PAGE TWO Campus Chest Collects $11,048 The Campus Chest drive has reached 92 per cent of its $12,000 goal, according to Joseph Haines, acting chairman. The total collected this year is $11,048.98. Of this total $7936.03 was collected from students, $1812.61 was collected from faculty and administration personnel, and $1300.34 was collected at the KiVirnff Dance Sept. 19. The post-Christmas drive which extended Jan. 8 to Jan. 17 among town students collected “about a thousand dollars,” Haines said. He thought the post-Christmas drive was “a big success.” In comparing this year’s drive with that of last year, Haines said this year’s drive accomplished more although the recent drive netted about seven hundred dol lars less than last year’s drive. The drive last year brought in $11,765.16. He said the goal was “farther away” this year since the origi nal working fund was not as great as last year’s working fund. The working fund which was brought over from last year is $435.57. Last year’s working fund was about $ll5O. Included in this year’s total of $11,048.98 is $959.23 which was returned last year from the March of Dimes. The March of Dimes charter does not permit accep tance of money collected in mass contribution drives. Student and faculty-administra tion contributions ran generally lower than last year, but the Kickoff Dance receipts ran $359.66 higher. Student contributions are $740.03 lower this year, while fac ulty-administration contributions are $335.81 lower. College Adopts Eng Science Curriculum A new engineering science cur riculum, requiring higher stand ards than any curriculum in the School of Engineering, has been approved by the College. A demand by industry for en gineering graduates with niore basic training in physics and mathematics necessitated the new curriculum. Dr. Eric C. Walker, dean of the School of Engineering, explained this demand has resulted largely from the rapid growth of industry and government research and de velopment laboratories during the past 20 years. Since the curriculum is de signed only for better students and especially for those who ex pect to do graduate work, students must have an All-College average 2.00 to transfer to engineering science from another engineering curriculum. Students must main tain a 1.5 average to remain in the curriculum. The new curriculum will be open to freshmen and sophomores next September, and the first degrees may be conferred in 1956. SL lent to Appear In Court Monday David _ Hill, fourth semester pre-medical major, will come be fore Centre County Court Mon day on charges of public inde ceny. Hill was arrested last week by borough police. He was given a hearing before Justice of the Peace Guy G. Mills and found guilty. - He was released on $3OO bail until the court meets Monday. sir Science Group to Hear Hatcher Walter Hatcher of the Piasecki Helicopter Corporation will speak at the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences meeting at 7 tonight in 107 Main Engineering. His subject will be “The Civil ian and Military Uses of the Heli copter”; films will be used throughout the talk. Captain Knows Fights, Fillies By BARRY FEIN •From Bolshevik firing squad to riding instructor at the College is the story of Captain Gregory. Gagarin. Looking at the dapper captain, who usually wears a horsehead tieclasp, one would never think that he is face to face with a man who once filled the role of a dashing cavalryman. This isn’t to say that the cap tain couldn’t still be a haifcy man with a sabre, but his outlook has softened after more than 30 years away from fighting. He is now content to spend his time teach ing the art of equitation to Penn Staters. Things weren’t always so se dentary, however. Prince Gregory is a direct de scendant of the Ruriks, who ruled in Russia for over 700 years. He lived the life of the typical cul tured landowner. His house, as large as any fraternity house on the campus, was located near Pskof in northern Russia. Everything went smoothly for many years. There was fine music, and painting, and gay balls, and horseback riding—in fact every thing that a prince would be ex pected to experience. Arrested by Bolsheviks, A stable full of fine horses com pleted the surroundings Of ' the University of St. Petersburg and Nicholas Cavalry School graduate. Then came the Bolshevik Revo lution of 1917, and Prince Gregory Tribunal Airs 19 Violations A total of 19 cases involving campus parking infractions was presented to Tribunal last night. The court held session for the second straight night because of the large number of violations. Nine cases involved first of fenses and there was one second violation. Warnings were issued to six students, while eight $1 fines and 2 suspended $l.OO fines were levied. One student was given a ticket Jan. 9 for parking in the Old Main service drive to go to the dispensary. He was given a sus pended fine of two dollars for this second offense. Most of the violations were a result of the heavy , influx of cars in the week following the Christ mas holidays. Realizing the sit uation, Tribunal’s main action for this week consisted of warnings to the offenders. found, himself walking side by side with two other “aristocrats” on his way to be shot. That’s one thing you have to say for the Bolsheviks they don’t piddle around like the.Mensheviks! One can suddenly find life in general quite worthwhile on the way to his own funeral, and the captain was .no exception. He made up his mind that he had nothing tO lose by trying to es cape. The three prisoners were flank ed by two guards. A Lenin strong boy led the procession, one fol lowed, and a little commissar with a big gun directed the show. March lo' Cemetery It was a strange procession, in deed, and the villagers must have wondered as they saw it pass through the outskirts of town to ward the cemetery. The two other prisoners con sisted of a young army lieutenant and a rich merchant. The mer chant recited psalms, and the lieu tenant whimpered softly. The gnarled trees swayed light ly in the winter breezes, as if they were trying to hide their faces from this scene of Bolshevik terror. The ground crackled omin ously under the tread of the heavy-booted guards. Joins French Cavalry The group passed a crossroad, and Captain Gargarin set himself to jump his captors and break away.-At the last minute, how ever, his nerve left him, and the procession continued. ■ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA High School Musicians Meet Today The Western All-State High School Band Festival gets under way today with rehearsals sched uled for visiting musicians from 180 Pennsylvania high schools. The band members will take over Schwab Auditorium at 10:30 a.m. today. Approximately 75 directors and 185 band members, will take part in the festival which continues through Saturday. Participants in the Western All-State Band were chosen at district band fes tivals attended by representatives of more than 355 high schools. Only 180 of these schools are rep resented in the All-State Band. One musician from each school will participate with the excep tion of State College High School, which as host is allowed five members. Public concerts will allow in terested persons to hear the West ern All-State Band. A student concert will be given from 1:45 to 2:45 p.m. tomorrow in Schwab and will be broadcast over WMAJ. Concerts also will be given at 8 p.m. tomorrow and Sat urday in Schwab. Tickets for the concerts, priced at $l, may be purchased at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Featured on the concert pro grams will be “Three Kings,” played by John Leister, Roger Staub, and Alan Wyand, mem bers of the concert. Blue Band. Directing the All-State Band will be Guest Conductor Paul Yoder of Chicago, composer and arranger of more .than 600 musi cal selections for band. ' Modern Paintings To Be Exhibited Fifteen paintings, ranging from semi-abstract to representational oils, will be exhibited for three weeks beginning Friday in Mc- Elwain Hall lounge, according to Prof. John Y. Roy, exhibits chair man for the division of fine and applied arts. The division is sponsoring the exhbit, which is on loan from the Bement Galleries in New York City. Paintings will be hung by Pi Gamma Alpha, honorary art fraternity. Grad Ends Training Pvt. David L. Colton, a 1952 graduate of the College, has been graduated from the Ordnance Re placement Training Center’s Am mo Supply. School in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. As they passed a fence a while later, the Captain suddenly threw himself at his nearest guard, bounced around into the commis sar, knocking down his gun, and leaped over the fence into a wood ed area. As he ran he tried to. take off his coat, and as hd did so a bullet smashed into his right hand. He hardly felt it and con tinued'to run into the woods. The jagged scar still remains today. After an exhausting flight across Russia, he finally managed to join the French cavalry. This was at' the time of World War I, and- he fought against the Ger mans. Eight' years ago, Captain Ga garin came to Penn State as rid ing instructor. He is one of the most famous equitation experts in the East and has worked with several authors on .the subject. Asked what he plans to do in the near future, the Captain could only shrug his shoulders and smile. His wife, however,' has other plans. “I’ve been after the captain for a long time to write, a book on equitation. There really is no all around, complete textbook for schools, and I believe he could write one,” she said. “He finally agreed to write one, and I’m going to make sure he keeps his promise.” ’Meanwhile the cultured, mus tached prince can be found at the College riding ring, showing Penn Staters how it’s done in the cav alry. IFC Approves Fee; Hears Hostess Plan Interfraternity Council last night gave its unanimous approval of a 20-cent student fee to support' a .campus radio station.. The approval was granted after explanation of the purposes of ; the fees by IFC President Arthur Rosfeld. ' Rosfeld suggested that, fraternities give serious consideration to a plan whereby a housemother or hostess would chaperone social events in fraternities^ The approval of the assessment by IFC means that Rosfeld will vote for the 20-cent fee when All-College Cabinet meets tonight. At its last meeting cabinet gave first approval of the fee. A sec ond approval will leave the way clear for establishment of the radio station this year. Rosfeld then reported to the council results of a Senate com mittee on student affairs meeting Jan. 13 which resulted in the committee issuing a statement that it was “concerned” with uh chaperoned dating arid other so cial problems in fraternities.' -“I am not suggesting that a house have a housemother living there, but that such a person might be secured for Friday and Saturday nights,” Rosfeld said. There was no discussion on the matter from the council. Rosfeld’s suggestion was offered as a partial solution to some of the problems concerning frater nity social events. Thomas Schott, IFC rushing chairman, reminded presidents and IFC representatives of the rules concerning rushing an d pledging, especially emphasizing the rule forbidding pledging of a student who has less than a 1.0 average. Schott also reminded the men that no men may be pledged before 8 a.m. Feb. 14 and that pledging cards must be filed for each pledge by 5 p.m. Feb. 18. The council also gave its, un animous approval to a revised set of plans for selection of an outstanding fraternity at Penn State. The plans' were presented by William Malley, head of the committee for selection of the house to receive the outstanding fraternity cup. Campus Ratio Jumps to 3.08 Incomplete spring semester en rollment figures released yester day by G. O. Williams,' registrar, list a total of 10,457 students.' Of these, there are 7892 men and 2565 women, a ratio of 3.08 men to each woman. - This is a slight increase, over [ast semester’s ratio of 3.01 men ;o each woman. This total includes 9216 under graduates and 1241 graduate stu dents: There are 6855 male and 2361 female undergraduates. The ra tio of men to women undergrad uates is 2.90 to 1. In the Graduate School, 1Q37 men and 204 wom en are enrolled. Williams emphasized these fig-' ures are not final and that the complete and official tabulation will not be announced until Feb; 14. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 19Sg Scholarships To Be OK'd By Senate Scholarships and awards for the current semester will be ap proved at the College Senate meeting at 4 p.m. today. The Senate will also hear a re port on activities of the student affairs committee and a report from the committee on courses of. study. Applicants for. scholarships and awards have been interviewed by the Senate committee on scholar ships and awards. The commit tee will recommend the names, o£ students to receive the prizes. Upon approval by the Senate, the winners will be notified by letter. The report of the committee oh student affairs notes that it has studied various phases of student social life and has made changes in regulations for dormitory and fraternity dating and in the pro cedures for affiliation of new. sor orities with national organize tions. A The subcommittee on health and recreation is considering a ski lodge, the need for mor.eASQifi? ball diamonds, the lack of ,ade quate field and floor space for intramurals, the necessity of hold ing intramurals at night,'the'use and policing of Holmes Field If or women's recreation, and thejneed for an ice skating area on campus. Disciplinary committees' Kav e heard evidence in 15 studerilf cas es. Six students were suspended, eight placed on disciplinary pro bation, and action on one case was held. ■ Nests are built not only--by birds, but by some mammals, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, vertebrates.
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