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VOL. 53, No 108
Two New Positions
Explained by Simes
Changes in the administration of the Dean of Men’s office which
involve the creation of two new positions in place of-two former
ones were explained yesterday by Frank J. Simes, dean of men.
Simes also said he. is now interviewing and screening applicants
for the two new jobs. The vacancies were created by the resignation
of: Daniel A. DeMarino, former
assistant dean of men, and the
elevation of Simes to his present
post.
When the new plan goes into
effect, the setup will include Dean
Simes; Harold W. Perkins, assist-j
ant dean of men; and two assist
ants to the dean, one, in charge j
of fraternity affairs -and one in
charge of dormitory affairs. Dean
Perkins will take charge of in
dependents living off campus.
Work With Independents
The nresent composition of the
office calls for the dean, two as
sistant deans, one for fraternity
affairs and one for. independent
affairs, : and one director of resi
dence counseling.
Dean Perkins’ duties under the
new system will call for his work
ing with independents off campus
and supervising their housing
needs along with assisting Dean
Simes. This includes heading the
town housing evaluation-program
which is now being examined by
the department of housing to de
termine the qualifications that
residences should meet.
Screen Counselors
25 Students
Td Enter
Ag Contest
Twenty-five agriculture under
graduates have entered the first
Paid R. Guldin Agriculture
Speaking Contest to be held Mon
day and Tuesday nights.
- They are Dean Belt, Robert
Chambers, Manley Case, Jose
Carreiro, Samuel Curtis, Robert
Dahle, Edgar Fehnel, Matthew
Fenton, John Groutt, John Gal
lagher, Lawrence Hart, John Har
ris, Donald Harter, Herbert Hurl
brink; Robert Huston, Ard o n
Johrison, Theodore Kimmel, Jos
eph Kreasky, Conrad Kresge,
Joseph Miller, Kenneth Muckin
haupy, Albert Palmateer, Harry
Stambaugh, John Whitesell, and
Glenn Wiggins.
The contestants will present
five-minute speeches in the pre
liminary contest at 7 p.m. Monday
in 109 Agriculture.
The final speeches will be pre
sented at 8 p.m. Tuesday in 117
Dairy. They will be eight to ten
minutes long. A detailed outline
of the speech must be submitted
to the judges before the final
speech is given. Contestants must
use the same topic in the pre
liminaries and the finals. Ap
proximately 20 per cent of the
entries' Will be selected for the
finals.
First consists of $5O and
a gold ipedal. Second prize will
be $25 and a silver medal. The
awards, to be presented annually,
have been provided by a memorial
fund established by Mrs. Paul R.
Guldin. i
The winners of the contest will
be announced at the Ag Hill
Achievement Day at 7 p.m. Wed
nesday in 'Schwab Auditorium.
The speech contest and the
Achievement Day program honor
ing"outstanding leaders in Ag Hill
activities will be open to the
public.
Chem-Phys
Sets Elections
The Chem-Phys Student Coun
cil spring elections will be held
April 29-30, according to council
President Lincoln Warrell.
Twelve graduating seniors are
to be replaced. Eight current jun
ior members of the council will
move into the vacated senior po
sitions, leaving four senior posi
tions to be settled April 29-30.
The council course evaluation
project will definitely come into
being sometime after May 1, ac
cording to committee- chairman
Edward Storms.' Responses from
inquiries sent to all the instruc
tors in the school have been tab
ulated. Some of the instructors,
Storms said, added new questions
to the list.
Courses to be. evaluated are
Chemistry 10, 27, Chemical En
gineering 1,2, and Physics 301.
Other courses to be evaluated will
be named at a later date.
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Hie assistant to the dean in
charge of fraternity - affairs will
work with the Interfraternity
Council and individual fraterni
ties on such matters as social
activities, - rushing, scholarship,
and community and campus pro
jects. He will approve fraternity
social affairs and work with the
Association of Fraternity Coun
selors.
In assisting the dean with in
dependent affairs, the second new
office holder will screen, train,
and supervise graduate resident
counselors and interpret and en
force rules and regulations per
taining to dormitory residents. He
will promote and approve dormi
tory social functions and will ad
vise the Association of Independ
ent Men and assist in student gov
ernment in the dormitories.
Independents to Plan
Spring Week Activities
Plans for independent partici
pation in Spring Week will be
made at 7:30 tonight in McElwain
lounge, Andrew Jaros, co-chair
man of the independent Spring
Week committee, has announced.
Representatives -from all inde
pendent organizations have been
asked to attend the meeting.
State Party Council
The State Party Student Repre
sentative Council will meet at
2:30 p.m. Sunday in 121 Sparks.
College to Cooperate
In Television Series
The College has been named
one of 20 colleges and universi
ties which will participate in a
television educational project, the
Associated Press reported last
night. The project was jointly an
nounced by the CBS television
network and officials of the par
ticipating schools.
The project,, to be shown over
the CBS system, ..will consist of
weekly filmed
research activities at the different
schools.
J. L. Van Volkenburg, presi
dent of the CBS television, said
it is the first time a group of
leading educators and a television
network have undertaken such a
■project. ;/ ■ ,
- the participating
schools said the series should pro
mote a better .understanding of
the significance of higher educa
.Jipn,; me/-AP- reported.
; : The-'programs, to begin Oct. 1
arid continue for a 26 week per
iod, will be entertaining as well
STATE. COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1953
Cabinet to Discuss
Fee Consolidation
All-College Cabinet tonight will consider possible ways to establish a uniform stu
dent fee by equalizing student activities fees, All-College President John Laubach has an*
nolU Und'er the present setup, student activities fees vary with different schools and living
units, and 23 different combinations are possible.
This action was initiated by a letter to Laubach from Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director
'of student affairs. The letter re- “ ' ’
veals the' College plans to collect
student fees at registration next,
fall.
Nominations
For IFC
Close Today
Nominations for the three of
fices of the Interfratemity Coun
cil close at 5 p.m. today. Arthur
Rosfeld, IFC president, said yes
terday that no new nominations
have been made since Tuesday,
when a third vice presidential
nomination brought the total
nominations for all offices to
Each of the candidates, who
nominate themselves, will speak
to members of IFC at 7:30 to
night in 217 Electrical Engineer
ing. No other business has been
planned for the meeting, Rosfeld
said.
Nominations for the offices so
far are: president Thomas
Schott of Phi .Gamma. Delta and
Richard Gibbs of Chi. Phi; vice
president Bruce Nichols of
Delta Tau Delta, Edwin Kohn of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and John
Flanagan of Sigma Chi; secre
tary-treasurer Richard Altman
of Beta Sigma Rho, Alan Mc-
Chesney of Phi Kappa ' Sigma,
Merice Nelles of Alpha Tau Ome
ga, and George Richards of Sig
ma Nu.
The election of officers will
take place at the IFC meeting
Wednesday. Each fraternity casts
oije vote in the balloting. Nom
inations can be made by letter
written by the candidate and
turned in at the Student Union
desk in Old Main,/ addressed to
to Rosfeld.
Mutchler Will Speak
At EE Seminar Today
David. Mutchler, Western Elec
tric employee and 1952 graduate
of the College will speak at the
sixth Electrical Engineering sem
inar at 4:10 p.m. today in 110 Elec
trical Engineering.
The, subject of the seminar will
be “Some Aspects of Transistor
Product Engineering.”
as educational, Van Volkenberg
said. The series will be entitled
“The Search.”
Other schools besides the Col
lege participating in the program
are the University of Pennsyl
vania, University of Michigan,
University of. Chicago, Univer
sity of Minnesota, University of
lowa, University of Louisville,
University .of North Carolina,
North Carolina State, Dartmouth
College, Ohio' State University,
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, Cornell University, Brown
University, Columbia University,
University of California, Southern
California University, California
Institute of Technology, Colorado
School of Mines, University of
Utah, University of Washington,
arid Northwestern University.
Other schools may join the pro
ject later.
One of the projects to be shown,
the AP said, is a research study
of heart disease made by the Uni
versity pf Minnesota on 300 midr
dle-aged men. »
At present, fees are not collect
ed until three weeks after regis
tration. The accounting and com
putation of these fees cause the
delay. If a uniform activities fee
existed, student fees could be col
lected at registration, Kerfworthy
said.
AGENDA
Roll call
Minutes of the previous meet-
ing
Reports of officers
Adoption of agenda
Reports of committees
1. Book Exchange
2. Religion-in-Life Week
Old business
New business:
1. Fee consolidation
2. NSA relief proposal
3. Finance of annual report
Announcements
Appointments
Adjournment
.The letter suggests the College
could collect one fixed, consoli
dated fee for all student activities
plus the special women’s activi
ties fee from all women students.
Fees like the West Dorm social
fee and the fee collected in the
Agriculture school will be most
affected.
Parents do not know until well
after the semester has started
II9W much money students will
need, the letter said. Early collec
tion of fees will remove the neces
sity of students carrying large
amounts ,of money for fee pay
ment for three weeks.
The College is without the fee
income for almost a month, the
letter continued. This condition
also causes extra expense because
of loans.
Under new business, cabinet
will consider a request by the Na
tional Student Association for
funds for relief of Dutch students*
Relief is needed to alleviate con
ditions wrought by recent floods
in that country.
Franklin Kelly, chairman of
the Penn State Book Exchange,
will give a BX progress report. -He
will list current problems and
plans for the BX next year Apr
pointments to the BX board of
control will be made at that time,
Kelly said.
An analysis of Religion-in-Life
Week will be given by RILW
Chairman William Griffith. He
will discuss the strong and weak
points of the past week and rec
ommend formation of a cabinet
religious life. committee.
Sophs to Begin
Hobo Weekend
. A deluge of sophomore hobos
may be expected on campus to
morrow when, the sophbmore
class celebrates Poverty Day, an
old Penn State custom being re
vived for the sophomore week
end.
The project- has received sanc
tion by All-College Cabinet and
the administration. Sophomores
are asked by class president Ro
bert Homan to attend classes in
aftire appropriate to the theme
of Poverty.
Poverty Day will reach its cli
max at the Shantytown Shuffle
to be held in Recreation Hall to
morrow night from 9 to 12. The
shabbiest couple at the dance will
be chosen Mr. and Mrs. Shabby
Shuffler by applause.
Tickets to the dance may be ob
tained at the Student. Union desk
free of charge to sophomores.
Sophomore
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Collegians,
AGD Win
Soph Sing
The Alpha Gamma Delta quar
tet and the Collegians took first
place in the women’s and men’s
division of the sophomore class
barbershop quartet contest last
night in Schwab Auditorium.
Second place winner in the
women’s division was the Rollo
Quartet, with the Keydettes
third. The Mellow Aires took sec
ond place in the men’s division
with the Alpha Tau Omega quar
tet third.
Members'of the Alpha Gamma
Delta quartet are Marilyn Schadt;
Alberta Wooden, Kathryn Lloyd,
and Nancy Phillips. The Colleg
ians are Richard Wrentmore, John
Kapitanoff, William Davey and
James Hess.
The winners, who will be in
terviewed by Albert- Dame on
Radio Guild’s “Spotlight on
State” at 9:30 tonight on WMAJ,
were awarded large bronze lov
ing cups. The second and third
place winners received smaller
trophies. Robert Homan, sopho
more class president, made the
awards.
William Brill was master oS
ceremonies. Judges were Hum
mel Fishbum, professor of musie
and music education; G. W. Hen
ninger, professor of music; and
B. S. Brinsmaid, assistant profes
sor of music.
The two winning quartets wifi
entertain during intermission a$
the Shantytown Shuffle tomor
row night.
Three Receive
Scholarships
From Cabinet
Three recipients of $5O awards
from the Penn State Student
Scholarship Fund were an
nounced yesterday by Edgar Feh
nel, chairman of the fund com
mittee for All-College Cabinet.
The three students are Ruth
Coastes, sixth semester education
major from Coatesville; Julia Ib
botson, seventh semester journal
ism major from Lancaster; and
Lowell Lewis, eighth semester
horticulture major from West
Pittston.
The students, who will receive
their scholarships this spring were
selected from applicants by a
committee made' up of Pearl O.
Weston, dean of women; Frank
J. Simes, dean of men; S. K. Hos
tetter, comptroller; and John Lau
bach; All-College president.
The selection was made on the
basis of need, scholarship, and
contribution to the College
through activities, Fehnel said.
Three Pivot Editors
To Be Named Tonight
An associate editor, assistant
editor, and secretary-treasurer
of Pivot, College poetry maga
zine, will be elected at an open
meeting at 8:30 tonight in 218
Willard. The editors will re
place graduates. According to
Joseph L. Grucci, assistant pro
fessor of English composition,
any students interested in poe
try are eligible for office.
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