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Customs for Freshmen Outlined
Women Wear
Green Dinka
First Time
By PEGGY McCLAIN
Freshman women will join
men students this year for the
first time in wearing green
dinks during the freshman
customs period.
The name card, to be worn in
front, must be printed in heavy
black letters and contain the
name; home town and curricu
liun of each freshman, according
to custom regulations.
Freshman men will be required
to wear black bow ties on their
shirts, with collars buttoned.
Dress customs will be worn out
side dormitories and to College
dining halls. Men will remove
dinks inside buildings. Full cus
toms will be worn at intercolleg
iate athletic events.
On Sale at Book Exchange
Dress custom holidays begin
5:30 p.m. each Friday and end 7
a.m. Monday; however, customs
Must be worn until noon on Sat
urday.
- Customs may be purchased at
the Book Exchange in Temporary
Union Building.
Freshman Customs Board -regu
lates freshman customs, and has
sole power to interpret customs,
subject to review •by All-College
Cabinet upon appeal. Violations
must be reported to the board in
the form of a written and signed
charge.
Only upperclassmen may en
force customs on freshman men,
and, only upperclasswomen may
enforce freshman women's cus
toms, except on those days set
aside as joint enforcement days
by the Freshman Customs Board.
Board Lifts Customs
• Frosh need not subject them
selves to any form of activity not
defined in customs regulations.
The board will decide when cus
toms shall end. All customs need
not be lifted at the same time.
:Dating customs will be strictly
enforced and violators will be
punished in a manner compara
tively severe to the punishment
for other violations. Freshmen
may not date the first weekend
of customs or during the week.
Dating will be permitted 'the fol-
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on campus for years. For the first time, girls will wear clinks this
year too. This group was photographed during Orientation Week.
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lowing weekends on Friday and .
Saturday nights.
Froth are permitted no conver
sation other than "hello" with
members of the opposite sex with
in a three-mile radius of Old Main,
except during dating holidays as
announced by Freshman Customs
Board.
Must Carry Freshman Bible
During the first week of cus
toms, freshman women must be in
their dormitories by 9:15 p.m., and
for the remainder of the customs
period by 9:15 p.m. on weekdays
and 10 p.m.. Fridays and Satur
days.
Student Handbook, known as
the Freshman Bible, must be car
ried at all times, except during
dress custom holidays. The identi
fication page of the handbook
must be filled out. Freshmen are
required to learn songs and cheers
in this book.
Frosh must know names and
locations of all campus buildings
by the first day of classes.
The east side of the Mall and
diagonal walks in front of Old
Main are known as "hello" walks.
Freshmen are required to speak
to all persons they pass on these
walks.
Freshmen men must answer to
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the call "Button Frosh" by doffing
dinks in the direction of upper
classmen giving the call. Only
upperclassmen have the right to
use "Button Frosh".
Only upperclasswomen have the
right to, say "Curtsy Frosh," at
which time frosh women will
curtsy to upperclasswomen giving
the call.
When walking on the Mall,
frosh may use only the east side.
Freshman men must bow and doff
dinks when passing the Old Wil
low tree. Freshman women must
curtsy.
Senior Walk, which extends
along College Avenue from Allen
street gate to Pugh street gate,
and the wall running along this
walk are out of bounds for fresh
men. Frosh are forbidden to walk
on grass or any unpaved short
cuts on campus.
Determined by Class Conduct
Freshmen must attend class
meetings during Orientation Week
and all home athletic events. At
athletic contests, frosh will sit in
sections assigned by Freshman
Customs Board.
Class conduct at athletic events
shall largely determine the length
of customs.
New students are required to
know the names -of the dean of
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To
Upperclassmen
Aid-Freshmen
Freshman men arriving on campus will be assisted in their ad
justment to life at the College by a group of 89 student counselors
in a "face-to-face" counseling program.
Upperclassmen will attempt to acquaint new students with the
College, campus regulations, social life, and the general prevailing
atmosphere. They will be available to answer individual queStions
during the meetings or later in
private
The program is in its fourth
year of operation and an attempt
is made in all cases to have coun
selors in the same curriculum as
the group to which they\ are as
signed.
Two meetings are scheduled, at
6:45 p.m. Tuesday and Wednes
day. Meeting places are listed in
the Orientation Week guide. At
tendance is compulsory for new
students and new freshmen and
sophomores who attended summer
sessions at the College.
The committee in charge, headed
by Michael Jordan and composed
of students, has attempted in most
cases to limit counseling groups
to about 30 students so they will
be more informal. Each meeting
will be about an hour in length.
Counselors and the committee
selected last semester will meet
Tuesday morning for a final brief
ing., Plans will be completed and
last instructions will be given to
the men.
Committee members were ap
pointed by All-College Cabinet to
work with the Dean of Men's of
fice in improving the counseling
program.
The program works in coopera
tion with various student councils
in selecting counselors and re
cording results. When plans are
being made for the next
_year's
program the records of the past
Orientation Week are evaluated
and used as a means of bettering
the system.
their particular school and the
president of the College. '
Freshmen are not allowed to
place their hands in their pockets
while lounging or strolling on
campus, to smoke on campus out
side dormitories or living units,
and to wear high school letters
and athletic awards on sweaters
while on campus.
Freshmen over 21 may appear
before the customs board to ap
peal for exemption from customs.
No immunities may be granted by
upperclassmen or women.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1953
ÜBA Offers
Used Books .
To Students
The Penn State Book Exchange
and the Used Book Agency, lo
cated in Temporary Union Build
ing, are student operated, non
profit organizations selling school
supplies and used books.
The Bdok Exchange; or BX, can
be found in the room at the left
inside the left-hand door of the
ballroom 'of the TUB.
During the school semester it is
open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday. This
week the BX will open on Wed
nesday.
Its purpose is to provide school
supplies for students at a saving.
Students receive $1 in merchan
dise when sales slips totaling $5
are presented at the BX.
Freshman customs— r dinks, name
cards, and bow ties—will be on
sale there this week.
The Used Book Agency handles
used text books for students who
wish to buy or sell them. It op
erates during the first two weeks
of every semester in the ballroom
of the TUB. Starting. Wednesday,
the ÜBA will be open from 9 a.m.
to 9 p.m. until September 26.
Books will be placed on tables
alphabetically according to cours
es. For example, texts on sale for
mineralogy, mining, and music
will be on one table under M.
Students may sell. used books
for whatever they think the books
are worth.
Because of an ancient feudal
grant, the snow which falls on Mt.
Etna, belongs to the archbishop
of Catania and it is shoveled into
trenches where it hardens into ice
which is sold.
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-- Agents for
Approved Sets
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