Sophs Will Revive Poverty Day Today After a twenty year reclusion, Poverty: Day returns today to the Penn State campus. But sophomore'hobos and'ne’er -do-wells, or students dressed as such, will conduct their celebration of the day more quietly than the instigators of the custom during the 1920’5. Poverty Day was originally a freshman class custom held on one Saturday per school year. Needless to say, as the freshmen attended Saturday morning class es in barrels, burlap bags, sarongs, tin-can armor, and the like, those classes were seriously disrupted. TV Tests To Be Run in WD, TUB Experiments in the main West Dorm lounge and the Temporary Union Building will be made in ’the near future to determine the feasibility of installing a tele vision set with inside antennae, it was revealed yesterday.. Boss Clark, chairman of the West Dorm Council television committee, and Town Council President Edward Thieme con ferred with Student Union Direc tor George Donovan and Walter Wiegand, director of the physical plant, yesterday. Tests will be conducted in the lofts of the buildings to determine where the best reception can be received, Wiegand said. If the tests prove satisfactory, the tele sion set will be installed at the place in the building where the best reception can be obtained. Administration Approves Idea Wiegand said the use of out side antennae was impossible be cause the College does not have a policy for “indiscriminately mounting” antennae on campus buildings. The administration approves of the idea of television, Donovan said, but does not want to de tract from the appearance of the buildings. . The Board of Trustees’ committee on architecture would have to approve of the antennae, , he said. ( Wiegand said that although plans did not include television facilities in the Student Union J Building, now under construc tion, the situation that eventual ly may arise regarding television there was being considered. Clark said a conduit was orig * inally built in the West Dorm lounge to accommodate television. Town Pledges $lOO The West Dorm television com r mittee was organized Dec. 15. The . report of a poll conducted by floor presidents revealed all resi dent areas except second fl oo r *■ McKee and Watts Hall are in fav or of television. The proposal for a television set iri the TUB was introduced at a Town Council meeting two weeks ago. Both Nittany Council and Pollock Council have postponed i aiding Town Council in support ing the set. Town Council pledged $lOO. to start the drive. Donovan suggested the requests for the ' two sets-be considered simultan eously, Thieme reported last week to the Association of Inde pendent Men’s Board of Gover ' nors. The ■ possibility of receiv in g television through a Bell tele phone cable is impractical, Dono van said. Concert Sunday A mixed vocal chorus, a dance f band, and various instrumental and vocal groups will be featured in the annual combined concert ( presented by Phi Mu Alpha, men’s music fraternity,- and the Louise Homer Club, N women’s music hon- orary. f .The concert, which is free, will be ■ given at 3 p.ni. Sunday in Schwab Auditorium. • At the opening of the program While the 1953 Poverty Day was sanctioned by All-College Cab inet, the College administration yesterday .expressed its disap proval. Cabinet last night re affirmed its approval of Poverty Day, but cautioned students that they should not “go to extremes” in their dress. Rumors that the faculty had been instructed to dis miss students from class on the basis of unseemly attire, were termed unfounded last night by Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs. , A hint of the extreme of the hilarity and abandoning of regu lations that accompanied Poverty Day is found in newspaper clip pings of 1930 which state that the College Student Council had voted to substitute Freshman Frolic for Poverty Day, and to limit ,the day to the afternoon only plus eliminating the tra ditional parade through the town. This legislation must have met with, some success, because soon after the old Poverty Day ceased to be observed. No evidence of a dance similar to the Shantytown Shuffle which will climax this year’s Poverty Day can be found. This perhaps was due equally to the exhaustion of the merrymakers and to the shortage of women. Art Festival Will Feature Joint Theme A closer relationship among the Departments of Pine Arts, Music, and Dramatics will be stressed this year when the Combined Arts Festival opens in May. According to Co-c hair m e n Charles Hall and Donald Taylor, the combined arts committee will feature the interrelations of the departments instead of separating their displays, as has always been done in previous years. An exhibit in Old Main lounge May 2-10 will feature displays representing the Fine Arts, Art Education, Home Art, Dramatics, Architecture, and Landscape Horticulture departments. Music, dance, motion picture, and liter ature groups also will take part in the festival. The sub-committee on planning for the activities is headed by Ed ward Zimmerman. Other commit tee chairmen are Doris Leventhal, program; and Carl Rhodes, pub licity. Faculty members of the advis ory committee are P. F. Hallock, John Roy, Yar Chomicky, Paul Norton, and Warren S. Smith. Be Held Schwab the mixed chorus will sing “Four Psalm Settings” (Heinrich Schultz). Members of Phi Mu Al pha and the Louise Homer Club composing the chorus are Doris Cook, . Joan Else, Georgie Giano poulos, Bernadine Mietus, Molly North, Jean Rosenberger, and Lu ella Valmont, sopranos; Rita Case, Kathryn Gorris, Carolyn Morris, Marjorie Myers, Ann Stuck, Ruth Stufft, and Elva Zimmerman, altos. Tenors for the chorus are Ray mond Barr, Robert Burns, Allen Forbes, George Georgieff, William Greenham, George Groninger, and Alexander Zerban; and basses, George Black, David Fishburn, John D. Jenkins, Jerome. Kapi tanoff, David Mar golf, Carl Reh rig, and James Shaw. A brass sextet composed of Roger Staub, first cornet; Charles Springman, second comet; Neil Andre,. French horn; George (Continued-on page eight) ©be Sally HI Collegian VOL 53, No. 109 STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1953 FIVE CENTS Cabinet Se Proposal t IFC Hears 9 Nominees For Offices ■ Nine candidates for Interfra ternity Council offices—two pres idential, three vice - presidential, and four secretary-treasurer— spoke to members of IFC at their meeting last night. The nominees introduced them selves to the group and pointed out their aims for the coming year in the IFC service and ex plained their qualifications for of fice. Elections will be held Thurs day in 217 Electrical Engineering with each fraternity having one vote. William O’Malley, head of the outstanding fraternity award com mittee, announced that all entries had not been received and that the deadline had been advanced until 5 p.m. Friday. He said en tries should be turned in at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Bruce Nichols, chairman of the IFC safety committee, said that the safety reports of many of the fraternities are not in and urged they be filed immediately. He said they should be addressed to the IFC safety committee and turned in at the Student Union desk, adding that failure to do so may result in a penalty in the outstanding fraternity evaluations. Arthur Rosfeld, president of IFC, announced that fraternity chaplins will meet with | Rev. Lu thur H. Harshbarger, College chaplain, Thursday evening in a place to be announced after final arrangements are complete. He also said the regular Navy will conduct interviews with graduating seniors at Alpha Tau Omega fraternity Thursday and Friday to discuss commissions; All men must be eligible for a degree this June and not have any agree ments with other military organ izations. A survey of fraternity pledge programs was made , by Rosfeld. He asked a group of 17 ques tions pertaining to pledging, train ing programs, work and study requirements and assignments, and work weeks. He said that they will be used for an overall evalu ation of the College pledge process and will not reflect on the in dividual fraternities. Ten Appointed To Lion Posts Ten appointments to Lion Party steering committee posts have been made, Richard Kirschner, party chairman, has announced. .David Friedenberg was named Nittany organizer and James Sny der, Pollock organizer. In Thomp son Hall, Lois Galler, Bernice Schwartz, and Suzanne Pennock will be organizers. Kathryn Eisen hower and Joan Alfieri are organ izers in McAllister Hall. Otto Hetzel was appointed to the platform committee, and Dor othea Ebert and Virginia Coskery will;be in charge of publicity. Freshman and sophomore men interested in doing party work may sign up at the party meeting at 7 p.m. Sunday in 10 Sparks, Kirschner said. Tickets Available For Fdculfy Dinner -Less than 50 tickets remain for the Faculty-Trustee dinner to be held next Friday at the Nittany Lion Inn. The tickets, priced at $2.75 each, may be obtained from representatives in each school or in 103 Engineering A. Dr. John C. Warner, president of Carnegie Institute of Tech nology, will speak at the dinner. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Contest Photos Due April 11 Photographs of candidates for the Miss Penn State con test must be turned in before noon April 11 at the Student Union. desk in Old Main, ac cording to Joan Lee. chairman of the Spring Week committee. The Daily Collegian reported yesterday the deadline is March 28. Candidates for the contest must be undergraduates of the College. Entries may be made by any group on campus, but not by individuals. Photographs must be 5 by 7 inches, and on the back of the photograph must be the name of the candidate, her sponsor, curriculum, age. College ad dress, and home town. The photographs will be used for the preliminary, judging. Final judging of the candidates will be May 11. Legion Contest Will Be Held Here Monday • The state finals for the Ameri can Legion High School Oratori cal contest will be held from 10 a.m. to. 12 noon Monday in Schwab Auditorium. Three winners of the Pennsyl vania sectional contests will com pete in the finals. The winner will enter national sectional competi tion to qualify for the national contest. All three contestants will be awarded medals. A four-year scholarship to be used at the College, Temple Uni versity, or the University of Pitts burgh will be awarded to the win ner of the state competition by Governor John Sr Fine at' the American Legion Convention. The topic of the oration must be taken from “some phase of the United States Constitution which will give emphasis to the atten dant duties and obligations ‘of a citizen to our government.” A ten to 12 minute prepared speech and an ■ extempore speech of four to six minutes will be in cluded in the competition. State Geologist Dies Stanley H. Cathcart, state geolo gist and a. Penn State graduate, died in Harrisburg yesterday at the age of 63. Hunter Will Speak At Greeks Banquet John H. Hunter Jr., alumni of the College, sportsman, and past president of Alpha Chi Rho fra ternity, will be the major speaker at the Outstanding Pledge Ban quet during Greek Week, April 11 to 19. The banquet will be held at 7 p.m. April 16 at the Allencrest to honor pledges from each of the fraternities at the College. Hunt er, who is an architect, with the Hunter, Caldwell, and Campbell Co. of Altoona, was president of Alpha Chi Rho while at the Col lege as well as a varsity member of the football, baseball, and basketball teams. The theme of Greek Week t.hig year is “The Greeks and the Com munity,” and the week will in clude a number of projects in coordination with borough resi dents. Gene Fulmer of the State College Commerce -Club is work ing with the student co-chairmen I ds Fee ISCB n o Board to Study Possible Ways Of Equalization By CHUCK OBERTANCE , A proposal to establish a uniform student fee by equal ization of various student ac tivities fees was referred last night to the Inter-school Coun cil Board by All-College Cabi net. The board, made up of the pres ident from each school’s student council, will study possible meth ods of equalizing the fees and will make a recommendation to cabi net next week. At present, fees are not col lected until three weeks after registration because of accounting necessary in computing the fees. If a uniform fee were established, All-College Vice President James Plyler explained, this situation could be remedied and would speed up payment. To Consider Recommendation Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, earlier an nounced a plan of the College to collect all fees, at registration be ginning this fall. Cabinet next week will consider the board’s recommendation for setting a consolidated fee. There are currently 23 combinations pos sible in the fees. The present women’s activities fee, $1.50, would probably be col lected with the women’s room key fee, Plyler said. Spent on Publication The only school fees exist in the Schools of Agriculture, 75 cents and Home Economics, 25 cents. Fifty cents of the Agricul ture fee goes for publishing of the Penn State Farmer, Agricul ture student council publication. The remainder is spent on extra curricular activities. The entire 25 cents of the Home Economics school is spent for the school publication, News and Views. Lincoln Warrell, chairman. at the Intercouncil Board, suggested', a general fee for all students. Students now pay $4.68 in ac-.l tivities fees per semester, Plyler said. Next semester the fees will probably be higher because of the radio fee and a possible general activities fee, he added. A request for Dutch relief sen£ to cabinet by the National Stu dent Association “was referred to the Interclass Budget Board to see if funds are available. The board will report at the next meeting. , (Continued on page eight) in the Greek Week plans. The student co-chairmen Eire Jan Carstenson and Richard Gibbs. The first day of Greek Week, April 11, has been named Greek- Community Day. On that day members of College sororities and fraternities will join with towns people in work on projects throughout the community. Stu dent chairmen of the committee are Eleanor Horvitz and John Flanagan. Projects so far planned include repair and cleaning work in Sun set and East Fairmount Play grounds, Community Park, the high school football field, and similar locations. Townspeople and students will combine their services a second time Tuesday, April 14, at a Com munity Benefit Show at the high school. The show, which will in clude student and borough talent will run from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m,'
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