THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1952 Lamaster, Horvitz Get Judicial Seats Margaret Lamaster and . Eleanor Horvitz were elected Judicial representatives'to replace Jean Berg and Patricia Pritchard by he Women's Student Government Association Senate last night. • Miss Berg and Miss Pritchard are going student teaching for the last eight weeks of the sem ester. WRA Appoints Two Assistants WRA executive •b oa r d last night - appointed Patricia Colgan and Nancy Lusk to assist Marie Wagner, assistant intra mural chairman, during the absence of Virginia Hinner, WRA intramural chairman, who will be student teaching the last eight weeks of \ the semester. The board also discussed tenta tive plans to send two official delegates and one faculty member to the national Athletic Federa tion of College Women conven tion. March 24 at Stanford Uni versity, Calif. Installation of new WRA offi cers will be held 6:30 p.m. Tues day in the WRA 'room in White Hall. Old and new board mem bers will hold a retreat Sunday morning at the WRA cabin on Mt. Tussey. • 'Earnest' Continues Players' "The. Importance of Being Earnest," a comedy by Os- Car Wilde, will begin its fifth weekend tomorrow 'at Center Stage. Tickets for. the play' are available at the Student Union desk in Old Main. They are $1 for both tomorrow and Saturday nights. 3 Groups to Sponsor Mardi GrasWeekend Penn State has another , big weekend—Mardi Gras weekend— which begins tomorrow with a carnival and includes a. dance Satur day night and song-fest Sunday afternoon. • It's a woman-planned weekend, the combined efforts of Mortar Board, Chimes, and the' . Women's Student Govermrient Association. Penn State's first Mardi Gras `weekend gets off - to a gala start with the traditional rt a r , Board sponsored carnival tomorrow night in Recreation Hall: The 'carnival will be followed Saturday night by' , Le Mardi' Bal; an informal dance in . the TUB to be sponosred by Chimes. An all-College sing, on Sunday after noon in Schwab Auditorium - will conclude the weekend. • An Established Function The idea of Mardi _Gras week end ,originated' with 'Chimes, and largely through members' efforts the three events have been -pack aged into one carnival weekend. With the cooperation of Mortar Board, the junior women have cooked up what they hope will become as traditional as the. New Orleans Mardi Gras. - The Mardi Gras carnival' is an established campus function.' Each year• sororities have sponsored booths' to raise -money' for the Charlotte Ray scholarship fund, and each year they choose their .candidates for Mardi Gras king. The king is elected by penny votes at the carnival and crowned by the president' of Mortar Board in a ceremony of bursting balloons and- confetti. This follows the gen eral pattern of the New Orleans Mardi Gras, -with its king, mask ing, costumes, street parades, and all-over carnival atmosphere. ' Pre-Lenten Festival • With all this talk of Mardi Gras, there - may' just be an historian Freshman hour s for Junior Week were stated and clarified by Senate. Freshman women will receive a one o'clock on Friday and a 12 o'clock on Saturday to be used only on those nights. Only second semester freshman women may attend approved fraternity parties. The Dean . of 'Women's office distributes lists of - the approved fraternities for' the weekend to all housemothers of • dormitories with these freshmen under them. A motion that an extra one o'clock' traveling. permission be granted to all women for this semester was defeated by a four to two vote with one abstention. The motion was brought up be cause- of the many . activities tak ing students away from school on weekends this semester. Since Joan Hutchon, president, will be student teaching for the rest of the semester Barbara Werts, vice president, was ap pointed to replace her on the Student Faculty Relations com mittee of the College Senate. Louise Glud was appointed to represent the student body on the College Calender Committee. Carolyn Cunningham and Hel en Sidman were installed as freshman senators: last night re placing Miss, Glud and Ann Cun ningham. They -will be ex-officio members of the Freshman Coun cil and will , be in charge of the Big-Little Sister Tea held in the spring: By HEEN' LUYBEN or a native of New Orleans in the crowd who's questioning the ap propriateness of celebrating Mar di Gras in_ November. Gianted Mardi Gras is celebra ted • on Shrove Tuesday in New Orleans. But carnival time varies throughout the world. The day originated in France, where an old" custom designated the Tues day before Lent as the day to eat up fats and other luxuries before Lenten fasting. (Mardi Gras means "fat Tuesday" in French.) in England Mardi Gras is known as Pancake , Day. There morning church services are followed by pancake bells to signal the start of pancake-eating contests. These Mardi .Gras celebrations are actually just last-flings before Lenten. fasting. Perhaps the pie eating contests started the pie throwing and carnival atmosphere of America's modern day Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras weekend at Penn State concludes with Sunday's all-College sing. The sing, sched uled for 3:30 p.m., shelves the weekend for a year. gareg &attic -Salon For business or formal, have your hair cut and styled' by one of Garey's skillful operators. Glennland Building Phone State College 2071 THE. DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Election Day Provides Humor As 60 Minion Americans Vote elections The nation's to record some of Quartet to Sing At Breakfast The Mellow Airs Quartet will entertain at a breakfast to be held at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 16 at the Dutch Pantry for members of the junior class and their dates. Thomas Farrell, Junior Week chairman, said that a limited number of reservations will be taken at the Student Union desk in Old Main today through Mon day. Price of the breakfast will be $1.25 per couple. Simmons Musicales To Begin Tonight The first Simmons Musicale pro gram of the semester will be held at 7:45 tonight in Simmons Hall lounge. The program will include "Don Juan" (R. Strauss), "Le Mer" (De- . bussey), and "First Symphony in C Minor" (Brahms). The programs are open and will be held every two weeks. Philotes to Hold Alumnae Dance Philotes, independent women's social group, will hold its first alumnae dance 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday in the recreation room of Simmons Hall. Philotes members plan to make the dance an annual affair, Ar lene Borneman, president,• said. She invited all independent men and women undergraduates. Collegian Promotes 7 on Advertising Staff Seven promotions to the junior board of the Daily Collegian ad vertising staff have been an nounced by Phyllis Kalson, local advertising manager. Those promoted are Virginia Bowman, Rob e r t Carruthers, Vince Drayne, Shirley Gab 1 e, James Guerdon, Donald Hawke, and Bruce Nichols. Grad Council to Meet The Graduate School Student Council will meet at '7 tonight in the walnut lounge in McElwain Hall to discuss the proposed con stitution. Although the newspapers, kept busy enough tabulating votes, precinct by precinct, found time the things that happen when 60 million voters go to the polls. In Miami Beach a woman had to take off her "I Like Ike"• skirt before election officials -Would allow her • to. vote. Campaign propaganda isn't allowed in' a voting booth, she was told. 'So she calmly' removed her skirt, stood in line in her slip for 15 minutes, then voted. Eats Shirt "This Week," a supplementary magazine for Sunday newspapers, recalling the bets Americans are prone to make, came up with this tale: ,"During the last Presidential campaign a chemistry professor bet a friend he would eat his shirt if his candidate didn't win. He lost. The professor dissolved his shirt in acid, neutralized the acid, filtered out the shirt, spread it on bread and ate it without mustard." Jim Hard voted Tuesday, but he didn't keep his ballot a secret; he told reporters he liked Ike. Mr. Hard let it be known that he liked Abe Lincoln, too. Fact is, he vot e d for Lincoln, and since has cast his ballot in more than 80 elections. He is 111 years old and reputed to be 'the oldest surviving Union veteran of the Civil War, By MYRON FEINSILBER Democrats may•not concede it, there were , some humorous aspects to Tuesday's Fugitive Nabbed A New York City woman proved - the value of woman's suf frage once again. With voters ,waiting impatiently as election officials tried to fix the mechan ism of a voting machine, she pull ed a .bobby. pin out of her hair and inserted it in the machine. It worked. In case women with bobby p.i ri-s 'weren't available, New York had flying squads of mechanics. touring the city in taxicabs to fix faulty units. "That's what I get for doing some politician a favor," com mented Angelo E. Mattei. a fugi tive from Philadelphia - police for over 18 months. Mattei showed up in Election Court to get a registration . matter straightened out and was nabbed by narcotics detectives assigned for the day to the court. "Some politician" had insisted that Mattei vote, and he was obliging him when ar rested. The voters not only make their choice on Election day; appar ently, they - also make choice od dities for - newspapers to report. ':'~" . ~ ~,.~ • ;, .~~ `'. Ti H ' ALLEN ST. STATE COLLEGE,PA Cortraittlationi! from the Charles Shop. You know you'll be /rom $29.95 Charge it and send the bill home JMA Entries Deadline Set November 13 Applications for the Junior Management Assistant examina tion will be accepted until -Nov. 13, according to Civil Service Commission announcement No. 340. Application cards may be ob tained at College Placement, 112 Old Main. Seniors in public or business administration or the social sci ences—political science, econom ics, international relations, indus trial management or engineering, sociology, psychology, anthropol ogy, geography, or history—are eligible to apply for the exam, which will be given Dec. 6 on campus. The exam will consist of a gen eral. abilities test and a test in administrative problems or pub lic affairs. Those who pass will be interviewed late in February. after which confidential inquiries are usually sent out to references of the applicants. After screen ing, successful appli cants are placed on the list of eligibles. From these, officials of different agencies choose and contact those they want for positions. Applicants who accept their offers can expect to begin work by summer. Salaries are $3410 to $4205 per year. JMA appointees are first given training assignments to prepare them for higher level positions. Many agencies have formal train ing programs which consist of or ientation, classes, an d planned work assignments in which the employee progressively assumes greater responsibility. The Department of State has announced that it is important that students who wish to be ap pointed in the department for 1953 compete successfully in the JMA examination. eo-ebb Delta Gamma Delta Gamma recently pledged Jane Saylor. You're so smart to wear a gown one of the best- dressed girls at the dance. PAGE FIVE
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