PA GE TWO Staff Receives 2.d Raise Today The second pay boost since January will be incorporated in to morirow's pay to College employees. The raise, effective as of Feb. 1, boosts service employees wages an average of $l5 a month. It also *vides fOr increases to faculty and administrative employees on a merit basis. The raise to service employees will amount to a minimum of $5 monthly for those previously being paid the highest wages for, their specific job classifications; other service employees will re ceive increases - ranging from $lO to $2O a month. Union Requested Straight Raise This increase raises service em ployee wages about $32 a month, on the average, over what they were July 1, 1951. Local 67 of the American Fed eration of State, County and Mu nicipal Employees (AFL) had re quested through a grievance com mittee that increases to service employees be made across the board. The College has explained that the wage adjustment plan for service employees is designed to eliminate the inequality in salar ies. The union at a meeting early this month decided to sit tight and it postponed a decision on the wage boosts until "employees know what increases will be made and action is taken." Exact Amount Unknown The union claims 500 of the 1800 service employees of the College as members. The exact increase to faculty and administrative personnel has never been exactly specified by the College other than that it is being made on a merit basis. The first increase was • an nounced by President Milton S. Eisenhower early in January and covered the period from July 1,1 1951. The six month increment was paid in a lump sum Jan. 25. This raise was estimated at ten per cent of the total College pay roll and the later adjustment, ef fective Feb. 1, has been described by the President as about half the amount of the earlier raise. Raise Depends on Income Prseident Eisenhower, in ex plaining the fiscal situation of the College to employees Jan. 21,1 gave assurance that all of the $3,700,000 appropriated to the Col lege for salary adjustments dur ing the two years ending June 30, 1953, will be used for that State Party To Meet for Workshop The workshop of the State Party will hold the second of its weekly meetings at 7 tonight in Sparks building. According to Thomas Farrell, acting workshop chairman, the meeting will be ,adjourned in time to allow the participants to attend the meeting of All-College Cabinet scheduled for 8 p.m. in 201 Old Main. The ward committee of the workshop program, with Ernest Famous as head, will meet in 11 Sparks. Melvin Rubin will con duct the platform meeting in 12 Sparks. The publicity section will be led by Robert Kritt in 13 Sparks. Rae DelleDonne will chair the membership group in 14 Sparks. The campaign com mittee will meet in 124 Sparks with Irvin White in charge. The distribution section under the di rection of Franklin Reese will meet in 125 Sparks. Farrell emphasized. that atten dence at the worshop meetings will count toward the two meet ing attendence requirement for clique membership. Final Tryouts For Readings Will Be Held Final tryouts'for representatives from the College to the fourth Penn sylvania Intercollegiate Reading Festival at the College May 1 and 2 will be held Tues day from 1 to 5 p.m. Students who wish to read must contact either Mrs. Harriet Nesbitt or William Hamilton of the, Speech department to make a specific appointment. Interested students who did not attend the first meeting held last Tuesday may follow the same pro cedure. About 35 students at tended the first meeting. Four students will be chosen of whom two will read poetry, one drama, and one prose. Ap proximately 80 schools have been invited to participate in the con test which was originated by the College. One representative will also be chosen for the Eastern Int e r collegiate Poetry Reading Festi val to be held at Long• Island University April 5. Alpha Phi Omega To Hold Mixer A pledge mixer will be held by Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, at 7 p.m. to morrow in the Hugh Beaver room on the third floor of Old Main. The fraternity will accept as many pledges as possible, Richard Schuler, vice president and chair man of the pledge committee, said yesterday. All students ex cept eighth-semester seniors are eligible. An outline 'of the principles history, organization, and benefits to the campus and community of the fraternity will be given at the mixer, Schuler said. 6 Week Bridge Lessons Will Be Given in TUB A six-week series of bridge les sons will be given at the TUB starting Sunday. The lessons will be given from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Sundays. Registra tion fee for the course is $l, which may be paid at the Student Union desk in Old Main or in the West Dorm Dining Hall. THE Mitt COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGt. PENNSYLVANIA purpose alone. Whether still additional, very modest, adjustments will be forth coming at the beginning of the next fiscal year, July 1, 1952, is dependent upon the probable fee income, President Eisenhower, has said. Center Stage Fetes sth Year With Isben's 'Hedda Gabler' By LIT MARTIN A birthday cake with five can dles will be in order at Center Stage tomorrow night, for "Hed da Gabler" is opening almost five years to the date that arena stag ing was first tried in State Col lege. • Players first experimented with arena production in March 1947 when they presented "Skylark" in the banquet room of the State College Hot e 1. The dramatics group leased the room on Friday nights and the hotel management let them have it without rent Saturday nights, and served a supper in the bargain. This was the beginning of the "packaged evening" tradition at Penn State, at which the audi ence is invited to stay for refresh merits after the play. Undergoing Crisis This setup was continued when the location was moved to the present quarters—Center Stage, at the corner of Allen street and Hamilton avenue. At the present time this tra dition is undergoing a crisis, as not enough people have been stay ing after the play to make it worthwhile. Players' first experiment With theater-in-the-round met w it h warm response from a Daily Col legian reporter, who said the new style of staging "seemed to create, a feeling of intimacy and warmth that some of the more recent pro-: ductions at Schwab have lacked." He went on to say, "When the stage lights first came up and 1 Keeping a Lonely Vigil by Dead A SMALL COCKER SPANIEL keeps a lonely vigil at Racine, Wis., beside the body of his master, Carl Anderson, 68, (parify shown at left) of Racine. Anderson died of a heart attack while changing a tire on his auto. Coroner Bernard Evenson said Anderson ap parently had been dead about ten hours before being found. AP Wirephoto Talented Kittens Needed for Roles In Players' Show Wanted: two kittens for sup porting roles in "You Can't Take it With You," Players' next Schwab Auditorium show. Requirements? "J us t ve r y young," according to properties manager Renee Kluger. Previous acting experience is not neces sary, Miss Kluger explained, be cause the kittens do not have speaking parts and remain sta tionary during their entire per formance. When the kittens are found they will be cast as "paper weights" she said. Anyone who knows of two fe lines who are free the nights of March 6,7, and 8 is asked to con tact Miss Kluger, 413 Simmons Hall, or Warren S. Smith, direc tor, in the dramatics office, Schwab Auditorium. PSCA Radio Group The Penn State Christ n Association publicity, committee will hold a meeting at 7 .tonight in 304 Old Main for those stu dents interested in radio work. saw the audience across from me just as clearly as I saw the actors on the stage, I was disturbed. But my disturbance soon subsided and the peering faces bothered me only sporadically." Kelly Yeaton, assistant profes sor of dramatics; brought the theater-in-the-round to Penn State from the University of Washing ton. Yeaton was a graduate stu dent and instructor there when, Tickets for "Hedda Gabler," scheduled to run for the next six weeks, are en sale at the Student Union desk in Old Main. They are 90 cents for Friday nights and $1.25 for Sat urday night performances. in the late 1930'5, the Penthouse theatre became the first continu ing arena theatre. He explained that since an ar ena theater generally seats only abbut 200 people, it is necessary to' op e r ate on a "continuing policy" in order to make ends meet. Most arena experts have said that the sense of audience actor intimacy is lost if the audi ence exceeds 300. Folio* 'Penthouse Formula' Since arena acting can be more subtle, and the actors speak in lower voices, it is recognized as a more sensitive medium of com munication, wit h tremendous emotional power, according to Yeaton. Because of this and the 23 Will Attend State Chorus March 15-17 • Several students from Penn State choral organizations • have been chosen to participate in the Pennsylvania Collegiate Chorus to be held at Indiana State Teach ers College, Indiana, Pa., March 15 to 17. The students will rehearse un der the guest conductor, Dr. Igor Jones of the Bethlehem Bach Choir, and will present a concert for the public on Monday, March 17. Twenty-three students will represent the Chapel Choir, the Glee Club and Treble Singers. First sopranos include Margaret Morgan, Molly North; second so pranos Elizabeth Agnew, Joan Atkinson, Georgia Gianopulos; first alto, Janet Saunders; second altos, Barbara Bright, Jane Mason, Carolyn Morris. First tenors are Laßue Durr wachter, Richard Hill, Charles Naginey, Thomas Stayer, Luther Sunderland, James Erb; second tenors Lynn Fowl e r, William Greenham, Herbert Hurlbring, Milton Morgan; first bass David Evans; second basses Robert En terline, Craig McK e e, Harry Nichol. fact that the audience is so close to the stage, "nobody ever gets up and walks out—they can't— somebody might think it's part of the production," he said. Center Stage productions at Penn State have been following the "Penthouse formula" of "mod ern comedy with _high polish," Yeaton said. Occasionally, differ ent types of plays have been tried, such as "The Gentle People" and "Hedda Gabler." It is Yeaton's belief that a play that is "weak" on a regular stage may be .more effective if produced at an arena theater. Yeaton has written several ar ticles for "Players' Magazine," a national dramatic publication. In these articles, he described several new developments in cent ral staging at Penn State. Two im portant ones are three-dimension al sound and single-source flood lighting. Three-dimensional sound places a sound where it naturally origin ates, rather than offstage. By using a single-source floodlight, the staging is more, realistic, "documentary,. and adds a plastic quality of roundnesS to the de tails," Yeaton explained. It also helps to focus attention on the action: the actors move around in relation to the light, rather than moving several lights for the actors. "People usually react to central staging with surprise" that it should work, but there's no rea son why it shouldn't," he said. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1902 Draft Test Forms Due March 10 Maj Gen. Lewis .B Hershey, selective service director, ,yester day reminded college students that applications for the April 24 selective service qualification test must be postmarked no later than midnight March 10. National headquarters estimat ed that. more than' 100,000 stu dents will apply for the test. This will be the last test given during this academic year. It will be •the sixth national deferment test. Students here may obtain ap plication blanks at any -draft board. The closest board to State College is located in the Belle fonte Post Office building. - 19,571 Take Test To be eligible to take the test an applicant must request defer ment as a student, must be pur suing a full-time college course leading to a • degree, and must not have taken the test previous ly. National headquarters_ said re cently that 61.3 per cent of the 19,571 students who took the Dec. 13, 1951 test made a score of 70 or better. Of the approximately 340,000 who took the first four, tests, 63 per cent made a score of 70 or better. Students are considered for de ferment at the present time on. the basis of a score of 70 or better in the test or class standing among the male members in the upper half of the freshman class, upper two-thirds of the sopho more class• or upper three-fourths of the junior class. Students Confused Although local boards consider deferment policy, Hershey said, they are under no compulsion to follow these criteria. Many students are confused in differentiating between the 1-S deferment and the 2-S deferment, Hershey .said. The 2-S deferment is considered on the basis of class standing or the test and is de cided upon by the board. The 1-S deferment is Provided for by law and a college student ordered to report for induction while he is entitled to a 1-S student rating may finish the academic year, Hershey said. Matson to Speak At SGE Smoker Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Mineral Industries national honorary, will hold a smoker at 7:30 tonight at Delta Tau Delta. The purpose of the smoker, ac cording to John Harrison, presi dent, is to select candidates for possible pledging into the honor ary. Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students are invited to attend. Dr. Frederick R. Matson, pro fessor of ceramics, will speak. The Dead Sea, in southern Palestine, is the deepest natural depression' in the world, being 1292 feet below the lei.rel of the Mediterranean.
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