PAGE TWO Class Meeting Consistent In Suggested Calendar The proposed calendar policy that will go before the College Senate March 5 schedules Thanksgiving vacation as only one day in order to provide an even nupiber of scheduled meetings for each class hour, Ernest W. Callenbach, chairman of the Senate com mittee on calendar, explained yesterday. In past years, some fall semesters have had several hours which Eleven Chosen For Reading Contest Finals Eleven students have been chos en to read iri the final tryouts for the Eastern Poetry Reading Festival to be held in Middletown, N.Y., and the Pennsylvania Inter pretative Reading Festival to be held at the College in May. The finalists are Charles Gaunt, Mary Ann Honess, Lois Lehman, Constance Melvin, William Mus ser, Margaret Roberts, Morton Slakoff, Margaret Troutman, Kaye Vincent, Nancy White, and Ann Wylie. The final tryouts will be held at the March reading hour 8 p.m. Monday in 304 Old Main. The reading hour is open to the pub .lic. Five students will be chosen from which one will represent the College at the Eastern Poetry Reading Festival. Penn State is the only Pennsylvania college to be represented. The other four will represent the College in the Pennsylvania Interpretative Reading Festival. Eighty other colleges have been invited to send four delegates each to the two-day affair. CPC to Study Orientation A survey to evaluate Orienta tion Week will be taken among by the Cabinet Projects Council committee on freshman Orienta tion Week, chairman Charles Gibbs announced yesterday. A questionnaire compiled by that committee will be distributed to all freshman living units by their counselors and will be col lected today. The purpose ,of the survey is to evaluate coun selor meetings, campus tours, cus toms, and general information given freshmen about student or ganizations and Activities. Aftej: compiling the results, the committee will formulate sugges tions for presentation to All-Col lege Cabinet. Gibbs asked the full cooperation of all second semester freshmen. Preview to Be Seen By Players Tonight Players will meet at 7:30 tonight at Center Stage for a “sneak pre view” of “Aria da Capo” and “A Phoenix Too Frequent,” President Fran Stridinger has announced. Following the performance a party will be held for Players. Each member of the dramatic society may bring one guest, Miss Stridinger said. Refreshments will be served. EE Seminar to Hear Annett Talk on Tuners Melvin Annett of the Philco Corporation will speak at a meet ing of the Electrical Engineering Seminar at 4:10 p.m. today in 110 Electrical Engineering. Annett’s topic will be the de sign and development of tuners which will be used on television receivers for receiving ultra high frequency signals. GRACE YOUR ROOM with . . . Metal Bookends... 50c For every $5 you make in sales you get $1 in Merchandise FREE BX in the TUB met 16 times a semester and some 15. College policy has* been to have at least 15. The one day holi day will provide the same number of meetings, 15, for all class hours in the semester except those on Thursdays. Thursday classes will meet only 14 times during the suggested semester. Holiday Deemed Unnecessary The elimination of a vacation at Thanksgiving time will result in the semester ending a week earlier than if there were a three day Thanksgiving vacation. Time could not be taken out of the Christmas vacation for extend ed Thanksgiving vacation and still have the semester end at the same time. Explaining elimination- of the customary Saturday football holi day, Callenbach said the commit tee on calendar, including, the stu dent members, feels the holiday serves no practical purpose. The holiday was started when “it, was all your life was worth to get out of here for a weekend,” he added. As he explained that modern transportation has put any part of the state within an easy drive of the College, Callenbach added that under the present class sched uling system few students 1 have Saturday classes. He ■ admitted, that a problem would exist for a student who wanted to go to an away game and couldn’t make ar rangements with his Saturday morning instructor. Exams Over By June I The committee felt that no va cation is necessary between semes ters because the end of the fall semester is within one or two weeks of the two-week Christmas vacation, Callenbach explained. He expects most of the opposi tion to the lack of between semes ter vacation will come from the faculty because they have much work to do compiling grades and then preparing for registration. Students usually are finished with examinations before the end of the examination period and can find time to go home then. Under the proposed schedule, which is part of the committee’s report to the Senate, most stu dents will have completed spring examinations in time to accept a job starting June 1. Callenbach explained that if any additional time is added for vacations during the school year it will make the end of the spring semester that much later. Starting Thanksgiving vacation at > noon Wednesday would necessitate adding a week to the end of the schedule. Ohio Finds Itself In Disunited State Ohio was advised Monday not to try to horn in on the line of territories that want to be ad mitted as states. Ohio—Senators Taft and Bricic er included—has never been for mally admitted through the neg ligence of Congress in 1803. The Congress approved Ohio’s consti tution and boundaries then but forgot to pass the necessary reso lution, some • researchers recently discovered. ■ Alaska’s voteless delegates to Congress, E. L. Bartlett, jestingly suggested Ohio should “take its place in line” behind Alaska and Hawaii before a House subcom mittee hearing on legislation to' grant statehood to Hawaii. Cleanliness • and \ J Quality • are our bywords. For that quick afternoon snack or 2 that bite before bedtime, we hare just what you want! • A Favorite C# —W B. Colle*e • ATen ~ TH« DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ' Late Hours Available To Frosh Special hours for Military Ball weekend will be granted to fresh man women who desire them, Women’s Student Government Association Senate decided last night. Students may choose two 12 o’clock permissions Friday and Saturday night in preference to the 10 and one o’clocks they or dinarily have. The action was taken on recom mendation of Mary Petitgout, chairman of the customs regula tions board. Special permissions in the past have been granted for only three weekends, not includ ing Mil Ball. Upperclasswomen will have two one o’clock permissions, reg ular hours, for Friday and Satur day. Senate also heard a report on the WSGA Big-Little Sister tea, which will be held from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday in the Atherton lounges. Freshman senators Carolyn Cunningham and Kaye Kingsley are_ co-chairmen for the tea, which is sponsored annually by freshman women for upperclass women. Miss Kingsley was appointed chairman of a committee to pre pare a display fob the Intercol legiate Association of Women Students April 1-3 at Ohio State University. Joan Hutchon, pres ent WSGA president, and the new president to be elected in spring elections March 12, will repre sent the College at the .conven tion. Marilyn Buzby and Nancy D. White will conduct a panel dis cussion at a one-day conference of eastern lAWS members Sat urday at the University of Mary land. The discussion will deal with the way College rules are enforced by. WSGA. • Miss Hutchon announced the appointment of Janet Herd as Pan American Day representative from the group. 10 Nittany Dorms Elect Presidents Ten dormitories in the Nittany area have elected new dorm pres idents. The new presidents are Vernon Yingling, Dorm 21; Sergio Toigo, Dorm 22; John Miller, Dorm 24; Ralph Leuchter, Dorm 26; Theo dore Rucker, Dorm 27; Robert Eisenhuth, Dorm 28; Robert Shultz, Dorm 29; Louis Stulz, Dorm 31; Jay Byerley, Dorm 34; and Patrick McCarthy, Dorm 36. Windcrest Elects Kines Burgess Edward Kines, sixth semester commerce major, was recently elected burgess of the Borough of Windcrest. He will hold office until fall. Fifteen residents ran for .the offices of councilmen. Successful candidates were Arthur Amspaek er and Guy McKee, zone 1; Ar thur Funke and Ann Mitchell, 2one 2; Thomas Flannery and Joan Pore, 2one 3; and James Brownell, councilman-at-large. Young GOPs to Plan Washington Trip Tonight The Young Republican Club will meet at 7:30 tonightTn the TUB to discuss the Washington trip March 7 and S, proposed consti tutional amendments, and a work program for the spring primary elections. Games and dancing will follow the meeting. Frosh Sponsor Ten Panel Discussion Fry's Wit to Amuse Center Stage Goers The florescent wit and highly polished form of British play wright Christopher Fry will be introduced to Penn State audiences for the first time at 8 p.m. tomorrow when Director Kelly Yeaton brings “A Phoenix Too Frequent” to Center Stage. The one-act verse play is being presented as one 6f Players’ contributions to the fourth annual' International Theater Month, being observed during March by professional theatrical companies and college groups throughout the United States and Canada. With “Aria da Capo” by Edna St. Vin cent Millay, “Phoenix” will play a five weekend run at the arena theater. In the Center Stage production Players’ vice president Marcia Yoffe, will be seen as the sacri ficing widow Dynamene who shuts herself up in her husband,’s tomb to die. As Tegeus, John Price will portray the Roman soldier who returns her thoughts to a world of life and passion. Presi dent Fran Stridinger will play the comic maidservant Dodo. Entered Army A product of the classic school interspersed with the. modern, Fry boasts a life centered around the theater. Born Dec. 18, 1907 in Bristol, Fry showed early signs of being a “long hair.” The pre cocious child tried his hand at farce at 11, began writing poetry at 12, and was an old hand at writing dramatic verse by 14. Fry continued his career in the theater as a youth by acting in the plays of Shakespeare, Shaw, and Bar rie. A Quaker, Fry was registered as a conscientious objector but en tered the Army and saw service during World War 11. Selling In Tomb After the war Fry. returned to complete his best works. His name flared across Drury Lane with the opening of “A Phoenix Too Fre quent” at the Mercury Theater in London in 1946. The play ran for 64 performances. Out of a sordid setting in a New Lion Suit , May Make Debut Saturday Night The new Lion suit has arrived! And if a few minor adjustments can be made before the weekend, the Lion may appear in his new outfit Saturday night at the .bas ketball-gymnastic double header in Recreation Hall, . Harold R. Gil bert, graduate manager of ath letics, said yesterday. Commenting on the suit Gilbert said it ought to last—it’s much heavier than the old suit—it’s worth $5OO. The mascot’s outfit was designed by Chenko Studio, New York Costumers. In order to produce a true Nit tany Lion, Chenko read in the New York Library about moun tain lions and visited the lions’ cages at a New York zoo. Contributions amounting to $599.25 were collected for the suit this fall in a fund drive, initiated by . Alex Gregal, who portrayed the Lion this fall. In October All- College Cabinet established a per manent fund, from which money for a new suit may be, taken whenever needed. Plankton, the microscopic life in sea water, can color snow and ice. ! Military Ball CORSAGE State College Floral Shoppe THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1083 By CHIZ MATHIAS tomb, the playwright has project ed a cynical bit of poetic foolery. One Lohdon critic wrote, “Mr. Fry could make a ghoul laugh. He gets more cheerfullness out of coffins than most people would get from the abolition of bread, rationing.” Brought to America, “Phoenix’* was first produced on Broadway in 1950. Hollywood actress Nina Foch played the wife and Richard Derr, Tegeus. Commediene Vicki Cummings was seen as Dodo. Audiences were not yet adapted to this theatrical diversion from the usual three-act prose play and the show closed after one wefek. Acclaimed in New York Fry as an artist ha£ rebelled against realisln in the theater. He describes a realistic plaiy. ,! as awkward as meeting a person for the first time.” Fry’s characters are not fed-blooded people but metaphors on man. His dialogue echoes the modem poet Eliot, nineteenth century Keats, and the bards of the Elizabethian era. He relies on the vitality of language to give his work a note of ani mation. Fry Won wide acclaim in Lon don and New York with- the full length verse production “The Lady’s Not for Burning.” He over came public resistance. to verse plays and was commissioned in 1950 by the Religious Drama As sociation to write a “A Sleep of ' Prisoners” for the Festival of Britain. By January 1950, four Fry plays were running simultaneously in London. His “Venus Observed” and the translation of Jean An? ouilh’s dramatic monologue, “Ring Around the Moon,” appeared briefly on Broadway.- Spring Voting By Machines Looks Doubtful Doubt exists as to whether vot ing machines will be used in the spring elections, Ronald Thorpe, elections committee chair man, said yesterday. >/ Thorpe said he will try again today to obtain the machines. Centre County commissioners pre viously said it was impossible “to borrow” the machines. Thorpe said he did not specifically ask to borrow the machines, but was interested in learning if, the ma chines could be obtained. At the time the request was placed be fore the commissioners; it was not known whether the machines could be borrowed or rented. The request for, four machines was originally made Saturday. If the machines “can be obtained, the elections committee will be'"faced with the problem of transporting the machines from Philipsburg to State College. The machines Weigh abdut 700 pounds each, Thorpe said. Eight hundred carloads of rose white marble were used to build the National Gallery of Art. 127 WEST BEAVER Orchids Camellias Gardenias Roses
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