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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
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WITH
SNOW
FLURRIES
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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
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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.
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