Calendar Plan Needs Revision- See Page 4 VOL. 53, No. 92 Hqt Council OK's New Women's Group Hat Societies Council lastnightgaye the 'official green light for the formation of the new' senior women’s hat society. The approval came after- lengthy discussion and numerous postponements had delayed a decisive action. / : The new society, however, will not tap any woman who is a member of either Chimes or Cwens. Thisprovision was in agreement with the decision rendered by the women of various dormitory areas oh campus. This topic was one of the chief blocks to the society’s birth. The original plan called for only one-half of the members to be former members of Chimes or Cwens. Patricia Ellis, secretary-treasur-. er of Cwens, told council that 11 out of the 12 dormitory units contacted were in favor of no members of either women’s hat society being permitted to join the new society. Representatives from the men’s hat ■ societies, Androcles, Druids, Blue Key, Parmi Nous, and Skull and Bones, voiced their opinion by going along with what the women wanted. Membership of the organiza tion will be no more than 25. A quorum of two-thirds must be present for amending the con stitution, but a majority is re quired for electoral matters. , Officers of the club will be a president, a vice-president, who will be that person with the sec ond highest number of votes for president, a secretary-treasurer, and an historian. The academic requirements will be a 1.5 All-College. The name of the society has not been de termined. Council may- allow the organization to decide on a name and then submit it to council for approval. The constitution of the society, however, must be approved by the organizational committee and must also be given to Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, for approval. James Plyler told council that all tapping lists for this semester must be in his hands by the first week in April. This excludes that of Cwens, because the organiza tion is a national group and its constitution and tapping list are secret. Plyler also asked that the con stitution of Androcles and Chimes be submitted' to him at the s next meetings Thespians Name Cast Of 'Roberta' General Director Ray Fortunato has released the cast for Thes pians’ spring production of Jer ome Kern’s “Roberta.” The musi cal comedy will be presented IFG Weekend, April 16, 17, and 18 in Schwab Auditorium. Joe Goldstein will play John and Ann Wylie has been selected for the role of Sophie. The .part of Huck will be handled by Alec Beliasov; Commedienne Pat Mars teller will be seen as Mrs. Teale. Doris Cook will play Minnie while Stephanie will be portrayed by Nancy Thomas. Thespian, veteran Suzanne Kiel will sing the tunes of Scharwenka. Dick Brugger, Thespian president, will be seen as Lord Henry. Others in the cast are Dick Wrentmore, Ladislaw; Charles Sciotto, Le roux; Joan Hunter, Anna; Faith Gallagher, Luella, and Donna Lafferty, Marie. Dancers and glee singers have not been named. Fred Leuschner will direct the dialogue. Don Stohl and . Joanne McNally are in charge of dance routines, and Mike Rosenfeld will direct the glee singers. Assisting Fortunato will be Moylan Mills, graduate student in arts and let ters. Included in Kern’s musical score with lyrics by Otto Harbach are “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” “Lovely to Look At,” “Touch of Your Hand,” “Yesterday,” and “Let’s Begin.” Paul Christoff Hunts for Son Paul Christoff, fatheir. of cloth belt strangulation victim June Christoff, began a search Monday for his 24-year-old son after state and county police gave up a con centrated search in the 1000-acre wooded,, area near Frugality. Jean, who disappeared shortly before the body of his sister was found Feb. 17, is wanted by po lice for questioning. Until he is found, police said, June’s death will remain a mystery. No char ges. have been brought against Jean in regard, to the death. How ever, he is also being sought in connection with several burglar ies which occurred in\the Frugal-’ ity area. The elder Christoff said the youth is in the woods on one of his frequent hunting and trapping trips. He maintained earlier that the girl’s death was suicide and that Jean knew nothing about it.. The father said he thought the girl, who was buried Saturday, committed suicide after a month long spell of despondency. Froth on Sale Today The awards issue of Froth will be on sale today on the Mall and at the Corner Room at-. 25 cents a copy. ' Sir? latlg 0 (Mlwjuttt Calendar Policy Defined Spring semester classes will end on the third or fourth Saturday in May if a calendar policy proposed by the’Senate committee on calendar is approved by the College Senate. The calendar policy will be presented to the College Senate March 5 in the committee’s report. The suggested calendar policy sets, the follow ing schedule for the spring semester: Registration shall begin at 1:10 p.m. on the third or fourth Wednesday in January, the day immediately following the last examinations, and shall continue for three days. Classes will begin oh the Monday immediately following registration. ’ • _ Spring recess shall begin at noon on the Wednesday before Easter Sunday and end a week later. Classes shall end at noon on the third or fourth Saturday in May. Examinations will be gin the same day and ehd on the last Tuesday or Wednesday in May or the first Wednesday in June. Baccalaureate Day and Class Day shall be the last Sunday in May' or the first Sunday in June. . Commencement exercises will be scheduled for the first Monday in. June. Summer sessions. will begin at 8 a.m. on the second Monday in June and last through the last Friday of August Or first Friday of Septem ber. College Registrar C. O. Williams indicated that he -will object to the lack of free time between: fall semester classes: and registration STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1953 FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Funds Go Toward Meditation Chapel Chapel collection funds will go toward construction of a meditation'chapel and scholarship aid to bring students to the College from Silliman University in the Philippines, according to a state ment frdm the President’s office yesterday. The plan, recommended by a student-faculty committee that studied uses for Chapel has been approved by President Milton S. Eisenhower. The commitment covers this year andf next, Four Teams To Debate At Dickinson Four teams frpm the men’s de bate squad will represent the College today in the annual Ore gon debate at Dickinson College. Debating affirmatively on the A team-will be Murray Horewitz and Ronald Lynch. James Dunlop and Ronald Isenberg will defend the negative for the A team. On the B affirmative team Louis Martini and Charles Basch will be partners. Thomas Farrell ’and Ernest Schonberger will de bate the negative on the B team. The tournament will be held Oregon style in which one affirm ative and one negative debater each gives a 15-minute construc tive speech. A ten-minute ques tion period follows during which the second negative speaker questions the first affirmative speaker and the second 'affirma tive speaker cross-examines the first, negative debater. Each team is then allotted : five minutes fo* rebuttal. • The teams will debate the na tional intercollegiate topic, Re solved: That the Congress of the United States should enact a fair employment practices law. Edward Gilkey, assistant speech coach, .will accompany the teams. to ' Dickinson. The men’s squad will stop at Harrisburg along the way to visit the State Capitol.- Tomorrow Richard Kirschner and David Swanson will leave to defend the Freeley Grand Na tional Cup at the Grand National Tournaments at Boston Universi ty being held tomorrow through Saturday. The championship cup was won last year by Robert Al lerdice and David Lewis. ■ after which the situation will be reviewed again. Under the plan, the first $3OOO of a year’s collection will be used to provide scholarships for Silli man University students to study at the College. 'All money over $3OOO will be set aside for con struction of the proposed chapel. Chapel collections in recent years have been about $6OOO annually. It is. expected that the scholar ship money will be used for two students who may be under graduate or graduate students. Other Sources The Chapel project is a pro posed meditation chapel which might become a wing of a larger chapel at some later time. It would' be all-faith in nature, and provide facilities for individual meditation, worship services for small groups, and weddings. The chapel would have offices and a social room with a kitchen. The seating capacity for worship serv ices would be between 100 and 125- . The College believes that con siderable additional money for a chapel will be forthcoming from other sources, such as contribu tions from“alumni and friends of the College. Red Domination The student-faculty committee iwhich recommended use of the money, for . scholarships and. a chapel undertook to study new uses for the Chapel collections nearly a year ago when it became clear that the Penn-State-in-Chi na project, to which the funds had gone for 40 years, was no longer possible. The committee is com posed of' representatives of the Penn-State-in-China committee, the Chapel committee, the Stu dent Government Association, and the College administration. ’ The Penn-State-in-China pro ject was cut off by Communist domination of China. - for] the spring semester. The proposed policy ends, classes Tuesday and starts registration the; following day. This allows no time for his department to gather the records for the com pleted semester and at the same time be ready for the new semester, Williams said.. This year the registrar’s department ran into* difficulty knowing who were on probation in time to noti fy them before registration. Indications are that there i will be opposition to parts of the calendar when it comes before the':Senate. Ernest W, Callenbach, chairman of the committee, said the policy recommended in the report was the best compromise the com mittee could work out. One objection may come because fall semester Thursday classes will meet only 14 times during the. semester instead of the customary 15. This is - a result of recommending that Thanksgiving vacation be limited to the day itself. This will end both semesters approximately a week’earlier than in the past. Occasionally fall semesters have been scheduled to include 15% weeks of classes, the extra half week being that half week before Thanksgiving. The committee’s report recommends that the Senate By-Laws be amended so that the duties of the committee. on calendar are to “recom mend policies concerning, calendar.” and to “study matters of calendar policy that may be referred, to it.” The committee’s present duties are to “recommend policies concerning calen dar” and to “prepare the calendar for each College; year subject to the approval of the Cbuxicil-of Administration." Eng Council To Consider Book Store The Engineering Student Com > cil voted last night to investigate the possibility of founding a col lege book store to handle new books. Students are being charged the recommended list price of the publisher for new books, Charles Webb reported, but additional savings could be made with a stu dent operated store. It was also recommended that complete book lists' be made more available to students. Students may now obtain hook information by consulting the heads of departments whose sub jects they intend to take. The book lists themselves are printed up 60 days before the opening of the new semester. Lowell Minor, Webb, and Al bert Turchick were appointed to find out more about the book sit uation, and report back to the council. The council also approved the suggestion that the College be asked to keep drawing rooms open during all class hours, espe cially Saturday. It was also reported that a Pan- American Week will be held at the Cpllege during the week of April 13. Further plans on this project will be announced later. The council will meet again March 10. A council-faculty mixer will be held that evening. Tribunal Fines Car Lender Tribunal last night sentenced a student to his second when his car was reported parked in the wrong permit area. He had lent the vehicle to another pen son. A suspended $2 fine was levied, and the offender placed on 2- week probation. The court dismissed the case of a student who had legally changed permit areas after Christ mas, but received a violation. He had transferred from Nittany dorms to Jordan Hall, but had not secured a proper permit sticker. A resident of McKee Hall told the court that his car had been towed away from Rec Hall park ing area after he had failed to answer three ticket violations. He explained that it was his parents’ car, and in visiting the campus for a week, ,they had parked there. In issuing a warning to the student, the court asked that stu dents urge anyone visiting them at any time to keep their cars off campus, unless here for only ;a short stay. IFC Meeting Canceled; Will Meet March 4 The Inierfraierniiy Council meeting scheduled for tonight has been canceled, Arthur Ros feld, IFC president, announced last night. IFC will meet at 7:30 p.m. March 4 in 110 Elec trical Engineering. Rosf e 1 d said. Tonight's meeting was can celed because of the dual wrestling - basketball event which begins at 7 tonight. FIVE CENTS
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