PACE TWO 15 Credits Set For Deferment Male students must carry at least 15 credits in order to be accredited as a full time student at the College and be eligible for a form 109 draft deferment certification, A. W. Stewart, assistant registrar, announced yesterday. Korean War veterans must carry 14 credits to receive benefits under the G.I. Bill of Rights, he added. Creditless courses, such as English composition 0, will not be Chem-Phys Open House To Be May 2 The Chemistry-Physics Student Council last night voted to hold its annual open' house program May 2, pending faculty approval. An open house program on this date would be in conjunction with several other schools of the Col lege,which have already scheduled their programs on that time. Charles Ferguson, chairman of the council's open house commit tee, suggested the open house pro gram be made a two-day rather that/ a one-day affair. Action on this proposal was postponed pend ing the committee's meeting with faculty members. Perry Yocum reported that ef forts are being made to install a softdrink vending machine in the thid floor landing of Pond Laboratory. William Deppe, editor of the Chem-Phys Newsletter, said the newsletter will be available about the first week of the spring se mester. The next meeting of the coun cil will be for Feb. 11. $37,500 Check Ends Ag Dr ive For New Lab A drive to raise funds for con struction of a new Animal Dis ease Research Center was ended when a $37,500 check was pre sented to Dr. Lyman E. Jackson, dean of the School of Agriculture, Tuesday night at the State Farm Show, Harrisburg. The contribution was made by the Pennsylvania Poultry Feder ation, matching a similar fund of the 1951 General Assembly. The legislature appropriated $lOO,OOO for the new building and agreed to give the additional $37,500 if the farming industry could match this amount to outfit and equip the center. The one-story, concrete block building is to be located at the rear of Orchard No. 3 on the Col lege Farms, midway between the fruit storage and the old soil con servation experiment station. If plans are completed, bids may be opened in March, and construction may begin in the spring, John Miller, chief drafts man, has announced. Women Debate Tryouts Set Undergraduate women inter ested in trying out for the varsi ty debate squad will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 2 in 2 Sparks to receive instructions. According to Marian Ungar, debate manager, no previous ex perience in debating is necessary, and all undergraduate women are eligible for the team. Clayton H. Sch u g, associate professor of public speaking and debate coach, will explain the na tional intercollegiate topic, Re solved: That the Congress of the United States should enact a compulsory fair employ ment practices law. Interested women unable to at tend the meeting may contact Miss Ungar in 124 Simmons. 'Old Mania' Notices Notices of pinnings, engage ments, and marriages for the February Froth's "Old Mania" may be submitted to the Stu dent Union desk in Old Main until noon Saturday. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA accepted as filling the require ment, he said . If students do not carry the necessary 15 credits, their draft board will be notified and the student will be liable for the draft, Stewart said. • Anytime during the semester a student drops below the 15 credit level, the draft board will be notified. All students must have their draft number, their board num ber, and the address of the board on their 109 form application which they filled out during fall semester registration so the Col lege can send in the form at the end of the spring semester, Stew art said. If no form 109 is re ceived, a student will be liable for the draft. Students should re port to the assistant registrar's office, 4 Willard Hall, to supply the necessary information, he said. Under College rules, only 12 credits are needed to be a full time student. Students in the, up per half of the freshman Class, upper two-thirds of the sopho more cla s s, and upper three quarters of the junior class are eligible for scholastic deferments upon approval of form 109 by the draft board. Student Thieves Nabbed by Police Two students responsible for the theft of two cylinder heads from an automobile belonging to a Nittany Dorm resident have been apprehended an d turned over to the Dean• of Men's office by. the Campus Patrol. No action has yet been taken on the students, one in his second semester and the other in his third. Names of the students were withheld by the Dean of Men's office. The cylinder heads were stolen Tuesday morning, resulting in damage estimated by Walter Bie ber, owner of the vehicle, at be tween $3O and $4O. The cylinder heads were valued, at $5O. Although widely grown in the Western hemisphere, coffee is a native of the Old World. FiviA Is Incorporated As Constitution Passes The Fraternity Marketing Association became a legal corpor ation last night when the current members voted unanimously in favor of a constitution and by-laws. The action put out of existence the program developed under the auspices of the AFC-IFC joint buying committee and put the new Fraternity Marketing 'Association in full command of the joint buy ing program. The plan, which is aitached to IFC, is open to any chartered fraternal group at the College. The group also set up a nomin ating committee to prepare a list of suggested names to fill the of fices and the 12 seats on the board of trustees established by the new constitution. The board of trus tees will be selected from these nominees at the next meeting. Those named to the nominating committee were Willard Dye, Thomas Gardner, • Robert Grace, George Greer, William Hafley, Arthur Rosf el d, and Richard Shively. R. K. Murray, AFC co-chairman of the old buying group, informed the members that the work of the plan was already beginning to show in more competition for contracts and lower prices. He said two jobbers will supply the fraternities during spring semes ter instead of one to obtain the best prices. Member fraternities were also asked by Murray to fill out new and more detailed inventory lists [or the coming semester. Present' , - )11.:.'s did not meet the jobbers' requirements, he said. Chest Fund Climbs to $10,607 The Campus Chest total has climbed to $10,607.75, according to Joseph Haines, acting chair man. However, figures released yesterday did not include results of the last -phase of the chest cam paign in the town area. • Student contributions this year total $6100.35 while faculty and administration contri buti o n s amount to $1812.61. The overall total released also includes $l3OO from the Kickoff dance Sept. 19, $435.57, from the working fund carried over from last year, and $595.23 returned from March of Dimes. The March of Dimes mon ey was collected during the last two chest drives and was return ed because the charter for the March of Dimes forbids accept ance of funds collected in a drive for several organizations. The goal for the drive this year is $12,000. Haines said 11,000 Internation al Business Machine cards have been distributed. There vvere 11,- 500 cards provided for the drive. Campus Chest solicitors should return cards to 304 Old Main to morrow whether or not the stu dents have been reached, he said. Students who have not ye t been reached by solicitors and who wish to contribute or pledge cash should call State College 7753, according to Haines. Sperber to Be Radio Guest Harry A. Sperber, assistant scheduling officer, will be the guest'on the Radio Guild's "Spot light on State" at 9:30 tonight over WMAJ. Jay Murphy will interview Sperber-. Director is James Blox ham. Others working on the pro gram are Paul Brownstone, an nouncer, and Frank Hutchinson, engineer. John Price will read "The Am bitious Guest," a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, on Radio Guild's "Call Card" at 9:45 to night on WMAJ. Sally Lowry will direct. The cast includes Jay Murphy, an nouncer; Emily Snyder, sound; Frank Hutchinson, engineer ; Madeleine Sharp, librarian; and Robert Zimmerman, voice. The next meeting was sched uled for 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4 at Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. • It's A Fuer that on Feb. 22, 1855, Penn Sta.Lc received its charter as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania. On this date in 1955—exactly. 100 years later—a large program is being planned to stress the ways the College' can be of service in adjusting people to their future environments. "Your_ future is being decided this next week too—so drop in at VIC'S during that 11:00 o'clock break to get a sandwich or milkshake. Relieve that tension that builds up during a night of Study. Meet. the other students when they congregate— VIC'S. if • I 145 S. ALLEN ST. S her Act JOE AND DICK LEMYRE, brother wrestling team for the Lions, show one of the holds they demonstrated last night at the TUB. The Lemyre twins were part of a program on "Know Your Wrest ling" sponsored by Blue Key, junior men's hat society. Other members of the team demonstrated basic wrestling holds and scoring techniques. Movies of last year's 'Eastern Intercollegiate championships were also shown. 43,500 Lettered Five hundred diplomas, beautifully inscribed in Old English, will be given out Jan. 27, boosting to 43,500 the total of sheepskins hand-lettered by William S. Hoffman. Hoffman, former registrar of the College, has hand-lettered diplomas for Penn State's graduates since 1922. And he has high hopes of reaching a 50,000 goal before he retires from this profit able hobby. Starts After Registration When Hoffman took on the as signment as a sideline 31 years ago, the June graduating. 'classes numbered approximately 500. To day, with 2000 diplomas to letter each June,. Hoffman just has to get started earlier. , "Time was when I could• do all lettering a month or two before graduation," he said. "Nov I start as soon as mid-year registration ends " Instead of working on each diploma individually, Hoffman makes the layouts for 20 or 30 sheepskins at once. "On my diplo mas there are no ruled lines or penciled marks," Hoffman said proudly. "I put the name right on in ink." Lettering Is 'Relaxation' Hoffman estimated that the di plomas he has inscribed, laid end to end, would stretch 12 miles. Stacked on top of each other, they would make a pile 27 feet high. "I like to work on diplomas the way some men like to play golf," he explained. "It's a relaxation for me. I do it at night while I'm listening to symphonies or mys tery programs on the radio." The fact that the traditional sheepskin is no longer used for diplomas pleases Hoffman, if no one else. He said he believes the lightweight, cream-colored paper used now is much easier to work with. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1953 Sheepskins by Hand By HELEN LUYBEN Group May Get Sewage Plan The buildings and grounds committee of the Board of Trustees may receive a joint sewage plan for the College and the borough on Jan..' 23, according to Samuel K. Hos tetter, comptroller. If a plan is presented, the committee will not act on the plan but will make recom mendations to the Board• of Trustees, which will meet Jan. - 24 in Harrisburg. Hostetter de clined to release details of the plan. Prexy's Guests Discuss Problems of College Problems of College operation were discussed at a dinner Presi dent Milton S. Eisenhower held lvst night for school deans and department heads. The President inaugurated the principle of holding such ' a din ner once a semester when he ?'me to the campus in 1950.
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