New Hat Society On the Way- See Page 4 VOL. 53, No. 86 Infirmary Visit Ban To Be Continued Infirmary visiting hours are still under indefinite suspension, Director of the College Health Service Dr. Herbert R. Glenn an nounced yesterday. The ban on visitors -was set last week because of the large number of cases of upper respiratory disease confined to the Infirmary. Late yesterday afternoon, a total of 37 students, most of whom were women, were reported as patients in the 30-bed capacity Infirmary.. A major portion of these patients are cases of grippe, Glenn said. Although there were seven more patients yesterday than Friday, Glertn said the worst of the high number of cases is over, and the situation is easing. Employees 111 Noted Poet To Present Readings Theodore Roethke, nationally known poet and former. Penn State tennis coach and English professor, will give a reading of his poems at 8 p.m. tomorrow in 121 Sparks. , The first speaker in the current Simmons Series, he has received numerous honors for his writing, including two Guggenheim Fel lowships, a grant from the Na tional Institute of Arts and Let ters, and several major poetry prizes. Roethke is the author of three books of poetry: “Open House,” “The Lost Son,” and “Praise to the End!” Last March, he was named recipient of a Ford Foun dation Fellowship for the current academic year and has been study ing philosophy in New York City and presenting readings of his works in Eastern cities. His new est works, a collection of poems and a volume of children’s verse, will be 'published in the fall. Professor of English at the Uni versity of Washington since 1947, he was named by “Poetry Maga zine” of Chicago in 1952 as the outstanding teacher of poetry writing in the country. Recently married/Roethke and his wife, Beatrice, will leave this month for Ischia, an island near Capri, on their honeymoon. His friends in State College remem ber him as tennis player, poet, reader and ‘the greatest steak cook since Brancusi.” • Guild to Hold Shop Meetings The Radio Guild will hold the first in a series of workshop meetings tonight in 304 Sparks. Five workshop groups ■ will be held instead of a general meeting. The production workshop, led by Madeline Sharp, will meet from 7 to 7:40 p.m. The acting workshop, headed by John Citron, will meet from 7:45 to 8:25 p.m. The engineering workship, led by Ellis Maris, will meet from 8:30 to 9:10 p.m. The continuity workshop, headed by Nancy Leutzel, will also meet from 8:30 to 9:10 p.m. The announcing workshop, headed by Jay Murphy, will meet from '9:15 to 10 p.m. Spicer improves Otie Spicer, College farm em ployee hurt when his tractor over turned Thursday, is improving in Centre County Hospital, Belle fonte, according to Lorin J. Elder, supervisor of 'safety. Spicer suf fered chest and back injuries and cuts of the hands and face, Elder said. TODAY'S WEATHER COLDER WITH SNOW FLURRIES Wkp "SSSr A BETTER PENN STATE Asked to state definitely if the illness were influenza or grippe, Glenn said it is strictly a matter of judgment. Because the word influenza unnecessarily excited people and the cases in the In firmary were not those of real influenza, Glenn said he referred to them as grippe. He added that opinions of doctors would vary in diagnosis of the cases. Asked if the Health Service staff had been increased at all to handle the cases, Glenn said no, and if anything, it was under staffed because a number of the employees were ill. However, this had no effect on the way cases were handled, he added. Receives 10 Questions ’ is still making morning rounds at the hospital to empty as many beds for the day as'pos sible. He had no information on the possibility of issuing official excuses to students confined to rooms by health officials. Glenn received yesterday the list of ten questions prepared by All-College cabinet pretaining to possible expansion of College health facilities. He said the ques tions would be answered as soon as a meeting of 'the persons con cerned could be arranged. Most of the questions could be an swered in a short time, he added. 20 Employers Seek Seniors This Week Twenty firms will be interview ing graduating seniors this week who are interested in employ ment. . Appointments for inter views should be made in advance at the College Placement Service, 112 Old Main... -Mechanical engineering, majors are in greatest demand—l 6 of the 20 . interviewing firms are inter ested in them. Fourteen firms are looking for electrical engineering majors; three for aeronautics ma jors; nine for chemistry majors, 11 for chemical engineering ma jors; four for civil engineering majors; fqur for industrial engi neering majors; seven for phy sics majors; three for metallurgy majors; one for physical .chem istry majors; one for entomology majors;- and one for horticulture majors. In addition, three firms will be interviewing seniors in non-tech nical fields. Commerce and fi nance majors, accounting majors, arts and letters majors, and math ematics majors will be inter viewed. Firms are interested in male graduating seniors even though they, may be draft-eligible,- Place ment Service officials declared. Medical School Forms Available . . * Application blanks for the Med ical College Admission Test and the Graduate Record Examina tions are available in 106 and 207 Buckhout. Applications for the-' graduate tedt, which , will be given April 17 and 18, must reach the Edu cational Testing Service, Box 592, Princeton, N.J., by April 3. Application deadline for the med ical test is April 25. The test will be igiven May 9/ > STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1953 Snow-people Dartmouth with its winter car nival'has nothing on Penn State. With the weekend’s snow came an amateur Michelangelo or two who left snow-people and animals scattered over campus. A rugged and, no doubt, cold hearted individualist sits in front of Osmond Laboratory, apparent ly overseer of the building crew at work in what’s left of Holmes’ field. What appears to be a dog or cat scampers about' the lawn in front of Woman’s Building among plump, fully-packed, ladies and gentlemen. • Two gentlemen seem to have wandered to McAllister where they assume the role of sphinxes guarding a pyramid. The theme for Greek Week, to be held April 11 to 18 this year; will be “The Greeks and''the Community,” Richard Gibbs, fraternity chairman of the week, announced yesterday. The new theme, a change from the theme announced earlier, was selected at a recent organizational meeting of Greek Week committee members. Gibbs announced that a Greek Week booklet will be printed and -distributed before the week. Da vid Jones has been named editor and Lix Newell and Bettie Loux editorial assistants for the book let. Co - chairmen for committees named to work on Greek Week activities are Interfraternity-Pan hel Sing committee, A 1 Scheirov and Anna *Webb; work projects committee, Ja c k Flanagan and Eleanor Horwitz; exchange din ner and open house committee, Joseph Katz and Linda Jacobs; variety show committee, Charles McClintock and Marilyn Porter; banquet committee, William O’- Malley and Carolyn App. Gerald Foreman has been named, chairman of the church committee for the week," and Frank Kelly, Charles Obertance, and Murph Crawford have been selected publicity committee members. The IFC-Panhel Ball will cli max the week’s activities on Ap ril 18. Chairman of the ball is Richard Gibbs. Final RILW To Feature THE REV. E. A. deBORDENAVE. Cleft) rector of Christ Church in Philadelphia. Dean of Women Pearl O. Weston, and Dean of Men Frank J. Simes discuss the Relgion-in-Life Week theme at the RILW tea held Sunday afternoon in Simmons Hall lounge. Campus Sees 'Greeks and Community' Is Theme for Week Radio Permit Application Ready The application for a construc tion permit for the campus /radio Station has been completed and may be sent to Washington by the end of the week, Wilmer E. Ken worthy, director of student af-> fairs, said yesterday. The application is being' thor oughly checked before being sent to the Federal Communication Commission. Although construction of the station may not commence before the permit is issued, the College expects to do preliminary plan ning and to obtain materials so that construction may begin as soon as the application is ap proved. Car Stolen, Found 22 Minutes Later A car owned by- Mrs. Ruth Driebilbis, night telephone oper ator at the College, was stolen for 22 minutes Sunday morning, Cap tain Philip A. Mark of the Cam pus Patror reported yesterday. The car had been parked in the Willard Hall parking lot while Mrs. Driebilbis was on duty and was discovered missing at 1:55 a. m., Captain Mark said. Campus patrolmen found the car parked near the College farms. Evidence shows, that a number of people were involved in the theft. • Dorm Vacancies Hit 300 Three hundred vacancies exist in the Nittany-Pollock dormitory area, Allen C. St. Clair, acting director of housing, announced yesterday. Four living units in Nittany and two in Pollock have been closed this semester because of these vacancies. Panel Rabbi Guests to Lead Lecture Topic Discussion Rabbi Judah Goldin, dean and' - associate professor of Ag gadah, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, will speak on “The Student in the Church” at the final Religion [h-Life Week public lecture panel discussion - period at 8 tonight in 10 Sparks. Following the lecture, discus sion of the topic will be led by a panel including Professor Rob ert Mickey of Franklin and Mar shall College, A. Burns Chalmers of the American Friends Service Committee, and the Rev. Harmon M. Gehr, minister of the Univer salist Church of the Restoration, Philadelphia. RILW schedule of events for to morrow: Forty hours of Devotion, Our Lady of Victory Church, 8 a.m. to p.m. Classroom discussion. . 8:30 a.m. Morning Devotions, WMAJ. Speaker: Dr. Mark Eber sole.' Noon—Leaders luncheon; Al lencrest Tea Room. 4 to 5 p.m. Discussion "The Stu dent in the World Struggle" Ham ilton Hall lounge. Panel: Wayno Glick and Harmon Gehr. 5 to 7:30 p.m. Fireside discus sions in dormitories and fralerni- 7:45 p.m. PS C A program* WMAJ. Speakers: Miss Jimmie Woodward and Wayne Glick. 8 p.m. Lecture—" The Student in the Church" Speaker: Rabbi Judah Goldin. Panel: Robert Mickey, Burns Chalmers, and Harmon Gehr. 10 Sparks. The program will be the third in a series of RIDW evening lec ture and discussion periods. Rabbi Goldin has held the po sitions of associate professor of re ligion at the University of lowa and visiting associate professor of Jewish Literature and History at Duke University:- He is the author of three essays published in the book “Spiritual Problems in Contemporary Liter ature” which was cited last weeS (Continued on page eight) Debaters to Hold Final Tryouts Final Spring semester tryouts for the men’s debate squad will be held at 7 tonight in 316 Sparks. Men trying out for the team will be required to present a five minute affirmative or negative talk on the national intercollegiate topic, Resolved: That the Congress of the United States should enact a compulsory fair employment practices law. Interested men who did not at tend the preliminary meeting last week can still try out by present ing a speech tonight, according to Thomas Farrell, debate manager. Books or Money Available at ÜBA Students may pick up their money or unsold books from the Used Book Agency in the Temporary Union Building, to day through Friday, Howard Giles, ÜBA chairman, said yes terday. Giles urged students to bring along the book receipts receiv ed when they turned in books for the ÜBA to handle. All previous ÜBA selling records were broken during the past season, Giles ' an nounced. FIVE CENTS
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