Honors Day Change Needed See Page 4 VOL. 52, 'No. 134 Senate To Discuss Changes Amendnients to the regulations for • undergraduate • students and the 1953-54, College calendar will be discussed at the College Sen ate ' meeting today. The amendments to the under graduate regulations, proposed at the last meeting by R. Wallace Brewster, chairman of the com mittee on student welfare, in clude changes concerning class excuses, probation, and social functions.- The proposed amendment's would make all excuses issued "official," which means they would be honored by all instruc tors. No Dispensary Excuses Under the • proposed plan, ex cuses will be granted for author ized athletic tri p s, inspection trips, approved trips of student organizations, hospital ' confine ment, and for personal emer gencies,Excuses will not be issued frbm the dispensary. ' Brewster said that his commit tee has not finished studying these revisions, and _that they probably will' not be adopted at today's meeting. Other changes proposed by the committee include the e§tablish ment of disciplinary probation and a rule providing for the ap proval of the Dean of Men or the Dean of Women of locations for all social functions. Calendar Dates Set The calendar to be discussed will set the dates for the 1953-54 college year. According to the proposed calendar, Orientation Week for the fall semester would start Sept. 13 and classes Sept. 21. Thanksgiving recess would be gin Nov. 25 at noon and end the morning of Nov. 30. The Christ mas 'recess would run from Dec. 19 at noon until the morning of Jan. 4. Nine days are scheduled for the fall semester examinations. 6 Student Groups Get Charters Six Charters for student groups were granted by the committee on student welfare at its meeting Tuesday morning. The groups are lota Alpha Delta, graduate guidance frater nity; the political science club; the Penn State Grange; the Zoo logical Society of Penn State; the student chapter of the American Society of . Chemical Engineers; and Pi Epsilon, Tau, petroleum engineering honor society. The Zoological Society of Penn State is the „only new organiza tion. The other five have been in existence for some time. These organizations are being chartered so that there will be a record of student groups and their constitutions. The zoological group was ac tive on campus until 1942 when -it was disbanded because of the war. It is an organization for stu dents . interested' i n biological science. Marion McCrane - is the president; Barbara Bohner, sec retary treasurer; and Dr. Pen noyer F. English, faculty spon sor. TODArS WEATHER FAIR ANI? WARM ~.,:;::,•,-. -,' :.::. ', , - .4, 1 , ~41,,„, ;,.ritk <4. , ~ TO 1 attg ......i. ll 1 Toll 3 , : : 4 1. i 4f 'l'm Not THAT Fat!' "PE . GGY" LOOKS bored as Ronald Johnson scratches his head in an effort to guess her weight correctly and win two free tickets to the Horse Show. Marilyn Yingst records the guesses as Donna Litke and Edward Campbell do their bit to comfort the pdny. The show will be held at the College stables Saturday and Sunday. 170 Pints Collected A total of 176 1 h pints of blood was collected at the TUB yester day, according to Mrs. H. T. Dale, chairman of the Red Cross blood program for State College. The results of the drive were termed "very good" by Mrs. Dale. She added there were very- few students who did not show up for the donation. Of the 191' persons processed, over half were repeat donors, principally of the previous drive, according to the nurses handling the records. Case Re-elected To Head LaVie Director's Board -- Professor Andrew W. Case, art adirisoi• Of 'LaVie, was re-elected president of the.LaVie Board of -Dizectors.7.-.at.....a; meeting of the board yesterday. At the same time John Lau bach, All-College president, was elected vice president of the board, and Jacqueline Becker, managing editor of the year book, was elected secretary. Both were-elected %for- a period of one year. Woodrow Bierly, public in formation news assistant,' was elected , • editorial advisor for a three-year period. Other members of the board are George Donovan, director of Student Union, financial advisor; Ridge Riley, executive secretary. treasurer of the Alumni Associa tion; Franklin Banner, head of the Departthent of Journalism, and Louis Bell, director of public information, _editorial associates; Douglas Schoerke, editor-elect of LaVie; Theodore Kimmel, senior class president; and David Pell nitz, chairman of the Board of Publications. ' Arnold Air Society Eleits Commander Robert Frame has been elected Squadron Commander of Arnold Air Society, air science honorary, to succeed John Frantz as the unit's comxnander. Also elected were George Georgieff, executive officer; Mar tin Scicchitano; operations -offi cer; Arnold Paparazo, adjutant; Eugene Thomas, finance officer; and_ Joseph Kline, public infor mation officer. Housing Bids Due Freshman applications for room assignments in Nittany and Pollock dormitories will be processed .today. All reser vations will - be 'accepted in - 108 Old Main between 7 and-9 p.m. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE. COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1952 of in Sixteen non-scheduled volun teers stopped at the TUB to do nate blood. Some others had to be turned away, Mrs. Dale said. In the Borough Tuesday, 149 1 / 2 pints of blood were collected from the 178 pergons processed at the American Legion home. Rob ert H. Breon Jr. of the State Col lege Elks Club, which sponsored the affair, said the Bloodmobile crew had all the donors it could handle through the day. • Mrs. Dale said that there were few students in the campus drive who were turned down for phy sical reasons. Generally a healthy (Continued on page two) Gellert Commends Spring Parade Plan "The costume parade will be one of the most tremendous things to hit Penn State in a long while," James Geffert, chairman of the Spring Week committee, said yesterday. He said that many of the groups are going "all out" in preparing entries for the parade. Several fraternities. plan to costume almost their entire membership. Geffert said that many students had suggested having College string band lead the costume parade May 13. All men who p 1 a y ukuleles, banjos, guitars, mandolins, other string instru ments, or saxophones are re quested to ' attend the initial meeting of the string organiza tion at 9:30 p.m. tomorrow at Phi Epsilon Pi. Edwin Naythons is in charge of the string band. He said that he Would like to organize a band of 50 to 75 members. Geffert announced that 50 en tries have been received for the All-College He-Man contest, a new feature of Spring Week. Deadline for- both the He-Man contest and for carnival booths is Saturday noon. Applications may be turned in at the Student Union desk in Old Main• Gellert .said that booth entries now total 50, which he termed "excellent," but added that the Bliod Drive tgiatt Student Elections In Five Voting was completed yesterday in five of the six student council elections. The other one of the six, Engineering Student Council, completed voting Tuesday. Of the schools that released vote percentages, the sophomore class of the School of Chemistry and Physics had the highest per centage of students voting with 55.5 per cent. The School of Education council, which did not release per centage figures, announced that eight students were elected to next year's senior class positions. They are Donna Rae Estabrook, Forest Fryer, Anne Jennings, Sally Lou Jones, Carolyn Mc- Elroy, Jerrold Moss.. Ruth Pierce, and James Planutis, Those elected to next year's junior class positions are John Baffa, Edward Crossley, Mary Glading, Gwen Griffith, Barbara Mulloy, and Audrey Shultz. Freshmen elected to next year's sophomore class positions are Anne Cunningham, Marilyn Du- Pont, Gertrude Malpezzi, Mary Mano, Nancy Phillips, and Doro thy Swanson. The School of Engineering Stu dent Council reported a student voting average of 31.8 per cent. Juniors in the school had the highest voting percentage with 58.2 per cent, while sophomores followed with 53 per cent, and freshmen with 10.28 per cent. Gifford Albright was elected as fifth year representative for arch itectural engineers. Senior class representatives elected were Thomas Geffert, architectural en gineering; Max Schuster, aero nautical engineering; Samuel Nowell, civil engineering; Lowell Minor, elect r-ic a 1 engineering; Call Collins, industrial engineer ing; and Robert Watson, mechan ical engineering. Junior class positions were filled by George D a v i s, architectural engineering; Frank Leader, aero nautical engineering; John Sny der, civil engineering; Paul Brobst, electrical engineering; Robert Greenawalt, industrial engineer ing; and Richard Welty, mechan ical engineering. Elected to sophomore class po sitions were Thomas Kidd, archi tectural engineering; Harry Lesh er,:aeronautical engineering; Fred Wilder, civil engineering; John Fink, electrical engineering; Ed ward Birkinshaw, industrial ,en gineering; and Robert Osborne, mechanical engineering. Home Economics student coun (Continued on page eight) west parking lot, where the car nival will be held, will easily ac commodate •50 more. Independent groups are wanted for Spring Week activities, Gef fert said. He wants to encourage strong representation from the independents so that uSpring Week will be representative of the complete student body. Applications Include Description He-man applications should in clude the contestant's name, ad dress, phone number, age, height, weight, and the name of the sponsoring organization.. Spring carnival booth applica tions should include the name of the organization, the name of the booth, and a description and di mensions of the booth. A frater nity and sorority entering as a single group will submit only one application. A $2O, deposit must accompany the application. This amount will be refunded provided the booth is - cleaned up after the carnival.. Excuse Plan Aimed at Profs See Page 4 FIVE CENTS Council Close Schools Lee to Give Spring Week Holiday Plan A suggestion for a one-day Col lege Spring Week holiday will be presented before All-College Cab inet tonight by JoAn Lee, recent candidate for All-qollege vice president. Miss Lee's suggestion, which if passed will be „sent to the Col lege Council on Administration, will propose Thursday, May 15, as a holiday. Miss Lee said that in view of the fact that the two days scheduled for pre-registra tion have been placed back on the academic schedule, and that the College calendar was complete without these two extra days, the one-day "compromise" would be feasible. Miss Lee had previously sug gested the one-day break during a radio broadcast last week when she was campaigning for the post of All-College vice president. The two days which were sched uled for pr e - registration were next Monday and Tuesday. ALL-COLLEGE CABINET Agenda Roll Call Minutes of Previous Meeting Reports of Officers Adoption of Agenda Installation of Officers . Reports of Committees 1. Elections committee Old Business 1. Constitutional Amendment New Business 1. Spring Week Holiday Announcements Cabinet has not, met since Thursday, April 3, because of the All-College elections. The new officers, selected in last week's elections, will be in stalled at th e meeting tonight. All-College President John Lau bach was sworn into office Mon day as part of the Honors Day program. Carrol Chapman will give the report of the elections committee, including suggestions for next year's election methods. David Olmsted, present senior class president, will give the sec ond• reading of a constitutional amendment which would include the Radio Guild on the Board of Dramatics and Forensics. Eight Debaters Win Awards l i n Squad Meet Eight men received awards in the first men's intrasquad debate contest held in April. First and second place winners were chosen for each of the four classes. Freshmen winners were Arthur Greenstein and Ivan Sin clair. Receiving the sophomore awards' were Richard Kirschner and Thomas White. Junior awards went to David Swanson and Ernest Schonberger. Sanford Hertz and Thomas Durek took first and second place among the seniors. Fourteen two-man teams com peted in the contest which 'was open to all members of the men's debate team who had not partici pated in. intercollegiate - tourna ments.
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