Glen n Answers Health Queries All-College Cabinet last night heard answers to ten cabinet questions on College Health Service expansion submitted last month to the’Senate sub-committee on health, and recreation. Richard Murphy, president of the National Student Association, scheduled to discuss NS A before cabinet, did not appear. All-College vice president James Plyler explained that Murphy had a tooth pulled yesterday and complica tions had set in. He will probably appear sometime late in April, Plyler said. The answers to the questions on health service expansion were submitted by Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, director of the College Health Service. They were: 1. What requests have been made for funds for health serv ice expansion? The report said a request seeking funds has : been before the General State Author ity, for the past year. The GSA, however, can not grant funds probably until the legislature in creases authority borrowing ca pacity. _ Coed Dorm Applications Are Due Noon tomorrow is the deadline for coeds to make formal appli cation to remain next year in the dormitory rooms they now occupy, Mrs. Cordelia L. Hibbs, assistant to the dean of women in charge of housing, yesterday announced. Applications may be secured-.and filed in the Dean of Women’s of fice, 105 Old Main. Women students who have not already made housing arrange ments for next year will draw numbers for priority in applying for rooms Monday in the Dean of Women’s office. Under the method used for‘ap plying for rooms, upperclasswo men have priority according to their semester, and the numbers they draw indicate when they may apply for rooms. Notice of time, place, and pri ority members will be anounced next week. Drawings will take place 8 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 5 p.m. Monday in the Dean of Women’s office. Eight-week students will not draw numbers at this time. Women will receive room as signments at a later date. Within ten days from the date they receive ' room assignments, applicants will be required to pay a $35 room and key deposit. Twenty-five dollars of the deposit will be used as a credit to .be ap plied to the fees of the fall sem ester next year. The remaining $lO will be held as a key and damage deposit, subject to refund at the end of the student’s occu pancy. The full amount of this deposit will be refunded if the applicant decides not to enroll and notifies the College at least one month be fore the first day of registration. Failure to do so will forfeit 1 the entire amount of the room and key deposit if the. student does not enroll. Players' Double-Bill Begins Third Week Players’ double-bill, “Aria da Capo” By Edna St. Vincent Millay and Christopher Fry’s “A Phoe nix Too Frequent,” will; go into the third week of a five-weekend run at 8' tonight at Center Stage. Tickets for $1 are on sale for tonight and tomorrow night’s per formances at the Student Union desk in Old Main and at the door of the theater, Hamilton avenue and S. Allen street. Friday 13th Jinxes Superstitious World Are you a victim of triskaideka phobia? (You SHOULD know what it means.) Triskaidekaphobes are persons who react to the 13 in this paper’s dateline with a shudder of fear and immediately go back to bed. In other words, they’re the su perstitious persons you won’t be seeing much of today. For far gone triskaidekaphobia addicts re fuse to budge on Friday the 13th; they cut classes, refuse dates—all sorts of ' silly , things. • What’s more, the rest of the TODAY'S WEATHER CLOUDY MILD By CHUCK OBERTANCE .2., To. what financing groups or agencies have these requests been directed? Only to the GSA, the report said. 3. What improvements would these funds provide? These funds could provide two wings to the Infirmary. These wings would in crease the capacity to 60 beds, and in emergencies, almost 100. Improvements would also include establishment' ,of the dispensary in the Infirmary basement and improvement of present facilities. 4. • From what other sources may these funds be obtained? The report said' that the state is the correct source for such funds. Epidemic Plans 5. When will the funds be come available according to pres-, ent expectations? The Infirmary has a very high priority the re port said, but no definite time has been set, 6. What is the possibility of obtaining emergency bed space if epidemics occur? The College should not plan for such emer gencies, the report said. Accord ing to experience in the medical profession, the College should be closed if an epidemic got out of hand. 7. What is the possibility of having a doctor or nurse call'on students in. living quarters when they are refused admittance to a crowded Infirmary? The College does not have a staff to handle this situation. Excuse Action Pending 8. Why is there no ambulance available on campus for students for. emergency use? Ambulance procurment and problems con cerning it are under consideration. At present, the report said, a community ambulance is avail able. 9. Why can’t students get of ficial Infirmary excuses when confined t 6 bed in their own quarters by Health Service? Ac tion is pending before the Col lege Senate, the report said. 10. Could visiting hours in the Infirmary be increased? Visit ing hours are too long at present, the report said. An increase would be impractical from a nursing standpoint. world caters to the triskaideka phobe’s whims. Some town's go all out to protect their citizens from the hazards of Friday the 13th. French Lick Springs, Indiana, for instance, orders all black cats to wear bells each Friday the 13th to lessen the mental strain on the residents of the town. Operators of ocean liners have been known to hold ships in dock until after midnight of Friday the 13th. Airline companies skip over 13 when numbering plane seats. Skyscrapers have no 13th floor. One Chicago hotel not only omits Room 13 on each floor, but pro vides a stuffed dummy to be the 14th guest at any table caught with an unlucky number at. table. Now any philosopher will as sure you this superstition is “a silly, irrational attitude of mind toward the supernatural” by no means based on logic. We suspect the National So ciety of 13 ..Against Superstition, Prejudice and Fear, organized to break .down - such attitudes, -is -(Continued, on page eight) Daily VOL. £3, No. 104 STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1953 FIVE CENTS WhiteWallaceWin WSGA, WRA Posts rahle Father CHINESE ACTORS C Morton Slakoff. Velma Kaiser, and Howard Salus bow with pious humility in the House of Tsai. The scene is from Players' musical fantasy "Lute Song," which opened a weekend run last night in Schwab Auditorium. Players 'Lute Song ' Is Colorful Spectacle From the first eloquent lines of the Chinese stage manager to the final curtain, Players’ “Lute Song” is a continuous procession of absorbing and somewhat perplexing pageantry. The musical fantasy settled down last night for a weekend run in Schwab Auditorium. Director Robert D. Reifsneider has tackled a mammoth produc tion and come up with results more than pleasing. But without its exquisite trappings and intricate staging “Lute Song” is a beautiful dud—like a noisy and colorful fireworks display that burns it self out! In the opening the audience takes flight to a kaleidoscopic world of Chines§ make-believe. Extravagant sets and procelain like actors costumed like gods create just the right atmosphere for Chinese theater. But the cine matic illusion is shattered when the figurines come to life and speak. For the few minor -flaws of “Lute Song” are not in the stag ing but in the story and casting. Howard Salus as Tsai Yong does not always make the most of the learned country boy who becomes a mandarin. At times he is per haps too eager to project the role and in his ambition loses some perspective of his character. Wil lowy-voiced Betty Rice is proud and stately as the Princess. She seems to. glide about the stage like an agile'marionette attached to strings. It is upon the comely shoulders of Velma Kaiser, as the devoted wife Tchao'-Ou-Niang, that the burden of the play falls. She comes through with a tender and graceful performance. . William Coleman, looks convinc ing as the aged patriarch ofj the house of Tsai and performs ac cordingly. As his acid-tongued wife, Sylvia Brown, is far too youthful and totally unconvinc ing. Morton Slakoff fares well in the dual role of the epigram spouting stage manager and Friend, and Kaye Vinson behind his delightful beard is a lively Preceptor of Morals. The story itself is little more than a touching Chinese fairy tale. A scholar is summoned from his home to the imperial palace and is forced to marry a princess (Continued on page eight) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE By CHIZ MATHIAS Lack of Entries May End Freshman Revue The freshman, class musical re vue planned for May 1 may be abandoned unless more freshmen sign up for the tryouts to be held this weekend, according to San ford Lichtenstein, class publicity chairman. Only nine acts had registered at 4 p.m. yesterday. At least thirty should be registered to make the revue worthwhile, Lichenstein said. Penn Faculty Opposition to Editorial on Page Four Opposition to a Congressional investigation of communism in colleges was reported from the campus of the University of Penn sylvania this week. The opposi tion was expressed by the Penn Senate, a group of higher fac ulty members. The Senate also heard and ap proved a report by a committee which suggested methods for dealing with faculty members who were accused of being active on the part of the Communist Party. The report said a profes sor should not be dismissed be cause he claims privileges under the fifth amendment. Some confusion exists as to the exact nature of the reports ap proved by the Penn Senate. The Daily Pennsylvanian, student newspaper, reported that the com plete report of the committee was acted, but Dr. Alexander H. Frey, chairman of the senate, claimed that certain portions of the re- (Mlegiatt 81 % Cast Votes; Grange Coeds Turn Out 100% By TAMMIE BLOOM Nancy D. White was electee president of Women’s Student Government Association, and Barbara Wallace won the Wo men’s Recreation Association presidency yesterday, as 81 per cent of women eligible voted. Out of the 2100 eligible voters, 1723 cast ballots in the final elec tions. Grange Hall residents have a 100 per cent record, followed by McAllister Hall, 98 per cent and Thompson Hall, 82 per cent'. Werts Secretary Maud Strawn was elected WSGA vice president, and Eliza beth George won the WRA vice presidential post. Barbara Werts, who tallied the second highest number of votes for the WSGA presidency, will be secretary of the association. Fran ces Riley won the treasurer’s post. Winning senior senatorial candi date was Marilyn Buzby. Arlene Borgeson led in the contest for junior senator. Patricia Ellis, sec ond place winner for vice presi-. dent, will also be a junior • sena tor. Barbara Stock was elected soph omore senator, and Jane Reber will be town senator. Quill Girl Not Revealed Marie Wagner was elected WRA secretary-treasurer.' Patricia Far rell will be intramural chairman, and Roberta Sankey won the as sistant intramural chairmanship. Winner of the Quill Girl con test will be announced at the Ma trix banquet of Theta Sigma Phi, Women’s journalism fraternity. Results of the poll among jun ior women conducted by Mortar Board, senior women’s honorary society, will be tabulated later. Eleanor Gwynn, WRA elections chairman, said WRA election fig ures are available to women who. request them. Four Home Ec Profs To Attend Conference Dr. Jean D. Amberson, Mar-; garet E. Riegel, Elizabeth C. Hil lier, and Mildred I. Turney, of the Department of Home Eco nomics Education, will attend the first Tri-State Teacher Education. Conference in Harrisburg March 13 and 14. port contained personal opinion which was not acted on. Frey explained that the Senate action on loyalty procedures was the result of a request by former Penn president Harold E. Stas sen, who left the university Jan. 20 to become Federal Mutual Se curity Administrator. Stassen told the Senate he wanted them to advise him on procedure in the event a situation arose involving “incompetence, subversion, or misconduct.” The Daily Pennsylvanian quot ed the Senate report as saying: . “Members of the Senate are aware of the projected Congres sional investigation of alleged subversion in American schools and universities. The committee believes the university se n a.t e should-record its oppositon to any such investigation.” The committee recommended that cases of subversion be han dled by a faculty committee on academic freedom and responsi bility. Voices Probe
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