Calendar Plan
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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.
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