PAGE EIGHT SDX to Roast Faculty Upon Verbal Gridiron The Sigma Delta Chi Gridiron banquet hasn’t always featured roast turkey as the main dish. In fact, a human being was found in thfe platters one night. He wasn’t being served, however. He was merely doing a jig on the table and happened to slip on a saucer. This was back in the dim dark days of the first annual SDX banquet in April, 1932, when Sid ney H. Benjamin, now sports edi tor of the Hazleton Plain Speaker, slipped while dancing on the table. Benjamin was the founder of the banquet, now celebrating its 20th anniversary. The banquet features the pun gent odor of faculty and adminis tration officials being roasted ver bally, and such gossamer titles as The deadline for picking up reserved tickets for the Grid iron Banquet, sponsored by Sig ma Delta Chi, men's national professional journalistic frater nity, is 5 p.m. today 'at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Tickets are $3. “Go to Hell” are usually the sub ject for the night. This particular banquet featured a firsthand view of Hell. Strangely enough, all of Charon’s new arrivals were mem bers of the faculty or the Admin istration, and they were greeted by the devil with a long list of their crimes against the students. Sigma Delta Chi is a national men’s journalistic fraternity—and journalists on the whole are not usually known as the world’s best actors. The hi s t o ry of satirical writing in America, however, goes back to the end of the 17th cen tury and the “Hell Fire Club,” which wrote for Franklin’s New England Courant. It developed and reached a high point with the famous Washing ton Gridiron dinner, after which the local affair is patterned. While Prof. Franklin Banner, head of the Department of Jour nalism, is the adviser to SDX and does no writing himself, .he has termed the affair a popular suc cess. “I am the only one on the cam campus, to my knowledge,” he said, “who has seen all the per formances, and they seem to com pare favorably with the Washing ton Gridiron affairs.” CLASSIFIEDS RIDES AND PASSENGERS WANTED RIDS FOR two to Springfield Mass, or vicinity April Ist noon and return. Call Don Curtis 4332. FOR RENT ONE DOUBLE and single room near earn* pus. Telephone 2919. A FURNISHED single room for male stu dent, close to campus. Phone. 2705. HALF DOUBLE room—male student. Cen trally located. Call 2967 after 5. ONE VERY large double room with single beds. Quiet place one block from campus. Men only. Phone 7686. LOST EXCHANGED. Your topcoat with mine. Wednesday morning at 10 in • EE. Call Miwa 4850. GLASSES, plastic rim, 121 Sparks, Tues. about 4 p.m.; please return to Ronald Klimek, Nittany 21-5 ext. 281. BROWN LEATHER Wallet, $53.00, identi- fication cards; between 3 and 4 in Rec Hall, Tuesday. Please call Harry Tancredi, Nittany 35-10, ext. 295. BLUE PARKER 51. Initials R.E.G. Finder please call ext. 268. Ask for Bob. Reward l MAN’S GRUEN watch—gold expansion band. Lost in Rec Hall. Reward. EXCHANGED. Your topcoat with mine. Saturday night about 11 in Corner Room. Shoftld be too big, ’cause yours is too small. Call Chuck Obertance 4444. FOR SALE ZEISS IKON Contessa camera with ac cessories ; one Marlin “22”, both like new. Call Don. 2337 after 5 p.m. STAR-D TRIPOD with pan-tilt head. Ex tends to 55”. Like new. $l2. Phone Ben 2602. • • J MODEL A Ford —excellent running con dition, good tires, battery, ignition. $7O. Phone Fred Bigony 6937 or 3250. 1951 HUDSON Hornet four door sedan. Private owner kept car in A-l condition. Phone Millheim 53. COMPLETE SET of 1952 MacGregor regis tered golf clubs—irons and woods. In quire at caddy house. MODEL A Sedan 1929. $4O. Call Nick 4923. MISCELLANEOUS SOPHOMORES, Don’t forget to dress in style' for the Poverty Day and Shanty town Schuffle, Friday March 20. _____ DARLING Bill, if you split your ticket for 1.F.C.-Panhe! Rail Pm going to the dance with Joe. 1 want to dance all night to Johnny Long’s Orchestra, By BARRY FEIN Student Gets Suspension A student charged with mis appropriation of articles from a State College store has been sus pended indefinitely by the Senate disciplinary committee. Indefinite suspension results in the student’s immediate suspen sion from school for at least the rest of the semester and requires that if he desires re-admittance, he must appeal to the disciplinary committee. The case had been referred to the College for action by borough authorities. The student had satis fied borough charges by making restitution for the articles and paying costs. Cabinet -- (Continued -from page one) Funds are needed for students in Holland for relief from after effects of serious floods there last month. Cabinet will vote next week on whether to spend $260 for print ing costs of the annual student government report. The report is compiled by leaders in student government and explains their duties. Only the world’s largest producer could buiM a car Ilka this at such low cost to you! This is an entirely new kind of car—a car so luxurious, so richly finished in every detail that it stands out, above and beyond all others in the low-price field. In the new Bel Air Series you will find four wonderful models-the 2-door and 4-door sedans, the sport coupe, the convertible. Every one of these new 1953 Chevrolets brings you new high-compression power, new and greater performance plus amazing new gasoline economy! Here is a wonderful choice. Wouldn’t you like to stop in and see the great new Chevrolet for ’53 today? (Continuation of standard equipment and trim illustrated is dependent on availability of material.) SEE YOUR CHEVROLET DEALER FOR ALL YOUR AUTOMOTIVE NEEDS! THE DAILYCOLIEGIAN. STATE' COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Amuo Conveniently Ifctedunder"Automobiles” in your local ckssißed telephone directory Profs to Select Speech Victors In Ag Contest Three judges will select the winners of the first Paul R. Gul dih Agriculture Speaking Contest Monday and Tuesday nights. Judges are Dr. Russell B. Dick erson, vice dean of the School of Agriculture; Dr. Earl M. Kesler, assistant professor of dairy hus bandry; and Joseph F. O’Brien, professor of public speaking. Twenty-five agriculture under graduates have entered the con test. They will present five-min ute speeches in the preliminary contest at 7 p.m. Monday. The finals will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday in 117 Dairy. Final speeches will be eight to ten min utes long. Approximately 20 per cent of the entries will be selected for the finals. A detailed outline of the final speech must be submitted to the judges before it is given. Contes tants must use the same topic in the preliminaries and the finals. First prize consists of $5O and a gold medal. Second prize will be $25 and a silver medal; The awards, to be presented annually, have been provided by a memor ial fund established by Mrs. Paul R. Guldin. 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 contests and the Achievement 'Day program hon oring outstanding leaders in Ag Hill activities will be open to the public.. Cut flowers will last longer if as many leaves as possible are removed. Concert (Continued from page one) Black, trombone; Donald Lam bert, baritone; and George Geor gieff, tuba; will play two selec tions. They are “La Fiesta” (Gus Guentzel) and Fantasia—“On the Mountain Top” (G. L. Bamhouse). Duo No. 1 for Oboe and Bas soon (Beethoven) will be per formed by a woodwind duet with Donald Rentschler, oboe, and Charles Biechler, bassoon. The Mello-Aires -vocal quartet will offer four' selections, “Mr. Moon,” “Climbin’ up the Moun tain,” “How Deep Is the Ocean,” and “Limburger Sandwich.” Mem bers of the quartet are Burns, first tenor; Georgieff, second ten or; Jenkins, baritone; and Shaw, bass* Ruth McNitt and Elizabeth Stuter will be heard in a piano duet of “Rondo Capriccioso” (Mendelssohn). Contralto Carolyn Morris, as concert soloist, will sing “Music for a While” (Pur- mam • MON. & TUES. EVES, • Doors Open 6 p.m. COMEDY - TRAGEDY! "STRANGE WITNESS" ITALIAN FILM WITH ENGLISH SUB-TITLES Featuring ANGELO “ . . . Suspenseful, Warming , and Humorous . . ” —Daily News QAq of American cars... BdAiJiSmu new Chevrolet MORE PEOPLE BUY CHEVROLETS THAN ANY OTHER CAR! FRIDAY,'MARCH 20,1953 cell), “Komm Susser Tod” (Bach), and “Der Ring” (Schumann). . Concluding the concert will be the Phi Mu Alpha dance band with renditions of “All the Things You Are” arranged by Edward Reider, “I’ll Remember April” ar ranged by Jack Huber, “Zing Goes the Strings of My Heart,” and “Fifty Miles Per-Hour” (Edward Reider). Those playing in the dance band include Allan May, Samuel Mold ovan, Fred Orkiseski, and Reider, trumpets; John Creigh, James El liott, Jenkins, Richard Kartliek, and. Charles Torrence, saxo phones; George Black, James Bor tolotto, Richard Brady, and Wil liam Mitchell trombones; Alden Shoup, piano; Blair Gingrich, bass, and-Donald Storch, - drums. The striking new Be! Air Sedan, one of 16 beautit models in 3 great new series.
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