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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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