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Robert Shaw Chorale
Performs Here Tonight
The Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra will present a program
of both classical and light musical interpretations at 8:30 tonight in
Schwab Auditorium. The concert will be the third of the current
Community Concert series.
Admission to the concert will be granted only to holders of mem
bership tickets in the concert association. No individual tickets are
Livestock Show
Drawings Set
For March 17
• Drawings for horses, beef cat
tle* and sheep to be shown in the
annual Little International Live
stock Show will be held at the
Block and Bridle Club meeting
March 17.
A fitting and showing demon
stration will be held in the Live
stock Judging Pavilion March 21
to acquaint students with the
various procedures utilized in pre
paring an animal for show. Any
student may participate in the
show..
The tentative date for the sec
ond fitting demonstration is April
11. The spring judging contest
will be held April 18. The Little
International will be held in co
operation with the Ag Hill Open
House April 25.
During the show, Carroll Schaf
cner, college shepherd, will pre
sent a sheep dog demonstration
using imported Borden collies, Al
lan Thompson, publicity chair
man, has announced.
The, Menzie Dairy Company,
McKeesport, will exhibit a hitch
of six Percheron horses which
won first place at the Ohio State
Fair last year, Thompson said.
Twelve cute of meat will be
raffled off during the show,
Thompson said. Tickets ' will be
available at a later date.
Androcles to Help
With Spring Week
New pledges of Androcles, jun
ior men’s hat society, will serve
refreshments at the Spring Carn
iyal and do the construction work
oh a float for the Mad Hatter’s
Parade, according to Thomas Far
rell, president.
Farrell said plans are being
considered for a joint banquet
with Chimes, junior women’s hat
society. He also said the possibil
ity of a pep rally Wednesday for
the wrestling team may take defi
nite form. The wrestlers will leave
March 12 for Princeton to partici
pate in the Eastern Intercollegiate
Wrestling Association tournament.
Both plans are in their primary
stages, and nothing definite has
been decided.
•The group also voted to con
tribute $5 to the Penn State Stu
dent Scholarship Fund.
Psych Tests Results
Psychology test results are now
available for students who took
the test during spring Orientation
Week. They may be obtained at
the Psychology Annex in the base
ment of Woman’s Building.
Players Present
2 one act plays
Aria da Capo
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Phoenix Too Frequent
by Christopher Fry . .
Center Stage
March 6 and 7
Tickets $1 at S.U. or at the door
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
on sale for the performance.
Opening tonight’s concert will
be two motets by the father of
German music, Heinrich Schultz.'
Following will be Mass in G ma
jor (Franz Schubert) which will
be sung by the chorus and “Sac
red Service” (Ernest Bloch). The
Swiss-born Bloch wrote the music
for use at the regular Sabbath
morning service in the synagogue.
The second portion of the pro
gram will 1 include three Spanish
carols, Song for Chorus (Johannes
Brahms), and Trois Chansons
(Claude Debussy). Concluding the
concert will be selections from
“Die Fie derm a us” (Johann
Strauss).
Composed of 30 voices and ac
companied by a 20 piece orchestra,
the Chorale tours the United
States for 15 weeks each year.
Shaw directs both the Chorale
and orchestra for their concerts,
and according to Look Magazine,
“exorts, cajoles, and infuriates his
singers to inspired performances.”
The group is' known for “unusual
firsts” in its New York “Choral
Masterwork Series” of concerts.
During concerts last month the
Chorale performed for the first
time a new translation of Hadyn’s
“The Creation” and included
rarely heard scores by Hindemith
and Janacek.
Upperclassmen to Start
WD Applications Monday
Applications for rooms in the
West Dormitories for the fall sem
ester will be accepted Monday
through Wednesday, Allen C. St.
Clair, acting director of housing,
announced yesterday.
Applicants’ All-College aver
ages up to this semester will de
termine which students will be
accepted. Two hundred-forty up
perclassmen will be accepted.
The first 120 male applicants
who will be seniors next semester
and who have a 1.0 or better All-
College average will be accepted.
Applications may be secured and
filed by men meeting these re
quirements from 7 to 9 p.m. Mon
day in 108 Old Main.
Students who will be juniors
next semester, and who' have a
1.5 or better All-College average
may file their applications Tues
day. The first 60 of these applica
tions will be accepted.
Sixty men who will be sopho
mores next semester and who hav;
a 2.0 or better All-College average
will be accepted. Applications will
be filed by men meeting these re
quirements Wednesday.
Other West Dorm rooms will be
assigned to. freshmen.
The average used as a basis is
the average the applicant has as
Ed Faculty
In Favor of
Evaluation
Faculty members of the School
of Education were reported to
favor the faculty evaluation forms
used last year and their general
opinion is that the program should
be continued, Dorothy Swanson,
chairman,- said recently at an Edu
cation Student Council.meeting.
Each student council 'member
interviewed a number of profes
sors asking their opinions of the
forms and asking for suggestions
to improve the question list.
The faculty agreed that the
questions were generally, good
but split on the idea of having
students evaluate the text books
also. Some professors said they
doubted '.that students know
enough about the subject matter
in most cases to be good judges
of a text.
One of the suggestions offered
by professors was that a more
suitable time than final exam
week be used for submitting the
forms to classes as was done last
year. Council hopes to draw up a
new / evaluation question list in
corporating the suggestions and
have it ready for distribution by
the end of April or early May.
The Council appointed Gwen
Griffith, Susanne Westcott, Emma
McTurk, and Charles Witmer as
members of the publicity com
mittee.
Harry Shank, chairman of the
senior awards committee, an
nounced that letters of reminder
will be sent to professors con
cerning the selection of the out
standing senior in the School of
Education.
'of the beginning of this semester.
Two changes in the housing
contract which all applicants for
dormitory rooms will sign were
announced by St. Clair.
Under the 1953-54 housing con
tract, the room and key deposit
is $35 of; which. $25 may be used
as a credit to be applied to the
fees for the first semester of the
contract.
Upon payment of. this deposit,
the student binds himself to oc
cupy the dormitories during the
next semester if he enrolls in the
College. If he decides to live else
where, the student loses the en
tire deposit, St. Clair emphasized.
If he decides not to enroll in the
College and notifies the depart
ment of housing a month preced
ing the first day of registration,
the student will receive a full
refund; Failure to ‘ notify the
housing department in time will
forfeit the entire amount if the
tudent does not enroll.
Stateswoman Incites
Two-way Discussion
“Doesn’t, the United” States have any small villages?” asked
Begum Shaista Ikramullah, turning the tables on the group clustered
around her and showing that the informal questioning session was to
be a two-way affair.
The Pakistan stateswoman, who spoke at the
Forum lecture Wednesday night, was assured that
right in Pennsylvania. Interested
forum-goers had gathered for cof
fee and comment with the-viva
cious Pakistani at the Allencrest
following the program.
Completely at home, the begum
perched on the edge of her seat
to be nearer the group and told
about herself and the life of her
five-year-old nation. With a gleam
in her velvet brown eyes she add
ed a few observations about the
U.S.
“Your schools seem to be di
luted,” she said, explaining that
her observation came after wit
nessing a junior high geography
lesson consisting of huge colored
maps and stuffed animals.'“Your
students write in single short sen
tences, and I wonder if they could
write connected essays.”
Face Teacher Shortage.
“Why are you laughing?”, she
exclaimed at the roar of laughter
which greeted her observation.
She went on to tell of
which is just getting started, in
Pakistan.
There is a shortage of both
buildings and teachers in her
country, she pointed out. The
teacher shortage is being com
batted by setting up a 12 week
preparatory course for grade
school teachers and relying on the
natural aptitude of women for
instructing small children. .
The teaching profession is a
necessity for women in Pakistan,
as it is the one way women can
earn a living, she said. Many wom
en are having to do so since the
system of arranged marriages is
going out, she continued.
Begum Shows Personality
The tiny politician dislikes gov
ernment management of schools
as it brings education down to
a “beautiful state of grayness or
mediocrity” but it is a necessity
in Pakistan,' where literacy is only
15 -per cent. Because of the im
mensity of the task and longevity
of life (the average lifespan is 28
years in Pakistan) education is
concentrated on the younger gen
eration.
Smiling broadly, showing her
even white teeth, the begum,
mother of four, answered each
query personally, looking directly
into the questioner’s eyes. Spying
an old acquaintance in the crowd,
she hopped up to greet him warm
ly. An empty red sandal over
turned beside her chair revealed
that one foot was bare under her
irridescent red and green satin
sari.
“Poetry takes the place of the
theatre and opera in my country,”
she explained, with a quick head
movement which never disturbed
her neat dark - hair. “Our music
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1953
final Community
there were many
Lie Detector
Tests Fail
On Christoff
The cloth belt-strangulation of
former coed June Christoff re
mained a mystery despite a threes
hour lie detector test yesterday
of her brother Jean.
Results of the test were report
ed as, ((inconclusive and incom
plete” "by' Cambria- County Dis
trict Attorney Fred J. Fees. “The
boy is so emotionally upset and
physically weak, that" the lie
detector test was useless,” he said.
Christoff disappeared Feb. 17,
shortly before the discovery of
his sister’s body in the Christoff
home. He was found Monday in an
abandoned goal mine near his
home after a ten-day search by
police. He has denied knowing
anything about his sister’s death.
“The detector shows disturb
ances because of Jean’s poor phys
ical and mental condition,” Fees
said. “But, practically everything
he had told us earlier was borne
out.”
After an honorable discharge
from the Navy, Christoff studied
at Carnegie Tech. According to
Fees, Christoff made application
for admission to a veterans hos
pital for mental tests and treat
ment. Fees said he guessed the
boy knew he was getting out of
touch with the world.
County officials have not yet
released an offiical verdict on the
girl’s death. Her father, Paul,
maintains the girl committed sui
cide because she was, depressed
and ill since her return home last
semester from school.
Christoff would not be submit
ted to, any more detector tests,
Fees said. He will be held on six
burglary charges to which he has
confessed.
Robert Overly, an eighth se
mester industrial arts major, and
former fiance of Miss Christoff,
was questioned yesterday by state
police. Police, emphasized he is
not a suspect. .
is mournful, played on stringed
instruments.” She explained that
much of the classical music was
lost and what was handed down
orally has been “jazzed up” in
modern times. •
The begum exclaimed, that one
of the most, peaceful sights, in her
country or anywhere, is-that of
plump cows.grazing in the fields
by the roadside.