PAGE TWO Mock Congress Begins Today The 18th annual Pennsylvania Debaters Convention and Mock Congress will open at the College today when delegates from 12 schools arrive for registration. the men’s debate squad, sponsor of the convention, delegates in a broadcast at 9:30 tonight over WMAJ. Dr. Robert T. Oliver, head of the Speech department, will de liver the welcoming address at 9 a.m. tomorrow at the committee room of the State College Hotel; Delegates from Allegheny, Westminster, Slippery Rock, and the College women’s team will meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow to dis cuss legislature on fair employ ment practices.„ Representatives from Lehigh, Mt. Mercy, St. Vincent’s and the College men’s team will form a second group to debate student submitted bills on discrimination in employment. All joint commit tee meetings will be held in 10 Sparks. They will be organized like general assemblies of Con gress and are open to the public. The general assembly will con sider bills on national defense at 9 a.m. Saturday. At the annual banquet at 6 p.m. tomorrow a “Miss Gavel Girl of 1953” will be chosen from three women delegates. Selection will be on the basis of personal charm and contributions td the conven tion. 1 Members of will address the 11 Students Attend State Music Festival Eleven members of the Penn State Symphony Orchestra are attending the fourth annual Col legiate Orchestra Festival for Pennsylvania today through Sat urday at Mansfield State Teach ers College. Representatives from the principal college orchestras throughout Pennsylvania are par ticipating in the festival. Guest conductor of the festival orchestra, which is composed of musicians from the attending col leges, is Fritz, Mahler, conductor of the Erie Philharmonic Orches tra. Highlight of the meeting will be the American premiere of the “Valdres March” by Johannes Hanssen, which will be performed for the first time in this country by "the festival orchestra. Those from the College attend ing the festival are Barbara Bist line, Richard Brady, Jane Davis,' Joan Else, Richard Gray, Fred Or kiseski, Richard Potter, Donald Rentschler, Luella Valmont, Bar bara Thomas, and Genevieve Taras. Theodore K. Karhan, conductor for the Penn State Symphony Orchestra and ‘assistant professor of music and music education, is accompanying the group. 266 Inoculated By Air ROTC Two hundred sixty-six air sci ence students completed the first series of inoculations Tuesday in preparation for their four-week training period in June and July to be held at 62 bases throughout the United States. This first series of inoculations included a small pox vaccination and the first tof two tetanus shots. Subsequent shots, to be giv en at one-week intervals, will in clude three typhoid inoculations and one final tetanus shot. The series will be completed approxi mately April 14. The exact location of summer camp for individual air science members has not yet been de termined. Read WHS Participate In Fellowship Screening The National Research Council has invited Dr. Harold J. Read, professor of physical metallurgy, to serve as a member of the screening panels which will eval uate the qualifications of candi dates for fellowships to be granted by the National Science Founda tion. This panel will screen applicants who are seeking predoctoral fel lowships in chemistry. The panel is meeting today in Washington,. D.C. Student in Collision Cars operated by Shelden Pen men, fifth semester physical edu cation major, and Otis Pheasant, a State College resident, collided Tuesday night at S. Allen street and E. Foster avenue. Total damage was estimated at $7O. No injuries were reported. SEAL YOUR w uh... LETTERS Penn State Envelope Stickers . . . 10c a pack For every $5 you make in sales, you get $1 in merchandise Free BX in the TUB THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, fSTATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Official delegates from the Col lege women’s team include Guyla Woodward, Susan Holtzinger, Pa tricia Marstellar, Jane Montgov ery, Audrey Austin, and Barbara Tokarsky. Voting delegates from the Col lege men’s team are Phillip Green burg, Burton Treister, James Dun lap, Ernest Schrongerger, Donald Pripstein, and Lewis Martini. Presiding over the convention are Thomas Farrell, first vice president and manager of men’s debate; Joseph F. O’Brien, profes sor of public speaking and men’s debate coach; and William Mc- Cartney, convention president from Allegheny College. Cornell to Host Riding Team The Penn State riding team will leaye tomorrow morning for Cornell where it will compete against eight other schools in a meet Saturday. Members will be accompanied by Capt. G. A. Gagarin, assistant professor of physical education., . The team, which has been prac ticing . all. semester, is composed of William Brodnaxi Edward Campbell, Patricia Gilbert, Edna Grabiak, Ruth King, Jean Lath laen, Gail Smith, and Nancy Wild. The College is also v sending five horses. The events, of the meet will be in a modified Olympic pattern. This includes jumping, horseman ship and hacking classes. French, Spanish Mixer A film on Maillol, a French sculptor, will be shown, to the French Club at 6:30 tonight in 228 Sparks. After the film, the French and Spanish clubs, will hold a mixer at Alpha Zeta. THY VIC’S For Food Worth Waiting for, but Where There Ss NO Waiting] 4 Vic' S , 145 S. , ALLEN ST.‘ Eng Council Lays Plans For Smoker Plans for a smoker for students in the Engineering school were made at an informal faculty council mixer of the: Engineering Student' Council Tuesday night at Triangle fraternity. The smoker is scheduled to. be held one . week before the En gineering Open House to familiar ize students with the open house program. A competition in open house posters was announced for archi tecture students. The winning poster will be duplicated on the cover of the Penn State Engineer published for the open house. The Aeronautical Engineering department has planned three ex hibits for the open house program, it was reported. Each of the other departments is slated to present exhibits, with industrial engineer ing planning six. General student council elec tions will be held April 28-29 with election of the Engineering Stu dent Council president scheduled for April, 21. 'Those appointed to the com mittee in charge of the smoker include Charles Webb, Lowell Minor, . George Yingling, J ack Helm, John Hahn, and Donald Blouch. Robert Osborne was ap pointed in charge .of the open house publicity. Venus, Jupiter May Be Seen At Observatories College observatories will be open 7 to 9 p.m. today and tomor row for the viewing of Venus and Jupiter, weather permitting. Members of Alpha Nu, asto nomical society, will operate the telescopes. Passing the earth about every year and a half, Venus is now moving back toward the sun along part of its orbit between the earth and the sun; Dr. Carl A. Bauer, assistant professor of players, said. Because Ven u s’ illuminated face is turned almost directly away from the earth and the pres ence of brilliant white clouds hides the entire solid surface of Venus, viewers' see only a thin crescent and no surface features of the planet, Dr. Bauer said. Finance Prof to Give First LA Career Talk The first Liberal Arts career talk, sponsored by the Liberal Arts Student Council, ■ will be held at 7 tonight in 317 Willard.'. - David H. McKinley, associate of finance, will talk on the subject “The Future of the College Graduate in the Field of Law and Finance.” The career talks are .open to the public. Foresters Meet Tonight William Bromley, executive sec retary of . the American Pulpwood Association, will speak to the For estry Society at 7 tonight in , 3 White Hall. AIM Board Passes I n d epe nde n t Pin Plan * The proposed Association of Independent Men’s pin was ap proved at last night’s AIM Board of Governors meeting; Algo, pass ed by the Board was the establishment of a plaque recognizing outstanding independent seniors. . ■ The planned discussion of the present AIM elections commit tee and suggestions to its alteration were postponed.’ William Shifflett, president of : the Board, said it was removed from tide agenda to shorten the : meeting, but would be brought up at the next one. ' Six to Attend Dance Festival Six members of the New Bav arian Schuhplattlers will take part in the fifth annual folk fes tival to be held Saturday even ing at Syracuse University. The theme of the festival, sponsored by the Syracuse Outing Club, will be “Spring Tours the World.” The Schuhplattlers, a German folk dance group, was started on campus by Warren Homm a s, sixth semester arts and letters major. Wearing costumes pat terned after traditional peasant outfits, the group has performed on campus and in the nearby area. At. the festival, they will dance “The Haushamer” and “The Dance of Courtship.” ■ Those who will be taking part are Samuel Bolan, Alberta Mills, instructor in physical education, Dorothy Ebert, Betty Byrem, Rob ert James, and Hommas.’ Any other dance groups inter ested in taking part in the festi val may -contact James at' exten sion 1169. Borough Fines Three Students Three students were fined Tuesday b Justice of the Peace Guy G. Mills after they were ar rested and Charged with stealing the barricade around the Sidewalk cave-in at Calder Alley and S. Allen street. - The three are Boyd R. Hedrick, fourth semester industrial engi neering major; Lawrence Schmidt, second semester me chanical engineering major; and Edward Warren, fourth semester electrical engineering major. The trio evidently used a car, according to police, and w e,r e caught an hour, after the theft. They told police they were .re turning the trestle. -5 Hedrick, driver of the car-;; was fined $25 and costs. Schmidt, and Warren each paid $l5 plus , costs. Rice to Address EE's On Airport Lighting Randall H. Rice of the Western Electric Corporation wilLaddress the fifth Electrical Engineering Seminar at 4:10 p.m. today' in ■llO-Electrical Engineering:. ** Rice will speak-on airport light-: ing. a subject in which he, has specialized since he joined, the company in 1948. The meeting Is open to both students and faculty. JAMES MASON JUNE HAVOC "A LADY POSSESSED” RED SKELTON "THE CLOWN” o£§|g£fjr ' GENE KELLY PIER ANGELI "THE DEVIL MAKES THREE" THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1953 A report on the recent North eastern Regional Independent Student Association Convention was given, and the group agreed to send delegates to the national conclave. To handle this business, the post of a liaison man between, the local group and higher. _ offi cials was created and President Shifflett named Philip Austin, town council representative, .'to fill .it. : The gold and black, triangular shaped pin was approved as the symbol for all independent men at the College from a drawing submitted by the L. G. Balfour Go. It was not announced when the pin would be available, but the price was expected to' be about $3.30 including tax. Upon setting up the outstand ing senior, independent recogni tion plaque, the Board expanded its present practice of selecting an outstanding senior each spring. Under the new plan, three sen iors would . be; named on the plaque each year, each for excel lence in one of ; the following fields: activities, athletics, and scholarship. The -plaque itself, which is in tended for . display in the new Student Union Building when it is completed, is an 18 by ten inch mahogany- panel. Mounted on this are three rows of eight gold plates and, at the top, is placed a figure on ,a five inch disc en closed in a wreath. Robert Smoot and Thomas Kidd reported on the regional convention held Feb. 27, 28, and March 1 at Cornell. They said the setup at the College is undoubt edly the strongest in the region. The .Board decided to send a delegation to the National Inde pendent Student. Association Con vention on April 22 through 25 at Purdue, but postponed setting the-size until further information < on the " expenses could be ob tained. ■'"V- . The Spring independent dance was set for April 25 in the West Dorm- lounge. 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