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Freshmen Must
Enroll
Penn State, like every land grant college, must set up, under
authority of Congress, a Reserved Officers Training Corps program
to provide capable leaders for times of national emergency.
Penn State offers three branches of ROTC, the Army, Air Force,
and Navy, to incoming students. Every physically fit male student,
with certain exceptions, must serve in one branch of ROTC for-at
Frosh May
Attend MI
Meeting
The Mineral Industries Student
Council will hold an open meet
ing Tuesday night to which all
freshmen enrolled in the School
of Mineral Industries are invited,
David Fleming, president, has an
nounced.
The meeting will be part of the
Orientation Week functions car
ried on in an attempt to acquaint
the new students with their sur
roundings. At the gathering the
officers of and the representatives
to_ the council will be introduced
and their duties will be explained.
The purpose of the group will be
explained and the methods of
electing representatives will be
described.
Students who should attend the
meeting, according to Fleming,
are those enrolled in the Mineral
Industries departments of geol
ogy, mineralogy, geophysics and
geochemistry, meterology, geo
graphy, mineral economics, min
ing, mineral preparation, petrol
eum and natural
,gas, fuel tech
nology, etallurgy, and ceramics.
Fleming also stated that the
student council plans to publish
a special edition of the MI News
letter, its monthly bulletin, some
time during the week to explain
the workings of the council in
further detail.
Besides Fleming, a seventh
semester student in ceramics, oth
er, officers of the organization in
clude Robert Decker, vice presi
dent and a seventh semester stu
dent in mineral preparation; and
Norman -Bowne, secretary-treas
urer and a seventh semester met
eorologist.
Two freshmen representatives
to the student council will be
elected sometime in November.
Fleming said. They hold the post
for all-four years of their college
career unless they fail to main
tain a 1.0 All-College average.
They also forfeit it if they ad
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in ROTC
least two years. The length of
time that a student must serve
is the biggest difference between
Army or Air Force ROTC and
Navy ROTC.
Army or Air Force cadets must
serve two years basic training.
Two years of advanced training
are optional to students found,
acceptable. The Navy, on the oth
er hand, has a four year advanced
program which a student must
finish once he starts.
To get into Naval ROTC a stu
dent must either take a national
test before he arrives on campus,
in which case he becomes a reg
ular cadet, or he must apply for
admission to the program no later
than the third day of Orientation
Week, in which case the student
receives a contract status. A con
tract cadet may be promoted to
regular cadet by examination af
ter the program gets underway.
Naval contract cadets, like
Army and Air Force cadets, re
ceive 90 cents subsistence pay per
day for every day of their junior
and senior years, plus extra pay
for summer duty. Naval regular
students, however, receive $52 per
month plus tuition and books for
all four years of College.
All Naval cadets must ta k e
three summer cruises before they
may be graduated. Army and Air
Force cadets must take a four to
eight week training period be
tweeen their junior and senior
years.
Upon graduation, Naval regu
lars become ensigns in the U.S.
Navy, while the contract men be
come ensigns in the Naval Re
serve. Army and Air Force ad
vanced cadets become second lieu
tenants, upon graduation, in their
reserve organizations.
vance ahead of their class through
attending summer school or some
other means.
Each year after the first, the
class elects two more represen
tatives. Thus there are four soph
omores, six juniors, and eight
seniors. These members of the
council annually elect officers
from their own ranks at a special
meeting. The only qualification is
that the presidential candidates
be sixth semester students at the
time of election.
Also attending the meetings of
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PAPERS and
SUPPLIES
Frosh Men
Represented
By AIM
The Association of Independent
Men represents all male students
living in the dormitories and in
town in student goverriment on
campus.
Since freshmen are required,
through College regulations, to
live in the dormitories during
their first year, they automati
cally become members.
Besides representing indepen
dent men in student government,
AIM sets up a social calendar
during the year. Plans are under
way now for a variety show, the
"Dink Debut," to be held Satur
day night for freshmen.
Units Elect
, The major governing body of
the association, the AIM Board
of Governors, is made up of rep
resentatives from the four men's
living areas—Nittany Dorms, Pol
lock Circle Dorms, the West
Dorms, and the town area.
In the Nittany and Pollock
Dorms, each unit elects one rep
resentative to its respective coun
cil. The liVing 'units in the West
Dorms are the floor levels, with
a representative from each level.
The downtown area has been
divided into wards, with students
living in the wards electing their
representative to Town Council.
Shifflet AIM President
The Board of Governors is
made up of the council officers
and representatives-at-large. The
"at-large" members are elected
to the board in proportion to the
number of residents of each liv
ing area.
The AIM president, who has a
seat on All-College Cabinet, is
elected by the board. William
Shifflet was elected president last
spring.
According to an AIM spokes
man, the association is going ,to
attempt this year to plan joint
social activities with Leonides,
the independent women's organ
ization. Another major activity
under consideration is an inde
pendent weekend, he said.
the council are the presidents of
the various societies and honor
,aries in the Mineral Industries
school and Dr. Edward Steidle,
dean of the school. These repre
sentatives bring matters to the at
tention of the group and partici
pate in debate on the . subjects,
but have no voting power.
The council is open to any rea
sonable suggestions and requests
them from the students it serves.
College Maintains
Employment Agency
The student employment office, a branch of the College Place
ment Service, is designed to help students find part-time employ
ment during - the school year.
The services of the student employment office, 112 Old Main,
are available to all students who are in need of financial assistance
while-attending the College. The office acts as a clearing house, re
ferring students to part-time jobs
on the campus, in town, and the
surrounding territory.
Contact Office Frequently
Begun in 1947, the office was
established as a permanent or
ganization maintained by the Col
lege
The majority of the campus and
local jobs come to the attention
of the student employment office
a day or two before the vacancy
exists. Students are advised to
keep in contact with the office by
personal visits or phone calls at
frequent intervals.
It is difficult to predict what
type of work a student may en
gage in as his class schedule,
study program, and specific skills
are the determining factors in job
references.
Numerous Jobs for Men
All students seeking part-time
jobs should register with th e
office at the beginning of each
semester in order that their class
schedules be kept accurate and
other personal data be brought up
to date.
Positions most frequently avail
able for men include washing
windows, waxing floors, garden
ing, waiting on tables, manual la
bor, and a variety of jobs requir
ing specific skills.
Maintains Resort Division
Jobs for women are more limit
ed due to the restrictions of the
places in town where women are
employed. Work for women in
cludes housework, baby sitting,
work in the libraries, clerking,
and general office jobs.
In addition to the part-time job
service, the student employment
office maintains a camp and
.re
sort division which is set up to
help students secure summer em
ployment. Many students earn
enough dpring the summer to pay
for most of their college expenses
during the fall term.
The office also takes care of
placing waiters in College dining
commons, boarding houses, and
fraternities, and arranges for stu
dents to work in private homes
in exchange for room and board.
Register Early
Some job opportunities are also
available in the student-managed
news, magazine, floral; dry clean
ing, and service agencies. The flor
al agency, started two years ago,
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1952
Registration
For Freshmen
On Thursday
all semester • registration for
all undergraduates will be held
Wednesday through Saturday in
Recreation Hall, based on an al
phabetical listing released last
spring by the office of the regis
trar. Graduate students, under
the same setup, may register at
any time regardless of listings.
Upperclassmen must register
according to the alphabetical
listing. Freshmen, however,
-may register any time after 1
p.m. Thursday regardless of
their alphabetical designation,
provided registration will not
conflict with the regular Orien
tation Week schedule.
Seniors and juniors will regis
ter by the listing all day Wednes
day and Thursday morning. Soph
omores will register according
to the listing Thursday afternoon
and all day Friday.
Special students will register
the week of Sept. 14. Two year
agriculture students may register
any time after .1 Thursday.
There will be strict adherence
to the alphabetical designations
for undergraduates, the College
has announced.
Students will not be admitted
to classes for which they are not
registered, according to the Col
lege catalog. Students who have
attended other colleges must first
see the Dean of Admissions and
have their admission status 'de
termined by him before being eli
gible to register, the catalog
states. The . College reserves the
right to impose a penalty - upon
students who fail to register upon
appointed . days.
Prexy Receives Degree -
President Milton S. Eisenhower
has been awarded his tenth hon
orary degree. The University - of
Maine presented him with- a doc
tor of laws degree this summer,
the seventh he has received since
his appointment as College Pres
ident.