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VOL. 52, No. 26
'Bottoms Up' Opens
Tonight at Schwab
' Thespians open their 1951 season at 8 tonight in Schwab Audi
torium with an original student musical comedy revue, “Bottoms
Up.”
Tickets, for tonight’s show, which also runs tomorrow and
Homecoming night, can be purchased at the Student Union desk in
Old Main. Many 90 cents tickets for tonight and $1.20 tickets for
Friday are unsold, 'while a few
tickets are still available for Sat
urday.
Weekend
Plans Made
For Alumni
Alumni returning for Penn
State’s 31st Homecoming Day this
weekend, will find a full program
which has been outlined by the
College.
Registration of the “old grads”
begins tomorrow in Recreation
Hall and continues through Satur
day morning. An alumni golf
.tournament is scheduled for to
morrow afternoon and Saturday
morning. ' v '
Tomorrow night the ten hon
ored gridders from the 1887 to 1901
and the 1926 teams will be the
guests of the Varsity S club in
Hamilton Hall.
Saturday morning the Alumni
Council, governing body of the as
sociation, will hold its annual
meeting. This will be followed by
the alumni luncheon, in Recreation
Hall starting at 11:30 a.m.
Saturday's football game
with Michigan Stale College
will start at 1:30 p.m. instead
of the usual 2 p.m. for home
football games.
Saturday evening a cider party
and dance will be held, in Recrea
tion Hall for the alumni.
Olympic Collection
Temporary end-zone tickets at
$2.40 are still on sale in Old Main
for the football game. The ex
pected-filling of these temporary
stands will swell the normal seat
ing capacity of 28,500 to 30,000, the
largest crowd in Beaver Field his
tory. Previous, high was in 1948
when the same foes played a 14-14
tie, before 24,500.
During the halftime of the game,
200 WRA girls will take a collec
tion for the 1952 Olympics. The
Penn State Olympic Contribution,
like other similar drives through
out the country,' will help , send
United States’ athletes to Helsinki,
Finland next summer.
AIM Publication
To Appear Today
. The first issue of the Indepen
dent, Association of Independent
Men publication, will be distri
buted today in the men’s and
women’s dormitories and down
town. , -
The issue will feature a lead
editorial by Moylan Mills, editor,
on the role of AIM in student gov
ernment this year. Also in the
issue will be .a profile on John
Laubach, AIM president, by Lee
Stern, feature editor. -
The Independent will follow
new policies ! set last year by con
tinuing to ilse photpgraphs and
keeping a circulation of 2000,
Mills said.
, ■ Marshall Donley and Alvin
Goodman have been added to the
editorial staff. 1
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STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1951
Gleesingers Open Show
Presented in conjunction with
Masquerettes, “Bottoms Up” was
written by Frank. Lewis and Dave
Weiner, and is under the direction
of Ray Fortunato, Thespian direc
tor. , Fortunato also wrote two
songs‘for the production,
i The musical opens with
the- Gleesingers singing “Every
body’s a Critic.” Beene two has
Jackie Cohen and Ed Korber sing
ing “You Went and Did It Again.”
Scene three is a Rip Van
Wrinkle skit with Dick Brown,
Dick Brugger, Pat Marsteller, Bet
ty Richardson, and Alan Miller
doing the acting-Glee chorus and
dancers will do the number
“Kum Klein Kinder.”
In the fourth scene depicting
“An Actor Preparing,” Joe Bird,
Marilyn Stewart, and James An
derson do the acting with a song,
(Continued on page eight)
WSGA, WRA
Finals Today
Final elections for four Wom
en’s Student Government Associ
ation and Women’s Recreation
Association offices will take place
from 10 a.m. to 7, tonight.
_ Women will vote in their own
living units, with the exception
of those in Grange Hall and in
cottages, .who will vote, in Mc-
Allister Hall. '
Town women and women in
co-ops can vote at any station.
Home management women'may
vote in Woman’s Building.
Candidates for WRA sopho
more representative. are Virginia
Hinner and Patricia Colgan. Mar
cia Ferguson, Ellie Gwynn, Bar
bara Weyand, and Dorothy Wil
liams are finalists for WRA fresh
men representatives.
Finalists for WSGA treasurer
are Carolyn Pelczar and Barbara
Werts and finalists for WSGA
freshman - senator are Ann Cun
ningham' arid .Louise Glud.
This year’s primary elections
showed a 73 percent vote, as com
pared . with -79 percent in last
years’’ primaries. In’ the finals
last .year, 60 percent of women
students voted.
Pep Rally Tomorrow
Will Launch Homecoming
Cheers will echo in front of Old Main tomorrow night as Home
(pbming Weekend, preparation reaches its peak with the'fourth pep
rally of the season. . . , \ ,
A parade headed by the Blue Band will begin at 7:ls'p.m. at
the corner of Fairmount avenue and, Allen street. It will proceed
to the Mall where the band will. march to Old Main.
The pep rally, scheduled to
start at 7:30 p.m.’, will be made
up .of speeches, cheers, music and
a skit.
Speakers for the pep rally will
not be known until Friday.
Thomas Hanna, head cheerleader,
announced that President Milton
S. Eisenhower, and Gov. John S.
Fine were asked to sjpeak, . but
that neither was available:
President Eisenhower has sev
eral conflicting meetings and
Gov. Fine will not arrive in State
College until Saturday.
Sam Marino, chairman of the
pep rally. committee, refused to
disclose‘the type of skit to be
performed, but said that “every
one would get his laughs.” ■
.Also included in the .program,
Two Houses Hit;
Break IFC Code
Dramatics Head
r*\
Arthur C. Cloetingh
Drama Prof
To Play Lead
In'Our Town' .
Professor Arthur C. Cloetingh,
head of the dramatics division,
will{= play the' lead role of the
stage manager, in the forthcoming'
Players’ production of Thornton
Wilder’s Pulitzer prize-winning
play, “Our Town.”
The Wilder classic, a great hit
on Broadway in 1938, will he
presented by Players Nov. 8,9,
and 10 in Schwab auditorium.
Cloetingh, .a veteran actor,-ap
peared in the same role on cam
pus in a 1944 Players l presenta
tion. . .
' Other featured roles were wbn
by Morris Sarachek, who will
portray Dr. Gibbs; Prim Diefen
derfer, as Mrs. Gibbs; Shirley Gal
lagher, as Mrs. Webb; Rodney,
McLaughlin, as George Gibbs;
Jolly Oswalt, as Emily Webband
Dick Anderson, as Editor Webb.
Robert D. Reifsneider, drama
tics professor, will direct the
play.
Other Players winning roles
are Don Barton as Joe Crowell;
Ivan Ladizinsky as Honre New
some; and Mary Kozelnicky as
Rebecca . Gibbs. Bill ’ Valmont
plays Wally Webb, and Richard
Neuweiler plays Professor. Wil-;
lard.
Miriam Bleiberg plays the Wo
(Continued on page eight)
will be talks by Coach Rip Engle
and co-captains Art Betts and
Len Shephard. Shephard Will in
troduce tackle Dick Cripps.
PSCA Hike Sunday
The Penn' State Christian As
soci-tion hiking club will spon
sor a hike through the college
farmlands and a weiner roast
from 2 to 8 p:m. Sunday.
This hike is open to all students
on campus. There will be' a ch-.-rge
of 50 cents to pay .for the foo’..
Anyone wishing to go should
sign up in the PSCA office, 304
Old Main, before 5 p.m. tomorrow
and' pay the .secretary;,Mrs. Mar
gery Yougel or Frank Hartman,
club president. (
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AIM Will
Probe Sale
Of Rings
A committee to gather infor
mation regarding the discon
tinued sale of class rings by the
Book Exchange was - named last
night by the Board of Governors
of the Association of Independent
Men.
Milton Bernstein, BX chairman,
had announced earlier in the
week that the sale of class rings
would be discontinued pending
investigation of the matter by the
BX and the College administra
tion.
John Stoudt, AIM vice presi
dent, was appointed chairman of
the committee which includes
Weston Tomlinson, president of
Nittany Dorm Council, and Ralph
Griffith, vice president of West
Dorm Council.
Discussion of the ring situation
was added to the agenda by un
animous consent of the board.
Tomlinson introduced the motion
before the board and it was pass
ed unanimously.
Members of the board quoted
a report by Wilmer Kenwouthy,
director of student affairs, in yes
terday’s Daily Collegian that
“certain questions” had been
raised over the matter, and sug
gested that the committee meet
with Bernstein and Kenworthy in
an attempt to learn for the board
the nature of the
The. board also empowered a
committee to make arrangements
to send delegates to a regional
convention of the National Inde
pendent Students Association.
The region, of which the cam
pus AIM is a member, is the east
(Continued on page eight)
State Party m
To Nominate
Clique Officers
Preliminary nominations' for
State Party All-College fresh
man, and sophomore clique offi
cers will be held at the first party
meeting at . 7 p.m. Sunday in 10
Sparks, Murray Goldman, clique
chairman, said yesterday. .
Party organization, committee
openings, and work done by the
various committees will be dis
cussed at the meeting.
Voting cards cannot be obtain
ed until a student attends two
party meetings'.’. Attendance rec
ords, are kept to eliminate non
members from voting, a system
used successfully last spring,
Goldman said.
Thomas Farrell, ward commit
tee head, explained that both
town and the campus are divided
into units with leaders and com
mittee members who have per
sonal contact with students. Bet
ter student government and rec
ognition of students’ wishes are
afforded by this system, Farrell
said.
Both Goldman and Farrell
stressed the fac.t that lower class
members will 'be placed on com
mittees because ' they are the
people who ultimately will man
age the party.
Inkling, Material
Material for the forthcom
ing issue of Inkling, campus
literary magazine, is still be
ing accepted. All material may
be turned in at the Student
Union desk in- Old Main ad
dressed .to Bud,Fenton, Inkling
Editor, Material, may include
essays, fiction, and poetry.
Froth Imitates
1877 Copy
See Page 4
PRICE FIVE CENTS
See Editorial Page 4
Inter-Fraternity Council last
night issued suspensions to Pi
Lambda Phi and Kappa Sigma
fraternities ■ for violating the
pledging code. The suspensions
will go into effect Sunday.
Pi Lambda Phi received a four
week suspension for pledging two
men who had averages below one.
It was. ordered that the men be de
pledged and be moved out of the
house.
Kappa Sig Suspension
Kappa Sigma was suspended
from the IFC for a two-week per
iod because it had pledged a man
who was a hardship and scholastic
problems A more lenient penalty
was given because the house had
notified the IFC and the dean of
men’s office when it learned of the
violation. The man is to be de
ple'Sged but will be allowed to re
main in the house.
A suspension from IFC results
in a social probation period for
the houses involved. In these
cases, however, both houses will
be allowed to participate in intra
mural sport and in the IFC work
shop.
Civic Committee Set
The council also approved the
establishment of a civic respon
sibility committee designed to co-
Rooms in Pollock Circle dorms
will be made available to fra
ternity undergraduates who are
being displaced by the large
number of returning alumni.
Individual students must make'
arrangements at Dorm 30 be
fore 5 p.m. Friday for Friday
and Saturday nights an£ before
noon Saturday for Saturday
night only. Two dollars per
night per person will be pay
able in advance and each fra
ternity is limited to a maximum
mum of 15 occupants.
ordinate and expand the activities
of Penn State fraternities. Joseph
Lemyre, Sigma Chi, was appointed
chairman of the committee by
Stanley Wengert, IFC president.
• Robert Fitzpatrick, Sigma Chi,
who worked' on plans for the com
mittee, said that it would exem
plify the fraternity’s awareness of
its civic responsibility;, prove to
“outsiders” that an interest in
civic responsibilities does exist in
the fraternities, and aid in elimi
nating unfavorable publicity and
securing favorable notice for the
fraternities.
Housing Functions
Assistant Dean. of Men H. W.
Perkins told the council that the
Department of Housing would
make available rooms in the Pol
lock Circle area to help ease the
housing situation caused by
the Homecoming Weekend. He
said assignments to rooms would
be made on a first come, first
served basis.
Kendall Tomlinson, chairman
of the lawn display committee,
reported that Wilmer E. Ken
worthy, director of student affairs;
H. K. Wilson, dean of men; and
Dr. J. R. Bracken of the Horticul
ture’ department would be the
judges of the fraternity lawn dis
play® Judging will start at 7 p.m.
Friday and the winning house will
be awarded the cup at the alumni
luncheon in Recreation Hall Sat
urday noon.
Lion Party to Elect
All-College Chairman
The Lion party members will
meet at 7 tonight in 119 Osmond
Laboratory to discuss plans for
reorganization and elect an All-
College chairman to succeed Mil
ton Bernstein who resigned his
post as clique, chairman Tuesday.
Bernstein will explain plans
for reorganization and act as
temporary chairman until a new
chairman is'elected. Any student
interested in. Lion party politics
may attend.