theweek of March 26. Itinerary (liana; Pa., on March 17' and 18. for the latter will - include Erie, The entire club of abOut 90 men Greensburg, ,„ Cleveland, Buffalo and Ridgway. • Soloists appearing with the Glee Club-will be. Clinton. Greve, bari tone, a junior in commerce and finance; and Morris Samuel Jr., tenor, a junior in education. Accoinpanying Abe Glee Club will be the Varsity Quartet. Mem bers of the quartet are Richard Goodling, George Jeffries, Edgar Raffensberger, and Charles Sulli van. College Debators Vie in Pitt Meet After winning two tourna ments in two weeks, Penn State's men debaters. will be trying for a third today and tomorrow in a state match at the University o Pittsburgh. Debating the national topic on nationalizing the basic non-agri cultural industries will be two teams consisting of Clair George and Peter Giesey; David Lewis and Richard Schweiker.. In addition Marlin Brenner will enter an extemporaneous g;teech contest and David Lewis in a match of original orations. In' all of ' the debates in the Past two weeks, teams from the College have been unbeaten. At Washington and Jefferson last week, a gold trophy was won for the second year in succession. It is being displayed , in ~a town storewindow this week. Tile-, week before . Men's De bate 'squad swept a tournament at Mt.erey in Pittsburgh, This season =marks the 51st year of 1C 4 4/ 4 4e . d*Wat-tealln& • ;,': • , Sweater Queen. Contest Deadline Set for Today Five o'clock today is the dead line for entrants in the sweater queen contest. Eighteen prizes besides the title await the first queen elected in four years at the College, A board of five judges—Ted Allen, All-Cone g e president; George Donovan, director of As sociated Student Activities; Wil liam S. Hoffman, burgess of State College; George Kalil, pro fessor of _WMAJ's Groovology 54; and Bill Coleman, co-owner r.nd photographer of the • Lion Studio, will seledt the .winner from the photos submitted. Final arrangements for crown ing 'the queen and presenting the prizes are being made by, the promotion staff of the Daily Collegian, headed by Harold NAACP Opposes AKPsi Petition A committee ,of campus groups to make a unified protest of a Senate committee's recent ap proval of Alpha Kappa Psi's char ter petition, which includes re strictive clauses, will be sponsored by NAACP. Mary Lou Hollis, vice-president of NAACP, said yesterday that all important student 'organizations would be invited to join a coordi nating committee. This group will ask• the Senate either to rescind the eharter or set a time limit in which to eliminate the restrictive clause, / she said. ' Meanwhile, NAACP will send its own• letter to the Senate com mittee. This action was announced by Julian Cook Jr., who was elect ed president' of NAACP •at a meet ing Wednesday night. Cook call ed the committee's action in ad mitting the'.restricted honorary and then resolving to • refuse any like case was a "paradox.". . Marjorie • Allen, associate sec retary. of the Penn State Christian Association, ~ told., the Daily. , Col-. legian yesterdaV'that PSCA - had not yet decided on any: course"Of action. She said, that members were much concern . ed in this mat ter.-' . . Frank Gullo, associate professor of music at the College, is director of - the club and quartet. Accom panist for the club is Harry Reiff Jr.,. and • the quartet accompanist is Gerald Daghir. Joseph Rosen thal Jr., piano soloist, will also appear with the group on tour. The Glee Club and Varsity Quartet have•not made a Western tour since the reorganization of these grouts' following the war. Recent tours have included con certs in Philadelphia, New York, Harrisburg, Trenton,' and Scran ton. Last year while in New. York, the. Glee Club appeared as featur ed 'guests on Fred Waring's morn ing program over. 'the NBC net work. • On the club's program, this year are a new college 'song ••and seiniaeltufaical'aosiloni 804* STATE ‘.:OLLEGE, PA.; FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1950 Giesey Reveals IFC's Opposition To AKPsi Charter See Editorial on Page 2 Inter-fraternity Council went on record early this year as unani mously opposed to the College's granting a charter to Alpha Kap pa Psi, Peter Giesey, IFC presi- dent, revealed yesterday. The unanimous stand by the social— professional fraternity group pwas by "straw vote," he said. • , AKPsi, commerce honorary, whose.constitution contains. re strictive clauses, was granted a charter recently by the Senate Committee on' Student Welfare. The committee actions preceded adoption at the same, meeting of a 'definite policy of chartering no more groups which are restrictive. The AKPsi constitution restricts membership to "Christians ' and members of the Caucasian race." Members of the petitioning. Com merce Club have expressed disap proval of the restrictions but said they - "had to abide .by them" to affiliate with the national group.- IFC's action, Giesey explained, does not affect AKPsi's relations with IFC since honorary fraterni ties'are not members of the social:- professional fraternity group. As . .IFC president, Giesey is • a member of the Senate . Committee on*Student Welfare. Tifq:To:Discuss • WorldiNoblem The topic "Should We Re-arm Western Germany?" will be dis cussed by three• professors of the College •in 10 Sparks at • 7:30 , tonight. Dr.' Neal Riemer, instructor in political science; Dr. Walter Cou tu, professor of sociology; and Dr. Richard Raymond, assistant .pro .fesspr of physics, will participate in • the second in a series of lec tures and discussions to acquaint students and townspeople with in ternational problems. The three educators are experts in their fields.' They were es pecially selected to discuss one of the major issues of the day from the scientific, political and so ciological viewpoints of the prob lem. Dr. Riemer, a comparative new comer to the campus, is com pleting second year of teaching. Now at work on a book of read ings in America government, he has already gained § notable rep utation as a political science scholar. D. Coutu is widely known as the author of a book on Sociologi cal 'behavior. titled "The Emergent Human Nature." • . • • • • . Now in his .sixth year on the College's *laity, Dr. , RaYthond was .a..physicist on' the radar re search staff at Harvard Univer, sity v He has written a number of papers. for publication in the ,a,Physks. Peter Giesey Feb. Graduates Join Alumni Assoc. In Record Number A record number of graduating seniors in February took advan tage of the special membership offered in the Alumni Association. Over 48 per cent, or 326, of the graduating seniors enrolled at the special rate of $2 prior to grad uation. This is a record for grad uates who have joined the Association through individual solicitation, according to 'Ridge Riley, '32, executive secretary. "Members of the June grad uating class will be given a sim ilar oportunity to join the Associa tion at the special $2 rate if they enroll on or before the day of graduation," Riley Said. Juniors Sponsor Jazz Concert Sat. Featuring an array of "real gone" 'musicians. from the , Penn State campus plus a feW off campus instrument-wielders, a Jazz Concert will be sponsored by the junior class Saturday after noon at 2 p.m. in Schwab Auditor ium. No admission fee will be chafged. "Symphony Sam" Vaughn will act as master of ceremonies, and the musical work will be divided between two combos headed by Arnie Taylor , and Mouse Miller, respectively. Taking care , of, the musical chores will be: Russ Henry and Jim Riley on bass; Don Yenko at the piano; Mouse Miller and Al Koster playing alto sax; Skip Reider, Gene Sprague, and Bob DeWitt behind the trumpets; Lane Ryland and Arnie Taylor on the drums; and Dick Anderson and Harry Klaus on tenor sax. Ryland will also double on the bongoes and Rolly Van .Hutton has been billed as the vocalist. The two groups will play new music "never before heard here," according to Arnie Taylor. Some of the numbers to be given by the comboes are "Wail," "Donna Lee," "Boplicity," and "Kean and Peachy.:' • This concert is the first in a ser ies of events to be sponsored by the junior class in an effort to stimulate class spirit. Activity Cards Distributed— Date Bureau To Operate Soon Activity arid interest cards for the newly-organized campus date bureau are being distributed in the women's dormitories this week, , according to Helen Dreher, chairman of the committee, These cards, along with the ones already given to two girls, will be handed in by the end of the week, and the - actual working end of the date bureau will be set up next week. Rep resentatives from campus or ganizations are helping to or ganize the bureau, All girls are filling out cards, but only those checking inter est in the bureau will s be placed in the date files. The cards are in two 'parts, one part contain ing the girl's name and address, the other indicating her inter ests. The section with 'the name oh will be kept in a confidential file, but the other will be kept in a file open to men at certain times, to be announced later. Only after a man choses a girl he would like to meet on a basis of her interests, will he be shown her name. After that, the ust is up to the two persons involved. Miss Dreher stressed the im portance of not considering the date bureau as a "last resort" but merely as a way for two people with similar interests to meet. She added that it is im portant that everyone realize there is no obligation connected with having one's name in the bureau, and urged, the use of coke dates to become acquaint ed, before regular, dates are eon `siciered, PRICE FIVE CENTS Charter Sought For Jr. Honorary By Hat Council Hat Society Council this week voted to petition the Senate Committee on Student Welfare to charter a new junior men's hat society. The proposed group would "complement Blue Key, present junior hat society," according to Thomas Morgan, Hat Council president, "and would probably cover such activity fields as dra matics, forensics, publications, athletics, student government and politics." Two-thirds of the membership of Blue Key, only junior men's hat society on campus, is made up of first assistant sports man agers. Position Clarified At the meeting, the council also clarified its position on a Constitution clause governing re view of hat society tapping lists by the council, and heard a progr ress report of a freshman cus toms committee headed by Rob ert Gabriel. , 'Gabriel said that a plan for freshman customs would be ready soon for adoption or re jection by the Council. "In the e7ent .that the council passes this constructive customs pro gram for next fall," he said, "the plan must be approved by Tri bunal and then All-College Cab inet." Prime movers of customs at Penn State. have traditionally been campus hatmen, who were charged with customs enforce ment although the entire student body took part. To "Behr Down' The Council also decided to "bear down strictly" on future hat society tappings to "safe guard the honor of being a hat man and make sure the most worthy candidates are tapped." Morgan explained that the group would exercise its power to re-• viewing tapping lists before they are made public, except in the case of Cwens, sophomore women's honorary, whose na tional constitution forbids divul ging tappees' names outside of the group itself. FOR the representatives of the Interfraternity Council. IFC members, by a straw poll of their attitude toward the chartering of Alpha Kappa Psi, have demonstrated their belief in the democratic prin ciple of equality. The Lion salutes this body ,for their action, and hopes other groups on the Campus will emulate IFC's stand on the AKPsi question and make known their stand to the Sen ate Committee.
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