PlatfParty iu r 11111 it i g, 4 7 .. di t oil orms— , , , .- 4 ,;.ik -,, 3. 4 , 1. 4: , See Page 2 i-1:,,..4446.-..._-.., . ~,,,, rzi VOL. 53, No. 118 Women's Deity GI frit_ held April 1-5 at Mary Washington College of the University. of Virginia are (first row left to right) Susan Holtzinger, after-dinner, extemporaneous, and situation oratory champion; Marian Ungar, grand national champion of women's debate, declamation and ad dress reading champion; Lois Lehman, grand national champion of women's debate and dramatic reading titlist. (Second, row) Sally - Lowry. negative debater; Mary Jane Kelley, encomium champion; Jane- Montgomery, book review champion; and Guyla Woodward, who placed sixth with Miss Holtzinger in the "Big Ten" leading teams of the tournament. Ungar, Lehman Win U.S. Debate Honors Marian Ungar and Lois Lehman won the women's grand national ;championship in debate at the Grand Natiohal Debate and Forensic Tournament held April 1-5 at the Mary Washington College of the Unisiersity of Virginia. In addition to the national championship, the College women's 4 team won two awards for the most outstanding women in the tourna- ment, a sixth place among the "Big Ten," a tenth best debate 'award, and ten individual grand national championships out of a possible ,thirteen Miss Ungar retained her na tional titles in address reading and declamation for the third con secutive' year. She • held, the ad dress reading title for her pre sentation of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's speech at a breakfast prayer meeting. In declamation she scored with the "American Tradition" speech presented 'by General Douglas MacArthur be fore the Michigan legislature in 1952. Guyla Woodward and Susan Holtzinger competed against 135 men and women's teams to place sixth in the "Big Ten" leading teams of the tournament. Porter Wins 2 Championships k Miss Holtzinger spoke on Cor nerstones for Dream Castles" to win the national title in after dinner speaking. She took- chain tpionships in extemporaneous speaking and situation oratory, and placed second in the informa tive speech division. Winning v three of the. five divisions entered, 'Miss Holtzinger was awarded a certificate as being the tenth best debater in the tournament. )** Agnes Porter won-- grand , na tional championships in impromp tu speaking and poetry reading. 6The assigned topic for impromptu peaking was "Leading Events. of ' 1952." In the poetry division She read the Twenty-fourth Psalm, "At the 'Museum" by Louise Dar (Continued on page eight) C -----...."---1. 1 . TODAY'S . . WEATHER * POSSIBLE SHOWERS 41 4' h,. .. 4 4 • I _ . . CLOUDY, \ Michigan Prof To Join Staff Samuel Shulitz, ,associate pro fessor at Michigan College of Min ing and Technology, will become an associate professor of civil en gineering at the College begi n- ning Jul 1.. The appointment was approved by the Board of Trustees and an nounced by President Milton S. Eisenhower. Shulitz received his B.S. de gree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ha s completed work on his M.S. degree at Mich igan College of Mining and Tech nology. Other teaching positions he has held include appointments on the faculty at Colorado School of Mines, New York University, and University of lowa. State College May Get Educational Televvvision Educational television for State College may become a reality under a bill proposed for the state General Assembly. The* proposed legislation asks for an $850,000 - appropriation in the next biennium for -/ the four proposed television channels at State College, (44), Erie, (41), Pittsburgh, (13), and Philadelphia, (35). The Governor's committee on educational television pr op o s es that the Department of Public Instruction a p ply fore Federal Communications Commission li censes for educational TV. The deadline for= applications to the FCC is June 2. The ' committee also asks •\ the authorization of $1.5 million for construction of supplementary equipment through the General State Authority and urges that FOR A BETTER PEN STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1953 Senate to Receive New Calendar Idea A' new calendar idea, providing for both a four-day Thanksgiving vacation and for nine days between the classes of fall semester examinations and the beginning of spring semester classes, will be presented to the College Senate at 4:10 p.m. today in 121 Sparks,. Ernest W. Callenbach, chairman of the calendar committee, said yesterday. The new suggestion, which meets the major objections to the' calendar proposed last month, will be presented by the calendar committee as •an amendment to article one of the report submitted to Senate last month. This article sets up a-Bgs= tern by which a calendar for the College may be determined for any year. 4-Day Thanksgiving Vacation By including the additional va cations in the calendar plan, the committee will lengthen the aca demic year about two weeks. Fall semester classes will begin on the third Monday in September and spring semester examinations will end 'not later than the second Saturday in June, and usually earlier, Callenbach said. Thanksgiving vacation, accord ing to the amendment, will begin Wednesday noon before Thanks giving and will end at .8 a.m. the following Monday. The days of classes lost, from Wednesday noon to Saturday noon, will be made up by scheduling them on the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes day at the end of the fall semes ter. The semester • will end on a Wednesday. noon. The new proposal provides for 15 class meetings - for each class hour and overcomes ' student ob jections to the old plan in which there was only a one-day Thanks giving vacation. It also provides the extra days between semesters which the faculty. and registra tion officials want to process records. Orientation Time Allotted The new calendar plan, if ap proved by the Senate, will go into effect for the 1954-1955 school year, IFC Sing Will Begin Tonight The first preliminaries for the Interfraternity Council Panhel lenic Council Sing will be held from 7:30 until 10 tonight in the Temporary Union Building. More preliminaries will be held at 7 to 9:30 tomorrow night. About 35 fraternity and sorority groups have signed up . for the competition, Allan Schneirov, frat ernity chairman of the' sing, an nounced yesterday. The IFC-Panhel Sing finals will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday in the State College High School Audi torium and will be broadcast over WMAJ. Four groups of singers; two fraternity and two sorority groups, will be chosen to take part in the finals. The four will be an nounced after the preliminaries tomorrow night. Two. honorable' mention groups be announced also tomorrow night. One .fraternity group and one sorority group will be given honorable mention. The winners of the sing, which will be announced Sunday night, will receive cups. Panhel and IFC will give the cups to the two win ners. All fraternities and sororities have been invited to enter the sing competition, 'Schneirov said. The singing grdups will be judged on tone quality, intonation, interpretation and phrasing, bal ance of parts, diction, and general effects. Three judges have been selected for the ,sing. Lion Party to Hold Jazz Concert Saturday A jazz concert sponsored by the Lion Party will be held from 2 to 4 p.m..Saturday in Schwab Audi torium,' Richard Kirschner, party chairman, has• announced. Tickets costing 50 cents each will be on sale at the Student Union desk in Old Main after noon today, he said. The. band of six student musicians will play "Dixie" jazz selections. Cabinet , Cabinet Canceled All-College Cabinet will not meet tonight, according to John Lauba'ch, AIL-College president: the GSA debt limit be increased by $1.5 million. The appropriation would be re duced, th'e committee maintained, it other organizations or groups took it upon themselves to oper ate an educational television sta tion as has been done in Pitts burgh. The Metropolitan Pitts burgh Educational Television Sta tion, a non-p rof it organization chartered to operate the area's educational channel, announced grants amounting to $350,000 for the use of channel 13. Henry,E. Rhea, engineering con sultant to -the comthittee, said the four proposed stations with pres ent TV equipment and towers would give,gobd service to 5,566,- 000 people- or 53 per cent of the state's - population. He said - that an additional .1,305,000 or 13-per cent of the population 'would re ceive service , of a lower quality. rgiatt STATE Time is allowed for orienta tion an d registration in the amended plan but it is not - defi nitely scheduled, allowing fo r .changes and improvements in these programs. The Christmas vacation willce main at from 14 to 15 1 / 2 days and the spring vacation will be from the Wednesday noon before Eas ter Sunday to the following Wed nesday noon. Spring examinations will end sometime between .Tune 8 and 13 under the new plan," Callenbach estimated. Registration Rules The Senate will also receive from its rules committee a recom mendation that will allow the di rector of the Coll e g e Health Service to take whatever action is necessary during crowded con ditions at the College Hospital. This means that, if the new rule is approved, the director of the (Continued on page eight) The Pittsburgh channel would be VHF and the other three would be UHF. The state committee with Walter A. Kearney, associate di rector of the College Placement Service, 'as secretary, did not say what the subsidization would am ount to for each of the four sta tions. The committee recommends that two additional channels• be asked of the FCC to give greater cover age. Addition -of the projected stations in two other cities—if the Legislature and the FCC aPprove - 7 -would bring educational TV to 86 per cent nf the population.. The 43-member committee is made up of leading educators from' all sections: of the state. The corn niittee was formed in November following a conference called by the Governor to study •the possi- i bilities of establithing educational: TV channels. Fee Consolidation— See Page 4 New Post Is Given To Gilbert Harold R. Gilbert, graduate, manager of athletics since 1947. has been named assistant direc tor of athletics as part of a plan to streamline the College's inter collegiate athletic administrative branch. In keeping with administrative setups at other schools, Ernest B McCoy hereafter will be desig• nated as dean of the School of Physical Education and Athletic and director of athletics. "With the completion of the new wing of Recreation Building,' President Milton S. Eisenhower explained, "the intercollegiate ath letic department will occupy on( section of the building, the ticke office and other administrativE functions will be brought uncle] one roof, and more efficient ad• ministration will result." Gilbert will remain in his pres. ent offices until the new wing i: completed. Trustees OK 2 Retirements Dr. Carroll D. Champlin, pro. fessor of education, and Bober) E. Minshall, professor of \ struc. tural engineering, will retire wits emeritus rank June 30. The re• tirements were approved by tho College Board of Trustees Friday Dr. Champlin has served at the . College since 1924 except for the fall semester of 1932-33 when he was an exchange professor at the University of Puerto Rico. He re ceived his Ph.D. degree from tht University of Pittsburgh. ' Minshall joined the faculty ie 1913 and has been a professor of structural engineering since 1935. During a leave of absence and during summer months he served with a number of engineering companies -in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. He received a M.S. de• gree from the College. Cap, Gamin Dates Set for Seniors , Seniors who expect to grad uate in June should sign up for caps and gowns at the Ath letic Store on the following days, George L. Donovan, man ager of associated student ac tivities, has announced. Agriculture seniors, April 9 and 10; Liberal Arts seniors, April 13, 14," 15; Engineering seniors, April 16, 17, 18; Edu cation and Physical .Education and Athletics' seniors, April 20, 21, 22; Home Economics, Min eral Industries, Chemistry and Physics seniors, April 23, 24, 25. Seniors should know their hat .size when ordering. Dono van emphasized. The deposit fee for cap and gown is $5. Seniors who will . graduate in military .uniforms should not sign up for a cap and gown. . Invitations and announce ments can -be ordered at the Student Union desk on 1h e same days as listed above. FIVE CENTS
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