. 4 , • _7' , ik Today's Weather: Romeo and Ott rgt att Partly cloudy Juliet Tonight of r li tti t g ;‘ , 7....-1, • (g, t %rx and cooler 'TOR A BETTER PENN STATE" ~ VOL. 50 - NO. 136 Carnival To Hit Town In Seven More Days Only seven days remain until the "Town and Gown Carnival" will reign on South Allen street and East Beaver avenue. The Carni val will include entertainment, soft drink, and food booths. Alpha Sigma Phi will cater to the bowling fans with its "Dumpa- Sud" booth. One ball rolled up one alley and knocking down one peg is just enough to douse a pledge with soap suds. William Tell . A new overture to William Tell will be presented - by Theta Chi. It's still the same old idea, but now the arrows are heavily padd ed; and it's more.fun if you miss the apple. Because when an arrow strikes a Theta Chi he'll be im mersed in colored batter, and if you marksmen hit the apple, your prize will be--a piece Of the fruit! Delta Chi will be in the swing with a "Throw a Pie at a Delta Chi" booth, while Alpha Chi Omega, will revive the entertain ment of the "Roaring Twenties." Nittany Council's "K i c k-me" booth will give you a chance to go kicking around with the crowd. Kigmy balloons bearing the names of local personalities will be kick= ed into baskets for prizes, and a scoreboard will be posted to de termine the unpopularity of the balloon personalities. • Ping, Pong Shoot Alpha GaMma Rho's game of skill will be a ping-pong shoot, and the gals in Alpha Gamma Delta will let you lucky lads "Lasso an , AGD lass and win a kiss." • "Lucky Penny" is the theme of the:Tau Kappa Epsilon booth. The penny pitch board will be covered with .popular brand cigarette wrappers, and the pitchers will attempt to throw a penny intuthe red circle -of the Lucky Strike wrapper. • Reward—one pack of the pitchcr's favorite brand. Dance Group To Give Concert The annual spring • concert of the. Modern Dance Concert Group will be presented - tonight and,to morrdw night in White. Hall as the Combined Arts Festival min tinues its 'program. The concert of the group of 18 'girls will include poems done dance arid a collection of dances whose theme is "Terpsi chore's Hat Box." A puppet show will be offered to children by Students in art education each evening at 7 and 8 o'clock in . the second, floor lounge of Old' Main. Plays included are "Hansel and Gretel," "Bugs Bun ny," • "Jack and the Beanstalk," "The Three Bears," and "Snow White." The entire program is open to' the public. • . A series of short dramatic pro grams is scheduled ' daily for 12:40, .130, and 8:30 in the sec- . and floor lounge. • Ml Elections Held • Miner a 1 Industries student council officers recently elected are DaVid Ludwig, president;. William Bonner, vice-president; and Millard Rehbtirg, secretary treasurer. Nominations to the council, open to present fourth and sixth semester students, will be -held from Thursday t? Saturday noon. Notices will be posted •in the Mineral Industrles building to accomodate students who wish to enter the nominations. TV Talk Tonight Charles -H, Singer, - 'assistant chief engineer for Station WOH TV in New York City, will dis cuss construction problems .'con- pcted, with the building of a tele " Sion station tonight at 7:30 in 1 'Sparks. The lecture is sponsored by the .student branches of the American Institute . of Electrical Engineers and, the .Institute of Radio Engl. neers.„,/tfis..olien to, the public. Chem Council, Faculty To Hold Lab Open House The Chemistry and Physics Student Council in cooperation with the faculty will hold an Open House program from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Laboratories in four buildings of .the school will be open to the public. In Osmond• Laboratory, the open laboratories include quali tatve analysis, organic research, elementary physics, acoustics, shock waves, X-ray and crystal analysis, spectroscope, astronomy, and the physics shop where ma chine work for research projects is done.*. In Pond Laboratories, exhibits in chemical microscopy, quanti tative organic micornalysis, phy sical chemistry, , undergraduate organic chemistry, analytical re search, and 'cryogenics. • Exhibits and demonstrations will also be held in Walker Lab oratory, the ' Textile Chemistry Building, and in Frear Labora tory. Release Regulations For Simmer Session Only students who, meet the regular ; admission requirements of the College are eligible to at tend summer sessions,• Dr. C. 0. Williams, assistant dean* of ad missions said .today. College, regulations prescribe that in order to be qualified, ap pliCants must be \ graduates of approved four-year high schools, or hold a- legal certificate en titling them' to teach in Penn, sylvania, Dr: Williams said. Formerly, a few students who did not meet all the require a ments as 'to high school, gradu ation were permitted`to register for certain courses. Committee . Suggests Charter Restrictions Dr. R. W. Brewster, chairman of the Committee on Student Wel fare, has recommended to the Col lege Senate that it refuse to char ter any organization with restric tive clauses regarding race, relig ion or creed after Feb. 24, 1950, it was learned yesterday. The committee also recommend ed that the Senate refuse to allow to operate as an approved College group any honorary or profession al organization, with •restrictive clauses in , or by laws on or after'Oct. 1, 1953. Such honorary or professional groups will be required to become inactive until the restrictive quali fications are removed. Organiza tions classified as Penn State so cial fraternities are exempt e d from this clause. Corrimittee Report The committee's report stated that "special considehation would La Vie for LA's Seniors in the School of Lib eral Arts can secure .their cop- ies of the 1950 La Vie at Stu dent Union today and to morrow. STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 11, 1950 Plays 'Juliet' Lorch Faction Backs Petition Two thousand signatures are being sought for a petition re questing reconsideration by the administration of its dismissal of Dr. Lee Lorch. The petition is being circulated by the student committee for aca demic freedom. Plans for petition ing the administration were pre pared at a meeting Tuesday night when Seymour Schuster, commit tee chairman, expressed hopes that 2000 students would sign the paper. Being circulated with the peti tion is an informational sheet con taining la news-story and an" edi torial, from The New York Times, a statement by the administration in explanation of its position, a statement of Dr. Lorch's defense, and the stand of the student com mittee. The petition states that the College's "explanation of its posi tion in the refusal to rehire Dr. Lee Lorch is incomplete and un acceptable in the face of the sup port, by the members of the math ematics department, of Dr. Lorch as a competent mathematician. and cooperative colleague. Dr. Lorch has been an assistant professor of mathematics since September. • Circulation of the petition be gan yesterday and will be con tinued today and tomorrow. The committee is contacting students in living areas and at campus in tersections. be given to the merits of bona fide religious groups not founded for the purpose' of religious dis crimination." The complete re port, under Senate rules, must lie over a month before 'the Senate can take final action. At present, only one College honorary has a' restrictive clause in its constitution. Alpha Kappa Psi, national commerce fraternity, whose chartering caused much comment in March, has already initiated action to remove their restrictive clause. At a northeast ern regional convention of the fraternity, four months ago in Buffalo, the Penn State group helped pass a resolution calling for a removal of the clause. Council Recommends The Grand council of Alpha Kappa Psi on March 21 recom mended to the 68 local chapters that they remove the clause. If the local chapters vote to remove the clause, the Grand council will either take action immediately or consider the matter at the national convention this summer. Dr: Brewster said that the com mittee has been working on the report since sometime last Fall. Dianne Scuderi Player's Drama Opens Tonight "The Most ExCellent and Lamentable Tragedie, of Romeo and Juliet" will be re-lived on the stage of §chwab Auditor ium tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday at 8 p.m. This Shakespearean drama has as its theme the hopeless struggle of a pure, ideal young love to reailze itself in the world, too wicked and rough for fulfillment of much spiritual Tours Scheduled For Engineering Exhibit Saturday The open house, sponsored by the Engineering student council, will open with guided tours start ing in the Electrical Engineering building on Saturday from 2 to 9 p.m. All departments of the En gineering School will have sched uled exhibits. Among the exhibits will be the wind tunnel, water and sanitary equipment and polaroid head lights. These headlights greatly reduce glare from automobiles and the exhibit 'will enable visi tors to compare the polaroid lights with present headlight types. A poster contest was recently held in which sophomore architect students were given the problem to design posters for the open house. First• prize of $5 was awarded to Edward W. - Zimmer man; second ' prize of $3 to Paul G. Kuhnle; and third prize of $2 to Harold J. Becker. Hat Societies Revise Rules Men's hat societies have thrown out several war-time and pre-war measures by which some aat groups delved into classes )ther than their regular sources for tappees. Beginning with this month's tapping, Skull and Bones and Parmi Nous, senior societies, will tap men in not less than their sixth semester. Blue Key, ju nior society, will tap from fourth and fifth-semester men, while Androcles, new junior group, will tap exclusively from fourth semester men beginning in May 1951. Druids, sophomore society, will tap men in not' higher than their third semester. "Through a ruling adopted re cently by the Hat Society Coun cil, men's hat societies have thrown out wartime and pre vious measures by which Parmi - llous and Skull and Bones tap ped fourth-semester as well as sixth-semester -men in regular May tappings. Hereafter these two will limit. •themselves to outstandinoimen in not less than their sixth) semester when tap ped. "Likewise, Druids will forsake a wartime expediency of tapping men in as high as their fourth semester; the sophomore society will now choose from only third semester athletes in its once-a year tapping in December. "In its May tapping, Blue Key will choose only from fourth semester men, while in, its win ter tapping it will limit itself to fifth-semester juniors active in its selected fields during the .previous spring semester. Tap pees for the new Androcles each May—beginning in 1951—will be fourth-semester men and no others." Exam Schedule The schedule of final ex aminations for the current se mester will be published in The Daily Collegian tomorrow morning. PRICE FIVE CENTS love. Its performance will highlight the dramatic contri butions to the Combined Arts Festival. "The love dialogues of Romeo and Juliet, those silver sweet sounds of lovers' tongues by night," according to Charles Lamb's description, will be de livered by Don Holland and Di— ane Scuderi. Seats Available Good • seats are still available. Tickets are on sale at Student Union. The price is 60 cents for Thursday night performance and. $1 Friday and Saturday even ing. • Miss Scuderi's portrayal of "Juliet Capulet" 'will be her final appearance as a Penn State player. The veteran actress will be graduated in June. She play ed the leading role in "The Glass Menagerie" last semester and in "Dark of the Moon" last year. "Romeo" gives Don Holland his first chance to display his talents to a Penn State audience. The Friar Fred Leuschner, who is cast as "Friar Lawrence", has appeared in a number of other shows at the College. Newell Stark .will portray "Sampson;" Walter Vail, 'Greg ory;" Richard Evans, "Tybalt," Charles Willia ms, "Capulet;" Nick Morkides, "Peter." Eleanor Williamson is cast as the nurse; Bob Stryker, the "sec ond Capulet;" William McCarthy is "Bathasar;" Bernard Fried man, "Abraham;" Bernard Car beau, "Montague." Betty Morgan plays "Lady Montague;" Richard Hartle, "Be voleo;" Herold Fahringer, "Chor us;" Jim Beaver, "Paris;" Char les Schulte, "Mercuteo." George Parsons is the apothe cary; William Sullivan, "Friar John;" Robert Klein, the page to "Paris;" Ralph Johnson, Harry Woolever, Robert Martland, Mar garet Mulligan, Laryn Sax, Nan cysue Sharbaugh, Ruby Snook and Norma Philip are extras. Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ House Passes Economy Move WASHINGTON—Congress vo ted today to prohibit the filling of more than ten percent of the vacancies that occur in federal employment in most agencies next year. A Senate-House com mittee also approved amendments to the Economic Cooperation Act. These amendments will give about one-billion dollars to break down European trade barriers: Trapped Worker Dies NEW YORK—Dominick Atteo died today just five minutes be fore rescuers freed him from the bottom of a Ell-foot shaft in which he had been trapped for 26 hours. Rescue workers were criticized for waste time by Atteo's son, but police officials said nothing more could have been done. 'Engineer' Out The May issue of the Penn State Engineer will ' be on sale today and tomorrow at Student Union and downtown, and Saturday af ternoon in the EE building in con junction with the Engineering Open House.
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