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Vol. 53, No. 74
CobiiiGt OK s New Rodio Fee
Mil Ball Ticket Sale
Set for Feb. 4,5, 6
The Military Ball committee announced -yesterday that it will
place 1000 tickets to the annual ROTC dance Feb. 27 on sale Feb. 4,
5, and 6 in the offices of the three branches. They may be purchased
only by Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC-students.
Also announced by James Graef, head of promotion, were the
rules for the Military .Ball queen contest which is now open. The
deadline for the entries has been
set for Feb. 14.
Tickets $4 Per Couple
The ticket dispersal system for
the dance, which will feature the
music of Billy May, is entirely
different from previous years.
There is no limit on the number
of tickets that any one cadet or
midshipman may.obtain.
Sales of tickets will be con
ducted in the Army ROTC office
in Carnegie hall, the Air Force
office in. the Armory, and the
Navy Ward Room on' the second
floor of 'Engineering E. The agen
cies for the tickets, which will
cost $4 per couple, will be staffed
by members of the four military
hono.raries, Scabard and Blade,
Pershing Rifles, Quarterdeck So
ciety, and Arnold Air Society.
Cadets who desire to reserve
tickets may do so by signing lists
that will be available at the regis
tration desks of the three branches
in Rec Hall Jan. 28 through 31.
VMf to Select Finalists
Fur Samples
Obtained for
Lion Suit
samples to be used in the
new Lion suit have been received
by Harold R. Gilbert, graduate
manager of athletics.
The Lion’s new outfit will be
ordered as soon as the fur is se
lected, arid delivery can be ex
pected within 60 days.
Chenko Studio, New York, will
design the $5OO suit, Gilbert said.
The present two-year-old suit was
purchased for $4OO. Rising costs
of material and labor are re
sponsible' for the increased price
of the suit, Gilbert said.
Contributions for. the suit
amounting to $599.26 were col
lected this fall in a fund drive
initiated - by . Alex. Gregalj ; who
portrayed the- Lion during the
football season.
All-College Cabinet passed a
proposal in October establishing
a permanent fund from which
money for a new suit may be
taken whenever needed.
Gilbert said Chenko guaran
teed that the new suit will be a
stronger and better job than the
present one. In an effort to re
produce a typical Nittany Lion,
Chenko read about mountain
lions in 'the New York Library
and visited the lions’ cages in a
New York zoo.
- Chenko, who also has a studio
in Hollywood, is the costume de
signer for Warner Brothers and
Paramount movie studios, Radio
City Music Hall, Billy Rose, Zieg
feld, Sonja Henie, the Ice Follies,
and radio and television shows.
Union to List
College Jobs
A classification and salary plan
for service employees of the Col
lege is being established, accord
ing to Thomas Hartswiek, treas
urer of Local 67 of the State,
County, and Municipal Employees
Union, AFL.
The plan will list the various
clerical, technical, and service
jobs at the College, salary ranges,
and a description of each job.
Hartswiek said the plan was
being set up so salaries for similar
jobs will be the same throughout
the Cpllege.
Salaries will be set by a three
man evaluation committee. An
other committee, the classifica
tion review committee, consisting
of four members, will be set up
to answer questions concerning
the plan for employees when the
plan is in effect.
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The Mil Ball queen selection
will occur at the intermission of
the dance. She will be chosen
from five r; finalists. by a. board of,
judges' from' the' College faculty.
The five finalists will be ob
tained through the cooperation of
the Virginia Military Institute,
Lexington, Va. Entrants’’ photo
graphs will be sent there for
judging by the military staff.
These selections will appear at
the dance, and the four runners
up to the queen will form her
court.
The queen will receive an en
graved, silver-plated crown as a
symbol of her reign. The final
ists will receive bouquets and
leather jewelry cases.
The rules set up by the com
mittee are:
1. Only Army and Air Force
cadets and Navy midshipmen are
eligible to submit entries for the
Military Ball queen.
2. Any cadet or midshipman
wishing to enter his wife, fiancee,
or date must submit a portrait
5 by 7 inches or larger with her
name, address, and a brief des
cription at the Army, Navy, or
Air Force offices. Photographs
will be returned.
3. Deadline for submitting the
entries will be noon Feb. 14.
4. All finalists must be present
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AA Offers New Status
To Graduating Seniors
Graduating seniors are being introduced to a new status, that of
alumni, by the Penn State Alumni Association. The association is
offering a special membership rate of $2 if the fee is paid on or
before Commencement Day. The regular rate is $3.
Alumni Association membership offers varied services. Among
these are priority .on reserved
football tickets; subscriptions to
the Penn State Alumni News,_ a
magazine issued seven times’ a
year; the Penn Stater, a quarterly
newspaper; and the Football Let
ter, a behind-the-scenes account
of each football game.
The publications are designed
to help alumni maintain contacts
with College classmates by re
cording what alumni are doing in
their respective fields. They also
provide news of progress at the
College.
Sixty-eight active Penn State
alumni district clubs are spon
sored. by the Alumnae Associa
tion: Clubs are located in almost
every county of the state, in large
cities throughout the nation,. and
in.. Puerto. JUco.. Speakers and
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Exit Amphitryon!
t —Photo by Sussman ’
JOLLY OSWALT. as the faithful Alkmena, prepares to send her
husband Amphitryon, played by John Anlston, off to a war
inspired by the mischievous Jupiter. The. scene appears in Players'
production of "Amphitryon 38" by S. N. Behrman which began
a weekend run lasf night in Schwab Auditorium.
Freud , Satire Flavor
Plgyers! 'Amphitryon
Freud satirized in the folklore of ancient Greece ran rampant
last night when the Players’ production of “Amphitryon 38” opened
a weekend run in Schwab Auditorium.
S. N. Behrman has borrowed loosely from Jean Giraudoux to
delve into the love life of the gods and come up with , a theatrical
prank rich in rhetorical elegance,
but thin in plot. The old bedroom
comedy embellished in classical
dress spreads rather thin through
three acts.
As is typical in high comedy,
Behrman’s masquerade is not to
be taken seriously and lacks the
feeling of a third dimension.
There is no verisimilitude in
which the audience can lose it
self, no great conflict to stir the
emotions. When the curtain falls
the audience is left with the im
pact of having leafed through a
picture book in which the con
text is colorful, entertaining, and
even amusing, but after all only
paper.
The play approaches farce in
exploiting the dubious shenani
gans of Jupiter, master of the
gods, who desires the beautiful
Alkmena and assumes the mortal
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films for club meetings are pro
vided by the association. Busi
ness and social contacts are avail
able to alumni "club members.
Other functions- conducted by
the Alumni Association include
class reunions, the Alumni Insti
tute in June, and Homecoming
in the fall. The most complete
biographical and occupational
records of the 50,000 alumni of
the College arid the. only active
College alumni mailing list in
existence are also maintained by
the association.
Consequently, the Alumni of
fice, 104 Old Main, has requested
that graduating seniors report
their current mailing addresses
to the office whether or not they
join the Alumni. Association.
By CHIZ MATHIAS
Recreation Hall
To Stay Open
For Dancing
Recreation Hall will remain
open for free dancing after the
doubleheader- wrestling—basket
ball program tomorrow night,
according to Dean Ernest B. Mc-
Coy of the School of Physical
Education and Athletics.
Recordings will- provide music
for the dance, McCoy said, be
cause the time after the game
will be too short to call for use
of a band. This will be the second
home Saturday night event in
Rec Hall this semester and the
second to have a free dance
follow it.
The Phys Ed School hired a
band for the first dance. McCoy
said present plans call for the
.continuation of the dances on
Saturday nights next semester.
The ■ College wrestlers meet
Lehigh at 7 p.m. in Rec Hall to
morrow. A basketball game with
Ithaca will follow the wrestling,
with the free dancing following
immediately after the Ithaca
game.
Women Debaters
To Hold Tryouts
The women’s debate squad will
hold the first call for tryouts at
7 p.m. Feb. 2 in 2 Sparks.
Undergraduate women inter
ested, in varsity debate may at
tend the meeting to hear Clayton
H. Schug, associate professor of
public speaking, explain the na
tional topic, Resolved: That the
Congress of the United States
should enact a compulsory fair
employment practices law.
Instructions for tryouts will be
announced at that time, according
to Marian Ungar, debate man
ager. Interested women unable to
attend the meeting may contact
Miss Ungar in 124 Simmons. I
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'53 Grads Offered
AA Memberships
See Page 4
Final Debate
On Proposal
Set for Feb. 5'
By MARSHALL O. DONLEY
First approval of a 20-cent
per-semester fee to support a
campus radio station was
given by All-College Cabinet
last night. Final approval
must wait upon the next cab
inet meeting, scheduled f or
Feb. 5.
The 20-eent fee was the result
of an amendment to a motion by
All-College vice president James
Plyler asking for 15 cents per.
semester to pay the student half
of the support of the station.
David Pellnitz, chairman of the
Board of Publications, suggested
the additional 5 cents.
This additional money may
be used for expansion of radio
facilities in fraternities and
larger town housing units.
These units would not have
been reached except by fre
quent modulation signals under
the plans designed on a budget
based on a 15-cent fee.
The College has already indi
cated that it would match the
15-cent fee, which would raise
$3OOO a year, with $3OOO from
its funds. It is not yet known if
the administration will now sup
ply $4OOO, the amount which will
be supplied by the students if
cabinet gives a second approval
to last night’s motion.
Pellnitz presented a. motion to
'table a vote on the fee until the
next cabinet meting. The tabling
motion was defeated with only
•seven votes in its favor.
Before voting on the amount
to be assessed for the station.
Cabinet gave unanimous ap
proval of a constitution for •the
radio station, after it was read
by Emery Richardson, chair
man of cabinet's radio commit
tee. Richardson also presented
a list of the proposed expenses
of the station.
David R. Mackey, professor Of
speech and one of the’ persons
who has worked on the station
plans, was present at the meet
ing to answer questions about
the station presented by the mem
bers of cabinet. He explained, in
as much as possible, where the
$6OOO that was asked for operat
ing expenses would go.
The approval notice of cabinet
will be presented to the office
of President Milton S. Eisen
hower, where it can be used in
consideration for the administra
tive portion of the funds to be
added to the amount voted by
Cabinet.
Cabinet members were in
structed to return to their var-
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No More Spring!
Winter to Return
Sunday Morning
This phenomenal spring weath
er with temperatures in the high
50’s will come to a halt Sunday
morning when a cold air mass will
arrive here, bringing with it tem
peratures of about zero degrees,
according to Charles L. Hosier, as
sistant professor of meteorology.
These sunshiny days, called the
January thaw by Hosier, are not
unusual for this time of year.
Weather tomorrow will be cloudy,
with showers likely, getting cool
er by tomorrow night, he said.
The cold air mass moving
toward the College is coming from
Minnesota, where mid-afternoon
temperatures yesterday were ten
degrees below zero, Hosier said.
Last Collegian Saturday
Tomorrow’s issue of the Daily
Collegian will be the last pub
lished this semester. Daily Col
legian publication will be resumed
i Feb. 3.
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