Weather- 4 . Cloudly and 4 I 41, - Next Collegian p. r 4 '4 4 4 E . tan out Tuesday Wanner at .VOL. 54, No. 3 Registration .0 Penn Seats Go on Sale Thursday 'Approximately 4000 • tickets to the •University of Pennsylvania- Penn State football , game will go on sale to students starting Thurs day at the ticket window in Old Main. The game will be played Oct. 3 at Franklin Field, Philadelphia. Students who ordered tickets by mail may pick them up at the same time, .starting Thursday. About 1080 tickets have been sold to students through advance sales by application. Of these, 840 were reserved seats and 240 were in the end-zone section. Harold R. Gilbert, assistant di rector of athletics, yesterday said he anticipates no shortage of tick ets for students. Seats from goal line to goal line in the first ten lines of the north stands have been reserved for students. These sell for $3.90. End-zone seats sell for $2.60. Alumni demand for tickets has been "terrific," Gilbert said. Students will be shown a chart of Franklin Field when they go to the ticket window in Old Main. They will be able to choose their seats from the remaining seats. Gilbert estimated that 13,000 tickets have been allocated to Penn State. About half of these are reserved for alumni. Gilbert's office staff has been working evenings in order to fill the record number of alumni re quests for tickets, he said. Ticket orders have been running about 10 per cent above last year's rec ord demand, ,he said. Alumni to Advise' Government Group Penn State Men in Public Ad-. ministration will organize at a luncheon meeting Oct. 24. The group will serve as an advisory body for the Institute of Local Government. In explaining the purpose of the new group, Harold F. Alderfer, executive secretary, said the in stitute needs the advice and sup port of alumni in public admin istration. Freshmen Must Have Tuberculin Tests Read New students who have not had their tuberculin tests read should report to the College In formary as soon as possible, Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, director of Col lege Health Service, said yester day. To be effective, tuberculin tests should be read within 48 hours, Glenn said. Russig Announces New A-Bomb Tests MOSCOW, Friday, Sept. 18 (W)—The Soviet Union announced today it has successfully tested some "new type" atomic bombs in recent weeks. It added Russia hoped a ban Would be placed on 'all types ,of mass destruction weapons and is looking into prospects for peace ful use of atomic energy in in dustry. A dispatch frOm the Soviet news agency Tass published in tthe government newspaper Izves ia said the successful experi mental tests had taken place. The dispatch said that although the Soviet Union was able to give attention to the production of atomic weapons, the nation —Photo by Schroeder • SITTING PATIENTLY OR NOT some of the overloaded registration facilities and caused 4400 juniors and seniors wait their delayed turn strained officials to have an excess of some to register Wednesday in Recreation Hall. The • 100 students per hour, bog-down came when a heavy fall enrollment . Hatmen to Meet With Fresh Hatmen will visit freshman men's dormitories at 7 p.ri.;. Sunday to advise new stu dents on the freshman cus toms program, Richard Gibbs, Hat Society Council president, announced, last night. About 100 hatmen met in Old Main to discuss customs enforce inent. Hatmen will enter fresh man living units to teach new men students school songs and cheers and instruct them in cus toms conduct. Hatmen visiting freshman men's dormitories will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday at the following locations: Skull and Bones—Phi Delta Theta Parmi Nous—Beta Theta Pi Blue Key—West Dorm court yard Androcles—McKee Hall Druids—Nittany 20 Sophomores will aid in enforc ing customs this year to encour age stronger class spirit between Skull and B ones and Parmi Nous, senior men's honoraries, will visit Hamilton Hall; Blue Key, junior men's honorary, will go to Watts; Jordan and' Irwin Halls; Androcles, junior men's honorary, to McKee Hall; and Druids, soph omore men's honorary, to Nittany- Pollock dorms. freshman and sophomore classes, Gibbs said. In the past hatmen BULLETIN also followed a policy of strength ening peace and trying to reach agreement with other countries on the prohibition of atomic, hy drogen bombs and other kinds of weapons for mass destruction. No details were given about the "new type" tested. • Tass said the Soviet Union wanted strict international con trol and' a "realization of .these decisions" to ban atomic. weapons. Meanwhile, .it said, the nation is exploring the use of atomic en ergy for industrial purposes, . FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1953 and hatwomen have done the ma jor part of hazing during customs. Plans were also begun for a pep rally the Thursday b e f ore the Penn State-Wisconsin f o o t b all game. The rally, to be held in front of the Lion shrine, will be sponsored jointly by men's hat so cieties. Pep rallies following the Wisconsin game rally will be held by individual men's hat societies, Gibbs said. Nearly 2000 frosh have pur chased dress customs, according to Howard Giles, chairman of the Used Book Agency. Dress customs will be available at the Book Ex change in Temporary Union Build ing from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today, and from 9 a.m. until noon tomor row. • Frosh must buy the regulation green dink and standard sized name card on which they will print in heavy black letters their name, home town and curriculum. Men are also required to wear a black bow tie, with shirt collars buttoned. Starting 8 a.m. Monday, dress customs will be worn outside Freshman women, both first and second semester, are permit ted in fraternities only at events whi c h are properly registered and chaperoned, Wilmer E. Ken worthy, Director - of Student Af fairs, said yesterday. It was believed, contrary to Senate regulations, that second semester freshman women could date in fraternities under the un chaperoned dating code. Social functions in houses must be chaperoned in accordance with College rules and Interfraternity Council dating code. All fraternity functions, accord ing to Pearl 0. Weston, Dean of Women, must be registered with the Dean of Men's office and the Dean- of Women's office at least seven days prior to the date of the proposed activity. Provisions of the IFC dating code permit women in fraternity houses, but not above the first floor or in rooms of the men, ex cept in special cases approved by the deans of men and women. Women must leave• fraterni ties no later than 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights except on big weekends or under special permission of the College. Women must leave the houses at 8 p.m. during week days and 11 p.m. on Sundays. Rules Clarified On Frosh Dating in Fraternities - Down Cleared dormitories and to College dining halls. Men must remove dinks in side buildings. 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 cus toms period by 9:15 p.m. week days and 10 p.m. Fridays and Sat urdays. Twenty new students were granted exemptions from fresh man customs last night by the Freshman Customs and Regula tions Board. All tiansfer students except first semester students are auto matically exempt from customs. The Student Handbook (Fresh man Bible), which must be car ried by frosh at all times, should be ready for distribution by Mon (Continued on page fifteen) Fun Night Program Is rink, Hat Mixer Dink-topped frosh and helmetted hatmen and hatwomen will get together for tomorrow's Fun Night program in Recreation Hall, 36 hours before the official start of customs Monday morning; but reVelry—not rivalry—will be the order of the day. In the afternoon, new students will dance to the music of Johnny Nicdlosi's orchestra at the "Dink Debut" in the Temporary Union Building. Free orchids will be given wo men students at the dance, which is co-sponsored • by the Associa tion of .Independent Men and Leonides Dinks to Be Tickets Refreshments will be served during the afternoon affair. Freshmen will be admited to Rec Hall for the evening program by wearing d i n ks. In addition, freshman men will wear black bow ties. Veterans and other students who are exempt from customs will be admitted to Rec Hall by show ing their matriculation cards. No tickets for the affair have been issued. A song-fest under the direction of maestros Hummel Fishburn and Frank Gullo,• of the music depart ment, and a skit co-sponsored by the Used Book Agency and Froth will highlight the evening. Hatmen Urged to Attend Women's Recreation Association and Athletic Association are co sponsors for the annual affair. Gerald Maurey, AA president, urged all hatmen and hatwomen to be present. The program will get underway 600 Delayed Wednesday In Enrolling Sophomores and freshmen registering yesterday in Rec reation Hall did not encount er the bog-down in registra tion procedure that delayed most of the 4472 juniors and seniors Wednesday. Approximately 600 students were forced to wait after 5 p.m., the scheduled closing time, be fore they could register. Sophomore and freshmen stu dents whose last names range from A to And, will begin regis tration at 8 a.m. today in Rec Hall. Students who did not regis ter in their assigned alphabetical turne, special students, and Col lege employees will complete reg istration tomorrow morning. During sophomore an d fresh men registration yesterday morn ing, 1552 students were processed, and 794 more completed registra tion by 3 p.m. yesterday. The first person who completed regis tration did so at 8:21 a.m. Wed nesday, Harry A. Sperber, assis tant scheduling officer, said yes terday. Registration began at 8 a.m. Underestimated Results Dean of Admissions and Regis trar C. 0: Williams said the rea son for the delay Wednesday was that the number of juniors and seniors expected to register was underestimated, and that more graddate students, approximately 500, registered the first day. Williams said underestimation resulted because more juniors and seniors registered Wednesday than were enrolled in the spring semester. Graduate students may register anytime. In a statement issued yester day, Williams apologized for the delay and said "we are all con vinced that we are on the right track and we have no doubt that we can make better preparations (Continued on page fifteen) with basketball, volleyball, ping pong, indoor soccer, and dancing. A demonstration of calesthenics by two g,yrimasts has also been scheduled. Square and round dancing will complete the evening. The day's events will bring to a close the Orientation Week pro gram and the first week on cam pus for the College's. 3475 new students. Classes start Monday, along with enforced wearing of customs. Sale of customs continues today, until noon tomorrow, and until noon Monday at the Book Ex change in the TUB. Distribution of the student hand book, or "Freshman Bible," should be underway Monday, Richard Rau, editor, said yesterday. Print ing difficulties have delayed dis tribution of the book, Rau ex plained. Customs Regulations Freshmen ma y pick up , copies of customs regulations and song and cheer sheets after 9:30 a.m. today at the Student Union desk in Old Main. FIVE CENTS
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