WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 19517 Bob Higgins Elected Head Alumni Club R. A. "Bob" Higgini of the Class of 1919 was elected presi dent of the Penn State Alumni Club of Centre County at the organization meeting in State College, Monday, March 20. More than 150 persons, in cluding graduates, former stu dents and friends of Penn State, were present at the session at which Dr. R. Wallace Brewster _ ... -.....:t2y:;::....;:.50::;:;:c srr..~r::i,:;:t•`:ti<s~.':i'i':'::r:::Y;v'%':'~3;j ry'h:;}iii: ~ }i: ~.,~~.:..~~;. :.. . i::..;.; ~.. .C.Giikir.~.'i':~ i': `:::~ of the political science depart ment presided as chaitman and C. S. Wyand, administrative as sistant to the president of the College, was guest speaker. One hundred and - 25 of those present indicated a desire to par ticipate as active members of the new Penn State Alumni Club. Other officers elected were: Musser W. Gettig of Belle fonte, two year term, Frank Neusbuam, State College, and Reuben E. Jaffee, both one-year terms, as vice-presidents; Dan iel A. DeMarino, State College, secretary for one year; and Wil liam frR.• Young, State College, treasurer for two years.. Optic School Offeri Grant A $l6OO scholarship is being of fered by the Pennsylvania State College of Optometry in Phila delphia to graduates of Pennsyl vania colleges interested in con tinuing their education in optom etry. The four-year scholarship was announced by the board of trus tees, and will become effective with the school term next Septem ber., To .qualify for the scholarship, an applicant must hold a bache lor's degree• and meet• other re quirements including a minimum of one year's credits in English. general chemistry, biology, and mathematics. IT'S NOT. TOO LATE! You can still make that Summer Trip to Europe with International Youth PARIS BY AIR $360 ROUND TRIP Flights to LONDON and ROME Write or Phone INTERNATIONAL . YOUTH, Inc. 150 Broadway New York 7, N. Y. . COrtland 7-0362 To assure passage write immediately Student Politics Show Return To Normalcy (First in a series of articles tracing the history and development of .student politics at Penn State since the war.) Probably one of the best barometers of return to pre-war "normalcy" in campus activities has been the re-birth and continued progress of student politics since the fall of 1946. Quite naturally, much of the color and "rah-rah" , spirit which pervaded the political scene until the Mass migration of students into the service had disappeared. In its place came a new . and more objective attitude, tempered by the influence of an older and es sentially more mature student body. Thus began the era of the ex-G.I. at. Penn State and a local "Renaissance" was felt as .many forms of student activity were at last revived. The new attitude was aptly summed up by a Daily Collegian reporter who, in his "Political Roundup" column of Oct. 4, 1946, observed: ."Gone' are the days when students would vote blindly because one party had a group of famous football players. They want reasons today." Activity Begins One of the earlier signs of ac tivity that fall was the attempted revival of the Campus clique, whose control of student govern ment had been interrupted by the war. The attempt met • with fail ure. Only a handful of interested persons appeared for the organi zational meeting and little re mained to. select a slate of can didates and formulate a cam paign platform for the coming all-College • and class elections, then held in October. The failure was particularly significant for it marked the end of fraternity-vs.- independent politics, the Campus clique having been a fraternity backed party. Meanwhile, two other cliques, the Nittany and Key parties, be gan drawing lines for the pend ing campaign. The Nittany party became known as the Nittany In dependents and the Key party changed its name to Campus-Key. Both were composed of indepen dent as well as fraternity ele ments and both adopted policies insuring equality' or near equality for the two factions within their party structures. The fraternity independent political fissure has been healed in favor of issues considered greater by more recent parties, so that it is often hardly noticeable today. Representation The Nittany Independents were the more specific in their" intent to allocate political positions be tween fraternity and independent groups. An unofficial party agree ment provided that 40 per cent •A their candidates should be in lapendents and 60 per cent mem '3erci of Greek letter organizations. the inequality was a reflection of the critical housing 'situation ~:'ii:{~ . ^:~ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA By JACK BODDINGTON and the relatively large fraternity and sorority membership which resulted. Although the Campus-Key cli que was not so definite in its provision, it proved to be more equally representative and fail ure of the Nittany Independents to meet the 40-60 ratio later be came an informal campaign issue. Next article: The campaign and the victory. 6 / amels,A'r M"ess Yes, Camels are SO MILD that in a coast. to-coast test of hundreds of men and women who smoked Camels and only Camels— for 30 consecutive days, noted throat special ists, making weekly examinations, reported ge" ` NOT ONE SINGLE CASE OF Tine ~:~v~►%/.Y,f Lrl'f>ytLy:~'!cr)'i.Ll:~~yrr".y ISIUTATION rice g. otogokkoiy CAMELS.: Meeting to Prepare ForßeadingFestiva I In preparation for the second Inter-collegiate, Reading Festival at the College in May, a pre liminary meeting will be held at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday in 305 Sparks. Prof. Harriett D. Nesbitt of the, speech department announced yesterday that instructions for the readings will be given at the meeting. Readings will include prose, poetry and draina. The first festival held at the College last year was part of a Combined Arts Festival partici pated in by a number of depart ments. Readings were given in narrative poetry, short stories, Shakespearian sonnets, lyric poe try and plays. They are not or ganized as contests. PAGE SEVEN Five Students Make D.I.R. Dean's List Five students made the dean's list of the Division of Inter mediate Registration Dean H. K. Wilson announced recently. The students attaining an av erage of 2.5 or better are George R. Spalding, Richard Ray Mays, John S. Kennedy, John T. Feller son, and Harriett C. May. Radio Broadcasts The second program in 15-min ute radio•broadcast series will be presented at 7:45 tonight over WMAJ. The subject of this pro gram will be agricultural policy. Have A Delicious Burger and Shake --- at -- ROAN'S DAIRY CENTER Opposite Simmons Gfflif ‘cs;) '
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