SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER n, 1976 All-College Cabinet Regulates Student Activities, Levies Fees All-College Cabinet is the highest student government body at the College. It regu lates student activities, levies fees with the consent of the College Set3ate "and Board of Trustees, and acts as a co ordinating agent between ad ministration and students. Cabinet is required to meet at least every two weeks by its con stitution. Any student - may attend a cabinet meeting in the Trustee's room, 201 Old Main. Meetings are usually held at 8 p.m. Thursday. The time and place of meetings are announced in the Daily Col Ag School Sponsors Honoraries, Clubs Many clubs and, honoraries are sponsored by departments in the School o± Agriculture to give students a chance to participate in work relating, to their curriculum and to honor students who have maintained high scholastic averages. Four honoraries, Pi Alpha Xi, horticulture; Xi Sigma Pi, for estry; - Alpha Tau Alpha, agri culture education; and Gamma Sigma Delta, agriculture, are in the School of Agriculture. They are designed to honor students with high scholastic averages who have shown interest in the plans and programs of the group. They plan and carry out field days, exhibitions and contests sponsored on Ag Hill. Each group holds a banquet for active members, alum-, ni, faculty and guests. Xi Sigma Pi annually sponsors the - For estry Ball. Coaly Society, agriculture hon orary, sponsors an annual Ag Honor Day at which the Mr. Ag riculture of Penn State award is presented to an outstanding sen ior. He is selected on the basis of extra-curricular activities in ag ricultural fields. Any agriculture student may make a nomination. The recipient receives a medal, plow and cash award. Agriculture Stud en t Council holds an Ag Party every year for faculty members and students. Scholarship awards and prizes are presented. Dinner guests at the banquet are chosen from out standing people in the field. Ag riculture products of all kinds are displayed. Money received from FRESHMEN . . . GET OFF ON THE RIGHT STEP with a famous legion, and an agenda 'is printed. Records of meetings are open to students, and cabinet activities are reported in the Collegian. This year cabinet will operate on a budget of $12,300. Presiding over cabinet is All- College President Richard Lem yre, seventh semester metallurgy major. He is assisted by All-College Vice President Edward Haag ; sev enth semester journalism major, and All-College Secretary-Treas urer David Arnold, seventh sem ester commerce major. Haag's duties as vice president include coordinating Cabinet Projects Council and the National Student Association. All-College and class officers are elected by a political party the party is used to further agri culture in some undeveloped country. The Apple Jack Jump is co-sponsored with Home Eco nomics Student Council in Novem ber. Proceeds are used to establish a scholarship. Almost every department and some sub-departments have a club for students to meet and discuss problems, hear guest speakers ana work on field days and exhibit ions. Clubs sponsor field days, tournaments, picnics, parties, con tests and live stock, vegetable, and flower shows, panel discus sions, turkey shoots, broadcasts and square dances. • General Agriculture Club is open to students enrolled in ag riculture. The School of Agriculture an nually sponsors a speaking con test with a $5OOO fund set up by Mrs. Paul Goulden ..in memory of her huSband. The contest is open to undergraduates in the school. Judges are chosen from the fac ulty of the Agriculture 'a n d Speech departments. The Ag Hill Breeze is pub lished every two weeks. News of organizations on Ag Hill and com ing events is published in the paper. Shoe from 122 S. ALLEN TEtii DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA system, similar to that of Penn sylvania's state electoral system. Presidents of the nine student councils—A g r i culture, ' Business, Chemistry and Physics, Education, Engineering, Home Economics, Liberal Arts, Mineral Industries and Physical Education—have seats on cabinet. Problems some times are referred by cabinet to the Interschool Council Board, composed of school council presi dents. Class presidents have seats on cabinet. Freshman and Sophomore class officers will be elected with in the next two months. Fraternity, sorority, and inde pendent men and women are rep resented on cabinet. Interfrater nity Council and Panhellenic Council presidents represent frat ernity men and sorority women. Presidents of the AssociatiOn of Independent Men and Leonides represent the independent men and women students. Additional women representa tives are the presidents of Wo men's Student Government Asso ciation and Women's Recreation Association. President of the men's Athletic Association is also a member of cabinet. Two other cabinet members are the chairman of the Board of Publications, who is editor of the Daily Collegian, and the chairman of the Board of Dramatics and Forensics. Two Renamed to Direct Penn State Foundation Two directors of the Penn State Foundation, whose one-year terms expired June 30, have been re named. They are H. Thomas Hallowell Jr., Rydal, elected for a five-year term as a representative of the Board of Trustees of the College, and George A. Doyle, Philadel phia, elected representative of the Penn State Alumni Association for a four-year term. ' 1 : b• Buy and Sell At the ÜBA Self - Service Lowest Prices in Town No Waiting hi Li -es 0-pening Wednesday, Sept. 16 Penn State- Lfy • nge Student-Operated Non-Profit Book Store Student CPC Aids Cabinet in Workshops Cabinet Projects Council was established last fall by All-Col lege Cabinet to assist in admin istrative duties and to lessen the load of details carried by cabinet members. Many proposals brought before cabinet are referred to CPC for investigation. CPC committees study the problem and make ree -1 ommendations to cabinet. Before CPC was established, it was neces sary for the All-College president I to name an investigating commit tee, usually headed by a cabinet member, to look into the problem. CPC is a workshop where stu dent interests and ability in stu dent government leadership can be developed. Explanations of CPC and the work it is now doing will be given during Orientation Week meetings, Irvin White, pres ident, has announced. CPC projects last year included: 1. An Orientation Week evalu ation committee which question ed last year's freshmen on the ef fectiveness of Orientation Week activities. Many suggestions re 11 11111111M11111111111WHH11111111111ffill11111111111111111M1111111111111111H111111111111&: I It's a fact . . . It takes a week of Orientation for Freshmen to get acquainted with Penn State. But it takes only a few minutes to discover that Vic's has the best milk shakes in town! 145 S. ALLEN ST. ViCIS Your Headquarters for Official Customs. * FREE NA, sE CARDS Open 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. APhio to Open Information Booth On Mall Today Alpha Phi Ome g a, national service fraternity, will open an information booth at 10 a.m. to day on the Mall at Pollock road. Fraternity members will be on hand to answer questions, give directions, and hand out maps, parking information, and College catalogues. The booth will remain open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. until Thursday to help orient new stu dents to the campus. Throughout the week confer ences will be held with new stu dents and counselors to discuss activities, organizations, and cur riculum problems. ceived in this survey have been carried out in planning this week's orientation program. 2. An information exchange committee which examines news papers from other colleges for ideas that can be put to work in Penn State's student government. 3. A Senior finals committee which has been studying ways of eliminating finals for graduating seniors. Your Books in the TUB N;i:~c~a~.ya~y~i►i
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