PAGE TWO Six Debates Set for February Six debating events have been scheduled by the men’s debate squad for February, according to Joseph F. O’Brien, professor of public speaking and men’s debate coach. Members of the squad will be required to participate in a ser ies of extemporaneous speeches next Wednesday. Oratory prelim inaries and finals will be held at an intrasquad meet Thursday. Samuel Nowell and Robert Murrer will represent the team in a return bout at Mount Mercy College Feb. 16. A women’s team from Mount Mercy clashed with Penn State men last month on the topic Resolved: That women should take a more active part in public life. To Meet Dickinson . Teams from Pennsylvania col leges will compete at Lehigh University Feb. 19-21 in the State Tournament in Extemporaneous Speaking and Oration. The men’s squad will send teams to Dickinson College Feb. 25 to debate in the annual Cross- Examination Tournaments. A men’s team will represent the College at the Invitation Tournaments at Boston Univer sity Feb. 26-28. Tryouts Feb. 17 First call for tryouts for the men’s squad will be 7 p.m. Tues day in 305 Sparks. Professor O’Brien will explain debating pro cedure and the national topic, Resolved: That the Congress of the United States should enact a compulsory fair employment prac tices law. Tryouts will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 17 in 316 Sparks. No previous debating experience is necessary, and all undergraduate men are eligible for the team, according to Thomas' Farrell, acting man ager. Men trying out for the team will be required to prepare a five minute affirmative or negative talk on the national topic. Seniors Eligible For Physics Fellowships . Seniors in chemistry, physics, or engineering are eligible for Atom ic Energy Commission 'graduate fellowships in radiological physics for the 1953-54 school year. Radio logical physics, a new and ex panding field of science, is con cerned with health physics, radi ation _ monitoring and control, radioisotope measurements, and similar activities associated with radioisotopes or nuclear energy. •Up to 75 fellowships may be awarded, with fully-accredited graduate study to be carried out in three locations. One program is operated by the University of Rochester and Brookhaven Na tional Laboratory, another by the University of Washington and the Hanford Works of AEC, and the third by Vanderbilt University and the Oak Ridge National Lab oratory. Nine, months of course work at the university are followed by three months of additional study and field training. The program is accredited for graduate-1 ev e 1 training leading toward an ad vanced degree. Basic stipends are $l6OO per year with allowances if appli cants are married and have chil dren. Additional information on the program may be obtained from science department heads dr direct from the institute at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Law School Candidates To Take Placement Test , The mid-winter law placement test administered to candidates for admission to law school will be given from 8:45 to 12:15 p.m. Feb. 21 in 202 Willard. The test is prepared by the. Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., and is designed to determine facility in legal studies. The test is required as a condition of admission by most of the leading law schools in the United States. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Drum Snares Yoder to Music By MARY LOU ADAMS A father gave a small boy a snare drum, and a music career was born. The boy was Paul Yoder, today, guest-con ducting the Western All-State Band in Schwab Auditorium. Yoder mastered the drum, then all the other percussion instruments, and became one of the foremost composers and arrangers of band music in the United States today. Attempting to find a com fortable position iii the straight-back seats of the dark ened auditorium, in ghostly quiet after the blare of 185 instruments of a few moments before, Yoder chatted' about his life—music, music, music. Back in the days of vaude ville and silent movies, the as piring musician was in the or chestra pit “playing” his way through college. At the Uni versity of North Dakota he majored in music education and went op to teach in Illinois and Indiana. “While 16-year-old Ginger Rogers was touring on one of her first theatrical ventures,” he reminisced, ‘.T was accom panying her, from the pit, of course!” Eyen musicians must watch their figures, and Yoder has Van Paassen Says U. S. Plays into Soviet Hands America too frequently follows the Kremlin’s course in foreign affairs in charting its own course, Dr. Pierre van Paassen, Unitarian missionary, told a large audience last night at the Hillel foundation auditorium. Dr. van Paassen’s topic was “America’s Stake in the Near East.” Dr. van Paassen said the hard est blow to the Kremlin in the Near East would be the peaceful development of education and democratic government. If Russia were ready for war, she would not have passed up so opportune a moment as the Iranian oil crisis, he said. Iran was the ideal place for the Soviets to carry out ex pansionist plans dating back to Czarist times. The rearmament of the West, however, kept Russia from perpetuating a war she does not want, he said. Progress of Israel Dr. van Paassen asserted the only way to keep the Near East out of Russian hands is to enlarge Point Four in backward, areas in stead of depending on arms ship ments alone. “If there is nothing done for the depressed people of Asia, the Soviet Union' won’t have to do anything but wait for the explosion,” Dr. van Paassen warned, Dr. van Paassen spent a great deal of time elaborating on the progress of the hew state of Is rael. “Israel is the only spot in the Near East where humanity is fighting back chaos,” he said. Dr. van Paassen believes, Israel, through her example of progress and democratic government, is be hind half the troubles in the Arab world. It is the reactionary lead ers, that the United States should quit supporting, who are most afraid of Israel as an example to their depresesd subjects. Sponsoring Jointly There is still time to save the situation throughout the East be fore Russia can take further ini tiative, he said, if th'e United States stands up for the freedom of the individual. “The United States needs to restate the demo cracy found in the constitution to save the world in this age of barbarism,” Dr. van Paassen con cluded. The lecture was jointly spon sored by Hillel and the Depart ment of Sociology. CAMERA BUGS! Save your prints in a Penn State picture album Blue and white— Filler included — °” ly $1.65 ' at the BX in the TUB, $5 in Sales. You Get $1 in Merchandise FREE! “Strike up the band” given up his favorite potatoes and gravy, desserts, and cream soups for carrot and radish sandwiches, “without the bread.” Aside from music, he likes to bowl, camp out with the family, and watch TV. Here again music comes in— his favorite programs include By BYRON FIELDING Open Houses Before ISCB Plans and suggestions, for open house projects to be by the College’s eight undergraduate student councils were discussed 5 last night, by the Interschool Council Board. High schools throughout Penn sylvania will be invited to send students to visit the schools in which they are interested in en tering. The councils plan to hold open house • projects* Saturday, May 2, except the Home Econom ics Council, which will sponsor a three-day affair at another time. Suggestions of sponsoring dis plays, brief lectures, experiments, and tours of the schools to ori entate prospective students were made. The purpose of the Interschool Council Board, which was found ed last year, is to coordinate the activities of the councils. Mem bers are presidents of the indivi vidual'school councils. Chem-Phys Group Proposes Meeting A proposal that the student branch of the American Chemical Society sponsor a joint meeting of the central Pennsylvania chap ter affiliates during the Chem- PhyS' Open House was made up Wednesday night at the open house committee meeting. The tentative meeting, if ap proved at the next council meet ing, would draw members from both Bucknell and Juniata. The open house, program will be held May 2 and possibly con tinue through May 3, pending council and faculty action Wed nesday. Last year over 2000 per sons attended the one-day affair. Good Food at Popular Prices 1 DUTCH PANTRY Our Own Baked Goods Fresh Daily OPEN Every Day 7 a.m. 'til Midnight 230 £. College Ave. the “Firestone Hour” and the “Fred Waring Show.” ! In arranging, his interests lean toward comedy and novel ty tunes arranged for band. The brown haired composer is now working on selections from Rogers and Hamerstein. Last year he turned out a group of Jerome Kern arrangements. Band festivals are a wonder ful outlet for a composer, giv ing him a chance to do con ducting and keeping him l in touch with the ideas of the youthful musicians at which his compositions are aimed, the easy-going musician remarked, his blue eyes serious. His open-necked rust shirt giving him an air of casual ness, Yoder reflected on music tastes in the U.S. There is a more universal response to gos pel music than to any other, and hillbilly music too is high in popularity because it’s so “down to earth.” He comment ed, too, on the “surprising in terest in classical music among high school musicians.” “No other state has such a fine setup for encouraging young musicians as Pennsyl vania,” Yoder said, “with its well established system of mu sic. festivals for band, choir, and orchestra.” Four Women Will Compete 3n Debate Meet Four members of the women’s debate squad will leave today to participate in the annual Slippery- Rock Tournament this weekend at Slippery Rock State v Teachers College. Barbara Tokarsky and Patricia Marsteller will debate affirma tively on .the national inter collegiate topic Resolved: That the Congress of the United States should enact a compulsory fair employment practices law. Oh the negative team will be Barbara Hinger and Mary Yandow. The tournament will be modi fied cross-examination style. Each debater will give an eight-minute constructive speech after which he will be questioned by a mem ber of the opposing team for five minutes. : Debate summarie s are then given by the second affirmative and second negative speakers. of each team. Cordier to Speak Dr. Andrew W. Cordier, execu tive assistant to the secretary gen eral of the United Nations, will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday in 119 Osmond. Dr. Cordier’s talk is sponsored by the Penn State Christian Association and the Political Science department. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY fc 199 S DuPont Eilaiiishes Fellowship A $l5OO summer fellowship m chemistry to promote research among teachings members of the faculty has been established by the Du Pont Co., President Milton S. Eisenhower has announced. The grant, one of several from Dii Pont and other companies, was approved at a meeting of the Board of Trustees recently. College faculty members will be able to study or do research work either here or at another college during the summer months through the aid of' the grant, Dr. W. Conrad Ferhelius, professor and head of the Depart ment of Chemistry, said. Two new fellowships, . ope; in chemistry and one. in chemical engineering, have also, been es tablished by the Shell Fellowship Committee. Each fellowship pro-; vldes $l5OO in addition to. tuition, and fees for the student and' $4OO for project expenses. v A fellowship in anthracite min-, ing has also been established/in the division of mining with a $3OOO grant by the Lehigh Navi gation Coal Co. 1 i Two other Du Pont have also been renewed, one in chemistry and one in mechanical engineering. Each fellowship pro vides $l5OO for an unmarried stu dent or $2lOO for a married - stu dent and $l2OO to support . the student’s projects and cover-fees. '. Grants for SIQOO from the Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile In surance Co. and $5OO from Na-. tional Truck Carriers, Inc., were accepted in partial support of the Motor yehicle Fleet Training program of the Institute of Public Safety. 7 Roberta 7 Tryouts To Start Sunday - Tryouts for Jerome Kern’s ‘‘Ro berta,” Thespians' spring produc tion, will be held 7 p.m. Sunday,: Monday, and Tuesday in 409 Old Main. ( :Richard. Brugger, president, has announced that singers, dancers, piano players, actors, musicians, and crew members will be needed. Tryouts are open to all students and; nb experience iii drama or musical-c ome d y is necessary, Brugger said. Pre-Vets Elect Officers Newly-elected officers of the Pre-Vet Club are president, Rich ard Stoneback; vie e-president, Russell Snyder; secretary-treasur er, Edwin Wible; Agriculture Student Council- representative, George Elickinger; reporter, Pi erre Conti.
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