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New Withdrawal Changes
Recommended to Senate
Changes in four undergraduate rules relating to student with
drawal from the College are recommended in a report to go before
the College Senate at its March 5 meeting:
The changes, suggested in a report of the committee on rules,
are minor and are mostly administrative in nature.
Pollock Council
Turns Back .
AIM Proposal
Pollock Council defeated a mo
tion to adopt a proposed amend
ment to the Association of Inde
pendent Men’s constitution which
would limit the presidency of that
organization to a sixth semester
student.
• The group felt that some mo
tive other than the one that claim
ed this proposed amendment
would raise the prestige of the
office and make it more than a
“stepping stone” to some higher
campus position was present.
Pollock Council president, Jos
eph Gardecki? announced that he
would resign as acting president
of the-Barons. By accepting the
Pollock Council presidency last
week he automatically relinquish
ed his position with the Barons.
It was pointed out that the four
irons that were placed in the
Public Utility Building on the
honor system were recently tak
en. The whereabouts of two of
the irons is known, council said.
Last year the irons were in Dorm
20 and could be secured with a
matriculation card. There was no
access to the irons after 5 p.m.
John Quigley, vice-president,
said the College has taken action
on the student complaint in con
nection with the fact that one
key often fits many of the locks
in the Pollock dormitories. A
locksmith has been installing new
tumblers in those locks which are
in bad condition, he continued.
The College does not plan to put
new locks on all doors because
the Pollock dormitories will be
open only three more years,
Quigley said.
Coffee Hour
Bids Extended
Students who have not been in
vited to a Dean of Men’s coffee
hour but would like to attend may
now sign up at the Student Union
desk in Old Main, Lincoln War
rell, chairman of the coffee hour,
has announced.
These applications, which must
he in by the end of the week,
will place the signer on a list from
which future guests will be se
lected. Thirty students are invited
each week including ten men and
five women from various living
units and the remainder from
campus prganizations. Two fac
ulty members are also invited.
The coffee hour is a joint pro
ject of All-College Cabinet and
the Dean of Men’s office. Student
and administration problems are
discussed in an informal atmos
phere.
Visiting Hours
To Start Today
Visiting hours at the College
Infirmary will be'reinstated at
1:30 p.m. today. College Health
Service Director Herbert R.
Glenn announced yesterday.
Visiting hours, under sus
pension for over three weeks
because of the large number
of cases of upper respiratory
disease in the Infirmary, will
be from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. daily.
The situation in the hospital
is almost normal. Dr. Glehn
said. Although the number of
patients there' now is- higher
than usual, he added, the cases
are more of a normal nature.
These cases include sprains,
measles, and other contagious
diseases.
Dr. Glenn said, without pre
dicting, the prevalence of the
grippe is entirely over. He said
it seemed to -Imost as sud
denly fs it had begun almost
a month ago.
Changes in undergraduate reg
ulation M-4 will call for reporting
a grade of W for courses dropped
after the first, four weeks of a
semester or the first one-sixth of
a summer session. A grade of W.
will be reported in all coursesXfor
a student withdrawing from the
College at any time during the
semester.
The committee report also sug-,
gests that if a student officially
withdraws after the first our
weeks of a semester, or one-sixth
of a summer session, each instruc
tor shall enter in parentheses af
ter the grade of W on a grade
card a grade which represents
the quality of a student’s work
up tp the time of his withdrawal.
According to C. O. Williams,
registrar, these grades will be
used for counseling purposes if
the student re-enters the College.
Another recommended rule
change (to rule D-l) would have
the written parent’s consent for a
change of curriculum presented
by a' minor student presented to
the dean of the school in which
the student is enrolled instead of
the dean of admissions, as in the
present rule. Under the new rule,
the change of curriculum petition
and parental consent will then
be forwarded ,to the dean of ad
missions.
A suggested change to rule P-1
will have official withdrawal
forms signed by the dean of men
or dean of women in addition to
the dean of the school from which
the student is withdrawing, as
the present rule stipulates. If the
student is a minor, written con
sent of his parent or guardian
must be presented to the dean
of his school, the revised rule
reads.
A change in wording of rule
J-3 will stipulate that authoriza
tion to withdraw from the Col-,
lege shall be given “only under
extraordinary circumstances; ‘ un
satisfactory scholarship in itself
will not be considered an extra
ordinary circumstance.” ,
South is Misunderstood—Carter
By BYRON FIELDING
Speaking to the man in the
light gray suit and the rimless
glasses, one never wduld have
suspected that he was a Pulitzer
Prize winner and recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship, Neiman
Fellowship, and numerous other
news writing awards.
Only his slight southern accent
gave away the fact that Hodding
Carter, famed editor of ■ the Mis
sissippi Delta Democrat-Times,
was not one of the many local
businessmen waiting to eat din
ner Monday at the Nittany Lion
Inn.
Editor Carter, Monday night’s
Community Forum speaker,
blamed the current misunder
standing of the South’s problems
on politicians on both sides of' the
Mason-Dixon line who have used
these problems of racial segrega
tion and misunderstanding to fur
ther their own political careers.
The tendency on the part of
Northern newspaper and
magazine publishers to play up
the worst side of the South’s
culture has not given people in
other parts of the country a true
picture of the South..
However, he said, the South
is making an effort to snap out
of the emotional hangover left
by the destructive Civil War. Car
ter believes that the South is mis
understood less today than she
wa's prior to World War 11.
Carter, surprisingly, was only
an assistant editor on his college
paper, the Orient, at Bowdoin.
Carter was busy, however, being
editor of the “alleged” humor
magazine, the literary magazine,
and the yearbook. After Bowdoin,
he moved on to the. Columbia
University Graduate School of
Journalism, and then into the
newspaper business at Hammand,
La.
Carter was one of the few men
in the state .of Louisiana to openly
criticize the “dictatorship” of the
Huey Long machine during its
heyday in. the 1930’5. Through
economic pressure the Long ma
chine put Carter out of work tem-
THE DAILY CQLLEQIAN, §TATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
British Prof
Accepts Ml
Research Post
- Dr. George W. Brindley of the
Department of Physics at the
University of Leeds, England, Has
been appointed research profes
sor' of mineral sciences effective
July 1. The appointment was an
nounced yesterday by President
Milton S. Eisenhower.
Dr. Brindley is a pioneer in
the field of thermoelectric study
of cold-worked metals. He began
research in this field during the
war in addition to carrying on
other wartime civilian duties and
a heavy teaching load.
The new mineral sciences pro
fessor, who is a native of New
castle-under-Lyme) England, re
ceived his B.S. and M.S. degrees
from the University of Manches
ter. He received his Ph.D. degree
from the University of Leeds.
On the faculty of the Univer
sity of Leeds since 192 9, Dr.
Brindley has worked primarily in
the field of X-ray diffraction an
alysis applied to diverse problems
connected with both minerals and
metals.
Numerous confer enc e s and
meetings not only in England, but
in other countries, including Hol
land, Sweden, Belgium, France,
and the United States, resulted
from the' more than 30 papers
-compiled from his work in this
field of mineralogy.
porarily, and out of the King
fisher’s realm permanently. Car
ter has never had the same
trouble in Mississippi, where ma
chine politics are unthought of.
“Although a demagogue like
Bilbo could get himself elected to
office, he could never handpick
his own men for other offices. The
rural nature of the state has hin
dered the formation of any kind
of a machine,” he explained.
Although he has received many
distinguished awards for his un~
biased.news reporting, Cai’ter was
most pleased with the Neiman
Fellowship to Harvard for the
1939-40 school year. This award
is given annually to about 12
young newspapermen for work
they have done in the past and
may do in the future.
While at Harvard, Carter was
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Coming...
Fri., March 13,1953
The
FORESTRY RALL
Dancing in Rec Hall
From 9 p.m. to 12 p.m.
To the music of
JimErb and
The Blue Notes
$2 per couple Semi Formal
Home
Slated
Movies, demonstrations, fashion shows, tours, and discussions
will highlight the annual Home . Economics' Spring Weekend to be
held April 17-J8 in the School of Home Economics. The theme of
the program is “Fashions, Fabrics, and Families” and will feature
experts from the world of textiles, retailing, and fashion.
The program will begin with
registration at 9 a.m. April 17, in
the Home Economics Living Cen
ter. Throughout the day there
will be working demonstrations
and talks by the various depart
ment heads of the school. Lilia
F. Cortwright, instructor iii Home
Community Relationships, . will
talk to visiting high school stu
dents on “Futures in Home Eco-
nomics.”
A cafeteria lunch, prepared by
students in hotel and institution
administration,' will be open to
the public. Following' the lunch;
a movie on French fashions will
be shown.
To Hold Dinner
. The main feature of the week
end will be a panel discussion by
producers, retailers, and consum
ers on “The Miracle Fibers Bring
Their Own Problems.” Dr. Ruth
Ayres, head of the Department
of Clothing and Textiles, will be
moderator. Among those on the
panel are Harold Brightman, pres
ident of Lit .Brothers of Philadel
phia and Frank Brunside, presi
dent of the Pennsylvania Retail
ers Association.
The Home Economics Alumni
Association will hold its annual
dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Ban
quet Room of the State College
Hotel. Dr. Ayres will speak on
“New Approaches to Clothing and
Textiles.”
At 8:30 p.m. students of the Col
lege from other countries will
present a fashion show, each in
his native dress. This show will
be repeated Sgturdav afternoon.
Reception Planned
Saturday morning Mrs. Helen
Powell -Smith, class of 1922, will
speak on “The Role of the Home
maker in This Textile World.”
Mrs. Smith is. head of the Depart
ment of Clothing and Textiles at
Cornell University.
Parents of students and pros
pective students will. meet with
Drl Grace -M. Henderson, dean of
the school, in the Living Center
at 1:15 p.m. Saturday. .
free to take any courses in the
Graduate School, and at the same
time he was being paid the same
salary he received as editor of
the Hammond paper. Once a week
he had dinner with some' of the
leading newspapermen in the
field. Carter believes this experi
ence helped a long way toward
making him a polished newsman.
Carter, who has authored four
books, is bringing out an auto
biography of his 20 years in the
newspaper field. The book, which
will appear in late March or early
April, is entitled “Where Main
Street Meets the River.”
In the meantime, Carter is busy
running his three newspapers,
writing an historical novel, and
lecturing to audiences throughout
the country on the South’s place
in a new era.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1953
Eg Weekend
for April 17
MI Council
To Investigate
Voting Change
A committee to investigate pro
posed changes in the cohstitution
of the Mineral Industries Student
Council was appointed at a meet
ing of the council last night.
David Fleming, president, sug
gested that instead .of electing
members to the council for. as long
as they "remain- at the College,
they be elected for one or two
year terms. The MI and Chemis
try-Physics councils are the oiily
councils whose members are not
elected for limited terms.
Fleming appointed Russell Pet
erman chairman of a committee
to investigate this change. Mem
bers of the committee are Wil
liam Fairfield arid Robert Decker.
Glenn McMaster reported that
the student-faculty committee on
the open house suggested that
three tours—one of mineral sci
ences, one of. mineral engineer
ing, and one of mineral technol
ogy—be arranged and that de
partment heads make the students
feel obligated to help with them.
The open house will be held
May 1 from 1 to 5 p.m. and 7 to
9 p.m. and on May 2 from 9 a.m.
to noon. Tours for members of
Sigma Xi will be held" April 30
and on the afternoon of May 2 for
the guests of Dean Edward Stei
dle. A banquet will be held in
honor- of the retiring dean at
6 p.m. May 2. . . -
Fred Becker was named editor
of the School of Mineral Indus
tries Newsletter and Roy Brun
jes and Edwin Tocker will work
with him.
Members appointed to a faculty
evaluation committee are Decker,
chairman; Richard Taglang, and
Clark Breading.
A committee headed by Ronald
Gardner was set up to investigate
the possibility of having a series
of coffee hours to foster student
faculty-relations. Members of the
committee are Tocker gnd Lewis
Wade.
Riding Club to Hear
Veterinarian Tonight
“The. Care of Horses” will be
the topic of a speech by Dr. James
F. Shigley, State College veterin
arian, at the Riding Club meeting
at 7 tonight in 314 Willard.
The manager for the spring
horse show will be elected, and
the heads of committees will b e
announced. ' j
Smoking does not dull taste, ac
cording to the U.S. Bureau of
Plant Industry.
RANDOLPH SCOTT
DONNA REEIJ
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Delicately told . . .
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