Nixi Collegian , Fkiday VOL. 52 —'No. 2• Fun Night to End Orientation Week Meetings tonight, tomorrow night, and Friday night, to be fol lowed by an All-College fun-night , Saturday, will complete this year's Orientation Week' for .the 4000 new freshmen and transfer students on campus. ' - All new women on campus w, Auditorium when Womeni's Stu, Customs' Exemptions Are Granted Exemptions fr o m Freshman customs for both men and women will be considered by Tribunal and Judicial at the first meetings of the two groups. Freshman customs board chair man Joan Yerger announced that exemptions from the three-week women's 'customs period will be granted at a meeting of the board on Saturday at 10 a.m. in White Hall. Miss Yerger pointed out that the. board is the only organization that can grant immunities to woan é n. No upperclasswoman may grant individual immuni ties. • Women eligible for immunities must be over 21 or have-under gone customs at other colleges. However, all women seeking im munity must appear at the meet ing. David Mutchler, Tr ib un al Chairman, said the first meeting of the body will be held Monday at 7 p.m. in 201 Old Main. Mutchler also pointed out that Tribuial_ is the only body that may grant men immunities from customs: In cases of appeal• of a Tribunal' decision, All-C ollege Cabinet will be the -final appel late body: .. • Men -over 21; or men who .have undergone customs at another college are. exempt from customs, but, like the women,' must put in, an appearance at the court be- (continued on page eight) All Newcomers Housed--Clark In spite of the unexpectedly large influx of new students this week-end, th e Department of Housing has found living quar ters for 'all arrivals, Russell E. Clark, director of hmthing, - said yesterday. "Everybody who got here had a bed, and everybody 'got fed," Clark said. No accurate figures on, the en rollment for the fall semester will be available until after regis tration is completed. An unoffi cial estimate by C. 0. Williams; acting dean of admissions, placed the number of freshmen arrivals at. 2700, 200 more than the or iginal estimate of 2500. The great er part of the increase is due to a sudden upturn in the number of acceptances of new •men stu , - dents last week, Williams said.- About 9000 undergraduate :-stu dents are expected at the College for 'the first semester. • , Starlight Dance Set '‘ An All-C olle g e "starlight dance, sponsored jointly by 'Panhel, and -Leo nides. will be held tonighron , :Old Main terrace. The dance will begin, at 8:30. ,Preshman women'have re ceived permissions to attend. the dance until it' they then must return im mediately- to, their.. dorms. An otchestra undert, di 'rection i:cif -Darrell Ilishel the provide: ,music. In case of rain; The.dance,ivill be held' tomor- • ' ro w. - night- 4 at . 8:30. - - • - . A , • 1 . 10 *).' ''',... 4 4, Don ' t Be I\ A Sucker— - . 1 4, • * 1 . I'-':E: ''i A° • iiittglart FOR A BETTER PENN STATE I See Page 4 By DAVE JONES 11 meet at 6:45 tonight, in Schwab ent Government Association will present, a• program explaining its organization. Mary Jane Wood row, WSGA president, will speak to the • women. Freshman wo men's customs and- Judicial. will be explained and a skit will be presented. ;Freshman 'men will meet at 8 tonight in Schwab to learn about the ROTC organization on campus. Representatives from Army, Navy, and Air Force units will explain their branches. All freshmen are required to take ROTC for two years. Levitt To Speak Tomorrow, new women will meet again at 6:45 p.m. in Schwab for a program to be presented jointly by Panhellenic Council and Leondies. Marilyn Levitt, Panhellenic president, will speak to the wo men on the council's organiza tion. Panhelenic Council is the governing body for sororities on campus. Ann Burlingame, treasurer of Leonides, will address the wo men on the organization's func tions. Leonides is an independent women's group. WRA Open House New sophomore men will meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Schwab to learn about the three branch ROTC organizations on campus. Army, Navy, and Air Force rep resentatives will be - present to explain their units. New women - will, meet again 'at 6:45 p.m. Friday in White Hall for an open house sponSored ,by Women's Recreation Association. Tours of the building will be conducted and all facilities will be open for the women's use. WRA will sponsor games. Fun Night Saturday Freshman men will meet at 6:45 p.m. Friday in Schwab for Dean of Men's night. H. K. Wil son, dean of men, and his staff, will be introduced by Harr y Co v er, All-College vice-presi dent. Functions and facilities of the dean's office - w ill be ex plained.. New sophothore men will meet at 8 p.m. Friday in Schwab for a (continued on page eight) Houses Reach Halfway Point in Rushing Period ' Fraternity rush week is on! Fall rushing at Penn State's 49 fraternities began Monday and will continue thfough Orientation Week. A summer 'survey of- all houses conducted by Interfraternity Council has indicated approximately, 315 vacancies to be filled this semester. Although: "house guests," who are living at the fraternities during Orientation Week, ar e expected to" fill some of those vacancies; IFC officials feel there will be' "numerous vacancies that may be filled by fall rushees. Under an .IFC ruling revised two years ago, first semester freshmen . cannot -be pledged by a fraternity. Freshmen living in the West DorMs cannot break their 'room contracts with the College, which bind them to Col lege dormitories , for one year. • - Live At Houses ' Second semester freshmen who were on. campus last year are permitted to pledge under IFC rulings, but second semester stu dents,.whp ,`pome. to the College from , other schools .or Penn State centers may not.be:•pledged. Any upperclassman may be pledged. Freshmen wh o attended sum mer .sessions at` the College, but have not completed one semes ter, may , not pledge.: ' ;' tßUshees. May: live in -,,frkerni lies...upqn...invitation h.oa s.e STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1951 Educate Yiurself, President 9000 Start Registration Tomorrow More than 9000 undergraduate, and graduate students will begin registration for the fall semester tomorrow morning. Registration will continue through Saturday. All students must 'report to their adVisors to pick up the registration application form and the registration envelope. All forms must be filled out before going to Recreation Hall for pro cessing. Registration will be held from 8 am. to 4:30 p.m. tomorrow for students with last names begin ning with Le and ending 'with Zy. Students from A to La will register on Friday. Unclassified and special stu dents will register from next Monday through Friday at any tim between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Students in the Division of In termediate Registration must re port to the DIR office at 401 Old Main and then follow the pro cedure outlined on the registra tion envelope. Stude n t s with conflicts or courses added or dropped must go through the Board of Con trol, which will be located in Wil lard Hall. Signs will be posted indicating the location of each department in the eight under graduate schools • of the College. 2 College Debaters Attend Tournament Clair George, senior, and Mar lin Brenner, who graduated in June, represented the Middle At lantic region in competition for membership on the American International Debate teams that will tour Australia and Great Britain. The tournament was held in Evanston, 111. The tours of two teams to be chosen will be sponsored by the Speech Association of America and by the Institute - of Interna tional Education. , IFC president, Stanley Wen gert, remi n d e d fraternities th a I.- rushees may not• enter pledgeship before 8 a.m. Satur , day, 48 hours before classes begin, and warned that IFC will punish violating •houses. Wengert also said no student will be considered by IFC as qfficially pledged unless he has signed a pledge register at the Student Union in Old Main. The register will appear there Saturday morning, guests, but cannot .break dorm contracts to live there during pledgeshif). Rushing may not' in terfere with Orientation Week activities. • Any Number Rush, A scholastic average of 1 for the preceding • semester, or an all-College average of 1, is re quired by IFC before a student may be Pledged. Rushees who (Continued 2on page ..,twol President Milton S. Eisenhower last night told a gather ing of nearly 4000 new students at Recreation Hall that the individual alone must be held responsible for his college education. - - "We can help you learn," the President- said, "but only you can educate yourself. At college you must accept the responsibility for your aviin'ptsitiOn: "The extent to which you learn the true values which Penn State can provide depends entirely on the degree 'to which you accept the responsibility for yourself." Best Student Government The convocation was opened with short introductory remarks by Wilmer E. Kenworthy, direc tor of student affairs. All-College President James Worth introduced the Prexy.. After welcoming the new stu dents to the campus, the Presi dent emphasized the need for co operation between t h e students and the administration. "At Penn State we -have student govern ment as, good, as that existing in any other college in the country, but any good institution always tries to do better," he said. "Con ditions can still be improved if we work together," he stressed. The President then outlined five values which in his opinion should be achieved by every stu dent during his four years at Penn State. Curricula Accredited The first of these, he said, is "sufficient knowledge in one field to help earn a rewarding place in the total economic fabric of our nation." All curricula at the College are accredited nationally, so that each graduate may be able to further himself in his chosen field, the President said. The second of the values to be gained from a college education is "learning how to communicate with logic and clarity," the Presi dent said. Basic Understanding Needed Everyone. must learn to read, write, speak, and ask questions (Continued 0-n page five) Housing Forms Out Tomorrow The Association of Independent Men will begin distribution of forms for the newly-set-up men's housing card system during reg istration tomorrow and Friday in Recreation Hall. Representatives of AIM and Interfraternity Council will help with distribution. IFC cooperated with AIM. in setting up' the sys tem. Preliminary work of gather ing information and. designing a card was done during the sum mer by John Laubach, AIM president, and other AIM repre sentatives. The system will enable AIM to speed up the formation of Town Council. The cards, which will be kept in the Dean of Men's office, will be a complete record of the addresses of all men on campus and in town. The system will aid especially in locating town men. Hat Council to Meet Marvin Krasnansky, a c tin g president of Hat Society Council, yesterday asked all members of the council to contact him so that an election meeting can be scheduled. Krasnansky ca n be reached at the Daily Collegian office, College extension 543, or at 4012. Blue Key Hats Ready 'Blue Key members may' pick up their hats and keys today at, the Athletic Association office in Old Main, President Arthur' Ros feld announced yesterday. Shingles will be given out at the first .meeting of the group next .Monday: or,lTuesday. By LEE STERN BX Features Ties, Dinks, Bows Today Freshman' dress customs will go on sale in the student Book Exchange at 8:30 am. today, Milton Bernstein, chairman of the board of control, announced yesterday. Green dinks and black bow ties for the men and green rib bons for the women must be purchased at the BX, Bernstein said. The official five by eight name cards will also be avail able. The BX is located in the Tem porary Union Building and will be open from 8:30 a.m. to neon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. through Sat urday. , Names Checked Customs dress must be pur chased by 4:30 p.m. Saturday by all freshmen, since customs go into effect at 8 a.m. next Mon day, Bernstein said. Freshmen will have their names checked when the • cus toms are purchased. That list will be used by Tribunal and Judicial to check on freshmen who fail to buy their customs. The exchange was 'establised three years ago for the purpose of providing students with books and school supplies at the lowest possible prices. • Students may-bring used books to the BX to sell, and they may also purchase used books there. Anyone may take used ,books to the BX and place their own selling price on them. With each purchase, a receipt is given. These receipts are re deemable for a 20 per cent rebate to the, student near 'the end of the semester. The BX is run by students ap pointed by All-College Cabinet. Bernstein is chairman of the BX board of control; Robert Spragg, secretary, chairman of the Used Book Agency; Jay Headley, treasurer; Joseph Haines, per sonnel director; Clair George, purchasing agent; and Fr ank Kelly, advertising director. Frosh Permissions Set By Dean Weston Freshman women have been granted • 9:15 permissions dur ing Orientation We e k and sophomores an d upperclass women will have 10 o'clocks during the week and 1 o'- clocks Friday and Saturday, according to Pearl 0. Weston, dean of women. This week-end freshmen will receive 40 o'clocks, she said. If orientation programs run later than the closing time at th e dormitories, coeds may stay until the completion of the, program but must return to the dormitories imme diately, Miss Weston said. Sunday night regular fresh man hours will go into effect and customs will begin next Monday morning. PRICE FIVE CENTS BX Staff
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