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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.