Cabinet Passes Frosh Customs By 18-3 Vote Panhel Delays Action On Discrimination By JOHN ASHBROOK A freshman customs program was giVein All-College Cabinet approval last night by an 18 to 3 vote. The approved regulations in cluded one change in the plan as submitted by Robert Gabriel, chairman of the Hat Societies cus toms committee. Submitted by Peter Giesey, president of Intrafraternity Coun cil, the change will require fresh men to know College songs 'con tained in the Student Handbook and, at the command of an upper classman, to sing them. Under another addition to the plan previously published, upper classmen in general would speci fically be prohibited from engag ing "in any sort of undesirable hazing practices." Fr esh m en would be permitted to submit signed charges of illegal hazing by upperclassmen to Tribunal. The issue of discrimination within campus organizations was tabled until the next regular meeting of Cabinet. The motion for delaying further consideration came from Dolores Jelacic, presi dent of Panhellehic Council. Miss Jelacic explained that rep resentatives in the council wish to discuss the issue with their sorority chapters before taking action. The amendment, presented at the last meeting of Cabinet, would require all campus organizations which operate with restrictive membership clauses to work for 4 elimination of the restrictions and to submit periodic progress re ports to the .Senate welfare com mittee. The charters of all groups having such classes after Nov. 1, 1954 would be revoked. Interfraternity Council y tabled a similar proposal . Wednesday. Action on the motion was de layed so that the • issue can be discussed in frater'nity chapters. Approval of the motion would ,ptit IFC on record . a 4 opposing discrimination and encouraging Member fraternities to take - any . action they' deem necessary to eliminate it.. Chapters with, re strictive clauses would make yearly reports to IFC. • A deadline of Oct. 1, 1952 for removal of restrictions was de leted from the original . motion. (Coptinued on page eight) NAACP, PSCA To State Views Representatives of NAACP and PSCA will attend the regu lar meeting of the Senate Com mittee on. Student Welfare this afternoon to present their or ganization's views regard in g fraternity discrimination. clauses. Dean of. Men H. K. Wilson said yesterday that • today's meeting is a regular one for discussion of business but .added . that dis crimination would probably be discussed. Mary Lou Hollis, vice-presi dent of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored: People, will acquaint the committee with NAACP's recent decision to withdraw a re quest to rescind the charter of Alpha Kappa Psi, national com merce honorary , fraternity. Grand Council Commended Miss Hollis said NAACP wish ed to commend the Grand Coun cil .of AKPsi • which recently passed a resolution against, the discriminatory clause of its con stitution. At today's meeting, she said she would ask the Senate to set a time liinit in which fra ternities must' remove restrictive clauses. The Penn State Christian As sociation's cabinet met last night to' decide what policy it would present to the committee today according to Helen Dreher, PSCA representative. AKPsi caused a furor recent ly when its campus charter was approved by the Senate Com mittee with a clause in its con stitution restricting members to white caucasians. Prof. Sheldon W. Tanner,. AKPsi faculty ad visor, told a Daily Collegian re-. porter yesterday that he fully expected - the national fraternity to amend-its constitution at • a convention this summer. 0 : t:d.rit 4 , ♦ -,.‘ % 4' " Al11 0 " : 34 attg . r , ,, : , : 4 , , , , .: . :. :; 1 :? ;. t ~\'. Tottro:tatt Today's Weather Cloudy, rain or snow late in day 1 N.,1 VOL. 50 - NO. 107 Grube, Sprenkle Win Women's Elections Beneke Plays Tonight The Winners . . . . Mary Ellen Grubs 50% of Coeds Vote For WRA, WSGA Officers In the final elections yesterday Mary Ellen Grube and Barbara Sprenkle were elected presidents of WRA and WSGA,, respecitvely. Fifty per cent of the women on campus . voted in the finals. WRA officers for ine coming year will be Nancy Worthington, vice-president; Marilyn. Williams,. intramural chairman; and Janet Herd, assistant intramural chairman These girls will take office next Wednesday. New officers of WSGA are Vir ginia-Miller, vice-president; Anne Forrest, senior senator; Mary Jane Hutcheon, sophomore sena tor; and Robin Brunner, town senator. These officers will be in stalled at the WSGA convocation on April 24. Miss Grube is a junior in sec ondary education. She was for therly publicity chairman of WRA and was.editor of the WRA handbook. A member of Chimes, she was assistant editor of. Cla pper, the Chimes national maga zine. Miss Grube, a junior coun selor. in Atherton Hall, is also a member. of -La Vie and, the Daily Collegian. Senator. To Be Appointed Miss Sprenkle".•is'`:a. , Anior .in Home. ,Economics' , !arid• is major ing in dietetics. She is secretary, of Chimes and was WSGA jun ior senator. Miss Sprenkle is on the advertising staff of the' Daily Collegian 'and 'is a member of Phi Epsilon ,Omicron, home eco nomics honorary'.:.. : , The: only WSG/i. , , offices not filled are , those of treasurer and freshman senators. The treasurer and one freshman senator will be elected in the...fall. The other freshman senater. will ••be ap pointed by WSGA senate; Musical Pleases Audience . • By L. D. GLADFELTER • After a loose and • soniewhat lifeless dress rehear Sal,. Thespians applied, the old elboW grease last night and kept a large Schwab auditorium audience 'rollicking through their first performance of' "Girl Crazy." • Lively and imiginative dance routines, .some 'good singing, and rapid-fire repartee 'by a galaxy of comedians kept *the George and Ira G'ershwin musical comedy moving swiftly and kept the audi ence in laughter. The show will be presented again tonight ' and tomorrow night at 7:30, . and tomorrow. at 2 p.m. Tickets priced at $1.20 are on sale at the Student Union. desk in Old Main, and they also will be on sale one hour be fore each performance, . . . Keeps Show Stepping Major interest was 'centered around the three supporting ac tors, - Sidney Manes,' Gloria De Paolis, and Nathan Pletcher, who 'OR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1950 Baibara Sprenkle Five-Day Week Out -- Watkins Ray V. Watk in s, College Scheduling Officer; has announc ed that Saturday classes will be held during the Fall semester. Attempts had been made to set up a schedule which would make a five-day. class week pos sible. However, due to lack of time in which to work out a new sequence of hours, the Schedul ing Office will not be able to set the plan into action by• next semester. A recent study of : .faculty re action to the proposed plan drew a good response, with a high percentage of the forms sent to the. leaching staff being returned to the Scheduling Of fice. Mr. Watkins sail that because of the large number of classes caused, by the return of fresh men to the campus the maxi mum use of classroom space will be essential, and the Saturday sequence of hours will be used very heavily. handled the principal comedy parts. Manes, who was excellent ly cast as the New York taxi driver, kept the show stepping at a lively pace with sharp gag lines, often brought up to date and lo calized for a State College audi ence. The de facto leading character —and really a character—Manes used his facile' voice and mobile face to the utmost advantage, but at a few points it was a bit hard to understand him. Miss De Paolis strutted across the stage and - spoke her lines with alternating sex and venom, but a case of laryngitis, which had plagued a good deal of the cast, kept her singing voice confined. However, her voice 'is well de• veloped and, were it in better shape, she easily could have stolen the show.. Her spoken lines were handled expertly and greatly en hanced the performance. Pletcher, her gambler husband, put his raucous lines across with Betas, Delta Gamma Will Get Sing Trophy at Ball Tex Beneke and his orchestra will play "music in the Miller mood" for the big-weekend crowd at the IFC-Panhel Ball tonight from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Recreation Hall. Songstress Helen Lee will appear with the Beneke Band. A Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Alabama, Miss Lee has sung with Orrin Tucker, Buddy MorrOw, Larry Clinton, Charter Asked For Hat Group A. request for a charter for a new junior men's hat society was submitted to the committee, em powered to grant and revoke stu dent charters at the College. Names of the hat group propos ed by the council was not releas ed. Outlined in the constitution is a four-fold purpose: Four-Fold Purpose "To recognize and honor deserv ing, outstanding junior men in dramatics, forensics, government, politics, athletics, publications, and other activity fields at the College; "To serve the College in all possible ways,. and to stimulate and promote the best • interest •of the College as a whole; "To study student problems at the College and take steps toward enriching student life; "To maintain the many tradi tions of the College, including constructive freshman c u s t om s which constitute the backbone of a strong student tie with the Col lege." Thomas Morgan, president, ex plained yesterday that the pro posed gram would be parallel with Blue. Key, present junior men's hat society. "But," he add ed, "tappees for the new society would be drawn, in the main, from activity fields that are dif ferent from those usually tapped by Blue Key." Will Use Point System If chartered,•the new group will operate l on a point system in choosing tappees, he said, and the charter members will be chosen by Hat Society Council 'from "worthy • activities men" who' are now sophomores and juniors. For succeeding years, the constitution provides strictly that tappees be in their' fourth semester scholas ticelly, at the 'time of their tap ping in late Spring. booming authority, and polished off his "Treat Me Rough" song routine with fervor that brought huzzahs from the audi en ce. Highly expressive facial and body movements aided him tremend ously. In the straight roles, Mary Fou cart, the romantic lead, showed unusual promise and easily led the field. She has a strong voice, although it does not always stay on the same level, and she put a nice amount of feeling into her song. Her "Not for Me" solo and her "Embraceable You" duet with David Evans, the male romantic lead, were high points of the show. Physically, she looked the part, and she displayed a natural stance and easy motions. Her act ing, like her singing, was smooth and natural. Evans performed easily, too, but his voice seemed a trifle weak, and he did not appear too "girl crazy" 'at any . point. He spoke (Continued on page eight) PRICE FIVE CENTS and Jimmy Dorsey. She has also starred on her own tele vision show and appeared as soloist at many of the nation's top theaters and night clubs. Will Present Trophies Presentation of trophies to the winners in- the IFC-Panhel sing will take place sometime during Tex Beneke the evening. Beta Theta Pi fra ternity and Delta Gamma soror ity were the winners ink the finals Wednesday night. Finalists also included Tau Kap pa . Epsilon fraternity and Gam ma Phi Beta sorority. The troph-. ies will be presented to the house presidents and the chorus direc tors. Chorus director for Beta Theta Pi was Leon. Finger, and Gay Brunner for Delta Gamma. This is the second consecutive year that Beta Theta Pi has won the Sing, while last year's sorority winner was Alpha Omicron Pi., There is a possibility that the winners will sing at the Ball to night. John Senior, committee co chairman for the Ball, explained the booth system to be used, at (Continued on page eight) FOR Mary Foucart, fresh man coed who handles the feminine lead in Thespian's production -of "Girl Crazy." Miss Foucart, making her Schwab debut last night, handled her part more than capably and had the stage pres ence of a veteran trouper. The Lion oils up his tonsils and yowls forth a libretto of joy for the budding young starlet. Though still troubled by the lack of a . football coach, he still manages a smile for the engaging 'Mary Foucart.
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