Customs Begin Monday Vol. 53, No. 3 Freshman Customs Will Begin Monday . { Freshman customs will go into effect for more than 2600 frosh a tj 8 a.m. Monday. Both men and women will be subject to a fill set of dress customs and regulations prescribed by the Freshman Customs and Regulations Board. Men will be required to wear green dinks and black bow ties while the girls will sport green bows. All freshmen will wear 5 by 8- inch name cards with their name, home town, and curriculum for Student BX Is Closed Tomorrow • The College Book Exchange, a non-profit, student - operated school supply store, has an nounced that the supply store and Used Book Agency in the TUB will be closed tomorrow, but open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. next week. The Book Exchange carries a complete line of school supplies for students under a new system of saving. Ronald Lench, treas urer of the BX, yesterday said that for every $5 of merchandise bought in the BX merchandise worth $1 will be given free.. The BX also handles official freshman dress customs. ''Fresh men may get their customs on the stage of the TUB in a new speed up program . designed to elimi nate long lines. Freshmen women may get their ribbons for bows today, Robert Smoot, purchasing agent for the BX, said. Ribbon was being flown to Slate College from Pittsburgh late yesterday afternoon and would be on sale today. ' The Used Book Agency is op erating under a new expanded system in. the ballroom of the TUB. The new system is set up on a self-service basis with books on many different tables under gen eral headings. This program eliminates standing in lines and the serious space problem that confronted the ÜBA last year. Howard Giles, chairman of the ÜBA, has appealed especially to upperclassmen and women to take their used books for sale to the ÜBA so that new students on campus may buy books at a sav ing. Giles also expressed his grati tude towards the Student Union which made the new expanded program possible. The Student Union is sacrificing recreation area in ‘ the TUB for the self-service ÜBA. Age, Handicaps Exempt Frosh All freshmen over 21 and physically handicapped stu dents will ba eligible for im munity from freshman cus toms, James Schulte, co-chair man of the Freshman Customs and Regulations Board, an nounced yesterday. _ Students eligible for exemp tion must appear before the customs board at 10 a.m. to morrow in 201 Old Main to re ceive permission. No immunity can be granted by members of hat -societies or upperclassmen and women. Korean, war veterans ■ and veterans enrolled under the G, I. Bill do not have to appear before the board but must turn in their names at the Student Union desk in Old Main by 5 p.m. today. Exemption cards will be available to those who register and may be picked up Monday morning at the Student Union desk. All other students will be subject to dress customs and freshman regulations begin ning 8 a.m. Monday. See Photo Page 15 the first two weeks of school. Hatmen and women will enforce customs with the aid of upper classmen and women. Violators will be summoned before Tribun al or Judicial and tried by the nine-member customs board. Pun ishment will be meted out in ac cordance with the offense. Dress customs must be purchas ed at the Book Exchange in the Temporary Union Building. They will be available on the stage in the ballroom today. Custom Holidays Customs must be worn at all times except on dress holidays set' aside by the customs board and after 5:30 p.m. Fridays, after noon Saturdays and all day Sun days. Dating is prohibited during the first weekend of customs and dur ing the following week. All asso ciation with the opposite sex is outlawed within a three-mile ra dius of Old Main. Conversation between men and women will be limited to “hello.” Freshmen will be required to know the name and location of all College buildings by the begin ning of classes. They must know the College songs and cheers and be prepared to recite or sing at the command of upperclassmen. The Student Handbook, or “Fresh man Bible” must be carried at all times.. Women will curtsey at the re quest of upperclasswomen and men will doff their dinks at the command, “button, frosh!” Men will doff and women will curtsey when passing the Old Willow tree on the east Mall. Only the east Mall may be used by freshmen. Customs Time Varies . No frosh shall set foot on Senior Walk running parallel to College avenue from the Allen street gate to the Pugh street gate. Freshmen are not allowed to walk on the grass, or take any unpaved short cuts across campus with the ex ception of the path across Holmes Field from McAllister Hall to the Temporary Classroom Building. The length of the customs per iod will depend on enthusiasm and cooperation dis played by freshmen during the customs per iod, James Schulte, Tribunal chairman and co-chairman of the customs board, announced. Froth Ad Staff The Froth advertising staff will meet at "2 p.m. tomorrow in 5 and 6 Carnegie. Mantes Must Be Checked In Preferential Seating Although the list of students who signed up last year for the newly-developed flashcard system is at the Student Union desk, new arrangements require that those students have their names, re checked as they pick up their preferential seating cards, Alan Mc- Chesney, head cheerleader, announced yesterday. According to the system, a blue and a white card will be placed at each seat available for stu dents in the EH section located in the center of.the senior seats near the Blue Band. On the back of each card will be four items of instruction, he said. These will include the alpha bet. with space to the side of each letter for notation of which color should be raised by the student for the symbol being shown. Numerals for one to ten will be handled in the same way. . McChesney said numbers, words and designs can be worked using the new flashcard sytem. He said special feature ~ will probably be the Nittany' Lion and symbols STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1952 Classes begin at 8 a.m. Monday for about 11,000 students at the College, including 3200 freshmen and new students who have been undergoing orientation activities since Monday. morrow night, when a “Fun Night’ : Registration for classes contir morning. The majority of senior and junior students were regis tered yesterday. After the beginning of classes Monday, the College schedule will proceed uninterrupted until Tues day, Nov. 25, when classes will recess at 5 p.m. arid resume at 8 a.m. Monday, Dec. 1. Mid-semes ter below grade reports are due by Saturday, Nov. 8. The Christmas recess begins at 11:50 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 20 and continues until 8 a.m. Monday, (Continued on page thirteen) commemorating P e n n s y 1 vania Week. Senior students interested in participating in the system have been asked to sign for and pick up their tickets Tuesday at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Juniors and sophomores interested have been asked to sign up and claim their tickets on Wednes day_ and Thursday, respectively. ' McChesney emphasized that the system, designed to increase spec tator spirit at games, can succeed only through cooperation of the students. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Sophs, Freshmen To Register Today The last two-thirds of the alphabetical list of sophomores and many of the new stu dents on campus will register today in Recreation Hall. There were 5477 students registered in the first two days according to C. O. Williams, College registrar. He said the system, new to the College this year, is working smoothly. ' Tomorrow morning, the remain ing freshmen and students who did not register at the assigned times will register. Second semester freshmen reg ister today along with the soph omores and will follow the same alphabetical time schedule as listed on the registration folder. All other freshmen and transfer students register according- to curriculum. Latecomers Turned Away Freshmen are assigned to re port to Recreation Hall to regis ter at hourly intervals according to curriculum. Williams said that at the ends of the hours, if the registration system can handle them, freshmen from other curricula will be permitted to reg ister. The system is set up to take care of 500 students per hour. New Look in PETER CITRENBAUM, junior in dairy husbandry, and Caro lyn Coon, senior in economics and commerce, look over their course cards as they start through the registration lines. The new system started Wednesday. . Classes Will Monday for Orientation activities for new students will continue until to- ©gistration Begin 11,000 ' will climax the Orientation Week, axes today and will end tomorrow Dance, Show At TUB Slated For Tomorrow A variety show and dance 'will be held from 2 to's p.m. tomorrow iri the TUB, according to William Shifflett, president of the Associa tion of Independent Men. Known as the Dink Debut, the dance and show are sponsored by Leonides and AIM, independent organizations. Shifflett said that the affair is designed primarily for new students; .however, any one may attend the affair. The program should afford a means for new students to become better acquainted, he said. Accordionists, a singer and comedian are scheduled for the variety show. A dance act may be added to the show. Master of cere monies for the show will be Patri cia Marsteller, fifth semester edu cation student. Refreshments will be served after the variety show, Shifflett said. Music • for the dance will be furnished by Jim Erb’s orchestra. The dance will be held after the variety show. Collegian Editorial Candidates to Meet C an d i dates for the editorial staff of the Daily Collegian will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday on the ground floor of Carnegie Hall. Freshmen and sophomores are especially needed, David Fell nitz, editor, said. Candidates need not be journalism majors. Williams said that many stu dents tried to register after the time at which they were scheduled and had to be turned away. They will be allowed to register to morrow in Rec Hall from 8 a.m. to noon. He said that with this new system it is necessary to adhere to a schedule, and to accomplish this it is necessary to turn away late students. He noted, that all former stu dents received with their tran script a notice to the effect that the registration would adhere to the schedule. This notice advised students to return to campus at least 24 hours before the time they were scheduled to register so that there would be ample time to see advisers and to' fill out the necessary registration forms. Course Cards Given According to the College cata log, students who do not register at. the appointed time may be subject to a penalty. Graduate students may register at any time, regardless of alphabetical desig nation. Special students will reg ister from Sept. 15 to 20. Under' the new system, students receive a pink and white card upon registering in each course. These cards are used to make up the class enrollment, and stu dents failing to secure the proper cards are in danger of not getting into the sections they desire. Registration will be completed with payment of fees October 2 and 3 at the bursar’s office in Willard Hall. Police Ask Students To Obey Regulations A plea for students at the Col lege to be careful and obey traf fic regulations was made yester day by John R. Juba, State Col lege chief of police. Juba specifically warned stu dents not to park against traffic, or ride bicycles without lights at night. Men Counselors To Make Reports ' All men Orientation Week counselors are requested to t hand in reports and rolls of their Orientation Week meet ings to the Dean of Men’s of fice, 109 Old Main, before noon tomorrow, Michael Jordan, secretary of the committee, has announced. Members of the committee are asked to hand in to the Dean of Men’s office their class schedules for the semester. Counselors reports are to in clude a summary of how the meeting was handled, what was discussed, and recommen dations for next year. FIVE CENTS
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