PAGE TWt> Action Moves Slowly O n Party PI atforms Action on Lion and State Party platforms put forth in the' fall elections is moving slowly but steadily, according to State Sophomore Class President Robert Homan and Lion Freshman Class Pres ident James Bowers. 1 At present nothing definite On either slate has been accomplished through the efforts of either party. However, planks of the platforms have been referred to class committees for consideration and work/ Lion Party action has been lim ited mainly to the plank stating that the party would try to “es tablish a freshman class weekend into the activities program of the College, including a musical or dramatic performance enacted and directed by freshmen.” A proposal listing such a program will be presented to All-College ’ Cabinet if funds are needed, ac cording to Bowers. The weekend will be made up of an exhibition of freshman talent May 1 in Schwab Auditorium and a class dance May 2 in Becreation Hall. The plans for the weekend will be presented, to members of the freshman class when it meets within two weeks, Bowers said. Work Progressing Other planks in the platform on which no action has been taken are: “That necessary action be taken to attempt to improve the facilities of the BX to handle all student needs, including text books,” and “To set aside a por tion of Orientation Week to teach and acquaint incoming freshmen with working and membership qualifications for extra-curricular activities at the College.” A glance at the State Party platform will show that work is progressing on one of five planks while one has already been ful filled. Action was completed be fore the election on the plank asking that freshman women be allowed to date in fraternities. However, Homan said, work is progressing to establish a plan to promote more advanced laundry facilities for the West Dorms and the Nittany-Pollock area. A poll in survey form is currently being conducted among students living in these areas. Joan Shierson and Jack McMeaken are co-chairmen conducting the poll. General con sensus is laundry facilities are in adequate. Miss Shierson said. A concrete proposal should be ready for All-College Cabinet in about two weeks at the conclusion of the poll, Miss Shierson added. List Compiled No action has yet been taken on the planks, “To \y with the BX in order to lower the price of freshman customs; to investi gate the possibility of better seat ing at football games; and to im prove recreational facilities at Penn State,” In last spring’s election where the State Party won both junior and senior class heads, Theodore Kimmel,. senior class president, said some work had been done on the State platform. The most recent is the compilation of a list of ten questions concerning col lege health service expansion ap proved by cabinet Thursday. This action was instituted by State party personnel, Kimmel said. 2 Conclaves To Be Held By Ag School The School of Agriculture wil host the 23d annual Turf Confer ence and the Nurserymen's Con ference next week. The Turf Conference, sponsored by the College and the Pennsyl vania turf advisory committee, will be held Monday to Thursday at the State College Hotel. The nurserymen will meet Tuesday to Thursday. Special purpose turf will be dis cussed at the Turf Conference of which H. Burton Musser, profes sor of agronomy, will be general chairman. Dr. Lyman E. Jackson, dean of the School of Agriculture, will open the conference. Henry W. Thurston, professor of plant pathology, will preside Tuesday. Albert E. Cooper, pro fessor of agronomy extension, will preside Wednesday. Musser will have charge of the closing session Thursday. Control of insects and disease, soil conditioners, and tree pruning will be among the subjects dis cussed by the nurserymen. Dr. Russell E. Larson, head of the Department of Horticulture, will welcome the group Tuesday. Alfred O. Rasmussen, professor of ■ ornamental horticulture ' ex tension, will preside Wednesday. Lawrence D. Little Jr., instructor in ornamental horticulture, will be in charge Thursday. Men Debaters Seek Revenge Negative debaters Samuel No well and Robert Murrer will pool their resources at 11 a.m. Monday to strike back at an affirmative coed team at Mount Mercy Col lege. The two teams will renew a feud on the topic, Resolved: That women ' should participate more fully in public life. Last month the teams clashed in a preliminary debate at the College. According to Nowell, the men are out to “win back respect for the male ego and show wom en the light.” Sunday, night the teams will hold a mock trial over WDUQ, Mount Mercy campus radio sta tion. Nowell will present the man’s point of view—“women are so overwhelming that if they take over public life men are definite ly through!” Murrer will act as “prosecuting attorney” to cross examine the opposing speakers. Overstreet Takes Role in 'Major' Warrant Officer Junior Grade Jack Overstreet, instructor in air science and tactics, has taken ov er the role of Bill Walker, the hypocrite cockney, in George Ber nard Shaw’s “Major Barbara.” Overstreet replaces Ed Sheas by, who has withdrawn from the Players, will present the social comedy at 8 tonight at Center Stage, Hamilton avenue west of Allen street. Tickets are on sale for $1 at the Student Union desk in Old Main and at the door of the theater. . Skating! Club to Hold Party at Whipples Members of the Skating Club will meet at 1:30 p.m. today in back of Old Main for a skating oarty at Whipple’s Dam if weather reports are favorable, Howard Wright, president, has announced. Wright asked members with auto mobiles to help provide trans oortation. Friends of members ire also welcome, he said. Officials Remain Silent On College TV Station Since the November announcement that State College was. Lon channel, College officials have s of having a station here. Indica intained until concrete statements favored for an educational televjsi remained silent on the possibilitiej tions are that silence will be mai can be made. Three other locations were al conference on educational tele vision when State College was picked: Pittsburgh, and Erie. Deadline June 2 . Resolutions 'passed at the con ference called for the establish ment of an engineering and edu cational survey, “state subsidies for construction and operation costs” of educational television stations, and serious' consideration for a plan providing local control in application for station license and operation, although requiring that-programming meet state standards. . The deadline set by the Fed eral Communications Commission to claim the 242 noncommercial television channels set aside for educational use: is June 2. Warn ings by the commission ‘ indicate that it may. pick up the unclaimed channels and provide them for commercial use, THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. Two Purebred Herds Moved To New Barns Two purebred herds, the Hol stein and Jersey, have I 'been moved to the new dairy barbs recently built to replace 35-year old structures. Aryshire, Brown Swiss and Guernsey-herds may be moved into the five barns this spring. The barns, planned by Max L. Dawdy, instructor in dairy .hus bandry, were built primarily to shelter the cows. They will also be the basis for numerous re search projects to answer funda mental problems in bam design and management. Varying types of stalls, venti lating systems, feed storage and handling, milking methods, and cleaning procedures will be used in the barns. No two are alike. Production in the new bam area is expected to increase be cause nearly 220 acres of pasture will be provided for grazing pur poses. Experiments in artificial in semination • will continue. New proven and experimental equip ment will be demonstrated and put into use. Dr. Donald V. Josephson, pro fessor of dairy husbandry, said the new barns will be open for inspection May 9 when the Dairy Exposition, will be held. Philadelphia Minister To Address Faculty Club The Rev. E. A. deßordenave, rector of Christ Church in Phil adelphia, will address the meet ing of the Faculty Luncheon Club at noon Monday at the Hotel State College. The Rev. deßordenave, who is participating in Religion-in-Life- Week, will discuss “Students in the University, Church, and World Struggle.” Action was also instigated through the Dean of Men’s office, Kimmel said, to establish a men’s housing bureau to provide for im proved and safe living conditions in off-campus housing. Work toward arranging an agreement with town doctors to provide for emergency house calls in dorms and fraternities has. been stale mated, Kimmel said. Establish ment of a'student press is in the hands of the All-College com munications committee, Kimmel said, and no action has been taken through the party. Iso chosen at a special governor’s According to the Associated Press, fewer than two dozen ap plications' for educational tele vision stations have been filed. The commission granted 14 of these. - ‘ ■ Equipment Proves Obstacle In California the situation is different from that in Pennsyl vania. According to the Califor nia Sun, newspaper of the' Uni 7 versity of California Graduate Department of Journalism, Los Angeles will have the first edu cational . channel in the. country. This statement is backed by the announcement that the channel “will go into operation- by early spring.” Delay in obtaining some of the equipment was cited as the only obstacle preventing the station from going into immediate oper ation. .VANIA Gals Use Strategy On Valentine's Day By HELEN LUYBEN l St. Valentine’s Day; since the Men, don’t be surprised if a days of the Roman feast of the blindfolded woman approaches Lupercalia each February, has you early this morning. It’s St. been a day of matchmaking. Valentine’s Day. According to Young men and maidens of an tradition, the first unmarried cient Rome drew from a box person of the opposite sex one their dates for the festival and meets on Feb. 14 becomes one’s love partners for the year on spouse. Valentine’s Day. ■ ' It, was customary for the matched pair- to exchange pre sents, and thus arose the tradi tion of exchanging valentines. Modem lovers ; swap 10ve... on pieces of paper, honey-dipped and reeking of roses, or dirt-' smattered with vulgarity and reeking of stale com. In many parts of Europe; it was traditional to light bonfires on St. Valentine’s - Day. ; The. names of unmarried youths, linked together in couples, drere called out at the site of the .bon-- fire. Women, being decidedly fe male, are prone to shape destiny to their personal satisfaction. Especially fear the woman student of folk lore and cus toms, for she has found the way to capture your heart without sweet, lacy valentines and poe try or Cupid’s help in the dart department. Last night, the eve of St. Val entine’s Day, she boiled an egg and, removing the hard yolk, filled it with salt. Just before getting into bed, she ate the egg, shell and all, and without speak ing to anyone or drinking, fell fast asleep and dreamed of her lover. You, evidently that lover, are 4 Seynt Valentyne’s day destined to marry her within the When every foul cometh Students Find Pranking Price Js Expensive What price pranking? Plenty. So learned the seven juniors and seniors who issued a faked edition of the Swarthmore College student newspaper, .the Phoenix, declaring that Adlai E. Stevenson, unsuccessful Demo cratic nominee for president, had been selected as Swarthmore’s new president. He hadn’t. The price they’ll have to pay: the cost of printing an extra edi tion of the paper—estimated at “several hundred dollars” and the humiliating job of apologizing to both the committee selecting the college’s new president" arid the Phoenix staff. Retiring President of the Col lege John W. Nason announced the sentence before an assembly of the entire student body. The extra edition for which the culprits will have to pay was is sued Wednesday night, disclaim ing the story of the fake edition. Each of the seven very well may now be paraphrasing what. Stevenson said after final returns were in on election, night: “It hurts too much to laugh, and I’m too old to cry.” INTERESTED 1 AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH? THE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT UNITED AIRCRAFT CORPORATION EAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT will have a representative on the Campus on FEBRUARY 19 ' to interview students having Bachelor's or advanced degrees in AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Inquire at the Placement Office for an interview appointment and descriptive literature. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1953, Here an exchange of presents between valentines, or sweet hearts, took the role of a ran- som to the flames of the fire. (People in ancient times lighted purificatory fires to bum and destroy all'harmful influences.) The lovers’ offers of gifts to redeem themselves from the fire could thus be interpreted as a prayer for the salvation of their love—included in the list of harmful influences. The belief that young men and women should mate as the birds mate at this time of the year is offered as another origin of the celebration of St. Valentine’s Day. The custom as described by Chaucer in “Parliament of Foulest’ continues today: For this was ther'to choose his mate. Lack of Ads Delays Inkling Inkling, College literary maga zine, will be unable to publish until additional advertising is se cured, John Hoerr, editor, said yesterday. Hoerr said $lOO more in adver tising will be necessary to .meet publication costs. Inkling, the fourth attempt to publish a lit erary magazine on campus, in cludes fiction, poetry, and short essays. It is not. a staff-written magazine. A literary board judges material submitted by students and determines what is used for publication. • Inkling appeared for the second time last spring. It is an annual publication sold for 25 cents." Veterans Club to Hold Election of Officers The Veteran Club will meet to enroll new members-and elect of ficers. at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in 119 Osmond. . Committees will also be named to study two current veteran prob lems, the establishing of a vet erans’ tutoring service arid a fund to aid veterans who need money for College expenses.. : ¥ I
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