• ~ . 7; - I t-1144 ` FORA BETTER 4, ri trigiall PENN STATE TODAY'S WEATHER: ' -. 4 9.:ki.:4:,, .•• :4 • 4 ° t -, -• . - 4 . ' . - . 11U ' 11 Clig CLOUDY AND MILD . . VOL. 51— No. 87 Engr. Pass Plan Uniting Concessions A plan to unite student conces sions and agencies to gain and use profits for student interests was unanimously approved Tues day night by the Engineering stu dent council. • A committee headed by Council President Raymond Miller report ed that tentative plans for a Stu dent Concessions association in clude organizing various food, book, tailor shop, and newspaper concessions. The plan, the corn mittee reported, would use the profits to lower assessments and possibly to contribute to pay for such items as the student press, La Vie, and other items. Two Plans Suggested The committee presented two possible organizational plans for the association. One would place a general concessions manager in charge of all student concessions. He would be in charge of finan ces, employment, and supply. The College would be responsible for maintenance of buildings. The other plan would place the College in direct supervision with (Continued on page eight) Petition -Signed By Over 3000 Over '3OOO persons have signed the National Student association's petition urging the Pennsylvania legislature to legalize - absentee voting, David Fitzcharles. chair man sf the NSA absentee voting committee, said last night. The absentee vote movement has the support of All-College cabinet, West dorm council, Nit tany-Pollock council, Panhellenic council. and the Education stu dent council. The petition will continue to be circulated at the Student Union desk in Old Main, and at meal time in the dining halls of the women's• dormitories,, the West dorms, and fraternity houses. • All Pennsylvania residents, re gardless of age, may sign the petition. Fitzcharles urged faculty Mem bers and college employes as well as students to sign the petition. Barr Is Pinned, But Hatmen Beat Frosh Newk Grubb, a member of the freshman polo team, pinned wrestling champion Homer Barr, but customs for 61 new freshmen remained in effect as the hatmen conquered the frosh, 2 to 0, in the bitterly-fought "Dinky Polo Game" at Recreation hall' last night. The game, complete *with sound effects—neighing and galloping —over the public address system, kept a large audience screaming and yelling between halves of the Penn State - American university basketball game Had the freshmen won the con test, customs were to have been lifted immediately. Druids, sophomore hat society, got in on the tail end of the ex citement. Twenty initiates clad in pajamas an d make-up paraded around the hall cheering and singing "Fight on State." The ini tiates had previously paraded through the women's dorm area and in town. Barr was pinned by Grubb mid way in the second chukker. Grubb had grabbed Barr's hat, Barr gave chase, and the two landed on the floor in a mass of flying arms and legs. To the surprise of the roar ing crowd, Grubb landed on top of the struggling Barr and pinned him. John Smidansky scored both goals during the second chukker. Yreshman John Pawlack had previously made a brilliant de fense of his team's goal at the 'end of the first chukker. ' The fresh and hatmen were led Student Fees Payable Today Or , Tomorrow Fees are payable today and tomorrow in Willard hall. The bursar's office - will be open between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Fee amounts will be posted. in Willard according to matricu lation card numbers.. - • Checks should be made out for the exact amount and made payable to the College. 'Life' Week Ends Tonight In Schwab The five day Religion-in-Life program 'will conclude with a closing service in Schwab audi torium at 8:30 tonight. The College Chapel choir under the direction of Mrs. Willa Tay lor, the Modern Dance group, under the direction of Dorothy Briant, and George Ceiga, organ ist, will perform at the closing Service of Worship. Joan Hutchon and Emerson Jones, student co-chairmen, will preside at the services. The dance group will perform five numbers. Chapel choir will sing, "Cantate Domme," "Now let all the Heav ens Adore Thee," "The Lord is my Light", "Cast they Burden Upon the Lord",- and "He that Shall Endure Until the' End." Members of the dance group are: Phyllis Auerbach, Roselyn Beard, Ethel Brady, Michaline Claysmith, Carla Christine, Sonia Goldstein, Bernadine Fulton, Pat Hale, Dorothy Hemphill, Sally Jones, Patricia Leis, Ruth Lyne, Peggy Mayberry;.:' Marilyn Mc- Comb, Katherine Nicoll, 'Polly Potter, Phyllis Sones, Betty Jane Strom, Florence Tietz, Patricia Wertz and Joan Wiley. This morning's radio broadcast at 8:30 on WMAJ will have the Rev. Homer V. Heisley as guest speaker and William Klisanin moderator. Tonight's final pro gram will feature the Rev. Sam uel Proctor who spoke at the faculty luncheon and colloquy yesterday. A Skeptics Korner of of the air will also be held with Klisanin, and varsity debaters, (Continued on page eight) By MOYLAN MILLS to the field of battle with a trum pet fanfare. Each side had a dif ferent three-man team for each of the two four-minute. chukkers. There was a one-minute rest per iod between the chukkers, which are periods of play in a polo Th e hatmen were garbed in sweatsuits and black hats. The frosh wore blue shirts and trous ers plus green dinks and name cards. They rode to battle on knee-high, garishly painted "hor ses" mounted on rollers. Wooden mallets were wielded freely in between sprawls and brawls to hit a deflated soccer ball toward the canvas - covered protective matting under the bas ketball hoops which served as goals. Vince O'Bara, former Nit tany grid star, refereed the match. The hatmen's team was com posed of Clarence Buss, Marvin Cetron, • Ronald Coder, Phillip Benedetti, Smidansky, and Barr. The • frosh team included John Conwell, Edward Sieminski, John Pinezich, Thomas Coo:. Pawlack, and Grubb.. STATE COLLEGE. PA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1951 Dance Group Maturity Is Discussed At Colloquy By DAVE COLTON Maturity is not a state which we attain, but a process of con stant growth, Dr. Winona Mor gan said last night in the . "How a Mature Person Meets the Crisis" final colloquy of Religion-in-Life week. Dr. Morgan, head of the Child Development and Family Rela tions department, said maturity never stops regardless of age. She said four things constitute ma turitkr: a person continually add ing to skills and knowledge; an increasing sense of responsibility; increasing ability to communicate with others; an d an increasing ability to turn our thoughts out ward. Mature Religion The Rev. Samuel Proctor said - a person's relationship to himself, his relationship to his brothers, and his relationship to this awe some world are questions to de termine maturity. A mature reli gion is one which allows a person not to be worried about death. Proctor, dean of the School of Religion, Virginia Union univer sity, said a mature persdn's reli gion should keep him un easy until his brother's needs are swered. A mature Christian must appreciate his brother and love him, he said. What we profess in our highest nobility should be (Continued on page eight) • Seniors To Vote On Exam Plan Seniors will be asked to ap prove elimination of senior final examinations at a class meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The plate will be announced later. Marlin Brenner, chairman of the senior class committee on final examinations, said yesterday that seniors will also be asked to approve a plan to have John Erickson, senior class• president, present the final exam proposal for recommendation of all-Col lege cabinet. If the senior class and cabinet both approve, Brenner said, the College senate will be asked to set up a committee to study methods for eliminating finals. The senate, top faculty body on campus, is scheduled to meet next Thursday. Cabinet has been ask ed to meet Wednesday, Brenner said. The senate would be. asked to appoint students to the commit tee, Brenner said. Brenner's committee has been studying senior final examination procedures at other colleges since it was appointed last October. At that time more than 200 seniors at a class meeting voted over whelmingly in a straw vote to abolish finals. Of nearly 40 colleges contacted, Brenner said; a "surprisingly high percentage" do not give finals to seniors. He listed Purdue. Kansas State, Loyola and Oregon State among the schools which reported they do not give senior finals. Brenner asked seniors inter ested in the final exam situation to attend Tuesday's meeting. Members of the committee are: Muriel Wisoker, Wayne Startzel, Suzanne Halperin, Thomas Tur ner, Frederick Kramer and Sam uel Vaughan. W. Dorm Post Office To Be Open Today The West dorm post office will be open today to handle first class mail, officials said yesterday. However, parcels will not be handled, they said. Centre county post offices are scheduled to close today in observance of Washington's birthday. Information on other dorm post offices was unavail able. May 2 Slated As Honor Day • Awards To Be Presented To Outstanding Students, Alumni The designation of May 2 as Penn State's first Honors day, for the presentation of awards to outstanding students and alumni and the inauguration of all-College officers, was announced by President Milton S. Eisenhower yesterday. . This will be the first Honors day as such in the College's his tory, although programs have been held in the past embodying War Can Be Prevented, Pres. Says WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (!P)— President Truman said todaw that although this country faces "the most tremendous emergency" in its history, it gradually is ap proaching a position where World War 111 can be prevented. But the President warned ,that victory only can come with co operation and sacrifices from ev eryone. He told Masonic leaders that this government has but one ob jective: "to keep the peace." "It is an effort to prevent a third world war," he said, "and we gradually are approaching a position in the world where that can be prevented, if we have the support and cooperation of all segments of the population." It won't be easy,_the President said, and he gave this reininder: "Everybody, I don't care who he is, or what his condition or his position is—from the President of the United States to the labor er who digs in the trench—must make some sacrifice in order that the whole country may be mobil ized to meet the serious situation with which we are faced." Mr. Truman made his remarks at a breakfast given for 350 high ranking Masons—Mr. Truman is a 33rd degree Mason himself— at the Stetler Hotel. The bast: Frank Land, a Kansas City friend of 40 years standing. N. Koreans Fleeing in Chechon Sector TOKYO, Thursday, Feb. 22—(A:)—Allied troops in east-central Korea Wednesday hotly pursued North Korean forces fleeing north ward in disbrder. But the Reds defending the Seoul area repulsed two attempts to cross the Han river line. The North Korean Fifth Corps, pummeled by U. S. tanks and artillery from the south and west, broke and ran for the hills in the BULLETIN U.S. 'Ninth Corps Headquar ters, Korea, Feb. 21—(delayed) (JP)—Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, U. S. Eighth Ar my commander, today hurled troops of 'nine nations against the Chinese in a new offensive along the 60-mile central Ko rean front. Chechon sector on the east flank of the central front. A field dispatch said the Reds abandoned equipment, ammuni tion and their dead. A total of 40,000 Reds have been estimated on this front. To the west a French striking column slashed four miles straight north of Wonju, vital communi cations hub 55 miles southeast of Seoul along the same road the Reds charged down nine days ago in their ill-fated counter offen sive. The French met no resistance but reported the Reds had blown a bridge on the road to Com- PRICE FIVE CENTS parts of the new ceremonies. Another first for the day will be the presentation of medallions and scrolls to five distinguished alumni. President Eisenhower ex plained that since the College gives no honorary degrees, the Distinguished alumnus awards will be a method of recognizing outstanding graduates. Classes To Close The Honors day program will begin at 10:45 a.m. in Schwab auditorium. The Council of Ad ministration has authorized clos ing of 10 o'clock classes at 10:30. and omission of 11 o'clock classes. In announcing the plan, the President said, "The purposes of the day are to honor student aca demic achievement, recognize the importance of student govern ment, and to honor the distin guished alumni of the College-- hence the name Honors day." Ceremonies will include inaug uration of the new all-College president ,awarding of four ma jor scholastic honors, presentation of the five Distinguished Alum nus awards, and a keynote ad dress by a speaker not yet named. Past Ceremonies Before the war, 'scholarships had been presented both at a spe cial Scholarship day ceremony and in Mother's day chapel. In augurations have been ,held on designated days on the steps of Old Main until now. Student awards to be presented on Honors day include the Evan Pugh medals, the Pr esid en t Sparks medal, the John W. White medal, and the John W. White fellowship. Evan Pugh medals go each year to juniors and seniors for outstanding academic achieve- (Continued on page eight) munist-held Hoengsong, 10 miles north. An American armored column punched 10 miles northwest of Wonju and reported finding only a no-man's-land. East of Wonju. an American airborne unit fighting as infan trymen shoved the United Na tions line' ahead more than 10 miles and still could not keep up with the rapidly retiring Reds. American troops who over-ran Chuchon, 10 miles north of Che chon, swept high ground in all direction from the foothill village. which is a new .eastern anchor of the U. N. front. Heavy rains fell across most of southern and western Korea Wed nesday, turning the battlefronts to quagmires stalling tanks and slowing the fighting to mostly pa trol action. On the western front two Al lied attempts to cross the rain swollen Han river were driven back by intense mortar fire and crackling bursts of small arms. Seven miles east of the Com munist-occupied South Korean (Continued on page eight)
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